I have spent 25 years leading companies. I write so the people who should know that work can find it.
I'm Charles Green. Founder, CISO, engineer. Twenty-five years across 11 companies in the United States, Thailand, and Japan.
I write about the founder decisions I still have to make, including the ones I got wrong. The long version lives on this site and in the newsletter. Shorter notes go out on LinkedIn and X, and they point back here.
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A week turns up something I would have walked past, and the issue about it goes out while I am still working out what it means. At least one a week, more when the week produces more.
- A Monitor That Has Never Gone Red Is Not a MonitorA green agent dashboard is an untested claim. Silence has two explanations you cannot tell apart from the outside.
- What Breaks First When the Machine Runs OperationsThe first failures are owner failures: a decision the agent never reads, an alarm that has never gone red, and an approval that became a rubber stamp.
- When Your AI Agent Becomes a Skeleton KeyConnect an agent to CRM, email, and your database and it inherits every permission. The model is not a security boundary. Inventory the blast radius.
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