Tech Lead Journal
Henry Suryawirawan
Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.
Recent Episodes
Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking to Navigate Software Delivery Illusions - Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi
Aug 3, 2026Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi, co-authors of Signals & Levers (IT Revolution), discuss systems thinking applied to software delivery. They trace the persistent "software crisis" back to a 1968 NATO conference, arguing it stems from treating adaptive sociotechnical systems as linear processes. The conversation covers proxy metrics (velocity vs. cycle time), the CREATE framework, three leadership illusions (progress, predictability, control), and practical levers—both policy and cultural—that enable teams and leaders to sense and influence complex systems.
From Technical Debt to Triple Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code
Jul 27, 2026Dr. Margaret Ann Story, co-author of the SPACE Framework and leading researcher in developer productivity, discusses her recent paper on the hidden costs of AI-generated code. The conversation explores three types of technical debt: traditional technical debt (in code), cognitive debt (loss of understanding in people's minds), and intent debt (poor externalization of goals and decisions). Story shares observations from her Startup Studio course at the University of Victoria, where students using AI coding tools rapidly accumulated cognitive debt despite initial productivity gains, leading to fatigue, hallucination, and project stalls.
Ex-Gojek CTO: Why the Age of AI Rewards Builders as Judgment Becomes Expensive
Jul 13, 2026The AI Productivity Paradox: Why 10X Output Doesn't Mean 10X Business Outcome
Jun 29, 2026The Hidden Stories Sabotaging Your Culture Change
Jun 15, 2026Creator of Meta's Hack: Your AI Will Always Cheat — Here's How to Stop It
Jun 8, 2026Eric Ries: Why Good Tech Companies Go Bad, and How to Stop It
Jun 1, 2026Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: The AI Paradox of Optimizing Coding Alone
May 18, 2026The Future of Code Review: Stop Reviewing Line-by-Line, Start Governing AI Agents
May 4, 2026FeatureOps: The Safety Net You Need When Shipping with AI
Apr 27, 2026
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