About
I'm Maaike. I work at the intersection of conversation design, voice interfaces, and AI. This is my digital garden: a non-linear, associative collection of ideas, notes, articles, and projects at various stages of growth.
Unlike a blog, nothing here is sorted by date. Ideas link to each other, evolve over time, and sometimes get composted when they've run their course. If you're used to scrolling a feed, this might feel different. Try clicking something that catches your eye and see where it takes you.
What grows here
- Articles — longer thinking pieces, often migrated from Substack or written here
- Field notes — observations and reflections from working with AI
- Seeds — ideas waiting to germinate
- Experiments — hands-on explorations you can try yourself
- Videos — talks, tutorials, and recordings
- Library — books I've read, am reading, or want to read
- Weblinks — commentary on external content
How maturity works
Each piece has a maturity indicator showing how developed it is:
- 🌱 Seedling — just getting started
- 🌿 Sprout — taking shape, being worked out
- 🪴 Plant — solid, well-formed
- 🌳 Tree — finished, stable
Connections
Content is cross-linked with wiki-links. You'll see backlinks at the bottom of posts, related items in the sidebar, and suggested reading from the library. The explore page is an interactive map of everything in the garden, organized into territories by topic.
AI transparency
Some content here is generated with AI assistance. Every piece carries an indicator:
- 100% Maai — fully written by me, no AI
- Assisted — my ideas and structure, AI helped refine
- Co-created — generated by AI based on my ideas and direction
- Generated — fully AI-generated, reviewed by me
Projects
Larger threads of work are organized as projects, each with a hub page and related files. You can find them on the projects page.