The Calculus of IT
An exploration into the intricacies of creating, leading, and surviving IT in a corporation. Every week, Mike and I discuss new ways of thinking about the problems that impact IT Leaders. Additionally, we will explore today's technological advances and keep it in a fun, easy-listening format while having a few cocktails with friends. Stay current on all Calculus of IT happenings by visiting our website: www.thecoit.us. To watch the podcast recordings, visit our YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/@thecalculusofit.
Episodes
Oddly enough, the bots don't seem to be too emotionally affected by their future rise to becoming our overlords.
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.....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 ...
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 bots will have their way. So get out of their way.
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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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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"The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library
"The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/...
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...
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 ...
What happens when your AI agent tries to talk to mine but mine hates yours?
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"The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library
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This is like the Fyre Festival for bots. Sound really awesome but mostly just make a bunch of shit up.
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"The New IT Leader's Survival Guide" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library
"The Calculus of IT" Book - https://www.longwalk.consulting/library
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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.
Questi...
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 a...
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 impa...
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 secr...
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.
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" Bo...
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 Princi...
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.
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" Bo...
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.
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://w...
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