Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
AI Governance - Why 82% Are Scrambling
Your board wants AI. Your teams are building AI. Your governance? Still stuck in 2019.
Read →Cloud Cost Shock - $100B in Waste
Global enterprises waste $100 billion annually on cloud. Your share is probably 20-40%.
Read →Data Quality Crisis - 77% Admit Failure
Everyone is in data. But only one team gets the blame when it breaks.
Read →Data Quality as Organizational Signal
Bad data doesn't come from bad systems. It comes from broken ownership.
Read →We Hired a 10x Developer. Then We Lost the Team
We hired a 10x developer. Then we lost the team.
Read →Process Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt
You can refactor code. Try refactoring a six-person approval chain.
Read →The Tech Lead's Real Job Isn't Technical
You got promoted for coding. Now your job isn't to code.
Read →Refactoring Without Stopping Delivery
Refactoring projects fail. Refactoring routines succeed.
Read →Data Contract Pattern
Every Monday, someone's dashboard breaks. Nobody knows why.
Read →The Expert Beginner Trap
The expert beginner knows enough to be confident and not enough to know what they're missing.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
No pitch. An honest conversation about whether I can help, and what shape it would take if I can.