Writing to understand

For a long time, I kept most of my thoughts to myself.

Not because I had nothing to say, but because I wasn’t sure they deserved to exist outside my own head. Writing stayed private. Mostly hidden in notes, unfinished drafts, folders, or scattered thoughts I never shared.

But over time, something changed.

I realized that writing was not really about having answers. It was about making sense of things. Creating a bit of order in the noise. Slowing down long enough to understand what I actually think.

So this space is probably an extension of that process.

My name is Kevin Barbier. In other places online, you may also find me under the name Mhussard, which I use for my explorations around design, XR, and visual creation.

Here, I want to document ideas, experiments, questions, and fragments of reflection around the things that genuinely capture my attention. AI will probably appear often. So will tools, creativity, digital environments, and personal knowledge management. Lately, I’ve become increasingly interested in how technology is reshaping not only the way we work, but also the way we think, learn, remember, and create.

The more AI evolves, the more one question keeps coming back in my mind: what happens when knowledge itself becomes one of the central layers of everyday life?

I don’t really approach these topics as an expert. I’m much more interested in exploration than certainty.

This space is not meant to deliver definitive answers or polished conclusions. It’s more like a quiet record of observations, thoughts, and experiments while trying to better understand the world around me.

I think many people today feel this strange tension between excitement and disorientation. Technology keeps accelerating, tools keep multiplying, and it sometimes feels difficult to find stable ground inside all of it. Writing helps me slow things down enough to examine them properly.

Maybe that’s also why I’m interested in PKM and digital gardens. Not simply as productivity systems, but as ways to think more clearly and remain intentional in an environment designed to constantly fragment attention.

I’m also present on platforms like Substack and Medium , where I already share longer reflections and essays. Some of those articles will probably find their way here as well, alongside shorter notes and more spontaneous thoughts.

In a way, I simply want to contribute my own small piece to this growing conversation around technology, creativity, knowledge, and the way we navigate a rapidly changing world.

In the end, I think this blog exists for a simple reason: to leave traces.

Not polished personal branding, not the illusion of expertise, just an attempt to think more honestly, document what I’m building, and understand where all of this might be leading us.

Maybe this space will evolve over time. Maybe the subjects will shift, the questions will deepen, or the format itself will change. That’s part of the process too.

For now, I’m simply glad to begin somewhere. Anyway, this is a start.