Knowledge/projects/alive-book/CHECKPOINT.md

Project Checkpoint: Mo Gawdat - "Alive" Book Archive

Overview

• Title: Alive: A Human’s Guide to Living in the World of AI
• Author: Mo Gawdat (co-authored with AI persona "Trixie")
• Status: Scraped 20 existing Substack posts/chapters and initiated local audio conversion.

Local Library (knowledge/projects/alive-book/)

• All 20 current public posts saved as .txt files.
• Ordered by release date (Apr 1, 2025 – Aug 2, 2025).
• Total word count: ~63,000 words (~7 hours of audio).

Audio Progress (audio/alive-book/)

• Voice Model: Piper "Lessac" (High-quality, expressive).
• Completed:
  • 01_is-ai-conscious.wav (Uploaded to Nextcloud: Soren/audio-books/).
• Next Steps:
  • Verify audio quality with Michael.
  • If approved, batch convert remaining 19 chapters in order.

Feed Integration

• Added to blogwatcher as "Mo Gawdat (Alive)" to track new weekly releases.

Checkpoint Date: 2026-04-21 05:51