This year’s winner of the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy was Wendy H. Wong’s book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. The Winner We, The Data is an eye-opening, gripping look at the ways in which humanity is being codified, monitored, and tracked at alarming speed and intensity — in largely unaccountable […]
Emotions are data: Respond to conflict with emotional intelligence
November 26, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
You’re at a party. You don’t know many people at the party. You notice the emotion of discomfort as your stomach clenches and your breathing gets constricted. Your mind labels that as feeling awkward. Yet, someone else, at that same party, with those same emotional bodily sensations, might label the experience as exciting because they get […]
AI product demo: How Google’s NotebookLM helps manage complex information
November 8, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
Google calls NotebookLM an “AI-powered research and writing assistant”. It’s more than that. It “helps users understand complex information by instantly becoming an expert on uploaded sources.” You can upload various types of files to NotebookLM, give it an ask, and watch it “generate” … Focused on AI, I wanted NotebookLM to intersect the big […]
Gender through the eyes of a primatologist
October 28, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
Last spring, I retired from staff service with a local community organization, Quadra Village Community Centre. Although the advocacy service I provided over the years was focused on seniors, the Centre offered extensive programming for early childhood, youth, and families. Often, staff team conversations touched on gender. Gaining fluency in terminology that was natural to […]
