Issue 51 - Read, Write, Draw. A lot. That’s It
Increase Your Luck by Publishing. 2025 LLM Year in Review. The Thinking Game Documentary. Google’s NotebookLM Enhancements. Real-time Voice AI Workshop Insights & much more. !
We used to read, write, and draw a lot in our childhood, but as we grew older, we lost these skills. The reason it is taught in school is that these are foundational skills necessary to perform any task.
In the age of AI, these skills have become even more important. They are now used to orchestrate AI to achieve better outputs.
Reading, writing, and drawing may sound like common sense, but guess what? Common sense is not that common. We are distracted by so many things, both internally and externally, that we don’t even realize that we’ve lost these skills.
In the age of distraction, it becomes really hard to engage in these activities. If you can accomplish this difficult task, then you will be an outlier, and you can differentiate yourself from many others. So...
Read. A Lot.
Not 2-minute, 5-minute blogs. I’m talking about long-form content where people have done deep research which requires your brain to focus. Like books, research papers, literature, and fiction.
Read as much as you can in whatever field you’re in. The more you read, the more words you have at your disposal to explain things.
As Javed Akhtar said, “Words are like bricks. The more bricks you have, the better house you can build.”
Write. A Lot.
When you read, you also need to write. Writing organizes your thinking. By sharing your learnings, writing YouTube scripts, collaborating on projects, writing sales pitches etc.
Writing forces you to organize your thoughts. It’s one thing to have a vague idea in your head. It’s completely different to articulate it clearly enough that someone else (or something else, like AI) can understand it.
Even when you’re using AI, you have to write. The quality of your writing directly determines the quality of your prompts.
Draw. A Lot.
As kids, we used to draw everywhere, even on the walls. That’s what made our parents angry! 😂
Writing organizes thinking, while drawing organizes the imaginative pictures on paper. Not just drawing pictures, but drawing also helps in designing flowcharts, architectural diagrams, and more.
Since the AI tool like Gemini is becoming so advanced, providing it with a rough sketch of what we want can yield a 60-70% result of what we desire.
Why This Matters for AI
From an AI perspective, your output basically depends on the quality of your input, and the quality of your input depends on how specifically you’ve defined things.
The level of detail with which you’ve explained your ideas is crucial. To articulate these concepts clearly, your own thinking must first be clear about what needs to be done.
How many of you have experienced this: you know what you want to build, but you can’t explain it to AI?
You struggle to explain it properly because you lack the right words. You may not have organized your ideas effectively, and you find it difficult to draw or visualize them.
Which skill do you struggle with most—reading, writing, or drawing? What’s stopping you?
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✍🏻 Articles to read:
1. 2025 LLM Year in Review by karpathy
Related to all this is my general apathy and loss of trust in benchmarks in 2025.
But not only does vibe coding empower regular people to approach programming, it empowers trained professionals to write a lot more (vibe coded) software that would otherwise never be written.
LLMs are emerging as a new kind of intelligence, simultaneously a lot smarter than I expected and a lot dumber than I expected.
Anthropic got this order of precedence correct and packaged CC into a delightful, minimal CLI form factor that changed what AI looks like - it’s not just a website you go to like Google, it’s a little spirit/ghost that “lives” on your computer. This is a new, distinct paradigm of interaction with an AI.
2. Publishing your work increases your luck by Aaron Francis
The goal is not to become famous, the goal is to increase the chances of luck finding us.
Luck = [Doing Things] * [Telling People]
📺 Videos to Watch:
1. The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection
After seeing this video in my feed again and again, I finally watched it. And its just amazing.
I never knew about the protein folding problem, and it’s amazing to see how AI solves that problem.
AI writing code is great, but if AI can understand and predict biology, that’s at a science fiction level of stuff AI can do.
We are living in great times. Everyone is saying AGI is on the horizon. Let’s watch and see.
2. Full Workshop: Realtime Voice AI — Mark Backman, Daily
Voice agent something I am exploring on the side, building a Voice Agent that can join meetings and answer your queries. Pipecat is an amazing tool for this job.
3. Google’s NotebookLM Is Getting Even More Powerful
I did not know the potential of NotebookLLM until I used it in my recent project for research and writing YouTube scripts. Adding sources has become so easy.
Discover and add PDFs from a reliable source to save time instead of manually searching for them.
Connect to my drive and search for relevant files.
🔖Post I Found Useful
1. The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
2. Make a codebase more productive for AI coding
🛠️ Tool I Found Useful
1. Google has introduced Play Billing Lab for testing the Billing Library integration
Fun and Memes
1. Dittytoy : The Code-Driven Music Playground for the Web.
👋🏻 That’s it, Folks
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