Ten years away, and it felt like I never left
A week back with the Australian Mac admin community that gave me my name a decade ago - notes from X World 2026 in Melbourne.
Posts tagged "life"
Who's responsible for what my agent does
I used to have a clear answer to this question. Agentic AI is making it harder.
There is enough for everyone
A record I've been listening to since I was a kid turns out to have been right all along.
Erasure is the first step. What comes next is worse.
The first books the Nazis burned were about trans people. The fire is the part you remember. The erasure was done by everything that came after - and the same kind of machinery is being assembled now, in public, by companies whose names we know.
I don't know how to keep showing up like everything is normal
The viral image is sensationalized. The infrastructure behind it is not.
The world is on fire and I'm trying to write a blog post
On guilt, risk, and the strange necessity of staying visible when visibility has a cost.
Where do we draw the line? On building tools and unintended consequences
What happens when a tool you built with good intentions ends up causing harm? Exploring where we draw the line between building tools and responsibility.
Just do the things
Stop waiting for permission to contribute. Find a gap, start before you're ready, and learn what you need along the way. Growth happens outside your comfort zone.
Mourning missing milestones
Reflecting on what would have been my 10-year anniversary at my former company while celebrating 2 months at Fleet. On institutional betrayal, grieving what was lost, and why alignment matters more than tenure.
I lied about never using a Mac: from Mouse Practice to Mac admin
I recently told the MacAdmins podcast that when I applied to work at the Apple Store in 2008, I didn't know anything about computers and I had never used a Mac before. That's not entirely true. I've actually been using Macs for most of my life.
The rain will stop
One stormy night, my basement started to flood. My friend Andrea and I were exhausted, soaked, and fighting a battle we were clearly losing. At my lowest moment, Andrea said something so simple that it completely changed...