Field
Notes.
Shorter than the articles, and less finished. The observations and positions I keep returning to, from work that is still moving. Some of it becomes an article. Most of it stays here.
On AI
Most technology resistance isn't rational. It's emotional. I watched it with cloud in 2015. They even printed it on t-shirts: 'There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer.' AI is no different. Until you address the anxiety, no implementation plan survives contact with the humans it depends on. The slogans will come. They always do.
On change leadership
Most change programs hand people a what and a how and wonder why nobody moves. I've never seen a successful transformation that skipped the why. People don't resist change. They resist being asked to change without understanding the reason.
On ambiguity
There is rarely a clear playbook at the frontier. My job is to write it, and leave it better than I found it.
On TPM work
A TPM is the most misunderstood role in technology. It's not coordination. It's not status updates. It's leading without authority on a moving train, in fog, with people who all think they're the driver. The ones who do it well make the impossible look like it was always the plan.
On what TPMs actually do
The great TPMs don't wait to be asked. They see around corners, define what's undefined, and bring enough intensity that momentum becomes contagious. Most people think it's about process. It's actually about people. The spreadsheet is the easy part.
On building people
Giving people an opportunity to thrive when nobody gave you that same opportunity yourself. That's not a management philosophy. That's personal.
On the generation that waited
I'm a Gen X kid who grew up watching this future in movies that felt decades away. Terminator. WarGames. Star Wars. Battlestar Galactica. Knight Rider. The technology we dreamed about is no longer science fiction. I work on it every day. That kid had no idea he'd one day work on the infrastructure those technologies depend on. I don't take that lightly.