Steven Johnson
@stevenbjohnson
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Editorial Director, NotebookLM and Google Labs. Author of 14 books. Latest: The Infernal Machine. Speech inquiries email: wesn at leighbureau dot com
Brooklyn NY & Marin County CA
Joined March 2007
New @NotebookLM: The Collected Works Of Jane Austen. Full text of all of her novels, letters, juvenilia, bio, and more. We designed this one for fan-fiction creators as much as for students and scholars. https://t.co/eyJGd1rT2u The Austen Featured Notebook is a particularly
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Left is a chat gpt 5.2 ppt Right is a notebook lm "nano banana" ppt Gpt5.2 is impressive but has no chance with nano banana ppts, I think it's the wrong approach, image modality is the future of ppt.
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Steven "Decks" Johnson exploring a big NotebookLM usecase I never expected - creating context for consistent narrative universes!
New @NotebookLM: The Collected Works Of Jane Austen. Full text of all of her novels, letters, juvenilia, bio, and more. We designed this one for fan-fiction creators as much as for students and scholars. https://t.co/eyJGd1rT2u The Austen Featured Notebook is a particularly
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New @NotebookLM: The Collected Works Of Jane Austen. Full text of all of her novels, letters, juvenilia, bio, and more. We designed this one for fan-fiction creators as much as for students and scholars. https://t.co/eyJGd1rT2u The Austen Featured Notebook is a particularly
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Lowest NYC murder rate in “recorded history” this year.
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New York City has tied its record for the longest stretch without a homicide.
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AI learns like athletes train—some skills easier than others.
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I love how @NotebookLM is treated like a little startup within Google. They openly ask for input and keep refining the product. Well done @tokumin @stevenbjohnson @joshwoodward
That was a LOT of mobile updates, but here's a ✨pro tip✨: combine the features to unlock even more functionality. Ex: Dictate your thoughts/notes/mad scientist ramblings to your phone. Then upload the audio recording as a source and NotebookLM will bring your words to life!
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Best airport in US full stop. (As long as both runways are open.) Ferry building is a gem too.
SFO is hands down the best international airport. 15 min - uber from yc demo day to terminal 5 min - through security 5 min - grab fresh made sushi & walk to gate 5 mins - boarding to seat City to sitting on flight to Munich in < 30min
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Looking back, I think we've had three step-change innovations at @NotebookLM alongside lots of important improvements and useful features: 1. the original source-grounded chat with inline citations and direct links to passages in sources 2. Audio Overviews And now Slides.
While I wasn't looking, slide generation in Google's NotebookLM became impressive Here I threw in 10 academic papers I authored & it summarized them into a coherent (& quite pretty) deck. I saw no hallucinations, but nano banana results in some occasional spelling & graph issues
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Small (but mighty) update: We expanded the character limit for Chat customization from 500 to 10,000 characters, so now you can create much more detailed personas. Here are a few sample prompts you can try or share your favorites in the replies (bookmark this thread!) 1. The
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Introducing Core’s 2025 Wrapped We spent 2025 in the lab. We tightened the product, fixed rough edges, and focused on shipping features you actually wanted.
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Slides kind of snuck up on all of us (including on the @NotebookLM team) because it turns out to have all these unanticipated uses that go way beyond just "convert x into a slide deck." I'm going to write up a longer doc walking through some of the things we've discovered.
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Looking back, I think we've had three step-change innovations at @NotebookLM alongside lots of important improvements and useful features: 1. the original source-grounded chat with inline citations and direct links to passages in sources 2. Audio Overviews And now Slides.
While I wasn't looking, slide generation in Google's NotebookLM became impressive Here I threw in 10 academic papers I authored & it summarized them into a coherent (& quite pretty) deck. I saw no hallucinations, but nano banana results in some occasional spelling & graph issues
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This is exactly how we turn AI Research into accessible learning. Our collaboration with @NotebookLM demonstrates the true magic of translating complex science - genomics, health diagnostics, and more into something tangible and personal. The future of learning is wide open.
We're continuing our @GoogleResearch series with two additional Featured Notebooks. Check them out and let us know what you think! 1.) How can scientists know what's in your genome? https://t.co/qwLINxqwwf 2.) Can your eyes explain your overall health? https://t.co/dUqLgKTTbJ
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Scientists are discovering that there's an amazing amount of information about your overall health detectible in simple images of your eye. @GoogleResearch has curated an entire @NotebookLM featured notebook that explores the possibilities. https://t.co/XPfUlwYOnW
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Unlock Asia's green growth opportunities and drive decarbonisation strategies from SG.
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We're continuing our @GoogleResearch series with two additional Featured Notebooks. Check them out and let us know what you think! 1.) How can scientists know what's in your genome? https://t.co/qwLINxqwwf 2.) Can your eyes explain your overall health? https://t.co/dUqLgKTTbJ
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My friend @DynamicWebPaige shared this old clip she found from the Times, from the mid-90s, back when I was trying to figure out the new possibilities for curating and publishing knowledge in the (new) era of HTML with the work we were doing at FEED. Would be incredible to time
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Scientists are discovering that there's an amazing amount of information about your overall health detectible in simple images of your eye. @GoogleResearch has curated an entire @NotebookLM featured notebook that explores the possibilities. https://t.co/XPfUlwYOnW
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It’s a big day for our team – @WeAreNew_Public is starting to test out our new community platform Roundabout with real people. I’m excited to share more with everyone in the coming months. We're still filling a funding gap for the project, so reach out if you have leads
Introducing Roundabout: a local community web app built to help people live a flourishing life in their town or neighborhood. Based on research and optimized for trust. Built by a nonprofit, for the public. Find resources, connect with neighbors, celebrate your community.
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Lowest price for USA-made 100% organic cotton shorts @ATGUSAMade I hope these inspire someone out there to build closer to home, wherever that is.
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Arcadia. What a brilliant script that was.
The genius opening scene in all theatre. RIP Stoppard the Great. Wit, eroticism, intrigue, philosophy and gossip all in a few short lines. And surprise...
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Amazing anecdote from David Mamet about Tom Stoppard in @TheFP: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood
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Legendary playwright Tom Stoppard was a Holocaust survivor and an immigrant, but he wrote the most English and Anglophile of works, writes David Mamet for The Free Press.
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Starting to believe that the best place to use Nano Banana Pro might actually be in NotebookLM
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