Articles
October 10, 2025
The Meeting-Free Day: Reclaiming a Day a Week
The most expensive unit of work is the room of salaries. Protect one day a week, and the thinking that the calendar had no room for finally happens.
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September 26, 2025
Psychological Safety Is a System, Not a Mood
The declaration changes nothing. The system changes everything: behaviours, incentives, failure culture. The safe team argues loudly and learns fast.
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September 12, 2025
Leading with Questions: The Coach's Approach to Management
The answer trap pulls every new manager. The way out is the oldest coaching trick: answer a question with a question, and build the answerer.
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August 29, 2025
The Maintenance Mindset: Why Reliability Is an Engineering Discipline
The hero saves the day. The engineer makes the hero unnecessary. Reliability is the dividend on maintenance discipline, not a budget line.
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August 15, 2025
Passivhaus: Building So Good It Barely Needs Heating
Not magic, physics: insulation, airtightness, heat recovery. The building that is itself the heating system, using 75 percent less energy.
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August 1, 2025
The Energy Trilemma: Cost, Carbon, and Security
Cheap, clean, secure: pick two. The trilemma has no final answer, only the endless rebalancing, and the meta-skill is the capacity to rebalance.
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July 18, 2025
Demand Response: Paying Factories to Stop
Instead of building a power plant for the worst case, pay the load to move. The flexibility is the cheapest resource on the grid.
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July 4, 2025
The Heat Pump Question: Retrofitting Old Buildings for the Electric Age
The building stock was never designed for heat pumps. Here is the retrofit order, the temperature problem, and the decade-long project.
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June 20, 2025
The Second Brain Is a Database: Notes That Actually Work
The app is not the second brain. The discipline of schema, processing, and review is the second brain. The app is the shelf it sits on.
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June 6, 2025
Testing AI Outputs: How to Catch a Confident Hallucination
The model's confidence is not evidence. Here is the discipline of golden sets, citations, and spot checks that catches hallucination.
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