Ian Tan

Ian Tan

Newsletter 50 – Five Zero

Somehow, I’ve made it to the 50th edition of this newsletter. Thank you for sticking with my rambling thoughts, my odd experiments with Gen AI, and I hope you like each week’s AI-generated visual. It’s been three years since ChatGPT…

Nano Banana Pro Tri-Selfies

Pointless Selfies on LinkedIn are so 2025. In 2026, you should be putting up Pointless Tri-Selfies to show the world: ✔️ How multi-faceted you are!✔️ How multitasking is your thing!✔️ How you can be in multiple places at once! It’s…

NotebookLM makes slides now

The most popular request in my Gen AI workshops is: “How can AI do my PowerPoint decks for me?”. Over the past three years of training people in Gen AI, the methods have evolved along with consumer LLMs like ChatGPT…

Newsletter 49 – Going Bananas With Google

In this week’s newsletter, I bring you on a quick tour of Google’s new Gemini 3 for vibe-coding and the phenomenal Nano Banana Pro imaging engine. This key visual was generated by NBP within Google AI Studio, with an interesting…

Nano Banana Pro – ThinkTan Space Stations

In 2023, I spent several days crafting my company’s name “ThinkTan” but I barely spent five minutes designing the logo as I just needed a placeholder for my website. It’s also simple and clean when used as a letterhead. The…

Nano Banana Pro

Google has launched its latest imaging engine Nano Banana Pro in Gemini. Here’s the infographic about Heath and Heath’s “Six Principles of Sticky Ideas” which I teach in my courses. Holy moly!!! No spelling mistakes! Such pretty visuals! Great color…

Newsletter 48 – File everything

A professor told me recently that in today’s age, it’s more important to know where to find information than to memorise it, especially since our mind can only recall so much. I agreed with him, but a caveat is that…