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My passion is to imagine a more inclusive future in which tech innovation supports learning and community building, helps us take better care of each other and our planet, and brings joy and playfulness into our lives. Writing & creating content about technology, education, and other related topics since 2006.

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Sence teles, ki jih odsevajo črna ogledala

Esej za revijo Razpotja na temo tehnodistopij (št. 59, pomlad 2025).

🌑 Rest in End Times

In this Newmoonsletter, we wonder about the state and practice of rest in these end times.

Pathfinders Podcast invites you to stop role-playing as a machine

In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we share our scepticism of the promises of AI salvation, question our internalised industrial logic, and explore how we might find our way back to hhuman being and belonging.

🌑 Grieving for End Times

In this Newmoonsletter, we share reflections on lives lost, mugs broken and repaired, and an invitation to give love one more chance before we collectively break under pressure beyond repair.

Pathfinders Podcast invites you to compost some sh*t by playing with metaphors

In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we play with metaphors to process difficult emotions, nurture empathy for ourselves, and imagine alternatives to future dystopias.

🌑 Empathy for End Times

In this Newmoonsletter, we invite you to make your to-let-go-of and to-make-space-for lists as you practice some empathy towards yourself in these dark times of transformation.

Pathfinders Podcast invites you to sit in circles and craft our future, together

In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we dare you to dream, to imagine ways of coming together, both online and onland, and ways of taking the future into our caring, loving hands.

Nurturing conditions for kindness & learning in public online spaces

Reflecting on how the US TikTok ban accidentally revealed how we can have calmer and more meaningful conversations, despite the common belief that the internet is a hostile place inhabited by trolls and other mischievous creatures.

🌑 An invitation to Play_ for End Times

In this Newmoonsletter, Mat and I reflect on our journey with Tethix so far, and explore how play might be what we need to match the absurdity of current end times.

Pathfinders Podcast explores how silicon bodies shape human bodies

In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we explore the tension between how Big Tech wants to shape our bodies with AI and what our bodies actually need, as current events force us to face the traumas and shadows of extractive colonialism.