Valerie Nilsson: Tech Anthropologist, AI Strategist, Author

I’ve spent over a decade at Google in global expansion, cloud GTM and most recent years AI/ML, but my heart lives in the artifacts of the invisible. Whether I’m decoding the rituals of the post-algorithmic era or researching different cultural traditions and historical context for my writing, I’m searching for the same thing: What does it actually mean to be human?

The Field Notes

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Enjoying the experience? You can find my blog posts here and also on Substack, books on Amazon, my visual dispatches on Instagram, and my long-form video archives on YouTube.