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Observing Complements in an Urn

A crawler paper turns out to hide a tidy piece of algebra. Two independent knobs, one complement operator, and every characteristic time comes out as an odds — a rate divided by its own bar.

Conway's Law — How Do Committees Invent?

An infographic on Melvin Conway's 1968 paper. Organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structures — and the consequences are more profound than most teams realize.

From the Periphery

Where measurement meets meaning. An introduction to what this blog is about.