The Object Notices First
A suitcase that has already weighed itself. It stores the flight tag, and because it knows which airline you are flying, it tells you your allowance against its own measured weight before you reach…
Intelligence
I Use Silence as Long as Possible. But I Am Result Oriented.
Neuratech Corp is currently one person. I say that plainly because it changes what you get. No committees, no diluted recommendations, and nothing said because it was convenient to say it in the room.…
One Percent, and Why It Changes What Gets Recommended
I charge 1% equity in your company alongside your time, and nothing else. The next time I bring something unique I come to you first, and that is how the second percent is earned,…
Zero Deaths on Every Side, Not Zero Incidents
In almost any operation to protect a country or its civilians, somebody is likely to die. A police officer. A civilian who happened to be there. The person on the other side of it.…
What Jarvis Gets Right, and What O Does Differently
Think Jarvis from Iron Man. Then think further. Your birth certificate is in a drawer. The warranty is in an inbox somewhere. The insurance renewal is a text you will act on later. Your…
The Energy You Have Never Been Paid For
One person walks in the order of 216 million steps in a lifetime. That is roughly 2,693 kilowatt hours of kinetic energy, produced by a body that was going to make the journey anyway,…
If Safety Had a Voice, It Would Have Asked for This in 1869
In 1869, near Parsonstown in Ireland, Mary Ward was thrown from an experimental steam carriage built by her own cousins and crushed beneath its iron wheel. She was forty two, an astronomer and a…
Beyond Five Stars: Why Survival Is Not the Same as Prevention
A five-star rating measures how well a structure absorbs an impact that has already happened. It is an honest measure of consequence, and the engineering behind it has saved an enormous number of lives.…