Most professionals do not have a time management problem. They have a contact currency problem. The distinction matters enormously because one is a scheduling challenge while the other is a…
Read more →Published on andrewbaker.ninja This is a researched opinion piece. The data points are sourced and linked in the references at the end, but the conclusions drawn from them are mine.…
Read more →Technology Strategy · AI Economics · May 2026Andrew Baker · Group CIO, Capitec Bank For the last three years, the technology industry has spoken about artificial intelligence with almost religious…
Read more →Most organisations believe their interview process selects for leadership. It does not. It selects for the ability to perform leadership in a low stakes, well prepared, time limited conversation in…
Read more →Published on andrewbaker.ninja It is 09:47 on a Tuesday morning. A researcher publishes a new CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) for a widely deployed authentication library. The advisory goes live.…
Read more →Most outages are not caused by a single bug. They are caused by teams that have gradually lost a coherent mental model of the system they operate. Kubernetes retries. Queues…
Read more →Andrew Baker · May 2026 I get asked a lot of questions about how Capitec secures its customers’ money. Not in the abstract, but the real ones: what happens if…
Read more →1. The Corporate Voice Is Losing Credibility A strange thing is happening in executive communication. The more polished it becomes, the less believable it feels. For years, large organizations trained…
Read more →Or: What to do after you have spent years writing posts that scare people. There is a pattern in my writing that I have only recently started to see clearly.…
Read more →There is nowhere left to hide. For decades, banks built an elegant asymmetry into the relationship with their customers. The bank had a team of specialists, the time to design…
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