Ian Tan

Ian Tan

Newsletter 03: Have you joined the club?

These days, I feel like Uatu the Watcher (the bald entity from the Marvel Universe), observing two parallel universes. In the past week, three friends told me they got retrenched. They are trying to figure out their next steps. On…

Newsletter 02: The future cometh

Hey there, thanks for reading the only LinkedIn newsletter where more time is spent designing the key visual than anything else. Actually, instead of this fancy stained glass car, I wanted to use the scene below of dinosaurs playing cards…

Newsletter 01: Here’s your first dose

Now you’ve done it. You’ve subscribed to yet another LinkedIn newsletter where every paragraph aspires to the length of a sentence. But I promise not to waste your time. The simple purpose of this newsletter is to let you check…

My published works of 2023

In 2023, I wrote prodigiously and also gave interviews on a variety of topics. Here are the links to my articles that were published this year: Rethinking salaries — when is it too much or too little? (20 Mar, TODAY…

AI Workshop with DBS Bank

This week, I conducted a full-day AI Workshop for DBS Bank. It was a great opportunity to share my AI knowledge and skills with the professionals from the Learning & Development Team, Design & Development Team and the Business HR Team.

The First AI Workshop

I held my first AI workshop for a company last week and it was a blast! The eight participants from the creative agency LiquidLab Communications (LLAB) have already integrated ChatGPT into their workflow. The designers among them have also been…

Humans need to call the shots in AI

AI helps us get things done faster, but it is not a miracle drug. Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been working on an AI Art piece which required putting different people of various demographics together for a key visual.…

Restoring Photos With AI

AI Art is great for restoring old photos in our albums and drawers. Yet it is not a walk in the park, because AI cannot read minds.

From Bitmaps to AI Art

What was the first digital image format you used for schoolwork or office presentations? Bitmaps, vectors or photos? AI Art is next.

Read More, Write Better

A friend in the communications industry complained to me about the quality of writing in the content he has to edit: “Their writing has no soul.” He said that these writers do not spend much time reading or writing outside…