Events from the world, run through the method
Not a news feed. Every item is run through the same seven steps — situation, problem, implications, zoom out, zoom in, what a twin changes, and where it sat on the maturity scale. Work through three of them and you have learned the method.
We were not in the room. Every reading on this desk is an outside analysis of public reporting, written to show how the method is applied — not to allege what any organisation knew or decided. Where we go beyond the public record we say so in the text.
First-hand notes from engagements, published anonymised: no client, municipality or person is named, and figures that have not been audited are marked as estimates.
- 2026-08-30Smart home
Sensing in housing: what a dwelling should be able to answer
Occupancy, condition and safety in a dwelling are answerable from the building itself once the sensing, the model and the control loop stay local. A position on where residential sensing is heading, and on which standards carry it.
- 2026-08-28Edge AI
Where the inference runs
Two engagements this week converged on the same constraint: the places that most need continuous machine perception are the places with the least reliable connection to a data centre.
- 2026-08-28Manufacturing
Rehearsing the flow before the plant moves
A manufacturer weighing relocation decided instead to optimise the existing operation and build adjacent to it. The sequence that followed is the transferable part: capture both sites, rehearse the flow in the model, then move anything physical.
- 2026-08-06Logistics · MaritimeOn demand
Six days sideways, and a decade of supply-chain rethinking
Ever Given is the canonical example of a chokepoint everyone knew about and almost nobody had modelled.
Level 2 → 4Read the full reading → - 2026-08-06Ports · Transport infrastructureWeekly
The bridge was fine. The assumptions about ships were forty years old.
The Key Bridge collapse is a lesson about protective structures designed for a vessel class that no longer exists.
Level 2 → 4Read the full reading → - 2026-08-06Energy · GridWeekly
A peninsula went dark in five seconds
The April 2025 Iberian blackout is the clearest live demonstration that grids are now changing faster than the models used to run them.
Level 3 → 5Read the full reading → - 2026-08-06Aviation · EnergyWeekly
One substation fire closed Europe's busiest airport
Heathrow had backup power. The review found the issue was not whether resilience existed, but whether anyone had modelled the switchover.
Level 3 → 4Read the full reading → - 2026-08-06Software · Critical infrastructureWeekly
A single content update, eight and a half million machines
The 2024 CrowdStrike outage grounded flights and stopped hospitals. The defect was real, but the failure was the deployment model.
Level 2 → 4Read the full reading →
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