How I Turn Articles Into Presentations I Can Actually Teach From
A copyable markdown workflow for building presentation-ready articles with Copilot agents, optional present mode, and screenshots that prove the layout works.
Operator's notebook
What holds up after the meeting.
I use this site to think in public, make sense of what I am learning, and keep a record of the ideas I want to come back to. It is a working library built from the work itself: security, cloud, AI, leadership, and the long game of execution.
Recent writing
What I'm working through now.
The latest posts I'm testing, sharpening, or trying to make more useful.
Jun 25, 2026
How I Turn Articles Into Presentations I Can Actually Teach From
A copyable markdown workflow for building presentation-ready articles with Copilot agents, optional present mode, and screenshots that prove the layout works.
Jun 23, 2026
Your First Pull Request, No Commands Required
Missed the session? This is the walkthrough version: add your name to a real project, let a coding agent handle the Git mechanics in the open, and practice the part that matters most: understanding the change before you approve it.
Jun 9, 2026
Building an Agentic Tool the Agent Can Actually Carry
I set out to build a social-promotion helper in VS Code and learned a more useful lesson about agentic tooling: where a capability lives decides whether it travels. The first version worked and went nowhere. The second one snaps into any session.
Jun 3, 2026
The Canary Got a Raise
The loudest AI predictions keep getting the second move wrong. Radiologists were supposed to be gone by now; instead they are busier and better paid than ever. That same pattern shows up in two places nobody is watching closely enough: what happens to the value of data once a model is trained, and why the rush to put agents in charge of other agents is quietly admitting the limits of what we built.
May 28, 2026
All Aboard
Your environment is already a platform. The agentic shift does not ask you to build a second one. It asks you to run agents across the same identity, data protection, investigation, and governance machinery your people already depend on.
May 8, 2026
Performance Narrative: Oct - Apr
A public-safe version of my mid-year performance narrative -- structured around the actual Connect prompts, with customer details scrubbed and the answers written the way I'd want to read them as a hiring leader.
May 4, 2026
Three New Years, Three Words
I gave up on January resolutions and replaced them with three personal new years -- relationship, professional, personal -- each one anchored to a single word.
May 1, 2026
The Signal Map: My Walking Deck
My walking deck, rebuilt as a web-native signal map: an interactive page instead of eight static slides.
About Thor
What keeps showing up in the work.
Trust, translation, and a longer view than the room usually wants to take.
The roles changed over time, but the pattern did not. I keep getting pulled toward work that rewards clarity, trust, and the ability to make complicated things usable for someone else.
Technology without theater
Architecture, platforms, and new tools explained in ways people can actually use.
Career advice without fluff
Momentum, feedback, habits, and positioning without pretending a title solves the problem.
Experiments worth keeping
Drafts, operating principles, and technology experiments captured before they disappear into a notes app.