January 2025
Governance Without Guilt: Making Data Stewardship Realistic for Small Teams
Most governance dies because it's sold as compliance and red tape. Here's how a lean data team makes stewardship light enough that people actually keep doing it.
Compliance as a Competitive Edge: The EU AI Act for Boards
Most boards are treating the EU AI Act as a cost to minimise and a risk to survive. The ones who'll pull ahead are treating it as the opposite — a forcing function that makes them the trustworthy option in a market where trust is about to become scarce and valuable.
Fabric Costs Explained: How CUs Work (and What They're Worth)
What a Capacity Unit actually is, how smoothing and bursting really work, and how to plan Fabric capacity so the invoice never blindsides you or the board.
7 Predictions for Microsoft Data & AI in 2025
Second year of doing this in the open. Seven specific calls on where Microsoft's data and AI stack goes in 2025 — agents, Fabric, governance, and the AI Act — dated now so December can mark my homework.