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aerospace

• One Revolution Per Minute
• Space as a Service
• Space Resources are a Deconstructed Sandwich
• SEDScast 12: Designing the Future of Space with Adam Wuerl
• Customers Not Clients
• Lamarckian Vindication
• A Contrarian’s View of Systems Engineering
• Systematic 210: To Aerospace and Beyond with Adam Wuerl
• Congrats Rocket Lab
• Don’t Call It a Fighter
• Why Do We Go to Space?
• Electric Satellites
• the Magazine #14: My Letter to the Editor
• Agile Aerospace
• A Genetic Algorithm and Calculus of Variations-Based Trajectory Optimization Technique

AI

• Our Dexterous Future?
• I Can Do That, Am I Illegal?

automation

• Our Dexterous Future?
• Simpler Strike Out
• Implementing Strike Out
• Title Case Scripting

axis-and-allies

• Don Rae’s Axis & Allies Essays Redux
• Axis and Allies

baseball

• The Astros Got Off Easy

basketball

• Elam Endings

Boeing

• Electric Satellites
• Agile Aerospace

business

• Smarter SMART Goals
• The Most Useful Idea in Economics
• Great Systems Engineering Definitions Hiding in a Business Book
• Culture
• The West Seattle Blog and Hyper-Local News
• Onshape and Disruption
• The Social Map and the Hubris of Google+

consciousness

• Conscious Agents and Simple Rules

COVID

• Vaccine Challenge Trials
• First Doses First

design

• Seattle Flag Redesign
• What Writers Really Do When They Write
• The Game of Life Adventures: A Card-Game Dumpster Fire
• The Delightful Design of Mille Bornes

DST

• The US Needs to Retire Daylight Savings and Just Have Two Time Zones—One Hour Apart
• Dr. Drang’s Wrong About Daylight Saving Time

electoral-college

• Want to Fix Presidential Elections? Here’s the Quickest Way.
• There’s Nothing Wrong With the Electoral College

email

• Inbox Zero

energy

• Casey Handmer on Stratechery
• The Solar Power Series

engineering

• One Revolution Per Minute
• Statistical Distributions and ChatGPT
• Mechanically Stabilized Ice
• Minimum-Velocity Throw

fermi-paradox

• Fermi Paradox Reading

fiction

• One Revolution Per Minute
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets - Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
• Radio Silence

food

• PSL Forever
• Ooni and Homemade Pizza
• French Fry Power Rankings
• Cheeseburgers

football

• Overtime: Right Enough
• College Football Relegation
• Making (Fantasy) Football More Like Soccer
• Coming Out Party for Punt the Kickoff
• Punt the Kickoff Proposal Is Building Up Steam
• Tentative Adoption of Punt the Kickoff
• A Catch Is a Catch
• It’s Too Hard to Watch the NFL
• Punt the Kickoff
• Tree of Knowledge
• Overtime

games

• Best Wordle Words
• Don Rae’s Axis & Allies Essays Redux
• Axis and Allies
• The Game of Life Adventures: A Card-Game Dumpster Fire
• The Delightful Design of Mille Bornes

healthcare

• A Not So Tedious Change to US Healthcare

Lockheed-Martin

• Customers Not Clients
• Don’t Call It a Fighter
• Agile Aerospace

machine-learning

• I Can Do That, Am I Illegal?
• Statistical Distributions and ChatGPT

management

• Smarter SMART Goals
• Customers Not Clients
• A User’s Guide for Me
• Culture
• Simple Rules and Two-Way Doors
• Systems Engineering is a Thing

meta

• Pelican Yak Shaving
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets - Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
• Simpler Strike Out
• An Updated Favicon
• Implementing Strike Out
• SSL on an S3-hosted Pelican Static Blog and AWS Certificate Manager
• A New Look

metrication

• Metrication Mnemonics

Microsoft

• Dropping Tech Giants
• Coming Around on Surface

NASA

• Worm Forever
• Customers Not Clients
• A Genetic Algorithm and Calculus of Variations-Based Trajectory Optimization Technique

philosophy

• The Art of Being Wrong Frequently but Not Often

physics

• Conscious Agents and Simple Rules
• The Wolfram Physics Project

podcast

• Casey Handmer on Stratechery
• SEDScast 12: Designing the Future of Space with Adam Wuerl
• Favorite Movie Scores
• Lamarckian Vindication
• A Contrarian’s View of Systems Engineering
• Systematic 210: To Aerospace and Beyond with Adam Wuerl

policy

• I Can Do That, Am I Illegal?
• A Not So Tedious Change to US Healthcare

politics

• A Not So Tedious Change to US Healthcare
• Ministry of Yes
• One Lawyer With a Briefcase
• Land Value Tax
• Mancur Olson in the Wild
• The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson
• Want to Fix Presidential Elections? Here’s the Quickest Way.
• The Fair Representation Act
• A New Page Rank for the Era of Fake News
• The Gerrymandering Project
• How to End Gerrymandering
• First, Do No Harm
• Nepotism or Gerrymandering?

PowerPoint

• A World Without Word
• PowerPoint: Ubiquitous and Terrible

process

• The Power of No
• Customers Not Clients
• Configuration Management: Part 2  —  A Path Forward
• Configuration Management: Part 1  —  An Unsolved Problem
• A User’s Guide for Me
• Avoiding Process Hell

productivity

• Learning at Double Speed
• A User’s Guide for Me
• Remember the Milk: Part 3  — Doing
• Remember the Milk: Part 2  — Processing
• Remember the Milk: Part 1  — Capture
• Inbox Zero

rant

• Seattle Flag Redesign
• College Football Relegation
• The Astros Got Off Easy
• The Solar Power Series
• Worm Forever
• Fast Software, the Best Software
• Configuration Management: Part 1  —  An Unsolved Problem
• It’s Too Hard to Watch the NFL
• The Game of Life Adventures: A Card-Game Dumpster Fire
• Electric Satellites
• Dr. Drang’s Wrong About Daylight Saving Time
• The Needless Complexity of Cruise Control
• A World Without Word
• PowerPoint: Ubiquitous and Terrible
• Overtime

recommendations

• Casey Handmer on Stratechery
• The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson
• Ted Lasso
• Favorite Movie Scores
• Lamarckian Vindication
• On Intelligence

review

• Prediction Calibration and Confidence Intervals
• One Revolution Per Minute
• Pluto the Planet
• Ministry of Yes
• The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson
• The Prescience of 2081

RTM

• Remember the Milk: Part 3  — Doing
• Remember the Milk: Part 2  — Processing
• Remember the Milk: Part 1  — Capture

satellites

• Electric Satellites
• the Magazine #14: My Letter to the Editor
• Agile Aerospace

short-story

• Radio Silence

simplification

• College Football Relegation
• A Catch Is a Catch
• Simple Rules for Bail
• First, Do No Harm
• Simple Rules and Two-Way Doors
• The Needless Complexity of Cruise Control

soccer

• College Football Relegation
• Making (Fantasy) Football More Like Soccer
• An American Manifesto: Why I Don’t Like Soccer

systems-engineering

• Writing Good Requirements
• Great Systems Engineering Definitions Hiding in a Business Book
• A Contrarian’s View of Systems Engineering
• Configuration Management: Part 2  —  A Path Forward
• Configuration Management: Part 1  —  An Unsolved Problem
• Figures of Merit
• Systems Engineering is a Thing
• The Needless Complexity of Cruise Control

technology

• A New Page Rank for the Era of Fake News
• Music I Like Revisited
• Dropping Tech Giants
• Alexa, Play Music I Like
• Onshape and Disruption
• Coming Around on Surface
• The Social Map and the Hubris of Google+
• My Phone
• My Holy Shit List

tips

• Writing Good Requirements
• Smarter SMART Goals
• Seven Knots You Should Know How to Tie
• Take a Tour
• Best Wordle Words
• Squeak No More

voting

• Want to Fix Presidential Elections? Here’s the Quickest Way.
• The Fair Representation Act
• The Gerrymandering Project
• How to End Gerrymandering
• There’s Nothing Wrong With the Electoral College

west-seattle

• West Seattle Streetcar
• The West Seattle Blog and Hyper-Local News

wiki

• Configuration Management: Part 2  —  A Path Forward
• Configuration Management: Part 1  —  An Unsolved Problem
• My Holy Shit List

Word

• Fast Software, the Best Software
• Configuration Management: Part 1  —  An Unsolved Problem
• A World Without Word

writing

• Straussian Reading
• The West Seattle Blog and Hyper-Local News
• What Writers Really Do When They Write