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Signal vs. Noise

Signal vs. Noise

Cutting through the chaos of cybersecurity and technology — so you can lead with clarity.

You have MFA. That describes a purchase.

Aug 24, 2026

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5 min read

You have MFA. That describes a purchase.

Every form asks whether it's on. None of them asks what can get in without it.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
I Gave an AI Read Access to a Client Folder

Aug 16, 2026

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5 min read

I Gave an AI Read Access to a Client Folder

Six weeks of telling founders how to triage AI decisions, turned inward.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
What it costs to be the one who pulls the plug.

Aug 11, 2026

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5 min read

What it costs to be the one who pulls the plug.

There's AI running in your company that nobody approved. All of it is live.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
You never said no. You said later.

Aug 2, 2026

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5 min read

You never said no. You said later.

Last week the AI bets you kept got a name on them and a limit around them. This week, the ones you should not have kept at all. There is always a meeting where a bet gets started. There is no meeting where a bet gets killed, so bets do not die. They get postponed until they ship anyway, and then the no arrives as a rollback, at the most expensive moment available.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
You kept the bet. Whose name is on it?

Jul 26, 2026

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5 min read

You kept the bet. Whose name is on it?

Last week you split the AI bets you can survive getting wrong from the ones that end you. This week: what happens to the survivors, which is usually nothing. Keeping a bet is a decision about the bet. It is not a decision about who runs it. A kept agent with no name on it and no limit on its reach is still running on hope. You just moved it to a more comfortable pile.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
Not all of your AI bets are survivable.

Jul 19, 2026

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5 min read

Not all of your AI bets are survivable.

Last week you could finally see an agent's reach, because it comes back as a list: the exact systems one credential opens. Here is what that list is for. The items on it are not equal. Some of those reaches you can survive getting wrong. Some of them end the business. The adoption decision was never whether to use AI. It is which of these bets you can afford to lose. Some earn a model. Most you just decide. The whole skill is telling which is which.

Michael Faas
Michael Faas
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