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Charger hopping EV trip planner
Taking a trip in an EV with limited range or a region of really sparse chargers, you might find insufficient charging options on the direct route. A roundabout route instead, hopping from charger to charger, might be what gets you from A to B. You can now plan trips like these with hoppler. Hoppler simply…
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Working with the grain of today’s AI
Today’s AI is powerful, but far from omnipotent. It’s a technology that, like any other, can be misapplied, even in a purely technical sense. Here I share some thoughts about appropriate and inappropriate uses, with reference to historically enduring AI applications, expanding on the final section of my YOW! Tech Leaders Summit talk. Historically enduring…
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Elevating trippler
I’ve finally incorporated elevation changes in trippler resilient EV trip planning. Elevation is a feature I’d always considered, but it never made it to the top of my priority list. Through field testing, I’d concluded that only net changes mattered – as regeneration on descent recovered almost all of what was lost to climbing –…
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Conceptual inertia
Here I revisit how interaction cost explains technical debt as the difference between understanding and implementation. (…inspired by hallway conversations at YOW! Tech Leaders Summit about Ward Cunningham’s original definition of technical debt…) Interaction cost is my term for second-order (n2) costs that arise in activities with interacting elements. In this category, I would put…
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Leading data and AI teams
I gave my 2026 YOW! Tech Leaders Summit talk the alternative title lossy compression, as it squeezes 28 years in tech into 25 minutes. Many individual slides are are pointers to multiple blog posts or book chapters in their own right! This post includes references, by section from the source slides. Talk outline The talk…
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The mainstream wheelie project
My 2020 Lockdown Wheelie Project is recognised as the world’s premier Victorian-stage-4-COVID-restrictions-compliant exercise program combined with an AI incubator. While the innovative application of generative AI is yet to achieve AGI, the idea of sensors, logging, and onboard feedback for mountain bike tricks has now gone mainstream! The Bosch eBike Flow app now includes Trick…
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Hard problems in highly agentic coding
Highly agentic coding with LLMs has great promise: automatically generating software to solve a wide range of problems. But it comes with its own hard problems to solve. With my experience in product design search and optimisation, software development, robotics and manufacturing, it’s an area I’m very interested in understanding better. What I share here…
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Why are teams twelve times faster?
In my writing about team effectiveness something like the following quote might appear: How bad is backlog coupling? At an Australian telecommunications company, my colleagues did a study of hundreds of pieces of work or tasks passing through a delivery centre. Some tasks could be completed by a single team without dependency, specifically without scheduling…
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The life-changing magic of tidying your data
After tackling data waste for some years now, I thought it would be fun to revisit the Marie Kondo approach to tidying up work in large organisations (from 10 years ago), and apply it to data too… Surprise! Managing work data in a large organisation is a lot like keeping your belongings in check at…
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trippler – and resilience for all
After driving an EV at possibly the busiest Australian road-tripping time of the year (Easter), in the middle of a global fossil fuel crisis and concomitant surge in local EV sales, I decided it was time to make good on my claim that resilient planning by individuals could benefit all drivers. In practice, this means…