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A collection of essays exploring ideas at the intersection of energy, governance, freedom, technology, and the human condition.

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The Seven Technological Transformations of the Mid 20th and Early 21st Century
The Seven Technological Transformations of the Mid 20th and Early 21st Century which underpin and secure the future
8 Nov 2025
Break the bureaucracy and restore democracy with maths, economics and physics
Break the bureaucracy and restore democracy with maths, economics and physics and deliver products which solve problems for people (humans) enabled by innovative, creative entrepreneurial 21st century businesses which earn revenue for the UK exchequer.
21 Oct 2025
The storm is rising, the house is a mess and crumbling, the father is angry, and the children are squabbling
Reform liberalised energy market rules to decarbonise the economy, steward the planet, improve living standards, eliminate fuel poverty, reduce societal inequality, have a healthy, resilient economy where businesses can afford energy and activities happen domestically, to have the resilient businesses and industry we need to defend our values and deter our enemies, to restore British values, to once again be a beacon of light and hope to the world, to support economic growth through redesigning how network owners are compensated and incentivised to ensure we have the infrastructure to deliver energy for the industries of the future and have a safe, and secure energy system and to deliver on the ideals of liberalised energy markets through removing structural barriers to entry on the supply side in a way which enables innovative supplier business models who can deliver rich consumer and business experiences, promote competition in having the right type of generation in the right places at the right sizes on the cost of generating electrons and which provides revenue certainty to investors and clear signals on where investment is needed.
19 Oct 2025

Upcoming essays

Essays I haven’t written yet, but plan to when time allows.

Incompetence, waste, inefficiency and taking an anti-science approach in the UK's delivery of mental health services: Why it's economically and socially moral to solve the problems which create the observable behavioura rather than to prescribe medical interventions to soothe symptoms which arise due to the created problems and how it links to welfare spending and PIP

Incompetencewasteinefficiencytaking an anti-science approach in the UK's delivery of mental health services: Why it's economically

Rawdogging, safety, freedom, regulation, speech, offence, the nanny state, slavery, governance, neuroscience, ADHD, convergent and divergent thinking, vectors, systems thinking, creativity, innovation, business, entrepreneurship, culture, bureaucracy, mental health, suicide, hope and hopelessness, jobs, research, teaching, academia, marketing, brand creation, brand protection, fear, power, politics, the proles & the throne

Rawdoggingsafetyfreedomregulation

What are optimising for exactly? A systems model to deliver for society and the world.

What are optimising for exactly? A systems model to deliver for societythe world.

Petulant children, pessimism, optimism and why starting at the top of a ladder and going down into a well may not be scientifically-aligned, choosing carefully who we give the megaphone to

Petulant childrenpessimismoptimismwhy starting at the top of a ladder

Academia, dystopia, resilience, student mental health, mental health distress which institutions create, burden shifting of internal mental distress of over-empowered decision makers to students to relieve non-science following zealots, conformity vs. non conformity (homogeneity vs. nonhomegentiy), responsible use of taxpayer money, incompetence, professorships, postdocs, insulation, salaries, information barriers, science, inclusion, diversity, culture, process, system dynamics and institutions

Academiadystopiaresiliencestudent mental health

Love vs. hate, good vs. bad, right vs. wrong, rock vs. paper vs. scissors, fire vs. water vs. air vs. earth, strategy vs tactics, looking down vs. building up & when to do each, looking across & control theory & optimisation, searching inwards vs. looking outwards, east vs. west, north vs. south, good vs evil, heroes and villains, winning vs. losing, and why we must ultimately fight for love

Lovehategoodbad

A lived experience: Corruption and incompetence in the energy industry

A lived experience: Corruptionincompetence in the energy industry

The sorting hat, gryffindors, ravenclaws, hufflepuffs and slytherins, bravery in the face of evil and why we must not be afraid to speak the name Voldermort while others apply labels in the face of fear: he who shall not be named and why he should be named so good can win over evil

The sorting hatgryffindorsravenclawshufflepuffs

Who's minion (slave) are you? Dobby, house elves, socks, chains and free elves as it realtes to to organisations today

Who's minion (slave) are you? Dobbyhouse elvessockschains

The culture of ”thinking what’s important is to do enough to get through things and cover your ass” due to a lack oaf confidence and knowledge, doublespeak, circling back, pointless meetings, calendar filling, the 9 to 5, middle management, HR & lying, effectively telling young people they’re stupid, not listening, thinking all ideas are equal, where today’s organisation structures came from and why they are out of date and are designed around stasis and not to deliver innovation or growth

The culture of ”thinking what’s important is to do enough to get through thingscover your ass” due to a lack oaf confidenceknowledgedoublespeak

Idea for political reform: Get rid of all the political parties, have people vote differently based different interest groups

Idea for political reform: Get rid of all the political partieshave people vote differently based different interest groups

A stitch in time saves nine: the importance of listening to early data signals (arguing against waste and inefficiency: it’s only £x and an argument for listening)

A stitch in time saves nine: the importance of listening to early data signals (arguing against wasteinefficiency: it’s only £xan argument for listening)

Technology platform for radical democracy and listening

Technology platform for radical democracylistening

Technology, war, progress, attack and defence

Technologywarprogressattack

The journal industry and academic organisational power strucures are unscientific and immoral

The journal industryacademic organisational power strucures are unscientificimmoral

Critical thinking, fake doctors, fake nurses, the NHS, organisational culture, the industrial revolution, sterility, work life, home life and night life

Critical thinkingfake doctorsfake nursesthe NHS

Skills & technology transformation, immigration, welfare, infrastructure, the 3 R's and the sharing and circular economies

Skillstechnology transformationimmigrationwelfare

Farming, food and rural communities

Farmingfoodrural communities

Trade unions, why it might not be a good idea to design employee contracts which reward tenure rather than public service or delivery reocrd and why the ideals of the triple lock are impoertant and fundamentally correct, and why it's immoral to expect children who aren't born yet to fund bullshit built on bullshit

Trade unionswhy it might not be a good idea to design employee contracts which reward tenure rather than public service or delivery reocrdwhy the ideals of the triple lock are impoertantfundamentally correct

Cities, living on top of each other, urban heat, air and noise pollution

Citiesliving on top of each otherurban heatair

Being a youngster in a dynamic world and why it's important to be able to make mistakes and seek forgiveness

Being a youngster in a dynamic worldwhy it's important to be able to make mistakesseek forgiveness

Asylum seekers, fear, fire, religion, hatred, the boats, Irish and British history, hedge schools, the Celts and the Vikings, the “Great” Irish Famine, the Irish diaspora, the Irish War of independence, population, geography, demographics and resources, growth and degrowth

Asylum seekersfearfirereligion

Physical and mental health, wealth, flows, interactions, cleanliness, God, resilience, human rights, water, food, freezers health tech, genetics, medicine, pharmaceuticals, surgery, preventative care vs. diagnostics and treatment and therapy

Physicalmental healthwealthflows

Robotics, AI and quantum computing

RoboticsAIquantum computing