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| How many books have you bought yet never read? 10? 50? 100? The Japanese have had a term for this since the 19th century: tsundoku.
Tsundoku is what happens when you keep buying stuff to read but all you ever do is let it pile up in your home.I'm no stranger to this phenomenon. I have an entire fold-out mattress in my office that basically serves as a makeshift bookshelf. There's just too much good stuff to read! Plus, in every great book, I seem to discover 5 more also worth picking up. After I read Striking Thoughts by Bruce Lee, I wanted to read literally every book about the man. I've read 3 more since—and yet somehow, I still have 3.5 more to go. Does any of this sound familiar? Perhaps you, too, buy too many books you'll never get around to. Or start lots of them and rarely finish any. Or just feel plain overwhelmed and have pretty much given up on reading altogether—it happens to the best of us at times. If any of that sounds like you, then Augmented Reading is for you. In just 2 hours on Thursday, May 29th, at 11 AM EST (that's 5 PM CEST if you're in Europe), my friend Michael Simmons and I will teach you a new way of reading using the power of AI—and afterwards, none of us shall suffer from tsundoku ever again!
If people in the 19th century thought there was too much to read, they should see us now.
Clearly, the amount of relevant information has surpassed our available attention some time ago. For a few years now, there's been fierce competition over it, as Michael illustrates in this graphic:
What makes these dynamics even crazier is that all of this happened before ChatGPT! Can you believe it's been less than 3 years since OpenAI's chatbot changed the world of information forever yet again? But in late 2022, in less than 2 months, it reached 100 million users. And now, it is one of the 10 most-visited websites in the world, with many other chatbots reaching millions more. Since AI has made it a lot easier to create content, especially, you guessed it, writing, the rate at which information grows has gone completely through the roof. Experts estimate that... 1. More than half of what we see on the web is already either AI-generated or at least AI-translated2. 90% of all content will be AI-generated by 2026And it's not just humans making 10x more (and hopefully 10x better) stuff online. "From there, it will explode again as tens of billions of AI agents/avatars create content on their own," Michael explains.
So, how do we deal with all of this? With the gap between what's out there and what we can consume growing to the distance between the Earth and the Moon, how do we keep up? How can we learn most rapidly and effectively given our limited time and exploding information? This is where Augmented Reading comes in.
Here's what I think is the main problem with the wave of infinite information we're about to face: It's just you—you against infinity. You can only lose.But what if it wasn't? What if you had someone to help at all times, no questions asked? In the science fiction novel Snow Crash, an evil business magnate is spreading an information-based virus in order to control the population. Eventually, the protagonist—aptly named Hiro Protagonist—finds out it all goes back to the Sumerians and the legend of Babel. The only reason he figures it out and manages to save the day? The librarian—a smart, sentient program that helps Hiro quickly comb through vast amounts of information to find what he needs. What if you, too had a personal, smart, always-on librarian?A reliable companion that can help you navigate the seas of information like a surfer smoothly riding the waves? Well, with Augmented Reading, that's exactly what you will get. If you use it right, here's how AI can supercharge your reading:
...and all of that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless more ways your AI librarian can help you master today's onslaught of information. And perhaps best of all... After you've set up your librarian, you can preserve it, keep refining it, and use it for any future book forever.In Thursday's Augmented Reading training, Michael and I will show you how to do it all.
If you're tired of buying books you don't read and getting washed away by waves of information, you should join our Augmented Reading workshop.It will...
To sign up and secure your seat, click the button below, complete the checkout process, and we'll take care of the rest. We'll even follow up with you personally so you don't forget to show up. :)
Let's learn together, build our amazing librarians, and crush tsundoku forever. See you on Thursday! Until then... Happy reading, |
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