Here’s a question I’ve been asking CIOs and CISOs at every conference session I speak at these days: “what if the riskiest AI decision your company made this year is one nobody approved?” Sit with that for a second. Not a decision your board debated. Not a model or Agentic deployment your risk committee signed…
Category: Cloud
AI’s Anna Delvey Problem: How Enterprises Are Faking It Till They (Don’t) Make It
I’ll admit it. I binge-watched Inventing Anna on Netflix over a couple of nights, the way most of us did back in 2022. And like most viewers, I walked away simultaneously appalled and a little bit fascinated by Anna Delvey. Here was a woman with no trust fund, no inheritance, and no real business, who…
AI Bias and Judgement
Back when I was a teenager, I was introduced by my dad to one of his young colleagues. This gentleman was considered an up a coming leader. He was smart and outgoing, and I was impressed by how everyone around him looked up to him, even people older and his superiors. I hung on to…
Distributed System Complexity: Part 1 – Engineering Abstraction
Cognitive overload is a brute fact of modern life. It is not going to disappear. In almost every facet of our work life, and in more and more of our domestic life, the jobs we need to do and the activity spaces we have in which to perform those jobs are ecologies saturated with overload….
Multi-Cloud Snake Oil
tl;dr Most multi-cloud management solutions are pure snake oil. Buyer beware. And you most likely don’t even need Multi-cloud. Let’s take the scenario of an online Flower vendor. They sell bouquets and arrangements of Flowers via e-commerce and deliver them across the country. They have two big events year which account for around 92% of…
