Hello AI enthusiast (or not). 

Thank you for stumbling upon this jumble of thoughts, facts and complaints, mostly to do with learning about AI.

But before you dig deep, now is probably a good time to confess something:

I am not completely and utterly obsessed with AI. 

Yes, I know, this might be a strange confession, coming as it is from a person who has decided to dedicate a significant chunk of her time to learning everything there is to know about AI and all its mysticisms. 

And please don’t get me wrong. AI is interesting. It is. 

But do I walk into dinner parties, wine in hand and shout “wow guys, n8n just dropped this mad new feature, I can’t wait to tell you all about it!”?

No. 

Mostly because my friends would never speak to me again if I did that.

But also because that’s just not something that I think about in my spare time and certainly not something I want to be talking about with a primitivo in my hand. 

Truth be told, there are just so many other things I would rather be doing than studying AI.

So why? Why plough on with learning AI, understanding the buzzwords, distinguishing the rubbish from the useful, and putting all my learnings and thoughts here into this channel?

Well, like most crafty content creators, I have a neat number of reasons as to why I am doing this. 

3 reasons in fact.

The first two reasons are pretty basic ones - maybe they are even the same reasons that you are here right now - but the 3rd one is the main fella. 

The golden thread that runs through my day and keeps me excited, motivated and passionate about a topic that otherwise wouldn’t be enough to stir me to such efforts.

Got your attention? 

Hmm… maybe I do have the makings of a content creator after all. 

But enough fumbling copywriting. Without further ado, here are my….

*Even though I kind of don’t want to

(For the GenZ reading this, I apologize if this is millennial-speak. It’s been a while since I hung around with someone who doesn’t slap their thighs before standing up)

Ahh yes, the worst of all nagging thoughts. 

The demon of anyone with more than a pinch of social anxiety.

The Fear Of Missing Out.

Perhaps I am not alone in my feeling that AI IS EVERYWHERE. 

Constantly, unwaveringly, EVERYWHERE.

And everyone, EVERYONE is already doing something incredible with AI and you need to hurry the fuck up and do something incredible too or ELSE YOU WILL BE MISSING OUT ON THE MONEY FAME EXCITEMENET AND DONT YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU DIDN’T BUY BITCOIN AND….

Argggggggghhhhhhh. 

The flood on my socials, work emails, self-righteous LinkedIn posts, of people talking about their AI projects, the money they have made, the businesses they have formed. 

It’s a lot. 

And frankly it’s really overwhelming. 

(Also annoying sometimes)

So yes. Maybe I am just a sheep following the herd but a big chunk of the reason that I want to learn AI is to not get left behind. 

(I don’t want to end up like my Nana who, bless her, thinks we are literally performing magic when we pull up a Youtube dancing cat video.)

I know it’s important to keep up with the world and, like it or not, AI is here, it’s not going away, and it is going to change things. 

Get on board, or fall behind. 

So reason number 1 - FOMO

Tragically, I was born to amazing parents, who whilst showering me with praise, love and encouragement, basically tell me to fuck off whenever it comes to handing over any cold hard cash. 

Due to these regrettable circumstances, I need to work to pay for those pesky things like rent and food.

Tragic I know. 

I am currently a software developer and luckily, I “came up” in that field way before AI was part of the conversation.

This means I have the plus side of being pretty well trained and having a few solid years of experience behind me. 

On the downside… I may be qualified to do something that could potentially not exist in a few years. 

Hmpf. 

To avoid an Oliver Twist-like situation in the future, I have decided to start planning ahead and considering what I might be able to do to fight or delay this potential depressing outcome. 

One thing I can’t help but conclude is that AI might be a rather useful thing to have a solid grasp of in the future. 

If AI is coming to steal my job, it might be handy to be on its good side and perhaps even find a job where I can work hand in hand with it.

Long story short. 

AI will probably be a useful skill for a developer in the future and so it seems financially prudent to get a headstart now. 

Financial prudence. The sexiest of all reasons. 

Finally we are here! The main reason that I will be learning AI and documenting my learnings, findings and journey here in this haphazard fashion. 

To get more women into AI. 

Any men reading this, please don’t think I’m out to get you. I’m a big fan of the gender generally speaking, except every now and then when I’ve had a glass or two of… well that’s another tale. 

Men, by all means keep learning, building and being curious. That’s a good thing. 

The reason however that this is the “golden thread” of my passion and drive to learn AI is because I generally care much more about equal rights than I do about AI itself. 

Actually it’s sometime I care A LOT about. 

AI is a tool that can be used for incredible things. 

Already we have seen peoples lives being changed for the better… and for the worse. 

Whatever your thoughts on AI are, love it, hate it, ignore it, the fact is that decisions are being made regarding AI that will affect you. For better or worse. 

And women need to be a part of this decision making*

Right now as I write this (March 2026), I asked my buddy Claude to give me the top 5 AI companies and their CEOs. This was the output (cheers Claude): 

Just to push it even further, I asked for the top 10: 

There are zero women in this list. 

And that is a problem.

Like most of the problems today, I appreciate that it is a complex problem. One that has many facets and faces to it. 

Probably it’s not a problem that a little person sitting in a hipster cafe with an overpriced latte is going to be able to solve either. 

But hey, it’s worth a try.

My goal, my mission, is to get more women interested in AI. And maybe, just maybe, one of those women will go on to fill one of these Top 10 AI company slots in the future. 

Maybe seeing someone say truthfully “hey this stuff is kind of hard sometimes”, instead of the usual plethora of overly confident tech bros, might help someone to see that they too can learn about AI and that everyone, everyone should be a part of the AI conversation happening around us. 

Those are my reasons for learning AI and that is why I have created this learning channel. 

I’m not a published writer, I’m not a seasoned content creator. Like most people, the sound of my own voice makes me feel slightly ill and even using the word “content” makes my insides cringe slightly. 

But I know that when it comes down to it, I love to learn and above all I love to share what I have learned with others. 

I hope this can become a sort of refuge and community for the reluctant AI learner, a place for the “no nonsense notes” for the person who wants to learn about AI, without the buzzwords and the overhyped nonsense. 

Thanks for sticking with me this far, and I’m looking forward to learning together.