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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Apple and its Values
Apple presents itself as progressive, ethical, and human-centered. But a company capable of controlling the smallest details of product design and which software you are allowed to install clearly possesses significant leverage over the conditions under which its products are made. They choose total control over the software, but limited responsibility for the people who…
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Introducing the Work PDF Reader
A lightweight PDF reader that runs entirely in your browser, designed for quick and distraction-free document viewing. Open files instantly without uploads, accounts, or tracking. Everything stays on your device, making it a simple and private way to read contracts, reports, and other documents when you just need them to open and work.
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The Weight of Invisible Things
In 1990, crossing back into Zimbabwe after Mozambique, I was twenty-two and moving through a world I did not fully understand. What followed was a lesson in who gets counted, a conversation with a stranger whose reasons I never learned, and a night on the Zambezi when a full-grown elephant passed within ten meters in…
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Renting My Own Life
I used to buy music. Once I paid, it was mine. Now I rent access to songs, software, and even parts of my own time. Somewhere along the way, ownership turned into permission, and convenience turned into obligation.
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The PDF That Called Home
What should be a simple local action became something else. Opening a PDF revealed that my software was communicating with its manufacturer during what appeared to be a purely local task. The experience prompted a broader reflection on digital sovereignty, user consent, and the growing distance between people and the…
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WhatsApp Incognito
Meta has embedded an AI assistant into one of the world's most trusted messaging platforms — and connected it to a commercial ecosystem built around data collection. WhatsApp Incognito Chat may be technically sophisticated. But the business model stays the same.
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The Machine’s Mirror
Most people look at AI as a better calculator. I don't see it that way. The logic behind these models makes a quiet philosophical claim: that human expression is nothing more than a set of regularities, a history that can be fully exhausted by math. What gets left out is…
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