Author
From spoken word to regulatory compliance. Both are writing, and the second has a lot to gain from the first.
I write. Not only audit reports and security architectures — though those fill most of my days.
Spoken word taught me something no technical training does: in front of an audience you get one pass. No going back, no footnote, no second chance at a badly built sentence. If the room disengages on the third line, it is over.
That constraint is the best school of clarity I know. It goes a long way toward explaining how I can walk a board through privacy law without putting them to sleep.
A compliance text and a spoken word piece have the same problem to solve: keeping someone to the end.
What I write
Spoken word
The most demanding form I practise. Everything has to land on first hearing, in a rhythm that carries the meaning rather than decorating it.
A novel
The opposite exercise: duration, long-form construction, characters who have to stay coherent over hundreds of pages.
Articles
Security and regulatory compliance, written for executives rather than specialists. These are what I go on to publish on LinkedIn.
A forthcoming book
How to become compliant in ten steps — the method I apply with clients, put within reach of an organisation with no lawyer and no compliance budget.
The forthcoming book answers the observation that gave rise to Synera. Organisations facing privacy law are not short of information: they have too much of it, written by lawyers for lawyers, with no order of priority.
Ten steps, in the order they have to be taken, with what to do at each. Nothing more.
This site’s blog is the laboratory for that writing. What gets published there usually ends up on LinkedIn, and sometimes in a chapter.
A question on this?
Describe the context in a few lines. I answer with a proposed angle, not a brochure.