Rules of Thumb by Alan Webber
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.…
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Concord’s short, disastrous life
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…
What machine to play Black Myth: Wukong?
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…
AI webinar with PSA International
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…
Can you detect AI content?
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.”
Talk less, fight more in Wukong.
In a world flooded with online opinions, we need to talk less and do more. In the case of “Black Myth: Wukong”, I’ve spent very little time listening to people complaining about the game’s so-called issues, and most of my free…
ElevenLabs’ AI Reader app is great
I found a new way to augment myself and maximize my time with Generative AI. Today, while jogging, I used the new AI Reader app by ElevenLabs to listen to a very long article with 10,000 words. This was great,…
Wukong is AI-powered too
I was so relieved that Black Myth: Wukong, the first AAA game by a Chinese studio, didn’t flop on release. Instead, it garnered 2.2 million concurrent users on the Steam PC gaming platform – the second highest number ever. The…
Writing is life
To warm up the media writing class at NTU, I invite the undergrads to introduce themselves and then ask me any question about myself. This opens me up to the risk of potentially embarrassing questions, but I tell them, “Don’t…
Newsletter: Who sold you on that plan?
I recently had a chat with a young lady working in a startup. She wanted to know how she could use ChatGPT or other Gen AI apps to help her with marketing, among the many other startup stuff she is…