Sledgehammering this book with ChatGPT to make it digestable

 Its been 2 years since I picked up this book. I picked up this book on October 31, 2021. Its November 02, 2023 today. I have tried all kind of approach to understand the content of this book, even though clearly it is above my paygrade - from taking notes and paraphrasing to writing blogs about each chapter. All this was done with the goal to internalize theideas presented in this book. But I am not a philosopher nor I am planning to be one. However, I am still pretty adamant about exploring the ideas present in this book, just as much if not more because I believe it can be transformative in my life. 

The goal is to build an epistemological understanding/perspective of engineering such that it allows me to wormhole into any field within Engineering and even beyond, without much resistance. Simply put, the goal is to become a great generalist or a polymath. 

I have realised that a lot has changed since last 2 years and now I have the a resource made available to me that can soften the denseness of this book just enough to be comprehended by my unintelligent brain. I plan to use that resource - ChatGPT. 

So here is the plan - I will run each chapter in its entirety through ChatGPT, read and understand the corresponding response to the fullest and then I will post the entire response here as an article for each chapter 

I am aware that is a brute-force approach and not a cerebral one but I don't really care for it. I have either exhausted all other approacheses or they are very slow. This gives me what I want - Comprehension of this arcane text, without having to pull my hair out. 


Me in 2022 trying to print out and take notes on each chapter 



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