If I hold up a bicycle, spin the pedal, and show you how it moves the chain to spin the wheel, you instantly understand how the whole thing works. If I do the same with a mechanical watch, you might understand a little less than the bike, but you still grasp the cause-and-effect of the gears, the motion, and how they count the passage of time. But if I pull back the curtain on a modern digital algorithm and show you a wall of linear, abstract code? You will be no closer to un

How LitKit transforms smartphones from tools of distraction into tools of discovery. We’ve all felt the screen-time dread: the digital world competing with the real one for our kids' time and attention. The years pass too quickly while thoughts race through our minds: “They are only 14 (or 12, or 15, or 18) in summer once. How can I save them from the pull of these powerful tools? How can I possibly compete with these multinational masters of marketing?” It’s easy to look at

At LitKit, we don't ask young creators to make "something from nothing." We ask them to make something from something. This is the art of the collage, the magic of the remix, and it is the most natural way to explore media tools and the meaning they transmit. Starting with a blank page/canvas/screen is intimidating. What’s called the "blank page effect" or “choice paralysis” causes a stress spike in our brains. But reacting and interacting with the world around us through cu

A mantis shrimp can see nine more spectrums of light than humans can. Not 9 more colours, 9 more spectrums. 🤯 Their experience of the world is fundamentally different from ours. Because of that, and a number of other factors (see Mantis Shrimp fun facts in foot notes), if they were developing technology, they would do so in fundamentally different ways, for different means, than us. This is an important starting point for thinking about technology: technology doesn't emerge