Risk as a working discipline: assessing what can actually hurt the organization, prioritizing by impact rather than fear, and communicating risk so leadership acts on it.
AIA Goodfire researcher argues neural networks are far easier to read than anyone thought. After twenty years running computer operations, here's why I believe him, and why readable has never meant safe.
AmericaA study using dam resettlement records found rural populations undercounted by 53 to 84 percent. It doesn't mean billions of missing people, and it doesn't rescue anyone from falling birth rates. It does mean the numbers behind policy deserve a…
CybersecurityExecutives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms are reportedly preparing for a catastrophic AI incident. Preparing is good, but the first rule of risk management is to understand the risk. Here's what a real plan would name.
AmericaWhy the post-Cold War trade order is breaking down and America is bringing manufacturing home, from the pandemic and the chip shortage to war, shipping attacks and rare earths, and why the suppliers, workers and test labs behind each factory…
Contracts and AgreementsA big-name hosting vendor missed our payroll, and paying the penalty to leave was the cheapest fix we had. Here are the rules I took from years on the buying side of IT, from small vendors to exit clauses to…
AI AdoptionTech CEOs say the AI singularity has begun, and skeptics call it marketing. Both assume humans will matter to a conscious AI. What if it doesn't care about us at all?
AITrump announced an AI Force and a coming AI czar with no mission, budget or legal basis, and a plan to police AI through the courts after the damage is done. That's a fire department with no fire code.
Book ReviewsSurgeons with decades of experience fought against a two-minute checklist that cut surgical deaths. Their resistance reveals something bigger: why capable people refuse the simplest fixes, and why that matters in almost every field where complex work gets done.
Digital TransformationA hard constraint will hand you a solution you would never have picked from a list of options, and the solution is often better than what you would have chosen freely. We had a floor tile buckling under a live…
Business ContinuityA tested system and a proven system are different things, and most companies say covered when they mean tested. I built a disaster recovery site over several years with no budget and no headcount, tested it regularly, and never once…
AITwelve attacks, four decades, one lesson: isolation is a promise people keep, not a property a system has. What that means for the trust we are placing in AI. The final article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityA fake volunteer spent two years earning trust to plant a backdoor in software running much of the internet, caught days from disaster by a half-second delay. Part twelve of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
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