Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

What I struggled with:

• Locating a commercial-grade book scanner took some work, and gaining access to one has been more challenging than I expected. I’ll need to get creative and scrappy.

What I learned:

• Large companies store a lot of data, but often it’s not structured or organized. To reap the full potential of AI, companies are realizing the need to structure and organize their data—a massive undertaking.
• Google’s NotebookLM has become very popular in the last two weeks, even though this tool has been out for months. The new feature that sparked this wave of attention is the ability to “listen to a conversation about your sources.” You upload your own documents and NotebookLM creates a podcast conversation between two people. The conversation is an analysis of the content in your uploaded documents. The AI is doing two things. First, it’s synthesizing the content in your documents. But what people are energized about is listening to the synthesis in a storytelling format. Hearing a story is the way most people learn best. This feature leans into that facet of human nature and makes NotebookLM appealing to a broader audience.

Those are my struggles and learnings from the week!