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Technology does not solve problems

3 December 2025
Technology comes in waves. Our industry is always awash with excitement about something. I've watched these waves come and go over the last thirty years. At one point, and for
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We need a new Turing Test

30 November 2025
Every time there is some sort of perceived advance towards a general artificial intelligence we talk about it as a breakthrough, right up until we understand what it's doing, how
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Don’t build platforms, solve problems

29 October 2025
The industry we work in is built on top of legacy code, and ephemeral trends. The day-to-day experience of most developers involves working within large legacy code bases, and while
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You told me to go back to the beginning. So I have.

31 July 2025
I don't believe there can be any debate around this, but the best movie of all time is The Princess Bride. Near the end of the movie, when all seems
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A tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: three miners at work in a mine shaft. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910. Created 1890-1910. Contributors: J. C. Burrow (1852-1914).

You’re crowdfunding your…what, now?

6 June 2025
We look in a lot of places for young companies we might want to work with or invest in. One arrow in the quiver is crowdfunding websites: I've met hardware
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A narrative about women in business that’s all kinds of wrong

1 April 2025
Sometimes flawed statistics worm their way into positions where they can cause massive damage. Here's an example you might have come across before: some literature from the British Business Bank
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