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Security Creates Work — poster
Apr 25, 2026 6 min #ai#operations#governance

Most security work is the residue of decisions made elsewhere. The interesting question is what it costs the people who have to live inside the control.

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Security theater is expensive

Security Theater Is Expensive — poster
May 27, 2026 13 min

The performance has a budget, a cast, and a recurring booking. The question is whether anyone in the audience is actually safer.

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Friction is a bug

Friction Is a Bug — poster
May 1, 2026 9 min

When the secure path is the hard path, people route around it. Friction is not a virtue signal — it is a defect report.

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We don't have a system of record for security

System of Record — poster
Apr 27, 2026 10 min

Your security posture is whatever your data hub says it is. If the record is wrong, every downstream decision inherits the error.

#data#identity
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