books

Books, Badgers and Big Numbers

21 June, 2025

A random collection of images of colourful magnetic letters laid over a picture of stacks of books.

I stumbled into what might be some combinatorial esoterica and I can't stop thinking about it. Additionally, a book organising app told me I have a bunch of badgers in my house. I need to sort them out.


The danger of using models as metaphors

21 March, 2024

A tangram that's not quite put together righ

Of the many fascinating insights to be found in Elinor Ostrom's book Governing the commons there are a few that have really stuck with me. My personally sticky insights aren't really related to the core argument, it's all well out of my wheel house after all. My ears most pricked up when Ostrom wrote about the social responsibilities of scientists and the social impact of social research.