Ghostwriting Speeches: Writing for the Ear and the Moment
July 6, 2026
Speechwriting is ghostwriting for the ear and the moment. A speech has to sound right spoken aloud and carry the speaker's voice.
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CybersecurityThe People Getting Attacked Are the Ones Nobody Writes For
July 6, 2026
There is a great deal of security writing and almost none of it is addressed to the people losing money.
Book MarketingGhost Blogging: Consistent Content Under Your Name
July 5, 2026
Ghost blogging produces consistent, on-voice content under your name. The craft is volume without going flat, and substance a machine cannot fake.
GhostwritingWhat a Ghostwriter Really Does: The Full Job Description
July 5, 2026
A ghostwriter's real job is far more than writing. It is interviewing, structuring, voice-matching, and disappearing completely.
CybersecurityThe Ransomware Years: When Laptops Became Bricks
July 4, 2026
Somebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
BusinessRetraining Beat Fear Then. It Is the Answer to AI Panic Now.
July 4, 2026
I have watched a workforce fear a new technology before, and I watched the fear dissolve. It did not dissolve because of reassurance, town halls, or enthusiasm campaigns. It dissolved because we retrained people, and training is the only answer…
CybersecurityMy Own Site Got Hit: Anatomy of a WordPress Supply-Chain Attack
July 4, 2026
The email said malware had been quarantined on my site and I had three days to fix it. Deleting the file took a minute. The forensics took two days, and the trail ended somewhere worse than a break-in: the plugin…
CybersecurityThe Day Every Safety Net Failed: Anatomy of a Cascading Disaster
July 4, 2026
My consultant called while I was driving to a Renaissance fair: the power had failed, the generator had not come on, one UPS was missing, a coin-sized battery had died, the DR link had been down for two days, and…
BusinessGetting People Off Paper: The First Fight Is Never Technical
July 4, 2026
Nobody stood on a desk. The resistance was quieter and more durable: ledgers kept in bottom drawers, spreadsheets shadowing the new system, a steady preference for the world people knew. Underneath it all was a fear nobody said out loud.
CybersecurityEight Years of PCI Audits: The Most Thankless Heroics in IT
July 4, 2026
Pass the audit and nothing happens. Fail it and the company loses the ability to take credit cards. For eight straight years I carried a major retailer through PCI audits that nobody outside IT ever noticed, and that invisibility is…
BusinessWe Did Digital Transformation Before It Had a Name
July 4, 2026
Nobody in the room called it digital transformation, because the term did not exist. We had a retailer running accounting, HR, and payroll on paper, a mandate to computerize all of it, and years later the industry invented a name…
CybersecurityThe Auditor Who Graded Us on Spirit, Not Letter
July 4, 2026
Our PCI auditor looked at a legacy database connection we could not afford to rebuild and said: wrap it in a VPN. That sentence introduced us to mitigating controls, turned a six-figure project into a configuration change, and taught me…
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