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Straussian Reading 2025-01-18
Writing Good Requirements 2024-11-11
Casey Handmer on Stratechery 2024-06-01
I Can Do That, Am I Illegal? 2024-03-27
Overtime: Right Enough 2024-02-20
Smarter SMART Goals 2024-01-12
Seattle Flag Redesign 2023-12-29
Prediction Calibration and Confidence Intervals 2023-12-27
College Football Relegation 2023-11-22
One Revolution Per Minute 2023-10-26
PSL Forever 2023-10-16
Statistical Distributions and ChatGPT 2023-06-13
A Not So Tedious Change to US Healthcare 2023-01-14
Pluto the Planet 2023-01-09
Seven Knots You Should Know How to Tie 2022-12-17
Space as a Service 2022-12-14
The Astros Got Off Easy 2022-10-11
Ministry of Yes 2022-09-11
The Solar Power Series 2022-04-10
West Seattle Streetcar 2022-03-12
One Lawyer With a Briefcase 2022-03-01
Land Value Tax 2022-02-25
Mancur Olson in the Wild 2022-02-25
Take a Tour 2022-02-12
Best Wordle Words 2022-01-09
Learning at Double Speed 2022-01-06
Don Rae’s Axis & Allies Essays Redux 2022-01-03
Axis and Allies 2022-01-03
Pelican Yak Shaving 2021-12-19
The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson 2021-12-11
Shakespeare’s Sonnets - Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness 2021-11-06
Space Resources are a Deconstructed Sandwich 2021-10-06
Ted Lasso 2021-05-06
Radio Silence 2021-04-09
Ooni and Homemade Pizza 2021-02-24
Vaccine Challenge Trials 2021-01-21
First Doses First 2021-01-13
Making (Fantasy) Football More Like Soccer 2020-12-31
The Most Useful Idea in Economics 2020-12-31
Simpler Strike Out 2020-12-29
An Updated Favicon 2020-12-19
Implementing Strike Out 2020-12-13
The Power of No 2020-11-06
Elam Endings 2020-10-29
SEDScast 12: Designing the Future of Space with Adam Wuerl 2020-07-27
Conscious Agents and Simple Rules 2020-05-04
The Wolfram Physics Project 2020-04-23
Worm Forever 2020-04-04
Coming Out Party for Punt the Kickoff 2020-01-21
Great Systems Engineering Definitions Hiding in a Business Book 2020-01-18
The Prescience of 2081 2020-01-03
Customers Not Clients 2019-08-21
Fast Software, the Best Software 2019-07-28
Want to Fix Presidential Elections? Here’s the Quickest Way. 2019-05-05
Punt the Kickoff Proposal Is Building Up Steam 2019-03-26
Favorite Movie Scores 2019-03-24
Tentative Adoption of Punt the Kickoff 2019-02-26
French Fry Power Rankings 2019-02-23
Lamarckian Vindication 2019-01-21
A Contrarian’s View of Systems Engineering 2018-11-18
Configuration Management: Part 2 — A Path Forward 2018-09-14
Configuration Management: Part 1 — An Unsolved Problem 2018-09-13
The Fair Representation Act 2018-08-31
Fermi Paradox Reading 2018-08-04
On Intelligence 2018-07-15
A User’s Guide for Me 2018-07-08
Figures of Merit 2018-06-17
Metrication Mnemonics 2018-04-10
A New Page Rank for the Era of Fake News 2018-01-22
The Book of Thunks 2018-01-08
The Gerrymandering Project 2018-01-03
Mechanically Stabilized Ice 2017-12-27
A Catch Is a Catch 2017-12-20
Apps Hungarian Is Greek to Me — in a Good Way 2017-12-20
Systematic 210: To Aerospace and Beyond with Adam Wuerl 2017-12-15
The Case for RSS 2017-11-11
How to End Gerrymandering 2017-11-05
It’s Too Hard to Watch the NFL 2017-10-19
Music I Like Revisited 2017-09-25
Culture 2017-09-22
Simple Rules for Bail 2017-09-21
First, Do No Harm 2017-08-31
Simple Rules and Two-Way Doors 2017-07-18
Nepotism or Gerrymandering? 2017-06-03
The West Seattle Blog and Hyper-Local News 2017-05-27
Congrats Rocket Lab 2017-05-25
Dropping Tech Giants 2017-05-13
What Writers Really Do When They Write 2017-05-02
Squeak No More 2017-04-26
The Game of Life Adventures: A Card-Game Dumpster Fire 2017-04-01
The Delightful Design of Mille Bornes 2017-03-17
The Art of Being Wrong Frequently but Not Often 2017-03-15
Cheeseburgers 2017-02-10
Title Case Scripting 2016-11-19
Systems Engineering is a Thing 2016-11-12
There’s Nothing Wrong With the Electoral College 2016-11-09
The US Needs to Retire Daylight Savings and Just Have Two Time Zones—One Hour Apart 2016-11-01
Punt the Kickoff 2016-09-28
Cutting the Cord With Tablo 2016-09-17
Favorite Seven Equations 2016-08-20
SSL on an S3-hosted Pelican Static Blog and AWS Certificate Manager 2016-07-03
Remember the Milk: Part 3  — Doing 2016-05-28
Remember the Milk: Part 2  — Processing 2016-05-14
Remember the Milk: Part 1  — Capture 2016-05-08
Wormhole Technology 2016-04-21
Alexa, Play Music I Like 2016-04-19
A New Look 2016-03-11
Minimum-Velocity Throw 2015-12-28
Onshape and Disruption 2015-10-04
Don’t Call It a Fighter 2015-06-30
Why Do We Go to Space? 2015-06-13
Tree of Knowledge 2015-06-06
Avoiding Process Hell 2015-04-12
Electric Satellites 2015-03-02
Coming Around on Surface 2014-06-01
The Social Map and the Hubris of Google+ 2013-11-24
the Magazine #14: My Letter to the Editor 2013-04-14
My Phone 2013-03-29
Dr. Drang’s Wrong About Daylight Saving Time 2013-03-12
Agile Aerospace 2013-01-22
Inbox Zero 2013-01-21
The Needless Complexity of Cruise Control 2012-07-22
My Holy Shit List 2012-03-04
A Genetic Algorithm and Calculus of Variations-Based Trajectory Optimization Technique 2011-12-28
A World Without Word 2011-12-16
PowerPoint: Ubiquitous and Terrible 2010-11-30
An American Manifesto: Why I Don’t Like Soccer 2010-06-19
Overtime 2010-03-15