Tom Watson

Predictions for 2026 (or: What I'm Actually Thinking About)

The Predictions for 2026 that no-one asked for. Some of them are real, some are more just hope, most of them are firmly tongue in cheek. Also I set out 8 ideas I'm thinking about when it comes to tech and AI infrastructure.

Weeknote 30

Meeting people off the internet, kicking off a new project, doing some building, thinking out loud on the North East and Public Interest AI, running through bogs

Weeknote 29

A bumper two weeknote. Which LLM and How do you decide, Open Recommendations, Vibe Coding tips, Mapping my Swims, interesting things.

Which LLM? And how do YOU decide?

Thinking out loud on assessing which LLM models to use. Starting to build a framework based on real life applications

Weeknote 28

Modes of problem solving, the great unsettling, a bit of crap situation, rants about microsoft, some interesting things.

Weeknote 27

Two weeks with lots of things happening, visits to waterfalls, cakes oh yeah and work and interesting things. Collective resilience definitions, questions as an approach, mushrooms that make music

Weeknote 26

A double week. Lots of writing, lots of work, productive. Interesting things includes something called Sporesight Fungi as your Futurist - got to be worth a read just to get to that

Field Notes: Designing Entropic Systems

More on the exploration of what designing with uncertainty and entropy might mean. The Observability Dashboard, The Collective Foundation Model, The Entropic Fund

People as Code 4 - Entropic Systems

Embracing Entropy as a concept for design. Turning from the theoretical to the practical. Observability, not measurement. Questions as interfaces, data as plural

People as Code 3 - Quantum Uncertainty

What happens when we stop pretending control is ever possible and design with uncertainty.