Posts

On how sufficiently advanced technology stops being magic once we understand it, and why moving our understaning from magic to mundane matters.

Mark Carney says nostalgia isn’t a strategy, but we’re all drowning in it anyway - from transparent phones to deglobalised supply chains. A personal reflection on why we can’t stop looking backward when the present feels unbearable, and why it won’t save us.

A look at how organisations are held together less by purpose and more by the tensions between what they promise and what they can actually sustain.

Why innovation strategies optimise themselves into stagnation, and what circulation between failures could unlock instead.

How a three-player memory oligopoly, AI’s HBM binge, and capex ‘discipline’ turned RAM into a global chokepoint.

Why the quest for AGI misses the point: intelligence was always plural, embodied, and distributed.

Why prioritising market dominance and delayed profits collides with the brute physics of AI computation.

Reflecting on supply chain fragiliy (with examples) && the limits of decentralised manufacturing.

In my latest rabbit hole, I explore whether hardware development has actually become cheaper than software development.

OpenAI’s $6.4B acquisition of Jony Ive’s WithLove merges minimalist design with AI surveillance capitalism. A masterclass in enshittification.

Could blitzkrieg protectionism somehow offer a (tentative) scaffolding for local growth?

I’ve got an itch to scratch regarding wicked problems and how often they can be an excuse for inaction.

LLMs, institutionalised piracy and other good things all add up to slop. Let’s dissect Meta’s latest blunder.

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.

Tariffs have been a useful tool for protectionism. Up the 1920s. Perhaps today things are a little more complicated.

A notoriusly good 3D printer manufacturer decided to alienate their customer base by pushing unnecessarily restrictive firmware updates.

Jump into my latest rabbit hole: risk homeostasis theory, or, why we can rethink risk in strategy (and software development).

How the pirates of Monkey Island can teach us about organisational inertia, or, why companies do not like change so much.

Personal reflection on how hacking culture and Futures work are connected via a punch thrown back in the day.

Working on the power circuitry of a re-designed Casio F91W, now with wireless charging.