Notes From My Desk…
This is where I publish my thinking as it develops.
Some posts explore AI governance, public policy, accessibility, education, and technology. Others are observations about learning, digital culture, or the systems that shape everyday life. Not everything fits neatly into a single category, and that's intentional.
I publish when there is something worth saying rather than to a fixed schedule. Sometimes that means several posts in a week. Sometimes it means a longer pause while I'm researching or building something new.
Attention as the Core of Cultural Machines.
AI Learned English First. Everything Else Is Translation. On the language of the critique, Soviet Engineering books, and the question of whether we truly want all our traditions and knowledge …
The first version of something can be the best version.
So off I went to Gemini, added the prompt and my own colour scheme and font, and it gave me a great output. We could use it, and my next step was to tinker, which was a disaster; otherwise, I wouldn’t be writing this. In the end, after an hour of frustration, I asked it to revert all changes and return to the initial version. Lesson well learnt. You don’t need more features. You do not need to add anything else, and your MVP should not exceed 3 items.
Reset Maybe?
About 6 months ago, I made a solemn promise to myself: I was going to write every single day. I bought a beautiful new notebook (around 7 - there was a sale, and I thought, why not, I could have different books for different themes), I cleared my desktop, and waited for the magic to happen.
When Did the Internet Become a Workplace?
I’m becoming anti-internet and I hate it. For someone who love technology and all things digital, I'm over it, not because I hate the technology, or due to being nostalgic for some imaginary better time. But because I didn’t sign up for this job, and neither did you.