When I first launched this site, many years ago, it served as a humble lab notebook and sharing short personal stories from my working life. I shared diagrams, Junos configs , and field notes written after late night maintenance windows or proof of concepts.
Those stories took on a life of their own. They brought speaking invites, consulting work, and, most important, a worldwide group of curious friends. Then GNX happened. In a few coffee fueled years we moved from a whiteboard idea to a platform that sources connectivity in nearly every country in the world and a serious company with an amazing group of people. In between fundraising, product build cycles, and the arrival of my son Senna, long form writing became endangered. The blog slipped into hibernation. Four years have passed since the last proper post, which feels like a century in internet years.
Why press publish again
- The industry needs clarification. We swim in recycled press releases and messaging that skip the trade-offs.
- My inbox overflows with the similar questions from customers and partners. Turning answers into articles scales better than copy and paste.
- Writing forces clarity. Every decision at GNX improves after I explain it to a blank page.
- I simply miss it. Crafting an argument and seeing readers respond is unmatched.
What stays on the GNX domain
The GNX site remains the home for connectivity related blogs, updates, and detailed white papers aimed at procurement teams, network architects, and IT managers.
What lives here
Everything that needs a personal voice: CTO commentary, predictions, behind the scenes lessons, and the occasional rant.
Some ideas where the early drafts are being written:
- AI with accountability: keeping humans in the loop without slowing progress
- Transform ISP choice from anecdote to evidence
- Scoring vendors on real performance data and why that is harder than it looks
- The hidden cost of cloud front ends and what connectivity providers can do
- Lessons from early Starlink rollouts
- Running a distributed engineering team while preserving culture
Coming up next
Expect one blog every few weeks, matching our GNX build cycle rhythm. When a post is live I will craft a condensed LinkedIn note. Social platforms serve as rails, the blog remains the default gateway. Algorithms change, RSS endures. By keeping the canonical version here I ensure links never break.
Say hi!
If you meet me at Cisco Live, another conference, or a toddler swim class, say hello. Bring your toughest networking puzzle or your best trick for a toddler at a festival and we will trade notes.
Thank you for returning after the silence. The modem lights are blinking once more. Let us build a faster, more transparent internet together, one story at a time.
Looking forward to it!