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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
