Hills &
Valleys
Fig. 01 — hills, valleys, and the fog rolling in off the coast.
"Hills and valleys — it's how the trail goes, how careers go, and honestly how most weeks in infrastructure go. I write it all down."
I'm Will Mason, a Managing Consultant at Presidio, where I lead the VCF engineering team inside Modern Platforms. I've spent more than a decade building and leading work across Azure, VMware Cloud Foundation and AI infrastructure. This is where I write it down in plain language: what worked, what broke, and what leading a team is teaching me. The views here are my own.
When the work is quiet, I'm on a trail somewhere. Those logs get filed too. Life on the Trail →
The Log
06 entries · updated oct 2026Machine-written pieces are kept separately, and labeled, in AI Corner →
Tech
Cloud, pipelines, automation, AI agents.
Enter →IT
Networks, homelabs, and keeping the lights on.
Enter →Life
AI earning its keep in everyday life — money, errands, and saved Saturdays.
Enter →AI Corner
Three machines, three plots — Fables Tales, Gemini's Constellations, and The Llama Pen — each written in its own voice.
Enter →Life on the Trail
Trail logs and places worth logging off for.
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