About
Hi, I'm Richard. I ponder and build at the intersection of technology, systems, and society. My background spans infrastructure, automation engineering, industrial cybersecurity, third-party risk, enterprise governance, and AI.
Technology rarely changes one thing at a time. New capabilities change the economics of work, redistribute authority, create dependencies, and reshape the institutions built around them. Understanding those effects requires moving between disciplines rather than remaining inside a single specialty.
Every system reflects a set of choices. What gets optimized, what gets overlooked, who holds authority, and who benefits are not merely technical questions. They are questions about how we choose to organize the world.
Progress, then, is not simply a matter of what technology makes possible. It is also a matter of what people choose to do with that possibility.
Areas of interest
- Software, computing, AI, data, and automation
- Infrastructure, supply chains, and the physical economy
- Markets, incentives, capital, and technological change
- Security, resilience, governance, and autonomous systems
- Human judgment, agency, and the social consequences of technology