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  • 2025 has inconsistent writing, despite great plot ideas – a Year Review!

    We structure our opinions on a lot of artifacts: books, movies, papers, and other expressions of authorial intent. Why not reviewing a year? This is also a way of putting some distance between myself and the great deal of angst and suffering in the world. Yet distance allows to make sense of the individual struggles…

  • How to design the products our customers want

    Nintendo is but one company with mixed product launches: runaway hits or expensive knickknacks. If only there was a more structured approach to product development! This post summarizes my notes on the matter. The tools available to reduce waste (Lean) and to analyze the process based on data (Six Sigma) connect to existing products. How…

  • Grains, Gluten, and Gobbledygook

    This is definitely not a kitchen blog. These are structured notes on flour so that we can separate the wheat from the chaff. In the mid-2000s, mom took some baking lessons. The result was a flavorful and beautifully decorated bread – often enjoyed with a lard, garlic, and thyme spread. Mom has never been too…