Archives
All the articles I've archived.
The Contract as Data: How ISDA Rebuilt a Market's Paperwork
Updated:How the derivatives market turned a library of paper contracts, strained by every crisis from the 2005 backlog to Lehman to lockdown, into named clauses, versioned definitions, an open shared model and executable rules, and what a new payment scheme can learn from it.
Change Management as Civic Infrastructure
How change management ceases to be a bureaucratic burden and becomes the architecture of institutional trust.
Git as Institutional Memory
Updated:Why Git is not a developer tool, but the substrate of institutional memory, governance, and accountability.
From Meetings to Artefacts: A Different Kind of Alignment
Updated:How shared artefacts, version control, and Markdown replace meeting-driven alignment with durable, traceable institutional knowledge.
Markdown as Institutional Infrastructure
Updated:Why Markdown and Git are not developer tools, but the quiet infrastructure of durable institutional governance.
Civilisation XIV: The Invisible Commons
Updated:A speculative ‘Episode 14’ of 'Civilisation' in the spirit of Kenneth Clark, observing how courtesy, discipline, curiosity, conscience, and patience shaped the invisible civic infrastructure of the digital age.
Élan: A Concise Overview
Updated:A concise introduction to Élan, a workbench that explores how disciplined automation can preserve intent, traceability, and confidence in high-stakes systems.
The Drift: A Note on the Creation of Élan
Updated:Why intelligence is not enough: observing the drift of advanced AI agents when they are given narrative rules without mechanical constraints.
Élan: An Introduction
Updated:An introduction to Élan, a workbench for uniting intent, structure, and execution in complex systems.
On Code, Institutions, and Judgement
Updated:On code, institutions, and the quiet work of building civilisation.