Writing

Ideas in progress.

Notes and essays on science and technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

WTH is Materials Informatics??

Meta, Google, and Microsoft all made news in materials informatics in 2023. What the field actually is, and why it is suddenly crowded.

The question every research organisation asks before moving mission-critical work off its own hardware, and what the answers looked like in practice.

From the last U.S. nuclear test in 1992 to simulation as the default instrument of materials research, and what that shift asks of enterprises.

Bardeen and Brattain touched two gold contacts to a crystal of germanium in 1947. An argument for work whose payoff is decades out.

What the word cloud actually stands for once you stop picturing an icon and start counting racks.

Making a new material is slow, largely invisible work. The case for treating discovery itself as infrastructure.