In January of 2020, I made my first trending TikTok video, which garnered over 100k views in less than 24 hours. While I had only spent one month creating videos on the site, I had years of experience researching and studying video sharing platforms, algorithms, and recommendation systems from YouTube…
Although I am not as old as I would like to be, the fact of the matter is that I am significantly older than many of the people I watch talk about feminism online. Especially when I watch young people talk about feminism, there is always a bit of seniority…
There have been many changes in our lives and communities since March 2020, a month which now marks the beginning of widespread concern about the COVID-19 pandemic. But, the memory that always sticks in my mind from that month were the closings. …
So, I first want to preface this piece with the fact that when this title popped into my head, I was sitting on the bus, staring out of the window, and contemplating the meaning of life (as per usual). The title was quite clever, if I say so myself. A…
How social media users push back against the policing of speech
When I was a kid, my mother would speak in pig latin whenever she needed to have an adult conversation in front of my sister and me. …
Over the past few weeks I have found myself in a variety of conferences and discussions focused on the future of information, data, and technology. …
Everyday that I sit down to write I am reminded that everyday we are dying.
And perhaps it is not the writing that is creating that feeling, but it certainly feels like it. As I write this current piece, my daily thousand words (a fiction in and of itself) I…
I love coincidences.
Happy accidents that surprise you like waves of inspiration knocking against the many seas of the subconscious.
Today, I had one such coincidence at the beach.
As I sat, thinking and praying, in meditation and completely at peace, I was interrupted.
Twice.
The first interruption was truly…
The internet is a magical place and it never ceases to light up my networks, both neural and social.
While traversing through the interwebs a day or so ago, I had a fun and entertaining conversation about Thomas Aquinas, Angel’s, And Nelson Goodman’s infamous “Grue Paradox”. Although these topics may…
