The Archivist Within Twitter 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.
Building Myself a English-to-English Translator in Slack I'm not sure if it's just me, but this feels increasingly less true as AI threatens to take over the way that we think and communicate. What is one to do? Write an English-to-English translator.
The Metaphor of a Large Memory Model (LMM) I can understand the appeal of language models. Language - the act and structure of communicating the cognitive processes I undergo on a day to day basis - is observable, whereas memory is not.Over the past several months, I've been working through the development of an architecture that may someday
Resistance to Change is Often a Lack of Clarity I'm on exchange at London Business School this week to study Strategic Innovation. Today, we covered a lot of ground, starting with why it is challenging for established organizations to truly innovate, as well as the individual thought patterns that challenge us in thinking "outside of the box". An
Multidimensional Computing Accessibility in the Age of XR and AI Today, I'm sharing the slides that I prepared for my talk at the 2023 XR Access Symposium. In building this presentation, I had a few goals - the first was to establish my own new paradigm for talking about XR and AI. I found that "multidimensional computing" encompassed both of those characteristic
Hacking your Brain's Input Processing Because "Hacking your Brain" sounds way cooler than "Taking Notes" I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately. Someone yesterday asked me what kind of writing I did, and as I listed off my side projects, my husband chimed in with a reminder that I
Talking to Pets I talk a lot. The thing about talking a lot is that people generally assume that I’m talking because I want to be heard and listened to. Surely someone who is rambling on - and on - and on wants to be heard, right? That’s what we’re socialized to
Communication Technology and Other People This is a new series of mine exploring collaboration as a function of communication principles and community norms. In Part One, I explored some initial framing that I’ve developed internally about the process of communication. In this post, I’ll briefly talk about the initial considerations that come to
Collaboration, Community, and Communication This is the skeleton of my current thoughts exploring the collaboration processes by which we translate thought into societal action, and opportunities to improve these processes via technology. It is but a moment in time that captures my current thinking on the subject; subject to significant change and constantly evolving,