Lead Prompt Podcast
By John Collins
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Welcome to leadprompt.sh // executing leadership from the root.
This is a weekly podcast unpacking the principles, ideas, and approaches needed to successfully lead large teams in the tech industry. We skip the fluff and get straight to the code: actionable leadership lessons you can deploy to your team immediately.
Hosted by John Collins, a seasoned tech leader with decades of experience managing large software engineering teams. Expect episodes that are short, sharp, and grounded in stoic philosophy.
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AI is a Sword not a Shield [2026w14]
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May 06, 2026 |
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AI Switching Costs will be Surprising [2026w13]
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Technolibertarianism, The Sovereign Stack and the War for Attention [2026w12]
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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The Escalation is the Process [2026w11]
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Subvert Bad Processes [2026w10]
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Execute the Mission not the Process [2026w9]
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The Delegation Dilemma - When AI Becomes Your Best Employee [2026w8]
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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AWS is this Generation's Mainframe [2026w7]
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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The Invisible Web [2026w6]
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Welcome to Lead Prompt [2026w5]
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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The Best Code is the Code You Delete (TLP 2026w4)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Vibe Coding is the new RAD (TLP 2026w3)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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How to Interview Team Leads with The 20 Question Scorecard (TLP 2026w2)
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Stop waiting for the encouragement of others (TLP 2026w1)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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2025 recap and 2026 predictions (TLP 2025w52)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Channel update (TLP 2025w49)
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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The benefits of a harsh mentor (TLP 2025w48)
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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The Illusion of Control (TLP 2025w47)
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Emotion is the enemy of reason (TLP 2025w46)
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Your Bias Is Ruining Your Life (Here Is Why) (TLP 2025w45)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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AI supply chain attacks (TLP 2025w44)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Task based management (TLP 2025w43)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Returning to long form writing with Vom Tag (TLP 2025w42)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Discomfort fosters personal growth (TLP 2025w41)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Using Google Gemini to summarize the daily news (TLP 2025w40)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Understanding Conway's Law (TLP 2025w39)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Life in the Long Tail (TLP 2025w38)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The greatest threat to AI adoption is hallucinations (TLP 2025w37)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Scrum story point estimates are a failure (TLP 2025w36)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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A critique of the Amazon Leadership Principles (TLP 2025w35)
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Outputs are downstream of culture (TLP 2025w34)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Knowing when you are in a fight (TLP 2025w33)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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VPN usage is exploding (TLP 2025w32)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Never be led by fear (TLP 2025w30)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Cashless societies are deeply impersonal (TLP 2025w27)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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AI is the new outsourcing (TLP 2025w25)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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The failure of Product Management (TLP 2025w24)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Leaders must not ignore alarms (TLP 2025w23)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Leaders need positive aggression (TLP 2025w22)
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Leadership versus management (TLP 2025w21)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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The price that leaders pay (TLP 2025w20)
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May 22, 2025 |
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How to write the ultimate status report (TLP 2025w19)
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May 13, 2025 |
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The big lies (TLP 2025w18)
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May 06, 2025 |
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Opinions stated confidently are not facts (TLP 2025w17)
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Leadership blind spots (TLP 2025w16)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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The death of critical thinking (TLP 2025w15)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Where are the hackers now (TLP 2025w14)
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Stoic leadership (TLP 2025w13)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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The rage bait economy is going strong (TLP 2025w12)
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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X is still being censored (TLP 2025w11)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The game of give and take (TLP 2025w10)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Stuck in waiting mode (TLP 2025w8)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Software engineers would rather quit than return to the office (TLP 2025w7)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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The demise of software engineers due to AI is greatly exaggerated (TLP 2025w6)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Algorithms are the new journalists (TLP 2025w5)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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All software is broken (TLP 2025w2)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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AI as a force multiplier (TLP 2025w1)
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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2024 wrap and 2025 predictions (TLP 2024w52)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Burnout (TLP 2024w51)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Conducting annual reviews (TLP 2024w47)
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Online refugees are fleeing to Bluesky (TLP 2024w46)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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DEI training is a waste of time (TLP 2024w45)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Always front load your project risk (TLP 2024w43)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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The three types of communication (TLP 2024w42)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Align on goals not culture (TLP 2024w40)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Being overwhelmed (TLP 2024w39)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Leave your meetings (TLP 2024w38)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Compliment your enemies (TLP 2024w37)
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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There are only two ways to sell a message (TLP 2024w36)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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There is no Moore's Law for AI (TLP 2024w35)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Silicon Valley envy amongst executives (TLP 2024w34)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Generating logo images with Grok (TLP 2024w33)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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It really is that simple (TLP 2024w31)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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The CrowdStrike outage (TLP 2024w29)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Promising up and blaming down (TLP 2024w28)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Stand back and let them fail (TLP 2024w27)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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We cannot all be right (TLP 2024w26)
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Stoic resilience (TLP 2024w25)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Easing back on X (TLP 2024w23)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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The Internet has failed (TLP 2024w21)
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May 27, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 19, Engineers are not your customers
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May 13, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 18, The new knowledge acquisition bottleneck
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May 05, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 16, getting to the truth
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 15, new leader anti patterns
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 14, be careful where you place your deference
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 13, we are all avatars now
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 12, the AI training data market place
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 11, the Google Gemini fiasco
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 8, sentient AI is just another mimic we are blind to
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 7, You are probably in a cult
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 6, Blame is a circular game
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 5, AI is great but start with a cron
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 4, sales is story telling
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2024 week 1, making computers work for you
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 52, 2023 wrap and 2024 predictions
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 50, at the mercy of algorithms
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 49, my feature requests for Grok AI
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 48, firefighting requires new fires
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 47, Neo Web 1.0
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 42, delete your code
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 41, staying calm under pressure
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 40, social media is a brutal mirror
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 39, the curse of knowledge
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 38, analysis of a bot attack on greppr
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 37, engineers doing sales
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 36, content promotion on X versus Hacker News
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 35, gaming group dynamics
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 34, online confirmation bias
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 33, The subtle art of power plays
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 32, my thoughts on the Tesla battery range lawsuit
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 23, Turning up at meetings
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 30, drink from a glass not a fire hose
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 29, never accept statistics on face value
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 28, the fediverse should be built on a blockchain
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 27, the Twitter rate limit fiasco
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 26, why the US beats the EU on tech innovation
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 25, leadership and reputational harm
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 24, active versus passive online discovery
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 23, when did the smart phone become our master key?
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 22, greppr has launched
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 21, removing the Twitter app from my phone
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May 26, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 20, the Irish Times AI hoax
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May 19, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 22, On dealing with recruiters
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May 17, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 19, web search as ten blue links
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May 12, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 18, a better Twitter
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May 05, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 17, the doom is getting doomier
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 16, new weekly format
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 21, How our relationship with the office has changed
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 20, Project estimates are unreliable
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 19, Consolidating a dot zero release
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast 18, Acknowledgement versus agreement
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 17: Hero-driven development
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 16: Deciding who you work for
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 15: The benefits of Scrum
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 14: Letting go of bad ideas
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May 10, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 13: Leaders should create gaps
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 12: On determining fact from fiction
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 11: How to pitch
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 10: Handling someone quitting your team
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 9: You need to believe in what you are selling
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 8: Present solutions not problems
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 7: Resilience
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 6: Your default mode is confidence
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 5: Building trust
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 4: Reverse delegation
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 3: Leading by example
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 2: Handling escalations
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 1: What is leadership?
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Aug 29, 2020 |