Thanks to podcast interviews, most contemporary non-fiction authors are preparing their own neatly-distilled summaries of their usually-too-long books.
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The trend towards long form interviews of public intellectuals has been huge for me in terms of discovering new ideas and exploring them efficiently. No way I have time to read the same number of books.
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And honestly most “popular” non-fiction books would be much better off a single New Yorker article.
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Which does create the phenomenon whereby you listen to an author, think “wow, this is really smart,” buy the book, and then it turns out to be a real slog
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This is not helped by the fact that book reviewers tend to want to concentrate on the ideas in the book, a/o/t its readability or enjoyability
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I wonder how long until conversational AI can personalize it. That is, allow the listener to occasionally inject questions to guide the professional interviewer.
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One doesn’t even need AI for interruptive conversations — just a threaded discussion environment.
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Aha perhaps you’ve been seeing the latest submissions to Stripe Atlas? :D
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Taleb is proof of this idea.
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Speech makes it easier to process ideas that we might otherwise disagree with.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/27/people-may-seem-more-reasonable-when-you-hear-them-rather-than-read-their-words/ …
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Modern non-fiction should have a 100 page limit.
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