#systemsthinking

I was looking through my old projects and found a couple of Rock-Paper-Scissors games I wrote in C a...

Engineering the security brief for Fremantle's AFL grand final watch zones: alcohol windows, heat as a compounding variable, and why peak attendance ≠ peak risk.

A dashboard is often treated as the final layer of a reporting system. Data has been collected,...

A man was shot dead in a targeted Glen Alpine home invasion at 3:40am. Here's the systems-level case for building a household response protocol before you need one.

My System Fixed a Bug at 3:47 AM While I Was Asleep I woke up to a notification. Not an...

I read a financial literacy book and highlighted every principle that mattered. Fixed allocations....

Your AI automation project goes live and works perfectly for 4 months. Then distribution drift kills it. Here

The first version of our webhook system was about twenty lines of code. On OrderCreated, we grabbed...

Asked AI to analyze ~3,000 conversation turns and detect concepts I'd independently reinvented. It pointed to systems thinking. Eighty-five minutes of reading Donella Meadows reframed a skill-management problem I'd been stuck on for 15 days — from pruning the pile to questioning why it grows.

A few months into my first backend role, I sat in on a design review where a senior engineer said “we...

Claim boundary: I am not claiming that this process is quantum mechanical. My claim is...

Part 1 documented the recurring snapback in practice. This note asks a narrower question: what does...