There was some drama over the weekend on X, where the CEO of Linear posted on her timeline that someone from Carta’s Liquidity division is reaching out to angel investors directly about selling linear shares to their buyers. What makes this even more egregious was the response from Henry Ward, Carta’s CEO – who made it seem like this was a lone employee doing something shady and using their break glass to access customer data. It comes out in the thread that Carta has done this before, has promised to stop, but, it keeps on happening.

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I spent the week in my Cincinnati Office. It’s perfect when I want to do things like reverse engineering or work on building random electronic projects that I might have going on in my life. In this particular case, I just wanted to spend some time working on my larger screens and get some of my random work projects cleaned up.

When I travel, I generally use my iPad as a second monitor, but, I’ve noticed in the aggressive RF environments (like hotels), my ipad has a tendency to lose its mind, freezing the display, and then I have to wait for everything to time out before I have to disconnect everything and reconnect it again. In my office, I have dual 34" curved monitors which give me…a LOT of screen space.

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What am I thankful for?

I’m thankful for my wonderful and ever-so-derpy puppy, Aspen.

Thankful for my amazing partner who is so incredibly tolerant of me and my antics.

Thankful for my friends.

Thankful for my talented coworkers.

I hope that you have an amazing Thanksgiving if you choose to celebrate it. You deserve it.

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If you didn’t know, my dad passed away earlier this year.

My dad and I didn’t have much of a relationship after I turned 18. There was a lot involved with that. I’m sure that there were things that I did that gave him more gray hair, and I like to think that he’d be proud of where I’m at today. Sometime after 2001, my dad stopped talking to me completely. It took me a few months to realize that he had basically cut me out of his life: he didn’t bother telling me that my Grandma Wilson had passed until a week after the funeral, and he did it by email.

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Well, if you haven’t heard, there’s some drama afoot in the world of AI.

I don’t think I could effectively re-hash what’s going on here, but, from a security engineering point of view, AI/AGI is so new that there’s still a really untapped world of vulnerabilities that is out there to explore. Can you trust your company’s data with a vendor (OpenAI, in this case) who had a 95% staff turnover rate? Do you think that a new team of engineers could promptly resolve and mitigate any vulnerabilities that could spring up in the next few years (because if some Investment firm gobbles it up in its present state, they’re probably going to put the tech on cruise control and let the software stagnate until it loses all velocity and basically becomes another piece of ghost SaaS that is out there)?

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