OfTech — by Warren Fauvel. Intelligence is distributed, not centralized. The institutions that win are built to deploy, not to wait. And we're aiming our best tool at the nearest revenue line instead of the world-ending problems. Essays, data, and notes on AI, climate, and the gap between what we can build and what we choose to.https://www.observatoryfor.tech/en-ushttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/explorations-interface-beats-model/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/explorations-interface-beats-model/AI token generation already outpaces humanity's reading capacity, and the gap compounds ~25%/month. A data check on the Winking claim that the interface — not the model — is the bottleneck. The cross-over is real; the proof that interface beats model still needs A/B evidence.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTExplorationsai-researchepistemicsWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-superpower-superwaste/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-superpower-superwaste/We built the most powerful reasoning tool in history and aimed it at better marketing funnels. A look at the deployments quietly bending carbon curves — steel, cement, shipping, grids — and an argument for pointing the technology at problems that matter.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:capability-ambitionai-strategyclimate-techclimate-policyindustrial-transformationWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-case-for-less-software/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-case-for-less-software/In 1982 Bill Atkinson reported '-2000' lines of code and management stopped asking him to fill in the form. Tokens are the new lines-of-code. Why the benchmark for AI tools will shift from how much they produce to how precisely they think.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:distributed-intelai-strategyepistemicsWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-doppler-trap/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-doppler-trap/Waiting for better technology is individually rational — until a whole industry waits at once and the gap compounds. The durable bet is not picking the winning platform; it is building an organisation that can absorb and deploy change faster than the field.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:deploy-dont-waitai-strategyclimate-techindustrial-transformationWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-intelligence-grind/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-intelligence-grind/Technology intelligence fails not through missing information but through missing structure — Chrome tabs, shared drives, and knowledge that walks out the door when someone leaves. The case for systems that are deterministic in method and Bayesian in output.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:deploy-dont-waitai-strategyorganisational-architectureepistemicsWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-knowledge-problem/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-knowledge-problem/The dream of one general intelligence that knows everything is a Hayekian mistake. Why the AI that wins will not be the most general model but thousands of private oracles — shaped by proprietary data and institutional knowledge no general model can hold.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:distributed-intelai-strategyorganisational-architectureWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-selfie-problem/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-the-selfie-problem/Vibe coding produces a lot of bad software — and so did the camera-phone, desktop publishing, and the Kodak Brownie before it. Why democratised creation wins anyway, what it still leaves to domain expertise, and where the compute divide limits the story.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:distributed-intelai-strategyepistemicsWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-winking-at-a-touchscreen/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-winking-at-a-touchscreen/Agentic AI hands you a finished output and removes the iteration where thinking actually sharpens. The problem is not the model's capability — it is the interface. A case for collaboration over procurement, and keeping humans genuinely in the loop.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:deploy-dont-waitai-strategyorganisational-architectureWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/explorations-the-numbers-behind-the-mismatch/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/explorations-the-numbers-behind-the-mismatch/Hard-to-abate sectors produce 13.5% of global emissions but attract under 7.4% of clean investment — here's what the data can and cannot prove.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTExplorationslens:capital-gapclimate-researchdata-scienceWarren Fauvelhttps://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-dig-up-stupid/https://www.observatoryfor.tech/blog/thoughts-dig-up-stupid/The cleanest climate investments tell the best stories, but the math of impact lives in steel, cement, shipping... the "dirty industries". Facing that gap is an important step to actually reversing climate change.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThoughtslens:capital-gapclimate-policyclimate-techindustrial-transformationWarren Fauvel