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Derived formats with Gemini

The natural capability of Generative AI is to generate stuff - and Gemini’s particularly good with media. For example, we can take any document, like this MasterCard report on The State of Open Finance 2026, and generate videos, podcasts, sketchnotes, songs, and more from it. How? I uploaded the PDF to NotebookLM and created a 20-minute podcast by clicking on Generate Audio Overview - Deep Dive - English - Default. Listen to the English podcast It supports multiple languages, so I generated a Chinese and Filipino version as well. ...

Repurposing blog posts for talks

Recently, I’ve re-used my own writing / transcripts as context to LLMs. For example, I’ve used: My meeting transcripts to answer interview questions My blog posts to write news articles My chat history to extract AI-related advice This repurposing can be used for so many things. For example, before delivering a talk to journalists “Review my Feb 2026 LLM posts and generate a single-sentence, ELI15 high-impact use case for journalists.” gets me list of use cases. Now, all I have to do is show what I did and share how it’s relevant for them, like: ...

Writing articles from my blog posts

You can use AI to submit not just talk proposals but entire articles from your past work. Ranjeeta said Built In wants an article and had written one on my behalf. If someone’s going to write for me, I’d rather pick an AI! So here’s what I did: Research the audience So I asked Gemini to research and suggest topics: I received a request to write an article for Built In (https://builtin.com/), an online community and publication for startups and tech companies. ...

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I joined Madhu Sathiaseelan’s podcast to talk about LLM Psychology. But it’s also fascinating to see how much SECONDARY content you can generate from a video. Do you prefer sketch-notes? See Nano Banana Pro’s version below. Or are you a slides person? https://sanand0.github.io/talks/2025-11-06-llm-psychology/ How about a Malcolm Gladwell article? https://github.com/sanand0/talks/raw/refs/heads/main/2025-11-06-llm-psychology/mind-readers.docx Or reading the raw transcript? https://github.com/sanand0/talks/tree/main/2025-11-06-llm-psychology The way in which we consume information is entirely up to us. This is making a lot more content (e.g. research papers, government regulations, medical reports, policy documents, product manuals, …) accessible to me - just by asking it to rewrite it as a sketch-note, slides, article, or anything I prefer. ...