The Founder Burnout No One Talks About
Research shows nearly three-quarters of founders experience 'shadow burnout' while exceeding business targets....
45+ Years in Technology: A Journey
From programming at age 7, to seeing the world in the Navy, to running 3,000+ AWS instances....
3,000 AWS Instances Later: The Real Cost of Cloud
What it actually cost to run 3,000 AWS instances in 2014: the bill, the surprises, and the architecture decisions that drove the spend....
What CompuServe Taught Me About Platform Death
CompuServe had first-mover advantage, loyal users, and great technology. They still lost to AOL....
DeFi Will Never Be Finance
DeFi advocates claim they're building the future of finance while removing everything that makes finance work: recourse, recovery, accountability, and....
When to Kill Your Company
Knowing when to shut down is harder than knowing when to start. The sunk cost fallacy kills more founders than failure....
Why I Stopped Giving Advice
Unsolicited advice fails 99% of the time. The gap between the giver's context and the receiver's reality is where well-meaning guidance goes to die....
Grace Hopper's Nanosecond: The Wire That Explains Everything
Grace Hopper's famous nanosecond wire demonstration—and why understanding physical constraints still matters for every system we build today....
Watching a Friend Get Hacked in 1987
A 1987 BBS breach taught me about trust models, intrusion detection, and why security-through-obscurity always fails eventually....
The Dot-Com Crash From Inside
First-person account of running Core Logic Software during the 2000-2002 dot-com crash....
The USS Missouri's First Drone Surrender
During the Gulf War, Iraqi troops surrendered to the USS Missouri's Pioneer UAV - the first surrender to a drone in history....
The Anatomy of a Production Outage
The pattern behind production outages: the 2am alert, the escalating panic, the decision that makes it worse....
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