AI & Job Displacement (Including Rehiring After AI Rollouts)
Businesses are firing people because of AI. Then they're quietly rehiring them.
Okay, maybe not the exact same people. But definitely the same roles. Just with fancier titles now.
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You're Under Surveillance
You are being spied on and probably don't even realize it.
Not by your boss.
Not by your coworkers.
By the AI you’re talking to every day.
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Synthetic Monitoring: Catching Problems Before Customers Do
If there’s one lesson every engineering and operations team learns—usually the hard way—it’s this:
The cost of an outage is always higher than the cost of preventing one.
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Thankful for the Little Things (in Tech)
Thanksgiving's around the corner, and yeah, I'm grateful for the big stuff — new clients, successful projects, finally taking that long-overdue vacation.
But you know what I'm really thankful for?
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Two Minute Tech Tip Thursday: Learn to Code
You don't need to be a software engineer to build something powerful anymore.
You just need curiosity — and about two minutes a day.
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What would you do?
At a previous job, I worked on a customer project that used Raspberry Pis spread throughout a location to trilaterate Bluetooth signals — essentially forming a mesh network to map movement patterns.
The idea was to track the movements and whereabouts of care providers in assisted-living facilities to ensure they were actually providing care — not just running out the clock and billing insurance. All the data was anonymous unless a device was specifically registered to a person.
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Disagreement isn't dysfunction — it's how it's managed that matters.
The recent government shutdown reminded me of something I see in businesses all the time: smart people hitting a wall, because disagreement turned personal instead of productive.
Here's the thing — disagreement isn't the problem. Dysfunction is.
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The Event-Driven Enterprise: Why Batch Processing is Dead
In today's world, the difference between winning and catching up often comes down to how fast your business reacts.
Yet, many organizations still rely on batch jobs - nightly imports, hourly updates, daily syncs - to move critical data. That might have worked a decade ago, but in 2025 (soon to be 2026), a 24-hour delay is a lifetime.
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Orchestration vs. Integration: Understanding the Difference
You're probably confusing integration with orchestration. (Most people do.)
I see it all the time — teams think they're "automating everything" when really, they're just connecting a few tools together and hoping for the best.
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Know When to Say No: Picking Your Battles
Every leader wants to say yes. Yes to new ideas. Yes to every opportunity. Yes to solving every problem that pops up.
But here's what I've learned: great leaders know when to say no.
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