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The breakthrough came when I stopped treating the wearable as a “coach” and started treating it as a sensor. Strategic Summary The Risk: Blindly following “black box” AI health advice. The Solution: Custom data wrangling and multi-year trend analysis. Status: Mission success confirmed by raw data, not app badges. I’ve been a health data geek since the Nike+ shoe sensor era. What started as curiosity evolved into a full-scale surveillance mission on my own biology. By leveraging AI to parse a decade of movement and heart rate trends, I’ve extracted actionable intelligence that not a single health professional has ever asked to see. It’s a strange tactical oversight: we have the telemetry, but it remains siloed from the people managing our care. ...

Whether it’s the cadence of a score, the logic of a codebase, or the spoken word, language is the ultimate “human” terrain. I’ve been fortunate to work across the globe. Outside of local food and drink, language remains the primary metric for how a culture operates. It is their conceptual framework and their historical documentation. I initially feared AI would sanitise this beauty. I thought effortless translation would lead to a “lossy” compression of culture, flattening the landscape. Instead, I’m seeing the opposite. ...

I am a sucker for good design and character. In a world of mass produced replicas, there is something genuine about the feel of an error. It is that slight non perfection that proves a human hand was at work. For the majority of my kit, I want the perfect version, but the definition of perfection is shifting. Coding with AI currently occupies a curious mental space. I recognise the future and I accept the new methodology is upon us. Yet, I wonder if we are headed toward a world of Artisanal Code or Boutique Hand Written software, much like the resurgence of vinyl or analogue horology. ...

The Dance Between Eros and Agape I’ve spent much of the past few years contemplating the meaning of love and life given my personal cirumstances. I’ve always appreciated how Pope John Paul II explored it in his seminal Theology of the Body lectures, particularly the distinction he draws between eros and agape. Those early reflections conveyed a kind of purity and balance I’ve rarely encountered elsewhere. There’s a dance between eros and agape, between the selfish and the selfless, the passionate and the pure. While I don’t ultimately agree with all of the conclusions John Paul II reached, I deeply respect how he articulated their intertwinement. His framing invites reflection on the tension between desire and devotion, and on how both can coexist in the human experience of love. ...

After revisiting SailfishOS earlier this autumn, I spent a week living with its open-source cousin, Ubuntu Touch. With Google tightening the Android ecosystem, it felt like the right moment to explore what a true Linux mobile OS offers today. My first attempt was with a OnePlus Nord N100 on MetroPCS. It fought me at every step. Flashing, fastboot flags, and ADB coaxing were all unsuccessful. In the end I ordered a Pixel 3a, one of Ubuntu Touch's officially supported devices. ...