Praxis Anti-Book Club Instructions

Here are the step-by-step instructions for the Anti-Book Club for easy reference. And so you can run your own Anti-Book Club if you want. I’ll update this article with future improvements as I discover them.

The Premise

Start by reading my original article introducing the concept and why it’s important. Here’s a short version:

• Books contain valuable ideas, but are too long, boring, and diluted with extraneous information
• We need a way for different people to read different books, and then share the key points with each other
• Progressive summarization provides a way to do so in a format that provides enough context for it to make sense and be useful
• It doesn’t replace reading the full text, but allows your future self to remember what you’ve learned, and helps others to make better decisions about what to read

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