Articles
Field Notes & System Design
I write about what actually works (and what fails) when building and fixing complex organizations. No academic theory—just observations from the trenches of Enterprise Architecture, Crisis Management, and System Launching.
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August 19, 2026
How I see a leader's work in the future
A business must accurately and promptly know where danger is threatening and respond to it just as well as a cat.
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August 5, 2026
Dynamic State Architecture — One Model, Three Dates, Nothing Redrawn
Gartner named the term. The question it leaves is whether your target state is a drawn picture or a projection of a model.
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July 28, 2026
RACI as Text You Can't Break Silently
A spreadsheet cannot tell you the matrix is broken. A rule can — and it fails the check the moment a row has two Accountables.
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July 21, 2026
Every Organization Has Complexity Agents. Almost None Has a Simplification Agent.
Every role is paid to elaborate what it owns — locally justified, cumulatively fatal. Almost no one is mandated to cut.
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July 14, 2026
A New Compliance Obligation Lands — What Does It Affect?
If the honest answer is that a workshop is needed to find out, this is an architecture problem, not a legal one.
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July 7, 2026
When Architecture-as-Code Meets Google's Open Knowledge Format
Notes from the first adoption — an ArchiMate-typed graph in YAML, enterprise knowledge in OKF, and an agent doing the ingestion.
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June 23, 2026
Architecture-as-Code for the Enterprise — What Current EA Tools Miss
Repositories of diagrams promised order and delivered folders of final-final versions. The model is data, and text is what makes it behave like data.
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January 3, 2026
Why Industry Experience Isn't Always the Key
Deep industry experience feels safer to hire for — but a universal architectural method travels further than sector fluency does.
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