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A Brief Memory: Exploring the Loss and Rediscovery of Individuality

Each person is unique. Our bodies and brains are uniquely shaped to the inputs we are given (or give) them. Our minds are shaped by the information we consume, the people we listen to, the stories we tell ourselves as truth.

2024 in Review

2024 was a year where I had to complete reinvent myself into a new person, which has been powerful, exciting, scary, lonely, invigorating, marvelous, and awesome (in the true sense of awe). Cassian's birth - eight days past his due date - marked the beginning of the rest of my life.

Leadership, Management, and Parenthood: Navigating work-life harmony as an expecting EMBA

One of the most challenging moments as a leader can be confronting the moment when you know that you are no longer able to continue down a particular path you had been following.

I Finally Signed Up for ChatGPT - Here's Why

I'm no stranger to being a contrarian - so when ChatGPT exploded onto the scene a few years back, I resisted the urge to start using it for everything and instead decided to go as long as possible without. At the one year mark, I wrote about how my

One Year In - I Still Don't Use ChatGPT. Here's How it's Going.

As an autistic and queer individual, the role that technology plays in identifying, surveilling, and categorizing acceptable behavior within society is not lost on me. Despite using machine learning technology since 2014, I have used ChatGPT one time. The challenge that has come from not using OpenA

Eigenvectors as a Representation of Nuance? (Or, How I'm Re-Visiting all of my Freshman Year Math Classes To Explain my Brain) - Pt. 1

One decision that many organizations may be making right now is how to develop a corporate policy about artificial intelligence. Could, perhaps, an eigenvalue be calculated against a matrix of perspectives within an organization, to represent a new form of communicating the nuance and fluid nature o

Being a Pregnant Developer in the Age of AI is Weird

As I'm writing this, I'm wearing a green t-shirt with a giant eyeball over my rapidly growing stomach. It's Halloween, and I've decided to dress up as Mike Wazowski - it feels like I'm all stomach these days, so it

Developing Artificial Intelligence while Developing Human Intelligence

I joke sometimes that my entire career to date has been about Learning How to Human - that I was drawn to social VR and metaverse platforms because my neurodivergent self wanted to experience a taste of a world that I could both understand, navigate, and flourish within. As it turns out, there's a t

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