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How To Remember Everything You Read With AI

Dan Koe
12 min readApr 19, 2025

At first, I was upset.

Now, I just feel bad for this guy:

There’s some truth behind what he’s saying, but that’s because most people, in general, don’t know how to read.

Not because they’re illiterate, but because they learned how to read in a Prussian style education system designed to create obedient soldiers, compliant citizens, civil servants, and well-behaved workers by focusing on:

  • Mandatory attendance
  • Training for teachers
  • National curriculum and testing
  • Division of students by age
  • The concept of grade levels

Reading, to most people, is a performative act.

They read to find specific information for a “test,” be it a school test or a life test.

They read to show others that they’ve accomplished something, like how people flex that they’ve somehow both read and retained information from 52 books in a year.

They avoid reading difficult books because if they don’t understand it, what’s the point?

Here’s the thing.

You don’t read to find a specific answer.

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Dan Koe
Dan Koe

Written by Dan Koe

Building Kortex, the future of writing apps. Find me everywhere @thedankoe

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