Google Gemini – Text to Cloned Voice
I created a new app with Google Gemini called the “Monk’s Insight Generator” – it takes a news story (or any piece of content) and turns it into a two-liner by a witty monk. After that, the app turns the…
Ian Tan
AI literacy – July 2025 definition
I’m speaking to corporate leaders later this week about strategic approaches to AI in business. This is one of my slides where I’ve further refined my definition of AI literacy based on my Gen AI coaching experiences since 2023. On…
GO-FAR 2025 kickoff
Yesterday, we kicked off GO-FAR 2025 (Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting), the annual highlight of our journalism training at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. An annual tradition since 2005, GO-FAR brings our…
Benjamin Zander – Escaping the downward spiral
Conductor and teacher Benjamin Zander recently gave a great interview to Zsolt Bognár on “The Art of Possibility” (also a great book). Here’s an excerpt that I loved and I want to share with everyone: Escaping the Downward Spiral How…
Newsletter 36 – Remember Rule No. 6
In this week’s newsletter, I talk about why we need to stop taking ourselves so seriously, and recap my posts on “The Agency of You” workshop, data storytelling, and some lifehacks with ChatGPT and Canva. I also hope you like…
Google Veo 3 – Optimus Appleus
Google Veo 3: I walked past the bowl of apples in my living room and thought, “Hmm, maybe I should animate one of them.” So here’s Optimus Appleus!
Google Veo 3 – Walking Cats
Google Gemini now allows you to upload an image and animate it with the Google Veo 3 engine. I uploaded a photo of cat drawings that I did last year, and asked Gemini to have the cats come to life…
The Agency of You – July masterclass
Congratulations to the first batch of “The Agency of You” Masterclass by The Straits Times! It was an intensive day of learning marketing fundamentals and applying Gen AI techniques to augment our ability to sell products, ideas and ourselves, to…
Advanced Gen AI Masterclass
Announcing the Advanced version of The Straits Times Gen AI Masterclass, happening on 29 Sep 2025! This is where we go beyond the basics and learn: Over the past 1.5 years, participants from the original Masterclass (now labelled as “Fundamentals”)…
Data storytelling upskilling
Data storytelling is an essential skill today but many people don’t know where to get started. Also, we don’t know what we don’t know – what if you have created a chart for your office presentation and there’s no data…