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Diamond knurling machined into a steel cylinder, the pattern sharpening from blur into focus across the frame.

On starting things before there is a business case

Not an argument for optimism. An argument about which questions can be answered before you start and which ones cannot.

Jan 24, 2026

A torn sheet of white lying across a weathered metal plate, the two surfaces meeting on one hard diagonal.

Fig.A torn sheet lying across a weathered plate. Most of what is written here is an attempt to get one straight edge onto something that did not arrive with one.

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