Ron Bronson

Building things. Critical urbanism. Anti-manipulation engineering. 18F alum. / ronbronson.com Assistant Professor of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich 〽️

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Your AI Agent (or your printer) is Not a Coworker

Agentic Management is a skill issue

2d ago·6 min read·1186 words

Technologist is not a job

Towards a better framework for public delivery work

4d ago·3 min read·586 words

The Banality of Rules

How technology enablement facilitates burdens

May 11·9 min read·1721 words

Another bad creation: O27 (or how I broke baseball)

What happens when you turn a 9-inning baseball game into a single inning with 27 outs?

May 4·16 min read·3194 words

Building a team chemistry model

Improving how teams work together in a text sim

Apr 30·7 min read·1323 words

Changelog for Oregontennis.org

Apr 22·2 min read·285 words

The Chip Window

How to eliminate tanking from the NBA draft lottery, while raising the incentives to win.

Apr 15·7 min read·1256 words

More sims led to more changes

Lots of iteration this week as I got through some to-do items that had been on my list for a while. Others were nagging problems I saw from playtesting.

Mar 27·5 min read·863 words

Bringing the nerdiest problem in sports to my fake football game

Mar 24·6 min read·1048 words

What the Delta Kickoff System Actually Is

Viperball has a strange way of handling kickoffs -- by eliminating them -- and some data on how the Delta system doesn't correlate to worse results for winning teams.

Mar 15·5 min read·816 words

I Asked for a Box Score. I Ended Up Building a Universe.

Coding a Fictional League into Existence

Mar 1·5 min read·900 words