🤖 AI Tactic

Solving Hallucinations with NotebookLM and Gemini

Google has started letting Gemini pull NotebookLM notebooks directly into a chat. Instead of keeping your PDFs and notebooks in one place and your questions in another, you attach the notebook to the Gemini conversation and ask about it inline.

Here’s how that helps: NotebookLM was built to digest 50+ documents (PDFs, text, slides) at a time, then give grounded answers based on what you put in. However, it writes in a stilted way and doesn’t automatically look up supplementary material.

Conversely, Gemini was built to reason, look up context, and talk back in natural language. When you attach a NotebookLM notebook to a Gemini session, Gemini answers using your source material plus its reasoning and live web search.

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⚡️ Execution Insight

Give away your Legos

Molly Graham has worked at top companies including Google and Facebook. She also served as COO at Quip (acquired by Salesforce).

She has seen hypergrowth numerous times and came up with a simple rule to survive it: give away your Legos. If you want to grow as fast as the company, you have to give away your job every few months. You build a thing, you stabilize it, then you hand the “Legos” to a new person who just walked in the door, then go find the next messy problem.

The people who cling to their Lego tower and try to do an accumulating number of tasks struggle to keep their quality level up. The people who successfully increase their scope treat each handoff as a promotion: proof that something they built now deserves its own owner.

tl;dr: your job is to make yourself irrelevant so you’re free for the next challenge.

Read more about the idea here.

🧠 Curiosity Corner

Claude Cowork

Claude just shipped its most interesting idea yet: Cowork.

Until now, we’ve had some interesting agentic tools that live in the browser, like Manus which just sold to Meta for billions. But AI tools have not been the best at manipulating files in the browser.

It looks like Cowork is different. You point it at a folder, give it a goal, and it does the work: cleaning files, drafting documents, structuring data, fixing chaos. It operates locally, inside a sandbox you control, and checks in before changing anything.

More interestingly, Anthropic built Cowork with Claude Code itself in under two weeks. Is this a sign that we’re at the AI singularity, where it starts improving itself into a superintelligence?

If a capable digital teammate now lives on your desktop working 24/7, what’s the first job you hand off? Have you tried Cowork yet?

💼 Job Board

Growth, Governance, & Guardrails

Here are the 3 most interesting remote job openings I’ve seen this week:

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That’s it for this week.

-Rahul from The DesAI Digest

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