Insights
Notes from the work
Short pieces on how we decide. No trend roundups, no recycled vendor language.
Cloud · 12 March 2026
FinOps is a meeting, not a dashboard
The bill gets quieter when someone owns the five largest lines and sits with engineering every week. The tool is the easy part.
Cybersecurity · 2 May 2026
Zero trust without the theater
Start with standing admin rights and how people sign in. The network diagram can wait.
Software engineering · 18 June 2026
When to modernize, and when to leave it
A rewrite is a business case. A strangler slice is a plan. Most systems need the second, and a written reason for the parts you will not touch.
Data and AI · 9 August 2026
Put generative AI in the operating model, or do not ship it
A pilot that answers questions in a demo is not a system. It needs an owner, a source of truth, an evaluation, and a rule for when a person takes over.
Strategy and managed services · 21 September 2026
Managed services are not a help desk with a logo
If the monthly pack is only ticket counts, you bought a queue. A managed service owes you a decision.
Data and AI · 14 October 2026
Choosing a data platform without a religious war
Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Fabric can all work. The failure mode is picking from a slogan and discovering the operating cost later.