About my writing

Most explanations aren’t wrong. They’re incomplete.

This site is about what’s missing.

I write about how complex systems evolve, break, and get rebuilt—across technology, media, aerospace, and the institutions behind them. Not as a series of products or trends, but as long-running systems shaped by incentives, economics, and human decisions.

If you’re familiar with James Burke's Connections, this work operates in a similar spirit—tracing how decisions in one domain ripple outward across entire systems—but with a focus on what happens when those systems fragment and have to be rebuilt.

Some essays are historical analyses. Others focus on how systems behave under pressure—consolidation, fragmentation, and the unintended consequences that follow. Occasionally, I use counterfactuals or alternate timelines as a lens to expose what we assume was inevitable.

The goal isn’t prediction. It’s understanding how we got here, what we lost along the way, and what that implies for what comes next.

I’ve spent decades inside the systems I write about—at IBM, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and across the enterprise technology industry. That perspective informs the analysis, but this isn’t industry commentary. It’s an attempt to understand the structures underneath it.