Rooted Insights

The Big Short Circuit

You’re a CISO at a regulated utility — positioned and growing to service power-hungry new AI datacenters, with 1,200 employees, a small security team…

Jul 28 • Ajish

The One-Armed Zero-Day Bandit

A Self-Licking Tokenmaxxing Vuln Finding Lollipop

Jul 15 • Ajish

3

June 2026

Gödel’s Pendulum

Footnotes from the Encyclopædia of Babel

Jun 19 • Ajish

2

May 2026

Bernie’s Bounding Box

Paddling Upstream Against the Transitive Dependency Cascade

May 25 • Ajish

April 2026

Off the Beaten Patch

Mythos found 271 Firefox bugs. You’re still running Java 8.

Apr 29 • Ajish

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March 2026

A Quantum of Solace

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the CBOM

Published on Rooted Insights • Mar 10

A Prepper's Guide to Q Day

Why Nation-States Won't Wait for a Quantum Computer When Your Offshore Contractor Has Domain Admin

Mar 10 • Ajish

2

A Quantum of Solace

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the CBOM

Mar 10 • Ajish

February 2026

SaaSpocalypse How, Redux

Due Diligence for the Service-as-Software Era

Feb 26 • Ajish

1

Epimetheus's Agentic Bride

Part 3 of 3: A Manifesto for Bounding Pandora's Agency and Compiling Hype into Hope

Feb 8 • Ajish

3

January 2026

The Mirage of AI ROI

Part 2 of 3: Why the Business Case for Enterprise AI Is Built on Sand

Jan 30 • Ajish

4

The Post-Deterministic Company: Escaping the Iron Cage of Certainty

Part 1 of 3: The Ontological Rupture

Jan 20 • Ajish

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