The Three Horizons of AI: How to Tell Hype From Value
A strategy executive sorts every technology into three horizons. The value lives in the third. Most of the AI boom is stuck in the first. Here is how to tell the difference.
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HostingWhy So Many WordPress Themes Are Frankenstein Monsters
I opened up the theme running my website and found dead code, three settings systems, and an animation for an element that never existed. Here is why commercial themes end up this way and what you can actually do about…
Incident ResponseThe Virus That Crashed Our Own Email Server
ILOVEYOU never encrypted a file or stole a password from us. It just sent mail, from hundreds of our machines at once, until our Exchange server ran out of disk space and died. Recovery took weeks, and it changed how…
AEOThe Web Used to Be Ours
The old web was better, or it was always chaos, both takes miss the point. The early web was built by individuals, and discovery ran on human curiosity instead of corporate budgets. Then money took over: SEO buried the little…
AIAI is not a fad, and the comparison to past tech cycles is doing work the doubter doesn’t notice
The strongest doubter argument is that AI is just the next NFT, crypto, web3, or metaverse, hyped and then gone, and the pattern recognition is fair. It fails because those technologies collapsed by never delivering the underlying capability, while AI…
GhostwritingWhy a Technical Person Needs a Ghostwriter Who Gets Tech
If you are technical and weighing a memoir, your biggest fear is that a ghostwriter will not understand your world and will flatten your career into something unrecognizable. That fear is correct, most will. The fix is one who actually…
FoundersThe Memoir of a Career That Spanned Mainframes to AI
If your career ran the whole arc of modern computing, mainframes to cloud to AI, you watched the world get rebuilt and helped build it, a once-in-history story, and the people who can tell it are retiring now. I came…
Executive GhostwritingThe Technical Founder’s Memoir, Told Honestly
The technical founder built something real, and the story of building it deserves a book, not the pitch-deck version, the honest one: the technical decisions that made or broke the company, the nights it nearly died, what you actually learned.…
FoundersThe 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…
Executive 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,…
FoundersThe 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…
fiction writingWriting Fiction Set in Virtual Worlds
Long before Silicon Valley discovered it, science fiction was living in the metaverse, Stephenson named it in 1992, Williams spent four novels there, Cline built a bestseller on it. Virtual worlds are one of the genre's deepest veins. Here is…