Kabir's Tech Dives

Tech founders always need great advice. There is an excellent video on the Blockshelf channel titled "50 Entrepreneurs share priceless advice." It features entrepreneurs advising on topics such as finding passion in your work, developing new ideas, building a successful business, and leading a team.

The advice covers many essential aspects of entrepreneurship, including identifying a problem to solve, building a passionate team, and recognizing the importance of having a clear vision and a solid plan for success. The entrepreneurs also discuss the importance of testing ideas rigorously, learning from mistakes, and fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration within a company.

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This podcast episode features an interview with Jake Heller, the founder of Casetext, a legal technology company recently acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650 million. Heller discusses how he built his company and the role artificial intelligence, specifically large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, played in its success. 

He emphasizes the importance of prompt engineering and test-driven development in building accurate AI tools for the legal field. Heller believes that LLMs are a game-changer for legal professionals, as they can automate tasks that previously required significant time and effort. He also discusses his thoughts on OpenAI's new model, o1, which he believes has the potential to revolutionize the industry further by incorporating system-two thinking into AI systems.

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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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I fed Elon Musk's public X Profile page to Google Notebook LM. Remember, Google Notebook LM cannot read past what is available via public access, so it does not read all his posts. 

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When I heard of Google Notebook LM, I wanted to see how it could review a tool I created for sharing notes with the public. So, it consumed the website for ShowNotes and made a charming deep dive episode that jibes with me perfectly!

As a tech founder, I am constantly building small tools for myself and potentially, dare I say it, customers :)

So when I can point Google Notebook LM to do a deep dive into my published content for this app and have it come back with what it did, this is an excellent validation that this project is potentially worth something to others. Again, founders are going to create tools, and there are times when the tools have utility for others and when tools are just eye candy or toys for the founder. Since I made it in January 2024, I have used it to share many notes with friends and family, and I enjoy using it daily.

However, having an intelligent analysis of the site and a deep dive into the purpose of this app by a third party, in this case, Google Notebook LM, is a really good way for me to think positively about what I have done. I am not saying this is a user/community validation. But having AI review your published content and provide you with human-like feedback that matches your expectations is a great feeling, at the least.

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I wanted to see what Google Notebook LM Deep Dive thinks of my upcoming tool, OnTrackly. It focuses on helping startup founders, especially solo founders with too many priorities, manage their projects, ideas, and goals.

I fed Google Notebook LM the website of Ontrackly – ontrackly.xyz, and it created this podcast right on the money!

What excites me about Google Notebook LM is its ability to dive deep and analyze information from various sources – a website, a YouTube video, an X Profile link, or a blob of text; it will create impressive consumable analysis.

I see this as a way for startup founders to validate their product messaging, marketing, and their more excellent vision and mission.

This is a fantastic tool for founders!

PS: Checkout OnTrackly (to be Beta around Oct 31st)

https://ontrackly.xyz

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I wanted to see how Google Notebook LM does with videos. Knowing Google is behind both Notebook LM and YouTube, I figured it would have an easy time with this task. It did. It did an excellent job of analyzing the video.

The video is mostly Bengali, which was nothing for Google Notebook LM. It figured out the deep-down details of the family video and discovered the tonality of the video so well that it is shocking!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qQOQXwIHQ

Many of my friends—about 39 of them—were on a week-long group trip to Yellowstone. I shot the video and narrated the ending but used Bengali songs (generated by AI), and the Notebook LM just nailed my deep thoughts, which were embedded in the video.

I can not tell you how good of a job it did! It was awesome!

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Dr. Yann LeCun is a fantastic personality. His computer science expertise, specifically AI, is at the top of the class. But that's not where Dr. Yann LeCun's expertise stops! He has severe opinions on all things that matter in our modern life. He shares his political views on music choices on X. He often gets in public debates with other public figures, his viewpoints backed by his reading on the economy and his massive understanding of data science. 

I am a fan, and he will never know. I agree with many of his viewpoints beyond artificial intelligence, but there will be some disagreements because we all view things in our reality and are not all privy to the same information.

I would go as far as to say that I remain on X because I can closely follow people like Dr. Yann LeCun. Otherwise, X is pretty much a dumpster fire most of the time.

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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, allowing 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

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