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The Regulated AI Stack

A 10-part series exploring the challenges, architectures, and frameworks for adopting AI in regulated industries.

10 parts · 88 min · started Jan 2026
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The Exit Clause

A running series on writing the exit before the renewal. Lock-in in the AI era was never the license fee. It was the cost of understanding your own estate, and that cost just collapsed. Each post draws the target architecture for a platform you have lived with for years, at a different altitude of the stack, and asks how far the exit can honestly reach.

4 parts · 42 min · started Oct 2026
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Everything as Code

Software spent decades earning a governed lifecycle for one artifact: source code. This series generalizes that hard-won discipline to every versionable deliverable in the enterprise — infrastructure, architecture, policy, GRC, standards, procedures — around a versioned source of truth, and asks how far the pattern extends toward an AI-first Enterprise OS.

8 parts · 59 min · started Sep 2026
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Dreamforce 2026

Architecture-first dispatches from Salesforce Dreamforce 2026: Data 360 as the grounding layer, the on-platform versus off-platform agent decision, MuleSoft Agent Fabric, native source-driven DevOps, and where Azure AI Foundry interop is real versus marketed.

4 parts · 50 min · started Sep 2026
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Fiserv Forum 2026

Three dispatches from Fiserv Forum 2026: an architecture-first read on agentOS, the reliability that agents inherit from the core beneath them, and the data problem that decides whether any of it grounds. Written for the architect asking what actually ships versus what opens a statement of work.

3 parts · 32 min · started Aug 2026
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Platform Strategy & Vendor Economics

Where lock-in goes when formats open up, protocols standardize, and AI agents enter the stack. An ongoing analysis of enterprise platform decisions, vendor positioning, and the switching costs that compound when nobody is looking.

3 parts · 33 min · started Apr 2026
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TDX 2026

Dispatches from Salesforce TDX 2026: architecture analysis, vendor reality checks, and what the pitch actually means for an Azure-invested enterprise.

5 parts · 47 min · started Apr 2026
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Life as Infrastructure

The Four Burners theory says you must sacrifice parts of your life to succeed. But what if the real problem isn't competing demands, but bad architecture? A three-part series applying systems thinking to life balance.

3 parts · 31 min · started Mar 2026
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My Three Gurus

Three men, separated by a century and a half, teaching the same lessons through radically different languages. A Victorian monk, a clinical psychologist, and a modern entrepreneur converge on truth.

4 parts · 42 min · started Feb 2026
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When It Hits Home

A 3-part series: one father, three children, three careers facing the same AI shift from different angles.

3 parts · 27 min · started Feb 2026