A Concierge Engineer for the House
Every evening ended with the same three questions. Now the living-room wall answers them, and nothing about it leaves the house.
Writing
Writing
Essays on governing enterprise data — classification, access, and the boundaries that keep AI systems inside them. I update them when I change my mind.
Written in a personal capacity. The views here are mine, not my employer's.
The Same Shape, at Home
For ten years I argued that writing a policy and enforcing it are two different jobs. Then I ran into the same problem in my own house.
The Layer I Refused to Build
The decision I'd defend hardest is a decision not to build something.
Which of Your Agents Is Actually Ready?
I was asked which of five launching agents would run on data that was ready for them. I said none of them.
How to Give Away a Product You Built
The handover isn't the hard part. The founder's shadow is.
Sell Relief, Not Control
Nobody adopted our platform for what it could do. They adopted it for what it took off them.
Nobody Wants to Discover Things
I spent a year building a data discovery product and then killed it. The killing was the easy part.
Pricing a Product With No Price
An internal platform has no revenue and no customer who can leave. It still has to justify itself.