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Everyone talks about the future of tech. Few talk about the consequences.

ROOT CAUSE brings together senior operators. Engineers, DevOps leaders, founders, former CTOs. To dissect the real stories behind big technical decisions.

What happens after the migration? After the pivot? After the AI integration?

Our show is dedicated to answering what nobody tells you about scaling systems, what nobody ... more

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In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Barry O'Reilly, 25 years in software architecture, former chief architect at Microsoft, startup CTO, and the creator of Residuality Theory, to get to the root cause of what senior architects actually do ... more

In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Eric Lubow, a CTO who treats organizations like distributed systems, which means the root cause of a broken team is usually a design problem, not a people problem. Eric has spent more than 20 years build... more

In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Orel Zilberman, the solo builder behind WriteStack, the biggest tool out there for Substack creators. Orel spent 599 days shipping around ten products that made zero dollars, then picked one thing, stuck... more

In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Ia Mg - seasoned engineer, former CS and digital literacy teacher at the Free University of Tbilisi, and the author of the blog Bits Complicated - to get to the root cause of learning itself, and whether... more

In this episode of Root Cause we sit down with Adrian Hornsby — former AWS Principal Engineer, founder of Resilium Labs, and author of Why We Still Suck at Resilience — to get to the root cause of what's quietly breaking inside engineering organizati... more

In this very first episode of Root Cause we sit down with Marc Babin - an award-winning digital marketing professional and creator of over a dozen of podcasts - to get to the root cause of personal branding - why it matters more than ever and how a b... more

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Orel Zilberman
Creator of WriteStack, solo builder for Substack creators
WriteStack
Episode: Root Cause of Solopreneur Success: Before, During, and After AI
Ia Mg
Engineer, educator, and blogger (Bits Complicated); recently joined Canonical; former roles at Anyline and Accenture
Canonical; Bits Complicated
Episode: The Root Cause of Wanting to Learn
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Episode: The Root Cause of Wanting to Learn
Adrian Hornsby
Founder of Resilium Labs; former AWS principal engineer; author
Resilium Labs; AWS
Episode: The Root Cause of Never Learning
Marc Babin
Hospitality marketer turned creative director turned podcast builder
Podcast Blueprint
Episode: Who's Speaking for the Experts?

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The Root Cause of Never Learning
Q: How is AI influencing engineering work and the ability to debug in production?
AI can improve speed and capability but may obscure the underlying mental models, making it harder to trace why a particular outcome occurred at 3 a.m.; teams should maintain human-led diagnostics and build processes that preserve intuition and debugging skills.
The Root Cause of Never Learning
Q: What practical steps can organizations take to learn from gaps between imagined and done besides chasing incident post-mortems?
Use structured practices like chaos engineering, load testing, game days, and operational readiness reviews to reveal structural gaps, compare mental models with actual behavior, and capture environment and context that explain deviations.
The Root Cause of Never Learning
Q: Why is Root Cause a plural concept rather than a single cause?
Because failures usually emerge from the interaction of many components and decisions, not a single flaw, and understanding the system requires looking at how things fail together rather than isolating one root cause.
Root Cause of Solopreneur Success: Before, During, and After AI
Q: How do you know which idea to stick with when you have many?
He emphasizes the need to commit to one product for several months, to engage with users directly, and to use feedback and learning from trials to guide the next steps, rather than abandoning ideas at the first sign of trouble.
Root Cause of Solopreneur Success: Before, During, and After AI
Q: What motivates you to start building in the first place?
The guest explains that entry into creating tools for Substack began not from a dream of novelty but from improving existing solutions and solving real problems for creators, which gradually led to Focus, persistence, and eventually market traction.

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