Nobody Told Me About IT

What happens to your business if an AI tool you depend on disappears tomorrow? On June 12, two Anthropic models, Mythos and Fable, went dark under an export control directive. By some reporting, the warning window was about ninety minutes. Tad Doyle and Nabil Gharbieh use the moment to surface the AI dependencies most mid-market companies have not mapped, and what to do about them. This episode op...

A good CIO does two things at once: cuts through the AI hype and puts a number on the value. Tad Doyle and Nabil Gharbieh close out their Info-Tech Live 2026 recap from Las Vegas with the leadership side of the job. The theme this time is the CIO, and what separates a good one. Cut through the hype. Almost every AI headline is built to provoke, for or against. The CIO’s job is to filter that noise...

Almost everything you read about AI right now is clickbait. Tad Doyle and Nabil Gharbieh recorded this episode live from Info-Tech Live 2026 in Las Vegas, between sessions, to cut through the noise and talk about what actually mattered on the show floor. This is Part 1 of a two-part recap. Four things came up that every IT leader should be thinking about. First, the hype problem. Pro-AI, anti-AI,...

Recorded live at Info-Tech LIVE 2026 in Las Vegas, Tad Doyle and Nabil Gharbieh pull back the curtain on the fractional CIO role — what it actually is, who needs it, and why so many mid-market organizations are running without IT strategy leadership they can't afford to be without. The conversation covers: The difference between managing technology and owning IT strategy Why a fractional or vi...

Live from InfoTech Live in Las Vegas, Tad Doyle and Nabil Gharbieh bring you a field episode straight from the conference floor. The CIO role is one of the most talked-about positions at this conference, and for good reason. The job has fundamentally changed. Two years ago, CIOs were managing infrastructure. Today, they are the only executives in the building having conversations with every depart...

Value-Based Billing Why the hourly model is billing's version of micromanagement Episode EP006 Publish Date June 2, 2026 Host Nabil Gharbieh Runtime ~2 minutes Format Solo short Topic Value-based billing vs. hourly billing; measuring outcomes, not hours If a consultant solves your ransomware problem in two hours, you don't calculate the hourly rate. You calculate what a breach would have c...

Nobody Told Me About IT — EP005: Tad Doyle & Nabil Gharbieh 0:05 — THE HOOK Round-robin: ten trending AI topics, the honest read on each, what to do. No panic. No hype. 0:51 — TREND 1: THE EXPLORER TRAP 51% of small business owners are AI explorers. Only 8% have advanced adoption. Two years of exploration without commitment is diffusion. Pick one workflow, commit for a quarter, measure it. 1:3...

Nobody Told Me About IT — EP004: Finding Your Middle Path in AI Hosts: Tad Doyle & Nabil Gharbieh  ·  Published: May 19, 2026  ·  Runtime: 8:02 0:05 — THE TWO EXTREMES Most AI conversations inside organizations are happening at one of two poles: total lockdown or no governance at all. Tad and Nabil open by naming the tension directly — and then spend the episode inhabiting each extreme as comp...

Nabil Gharbieh has a certification problem, the same one most IT leaders have. Every year there is a new credential, a new framework, a new exam. In this episode he walks through the tool he uses to cut through that burden, NotebookLM, and shows exactly how he gets from zero knowledge to exam-confident without burning weekends. 0:00 Introduction and the certification treadmillNabil opens with a co...

Most mid-market organizations have AI in use, whether approved, shadow, or embedded in vendor tools. Almost none have a governance framework for it. In Episode 02, co-host Nabil Gharbieh and Tad Doyle demonstrate live, on screen, how an experienced IT advisor actually uses Claude to research AI governance platforms. This is a structured methodology, not a product endorsement. Tad opens with a real...

Anthropic's Mythos Found A 27-Year-Old Bug. Here's What IT Leaders Should Do Monday.