John Kinson
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Who Is Actually in Charge?
On voting, potholes, and decisions taken without us.
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All →- 12 May 2026
An Englishman in America
On scale, culture, and what it actually feels like to move from one English-speaking country to the other one.
- 11 May 2026
On Paper, Yes
The orderly version of a large organization is roughly as accurate as a tube map. Useful for navigation. Not, strictly speaking, much else.
Notes
All →- 16 July 2026
Sometimes I Just Sit
Not every spare moment needs to become useful.
- 2 July 2026
All Roads Lead to Philosophy
Everything turns into philosophy if you poke it long enough. Even "I'm just being practical."
- 11 May 2026
Good Technology Disappears
Infrastructure only enters the conversation when it fails.
Analysis
All →- 14 July 2026
The Enterprise AI Opportunity Atlas
A research-backed portfolio of enterprise AI opportunities, centered on how Kubrick could turn governed agent platforms into delivery pods, placements and retained client capability.
- 6 July 2026
Who Actually Maintains Trino's Connectors?
Two years of commits to every documented Trino connector, with fleet-wide housekeeping separated from real attention: the lakehouse three absorb half of it, the median connector gets less than one specific commit a month, and two people write a third of all of it.
- 4 July 2026
Every Disagreement Is the Same Disagreement
146 years of House roll-call votes: American politics was often this divided, but it has never been this one-dimensional. The second axis of conflict is dead, and that changes how everything else works.