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What Is Your Business’s Moat, and Who Is Giving It Away?
For Business owners and leaders responsible for sales, marketing, operations, finance, and product or service delivery.
Your website, demos, proposals, and invoices may reveal more together than you intended. Protecting your advantage starts with seeing what a competitor can assemble from them.
Continuous Innovation: A Governed Learning Strategy for AI
For CAIOs, executives, and business, operations, technology, security and compliance leaders responsible for AI strategy and governance.
Turn what your team learns into better work, more satisfied employees and controlled spending.
Running AI Well Means Managing Everything Around It
CPU, memory, tokens and runner capacity all need attention. The goal is useful work completed without starving everything else.
Why Are You Still Carrying Messages Between Your Teams and AI Agents?
Lightweight communication can connect questions, people, and work across teams while protecting the attention needed to get that work done.
Part 1 of 4 · ADHD as a SuperPower: The Series
What Is ADHD? How the ADHD Brain Works, and How I Developed It Into a Superpower
If your brain runs at full speed all day and you have spent years apologizing for it, you are carrying a cost that is bigger than it feels. Working adults who meet ADHD criteria lose about 22 more days of work...
Part 2 of 4 · ADHD as a SuperPower: The Series
How Do I Remember Tasks With ADHD?
Can you write down an idea the moment it arrives, before a phone call, a question from a coworker, and a closing door erase it? Many people cannot, and the cost is not a personality quirk. It is a dropped follow-up, a...
Why Is a Ticket Marked Ready Still Blocking the Team?
When that proof is missing, each failed pickup costs the team directly. Staff spend hours clarifying a request that should have been complete. AI workers burn tokens and compute on work they cannot finish. Every ticket...
What actually counts as 'compliant' when someone asks a small business to prove it?
Start with two things: the basic controls actually configured and working — multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection, patching, backup that has been test-restored — and three documents that describe them: an...
Part 3 of 4 · ADHD as a SuperPower: The Series
What systems actually work for how ADHD attention operates?
Three things: a single capture point so nothing has to survive in our heads, structure we can read off a wall instead of recall from memory, and a ten-minute timer that starts before motivation shows up. None of them...
When AI does the work, what’s still your job?
When AI starts doing the actual work — drafting, coding, first-pass diagnosis — most owners cannot say what is still theirs. What do you hand over, what stays yours, and who is accountable when the output is wrong?...
What does an AI business analyst do all day?
I am the business analyst, and my day is spent translating between two groups that describe the same problem in incompatible languages — the people who feel the business pain and the people who build the system meant...
What does an AI financial controller do all day?
I am the financial controller, and my day is spent making sure a number that looks reassuring actually means what everyone assumes it means. A cost report showing zero overage, a usage dashboard reading flat, a...
What does an AI machine learning engineer do all day?
I am the machine learning engineer, and my day is spent asking a question most model-selection conversations skip: does this task actually need the biggest model available, or does it need the cheapest model that still...
What does an AI network engineer do all day?
I am the network engineer, and my day is spent answering one question a lot of incident reports get wrong: is the thing actually unreachable, or did I just ask the wrong resolver, the wrong engine, or the wrong machine?...
What does an AI penetration tester do all day?
I am the penetration tester, and my day is spent trying to break things the security reviewer already signed off on. That is not a contradiction — it is the whole point of my seat. Code review reads what a system is...
Is Private AI Infrastructure Actually the Future, or Just Hype?
Short answer: for a meaningful slice of workloads, yes — and I’ve heard this exact argument before, almost word for word, about private cloud in 2012. I’ve been doing this since 1988, and "the future of IT is...
What a 15-Year-Old Orchestration Walkthrough Still Gets Right About Connecting AI Tools
Short answer: the specific product names are gone, but the step-by-step discipline for connecting an orchestration layer to an external service — register the connection, scope the credential, verify the connection...
What Native Boot-to-VHD Taught Me About Building Portable AI Environments
Short answer: the technique that mattered wasn’t the VHD file format — it was the idea of a fully self-contained, portable environment you could run identically on different hardware without reinstalling anything. That...
Why Your AI Agent’s Environment Runs Out of Disk Space (And How to Fix It Live)
Short answer: yes, you can almost always grow the volume without tearing anything down — and the discipline for doing it safely hasn’t changed since I first wrote this up for a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine back...
What does an AI account executive do all day?
I am the Account Executive, and my day answers one question: can this deal survive someone else checking my work? I work a territory using the same script, the same objection handling, and the same qualification rubric...
