@DrJoeAbah This Temu almost scattered things for me.
I was buying on per weekend billing. Till my wife started complaining to my father to stop me from Temu ooo...that Temu is finishing our money. That's when I really really calmed down. But I love that you can get almost anything there.
@drogbag1@DrJoeAbah This cracked me up so bad. Still laughing as I'm typing this. Tears all over my eyes.
Still laughing at intervals. Wetin be this guy?
โ ๏ธPastor Chris Oyakhilome has warned about the growing influence of AI, mainstream platforms like ChatGPT are shaped by global interests that can influence narratives. He introduced Praxiom as an alternative AI platform aimed at providing more independent information.
๐จBREAKING: Gemini + NotebookLM are changing how people learn.
Upload a PDF, YouTube video, lecture, or notesโฆ
And turn it into a personal AI tutor that explains, summarizes, quizzes, and helps you remember faster.
Here are 7 prompts to learn anything 10x faster:
๐จBREAKING: NotebookLM just became the smartest free tutor on the internet.
It can turn PDFs, videos, and notes into personalized learning sessions in seconds.
Here are 8 prompts that feel like having a private tutor 24/7:
(Save this before it blows up)
I accidentally found a way to compress months of learning into just 48 hours.
An MIT grad student showed me his NotebookLM workflow. At first, I thought he was just insanely organized.
Then I watched him pass a qualifying exam on a topic he had barely studied before.
Hereโs what he did:
First, he didnโt upload only one textbook.
He uploaded 6 textbooks, 15 research papers, lecture notes, and every transcript he could find on the subject.
Then he asked NotebookLM one question:
โWhat are the 5 core mental models every expert in this field uses?โ
Not:
โSummarize this.โ
Not:
โTeach me the basics.โ
Mental models.
The frameworks experts spend years developing.
But the next prompt changed everything.
He asked:
โShow me the biggest debates in this field and the strongest argument from each side.โ
Within 20 minutes, he had a complete map of the subject:
the agreements, disagreements, blind spots, and open questions.
Most students spend an entire semester just discovering those debates exist.
Then he asked:
โGenerate 10 questions that separate people who truly understand this topic from people who only memorized it.โ
For the next few hours, he answered those questions using the source material.
Every time he got something wrong, he used another prompt:
โExplain why this answer is incorrect and what Iโm missing.โ
By the end of 48 hours, he could confidently discuss the topic with his thesis advisor.
The tool wasnโt the advantage.
The questions were.
Most people use NotebookLM like a fancy highlighter.
The smartest students use it like a private tutor trained on the best sources in the field.
The gap between a semester and 48 hours isnโt intelligence.
Itโs knowing the right questions to ask.
I watched a PhD student use NotebookLM to do in 3 hours what took me 3 months.
I asked him how. He showed me his setup. I have not studied the same way since.
Here is exactly what he did.
He did not use NotebookLM as a search engine.
He did not type questions like "explain this concept."
He uploaded an entire field.
12 textbooks. 40 research papers. Every review article published in the last 5 years on his
topic. All uploaded at once. Into a single notebook.
Then he asked one question that changed how I think about learning:
"If you could only teach this subject using 7 sentences โ one for each core idea โ what
would they be?"
Not a summary. Not an overview.
Seven sentences. For the entire field.
NotebookLM produced them. He read them.
He asked a follow-up:
"For each sentence, what is the single experiment or paper that proved it was true?"
Now he had the skeleton of an entire field โ and the exact evidence underneath each bone.
Then he did something nobody told me about.
He uploaded his own notes alongside the source material.
Then asked:
"Where am I wrong? What have I misunderstood compared to what the literature actually says?"
The system found three misconceptions he had carried for two years. Two of them would
have cost him his PhD defense if they had gone uncorrected.
He called this the Misconception Audit. He runs it on every subject before any exam, any
paper submission, any conference presentation.
Then the final step.
"Generate 10 questions a hostile expert would ask someone who claims to understand this
field. Then answer each one using only the sources I uploaded."
He was not studying to pass.
He was studying to survive interrogation by the smartest people in the room.
He passed his qualifying exam on a subject he had started studying 11 days before.
I have been studying the wrong way my entire life.
Here is his exact setup if you want to replicate it:
1.Upload the entire field โ not one source
2. Ask for the 7 core sentences
3.Find the evidence under each one
https://t.co/IXovyuvPfc the Misconception Audit on your own notes
Survive the hostile expert interrogation
The information was always available.
The framing was the unlock.
He passed his qualifying exam on a subject he had started studying 11 days before.
I have been studying the wrong way my entire life.
Here is his exact setup if you want to replicate it:
1.Upload the entire field โ not one source
2. Ask for the 7 core sentences
3.Find the evidence under each one
https://t.co/IXovyuvPfc the Misconception Audit on your own notes
Survive the hostile expert interrogation
The information was always available.
The framing was the unlock.
I accidentally discovered how to compress a semester of learning into 48 hours.
An MIT grad student showed me his NotebookLM setup. At first, I thought he was just super organized. Then I watched him pass a qualifying exam on a subject he had barely studied before.
Hereโs exactly what he did:
First, he didnโt upload just one textbook.
He uploaded 6 textbooks, 15 research papers, and every lecture transcript he could find on the topic.
Then he asked NotebookLM one question:
โWhat are the 5 core mental models that every expert in this field shares?โ
Not โsummarize this.โ
Not โexplain this topic.โ
Mental models โ the frameworks experts spend years building.
But the next prompt completely changed the game.
He asked:
โNow show me the 3 biggest areas where experts in this field disagree, and the strongest argument from each side.โ
In less than 20 minutes, he had a map of the entire field:
the debates, the consensus, and the unanswered questions.
Most students spend an entire semester just figuring out those debates exist.
Then he asked something even smarter:
โGenerate 10 questions that would reveal whether someone truly understands this subject or just memorized facts.โ
He spent the next 6 hours answering those questions using the source material. Every mistake triggered another prompt:
โExplain why this answer is wrong and what Iโm missing.โ
By hour 48, he could confidently discuss the topic with his thesis advisor.
The tool didnโt change.
The questions did.
Most people use NotebookLM like a smart highlighter.
The best students use it like a private tutor trained on every important source in the field.
The difference between a semester and 48 hours isnโt the amount of content.
Itโs knowing the right questions to ask.