Podcast
The Right Balance Show
Hosted by Ruben Escarzaga
The hardest technology problems are almost never technical.
I'm Nathan Broslawsky, Chief Product & Technology Officer at ClearOne Advantage. Twenty years building and running product, design, and engineering organizations. I write about that work here.
Twenty years across
Latest writing
Leadership, technology, organizational design, and what AI is doing to all of it.
Taste Is Inarticulation With Good PR
Many people are betting taste is the human moat against AI. But taste is just inarticulation with good PR. If you can't define your quality bar, you can't hire for it, develop toward it, or scale it.
Your AI Rollout Has a DevOps Problem
It's always been useful to understand how work flows: handoffs, constraints, dependencies. When execution was slow, you had time to respond. At the speed of AI, that lag is gone. If you haven't built infrastructure to keep the system healthy, you'll find out what's wrong when customers do.
Before You Build That Admin Tool
Self-service tools aren't speed solutions, they're infrastructure investments that shift costs rather than eliminate them. They require stable requirements, sustained high volume, organizational maturity, and acceptance of ongoing support burden.
Video shorts
Short takes on leadership, product, and technology.
Talks, podcasts & press
Conference talks and conversations on organizational design, executive time, and running a technology organization under AI. If you're working on something adjacent like a podcast, a panel, or a piece of writing, I'd love to hear more about it.
Interview
Designing Connection When AI Collapses the Room
CTO Studio, hosted by Josh Rubin
Keynote
Mastering Minutes: Time Management Tactics for Busy CTOs
7CTOs 0111 Conference · San Diego
Built InCTO Studio7CTOsThe CTO Podcast
Track record
ClearOne Advantage
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Product, engineering, data science, brand and creative, and IT at a consumer finance company.
Achieve
SVP Product, Design & Engineering; earlier VP Engineering
Consumer lending products and the platform behind them, through two years of scale.
SmugMug & Flickr
VP Engineering; earlier Director of Engineering
Photography platforms, carried through the Flickr acquisition.
Yahoo, Tumblr & Auction.com
Senior Engineering Manager
Contributor platforms, ads and monetization, and online foreclosure auctions.
Insights & Perspectives
Leadership, technology, organizational design, and what AI is doing to all of it.