Short essays on transformation, frameworks, metrics, and what working in financial-services technology has taught me. Listed newest first.
2026
Or: on what the cloud cost cycle already taught us.
On AI vendor lock-in and the shape the cloud cost cycle already showed us: the opaque token bill, the model as the product you cannot cheaply swap, and the four seams worth paying to keep open so you stay able to leave.
ReadOr: on what change management knows about the AI race.
On the shift in the AI conversation from which model is best to what happens when these tools meet operating models and SOPs, the six building blocks named in Rewired, and the four that get less airtime than they deserve.
ReadOr: what forward-deployed engineering is rediscovering, and what is new about it.
On a role that has been in financial services for decades under different titles, what the new ventures will rediscover the hard way, and what is different this time.
ReadOr: on the part of platform migration that lives in people, not systems.
On the workflow that grew up around the system after it shipped, the reports nobody reads, the institutional memory that walks out at retirement, and why the AI moment raises the stakes on getting discovery right.
ReadOr: on what I learned from the people who hadn't read the papers.
On months inside RoBERTa and GPT-3, the conviction that we were the creative people in the room, and what November 30, 2022 made plain about who they were.
ReadOr: on not picking your tools before you understand the work.
On framework dogmatism, the discipline of living with a problem statement, and why the metrics that matter most are usually the ones nobody wants to compute.
ReadOr: why hard skills got me hired, and curiosity got the work done.
On detractors as teachers, champions as carriers of credibility, and what the AI moment doesn't change about transformation work.
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