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Leadership & Product
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Steve Jobs, AI, and the Problem of Analysis Without Ownership
July 9, 2026
5 min read
AI
Leadership & Product
The Breaker, the Priest, and the Philosopher
June 18, 2026
8 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
AI Is Not Why They Are Cutting (Yet)
May 8, 2026
3 min read
AI
Leadership & Product
When Building Gets Cheap, Distribution Becomes Destiny
February 19, 2026
12 min read
Leadership & Product
AI
You're Not Outsourcing Infrastructure. You're Outsourcing Capability.
February 15, 2026
9 min read
Leadership & Product
AI
Intuition Comes Last
January 5, 2026
2 min read
Leadership & Product
AI
Life & Family
The Vanishing On-Ramp
November 26, 2025
5 min read
AI
Leadership & Product
Life & Family
Gradually, Then Suddenly: Compliance as a Vital Sign of Organizational Decay
October 2, 2025
8 min read
Compliance & Audits
Leadership & Product
Talent Isn't a Security Strategy
August 9, 2025
6 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
AI
Conway's Law Is Dying
June 16, 2025
4 min read
AI
Leadership & Product
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Why Constraints Invite Innovation
May 20, 2025
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Engineering & Code
When AI Injects Liquidity Into Skills: What Happens to the Middle Tier?
May 17, 2025
7 min read
AI
Leadership & Product
The Strategic Reality of Enterprise Deployment Options
April 8, 2025
5 min read
Leadership & Product
Strategic Product End-of-Life Decisions
April 4, 2025
5 min read
Leadership & Product
Decision-making as a Product Manager
April 4, 2025
7 min read
Leadership & Product
Cloud's Accelerated Evolution: Lessons from Telecom's Century of Change
March 19, 2025
14 min read
Leadership & Product
Understanding Enterprise Security Buyer Dynamics
March 14, 2025
4 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
Operational Evolution Revisited: How AI-Native Systems Will Revolutionize Infrastructure
March 7, 2025
3 min read
AI
Leadership & Product
Educating the Champion, the Buyer, and the Market
February 11, 2025
9 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
Technology bias—we all have it—but it often gets in the way.
December 2, 2024
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Bundling and Unbundling in the NHI Market: Opportunities in Identity, Governance, and Cryptography
November 26, 2024
2 min read
Identity & Authentication
Leadership & Product
The Myth of Non-Technical Product Management
November 17, 2024
2 min read
Leadership & Product
The Subtle Art of Getting Your Product Deployed
November 17, 2024
4 min read
Leadership & Product
From Fairways to the Cloud: Estimating Golf Balls in Flight to Tackling Cloud Workload Scale
November 1, 2024
4 min read
Leadership & Product
When Words Mislead: Cybersecurity’s Terminology Problem
August 21, 2024
2 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
Building Effective Roadmaps through Mission, Vision, and Strategy Alignment
May 29, 2024
3 min read
Leadership & Product
Transitioning from Reactive to Proactive
May 29, 2024
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Security Practice
Navigating Security and Innovation
May 4, 2024
9 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
The Importance of Proper Measurement in Enterprise IT Management: Lessons from Cloud Deployments
February 9, 2023
3 min read
Leadership & Product
Security Practice
The Evolution of Security Thinking
March 25, 2018
4 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
Help Wanted: Apprentice to learn trade
June 4, 2015
6 min read
Leadership & Product
Life & Family
Farm boy sensibilities and the importance of contracts
May 22, 2015
2 min read
Leadership & Product
How did I get involved in PKI?
October 31, 2014
6 min read
PKI & Certificates
Leadership & Product
Beyond Builders, Defenders, and Breakers
May 21, 2014
1 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product
The bias of experience and ignorance of youth
April 25, 2014
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Wanted: Senior Software Engineer (Back-End) [Manila]
July 3, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Wanted: Senior Software Engineer / Lead [Manila]
July 3, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Wanted: IT Analyst [Tokyo]
July 3, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Wanted: Information Technology Manager [Tokyo]
July 3, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Wanted: Network and System Specialist [Singapore]
July 3, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Wanted: Software Engineer [Seattle/Manila]
July 3, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
Wanted: Senior Software Engineer (Front-End) [Seattle]
July 3, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
My first post since joining GlobalSign
February 23, 2012
1 min read
Leadership & Product
PKI & Certificates
Leaving Microsoft, My Goodbye Letter
January 16, 2012
2 min read
Leadership & Product
The Contrition of a Security Practitioner
May 27, 2010
3 min read
Security Practice
Leadership & Product