Been building this for a few months, mostly because I couldn't find anything that actually solved my own problem.
The problem: I want to deeply understand a topic capitalism, samurai culture, existentialism, whatever and I don't know where to start. I google "best books on X", get 15 listicles, pick one randomly, finish it, and still feel like I'm missing context. I don't know what I should have read before it. I don't know what to read next. I don't know which documentary would make it click visually.
So I started building Cognivium.
The idea is simple: you search a book or topic, and instead of just getting "people also read", you get:
