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Every book Steven Berlin Johnson recommended on podcasts
Steven Berlin Johnson appeared on This Week in Startups to discuss AI-powered tools for thought and explored NotebookLM. During the episode, Johnson discussed his book Where Good Ideas Come From by explaining how he had previously written about software and creative environments. He demonstrated the functionality of NotebookLM by loading five chapters of Where Good Ideas Come From as sources within the platform. Johnson showed how the tool processed the defined documents, noting that a specific segment in the book covered the intelligence failures and events surrounding September 11. By using his own published work as an illustrative example, Johnson highlighted how users could preload chapters and query the software to retrieve specific details and narratives from existing texts during a live demonstration on the podcast.
Books recommended by Steven Berlin Johnson
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Where good ideas come from
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson is an insightful non-fiction book that explores the historical and environmental patterns that foster innovation, such as the concept of the slow hunch and serendipitous collisions.
Discussed“I wrote a lot about the tools that I was using to write the Books you know I wrote about this tool Devon think that I used for a long time I was I am a big scrier fan I've written about that and in in my book where good ideas come from I talk a lot about how you”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Powered "Tools for Thought": Exploring NotebookLM with Steven Berlin Johnson | E1869 | This Week in Startups | 2023-12-20 | 3 |
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I wrote this book called The Ghost map and so I would often start off just to figure out where Bard was today I be like hey let's talk about Stephen Johnson's book The Ghost map”
“so in the early days when Bard first came out um internally i w i i was kind of at home my rest of my family was skiing this was like a year ago yeah and I was just like okay this is our new model I got to test it I figure out everything and so one things I”