Saturday, December 20, 2025

SearchResearch (12/19/25): An experiment in cross-posting podcasts - SearchResearch X Unanticipated Consequences

 An experiment... 




As Regular Readers know, I’m writing another book–this one is about 
Unanticipated Consequences of the choices we make.  Here is a link to the Substack where I post those Unanticipated thought-pieces. (You can sign up to get the regular forthcoming book updates there.)

This week I wrote a post for the Unanticipated Consequences Substack on the topic of making decisions about future events.

I ask (and answer!) Why is thinking about the future so hard?

After I wrote that post, methought about making a podcast on the topic.  People keep telling me that would be a good idea.  

So I started narrating it, and have a recording of me doing this, but then I had an even better idea:  What kind of podcast would NotebookLM make of this?  

I poured the Substack post into NotebookLM and--voila!--in a few minutes it generated a 14 minute podcast that I thought was pretty interesting.  

Here's the link to the podcast: 

Dan's podcast about
 Why is thinking about the future so hard?

I'm really curious what you think about it.  Love it?  Hate it?  Let me know your reaction in the comments below.   

You might recall that I did a similar thing back in September of this year, using NotebookLM to create a video about the Prussian Coffee Sniffers. People were split on the quality of the resulting video.  As you know, the quality of the LLMs is constantly improving.  So... how is it today?   


And in the meantime, keep searching! And let us know what you think of this podcast.  


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