Archive - Decisions, Decisions by Martin Robbins

Eating your own dog food: on school meals and the government's chronic information problem.

Food parcels were mismanaged. Some really simple principles could fix that.

Jan 13, 2021 •

Martin F. Robbins

Big Tech crosses the Rubicon

From tech unions to legislators, numerous parties are joining the war for the Internet. It's not obvious that any of them can help make it a better…

Jan 11, 2021 •

Martin F. Robbins

November 2020

What is the point of FiveThirtyEight?

Forecasts and predictions are a growing part of our lives, but are we missing the point of them?

Nov 16, 2020 •

Martin F. Robbins

September 2020

Data Theatre: Why the Digital Dashboards of Dominic Cummings may not help with COVID

More data does not necessarily lead to better decisions.

Sep 10, 2020 •

Martin F. Robbins

July 2020

Killing the retweet, and other ways to fix Twitter

Twitter is caught between two product visions. Which should it choose?

Jul 9, 2020 •

Martin F. Robbins

June 2020

How Twitter builds villains, and how to fix it.

Products don't exist in a vacuum. The things we build and the people who use them can interact with the wider world in unexpected ways.

Jun 22, 2020 •

Martin F. Robbins

May 2020

This Curious Endeavour

Before the what comes the why

May 28, 2020 •

Martin F. Robbins

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