Published pieces, working drafts, and longer arguments. New writing arrives bi-weekly through On the Seam: Working Drafts.
McKinsey's Rewired is written for the enterprise using the platform. If you are the platform — the software company whose product is the transformation infrastructure your clients run on — a different sequence applies.
If distrust is what wakes up under autonomy, comprehensibility is what puts it back to sleep. Cognitive legitimacy as the load-bearing wall of agent adoption — built into the architecture, not the slide deck.
The seven Rs of cloud migration all operate at or below the application layer. The one that matters now doesn't touch the stack at all.
My first real Air Force assignment was a console in a windowless building where “good enough, we still got there” was never a sentence anyone said. What it taught me about speed, creativity, and the failures you can't hear.
I finished a doctorate at 50. The why is more interesting than the diploma itself — and most of what I actually learned had nothing to do with the dissertation.
My doctoral model explained why people advocate for generative AI. The human-in-the-loop assumption underneath it is exactly what autonomous agents remove — and when you remove it, two of my cleanest results invert.
Everyone on the Outer Banks is overpaying for a front-row seat to the water. The enterprise rush toward agentic AI looks the same — and the edge erodes faster than the foundation.
Satya Nadella says AI companies have to earn society's permission. He's right — but permission isn't won by building trust. It's won by giving distrust nothing to grip.
A leader's blueprint for the agentic enterprise — with an update from where my thinking is now. Synthesizes a December 2025 LinkedIn series and revises it in light of where the field has moved.
How human-agent loops manufacture faster mistakes — and why the productivity story we keep telling about Agentic AI is hiding a governance problem in plain sight.