Export ebook highlights to Readwise, which automatically saves highlights from over 200 books, then use progressive summarization to bold the most important points for efficient summarization.
Create an outline with major ideas and supporting points, incorporating bolded passages to guide ChatGPT on which ideas to emphasize in the summary.
Enhancing AI-Generated Content
- Use the prompt “add or incorporate what you’re giving it into other material that it finds on the web” to get ChatGPT to blend provided information with relevant online content.
Effective Writing and Innovation
- Good writing relies on interesting, unique, and unusual details rather than poetic language to make content compelling.
- Innovation stems from the slow development and mixing of different ideas, not sudden eureka moments, aligning with the concept that ideas are built from inherited or discovered concepts recombined into new forms.
Knowledge Retention
- Read fewer books but summarize them in your own words to better retain knowledge, creating building blocks that can be incorporated into work or shared with others.