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Emergency Stops – The Ugly truth of 2026 projects!
I hope that everyone doesn’t mind me using this column to highlight some issues with my day job! The fact…
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Who’s An Expert?
My job title contains the word “expert”, as does the name of my company. I work almost exclusively nowadays as…
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The AI of the future. Is it a future that we want?
It seems inevitable that most of us will have our workplaces impacted by AI. Whether or not this impact will…
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Hydrogen Storage: Innovation or Inefficiency?
This post of LinkedIn caught my attention and my curiosity. Slick graphics and well presented. I am not disputing that…
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Why ‘Monkey Work’ Makes Better Engineers
I’m seeing a greater number of social media posts about how great it is that computers have freed ‘engineers’ from…
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The Growth of Industry and Communities
I was pondering recently has the demise of industry throughout the UK reduced the impact on the community. Living in…
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There’s no Me In Team. Oh Wait….
LinkedIn is full of middle management types spouting poorly-understood stuff about psychology they got third-hand from some AI-written copypasta. The…
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Net Zero or Net Contradiction?
As the UK seeks to meet it’s net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, it seems counterintuitive that as the sitting…
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Loss of Services – have you got a plan?
In this world with freak weather and service interruptions becoming more frequent it is more important than ever to know…
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How Can Someone Be Overqualified?
I’ve been a freelance for a long time now, since the mid-nineties. These days I don’t get much exposure to…
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