Ian’s Bookmarks
Updated Mar 2025
Generative AI Resources
Newsletters
Iterate This! Ian’s LinkedIn Newsletter covering communication and AI
One Useful Thing by Professor Ethan Mollick
Data Points by Deep Learning AI
Learning AI
OpenAI’s prompt engineering guide
Google’s intro to Generative AI (YouTube)
LinkedIn Learning for AI (free courses!)
Stable Diffusion 1.5 Cheat Sheet (references over 900 different art styles for prompts)
What AI can do today (A large directory of many AI apps)
Prompts for Instructors by Lilach and Ethan Mollick
Industry Trends
Stanford University’s The AI Index 2024
The Future of Jobs Report 2025
Top 100 Gen AI apps in 2025 by Andreesson Horowitz
Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
Books To Read
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-fu Lee
AI apps that I use (or keep track of)
Large Language Models I recommend: ChatGPT, DeepSeek,, Claude,
Other LLMs: Gemini, Meta AI, Grok
“Search engine”: Perplexity
Online Notebook: NotebookLM by Google
AI Imaging apps that I recommend: ImageFX by Google, Bing Image Creator, Midjourney (paid), Adobe Firefly (paid)
Image Upscaling: Upscayl (download the free app as the website requires payment)
Audio Transcription: Whisper AI, Otter, ElevenLabs
AI Music: Suno
Voice Cloning: ElevenLabs
AI Video: Sora by OpenAI, Hailuo Minimax, RunwayML, Adobe Firefly, Kling
Geeky AI apps
Local LLM installation: Ollama (and it’s recommended to use this with WebUI)
Whisper AI audio-to-text transcription installation guide (YouTube)
Hugging Face (a big resource for AI data models)
Marker: Convert PDFs to Markdown text
PPTX2MD: Convert PPT decks to Markdown text
Image Generator Interface: ComfyUI (this is the interface, you need to download the models. Watch YouTube videos to learn this complex stuff.)
Thought-Provoking Stuff
Don’t quit your day job: Generative AI and the end of programming by Mike Loukides