Hi, I'm Ben
I make small, one-off things here. Sometimes they're useful.
Things I've Made
- Bias Cascade: Hiring Funnel Simulator
- Chesterton's Fence: Why It's There
- CLEAR: Clear Letter on Equity and Remuneration
- Complexity Tax Calculator
- Do / Be / Understand: Life Impulse Triangle
- Exercise Journal
- Feedback Loops: Reinforcing vs Balancing
- Goodhart's Gambler: When Metrics Become Targets
- Keynes Quote Killer
- Librarian or Butler? AI Agent Explorer
- Lobster Pitch: A YC Adventure
- Musical Looper Scratchpad
- Oblique Strategies for Tech
- Principal-Agent: The Alignment Problem
- Rulebook vs Sandbox: Learning Morality
- Semantic Drift: The Accidental Semiotics Shuffle
- Simpson's Paradox: When Aggregation Lies
- Strait of Hormuz Minesweeper
- Sustainable Pace: The Burnout Equation
- Survivorship Bias: The Hidden Failures
- The Sticky Starter: Anchoring Effect
- The Agentic Workflow Paradox
- The Legibility Game: Governance & Trust
- The Standards Proliferation Machine
- Technical Debt: The Compounding Interest
- Trilemmas and Tradeoffs
- Viral Coefficient: The Growth Equation
Elsewhere