Book Reviews
Raising Readers in the Digital Age
I still remember my grade school years. Immigrating to North America and enrolled in English-as-Second-Language (ESL) classes in Canada, I felt accomplished to just keep up with reading assignments, not realizing that they were greatly simplified for non-native speakers. Eventually,…
A Kiddom Retrospective
When I left my role at Mystery Science in the summer of 2021, I was left…a bit wanting. I expressly wanted to explore the EdTech space as my kids came of schooling age, but my role didn't…
AI Optimism
When the hype cycle around AI was picking up a few years back, there was this pervasive fear that we were on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). ChatGPT and its ilk were such a step function over what…
Smart Home Babel
When we were preparing to move into our current home, I took advantage of the renovations we were undertaking to lean into the smart home revolution, to build out a network of interconnected components that can be centrally controlled and…
Checking in on Minority Report
Minority Report was a 2002 film, based on a Philip K. Dick novella of the same name, about what happens when a couple of oracles who can see possible futures are used by the police as a mechanism for predicting…
Thoughts on the Vision Pro
The reality of Apple hardware launches is that there's no shortage of previews, reviews, first impressions, hot takes, and thought pieces about what it all means —leading up to, during, and after the launch event itself. It'…
