Essays and writing on economics, competition, philosophy, and ideas.
Eleven pieces on the £2 billion industry nobody writes about
A data-driven history of the UK economics consultancy market. Ninety firms, twenty-five years, every Companies House filing read. From Derek Ridyard's 2002 walkout of NERA to Jacobs's £3 billion acquisition of PA Consulting. Visual charts, narrative history, and the methodology behind it all.
The fire that never sleeps — and the question of whether we should let it burn
The impulse to compete drives progress, both for the individual and the species. It is a force that never sleeps. From Peter Thiel's contrarian take on monopolies to Girard's mimetic desire, this essay explores competition across sport, philosophy, economics, and everyday life.
A self-paced curriculum for engineers learning to build with Claude Code
Ten modules and eight patches covering AI engineering fundamentals — from prerequisites and journaling through agentic workflows, evals, and shipping. Built from Matt Pocock's aihero.dev posts, the “It Ain't Broke” keynote, and the Anthropic docs. Sidebar navigation, progress checkboxes, and a 21-skill appendix.
A 100-page working script for using agentic coding in empirical research
A complete, hands-on course taking a working economist from a messy folder of CSVs to delegating the boring 80% while keeping the judgment. Six parts — research workflows, writing and Beamer, planning before delegation, reusable skills and subagents, Git, and the safe handling of sensitive data — with dialogues, exercises, a capstone, and a four-week schedule. Sidebar navigation, progress tracking, and dark mode.