I like the moment when a familiar thing
stops being obvious.
A WAY OF LOOKING
Physics begins with matter in motion. Philosophy asks what it means to notice that motion at all. Somewhere between them, I keep finding questions that refuse to stay in their own department.
This is where I put a few of them.
I / PHYSICS & PERSPECTIVE
A cloud looks continuous until its grains come into view. Coarse-graining makes a pattern legible by letting detail go. That is useful. It is also a choice.
I keep wondering how much of what feels obvious comes from the scale at which I am looking. A useful picture still leaves something out.
Feynman, on atoms in motionII / MIND & LANGUAGE
The observer belongs inside the question. Words like “mind” and “consciousness” can make an unfinished explanation sound like something we have already found.
Could the sense of self be a way a living system distinguishes itself from its surroundings? Emergence is an intuition worth pursuing. Naming it does not settle it.
Look closely enough and
the question changes.
III / MAKING & ORGANISING
A circuit is a useful antidote to a convincing explanation. Did the mechanism move, or did the screen merely say it had? Make a small change. Watch what actually happens.
The same test belongs in business. A plan connects people, time, equipment and decisions. Who can act? What is available? What remains unknown? An arrangement has to be possible before it can be impressive.
03 / OPEN ANOTHER DOOR
A FEW THINGS WORTH YOUR ATTENTIONImagine the activity inside an ordinary drop of water.
02PLAY / NICKY CASEAn explorable game about cooperation and what happens next.
03LOOK / THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEWCurious images and ideas that have outlived their moment.
THE PERSON BEHIND THIS PATCH
SentManFlying Heavy. The Greatest to ever touch down.
Physics opens the questions. Philosophy keeps them honest. Making things—and paying attention to people—gives them somewhere to go.
Back to the field
02 / THE SOCIAL SECTOR
DELHI · AN OPEN FIELD NOTEPUBLIC SPACE. PRIVATE LIVES.
Who gets
to look?
A street holds more lives than an observer can know. What happens when those lives become searchable?
Measured Delhi traffic, visible jam waves, mixed-vehicle experiments and the question of what enforcement should achieve.
Open the Delhi traffic laboratory↗FROM PARTICLES TO PUBLIC RECORDS
The city,
at the scale
of a street.
Replay observed street movement. Change vehicle mix and demand. Compare the network that exists with a procedural alternative.
The Delhi field is loading. Open the full field note ↗