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In this week’s episode, Mike and AJ discuss the controversy sparked by Tim Ferriss’ article Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction?. The two debate whether AI summaries have made prescriptive nonfiction obsolete or that the use of AI everywhere has made humans more desperate for human made content.
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“Publishing is cyclical. We’re seeing this downturn in nonfiction. It will not stay that way. This is the other thing, that doesn’t mean that it’s over. It just means it’s gonna shift.”
—AJ Harper
“Books, they have a life. It’s a cycle. And I hate to say it for my own work, but Profit First will not live forever. My biggest wildest dream is a hundred years from now, Profit First is still selling. But it’s so unrealistic. There’s a natural decline.”
—Mike Michalowicz
