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How to judge technology when you are the one writing the check. Plain language, one idea at a time.

October 25, 2026 · 3 min read

What Ends the Game?

A fund has an end date; a family office does not. Whose game a company is inside shapes how it is run, and three questions to add to a diligence co...

  • Family offices
  • Investing horizon

October 20, 2026 · 5 min read

The Pipe You Cannot See

From a burst elbow at Surry to Flint to a water-sensor review: why hardware that lives in water needs people who understand materials.

  • Technical diligence
  • Materials
  • Water

October 20, 2026 · 6 min read

How Technical Diligence Is Done

Most of a diligence review is spent on the team. What I look for, how I read a chief executive, why belief is all there is at the start, and what w...

  • Technical diligence
  • Teams
  • Family offices

October 20, 2026 · 7 min read

Math Is Not a Ladder

Math is a set of branches, not one ladder of courses, and the useful skill is knowing which branch a problem belongs to: a sailor's chart, physics,...

  • How I think
  • Mathematics
  • Computing

October 20, 2026 · 3 min read

The Demo Is the Small Version

Every demo works. For a family office with no technical team, the useful question is what happens when the problem is ten times larger.

  • Technical diligence
  • Family offices