Princples for code sustainment
Projects
Cyberdeck Build — RISC-V + E-Paper Bill of Materials
cyberdeck built around an open-ISA RISC-V core and e-ink display
Open-Source Office Environment — Reference Architecture
A coherent, end-to-end open-source stack for a small-to-mid-size office.
FreeIPA Implementation Document
A step-by-step implementation guide for deploying FreeIPA as the identity,
authentication, and directory backbone of the open-source office estate
defined in the Open-Source Office Environment — Reference Architecture Series.
AI Conversation – Part Two – Theory of Consciousness
Response to “The Computational Thetan Hypothesis” The note is internally coherent once its central move is granted: it redefines “thetan” as any persistent, self-referential, substrate-independent informational agent. Under that stipulative…
AI Conversation – Part 3 – Regulatory
Regulatory Frameworks Regulatory frameworks like the EU GDPR and the EU AI Act approach corporate algorithmic scoring and automated profiling through two distinct, highly complementary lenses. While the GDPR regulates…
AI Economy
A realistic AI-enhanced economy is one of gradual, uneven productivity gains concentrated in knowledge work and specific processes, not a sudden transformation into post-scarcity abundance. Current systems excel at pattern…
The Great AI Hangover
For the last three years, the tech industry has been running on the pure, unfiltered adrenaline of generative AI. We were promised a revolution that would instantly digitize human reasoning,…
EA – An Actual Model of a Business?
If you genuinely want to understand how a business is structured and how it improves, think of it as seven interacting systems. Capabilities sit across these systems as a vocabulary…
EA Part Three: The Architecture in Motion (Worked Examples)
The true test of any architectural framework is how it handles reality. When subjected to the friction of legacy infrastructure, human behavior, and budget constraints, theoretical models often collapse. To…
EA Part Two: Domains, Views, and How to Use the Architecture
If the seven structural systems (Value, Work, Organisation, Information, Technology, Economics, Governance) are the physics of the enterprise, and Capabilities are the vocabulary, then Domains and Views are how we…
EA Part One: The Anatomy of the Enterprise
To understand a business is to look past its marketing, its mission statements, and its organizational chart. Beneath those abstractions, a business is an engineered entity—a complex, dynamic machine designed…