I kept three copies of what my analyst agent was allowed to touch, and they drifted. Here's how the Open Knowledge Format cut it to one git-versioned source, compiled once and guarded by CI.
Every tool you know is depreciating. The one skill that isn't is your ability to learn unfamiliar things fast - and it quietly atrophies if you only ever work inside your comfort zone. Here's the case for deliberate brain breaks.
Ten quick questions on building retrieval-augmented systems that scale under load and don't leak data they shouldn't — access control, prompt injection, PII, evals, and caching. No reading required, just test yourself.
My chat bot confidently lied about my own writing. The bug wasn't retrieval - it was an ambiguous sentence in the source and a stale index. Why RAG is a data problem before it's a retrieval problem.
Ten questions on Beam's windowing methods, watermarks, triggers, and late data — with sourced explanations for every answer.
A short, high-level visual tour of the DAMA wheel: governance at the hub, the eleven knowledge areas around it, where data ethics fit, and my own attempt at slotting in AI.
We badly underestimate what we already know, about our craft and about ourselves. A Father's Day reflection on my daughters, journaling, and why writing it down is how you find out what's in your head.
You see a better way to build something, but you don't own the budget, the roadmap, or the teams. Six things that have actually worked for me to win people over and enact change.
