It Depends: Lessons in Technology Leadership
By Kevin Goldsmith
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Kevin Goldsmith brings you lessons and advice from decades in the technology industry.
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The Outsider's Audit: Due Diligence on Your Own Org
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Sep 27, 2026 |
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Paying for Nothing to Happen: Budgeting for Security, Compliance, and Reliability
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Sep 13, 2026 |
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The Agent Doesn't Know It's a Prototype: Team Autonomy in the Agentic Software Development Era
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Aug 30, 2026 |
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Build vs Buy When Building Got Cheap
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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ENCORE: Taking a thoughtful approach to the job search process
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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ENCORE: Protecting Your Team From Layoffs
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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ENCORE: Creating a Vernacular With Your Engineering Team
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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Managing Sideways: Everyone Nodded, Then Nothing Happened.
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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The Reliable Team Trap: Why Execution Excellence Doesn't Earn You Influence
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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The Conversation Before the Conversation
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May 24, 2026 |
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The Interesting Changes Aren't Happening in the IDE
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May 10, 2026 |
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Becoming a Business Leader
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Working with the CEO: Close Enough to Influence, Independent Enough to Be Honest
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Don't Let Your Boss Do Your Job
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Every Organization Is a System. Are You Designing It or Just Living in It?
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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The Director to CTO Path: How to Follow It, or How to Mentor It
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Talking to Executives: That's Not a Derailment, That's the Meeting
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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The Shift to Managing Managers
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Leading What You've Never Done Before
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Success Makes You Dangerous: Why Comfortable Leaders Stop Growing
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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The Right Amount of Process: Finding the Balance Between Chaos and Bureaucracy
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Technical Debt Isn't the Enemy: A Strategic Framework for Engineering Leaders
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Demystifying Board Meetings: A CTO's Perspective
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Crafting a Technical Strategy
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Making Technology Choices That Last
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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The Hidden Architecture of Engineering: Practical Lessons in Organizational Design
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Values → Culture → Everything: Why Company Culture Actually Matters
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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How to Handle Career Gaps and What CTOs Actually Do All Day
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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ENCORE: The Myth of the Startup in a Large Company with Kevin Stewart
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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ENCORE: Building a technical career path at Spotify
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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ENCORE: Addressing the challenges of partially distributed engineering teams
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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ENCORE: Becoming a CTO
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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ENCORE: Fail Safe, Fail Smart... Succeed!
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Why I Wrote a Book: A Meta Episode on Self-Publishing and DIY Business
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Answers That Depend: Tech Leadership Q&A Part 3
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Answers that Depend: Tech Leadership Q & A pt 2
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May 25, 2025 |
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Answers That Depend: Tech Leadership Q&A Part 1
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May 11, 2025 |
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Succession for Scale
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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The Myth of the Startup in a Large Company with Kevin Stewart
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Lessons From Creating The Spotify Technology Career Steps
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Spotify Technology Career Steps
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Building a technical career path at Spotify
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Changing Hiring Practices to Build a More Diverse Technology Organization
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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A diversity challenge: tech start-ups have a great opportunity
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Building a Management Training Curriculum at Avvo
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Using Self-Selection to Create Journey Teams at Avvo
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Thoughts on emulating Spotify’s matrix organization in other companies
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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The Spotify model: how to create, dissolve, and remix teams to be more dynamic and more innovative
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Transcript of my speech from OPEX Week Summer 2018
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Hiring Agile Coaches
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Management and Systems Thinking
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Delivering the Review
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Making a Raise Recommendation
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Evaluating the data and writing the review
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Assembling the data
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Twenty Questions For Your One-on-Ones
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Addressing the challenges of partially distributed engineering teams
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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A Resignation Can Be an Opportunity
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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What do I look for when hiring an engineer?
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Every Decision Creates a Policy
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Protecting Your Team From Layoffs
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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The P Word (Politics at work)
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May 26, 2024 |
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Creating a Vernacular With Your Engineering Team
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May 12, 2024 |
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Becoming a CTO
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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How I Get My Focused Work Done / The Known Unknowns
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Own Your Calendar / Work Deliberately
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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The Personal Strategy Off-site
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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When, why, and how to stop coding as your day job
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Taking a thoughtful approach to the job search process
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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The challenge of top-down change and the Microsoft layoffs
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Fail Safe, Fail Smart... Succeed!
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Introduction
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Jan 08, 2024 |