Root Cause

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 tells you about leadership or the vicious hype cycles. If you’ve built, broken, fixed, and rebuilt systems at scale, this show is for you. Let’s root cause this.

Root Cause is a business podcast hosted by Nune, with 8 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nune hosts Root Cause, a business show with 8 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Root Cause of Architectural Thinking

  Jul 13, 20261h 35mS1

  <p>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 when they say they run on gut feeling. When Microsoft asked Barry to teach junior architects how he did his job, he discovered he couldn't describe his own methods, and neither could any of the senior architects he asked. That frustration turned into two books and a PhD in complexity science. We dig into why a random simulation...

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  Episode #5

  Root Cause of a Healthy Team

  Jun 29, 20261h 19mS1

  <p>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 building and repairing teams and platforms, from co-founding SimpleReach to running engineering through dozens of acquisitions at Thrasio, and he is now Chief Product and Technology Officer at Mapp. He is also a jiu-jitsu coach, and that shapes how he leads. We get to the root cause of what actually makes a team healthy, why...

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  Episode #5

  Root Cause of a Healthy Team

  Jun 29, 20261h 19mS1

  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 building and repairing teams and platforms, from co-founding SimpleReach to running engineering through dozens of acquisitions at Thrasio, and he is now Chief Product and Technology Officer at Mapp. He is also a jiu-jitsu coach, and that shapes how he leads. We get to the root cause of what actually makes a team healthy, why becoming a manager means changing your definition of done, and why ceding control is the part nobody warns you about. We talk about leading AI agents the way you would lead a person, why silent heroes quietly turn into silent burnouts, and how to hire into a team instead of into a vacuum. Honest and specific, with none of the leadership-content platitudes, including the lonely parts of the job most people at the top never say out loud. 00:00 Introduction: What Makes a Healthy Team 03:05 Jiu-Jitsu, Languages, and a Healthy Ego 08:23 Martial Arts, Balance, and "Everything Is Maintenance" 13:12 Teams as Distributed Systems and Conway's Law 16:38 The IC-to-Manager Transition: Ceding Control 19:10 Delegation and a New Definition of Done 22:24 Giving Away Your Legos 23:49 Can You Learn to Be a Manager? 25:21 Don't Just Become the Opposite of Your Bad Manager 27:54 Leading AI Agents Like You Lead People 31:55 Will AI Replace People? Force Multiplier, Not Replacement 36:45 What Actually Makes a Team Healthy 38:56 Adoption Curves and Why Teams Mimic Leaders 42:06 A Culture of Sharing vs Shadow IT and Shadow AI 47:41 The Hero Problem: Silent Heroes, Silent Burnout 53:20 Burnout, Boundaries, and Trusting the Team 55:33 Hiring Into a Team, Not a Vacuum 1:02:15 The Loneliness of Leadership 1:06:48 Why "I Don't Know" Is a Sign of Strength 1:09:13 Book Recommendations: Sci-Fi and Leadership 1:13:49 What Eric Would Tell His Younger Self 1:15:45 The Most Benign Thing You're Proud Of Find Eric at: • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eblubow/ • His blog: https://eric.lubow.org (which heavily influenced this episode) • Beyond the Belt podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@beyondthebeltpod Find me (Nune) at: LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisabek/ Substack : https://www.thoughtfultechnologist.com/

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  Episode #4

  Root Cause of Solopreneur Success: Before, During, and After AI

  Jun 22, 202647 minS1

  <p>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 with it for six months, and turned it into a six-figure business. He has lived three versions of solo building in three years: before the current AI tooling, as it arrived, and now. We get to the root cause of what AI actually changed for one-person companies and what it didn't. Building got faster, but knowing what to...

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  Episode #3

  The Root Cause of Wanting to Learn

  Jun 9, 20261h 10mS1

  <p>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 the machines we've built are about to make us better at it or worse.</p><p></p><p>We dig into why everyone should understand technology even if they never write code, why domain knowledge has always mattered more than programmers wanted to admit, and what happens to learning when the answer...

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