Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action
Essays on technology, work, and judgment in the IT trade — the longer reads for when the ticket queue can wait a few minutes
The innovation paradox: stupid idea or breakthrough
Bad ideas and breakthrough ideas look identical the day they're proposed — here's how to tell them apart cheaply enough that being wrong doesn't hurt.
Accounting
IT is the new finance department
Finance earned its seat by being the one department that could see the whole ...
Your best programmer thinks they're just good at Excel
The most fluent programmer in your company may have never opened a terminal —...
If a press release about ethical capitalism wrote it...
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Agentic-ai
Badwill impairment: three years of building without ...
Three years ago I missed a meeting about the cash flow imperative. I was not ...
The future of manufacturing ERP is a Linux distribution
Linux won by shipping one shared core in many distributions. Manufacturing ER...
Agile
The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop
We outsource the patch, they outsource the blame, and the wheel turns again —...
Ai-engineering
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
The triangle is the only rigid shape, the most efficient loops have three nod...
Automation
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
The triangle is the only rigid shape, the most efficient loops have three nod...
All Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action Articles
Badwill impairment: three years of building without ...
Three years ago I missed a meeting about the cash flow imperative. I was not ...
The future of manufacturing ERP is a Linux distribution
Linux won by shipping one shared core in many distributions. Manufacturing ER...
IT is the new finance department
Finance earned its seat by being the one department that could see the whole ...
Your business runs on relics, and their makers have ...
An information system stops being technology the day it goes live and starts ...
Best practice is the interest of the stronger
The rules you buy technology by were mostly written by the people selling it....
Your best programmer thinks they're just good at Excel
The most fluent programmer in your company may have never opened a terminal —...
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
The triangle is the only rigid shape, the most efficient loops have three nod...
work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived
You think your life runs work && play && dev. It actually runs work & play & ...
The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop
We outsource the patch, they outsource the blame, and the wheel turns again —...