{"id":990963,"date":"2026-02-10T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990963"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:17:25","slug":"how-to-read-and-actually-retain-non-fiction-using-ai-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/how-to-read-and-actually-retain-non-fiction-using-ai-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read (and actually retain) non-fiction using AI tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I read 25 books, 14 of which were non-fiction. I was happy about the number but the frustrating part was retention &#8212; a few weeks after finishing a brilliant book, the core ideas would simply escape me. I refuse to accept that this is age-related memory loss! So I started using AI as an active reading partner midway through the year. There\u2019s good news and bad news. The good news is that I seem to have found a way to stop my brain from leaking information. AI has turned reading from passive consumption into a constant thinking loop. I\u2019ll share the bad news later, but first, here is the workflow I use to make ideas stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I read 25 books, 14 of which were non-fiction. I was happy about the number but the frustrating part was retention &#8212; a few weeks after finishing a brilliant book, the core ideas would simply escape me. I refuse to accept that this is age-related memory loss! So I started using AI as an active reading partner midway through the year. There\u2019s good news and bad news. The good news is that I seem to have found a way to stop my brain from leaking information. AI has turned reading from passive consumption into a constant thinking loop. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}