July 15, 2025: The STANFORD secret to learning 10x FASTER
"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
― Charles Dickens
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We hand-picked 3 good pieces of content to inspire and motivate you now and in the future. Keep track of the insights that resonate with you by highlighting them with Glasp💡
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📚 3 Good Recommendations
Why 51% of Engineering Leaders Believe AI Is Impacting the Industry Negatively
by Gregor Ojstersek (10 mins)
- Summary: Overly optimistic predictions about AI from public figures are causing fear-driven decisions by company leaders, leading to unrealistic expectations and demotivation among engineering teams.
- Ideal for: Engineering leaders, tech executives, and managers concerned about AI’s impact on team morale, productivity, and organizational culture.
- Why It’s Worth Your Time: Provides actionable insights into avoiding common AI-related pitfalls, promoting realistic expectations, and fostering a positive, productive workplace culture.
AEO: How To Optimize Content for Answer Engine Optimization
by Gen Furukawa (14 mins)
- Summary: Optimizing content specifically for AI-driven Answer Engines (AEO) boosts visibility by ensuring your content is directly referenced by AI assistants like ChatGPT and Google's SGE, shifting focus from traditional keyword SEO to clear, concise, and authoritative answers.
- Ideal for: Digital marketers, content strategists, business owners, and anyone looking to effectively position their brand within emerging AI-driven search environments.
- Why It’s Worth Your Time: It provides actionable insights on structuring content for maximum AI visibility, leveraging user intent, structured data (schema markup), and comprehensive topical authority to maintain brand relevance and audience engagement in an increasingly zero-click search world.
The STANFORD secret to learning 10x FASTER
by Julian Lin (5 mins)
- Summary: The approach combines Andrew Huberman’s “Gap Effect” (short, natural breaks), focus priming (30–60 s stare drills), and Non-Sleep Deep Rest (brief meditative pauses) to accelerate learning by enhancing consolidation, attention, and memory retention.
- Ideal for: Students, lifelong learners, busy professionals, or anyone juggling heavy study/workloads who wants to learn more efficiently without relying on complex apps.
- Why It’s Worth Your Time: These science-backed, easy-to-implement techniques—10 s brain breaks, simple focus exercises, and 1–10-minute rest periods—can be slotted into any routine to boost alertness, sustain deep focus (up to 90-minute sessions), and solidify new skills.
📣 Community
- 🟩 Glasp Reader for mobile:
We’re rolling out mobile support for Glasp Reader! Now, when you’re on your phone, tap the share button on any YouTube video and select “Open in Glasp Reader” to view transcripts, highlight key moments, and generate AI-powered summaries.
- 🟦 Introducing Grok AI as an AI model:
We're excited to announce that Glasp now supports Grok in AI mode, enabling you to effortlessly summarize YouTube videos and web content. If you haven't explored this new feature yet, give Grok AI a try and streamline your learning experience! Check here to update the AI model.
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See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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