What We Learned at NASPI 🔗
The power grid is evolving faster than ever, and the discussions at this year’s Novel Applications for Synchronized Power Instrumentation (NASPI) Work [...]
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Exploring the CIM Through the Organizations That Make It Happen 🔗
“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 🔗
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 🔗
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 🔗
Intro In Marty Cagan’s book Inspired, he describes the frustrating experience of laboring long to develop product features that went ignored by consum [...]
The Tmux Intro I Wish I Had Gotten 🔗
I’ve been using tmux for five or six years now. I encountered it on a project that was using Overmind to locally manage processes for an application u [...]
A New Kind of Load. The Same Old Playbook. 🔗
Originally published in our March The Current newsletter. Subscribe on LinkedIn. — — ERCOT has more than 225 GW of large load requests working through [...]
Automating Grid Reliability 🔗
The stability of the electric grid relies fundamentally on maintaining two key parameters: frequency and voltage. These must stay within tight operati [...]
Eggsperimenting 🔗
At a young age, I internalized the Pokémon mantra: Gotta catch ‘em all. For me, that took the form of animal rearing: mice, hermit crabs, guinea pigs, [...]
Dance Together — Stop Resisting And Just Dance 🔗
My second grader was giddy as we were getting ready for his 90s-themed choir concert. He mentioned a “big surprise” at the end that he couldn’t share. [...]