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CTO Lunch NYC

What engineering leadership sounds like off the record. (Now on record.)

Spending Other People’s Money

Part 5 of Retcon Reckoning (The Great AI Replacement)

Jun 3•Forest Mars

Doing Less With More

Part 4 of Retcon Reckoning (The Great AI Replacement)

Jun 1•Forest Mars

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Developers Developers Developers Developers

Part 3 of Retcon Reckoning (The Great AI Replacement)

May 28•Forest Mars

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🦞 CRACKING THE CLAW

A technical deep-dive into OpenClaw’s internals and architecture

Feb 18•Forest Mars

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CTO Lunch NYC November 2025

Nov 5, 2025•Forest Mars

10

CTO Lunch June 2025

Jun 12, 2025•Forest Mars and CTO Lunch NYC

10

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CTO Lunch NYC ❄️ Winter 2026

Feb 25•Forest Mars and CTO Lunch NYC

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CTO Lunch NYC 2025 Wrapped

Dec 8, 2025•Forest Mars and CTO Lunch NYC

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CTO Lunch August 2025

Aug 7, 2025•Forest Mars

7

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Horse and Buggy Software

Part 2 of Retcon Reckoning (The Great AI Replacement)

May 27•Forest Mars

The Cobra and the Amazon Warehouse

Part 1 of Retcon Reckoning (The Great AI Replacement)

May 26•Forest Mars

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CTO Lunch NYC🪻Spring 2026

Tech Roundup for CTOs, CAIOs and CDAOs

May 4•Forest Mars and CTO Lunch NYC

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Web3 Wonderland

What November's collapse revealed about liquidity, and the cold

Dec 5, 2025•Forest Mars

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No Time To Spy

AI Espionage and What Anthropic Didn’t Say

Dec 4, 2025•Forest Mars

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The Great (AI) Replacement

I saw the best devs of my generation destroyed by agents, prompting hysterical replaced

Dec 3, 2025•Forest Mars

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