Systems that settle, in software and in teams
Small tools to think with.
I'm Charlie O'Donoghue, a solutions architect in EV charging infrastructure. I build small tools to think with, read further into a problem than it strictly needs, and write up what I find so I stop forgetting it.
Out now · BK-001
Four short meetings that keep a team understanding each other, for software and product teams and the managers who lead them. Why every conversation loses some meaning, and how a team wins it back.
Also out · BK-002How EV Charging Actually Works
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Latest memoranda
All writing →- Flexibility is the grid's fastest loopElectricity flexibility explained through system dynamics, from Jay Forrester's delays at MIT to a grid that has to balance every second, and the GB programmes that now pay homes to help.
- The bath has an equationThe grid's bath, written as maths. The swing equation, why less spinning metal makes frequency fall faster, and what makes a grid settle rather than run away.
- If you're not at the table, you're on the menuIn two years MCP went from one company's release to the way AI agents reach everything else. It won by being usable first, not best, and that changes who gets a say.