This is where I write things down. It's the way I make space in my head for new ideas. The ideas here were what I thought at the time, but there is a very good chance that I no longer think that!
This is another completely AI generated post. I’m going to work through it and probably do a bunch of rewriting as I play around with these ideas. This is a working guide for using games — video, tabletop, and DIY — as a low-stakes sandbox for the specific communication habits that make teams reliable under pressure: closed-loop confirmation, shared mental models, and blameless debriefs that…
This is still early days for this. I’m in the middle of editing, I’m trying out a new way of writing essays with AI rather than doing it all solo, or all AI. There’s a LOT to do here, but we’re getting there. We are busy in order to have leisure. — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics A scenario: A senior person is handed a difficult idea. They read the first page, skim the rest, and conclude that the…
Back at the end of 2019 I did some analysis of the books I’d been reading , and it wasn’t an especially diverse experience. I used a pretty clumsy method but it worked a bit to give me some insight. As a result of that I had a crack at trying to read more diversely , which was really enjoyable, but surprisingly difficult to get the full bingo card, but I stuck with it for a few years. Then I…
Table of Contents The Problem Being Solved Background: Hydrogen Diving History The Key Constraints: ICD and Combustion The Proposed Architecture Gas Management Strategy Feasibility Analysis: ICD and Scrubber Rate Representative Dive Profiles Engineering Challenges Prior Art Open Questions References 1. The Problem Being Solved Deep trimix diving beyond ~150 m runs into two hard physiological…
While I was doing my ANDP course I was interested in how the relationship of deco gas O₂ percentage had a non-linear relationship with the time it would take to get to the surface. Naïve me thought that if 50% O₂ got me to the surface in x minutes, then 100% O₂ would get me there in half the time, but that’s super wrong. You can use a leaner mix at a deeper stop, meaning that it’s useful for…
I have a thing that happens in my brain, maybe it’s because of a brief time as a person who made things, that I think I can make things. It means that I’m pretty resourceful, but it’s also got me into some serious pickles over the years. I’ve thought about it a lot, and I’m able to catch myself before I get into serious trouble—mostly—but I’ve found an upside to it. By making things myself, I…
This is a constantly evolving list. It’s probably quite wrong, but it’s getting better. Ever since I read Checklist manifesto I’ve been into writing these kinds of reusable lists. If you’ve got suggestions, I’m into hearing them! Core pre-dive prep Hydrate! check conditions: Beachwatch Manly Hydraulics Laboratory Clovelly east live beach cam Charge: Watch Big Torch Backup torch Camera Pack - main…
This is the first of this term’s lectures from CoDe 1110 - Computational Design Theory 1 . It’s my take on how we got here as a broad survey of the origins of what we’ll be talking about for the rest of the term. Below is a lightly edited transcript: okay so we’re going to talk about this thing which people call architecture’s “digital turn” but I don’t think you can really get into that without a…
Possible Futures It’s difficult to sit down and think about the future. It’s tempting to think about the present, but blue and shiny[^construal]. Or to think about the issue that’s important and in the news today, and have much more or much less of it. You need a framework ! This is a game that helps its players think about the future. It gives players specific things to think about, and by…
5G/𝒩G Wildly optimistic speeds, but in the rough orders of magnitude. Do Yourself A Favour – Don’t Get A 5G Phone Just Yet Each increase in G increases connectivity speed, and changes the types of things that you can do while connected to that network. 3G allowed full webpages rather than just WAP 1 . 5G untethers broadband speeds from the geographical constraints of fibre optic or copper…