Design Matters

Relationship Numbers with Scientific Evidence

A recent paper published in Nature Human Behaviour adds a new number to social relationships. It is to do with place and is called location capacity.

Relationships with people

Grids, Sheets and Narratives

Design improvements to the three most powerful end user productivity tools.

Hypercash

A Design View of blockchains

To create a web of money, you need two way links so that the numbers add up when money…

Blockchains Are Not About Decentralization

Decentralization is not a useful feature of blockchains, it’s a necessary limitation…

Types of Database from Blockchains to Data Lakes + Machine Learning

How to create a visual diagram that sums up all databases and put AI and blockchains in context.

A New Approach to Designing Smart Cities

One day, I’d like to design a truly modern, functional city with the character of a medieval hill town.

Rather than a blueprint, I’d like to design a series of recipes for how to create it, from the community to individual human…

The World’s Money in Numbers

As of 2015 unless indicated.

I’ll produce a chart of this data once it is sufficiently complete.

Global financial assets: $300 trillion

A Systems View of Markets

Markets as networks.

Complex systems

The job that AI will kill — Software Engineering.