The Logistics of Civilisation
A meditation on how water, trade routes, and the physics of movement shaped where cities formed—and how the human body itself quietly authored the logic of streets, corridors, and built space.
Science & Technology
From physics to software — models and tools that reshape capability and constraint.
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RSS feedThe Prime Effect
Modern businesses don’t just sell products—they build systems. From cross-subsidy and loss leaders to subscriptions like Prime, profitability is increasingly engineered across an ecosystem, over time, by shaping habit and default choice.
The Human in the Equation
A reflection on how human experience—memory, agency, language, and narrative—shapes the frameworks we build, and what that means for time, causality, and the limits of physics as a “mirror” of reality.
The Symmetry Compulsion
An essay on why symmetry comforts the mind, how science and mathematics chase invariance, and why asymmetry—through breaking, chirality, primes, and time’s arrow—is the texture that makes life and meaning possible.
Income in Motion: Introducing GigFin
An introduction to GigFin, a free and open source income tracking app built for gig workers navigating multiple platforms and seeking clearer insight into their earnings.
Hacking, Exploits, and the Hidden Bazaar of Power
An exploration of how hacking and exploit markets serve not only criminals but also governments, intelligence institutions, and security companies that quietly purchase and weaponise systemic insecurity.
The Metabolic Pause: How Fasting Lets the Body Heal Itself
A contemplative exploration of fasting as a metabolic pause that lowers insulin, awakens glucagon and ketones, and gives the liver, brain, and cells the time and space they need to repair.
From Laws to Conservation: Newton’s Grammar of Motion
Newton’s three laws as axioms, F=ma as the grammar of change, and how energy and momentum conservation emerge—told with minimal calculus and hands-on experiments.
How Memories Form: From the Work of the Moment to the Architecture of the Past
Memory isn’t a vault but a living economy: fragile patterns in a narrow workspace of attention become durable traces when structure matches capacity and consolidation—sleep, pruning, and schema-building—does its work.
From Geometry to Experiment: Archimedes to Galileo
Physics turns wonder into practice: from Archimedes’ geometry and instruments to Galileo’s timing and idealisations, nature begins to speak in numbers we can test.