https://alannafa.com/ AI strategy, governance, and hands-on delivery — plus the local AI lab and the products built in public. en-us Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://alannafa.com/posts/agents-md-failure-registry.html https://alannafa.com/posts/agents-md-failure-registry.html Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI & Building Every correction you add to an agent instructions file competes with the ones already there. The split that fixes it: 130 words of always-loaded triggers carrying 115 dated corrections. https://alannafa.com/posts/long-haul-flight-with-a-toddler.html https://alannafa.com/posts/long-haul-flight-with-a-toddler.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Life & Travel Flying long-haul with a toddler is an itinerary problem before it's a carry-on problem: the nap-window math, the buffer day we learned the hard way, and the two-to-three-day timezone reset. https://alannafa.com/posts/semantic-metrics-layer-governance.html https://alannafa.com/posts/semantic-metrics-layer-governance.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & AI Governance Two dashboards, two revenue numbers, both defensible. 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How lineage actually gets captured, why column-level is the threshold that makes it useful, and why the graph is a lower bound. https://alannafa.com/posts/data-classification-pii-discovery.html https://alannafa.com/posts/data-classification-pii-discovery.html Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & AI Governance Access control and AI-agent governance both assume a classification layer that's accurate and current. Here's how you actually discover, tag, and maintain it — the taxonomy, the three discovery signals, and why it goes stale. https://alannafa.com/posts/data-contracts-producer-boundary.html https://alannafa.com/posts/data-contracts-producer-boundary.html Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & AI Governance Downstream data-quality tests catch damage that already happened. A data contract moves the check to the boundary the producer controls — schema, semantics, quality thresholds, and change policy, enforced and blocking. https://alannafa.com/posts/rfm-segmentation-llm-assisted-analysis.html https://alannafa.com/posts/rfm-segmentation-llm-assisted-analysis.html Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI & Building Score customers on Recency, Frequency, and Monetary value in SQL, then let a language model name the segments and draft the playbooks — with a hard line about which side owns the numbers. https://alannafa.com/posts/codex-goal-mode-funnelflow.html https://alannafa.com/posts/codex-goal-mode-funnelflow.html Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI & Building I gave an autonomous coding agent one goal: make my shelved funnel-mapping app launch-ready. 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A least-privilege framework for non-human identities: service identities, scoped tokens, and autonomy tiers mapped to data sensitivity. https://alannafa.com/posts/unity-catalog-grants-to-abac.html https://alannafa.com/posts/unity-catalog-grants-to-abac.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & AI Governance Grant sprawl is a math problem — teams × roles × contractors. ABAC only fixes it if classification hygiene comes first. Practitioner notes on what changes, what doesn't, and where contextual policy is headed. https://alannafa.com/posts/ga4-bigquery-customer-intelligence-pipeline.html https://alannafa.com/posts/ga4-bigquery-customer-intelligence-pipeline.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI & Building Turning the GA4 BigQuery export into customer intelligence — schema essentials, sessionization, identity stitching, and RFM, LTV, and cohort marts. 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What I'd tell first-timers vs repeat visitors. https://alannafa.com/posts/obs-mac-screen-recording.html https://alannafa.com/posts/obs-mac-screen-recording.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tech & Tools Install, audio setup with BlackHole, scene config, 1080p/4K recording settings, and how M-series MacBooks perform. https://alannafa.com/posts/obs-audio-separate-sources.html https://alannafa.com/posts/obs-audio-separate-sources.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tech & Tools Separating mic, desktop, and game audio in OBS with BlackHole — and why separate tracks make editing so much easier. https://alannafa.com/posts/davinci-resolve-blur-faces.html https://alannafa.com/posts/davinci-resolve-blur-faces.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tech & Tools The Fusion node blur technique, step by step — works in the free version, covers tracking moving faces for privacy and compliance. https://alannafa.com/posts/kobe-mamba-mentality.html https://alannafa.com/posts/kobe-mamba-mentality.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Book Notes Beyond the meme: obsessive preparation, fearlessness as a practice, and the 1% compounding thesis applied to career and growth. https://alannafa.com/posts/data-governance-tool-rfp-tco.html https://alannafa.com/posts/data-governance-tool-rfp-tco.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & AI Governance How real capability scorecards get weighted before vendors ever demo, what belongs in a governance-tool TCO model beyond the license line, and how to cut a 20-vendor field to two without running 20 demos. https://alannafa.com/posts/data-stewardship-rollout-month-3.html https://alannafa.com/posts/data-stewardship-rollout-month-3.html Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & AI Governance Org-chart steward assignments, unfunded curation work, definition debates re-fought as catalog edit wars, and the vanity metric that was lying to us — anonymized from an enterprise Alation rollout. https://alannafa.com/posts/data-dictionary-rag-governance.html https://alannafa.com/posts/data-dictionary-rag-governance.html Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & AI Governance RAG on an ungoverned data estate rediscovers stale definitions, homonym collisions, and answers with no lineage. The boring governance artifacts were retrieval infrastructure all along.