Should you pay for Gen AI?
I know many people who use Gen AI apps like the free ChatGPT 3.5 regularly but they’ve told me that they have never tried the paid ChatGPT 4. ChatGPT 4 costs USD $20 a month, which works out to about…
Ian Tan
Newsletter 05: Gather many ideas
“The best way to find the perfect idea is to have many ideas.” This quote stuck in my head for hours after I read it in the book “The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son”. Let me quote…
SOTA Gen AI session
“How would we know if students are using Generative AI to do their assignments without any learning on their part?” My answer: “Start using Gen AI yourself daily so you know how to design assignments that instil true learning while…
Writing Tips
A student recently wrote to me and asked how she could write news stories that flowed better and that were more alive. This is an excerpt of my response to her: Hi XXX, Great to hear from you, and I’m…
The Catapult Concept in your career
“‘Catapult’ is one of the most overlooked concepts in career management.”“Sometimes you just have to step back (smaller role, company, compensation etc.) to amass learnings and growth so that you can move ahead with greater momentum. Look out for these…
Newsletter 04: Don’t blink too long
I was a little afraid of driving my car on Friday. My body and mind had endured a strenuous February. Every day (including the CNY holiday) was spent quietly staring into the maelstrom of deadlines and commitments, then getting each…
Google Gemini and Gmail
Google has been implementing Gemini across its different apps, including Gmail. I took Gemini + Gmail for a quick spin this morning and found it very clunky, but it has much potential. Gemini can be activated as a side window…
Marketing-Interactive Gen AI workshop
I usually conduct my Gen AI workshops in person, so it was a different experience to conducting it over Zoom yesterday for the MARKETING-INTERACTIVE Masterclass. One good thing about teaching Gen AI online was that everyone could clearly see what…
The decline of book reading in Singapore
If money is the root of all evil, then high rents could be the root of the decline of book-reading in Singapore. Times Bookstores closed two outlets in Singapore yesterday, and it now only has one outlet at Cold Storage…
Please let your children live their dreams, and not yours.
The GCE A-Levels results were released last Friday. I couldn’t be with my daughter as I had to attend a training class at NTU. I had no expectations of the grades she should get and I just hoped that she…