Tableau vs Power BI for Queensland government teams
A straight comparison focused on licensing, governance and the reality of public-sector stacks.
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Plain, senior perspectives on getting value from data: benefit realisation, choosing tools, AI-ready data, and building custom apps. If a question here is on your mind, we’re always happy to talk it through.
3 September 2025 · 8 min read
Silicon Valley's Will to Power: How AI Ethics Became a Global Order
Reading Silicon Valley's AI ethics through Nietzsche, Heidegger and Schopenhauer reveals a will to power that cannot restrain itself, and why only external pressure can redirect it.
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25 August 2025 · 8 min read
A New Priestly Class: Nietzsche, Morality, and Silicon Valley
Following the Kierkegaard critique, this second essay turns to Nietzsche's genealogy of morals to ask whether Silicon Valley's AI labs have become a self-authorising priestly class.
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18 August 2025 · 6 min read
Why Silicon Valley's "Good AI" Is Built on a Bad Assumption
Silicon Valley codes moral universals into its AI and calls the ethical work done, but Kierkegaard warned that the crowd's morality can never replace the individual's responsibility.
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11 June 2025 · 7 min read
From Data to Dialogue: Why Pure Objectivity in Analytics is a Philosophical Dead End
Rethinking data visualisation through the lens of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
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4 August 2022 · 7 min read
Measuring benefits with data visualisation
How interactive dashboards turn benefit management plans into measured, evidence-based benefit realisation for transport programs and portfolios.
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13 January 2020 · 5 min read
How to Build Responsive Icons in Tableau
A practical walkthrough for creating responsive icons in Tableau that recalculate on the fly to show whether a metric has improved, stayed the same or worsened.
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11 March 2017 · 5 min read
How Thomas Kuhn can help your business innovate
The philosopher of scientific revolutions has a lesson for established businesses: to stay relevant, learn to disrupt your own paradigm.
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7 March 2017 · 5 min read
Four ways philosophy can help you future-proof your business
Strong businesses solve problems. Stronger businesses take the time to define them. A philosophical attitude to problem-solving, in four habits.
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What a custom business app actually gets you
Where custom software beats spreadsheets and BI tools, and what the ongoing plan covers.