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Writing on AI and the infrastructure under it
Mostly AI and the infrastructure it runs on, and how either gets bought in the GCC. Some of it is personal, usually about changing countries. Shared first on LinkedIn, kept here as a permanent record.
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Infrastructure & Security Simplified
Logging is not monitoring
10 Nov 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Nobody sells you the boring precondition
9 Nov 2026 Personal
The warm-up was the event
8 Nov 2026 The Craft
The research got faster. The being right didn't
5 Nov 2026 Personal
How the day gets decided
4 Nov 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
It worked in the demo
3 Nov 2026 Archive
November 2026 8 posts
- Logging is not monitoring Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- Nobody sells you the boring precondition Cutting Through the Noise
- The warm-up was the event Personal
- The research got faster. The being right didn't The Craft
- How the day gets decided Personal
- It worked in the demo Cutting Through the Noise
- What the proposal doesn't hand over The Craft
- Demand pulled top-down GCC Market Reality
October 2026 23 posts
- Cloud up 103%, shares down 12.6% Cutting Through the Noise
- I haven't opened my laptop since this morning The Craft
- Everything gets delivered except the fruit and veg Personal
- Simultaneous translation between two rooms The Craft
- Best practice is somebody else's practice Cutting Through the Noise
- Nobody sees your shoes on a video call Personal
- Residency tells you where the data sits, not who controls it Cutting Through the Noise
- Some things don't travel Personal
- Are we patched is the wrong question Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- The silence after you send it The Craft
- The list price meets the local entity GCC Market Reality
- Owning the GPU box only pays if it's private and busy Cutting Through the Noise
- Start from the reference architecture The Craft
- The desk was choosing my work, not me Personal
- What turns a pile of GPUs into a cloud Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- Automating a mess just gets you a faster mess Cutting Through the Noise
- Ask about water before chillers GCC Market Reality
- An AI factory is not a big data centre Cutting Through the Noise
- The phone is fine. The support window isn't. Personal
- Most AI never leaves one server Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- Transforming into what, exactly Cutting Through the Noise
- Who the AI factory is for GCC Market Reality
- Every test passed. The file couldn't run Cutting Through the Noise
September 2026 23 posts
- You stop photographing a place when you live in it Personal
- One pane of glass per vendor Cutting Through the Noise
- The person who promised it is the person who has to build it The Craft
- A backup they can delete isn't a backup Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- The drawing was the tax The Craft
- You can tell within a minute whether they want you there Personal
- I don't know, but I'll find out The Craft
- What exactly are you renting Cutting Through the Noise
- The rule nobody would bend GCC Market
- Nobody in that chair wants anything from me Personal
- Two relationships, not one GCC Market Reality
- The two Apple devices are the ones that don't go together Personal
- One throat to choke Cutting Through the Noise
- Your real competitor is nobody doing anything The Craft
- Building with people who are halfway gone Personal
- Where the real number hides The Craft
- The 5am flight club Personal
- The cloud fails differently Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- Buying off the back of a quadrant Cutting Through the Noise
- Everyone wants sovereign cloud GCC Market Reality
- Quantum has a timeline. Your migration doesn't. Cutting Through the Noise
- Nobody reads the assumptions page until they need to The Craft
- Out of practice at people Personal
August 2026 22 posts
- An objection is a gift, badly wrapped The Craft
- Certified is a photograph Cutting Through the Noise
- Claude Code is Van Damme Personal
- The scarcer resource isn't compute. It's the people who run it. GCC Market Reality
- My best thinking happens in traffic Personal
- The unbundled route just closed Cutting Through the Noise
- The two numbers everyone quotes Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- The best deal you walked away from The Craft
- Near the border isn't inside it GCC Market Reality
- You've assumed breach. Have you rehearsed it? Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- What I'd tell the version of me starting out Personal
- Design second The Craft
- Nobody ever decided on cloud-only Cutting Through the Noise
- The perimeter moved Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- The pilot came in under budget. Then it shipped. GCC Market Reality
- The AI bill turned up in my shopping basket Personal
- Ready for what Cutting Through the Noise
- They read one page. Write that page. The Craft
- You're late by the time the RFP lands GCC Market Reality
- They keep announcing the death of the password. Cutting Through the Noise
- Same tool, different target, different numbers Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- I'd forgotten how to do the office Personal
July 2026 14 posts
- The bottleneck was never the chips. GCC Market Reality
- Zero trust isn't a product Cutting Through the Noise
- The platform can move underneath you mid-purchase GCC Market Reality
- Residency moves more than the data Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- "Is it encrypted?" is the wrong question The Craft
- Where did that number come from? The Craft
- Sovereignty says stay. Supply says wait. GCC Market Reality
- You can outsource the software. Not the blast radius. Cutting Through the Noise
- DR doesn't fail in the design Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- The worst deal to lose is the one you were never going to win GCC Market Reality
- You turned on MFA. The stolen session didn't care. Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- The brief is not the solution GCC Market Reality
- We've got backup, so we're covered for DR Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- An AI agent isn't a chatbot. It's an account. Cutting Through the Noise
June 2026 11 posts
- "Is it secure?" Infrastructure & Security Simplified
- The deadline was always there GCC Market Reality
- Pricing a guess The Craft
- Cloud-first isn't cloud-only Cutting Through the Noise
- Residency is the first question, not the last GCC Market Reality
- The legacy system was me all along Personal
- The map is local Personal
- "AI-powered" Cutting Through the Noise
- The city that won't sit still Personal
- The spec sheet doesn't close GCC Market Reality
- PCI DSS misconception Infrastructure & Security Simplified