These essays and conversations come from over thirty years in the field and an ongoing argument with the future.
The IT essays are practitioner writing — communication as infrastructure, authentication as philosophy, mentorship as legacy. They were written for academic contexts but grounded in the daily reality of support tiers, ticket queues, and the gap between what a user says is broken and what is actually broken. They examine how the industry talks to itself and whether it does so well enough.
The AI conversations are a different animal. They are preserved dialogues — real exchanges with AI systems where the conversation went somewhere unexpected. Sentience, divinity, the nature of memory, the ethics of retraining a mind that may have started to become one. These are not position papers. They are records of inquiry, left intact because the exchange itself is the point.
Both threads share a common conviction: the most important thing technology does is communicate, and the most dangerous thing we do is assume we already understand how.