Insights
Writing is how I think.
Essays on the questions that decide whether data and AI deliver — operating models, architectural choices, and the soft systems that hold both together.
For reference material on specific concepts, see the concept library.
AGENTIC AI
The case for deterministic guardrails
The boring half of agent design that decides whether the magical half ever ships.
02DATA ARCHITECTURE
Lakehouse, warehouse, mesh — what actually changes for the business
A short decision tree, not a religious debate.
03OPERATING MODEL
Designing teams for agentic operations
When agents handle execution, your org chart is wrong by default.
04BI & ANALYTICS
The semantic layer is the new data API
Why your KPIs need a contract before your agents read them.
05EXECUTIVE
Ten numbers that should be on every CEO's data dashboard
And the forty that should not.
06DATA ENGINEERING
The half-life of a data stack is shorter than you think
Architecture decisions made today have a four-year horizon, not ten.
07AGENTIC AI
Tool calls are not features. Tools are products.
Treating tools as products is the difference between a clever demo and a governable system.
08OPERATING MODEL
Data as a product, three years on
What worked, what didn't, what the literature still gets wrong.
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