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AuroraBook

by David Koepp

Who uses, recommends or left Aurora, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Robby Stein
Vice President of Product for Google Search; previously a product executive at Instagram and co-founder of Stamped.
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but I also really love this for, um, fiction, Aurora, which is this book David Cop wrote. It's about uh it's like electromagnetic pulse in the sun that like knocks out it's like fiction for just fun and it was like a really fun beach read and apparently was made into a Netflix show. It didn't work out. I don't know. I was sad to see that uh fall apart, but it's a really fun book.

Lenny's Podcast, "Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Captions spell the author "David Cop".

2025-10-10·youtube.com ↗

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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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