Writing
Writing
Notes on method. What the work actually involves, where it usually breaks, and what I got wrong. No case studies: client engagements are not mine to publish, and an anonymized one is not worth reading.
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2026-07-12
A policy is not a control
Where a client's data goes during an AI engagement, and how you would prove it. Intake, processing, and the part nobody writes about: what happens when the engagement ends.
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2026-03-18
Control limits, not thresholds
Data observability alerts on thresholds, and thresholds either scream or say nothing. A pipeline is a process. Processes have control limits. Manufacturing settled this in the 1920s and wrote it down.
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2025-11-23
Everyone publishes the target
Every analytics business case ends with a number. Almost nobody publishes what fraction of it landed. Two of mine, and the four things that decide the difference.