Dave Sobel

Episode 10 – Benevolence vs. Malevolence in Technology

A follow-up to the topic we started last week. We kick off with a discussion about ethics in emerging technology. Ethics need to be both internal and outward-facing. And the sooner ethics enters the discussion, the better. Inventors don’t normally consider the evil possibilities in their creations right from the start. At what point should…

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Episode 9 – The Dark Side of Emerging Technology

We kick off Episode 9 with our pet peeve slides from the front of the room. Give us your feedback: If you could eliminate one slide forever, what would it be? … Wherein Ryan admits he has used more than his share of data slides … leaving fewer slides for the rest of us. From…

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Episode 8 – Business Models, Terminology, and Emerging Technology

Ryan sent us a blog post that just didn’t hit home with him. Dave breaks it into three pieces and then shreds it. Wherein we note that The Google can’t lie. Then we slip into a very serious discussion of business models and business model generation. Book: Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game…

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Episode 7 – Do You Become Dumber When You Work for a Vendor?

Ryan is wandering off with a client this week (or feeling sick or some such nonsense), so Dave and Karl conspired to riff on the IT industry without his perspective. Dave asks the question, “Did I become dumber when I went to work for a vendor?” Sometimes IT service providers assume that anyone who works…

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Episode 6 – Is the Term MSP Still Useful?

Dave kicks us off with some notes about emerging technologies and how soon we might be able to find business opportunities. Ryan posits that the term “Managed Service Provider” isn’t useful to customers. And of course that leads to a discussion of “cloud” and the use of terminology over time. There follows a detailed discussion…

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Episode 5 – Drones Aren’t Just Drone

Dave kicks us off with the reality of Drones being legalized in Rural Virginia. Alphabet (Google) has been granted license to allow drone delivery services in rural delivery. But don’t run out and buy one, thinking you’ll be able to fly it anywhere and make a bunch of money. Before you do that, go learn…

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Episode IV – A New Hope for IT

The fun continues! Thanks to everyone who downloaded, listened, and shared the Killing IT podcasts. We would love your feedback, questions, and comments. See the form. Is AI ruining search results? Should we have paid search options with better results? What constitutes “best practice” in our industry? Is it just “most common” practice? And does…

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Episode 3: Notre Dame and Managed Car Detailing

You never know where you’ll end up with the Killing IT podcast. We start off talking about laser mapping the inside of Notre Dame before it burned. And somehow we end up with car detailing and “Managed car wash.” Episode Three is free-form and pretty fun. Strangely enough, we seem to have one foot in…

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Episode 2 – Are We In the Singularity?

Normally, we’re going to broadcast new shows on Tuesdays, but for the first few weeks, we are front-loading the podcast with shows so we can propagate through iTunes, Stitcher, and all the podcast places. Topics here include SD-WAN, 5G, and other things that don’t exist. Well, 5G exists somewhere. Just not in the U.S. As…

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