Notes on security, AI, and small business.
Plain-English writing on the security and AI decisions small businesses actually face — no jargon, no fear-selling.
Who's In Charge of AI? (An Honest Map of Almost Nobody)
Who actually governs AI right now — the US regulating by tug-of-war, Europe's strict law now on pause, and the self-regulation filling the gap. Plus what good rules would actually look like.
Read →Will AI Destroy Us?
The finale — taking the extinction question seriously without hype or doom. Why the two camps secretly agree, where I land, and why the answer matters less than you'd think.
Read →The Case Against AI: Where It Fails, and How People Make It Even Worse
The mirror image of the last post — the three distinct ways AI goes wrong (the tool fails, the user fails, or someone weaponizes it), why they need different fixes, and the defenses that actually work.
Read →The Case For AI: What It's Actually Good At
After two skeptical posts, the other side of the ledger — documented, checkable wins where AI is already saving lives, accelerating science, and stopping attacks. No demos, no hype.
Read →That Datacenter Outside Your Town: What's Actually in There?
Part two: what's physically inside the datacenter that showed up near you, why it can land on your power bill, the water question both sides get wrong, and why the fixes already exist.
Read →What AI Actually Is (Because Almost Nobody Arguing About It Knows)
Everyone argues about "AI" without agreeing on what the word means. Part one strips it back to what modern AI actually is — pattern recognition — and, just as importantly, what it is not.
Read →Five security questions every small business should be able to answer
Before you buy a single tool or hire anyone, these five plain questions tell you more about your real risk than most audits do.
Read →The quiet cost of ungoverned AI
Your team is already using AI. Without a few simple rules, the risk isn't the technology — it's what quietly leaks, what's confidently wrong, and what you can't explain when someone asks.
Read →Why "too small to be a target" is a myth
Attackers don't hand-pick small businesses. They scan for easy ones. Being small doesn't make you invisible — it often makes you convenient.
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