What’s your favourite typeface? Here’s a recent classroom exercise at WKWSCI, NTU, where my students shared their favorite typefaces on our virtual whiteboard. Fonts are a big part of our lives but we don’t pay enough attention to how they…
I’m late to the game. I only started using Claude AI’s ‘Projects’ feature today (it was launched in July). This is akin to creating GPTs in the paid version of ChatGPT, where you can upload data and query it repeatedly.…
When I teach marketing at NTU, I always make it real for the students. Last Friday, I took the CS2058 class (Integrated Marketing Communication) to Jurong Point mall for some window shopping. Shopkeepers stared suspiciously as we paused in front…
Communication Etiquette: If you’re going to share a link that leads to a paywalled article, please let your reader know beforehand. Otherwise, they are probably going to feel cheated or annoyed when they visit your link. Think of sharing links…
I like eating mooncakes, but I have never bought a box in my life. They are not only ridiculously expensive, they are also very bad for your health. Please accept them graciously if someone gifts them to you, but eat…
I grabbed this book “Rules of Thumb: 52 Principles for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self” by Alan Webber this morning – it was on sale at $1.99 in the Kindle Store. Here’s the first Rule of Thumb: “W.…
How would you feel if you worked on a product for 8 years and it got cancelled within two weeks of its launch? That’s what happened to Concord, a multiplayer game published by Sony Playstation. The game has just been…
As Black Myth: Wukong continues to garner more fans and sell more coffee (see this photo of the Luckin Coffee collab in China), people have been asking me if they should buy a Sony PS5 or a gaming PC to…
I had a great time teaching over 300 employees from PSA International in yesterday’s webinar “Navigating AI: Preparing for The Future Of Work”. This was my largest AI workshop audience to date, and the webinar was a collaboration between PSA…
People have asked me, “Ian, can you detect whether a LinkedIn post or comment is AI-generated?” I reply, “No, but I can tell when your heart is not in your words.”