Insights & Writing

Writing

Articles, research, and product thinking.

Topic Guides, Articles, Simulations and Research

Topic Guides

Six clusters that collect the articles into readable sequences — systems thinking, transport optimisation, AI, forecasting, operational software, and a new product-management series covering discovery through strategy — each with a starting point and a suggested order. The best entry point if you are not sure where to begin.

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Articles

Long-form pieces explaining one concept at a time — objective functions, tabu search, theory of constraints, Work as Imagined, compound probability — each framed through a piece of British comedy or a dead academic. Filter by category to find the ones relevant to you.

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Simulations

Interactive models you can actually drive: adjust the constraint, the cooling schedule, or the strength of a feedback loop and watch the system respond. Useful if you would rather see a concept behave than read a description of it.

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What I'm Reading

Short reviews of the books behind the articles — Sapiens, Nexus, Foucault, software specification — covering what each one argues and what it changed about how I work.

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Dissertations

Two pieces of primary research, available as full PDFs: tuning a genetic algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem using Design of Experiments, and a SERVQUAL study of service quality and student loyalty.

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Product Thinking

The method underneath the writing: how I move from an ambiguous operational problem to a specification, and how strategy, customer problems, operational reality, and technical delivery get reconciled.

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