March 27, 2025
After deciding to restart my old Week In Review format this year, I rebranded it as the Global Market Navigator Report. Subsequently, NYUGrad discovered a new Google Gemini platform that converts these reports into an audio discussion between two humanoids. The system prompts are restricted to 500 characters including spaces, or roughly 75 words. I found the first discussions were too long, unfocused, and often repeated content, so I submitted specific prompts, like “Geopolitics & Central Banks (2 min): Analyze market impact.” Subsequently, the discussion format became shorter, more highly focused on key parts of the report, and did not repeat content. Still, I have no idea what the discussion will be until I hear it. There have been a few errors, but these have been minor. Overall, I am pleased, and in addition to the 600-page reports, I plan to submit short 1-page texts on specific topics to get 45-60 second discussions or single-person assessments. These DeepMind discussions will be uploaded to the YouTube channel, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s60oIWATXXE
1 (Jan. 12) Audio Nav 1 17:17
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d814b85c-79f1-4226-8c1b-a3ca2cfc1206
2 (Jan. 19) Audio Nav 2 21:48
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/61c642b2-2a05-45b6-9913-ba7b252d8ce7
3 (Jan,26) Audio Nav 3 13:01
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/5d1d88cb-270d-426a-8fd8-704a65f8e405
4 (Feb. 2) Audio Nav 4 18:27
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d3c637ed-93b7-4927-b9df-5353e9f959d7
5 (Feb. 9) Audio Nav 5 18:32
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/79a94467-38c9-474c-8cea-3f085c079ce1
6 Audio (Feb. 16) Nav 6 14:08
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d406e9c2-a2cb-4c1a-931a-c5afbd00277c
7 (Feb. 23) Audio Nav 7 14:03
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/bf05edc0-850e-4842-b2ca-e364adf7779f
8 (Mar. 2) Nav 8 Audio 12:23
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/56ad6005-ffab-4885-b880-b8671e232b6d
9 (Mar. 9) Nav 9 Audio 21:25
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/1dc40d0b-7fed-49f8-9d9d-9239b7bfb605
10 (Mar. 16) Nav 10 Audio 12:57
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/acbabd70-38fe-44ed-8958-8c21fb708f33
11 (Mar. 23) Nav 11 audio 20:12
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/4415efd5-568f-44e7-b61d-95ee0c6cfe39/audio
The NotebookLM from the Google Gemini platform offers briefing docs, study guides, and FAQs to help users understand things faster. I believe it. I also think these humanized DeepMind podcasts will lead more people to read the 600-page reports, in part or in full, if stock market literacy is important to them. Are you getting hooked, yet?
Like any communicator on the Internet, I speak into the ether. I receive little feedback from the billions of potential recipients to tell me if I’m succeeding in my mission. So, I need your help. Please email me your take on the DeepMind podcasts at [email protected] or [email protected].
I welcome all feedback, no matter how insignificant it may seem. Your insights can transform my thinking. For example, after starting this series as Week In Review (WIR), I was reminded that we needed to be thinking ahead, so I reassessed what I am doing, and concluded I am guiding readers, and the best name for that, said AI, was Navigator. Then the first two responses I received to Report #1 came from Guam in the South Pacific and Singapore, and I quickly realized I was speaking to the world, not just Americans and Canadians. So I added Global Market to the Navigator report name.
Do you see how important this iterative process is? That’s why I started the Cara Community over twenty years ago: I want us to communicate.
I am certainly not alone in having unique skills, experience, and opinions related to financial markets, but I know there is a great need for independent and object communications. So, I am always going to try improving my communications. My first article for public consumption was for the Canadian Doctor monthly magazine publication sent to all practising medical doctors in the country. It was 1976, and I wrote about AI and Robotics, so far ahead of its time that I was afraid the editor would be furious. Instead, I was called to the publisher’s office to meet with him and the managing editor. I was told they considered it excellent work that would be submitted to the Business Press Association for an award, all of which did happen. But besides the encouragement I received that day that spurred me to do more writing, the one thing that I took away that was important to me was that they told me I wasn’t writing a PhD thesis; they wanted my work to be written at a grade 10 level. But, I protested, I was writing to physicians and surgeons. No, they responded, you are writing to an audience interested in learning something new, and if you can make it easy to read, you have things to say that we want to publish.
In my long career, as in life, I have learned that the most important thing anybody can do is communicate effectively. We don’t have to be super-educated to be able to do that. That said, I believe these DeepMind podcasts do a more effective job than my 600-page reports for most people. Some will then want to read the full report, or relevant parts of it, and some will want to read and hear rapid-fire podcasts.
If you tell me what’s on your mind, you have my word I’ll listen.