The TEKnologist

Reflections, and Thoughts from a Creative Technologist Living in Japan

Minimalist AI-generated drawing of a stickman in nature

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. —Francis Bacon

I have a thing for odd numbers, even a little OCD. They’re just more interesting—unbalanced, a little unpredictable.

Odd numbers are the system’s way of embracing controlled chaos. They introduce asymmetry—just enough to make things resilient, interesting, or memorable. Like a glitch that makes the pattern more real.

There’s beauty in things that don’t quite resolve and things that do, oddly, and I love that. :)


As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest. ✌️

#quotes #thinkingoutloud


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

Technology alone doesn’t drive progress — people + tech do. I think hard-earned human wisdom paired with intelligent tools like AI will be unstoppable. —The TEKnologist

For years, technology favored the fast, the young, the fluent.

But everything is changing.

With the rise of AI, the playing field is shifting.

The advantage isn’t in knowing the tools—it’s in knowing what matters.

Life experience. Perspective. Judgment.

These aren’t soft skills anymore — when combined with AI, they’re superpowers.


As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️

#ai #technology #thinkingoutloud


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. — John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity

AI generated illustration


As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️

#quotes


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

Are we drawing the lines that define us, or are they drawing us?

A reflection on art creation, constraint, and the spaces we inhabit.

AI generated illustration of a stickman drawing

Ai generated illustration of a stickman sitting in a minimalist space

Click to View more from my AIArt Gallery


As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️

#creativity #reflection #thinkingoutloud


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

When the world feels like it's going crazy, art and music bring beauty inside the storm.


As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️

#philosophy #creativity #thinkingoutloud


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

AIREC (AI-Driven Robot for Embrace and Care) is a 150-kg AI-driven humanoid robot designed to assist in elderly care in Japan by 2030 at an estimated cost of ¥10,000.

AIREC can already perform tasks such as repositioning patients—a critical function for preventing bedsores and diaper changes. It Can also assists with daily activities like cooking and laundry.

Learn more about AIREC in the video below

As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest.✌️

#ai #healthcare #japan #robotics #technology


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

When my daughter was little, I'd say, “Nothing's impossible—just stuff we haven't figured out yet.”

“Impossible” is just fear talking. We get scared of what we don't know. Life isn't split into possible and impossible; it's more about what we know and what we're still learning.

As Arthur C. Clarke wisely said:

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

So when I’m thinking about all the things in life that seem impossible, I remind myself: we’ll get there—we just haven’t figured it out yet.

As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest. ✌️

#quotes #thinkingoutloud


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

History is a cycle of chaos and progress—which side you feel you're on depends on your perspective… or which news headline you’re reading.

A reminder to myself not to get too wrapped up in the news and to focus on what I can control.

As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest. ✌️

#thinkingoutloud


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

My attention has been mostly on my new Leica D-Lux 8 lately, but I still pick up my Fujifilm X100V occasionally. Each time I do, I’m reminded of how much I love the way it feels in hand. It also takes pretty decent photos too. ;)

Eterna film simulation - f2.0, 1/30s, ISO 1250Click here to view more Okinawa sunrise shots in my Snap Okinawa Sunrises gallery

As always, if it speaks to you, great—just sharing what I see. ✌️

#photography #fujifilmx100v #japan #okinawa


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

In this TED Talk, Will AI Make Us the Last Generation to Read and Write?, Caleb Everett presents a thought-provoking discussion on what I believe is an inevitable shift in our society.

As someone who has always been more visual, I don't personally find this evolution uncomfortable, but I recognize that many might. Paradoxically, Everett touches on a feeling I can relate to—guilt over not picking up a traditional book and instead consuming content via audio or video.

Watch the TED Talk here

While I don’t believe reading and writing will disappear entirely, I do think they may become skills reserved for a small percentage of society, much like how literacy was once limited to the elite.

As always, your mileage may vary, so use what’s helpful. Discard the rest. ✌️

#ai #thinkingoutloud #technology


Written by a creative technologist, photographer, and an evolving human—enhanced (and tangled) by technology—living in Japan.
Sharing my reflections and thoughts on photography, philosophy, and technology.

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