Why Protecting People from Hard Feedback Makes Them Weaker
Leadership · Culture · Strategy | Andrew Baker | May 2026 | 14 min read There is a distinction that almost nobody in corporate life is willing to draw clearly,…
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The Courage to Be Honest: Why Giving Hard Feedback Is the Kindest Thing a Leader Can Do
Leadership · Technology · Strategy | Andrew Baker | May 2026 | 12 min read There is a diagram I keep coming back to. It is deceptively simple: two lines,…
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The Legacy Choice: Why x86 in the Data Centre Is Now an Expensive Decision, Not a Default
The economics crossed the tipping point quietly. Most enterprises missed it. The ones who noticed are not going back. 1. How Defaults Become Legacy Every technology that eventually becomes legacy…
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The Dark Factory Fallacy: Why Banks Cannot Automate Their Way to Zero
Why the most powerful operational model in financial services already exists, almost nobody is copying it, and the people who should be leading the charge are the biggest obstacle to…
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Why Is NVIDIA the Most Valuable Company in the World? The AI Stack, the CUDA Moat, and the Threats That Could Unseat It
Andrew Baker | Group CIO, Capitec Bank | May 2026 NVIDIA sits at the top of the most important value chain in the world right now. But it does not…
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ARM Servers vs x86: How Edge ARM Servers with NVMe Storage and Cloudflare Could Disrupt Cloud Compute Economics
1. The uncomfortable starting point If this model is even directionally correct, a large percentage of enterprise compute is structurally mispriced, and most organisations are paying a permanent premium for…
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QUIC: The Protocol That Breaks Your Site Without Warning
Why It Exists, What It Gets Wrong, and How to Diagnose and Fix It Andrew Baker · andrewbaker.ninja · 2 May 2026 1. Why TCP Was a Problem QUIC is…
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The Cloud AI Marketplace War Is Over, and AWS Won
By Andrew Baker | andrewbaker.ninja This article is purely my opinion. Its was i am seeing and in the AI space today. What i am seeing changes all the time,…
Read more →When macOS Refuses to Open Your Own Markdown File
macOS · Security · Productivity · April 2026 You created a markdown file on your Mac. Maybe you moved it around, received it via Slack, or downloaded it from somewhere. You try to open it in Notepad++ and instead of your content, macOS hands you this: Apple could not verify “App_Vendor_Arch_Review.md” is free of malware […]
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Multistage Build Optimisation: The Difference Between Amateur Containers and Production Systems
Most teams assume containers are lightweight by default, but that assumption does not survive contact with a real production system. Containers become bloated, slow, insecure, and operationally expensive when left…
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