Read 24 essays , grouped by six pillars below.

Working notes and longer-form thinking from the field. Organised by pillar so you can read by what you actually care about. Published first here, syndicated to LinkedIn later.

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01

Agentic AI & Enterprise Architecture

Tiered maturity, deployment patterns, the agent stack for organisations that mean it.

3 essays

  • From Assistant to Autonomous Partner: My First Contact With Google's Antigravity
  • My Reflections on the AI Agent Playbook

02

AI Governance & EU AI Act

Explainability, accountability, audit trails, regulatory commentary at exec scale.

3 essays

  • Data Governance: The Bedrock of Trust and Value
  • Every Day Is Data Privacy Day

03

Data Infrastructure & Engineering Practice

Real-time inference, multi-cloud, observability, the technical backbone of AI work.

4 essays

  • Reflections on FinOps: Why Your Cloud Bill Is a DataOps Problem
  • Serving AI in Real-Time: Architecture for Low-Latency, High-Availability Inference

04

Leadership for CTOs and CDOs

Exec-level guidance for data and AI leaders. How to think about this, not just what to do.

6 essays

  • Reflections on the AI-Ready Companies Changing the Game
  • The Secret Sauce Is Still a Secret

05

The Human Factor

Teams, talent, transformation, capability transfer. Building people before building code.

4 essays

  • The Human Factor in Data and AI
  • Tailored Communication for Tech Leaders

06

Field Notes

Conference recaps, tool tests, sector reflections. Lighter cadence, real-time signal.

4 essays

  • Field Notes: London Tech Week and VivaTech 2025
  • May the Fourth: What Star Wars Teaches Us About Data Projects

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