Personal principles
I live and work by a set of principles and take a candid approach to relationships and problem solving.
Collaborations and partnerships are built on mutual benefit and good faith. In this way, individuals create value in sustained relationships at the lowest cost.
Problems are ideally resolved building from a first principles understandings of reality delivering cohesive, rigorous, sustainable solutions with the lowest opportunity cost. Assumptions and precedents impede the emergence of resilient solutions.
Design orders the future, deserving great consideration. Where the laws of the physical universe define possibility, design choices have the opportunity cost of any other future.
Sustainability is the preservation of choice, encompassing the complex trade-off of economics, resources, and human intention. Design sustainability requires holistic thinking as all consequences are only experienced by our future selves.
Value emerges in exchange for individuals predicated on a diversity of perspective and perception. Heterogeneity expands the possibility frontier for everyone, and a shared perspective allows the better calibration of risk.
Design methodology
I developed a design methodology for addressing complex problems. Design by Rationalised Constraint© (DesignBRC) is problem solving where solving is working toward rather than working from. The intention of Design by Rationalised Constraint© is to achieve a state of optimality closest to the opportunity, defined by those knowable constraints that are in operation.
The Knowledge Problem and opportunity can be understood to have a number of dimensions. Ludwig Lachmann’s concept of Radical Uncertainty is temporal and existential. Human agency only exists in an acting relationship to a future that is probabilistically radically uncertain. This is the basis for Taleb’s Black Swans. Simply, history is absolutely no predictor of future performance.
There are exogenous factors beyond knowing. Yet the human agent continues to exist and act. Von Mises and Hayek demonstrated all knowledge available to humans is locationally specific. Even the ‘laws of physics’ have their specific value where they apply, and therefore their implications are not knowable independent of location.
Being Aspergers
The strength that comes with my neurology is the ability to see systems down to great detail. I am able to zoom out and see the gestalt of the system as well.
People are often surprised when I’m quite open about being Aspergers. I sometimes get sideways glances because I do not behave as they might expect. This is part down to the fact I am high functioning, but that I do not avoid social settings, and make a daily effort to overcome the difficulties with social engagement.
This is not possible for all those with the same attribute, and it has not been easy for me. I choose to be open about my atypical neurology in the hopes that others like me will see it’s possible to lead a team, lead a company, and communicate a vision and make an impact.
Expertise
Commercial strategy
Systems design
Business models
Platform businesses
Economic modelling
Industrial design
Electromagnetics
