Reading the Romance of Three Kingdoms
To cater to the growing Chinese market in Singapore, I’m rolling out a Mandarin edition of my Generative AI fundamentals workshop in coming months. To…
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Google Gemini – Text to Cloned Voice
I created a new app with Google Gemini called the “Monk’s Insight Generator” – it takes a news story (or any piece of content) and…
AI literacy – July 2025 definition
I’m speaking to corporate leaders later this week about strategic approaches to AI in business. This is one of my slides where I’ve further refined…
GO-FAR 2025 kickoff
Yesterday, we kicked off GO-FAR 2025 (Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting), the annual highlight of our journalism training at the Wee Kim Wee School of…
Benjamin Zander – Escaping the downward spiral
Conductor and teacher Benjamin Zander recently gave a great interview to Zsolt Bognár on “The Art of Possibility” (also a great book). Here’s an excerpt…
Newsletter 36 – Remember Rule No. 6
In this week’s newsletter, I talk about why we need to stop taking ourselves so seriously, and recap my posts on “The Agency of You”…
Google Veo 3 – Optimus Appleus
Google Veo 3: I walked past the bowl of apples in my living room and thought, “Hmm, maybe I should animate one of them.” So…
Google Veo 3 – Walking Cats
Google Gemini now allows you to upload an image and animate it with the Google Veo 3 engine. I uploaded a photo of cat drawings…
The Agency of You – July masterclass
Congratulations to the first batch of “The Agency of You” Masterclass by The Straits Times! It was an intensive day of learning marketing fundamentals and…
Advanced Gen AI Masterclass
Announcing the Advanced version of The Straits Times Gen AI Masterclass, happening on 29 Sep 2025! This is where we go beyond the basics and…
Data storytelling upskilling
Data storytelling is an essential skill today but many people don’t know where to get started. Also, we don’t know what we don’t know –…
Newsletter 35 – Fakes and Averages
I’m conducting a fun weekend poll (you can still vote!) and the results are interesting: I’ve never liked heavily edited photos. In the old days,…