The Hidden I🌹

Over the last year (especially the last couple of months with the rise of “vibe-coding”), I’ve been observing something really interesting beneath the noise of AI. Something deeper than the usual conversations about speed, automation, disruption, or all the other predictable talking points around AI. Even the debates about how “bad” it is, or whether it’s a bubble. And to be honest, I don’t think it’s bad at all. What makes a technology good or bad? The tech itself, or the people using it and...

Fashion, to be honest, feels lost to me. Not dramatically like a house burning down, but like waking up in a familiar room and noticing the furniture has been nudged an inch every night for years. Nothing seems wrong at a glance, and yet the air sits differently in the lungs. The mirror is still on the wall, the light still spills across the floor at the same hour, but something sacred in the arrangement has been traded for something faster, shinier, easier to measure. I keep asking myself wh...

There was a time when the problem was silence. Too few voices, too many barriers between expression and audience. You needed access, resources, and permission. Then technology emerged, and it opened the gates. What followed was abundance. The democratization of creation, both in production and distribution, became the defining promise of the digital age. Many of us didn’t believe in it at first, or couldn’t see how or why it would become possible. It wasn’t fully real until now, as I believe ...

If you haven’t lived inside crypto culture (or you’ve only heard about it and stayed skeptical), the terms can feel like a password you were never given. Since I’m writing about two of those terms today, let me begin in plain language. An NFT (a non-fungible token) is a unique digital certificate that points to a specific work that lives on a blockchain. It could be a photograph, an animation, a poem, a recorded moment, a document, almost anything you’d want to preserve and point to with clar...