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Field CTO at HashiCorp Michael Wood on Psychopaths at Work

October 31, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 35

This is an award winning episode winning the 'Employees Choice' award of the New York Podcast Network!
Hear from Michael about Psychopath at work, the importance of Open Source cloud 'mediation' layers and components companies like HashiCorp and Red Hat and what exactly a Field CTO does at HashiCorp.
We also explore how your vendors culture affects yours simply by buying products from Oracle, IBM or Google.

00:00] What does a Field CTO do at HashiCorp?
01:30] The value add of OpenSource Cloud software providers & navigating CNCF
03:20] Industrialising application delivery & optimising outcomes
05:00] Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting & Tech Debt
06:30] Psychopath at Work - a lead in with Mother Bear
08:45] Empathy towards groups and the linkage to corporate incentives and how it drives empathetic, sociopathic or psychopathic response
11:30] Forrest Brazeal's Reorg Rag and how to make industry buzzwords work in your organisation
16:20] Incentives that work and bridge to security/governance/compliance teams
20:00] Incentives, Team and Individual Metrics that work VS Bean Counting Metrics
24:45] Metrics: How to be deliberate on costly practices - incorporating monetary and psychological cost
28:40] Flipping Conway's Law: How does vendor software affect your culture?