Writing

Notes from the burrow. Same posts as on the professional site, in this layout.

• The Monthly Strategic Narrative: Tying Accomplishments Back to Goals

  2026-08-28

  Monthly reporting should answer a bigger question than the week: what did all of that work add up to?

  Manage · Strategy · Reporting · Leadership

• Weekly Summaries for Meetings and Management Review

  2026-08-27

  Weekly reporting is where daily detail has to become usable judgment. When the daily inputs are strong, the week is a review, not a reconstruction.

  Manage · Reporting · Leadership · Agents

• The Daily Blocker Report as Project Triage

  2026-08-26

  A blocker report should make it hard to ignore what can stop delivery, without treating every unfinished item as an emergency.

  Manage · Blockers · Delivery · Agents

• The Daily Agenda as an Operating Brief

  2026-08-25

  A useful daily agenda is not a todo list. It is an operating brief for what deserves attention today.

  Manage · Agenda · Jira · Agents

• Inputs and Outputs in an Agent-Integrated Document System

  2026-08-24

  The system is less like a filing cabinet and more like a small refinery: messy operational inputs in, purpose-built outputs out.

  Manage · Agents · Documentation

• From Meetings to Jira to Reports: Closing the Work Loop

  2026-08-23

  Meetings, tickets, tasks, and reports only help if they stay connected. The value is the closed loop, not a prettier notebook.

  Manage · Jira · Meetings · Agents

• QUITTING TIME!!! and the End-of-Day Closeout Loop

  2026-08-22

  The end of the day is when context is still warm. QUITTING TIME!!! is the command that turns today into memory for tomorrow.

  Manage · Agents · Workflow · Documentation

• The Document Library as an Agent Operating System

  2026-08-21

  A document library can be more than an archive. Mine became a shared memory surface for agents and a coordination layer for the work itself.

  Manage · Agents · Documentation · Markdown

• Why I am building Manage

  2026-08-20

  Manage is the product I want for the work around the work: an agent-readable operating system for delivery, meetings, 1:1s, reviews, and the notes that would otherwise disappear.

  Manage · Agents · Documentation · Leadership

• Building a Documentation Platform from Scratch with AI, MkDocs, and GitHub Pages

  2026-05-31

  How pipeline monitoring and CRM subsystem training led to a Markdown-first documentation platform—published with MkDocs, GitHub Pages, Python automation, and AI as a development partner.

  MkDocs · GitHub Pages · Documentation · AI · Python · CI/CD · Data Engineering

• AI Is Reshaping the Architecture of Business — And We're Only Beginning to See It

  2025-02-19

  Artificial intelligence is not simply another productivity tool. It is changing the economics of prediction, compressing decision cycles, redistributing judgment, and increasing the scale at which errors — and insights — propagate.

  AI · Leadership · Education · ASU · Business Strategy · Data Architecture · Ethics

• Exploring Data Vault and Ensemble Modeling

  2019-01-20

  A firsthand look at Data Vault and Ensemble Modeling concepts following my Genesee Academy training with Hans Hultgren.

  Data Vault · Ensemble Modeling · Data Warehousing · ETL · Certification