What I learnt at Vow
Lessons from three and a half years building manufacturing, software, and teams at Vow.
Don’t choose your university degree too early
The case for encouraged experimentation before discipline choice in Australian universities
The outbreak we (unfortunately) needed to have to force a paradigm shift away from COVID Zero
Do COVID Zero nations need to cross a chasm to catch up with reality? Was the NSW outbreak earlier than we would have liked, but inevitable in the long run?
A misdirected attempt at Big Tech regulation
Don’t mistake an exhibition of political power for an attempt at regulating economic power
We must change our economic objectives
If we extrapolate 1000 years into the future, what will our current economic structures and systems lead to? On a planet with finite resources, growth alone cannot be the sole objective of the economic system. We must evolve what we direct our society towards to ensure that in the long term, we are the winners
Avoiding geopolitical risk in the Australian agriculture sector
Can the Australian agricultural sector stay out of the firing line as Sino-Australian tensions rise?
Australia's future energy mix in 2100 - a clear case for nuclear energy
Fossil fuels emissions are one of the great contributors to climate change. How can Australia best adapt its old fashioned fossil fuel based grid into the future? The answer is a combination of solar, wind and nuclear
How we model COVID-19
In this post we look at how we can model COVID-19 using simple SIR models. We try to understand how different policy responses lead to different outcomes for public health. We also consider what COVID-19 might look like in the long term (in Australia) and sharpen our skills in ordinary differential equations, python, numpy and matplotlib
The natural next step for computing
We can see the future potential of changing how we architect computers so they involve the internet layer. It wont be easy, but it can provide significant upside for businesses and individuals. As we move to a future where more and more devices connect to the internet, the more accessible your computer becomes, the more effective you can be.
