Writing

  1. Feb 2026
    Real World AutomationWhy so much enterprise data sat waiting to be cleaned, why extraction alone creates no value, and what changed with LLMs.
  2. Jan 2026
    Context Is a State ProblemWhy enterprise AI breaks when work pauses, fails or waits on a person, and why the workflow, not the prompt, should hold the context.
  3. Mar 2024
    How I ObsidianA single, mostly flat vault, tags over maps of content, a daily note that runs the day, and as few plugins as I can manage.
  4. 2022
    My Perilous Journey Through SaaS PricingNine pricing models in four years at Catalytic, what each one broke, and the lessons burned in along the way.
  5. Nov 2016
    We Never Knew the Name of the TrendSaaS, mobile, and AI and bots, torn down from Fieldglass and Catalytic, and six patterns in how we innovated without knowing what to call it.
  6. Nov 2015
    Fieldglass in Five ActsFourteen years from a dark office on Diehl Road to SAP, told as five acts, each set against what technology and the economy were doing.
  7. Dec 2014
    Programming for KidsApps, games and toys that teach a six-, four- and two-year-old to think like programmers.
  8. 2011
    Using Metrics for Fun and ProfitHow not to use metrics, and a counterbalanced trio that works: capacity, efficiency and quality.
  9. Nov 2006
    Blue Highways, Gray SkiesOur first RV trip, day by day from the journal I kept: thirteen days and half the country in a rented Sprinter with Jess and Simon.
  10. 2006
    How I Fell in Love with Camper VansFrom a VW camper van at Burning Man to thirteen days in a rented Sprinter with Jess and Simon.
  11. 2005
    Guide to Burning Man GearA supply list with the reasons left in, from three Burns of refining it.
  12. Sep 2002
    Burning Man 2002: Floating WorldMy first Burn, from the notes I scribbled in a journal over four days on the playa.