Index
Talks & interviews
On stage and behind the mic: AI-era leadership, the hidden forces in tech organizations, the CTO role beyond code.
- Aug 27 2026 You Walked In to Discuss It. They Walked In Already Decided.I went on Modern CTO with Joel Beasley to talk about the extinction event coming for the CTO seat, and heard myself reverse six years of my own advice: get further into the tech.
- Jan 29 2026 Brittany Cotton Hosts Etienne de Bruin: The Business Objective Problem
- Dec 9 2025 The Hidden Forces Blocking Your Tech Organization (Watch the Talk)I recently gave a talk to a group of tech leaders in New Zealand about something that's been gnawing at me for years: why do so many initiatives die three months after launch?
- Oct 12 2025 What a Room Full of Landscapers Taught Me About My Own Leadership Failures
- Sep 1 2025 The Hardest Refactor You'll Ever DoI had a conversation with Adam Horner recently that took me back to one of the most painful moments of my career. In 2008, My co-founder pulled me aside and said, "You know you have to stop coding, right?"
- Aug 1 2025 Relearning the Song: Why Your CTO Playbook Keeps Expiring
- Nov 7 2024 Your Technology Organization is Brilliant. Your Business is Failing. Here's Why.
- May 1 2023 Your CTO Should Be Spending Your Money (And 9 Other Things You're Not Getting)When it comes to our technology—the thing our entire business is built on—we have this bizarre, almost dysfunctional relationship.
- Mar 1 2023 The CTO Role Is Not Technical (And Watching 80 CTOs Realize This in Real-Time)
- Jun 1 2022 Tech Tetris: The Framework That Stops You From Building The Wrong Thing
- Mar 20 2022 When the Best Technical Minds Can't Fix Themselves