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.
InfrastructureSeptember 1, 2026
A 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…
Disaster RecoverySeptember 1, 2026
A 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…
Political BooksAugust 3, 2026
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.
AI AdoptionAugust 1, 2026
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…
IT InfrastructureJuly 13, 2026
Before installing any software, ask how many people keep it alive. The number is public, takes five minutes to find, and predicts more grief than any feature list. The story of an excellent theme with a bus factor of one.
HostingJuly 13, 2026
Plugins are generally in better shape than themes, but they grow sideways: the tool you installed for one job quietly becomes a platform doing fifteen. An afternoon audit puts the stack back on a diet.
Business ContinuityJuly 4, 2026
A DR plan is a set of precise claims about a specific environment. A transformation is the deliberate, wholesale changing of that environment. Put those two sentences together and you see the problem most transformation programs never address.
Business ContinuityJuly 4, 2026
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…
Digital TransformationJuly 4, 2026
We were hunting for a machine during a disaster recovery effort. Systems were talking to it, work depended on it, and it was not in the server room. We found it under a user's desk in accounting, running decade-old software,…
Digital TransformationJuly 4, 2026
The migration budget covered the conversion, the cutover, the infrastructure, the testing. The real bill arrived afterward, by invoice: hundreds of SQL queries that had to be re-optimized for the new platform, by six specialist DBAs, over six months, on…
Digital TransformationJuly 4, 2026
The Gantt chart crescendos to cutover weekend, and the boxes after it say 'stabilization,' thin little boxes, drawn by optimists. Then you go live and discover what those boxes contain: weeks of triage, expectation management, and a system running on…
Digital TransformationJuly 4, 2026
Friday we were on the old platform. Monday we were on the new one, and it was buckling. We stood at the edge of a rollback with the whole company standing on a system that could not carry the load,…
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