Mixing a Song Is a Lot Like Building a Power Flow Case đź”—
I’ve been writing music for several years now. What started with an alto sax in marching band has evolved into 9 guitars, a five-string bass, a drumse [...]
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Why Induction Studies Matter More as the Grid Gets More Crowded đź”—
As transmission corridors become more congested, the space around energized infrastructure is becoming more valuable and more complicated. Utilities a [...]
The Grid Still Can’t Predict How Its Own Generators Behave 🔗
APRIL ISSUE OF THE CURRENT Since 2016, grid disturbances have triggered more than 15,000 MW of unexpected generation loss from inverter-based resource [...]
Crossed Wires: When Expectations Obscure Reality đź”—
A recurring theme in both life and work is expectation versus reality, and how basing your understanding too much on previous patterns can blind you t [...]
Learning to love other people’s code. 🔗
As developers, I think we’ve all been there. A client asks for a “small change” to a project you’re maintaining. You didn’t write the code, but the re [...]
What We Learned at NASPI đź”—
The power grid is evolving faster than ever, and the discussions at this year’s Novel Applications for Synchronized Power Instrumentation (NASPI) Work [...]
Exploring the CIM Through the Organizations That Make It Happen đź”—
“Coming together is a beginning;keeping together is progress;working together is success.” —Henry Ford Image source: The School of Athens by Raphael ( [...]
What an Air Traffic Control Tower Taught Me About Software Design đź”—
While on a trip to Phoenix, a friend of mine who is a retired air traffic controller was able to arrange a tour through the local union rep of the con [...]
Building a UX Research Brain: Atomic Research, Zettelkasten, and Obsidian đź”—
If you work in product design or research, your organization has likely suffered from a chronic condition that I like to call “Research Amnesia.” It u [...]
Patterns of Knowing in Product Design đź”—
Intro In Marty Cagan’s book Inspired, he describes the frustrating experience of laboring long to develop product features that went ignored by consum [...]