Happy 50thMarch 6, 2025Turning fifty surrounded by colleagues who still find reason to celebrate, and a note on what those small rituals do for a working culture.
Links for TuesdayFebruary 25, 2025Four links: AI seen through monsters, Dawkins interrogating ChatGPT, entrepreneurialism as pathology, and science as a publication game.
Where your digital product begins and endsFebruary 25, 2025Customers see a single experience, so a CDN outage or a third-party failure is still your product: where ownership of a digital product actually ends.Product
The pending subjectFebruary 25, 2025Trust is built by granting it and fertilised by mistakes. The more complex an organisation's material and the larger it grows, the more trust it needs...Product
Screel Hill and Urr Water from KypfordFebruary 25, 2025A print by Frank Short: Screel Hill and the water of Urr seen from Kypford. Notes on engraving as a craft made of subtraction and irreversible choices...
How poverty fellFebruary 24, 2025A study of household data finds no single pathway out of poverty: most families that escaped it did so without changing how they earned a living.Writing
Dynamic intuitionsFebruary 24, 2025Leibniz and his dynamist intuitions: the encyclopedic drive, the search for a universal language, and a refusal to let faith dissolve into pure mechan...Software
Links for SundayFebruary 23, 2025Four questions for a Sunday: watching metrics, anthropomorphism in chatbots, whether AI improves our skills, and art as a limit for digital platforms.
Spaces we createFebruary 23, 2025Léon Bloy wrote of places in the heart that do not exist until pain enters them. Organisations open their best spaces for learning the same way.Writing
How the system worksFebruary 23, 2025Charles C. Mann calls the networks that sustain us the cathedrals of our secular era. Digital products inherit that invisibility and make it worse.Writing
