After overdosing on Nordic crime novels, I finally touched something else during my holidays in the climbing paradise of Arco (bumble brag) with Anu Silfverberg’s Sinut on nähty (You have been seen could be a translation) about female representation in movies and Finnish ex-boxer Elina Gustafson’s biography. Anu Silfverberg always…

I took a development day to attend a conference on interacting with AI although I am likely to pay for it next week. This was an academic conference and most presenters were conversation or multimodal interaction analysts and the AI they talked about was mainly robots or voice UI. Some…

I was on a nexus analysis course some time back and we needed to write an essay to finish off. Long time no essay and nothing to write home about but here it is: the topic is remote work. Reflection on remote work I wanted to reflect on the topic of remote work because…

I am going a bit overboard with this new book subscription hoarding books left and right, audio and e. …

What is happening in the life of this grumpy, old woman when the lockdown number 2 continues to its sixth month with no end in sight? (previous COVID entry here) Well… 1I traded my Spotify Premium to an audiobook subscription (includes free e-books), at least to try it out, and…

I have not been writing COVID diaries lately (the latest one is from June) but it was pointed out to me that our two lockdowns add up to 5 months, and as this last one has been extended adding up to at least 6 months, I think it is time…

COVID lockdown continues and there is nothing to do but read books and eat too much sugar which pretty much constitutes the hole I found myself in this January. My energy to get up, stand up and fight for my right to partay, for example, is zero. So here is…

This odd year is coming to a close and rather than reflect in a constructive manner or make life goals for 2021, I thought it might be fun (yes fun) to list some petty emotions I felt during 2020, but it ended up being such a depressive list of small…

I have been enjoying a mashup of different kinds of input lately as I attended a short conference on design fiction, took my lunch walks with an audio book called Habit, delved uncomfortably deep into concepts around buying and selling, watched a friend defend her thesis on persuasive design, and…