Hi, I’m Steve ‘Zed’ Muir.

This is my little corner of the internet for professional thoughts and personal mutterings.

After a 22-year career in the British Army, I eventually found my way into project risk management. Much of my professional writing here now revolves around risk, project controls, data, decision-making and the various tools and techniques I pick up along the way.

I enjoy understanding how things work, particularly when that involves digging beneath the surface rather than simply accepting that something works because somebody says it does. That curiosity tends to lead me in all sorts of directions, so the occasional post about technology, photography, computing, or something else entirely should probably be expected.

But work is only part of life.

I’m married to my wonderful wife and best friend, Yasmin. We’ve been together since 1999 and somehow still quite like each other.

Yassi and me in Nuremberg

Stanley joined our family in September 2023. 🥰🥰

Stanley’s passport photo!

Family, travel, and the everyday nonsense that makes life interesting have always found their way into my writing. Some of the older posts on this site originally lived on a much more personal blog, and I have decided to bring a selection of them back rather than leave them gathering digital dust.

They are not polished professional articles and were never intended to be. They are snapshots of places, people, and moments that mattered to me at the time.

We also share our lives with Coco, who has considerably less interest in project risk management.

Coco, looking suitably magnificent

What you’ll find here

The professional side will mostly cover subjects such as project risk management, project controls, data analysis and the tools I use or experiment with.

The personal side is far less predictable. Photography, travel, wildlife, family stories, technology, old adventures and anything else that seems worth recording may appear without warning.

Some posts are intended to explain something useful. Others exist simply because I wanted to write them down.

That mixture is deliberate.

This site started as somewhere to document things I was learning, particularly around technology and cybersecurity. My interests and career have moved on since then, but I still like having somewhere independent to write, experiment, and preserve things that would otherwise disappear into the endless scroll of the internet.

If something here is useful, interesting or makes you smile, then it has probably done its job.

Comments and differing perspectives are always welcome. I firmly believe that we can all learn something from each other.

Peas & Love

Zed