It Depends: Lessons in Technology Leadership
Kevin GoldsmithTechnology Leadership, Management and Agile Practices
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Slight or Signal
Seattle, USA - Photo by Kevin Goldsmith - October 2026
A few weeks ago, a meeting went ahead without me. I’d contributed material to the deck, so not being there to answer questions about it was irritating. I mentor people through exactly...
The Outsider’s Audit
Chicago, USA - Photo by Kevin Goldsmith - September, 2026
A CTO I advise needs to convince their CEO and board to hire more engineers, and on paper the case looks weak. Engineering spend as a share of revenue dropped sharply over the past...
Paying for Nothing to Happen
New York City, USA - Photo by Kevin Goldsmith - September, 2026
In a prior CTO role, I wanted to hire a vendor to help our security team. I budgeted for it. Then every year we’d reach a point where something else had overrun, we needed cas...
The Agent Doesn’t Know It’s a Prototype
Seoul, South Korea - Photo by Kevin Goldsmith - July, 2026
A developer builds something functional over a weekend using AI tooling. It has a front end, a back end, real test coverage, and reasonable error handling. It was intended as an ex...
Build vs Buy When Building Just Got Cheap
Fukuoka, Japan - Photo by Kevin Goldsmith - July, 2026
At an early-stage B2B startup, I approved building our authentication on top of a well-known open source component rather than buying a vendored solution. We didn’t have much money; we...
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