Insights & Perspectives
Working notes on software architecture, ESG technology, leadership, and building teams, drawn from the things I run into while doing the work.
Who Gets to Hold the Lightning
A month of bookmarks about one thing: who controls access to intelligence, to accountability, and to the truth you are allowed to believe
June 30, 2026 / 5 min read
Read Article →Five bookmarks, one habit: read the incentive, name the mechanism
AI memory, a forecasting model dressed up as a secret, a grey market in Claude tokens, a thousand dead in France, and a fake alien confession. They share a discipline.
June 30, 2026 / 5 min read
DeepSeek Took Beijing's Money. The Interesting Part Is What Beijing Took in Return.
The bookmark gets the spine right and the details wrong. The state stake is real, the price gap is real, and the slogan about open versus closed needs editing.
June 30, 2026 / 5 min read
Who Gets to Hold the Models, and Who Gets to Tell the Story
A month of bookmarks that all turn out to be about the same two fights: control of artificial intelligence, and control of what counts as true.
June 29, 2026 / 5 min read
The case for ditching OpenAI for Chinese models, and where it actually holds
Xiaoyin Qu's prediction is half right. The half that is wrong tells you who is selling what.
June 29, 2026 / 5 min read
Confidence Is Not Evidence
Five recent stories, one shared question: when a machine or a man tells you something with total certainty, can you actually check it?
June 29, 2026 / 5 min read
The Kill Switch Nobody Wants to Be Downstream Of
Four stories from mid-2026, one lesson: control narratives keep hiding dependence, and the people holding the switch keep mistaking leverage for strength.
June 29, 2026 / 5 min read
Who Gets the Real Thing
A Chinese model, a cyber weapon the public cannot touch, and a UFO clip that does not match its own caption. The common question is who controls access and who controls the story.
June 28, 2026 / 5 min read
What AI Actually Changes About Working With Data
Where machine learning earns its place in analytics, where it does not, and why the human still sits in the loop
April 2, 2025 / 5 min read
Seven Enterprise Technology Shifts Worth Your Attention
Composable architecture, distributed cloud, security mesh, and the other changes quietly reshaping enterprise IT
April 1, 2025 / 10 min read
Using AI to Catch ESG Risks Before They Become Headlines
How machine learning turns ESG from a reactive compliance task into early warning, and where human judgment still decides
April 2, 2025 / 5 min read
Five Technologies Reshaping How Companies Handle ESG
Multilingual monitoring, blockchain provenance, real-time sensing, automated reporting, and digital twins for sustainability
April 1, 2025 / 10 min read
Leading Tech Teams Without Grinding Them Down
Five principles for keeping the pressure to innovate from eroding the people who deliver the innovation
March 15, 2025 / 6 min read
Why English-Only Risk Monitoring Leaves You Blind
Reading data natively across 60 languages catches ESG risks weeks before they reach English coverage
February 28, 2025 / 4 min read
From Writing Code to Running Technology: What the Path Taught Me
The skills that made me a good engineer were not the ones that made me a leader, and other lessons from the climb
January 20, 2025 / 7 min read
Building Tech Teams That Last Without Burning People Out
Why diverse, well-supported teams outperform, and the concrete practices that keep them healthy
December 12, 2024 / 5 min read