Notes
Short essays on transformation, frameworks, metrics, and what working in financial-services technology has actually taught me. Listed newest first.
Or: 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 BERT and GPT-2, the conviction that we were thinking out of the box, and what November 30, 2022 made plain about who the creative people actually were.
ReadOr: what forward-deployed engineering is rediscovering, and what's actually new about it.
On a role that has been in financial services for thirty years under different titles, what the new ventures will rediscover the hard way, and what is genuinely different this time.
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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