Welcome to my latest thoughts and travels.
This is where I gather whatever I’m exploring at the moment: reflections from life across cultures, ideas I’m working through, observations from the road, and the occasional dive into issues that simply catch my attention.
Browse the most recent posts and see what resonates. If something catches your eye, dive in and explore.
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Craving Validation
What is up with this constant need for validation? When did it become the background noise of everything? Is it some narcissistic itch baked into the culture, or just my own wiring short-circuiting? As long as my crazy gets mirrored back to me, I’m fine. Apparently. It scares me a little that I’ve substituted therapy…
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Shutdown and Sombreros
I’ve lived in Mexico for years and seen maybe three sombreros total. Meanwhile, I’ve watched 20+ American politicians get digitally crowned with sombreros this week alone. The U.S. produces more sombrero content than Mexico produces actual sombreros. While Washington stickers its democracy, Mexico exists as a cartoon in foreign imagination—and both profit from the fiction
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AI Transparency: Why Knowing When Content is Artificial Matters
AI is transforming how we work and create, but it also makes it harder to know what is real. Deepfakes, AI-generated articles, and synthetic audio are spreading faster than fact-checkers can respond. This post explores why transparency matters, how content creators can disclose AI use, and introduces a simple AI Transparency Tool designed for individuals.
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Oslo Airport, Cold Efficiency
Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (OSL) is sleek, modern, and efficient, the kind of place travel guides like to praise. On paper, it has everything an international airport should offer. In practice, it rarely feels welcoming. The first thing that strikes me is the cost. Even by Norwegian standards, food and drinks inside the airport are excessive.…
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Bethics Mexico Is Now on LinkedIn
Over the past months, Bethics has expanded its presence in Mexico through bethics.mx, a Spanish-language platform focused on ethics, governance, accountability, and responsible leadership in the Mexican context. This expansion reflects a growing demand for practical, accessible resources that speak directly to organizations, professionals, and civil society actors working in…
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A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight
A reflection on how the erosion of international institutions removes the friction that once restrained escalation and made catastrophic war harder to initiate. What happens when the systems built after 1945 to slow conflict are steadily dismantled, leaving threats to operate without constraint?
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Is AI Slop the New Spam?
The people generating AI slop at scale are making a choice to strip-mine a commons—to extract private profit while pushing the cost of filtering and verification onto everyone else. Is the rise of generated content a technical evolution, or a fundamental breach of information ethics?
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