Best practice is the interest of the stronger
The rules you buy technology by were mostly written by the people selling it. A very old argument explains the trick — and how to sit on the right side of it.
Your best programmer thinks they're just good at Excel
The most fluent programmer in your company may have never opened a terminal — they maintain a workbook with eleven tabs and a formula your quarter depends on.
When the numbers say it's time to leave QuickBooks
The QuickBooks-to-ERP decision isn't a software preference — it's a number. Here are the signals and the honest cost math a CFO can act on.
MCP for the back office
The artificial intelligence (AI) assistant your team uses every day can’t see the systems your business actually runs on. So people copy out of the ticketing...
bashos: the new command-line operating system
The command line is becoming an operating system that schedules, remembers, and acts — here's how to direct terminal agents instead of being replaced by them.
The AI audit trail: log prompts like journal entries
No controller would post a journal entry with no date, no preparer, no source document, and no approval. Yet that’s exactly what an unlogged artificial intel...
What your cyber insurance renewal will ask about this year
The cyber insurance renewal application that lands in your inbox this year is longer than the one you signed last year, and the difference isn’t paperwork in...
An AI acceptable-use policy your team will actually follow
Your team is already using artificial intelligence (AI) at work. The only open question is whether they’re using it under rules you wrote or rules they impro...
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
The triangle is the only rigid shape, the most efficient loops have three nodes, and a small fast AI now sits at the front of the trade, routing the work.
work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived
You think your life runs work && play && dev. It actually runs work & play & dev &, until a child process forks into the foreground at nice -20.