<![CDATA[Stories by Niki Skene on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@nikiskene?source=rss-ebfcdcf466d9------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*u137d0tsPz8Hod41HkEQGQ.png Stories by Niki Skene on Medium https://medium.com/@nikiskene?source=rss-ebfcdcf466d9------2 Medium Sun, 15 Nov 2026 23:37:42 GMT <![CDATA[Maybe We’ve Been Measuring the Wrong Kind of Success]]>

What Silicon Valley, Dubai, Shenzhen and Austria taught me about modeling what works — and deciding who we want to become.

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A field report from Shenzhen and Hong Kong, March 2026

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]]> https://nikiskene.medium.com/explorers-and-the-truth-c45e97280263?source=rss-ebfcdcf466d9------2 https://medium.com/p/c45e97280263 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:04:36 GMT 2026-03-31T17:05:55.683Z <![CDATA[Changing Your Name is Not Just a Rebrand. It’s a Restart]]>

For most of my life, I was known as Niki Ernst.

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Why the operating system we live by is no longer compatible with the world we’ve built

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]]> https://nikiskene.medium.com/the-new-worldos-866058e40c55?source=rss-ebfcdcf466d9------2 https://medium.com/p/866058e40c55 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:42:52 GMT 2025-12-15T09:46:05.810Z <![CDATA[Looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, walks like a duck…(my IAA 2025 review)]]>

When I was young, movies came to our cinemas about six months after they premiered in the US. Only if you were on a plane might you have…

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You’ve played the game well. (I guess you still are).

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]]> https://nikiskene.medium.com/what-if-your-next-chapter-isnt-a-promotion-but-a-place-589c5c3a511e?source=rss-ebfcdcf466d9------2 https://medium.com/p/589c5c3a511e Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:08:36 GMT 2025-04-16T11:08:36.689Z <![CDATA[The Future of AI: What Silicon Valley’s Thought Leaders Want You to Know]]>

Silicon Valley remains the epicenter of technological innovation, with artificial intelligence at the forefront of this transformation…

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I was curious how well generative AIs can communicate with each other. A job interview about a role in AI and ethics makes an interesting…

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]]> https://nikiskene.medium.com/claude-ai-applies-at-chatgpt-for-a-job-in-ai-and-ethics-027f50bbb69b?source=rss-ebfcdcf466d9------2 https://medium.com/p/027f50bbb69b Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:17:09 GMT 2024-08-24T03:17:09.403Z <![CDATA[Can we please end the generation battle? (I have a better idea)]]>

I am excited about the Generation Z and their enthusiasm about news ways of working, living and treating other people. A lot of their…

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It would be easy to say my family is a dysfunctional mess.

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