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The Calculus of IT

Nathan McBride & Michael Crispin

94 episodes

4 months ago

Oddly enough, the bots don't seem to be too emotionally affected by their future rise to becoming our overlords. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com Donate to Wikimedia - https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Buy us a Beer!! - https://www.bu...

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Oddly enough, the bots don't seem to be too emotionally affected by their future rise to becoming our overlords. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com Donate to Wikimedia - https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Buy us a Beer!! - https://www.bu...

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Episodes (20/94)

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 13 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Industry 5.0

Oddly enough, the bots don't seem to be too emotionally affected by their future rise to becoming our overlords. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com Donate to Wikimedia - https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Buy us a Beer!! - https://www.bu...

4 months ago

19 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 13 - Industry 5.0

.....aaaand that's a wrap folks. It’s the end of the season, the end of an era, and maybe the last human-hosted podcast you’ll ever hear. In our Season 2 finale, Nate, Mike, and Kevin take everything we’ve learned about autonomy and decision-making power—and push it into the future with a deep-dive into Industry 5.0. What’s after digital transformation? What happens when the data giants own 80% of the world’s information? And how do you lead when technology is evolving at ludicrous spee...

4 months ago

2 hours 2 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 12 - Shaping the Future: Autonomy, Adoption, and the Four Pillars

We’ve talked resilience, compliance, AI, and risk - but what does it really take to become the architect of your organization’s technology future? In this penultimate episode of Season 2, Nate and Mike step back to connect the big picture. It’s not just about weathering trends or keeping up with the latest tech - it’s about building systematic autonomy into every layer of IT leadership. This episode covers: - The Standardization Paradox: how to create innovation zones without losing operati...

5 months ago

1 hour 26 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 12 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Shaping the Future: Autonomy, Adoption, and the Four Pillars

The bots will have their way. So get out of their way. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com Donate to Wikimedia - https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Buy us a Beer!! - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thecalculusofit Youtube -...

5 months ago

21 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 11 - Part 1 - Long-Term Resilience and Autonomy

Welcome to the Calculus of IT double feature you didn’t know you needed. In this two-part journey, me and Mike stare down the end of the world - at least, the IT version - and ask: what does it really mean to be resilient when everything is “as-a-service,” your best people keep quitting, and zero-trust is somehow both everywhere and nowhere? In episode 11 Parts 1 and 2: Why true resilience is about more than just backup plans and disaster recovery - it’s about knowledge transfer, adaptability...

5 months ago

1 hour 55 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 11 - Part 2 - Long-Term Resilience and Autonomy

Welcome to the Calculus of IT double feature you didn’t know you needed. In this two-part journey, me and Mike stare down the end of the world - at least, the IT version - and ask: what does it really mean to be resilient when everything is “as-a-service,” your best people keep quitting, and zero-trust is somehow both everywhere and nowhere? In episode 11 Parts 1 and 2: Why true resilience is about more than just backup plans and disaster recovery - it’s about knowledge transfer, adaptability...

5 months ago

2 hours 2 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 10 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Autonomy and Compliance

Bots don't actually care about compliance. Maybe because they are literally one of the most noncompliant technologies possible? Who knows, let's listen to them hash this one out. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com Donate to Wikimedia - h...

5 months ago

13 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 10.1 - The Token Economy

It’s another Calculus of IT mini-episode (“Jort” alert!), and this time Nate and Mike are spiraling down the GenAI token rabbit hole - no tokens required (yet). Join us for a fast-paced, highly caffeinated, and only slightly unhinged tour of the emerging AI token economy: - Why tokens aren’t just for arcades anymore (and why your IT budget should be afraid) - How the AI industry is setting you up for a future where “out of tokens” is the new “out of office” - Will we see a future where you’r...

5 months ago

1 hour 28 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 10 - Autonomy and Compliance

It’s the regulation episode you didn’t know you needed - but absolutely do. After three weeks swimming in the future of AI, quantum, and edge, Nate and Mike are back with a rundown of the one thing every IT leader loves to hate: compliance. From GDPR’s wake-up call to the alphabet soup of CCPA, DORA, and CPRA, we break down how the modern regulatory landscape is reshaping not just what you do—but how much freedom you have to do it. In this episode: - How to build compliance into your IT DNA...

5 months ago

1 hour 47 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 9 - Part 3 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Establishing Boundaries and Principles for Autonomy

What happens when your AI agent tries to talk to mine but mine hates yours? Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com Donate to Wikimedia - https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Buy us a Beer!! - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thecalculusofit Youtub...

6 months ago

16 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 9 - Part 3 - Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Autonomy

The epic, unfiltered three-part saga is complete! In Episode 9 of Calculus of IT, Nate, Mike, and Kevin wrap up their marathon exploration of IT autonomy with a bang, a glass of red wine, and a healthy dose of existential dread. We connect the dots from AI’s autonomy paradox to the dystopian wearable future, from the “search paradox” to the real-life horror of onboarding your new director of biologics into a world of federated AI, proprietary prompt lexicons, and company-specific searc...

6 months ago

2 hours 3 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 9 - Part 2 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Establishing Boundaries and Principles for Autonomy

This is like the Fyre Festival for bots. Sound really awesome but mostly just make a bunch of shit up. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com Donate to Wikimedia - https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Buy us a Beer!! - https:...

6 months ago

17 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 9 - Part 2 - Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Autonomy

It's 2027. You have just hired your new VP of Subdermal Biomodifications and she has spent the last four years constructing a self-designed, explicit LLM environment, complete with custom agent and rules structure that she has been evolving with tremendous success. She can't wait to bring it into your company so she, and her agentic twin, can continue her work. I'll pause there. Questions: 1) How would you deal with the inbound IP conflict? 2) How would this conflict wi...

6 months ago

2 hours

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 9 - Part 1 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Establishing Boundaries and Principles for Autonomy

Here come the bots!! Last night, Mike, Kevin and I pivoted the podcast from discussions on what is happening in autonomy TODAY and started taking a look at the impact of autonomy on the future of IT Leadership. How will future IT Leaders grapple with the murk of a vendor and technology landscape that is effectively erasing its borders? This episode was Part 1 of our two-part mini series on emerging technologies and their impact on IT Leadership and autonomy. In this episode, we...

6 months ago

16 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 9 - Part 1 - Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Autonomy

Last night, Mike, Kevin and I pivoted the podcast from discussions on what is happening in autonomy TODAY and started taking a look at the impact of autonomy on the future of IT Leadership. How will future IT Leaders grapple with the murk of a vendor and technology landscape that is effectively erasing its borders? This episode was Part 1 of our two-part mini series on emerging technologies and their impact on IT Leadership and autonomy. In this episode, we tackled: The Autonomy ...

6 months ago

2 hours

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 8 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Building Resilience Through Independence and Effective Change Management

As promised, each episode this season will also have a bonus TL;DR version from our favorite bots over at NLM or from whatever we currently feel is most bot-worthy. And this week, those crazy bots are at it again. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com...

6 months ago

22 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 8 - Building Resilience Through Independence and Effective Change Management

In this episode of The Calculus of IT, Nate McBride and Mike Crispin focus on the critical but often overlooked topic of building resilience in IT through independence and effective change management. It's a bigger deal than you may think. From avoiding vendor lock-in to creating modular architectures, we explore how IT leaders can maintain autonomy in a world where every vendor promises to be your "partner" but secretly tightens the chains. We discuss: The Three "Independence" Componen...

6 months ago

1 hour 52 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 7 - Part 2 - Establishing Boundaries and Principles for Autonomy

In Part 2 of our mini-series about IT leadership principles, Nate and Mike went all the way to Boston (actually we live right near it) to broadcast live from BioIT World (it's an annual podcast tradition now ;-). We continued with Part 2 of our two part min-series on principled decision making and explored how to navigate 'zero-choice' situations and maintain principles under pressure. We took on the Macgyver Principle of IT leadership, discussed the practical application of the Four Pi...

7 months ago

1 hour 29 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 7 - Part 2 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Establishing Boundaries and Principles for Autonomy

As promised, each episode this season will also have a bonus TL;DR version from our favorite bots over at NLM or from whatever we currently feel is most bot-worthy. And this week, those crazy bots are at it again. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com...

7 months ago

20 minutes

The Calculus of IT

Calculus of IT - Season 2 Episode 7 - Part 1 - NLM Bot TL;DR - Establishing Boundaries and Principles for Autonomy

As promised, each episode this season will also have a bonus TL;DR version from our favorite bots over at NLM or from whatever we currently feel is most bot-worthy. And this week, those crazy bots are at it again. Support the show The Calculus of IT website - https://www.thecoit.us "The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library "The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library The COIT Merchandise Store - https://thecoit.myspreadshop.com ...

7 months ago

13 minutes