When My Journal Started Talking Back
How AI turned my journal into a system connecting identity, strategy, competing life domains and weekly action—and led me to develop Zullya.
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Systems & Futures
This is, honestly, a bit of a dumping ground for my other intellectual exploits. The pieces are not entirely random, however. They are connected by my curiosity about how technology will build the future, how abundance can emerge from unlikely places, and how we can use technology to make human lives better.
Questions
- How will technology reshape the futures we are capable of building?
- How can abundance be created from places, resources and conditions that initially seem unlikely?
- Which technologies can materially improve everyday human life, and what must be built around them for that promise to become real?
Places represented
Geographic perspectives within this idea territory.
Selected writing
A curated route into the central arguments, rather than a chronological dump.
My AI Personal Health Dashboard Surprised Me
I brought ten years of medical reports, wearable data, training records and personal notes into one AI-assisted health dashboard. What became visible changed my conversations with health professionals, and my view of what AI health companies can defensibly sell.
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“The purpose of a thought-experiment … is not to predict the future … but to describe reality, the present world.” – Ursula K. Le Guin A few weeks ago I watched a video of a humanoid robot learning to fight. A Chinese-made bipedal machine, trained by reinforcement learning, discovering how to destabilise another bipedal opponent….
Read →Salty rivers into the desert: How Saltwater Canals Could Transform UAE Deserts into Climate-Resilient Food Systems
By José Pereira Leal To the memory of Gordon Hisashi Sato (1927–2017), Scientist extraordinaire who inspired me, and many others, to imagine new rivers through the desert. Like many of his generation who witnessed the horrors of World War II, he dedicated his science and life to the service of humanity Image created with ChatGPT…
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