CISO and CTO with nearly three decades in technology and security leadership. I write about AI adoption, cybersecurity economics, and the structural forces that make fragile systems rational. Independent researcher and literary nonfiction writer.
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High risk decisions fail not from lack of data, but from misinterpretation. This essay explores how signal, noise, and institutional bias shape judgment, and why interpretation itself becomes the hidden burden in consequential systems.
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Distributed systems often fail quietly, bending truth long before they break. This essay examines how silent degradation reshapes trust, behaviour, and institutional judgment, and why integrity depends on systems that admit uncertainty.
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System compromise begins long before any exploit. This essay examines how bias, drift, silence, and institutional habit create the conditions for intrusion, revealing why human behaviour remains the first and most consequential layer of security.
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A study of how surveillance shapes what it claims to observe. Systems see from somewhere, never from everywhere, and their geometry defines both insight and illusion. Understanding that structure becomes the first act of integrity.
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Integrity is not perfection but verification, a system’s ability to remain coherent through change. What endures after every correction is not flaw but proof of life, the quiet checksum of conscience.
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Each file I opened contained more than data; it contained the shape of the person I was when I wrote it.
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Before dawn, the city glows without darkness. The Owl wakes not to hunt, but to watch what others no longer see.