Selected talks, podcasts, interviews and earlier writing on government technology, correctional operations, AI acquisition and technology deployment.
ViaPath Technologies announces ViaPath Premises™, the next-generation officer device platform acquired from UNIT Innovations, as part of its connected corrections technology portfolio.
A bylined argument for using AI to widen commercial participation in government contracting and improve how agencies discover and acquire technology.
Reporting on UNIT Innovations' rapid deployment of screening and operational software for correctional facilities during the first weeks of COVID-19.
A conversation about correctional operations, outdated jail technology, suicide prevention and the realities of deploying software inside public institutions.
An early case for treating government contracting as a consequential technology market rather than administrative overhead.
A 13-episode interview podcast with researchers, investors, educators and public leaders about important problems still waiting to be solved.
The founding thesis for Problems Sighted, a series of interviews designed to expose important operating problems to people capable of solving them.
An argument that procurement friction and incumbent systems keep startups out of government technology precisely where new entrants are most needed.
A TEDx talk introducing the technology-gap thesis through early work bringing modern software into correctional facilities.
Most big ideas work when really smart people act stupid.
AI agents may follow the exponential path of software, SaaS and consumer applications.
It’s hard to define passion. It’s even harder to find passion.
There are many ways to be loud.
AI may enable the long-theorized one-, two- or three-person unicorn company.
AI has had me thinking a lot about moats in companies.
Fundamentally, LLMs are a transformative technology.
Most ideas can be proved out without raising capital.
An early exploration of AI as a private intermediary in negotiation.
The world doesn’t need more ideas; it needs execution.
Getting your foot in the door of the government software market isn’t quite like diving into the private sector.