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  • Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, from the air over the ocean

    Heisenberg’s World of Uncertainty

    Security analysts can’t ever be certain of what they’re seeing and not seeing. See something, do something My entire career has been in some form of “see what’s important, then do something about it.” It’s Heisenberg’s world though. Collecting and moving data has impact and cost, which can be hard to continue justifying. That often

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  • VMBlog Post on Decentralization

     linking to this piece I wrote for VMblog  Why Decentralized Work Calls for Decentralized Data

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  • Columbo the Detective and Robby the Robot

    Does ChatGPT have a product in it?

    I think not. I discussed why there’s low value to be captured by modeling data in Where’s the Product in AI?. Using a Large Language Model approach to ask questions or frame answers does not alter that analysis. There’s been a dream of talking with computers since the first movie director to consider one realized

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  • Voice-o-Graph Ad

    Why Get Product Feedback?

    It sounds like a silly question when you phrase it like that, doesn’t it? But really, let’s all look back to the last time that you as a user were asked your opinion of any of the consumer products that you might enjoy / suffer through. Consumer facing apps rarely ask for user feedback, unless

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  • The famous diagram of a WWII B-17 bomber pocked with survivable damage

    QA and Product Development Fashion

    I think there’s a lot of survivor’s bias in judgment of what works or doesn’t work in product development. Either you made something the customers needed, in which case whatever path was taken is lauded as the right one, or you didn’t, and whatever path was taken is held unaccountable because it doesn’t matter any

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