Change Advisory Board Podcast
The Change Advisory Board is a weekly exploration of reliability, craftsmanship, and the strange intersection where modern IT operations meets ancient philosophy. The show blends the working tools of Freemasonry, the discipline of system administration, and the lived reality of enterprise change management into a single narrative about building stable systems—and stable people—in a chaotic world.
Every episode releases Saturday at 7 AM.
About the Show
Change Advisory Board treats the datacenter like a lodge and the incident bridge like a tiled floor. The discussions weave together reliability engineering, psychological load, Freemasonry’s symbolic architecture, and the lived experience of supporting systems at global scale.
The tone is half-workbench, half-winding-staircase: lessons learned through toil, failures turned into wisdom, and modern SRE practice reframed through a much older moral geometry. It’s a show about runbooks and rough ashlars, error budgets and ethical scaffolding, midnight patch windows and the quiet philosophy hidden inside uptime.
Podcast Episodes
- The Trestle-board and the SLO
- The Watchtower and the Mirror
- The Square and the Server
- From Rough Ashlar to Righteous Re-Engineer
- The Gauge and the Calendar
- The Architecture of Eternity
- The Temple and the Error Budget
- Compassion and The Compass
- The Canopy and The Starfield
- The Level and the War-Forge
- Twin Peaks and The Unfinished Temple
- Stone, Soul, and Software
- The Gavel, the Gauge, and the Broken Foundation
- Engineering Principles Are Moral Blueprints
- The Square and The Sphere
- Murder and Treason Excepted
- The Mason and The Mainframe
- Order of the Eastern Star
- The Secret Master
- The Trestleboard vs. Reality: The Anatomy of Tech Executive Failures
- Magna Est Veritas: From Persian Kings to Blameless Postmortems
Themes the Show Explores
The Change Advisory Board speaks to anyone who works in the strange borderlands between humans and machines. The ideas orbit a few recurring constellations:
Craftsmanship as culture.
Reliability as a moral discipline.
The quiet philosophy inside system administration.
Freemasonry as a symbolic language for modern engineering.
Cognitive load, burnout, and the architecture of self-discipline.
The datacenter as a temple of uptime and intention.
About the Creator
Created by Nicholas King, a Windows Server Administrator turned multi-disciplinary engineer and founder of Columbia Cloudworks LLC. The show blends twelve years of enterprise operations experience with a lifelong fascination with craftsmanship, symbolism, and the deeper structures beneath technical work.
Official Podcast Feed and Links
Official Site: thecabcall.com
- RSS Feed (Libsyn): http://feeds.libsyn.com/597555/rss
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Jh4XuBV0h7L3E33rbhyKc
- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ColumbiaCloudworks
