I like to use AI tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, etc. for tasks that I know how to do well.  Really well.

If you’ve never heard of the Feynman Technique, it focuses on having you teach something simply (as if explaining it to a child) and identifying gaps in your knowledge.  

We get asked this question a lot, and we see it even more often out in the wild.

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Why do I keep getting a source import failed message when I try to upload my sources to NotebookLM?~ Anonymous

Using modern AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, etc. is a skill (a lot of skills actually).  That means that you will not be good initially, AND that you can get better, but you have to put in work.  

This is a common reason why people refuse to use AI tools like ChatGPT.

You can use prompt frameworks to save even more time with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, etc.

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I saw that NotebookLM has a mobile app so I tried it out.  It doesn’t work the same as the desktop version. Am I doing something wrong?~ Anonymous

NotebookLM is Google’s specialized AI tool that makes “podcasts” and hallucinates less than other AI tools.

I’ve recently talked to some people who said that they didn’t like the infographics that they got out of ChatGPT.  

We ended up talking about other things and never came back to the infographics and I wonder what their prompt(s) looked like. I’ll use it as an opportunity to...