In the year since initially building the foundations of the Data Introspection Project and building out a practice of personal archival and data tooling, I have been considering what artifacts and purpose might emerge from the idea of taking a data-driven approach to the awareness of one’s identity. In just a few pages, Selfless inspired an appealing and highly intriguing question: can AI help us quantify culture’s influence on our perception of self?
Read moreI’ve also always been drawn to the relationship between the self and world around us. We influence, and are influenced. It is critical that we are able to choose whose influence we allow in. Recently, I’ve very quickly realized that I’d rather live in the world envisioned by the Anna Wintours than the Elon Musks.
Read moreI’ve been increasingly interested in the role gender dynamics play in organizational and institutional strategy, especially in the fields of data and artificial intelligence. More than ever, we can see the way that male gender expectations are codified in law and institutional values. Dominance, expansion, and aggressive competition are celebrated in AI as evidenced by CEOs publicly sharing how much they’ve cut their staffing in favor of spending that money on machines, or the very concept of ‘token-maxing’, the idea that you are somehow more valuable, intelligent, or worthwhile if you are able to generate the most output from the cloud.
Read moreLike a floor bed, Claude Code gives you access to more freedom than the traditional software development process might have enabled. I decided to try out Claude for myself. Or at least, I would – if I were able to get a functioning account set up.
Read moreI take issue with the term ‘AI Psychosis’. Calling this a form of “psychosis” removes the responsibility from those in positions of authority from their role in creating these systems.
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Read moreI’ve started to notice that I feel pretty anxious when I’m not working. Truthfully, I think I’ve been this way for most of my life. From what my family tells me, I was a precocious child. Succeeding in highly structured, authority-driven contexts was presented to me as the only option.
Read moreTwitter played a significant community role for me when I first started out in my career. When Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, I archived my tweet history and crafted a personal CRM. Today, I found my Twitter archive.
Read moreOur digital lives are increasingly noisy, shaped by the gigabytes of information that we consume on a daily basis. The bits and bytes that make their way into our psychology via messages, articles, videos, shorts, and podcasts are algorithmically curated to latch into relevancy. Platforms that serve information to us use our attention to personalize recommendations and advertisements, leaving us in a swirling vortex of information. Within this landscape of information, our software can become truly individualized, facilitated by thoughtful design of emergent applications that center user privacy, customization, and co-constructed features.
Read moreAs our realities trend toward the algorithmic, we’re no longer just technology users — we are participants in an evolving dialogue between human intent and machine capability. We can watch from the sidelines as a new paradigm in human-computer interaction evolves or we can build it.
At the core, this is about changing how we engage with information, each other, and the world around us. AI is reshaping how computer systems are designed to process, synthesize, and navigate information.
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