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On Overusing Wicked Problems
·1120 words·6 mins
How the pirates of Monkey Island can teach us about organisational inertia, or, why companies do not like change so much.
On "Piracy for Me, not for Thee"
·1112 words·6 mins
LLMs, institutionalised piracy and other good things all add up to slop. Let’s dissect Meta’s latest blunder.
On The Innovator Myth
·2097 words·10 mins
A deep dive, spurred by recent events (Deepseek, wink wink), on the different mental frameworks of innovation between the West and East. Yes, I’m simplifying.
On Tariffs and Globalisation
·653 words·4 mins
Tariffs have been a useful tool for protectionism. Up the 1920s. Perhaps today things are a little more complicated.
On Hardware Enshittification
·1097 words·6 mins
A notoriusly good 3D printer manufacturer decided to alienate their customer base py pushing unnecessarily restrictive firmware updates.
On Risk Homeostasis
·1535 words·8 mins
Jump into my latest rabbit hole: risk homeostasis theory, or, why we can rethink risk in strategy (and software development).
Auracast Bluetooth Speaker
·567 words·3 mins
Trials and tribulations in developing a Bluetooth speaker ecosystem.
On Institutional Inertia
·657 words·4 mins
How the pirates of Monkey Island can teach us about organisational inertia, or, why companies do not like change so much.
From the cDc to Design Futures
·1029 words·5 mins
Personal reflection on how hacking culture and Futures work are connected via a punch thrown back in the day.