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It Depends: Lessons in Technology Leadership

Kevin Goldsmith•podcast.itdependsbook.net
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Kevin Goldsmith brings you lessons and advice from decades in the technology industry.
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Own Your Calendar / Work Deliberately

Two chapters from the book this week! Discussing a deliberate approach to managing your calendar and tracking how you actually are using your time, and then how to approach your work with thoughtfulness and decisiveness instead of just making decisions based on instinct. More information about the book: https://itdependsbook.net/ Ask a question or request a signed copy: [email protected] The newsletter: https://kevingoldsmith.substack.com/...

Mar 31, 2024•27 min•Ep. 7

The Personal Strategy Off-site

Taking a day, once, twice, or even four times a year to reflect on how things are going and think about where you want to go next is a valuable practice. This episode includes how to approach this practice and get value from it. This episode also includes Chapter 5 of the audiobook "It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022" by Kevin Goldsmith. It Depends Book website: https://itdependsbook.net/ CTO Podcast link: https://pod.link/1356275803/episode/7a88eac00279eb4bd3172b9a59d21ab7 J...

Mar 17, 2024•23 min•Ep. 6

When, why, and how to stop coding as your day job

One of the questions I most frequently get from engineering leaders or aspiring leads is "how much coding do you do?" or "How do you handle coding and managing?" One of the hardest things for me in my development journey was letting go of developing features on the products I worked on. This episode is all about that. I include Chapter 4 of the audiobook for It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022, which is all about this step in your development as a more senior engineering leade...

Mar 03, 2024•27 min•Ep. 5

Taking a thoughtful approach to the job search process

Chapter 3 from It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022 In this episode, we discuss my experience building an exercise to help me better understand what is important to me in a role or company and then how I used the results to help prepare for job interviews. I also discuss some of the mistakes people make when interviewing for roles in a downturn with how they present themselves in job interviews. If you're currently looking for a job, or thing you will in the future (we all will...

Feb 18, 2024•27 min•Ep. 4

Fail Safe, Fail Smart... Succeed!

We discuss how critical failure is to innovation and how to handle failure well. We talk about how software used to be written, Clippy and why it was bound to fail, how Spotify uses the Think It/Build It/Ship It/Tweak It framework to build fail-safe products, and more... links: Newsletter: kevingoldsmith.substack.com Book: itdependsbook.net Videos of the talk: kevingoldsmith.com/talks/fail-fast-fail-smart-succeed.html

Jan 21, 2024•57 min•Ep. 2

Introduction

Welcome to the podcast! This episode introduces the podcast and includes the introduction to the book "It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022" by Kevin Goldsmith. Links: Book info https://itdependsbook.net/ Blog https://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/

Jan 08, 2024•8 min•Ep. 1
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