The Alderwood Podcast

Every Thursday, co-founders Marisol Vance and Teo Barrera talk through what it actually takes to build small, honest, long-lived software with a team you like.

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Featured Episodes

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Will Spreadsheets Survive Agents?

August 14, 202521 min 06 sec

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What Legal Ops Actually Automates

August 7, 202532 min 14 sec

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Retries, Queues, and Step Skipping

July 31, 202517 min 22 sec

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Who Actually Asked for AI?

July 24, 202526 min 09 sec

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The Trouble With Tech Metaphors

July 17, 202524 min 41 sec

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How We Decide What Ships Next

July 10, 202519 min 53 sec

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Rhetoric, Cringe, and Stock Charts

July 3, 202522 min 38 sec

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Scaffolding Is Not a Strategy

June 26, 202525 min 07 sec

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Once a week we send the show notes, a few links worth your time, and whatever we got wrong on the last episode. Roughly 4 minutes to read, and easy to leave.