3,000 Years of Communication Technology
From the Phoenician alphabet to SIP trunks: one thread through the Humanity dataset, and what it says about the network you're reading this on.
Writing
Essays on the infrastructure career, the history inside it, and the ideas that hold both together. Cross-linked to the timeline where it helps.
Why Infrastructure Products Are Different
Users don't want your product. They want what it makes possible — and infrastructure product management starts from that asymmetry.
The CD in the Mail
A free operating system, an envelope from the Netherlands, and the moment a command line became home.
Physical Servers, VMs, Containers: A Field Guide
The abstraction ladder in practice — what each rung actually hides, and how failure feels different at every level.
What Twenty Years of Infrastructure Change Taught Me
Notes from 2007 to now: the patterns that survived every platform shift, from PBX consoles to cloud control planes.
From PBX to Cloud Communications
What is lost and what is gained when the phone system stops being a room with a hum and becomes an API call.