FOUNDER & CEO, ABNORMAL AI

Writing on AI, cybersecurity, and the systems shaping how we work in the age of AI.

This isn't a corporate blog. Just me, writing about what I find interesting and what I think matters.

I write because it forces me to clarify my own thinking. Putting ideas into words, and then putting those words online, makes them shareable in a way that a hundred one-on-one conversations never could.

AI × Cyber What happens when AI meets cybersecurity. Attack and defense. The arms race I live inside every day. AI × Future Predictions about how AI will reshape industries, economies, and daily life. Some fiction, some analysis, all speculation grounded in what I'm actually seeing. AI × Code Field notes on building with AI. What works, what doesn't, what surprised me. AI × Transformation How enterprises need to work differently in the age of AI. Organizational models, processes, and what changes when AI rewrites the fundamentals. AI × CEO How AI changes the job of running a company. Strategy, operations, and the future of work.

I also host two podcasts, Enterprise AI Innovators and Enterprise AI Defenders, where I sit down with Fortune 500 CIOs and CISOs to talk about what they're actually doing with AI and how they're thinking about security.

WORK // LOG

I'm the Founder and CEO of Abnormal AI, the first AI-native cybersecurity company. Our mission is to stop cybercrime with AI. Over 1,000 people work here now, and we protect more than a quarter of the Fortune 500.

Cybersecurity is actually my second career. I spent the decade before Abnormal building behavioral ad targeting, ingesting massive amounts of data about people to show them the right ad at the right time to get them to click. Turns out the same behavioral AI techniques that are good at predicting what you'll buy are also good at predicting what's a cyberattack. Now I'm trying to pay back some of the karmic debt from the ad tech years by stopping bad guys.

I talk to hundreds of CIOs and CISOs every year (and dozens of CEOs). I spend my days thinking about how attackers exploit trust, how defenders can use AI to fight back, and how to build products that feel magical rather than burdensome for the people who use them.

1,000+ people at Abnormal
¼ of the Fortune 500 protected
400+ CIOs & CISOs per year

OFF_DUTY // LOG

I've been programming for over 25 years. I love building things. I love solving puzzles. I love competing.

When I'm not working, I'm probably reading science fiction, watching PBS Space Time, or going down rabbit holes in astrophysics. William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, and Alastair Reynolds are the authors I keep coming back to. If this site's aesthetic feels like it was ripped from a Gibson novel, that's not an accident.

I'm also a gamer, but only the kind of games where you need a spreadsheet or a Python script to win. Path of Exile, Factorio, anything with systems deep enough to get lost in. These days I'm more likely to be using AI to make games than to play them. My day job doesn't leave much time for either, but building is more fun than playing anyway.