The author finds business self-help books boring, but acknowledges that they contain valuable ideas. As such, they have developed a five-step process that uses AI and human-written summaries to efficiently understand the main points of a book. The process involves enlisting the help of a GPT, seeking out human-written summaries, reading the table of contents, skimming the chapter summaries, and deep-reading the most interesting sections. The author stresses the importance of not forcing oneself to read chapters that are uninteresting and suggests using tools like Obsidian and Anki to help retain key information.
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2023/05/21/nonfiction-business-books/