Introducing Suddenly Automated

I can’t resist buying a good domain name.

I’ve owned terriblyorganized.com and suddenlyrevops.com for years, always intending to publish under them. But now, Suddenly Automated is the one that fits. It captures exactly what I’m trying to do: take the stuff I’ve learned and revisit it with an eye toward automation.

A lot of this isn’t on the internet. I’ve searched. Many times. And when the answer wasn’t there, I’d end up going internal: asking a colleague, thinking back to what a previous company did, or building the solution from scratch.

AI makes this more worth documenting, not less. In theory, it should be able to answer the exact questions I used to hunt for. In practice, it still needs structure: clear processes, good examples, and a source of truth. So this Substack is me building a library of how I work: the approaches, workflows, workarounds, and the “gotchas” that get learned, forgotten, and re-learned on repeat, so both humans and AI can use them. And while part of this is about creating a reference for AI, part of it is about pressure-testing what I’ve always done and asking: is there a better way now?

I also genuinely love this stuff. I like documentation. I like making things repeatable and efficient. I like building workflows that don’t collapse the second one person goes on vacation. One reference-check question I always come back to is: “What did <NAME> do at your company that still exists today?” That’s the kind of impact I want to have.

Most posts will be about RevOps. Some will fall outside of it. But all will be about the ways I’ve tried to organize or automate the chaos around me.

Good stuff ahead.