Notes, riffs, and signal boosts

Thoughts is my digital studio log.

Essays, experiments, and field notes on building calm interfaces, intentional teams, and tools that keep the web weird. It is equal parts notebook and broadcast channel.

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Latest writing

Published articles, drafts, and living notebooks.

Signal boosts

  • Office hours · Energy analysts

    Monthly sessions reverse-engineering ERSA pricing flows and TEEMS data hygiene.

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  • Case study · Edge portal modernization

    Architecture notes on porting calculators and workflows onto Azure Functions + SQL Managed Instance.

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  • Toolkit · Notion delivery hub

    An ops template that keeps boutique consultancies in sync across briefs, docs, and Julia experiments.

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Now reading

  • Shorting the Grid

    Meredith Angwin

    Grounding Australian energy-market conversations in practical reliability history.

  • Numbers Don’t Lie

    Vaclav Smil

    Keeps modeling instincts anchored in real-world energy + infrastructure data.

  • Shape Up

    Ryan Singer

    Guides how I frame six-week consulting arcs for SMEs.

What I am exploring right now

  • Prototyping Julia models that forecast DER scenarios for boutique retailers.
  • Automating TEEMS ⇄ Notion handoffs so ops teams get cleaner briefs.
  • Documenting migration patterns from monolithic portals to Azure Functions.