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The Calculus of IT
Nathan McBride & Michael Crispin
100 episodes
1 day ago
The new episode is live. As usual, we were topical af. The question: In an industry flooded with analysts, vendors, and LinkedIn thought leaders, who actually speaks for IT versus speaking to IT? Short answer: Gartner speaks TO IT (specifically to CIOs with budgets). The Register speaks FOR IT (with appropriate cynicism). Your Discord/Slack communities speak WITH IT (peer-to-peer, no bullshit). Longer answer: IT spent decades being invisible. Now everyone’s asking what to do about AI, and sud...
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The new episode is live. As usual, we were topical af. The question: In an industry flooded with analysts, vendors, and LinkedIn thought leaders, who actually speaks for IT versus speaking to IT? Short answer: Gartner speaks TO IT (specifically to CIOs with budgets). The Register speaks FOR IT (with appropriate cynicism). Your Discord/Slack communities speak WITH IT (peer-to-peer, no bullshit). Longer answer: IT spent decades being invisible. Now everyone’s asking what to do about AI, and sud...
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The Calculus of IT
Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 5 - Who Speaks for IT Anyway?
The new episode is live. As usual, we were topical af. The question: In an industry flooded with analysts, vendors, and LinkedIn thought leaders, who actually speaks for IT versus speaking to IT? Short answer: Gartner speaks TO IT (specifically to CIOs with budgets). The Register speaks FOR IT (with appropriate cynicism). Your Discord/Slack communities speak WITH IT (peer-to-peer, no bullshit). Longer answer: IT spent decades being invisible. Now everyone’s asking what to do about AI, and sud...
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1 day ago
1 hour 19 minutes

The Calculus of IT
Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 4 - The Verification Economy (Part 2 of 2)
In part two, we tackle who actually does all this verifying, what it costs, and the uncomfortable questions nobody's asking yet. IT is becoming the verification department whether you signed up for it or not. You're verifying employee identities, contractor credentials, AI agent authority, data provenance...basically everything, constantly. We explore the shift from proactive governance to reactive verification, the impossible tension between privacy and verification, and scenarios that keep ...
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3 weeks ago
2 hours 4 minutes

The Calculus of IT
Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 4 - The Verification Economy (Part 1 of 2)
In Episode 4 of The Calculus of IT, Mike Crispin and I dive deep into what happens when "proof of X" becomes the fundamental currency of digital interaction. We're entering an era where verification matters more than the technology itself and IT leaders are on the front lines whether we're ready or not. We explore the five pillars that need verification: Identity (are you who you say you are?)Humanity (are you even human?)Authority (are you authorized to do this?)Provenance (did you actually ...
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1 month ago
2 hours 15 minutes

The Calculus of IT
Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 3 - Distributed vs. Centralized IT (Redux) - The AI Paradox?
Two years ago, we spent 4 hours and 27 minutes hours dissecting decentralized IT models. Now, AI has changed everything or has it? In this episode, Mike and Nate return to one of Season 1's most epic deep dives to ask a critical question: Has the AI revolution fundamentally altered how we should think about IT organizational models? (Hint: Maybe?) The uncomfortable truth? AI simultaneously pushes companies in BOTH directions. It makes decentralization technically feasible (business units can ...
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1 month ago
2 hours 22 minutes

The Calculus of IT
Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 2 - Identity with a Capital "I"
Identity...I mean...super easy topic right? Wrong. Season 3 is largely devoted to looking at "capital-I Identity" from all available viewpoints. Tonight, we just started to try and figure out what the hell it actually means. We will come back to this idea many times this season so let this be the baseline to our discussion. We also spent some time talking about idealizing tech stacks for small businesses and why Bob Barker's microphone was so long. Dare I say it...yet anothe...
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2 months ago
2 hours 4 minutes

The Calculus of IT
Calculus of IT - Season 3 Episode 1 - Welcome Back!!
aaaaand we're back!! Season 3 of The Calculus of IT is here, and we're coming in hot with 40 episodes that go way beyond the AI silliness. Sure, we'll talk about GenAI when it matters - but from angles nobody else is touching. This season is about identity, autonomy, the death of IT as we know it, and why your infrastructure is probably lying to you right now. We kicked off with a recap of Season 2's autonomy deep-dive and laid out the roadmap for what's coming. Spoiler: it's gonna kick ass...
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2 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes

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...
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7 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...
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7 months ago
2 hours 2 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 -...
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7 months ago
21 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...
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7 months ago
1 hour 26 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...
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7 months ago
2 hours 2 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...
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7 months ago
1 hour 55 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...
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8 months ago
1 hour 28 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...
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8 months ago
13 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...
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8 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...
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8 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...
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8 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:...
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8 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...
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8 months ago
2 hours

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 ...
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9 months ago
2 hours

The Calculus of IT
The new episode is live. As usual, we were topical af. The question: In an industry flooded with analysts, vendors, and LinkedIn thought leaders, who actually speaks for IT versus speaking to IT? Short answer: Gartner speaks TO IT (specifically to CIOs with budgets). The Register speaks FOR IT (with appropriate cynicism). Your Discord/Slack communities speak WITH IT (peer-to-peer, no bullshit). Longer answer: IT spent decades being invisible. Now everyone’s asking what to do about AI, and sud...