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Fiction & Creative Writing

Stories & Writing

Short fiction, poetry, and longer narrative work exploring technology, identity, and the human condition.

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

Written at 36,000 feet. No escape from myself. In dreams they lay, awake While thoughts pierced their soul A thousand knives at once Is all …

January 2026
The Room in the Elephant

The Room in the Elephant

Introduction This is a reflection borne out of the lyric: “The elephant in the room is that my room is in the elephant.” from …

July 2025
Shadowboxing

Shadowboxing

Poem about internal struggles

August 2023
After All You’ve Done

After All You’ve Done

Poem about putting myself first

January 2023
You Did Your Best

You Did Your Best

Poem about the impact of narcissistic parents

December 2022
Recent Posts
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 3): Defending Against Runtime Abuse
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


This is Part 3 of a 3-part series.

Part Title
Part 1 The Leak, the Context, and the Framework …

April 2, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 2): Mapping the Trust Boundaries and the Attack Tree
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


This is Part 2 of a 3-part series.

Part Title
Part 1 The Leak, the Context, and the Framework …

April 2, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 1): The Leak, the Context, and the Framework
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


The Procurement TL;DR

If you are buying or integrating an AI Agent platform today, ignore the “magic” demos. Ask these three questions:

  1. How is my …

March 31, 2026 Read
OID-See v1.1.0: External Identity Posture, iOS Support, and New Auth Methods
OID-See v1.1.0: External …

This is a personal blog and all content herein is my own opinion and not that of my employer.


OID-See v1.1.0 is out

v1.0.1 tightened the scoring.

v1.1.0 expands what OID-See can actually see.

This is the biggest release since the initial drop: a new external identity posture surface, a fully …

March 31, 2026 Read
Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure: What I’d Do Differently (and Why Your Database Probably Isn’t the Problem)
Self-Hosting Umami on …

Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure

Prisma fights, pgcrypto drama, CSP facepalms, cold starts… and assumptions with teeth


TL;DR

I set out to self-host Umami analytics for this website using:

  • Netlify (Next.js runtime - I already host my site here so it made sense to me!)
  • Azure PostgreSQL Flexible …

March 25, 2026 Read
Synthetic Authority and Constrained Probabilism: What Overloaded Minds Teach Us About AI
Synthetic Authority and …

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We Are Not Exploring New Territory

After publishing Capability ≠ Obligation, I had a conversation that lingered far longer than I expected.

It wasn’t with a policymaker, a …

February 15, 2026 Read
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