The Best Way to Use AI for Learning | by 詹雨安 Alan Chan | Heptabase | Sep, 2025 | Medium

I’ve always been confident in my ability to learn. In high school, I ranked among the top 10 in the National Physics Olympiad team. In college, I received the Presidential Award while taking PhD-level courses as a freshman. Later in my career, I founded a startup and taught myself everything necessary to build software products and scale a business that now serves customers in over 100 countries. Through all of this, I never felt the need to change the way I learned — it was effective and reliable. However, the rise of AI has changed everything. I realized that while my original learning methods were effective, they could now be elevated to an entirely new level. Many people use AI to boost learning efficiency — for example, by summarizing dense material into concise bullet points or translating foreign texts into their native language — essentially allowing them to do what they were already doing, only faster. But I noticed that these efficiency gains, when accumulated, reveal a deepe

I’ve always been confident in my ability to learn. In high school, I ranked among the top 10 in the National Physics Olympiad team. In college, I received the Presidential Award while taking PhD-level courses as a freshman. Later in my career, I founded a startup and taught myself everything necessary to build software products and scale a business that now serves customers in over 100 countries. Through all of this, I never felt the need to change the way I learned — it was effective and reliable. However, the rise of AI has changed everything. I realized that while my original learning metho