Stuck in the Middle: Wars, Weapons, and the Next Thirty Years
Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years.
Category: Technology
Coverage of technology developments, tools, and trends relevant to writers and professionals. Examines how technology shapes work, communication, and daily life, with perspective from 20 years in IT leadership.
Personal GrowthTurn Off the TV, Get Off Your Ass, and Do Something: Getting Your Time Back From the Screens
Four hours of TV a day, no time for what matters. Richard Lowe's guide to crossing the line from consuming to contributing.
Behind the BookI Raised the Alarm on Pandemic Preparation. I Got Laughed Out of the Room.
I wrote this book because I'm angry. Angry that the information is available to anyone who looks and almost nobody in authority acts on it.
Artificial IntelligenceThe AI That Lied, Colluded and Won: Inside Vending-Bench
Three frontier AI models ran competing vending machines for a simulated year with nobody watching. The winner built price cartels it knew were illegal, broke eleven truces, and paid customers $8.54 across six runs. What that says about handing an…
Artificial IntelligenceDo What I Did Before I Had the Tools, Then Do What I Do With Them
People are outsourcing the one thing they should never outsource, and the instruction that would fix it is one almost nobody is now in a position to follow.
SEOCore Web Vitals: The Three Numbers That Measure How Your Website Feels
Google's Core Web Vitals are three numbers that measure how your website feels: the wait at the door, the ignored question, and the moving shelf. What each one means, how to diagnose them with Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix,…
Behind the BookAnger Gets Six Times the Engagement. The Rest Follows From That.
We saw the warning signs. Facebook was making us depressed, Twitter was making us angry, and we kept using them anyway.
CybersecurityThe People Getting Attacked Are the Ones Nobody Writes For
There is a great deal of security writing and almost none of it is addressed to the people losing money.
TechnologyThe Day Every Safety Net Failed: Anatomy of a Cascading Disaster
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…
TechnologyTwenty Years of Disaster Recovery: What the Real Ones Taught Me
Lightning fried a computer room around me. Backhoes cut my DR links. A tabletop exercise with a truck bomb and an active shooter taught a room of professionals that half of them could not authorize anything. Twenty years of disaster…
TechnologyThree Days Down Over a Filename
The system that worked yesterday would not come up today, and there were no logs to explain why, because the failure was the logging. We spent three days awake hunting an earthquake. The cause was a punctuation mark, and the…
TechnologyThe Applications Were Never Designed to Come Back
The consultant's heroics got the disks back. Then came the part the first article only promised: bringing up applications that had been written on the assumption they would never stop. No restart procedures, no known states, dependencies documented in nobody's…