The bandwidth taxAugust 6, 2026Scarcity captures the mind, taxes cognitive bandwidth, and creates self-reinforcing traps. What a behavioral economist and a psychologist discovered a...ProductThinkers
Donella Meadows: you don't control a system, you dance with itAugust 5, 2026Donella Meadows on leverage points: why the levers that govern complex systems are rarely where we look, and why systems are danced with, not controll...Thinkers
ArrivalAugust 1, 2026TheNumbers.com fell to bot traffic after thirty years online, exposing how the web's founding assumption of a human visitor has quietly stopped holdin...AI
Someone else's, all the way downJuly 30, 2026We call it automatic and ours. Below the model sit the people who labelled its data; above it sits a foundation model you rent rather than own.AI
Herbert Simon: a wealth of information, a poverty of attentionJuly 29, 2026Herbert Simon on bounded rationality: in a world rich in information the scarce resource is attention, and deciding gets harder rather than easier.Thinkers
Running local coding agentsJuly 27, 2026Running a coding agent entirely offline on an ordinary laptop: the model, server and harness you assemble, and the hardware limits that teach the most...AI
Weights, compilers and vinyl recordsJuly 24, 2026A vinyl record, a compiled binary and a compiler: three metaphors that explain what an AI model actually is and why open weights are not open source.AI
Christopher Alexander: a language for what has no nameJuly 22, 2026Christopher Alexander sought a quality that resists cataloguing; software borrowed his pattern language and left behind the idea that gave it meaning.Thinkers
Mary Parker Follett: power with, not power overJuly 16, 2026Mary Parker Follett described coordination, constructive conflict and authority arising from the situation decades before management rediscovered them...Thinkers
The Daily MiracleMay 6, 2026Dallas Liddle's history of Victorian newspapers shows how infrastructure colonises agency, the way accumulated dependencies quietly decide a roadmap.Writing
