9 pieces
Writing
Takes on tech, bourbon, manufacturing, and Kentucky.
August 2026 · 3 min
The Green Ribbon
Software has two outcomes on the whiteboard and three in real life. The third one is a room nobody drew, and it's where money goes to stand still.
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June 2026 · 5 min
The Trees
White oak trees in Eastern Kentucky are failing to regenerate. Bourbon barrels require new charred American white oak by law. This is a slow-motion supply crisis that almost nobody is covering yet — and the clock has been running for decades.
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April 2026 · 4 min
The Window
A single operator with a Telegram bot and an AI pipeline compromised 900 businesses in 11 days. The window between disclosure and mass exploitation used to be months. That window is gone.
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April 2026 · 2 min
Gnosis
Bailey Pumfleet said it out loud: open source is dead. Not because the idea failed — because AI changed the cost of exploitation overnight. The new world rewards gnosis.
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April 2026 · 4 min
The Bloody Ground
Lux Row is pausing. Jim Beam already did. There are 16.1 million barrels aging in Kentucky right now. This isn't a bourbon problem.
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April 2026 · 1 min
On Building From Scratch
What Bardstown taught me about starting with nothing and making something worth keeping.
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March 2026 · 1 min
Kentucky Is the Case Study
Data centers want our land. Factories want our labor. Bourbon wants our water. What happens when everyone figures out Kentucky at the same time.
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March 2026 · 1 min
Ninja First
Why I lead with learning before I lead with authority — and what auto manufacturing taught me about knowing when to switch.
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