Analysis and essays — data platforms, systems, and thinking in public.https://johnkinson.com/enhttps://johnkinson.com/analysis/from-market-signals-to-data-ai-propositions/https://johnkinson.com/analysis/from-market-signals-to-data-ai-propositions/An independent framework for turning authoritative public evidence and sector research into commercially credible data and AI opportunities.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/articles/sometimes-i-just-sit/https://johnkinson.com/articles/sometimes-i-just-sit/Not every spare moment needs to become useful.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/analysis/kubrick-opportunity-strategy/https://johnkinson.com/analysis/kubrick-opportunity-strategy/A research-backed portfolio of enterprise AI opportunities, centered on how Kubrick could turn governed agent platforms into delivery pods, placements and retained client capability.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/analysis/who-actually-maintains-trinos-connectors/https://johnkinson.com/analysis/who-actually-maintains-trinos-connectors/Two years of commits to every documented Trino connector, with fleet-wide housekeeping separated from real attention: the lakehouse three absorb half of it, the median connector gets less than one specific commit a month, and two people write a third of all of it.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/analysis/every-disagreement-is-the-same-disagreement/https://johnkinson.com/analysis/every-disagreement-is-the-same-disagreement/146 years of House roll-call votes: American politics was often this divided, but it has never been this one-dimensional. 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Even "I'm just being practical."Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/reports/consent-control-gap.htmlhttps://johnkinson.com/reports/consent-control-gap.htmlWhy voting no longer reaches far enough. A 22,000-word structural analysis of British democratic discontent — through trust data, comparative institutional design, and four policy machinery maps.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/reports/querying-is-easy.htmlhttps://johnkinson.com/reports/querying-is-easy.htmlFive layers, six definitions of revenue, and a seventy-point accuracy cliff when text-to-SQL meets real enterprise schemas. A field report on federation and the semantic layer in May 2026.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/essays/who-is-actually-in-charge/https://johnkinson.com/essays/who-is-actually-in-charge/On voting, potholes, and decisions taken without us.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/reports/frontier-is-crowded.htmlhttps://johnkinson.com/reports/frontier-is-crowded.htmlSix benchmarks, nineteen models, and four exploit techniques that score 100% without solving anything. A field report on what LLM evaluation actually looks like in May 2026.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/essays/an-englishman-in-america/https://johnkinson.com/essays/an-englishman-in-america/On scale, culture, and what it actually feels like to move from one English-speaking country to the other one.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/essays/inside-the-machinery/https://johnkinson.com/essays/inside-the-machinery/The orderly version of a large organization is roughly as accurate as a tube map. Useful for navigation. Not, strictly speaking, much else.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/articles/good-technology-disappears/https://johnkinson.com/articles/good-technology-disappears/Infrastructure only enters the conversation when it fails.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnkinson.com/articles/slow-in-the-right-places/https://johnkinson.com/articles/slow-in-the-right-places/The question isn't fast versus slow. It's whether you can tell wandering from drifting.Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT