Articles
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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May 23, 2025
Zero Trust: Security for a World Without a Perimeter
The castle is gone and the wall protects nothing. The only defence that survives is verification, everywhere, always.
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May 9, 2025
The API Is Your Product: Designing Interfaces Humans Love
The API is not a technical detail, it is the product. Every naming, error, and versioning decision is a commercial decision.
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April 25, 2025
Data Lakes Are Graveyards: From Storage to Signal
Storing data is not the same as having data. The lake becomes a swamp without ownership, schemas, and pipelines. Here is the path from storage to signal.
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April 11, 2025
The Retrieval Problem: Why Your Documents Are Useless to an AI
The models are brilliant and the answers are still wrong. The bottleneck is retrieval: the AI cannot find the right document at the right moment.
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March 28, 2025
Escalation Is a System, Not a Failure
Escalation is not a sign of weakness, it is the mechanism that brings the right information to the right level at the right time. Here is the system.
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March 14, 2025
OKRs Done Wrong: The Most Misused Framework in Business
OKRs are a mirror, not a magic wand. The framework fails when it becomes a cascade of contracts and games. Here is the honest version.
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