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Talks and interviews on leadership, organizational design, and how technology decisions actually get made.

Mastering Minutes: Time Management Tactics for Busy CTOs

7CTOs 0111 Conference · San Diego, 2023 · Conference talk

A leader's calendar sets the working conditions for everyone around them. This talk is about managing energy rather than hours, and about noticing what your schedule costs the people who work with you.

CTO Studio

Hosted by Josh Rubin · June 2026 · Interview

AI collapsed the functional boundaries that used to force people into a room together. Connection has to be designed now, not assumed.

How To Do Skip Level Meetings

The CTO Podcast, with Etienne de Bruin and Scott Graves · June 2022 · Podcast

Skip-levels get run as a ritual more often than as a source of information. Etienne, Scott and I talk through what they're actually for and how to run them so something real surfaces.

The Art of Complaining

With Patty Leeper · Interview

Complaints from a team are rarely about the thing being complained about. Patty and I dig into what usually sits underneath them.

Topics

  • AI and organizational design — what changes when execution gets cheap
  • Experimentation, and how technology decisions actually get made
  • Career ladders, calibration, and building leaders at scale
  • Technology strategy inside private-equity-backed companies

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If you're putting together a conference, a podcast, or an internal leadership session and one of these topics fits, get in touch on LinkedIn or contact me here.