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Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
December 1, 2025
I am thinking a lot about marketing and evangelism at the business and personal levels lately. To be honest, I never stop thinking about these things. But as...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
November 24, 2025
I am doing the work to align multiple dimensions my work to build Naftiko around the very central concept of “capabilities”—which I currently define as open-...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
November 17, 2025
Business alignment is everything. When I say business alignment, I mean alignment between leadership and employees within a company, alignment between...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
November 10, 2025
As I ride my bike through NYC each day for two hours, I find myself thinking a lot about the power of context over domain. I ride through multiple domains...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
November 3, 2025
I’m in the business of studying the signals that emanate from large systems. The only way to truly understand a large system is to study its inputs and...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
October 27, 2025
Finding the signal in the noise these days online isn’t easy. The web, social media, APIs, and enterprises, organizations, institutions, and government...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
October 20, 2025
The more I study the API landscape for Naftiko market research the more I see the missing fabric needed to stitch things together so things don’t just keep...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
October 13, 2025
I am finding a way forward in the noise of today’s tech landscape. Last week’s newsletter dive into OpenRouter continued to evolve my view of the landscape....
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
October 6, 2025
A startup called OpenRouter has come up in my market research and during ongoing discussion enough lately that I found myself thinking about it throughout...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
September 29, 2025
I have been diving deep into the world of FinOps, and how the technology industry is standardizing what we spend on our SaaS, Cloud, and now AI services. I...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
September 22, 2025
As I work to help lay an opinionated foundation for what Naftiko produces, I wanted to ground my narrative surrounding automation. Automation matters in this...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
September 15, 2025
Context is one of those magical words out there right now to describe where businesses should be focusing when it comes to making the rubber meet the road...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
September 8, 2025
The greatest shift in the last in the last five years isn’t artificial intelligence, it is the financialization of everything in our worlds using artificial...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
August 25, 2025
One thing that is evident when you look out across the API space is a lack of alignment between business and engineering when it comes what standardization...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
August 18, 2025
I was immersed in what it takes to automate business all of this week. My definition of automation includes the current notion of agentic automation using...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
August 11, 2025
I wanted to reflect this week on my 35 year journey regarding the negotiation and market-driven access to the information that has shaped the last 50 years...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
August 4, 2025
I have been working to standardize the plans and pricing from the perspective of an API producer for years, but now I am living at the intersection of plans,...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
July 28, 2025
As I prepare the go to market strategy for our new startup Naftiko I am hyper aware of the state of the market after conducting research on the space for the...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
July 21, 2025
Last week I talked about the importance of capabilities, and this week I want to talk about the resources that go into these capabilities. Each Naftiko...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
July 14, 2025
Jerome Louvel and I are building Naftiko to around the concept of “capabilities”. These capabilities deliver the integrations needed to power businesses, and...
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