During COVID, I began questioning the world at a clip I’d never experienced before. I’ve talked about that period before, but one particular example stands out. I found myself wondering why Black Americans appeared to be disproportionately impacted by COVID compared to Black Africans. If the explanation was purely genetic, wouldn’t both populations be affected … Continue reading When Thoughts Aren’t Random
“You are the observer of your own thoughts.” Sounds profound. Also sounds completely useless. Then it clicked — and it clicked because of work, of all places. I noticed about 60% of incoming requests were the same questions, recycled. My team eventually trained AI to handle them automatically because humans kept solving the same problems … Continue reading Not Every Thought is an Emergency
It was a Friday afternoon and I was reminding my family that they would have to fend for themselves that evening because I was going out to celebrate a friend’s birthday. My daughter asked the question I wasn’t prepared for. “What’d you get her?” I had completely forgotten. I had exactly three hours before the … Continue reading The Wrong Kind of Careful
I asked AI to read 16 years of my writing and it told me: "You repeatedly enter new rooms, learn the invisible rules through observation and pattern recognition, integrate into those systems without fully abandoning yourself, and then translate what you learned back to others." I've had this blog since 2010. Apparently I've been doing … Continue reading I Let AI Read 16 Years of My Writing – Then I Built Something With It
I was at my daughter's recital when a close acquaintance arrived. We hugged, exchanged pleasantries. The week before, we'd both attended a party celebrating a mutual friend's promotion. I wanted to say something simple — wasn't it wonderful? Aren't you proud of her? But I knew my acquaintance worked in the same field. So I … Continue reading The Isolation of Hypervigilance
I deeply enjoyed The Man in the High Castle and also enjoyed the Barbie movie. The reasons they are alike may not appear evident at first glance but hear me out… A San Francisco where Japanese culture is not only the norm, but the expectation. A world where a woman can be president without question … Continue reading Why the Man in the High Castle and the Barbie movie are kind of the same thing…
