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More Than Gadgets
Useful tech reviews, looking at how far technology has come and how cheaply you can do things. It is a shift away from annual upgrades: replace it when it breaks, not just when a new model arrives.
Main features
Follow the work.
Two places to see what I’m doing: useful technology in practice, and notes from the systems underneath it.
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The notebook
The blog
Observations, questions and the occasional attempt to make a complicated system easier to see. Follow the threads behind the work.
Personal notes · working evidence
Making the signal visible.
I'm Andrew Hawley. I work across energy, finance, technology and local infrastructure — following the gap between what people are told and what they can actually see. I've most recently expanded into software development and AI integration — check out seam.systems for more on that.
Ask better questions.
What I follow
A few useful angles.
See the system
Energy is never just energy. I look at the incentives, infrastructure and decisions underneath the headline.
Build in public
The businesses I’m involved with are practical experiments in making complicated markets more legible.
Speak plainly
Talks and conversations for people who want the useful version — the trade-offs, not the theatre.
Keep notes
The blog is where I test ideas, record what changed, and leave a trail for anyone following along.
Two more ways in
YouTube
Shorter pieces of the same work: follow the signal, test the story, keep the useful bits.
@aelhawley
More Than Gadgets
Useful tech reviews, looking at how far technology has come and how cheaply you can do things. It is a shift away from annual upgrades: replace it when it breaks, not just when a new model arrives.
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A connected portfolio.
Energy, finance, technology and local infrastructure — practical businesses and software projects built around making complicated systems more useful.
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Backing the places I’m part of.
Trustee roles with organisations creating opportunity and strengthening communities across Calderdale.
CFFC
Community Foundation for Calderdale
A local charity supporting charities and voluntary groups across Calderdale, addressing inequalities and creating opportunities for those who need them most; part of UK Community Foundations; over £34m distributed in grants since 1991.
Trustee and Chair of Finance
Appointed 2023; volunteered since 2009, previously Chair 2013–2018.
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Halifax Opportunities Trust
A regeneration charity (est. 2000, operating since 2002) based in Park Ward, Halifax, creating vibrant, multicultural, self-sustaining communities; a community anchor organisation delivering employment support, apprenticeships, adult learning (incl. ESOL), childcare, wellbeing and enterprise/workspace; socially enterprising — generates income through trading and contracts.
Contact
Have a question, invitation or useful problem?
For speaking, partnerships or anything connected to the work, email Andrew directly.
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