Writing
Essays, notes, technical notes, and operating memos. Reverse chronological.
2026-05-18Separating the signal from the storyMost hard problems arrive wrapped in a narrative. The first job is to find what is actually going on underneath it.2026-04-22When the inside view is not enoughHow to tell when the people closest to a problem have lost the ability to see it, and what to do about it.2026-03-30Symbolic systems as tools for seeing structureA working account of how explicit symbolic structure makes the shape of a complex problem legible.2026-03-04Underdefined problemsOn problems where the hardest part is figuring out what the problem actually is.2026-01-15PPE, 2020A short retrospective on executing large supply-chain transactions under pandemic conditions.