As a bit of an experiment I participated in National Blog Posting Month for January 2009. It was a real test of discipline to write something every single day.
But the goal was achieved and now I'm going to drop back to a less aggressive blogging schedule of several times a week.
One of the ways to get better at something is to practise it, and participating in something like this is a good training exercise.
The AI conversation is shifting. What began as a fascination with generative tools is rapidly evolving into something far more consequential: AI as an enterprise execution engine. The real challenge is no longer producing outputs, but delivering reliable, governed outcomes at scale.
As AI agents take real actions across your business, observability and assurance move from nice‑to‑have to non‑negotiable.
Data is no longer a static by-product; it is a flowing asset that powers automation and AI. When it is poorly governed, AI amplifies the problems - so managing data and its risks is now a strategic imperative.
Ukraine has shown that modern war is increasingly software-defined, data-dependent and commercially entangled. Salt Typhoon reveals what this means in peacetime: adversaries are mapping telecommunications, infrastructure and digital ecosystems long before a crisis begins.
