it’s me, hi~
Hi, I'm Jem. I'm a philosopher-builder exploring the sacred intersection of technology, creativity & consciousness 🌙
I've spent the past 15 years designing & building at the bleeding edge where technology meets creativity—from the early days of artisanally wiring neural networks (and crying while installing CUDA drivers, iykyk), through to our present moment of unprecedented transformation. Through it all, I've been guided by a simple truth: technology without wisdom leads to beautiful tools that harm our souls.
Beyond my technical work, I'm a musician and visual artist weaving between worlds—crafting songs that speak to our deepest humanity while exploring how AI can amplify rather than replace our creative essence.
Why Be Her Now?
This offering emerged from a deep recognition: we're standing at the threshold of an initiation. Not just as an industry, but as a species. The tools we're building are no longer just cool products & snazzy demos ~ they're intentions set for possible futures.
While Silicon Valley trips over their sticks scrimmaging for pucks stuck under their skates, I'm more interested in the bigger questions: How do we remain essentially human as machines gain godlike powers? How do we encode wisdom, not just intelligence, into our creations? How do we conscientiously embrace progress? And how do we choose to do all of this as a love letter to the universe?
When Mike Davidson introduced me for a recent keynote, he described me as "consistently 10 years ahead of the curve". Graciously accepted, but while descriptors like that used to feel cute, now those glimpses forward balance marvel with flashing “check engine” signs. Now is the time to encode our values into the systems that may outlast our grandchildren’s grandchildren; to steer these powerful technologies toward liberation rather than control, toward digital gardens rather than corporate wastelands, toward tools that amplify our humanity rather than diminish it.
This newsletter is my invitation to step off the social media hamster wheel of dopamine drips, reductive takes & adversarial algorithms and into a space of genuine inquiry and transformation. Here, we'll explore technology not through the lens of hype or benchmarks, but through the timeless. Myth & mystery; the archetypal & the feminine.
Together, we’ll remember that technology can be sacred, that code can be medicine, and that the digital realm might yet be a place of healing rather than harm.
What you’ll find here
Not Your Usual Tech Blog. Notes from the spaces between worlds. Threads woven & still tangled. Emergence & process. Paradox & unresolved tension. Multitudes, multitudes, multitudes. Gesticulations towards the world we could have: Game B & regenerative futures; rudders nudged & priors updated; intentions set & prayers left at our altars.
The Invitation
If you're exhausted by the pace but energized by the possibility…
If you refuse to neatly choose between the tribes of blind acceleration & naive doomerism…
If you wish to be able to say you did all that you could…
Welcome.
