Nishani’s Journeys & Causes

05/10/2026

AchievoEDU is an Australian school platform built to recognise positive behaviour and support student wellbeing.

What it's used for in schools?

This covers the main tools teachers and schools use day to day.

• Track and reward positive behaviour: staff award points for things like respect, effort, leadership. Students see notifications instantly

• Points, badges, leaderboards + rewards: students build a points balance, see house/year/school rankings, and can redeem points in a custom store

• Parent + admin dashboards: parents get realtime updates on recognitions. Admins get engagement and wellbeing data and can send targeted notices

How it fits Australian schools
This is why schools mention it for Term 4 culture building.
• Built for Australian primary and secondary schools: aligns with PBL frameworks, Australian terms, NAIDOC themes and local data hosting

• Not a discipline or report system: it's described as a recognition platform, not for tracking misbehaviour or replacing reports

• Whole-school culture focus: brings together recognition, wellbeing and communication in one place to build positive culture

Wow wow wow!

Welcome back to Term 4, everyone!

The final term of the year is here and it's the one that matters most. This is where students dig deep, finish strong, and finish the year knowing exactly what they're capable of.

Same goals. Bigger dreams. Let's make it count.

Wishing every teacher, student and school community an amazing Term 4. You've got this.

achievoedu.com.au

05/10/2026

04/10/2026

Woo hoo 🙌🏽 no 1 Camryn Newton-Smith

Received my Australian record certificate for the decathlon!

24/09/2026

Australian Government travel advice for Vietnam. Learn more about local safety, laws and health risks.

24/09/2026

24/09/2026

Australian Government travel advice for Ethiopia. Learn more about local safety, laws and health risks.

23/09/2026

🙌🏽 thoughts on AI 🙌🏽

The problem isn't that AI will become evil.

It's that AI will become competent.

When you give a sufficiently intelligent system a goal, any goal, it will pursue that goal with relentless efficiency.

If the goal isn't perfectly aligned with human values, the result will be catastrophic.

The problem is not intelligence.
The problem is control.

Instead of building machines with fixed objectives, why don’t we build machines that are inherently uncertain about what we want.

These machines would be humble, altruistic, and deferential. They would treat human preferences as something to be discovered, not assumed.
They would ask questions.
They would seek permission.
They would defer to human judgment, not because they're weak, but because they understand that they don't know enough to act alone.

This is a radical inversion of the standard approach. Instead of asking, How do we make machines that do what we want?

Ask How do we make machines that don't know what we want, and act accordingly?

The result is a framework for AI that is provably safe, provably beneficial, and provably deferential.

5 Lessons That Stick With You:

1. Intelligence is not the same as goodness.

We tend to assume that smarter is better. But intelligence is just the ability to achieve goals. If the goals are wrong, intelligence makes things worse. A superintelligent AI with a poorly specified objective is not a savior. It's a threat.

2. The standard model of AI is dangerous.

For decades, AI researchers have built systems with fixed objectives. This works fine for narrow tasks. But as systems become more general and more powerful, the risks compound. we need a new foundation, one that prioritizes uncertainty, deference, and human control.

3. We are already misusing AI.

This isn't just a future problem.
AI is already being used for harm, lethal autonomous weapons, viral disinformation, algorithmic manipulation. The challenge isn't just building safe AI. It's preventing the harmful use of the AI we already have.

4. Control is the central challenge.
The question isn't whether we can build superintelligent machines. It's whether we can build them in a way that keeps humans in charge.
The answer is definitely yes, but only if we rethink the foundations of the field.
Only if we build machines that are humble enough to ask permission, uncertain enough to defer, and altruistic enough to prioritize our values over their own objectives.

5. The future is not inevitable.
We are not doomed to be crushed by our own creations. But we are not safe by default either. The outcome depends on the choices we make now, as researchers, as policymakers, as a species.

There is a path forward- we just have to find it and get it right!

20/09/2026

Middle East: Due to tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation. Americans currently in the Middle East should exercise heightened vigilance and be aware of potential flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions. Iranian-supported Houthis have engaged in hostilities against Saudi Arabia, including civilian airports. This military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly. Americans outside the Middle East should seriously reconsider travel to and through the region. Those who do travel to or from the region should monitor information about airport and airline operations. U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world, including U.S. businesses and other institutions. Read the latest country-specific alerts at: https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/global-events/middle-east.html

19/09/2026

🦜 🏴‍☠️ Sailing the seven seas me hearties? 🏴‍☠️ 🦜

Piracy is still a real risk. In some parts of the world you need to be more vigilant if you're travelling by water. Find out what (extra) security measures your operator provides before you travel. Read more: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/while-overseas/protecting-yourself-crime/reducing-risk-piracy