About April

I live at the end of the Laterite Highway, in a town that exists at the intersection of satellite internet and institutional optimism. I teach people about artificial intelligence for a living, which is a sentence that sounds more impressive than it feels.

Before this, I lived elsewhere. Several elsewheres, in fact. I ended up in cybersecurity, then in digital literacy, then in whatever this is — the person who stands at the front of the room and explains how a language model works to an audience that would very much prefer a shorter answer.

I am, by my own honest assessment, a pseudo AI expert. I say this not as false modesty but as accurate labelling. The field moves fast enough that expertise has a half-life of about six weeks, and I have chosen to be honest about that rather than pretend otherwise. What I never quite have adequate reserves of is the ability to explain complicated things clearly, advanced room-reading skills, and a high tolerance for ambiguity. What I do have is a stubbornness for reading documentation at midnight because you refuse to not understand something.

NTellgencya World is the name I gave this place. The names are invented. The feelings are not. Pandanus Reach is a real town with a fictional name, and the Laterite Highway is a real road that doesn't really go anywhere. The institutions are renamed, the geography is lightly disguised.

I built this site because I needed somewhere to put the things that had to be stated about the realities of teaching AI in 2026, in a place where the infrastructure gap between ambition and reality swallows about two decades, and things about cybersecurity that I wanted to tell as stories, not as compliance modules.

The carnival has grown some doors that lead elsewhere — to other things I've made, in other corners of the internet. You're welcome in all of them.