Screaming in the Void: Introducing my Podcasts
Publishing on social media like LinkedIn feels a bit like screaming in the void. This is likely due to the vast amount of AI garbage generated by people. I don't have a lot of followers and my posts never really got much traction, but I feel like it became way worse lately.
I don't post that much, and right now it is mostly to "advertise" my podcast(s). I publish on LinkedIn (with my personal profile and in a dedicated page) and on Bluesky, and I don't get much visibility with either. So I thought it could be useful to post new episodes here as well, in a dedicated blog post with a summary (AI generated; sorry but I don't have much time and I prefer to keep it to write myself something more interesting) of the content of the episode. I would like to embed a player as well, but I will need to figure out how to do it. I thought it could be useful to give them sort of an introduction, so here we go.
The LeadershIT Podcast
The first podcast I started 3 years ago is about leadership in tech and it is called The LeadershIT Podcast (pun intended). The podcast is in Italian, since it is meant to address a problem we have with the tech scene in Italy: leadership culture. I started my career working for mid-sized Italian companies before getting a remote job in a Danish startup and then at Spotify. When I started working for a foreign company, I was shocked: regular 1:1 with my Engineering Manager (and the Engineering Manager role as well, never heard of it), All Hands meetings, Town Halls, transparency from upper management... Never experienced it before. I realized we were a bit behind on that side, so I decided to (try to) help the Italian tech community. How? By interviewing tech leaders (EM, C-level, Staff+ engineers, etc.) that want to share some ideas and experiences of good leadership. As I said, this is in Italian, but I will provide a summary in English for every episode I post here as well.
targz
My second podcast project, very recent, is focused on CS research. It is called targz, since it "compresses" CS knowledge in a digestible format that is easy to distribute. The aim is to bridge the gap between industry and academia, and the goal is twofold: on one side I want to make academic knowledge more accessible to tech professional, and on the other side I want to bring visibility to researchers and their work. The format is very simple: in every episode I interview a researcher that will present a paper that is representative of their research work. We will go through it trying to explain it in an easy way. This one is in English, so you can listen to it, but I will provide anyway a summary if you prefer to read.