Root Cause

Nune
  • 5.0 (1)
  • Entrepreneurship

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.

Episodes

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

    9h ago

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

    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 build, and sticking with it long enough to find out if it works, is exactly as hard as it always was. Honest and unfiltered, including the messy parts most "become an entrepreneur" content leaves out. 00:00 Introduction to Root Cause and Solo Building 04:57 The Journey of Building WriteStack 06:42 What is SubStack and WriteStack? 09:28 "Why Bother" if the platform / big players will replace you 13:14 "Why bother" if AI will replace all SaaS 14:46 Knowing WHAT to Build and How to Distribute 18:30 Finding the Right Idea to Stick With 23:22 Learning from Opportunities and Failures 26:10 Navigating the Cold Start Problem 28:10 Leveraging AI Tools for Productivity 30:49 The Future of Software Engineering in the Age of AI 33:53 Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs 37:20 Being Better Than Most 38:49 Book Recommendations and Lifelong Learning 41:04 Reflections on Education and Career Choices Find Orel at: • His product - https://www.writestack.io/  • His journey - https://theindiepreneur.substack.com/  • Substack notes analysis - https://thewritingedge.substack.com/ • Substack profile - https://substack.com/@orelzilberman Find me (Nune) at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisabek/ Substack: https://www.thoughtfultechnologist.com/

    47 min
  2. The Root Cause of Wanting to Learn

    Jun 9

    The Root Cause of Wanting to Learn

    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. 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 is always one prompt away. Along the way: tech debt as a tax instead of a failure ("legacy as a service"), the "learning debt" that builds every time you accept a ready-made answer, why conversation-based coding is a process problem and not just an output problem, and why learning might be the most rebellious thing you can still do for yourself. 00:00 Guest intro and episode goal 02:45 Teaching Programming to Non-Coders 04:13 The Importance of Technology Literacy 09:41 AI and the Future of Programming 16:10 AI as a Teacher of Programming 22:16 Evaluating AI Responses in Learning 26:49 Concerns About the Next Generation 30:08 AI as an Abstraction in Programming 33:40 Conversational Development vs. Traditional Coding 37:34 Understanding Tech Debt 42:09 Learning Debt in the Age of AI 45:06 AI is the next social network? 46:47 Embracing the Chaos of Innovation 47:59 The Joy of Coding vs. AI 53:22 Navigating the Job Market in Tech 57:30 Book Recommendations 01:02:08 Summary of the Discussion 01:02:41 Learning as a Rebellious Act 01:04:09 Practical Recommendation on using AI consciously 01:06:21 Engineering is more than coding Find Ia at:  Blog: https://iyamg.com/bitscomplicated/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ia-mgvdliashvili-0b459768/  Find me (Nune) at: Blog: https://www.thoughtfultechnologist.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisabek/

    1h 10m
  3. The Root Cause of Never Learning

    May 26

    The Root Cause of Never Learning

    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 organizations as AI absorbs more of the thinking. We dig into the gap between how we imagine our systems work and how they actually work, why that gap is where all the real learning lives, and what happens to a team when the thinking itself gets delegated to something that sounds confident but doesn't know which walls are load-bearing.  00:00 Pre-show Banter and the Dog 01:08 Introduction of the Episode and the Guest 05:00 What's Wrong with the Name of the Show 07:35 The Importance of Learning from Successes 09:53 Defining Work as Imagined and Work as Done 13:43 Leading vs Being Hands-On 28:49 Learning From the Gap 30:39 Chaos Engineering 31:31 Load Testing 32:50 Game Days 34:00 ORRs - Operational Readiness reviews 34:41 Learning From the Incident 36:25 How AI has Affected the Gap 41:57 Navigating the Complexity of AI Delegation 43:45 Skill Atrophy and the New Generation of Engineers 47:12 Building Tools That Keep You Smart 52:18 We Need a Crisis to Slow Down 58:30 Building Intuition in AI-Driven Systems 01:03:17 The Human Touch in Technology 01:07:32 Facing Fears and Embracing Change 01:16:28 Question for the Next Guest and Closing Adrian has generously decided to run a discount with the promocode “rootcausebynune” - for the first 30 copies you can buy his book for as low as 14.99 - that’s over 70% discount over the suggested price! https://leanpub.com/whywestillsuckatresilience/c/rootcausebynune  Find Adrian at: Resilium Labs: resiliumlabs.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhorn/ Substack: https://newsletter.resiliumlabs.com/Find me (Nune) at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisabek/ Substack: https://www.thoughtfultechnologist.com/

    1h 18m
  4. Who's Speaking for the Experts?

    May 11

    Who's Speaking for the Experts?

    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 busy professional who doesn't like the empty talks can survive the content noise and still make themselves visible. 00:00 Show and Guest Introduction 02:54 The Value of Authentic Content in a Noisy World 06:18 AI and Content: Good Authentic Content is King 09:47 Reel-Thinking vs Podcast Creation 13:57 Creating Engaging Content in Niche Markets 18:14 Sales vs. Marketing: Building Trust Through Content 22:02 The Long Game in Content Creation 25:48 Personal Branding in the Digital Age 28:28 Setting Up for Success in Content Creation 33:05 Overcoming Perfectionism in Content Creation 38:27 Embracing the Silence of Early Content 43:29 Navigating Privacy and Online Presence 48:36 The Discomfort of Starting 53:14 The Root Causes of Expert Silence 57:53 How to Start Creating Content 01:00:30 Question for the Next Guest and Closing Follow Marc Babin: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/babinmarc/ The Podcast Blueprint Website - https://www.yourpodcastblueprint.com/ The Podcast Blueprint LinkedIn Page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/podcast-blueprint/ Additional Material mentioned in the episode: The Podcast Consumer 2025 report from Edison Research - https://www.edisonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Podcast-Consumer-2025-revised-FINAL.pdf Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors By Patrick King - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56199402-read-people-like-a-book

    1h 3m
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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 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.

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    Nune
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  • Episodes
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    © 2026 Nune
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