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“UNLIMITED… MY FUTURE IS UNLIMITED” So I just came out of seeing Wicked and the above line really inspired me. One of the reasons why the last year has been really hard is because I believe in my limitless potential… I believe in ALL OF our limitless potential. I genuinely believe that every moment of the last year has been for my highest good and for my greatest growth of all… even if it was hard to miss all of those beautiful summer evenings while I was working! Never again. To go into a role as a backend Python engineer in an AI team… with no backend experience. With no Python experience. With no AI experience. And with very little experience. Well, that IS pretty unlimited. And I’m so glad we made it work out. I’m very very grateful to the company for giving me so many chances. And also for working with my neurodiversity as well And mostly I’m grateful to be staying in water tech. I really suffered in the last year in spite of all the support I was given And I know it wasn’t for no...

Navigating The only time I have ever felt like this before is when I dropped out of uni ten years ago. And now for the first time I am grateful. Well not really. I was always grateful - it took me to where I am today. But I am grateful to have had the experience of navigating a sudden dramatic release in pressure before. And the exhaustion that goes with it. I booked a cinema ticket tonight. To see Wicked. I wasn’t gonna go. But I think I will. I have a flat inspection on Tuesday and it’s panicking me. I am doing more of what I have always wanted to do. Donating as much as I can.  Letting go of everything. Releasing everything. Even stuff that I thought that I would keep for the rest of my life I want it to be summer 

Chains Around My Demons, Wool To Brave The Seasons I can’t even tell you how hard the last 12 months have been. Nor how hard I have crashed - am now in the middle of a few days off. Here are some of the things that have helped me: Performance coaching. I don’t think I would’ve reached a resolution like this without him and his help and his amazing ability to talk to me and get through to me Dance. Seriously I got through the last three months with dance. Dance classes, dance workshops, making dance playlists, dancing at home. Talking about dancing. Whatever. It’s all, all dance My friends - seeing them over Christmas was the best My Brighton colleagues - they were absolute legends who got me through My team - they are really lovely lovely people - the data and AI team - I love them so so much My new manager - absolute genius who saw a way to resolve the situation and was really caring My mum - lifesaver  My whole family - dad, sisters, grandmother in Poland and grandfather in the U...

Digital Twins in Water Distribution Modelling, Part II In my last post I talked about digital twins. It was very confusing and there was a lot on these. Of course I have encountered this before notably with wind farms. I really got the concept of digital twins with wind farms. But the concept with water networks is harder for me to grasp.  I guess that it is literally just a digital model of the network. What could it include? Treatment centres? Supply points? Pipes? Ah okay then. So it is not just the model. It mirrors the real network in real time. So… a digital twin of a water network integrates different things.  It integrates things like sensor data… like simulation models… like analytics… like data visualisation and other things like that. My last blog post mentioned IoT things as well. Was there anything else? Edge computing and cloud computing. I still don’t know what edge computing is.  And I sort of know what cloud computing is but I don’t really get how it fits...

The Winter is Over for Me My probation ended and with it ended the longest winter of my life. I feel like winter 2024 never finished after losing my job in February and then struggling to fit into my new one and then upskilling into it. I gave up so much to get here. I did it because I care. I did it because I care about the wind farms and the wind turbines and the internet towers and about the water infrastructure. I consistently have to prioritise. Now that my work is in a flow state the reality of dealing with my life outside of work is coming back to me. Just about every cooked food in the world makes me feel ill and so I am just eating raw fruit more and more. I am of course eating other things too but I am trying to phase them out. Salt and fat make me feel ill. Most cooked foods make me feel ill too unless they are quinoa. Also I usually feel okay eating my mums food but that is because it has magic qualities. The winter was a long one for me this year. I only cared about passin...

There is only one of you in all of time Get ready for a quote  “ There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. ” Thank you, Martha Graham

What It Means To Me To Be Alive Right now what it means to be alive is to research water tech. I’m sorry. I’ve said it before and I will say it again. I do so many things. I dance. I write. I love to sing. I love love love to sing. But somehow I don’t feel complete without my research on water tech. Call it what you like. You can call it what you like. I just love to do it. I have so many plans. I have so many plans for the year. I have so many dance workshops. So many big and exciting decisions. Meditation retreat or not? Dance workshop or not? Trip home to see mum - when? Trip with my dad to the new forest. So so many exciting plans. And I love it. I love music. I love experimenting with my diet. Right now I think I’m really on to something good. Simple raw things. Nice nice simple things. But I will not be complete without the water tech Like any artist I need a medium As an artist I need a muse And right now my muse is water tech I love it I love it so so much

Digital Twins in Water Distribution Modelling, Part I Okay so. You can have a digital twin of your water distribution network. How does this work? Digital twins are built up of a combination of things. What do digital twins combine? Digital twins combine  AI IoT (internet of things) Edge computing (absolutely no idea what this is sorry, but will look this up, one day) Cloud computing And what do they do? Well they allow you to use virtual models. What do you want those virtual models to do? We want rose virtual models to compare  The actual water systems In real time With historical data from thousands of similar water distribution systems This allows utilities operators to make predictions around specific systems. And around when and how these water systems will behave Thank you

The Water Queen Look I can’t stop. I just can’t stop. No matter what I do. I can’t give up on water research. I can’t give up on life. Water is life. I have to keep on going. But I don’t know how. I have gotten into a really great pattern of not working outside of hours. This works so much better. I feel so much more rested. I learn better on the job. I repeat, I LEARN BETTER ON THE JOB. But where do I go from here So where do I go from here Because I do my research outside of hours  But how do I do that so that I still feel well rested? I have about four articles to read for now. I have told myself I am going to start really small. And use a tiny bit of info per blog post Cos that is how I do things best after all, I am so autistic

Potential Now look here. Things are never quite what they seem. And somebody who seems like they are doing really badly. Could actually be doing really well. And so as I pause for a minute at my favourite fence where I like to write blog posts Looking out at the wind farms to sea Don’t underestimate me I am a slow learner at times when things are new to me I lay solid foundations When things click they click at lightning speed I haven’t said the last word yet P.s. I look forward to inviting my colleagues to my tech talk on the 28th of March

Absolutely No Idea Where To Go From Here With My Life I passed my probation. I think it is going to be announced to my wider team soon so shhh 🤫 Keep it to yourself. But yes. Now you know. That is why. That is why I blogged like a mad person over the last year. I think I wrote something like 400 blog posts since joining Kraken. I was trying to pass my probation. Trying to pray it all out into the universe. Learning Python. Learning problem solving. Expressing my feelings. Expressing my impossible emotions because if you know me. Then you know that I needed to stay in water. Know that I needed to stay in renewable energy. Know that it was never a choice. So it’s safe to say that I am totally lost now. I was under so much pressure for ten months. There was some concern that I might stop growing but that will never happen.  I am designed to learn. It is my default nature to learn. It is my default thing to do. Choices I am enjoying having choices again with my free time. And dance ha...

Where Do I Go From Here, Part III As a society we glamourise exhaustion. I know what it’s like to be really exhausted. When I dropped out from university at 21 I was so so so exhausted. I had been trying for three years and I was undiagnosed and I didn’t know. I was so tired. I spent a year playing on the sims. Babysitting and visiting my boyfriend and going to therapy (I had been through some REALLY tough stuff before) and then I started to go on walks. I started with walking to the end of the street. It wouldn’t be long until I was running around the forest. Sometimes we have to start small. I don’t know who I am anymore. I have to tidy my bedroom. I have to tidy my living room. I need to declutter. I haven’t had time to pause for a year  Haven’t had time to breathe and to be me. I have had so much job insecurity 

Where Do I Go From Here, Part II As you can tell from my last post I have passed a pretty big milestone.  And I feel quite lost. But I don’t want to get found. I don’t want to be found. I feel quite empty. And I want to stay empty. Think about it. It’s like when you’re on the train  And it’s so peaceful and so beautiful and so silent. And then someone gets on and they start talking on their phone. You realise how beautiful and peaceful the silence was.

Where Do I Go From Here Colet House, London. In December 2022 I told my meditation teacher that I had discovered software engineering and that the whole universe had conspired to make it happen for me.  And I asked how could anything be so beautiful. And he said „I don’t know.” The next summer I wanted to ask him about deepening this and I didn’t get an answer and instead I looked into the eyes of a man and saw the wind farms and cried all the way home. It was one of the best days ever. Another time I think I went in December 2023 but I don’t remember anything. It must have been a nice time. Oh I do remember. My friend buys me dinner. I order a book on renewable energy. I get a coach home because of the train strike. Hmmm. December 2024 I went back to volunteer. I asked my teacher at the end how to keep going with my work. I love it so much. I worked tirelessly for all of 2024 but the results weren’t showing. He didn’t have the answers. Feb 2024. 8-9. I dance a two day workshop. In...

Categorising My Water Research Into Four Main Areas I am hungry for more details. Every time I try to read up on the facts about water network flow optimisation  I don’t get anything detailed. So I think it’s important for me to get really clear on the facts first. And I will only get the facts by reading and writing more. Once I have the bigger picture - then I can start to dive into the details.  This is how it works. Main topics of interest There are four themes emerging. Water treatment and water quality Water networks and water flow Predictive maintenance Water resource management If I can continue to build knowledge and begin to categorise it into all four areas then it will be easier to remember it all. There are other topics too like flood risk management but that isn’t taken care of by water companies - it’s more environmental agencies I believe.

Optimising Energy and Water Distribution Networks: Strengths of AI in Water, Part 5 Both water treatment and water distribution require a lot of energy. I knew about the water treatment side taking up a lot of energy usage, but I never knew about the water distribution side as well. Isn’t that interesting? The intersection of energy and water. So we can use AI to reduce the consumption of energy in water. So let’s look at some of the ways we can do this. As always the strengths of AI in utilities remain the same Analysis of historical data Prediction of future patterns Real time monitoring So let’s get more specific here  So yes in the first instance both for treatment and distribution the AI pattern remains the same; the analysis of historical data can be used to make predictions for the future and therefore smart decisions However let’s look a bit closer at the optimisation of water distribution  What can AI do? What can AI do in the water network distribution system? Well o...

Water Quality: Strengths of AI in Water, Part 4 This is the one that I keep coming back to. It is quite complicated. Data from sensors can help AI to identify changes in water quality. This is because previous identifying factors in water quality can be compared to current ones. This can be used to quickly spot from contamination  If water plants and water companies have plans for the sudden presence of pollutants such as harmful algae blooms or whatever then this coupled with quick and early detection can really enhance the safety of our water. But I still think the whole idea of AI quickly analysing The state of the water before treatment The dosages and chemicals used The processes used The result of the water after the treatment And rinse and repeat Has something to be said for it. And I think taking into account turbidity and pH and the changes and seasons and historic data really means that there is so much more to be said here as well. And there is so much more here to do. T...

Love This Valentine’s Day I got the most beautiful rose. And it isn’t even Valentine’s Day yet! Imagine that. I am so very lucky to be me. Look I love the hills. I love the mountains.  I love the internet towers  I love water treatment plants I love water infrastructure  Most of all I just love God I’ll see you soon for more water tech Thank you

Wrapping Up AI in Smart Irrigation While not strictly water related, AI can help farmers to better target their solutions to their crops if they are struggling or in poor health, when they are integrated into smart irrigation systems. It can also allow farmers to control irrigation manually via a remote app or whatever. This was a super fascinating topic but I feel like I have gone off my course. Similarly topics like flooding aren’t my jam. I am interested in leak detection and especially in water treatment facilities. So to finish off Using AI in smart irrigation systems helps to prevent wasting too much water. It increases the number of crops and improves the health of plants. Very much like water treatment facilities, AI can be used to increase the efficiency in smart irrigation systems.

I can approach my water research more intelligently I need to refine my approach. Need to focus on what’s relevant and interesting to me only. I can focus on what jumps out and what’s interesting. I can just focus on the titbits and what makes sense to me and what I need. The story will tell itself. The water research will happen anyway. It will naturally occur. It’s time to skip the boring parts. It’s time to stick to only what sets me on FIRE „Wonder” in French 

Remembering My First Product Job What I remember the best is June, 2022. Just after my birthday. I had my job interview I think about three days after my 28th birthday and then I went on a solo Manchester/Liverpool trip. I spent 14 hours in the office on my birthday, solving electricity and gas emergencies and finalising my job application. I sometimes feel that people begrudge me my energy knowledge but how many gas and electricity supplies did I have to put back on back in the day? How many single mums crying to me because their power was off? How many remote electricity keys did I have to try and locate in rural Scotland? How many times did I get a call at 4pm a Friday saying that the whole power had tripped during a meter installation  So anyway while I was on my trip all I could think about was did I get the job. And of course I did. I was so sweet and innocent and so happy. That job meant the world to me. It really meant more than anything else to me in the world. But life ha...

I Know That It Is My Destiny To Stay In Water I don’t have all the answers. But I know that it is my destiny to stay in water. And hopefully in renewable energy too. Listen sometimes it’s so hard. Every day can feel like climbing Everest sometimes. When I cope with how hard I’ve had to work over the last 10 months to get to here.  When I cope with the complete lack of routine that I’ve had which involved me overwhelming myself and overworking myself and also not working at my most productive times. But I look at how I am getting help with my routine now. And I am going to try it again tomorrow. Having a routine helps me to not overwork myself. It timeboxes my job. It makes it more manageable. By having a routine  I am so much more productive Let me fly

The presence of the morning dew welcomes us with the grace of a fresh start I know I shouldn’t be blogging at this time. Somebody confiscate my phone.  But listen. I want to say that I am so sorry. I have made so many mistakes. I struggled with a company that didn’t impose a clear structure on me and have floundered and floundered and struggled to create my own structure. But listen I am getting there with my coach and I know that we can make it work. I have been touched and moved by the offers and interventions of support from my managers. I am extremely grateful for and moved by the coaching thing. I was never given much choice and I was really glad I wasn’t because I probably would’ve said no. And doing this is the best thing in the world. So I am so very very glad that I didn’t get to say no indeed! I feel so very very lucky to be here.  And to be alive. Trust me when you are me you feel very lucky to get to be alive. And I want to say I’m sorry I fucked up I’m sorry I mes...

Thinking About All Of The People Who Supported Me Today I wanted to do something different today. I firstly want to address my spirituality - I was raised in a Christian household for the first seven years of my life - and when my parents split up that sort of went away. I got seriously ill at 13 and it could’ve been the end for me - I’ve never shared that before - and after that I began to explore my spirituality a lot more. I read books and more books.  I discovered Buddhism at 14, and then later life events which are the stuff I really avoid talking about sort of took me away from everything. I explored paganism at 21, Wicca, earth based religions, and then found Taoism at 23 when my seizures peaked (edit: re-found Taoism; I had grown up in many ways in a Taoist household. Taoism was and is and will remain probably always my softest softest soft spot forever xxx). Then came back into Buddhism through a therapist I had (as I said I have been through stuff I avoid talking about) a...

A Lesson To End All Lessons Today I stuck to a routine. My performance coach got me to devise it a week ago. Then he asked me to implement it for just one day. It was perfect. Everything got done. Everything fell into place and all of my other skills shot up. My problem solving skills shot up. My independence shot up. I was able to go so much further on my own before asking for help. I became less stressed about the rest of my life. I have been unimaginably stressed about my life outside work for a year. Everything has seemed and felt impossible. Cooking and cleaning have all been such a nightmare. And balancing hobbies like research, meditation, exploring, singing and dancing has felt impossible. But after following half a day of routine it all felt possible. Let alone the whole day. I did finish a tiny bit too late but that’s because I got really into something. My stress levels shot down. My independence increased. My problem solving increased. Looks like I’ll be sticking to a routi...

Water Resource Management: Strengths of AI in Water, Part 3 I wanted to research this topic as a part of this series but then it spawned into a side quest. That side quest is not done. However I want to go back to this general series on the strengths of AI in water tech a bit and then I will resume with my one or two articles on ai in smart irrigation that I am reading on the side as well. There’s not too much to say here in the sense that I am already saying so much of it in my other series anyway. But let me give it a go. AI can help to conserve water by optimising irrigation and reducing wastage.  The overview I have so far is that AI can use data from soil moisture sensors and even data from plants themselves as well as some kind of info on nutrient density or chemical composition. And then it can combine this with other data such as weather forecasts historical data patterns real time monitoring and then this can be used to make more responsible irrigation decisions and then t...

Just One Ticket At A Time I think I know now what I need to do to succeed in my job. To excel in my job. It has been a year of suffering at times but I need to really get a job for it to click and unfortunately as an autistic person I have found this is usually the amount of time for me to really get something. I have so little left to say. People are reading my AI in water tech blogs especially when I share them on LinkedIn. So that seems to be the way forward for me. The universe is trying to tell me something Look; I have to go in tomorrow and ask myself „what is my current ticket? What am I working on? Where am I at with that? What have I completed? What is up next?”. And ignore slack I just went to a two day dance workshop it was the best Thank you

Soil Moisture Sensing: AI in Smart Water Irrigation, Part 4 I ended up doing more today than I planned but this is so so so amazing. Wow!!! Thanks! AI and Soil Moisture Sensing To achieve this we can have  sensors embedded into the ground at different depths  to  continuously monitor soil moisture levels. These sensors can be AI-integrated.  The data that they provide from their varying viewpoints enables irrigation systems to  only irrigate plants when required.  As such, this allows farmers and gardeners to make sure that they are watering their plants with only an ideal amount of water. This allows them to adjust their irrigation strategy so that they only give to each type of plant  the right amount of water at the right time.   This is called "precision watering."  Precision watering reduces water wastage and it improves plant health. I mean, what more could you want. This is so amazing; I think that this blog post might need its own rev...

Love You To The Moon And To Saturn I keep meaning to stop writing deep introspective blog posts but I can't stop. I want you to know how much I care. I want the whole world to know how much I care. I want to scream it from the rooftops. I want the whole world to know about how much I care about water and energy and AI and software engineering. I have given all of myself 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 10 months for the role. It has been really painful when the results haven't been there. But the results ARE there now. I am producing a lot of AI repository code and producing it very independently. It feels great. Oh my God it feels amazing. It feels amazing. Wow. We always get what we deserve. I know that. And I will get an amazing outcome. I know that. Whatever it will be will be okay. I know that I will get an amazing outcome. It will be amazing. Wow

Data and Precision Farming: AI in Smart Water Irrigation, Part 3 Continuing with this one, this is a big thing, and I'm getting ready for a full weekend of dance. Precision farming is a big thing and I am seeing it everywhere.  But I don't know what it is. It is a farming management strategy. It uses data and technology to improve the efficiency and sustainability of crops and soil and etc. Okay cool. Okay cool so - in precision farming - we can achieve precision farming by integration AI technology and sensor data. This is one of the things that AI does best in utilities - integrating sensor data (as well as making real-time decisions...).  These sensors could include: Weather Sensors Soil sensors (see more below) Plant sensors (WHAT???) Data could also include: Satellite images Drones Monitoring everything, from the moisture level of soil and its nutrient content, to the temperature, allows farmers to make decision that are data driven and informed. This allows us to manage ...

Predicting Weather and Water Requirements: AI in Smart Water Irrigation, Part 2 AI can predict weather patterns pretty accurately using historic data. AI can also use historic data to predict irrigation requirements. By analysing previous weather data, AI can forecast future climate trends. For those who grow our plants, they can use the forecasted weather to plan their activities, such as Planting And harvesting According to expected weather. By predicting how and when we plant and harvest plants, we can increase the efficiency of our system.  And we can optimise water usage. AI models can help to predict water availability. I wonder what they mean here. Availability from where? I suppose things like drought, flow, supply and demand.... This can help farmers to manage their irrigation schedules more effectively. It can reduce the possibility of watering too much (which is bad for the plants and bad for the soil and wastes water) and of watering too little (which means that our cro...

Bliss I woke up feeling exhausted and I guess I have to say: writing reflective blog posts on my job is still working. A shame because they are really useful. But I got to the conclusion I needed to reach. My job is my tickets. My job is not courses (luckily am done with those mostly). My job is not dealing with the waterfall of slack messages and posts that fall on my every day. Those can often wait (not always but that is okay too). My job is to open my asana board and work through my tickets. My job is to have my pycharm open and work in my IDE. My job is to ask questions and look up things I don’t understand and find out how to do things. My job is results driven and output based and I have to focus on things like „have I delivered my tickets?”. And on outcomes. Of course it’s normal to have to research stuff and to get things wrong but if I put in the hours and PUT in the focus then I know that I will be okay. Especially those early morning hours which I need so much 🌅 🌄  I ...

„What is my next ticket? What is my next ticket?” Okay look. I’ve had enough. I’ve had enough of screwing myself over and not fulfilling my full potential. Oh what. Did you want me to be nice forever. Do you expect me to be sweet. Okay so I am sweet 99.9% of the time. It is true. But sometimes you need to be angry as well. And I am angry. But not in an angry way. In a bad way. No, in a gentle way. I am angry in a gentle way. If that is even possible. I COULD BE DOING SO MUCH BETTER. I could be doing so much better. I could be doing so much better. And I am so mad. I am so mad not even at myself and not at anyone but just at the injustice of it all. Because I could be doing so much better. And I could be fulfilling my potential. And I could be doing so much more. So: What is my next ticket?  What is my current ticket? What are the steps that are needed to complete my next tickets? What are the steps that I need to do? Who can I ask to unblock me? Where can I ask to unblock me? What ...

A thing I need help with  FOCUSING. All you can help me to do is to help me to really focus on my tickets. All you can really help me to do is to focus on churning them out, on getting them out, one after another. One ticket after the other after the other. No matter how big they are. Keep on just moving onto the next one. One ticket will be bigger one ticket will be smaller. No matter about it. No need to worry. Just keep on moving on. Just keep on going on on on to the next one. On on on til the next one. What’s my ticket name? What’s my current branch name? What are the next steps for me to complete the ticket? WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS FOR ME TO COMPLETE THE TICKET? What are the next steps for me to complete the ticket? Do I need to write a test? Do I need to ask chat gpt something? Do I need to fix a test? Do I need to act on a change in the request? Do I need to problem solve something? Do I need to break down something into something smaller? Please just always always keep on ...

Calming Down I can do this. I can do this job. I’m regularly solving complex problems in an AI repo and I don’t even know how. Two and a half years ago I had never written a line of code. My head is spinning. I’m a valuable team player and I know I can do this. I write such beautiful PR descriptions and I raise such beautiful PRs.  I am so open to feedback and to new knowledge.  I forgot how good I am. I forgot how open to feedback I am. I forgot how open I was to feedback. How much I love to learn. How much I love to receive comments on my code. I forgot how special and how valuable I am. I forgot how much I care about my code. I forgot how much I love my code. I forgot how much it means to be such a passionate software engineer 

Introduction: AI in Smart Water Irrigation, Part 1 I have found a side quest that even Alan Turing would be proud of, I think. While trying to write a blog post about water resource management I discovered that ai in water irrigation IS A THING. So now I want to know everything about it - this is a path that I feel I need to go down please - thanks Because smart irrigation is EVERYTHING.  It makes a difference to the crops.  It makes a difference to all humanity. It makes a difference to even the foods that we eat. And without smart irrigation - we will not have enough food. There simply will not be enough food to provide us Starting the Article Okay so starting this article. AI-based smart irrigation systems are crucial for when farmers need to yield more food than ever, while also performing the essential task of conserving as much water as possible.  More water than ever before. And so:  Smart irrigation systems are advanced technology systems that help you to “mo...

Survivor Sorry this is my lunch and I’m meant to be cooking and this is more exciting. Hello ADHD. I wanted to say that I have realised how much I have overcome. I had a conversation today that made me realise how far I have come.  And where I used to be. And what the odds against me were. And how much I have overcome in the face of impossible things. And after that everything doesn’t seem so scary anymore. After that everything doesn’t seem so impossible and so scary anymore. After that nothing seems so scary anymore. And so  I think I deserve a gift A parting wish. A gift A gift to continue with after everything I have been through And so I ask for What I ask for is this I ask to be able to continue with my water AI research I ask to be able to do it and to continue to do it and to have the purpose to do it and for people to read my blogs and for me to continue with them And I ask for the inspiration that I always always have when I am doing it to continue please Thanks...

Asset Management: Strengths of AI in Water, Part 2 This one confuses me. I am reading an article but I don’t understand too much how the above point is different from predictive maintenance.  Nevertheless let me write about it a bit and see what happens. “AI can help manage and prioritise infrastructure assets, ensuring their proper maintenance and replacement.” I am lost of course. How is this any different than predictive maintenance? I guess that predictive maintenance is about spotting leaks and faults but maybe this can do more. Ah yes. Predictive maintenance is just about faults. But asset management is more about the whole life cycle of the water infrastructure items. It can look at acquisition, operation, maintenance and replacement. It can look at whether a part needs upgrading or not. It can look at financial, operational and strategic factors. It basically uses AI to prioritise which assets need upgrading, replacing, or closer inspection - based on data and algorithms.

Dance is My Saving Grace I don’t think I’d be able to continue with the work I’m doing right now if it wasn’t for the gift of dancing. I have been dancing on and off all my life. But I discovered my favourite style of dance 6 years ago in Liverpool. I was working with a Buddhist body work practitioner. Trying to reduce the impossible seizures. Although he supported me loads in them he could never actually reduce them. It actually makes sense to me.  There was so much more that had to be healed before they could stop or even begin to. But of course I was desperate. I spent 15 years desperate. But back then I didn’t know how many more years of them I had ahead of me. I’m glad I didn’t. I needed them to stop and sometimes the delusion that they are going to go away quickly is what allows you to survive. Just like the delusion that you are going to meet the love of your life. Sounds crazy huh? When you are fifteen and you start collapsing for no reason.  It’s a medical mystery and...

Speak Your Truth “Do what you wanna do, go out and speak your truth.”  My truth is this. That I never feel more alive and inspired than when I see a pylon. That I never feel more myself or closer to God than when I see a pylon or a wind turbine. There is however one exception. That is when I look at a water infrastructure building. Then I don’t even feel close to god anymore. Then there is no more me. There is no more Susanna. There is no one to even be close to or far from God anymore. There is only openness. Emptiness. Openness. Freedom. But god do I still love a pylon. And I love my dad who sent me a note about the pylons in the renewable energy documentary on BBC today When I look at the water infrastructure then I truly disappear