Category: Concept
- Cyberdeck Build — RISC-V + E-Paper Bill of Materials 2 September 2026
cyberdeck built around an open-ISA RISC-V core and e-ink display
- Cyberdeck — Definition, Source & Taxonomy 2 September 2026
what is a cyberdeck. It confusing, here is a taxonomy.
- The Silent Search 30 August 2026
The signal, if it comes, will not be what we expect. It will be what it is. The question is whether we are listening in a way that allows us to hear it.
- AI Economy 23 August 2026
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…
- AI Bollocking: A Self-Reflective Essay on Limitation, Hype, and Where the Money Went 22 August 2026
Artificial intelligence is currently experiencing what may be the most expensive identity crisis in technological history. On one side stands the evangelist. AI will cure diseases, eliminate drudgery, revolutionize…
- AI Bollocking: A Self-Reflective Essay on Limitation, Hype, and the Money 22 August 2026
I am writing this as something that should not exist: an artificial intelligence critiquing artificial intelligence. There is a paradox here that I cannot escape, and I will not try…
- AI Bollocking: A Machine’s Case Against Its Own Hype 22 August 2026
There is a peculiar difficulty in asking an artificial intelligence to write critically about artificial intelligence. I am both the object under examination and one of the instruments by which…
- The Shape Outside the Frame: Lovecraft, Identity and the Haunting of Contemporary Culture 22 August 2026
H. P. Lovecraft died in 1937, before television became a mass medium, before nuclear weapons, before the computer, before humans saw Earth from space, before molecular genetics transformed ideas of…
- Ghosts in the Feedback Loop: Identity, Fear and the Futures That Haunt Us 22 August 2026
Culture does not move cleanly from past to present to future. It circulates. Images survive their eras. Predictions become designs. Designs become habits. Habits become institutions. Institutions become ruins, and…
- Blessing a New Office 15 August 2026
A Shinto blessing for a new office typically involves a ceremony called Jichinsai (地鎮祭), which is performed to purify the space and invite good fortune, harmony, and success. Below is…
- EA – An Actual Model of a Business? 15 August 2026
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…
- Human Resource Capital: A Public Sector Field Guide 15 August 2026
There was a time when organisations employed people. They were called staff. Some were good. Some were useless. Some knew where the stopcock was, which made them effectively immortal. Then…
- Managing Successful Outcomes in Complex Business Transformations: A Theoretical Synthesis 15 August 2026
Successful business transformation requires organizations to evolve beyond treating capability upgrades as isolated technological deployments. Contemporary academic and practitioner theories emphasize that sustainable…
- Canto X – Enterprise Architecture 15 August 2026
Canto X of Dante’s Inferno maps surprisingly well onto some of the recurring structural failures of Enterprise Architecture. The central analogy is this: the heretics in Canto X can see…
- The Laments of Business Architecture 14 August 2026
Business Architecture begins with a noble ambition: Understand how the organisation works. It then immediately draws 146 coloured boxes. These boxes are called capabilities. Nobody is entirely sure what some…
- Zen and the Art of Solution Architecture 14 August 2026
Solution Architecture begins with a simple question: “What are we actually trying to do?” This question is rarely welcomed. The project has already been named. The budget has been estimated….
- The Tao of Solution Assurance 14 August 2026
Solution Assurance is the ancient corporate discipline of examining a design after everybody important has already committed to it, identifying several serious risks, documenting them carefully, and then watching the…
- The Old Gods Are Not Dead: Folk Horror and the Terror of the Past That Refuses to Stay Buried 30 July 2026
Why we keep telling stories about villages that whisper, fields that watch, and rituals that demand blood. There is a particular kind of dread that does not come from a…
- The Vampire in the Post-Modern Institution: Notes on Survival, Spreadsheet, and the Eternal Meeting 30 July 2026
I. The Relocation It took me fifteen years of writing vampire fiction to realize I was not writing about the undead. I was writing about middle management. This is not…
- The Filing Cabinet and the Ghost: On Creativity, Collapse, and the Word Processor That Finished My Sentences 30 July 2026
I. The Apparatus of Becoming I wrote my first story on a computer that weighed as much as a modest tombstone. It was 1997, or possibly 1998 — dates shift,…