Notes to Self
How trust becomes joy
People ask me why I seem so happy, and whether I really am. I am. Let me be clear though, I don’t have everything goes
August 17, 2025
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Emi Linds
Designer, artist, systems thinker. Building trust systems that scale. Creator of The Human Margin for AI. With a background spanning corporate revenue enablement and policy advocacy, she helps high-performing leaders make sense of complexity with clarity and care. Based in Canada, raising future innovators. Always building what only she can build, one piece at a time.
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Notes to Self
Hope and “letting go of expectations”
Expectation is a fixed script, it says: This better happen, or… When reality doesn’t match the scene you storyboarded, you get disappointed. Hope works differently.Hope
August 13, 2025
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Notes to Self
Hats and hats
I’ve been drawing again, this is my recent piece – a small hat shop illustration, drawn in Procreate, loosely inspired by Howl’s Moving Castle. Just
August 8, 2025
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Notes to Self
Reclaiming creativity: finding joy in art again
We spent the day with friends we hadn’t seen in over a year. Lovely humans… the kind whose presence feels like a deep exhale. The
August 4, 2025
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Notes to Self
What Red Dead Redemption 2 taught me about leadership and parenting
Between stimulus and response, we have a space.
July 24, 2025
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Notes to Self
Upstream interventions and the making of a fictional villain
In The Witcher (2007), Jacques de Aldersberg wasn’t your average villain. He saw famine, war, and even existential threat (the White Frost), and so he
July 18, 2025
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Notes to Self
Lessons From Existential Philosophy in the Age of AI
AI is shifting more than workflows, it’s reshaping how we define worth. Here are my thoughts on trust and meaning.
July 10, 2025
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System x Self
Samurai ethics in the age of systems
Bushidō was a strategic code for conduct under pressure. This essay reframes seven core tenets as modern leadership principles for those building systems where ethics, clarity, and scale must coexist.
July 6, 2025
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Notes to Self
“You’re too much, and not enough” – Neurodivergent coding in global Netflix sensation K-pop Demon Hunters?
What if your contradictions were never the problem?
A quick note on the neurodivergent coding of Zoey in K-Pop Demon Hunters, and why her lyrics hit like recognition for the neurodivergent. A quiet map for anyone who’s ever been too much, not enough, or both, at the same time.
July 6, 2025
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Notes to Self
Why I write
I write and make art to process the world. This is how I stay sharp, human, and honest – while growing, parenting, and building systems that scale.
July 1, 2025
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Notes to Self
“Would You Kindly” – A reflection on Bioshock (2007)
BioShock (2007) through the lens of systems design and the illusion of choice. What this dystopian game teaches us about control, care, and noticing the pattern.
June 19, 2025
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Field Notes
How machines know they’re off course, and why it matters
What’s your AI optimizing for, and how does it know it’s off course? A guide for strategic leaders building systems that learn.
June 5, 2025
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