BusinessDigital transformation is plumbing. The buzzword suggests a bold leap; the real work is infrastructure, one component at a time. I led enterprise transformations at a national retailer, and the method that worked was never a big bang, it was…
CybersecurityI was never a CISO by title; my networking partner and I were both directors who, with a boss who was not security savvy, functioned as a de facto CISO together, setting the rules and getting them approved. The job…
CybersecurityMost security tools are theater. I sat through endless vendor pitches for products with giant dashboards full of blinking widgets that looked impressive and did almost nothing. The attack surface is enormous, phones, laptops, servers, cloud, even charging cables, and…
BusinessA business-strategy book I had a hand in, so instead of score it I will tell you what it is. Internet of Things: Digitize or Die helps leaders understand, navigate, and survive the IoT through a clear, structured methodology, on…
Book MarketingEvery like, share, and photo you post is data, collected, stored, analyzed, and frequently sold. Most people know that in the abstract and almost no one grasps it in practice. Drawing on 20 years running enterprise computer operations, here is…
Artificial IntelligenceEveryone knows AI hallucinates, inventing facts from nothing. The worse problem nobody talks about: it takes the real, accurate information you gave it and distorts it back to you, rounding your numbers, swapping details, inflating claims, shifting timelines, all delivered…
Artificial IntelligenceAfter months of stress-testing AI assistants with deadlines, frustration, and creative profanity, a clear personality hierarchy emerged: ChatGPT stays unflappable while the building burns, Google's AI throws tantrums, Copilot ghosts you mid-task. It is funny, and underneath the comedy is…
Artificial IntelligenceI use AI daily, wrote 45 handbooks on it, and consult on using it well, so this is not technophobia, it is the opposite, and that is why what I am seeing alarms me. People have stopped treating AI as…
Book MarketingElise announced 50,000 views on her book trailer, and three months later texted her Amazon dashboard: twelve copies sold. Those views were digital applause, lovely to hear, impossible to bank. Authors fall for vanity metrics every time. The number that…
CybersecurityThe human layer is the biggest security weakness and the one people are least prepared for, because they do not expect the guy in the uniform, or the friendly caller, to be the attacker. You can harden every server and…
TechnologyThree hours arguing with a Commodore 64 about where to put a brass lantern, and I was not mad, I was impressed: Zork understood English, remembered my moves, and responded like it was alive. Text adventures were collaborative fiction; SimCity…
CybersecurityCoffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
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