Writing

Articles and notes on building, thinking, and the work in between.

The Borrowed Mind

Employees are pasting your data into free AI tools. The leak is the smaller risk. The bigger one is what happens when a model starts doing the thinking.

The Confident Mirror

The most dangerous form of blindness is now finding a more articulate friend. AI agrees too quickly, confirming the framing the question came in with.

The Stuck Lift

The AI strategy button gets pressed every day. The lift will not move. The reason is in the basement: data quality and governance, taped off and ignored.

The Permission Culture

Most organisations do not need more communication. They need more permission. The real cost is not delay, it is the silence that fear quietly creates.

From punch cards to medical devices

I've spent thirty years learning how machines work, and how they break. The path from a green-screen IBM to securing the devices lives depend on.