If you have ever worked for an organisation looking to measure productivity by tracking KPIs or OKR targets, you may have thought to yourself some variation of the following When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure This is known as Goodhart’s Law, named after…

I live in Berlin, Germany. I work for the Max Planck Institute, a highly trusted public institution backed by long term state funding. …

A most critical document for a State is its constitution. As a social contract, it is the foundation for peace. Constitutions lay out the rules and procedures for the country, its institutions and its citizens. They define how to balance powers and manage internal conflict. Within these documents lies a…

On 31st October 2008 I submitted my physics PhD thesis to the Student Centre at UCL and concluded my unremarkable career as a physicist. …

I recently did the most obvious thing, after a lifetime avoiding business studies classes at school, I started my first company! Data Apparel sells clothing that is inspired by data on international development. It is not obvious that a trajectory beginning with academic training in Physics, scientific research into…

What is the summer for, if not reading? Here is a small summary of the things I have read this summer sat in parks, lying on grass, in bed and in airports and on trains. …

Deep Learning is here! Deep learning is hot! Every start-up pitch worth it’s seed funding mentions Deep Learning! Yet like many over-hyped technologies, very few people when pressed can tell you what it actually is. …

I recall a sudden sense of enlightenment tinged with futureshock when I first asked my teller for an explanation of why I was not approved for a credit card (back when I first arrived in the U.S. without a credit score). …

Many of the personal reflections of 2016 have been pretty negative. So I wanted to focus on an aspect that was very good for me. It was a good year for reading. I got into a great routine for long periods at a time; reading for an hour before bed…