JAN 03, 2024 Architecture
Brutalism as Digital Infrastructure
How the aesthetic of honest materials in 20th-century architecture informs the way we should...
Essays by Topic
OCT 03, 2023 Cybernetics
The Architecture of Resilience: Lessons from Calvino's Invisible Cities
In the practice of enterprise architecture, we often fall into the trap of believing our diagrams are the reality of the system.
SEP 27, 2023 Information Theory
Claude Shannon and the Quiet Dignity of Redundancy
We spend our careers optimizing for efficiency, stripping away the 'bloat' from our data pipelines. Yet, a return to Shannon's 1948 treatise reveals that redundancy is not waste.
SEP 14, 2023 Distributed Systems
The Consensus Paradox: From Roman Senates to Paxos
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a distributed system during a network partition—the same silence described in accounts of the Roman Senate during constitutional crisis.
MAR 17, 2023 Philosophy of Craft
The Weaver's Logic: Coding as Textile
Comparing the binary nature of looms with the structural integrity of clean code and the...
OCT 11, 1974 Cybernetics
The Ghost in the Feedback Loop
Examining the recursive nature of biological systems and how they mirror the early architectural...