Articles
May 23, 2025
Zero Trust: Security for a World Without a Perimeter
The castle is gone and the wall protects nothing. The only defence that survives is verification, everywhere, always.
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May 9, 2025
The API Is Your Product: Designing Interfaces Humans Love
The API is not a technical detail, it is the product. Every naming, error, and versioning decision is a commercial decision.
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April 25, 2025
Data Lakes Are Graveyards: From Storage to Signal
Storing data is not the same as having data. The lake becomes a swamp without ownership, schemas, and pipelines. Here is the path from storage to signal.
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April 11, 2025
The Retrieval Problem: Why Your Documents Are Useless to an AI
The models are brilliant and the answers are still wrong. The bottleneck is retrieval: the AI cannot find the right document at the right moment.
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March 28, 2025
Escalation Is a System, Not a Failure
Escalation is not a sign of weakness, it is the mechanism that brings the right information to the right level at the right time. Here is the system.
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March 14, 2025
OKRs Done Wrong: The Most Misused Framework in Business
OKRs are a mirror, not a magic wand. The framework fails when it becomes a cascade of contracts and games. Here is the honest version.
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February 28, 2025
Onboarding That Works: The First Two Weeks Decide the Next Two Years
The first two weeks decide whether a new hire stays for years or quietly disengages. Here is the ninety-day arc that turns strangers into owners.
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February 14, 2025
The Capacity Plan: Why Teams Overcommit and How to Stop
Capacity is not a feeling, it is a number. Here is the arithmetic of what your team can actually deliver, and how to stop promising more.
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February 2, 2025
AI for Busy Managers: Where It Actually Saves You Time
AI won't fix bad management — but used properly, it quietly takes the repetitive 20% off your desk. Five places it genuinely saves time, and where it's still mostly noise.
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January 31, 2025
Managing Your Boss: Upward Management Without Sycophancy
Your boss is not an obstacle, they are a person with a job and pressures you cannot see. Upward management is the work of making the relationship a partnership.
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