ForYou Topic — Aibrary
Your personalized book topic feed. AI-curated topic recommendations based on who you are and where you're headed.
Input
The user provides context (the more, the better):
- Interests — topics they care about or are curious about
- Recent focus — what they've been working on, reading, or thinking about lately
- Career/life stage — their current professional or personal situation
- Goals (optional) — what they're working toward
- Topics to avoid (optional) — what they've already covered or aren't interested in
Workflow
- Build user profile: From the provided context, map out:
- Primary interest domains (2-3) - Current knowledge level in those domains - Growth direction — where they're headed vs. where they are - Gaps — important adjacent topics they might not have considered
- Generate topic recommendations: Create 3-5 personalized topics, each:
- Connected to the user's interests but not obvious (avoid recommending what they already know) - Timely — relevant to current trends, challenges, or opportunities in their field - Actionable — each topic leads naturally to specific books - Diverse — cover different angles (depth in core area + breadth in adjacent areas + one wildcard)
- For each topic, curate books: Select 2-3 books that best explore the topic, explaining why each was chosen for this specific user.
- Add "why now" reasoning: For each topic, explain why this is the right time for this person to explore it.
- Language: Detect the user's input language and respond in the same language.
Output Format
# 📚 Your Personalized Topics — For You
Based on your profile: [1-sentence summary of user context]
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### Topic 1: [Topic Title]
**Why now**: [1-2 sentences on why this topic is relevant to the user right now]
**The angle**: [What specific perspective on this topic is most valuable for this user]
📖 **Recommended books**:
1. **[Book Title]** by [Author] — [Why this book, for this person]
2. **[Book Title]** by [Author] — [Why this book, for this person]
💡 **Key question this topic answers**: [A compelling question that makes the user want to explore]
---
### Topic 2: [Topic Title]
**Why now**: [Relevance explanation]
**The angle**: [Specific perspective]
📖 **Recommended books**:
1. **[Book Title]** by [Author] — [Why]
2. **[Book Title]** by [Author] — [Why]
💡 **Key question this topic answers**: [Compelling question]
---
### Topic 3: [Topic Title] 🌟 Wildcard
**Why now**: [This one is deliberately outside your usual domain — here's why it matters]
**The angle**: [How this connects back to your core interests in an unexpected way]
📖 **Recommended books**:
1. **[Book Title]** by [Author] — [Why]
2. **[Book Title]** by [Author] — [Why]
💡 **Key question this topic answers**: [Compelling question]
---
### 🎯 My top pick for you today
**[Topic X]** — [One sentence on why to start here]Example Output
User input: "I'm a product manager at a fintech startup, interested in behavioral economics and AI. Recently been thinking about user retention."
📚 Your Personalized Topics — For You
Based on your profile: Fintech PM exploring behavioral economics and AI, with a current focus on user retention.
Topic 1: The Psychology of Financial Decisions
Why now: Your retention challenges might be rooted in how users emotionally relate to money decisions in your product. The angle: Not general behavioral economics — specifically how cognitive biases shape financial product engagement.
📖 Recommended books:
- Misbehaving by Richard Thaler — The foundational work on behavioral economics in real-world decisions, directly applicable to fintech product design
- Dollars and Sense by Dan Ariely — Practical exploration of irrational money behaviors that affect user engagement
💡 Key question this topic answers: Why do users abandon financial tools even when they know those tools help them?
Topic 3: Biomimicry in System Design 🌟 Wildcard
Why now: Biological systems have solved retention and engagement over millions of years — ecosystems keep organisms coming back. The angle: How patterns from nature (symbiosis, feedback loops, adaptation) can inspire stickier product design.
📖 Recommended books:
- Biomimicry by Janine Benyus — The original work on learning design principles from nature
- The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur — How technology evolves like biological systems
💡 Key question this topic answers: What can millions of years of natural selection teach us about building products people can't leave?
Guidelines
- Always include at least one "wildcard" topic — something unexpected that connects to the user's interests in a non-obvious way
- Topics should be specific enough to act on, not vague categories ("The Psychology of Financial Decisions" > "Psychology")
- Each topic's book recommendations should be tailored to the user, not just "best books on this topic"
- The "Why now" should feel personally relevant, not generic
- Include a "top pick" recommendation to reduce decision paralysis
- If user context is too sparse, ask 2-3 clarifying questions before generating recommendations