Tag: Hiring
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A Field Guide to the Security Board Deck
The security board deck is the document that determines whether the security program gets funded, whether the CISO gets to keep their job, and whether the security team gets to hire the people they need. Most security board decks are bad. The field guide to writing the deck the board actually reads.
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Looking Back at February in Tech
A look back at February 2026 in tech, with the seven stories that actually mattered, the ones that looked like they mattered but did not, and the throughline that connects them.
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The Tools That Disappeared in 2025
Every year takes a few tools with it. The 2025 list was longer than most. The vendors, the projects, the open source tools the working developer depended on, the ones that did not survive the acquisition, the funding cut, the maintainer burnout.
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The Indie Web Comes Back, Again
The indie web has been declared dead so many times the obituary has become the running joke. The web the individual publishes, the blog the developer runs, the newsletter the writer sends, the web the platform did not own. The honest framing matters here, because the indie web that the platform kept declaring dead is…
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The Quiet Death of the CV
A field guide to the death of the CV in 2026, with what the CV is being replaced with, what the replacement is bad at, and the part about the candidates the CV is going to keep missing.
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What 2026 Is Going to Be About
A field guide to the year ahead in 2026, with the seven trends that are going to matter, the seven trends that are not, and the part about the press releases the press releases are not telling you.
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Looking Back at January in Tech
January in tech started the year the way the previous year ended, with a few headline stories that will define the next twelve months. The story the analyst will cite, the story the regulator will use, the story the next quarter’s earnings call will reference.
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Hiring a Security Expert Is Not Going to Save You
The organisation that hired the CISO at twice the market rate and gave them a year to fix the security program is the organisation whose security posture is the same. Here is why the single hire does not work, and what does.
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What the Open Web Looked Like Before the Algorithms
A field guide to the open web in the era before the algorithm, with what the platforms were doing, what the specific things were that the platforms were doing, and the part about the things the algorithms are not going to be able to replicate.
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The Slow Death of the Open Web, in Numbers
The open web is not dead. But it is no longer where most people spend their time, and the gap is widening.