Practical AI with Google: A Solo Knowledge Worker's Guide to Gemini, AI Studio, and LLM APIs
Practical AI with Google: A Solo Knowledge Worker's Guide to Gemini, AI Studio, and LLM APIs
About the Book
Most books I have written are deeply technical - this is not one of them. Here, I attempt to make state of the art AI approachable and usable to a wider and not necessarily technical audience. We focus on Google's publicly available AI tools.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: For All Solo Knowledge Workers
- Who This Book Is For
-
The Rise of the AI-Powered Solo Knowledge Worker
- AI Tools: Powering the Solo Revolution
- AI Tool Categories for Solo Knowledge Workers (May 2025)
- Beyond Automation: AI as Creative Catalyst, Market Navigator, and Personalization Engine
- Independent Consultants
- Programmers and Developers: Productivity Surge, Evolving Skillset
- Wrap Up for AI Powers Solo Work Revolution
- Key Concepts: LLMs, Generative AI, Multimodality
- Google’s AI Ecosystem
- Gemini Integration with Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Meet, Google Drive, Google Calendar
- Part 2 - Using Python Scripts
- Python Introduction and Tutorial
- First Steps Using Python with the Gemini Python Library
- Gemini Thinking Mode
- Using Gemini For Both Images and Text (Multimodal Capabilities)
- Using Gemini to Write Python for Google Colab
- Book Wrap Up
The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.
You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?
See full terms...
Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earnedover $14 millionwriting, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them