A working archive of essays, podcast notes, and longer pieces. New posts arrive irregularly — when I have something specific to say.
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A Different Kind of Vessel
What if there were a privacy-first federated AI model for women's wellness? And what if we, collectively in femtech, were the ones who owned it?
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Who Wants Neurological Data on Midlife Women?
Recent research has moved midlife symptom data from the wellness category into the neurological one. Almost no one is talking about what that means for the data women have already generated, or for where they generate it next.
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Privacy-Led UX Is the Surface
A reaction to MIT Technology Review and Usercentrics's Privacy-Led UX in the AI Era. The report draws the surface beautifully. The architecture is the thing the surface is reflecting back.
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There Is No Privacy Paradox.
There Is Only Architecture.
A reaction to recent ChatGPT-influencer research. The privacy paradox isn't a paradox — it's the sound of an architecture working exactly as designed.
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Pre-Authorized
Claude Desktop and the Anatomy of Silent Consent
A forensic report on Claude Desktop's silent browser-bridge installation is the AI industry's Flo moment — the same consent-stretch pattern femtech already learned, now playing out at the assistant layer.
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The $5B Wake-Up Call
How Meta's Health Data Ruling Changes the Femtech Playbook
When a San Francisco jury ruled Meta intentionally intercepted menstrual data from millions of Flo users, surveillance health tech hit its liability ceiling. What founders should take from it.
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