The Rose Parade Pins That Stopped Me Decluttering
May 14, 2026
I had the display case open and the pins counted. Then I checked what they were worth, and the arithmetic stopped me. Knowing when to stop is the part nobody teaches.
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GhostwritingThe Technical Founder’s Memoir, Told Honestly
May 14, 2026
The technical founder built something real, and the story of building it deserves a book, not the pitch-deck version, the honest one: the technical decisions that made or broke the company, the nights it nearly died, what you actually learned.…
Behind the BookI Set Out to Understand What I Was Watching on YouTube
May 13, 2026
Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
PublishingNonfiction Works Best When It Is Written With Emotion
May 12, 2026
A thermometer tells you the temperature of a room. It does not tell you whether anybody wants to be in it. Most nonfiction reads like a thermometer.
Behind the BookI Got Caught Hacking in 1981. The Professor Made Me Head of Security.
May 11, 2026
The biggest breach I ever watched was defeated by a brick propping a door open for smoke breaks. Home security fails at the human seam, not the technical one.
GhostwritingThe Engineer’s Knowledge Dies With Them
May 7, 2026
The senior engineer carries decades of knowledge that exists nowhere but in their head, and when they retire, it is gone, not the textbook stuff, the real stuff: how the system actually works, why it was built that way, what…
GhostwritingThe Technology Executive’s Memoir Nobody Is Writing
April 30, 2026
The technology executive's career is a real story almost nobody captures: the arc from writing code to running the whole operation, the disasters survived, the political fights to fund critical work, the teams built and led. I lived that arc,…
GhostwritingThe Technical Professional’s Memoir
April 23, 2026
If you spent your career in technology, your story is worth a book, and it needs a ghostwriter who understands the world you came from. Most will flatten your career into mush, because they do not know what shipping that…
BusinessDigital Transformation When You’re Not a Tech Company
April 16, 2026
Most digital transformation advice assumes you build software. I ran it for a retailer whose actual business was selling things, which is harder and different in ways the advice ignores, your transformation competes with the real business for money and…
GhostwritingWhat Ghostwriting Three Transformation Books Taught Me
April 9, 2026
I ghostwrote three digital transformation books for executives, and it taught me what running transformations never did: each one did it completely differently, at Fortune 500 scale, agile and scrum where I had used waterfall, each with a methodology they…
BusinessPeople, Process, Technology: The Order That Makes Transformation Work
April 2, 2026
Do digital transformation in this order: people, process, technology. People first, always, asking what happens to each person, retrained, retired, moved where. Process next, where you often find the process is just broken and fixing it solves the problem with…
BusinessThe Boardroom and the Server Room Speak Different Languages
March 26, 2026
The hardest part of running technology was never the technology; it was that leadership spoke business while I spoke tech, and neither of us understood the other. I did not grasp how much that cost until the CEO of Trader…
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