CK Hicks (@ckhicks.com)

Balancing Family Time & Photography – CK Hicks "Heartful Technologist" (@ckhicks) Trying to practice balance between living adventures and documenting them. The answer will shape how I remember these years…and how my family will remember me.

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24.01.2026 21:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Talent of Staying Relevant – CK Hicks "Heartful Technologist" (@ckhicks) Shifting the focus from a fearful, defensive position around AI to a more productive conversation about creative potential.

Let's talk about the elephant in the room: What does it mean to demonstrate "talent" in 2025? ckh.me/b/11V

22.10.2025 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reflections on Photography – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) Zooming out to observe patterns and movements from a life lived with a camera in my hands.

Reflections from the quiet moments of photography, self doubt, and legacy: ckh.me/b/zs

03.09.2025 14:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you think that personal sites can make a comeback? Like how Patreon is shifting dollars from advertisers to consumers...?

The hard part is training ourselves to have the mental clarity to find, remember, and check back with people we actually follow. To trade dopamine for community. I have hope.

28.08.2025 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@zeldman.bsky.social I was reading your "Staying relevant" post (you always will be, by the way) and then went back to your "vanishing personal site" post from 2008. Question for you...

28.08.2025 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Rubber Ducking and Beyond – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) Talking out loud, even to an empty room, is one of the most human things we can do. But how often do we select our audience with intention?

Rubber ducks, ChatGPT, and the rest of us.
ckh.me/b/zq

14.08.2025 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Betraying Humanity with AI – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) A cautionary tale about handing over irreplaceable to artificial intelligence, and fighting for the dignity of humanity.

...this one might land me on a few lists. Fight for the users.
ckh.me/b/wt

01.08.2025 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Little lives, lost and loved – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) Thoughts from a father of six, whose family of five are learning to love one another through life and loss.

Miscarriage, again. It helps to say it out loud, somehow. Perhaps this will help someone else, too: ckh.me/b/y1

12.07.2025 05:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Courage for Creativity in the Daytime – Heartful Technologist Podcast by @ckhicks

If you've known me for any number of years, you know that I love my late-night work sessions.

...all of that is changing. Full audio here: heartfultechnologist.com/podcast/005/

30.06.2025 04:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When Practice is the Goal – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) The goal is not analytics, praise, or future endeavors. Victory is ensuring today's growth, not hitting tomorrow's goal.

Basketball, writing, and refining the habit of regular practice.
ckh.me/b/xb

26.06.2025 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Great Grandfather of Virtual Reality – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) The legacy of Ed Catmull and his interactions with early innovations in VR/MR.

Why do we love virtual reality? The same reason that we climb mountains, fly airplanes, swim in oceans...we need to see it for ourselves.
Thoughts: ckh.me/b/7

17.06.2025 15:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Young American – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) As kids, we learned to want the things we needed most: two parents, how to follow God, the value of hard work, and the importance of respecting all people. I hope one day I can make such a lasting imp...

Wrote this eight years ago before I had children of my own. Hits different this Memorial Day.
ckh.me/t/b9

26.05.2025 03:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Dive into the heart of the courtroom, where technology meets the pivotal moments that shaped civil rights.

What an honor to be recognized by the
@americanbar.org for our A.I. recreation project, #BrownRevisited! Congrats to Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University, and @oyezlaw.bsky.social as finalists for the Silver Gavel Award in multimedia. brown.oyez.org and lnkd.in/g_qkMimc @spoolerfm.bsky.social

13.03.2025 21:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Film vs Digital – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) Monday morning musing: enjoy this brief, nerdy consideration of the reason film photos always feel more natural.

Film vs Digital, time to put it in writing. There are subtleties that the human eye can *feel* somehow.
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21.04.2025 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Child-like To-Do Reminders – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) Learning to see an endless sea of to-do items through the eyes of my children.

Learning to see an endless sea of to-do items through the eyes of my children: ckh.me/b/vg

08.04.2025 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Instagram vs Google Photos – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) Making peace with the progress of making photographs in this season of family life.

Each time I load a camera with film, I wonder: "Will anyone will ever see these frames?" ckh.me/b/vE

03.04.2025 21:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Developing a New Era for Audio – CK Hicks – Heartful Technologist (@ckhicks) Perhaps my favorite project from the past 20 years of software development. It's an important one.

I've been quiet for a while...but I've not been idle. Let's start here: ckh.me/b/uw

01.04.2025 16:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing how something so simple (and beautiful) can be so inspiring.

31.03.2025 21:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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