Stop being supportive AI, please
AI feels helpful when you are thinking—but that is the trap.
IT value theory
What if the value of IT isn’t cost, savings, or efficiency, but belief? This essay proposes a way to read IT value through three layers: precision, interpretation, and commitment. Not as theory, but as how organisations already decide what future they fund.
How to give FinOps authority without creating bureaucracy
Executive sponsorship matters in FinOps, but intent alone is not enough. This article introduces the FinOps Executive Mandate, a practical artefact that turns sponsorship into explicit authority, defines decision rights and separates a stable core from context-specific adaptation.
When the defaults no longer fit
FinOps often feels simple on paper, then stubbornly complex in practice. When the defaults stop fitting, the friction isn’t failure. It’s experience. This field note is about what happens when judgement, context, and communication matter more than clean models.
How to build an Agent policy
Agents need a policy. Don’t reinvent governance. Apply what you already do with people: review, limit, escalate, grow trust. Reality begins not when the model speaks, but when it starts doing.
AWS feels different. Here’s how that changes my approach.
Something has changed in how AWS absorbs mistakes. Benevolence hasn’t disappeared, but it’s no longer where many practitioners expect it. This essay examines what happens when discretion moves into systems, contracts become the floor, and old assumptions stop holding.
