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Insights and perspectives on technology, cybersecurity, leadership, artificial intelligence, and the evolving digital world.
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NO, Matthew McConaughey Isn’t “Trademarking Himself”… Here’s What He’s Really Doing (and Why It Matters)
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Recent headlines suggest that Matthew McConaughey is “taking on AI” by trademarking himself, including his voice, likeness, and famous catchphrases like “Alright, alright, alright.” It’s a compelling narrative. It’s also not quite accurate… What McConaughey is doing is far more precise, far more legally grounded, and far more strategic than the headlines imply. Understanding that…
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“Jim, How Fast Is AI Really Advancing?”
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Why I Believe Most People Underestimate the Curve, and Why That Matters I’m often asked a deceptively simple question… “Jim, how fast do you believe AI is actually advancing?” It’s usually asked with genuine curiosity… sometimes excitement, sometimes skepticism, and often by people who work around technology but not deep inside it. Given that I’ve…
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Your Employees Aren’t the Weakest Link… Your Training Program Is.
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For years, cybersecurity has repeated the same tired phrase, “Employees are the weakest link.” I don’t agree… and after decades in IT, security operations, and executive leadership, I’d argue that statement is not only wrong, it’s damaging. Employees aren’t the weakest link. Outdated, checkbox-style security training is. The Myth of the “Human Problem” Most organizations…
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CES 2026. The Year AI Became an Operating Model, Not a Strategy.
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For the past several years, CES has been a showcase of promise–> Bigger models, smarter demos, faster chips, and even louder claims. CES 2026 seemed different. This was the year artificial intelligence stopped being discussed as a future capability and started showing up as an operating reality. You didn’t see many pilots, proofs of concept,…
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Garbage In, Slop Out… Why AI Slop Is a Trust Crisis (and a Security Problem)
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Proceed with caution. Source of truth unknown. For decades, technologists lived by a simple rule… Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO). If your inputs are messy, biased, incomplete, or wrong, your outputs will be too. Generative AI didn’t retire that rule. It industrialized it. We’re now living in the era of Garbage In, Slop Out, where…
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When Your SLA Depends on Everyone Else
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We still talk about five nines as if uptime exists in a vacuum. In reality, modern services depend on carriers, clouds, APIs, SaaS platforms, security vendors, certificate authorities, and upstream providers that sit entirely outside our direct control, yet customers still expect a single, accountable outcome. When something breaks, the SLA doesn’t fail quietly. Trust…
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Keep Your Friends Close… But ‘Their’ Enemies Closer? When the Defenders Become the Threat.
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Over the past several weeks, I’ve found myself reflecting on a situation that underscored an uncomfortable truth about modern cybersecurity, one that isn’t often discussed openly. It wasn’t driven by a headline or a theoretical risk model, but by a real-world scenario that reinforced how much implicit trust we place in those with privileged access,…
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The Hidden Gifts and Surprises of IT Due Diligence in Acquisitions
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Acquisitions tend to arrive wrapped in optimism. Growth. Synergy. Opportunity. New markets. New capabilities. On paper, everything looks clean and exciting, especially during end-of-year conversations when leadership is already in a forward-looking mindset. But anyone who has been through an acquisition from the IT or security side knows the truth… the real story doesn’t begin…
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A Season of Gratitude, Collaboration, and Community
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As the year comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all who celebrate in their own ways, and a happy, healthy, and successful New Year ahead. This time of year naturally invites reflection, and when I look back on the past year,…
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Perspective… the Invisible Architecture of Everything. (And Why AI Is Forcing Us to Confront It)
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Something I’ve been thinking about for a long time now is how everything, and I truly mean everything, is shaped by perspective. How we look at people. How we interpret news, politics, money, success, and failure. How we respond to authority, uncertainty, risk, and change. None of it is neutral. Perspective is the invisible architecture…
