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Zara Zhang

@zarazhangrui

Building AI x learning products. Harvard’17. Side project: https://tldw.us YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ZaraZhangg Substack: https://zarazhang.substack.com

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New workflow: 1. Open a voice memo app 2. Brain dump your thoughts on a topic; record it 3. Transcribe it 4. Import transcript into NotebookLM 5. Get it to generate a slide deck using Nano Banana Pro 6. See your rambling thoughts visualized into structured & beautiful slides and feel smart

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If you're non-technical, AI coding tools are for pitching/communicating to engineers, not replacing them. I use Claude to make interactive prototypes that show exactly what I want to build. Then I hand it to a real developer. The prototype isn't the product. Conflating the two is dangerous.

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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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The future of job search is "show your work" not "tell me what you did"

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Upload a meeting transcript to NotebookLM and get it to turn it into a slide deck using Nano Banana Pro. Absolutely insane.

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I spent 8 years away from X because it felt like noise. When I came back 6 months ago for AI, my feed was full of clickbait and topics I no longer cared about. So I did something most people don't do: I intentionally shaped my algorithm. Every time X pushed clickbait at me, I clicked "not interested." I unfollowed accounts from 8 years ago. I followed builders, PMs, and people actually creating things. I did this religiously for a month. Now my Twitter feed is basically an AI learning platform. Product launches, technical discussions, startup updates. The video feed is just product demos. Here's what I learned: most people complain about social media algorithms controlling them. But you can control the algorithm if you're willing to put in the work. The platforms aren't inherently bad. They're just optimized for engagement, not learning. But if you're intentional about what you engage with, you can bend them to serve your goals. X can be TikTok for learning. You just have to train it.

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