In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
I appreciate your clarification that this is your summary and not a generative AI one. I find that LLMs are actually pretty terrible at summarising, because it turns out that summarising is more than just “make it shorter” (I say this as someone who finds succinctly summarising papers to be one of the hardest parts of academic writing)
Do you find that doing summaries improves how well you’re able to process and retain information, possibly leading to deeper introspective insights down the line?
I only do this when an article is insightful but long, and I feel a bit dissappointed that most people won’t read it
I don’t know about long-term, but I find it very interesting to interrogate yourself - What was the point of the article? How was it laid out, and was that effective?
With this one I was surprised on reflection how honest the author is in acknowledging an ignorance (How do we fix the problem that has been described? I don’t know!)