Surviving hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires teaches lessons that outlast the storm. These posts pull resilience, preparation, and perspective from real disasters and the hard seasons that follow them.
AI AdoptionIn 1980 I wrote Pascal for a water district that lost contact with half its infrastructure for weeks each winter, and we built a control system that ran without humans, knew its own limits, and failed safely when it hit…
Digital TransformationIn 1980 a snow-locked water district faced a problem the era's technology could not solve: pumping stations cut off from central command for weeks each winter, with the water still needing to flow. The team built autonomous controllers in Pascal…
BackupsFour words hit like a sledgehammer: this site can't be reached. My hosting company had vanished overnight and taken two years of content and custom work with it. A real backup strategy is not optional; it is the only thing…
MemoirTwo months after my wife died, I stood in the most spectacular wildflower bloom in Joshua Tree's recorded history, 45, newly widowed, and lost. I could have reached for medication or given up in a chair. Instead the desert my…
Backups7:03 AM, driving to a Renaissance Faire shoot with camera gear rattling in the back, the BlackBerry buzzes: what do you want me to do about the computer crash? A cascade of failures had taken the servers, the backups, and…
Survival & Disaster LessonsSeptember 2017: the forecast confirmed Irma was coming straight for my corner of Florida, and we had days to get ready. I had ridden out storms before, but this one's numbers were ugly. Here are seven hard-earned lessons from preparing…
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