What I care about is helping people bring technology into their lives well — where it's genuinely needed, and where it can do the most good. Not tech for its own sake, not change to look modern. Sometimes that means AI; just as often it means something far simpler.The tech world is accelerating. This is my attempt to slow things down a little: to pick apart the hype and look for the reality and the truth in the messages — primarily around AI, and how it impacts us all.
SoN 2.39: Building a school family knowledge base
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Jim Christian - Signal Over Noise
What I care about is helping people bring technology into their lives well — where it's genuinely needed, and where it can do the most good. Not tech for its own sake, not change to look modern. Sometimes that means AI; just as often it means something far simpler.The tech world is accelerating. This is my attempt to slow things down a little: to pick apart the hype and look for the reality and the truth in the messages — primarily around AI, and how it impacts us all.
VOL 2, ISSUE 38 · OCTOBER 2026 A lot of the conversation around AI right now skips clean past the plumbing. We get handed shiny new tools, watch a few polished demos, and immediately expect software to behave like an omnipotent wizard that sorts our working lives out overnight. When it inevitably stumbles, the blame usually falls on the model’s raw intelligence rather than our own instructions. But whether you are trying to automate a runaway inbox, teaching an agent how to complete a web...
VOL 2, ISSUE 37 · 5 OCTOBER 2026 It's been two weeks since the last issue. Life has got in the way, and family has taken precedence. This issue leads with two pieces about the same idea: break the work down, and give each piece what it needs. Dumb Little Robots is about an agent that got confused because it was given every job at once. The difference between skills and context is about separating the instructions for a job from the material that goes into it. Dumb Little Robots, All the Way...
VOL 2, ISSUE 36 · 19 SEPTEMBER 2026 Space to be human Last week I wrote about leaving the Mac for Omarchy after 25 years, and ended on being one step closer to a co-operating system that works with me instead of one I have to work around. A lot of this week comes back to that: creating my own co-operating system from the tools available. This past week has been a major 'back to school' week for the family, including new travelling times, and a massive storm that came through the area mid-week...