The right answer to everything
Here’s the right answer to all your toughest LinkedIn questions: 1. Should I specialise in something? YES 2. Should I be a generalist? YES 3. Should I hustle to get ahead? YES 4. Should I lie flat to protest against…
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Flowcharts with the Force
My 2nd video for LinkedIn! I had a discussion with my friend Alfred yesterday over making flowcharts with ChatGPT’s new imaging capabilities, so I decided to have some fun making one about Jedis and Siths. To make this video, I…
Patience in iteration
PATIENCE – this is the key ingredient in creating content that stands out from the crowd, especially in the age of Gen AI. The iterative process of working on any idea always takes time. Creative content simply does not happen…
Sketch and Generate – The Augmented Worker
I’ve been wanting to create this image “The Augmented Worker” for some time. Or maybe, Mr Ne Zha. I sketched him out on the iPad then I fed it to ChatGPT Sora to get the “3d low poly” look.
Sketching is your new superpower
The first thing that I teach in my Advertising Creativity course at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is “How to sketch anything”. Sketching has always been an important skill to drive creative thinking, and in the age…
Keep calm and use AI
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi. The past few days has seen much celebration about…
Curate your LinkedIn feed
I read The Straits Times commentary by Jeremy Au Yong about the unbearable behaviour on LinkedIn. I won’t disagree with what he said, but the good news is, you can do something about it! Here’s how to curate your feed:…
Newsletter 21: The line has been crossed
The past week has felt like watching grandmaster Garry Kasparov losing to IBM’s Deep Blue in 1997. “This is impossible,” thought many people when AI beat THE human expert at chess. Now, ChatGPT has done the same to the entire…
NYT – The Gen X Career Meltdown
If you read my posts regularly, you may think that I’m all rah-rah about Gen AI and all the increasingly powerful things it can do. But I belong to Gen X, and my head is still screwed on tight. I…
ChatGPT 4o infographics
While everyone seems to be obsessed with making AI selfies and Studio Ghibli-style memes with the new ChatGPT 4o imaging engine (aka The Law of Average AI Posts), I’ve been experimenting with other things like infographics. Step 1: I asked…