Alex Castrounis and Skylar Roebuck, Co-Founder of Rocket Wagon, discuss consensus vs collaboration, decision making, and how requirements for consensus, aka design by committee, can kill products.
August 16, 2020
Alex Castrounis and Skylar Roebuck, Co-Founder of Rocket Wagon, discuss lean development principles as they apply to IoT solution design, development, and delivery.
40 min episode
Alex Castrounis, Luke Libraro, and Skylar Roebuck discuss virtual reality, including Alex's first VR experience, games, equipment options, VR innovation, and more!
June 21, 2020
Alex Castrounis, Luke Libraro, and Skylar Roebuck discuss data instrumentation, measurement, and considerations in IoT solutions. Topics discussed include:
-Sensor accuracy and precision, including impact on costs
-Real-time, offline, on-device, and edge processing and analytics
-Sensor calibration and offsets
-Absolute vs relative sensor measurements
-Proxy/analog data measurements
June 7, 2020
Alex Castrounis and Skylar Roebuck discuss the value of data science and advanced analytics, including how to sell both. Topics discussed include:
-Selling a process vs a product
-AI hype vs reality
-Data science as being non-deterministic
-Abstraction and automation of AI and machine learning
-Explainable AI
April 14, 2020
Alex Castrounis, Luke Libraro, and Skylar Roebuck discuss creating IoT solution proof of concepts (POC) and the major differences between POCs and commercialized IoT solutions.
April 1, 2020
Alex Castrounis and Skylar Roebuck discuss the design of technology products, including building a design organization. Design topics include UX, UI, usability, and more.
March 29, 2020
Alex Castrounis and Skylar Roebuck discuss founding a tech company, entrepreneurship, considerations for choosing co-founders, concensus vs collaboration, and more.
March 29, 2020