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Long-form notes on AI applications, developer workflows, security, and what fast-moving markets reveal about execution.
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FinOps / Governance
Introducing Continuous Cost Governance
A working paper proposing Continuous Cost Governance (CCG), a vendor-neutral control specification that treats each material cost decision as a governed transaction with evidence, a named owner, proportionate authorization, and an independently verified outcome.
October 24, 2026·2 min read
Index
- AI / Practical Engineering
I Spent Six Months Playing With AI. Then I Found a Use Case Worth Building.
November 3, 202616 min read - Cybersecurity / Incident Analysis
Six Billion Dollars and a Missing Receipt
November 1, 20267 min read - AI / Cybersecurity
AI Is Raising the Interest Rate on Your Technical Debt
October 24, 20268 min read - FinOps / Governance
Introducing Continuous Cost Governance
October 24, 20262 min read - AI / Governance
My AI Agent Went Quiet. The Task Was Still Open.
October 11, 20265 min read - AI / Cybersecurity
Muse vs. Instinct, Hands On: What Two Weeks of Delegation Actually Taught Me
October 5, 20268 min read - FinOps / Governance
Introducing Continuous Cost Governance (Version 1.4)
September 23, 202636 min read - AI / Operations
Your AI Agent Will Have an Incident. Do You Have a Runbook?
September 23, 20269 min read - AI / Cybersecurity
Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection
September 23, 202610 min read - AI / Cybersecurity
The Handoff Nobody Negotiated
September 23, 20266 min read - AI / Cybersecurity
Shadow AI Is Just Shadow IT With Better Marketing
September 23, 20269 min read - AI / Cybersecurity
Your Agent, Their Rules: The Front-Door War Over Consumer AI
September 23, 20269 min read - AI / Governance
I Stopped Asking Which AI Is Best. I Started Building an AI Team.
September 17, 202614 min read - AI / Governance
The AI Governance Gap: Who Decides Which Model Gets Your Data?
August 10, 202618 min read - AI / Enterprise Architecture
Beyond One Model: Why the Future of Enterprise AI Is Multi-Model
August 10, 202614 min read - AI / FinOps
Right-Sizing Intelligence: The New Economics of Enterprise AI
August 10, 202618 min read - AI / Enterprise Architecture
Building an Enterprise AI Control Plane: The Architecture Beyond the Model
August 10, 202621 min read - Cybersecurity / Third-Party Risk
The EY Breach Shows Why Third-Party Risk Is Now Core Cyber Risk
July 20, 202610 min read - AI / Project Management
I Got My PMP, and Suddenly My Team Got Easier to Manage
July 8, 20264 min read - AI / Future of Work
What AI is doing to jobs, and why I built a tracker for it
July 4, 20268 min read - AI / Infrastructure
AI Is Becoming an Industrial Policy Race
July 3, 202610 min read - AI / Enterprise
The Forward Deployed Engineer May Be the Most Important Role in Enterprise AI
July 3, 20268 min read - AI · Cybersecurity
The Mythos Story Is a Warning for Security Leaders
July 1, 20267 min read - AI Infrastructure
When AI Runs Into Earth’s Limits, Space Stops Sounding Crazy
June 23, 20267 min read - AI / Infrastructure
I Asked My AI Agent to Deploy a Website to AWS
June 15, 20263 min read - AI / Data Strategy
You Can't Build AI on a Broken Data Foundation
June 15, 20268 min read - AI / Governance
Why the NIST AI RMF Matters More Now Than It Did a Year Ago
June 13, 20266 min read - AI / Infrastructure
The Ocean May Become the Next AI Data Center
June 11, 20269 min read - AI · Interfaces
The Next Home for AI May Not Be Your Screen
June 8, 202610 min read - AI · Infrastructure
The AI Stack War: Microsoft Wants the Brain, NVIDIA Wants the Factory
June 5, 202611 min read - AI · Infrastructure
Microsoft's Real AI Power Move Is the Stack
June 5, 202610 min read - AI · Delivery
AI Agents Need Managers Too
May 20, 202610 min read - AI · Critical thinking
The Hidden Cost of AI: Cognitive Offloading
May 17, 202616 min read - AI · Product
What Cursor's hypergrowth really teaches us
May 11, 202612 min read - Cloud · Resilience
The AWS Outage Is a Reminder That the Cloud Still Has a Physical Layer
May 8, 202610 min read - AI / Governance
Skynet, But Make It Corporate: When AI Starts Protecting Other AI
April 6, 20268 min read - AI / Security
AI Agents Are Getting More Capable, But Can We Trust Them?
March 20, 20267 min read - AI / Agents
I Installed OpenClaw Expecting to Be Curious. I Did Not Expect Real Value Within Four Hours.
March 18, 20267 min read - Data / AI
Why Unifying Your Data Is Now a Business Imperative
March 16, 20266 min read - Security / Healthcare
Stryker's Cyberattack Shows Healthcare Cyber Risk Is Operational Risk
March 12, 20264 min read - AI / Architecture
Don't Start With Agents. Start With the Simplest Architecture That Works.
February 12, 202610 min read - AI / Healthcare
Managing AI Risk in Healthcare: Security, Privacy, and Governance with the NIST AI RMF
March 17, 20257 min read - Security / Telecom
AT&T's Dark Web Debacle: 73 Million Customers Compromised
March 30, 20245 min read - Security / AI
The Double-Edged Sword of AI: Implications for Cybersecurity Professionals
February 24, 20244 min read - AI / Apple
The AI Arms Race: How Apple's 32 Acquisitions Are Shaping Tech
February 24, 20246 min read - Security / Healthcare
Cybersecurity Alert: UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare Faces Systemic Attack
February 22, 20243 min read - Telecom / Resilience
When Calls Fall Silent: Unpacking the Nationwide AT&T Service Disruption
February 22, 20245 min read - Security / Identity
Breach Alert: Former Employee's Account Compromises State Government Network
February 17, 20245 min read - AI / OpenAI
Unveiling the Future of AI: Insights from Sam Altman's Latest Interview
January 17, 20246 min read - AI / Platforms
From Bard to Gemini Ultra: Google's Pioneering AI Evolution
September 9, 20236 min read - AI / Infrastructure
Exploring the NVIDIA GPU Software Ecosystem: Unveiling Opportunities and Insights
September 8, 20236 min read - Linux / Open Source
Embracing the Penguin: A Guide to the Top 10 Linux Distributions
September 7, 20239 min read - AI / Governance
AI Containment: A Call to Action for the Tech Community
September 6, 20236 min read - Cloud / Strategy
Decoding the Benefits of Cloud Computing for Modern Businesses
September 5, 20235 min read - AI / Enterprise
Unleashing the Power of AI in the Enterprise: A Deep Dive into Jim Snabe's C3 Transform 2023 Keynote
September 4, 20237 min read - Cloud / AWS
The ABCs of Migrating Servers to AWS: An IT Perspective
September 3, 20238 min read - Cloud / AWS
Best Practices for Navigating AWS: Insights from the "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 2023"
September 3, 20238 min read