Thoughts
Musings, models, and mental frameworks from inside the founder's head. Less "how to", more "why even".
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From Quake Hacks to Fintech Standards
How the legendary Quake fast inverse square root hack, floating point trivia, and clever encoding tricks in ISO 20022 all reveal the hidden power of obscure engineering knowledge.
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The Sampler I Built on a Dragon 32 at Age 13
How I hacked a Dragon 32 into a musical sampler with a Fairlight-style display when I was 13 - using only hand-written 6809 opcodes and pure stubbornness.
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Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday - Except Great UX
A cinematic-universe tour of cognitive diversity that lands on a simple rule: design for the Jet2 Holidaymaker and everyone else is easy.
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More for Me: When Systems Thinking Goes Too Far
A single teabag. A question. And the collapse of economic logic under the weight of real-world absurdity.
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Why I Built My Own Solar + Battery System
How four days, a sparky, and a bit of stubborn curiosity led to my off-grid hybrid power system - and what it taught me about systems thinking.
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Why I Wear Boots on Planes (and You Should Too)
A darkly curious look at failure, systems thinking, and surviving when everything goes wrong.