I saw this ebook “100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss” by Jean Carper for sale on the Kindle Store. I decided to borrow the ebook from the National Library and read the contents…
Last week, I had the opportunity to bring together the leadership lessons I learned over 25 years in a new workshop for Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Titled “EQ and Communication for Leaders“, the workshop was part of…
I was reading the book “You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Education” when I received an email that the author, George Anders, would be visiting Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. Wow!…
I went on CNA 938 live radio yesterday to chat with Lance Alexander and Soo Sien Tay about imparting media literacy to young people. Media literacy is already being taught in our schools to help kids think critically about the…
I was exhausted yesterday, having spent hours moving and cleaning furniture, all so that I could get a new Cat 6a Ethernet cable installed and get onto the 10Gbps highway. You see, last week, ViewQwest slashed the price of its…
As I designed a leadership communication course at my university, I pondered on Dale Carnegie’s classic advice: “Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.” It’s true but it’s so hard to do. I’ve struggled with this saying since I first read the…
After revising the Teeline shorthand alphabet yesterday, I started writing full sentences in shorthand to practice. My reMarkable Paper Pro tablet is used for both work and Bible study notes, and I have been writing in both English and Chinese.…
I’ve been writing a lot on my reMarkable Paper Pro since it arrived a week ago. I started to using shorthand to write faster, but I was spending too much time designing new shorthand forms. So today, I dug out…
Over the weekend, I penned this commentary on “digital detoxing” for TODAY (which will merge with CNA next week). Thank you to Melissa Lee Suppiah for the opportunity! Here’s an excerpt: “In 2018, I got frustrated with my addiction to Facebook. Inspired by books about removing…
The results of yesterday’s Gen AI Deepfake test on LinkedIn and Facebook are in: 69% of 51 respondents wrongly guessed that the “real man” was Photo A. Sorry folks, but I generated Photo A with Midjourney. On the other hand,…