With a large enough lever, you could move the world. Technology is that lever. Progress is the fulcrum. Where we go is up to us. Chaos Lever is a weekly, tech news podcast dedicated to tracking new and emerging trends in the enterprise IT landscape, and figuring out why they are terrible.

Chris Hayner

Chris Hayner

Ned Bellavance

Ned Bellavance

Latest Episode

The Anatomy of AI: The Tech Behind the Intelligence

Posted on Thursday, Mar 28, 2024 | Series: Chaos Lever

AI’s infrastructure, from the coding languages that power the models, to the networking that connects it all. Plus, a look into what effects this has on our planet..

Oxymoronic Business Intelligence [CL79]

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

In the spirit of Red October, Chris takes us on a tour of Business Intelligence vis a vis Sabermetrics.

Tech News of the Week for 10/19/2023 [MTG014]

Posted on Thursday, Oct 19, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

AI can be useful? NTLM is finally being shown the door. And SSDs are gonna get expensive $$$!

HashiConf 2023: A Private Preview [CL78]

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

HashiConf happened last week and Ned gives us the tl;dr.

Tech News of the Week for 10/12/2023 [MTG013]

Posted on Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

Open AI dips into the chipmaker market, RISC-V goes to space, and 3nm is really freakin’ small!

Living On The Edge [CL77]

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 10, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Ned takes us on a virtual tour of Edge Field Day 2.

Tech News of the Week for 10/05/2023 [MTG012]

Posted on Thursday, Oct 5, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

Net Neutrality’s back, iPhone 15 is too hot to handle (literally), and Blackberry still exists!

Under The Sea Cable Dance [CL76]

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 3, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Chris dives deep into the world of layer 1 networking and undersea cables.

Tech News of the Week for 9/28/2023 [MTG011]

Posted on Thursday, Sep 28, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

Microsoft loses 38TB on Azure, Sony is hacked (again), and NFTs continue to be worth less and worthless.

My Pet, Server Cow [CL75]

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 26, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Ned meditates on the suitably of analogies and models, including the OSI model, LEAN manufacturing in DevOps, and Justin Timberlake as electricity.