Field notes
Observations, reflections, fragments.
From Sugar to AI: How Mauritius Keeps Moving Up
I was in Copenhagen last week for TM Forum's DTW Ignite and gave a keynote on how Mauritius is using AI. I had the obvious material ready: myt Learn, the personal AI tutor for school kids; the AI Registry the country is setting up; the training numbers in the national budget.
L'Oréal: AI-Powered, Not Artificial
I was in Paris last week for the Orange Leaders Meeting. One of the sessions I did not expect to stay with me was a fireside conversation with the CEO of L'Oréal, who had come to talk about the transformation his company is going through.
What the Logo Means
Once the site was designed and built, I needed a mark for it. I did not just want a beautiful logo. I wanted a meaningful one.
Why and How I Built This Site
For most of my career as a software engineer, the guiding principle was to write generic code. Functions should be reusable. Software should serve many cases, not one. That made sense when writing code was expensive, both in money and in cognitive load.