Adventures is where the work takes form — in the field, in the code, in the culture.
These stories come from a lifetime of making systems for humans, machines, and the space in between. Some are tales of hard-won production deployments. Others are snapshots of transformation: a team that leveled up, a policy that finally landed, a system that refused to die quietly.
They are not case studies. They are narratives with teeth.
You’ll find no sanitized slide decks here — only work done under pressure, in motion, and sometimes under duress.
When names are changed, it’s not to obscure the truth — it’s to protect the living systems that run, and the people still inside them.
Selected Field Notes:
The ones that still echo.
The last two years, I’ve been focusing on AI-Native weapon systems abroad. Now I’m back — so, what about AI-Native Corporate America? Surely, we all have self-driving cars, all the tellers are robots, and AI caters to our every need. Right? Wait, what?
2025/08/07: The AI Success Story Nobody’s Talking About: How "Boring" Architecture Beats Hype — 'AI don’t need no clouds.'
2025/07/21: AI Integration Architecture for Enterprise — this is not how we saw the future in 2023. But here it is, in its full glory.
2023/07/05: The AI Evolution Playbook: Why 80% Will Fail — the four phases of AI-native evolution — validated by life itself.
2023/07/04: American AI Integration Trap — the impediment is known — our vendors will surely beat it!
Right-right?
WRONG!
These are the short stories behind the current CTO avalanche. Maybe it’s for the best.