Tech’s Inevitable Journey Towards Human-Centered Design

This is my journey to responsible tech. It's how my career evolved to get me to where I am today. Enjoy! Technology is moving at a speed where business is struggling to keep pace. It is obsoleting established norms in the process. The imminence of AI is creating an urgency to create policy to mitigate…Read more Tech’s Inevitable Journey Towards Human-Centered Design

Understanding JavaScript and AJAX: Implications for Privacy and Data Collection

I never thought I could write this article, mainly because I don’t have the technical chops to build credibility for this work. But in recent weeks I have come to understand that as a marketer and someone who is attuned to data privacy, and more particularly, the resulting harms, I needed to go deeper than…Read more Understanding JavaScript and AJAX: Implications for Privacy and Data Collection

Karen Hao Empowers Journalists To Unravel AI’s Complexities And Impacts

I awoke at the early hours of 4:00 am EDT to attend the first, in the series of online courses for AI Spotlight series which was hosted by Karen Hao, contributor for The Atlantic, and former foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. Hao is known for her tremendous writing on AI, most notably, Artificial Intelligence is Creating a New…Read more Karen Hao Empowers Journalists To Unravel AI’s Complexities And Impacts

Redefining Math Education in the Era of AI: Addressing Anxiety and Societal Impact

Do we need to reimagine how we teach math? If AI will be as ubiquitous as we believe it to be, will its inevitability require a pronounced emphasis in math throughout our education system? While it doesn’t require every individual to become a mathematical expert, there should be a new scrutiny applied to how our…Read more Redefining Math Education in the Era of AI: Addressing Anxiety and Societal Impact

Kimera Seeks to Transform Humanity’s Path through AGI and Cryptocurrency

I met with Mounir Shita in 2016. This post originally published in 2018. Mounir was ahead of his time in conceptualizing the path towards thinking machines. The fears in outlines here is prescient in the times we currently live. This is Part I of a two-part series of my interview with Kimera Systems, an Artificial…Read more Kimera Seeks to Transform Humanity’s Path through AGI and Cryptocurrency

Have Consumers Won? Ad Blockers and the Demise of the Industry

Finally, it seems the consumer has gotten his wish. The ad community – The publishers, the platforms and the advertisers – are at odds. And in this round, it seems the consumer has won. The introduction of ad blockers less than a decade ago is starting to take hold. Ad platforms have become increasingly sophisticated,…Read more Have Consumers Won? Ad Blockers and the Demise of the Industry

The Pain of Being Different: A Personal Perspective In The Aftermath Of The Paris Attacks

I hated being different. Growing up, I wanted to be the same as everyone else. I lived in a predominantly white city. I was the token "brown kid". I was looked at differently. I was teased because of the colour of my skin. It happened often enough that I came to expect it anytime there…Read more The Pain of Being Different: A Personal Perspective In The Aftermath Of The Paris Attacks

Today Uncertainty is the Only Certainty

I had a few conversations in the span of a week with traditionalists. My definition of traditionalists: people whose expectations of the future are dictated by what they were led to believe in a world where things seemed more predictable.  Their view of how the world should be perhaps was once true... when conditions had…Read more Today Uncertainty is the Only Certainty