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Hard Boiled Software is our podcast. We bring on industry notables to talk about the work itself: what they built, what it cost them, and what they’d do differently with the benefit of hindsight. Fewer frameworks, more war stories. The full episode archive is below, and it’s also available wherever you get podcasts.

S1E8 Aug 12, 2026 · 63:22
"Strategy in the AI Age" with Vic Chynoweth

Vic Chynoweth is the CEO of Tempo, a strategic portfolio management platform used by more than 30,000 organizations, including a large share of the Fortune 500. A biology undergrad who found his way into finance, Vic...

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Jun 17, 2026 · 62:06
"Mapping Your Architecture" with Simon Brown

Simon Brown is the creator of the C4 model for Visualising Software Architecture and the founder of Structurizr, the original developer-friendly “diagrams as code” tooling for version-controlled architecture...

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May 26, 2026 · 49:29
"Behavior Change at Scale" with Jimmy Parker

Jimmy Parker is the Founder and Chief Transformation Officer of Peaq, where he helps companies create fast, lasting transformation at scale. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who served 11 years as a Marine Corps...

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S1E4 Mar 10, 2026 · 77:04
"Whole Team, One Mission" with Woody Zuill

Woody Zuill is the leading advocate of mob programming, now called software teaming, an approach in which the whole team works together on the same thing at the same time on the same computer. A software developer for...

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S1E2 Jan 28, 2026 · 75:23
"Building Teams That Actually Learn" with Diana Larsen

Diana Larsen is a pioneering figure in the Agile movement who has been shaping how teams learn and work together since the late 1990s. Co-author of the foundational Agile Retrospectives (with Esther Derby) and Liftoff...

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S1E1 Jan 14, 2026 · 44:58
"The Skills That Survive AI" with Michael Feathers

Michael Feathers is the author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, the de facto survival guide for developers dealing with gnarly, untested systems for nearly two decades. He’s been a thought leader in software...

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