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HWMS Audio Theatre
David Alan Grier
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An International Theatre Company that produces stories about life, about
friendship, about work, and the world in which we live. Or think we live. Or
perhaps imagine that we might live.

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Life is a Dream (or at least a wee nap)
What is real? When we’re awake?  Or when we’re asleep. A Dublin business has
spent twenty years carefully crafting her company, her position, her identity.
No one questions her role.   She gets the business.  She gets the revenue.  She
pays the salaries. She is in control of all, until a memory from the past […]

51 Min.
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08.01.2024
Chaos and Old Night
Dublin. Rain. Business. Money. Power.  Two lost souls wandering the streets and
getting wet. A first look at a new show on an old  subject with a classic
approach.   Cast, in order of appearance: Kota Fudauchi – Chaos Michelle
Thomas-Hanson – Old Night   [22671.p1]

1 Min.
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22.08.2023
The Japanese “Yes”
Fancy Club. Fatty Foods. Formal Music in the Background. This is where business
is done. Or where we believe business is done. Or perhaps where we pretend that
something like business might be done on a good day with a favorable wind. Three
investors try to out bluff each other.   Cast, in order of […]

7 Min.
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15.06.2023
Resurrection
Bread Crumbs. Paths we find for ourselves. Paths we leave for others. The
lessons we learn along the way. The gratitude we find with each step. A
monologue of an African American Family history by Geoffrey Grier of San
Francisco Recovery Theatre in collaboration with AfroSolo. A Studio Version of
the live performance at Potrero […]

28 Min.
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02.05.2023
Mother’s Milk
What holds friends together? Common background? Common history? A common vision
of what they are? Three friends explore the different roles they have with each
other.  They are moving into adulthood.  They are shaping their lives and their
identities.  They also suddenly realize how delicate their common bonds may be.
A New Audio Drama From […]

12 Min.
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17.01.2023
A Bustle, A Corset, & The London Necropolis Express
We know the story. Three women. A London Office. A missing colleague. And a
pandemic. Three women wake one morning to discover that a colleague has vanished
in the night. Gone. Poof. Not a bit of a trace. The clue to the story lies in a
play that has just opened in a London Theatre. […]

57 Min.
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02.05.2022
Add Subtract Unite Divide
She could have been somebody. A real contender. If there hadn’t been a global
economic depression. If the world hadn’t been engaged in a world war. And if she
hadn’t been a woman.  Through Fate or Good Fortune or the simple dedication of
someone who was not discouraged by rejection, she came to lead the […]

54 Min.
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21.02.2022
Preview: Add Subtract
New Drama.  New Story.  And it’s about arithmetic.  And work relief.  And
Organizations.  And Power.  And National Security.  Plus it’s a Love Story.  A
short preview of what is going to come.  Told as only the HWMS Audio Theatre can
do it.  We’re Theatre Like You’ve Never Seen.    Cast: Zoe Anastasiou  –
Computer Ron […]

3 Min.
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31.01.2022
Embisivle Arrival
A suitcase on the sidewalk. A weary traveller looking for an answer. A stage
manager, looking for dessert. Introducing Kota Fudauchi to the audio drama
Embisivle Friend. Cast: Kota Fudauchi – Himself Michelle Thomas Hanson – Stage
Manager Skippy – Himself [21913]

8 Min.
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03.01.2022
Embisivle Friend: A Place for Innovation
A school.  A slightly unusual school. (Business curriculum.  Silicon Valley.)  
A principal, slightly stressed.  A teacher. (ditto) Broken plumbing.  A friend
with a yellow car.  A successful corporate leader offering advice to a young
protégé while pulling the funds from another.   And a little girl shall lead
them all.   Just another day […]

52 Min.
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20.12.2021
Waiting for Lillian Moller Gilbreth
What’s to be done? Waiting at an old train station.  Not for a train of course. 
But will she come? Does she ever come? To New Jersey. Deepest New Jersey.   A
peek into the Audio Drama Embisivle Friend.  Cast Zoe Anastassiou – Zoe Josh
LaForce – Josh Michelle Thomas Hanson – Stage Manager Skippy – […]

6 Min.
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06.12.2021
Embisivle Work
Cermack Road, Cicero, Illinois Once it was the center of the high tech world.
Now it is a shopping mall. A mall that is barely making ends meet. Not a
promising future for Silicon Valley.  But a useful place to introduce a new cast
member.   A peek into the Audio Drama Embisivle Friend.  Cast […]

6 Min.
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08.11.2021
Embisivle Friend: Playing the Role
Every now and then you need to assess.  Take a look backwards. Ask “who did that
character become?”  With this episode, we return to the world of the adult
Madison Insullie and see her dealing with adult problems.    The 11th episode of
the Audio Drama Embisivle Friend.  Cast Sahara Ale – Consuela Zoe Anastasiou –
[…]

11 Min.
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25.10.2021
Embisivle Friend: Additive Education
We’ve lost our faith in books.  We’ve lost faith in texts.   May may have even
lost faith in problem sets. Learning by doing.  Learning by interning.  Learning
by being mentored.  It’s what you demand when you’re an 8 year old entrepreneur.
  And a plasma steel cutter, just for good measure.  The 10th episode […]

13 Min.
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11.10.2021
Embisivle Garage
Is a startup a startup if it doesn’t start up in a garage? That’s the myth.  We
start with nothing but our wits and a little empty space from our parents, or
our aunt, or some unrelated person up the street.  More companies have started
in a garage than you might think. But at the […]

4 Min.
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27.09.2021
Embisivle Friend: Securing the Future
“Don’t let your kids take capital from strangers.” It’s the warning that parents
should give their kids in Silicon Valley.  But parents may reason “if the kids
get the investment, could things really be that bad?” Aravinda finds herself
tested in the newest episode of the audio drama that puts our business future
squarely in […]

15 Min.
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13.09.2021
Embisivle Friend: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
How does it feel?  They made tup the first stair but not the second.  And who is
there to hold them when they fall?  As we follow the story entrepreneurship and
innovation, we start the story of a Investor’s Representative, a famous former
CEO, who goes through the world doing the things that need to […]

12 Min.
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06.09.2021
The Stage Manager Explains Embisivle
The show is about the Stage Manager.  Every show is.  So our manager steps up to
the microphone in the HWMS auditorium to  explain this Audiodrama Embisivile
Friend. Introduction to the next section of the drama Cast Michelle
Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager Skippy –  Himself [21911]

3 Min.
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12.08.2021
The Embisivle School
Out Stage is Silicon Valley. Our actors are titans of Industry.   Some titans.
 Fictional titans. And some kids who believe that they are titans and that the
earth shudders when they walk. And a dog.  And a school.  And an actor who wants
to give you a tour.  Ana DeLoret talks about the audio […]

6 Min.
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12.07.2021
Embisivle Friend: The Job Suits You
Career Management.  But it’s more than that.  Manage plans.  Manage hope. 
Manage accomplishments.  And here’s the part you didn’t anticipate:  Manage
Boyfriend before the boyfriend manages you. An ambitious Principal faces an
unexpected development in the 7th episode of the audio drama Embisivle Friend.
Cast Sahara Ale – Lyra of Silent Partners Debbon Ayer – Penelope […]

15 Min.
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28.06.2021
Embisivle Friend: I Look Good in Yellow
What does it mean to help a friend?  Listen to their problems?  Give unwanted
advice? Give them a ride in your yellow car? And what do you do, when they ask
you to mentor a troublesome student?  The 6th episode of the audio drama
Embisivle Friend. Cast Zoe Anastasiou – Maddie, the 8 year old CEO […]

14 Min.
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14.06.2021
Embisivle Friend: The Picture Goes Everywhere
Where are Mom and Dad?  Any drama that features independent kids have to answer
that question.  The reasons are not always pretty but with a little help, they
can be “neatened up a bit.” “Neatening” doesn’t help here, as a friend of
Maddie’s father tries to explain  The story of independent kids on the 5th […]

10 Min.
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31.05.2021
Embisivle Friend: Where Deals Are Made
There’s a deal to be made here.  If only all the parties would see it.  One is
looking for a crown.  The other is hoping to find the exit.  The problems of
finding a common ground and a common agreement on the fourth episode of the
audio drama “Embisivle Friend”.  Cast: Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the […]

16 Min.
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17.05.2021
Embisivle Influence for an Embisivle Drama
Influencer A career that inspires the children of our age.  Roughly equal in
status to those of astronaut, video game designer, and ballet dancer. Tehya
Merrit from our cast visits center stage of influence.  The Twitter headquarters
to explain our drama.  A lovely lobby.  A decent café. And a place where
influence is born. A […]

3 Min.
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03.05.2021
Embisivle Friend: Only Hire The Best
Ordinary Day.  Not so ordinary school. Not much happening. Though the fifth
graders… that’s another story. And an aspiring CEO decides that Adam Smith might
have something useful to say about her arithmetic quiz. Crowdsourcing an exam on
the Third Episode of our series on Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur. Cast:
Sahara Ale – Vice […]

13 Min.
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19.04.2021
Embisivle Friend: Friends and Family
Another day. Another chance for a Senior Executive Meeting. Held on the
 Playground of the Lillian Moller Gilbreth School for Disruptive Innovation.
Another opportunity to fight over key resources.  And one of those resources is
the meeting table itself. Second Episode of our series on Maddie, the 8 year old
entrepreneur. Cast: Zoe Anastasiou – […]

11 Min.
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14.04.2021
Embisivle Tech from an Embisivle Drama
Zeppelins. Silicon Valley was once the home of Zeppelins. Giant Airships would
silently glide out of their hanger and rise into the sky, undertaking cutting
edge missions for the U. S. Navy.  It was a sign of the areas importance, a sign
of its role in creating new technologies. And of course, that era is […]

4 Min.
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05.04.2021
Embisivle Friend: Angel of the Morning
Your attorney is sitting next to your bed. You knew it was going to be a peppy
day, but maybe you thought that you would at least have time for a shower? So
begins the story of Embisivle Friend.  Once upon a time, there was an 8-year-old
girl named Maddie who dreamed of becoming a […]

13 Min.
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29.03.2021
Embisivle Friend at the Fair
It was once a big part of Silicon Valley culture. It may someday be part of that
culture again. For the moment, it’s merely a shuttered memory. Cast member
Sahara visits the Bay Area Makers Faire to explain a new story for the Audio
Drama “How We Manage Stuff.”  It’s a story set on the […]

5 Min.
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22.03.2021
Embisivle Friend: Riding the Rails
We’ll do many things to get an audience. Many things. Cast member Noah Masur
takes the Caltrans commuter train into Silicon Valley and tries to recruit a few
new listeners for our new audio drama. At least he’s gotten you.  That’s a
positive thing. The rest?  They’ll be coming soon, when we start releasing
episodes […]

3 Min.
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15.03.2021
Embisivle Friend: Street Theatre
Ever tried to raise money in Silicon Valley? Our cast, led by Zoe Anastassiou,
works the central intersection of the tech world – Page Mill Road and El Camino
Real – while explaining the new series, Embisivle Friend. It’s a story about
real places and real characters who are played by real actors.  It’s Embisivle
[…]

3 Min.
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08.03.2021
Embisivle Friend: Dramatic Leadership
A new story is coming. And part of it takes place in the City by the Bay. Cast
member Geoffrey Grier gives a quick tour of the landscape of the audio drama
“Embisivle Friend” Cast: Geoffrey Grier –  Himself Skippy – Himself [21906]

3 Min.
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01.03.2021
Embisivle Friend: A New Story
A little girl with big dreams. A hardened veteran of business who has taken his
share of punches. And two actors talking about these characters. A little
preview of our upcoming story line: Embisivle Friend.   Cast: Zoe Anastassiou –
Herself (& Maddie) Geoffrey Grier –  Himself (& Vinny) Skippy – Himself [18804]

2 Min.
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15.02.2021
The Prodigal Returns
End of the line.   The enemy is vanquished.  The Office is packed.  The Ship is
riding on the outgoing tide.  The Prodigal returns.   If we may invoke multiple
images to announce the last episode of this story.   The final episode of the
audio drama “Talking and Shopping”  Cast: Sahara Ale – […]

9 Min.
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01.02.2021
Bull Fight
There comes a time. A time when you have to face the bull. You can’t have a
corporate leader who terrorizes employees, makes policy in public, and cuts
unauthorized deals.  And when the time comes.  Only one person can do the job
The episode 28  of the audio drama “Talking and Shopping.” Cast: Sahara […]

15 Min.
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11.01.2021
Grand Alliance
He’s a Tech Guy. He thinks he has something to tell the world, something the
world doesn’t know.  Little surprised that needs people to help him.   Ed
Kowalski, the CTO of the Tech Giant Talking and Shopping returns to Washington
but discovers that no one really missed him while he was gone. And […]

14 Min.
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14.12.2020
All Go Kaboom
He’s trying to do a good thing.   A good thing with a drone.  A good thing with
a drone in the nation’s capital.   It was supposed to be good.   But now he is
sitting in the station house of DC Police District 1 trying to explain what he
is doing.   […]

6 Min.
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03.12.2020
The Conversation
Intimate Knowledge.   It doesn’t mean what it used to mean. And it doesn’t make
things any easier.   As Abby Alton, CEO of Talking and Shopping, prepares to
meet Congress, two of her aides grappled with the fact that one of them knows a
great deal about the other.   A slow dance […]

11 Min.
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16.11.2020
Woman Looking at Real Estate
There are so many moving parts. You think you have a strategy and then things
fall apart. Successful coworkspace.  Capitol Hill.  A Center for women. 
Finally, a sitting Senator graces the facility with her presence but at the same
time, a real estate agency makes a call.    Episode 24 of the Audio Drama […]

12 Min.
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02.11.2020
Control and Command
Can’t things just get better? By themselves. When there is a market to disrupt.
And money to be made. Ed Kowalski, the CTO of the hapless Internet firm Talking
and Shopping is back in Silicon Valley.  Tired of Washington.  Tired of things
he doesn’t understand.  Tired of trying to get along with people.   […]

11 Min.
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19.10.2020
Sign in Here
A friend you support financially is a friend indeed. So you would think. Abby
Alton, the CEO of the Tech Giant Talking and Shopping pays a visit a Trade
Association, the National Information Market Brokers Institute.  T & S pays
their bills, so you would expect a little love.   And love can be found […]

13 Min.
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05.10.2020
We Let You Decide (The Dockerly Report)
Chad Dockerly of the Dockerly Report You run a big name podcast.  You deal with
important issues. You can get big name guests. Maybe. Chad Dockerly asks his
guest, Former Congressional Aide Rebecca Vogelson, to explain the EARN IT bill
to his listeners. Episode 20 of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping”.  Cast:
Zoe Anastassiou […]

12 Min.
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07.09.2020
SidePocket: Closing Shop
You must take the tide at its flood. That is the sad lesson of organizational
leadership. You may like your colleagues. You may like where you work. You may
even like what you do. But there are times when you must loose the ropes that
bind you to shore and start the journey afresh. Vinny at the end of SidePocket
Seventh in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket Cast: * Sahara Ale -
Jessie * Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur * Ron
Bianchi - San * Geoffrey Grier - Vinny * Josh LaForce - Carl the VC * Jake
Minevich - Julio * Skippy - Himself [18150]

10 Min.
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24.08.2020
SidePocket: Breaking with the Board
You see the need. You found a way to get the money. You make the move. You're
board doesn't like it. But you're ok, right? I mean, you did the right thing?
And your board will come along, don't you think? Afterall, you are innovating.
But then comes the break. Sixth in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket
Cast: * Sahara Ale - Jessie * Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old
Entrepreneur * Debbon Ayer - Karen from CalFed * Ron Bianchi - Thomas from IBM *
Geoffrey Grier - Vinny * Josh LaForce - Carl the VC * Cariad O'Brien - Molly *
Skippy - Himself [18145]

10 Min.
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10.08.2020
SidePocket: Early Success
Your face on the cover of a magazine. What does it matter? (Who knows what a
magazine even is, anymore?) Success has come to Vinny but how long will it stay?
Fifth in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket Cast: * Sahara Ale -
Jessie * Margaux Amie - Violet * Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year
Old Entrepreneur * Ron Bianchi - Jim/Kim/Tim/HIM * Geoffrey Grier - Vinny *
Cariad O'Brien - Molly * Skippy - Himself [18140]

11 Min.
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27.07.2020
SidePocket: Profit Driven
They make you work. They take your money. They expect you to like it. But
sometimes. Sometimes. There is another option. A chaotic trip through San Jose
suggests a new strategy. Fourth in our re-release of the audio drama: SidePocket
Cast: * Sahara Ale - Jessie * Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old
Entrepreneur * Debbon Ayer - Karen the Banker * Ron Bianchi - Rick * Geoffrey
Grier - Vinny * Josh LaForce – Carl the VC * Cariad O'Brien - Molly * Skippy -
Himself [18135]

11 Min.
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13.07.2020
SidePocket: Who is Represented?
Blame the bosses. A tried and effective strategy. And some times, it is actually
true. But grudges can blind our eyes, leaving us with a moment of self
satisfaction and not much more. Jessie misplays her hand Third in our re-release
of the audio drama: SidePocket Cast: * Sahara Ale - Jessie * Zoe Anastassiou –
Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur * Geoffrey Grier - Vinny * Josh
LaForce – Carl the VC * Cariad OBrien - Molly * Skippy - Himself [18130]

10 Min.
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29.06.2020
SidePocket: Losing Friends
Things sometimes go well. Or so we hope. Our new tech entrepreneur is in a new
city with a new company, a new investment and a new start. Maybe. Or maybe not.
Vinny and SidePocket start operations in Silicon Valley. The second episode in
the audio drama. Cast: * Sahara Ale - Jessie * Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8
Year Old Entrepreneur * Geoffrey Grier - Vinny * Josh LaForce – Carl the VC *
Cariad OBrien - Molly * Skippy - Himself [18125]

12 Min.
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15.06.2020
SidePocket: Leaving Detroit
It's an ordinary story. Perhaps a bit of a fantasy. And maybe some romance. But
perhaps our time could benefit from an ordinary story. A young African-American
leaves Detroit in the mid-1980s to see what he might do in Silicon Valley and in
the process, learns something about investment, governance and decisions (both
good and bad). Vinny LeGoff and SidePocket Cast: * Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the
8 Year Old Entrepreneur * Geoffrey Grier - Vinny * Noah Masur – Curt * Sahara
Ale - Jessie * Jake Minevich - Dennis * Skippy - Himself [18120]

11 Min.
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01.06.2020
We Read It So You Don’t Have To: Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty? Don’t get what he’s saying?   Not sure you care? Zach, who is
back, and Maddie, who has never left tell us what is important about the
writings of this economist Or maybe not.   Dr. Piketty wrote one of the more
controversial book of the past 10 years.  Maddie will tell you […]

8 Min.
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18.05.2020
a Cup of Coffee
Are you coming?  Are you going?  Do you have a place in this world? Or do you
not?  Roger.  Yasmin.  Existential questions.  And the power of warm drinks. The
nineteenth  episode of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping.”   Cast: Sahara
Ale – Yasmin Zoe Anastassiou – Faith Ron Bianchi  – Roger Geoffrey Grier – […]

10 Min.
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04.05.2020
Famous Person
Are you famous? Fame we court.   Fame we try to wield (before it weilds us. But
are you famous? Not the best question to hear when you are trying to understand
what is happening.  Even if you’re not famous.  Not famous at all.   The
eighteenth episode of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping.” […]

10 Min.
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20.04.2020
He’s Not Here
He doesn’t visit often. When he does, there’s always trouble. Or he thinks
there’s trouble.  Or maybe heard that there might be trouble.  The Producer
comes to visit our Washington Office and faces a cast that thinks (or wishes or
hopes) that things are better than they are.   The seventeenth episode of the
Audio […]

14 Min.
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06.04.2020
We Read It So You Don’t Have To: Innovators Dilemma
Life is busy. There’s no time to read.  Or view YouTube videos.   Or even listen
to podcasts.  So Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur an Bix, the Master Scrum
Master, give you a thorough overview of Clayton Christensen’s masterwork, the
Innovators Dilemma.   It is perhaps the most influential business book of our
age. […]

8 Min.
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10.02.2020
All Gone Wrong
It was supposed to be easy.  A way to build trust.  A simple public talk at a
sympathetic organization.   But there were protestors. And a badly prepared
speech. And a host who didn’t seem to realize what was happening.   Abby Alton,
CEO of Talking and Shopping, addresses the public and finds herself backed into
[…]

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27.01.2020
Best for All
IAD? IDA? What’s the difference?   What is the import of the flip of one
letter?  The expanded team gathers in Washington.  Vinny from Washington.
 Karine from Brussels.  Time to get the leaders of the tech giant Talking and
Shopping ready for a Congressional Hearing.   But there is that little issue.
 IAD vs IDA. […]

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13.01.2020
Audio Drama
We’re an Audio Drama. We live on the Internet. We tell stories of work and tech
and power and love and loss. Consultants in Germany.  Artificial Intelligence in
Seattle.  A startup in Mountain View.  Books that we read so you don’t have to.
 An little entrepreneur  who knows things her elders never will. We tell […]

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30.12.2019
The Right Clothes
Gravitas. How important is gravitas, social authority, to a tech organization?  
Afterall, they are the ones who claim that they are trying to disrupt society,
to remove older barriers, to build new structures that are more profitable to
all.   If that is the case, if their power comes from forces outside society,
then […]

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16.12.2019
I Know Who You Are
“Is this you?” Never be in haste to answer that question Facts are never just
facts. There’s always a value, a judgement, an opinion. So when you’re asked “Is
this you?” you need to be sure you know who is doing the asking.   Journalist
Chad Dockerly confronts Victor Numerov of T&S and cast members […]

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02.12.2019
Bank Shot
It’s just physics, right?  Set the ball in motion, it bounces off the cushion,
hits another, falls into the pocket, just as you’d expect. Except it doesn’t The
leadership of Talking and Shopping is frustrated with Washington and Washington
is tired of them.  There are problems on the horizon, balls on the table, and
little […]

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18.11.2019
By Any Other Name
The questions are simple. The answers?   We don’t know. At best, we have a
senatorial aide who doesn’t know how to type. Or is incapable of being sociable.
Abby Alton of T&S is preparing for an appearance before the Senate.  Her
consultants meeting with key staff members but don’t exactly leave satisfied.   
  […]

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04.11.2019
Farming From San Francisco
Every job is middle management. Everyone is caught between someone above and
someone below.   And that hook that captures you is always tricky.  Sometimes
that sharp little tine is friendship.  Sometimes, its money.  Sometimes it’s
merely the image that we would like to claim for ourselves. For a moment, we see
the CTO Ed […]

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21.10.2019
The Dead Don’t Disrupt
Not everyone presents themselves well. Not everyone holds to the company policy.
Not everyone is good at working the room. What skills do you need when your
client presents themselves in the worst possible light?     The Senior
Management, Vinny and Evelyn, think that they need a more experienced member of
the team.   […]

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07.10.2019
Mother Comes Home from the War
Hardship means different things at different times.   Abby Alton, the CEO of
Talking and Shopping, finishes a long day of meeting members of Congress.   In
place of a moment of rest, she is faced with an obsequious assistant, an aide
who has yet to understand the invasive nature of modern retail, and a […]

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09.09.2019
Today’s Special
Swapping Gossip.   A pair of old friends meeting for lunch. What is Talking and
Shopping trying to do in DC?  Is Big Tech vulnerable?  Is there some agenda that
they don’t see? And then there is the reporter.  Did I mention the reporter?
What they do see is a little meeting between congressional aides, […]

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06.08.2019
Squirrel Dog
You’d think they’d be on the same side. Wouldn’t that be obvious? But the CTO
has arrived in Washington and things that he should be the center, the center of
attention.   But that was never the plan. And not only will he have to convince
his boss, he’s going to have to convince her […]

13 Min.
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22.07.2019
A Pillar of Fire By Day
There’s a reason.  A senatorial aide who seems inept at social media? There’s a
reason.  A trade association director who seems to be speaking in tongues?
There’s a reason.   An administrative assistant who has a little too much data
about you, about your roommate, and about the stain on the carpet floor? There’s
certain […]

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08.07.2019
What Kind of Mess
Does this happen to you? Your Uber Driver knows more than you’re client? It’s
embarrassing, yes? Big Tech spends millions, hundreds of millions, of dollars in
Washington and what do they get for their money?   A service.   Nothing more. A
service.  That’s it. Why is that a problem you ask?   It’s the […]

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25.06.2019
A Tongue Lashing
Speed.  Disruption.  Innovation.   Not Duty.  Not Deliberation.   Not Honor. 
Tech let us reordered our virtues.   Policy, if taken thoughtfully, makes us
examine that reordering.   It may not solve anything but it makes us wonder if
we’re doing things the right way.   Policy is never “Us” versus “The
Government”.  It’s “Us” […]

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10.06.2019
A Busy Day
Money isn’t everything  Ideas are surprisingly important But people carry the
ideas. And promote the ideas. And analyze, and dispute, and contradict, and
accep,t and reject, and all the rest of the things that you do with ideas. In
the process, the people find themselves carrying, promoting, analyzing,
disputing, accepting and rejecting each other.   […]

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27.05.2019
The World Was Before Them
Only rarely do you see the big picture.   Most of the time, it is a nightmare.  
15,000 people.  Running through the tunnel that lie beneath the US Capitol.  The
share information, cut deals, plan strategies, and try to advance their own
little agendas.  Only once in while can they climb to the top […]

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15.05.2019
Talking and Shopping
They don’t talk. They don’t write. They don’t really like dealing with each
other. Yet, they need each other, need each other in a fundamental, all
consuming way.   We’re talking about Tech and Government, in case there was any
question.   And do you know how we know, how we know this?   Because […]

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26.02.2019
Trail’s End: Following the Trail
It never ends well. It really can't There is an organization to renew. There are
new tasks, new demands, new technology to install, new procedures to develop. So
what do you get when a tech consulting job ends?  You're supposed to get a new
company, but perhaps all you get is a trail of beans. The concluding episode in
a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting. Cast: * Kit, Director of
Consulting - *Kit Kuksenok* * Evelyn, the Business Manager - Margaux Amie  *
Ida, Friend of Florian   - *Debbon Ayer*** * Peter, Friend of Florian
 - Ron* Bianchi* * Sonja, BKL Operations Manager  - *Debbon Ayer* * Leena, Niece
of Florian and BKL Director - Zoe Anastassiou * Victor - Jake Minevich [18355]

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20.02.2019
Trail’s End: Delivering the Goods
It's not the slides. It's not the words. It's not the clothes you wear. This
doesn't determine your success.  Or at least it doesn't determine it very much.
The bigger issue:  What do your clients know?  And when did the learn it? In the
consulting trip to Hamburg, our team is about to deliver its report.  Lots of
ideas.  Lots of implications for the future of the client, Bohne Kaffe
Logistiks. But the report has become public.  Or at least parts of it. And
everyone thinks they know what is in it.   More importantly, they think they
know what is in it for them. The measure of success?  Can they communicate the
real message. Tenth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
Cast: * Kit, Director of Consulting - *Kit Kuksenok* * Evelyn, the Business
Manager - Margaux Amie  * Anna the Intern  - *Sarah Corbyn Woolf* * Rohit from
IT  - *Noah Masur* * Florian Bohne, Owner BKL - *Josh LaForce* * Sonja, BKL
Operations Manager  - *Debbon A…

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12.02.2019
Trail’s End: Confront and Advise
"Complicated" You don't talk.  It's "complicated." You don't act.  It's
"complicated." You don't know what to do.  It's... You can see the pattern. Our
consulting at BKL Coffee Logistics has been strained.  This owner had this grad
idea to start the job and then vanish to a retreat in the Swiss Alps.  He wanted
to keep out of the way, he said.  He wanted to let things take their course. He
may have had a plan. He may have been improvising. He may have been frightened.
But today, a brave niece tries to get an honest conversation started.  A niece
who has a career that is only vaguely related to coffee. Ninth episode in a
series on the ins and outs of tech consulting. Cast: * Kit, Director of
Consulting - *Kit Kuksenok* * Klara, niece of owner of BKL - Sahara Ale  *
Peter, Friend of Florian  - *Ron Bianchi* * Florian Bohne, Owner BKL - *Josh
LaForce* * Ida, Friend of Florian  - *Debbon Ayer*** [18347]

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29.01.2019
Trail’s End: Controlling the Decision
If they wanted the same thing, then the decision would be easy. But they don't.
So it isn't. Our drama probes the decision making process in this episode.  It
uncovers two, maybe three, sharp disagreements.  A split in the family.  An
employee with her own agenda.  A consultant trying to do his best and to control
the noise of the discussion. Eighth episode in a series on the ins and outs of
tech consulting. Cast: * Evelyn, The Business Manager - *Margaux Amie* * Kit,
Director of Consulting - *Kit Kuksenok* * Leena, niece of owner of BKL -
*Zoe *Anastassiou  * Rohit from IT - *Noah Masur* * Fritz-Bernard from GCL  -
*Ron Bianchi* * Victor, from BKL - *Jake Minevich* * Arndt from Coffee Logistics
- *Noah Masur* * Sonja, manager of BKL  - *Debbon Ayer* * Anna the Intern  -
*Sarah Corbyn Woolf* [18345]

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15.01.2019
Trail’s End: The Fatal Mistake
When do they make the mistake? When do they make a decision that limits -
radically limits - options? Our consulting team is working on a project that is
only stumbling forward in the best of light.  So what has happened, we ask.  Has
someone made a mistake? Has our team done something wrong?  Has the client
chosen the wrong strategy?  Have the managers failed to support the work?  Any
one of these might constitute the "Fatal Mistake." Seventh episode in a series
on the ins and outs of tech consulting. Cast: * Evelyn, The Business Manager -
*Margaux Amie* * Kit, Director of Consulting - *Kit Kuksenok* * Florian, owner
of BKL - *Josh LaForce* * Rohit from IT - *Noah Masur* * Vinny, the CTO -
*Geoffrey Grier* * Victor, from BKL - *Jake Minevich* * Sonja, manager of BKL  -
*Debbon Ayer* * Anna the Intern  - *Sarah Corbyn Woolf* [18340]

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26.12.2018
SidePocket: Complete
A young entrepreneur. A new technology. All the temptations to make bad
decisions. In the series of on the startup SidePocket, we explored the
challenges posed by organizational governance, the authority wielded by
investors. Our central character, Vinny, walks away from a company that was
unable to make a decision and forms a new company, SidePocket, that will be
under his leadership. He guides it to success but in the process has to face
choices that have no obvious or unequivocally good answers. He builds a
profitable firm but in the process, alienates his closest friend, reluctantly
accepts guidance he would prefer to ignore and decides to sell the firm against
the wishes of his board. A series that makes you feel the problems of
organization governance and appreciate the issues at stake. Cast: * Vinny, CEO
of SidePocket - *Geoffrey Grier* * Molly, of G&P Capital - *Caraid O'Brien* *
Carl, Partner of G&P Capital - *Josh LaForce* * Max, friend of Florian - *Jake
M…

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19.12.2018
Trail’s End: Why Did You Do It This Way?
A business owner. A group of good friends. And an underlying controversy that
simply won't go away. Florian Bohne, the owner of Bohne Coffee Logistics is
holding a party in the Swiss Alps while his friends believe that he should be
back with his company. So we have a fight, a disagreement among friends.  Yet it
is a disagreement that seems to be about one thing - how Florian is dealing with
consultants - while it is really about something deeper, more profound. Sixth
episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting. Cast: * Evelyn, The
Business Manager - *Margaux Amie* * Florian, owner of BKL - *Josh LaForce* *
Max, friend of Florian - *Jake Minevich* * Peter, friend of Florian - *Ron
Bianchi* * Ida, friend of Florian  - *Debbon Ayer* * Sonja, manager of BKL  -
*Debbon Ayer* * Leena "Münchkin"  - *Zoe Anastassiou* [18337]

9 Min.
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12.12.2018
Trail’s End: Gathering Data
Consulting.  You're just giving your opinion.  That's it.  Nothing more. Now, in
theory, that opinion is worth something on the open market.  It's worth
something for two reasons.  First, you have some special training or knowledge.
 Second, you have data.  Data about what is happening. And there's the rub.  In
the modern day and age, we collect ever bit of data we can and call it good.
 Yet.  Yet.  Yet.  Data can mislead.  It can make you believe you know something
when you don't It can confuse when it should inform.  Therefore, we need to know
something about gathering data scientifically Fifth episode in a series on the
ins and outs of tech consulting. Cast: * Kit, Chief Consultant  - *Kit Kuksenok*
* Evelyn, The Business Manager - *Margaux Amie* * Victor, the Dispatcher - *Jake
Minevich* * Jurgen, driver - *Ron Bianchi* * Anna the intern  - *Sarah Corbyn
Woolf* * Rohit, from IT - *Noah Masur* * Henry Kissinger - Ron Bianchi [18335]

11 Min.
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06.12.2018
Interlude: When Kids buy Bitcoin
When Kids Buy Bitcoin You think that buying Bitcoin is a grownup thing to do?
Really? Meet Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur who will tell you otherwise.
Maddie is played by Zoe Anastassiou, one of the most flexible members of the
cast. Zoe has played executives, teachers, moms. But Zoe Anastassiou is most
commonly identified […]

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28.11.2018
Consumer Electronics Show Preview
It’s a holiday for gratitude in the United States but a holiday for data in the
rest of the world. Ok. They now call it the “Consumer Technology Show” but it’s
the same old event. New technology. Lots of talks. Entrepreneurs desperately
trying to move their ideas from intellectual conception to money making product.
So […]

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19.11.2018
Interlude: A Holiday for Data?
It’s a holiday for gratitude in the United States but a holiday for data in the
rest of the world. A Holiday for Data? Three different groups have organized
holidays for data and statistics: one for India, one for the continent of Africa
and one for the world at large. You may think that they’re […]

4 Min.
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07.11.2018
Trail’s End: What does this paper mean?
You don't, and that''s the point.   It's the contract that holds you together.
Not your history. Not your friendship. Not anything else. The contract. Offer.
Acceptance. Consideration. That's it. And what does that paper mean when things
start moving fast, when you jump from one meeting to the next? And what does it
mean when the client, or perhaps a representative of the client, has ideas?
Where does the contract end? Fourth episode in a series on the ins and outs of
tech consulting. Cast: * Kit, Chief Consultant  - *Kit Kuksenok* * Evelyn, The
Business Manager - *Margaux Amie* * Anna the intern  - *Sarah Corbyn Woolf* *
Sonya, the head of operations - *Debbon Ayer* * Vinny, the CTO - Geoffrey Grier
* Aravinda, our Attorney - Sahara Ale [18330]

12 Min.
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25.10.2018
Trail’s End: When the Client Leaves the Premises
You don't, and that''s the point.   We have a company. We have a consulting
team. And we believe we have a client, though it would seem that the client is
not sure that he would have us. Days after the HWMS team arrived at BKL, it's
owner decided to go hiking in the Swiss Alps. It could be the confidence of a
secure leader. It could be a brilliant strategy to get a new perspective on the
business. It could also be a poor choice by a misguided manager. We take a
moment to get the owner's point of view as he walks with his friends in the
Alps. A short episode to give us a little insight into the challenges of tech
consulting. Cast: * Florian, the Client  - *Josh LaForce* * Ida, Friend of
Florian  - *Debbon Ayer* * Max, Friend of Florian - *Jake Minevich* [18327]

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17.10.2018
Trail’s End: Do You Indeed Know What You Are Doing?
You don't, and that''s the point.   None of know what we are doing when we going
into a new organization.  We don't know the history.  We don't know the power
structure.  Sometimes, we don't even know the goals.  (And this will lead us to
one of the key questions of this series: "Who are Leena and Klara?")
 Occasionally , we don't even know ourselves.  Our podcast consulting team has
beens starting work in Hamburg.  Anna's replacing a key staff member and
thinking about the future.  Trouble is, she does not know all that the client is
thinking and might not know what to do if she did. Second episode in a series on
the ins and outs of tech consulting. Cast: * Kit, Chief Consultant  - *Kit
Kuksenok* * Evelyn, The Business Manager - *Margaux Amie* * Anna the intern  -
*Sarah Corbyn Woolf* * Dirk, the Tech Guy - *Noah Masur* * Rohit, the Other Tech
Guy - *Noah Masur* * Florian, the Client  - *Josh LaForce* * Sonya, the head of
operations - *Debbon A…

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10.10.2018
Trail’s End:The Beginning is Chaos
How do you begin a consulting job? In thunder, lightening or in rain? It is
chaotic at the start. You move to new offices, meet new people and start to
appreciate new responsibilities. Our podcast has been hired by a German firm - a
logistics provider to the coffee industry - to review their software systems and
make recommendations. They arrive on site, after a long flight, and quickly
discover that they did not fully appreciate the environment in which they would
have to work. First episode in a series on tech consulting. Cast: * Kit, Chief
Consultant  - *Kit Kuksenok* * Evelyn, The Business Manager - *Margaux Amie* *
Anna the intern  - *Sarah Corbyn Woolf* * Dirk, the Tech Guy - *Noah Masur* *
Florian, the Client  - *Josh LaForce* * Sonya, the head of operations - *Debbon
Ayer* [18320]

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01.10.2018
Commentary: Harassment at the Workplace
In an invited commentary, the CEO of Embisivile Frien’ addresses the problem of
harassment. It is a general problem that needs to be addressed in the tech
industry but it is a specific instance that Madison wishes to discuss. Cast:
Vinny, the CTO  – Geoffrey Grier Maddie the CEO if Embisivle Frien’ – Zoe
Anastassiou […]

3 Min.
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25.09.2018
Trail’s End: A Story of Consulting
The heart of the matter. Do don't know what it is until you've done it. You
don't understand why it is hard, until you've done it internationally. The crack
cast of HWMS Audio Theatre prepares to depart for Germany. At one level, the
problem is simple. A small German logistics firm needs some help. It's a drama
of course. But dramas are good at the exposing the heart of the matter. Almost
as good as doing it yourself. Cast: * Chuck  - *Ron Bianchi* * Debbon Ayer  -
*Herself* * Josh LaForce - *Himself* * Ziggy - *Skippy* [18313]

2 Min.
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18.09.2018
We Read It So You Don’t Have To: The Great Convergence
Globalization.  It seems to be a term  of another era.  Simpler.  Less chaotic.
 Quieter, perhaps.  Civil, if that remains a relevant concept. In this episode,
we return to that idea as part of our recurring series “We Read It So You Don’t
Have To.”  Specifically, we look at the role of technology in linking […]

8 Min.
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24.07.2018
SidePocket: Backstage
A Peak Behind the Scenes. In a manner of speaking. Things are never as clear as
they seem.  Never as obvious.  Never as straightforward as you would like. It
should be simple.  You get an idea.  You make a product.  You take it to the
market.  Let your customers decide for good or for ill. But that simplicity
masks the fundamental conflict.  A conflict over goals.  A conflict that is
often deeply hidden in the acts and decisions of daily life. Cast members Caraid
O'Brien and Josh LaForce talk about the current series of the podcast and the
challenges of preparing a podcast while driving through the streets of San Jose,
California.   Cast: * Molly of SidePocket - *Caraid O'Brien* * Carl of G&P -
*Josh LaForce* [18142]

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22.05.2018
We Read It So You Don’t Have To: The Second Machine Age
You’ve intended to read The Second Machine Age, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew
McAffee but just haven’t found the time.  It’s an important book, to be sure,
and explains a lot about the future of work.  But it’s fat.  And it’s say on
your Amazon wish list for what, three years? This is how we […]

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08.05.2018
Climbing the Corporate Ladder
Boards. Why do you need them? Just they don’t get in the way? The podcast How We
Manage Stuff will soon start a new series that deals with technology,
organizations and governance in a effort to help you understand how to bring new
ideas to market. Cast Member Zoe Anastassiou and Geoffrey Grier Cast: Maddie […]

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01.05.2018
Assume an Infinite Pile of Turtles
When it falls apart, it just goes. You think you understand something. You got
the idea right. You’re ready to act, to executive. Then all of a sudden, you
realize that your approach has a flaw, a fundamental flaw. It would work
perfectly well, IF you could have an infinite pile of turtles. Turtles, Turtles,
[…]

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10.04.2018
HWMS: How Smart Is Your Phone?
It’s not a question of smarts. It’s a question of how it got that way. A lot of
the smart apps are fairly straight forward – classic computing ideas repackaged
in a clever case. You start taking the p hone apart and you a lot of ideas that
aren’t that clever experience t for the […]

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04.04.2018
HWMS: Machines that Learn Our Jobs?
> A metal lathe. A 40 year old clasp. A playlist of unfortunate songs. Most
unfortunate. A suspicious relationship between Henry Ford and Thomas Alva
Edison. All of these point to questions about what we know about our jobs and
know that knowledge can be captured by machines. Deep learning. Big Data.
Capturing what we […]

11 Min.
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28.03.2018
HWMS: Searching for Intelligent Machines
Do smart machines help us understand smarts? More important, do we learn
something about intelligence by working with artificial intelligence? The
results are mixed. Current researchers regularly argue that their work is
inspired by their understanding of the brain but that claim still begs the
question, “do these machines teach us about through?” Some of […]

9 Min.
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21.03.2018
HWMS: Smart Technology in the Intersection
A series on smart technology technology and autonomous vehicles is running when
a self-driving Uber car goes astray. It probably does not mark the end of the
technology. However it causes us to remember the true nature of what we are
doing and how the public may not forever sustain its enthusiasm for digital
products […]

8 Min.
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14.03.2018
HWMS: Do Smart Machines Make Sense?
> It’s rarely a direct replacement. Rarely do smart machines actually change the
workplace as they were intended. It’s always a change to some side occupation,
an occupation that you may not connect with smart technology. as Our series on
smart machines and work considers the contributions of John McCarthy, one of the
founders of […]

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07.03.2018
HWMS: Your Job Taken by a Machine?
Are machines taking are jobs? Or perhaps more to the point, are you concerned
that machines, smart machines, are poised to take your job? With this episode,
we start an examination of smart machines as a substitute for workers. We put it
in the hands of our intern, Anna. After all, more of her career […]

10 Min.
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