“Because every time I go on Facebook, and I don’t do that often…” I overhear a man say to his coworker while they’re out on their lunch break. I love the complexities that arise when self-reporting is a method of data collection.

Watching the documentary “Spijtmoeders” (“Regret Mothers”) and wondering how many queer people regret parenthood.

“Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. — Mark 16:15

“Have you heard of Pi.ai?” my mentee Gabriela asked me during her mini internship at the office. She’s a clever woman; a newbie in the UX field with the technical resourcefulness of a Gen Z-er, and experience working with quantitative data. I inquired how she thought I should cultivate buy-in for a metrics project. Of course her response was to ask a chatbot.

This is my very, very late submission to April’s IndieWeb Carnival topic. It’s also part two of a reflection on a conversation I had with a neurodivergent designer from Denmark. She asked me: how can I be promoted to the all-star Core Team at work, the one that works across products and teams?

Spent the morning at Coffee Company, where a neighborhood acquaintance and I talked about Israel, the war, the protests, the police violence. This afternoon, YouTube gave me an ad of the Israeli contestant of the Eurovision Song Contest saying, in Dutch, that I should vote for her.

Sometimes I think about that art criticism professor who told a full lecture hall repeatedly that Asian people would never be able to play Mozart like white people can.