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🗂️ Should Project Management Involve Less Administration When the Tools Already Know the Truth?
Let’s be honest, if you’re managing delivery in JIRA 🧩 or MS Project 📊 and still spending hours every week crafting progress reports, something’s gone wrong
🧠 AI tools = ⚙️ Fast Compute + 🧰 Smart Storage
AI doesn’t think—it crunches. Useful? Yes. Game-changing? Sometimes. But let’s not start handing it a Nobel Prize for philosophy just yet.
🏛️ The Renaissance Reboot: Why Modern Tech Is Just Old Ideas Wearing Tighter Trousers
Technology hasn’t truly changed since the Renaissance—it’s just wearing flashier robes and charging a subscription fee.
🧾 Teachings from the tea trolley: Data Ethics and Lineage
Trust beats tech, numbers aren’t neutral, and the tea trolley saves more projects than process ever will. It shaped everything I’ve done since.
📄➡️ 💬 Move Rows, Not Opinions
Treat separation as a data exercise. Model a tiny star schema, land historic data first, write plain-English rules, and implement rules as data joins. Faster. Cheaper. Auditable.
🧠🧩 The Missing # Key: A Lesson in Data, Layers, and Meaning
A small technical fault exposed a deeper truth about data. Integration is about preserving meaning, not just moving code. Problems arise when abstraction layers are blurred.
💾 🛡️ Old COBOL, Modern Security and the Engineering Principles That Still Matter
The recent PHP security vulnerabilities reminded me that many of the engineering principles from decades ago remain just as relevant today. Sound design, defensive programming and an understanding of what lies beneath the technology can prevent problems nobody anticipated.