The Closing of the Seattle Columbia Tower Club — Where Deals Didn’t Start, They Converged
There are places that exist for meetings. And then there are places where things actually happen. For me, the Columbia Tower Club was the latter.
Ideas, Builds, and Field Notes
Practical lessons from building companies, writing code, and operating in the real world.
AI Agents and Data Architecture
AI agents are only as effective as the structure of the data they operate on. Architecture determines usefulness.
Wayback: The post that should’ve gotten me fired
In 1994, I was a young software developer at IBM Toronto working on the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), porting the security component Kerberos from Unix to MVS and OS/400: the operating systems behind the most serious mainframe and midrange platforms of the time. Also serious: how bad the cafeteria food was.