How to Use a Wearable E Reader to Improve Reading

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People are surprised at how well it works and how quickly it works with respect to this mindset shift. A friend of rosh cough was a media author and if you've ever read a name is books but. He had this theory with MTV and the internet and video games that. There was a city HD exists in his mind people debate that because when i think you're gen x two like. A lot of people didn't have it and then now everybody's got it yeah situationally ADHD which is you have to defend yourself against the onslaught of incoming notifications.

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Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf joins Jason to discuss Sol Reader’s design (1:24), how wearable e-readers will create more focused readers (28:06) the ways in which devices reshape the human brain (24:37), and much more!

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(00:00) Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf joins Jason (4:00) Ben presents the prototype and demos Sol Reader (8:28) LLM and future integrations for Sol Reader (12:40) .Tech Domains - Apply to get your startup featured on This Week in Startups at https://startups.tech/jason (14:04) Overcoming the challenges of a hardware startup (17:59) Sol Reader’s business model (21:09) Audio integration and transcript features (23:22) Optimizing Sol Reader's first product launch (26:38) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at ⁠https://crowdbotics.com/twist⁠ (28:06) The origin of the wearable e-reader concept and efforts to diminish screen time (38:45) Issuu - Sign up for free or get 50% off an annual premium account by using promo code twist at https://issuu.com/podcast (40:05) Initial product testers' feedback

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