How AI Really Fits Into Products
You’ve heard it in meetings: “What if we add AI to this?” This article breaks down what product owners should actually think about when AI enters the conversation, how it changes software behaviour, where it adds real value, and why clarity beats cleverness every time.
Setting Intentions: Beginning the New Cycle with Purpose
Goals define what we want to achieve. Intentions define how we move. Using the winter solstice as a metaphor for new cycles, this article examines why intentions can be a powerful complement to traditional professional goal-setting.
The Soft Skills That Matter Most
As AI becomes more capable, our human skills become more valuable. This article explores the human advantage; the soft skills that can’t be replaced by machines, and how we can use AI intentionally to strengthen the way we think, connect, and lead.
Supporting Your Team Through AI Change
AI upskilling is placing real pressure on teams. In this article, I share a technologist’s perspective on how leaders can support meaningful, sustainable AI capability-building without overwhelming their people.
AI Upskilling without Burning out
Feeling overwhelmed by AI training? You’re not alone. Many professionals are experiencing fatigue from the pressure to learn everything at once. This article explores a calmer, more intentional way to upskill — focusing on what matters, learning by doing, and staying grounded in a hyper-digital world.
Books in the Age of AI: A Technologist’s Reflection
In a world shaped by AI and constant digital acceleration, where do books fit in? A visit to the Malta Book Festival and memories of a childhood spent in a home full of books led me to reflect on the evolving role of reading in an AI-driven world.
AI and Multilingualism: How AI Is Bridging Europe’s Language Gaps
Europe’s beauty isn’t only in its landscapes and architecture; it’s in its languages the way Maltese, Finnish, Greek, or Portuguese each express our shared humanity differently. AI is now playing a supportive role helping institutions and citizens communicate across 24 official EU languages and beyond.
How Prompt Engineering Brought My Halloween Look to Life
This Halloween, I turned my lovely baby-blue swing dress vintage cut, patterned with delicate yellow birds and blossoms which I had just bought during my recent visit to London, into a perfectly eerie, vintage-inspired costume. And I did it using prompt engineering.
Beyond Access: Building Mindful AI Literacy
As the lights go on for the next wave of AI disruption, many nations are racing to equip their citizens with the tools, knowledge, and access needed to participate. In Malta’s 2026 budget, one such signal stands out: AI for Everyone, but is this just about the proliferation of tools?
Reimagining our careers in an AI-Driven World
For many of us, work is linked intrinsically with who we are, it’s a mirror and a key part of our self expression. Our roles, titles, and skills became the way we defined ourselves. But as artificial intelligence begins to transform not only what we do, but how we work and why, what does that mean to our career identity?
You don't have to Shout to Matter
In many professional spaces, it’s easy to feel like value depends on how visible you are — how often you speak up in meetings, how many people know your name, or how loudly your achievements echo across the organization.
Dancing into 2025: Lessons from the dancefloor 💃
A reflection on a surprising source of inspiration that shaped my outlook for 2025. Here I share my thoughts on what a Lindyhop dance course has taught me about embracing mistakes, trusting my abilities, and finding confidence in the act of trying.
The Power of "The One Thing"
In the fast-paced world we live in, achieving peak productivity can often seem like an elusive goal. We juggle several tasks, often feeling overwhelmed.
Embracing the Wim Hof Method - A Journey of Transformation
In the pursuit of self-improvement and resilience, the journey into the Wim Hof Method has been nothing short of transformative. I did my first Foundations workshop with Pavla Borg in October 2022.
Embracing Linguistic Challenges as a business professional
During the last two years, a significant portion of my time has been dedicated to a project conducted entirely in a foreign language, Italian. As a business professional …
What I did last weekend... (and why it matters!)
Last weekend I did something totally outside of my comfort zone. I participated in a Wim Hof Method Fundamentals course. For those of you who don’t know what the Wim Hof Method is….
Are you comfortable?
Most of us strive to live a comfortable life. We work towards increasing comfort and avoid discomfort at all costs. At every sign of discomfort we run, or we try to remove it as quickly as possible.
What does success look like?
This is a very common question I ask in my work. In project work, this helps me to understand the vision, and business case behind the project before jumping into the detail of functionality, i.e. the How. In the same way, the vision of success for your life is all up to you. Success is something that you have to define for yourself.
Learning from the Competition
Whatever you do in business you will always find competition. Even if you are out there creating a new innovative product, you will soon find competition that is catching up with similar products or alternatives, possibly cheaper than your product offering or offering...
Understanding Scrum #2
Welcome to the second article on understanding scrum, following the first one I posted a few weeks back here. As mentioned I am compiling information in Q&A format which I am happy to share with you here. As promised today I will go into scrum events. What they are?