The translator problem.
Why technical and business teams keep talking past each other on AI — and the unsexy organizational fix that almost always works.
¶ Writing
Essays, dispatches,
Essays, dispatches,
and occasional
arguments.
Pilots that ship vs. pilots that don't.
Six things I've watched go wrong in AI pilots since 2023, and the one pattern that keeps working.
The seven cybersecurity questions every owner should ask.
If you can't answer these in plain English, you're not protected — you're insured.
On being wrong in public.
Most of what I know now I learned by being publicly wrong about something specific.
The first AI deployment your team will actually finish.
A workshop turned into a method. Pick one workflow. Build it together. Ship it in a week.
Old enough to remember on-prem.
What thirty years of replatforming has taught me about hype cycles — and the small set of skills that survives all of them.
A working definition of useful.
Short note. Long meaning. Posted to a Pelican Lake bench, March 2026.