the politics of work and the work of politics. power, incentives, institutions, and the people caught between them.
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i'm sharing the original Apollo 11 source code, written for NASA's historic 1969 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. developed by teams at MIT, including one led by Margaret Hamilton, this software helped guide the spacecraft and kept critical operations running even when
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i had a boss named Dave. Dave loved AI. Dave also had opinions about how i was using AI. a lot of opinions. wrong model. no tools. no retrieval. no memory. no agent. no second agent supervising the first agent. Dave, i am trying to rename a file. i got
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there are still workplaces that quietly teach us there is only one chair for a woman at the table, so when another capable woman walks into the room, the instinct becomes to guard the chair instead of pulling another one over. the better i became at my job, the more
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"so, what do you bring to the table?" unfortunately for him, he picked the wrong woman for that podcast-bro bullshit. i have built a career, made my own money, negotiated contracts, made decisions that grown men get paid very well to make, and developed standards entirely my
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when i entered the tech industry, some of my greatest teachers were women building algorithms, satellites, infrastructure, and systems far more complicated than any stereotype could account for. they taught me that good decisions are not about ego or emotion. find the real problem. defend your thinking, but stay willing
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friendly reminder that antizionism and antisemitism are not the same thing. criticizing the Israeli government is not hatred of Jewish people. supporting Palestinian freedom is not inherently antisemitic. opposing Zionism as a political ideology is not permission to hate Jews, just as condemning antisemitism does not require silence about what
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here's the thing. not all opinions are equal. i won't end a friendship over honest disagreements. but if someone's opinion is rooted in ignorance, hate, or a lack of empathy, it isn't just an opinion. it reflects their values. you're
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can the next big internet trend please be doing some actual research, developing media literacy, admitting when you're wrong, and shutting the fuck up when you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about?
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for suicide prevention month, sending all my love for everyone who stayed through nights they thought they wouldn't survive. i hope you know how precious that choice was. there are still people you haven't met, places you haven't seen, songs you haven't
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from a designer who was once a source of national pride, to a singer once adored beneath the lights, sometimes all it takes is one fall for the crowd to forget everything: the dresses that once made an entire country proud, the songs they once loved... no one remembers that
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the version of me in my twenties believed that life had three missions: knowledge, lifestyle, and love. only after growing older did i realize that was not enough. because out in the world, the three words people worship most are money, money, and money. and it is strangely hard to
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there are seven days in a week, six of which are spent wondering if i'm loved. then there's that one day, my mind would send me into the dark hole of the influence of patriarchy that exists in capitalist society that governs human psychology & creates