I Read Everything and Remember Nothing. Here's What Fixed It.
Learning without doing has always been hard for me. I learned that typing helped my brain capture new concepts. Here's how that became TyperFocus.
Back in January, I was laid off from a product management role. I'd been a PM for over ten years, and suddenly I had to level up fast.
The disruption of AI meant I needed to understand evals, RAG systems, and common PM AI workflows. So I consumed everything. Articles, blogs, videos.
A lot of it fascinated me. But I'd get distracted and burn out fast.
When I burned out, I'd play typing exercises on Monkeytype. The tactile feedback from my mechanical keyboard was a reward, a reset.
Then something clicked: I remembered every sentence from those typing exercises, but nothing from the articles I'd just read.
That gap was the whole thing.
So I used Claude and built something simple: a tool that generates an easy-to-read study guide, has me type out the core concepts, then closes with a quick quiz.
That combination built a strong foundation for the concepts I was trying to learn. And it was hella fun.
I used it to prep for interviews. Dense technical topics. I learned faster than I ever had.
That's TyperFocus. It's not an e-learning app. It's a study tool for brains like mine that learn kinesthetically, by doing.
Reading it is step one.
Typing it is how it sticks. Try this post as a typing session and see how much more of it stays with you.