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My last two presentations used browser tabs as slides. For my talk last week titled Your Chotu Is Smarter Than You Think, I planned to show a series of examples. I loaded them all in a browser window as tabs like this: How I use AI to navigate toilets How I use AI for food recommendation How I use AI for book suggestions What else I can use AI for … Once loaded, I can press Ctrl+PgDn to move to the next - just like I’d press the right arrow key in a slide deck. I can also use the mouse to click on the tab if I want to jump around. ...

On Friday, our data & analytics client-facing teams connected Gemini to their Drive and Email: Open Gemini Make sure you see a “Pro” icon on the top right. (Some already had access. Some enabled it by clicking stuff.) Go to Settings & help > Connected apps. Turn on “Google Workspace” and approve access. Select “Pro” as the model (instead of “Fast” or “Thinking”). Then they ran this a prompt like this: Go through my Google Drive and find out what are the recent sales proposals we’ve picthed or new clients we’ve won. ...

Here’s my new workflow for creating slide decks: ChatGPT interviews me and creates Markdown slides. I use Marp to convert Markdown to slides. LLMs create supporting images. I deploy on GitHub Pages. … and here are 2 decks created this way. Visualizing LLM Hallucinations LLMs in Education Let’s look at how I built the second example, step by step. ChatGPT interviews me and creates Markdown slides While walking 75 minutes from home to IIT Madras to deliver this talk, I had ChatGPT interview me in standard voice mode. ...

This week, I learned: Luma Labs Dream Machine generated videos. It’s free and is of reasonable quality. Update: 6 Jun 2025. Costs $10/month LLM DataHub has LLM training datasets, regularly updated From Dan Becker on running a workshop Answer questions at the end, not in parallel in a chat, to avoid distraction Have fewer words in slides when presenting. It’s less distracting Morgan Housel Shane Parrish podcast Risk is what stops you from achieving YOUR goals. What’s risky for me may not be risky for you The lesson from compounding is that you want to optimize for duration, not return. That’s what does the heavy lifting. Survival, consistency, long term - these matter. The performance does NOT matter.