Tags

Canonical topical archives across essays and marginalia.

Each tag page groups the archive around a single thread.

Recurring paths

45 tags

#aiEssays and notes about AI systems, judgment, and practical use.48 entries
#enterpriseEssays and field notes on enterprise systems, operations, institutions, and technology adoption.24 entries
#leadershipJudgment, responsibility, and the work of making direction legible to others.24 entries
#strategyThinking about direction, sequencing, tradeoffs, and how work becomes useful.24 entries
#cultureWriting about culture, shared norms, judgment, and the shape of work.23 entries
#workPublic-safe notes on work, labor, and what the archive says about disciplined making.17 entries
#innovationHow new capabilities become useful, durable, or merely fashionable.13 entries
#softwareSoftware as a medium, industry, economic object, and way of organizing work.13 entries
#cloudCloud infrastructure, its operating assumptions, and the choices around it.12 entries
#technologyTechnological change, its promises, its politics, and its material consequences.10 entries
#governanceHow authority, accountability, and control are designed into technical and institutional systems.8 entries
#institutionsOrganizations, rules, and inherited structures that shape collective action.7 entries
#judgmentNotes on decision-making, evaluation, discernment, and institutional judgment.6 entries
#architectureThe structures, boundaries, and tradeoffs that determine how technical systems behave and evolve.5 entries
#workplaceThe social and institutional conditions in which work actually takes place.5 entries
#agentic-aiNotes on agentic AI, autonomy, orchestration, governance, security, and enterprise adoption.4 entries
#consultingThe work of advising organizations honestly: translating expertise into judgment, action, and durable change.4 entries
#executionWhat survives contact with the work, its constraints, and its consequences.4 entries
#operationsOperational systems, handoffs, reliability, and the work of keeping things running.4 entries
#salesHow technology gets bought, positioned, and tied to a workflow, business model, or economic outcome.4 entries
#startupsWhat founders and new companies must understand about timing, specificity, distribution, and defensibility.4 entries
#business-modelsThinking about value capture, pricing, margins, and the shape of markets.3 entries
#competitionHow timing, differentiation, and capability shape competition in software and AI markets.3 entries
#engineeringPractical engineering notes, systems thinking, and implementation details that matter.3 entries
#eventsObservations from conferences, summits, and public moments where technology’s claims meet the world.3 entries
#genzHow generations encounter work differently, and what those differences reveal about changing institutions.3 entries
#infrastructureThe technical foundations that make systems dependable and possible.3 entries
#learningHow people and teams build capability, judgment, and careers as technology changes the work.3 entries
#teamsHow people coordinate, develop standards, and perform together.3 entries
#trustThe conditions under which people, institutions, and systems become dependable.3 entries
#careersThe changing shape of technical careers, especially what remains valuable when AI reshapes entry-level work.2 entries
#cioQuestions for technology leaders balancing business value, operating models, and organizational change.2 entries
#creativityThe human capacities—conviction, empathy, and imagination—that keep work from becoming an optimization exercise.2 entries
#distributed-systemsSystems built across machines and failure domains, where architecture must assume latency, failure, and recovery.2 entries
#effortRecords of physical effort, from running to cycling, and the ordinary work of showing up.2 entries
#google-cloudWriting on Google Cloud as a platform for scale, distributed systems, and technical invention.2 entries
#hypeSeparating durable technological change from the stories, incentives, and excitement that surround it.2 entries
#itInformation technology as an operating function: systems, organizations, and the work of making both useful.2 entries
#managed-servicesHow managed services can move beyond ticket handling toward learned, embedded, outcome-oriented operations.2 entries
#millennialsA generational lens on work, institutions, and the different virtues people bring to organizations.2 entries
#openaiOpenAI as a company and platform in the changing contest over models, products, search, and software.2 entries
#searchHow search changes when answers, interfaces, and intent are mediated by AI.2 entries
#securityProtecting systems while governing identity, authority, exposure, and consequence.2 entries
#transformationThe difficult organizational and economic work of changing how a business creates value, not just how it uses technology.2 entries
#truthHow claims become credible, contested, distorted, or accepted as reality.2 entries