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Big Tech’s Nuclear Play
The Real Story Nobody’s Telling You About AI’s Dirty Little Secret
Jun 11
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Etienne de Bruin
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The Leadership Bench: Why Your Second-Tier Leadership Ratio Matters More Than You Think
Engineering Managers, Directors, and VPs should make up at least 15% of your engineering organization. But the implications? They're anything but…
Jun 7
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Etienne de Bruin
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The Leadership Bench: Why Your Second-Tier Leadership Ratio Matters More Than You Think
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The CTO's Question Trap
How Seeking Buy-In Gets Misread as Being Indecisive
Jun 4
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May 2025
Engineering Resilience: The Key to Sustainable Speed at Scale
MTTR: The One-Hour Recovery Metric That Makes or Breaks Your Engineering Org
May 31
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Etienne de Bruin
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The CTO's Relationship Calculus
A Formula to Calculate Which Relationships Are Killing Your Effectiveness (and Which to Invest In)
May 28
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Etienne de Bruin
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Beyond Buzzwords: Why Psychological Safety Is Your Most Crucial Tech Metric
The Hard Data Linking Team Trust to Technical Excellence: How Psychological Safety Drives Innovation, Reduces Defects, and Cuts Turnover by Double…
May 24
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Beyond Buzzwords: Why Psychological Safety Is Your Most Crucial Tech Metric
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The CTO's Ephemeral Approach
Why treating AI-generated code as disposable will rewire your brain for innovation
May 21
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The CTO's Ouroboros
The Uncomfortable Truth About Tech Innovation Most CTOs Won't Admit
May 14
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Etienne de Bruin
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The CTO's Evolution Mirror
From Secret Labs to Global Stage: Equipping CTOs with the Historical Context to Navigate AI Anxiety
May 7
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April 2025
The CTO's Guide To MCP
How Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Is Transforming AI Integration and Why Every Technical Leader Should Care
Apr 30
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The CTO's AI Workbench
Hands-On with Hugging Face: Why Understanding AI Tools Transforms Strategic Leadership
Apr 23
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The CTO's Translation Table
Turn Business Objectives into Technical Initiatives
Apr 16
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