Risk Runners Presents

Street Math

Ten ISO 31010 risk assessment techniques, taught not in boardrooms — but on street corners, in dive bars, and across kitchen tables.

ISO 31010 : 2019 — Risk Assessment Techniques
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Risk analysis doesn't need a PowerPoint.

Every technique in ISO 31010 — from Bow Tie Analysis to Markov Chains — was built to help people make better decisions under uncertainty. But somewhere between the standard and the spreadsheet, the intuition gets lost.

Street Math puts it back. Each screenplay drops a real risk technique into an everyday scenario — a bouncer working the door, a mechanic sizing up a bad engine, a busker calculating which subway car to play. The math is real. The characters just speak it differently.

Ten techniques. Ten stories. Ten pages each.

The Screenplays

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B.4.2 — Bow Tie Analysis
The Bouncer's Blueprint
A veteran bouncer explains club security to a rookie using bow tie analysis — mapping threats on the left, consequences on the right, and the bar brawl sitting in the middle. Preventative controls, reactive controls, and the escalation factors that break them.
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B.9.3 — Decision Tree Analysis
The Hustler's Gambit
A street hustler maps out whether to pay off a supplier or dodge them — decision nodes, chance nodes, expected values, and the sensitivity analysis that proves the answer is robust even when the estimates are wrong.
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B.5.10 — Monte Carlo Simulation
The Mechanic's Odds
A shady mechanic runs 100 mental simulations on a customer's engine — random variables for part wear, driving habits, and weather — to show why the "quick fix" has an 86% chance of catastrophic failure.
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B.9.4 — Game Theory
The Roommate's Dilemma
Two roommates face the Prisoner's Dilemma when their landlord offers a deal to whoever snitches first. Payoff matrices, Nash Equilibrium, Tit for Tat, and the commitment device that changes the game entirely.
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B.4.4 — Layers of Protection Analysis
The Heist Planner's Calculus
A meticulous heist planner breaks down a vault's independent protection layers — cameras, guards, biometrics, pressure alarms — calculating the probability of failure on demand for each to determine if the job's risk is tolerable.
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B.3.3 — Ishikawa (Fishbone) Analysis
The Food Truck Meltdown
A food truck owner dissects a ruined lunch rush using the 6Ms — Methods, Machinery, Materials, Manpower, Measurement, and Management — tracing eleven causes back to three root failures.
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B.8.4 — Pareto Charts
The Bartender's 80/20
A veteran bartender teaches a rookie that 80% of their revenue loss comes from just 20% of the causes — and why fixing the bathroom lock instead of slow service is the most expensive mistake in the business.
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B.6.2 — Cross Impact Analysis
The Bookie's Web
A seasoned bookie explains how a star player's sprained ankle doesn't just change the game odds — it shifts the conditional probabilities of every connected prop bet. The money isn't in the obvious line; it's in the web.
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B.9.2 — Cost/Benefit Analysis
The Loan Shark's Lesson
A loan shark walks a borrower through Net Present Value — showing how a "small" $50 weekly payment is actually a 1,160% annual rate, and why the credit union two blocks away is the rational choice.
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B.5.9 — Markov Analysis
The Busker's Calculus
A subway saxophone player calculates transition probabilities between Good, Fair, and Failed train cars — building a Markov chain to figure out when to move, when to stay, and how long before transit police end the session.
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