I Got Caught Hacking in 1981. The Professor Made Me Head of Security.
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.
Category: Technology (Page 15)
GhostwritingThe Engineer’s Knowledge Dies With Them
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
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
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
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…
FictionPeacekeeper: To What End Peace
Admiral Jessica Lang has served an empire for two hundred thousand years. A routine inspection of one frontier colony costs her everything, including the voice in her head. Military science fiction.
GhostwritingWhat Ghostwriting Three Transformation Books Taught Me
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…
FictionCollision With Andromeda
The Milky Way is conscious and has a plan that humanity is part of. Seventeen million years, one family, and a galaxy whose good intentions arrive at galactic scale.
BusinessPeople, Process, Technology: The Order That Makes Transformation Work
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
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…
MemoirsLegacy Systems Don’t Die Because You Want Them To
Legacy systems do not die because your roadmap wants them gone. I kept ancient ones alive for years, including a dead-vendor system on unmaintainable hardware with a database that existed nowhere else, no support, but it ran the business, so…
BusinessWhy Digital Transformations Actually Fail
Most digital transformations fail for an unglamorous reason: poor testing. Everyone checks whether the system works normally; almost nobody tests it under real load or watches what happens when it breaks. I saw systems go live with untuned queries that…