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Written perspectives and podcast episodes from the Active Logic team — on engineering leadership, technology strategy, and building software that works.
Bugs, Edge Cases, and the Beta State Every Honest Product Lives In
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Podcast Episodes
Digital Transformation with Purpose: How Unbound Scales Global Impact
How Unbound, a nonprofit serving 280,000+ families across 17 countries, uses modern technology and AI to reduce photo processing from 90 days to just 3.
From Data Centers to Decision-Making: Tech Governance in Higher Education
Ottawa University CTO Adam Caylor discusses multi-campus IT infrastructure, technology governance, ERP challenges, and strategic IT leadership in higher ed.
Written Insights
Articles
The Reinvestment Most Companies Skip: What to Put Back Into Your Own Technology, by Revenue
Companies reinvest in marketing and hiring without thinking twice. Reinvestment in software they actually own is the line item that quietly gets zeroed out. AI has changed the math on that decision, and most leadership teams have not recalculated.
You're Not Buying Software. You're Buying Risk.
Enterprises write eight-figure software contracts, startups write four-figure ones, and the software often looks identical. The gap is not the product. It is the risk the buyer is actually transferring.
The Most Expensive Software Is the One That Works
Companies chase cheaper hourly rates and miss the real cost of slow, inefficient software. A firsthand look at why offshore "savings" rarely hold up and why delivery, not headcount, is the real bottleneck.
Everyone Talks About Engineering Excellence. Very Few Actually Mean It.
Engineering excellence is one of the most overused phrases in software — and one of the least delivered. A founder's take on why real engineering excellence is rare, what it actually looks like, and why most business leaders struggle to recognize it.
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