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Andrew and Jan, Faculty of Business

Andrew Park

  • Create health policy scanner - really simple script to scrape web
    • Sold to TrialCard. Started with 10k each
    • Sweat equity key
  • Asked for exit from co-founder - bought out shares
  • Not super keen on entrepreneurship
    • Boring
    • Not for agreeable people - lots of HR decisions.
    • High pressure
  • Vs the blockbuster approach - lots of $$
  • IS is the intersection of Business/Law/Society with SE/CS
  • Doing a sales forecast - pricing
  • 8-12x EBITDA for sale price
  • Walkthru web scraping
    • Node/puppeteer. See github.com/nosequeldeebee

Jan Kietzmann

  • Extended Venn diagram: IT (technical)/Org (rules, policies, branding) but add legal/social/geographical element eg. Child sexual exploitation - first tech, then police
  • Another element is the ethics component (all encompassing)
  • ChatGPT training - Kenya 1$-2$ a day - now PTSD
  • legal: how does Uber get into Vancouver - Passenger Transport Board (3 vs 19)
  • Technology is one system is a bigger class of systems
  • Rick Watson - systems thinking
  • A-flow vs v-flow
    • Is there an analogy in software?
  • Ford - linear thinking
  • Dominoes picture
  • Tesla vs Ford - Teslas have computers in them - Teslas have a charging network - OTA updates and no dealers - Disrupts dealers, electricity networks, gas stations, mechanics, insurers
  • Google Glass
    • Aesthetic
    • Privacy - glassholes
    • Tech not ready
  • TV
    • Remote
    • Hard to adopt - wife was changing it anyway
    • Point being that if you don’t understand the social, the tech is irrelevant
    • (Also rabbit ears, subscriptions)
  • Sink with 2 taps
    • UK approach
    • Took change in building code because people getting hurt
  • So we can model things
  • Positive / negative feedback loops
    • Drug use - more police, more sentences. (My class - harm reduction, decriminalize)
  • Rates of growth - need to model this - lily pads
  • Bike theft project - how to stop. System dynamics
    • Connection to drugs/homelessness/mentail health/
    • Stop bike theft, increase other problems (car breaking)
  • Delhi traffic case
    • Efficient
    • Reasonably safe
    • Delhi still has insane rates of traffic death
    • Uncontrolled - self organized
    • Informal communication
    • Pay more attention
    • Very adaptive -
  • Ian McCarthy SFU - change the seating patterns in class
    • Why do you sit there? Friends, outlets, eyeglasses, etc.
    • Force them to sit in a particular spot - annoyance, pushing (minor change)
  • Garbage containers
    • RFID tags
    • Phones destroyed, tags destroyed
    • Informal organization of container pickups - including clients and drivers.
    • “Losing 2 hrs of beer drinking time” - motivates things