This episode of Nerd @ Work Lab podcast started from a simple but uncomfortable idea: in 2026, skills don’t just age anymore. They expire. I talked about this together with Alan Ferrari, starting from what we both see every day in the market: technology is evolving at a speed that organizations, decision‑making models, and even […]
Author: Enrico Murru
Dunning-Kruger in the Wild: When Confidence Beats Competence (and That’s a Problem)
In the ever-evolving world of IT and consulting, we’re used to dealing with ambiguity, complexity, and… let’s say, interesting personalities. But there’s a specific pattern of behavior that many of us have encountered — whether in the form of a junior developer who wants to refactor the whole architecture after a weekend on Medium, or […]
Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast S1E8 – The Story of the Commodore 64: The Computer That Brought the Future Home
This episode of Nerd @ Work Lab is a journey back to a time when the future arrived in the form of a beige box connected to the family TV. In this article, I want to walk English-speaking readers through the core ideas, stories, and reflections behind the episode dedicated to one of the most […]
Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast S1E7 — We are all overwhelmed: Optimism, AI, and the hard work beneath the hype
This episode of Nerd @ Work Lab arrives just before Christmas, a little later than planned, after a turbulent period that has finally settled down. That delay is not an excuse, but a context. It mirrors the very theme of the conversation: a shared sense of acceleration, pressure, and cognitive overload that many of us […]
Imposter Syndrome in IT: Between Generative AI and Social Media Pressure
A Day to Celebrate Everyone Who Never Feels Good Enough (Even Though They Are) There’s a strangely poetic paradox in the tech world: the more you grow, the more you learn, the more you achieve… the louder that tiny inner voice becomes, whispering that you don’t really deserve any of this. They call it Imposter […]
Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast S1E6 — Exploring Data 360, Clean Rooms, and the Agentic Future of Salesforce
When I sat down with Sergio Testini (formerly Solution Engineer and now Account Executive Data 360 at Salesforce Italy) for this episode, I knew we were going to dive deep into the evolving world of Salesforce data. What I didn’t expect was just how wide the conversation would stretch: from Data Cloud’s new identity as […]
Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast S1E5: AI and SMEs – Between Hype, Data and Reality
In this episode of Nerd @ Work Lab, I sit down with someone I know well: Gaetano Castaldo — strategic technology consultant, former CTO, and long-time colleague. Our conversation dives into one of the most discussed and misunderstood topics of the moment: how small and medium-sized enterprises are approaching artificial intelligence. The discussion is open, […]
Building a Tiny Bit of Magic: How InBuddy Learned to Read LinkedIn’s Schedule
Imagine planning a LinkedIn post……only to realize later that you’ve scheduled it in the totally wrong slot. LinkedIn’s UI is great for writing posts, but when it comes to seeing your entire editorial schedule, it’s like trying to navigate a star map with half the constellations missing. You see one scheduled post at a time, […]
Vibe Coding LINO: How I Co‑Created a Bitly-Style Plugin With AI
This is not a story about clean architecture diagrams, carefully written specs, or rock-solid requirements. This is a story about vibe coding. I had an idea stuck in my head: “What if my own WordPress blog could behave a bit like Bitly?” During my Nerd @ Work Lab Podcast I’m displaying long urls, I wanted […]
Zero-Dollar Entry: What Salesforce’s Free Tier Means for Small Teams (and What It Really Is)
For small teams operating in the CRM/automation space, announcements of “free licences” always raise eyebrow-levels. But as with most things in enterprise software, the devil’s in the fine print. Salesforce has recently updated its small-business pricing and tiering, including a true $0 per user/month option for tiny teams. In this article we’ll unpack exactly what’s […]