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The Strategic Pause
Leaders are rewarded for action. But the most important decisions often come from knowing when to stop moving and think. There is a reason that this topic resonates with me. When I’ve had the chance to step back from the day-to-day, it changes how I see where my time actually goes. The Cost of Constant […]
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Beyond Polling: The Future of Real-Time Infrastructure
For years, polling has been the standard operating procedure. It’s time to admit it doesn’t work anymore. When you’re managing a handful of servers, hitting an endpoint every few minutes feels harmless. But scale that to tens of thousands of devices and the math gets ugly fast. You’re burning CPU cycles, clogging network pipes, and […]
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The Bus Policy
If your most critical engineer left tomorrow, how long would it take to recover? The answer tells you how resilient your organization actually is. I’ve seen this play out. A key person leaves and suddenly everyone realizes how much was only in their head. The scramble that follows is painful and expensive. One question I […]
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Building a Unified Identity Source of Truth
Every organization with more than a few dozen employees has the same problem. User identities are scattered across systems that do not talk to each other. The primary directory holds the canonical employee record. Google Workspace has its own user database. Microsoft 365 maintains a separate identity store. Your line-of-business applications each have their own […]
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The Long View
When you zoom out to 70,000 years of human history, today’s crisis looks different. That shift in perspective can change how you lead. I read Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens a few years ago and it rewired something in how I think. Not about history, exactly. About scale. About what actually matters when you take the […]
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When to Kill a Project
Every organization has at least one project that should have ended months ago. Recognizing when to pull the plug is one of the hardest skills in leadership. Leaders who have been through difficult endings in their own lives often develop a clearer eye for this. When you’ve experienced firsthand that short-term pain can lead to […]
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Values That Actually Work
It is surprisingly difficult for an organization to keep its stated values active. Too often, they can become like wallpaper, looking good in the lobby, but disconnected from how hard decisions actually get made. The Poster Test Here’s a question I ask myself about any organization’s stated values: when was the last time someone made […]