Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

What I struggled with:

• No material struggles related to this project

What I learned:

• The hardest part of my process for learning from reading books is sharing what I synthesized. Synthesizing requires mental effort to distill a book’s contents to its most important elements. But sharing the results in writing is more difficult because I have to rearrange the elements logically and communicate them clearly and concisely to people who don’t have any context. The upside, for me, is that I understand the book deeply when I’m done.
• Amazon’s Kindle just announced new AI features that will allow Kindle users to “Ask This Book.” It’s basically Amazon tackling the problem Andre Karpathy wrote about and solved for himself (see here): improving retention and understanding by using AI to help read books.

That’s what I learned and struggled with last week.