All Episodes

E071: Agents, Bunkers, and Cults: the new ABCs of AI

E070: Taking control of your career direction through new roles, and other Reddit ?s

E069: Toxic Dreams: A Look at Silicon Valley’s AI Delusions

E068: AI for Product Managers, Engineers who won’t estimate, and more

E067: The secret weakness at the heart of the K-Shaped Economy

E066: Are AI “actors” a great innovation or the death of art?

E065: Grok’s Gross Graphics, Meta’s Massive Mistake, and more news

E064: Is there such a thing as Too Much Planning?

E063: Subscriptions everywhere! Can SaaS be good? Or always risky?

E062: AI’s horrific hidden costs are slowly being revealed

E061: Myths about the economy the AI Revolution is rejecting

E060: Urgent lessons from the Industrial Revolution about AI (no really)

E059: Should Google NotebookLM Keep the Human in the Loop

E058: Product flexibility will lead to better outcomes

E057: Outsourcing your brain to AI is bad, actually

E056: Learning when NOT to build that cool new feature

E055: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta bend the knee to bigotry

E054: Is Deep Seek’s AI the ultimate disruptor?

E053: Is there value in fixing every bug?

E052: Why don’t front-ends look like the superior UX designs?

E051: Uber & Lyft try to screw their drivers, and can AI make better crops?

E050: The looming TikTok ban in the US and Australia’s under-age social media ban

E049: Is executive amnesia real, or do you need to do a better job communicating?

E048: Bluesky is the new kid on the social network block, plus the cruelty of “ghost jobs”

E047: UnitedHealthcare and Google suffer the consequences of their actions

E046: The art of saying “no” and battling Shiny Object Syndrome

E045: Is being “strategic” critical to Product & Engineering success?

E044: Will Augmented Reality glasses destroy your right to privacy?

E043: The looming self-driving car duopoly is bad, actually

E042: How self-driving cars work and the ethics of a literal trolley problem

E041: Telegram and Boeing f***ed around and found out

E040: Is the AI bubble about to burst?

E039: Twitter banned in Brazil and more Elon fails

E038: Is there a right way to interview customers, how to deal with disagreeable stakeholders, and more

E037: How not to panic in a crisis, the varieties of roadmaps, and other Reddit questions

E036: Insidious online scams are a plague destroying lives

E035: Do you have to love the products you work on? And more Reddit questions

E034: CrowdStrike / Windows Catastrophe – the largest IT outage in history

E033: Is the Web3 blockchain future useful for anything other than planet-burning Bitcoins and NFT scams?

E032: Providing Clarity to Engineers on the Value of Their Work, with Pradeep Ittycheria

E031: The challenging ethics of AI, metaverse bubbles, and Neuralink

E030: Digital Friction – the urgent problem destroying your brain

E029: Rewarding Effort and Unlocking the Signal within the Noise, with Pradeep Ittycheria

E028: A toxic Product/Engineering relationship, plus how to break into Product or Enterprise Architecture

E027: Pattern Matching – this one weird trick will make you better at your job

E026: Can PMs help prioritize tech debt, how to map architectures, and why are Twitter and Facebook still on top?

E025: Can UX be Agile, should Product Managers know SQL, and how bad is the Cybertruck recall?

E024: Anyone can be a Data Scientist now, with David Scripka

E023: A crash course on AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning with David Scripka

E022: The Normalization of Deviance led to the Challenger Disaster and can affect you too

E021: Crafting better User Stories, battling AI deep fakes, and more…

E020: Bad stand-ups, PI Planning, Gmail turns 20, and DOJ vs Apple

E019: This AI engineer will use NVidia’s GPUs to put you out of work and kill the planet

E018: Disaster in Ukraine, Mac vs PC, and does anyone use email?

E017: TikTok banned? Elon sued? LinkedIn gamified?

E016: AI is here to steal your job

E015: Build vs Buy vs Low Code – why do engineers insist on writing their own code?

E014: Can software help put the “human” back in Human Resources?

E013: The massive cost of software mistakes, and a follow-up on the UK Post Office Scandal

E012: The Agile Reformation – is there a crisis of faith in Scrum & Agile?

E011: How Success turns to Failure – the lessons of StumbleUpon, Digg, and del.icio.us

E010: In Defense of Product Managers

E009: Breaking News – Taylor Swift’s AI deepfakes, Apple faces the music, a crooked moon landing, and VR for MS Teams

E008: The AI Future – will a Technological Utopia require too much suffering before it arrives?

E007: Startup Sophie’s Choice: how do you pick the first three roles you’d hire?

E006: The UK Post Office Scandal and how they got that software so fatally wrong

E005: Is being a Product Owner really that hard?

E004: Why does everyone hate the latest Apple Podcast app updates?

E003: Has the Agile Framework failed us?

E002: Working remotely – is it The Worst, or just really hard?

E001: Why Twitter is The Worst now (and always kinda was)