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Great Britain? Mediocre Ambition.

Or why the UK dropships while the US ships rockets.

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GEOGRAPHY · September 2026

The Map at 1:1 Scale

Why every useful representation must be wrong.

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HUMANITIES · July 2026

Reaching the Thunderhead

Will we ever cede power to AI?

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GENERAL · May 2026

Exceptional, Not Automated

The point of automation is not fewer humans, it's fewer human errors.

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TECHNOLOGY · January 2026

The Body Is Becoming a Dataset

The double-edged sword of the quanitified self.

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TECHNOLOGY · November 2025

Data Dog

Dashboards, funnels, models, and the compulsion to make companies legible.

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GEOGRAPHY · September 2025

The Moving Yellow River

The problem of representing a geographic object that changes position.

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GENERAL · August 2025

The Operator's Notebook

"The first rule of operating is there are no rules of operating".

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HUMANITIES · May 2025

NOTES ON TASTE

Taste is a compression of judgement.

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GENERAL · October 2024

The Company as a Classroom

80% of AI PhDs didn't have a job in the private sector two decades ago, what changed?

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TECHNOLOGY · July 2024

Platform Dependence Is Platform Risk

If the API can kill you, it was always your cofounder.

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GEOGRAPHY · June 2024

How Google Maps Changed the City

What happens when the dominant representation of a city is searchable, ranked, routed and personalised?

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GENERAL · March 2024

I Dropped Out of the Model

Leaving Cambridge.

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TECHNOLOGY · November 2023

Algorithmic Sovereignty

We've all heard if you don't pay then you are the product, but who are we being sold to?

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GEOGRAPHY · September 2023

The Grid on the Yu Ji Tu

Why impose a regular measuring grid on a world represented through rivers, coastlines, names and historical geography?

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TECHNOLOGY · August 2023

Reading Minds, Building Models

Cognitive science, AI, and the strange loops of self-modelling.

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TECHNOLOGY · February 2023

The Latent Space Between Want and Click

Recommendation systems confuse behaviour with desire because behaviour is the only thing they can measure.

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GENERAL · December 2022

The Golden Conveyor Belt

Scholarships, spring weeks, and the machine that turns ambition into obedience.

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GEOGRAPHY · December 2022

Reading Maps, Reading Minds

Art history, cognition, and some suspicions that seeing is a learned behaviour.

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HUMANITIES · November 2022

Between the Cloud and the Thunderhead

Neal Shusterman, AI, and benevolent dictatorship.

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GENERAL · April 2022

The Problem with Smart People and Easy Jobs

Consulting doesn't make you better at business, the same way watching the NBA won't help me shoot 3s if I never touch the court.

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GENERAL · March 2022

Distribution Is a Personality Trait

Some people network. Some people become a node.

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GENERAL · December 2021

TOO MANY NAMES

Ray, Raymond, Raimundo, Reynard, Rey. Or the power of Naming.

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HUMANITIES · October 2021

The Law Student's First Map of Power

Law school teaches you the shape of authority before it teaches you justice.

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GEOGRAPHY · June 2021

Beck's Underground

Why an inaccurate map can lead you to your destination better.

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