Longform
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Why I Write.. Revisited
Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash — As is the wont of everyone who writes – online or otherwise – there comes a time when the Why I Write question must be faced head on. I am as guilty as the next person in trying my hand at this most indulgent of navel gazing activities, previously trying my hand… Continue reading
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On the Tyranny of Measures
Image Source: Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash | Previously published on Substack One of the (admittedly dubious) benefits of having worked for the better part of twenty years in one industry is that my work has now taken in arguably the two largest companies in my industry. At the first one, I was a green-around-the-ears graduate engineer, fresh out… Continue reading
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Thinking About Thinking
Photo by jaikishan patel on Unsplash | Previously published on Substack An excess of 6,000 thoughts wend their way each day through the average individual’s mind, just under one every 10 seconds by my approximation if we assume the average– if he/she exists – is otherwise asleep for eight hours. By comparison, we breathe about 20,000 times a day and our hearts beat over… Continue reading
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On Data and the Death of Expertise
Previously published on Substack in December 2021 — It seems to me that one of the defining trends of the past few years has been the death of expertise, occasioned by a deep distrust of experts and what they have come to represent, the entrenched gatekeepers (of knowledge in this case). Like all other such… Continue reading