Category: Work

  • Single Source of truth mythology

    Single Source of truth mythology

    ‘Source of truth’ in design is non-sense. In software data schemes and such, it makes sense. There is a myth that you can liberally apply this mental modeling to design or design deliverables and the assets used by development to build software. Traceability, the more appropriate term and practice is what is useful, valuable and […]

  • Turnstile + train schedules and capacity = platform density in realtime

    Turnstile + train schedules and capacity = platform density in realtime

    The Social Distancing Index™ Is this a calculation that can be made for people and get alerts on their phones? Could there be a series of calculations to determine density of passengers on platforms and platform areas. Can that data combine with crowd sourced information and using multiple data sets and some assumptions and inferences. […]

  • Watch > Act vs. Act > Watch

    Stimuli response paradox. When, offers – behavior = static conversion Think for a second how we behave as humans. Many actions we take are driven by basic needs, hunger, thirst, safety and shelter and so on. The stimuli and response model of behavior has some issues when you think about how business models are developed. […]