And then there is the security problem. This is where the conversation moves from “AI is annoying” to “AI can become genuinely dangerous when companies put it in the wrong place.” A recent Meta incident showed exactly why this matters. Hackers reportedly managed to hijack Instagram accounts by tricking Meta’s AI-powered support system during the…
When the Berry Bush Is Still Full
Most people think quitting is something you do when things stop working. The business starts losing money. The relationship falls apart. The project runs out of steam. The job becomes unbearable. Only then do we feel justified in walking away. We wait for something to break before giving ourselves permission to leave. Nature seems to…
The Five Daily Alarms That Hold My Life Together
The southeaster has finally backed off. It’s mid-May in Gordon’s Bay, and the morning air carries that crisp edge that makes you grateful for a jersey. The geese are still honking. They always are. But it’s different now. More measured. Not that frantic summer chaos when the heat hits forty degrees by ten. The Hottentots…
When the AI Goes Quiet: What yesterday’s Cloudflare Outage Revealed About Us
The internet felt strangely hollow. Websites wouldn’t load. ChatGPT threw errors. Claude froze. Even X refused to open without a fight. For a few hours, the world went unusually quiet not because humanity slowed down, but because Cloudflare slipped, and with it a huge portion of the global internet stumbled. People described it as “annoying.”…
Beyond the Prediction Machine | Guarding the Human Soul in an Age of AI
Sometimes a shift happens in the world that is so quiet, so gradual, and so deceptively convenient that we only recognise its weight once it begins shaping our thinking, our behaviour, and our children. Artificial Intelligence is one of those shifts. People frame it as progress. As empowerment. As a great equaliser. As the moment…
Building Madinah: Lessons from Ummahtech 2025 and Raising Curious Minds
We arrived on Friday afternoon to help with the setup. Thauban and Ubay came along, sleeves rolled up, curious about everything. There wasn’t any glamour in it just boxes, tables, cables, and brothers working quietly to make sure the event would come together the next day. As we started laying out the tables, it became…
When My Phone Feels Like a Cage in My Pocket
Last night, after Maghrib, the southeaster was howling down from the mountains, rattling the windows in our little place here in Gordon’s Bay. I should’ve been soaking in that salty air, listening to the waves faintly crashing against the shore but instead, I caught myself scrolling. Notifications popping, thumb twitching. Phone addiction has a way…
The Pharmacy Within: Teaching My Kids That the Mind and Body Are Connected
I just came down with the flu the first time in almost a year. It hit me right after dealing with a painful boil, and I can’t help but think the boil weakened my immune system. It reminded me of something I’ve been trying to teach my kids: the body is always listening to the…