The McNamara Fallacy…

I think that this maybe my favorite image of the new “school year”. Almost everything of real value was impossible to measure at some point duing the production process.

The McNamara Fallacy is a belief in easy-to-measure quantitative metrics at the expense of ignoring hard-to-measure qualitative factors. Robert McNamara was…

The McNamara Fallacy – Sketchplanations

Model Hardware Standard…

This is how a century of progress can compress into a decade.

Note to the stock market. It still takes a decade!

The Model Hardware Standard (MHS) is a new standard for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment in scientific research and advanced manufacturing. MHS…

Model Hardware Standard: AI operating physical equipment – YouTube

Why is this not built-in?

Why is my MacBook charging slowly? WhatCable shows USB-C cable speed, charging power, and e-marker data in plain English. Featured in The Verge, ZDNet, and 9to5Mac.

WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can really do

Richard Wilkinson on AI infrastructure at Scale | Data Centre Magazine

Episode 3 of the Data Centre Podcast: DXC’s Richard Wilkinson discusses AI at scale, data sovereignty, quantum computing and the future of data centres

Episode 3 | Richard Wilkinson on AI infrastructure at Scale | Data Centre Magazine

The Brutal Cost of Digital Sovereignty & The AI Catch-22…

The data centre industry has suddenly become the centre of the corporate universe—but European enterprises are about to run straight into a massive regulator…

Richard Wilkinson: The Brutal Cost of Digital Sovereignty & The AI Catch-22 : Data Centre LIVE 2026 – YouTube

Random thoughts…