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The onion strikes back: Maggie Koerth on the nested problems of Covid-19 testing

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 16th May 202017th May 2020

Covid-19 testing has been a mixed bag: Singapore and Korea seem to have been able to get on top of things quickly, while the UK… Read More »The onion strikes back: Maggie Koerth on the nested problems of Covid-19 testing

Bill Gates’ onion

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 11th March 202016th March 2020

This is a nice illustration of a set of nested problems (a.k.a. “The Onion“) in development from Bill and Melinda Gates’ philanthropic work. Often –… Read More »Bill Gates’ onion

The Onion (3): exemplar interesting problem – learning to read

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 4th June 20194th June 2019

Problems gain (or lose) interestingness as their context and scale changes. Take teaching a kids to read as an example. It’s almost inevitable that a… Read More »The Onion (3): exemplar interesting problem – learning to read

The Onion (2): a model for solving interesting problems

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 29th May 201917th May 2020

My first post about The Onion looked at interesting problems as systems of networked sub-problems, and suggested that our solutions will mirror this structure. The… Read More »The Onion (2): a model for solving interesting problems

The Onion (1): understanding interesting problems

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 28th May 201917th May 2020

This post is a sketch of a way of thinking about how problems work, and what we need to do to make our solutions (“the… Read More »The Onion (1): understanding interesting problems

Guidelines 2022

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 3rd January 20223rd January 2022
  • 1 Comment

Given that you already have far more than most people in history, and are as-good-as-certain to have more stuff than you’ll ever need even if… Read More »Guidelines 2022

Resource Magnet

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 10th December 202110th December 2021

Your job, of course, is to solve THE PROBLEM*. The next problem down is that there’s no way you can solve THE PROBLEM on your… Read More »Resource Magnet

Alan J. Perlis on Programming and Avoiding the Constipation of Philosophy

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 29th November 202129th November 2021

Educators, generals, dieticians, psychologists, and parents program. Armies, students, and some societies are programmed. An assault on large problems employs a succession of programs, most… Read More »Alan J. Perlis on Programming and Avoiding the Constipation of Philosophy

Technology (15): Jerry Neumann on technological systems and constellations of innovations

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 7th November 20217th November 2021

This extract comes from a much longer piece on Jerry Neumann’s blog, Reaction Wheel. Highly recommended. A Technological System is a set of technologies that… Read More »Technology (15): Jerry Neumann on technological systems and constellations of innovations

The machine that makes the machine; or, matryoshkas of change

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 22nd October 202122nd October 2021

Elon Musk isn’t (just) building cars at Tesla. He started by building a car, but the end was never the car: the end was a… Read More »The machine that makes the machine; or, matryoshkas of change

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