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Random thoughts on the journey — unfiltered, honest, and usually written with coffee in hand.
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Will governance help AI adoption, or quietly stop it?
I want to understand whether AI governance gives people confidence to move, or gives them one more reason to do nothing.
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The most dangerous word in innovation is "interesting"
The dangerous projects are the ones everyone finds "interesting" — everyone nods, everyone smiles, and then absolutely nothing happens.
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Curiosity is a very expensive hobby
It starts with one article and ends at midnight with three new questions, less certainty, and no improvement to my sleep schedule.
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AI has made me significantly less impressive
AI has not removed the value of work. It has shifted the value from execution toward judgment, deciding what matters, and knowing what to do next.
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What it actually feels like to study AI while using AI every day
There's something strange about reading papers on AI autonomy in the morning and then asking an AI to help you summarise them in the afternoon.
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Why I decided to do a DBAI at 30-something
It wasn't the obvious choice. Here's the honest version of how I ended up here — and what I wish someone had told me before I started.
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What I actually do — and why AI keeps showing up in the answer
People ask me what I do and I always stumble a little. The honest answer is that AI has quietly become the thread running through everything.
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Why Responsible AI isn't just a compliance topic — it's the whole game
I didn't start out caring about AI ethics. I got there the practical way — by watching things go wrong and realising there was no framework to catch them.
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What my first semester studying Transformative AI actually felt like
I expected to feel more on top of things by now. Instead I feel like someone handed me a better map of a territory I thought I already knew.