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Systems Thinking for Humans
Episode 55
Annie and Michael Hedgpeth, founders of People Work, join Kris and Matt to unpack the junior hiring crisis and what's really broken about how we grow…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
When Reality Drifts
Episode 54
Nick Gerace, Engineering Manager at System Initiative, joins Kris and Matt to explore what infrastructure management looks like beyond Terraform. Nic…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
New Year, New Nuance
Episode 53
New Year, New Nuance! In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss what they're looking forward to in 2026—Matt shares the exciting news that he's becoming…
9 months ago
Stack Trace 2025
Episode 52
We decided to do our own wrap up for the year. We've called it Stack Trace, and we pulled a bunch of stats from the first year of Fallthrough. In thi…
9 months, 1 week ago
Worse Is Better
Episode 51
There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideologies. In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss thes…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Is Tech So Mid?
Episode 50
In the tech industry, we talk about how exceptional and innovative we are. But are we really? In this episode, Kris and Matt explore why they see the…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Project Management 2 Shell
Episode 49
Another Cloudflare outage. A CVSS 10.0 React RCE vulnerability. We've been dealing with quite a lot these last few weeks. In this week's episode, Kri…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Ghostting Is Better Than Shelling
Episode 48
We've had Mitchell Hashimoto on a couple episodes, and each time we've discussed his vision for libghostty. In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about…
10 months ago
Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet
Episode 47
This cannot keep happening. Another day, another outage. On this week's episode Kris and Matt talk about the recent Cloudflare outage. And boy do the…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The AI Marketing Problem
Episode 46
The tech industry is terrible at marketing things. From AI to Blockchain to Git, we constantly miss the actual innovation by looking too closely at t…
10 months, 3 weeks ago