Remember when IT's job was simple? Lock everything down, say no to everything, and go home at 5? (This did actually used to happen…once). 

Well enough of the nostalgia crap, in this episode of The Calculus of IT, Nate and Mike dive into the modern IT paradox of freedom versus control and why finding that balance is the defining challenge of IT leadership in 2025. We can’t do the rest of the season without tackling the current “scenario,” and so that’s the plan here.

We explore how IT evolved from the “Department of No” (this also used to happen) to whatever we are now (we're still working on the branding). Join us as we unpack why traditional control is breaking down faster than your Zoom room during the weekly Monday morning outage and explore the new challenges of modern IT - like explaining to your developers why their 3-minute cloud deployment needs a 3-week security review. 

As we promised in Episode 1, no LONG episodes…so we just sort of slammed on the brakes in the middle of dissecting seven perspectives of the IT paradox and decided to split the episode into two parts. Tune in next week for Part 2, where we'll tackle the remaining perspectives, including the three models of IT control, the real cost of getting IT wrong, and how to set up a modern balance that doesn't make everyone hate you.

Also, Nate is definitely on to something with this Beatles theory of world domination…stay tuned.

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