Insights & Perspectives

I use this space to explore questions that come out of my work in media technology and operations. Some become essays about leadership, reliability, and change. Others become operating guides or tools that help someone work through a practical problem. Here you will find what I am learning, how I approach the work, and a few ideas still taking shape.

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Two Internet Providers Are Not a Resilience Strategy

A second connection or backup system can still depend on the same thing that takes the primary system down. Drawing on broadcast experience and documented outages, I examine how those dependencies hide in plain sight, what meaningful recovery testing should reveal, and how to decide which services an organization must preserve.

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