For twelve years my job has had one question at the center of it: how does a computer know you are really you. I work in digital identity and security, and I find that question genuinely interesting. But I have never been a one-subject person, and I was not about to start a one-subject blog.
So here is the honest version. My curiosity wanders. I will read about psychology for a week because I want to know why people, me included, keep making the same decisions. Then it is economics, because the incentives behind a thing usually explain the thing. Then mathematics, because nothing else makes my head feel that clean. Then health, money, a cricket match I cannot stop replaying, a film that earned the whole evening. The wandering is the point, not a bug I am apologizing for.
What you will actually find here
Some posts will be technical, because that is my day job and I cannot help it. Others will have nothing to do with work at all. A piece on why we are so bad at judging risk. A rant about a Formula 1 strategy call. Notes on a book that stuck to me. Something about staying healthy that I wish someone had told me at twenty five. Once in a while, something from my own life, because a person is more than the thing they get paid to do.
Why write any of it
Most of my thinking has lived inside meetings and documents nobody outside my team will ever read. Writing for a stranger is harder, and that is exactly the point. It forces a kind of clarity you can fake in a slide deck but not in a paragraph. I would rather be plainly wrong here than vaguely right in private.
If a post survives a week without me wanting to delete it, it is probably worth keeping. Probably.
The rough plan
I will try to write every week. I will miss some weeks. The topics will not stay in their lanes, and I am not going to pretend they will. If something here makes you want to argue, agree, or hand me a better idea, my email is at the bottom of every page and I read all of it.
Thanks for being here at the start.