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Fixing Claudey slide designs

I can spot a Claude-generated slide from a mile away. And if you use Claude enough, you can too. After a while, you will develop…

Newsletter 93 – Swirly Whirlies

In this week’s newsletter, I share the different thoughts swirling in my head as the AI-related disruptions get faster and more dramatic. I am spending…

Morning random thoughts – 7 Nov 2026

Morning random thoughts, after having several conversations in the past week with different people about their careers, finding a job, doing side hustles, and on…

Google Omni 1.2

Google announced the Omni 1.2 video generation engine so I tested it with the help of my buddy “Da Frog With A Pink Wig”. I…

Anthropic the supercompany

In the latest Supercompanies newsletter from Greg and Taylor (of Section AI), they dig into Anthropic’s latest employment report that could be the playbook for…

Describe thyself

Yesterday, someone asked me out for coffee to get some career advice for his new “portfolio career”. As usual, I gave terrible-sounding advice he didn’t…

Newsletter 92 – Bottles and Necks

In this week’s newsletter, I wrote an essay about bottlenecks. I also recap what I wrote this week about Microsoft’s shocking buyout offer, AI food…

Data storytelling with Excel and Claude

I experimented with Excel and the Claude plug-in to do rapid data storytelling. Here are my steps in processing the Ministry of Manpower’s preliminary Q3…

Ryan Holiday – Wisdom Takes Work

I went to bed early last night, tired after conducting an NTU AI workshop, and involuntarily woke up early at 4.30am. I saw that Ryan…

Newsletter 91 – The Escalation

Today’s essay will read like a collection of science fiction x horror stories, except that these things are really happening. The weekly recap covers the…