Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2025-10-29
Books mentioned on How AI Is Changing Writing — With Tony Stubblebine
Tony Stubblebine is the CEO of Medium. He joins Big Technology to discuss the future of writing in the age of AI and how platforms should handle AI-generated content.
Tony Stubblebine discussed Cliffs Notes by Michael Shaara. Alex Kantrowitz discussed Tim O'Reilly in a Nutshell by Tim O'Reilly.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cliffs Notes
Discussed“We've been down this path with is it valuable to get a summary rather than read the whole thing. This is like the cliffnotes story, right? The cliffnotes did not replace the book because there's something about the way our brains work that learn through story”
Where to get it
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Tim O'Reilly in a Nutshell
Discussed“The internet was built by people that had O'Reilly books on their shelf, right? And I was there in that era. And what I liked about the founder Tim O'Reilly is like, you know, essentially the business was selling the most in-depth information possible”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Building a Second Brain
“Goodness gracious, the amount of work that went into build it's called building a second brain. Yeah. It's like you your your entire first brain is being used to build this second brain. I'm sure it worked well for some people.”