Writing

On investing, on building, and on the places the two turn out to be the same problem.

2026

A ban on fields, a bill at the landfill

The deadline Ridgewood is racing

What the first 18% pays for

Date it, then go look

Write it down before they retire

Who said yes to that match?

Check what the utility is under before you call

One program, six records

Show me the page

Find the board meeting before the pilot starts

Ask your vendor three questions

Two backlogs, one blind spot

The old system hid the bill

Years before the award

Forty years on Stinson Creek: what one small plant's SRF record says about the end of IIJA

Power, control, signal: three small water awards and the record before them

The jagged edges the AI labs won't smooth

We are not a data provider

The specification was written by somebody

Every market study starts with the same three reports

The sales friction worth removing

We don't have the budget

Ninety percent of a permit is cookie cutter

The delta is the document

Nobody logs in to your dashboard

Anyone can write the email

Why can't we just ask ChatGPT?

One utility, all the way down

Fifty thousand is not a market

Build log: December 2025

The proposal you already wrote

The bid you already knew about

Everything you sold has a clock on it

There is no decision-maker

Nobody reads the minutes

The agent is the user

The model was never the hard part

I did not design the roadmap

The problem statement I couldn't unsee

The day GWI launched WIN

Water is the next gold

Is there one small thing here worth paying for?

2025

Water's digital divide

2023

Where the whitespace is in digital US water utilities

The climate shift: we can't just 'mitigate', now is the time to adapt

What I read: the books behind all of this