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2026

Pacific AI & Data Sovereignty
I Filed a Complaint Against RNZ. Here's What Happened.
The Blue Pill Doesn't Work Here
AI Native Is the New Digital Native
Getting Paid For Your Data Sounds Great
Everyone Was Logged Into the Same Session
The Inevitability of AI

2025

Masks Off: 2025 in Review
AI Is a Conversation
Re-Host. Re-Factor. Re-Up.
The Complexity Wall: My Half-Day Experiment with Spec-Driven Development (SDD)
Making a move...
The AI Resistance
To Live and Die in the Simulation
Part 4: The Anatomy of AI Agents - Practical Security Implications
Part 3: AI Agent Security Vulnerabilities - Brain and Perception Module Analysis
Part 2: Evolution - Three Critical Shifts in the AI Security Landscape
Part 1: The Rise of Agentic AI - A Security Perspective
Winter is coming...

2024

The End of Everything
The Knowledge Gap: Rethinking the Digital Divide for Pasifika
What Happened to the Hackers?
The Burden of Knowing: Navigating Life in a System Built on Inequality
Beyond Netflix: The Critical Need for AI Literacy Among Indigenous Tech Leaders
There is no "Pasifika in Tech" Problem
Shutting Down the Pasifika Tech Network
Checking in...
Māori Excellence in Technology: A Pasifika Perspective.
Layers of Existence
Liberty to Tyranny: The Role of Power and Knowledge in Global Resistance
A Samoan Hackers Manifesto
The Mediocre Narcissist’s Guide to Blaming Diversity for Your Own Failings
Technology Is Political. No Matter How Much People Try to Say It's Not.
Unpacking Basecamp's Exit From the Cloud
The Duality of Living in Privilege and being Pasifika
Give Us the AI Overlords Already - Part 2
Give Us the AI Overlords Already - Part 1
Tech Gun for Hire: Lessons From a Pasifika Engineer's Career.
2024: Shut Up and Build

2023

2023: The End Is the Beginning Is the End
Pasifika And The AI Opportunity
New Tech, Eyes Open: Stay Critical of Tech's Shiny New Toys
Pasifika Need Tech Leaders Who Are Technical.
The “Going Monthly” Plan That Didn’t Go at All.
The Newsletter Is Going Monthly
What They Don't Tell You About Working in Tech.
Staying Technical: The Architect and the Engineer.
A Brief History of Career Burnout & Me
Rant: Be Yourself by Backing Yourself, With Confidence.
Your Language Connects You to Your Identity and Super (Samoan) Power.
Changing How You See "Work" Changes How You Play the Game.
The Advice I Would Have Given a Young Me in Tech.
What Have I Learned Writing This Newsletter for the Last Ten Weeks?
Separating the Worker From the Work: And Other ”Not Great” Ideas.
The Company Is Not Your Family & Other Professional Insights.
From Twitch Channels to Pasifika Tech Networks: Going Deep to Serve a Specific Audience.
Podcasts, Public Platforms & Responsibility
The Reality of Working, Big Tech, in the Pacific Islands.
The Pasifika Problem & The Tech Gambit
Data Sovereignty & The Cloud
AI & ChatGPT: The Bullshit Generator, Class Wars and Why Do We Even Bother?
An Origin Story: Who Am I? And Why Is That Relevant?
A Weekly Newsletter About Working in Tech and Other Side-Effects.

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