Simple rules can generate complex behaviour. I’m reading A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. A key idea of the book is that a simple rule, applied …

For how long now have we not nibbled
At the immediate past in this fashion, words,
Regretting our ignoble faculty of failing,
Slipping between whose fingers?
Melting between whose lips?
The disabused ruins of history’s many
Many costumes we discarded.

The little shop has been pulled down
Where …

The Main Trunk line is a railway running through the middle of the North Island connecting Wellington and Auckland. It was finished in 1908 and became the preferred way to travel between the two cities. Car and aircraft have since superseded rail for personal travel, but the Main Trunk is still used …

This year I’ve been exploring the field of Resilience Engineering. Resilience Engineering is concerned with building complex systems that are resilient to change and disruption. I’m interested in how we can understand and reason with complex systems. Here I write what I’ve learned …

History was like that - a negative at which one was the print, the positive. He thought: People are not separate individuals as they think, they are variations on themes outside themselves … The lost remain the lost, the found the found

The Avignon Quintet are a collection of novels written …