What should a busy technical buyer listen to first?

Start with evaluation if you cannot define success; start with serving economics if a credible candidate already exists. Listen for assumptions and trade-offs, then turn one useful idea into a test on your own workload.

This selection is based on publisher episode pages, show notes and available transcript passages. It is not a claim that every recording was watched or heard in full, and video playback was not tested. Four episodes are from the last 12 months; the 2024 evaluation conversation is retained as an explicitly dated foundation. All five come from one publisher, so this is a focused reading/listening route rather than a representative media survey.