Writing.
I write across cybersecurity, men’s health, critical thinking, and what comes after fifty. Some of it written here, the rest collected from the brands I build. It all lives here.
The Bus Factor of a Five-Person Business
Software teams count how many people could vanish before the work stops. In most small businesses the answer is one - and it’s usually the owner.
From Red Bridge Cyber8 Oct 2026
The Bottle I Read Like a Vendor Proposal
A supplement label is a sales document, and I have read sales documents for thirty years. Three questions I ask before I believe a number on one.
5 Oct 2026
The Thirty-Minute Fire Drill
Stadiums rehearse their bad days; most small businesses never practise anything. Four scenarios, thirty minutes, a coffee - and a list of what would break.
From Red Bridge Cyber1 Oct 2026
Locked Out of Your Own Business
No attacker required: a suspended account and a recovery email pointing at a dead mailbox will close your business. Know the way back in before you need it.
From Red Bridge Cyber24 Sept 2026
The Alarm I Have Never Once Ignored
My dogs bark at the delivery driver every day and have never once been right. I would still back them over most of the detection products I have paid for.
24 Sept 2026
You Can’t Claim What You Can’t List
After a fire or flood, the insurer asks ‘what did you lose?’ - and you’ll answer from memory at the worst moment. An asset list is one afternoon.
From Red Bridge Cyber17 Sept 2026
What Pathology Teaches You About Evidence That Business Schools Don't
Pathology training instils a cognitive discipline that business schools rarely teach - diagnostic reasoning. Here's why that matters far beyond the lab.
From ABC Training & Consulting15 Sept 2026
The Spares Shelf
Every mine site keeps a room full of spares. Your business needs a shelf: keyboard, charger, a configured spare laptop and a UPS. Cheap uptime.
From Red Bridge Cyber10 Sept 2026
Projects.
Three small open-source projects in the open - two visual editors and the shared core beneath them, all still rough.
Axonometra
Accurona
Reticulyne
Floor planning in the browser, with a 3D view.
The shared core beneath both. One model, every view.
Isometric network diagrams, for your own app.
About.
Australian, early fifties. Police intelligence first, then a physics degree I never put inside a lab and thirty years across as broad a sweep of Australian ICT as you can have without specialising - programming, infrastructure, network architecture, cybersecurity, project management, senior consulting. The lab skills I never used still show up every day in how I look at a problem.
I’m not selling inspiration. I write about what three decades of hard-won experience actually looks like - what to do with it when the employment market stops paying for it, what critical thinking is for, and what personal responsibility looks like when no-one is watching. On men’s health it’s the same tone: stop accepting fifteen-minute appointments and a prescription with no workup, stop coasting on convenience, start giving a damn about the body you actually live in. The rest of the trail is below - where to reach me directly, and links to my various ventures.