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Notes on security risk, networks, and what actually matters when you're trying to defend an organization — published weekly.
AI Didn't Kill Funding Rounds. It Killed the Excuse.
Solo developers can now build an entire product with AI and a coffee maker. Selling it is still the hard part, and that's exactly why funding rounds haven't gone anywhere.
Read post → September 14, 2026Are MSPs Tech Companies? No. And the Confusion Is Costing Them.
MSPs get valued like tech companies but operate like service businesses. Confusing the two distorts everything from headcount to culture to how the work actually gets done.
Read post → September 8, 2026Four Interview Rounds Isn't Thorough. It's Insecure.
A 25-person company running four rounds of interviews isn't being careful. It's revealing that nobody in leadership is willing to make a hiring call on their own.
Read post → August 24, 2026Job-Hopping Is a Moral Failure If You Work in Aerospace
Job-hopping is a moral failure if you work in aerospace. It's rational self-preservation if you work in managed services.
Read post → August 17, 2026We Trained an LLM So Bob Wouldn't Have To
We had a real compliance reason to fine-tune and self-host a model. Bob, my tier 1 tech, did not. A case for asking "can an existing service already do this?" before you train anything.
Read post → August 10, 2026There Is No AI Takeover
AI executives sound the alarm because fear is the best marketing line ever invented. A case against the doomsday narrative, and for why new technology has always meant more work, not less.
Read post → August 3, 2026In Defense of Chaotic Good
Order that protects itself over the mission it was built to serve has become the threat. A case for employees acting outside the org chart for the good of the company.
Read post → July 27, 2026Working From Home Isn't New. Commuting Is.
Commuting to an office is the historical anomaly, not remote work. A case against return-to-office policies, with a True Detective detour.
Read post → July 19, 2026Welcome to the Column
Why I'm starting a weekly write-up on security risk, what to expect from it, and the lens a journalism background brings to reading a network.
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