Oct 14, 2025

Tech Leadership Challenges: Communication & AI at Financial Times • Alice Bartlett & Charles Humble

Alice Bartlett, Tech Director at the Financial Times, offers a deep dive into her leadership role, managing a 70-person team responsible for FT.com and the mobile apps. She discusses the transition from principal engineer to director, the art of managing stakeholder relationships, strategies for tackling technical debt, and her nuanced perspective on the impact of AI on software development and team dynamics.

Oct 02, 2025

No Priors Ep. 134 | With Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora

Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, discusses the transformative impact of AI on search, enterprise business models, and cybersecurity. He explores the shift from search to agentic AI, the challenges and opportunities for enterprise adoption, and how AI is fundamentally compressing cyberattack timelines while enabling new, data-centric defense strategies.

Sep 29, 2025

Why SW Architecture is Mostly Communication • David Whitney, Ian Cooper & Hannes Lowette • GOTO 2025

Three experienced software engineers—Ian Cooper, David Whitney, and Hannes Lowette—deconstruct the evolution of software architecture from a top-down, "ivory tower" practice to a modern, collaborative discipline. They explore the dynamics between emergent and intentional design, the importance of sustainable development over "slash-and-burn" cycles, and how architectural strategies must adapt to organizational scale. The conversation emphasizes that the architect's primary role has shifted to coaching, fostering a shared language, and managing trade-offs, concluding that all significant architectural challenges are ultimately people problems rooted in communication, empathy, and culture.

Sep 12, 2025

Platform Engineering: A Deep Dive Conversation • Russ Miles & Kevlin Henney

In this interview from GOTO Copenhagen 2024, Russ Miles, interviewed by Kevlin Henney, explores a human-centric approach to platform engineering, encapsulated by the phrase "Don't feed the pigeons." He advocates for focusing on desired behavioral changes and empowering creative work over doubling down on existing, suboptimal tools and processes. The discussion delves into using OODA loops, creating a developer "habitat," and the critical role of empathy and storytelling in understanding and improving complex sociotechnical systems.

Sep 07, 2025

How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue

A deep dive into how AI is transforming the product manager's role, featuring insights from product leaders Ezinne and Oji Udezue. They discuss essential new skills, the "shipyard" framework for development, why hands-on learning is critical, and the difference between companies succeeding and failing with AI adoption.

Aug 06, 2025

From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption

Leaders from VMware and Cisco share hard-won lessons on navigating disruption, fostering a founder's mindset at scale, and rebuilding for the AI era. They cover GTM strategies for new products, the importance of storytelling as strategy, and why AI represents a 100x shift for infrastructure.