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Wise people always say, “Never be the smartest person in the room,” so we’ve got that covered!! I’m not an industry expert.

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  • The blogs blend humor, storytelling, and insightful commentary to make complex topics approachable. I attend events and document what is said (and not said).

    “What they said” is written in WHITE and “what I’m thinking” in PINK/PURPLE. You can read the full blog, just the white, or just the pink. Boom!

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Benefit of the Doute pour la Calamité du Discours

TLDR: Part 2 of a French cultural event at an art school where a promised "workshop" turned out to be more talks, redeemed by a passionate student-led discussion about whether AI-generated art can ever match human creativity.

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Across Town for Some Leadership and Equality

TLDR: A women's leadership and entrepreneurship event where Kelly arrived an hour late, found the first workshop on "bad business ideas" unhelpful, switched rooms to a career narrative rewriting exercise, and sat through an AI 101 resume talk, with the main takeaway being two consecutive events telling her to replace "hope" with action.

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My Turn to Speak at the Maybe Mayor’s Breakfast: Vulnerable Youth Need Stable Parents/Homes… NOT “Offsite Weekly City-Sponsored Meetups” for High Schoolers (Middle Schoolers Welcome, Too)…!?

TLDR: Kelly attends a mayoral candidate's community breakfast event, sharing her perspective on vulnerable youth needing stable homes rather than city-sponsored offsite meetups, while reflecting on local government outreach and leadership.

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A White House Party ‘Big Tech’ Forgot to Make Educational: Presidential Ai Education Challenge

TLDR: The author attends a virtual Presidential AI Education Challenge event hosted by a big tech company and finds it disappointingly basic, with demos of race cars and owls rather than meaningful educational AI tools, questioning the gap between federal ambition and corporate execution.

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Ai is my DJ, EV ain’t Easy, and Cancelling Venues

TLDR: A rooftop AI DJ party that turned out to just be regular DJs playing samples, followed by cancelling all her planned Climate Week youth workshops after discovering the assigned venue was decorated with symbols associated with child trafficking, forcing everything online instead.

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