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Notes on security risk, networks, and what actually matters when you're trying to defend an organization — published weekly.
Job-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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