Thinking

Ideas for founders, investors, and CTOs navigating high-stakes technology decisions.

Technical leadership

Fire-seeking: the hidden skill of technical leadership

Why strong technical leaders look for weak signals and difficult truths before the board finds them first.

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Scaling & legacy

Three fracture planes for safer legacy migration

A framework for business-led, evidence-based, incremental change.

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AI strategy

AI adoption is an organisational design problem

Why workflow, accountability, quality, and learning matter more than the model.

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Venture technology due diligence

What technical due diligence should actually tell an investor

Diligence should change a term sheet or build genuine confidence — anything else is theatre.

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Good consulting

The craft of good consulting

Why good advice is judgement offered without ego, not delivery capacity for hire.

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