Writing
Notes on infrastructure and the GCC market
Short, opinion-led pieces. Shared first on LinkedIn, kept here as a permanent record.
Topics
The Craft
Where the real number hides
10 Sept 2026 Personal
The 5am flight club
9 Sept 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
The cloud fails differently
8 Sept 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Buying off the back of a quadrant
7 Sept 2026 GCC Market Reality
Everyone wants sovereign cloud
6 Sept 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Quantum has a timeline. Your migration doesn't.
3 Sept 2026 The Craft
Nobody reads the assumptions page until they need to
2 Sept 2026 Personal
Out of practice at people
1 Sept 2026 The Craft
An objection is a gift, badly wrapped
31 Aug 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Certified is a photograph
30 Aug 2026 Personal
Claude Code is Van Damme
28 Aug 2026 GCC Market Reality
The scarcer resource isn't compute. It's the people who run it.
27 Aug 2026 Personal
My best thinking happens in traffic
26 Aug 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
The unbundled route just closed
26 Aug 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
The two numbers everyone quotes
25 Aug 2026 The Craft
The best deal you walked away from
24 Aug 2026 GCC Market Reality
Near the border isn't inside it
23 Aug 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
You've assumed breach. Have you rehearsed it?
20 Aug 2026 Personal
What I'd tell the version of me starting out
19 Aug 2026 The Craft
Design second
18 Aug 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Nobody ever decided on cloud-only
17 Aug 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
The perimeter moved
16 Aug 2026 GCC Market Reality
The pilot came in under budget. Then it shipped.
13 Aug 2026 Personal
The AI bill turned up in my shopping basket
12 Aug 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Ready for what
11 Aug 2026 The Craft
They read one page. Write that page.
10 Aug 2026 GCC Market Reality
You're late by the time the RFP lands
9 Aug 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
They keep announcing the death of the password.
6 Aug 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
Same tool, different target, different numbers
4 Aug 2026 Personal
I'd forgotten how to do the office
2 Aug 2026 GCC Market Reality
The bottleneck was never the chips.
30 Jul 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Zero trust isn't a product
28 Jul 2026 GCC Market Reality
The platform can move underneath you mid-purchase
26 Jul 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
Residency moves more than the data
23 Jul 2026 The Craft
"Is it encrypted?" is the wrong question
21 Jul 2026 The Craft
Where did that number come from?
20 Jul 2026 GCC Market Reality
Sovereignty says stay. Supply says wait.
19 Jul 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
You can outsource the software. Not the blast radius.
16 Jul 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
DR doesn't fail in the design
14 Jul 2026 GCC Market Reality
The worst deal to lose is the one you were never going to win
12 Jul 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
You turned on MFA. The stolen session didn't care.
9 Jul 2026 GCC Market Reality
The brief is not the solution
7 Jul 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
We've got backup, so we're covered for DR
5 Jul 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
An AI agent isn't a chatbot. It's an account.
2 Jul 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified
"Is it secure?"
30 Jun 2026 GCC Market Reality
The deadline was always there
28 Jun 2026 The Craft
Pricing a guess
25 Jun 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
Cloud-first isn't cloud-only
23 Jun 2026 GCC Market Reality
Residency is the first question, not the last
21 Jun 2026 Personal
The legacy system was me all along
19 Jun 2026 Personal
The map is local
18 Jun 2026 Cutting Through the Noise
"AI-powered"
16 Jun 2026 Personal
The city that won't sit still
14 Jun 2026 GCC Market Reality
The spec sheet doesn't close
11 Jun 2026 Infrastructure & Security Simplified