Nerding Out With Viktor is a podcast about tech, startups, and everything in between. Hosted by Viktor, a lifelong nerd and seasoned entrepreneur, the show features real conversations with builders, hackers, and technologists.
Viktor got his start in Silicon Valley with YippieMove, an early email migration tool, and later created Blotter, a top-ranked productivity app for macOS. He now runs Screenly — the first developer-friendly digital signage platform — and built its open-source sibling, Anthias. He's also been leading remote teams for over a decade, long before it became the norm.
Each episode explores topics like AI, software, cybersecurity, hardware, and the messy reality of building and scaling products. With a no-fluff, straight-talking approach, Nerding Out With Viktor is perfect for anyone who enjoys smart, technical conversations without the hype.
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Leadership Coaching for Founders: Burnout, Habits, and Building Clarity with Ed Ley
In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Ed Ley, a leadership coach, author, former gym owner, and two-time TEDx speaker, to unpack why capable leaders get stuck even when they already know what they should be doing. Most leadership advice assumes the problem is information, but the gap between knowing and doing rarely closes by being told the right thing again.
Ed's route into this work started in fitness, where results are hard to hide, and moved through neuroscience, habit change, and years spent around both high-performance sport and business. The conversation traces how he came to treat behavior as a recipe that can be mapped rather than a plan that can be prescribed, and why the brain is better understood as a survival machine reacting to threat and uncertainty than as a rational one waiting for a destination.
The episode reframes burnout as a design problem rather than a workload one. Viktor and Ed cover the bungee cord effect of becoming the source of certainty for everyone around you, the predictions that sit underneath micromanagement, temporal discounting and the cost of inaction, and why bottlenecks in a company are solved by changing the architecture rather than asking the bottleneck to work harder.
27 May 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Trust Crisis Coming for Every System with David Pollak
In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with David Pollak, founder of Spice Labs and creator of the Lift web framework, to unpack post-quantum cryptography and why the migration window is shorter than most teams realize. Google now estimates elliptic curve encryption could be breakable by quantum computers in 2029, putting the trust layer behind every bank transaction, signed document, software update, and Bitcoin wallet on a fixed timeline.
David draws on a career that spans writing software for FEMA at 14, beating Lotus in the NeXT spreadsheet market, diagnosing Twitter's original Fail Whale, and years at Cisco's firewall group. The conversation moves from the mechanics of Shor's algorithm and lattice-based replacements to the harder problem underneath: discovering where cryptography actually lives across millions of microservices, legacy mainframes, and post-build artifacts that no SBOM tool can see.
The episode reframes the post-quantum transition as a discovery and prioritization problem before it is a remediation one. Viktor and David cover crypto agility, the hardware root-of-trust gap in TPMs and HSMs, why the forgery threat is bigger than harvest-now-decrypt-later, and what engineering teams should be doing in the next three years.
30 Apr 2026
Rethinking Container Security: Why Isolation Was Never Built In (with Alex Zenla)
In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera, to unpack why container security has been built on a flawed assumption from the start.
The conversation traces Alex's journey from working in deeply insecure IoT and industrial systems to building Edera, a company focused on rethinking isolation at the runtime level. Along the way, they explore how containers became the default abstraction, despite relying on shared kernel state and weak isolation guarantees. The discussion covers the technical trade-offs behind namespaces, virtualization, and hypervisor-based approaches, as well as the real-world challenges of securing modern workloads.
As AI agents and autonomous systems push infrastructure in new directions, the limits of today's container security runtime are becoming harder to ignore. This episode offers a grounded look at what needs to change and why a different approach to isolation may be necessary for the next generation of systems.
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