I feel bad about reading Wikipedia summaries of vast histories, quick glosses of big fat books, plot summaries of novels, etc. But increasingly I find it’s the only way to get anything done. Full read=luxury
I’d pay for a custom summaries service with my priorities in mind
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One of my better professors, now deceased, told me he only had time to read abstracts and reviews to keep up in his field. This was 1988.
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Within well-formed disciplines that’s actually enough I think since you tend to develop really good triage and thin-slicing instincts and have high situation awareness.
Doesn’t work if you’re working in extra-academic mode (which is even worse than mere interdisciplinarity)
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No today, but in a few years an AI driven service may be able to do that quite well
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I see that as a viable future for ML applications a highly personalized curator of content but without the traps of being too filter-bubble pandering
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You could try blinkist. I did recently. Even though you can't absorb everything a rich book has, that exactly seems to be the problem.






