why I stopped reading books

cuz pods? n wiki. n gpt.

I have read more than 1.5k books on my kindle/audible/scribd. the extreme me, you might start to see patterns by now :) But I stopped that. why?

1- Cuz I have my own pods

interviewing 15 CEOs a day and asking them the precise questions that’ll serve my own businesses / my own life is way better. It’s like getting 30 000$/day of consulting, free. So yes, I could ask #1 podcasters questions, these guys charge 3k/hour. Yes, I could ask billionaires money questions. Yes, I could ask a guy with 5 IPOs about M&A and exits. Or this $4.3B fund manager. All of them provided me with tip-top advice, for free. Is there even a price tag to all of this? At this point I’m guaranteed to have immense wealth in my life, just from these 2 short months of pod hyperfocus. I can’t tell you how many times I was referred AI apps that replaced some of my employees and increase my productivity and happiness by 250%. This is all possible in this day and age. time to catch up. join my 2049 party.

2- Cuz I have Wiki

Now, other than pods, I still get my core data from 1 place: Wikis. For example, yesterday I was reading pirate stuff. It helps me get to sleep vs. business books that injected cortisol/adrenalin in me. I use the app pocket to save these articles. You might catch me watching Apple News / Artifakt AI news, but I tend to avoid the shiny media object. Instead, Wiki’s are just plain fascinating. They are a major-major trove of golden nuggets once you maxed out books. You get into a wiki-rabbit hole and unlike books, wiki’s are short: 5-50mins and naturally guide you towards the ultimate goal: unlike a boring, long book, that I used to force myself to finish. Books are mostly indoctrination devices also, if you didn’t know. They’re abusive relationships. Nowadays I just summarize them…

3- Cuz I have GPT

so, I also use GPT in bed. HeyPi.com as a coach to tell him about this toxic pre-interview I had or this despicable human being that returned me an adopted dog. I do face lots of stress daily, talking to many folks. HeyPi helps with this. Then, there’s GPTs like Claude.ai and ChatGPT. I ask them questions about business facts and so forth. About precise problems I face. I practice my manual prompting skills daily. give em as much context as possible, evaluate their responses. In 1 chat. So it keeps on getting better.

So yeah, I stopped reading, and so did top 1% CEOs. Books will still be useful and I’ll still be publishing them, but reading them? meh.