handcrafted musings on the world
The Agent Era Isn’t Coming. It’s here and it’s Already Messy. I spent an interesting evening at an agentic AI meetup with old friends Mark Pesce and John Allsop in…
People keep asking me: “What do we actually do about AI governance?”
I have long thought that data governance has a brand problem. Inside many organizations it still sounds like control, cost, and constraint, not value. Even when the underlying work is…
Time has always felt a bit … theoretical to me. People talk about “ten minutes” or “next week” as if these are solid, tangible things you can hold in your…
I spoke at the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston back in June 2024 about AI, innovation and the future. I have been thinking a lot about this…
Back in late 2024, after a decade as Chief Data and Insights Officer at UNSW Sydney, and more than a decade working at UNSW, I decided it was time to…
One of the more “amusing” things about having ADHD for me is that I lose things. Not usually irrevocably, but they disappear for long periods and then mysteriously reappear. A…
As is my tradition I do my annual bingo card at the start of the new year to deal with my existential dread. Herewith my 2026 bingo card. I’ll be…
Was on the Technology & Security Podcast with the smart and lovely Miah Hammond-Errey just before Christmas 2024 – have been meaning to share the link. Miah and I had…
Reflection on how colonialism shaped the modern world and my Australian family story, built on both convict and migrant histories and Indigenous dispossession.
Kate Carruthers