🇳🇿 🇦🇶 🇦🇺 ðŸ‡ðŸ‡° 🇨🇳 🇸🇬 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 … and still got a lot to go …
Reflections looks at film, television, science fiction, history, and culture through a personal and social lens — the ideas beneath the spectacle, and the parallels between fiction and the world around us.
Commercial systems have always optimised for performance. Digital systems are no different … systems are generally deployed to be useful within the context of their objectives. Computers are, in many ways, high-speed idiots. A computer consumes data. Some of this data we call a program … a collection of instructions. It takes those instructions and … Read more
A reflective look at the early internet — from VAX systems, Usenet, and Mosaic through to Netscape, AltaVista, and Amazon — and how a hopeful digital frontier gradually evolved into today’s algorithmic attention economy.
It moves things.Breaks things.Forces outcomes where none seemed possible. But let’s not dress it up. Violence doesn’t open doors. Violence breaks them down. Splinters the frame.Shatters whatever was holding things together. And it doesn’t just break structures. It breaks people. Communities that took generations to form.Families that don’t come back together.Lives that are never lived. … Read more
Teaching How to Finish an Exam Finishing an exam is a skill.Not intelligence. Not knowledge. A skill. And like any skill, it needs to be trained deliberately. Most students don’t run out of ability.They run out of time. The Hidden Problem Exams are rarely designed to be comfortably completed. They’re built to: That means perfection … Read more