Tag Archives: Noah Masur

A Meeting At Bucks

November 8, 2017 HWMS Production

What do you know about tech leadership? Try this one. There’s a meeting. It’s in the center of Silicon Valley deal-making. The young CEO has assembled two confidants. The questions begin. Is the purpose of the get together for technical advice? Or is it something else? Maddie meets with Rohit and Sulley in Buck’s of Woodside. At her special table. Featuring:

Zoe Anastassiou as Maddie-the-8-year-old-entrepreneur
Josh LaForce as Sullivan from Policy and PR
Noah Masur as Rohit from IT
Debbon Ayer as Val the Waiter

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Technology & Organizations

A Holiday for Statistics

October 19, 2017 HWMS Production

How do you think about data? How do you you look for an office in Bangalore? And how do you deal with a country that has a holiday for statistics? This episode starts with with the Stats Holiday, moves through a real estate agent brimming with confidence in his own ability to understand the client’s needs, and ends with a staff member who dreams of a new office within walking distance of a Premier League Cricket Stadium. What does all this tell you about Big Data? That it is only part of our business experience. Featuring:

Sonam Powar As Jameela, the Bangalore Office Manager
Margaux Amie as Evelyn, the Business Manager
Josh LaForce as Sulley, from Policy
Ron Bianchi as Deepak, the The Bengaluru Real Estate Agent
Noah Masur as Rohit from IT

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Agile Management

Oh What a Wonderful Agile World

October 4, 2017 HWMS Production

Agile Ideas. Agile Development. Agile Software. Agile, and its variants, are the methods of modern industry and modern commerce. Yet, they are as old as industry itself. They become prominent when circumstances demand it. Anna and Rohit read one of the founding texts of the Agile movement, The Machine That Changed the World and explain why they read it so you don’t have to. Featuring:

Sarah Corbyn Woolf as Anna-the-Intern
Noah Masur as Rohit from IT
Ralph E. Flanders, in a cameo appearance
Mr. Skippy as himself

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We Read It So You Don’t Have To: Internet as Defense Technology

September 5, 2017 HWMS Production

Was the Internet designed to withstand a nuclear attack? Common story. Is it true? Rohit and Penelope Othmar explore the origins of the Internet when they review the book Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger, a book that discusses the history of ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency. The answer is not as straightforward as we might like. Featuring:

Debbon Ayer as Penelope Othmar, Principle of the Lillian Moller School for Disruptive Innovation
Noah Masur as Rohit from IT

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Fuzzy Sets, Probabilities, and Boyfriends

July 25, 2017 HWMS Production

Rohit from IT attempts to address the question raised in the last episode: “Is it better to be a 70% with a 20% probability or a 20% boyfriend with a 70% probability?” The answer to that question involves the distinction between probability and fuzzy sets. It would be an entirely academic discussion if it weren’t central to the machinery of modern marketing. Don’t want to think of yourself as a having a 70% chance of being 80% of a customer? Then you better listen. If you want a little more context for this problem, you might want to Anna raise the issues of Fuzzy Sets in the “Knowledge Engineered Boyfriend”. [17231] Cast:

Rohit from IT: Noah Masur

Rohit’s Cricket Team:Themselves

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The Knowledge Engineered Boyfriend

July 18, 2017 HWMS Production

So what’s so bad about Knowledge Engineering? You’re just systematizing what your company knows. Just trying to bring some order to the chaos of the corporate world. However, it always requires a compromise. Squeezing a 7 and a half foot into a 6 and a half Louboutin, as Anna would say. In no situation are the problems of the knowledge engineered boyfriend. To ask the question of the ages, it is better to be a 70% with a 20% probability or a 20% boyfriend with a 70% probability. [17230] Cast:

Evelyn the Business Manager: Margaux Amie

Rohit from IT: Noah Masur

Anna-the Intern:Sarah Corbyn Woolf

Cian-the-Consultant: Josh LaForce

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Agile Management

Big Problems with Big Data

May 16, 2017 HWMS Production

Big Data. It gives you facts. It tells you what is really happening. It has Volume, Varity, Velocity, Veracity and, of course, Vexation of Spirit. Vexation can come with the data, no matter how much you have of it, tells you more about the structure that gathered it than the truth of any matter. When you have that, you have a problem called Simpson’s Paradox – the bane of Big Data. [17210] Cast:

Evelyn the Business Manager: Margaux Amie

Rohit from IT: Noah Masur

Anna The Intern: Sarah Corbyn Woolf

Chuck of Acme Products: Ron Bianchi

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Governance for Kids (Because kids are all you’ve got)

May 9, 2017 HWMS Production

Evelyn the Business Manager and Rohit from IT preview the upcoming season of the Podcast, How We Manage Stuff. Well, that is what is supposed to happen. Rohit gets obsessed with Googling the phrase “My Bad” and things start to fall apart after that. Yet, in spite of a nasty text, the pair tell you about the stories and ideas for the next episodes of the podcast. [17205] Cast:

Evelyn the Business Manager: Margaux Amie

Rohit from IT: Noah Masur

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