Now

• At work

  • Writing charters for AI-run projects so every one looks the same: outcome, decision rights, access, milestones with one review each.
  • Moving AI agents off human logins onto their own least-privilege identities, filed through compliance first.
  • Three agents in shadow mode (a ticket-quality gate, a database script sync team, a DM redirector), proposing while people act. They graduate in November if they earn it.
  • Kicking off a reporting-database project after a proof of concept that held up at ten times peak load.

• Building

  • Morning Stack, on public sale since August. Scheduled agents handle monitoring, weekly code review, support triage and reporting. I handle judgment.
  • This site, built in October by AI agents under my direction. The colophon has the details.

• Keeping sharp

  • Azure architecture, working through the Solutions Architect material to put a name on the design work I already do.
  • Terraform, so I have an honest second tool next to Bicep.
  • What I brought home from The AI Conference in San Francisco at the end of September. One pattern from it became an approved control within a day.

• Around here

  • Phase 1 of the Portland Bypass is under construction through spring 2028, and lanes shifted on Highway 52 in late September. Plan for it if you're driving in.
  • Tech walks most mornings: an hour on foot with a podcast before the first meeting.
  • Taking on a few local engagements between Bowling Green and Hendersonville. When I'm full, this page will say so.

A now page is an idea from Derek Sivers; there's a directory of them at nownownow.com (opens another site).