I have double-digit certifications. I’d never tell you they prove I can do the job — and the cloud vendors just quietly admitted why. The industry doesn’t have a content problem. It has a trust problem.
IT Education
The Lab Stack Is Splitting in Two — And Broadcom Paid for It
Broadcom bought the most captive customer base in enterprise IT and then lit its own moat on fire. Docker got evicted. The teaching lab was the prize — and the exit turned out to be cheap.
The Simulated Workplace Isn’t a Quirk Anymore. It’s the Flagship.
The federal and state infrastructure to run real simulated workplaces in IT programs is already paid for — the only thing missing is someone willing to assemble it, and colleges still running isolated labs are leaving both it and their students behind.
AGI by December? The Countdown Is Marketing. The Capability Is the Story.
OpenAI says it’ll have AGI by December — but the countdown is a positioning move, and the real story is the persistent, self-directed agents already changing what it means to supervise a machine.
AI Is a Terrible Replacement for You Knowing What You’re Doing
AI won’t save you from not knowing what you’re doing — it just makes your ignorance faster, more confident, and harder to spot.
China Just Proved the Migration Is the Market
China dropped Windows for Linux ahead of schedule — and the stock of Chinese distro vendors jumped. But the OS is the easy part. The migration is the market: testing, retraining, and rebuilding workflows. Everyone will argue about which distro wins; the real money is in moving an entire institution without breaking it.
Your Program Has a Bottleneck, and It Is Probably Human-Meets-Machine
Every program has a bottleneck — and it’s usually the manual seam where human judgment meets machine execution. The fix isn’t removing the human. It’s relocating them to the one point where judgment actually matters.
The 90-Day AI Pilot That Doesnt Scare the Superintendent
Nobody gets fired for a pilot. People get fired for rollouts that fail loudly. Here’s how to prove AI works in 90 days — without betting the farm.
Your District Already Owns the AI Server It Needs
The barrier to AI-ready IT education was never money. It was the assumption that AI requires a vendor. You probably already own the server. Here’s how to turn it on.
The Chromebook Era Just Ended. What Comes Next Is an IT Problem.
Apple’s latest earnings call wasn’t about phones. Buried in the numbers was a quiet earthquake for K-12 IT: districts are abandoning Chromebooks and Windows at scale for the MacBook Neo.