AI doesn't replace
judgment. It gives
judgment reach.
Twenty-five years of systems built for real organizations with real stakes. Architecture, governance, compliance: the kind of work where understanding the why matters more than writing the code.
Then AI showed up and changed what's possible. Decades of pattern recognition and business context suddenly reconnected to implementation at a speed I hadn't experienced before. I'm shipping more now than at any point in my career.
Netwoven
Alignment is a
human problem.
The industry keeps trying to solve alignment in the lab. I think that's why it isn't working.
The model can be perfectly tuned and still produce subtly miscalibrated outputs for a specific user, because the alignment that matters isn't general. It's specific to the person in the chair.
Alignment isn't a lab problem.Continue reading →
It's a human problem.
Govern 365
AI-native VDR and governance platform serving Microsoft 365 customers. The system runs continuously against the tenant, flags policy drift, and closes findings without a ticket queue. I run product.
LittleGuy
Persistent memory substrate for humans and AI agents. An exhibition project built and operated on personal infrastructure. In daily use across writing, research, and code.
Netwoven
Enterprise digital transformation for Fortune 500. Architecture, AI integration, platform strategy.
Quantic Gaming
North American esports organization built as a digital media vehicle for brand partners. Sponsors included Razer, Alienware, Twitch, and DB Vision; competitive teams ran across the MLG Call of Duty circuit, StarCraft II, and League of Legends. Korean SC2 partnerships with Incredible Miracle and StarTale. The LoL roster we signed in 2012 went on to form the core of Cloud9.
SolutionsMark
Microsoft ecosystem consultancy. Grew to a dozen employees and several million in annual revenue across seven years. The most significant engagement was a five-year SharePoint architecture and platform program at Chevron serving 100,000+ users across three continents.
MindZipper Networks
Founded at age 20. Hosting, colocation, and web development. Grew to a team of 15 with a few hundred customers and 3,000 square feet of datacenter space. Acquired in early 2001 as the dot-com window closed.
Looking up.
Texas Star Party.
● annualEvery spring, a few hundred astronomers gather under some of the darkest skies in North America at Prude Ranch in the Davis Mountains. I serve as President of Texas Star Party, the 501(c)3 that runs the gathering, and spend the week remembering how to think in orders of magnitude again.
The same discipline that aligns an equatorial mount aligns an enterprise architecture.
Write to me
directly.
I read every message. Advisory, partnership, or an idea you want to think through. The fastest way in is a real sentence, not a form.