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From 228 executive mobility briefings at Bank of America to hands-on explorations of AI tools and modern audit practice — writing clearly about complex technology has always been part of how I think.

I Learned to Build AI Agents the Way I Audit Them
I spent 30 years in tech, the last 10 auditing it. Then I built a free, hands-on course on building AI agents you can actually own in production.
Google Released a Standard for AI Knowledge Bases. I Adopted It — Then Extended It.
OKF gives AI agents a clean way to read your knowledge. It says nothing about whether that knowledge is still true. Here's the layer I built on top.
I Don't Publish Articles. I Release Them Through an AI Control.
A missing canonical tag on a Sunday morning pulled a thread. By end of day I'd built a two-agent AI publish control for my blog. Here's the system.
When Does AI Cross from Personal Productivity Tool to Shadow AI?
You're using AI every day. But at what point does that personal tool become something your business depends on — and needs to govern? The line isn't where most people think it is.
Integrative Pain vs. Disintegrative Pain in Technical Learning
Mark Divine draws a sharp line between pain that makes you stronger and pain that tears you down. What that distinction means when you're sitting in front of a codebase you barely understand — and why a light-hearted attitude might be load-bearing.
I Walked Through a Vacant Rental With My Phone. My AI Drafted the Contractor Texts Before I Got Home.
How an MCP memory server turns sloppy voice notes and phone photos into organized action — and what that means for anyone with a project, a property, or just too much to remember.
I Gave My 2nd Brain a Wiki — and Now It Writes Itself
A memory system that captures everything is only as useful as your ability to retrieve the right thing at the right moment. So I added a wiki layer — compiled views that load automatically based on keywords, written directly to GitHub by Claude. No copy/paste. No browser. It just works.
From My Grandfather's Ledger to the Plaid API
For nearly 30 years, I kept my real estate books the way my grandfather taught me — pen, paper, and a ledger. This Memorial Day, I'm finally letting go. Here's what I built instead.
I Built My Daughter an AI Brain Before She Leaves for College
She's 19, heading to Cal Poly SLO, moving into her first apartment. I'm a technology auditor. So I did what any reasonable tech-obsessed dad would do — I built her a persistent AI memory system that remembers everything, forever. Every dad has a love language. Mine is apparently building AI infrastructure for my kids.