Summary: This week, Wisereads features a preview of the sci-fi book Husk by Nat Eliason, along with a chance to win signed copies. The newsletter also highlights articles on topics like AI, complex systems, and learning through spaced repetition. Additionally, it includes insights from various thought leaders and a recommended Substack on achieving meaningful success.
Intellectual rigor comes from the journey: the dead ends, the uncertainty, and the internal debate. Skip that, and you might still get the insight–but you’ll have lost the infrastructure for meaningful understanding. Learning by reading LLM output is cheap. Real exercise for your mind comes from building the output yourself (View Highlight)
Complex systems demand different solutions than complicated—but predictable—ones. (View Highlight)
Dustin Curtis - Don’t leave thinking to AI. Intellectual rigor comes from the journey of discovery.