Today we introduce another new special guest, Cara Jean from Taking Cara Business (clever, right?).

In contrast to the world of coaches who pile tons of homework on your already chaotic life, she is a leadership coach who has removed the scrambling from my workday and helped me stay focused on my mission.

We discuss SolarWinds, which is yet another monopoly in the IT field. I explain the fact that it's a monopoly means its products are homogeneous and ubiquitous and therefore easy to breach. There's also lots of shoulder-shrugging, neglect, and cluelessness because there's no motivation to improve.

Apparently my industry STILL hasn't realized that monopolies are bad.

As someone steeped in the tech world, Cara points out that this industry's tendency to react to all problems by slopping on more complexity is actually a leadership problem. Lots of mind-blowing moments (and the usual cartoon voices) tonight, folks.