Writing
Takes on tech, bourbon, manufacturing, and Kentucky.
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.
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.
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.
On Building From Scratch
What Bardstown taught me about starting with nothing and making something worth keeping.
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.
Ninja First
Why I lead with learning before I lead with authority — and what auto manufacturing taught me about knowing when to switch.