About

I'm Mary-Ellen Simper (but you can call me Mary), an Education Technologist, Learning Designer, and someone who spent years living a quietly diminished life behind screens.

Working from home, scrolling through other people's lives, staring at laptops and phones and televisions until the days blurred into one long, grey sameness. It took an existential crisis, a period of real depression, and eventually a Monday evening dance class to show me what I'd been missing. Movement. Community. The messy, beautiful, irreplaceable texture of being human.

I write here about what it means to live well in a world that is increasingly synonymous with technology. About the difference between a life that is technology-enhanced and one that is technology-saturated. About AI, the future of work, and what any of it means for the humans caught in the middle of it all.

I'm not anti-technology. I work in it, think about it, and find it genuinely fascinating. But I believe most of us are using far too much of it, far too passively, and losing something important in the process.

If any of that resonates, you're in the right place.