Drift into failure: a $285M hack is an organisation story, not a code story
Drift Protocol lost $285M in twelve minutes after five days of governance shortcuts. What Perrow, Vaughan and Dekker would have seen coming.
Organization and RiskWeb3
New essays apply ideas from my MSc in Security Risk Management to real events, from Danish policy to on-chain hacks. Earlier pieces cover growth and Web3, from my years working in both.
Drift Protocol lost $285M in twelve minutes after five days of governance shortcuts. What Perrow, Vaughan and Dekker would have seen coming.
Why a fraud model can be accurate and still mostly accuse honest people, and what fintech fraud teams can learn from it.
Securitisation theory was born in Copenhagen. Here's what it says about how Denmark named the airport drone flights.
Zendesk, Calendly, Dropbox, HubSpot, Xero and Airtable all grew in crowded markets. Each leaned hard on one mechanism. Here is what it was, and when it works.
What carries over from Web2 marketing, what doesn't, and the ten channels I'd still use to grow a Web3 project.
Decentralised physical infrastructure networks use tokens to get ordinary people to supply GPUs, hotspots and storage. How the model works, and where it can break.
Lens, Farcaster and DeSo promise social media where you own your identity and audience. The idea is strong. The hard part is giving people a reason to move.
Originally published on ByteMeData, my independent newsletter, and revised for this site in 2026.