What I built, where I stand and what I saw. Field notes on AI, data, security and persuasion for nonprofits, campaigns and the people who organize them.
"Test harness" doesn't roll off the tongue like "bacon," but it's just as tasty. It does the grunt work of testing so your app ends up a lot less rickety than you fear it is.
Oct. 5, 2026 · 5 min readNonprofit security signal lives in separate consoles that never talk to each other. DEWLine makes them talk, then lets you ask what they're saying in plain English.
Deck + explainer · 3 min readYou worked hard on the campaign. The idea is good. The creative is solid. You hit send and... nothing. Not backlash, not debate. Just silence. Here's why, and how to fix it.
Deck + explainer · 4 min readMicrosoft wrote a rulebook for its own AI and asked the public to weigh in. Here's what's in it, in plain English, and where it falls short.
Deck + explainer · 3 min readAspiration works when it starts from a grievance people already feel, not from a value you want them to feel. Here's what 52 focus groups say about the order of operations.
Deck + explainer · 2 min readReadiness isn't popularity. The angriest topic in 52 focus groups ranks dead last for persuasion. Here's who actually moves, and the one move that carries across every topic.
Deck + explainer · 3 min readThe most dangerous Iranian interference operation doesn't look like a cyberattack. It looks like a friendly email from a think tank researcher asking for your thoughts on a draft paper.
Article · 4 min readThe usual framing says Iran is the threat and the administration weakened our defenses. The full picture is an inversion: the defenses were dismantled while the threat became a pretext.
Article · 4 min readEndless AI dystopias are boring, and they crowd out the conversation we actually need to have: how to regulate AI and how to use it well.
Article · 3 min readOne unreadable budget memo, three ordinary AI tools and no data warehouse. Here's the pattern, step by step, so your team can do it too.
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