Writing
Twenty years across four chapters: the Marine Corps, strength coaching, law enforcement, and cybersecurity. These are the notes that came out of it.
29 Aug 2026
Lapsus$ was a crew of teenagers who breached Microsoft, Nvidia, and Okta. The same open-source capability that put them inside those companies is sold, unregulated, to the people hunting kids online. Here is the child safety case, the case law behind it, and why the off-ramp is not optional.
16 Aug 2026
After Cyber Saturday at the Georgia Cyber Center, my son went home and started writing his own code. Not AI generated. Batch scripts, then bash, built by hand to automate the small stuff. Here is where it started.
22 Jul 2026
The risk with agentic tooling in operations is not that it takes the job. It is that it takes the judgment, and nobody notices until an outage.
13 Jun 2026
You cannot out-vigil a machine, and burning your body trying is how defenders lose slowly. The right job for a blue team agent is not replacing your judgment. It is protecting your night.
6 Jun 2026
The work does not go to the smartest person in the room. It goes to the one still looking on day nine, after the interesting part is over.
30 May 2026
Composure is not a personality trait you were issued or denied. It is a physical skill, and water is the most honest place to build it.
23 May 2026
Scope creep does not just blow budgets and miss deadlines. It quietly builds the vulnerabilities that attackers walk through later.
16 May 2026
Fit means good at the thing you trained for. Capable means ready for the thing you did not see coming. Military Athlete work is built for the second one.
9 May 2026
You can harden every system you own and still be the weakest component in it. Fatigue is not a wellness problem. It is a security one.
2 May 2026
Tech companies are deploying AI into their security stacks without learning the most important lesson the battlefield already taught us: you can't send humans to fight something that moves at machine speed. Agents fight Agents. Always.
19 Mar 2026
I took my kid to Cyber Saturday at the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center in Augusta. What happened in that room changed how I think about the future of this field.
10 Mar 2026
Step Security addresses the threats that traditional endpoint tools miss entirely: the ephemeral CI/CD runner where your secrets live and your builds happen.
1 Mar 2026
AI has crossed a threshold, from productivity tool to the defining addiction of our era. We examine its toll on mental health, creativity, and security, and ask the question nobody wants to answer: should we regulate it like drugs and weapons?
4 Feb 2026
An honest conversation about burnout, mental health, and staying human in the relentless world of ethical hacking and red/blue team operations.
22 Jan 2026
System hardening using CIS Benchmarks, the digital equivalent of pre-deployment checks.
15 Jan 2026
Today's nationwide outage taught us a critical lesson: redundancy isn't optional. Here's why I trust T-Mobile's approach to backup infrastructure.
12 Jan 2026
In the military, we trained for failure. In tech, most people hope it never happens. Here's why that mindset shift is everything.
3 Jan 2026
The same decision-making process that kept me alive downrange is the same one that saves production systems at 3 AM. Here is how to flip the switch from military ops to DevSecOps.
26 Dec 2025
How traffic enforcement, gang investigations, and interdiction work gave me the investigative mindset that powers cyber threat hunting.
15 Dec 2025
A look back at the experiences that sparked my passion for technology, from helicopters to radios to the thirst for learning.
13 Dec 2025
Reflecting on the skills that transfer from the battlefield to the IDE.
12 Dec 2025
Some daily tech updates and transition stories.