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.
When Aesthetics Became Identities
Television and film taught us to desire worlds as much as stories. Platforms did something different: they named those worlds, made them searchable and gave us the means to inhabit them. From Nancy Meyers kitchens to dark academia and Black aesthetic cultures, what happens when taste becomes a ready-made language for identity?
Women In Tech Trends
Technology doesn't just seem to be changing. The way it's being presented is changing too. As AI becomes part of everyday life, design, identity, and experience are beginning to matter as much as technical capability.
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.