Writing.
One case study, one essay, per quarter.
Long-form pieces. Case studies on the left — each one a real problem solved end-to-end with real numbers. Essays on the right — arguments about how to think about engineering decisions. New work appears here, oldest at the bottom of each column.
Twelve substations, one monitoring stack.
Five years of fieldwork at SSL Elektrik-Elektronik condensed into one site. Why an aerospace-grade stack was the wrong starting point and what we built instead — eleven channels, a signature library, twelve substations.
The B737-800 ECS, with twelve sensors.
What a Pareto-optimal sensor reduction actually looks like when you do it on a real aircraft subsystem. The ECS, the candidate suite, the algorithm settings, and what the recommended knee actually cost to specify.
The invisible cost of consensus.
Why team agreement is often the wrong target for engineering decisions. The artefact most teams should be producing is the disagreement, not the agreement — and a one-page disagreement memo is small enough to adopt next week.
What an honest pilot proposal looks like.
The most useful piece of a pilot proposal is the explicit list of what it will not promise. The proposal that promises a range will lose to the one that promises a point — and will also be the one that succeeds.
Pareto thinking belongs in every engineering decision.
An argument that the one technique you ought to bring to engineering meetings — long before you bring an algorithm — is the discipline of stating the trade-off explicitly and choosing from a front, not optimising a single number.
Cadence: one case study and one essay per quarter, give or take. The constraint is the work itself — case studies require real evidence, essays require an argument I haven't already made. If you'd like a particular topic next, the commission page is the path.
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