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The Notebook LM from Google is simply a game changer. It gives me reasons to believe that Google is ahead of everyone in the AI race. Sometimes, we techniques who know a thing or two about AI companies and their widgets think that Google and Apple dropped the ball when Microsoft led the race by joining forces with OpenAI. I was shocked in the early days—about two years ago—that OpenAI used Google's transformer technology to beat Google to its own tech dominance game.
Google has had many failures with AI. I do not use any of their AI products directly. I tried all the goodies like Gemini Advanced to Google Docs AI integration, and they all sucked severely.
However, a day ago, I discovered a killer app from Google: Apple Grade and Beyond. The poorly named product in the experimental stage—Notebook LM—is a game changer.
It allows any creator, like me, to validate what we have been doing with something we are passionate about. For example, I am building many tools for founders, from taking public notes to using AI to manage projects most passively. Users who have no idea where to find these tools must validate them. However, I can use Notebook LM to dive deeply into my product data/contents and see how the AI sees my offerings.
This will allow creators, founders, and marketers to have a third-party, deep-dive analysis of their offerings, from marketing content to actual product videos and pre-usage validation, which will allow more tweaking and refinement of the offering. This is a game-changer!
No, this is not just to paste my PDF to ChatGPT and get a read from it. It is beyond that. Google got the mojo!
Google: Go collect $200
OpenAI: DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $6B
Microsoft: WAIT FOR OPEN AI
Apple: Sorry!

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This episode focus on how startups can gain organic audience by focusing on audience instead of YouTube algorithm when creating YouTube videos. The episode focuses on a a YouTube staff member called Todd in charge of YouTube discovery alogorithm.
According to Todd, creators should focus on audience satisfaction rather than simply maximizing watch time or other algorithm centric metrics. It also highlights the platform’s efforts to understand and reward value over quantity, using surveys to gauge viewer satisfaction with content.

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This episode is about a company called Unplug, which makes a tag (a small device) to control your smartphone addiction. The founders, Caroline and Yandri, address the growing concern about excessive phone use and its negative impact on well-being.
They argue that constant phone usage is impacting our mental health and the quality of our lives. Unplug's product, a physical tag that attaches to the back of a phone, helps users break the habit of mindlessly checking their phones. The tag restricts access to time-consuming apps, prompting users to engage with their devices consciously.
Unplug has seen significant growth and garnered positive feedback, with users reporting increased offline time and engaging in meaningful activities. The company is expanding its services to address family use and plans to develop a parental control feature to guide young people toward healthy digital habits.
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Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, proposes the concept of social business to address societal issues by creating businesses that prioritize social impact over profit. He distinguishes social business from traditional profit-making businesses and philanthropy. Social businesses are non-profit, non-dividend companies that reinvest their earnings back into the business to expand their reach and impact. Yunus argues that social businesses offer a sustainable and impactful way to address social problems compared to traditional philanthropy, which is a one-time act of giving.
He uses Grameen Danone, a yogurt company that provides fortified yogurt to malnourished children in Bangladesh, and Grameen Veolia, a water company that provides clean drinking water to villages in Bangladesh, as examples of successful social businesses. He believes that social enterprise can inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs to focus on creating positive change in the world.

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This episode discusses "first principles thinking," a method of problem-solving that involves breaking down complex issues into their fundamental components. We share examples from Elon Musk's SpaceX company, Johannes Gutenberg's printing press, and the development of the rolling suitcase to illustrate how first principles of thinking can drive innovation by challenging conventional approaches and encouraging the combination of ideas from seemingly disparate fields.
This method of thinking, which involves questioning assumptions and focusing on the underlying function rather than established forms, is crucial for fostering creativity and independent thought.

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