Gong Xi Fa Cai! For those who celebrate Chinese New Year, I hope you had a fun time visiting relatives and friends.
In the AI world, Nano Banana 2 has launched and I hope more marketers learn how to use it because their current AI-generated advertisements look terrible compared to what this new engine can do:
Anyway, let’s get to the hot stuff…
What I wrote the past fortnight
The LinkedIn algo refused to circulate this post I wrote on Motivating Forces vs Restraining Forces. I think it’s something incredible from Daniel Kahneman that everyone needs to know. I even spent 40 min doing up a nice infographic for it! Thank you for reading it!
Many people have been asking me what are the different tiers of AI literacy? Here’s a simple way to answer this question.
Ethan Mollick has an updated framework on this same question.
Does your work have much value to begin with? AI is answering that question for you, whether you like it or not.
Why watching short-form videos may give you heart trouble in the future.
You can try my prompt to replicate yourself five times in a kitchen setting to test the new Nano Banana 2 imaging engine from Google.
A CNY greeting visual made with the older Nano Banana. This pales in comparison to the robotic AI on show during China’s Spring Festival TV Show.
My ex-media colleague Liang Kaixin shared her AI upskilling journey in a commentary. It’s a great read.
You can download Google NotebookLM slide decks in PPTX format! But there’s a caveat…
I’m thankful for the opportunity to coach the Quality Management Division from SkillsFuture Singapore in advanced Gen AI techniques.
I wish people would stop using this silly prompt to justify why they should not use Gen AI.
Human musings
Contemplative, contradictory thoughts that swirled in my head recently.
Horses for courses – a look back at an unpleasant part of my first job related to the Year of the Horse.
I bought a Udemy course just to learn the functions of Procreate for my sporadic works of art. And I bought my first pair of Super Shoes, which is also my first time trying the Chinese brand Anta. However, people were more interested to know how my shoes survive over 2000km of jogging.
Why the old media’s old habits will hasten their slide into irrelevancy.
Has it been 20 years since we ACS boys carried Derek’s heavy coffin and lowered him into his grave? A trip to the cemetery for our gang of friends.
I don’t think I’ll ever be in a team again that surpasses the naughtiness and sheer talent of the Microsoft EDD team.