Hello! I’m Coté. I spend most of my time studying and writing about how large organizations use their own software to run their business. Much of that is how they’re improving and modernizing their approach to software. I work at VMware (Tanzu), and I’ve worked at RedMonk, Dell doing M&A, 451 Research, and a few programming jobs long ago.

My Stuff

• 🖨️ Check out my weblog for ongoing links, posts, and weblog-y stuff. Also, check out more of my writing.
• 📨 Newsletter – several times a week I empty out my notebook and weblog into the newsletter, adding in an article here and there about computer stuff and culture.
• 🎙️ Podcasts: Software Defined Talk, Software Defined Interviews, Tanzu Talk, and more.
• 📚 Books: Escaping the Legacy Trap, Monolithic Transformation, The Business Bottleneck, Changing Mindsets, Digital WTF, more.
• 👨🏻‍🏫 I speak at conferences a lot, here’s a selection of recordings.
• 📺 How to Survive & Thrive in a BigCo – my new course on managing your career, your daily work, and your sanity in a large organization.
• #️⃣ I am @cote in Twitter, @cote@social.lol in Mastodon, @cote.io in Bluesky, @bushwald in Threads, and my job stuff in LinkedIn.
• 📷 I post a lot of pictures on my blog. I have an ongoing Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam project as well.
• 📹 Videos: my videos in YouTube, and videos I make for work: longer ones, and shorter ones.
• 🐲 If you’re interested in D&D stuff, mostly about using AI to solo role-play D&D, I keep a page of my stuff on that too.
• 🤨 If you are wondering just what the hell is going on here, check out the colophon.

I live in Amsterdam. Texas Forever!