Podcast
CTO Think
Hosted by Randy Burgess · EN
A pragmatic podcast about leadership, product dev, and tech decisions between two recovering Chief Technology Officers.
5episodes
Episodes
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33: Build vs Buy and Disrupting Processes
Oct 9, 201800:40:53Tap to summarizeWe're back after a couple-week break! Don and Randy discuss the ever-debated strategy of building versus buying your software solutions. But they up the ante by discussing how existing workflows and processes are perhaps a bigger consideration than SaaS fees or software development costs
Transcribe →32: Handling Critical Feature Updates
Sep 11, 201800:55:32Tap to summarizeDon's firm recently underwent its first major platform upgrade and we discuss the various ways they prepared, tested, and worked through the changes, all the way up to the dreaded "point of no return."
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31: Elon Musk and Leading Your Team to Burnout
Aug 21, 201801:00:48Tap to summarizePulled from the media, Don and Randy discuss Elon Musk's interview regarding the personal toll that his attempt to run three companies, perhaps poorly, is taking upon himself. Moreso, they talk about what it means to be in a leadership position and how leading-by-extremes can take a toll on the whole team (or company). Oh, yeah, they also bring in a discussion about college football coaches, Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, and even Mark Richt. And for that, they sincerely apologize to those of you who can not care less about sports.
Transcribe →30: Debating (Angrily) the Responsibility of Cross-platform Support
Aug 14, 201801:01:47Tap to summarizeDon runs into a problem with a podcast app as he launches a new podcast of his own, Friday Night Stripes, and wants to deploy his show on Overcast. The issue? Don is not an iOS user and cannot find a way to sign into the Overcast website, which . . . disappoints . . . him. As a happy iOS user, Randy doesn't feel Don's pain and congratulates Marco Arment on making millions of dollars while also ticking off Android folks.
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29: Betting on Vue JS with Gregg Pollack
Aug 1, 201800:57:49Tap to summarizeCovering everything from Rails for Zombies to Code School to Vue Mastery, we talk with one of the original online tutorial creators, Gregg Pollack, and how he decided to invest in the Vue.js community and a new front-end open source project. Gregg also throws in a number of great suggestions for folks that have thought about creating their own tutorials and why CTOs might choose Vue JS among the frameworks out there.
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