Ian Tan

Ian Tan

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…

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.