Reading Speed · The AI Advantage

Reading Speed

I need to read far more than average in my professional work. That led me to create personalised “effective reading” manuals using AI.

What I’ve realised is that reading itself is a very essential skill worth optimising when using AI replies.

There are two sides to the equation:

What AI generates - which depends on how well we use it (prompts, context, techniques learned in bootcamp, etc.)
How well we read and process - how fast we absorb, understand, and consequently how fast we turn ideas into action.

If you overlooked the second part, and you think you'd benefit from reading AI faster, you can also improve it using AI - especially now that we have personal clones. You'd be surprised (or maybe not that much) at the variety of suggestions to make reading a better experience altogether.

A simple approach that you could try:

(1) Give the AI some further context and ask it to interview you, one question at a time, about your reading habits (e.g. screen vs book, technical vs leisure reading, AI outputs, language level, environment, focus - leave it up to AI).

(2) Then ask it: “Create a personalised list of 10 AI prompts to improve my reading effectiveness and reading speed.”

(3) You’ll notice the prompts naturally fall into Before Reading, During Reading, and After Reading.

(4) Open a new chat and run each prompt one by one. Answer any clarifying questions it asks so the output becomes even more personalised.

(5) Have it compile three short manuals (like I did): before, during, and after reading. I printed the manuals on a PDF and I'm implementing them one by one (slowly but surely, not necessarily all at one go).

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