Modern CTO

If you fear failure, you’re not going to get very far. Neither will your team.

Today, we're talking to Arnie Katz, CPTO at GoFundMe. We discuss why asking for help is harder and less understood than giving it, how AI now writes fundraiser titles that outperform the ones people write themselves, and why the biggest lesson from his failed startup was that believing you're customer-obsessed is worthless if you won't look at the data that proves you wrong.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

To learn more about Arnie Katz, connect with him here.

In the future, self-checkout will come right to you.

Today, we're talking to Yev Tsirulnik and Naresh Keswani of Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions. We discuss why the next decade of retail is about digitizing the physical store rather than the website, how loyalty data is quietly turning into a trust score that decides whether your store forgives you at self checkout, and what it actually takes to move agentic AI from a flashy experiment to something a thousand stores can run.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

To learn more about Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, check out their website here.

If scientists are being entirely honest, is non-human technology already on earth?

Today, we're talking to Avi Loeb, Harvard astrophysicist and head of the government's new UAP Science Advisory Council. We discuss why the hunt for alien life is shifting from waiting for a radio call to checking the mailbox for a package, how a so-called "dark comet" turned out to be a lost Soviet spacecraft, and why the loudest skeptics and the truest believers are making the exact same mistake.

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To learn more about Avi's work, check it out here.

We were told to specialize endlessly…now, AI is here.

Today, we're talking to Mahesh Guruswamy, COO of Kajabi. We discuss why the specialist executive is becoming extinct as tech gets commoditized, how "AI fatigue" is really grief over eroding craft rather than exhaustion, and why the biggest threat to the AI boom might be economics, not technology.

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To learn more about Mahesh's course, check it out here.

If you’re feeling burnt out, it’s not the work you’re doing. It’s the mission you’re on.

Today, we're talking to Justin Fanelli, Chief Technology Officer of the Department of the Navy. We discuss why direct communication is fuel rather than friction, how the most driven government workers are often the ones who've already "made it" elsewhere, and why burnout has almost nothing to do with hours worked and everything to do with whether you feel connected to something bigger.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!