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Tech Titans: Why Plans Fail and Strategy Doesn't with Seth Godin, Author of This Is Strategy

September 21, 2026

Today, we're talking to Seth Godin, author of This Is Strategy. We discuss why strategy is a philosophy of becoming rather than a plan to execute, how status, affiliation, and freedom from fear quietly drive almost every decision people make, and why one of Seth's biggest professional failures came down to having a good idea and then walking away from it. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

Tech Titans: Funding and Building the Safest Nuclear Reactor with Matt Loszak, Aalo Atomics

September 17, 2026

A barrel of uranium holds as much energy as two million barrels of oil, and Matt Loszak, co-founder of nuclear startup Allo, thinks that's just the beginning. In this episode, Joel talks with Matt about building factory-made nuclear reactors as safe as a university research reactor, why we're entering a "second atomic age," the team and funding behind Allo, and how small modular reactors could solve the massive power problem facing Microsoft, Google, and Amazon's data centers. All of thi...

Demo Is Not Production, with Ajay Nair, GM of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic

September 14, 2026

Today, we're talking to Ajay Nair, General Manager of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic. We discuss why most AI hallucinations are really a search problem wearing a scarier name, how the industry's obsession with model selection is missing the real bottleneck of context and retrieval, and why the biggest failure mode in enterprise AI is mistaking a working demo for a production system. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!