When I began studying computing in 1993, the world was slower, heavier, and more deliberate. We used monochrome monitors that strained the eyes. The computers were bulky. The floppy disks were fragile. And the idea of personal access to a machine was a luxury. At our institute, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we were allowed one…

So I was trying to update my iPad software today and look what I noticed. As I scrolled through the app updates, something struck me — the release notes from major apps like Facebook, YouTube, and Procreate still read like they were written years ago. Basic, vague, sometimes even a bit lazy. And it made…

In 1977, a graphic designer named Rob Janoff sat down to sketch a logo for a small technology company. He had no idea the image he created would one day become one of the most recognized symbols in the world. Today, that logo, a simple apple with a bite taken out, is not just a…

A few nights ago, I heard a song by ABBA. Instantly, I was transported. Not in theory, not as a metaphor, but physically somewhere deep in my memory, in a feeling I had forgotten I carried. That’s the power of music. Some songs don’t just play in the background. They are wired into us. They shape…

It begins, as many shifts do, with silence. No sweeping declarations, no alarm bells, just a series of strategic decisions that start to connect. A thousand roles here, six hundred there, wrapped in corporate language about restructuring, streamlining, or alignment. But look closer and you’ll see the real cause. AI is no longer in testing….

I’ve always wrestled with the idea of truth. Not just in the courtroom sense, where it’s reduced to a binary guilty or not but in the larger, more slippery way that it shapes our lives, our judgments, and the people we choose to elevate or destroy. We like to believe that truth is solid. That…