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·The Age of Reading Is Over. But Is It?
The Atlantic's new cover says it is. I spent a year building the case that it doesn't have to be — and that our software, not our phones, is what broke it. On what an AI that refuses to summarize is actually for.
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Reading Culture
·Why Read the Classics in the AI Era?
If a machine can compress any book into a tidy paragraph, why spend a month inside a hard, centuries-old one? Because the summary hands you the conclusion and quietly removes the only part that changes you.
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Reading Science
·Why Vertical Reading Works
Reading one paragraph at a time, full-screen, isn’t a styling choice. It removes the visual noise that competes with meaning — without stripping away the one thing speed-reading gets wrong.
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Product
·Atomic Focus: One Sentence at a Time
Atomic Focus collapses the screen to a single sentence. It sounds austere. What it actually does is hand a crowded mind back the few slots of attention a hard line needs.
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AI Features
·Meet Your Experts: IO’s Twelve AI Personas
Most AI reading tools do one thing: summarize. IO ships twelve personas instead — each a distinct way of arguing with a text, not a faster way to avoid it. Here’s the whole bench, and the science behind it.
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