jennifer opal 📚👩🏾‍💻🤖

My startup, ssensimm, has been awarded a grant of £20,000 from the Royal Academy of Engineering & I’ve been accepted onto their pre-accelerator program! 🥹 Building an AI health tech app for neurodivergent people just like me has been a DREAM I’m bringing to life. STILL IN SHOCK! WE DID IT! 🥹🧵

I’d been unemployed for over a year, tried to build a startup and just got a job. Is it DevOps Engineering role? No. Does it pay less than before? Yes! Will I be able to look after myself & pay these bills while I rebuild and start my Masters? Absolutely.

My hot take is Andrew has been stripped of his Royal titles because he will be arrested. Media wise, it wouldn’t look good on the Royals for him to be arrested with his titles.

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We lost an icon. 🥺

We glamourise being a solo founder in this AI age but being a solo founder is one of the toughest journeys I’ve been on. You really have to have the mindset for this & it’s not for everyone especially as a neurodivergent person.

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We’ve gone from “get into tech” to “get into AI” to “become an entrepreneur” to “we don’t even want to work”. What a time we’re living in.

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I love the shade of this! Marketing 10/10! 😂😂

People still reach out asking for advice on tech careers and honestly, I’m figuring it out as I go along but don’t sleep on higher education & apply for those scholarships!

“You’re a Founder!”: 🥳🍾 “You’re Broke Though!”: 🥲😩

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Deciding between a Masters in Computer Science with AI and a Masters in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. There’s pros and cons for both but a module in AI for Health, AI Ethics and Natural Language Processing sounds like a bit of me! 😍

This might be a hot take but not bothering to get a degree or finish it is not an option if you are Black, a person of colour, part of the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled, first generation or a woman. I don’t think we should sleep on not getting an education if we’re able to financially.

I miss #BlackTechTwitter a lot. I genuinely think about the community so much. 🥲

If you come to me and tell me paracetamol or Tylenol gave me autism, I respectfully clap in your face. You look dumb!

Can I just say that many Black women who have been getting into entrepreneurship isn’t just because they want to, some have HAD to. As a Black woman who entered entrepreneurship, my thought process was if tech is keeping me out with 5 years of experience, I might as well do my own shxt.

Fighting off the autistic guilt when your brain won’t let you do anything so you have to rest because your body needs it. Being an AuDHD founder is tough. I’m glad I’m resting but the guilt is eating me up! 😮‍💨

ssensimm is in @cnet.com ! 🧠 As a late diagnosed AuDHD DevOps Engineer, I’m building the sensory overload support app I’ve always wished for. Research is being done but we need solutions now so I’m creating tech for good as a solo founder with an amazing community. 🥰 www.cnet.com/tech/service...

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New week, new day! Happy Monday to you all & hope you have a great week. 🥰

Enjoy your weekend. Enjoy the rest. Enjoy doing nothing. Regardless of what you do, do it with joy & without guilt.

Never ignore your intuition about someone. If you feel uneasy and the signs aren’t obvious to your eyes, they’re obvious to your body. Don’t ignore it. Trust me.

Building a healthtech app using AI with ethics and privacy in mind also means doing a lot of learning to make sure I’m knowledgeable about privacy in design and ethics. Can’t release an app for neurodivergent people without considering this. I think that is so reckless.

I know we talk about AI “taking our jobs” but we need people looking at getting into AI policy, data policy, privacy, AI law & data law. Learn how to code if you want but we need talent to create policy to protect users of all these technologies & to defend the public in court over these issues.

AI is changing and being applied so rapidly, I can’t even keep up with everything that’s happening but I’m so concerned about the lack of ethics being discussed but I also feel that conversation is trying to keep up too.

If you can please make a donation no matter how small to help Toya. It’s a tough time but community is so important. Please donate & reshare the post below.

I’ve become so sensitive to those bright fluorescent lights in offices. I get a migraine every time. I might need to start wearing sunglasses indoors to combat it.

Happy Monday! Have a great week with positive energy & serve ✨CVNT✨ in that Slack Channel! 💋

Taking the leap into entrepreneurship means one hell of a salary cut but that’s the risk of it. However, I’m someone that always creates a backup plan should it not go in the direction I’d hope. At the end of the day, I’m a Black woman after all.

Something that made me fall out of love with working in tech in corporate was the lack of purpose. I didn’t care the work. Working without a purpose just felt miserable. I’m too AuDHD for corporate masking.

I’m so grateful to the people who have uplifted me & supported me when I was at my lowest. This year has been so tough but I’m fighting for my dream, my life & the little girl in me. I might fall down but no matter the recovery time, I’ll ALWAYS get up.

This year has been a lesson of trusting the process. My ancestors are handling what’s worrying me & I must stop being distracted. I must focus on the work that my ancestors have told me to do to prep for the next chapter.

Start over as many times as you want. I’m in my 30s & I’m starting over. If your intuition is leading you to start over, trust it.

I’m so glad I left the corporate world to pursue my own thing. I’ve always been an entrepreneur! I’m just taking it full-time now. 🥰 It’s scary but I’d rather live a life building a career that allows me to help people.

Here’s what I’m learning from being a solo founder of a health tech app in the AI age 🤖: 1. You have to learn quickly. 2. Keeping ethics & privacy at the centre means deploying fast isn’t always a good idea. 3. I don’t know everything even as a techie so leaning on community is important.

I forgot I had this account.

Announcing SSENSORY. From a viral machine learning project to the app my neurodivergent self had! ✨ Join the waitlist at ssensory.ai or check the link in my bio! 🥰 #neurodivergent #adhd #autism #aistartup #healthtech #founder

I haven’t been on BlueSky in a while. Here’s an update: ✌🏾 I got laid off. 👩🏾‍💻 I launched a Health Tech startup focused on neurodivergent support with over 500+ in the waitlist in just two weeks with no product ready. 🔎 Still job hunting too. How are you all doing? 😅

May I never get in a job interview & be met with an AI. I will leave that call immediately. Istg! 🙂‍↕️

I’m in the ✨fun stage✨ of building my startup as a solo founder. It’s amazing building the product and seeing it come to life. I really feel this app will help so many people in the neurodivergent community & the families or carers who may support them. Here’s to building tech for good. 🥂

Learning to code is not a waste of time. Andrew Ng said that as coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer. I agree.

Autism is a spectrum. Presenting in different ways for different people. Psuedo-scientists can claim that vaccines cause autism but: THERE IS NO CURE FOR AUTISM! Governments should be providing financial support & accessibility tools to neurodivergent people, their carers & their families.