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Decision Space

A good system should fit inside your head.

If you struggle to explain it, it might be too complicated.

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James S. Bayley
Sep 23, 2026
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A man holds loose cables and scratches his head beside racks of network equipment densely packed with yellow and white wiring.
Everything is connected. The challenge is understanding how.

The location was Southampton. The brief was to rebuild a spreadsheet. Then we discovered that nobody understood the entire process anymore. The knowledge existed, but it was scattered. Before we could start the rebuild, we had to first understand how we’d got to where we were.

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