Why blog about books?
We read books for various reasons. Knowledge may be one of them. But we often read simply just for fun, or for the aestetics of it.
For hundreds of years, a book has been the ideal form for transmitting information, knowledge, feelings and wisdom. Its publication costs a certain amount of effort, and therefore it can be expected that the information contained in it will be at least slightly thoughtfully put together. In today’s era of modern technology, a book, in terms of processing information contained in it, represents a significant contrast to other ways in which information can be spread today, such as, for example, social media. Its charm lies mainly in the fact that, due to its nature, it kind of filters away that what is really worthless. Although books are not among the fastest media for transmitting information, we still like to reach for them every time we want to learn something new, or to get a coherent overview of some topic.
Books also represent the best possible intersection for a platform dedicated to knowledge and wisdom. A common ground for variety of different fields and interests. Books have the potential to be that something which has the capacity to connect scientific topics with that of art, or history. Imagine a platform connecting all this in a way so that it still makes sense. Here come the books – a topic for all topics. One can talk about technology, longevity and philosophy, topics often far from one and another, while still remain firmly bound to the common denominator. Books.
This blog is an attempt to build upon that idea and to become such a platform for information, knowledge, wisdom and insights from all possible fields. Books being at the forefront.
Renaissance enthusiast
Ideally, it should be sort of heaven for a “renaissance person” of a modern age. And this is despite the fact that in today’s world the idea of a person who encompasses all knowledge is somewhat utopian. But it was quite possibly just as utopian all along. Though it is true that with the depth of knowledge in today’s world, it is simply not within a person’s power to be an expert on everything. That is perhaps not even the goal. However, one can easily be an enthusiast into it all. To strive to pursue one’s intellectual curiosity ad libitum. Thus arises the “renaissance enthusiast“.
The contribution of such a “renaissance enthusiast“ is not in the depth of knowledge, but in the ability to connect various fields and find connections that may remain hidden to others. Because in the complexity and interconnectedness of today’s world, where the whole can hardly be considered just the sum of its parts, in the sense of Euclidean geometry, the contribution of a “renaissance enthusiast“ goes beyond the mere sum of the depth of his knowledge in individual areas separately.
Furthermore, the enthusiasm to explore new worlds also has a meaning in itself. If an expert is a person who knows more and more about less and less, until they finally know absolutely everything about absolutely nothing, then a “renaissance enthusiast“ is the opposite of such an expert. And that’s a good thing.
Leveraging Technology
With the rapid development of the technology in the last couple of years, especially in the field of artificial intelligence with large language models, having heard all the talks and discussions on the topic when and where will the A.I. replace humans, I had the idea of trying to leverage the technology to further build on the content created by humans, which would be this blog. Blending a human-made content with the generative A.I. And who knows, maybe that way uncovering some new points of view or perspectives, entirely within the philosophy of a “renaissance enthusiast“.
Therefore, the idea is to primarily consider the thoughts originally expressed in the written form on this blog, use the technology to scale up and offer variety of modes of content, such as the podcast or videos, and opening the topics to new audiences that way. Original thoughts reimagined in syntax and silicon.
So how this should work?
As already mentioned, the original building block, human-made work is the blog. The podcast, videos and possibly other content is then be leveraged by A.I.
Though bear in mind that even if it is technically machine-made, it is far from being generic, since much of the thought and time still goes into the process .This includes meticulous prompting, thinking of the concepts and piecing it all together. Not to mention that the source, the blog, consists of already somewhat unique and personal perspective which lays the structure of any A.I. leveraged content.
At the same time, only the original blog post is used to build upon and to create other content, functioning effectively as the point of reference (context) for the A.I.
So let’s discover new worlds together and join me on this journey.