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WELCOME BAAAACK to The Astrocast! Thanks for joining us! This week, Roo takes you through the journey of last weekends EPIC pouring of the pier! He tells you all about the experience, gives some tips and tricks to make it an easier experience for you, and also explains WHY you would want to build a pier in the first place!If you'd like to see photos of the finished Pier (minus good cable management, of course!) check out our FB page here!The crucial things you need to build your own pier? 10 bags of quikcrete, a concrete mixer, a couple 2x4's, 4 long bolts (12 inches or more) along with nuts/bolts to level them with (see photos), 2 steel plates to mount your mount to, and a conrete mixer you can rent! Also, having two friends helps A LOT!!!If you would like to join our members only Discord, and become a Astrocast Society member, consider joining our Patreon! Give as low as 1 dollar a month for access to the members only Discord. We have a LOT of fun in there, and answer most questions that come our way!SHOUT OUT to our newest member, Mark! Welcome home my friend!Are you thinking about purchasing some new gear? Do you want to support the show while doing that? WELL! Have I got great news for you!The Astrocast is an Affiliate partner with both High Point Scientific AND Agena Astro now, and as such any purchases made through either of these partners using our links will get you the same great prices you would otherwise get, but The Astrocast will also get a small portion of the proceeds from the sale. Thank you so much for your support! Please feel free to share these links with any friends/family who love Astro!High Point ScientificAgena AstroComing soon: Adorama! Support the showEmail me at "RooAstrocast@gmail.com" with any questions/comments. Thanks for listening!

Welcome BAAAACK to The Astrocast!This week is a special episode, and definitely one to listen to under the stars! Let's hang out under the night sky and preview the summer triangle from 4 to 6am while gathering data on the N. American Nebula! We talk about quite a few things while we hang out, including a new contender entering the ring in AP! Also...Do we live in a simulation!? All of Roo's crazy 4am ramblings are on full display, and I hope I didn't embarrass myself too much!If you would like to join our members only Discord, and become a Astrocast Society member, consider joining our Patreon! Give as low as 1 dollar a month for access to the members only Discord. We have a LOT of fun in there, and answer most questions that come our way!Are you thinking about purchasing some new gear? Do you want to support the show while doing that? WELL! Have I got great news for you!The Astrocast is an Affiliate partner with both High Point Scientific AND Agena Astro now, and as such any purchases made through either of these partners using our links will get you the same great prices you would otherwise get, but The Astrocast will also get a small portion of the proceeds from the sale. Thank you so much for your support! Please feel free to share these links with any friends/family who love Astro!High Point ScientificAgena AstroComing soon: Adorama! Support the showEmail me at "RooAstrocast@gmail.com" with any questions/comments. Thanks for listening!

I'd write more here, but I've got places to be. Becky, Jeremy, and I are going to engage in some holiday festivities. We have a couple gingerbread houses to make and a tree to trim. And no nog to speak of. Really, that's all you get by way of show notes this time as a result, deal with it. Send your complaints to podcast@searls.co and they will be read on air. Some bullet points below the fold: My 90-minute, outdated guide to setting up a Mac Aaron's puns, ranked Jim Carrey is 62 and can't even retire I bought my 8 year old a switch and didn't realize how much games cost Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds Install the Mozi app (manifesto here | app here) Vision Pro getting PSVR2 controllers The 2024 Game Awards news roundup Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet looks badass, but is it too inclusive for The Gamers? We don't talk about Luigi An invisible desktop app for cheating on technical interviews (HN comments) Sora is out, but it's not good yet Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is out, and it is good yet Emudeck is so great it shouldn't be legal, and some people probably think it isn't Pikmin Stay tuned to my YouTube channel for upcoming LIVE streams Transcript: [00:00:00] Thank you. [00:00:29] Good morning, internet. [00:00:32] I started speaking before I realized, as an asynchronous audio production, it's actually pretty unlikely that it's the morning where you are. [00:00:43] Although, if it is the morning, coincidentally, please feel free to be creeped out, check over your shoulder. [00:00:51] Today was, I woke up with Vim and Vigor this morning, super excited to take on the day, thinking maybe I've got what it takes to record an audio production today. [00:01:07] And then we have an elderly coffee pot. [00:01:11] I don't want to completely put the blame on it because we were using it wrong for several years. [00:01:24] And it's a long story that I will shorten to say, any piece of consumer electronics or appliances in America, the half-life keeps decreasing. [00:01:37] And so when I say elderly coffee pot, I mean that we bought this coffee pot post-COVID. [00:01:42] And it's already feeling like, oh, we should probably get a new coffee pot, huh? [00:01:45] What happens is, from time to time, heat will build up in the grounds dingus. [00:01:55] I'm just realizing now that I'm like, you know, I'm not a coffee engineer. [00:01:58] Some of you are. [00:02:00] But, you know, of course, we all know that the dingus is connected to the water spigot, which is above the craft. [00:02:09] And what happens, as far as I can tell, is once in a while, you get all that hot water and grounds swirling around. [00:02:20] And if it clogs at all, like if it doesn't release just so, the whole little undercarriage, again, this is a technical term, just stay with me. [00:02:30] And we'll pop forward like three millimeters, which is just enough for the water to kind of miss its target on the craft and then spray all who's he what's it's, as well as for the spigot to start just kind of like splurring, you know, this water coffee slurry everywhere. [00:02:49] And so I went after, you know, but then you still get the triumphant ding dong sound that the coffee is ready. [00:02:56] So I walked over to the coffee expecting like, yes, it's the best, best way to start my day or whatever. [00:03:06] Pull out the coffee. [00:03:07] And the pot is too light. [00:03:10] And I had a familiarity of like what that means. [00:03:13] It means like there is water somewhere. [00:03:17] And it's not in this pot. [00:03:19] And so it's just like, you know, this big, big machine we actually have we've put because of our Mr. [00:03:26] Coffee's, you know, elderly onset incontinence. [00:03:33] We have we have put the entire coffee pot on a tray, like a rimmed silicone tray that you would use for like, I guess, a dog feeding bowl, right? [00:03:45] A dog, you know, messily eats food and slaps water around and stuff. [00:03:49] And you don't want it all over your hardwood. [00:03:50] Like you'd put this underneath that and it would catch some of the water. [00:03:53] So we I spent the first 30 minutes of my waking life today getting my hopes up that I was going to have coffee, followed by, you know, painstakingly carrying this entire cradle of of of coffee pot full of hot brown liquid. [00:04:10] That would stay in all of my clothes and, you know, get on the cabinets and stuff with a silicone underbelly thing. [00:04:18] And just kind of like, you know, we've got one of those big we're very fortunate to have one of those big farmers, farmer house, farmhouse. [00:04:25] I never know what to call it. [00:04:27] Steel, basically a double wide sink. [00:04:30] So what's nice about a double wide sink is that if you've got a problem in your kitchen and you're only a few steps away, whether it's the coffee pot part of the kitchen or the fridge or the freezer or the God forbid, the range or the oven, you can just sort of strategically hurl whatever it is you're holding just about into the into the sink. [00:04:51] And then once it hits the sink, it's, you know, the the the potential damage is limited. [00:04:57] So I gently hurled my coffee apparatus. [00:05:02] Is that the plural of apparatus? [00:05:04] One wonders into the into the into the sink and then spent the next 20 minutes, you know, scrubbing them and all to make another pot. [00:05:13] And Becky, of course, walks down the minute that the second pot is about to be finished. [00:05:18] And I'm like, I've already seen some shit and I'm going to go record a podcast now. [00:05:22] And that swallow you just heard was me having a sip of coffee that was not disgusting, but not great. [00:05:31] But I'll take it over where I was an hour ago. [00:05:39] Thank you for for subscribing as a as a true believer in breaking change. [00:05:47] We're coming up on one year now. [00:05:49] It's hard to believe that it's already been a year, not because this has been a lot of work or a big accomplishment, but just because the the the agony of existence seems to accelerate as you get older. [00:06:03] It's one of the few kindnesses in life and so as we whipsaw around the sun yet again, we're about to do that. [00:06:11] This is the 26th edition version 26 of the podcast. [00:06:17] I've got two names here to release titles and I haven't picked one yet. [00:06:22] So as a special. [00:06:24] Nearing the end of the year treat. [00:06:29] I'm going to pitch them both to you now, right? [00:06:31] So so we're in this together. [00:06:33] I like to think this is a highly collaborative one person show. [00:06:37] Version 26 rich nanotexture. [00:06:42] And that's a nod to the MacBook Pro has a nanotexture anti-glare screen coding option. [00:06:52] It's a reference to the rich Corinthian leather that was actually it's a Chrysler reference. [00:06:58] It's a made up thing. [00:06:59] There is no such thing as Corinthian leather, but like that's what they called their their seating. [00:07:03] And Steve Jobs referenced that as being the inspiration for I think it was the iPad calendar app. [00:07:13] With the rich Corinthian leather up at the top during the era of skeuomorphic designs back in 2010, 2009, maybe I can't remember exactly when they I think it's 2010 when he had his famous actually leather chair demonstration of the iPad. [00:07:28] Maybe the reason that that stood out to me was the car reference because it is it is an upsell. [00:07:34] The nanotexture $150 if you want to have a don't call it matte finish. [00:07:41] The other one, so that's option one, rich nanotexture. [00:07:46] And I didn't love it because I couldn't get texture. [00:07:49] I couldn't get the same Corinthian, right? [00:07:53] Like you want that bite, the multisyllabic bite that adds the extra, you know, the gravitas of a luxury good. [00:08:04] Yeah, texture just didn't have it for me. [00:08:06] But then if you change that word, it doesn't make sense. [00:08:08] So I mean, the other option two that came to mind version 26 don't don't by the way, don't think I'm going to edit this in post and fix it. [00:08:19] I will not. [00:08:20] I will ultimately land on one of these and that will be the title that you saw on your podcast player. [00:08:25] Or maybe some third thing will come to mind and then this conversation will be moot. [00:08:29] I do not think of this collaborative exercise. [00:08:32] Just imagine it's a it's a it's a quantum collaboration. [00:08:37] So by observing it, that's you actually took part. [00:08:41] You opened your podcast player and then the yeah, the entangled, you know, bits just they coalesced around one of these two names or some third name. [00:08:58] It's all just statistics version 26 Luigi's Mansion, which is a nod to two things at once. [00:09:05] I'm going to talk a little bit about GameCube, but also I'll probably not escape mentioning Luigi Manjoni Manjoni man. [00:09:15] You know, I haven't been watching the news. [00:09:17] I don't know how to pronounce his name, but it looks enough like mansion that I was like, oh, man. [00:09:21] I bet you there's a Nintendo PR guy whose day just got fucking ruined by the fella who is a overnight folk hero. [00:09:30] More attractive than most assassins, I would say. [00:09:35] Great hair. [00:09:36] Good skin. [00:09:37] Apparently, skincare Reddit is all about this fella who murdered in cold blood the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. [00:09:45] If you haven't caught the news, if you're even less online than I am. [00:09:51] And yeah, so I'm trying to decide. [00:09:53] I think Luigi's Mansion is probably going to win. [00:09:56] It's more timely. [00:09:57] It's the first time the name Luigi has come up in the last year. [00:10:00] And I may have mentioned nanotexture before when discussing Apple's very compromised studio display. [00:10:11] So I'm leaning Luigi's Mansion, but, you know, don't tempt me. [00:10:15] I might switch. [00:10:18] I'm going to just keep drinking coffee because I got to power through this. [00:10:21] Let's talk about some life stuff. [00:10:24] I so when we last talked that way back in the heady days of version 25, I had just gotten off a plane from Japan. [00:10:34] I was still a little bit jet lagged. [00:10:36] I recorded later in the evening. [00:10:38] I was tired. [00:10:39] You know, I was still overcoming. [00:10:41] I listened to the episode, realized I was overcoming a cold. [00:10:44] You know, then Becky shortly thereafter, after recording, she developed a pretty bad cough. [00:10:51] And so we've both been sleeping relatively poorly. [00:10:53] And I can't complain about this cough because her having a cough for four nights is nothing like me snoring on and off for over a year. [00:11:02] And I think the fact that her cough is consistent is actually a kindness compared to the sporadic nature of my snoring, where it's like I might go a week without it. [00:11:11] And then all of a sudden there's like, bam. [00:11:14] So she doesn't, you know, it's like sneaks up on her and that's not fair. [00:11:17] So so she's got a cough and I haven't been sleeping particularly well. [00:11:20] Maybe that's it. [00:11:22] I also, you know, I wanted to dry out because I was living on shoe highs, you know, canned cocktails in Japan for way too long. [00:11:30] Just drinking, you know, five whole dollars of alcohol every day, which is an irresponsible amount of alcohol. [00:11:36] It turns out. [00:11:40] Yeah, that's one nice thing about living in Orlando and theme park Orlando is that the average price of a cocktail here is seriously $20. [00:11:49] I think it is. [00:11:51] I am delighted and surprised when I find a cocktail under $20. [00:11:55] That's any good. [00:11:55] In fact, the four seasons right around the corner, their lobby bar has a some of the best bartenders in the state of Florida. [00:12:05] Like they went all kinds of awards. [00:12:06] And so when you say a lobby bar, you think it sucks. [00:12:09] But it's actually it's like it's a it's a restaurant with a room if you're ever around and they still do a happy hour with like $4. [00:12:18] It was $4 beers. [00:12:19] I think they finally increased to $5 beers draft beer. [00:12:23] And it's all craft. [00:12:25] You know, it's all fancy people stuff. [00:12:27] And they do it's I think it's $10 margaritas, French 75s, and they got some other happy hour cocktail. [00:12:37] It was highballs for a while. [00:12:39] Whiskey highballs was like probably centauri toki or something. [00:12:43] I gotta say like that $10 margarita. [00:12:47] They'll throw some jalapeno in there if you want some tahini rim, you know, they do it up. [00:12:52] They do it well. [00:12:54] But that might be the cheapest cocktail I've had in all of Orlando is at the Four Seasons. [00:13:01] Famous for that TikTok meme of the Four Seasons baby, if you're a TikTok person. [00:13:06] Anyway, all that all all this drinking talk back to the point. [00:13:11] I've been not drinking for a week. [00:13:12] And I, you know, I'm back to tracking my nutrients every day. [00:13:17] The things that I consume and adding up all of the protein and carbohydrate and realizing [00:13:21] if you don't drink, it's actually really easy to blow past one's protein goals. [00:13:25] And so I had one day where I had like 240 grams of protein, which is [00:13:28] enough protein that you'll feel it the next morning if you're not used to it. [00:13:34] And I still was losing weight. [00:13:38] I lost like five or six pounds in the last week. [00:13:43] And to the point where it was like, you know, I was feeling a little lightheaded, [00:13:47] a little bit woozy because I wasn't drinking enough is the takeaway. [00:13:52] So so thank God we got to go to a Christmas party last night. [00:13:57] It was it was great Gatsby themed. [00:13:58] And I dressed up like a man who wanted to do the bare minimum to not get made fun of at the party. [00:14:05] So I had some some suspenders on instead of a belt, which was the first time I ever put on suspenders. [00:14:13] They were not period appropriate suspenders simply because they had the, you know, the [00:14:18] little class B dues instead of how they had some other system for I don't I don't fucking know. [00:14:25] Like I, I had chat GPT basically helped me through this. [00:14:28] And it's like, hey, you want these kinds of suspenders? [00:14:30] I'm like, that sounds like an ordeal. [00:14:31] How about I just get some universal one size fits all fit and clip them in? [00:14:36] I also had a clip on bow tie. [00:14:37] So that worked. [00:14:39] When you think clip on bow tie, I guess I'd never used one before, but like it, I always [00:14:45] assumed it would just be like, you know, like a barrette clip that would go in front of the [00:14:49] front button and look silly for that reason. [00:14:51] And maybe that's how they used to be. [00:14:53] But it seems these days, if you want to spend $3 on a fancy clip on bow tie with a nice texturing, [00:14:58] I'll say, uh, it's just pre it's a pre tied bow with a still wraps around your neck. [00:15:04] It's just, it has a class mechanism, which seems smart to me, right? [00:15:08] I don't know what. [00:15:09] Look, if you're really into men's fashion, uh, there's this weird intersection or this tension [00:15:19] between I'm a manly man who, who ties my own shoes and, you know, kills my own dinner and [00:15:25] stuff. [00:15:25] And I, I, for fuck's sake, tie my own bow tie from scratch every day. [00:15:29] Right? [00:15:29] Like there's a toxically masculine approach to bow ties, but at the same time, it is such [00:15:35] a foofy accoutrement. [00:15:37] It's like an ascot, um, that the idea of like a manly man, like a man trying to demonstrate [00:15:43] his manliness by the fact that he doesn't use a clip on bow tie, uh, came to mind yesterday [00:15:50] when I was, uh, struggling even with the clasping kind. [00:15:54] I was like, man, I wish I could just get this to anyway. [00:15:58] Um, I had a vest at a gray vest. [00:16:03] This is all brand new territory for me. [00:16:05] Uh, yeah, I, I've, I've leaned pretty hard into the t-shirt and shorts and or jeans life [00:16:10] for so long. [00:16:12] Uh, the, the fella in front of us when we, when we were checking in, cause they took little [00:16:16] photos of you, uh, all of the women had the same exact flapper dress from Amazon, you know, [00:16:22] with the, the, the, the hairband thing with the, you know, fake, the polyester peacock tail. [00:16:28] Becky's looked the best. [00:16:29] I'm not gonna, I'm not even lying. [00:16:32] Uh, uh, her dress actually fit. [00:16:35] He had some, uh, very ill fitting flapper costumes that these women couldn't even move in. [00:16:40] Um, it was interesting. [00:16:42] Uh, but the, the fella in front of us at check-in was wearing a, a, a full blown, you know, tuxedo [00:16:48] get up that he brought from home. [00:16:50] And he was talking about, Oh yeah, well he's got two of them and his wife, you know, ribbed [00:16:54] him a little bit that he could only fit in one. [00:16:55] I was like, man, owning a tuxedo, that's nuts. [00:16:58] Like, and then it like turns out he's like got all these suits and these fancy clothes and [00:17:02] he's an older gentleman. [00:17:05] Uh, but my entire career only the first few years did I have to think about what I was [00:17:10] wearing and, and it never really got beyond pleated, you know, khakis and a starched shirt. [00:17:18] And, and I had, I had to wear a suit maybe on two sales calls. [00:17:22] Um, and they were always the sales calls that were just, uh, there were certain sales demos [00:17:30] when I was a, a, a baby consultant, these really complex bids. [00:17:39] I remember we were at cook County once, uh, uh, the, the county that wraps Chicago and it [00:17:44] has a lot of functions and facilities that operate at the county level. [00:17:48] So, but of course we're in Chicago in some, you know, uh, dystopian office building. [00:17:54] That's very Gothic, I should say. [00:17:57] And the, the solution that we were selling was a response to a bid around some kind of [00:18:05] document, electronic document ingestion and, and, and routing solution. [00:18:09] And so what, what that meant was it was like a 12 person team. [00:18:14] It was a big project working on this pitch. [00:18:18] And most of the work and most of the money came from the software side at the end of the [00:18:23] process. [00:18:23] It's like, you're going to get IBM file net and you're going to get all these different, [00:18:26] uh, enterprise tools. [00:18:28] And we're going to integrate, uh, with all your systems and, and build these custom integrations [00:18:32] that you've asked for here and here and here. [00:18:33] But the, the, the hard part is the human logistics of how do you get all of their paper documents [00:18:41] into the system. [00:18:42] Uh, and that was my job was I had to get paper and then scan it, uh, with a production, big [00:18:50] Kodak funkin fucking scanner. [00:18:52] Uh, and then use, what was it? [00:18:54] Kofax capture or something like a, like an OCR tool of the era. [00:18:59] And the thing about it is that scanning is not, was not ever a science and neither is [00:19:07] OCR, the OCR stuff and OCR stands for optical character recognition. [00:19:10] So you'd have a form and you'd write on the form, like, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, some, [00:19:15] some demo address and name and all this. [00:19:19] I spent. [00:19:22] So like the people doing the software, like they, they could just like click a button and [00:19:26] like, they could even just use fakery, right? [00:19:29] Like, Oh, the API is not really there, but I'll always return this particular, like, let's [00:19:33] call it an XML soap message. [00:19:34] And so the, the software guys clocked in, clocked out, got back to their billable work. [00:19:39] I, because the stakes were so high in this particular, uh, and I'm here right now explaining [00:19:46] all of this nonsense because I had to wear a suit and that was also really bad, but I [00:19:51] was in Chicago late at night with a group of like, at that point it was like 9 PM and it [00:19:54] was just me and two partners. [00:19:56] Cause the partners had a sickness called avoid family, stay at work. [00:20:02] And, uh, I, I was just running over and over and over again where I'd like, you know, [00:20:09] I'd take the paper, I'd put it through the scanner and it would get 90% of the OCR stuff [00:20:13] done, or I'd get it perfect. [00:20:15] And it would scan everything just right, which would result in the downstream, you know, after [00:20:21] the capture, like all of my integrations, like would route it to the right thing. [00:20:24] So that like, it was basically a game of mousetrap or dominoes where like my task was both [00:20:29] the most important to being able to demonstrate, but also the most error prone, but also the [00:20:37] least, uh, financially like, um, valuable to, to our services company. [00:20:42] And so I had no support, uh, on top of that, they, the, our fucking it people pushed out some [00:20:49] kind of, um, you know, involuntary security update security and bunny quotes that, that [00:20:57] slowed my system down dramatically in the course of just like a day. [00:21:01] And I had, I had no way to test for this. [00:21:04] So I remember I was up at like 11 PM at that point, trying to make this work consistently [00:21:10] and realizing that the only way to get it to run it all required me to, um, install a virtual [00:21:16] machine, put windows in the virtual machine, install all this software inside that virtual [00:21:22] machine, and then run it there because only in the black box of an encrypted virtual machine [00:21:27] image or, uh, you know, a virtual machine, like disc image, could I evade all of the accountant [00:21:33] bullshit that was trying to track and encrypt and, and, and muck with files and flight and [00:21:38] so forth. [00:21:39] And so it was only around like probably one 30 or two that I got to bed and our, our demo [00:21:46] was like at seven in the morning and I had to wear a suit. [00:21:47] So if you ever wonder, Hey, why is Justin always just in a, a t-shirt and shorts? [00:21:54] Uh, I would say childhood trauma, fuck suits. [00:21:59] The only, the only time I associate like nice clothes, you know, having a lot of [00:22:03] having to dress up is church shit. [00:22:05] I didn't want to go to. [00:22:06] And usually it's like the worst church shit. [00:22:09] Like there's some cool church shit out there, you know, youth group where everyone's a horny, [00:22:14] right. [00:22:15] And singing pop songs to try to get people in. [00:22:17] That's as church shit goes, that's above average. [00:22:21] But when you're talking about like, Hey, you know, this aunt you've never heard of died and [00:22:27] we got to go all the way to goddamn Dearborn to sit in a Catholic mass, that's going to [00:22:32] be in Latin. [00:22:33] And they're going to, you know, one of those, you know, you should feel bad for him because [00:22:39] he's abused. [00:22:39] But one of the altar boys, he's going to be waving that little like incense thingy, [00:22:43] the jigger back and forth and back and forth like a metronome. [00:22:46] And, uh, you're going to get all this soot in your face, all of that, you know, frankincense [00:22:51] and myrrh and whatever the fuck they burn. [00:22:52] And, uh, yeah, then they're going to play some songs, but they're not going to be songs you [00:22:57] want to hear. [00:22:57] And you're going to be uncomfortable because I bought you this suit at JC Penny when you [00:23:01] were like nine and you're 12, you're 12 now, and you've gained a lot of weight, but [00:23:06] here we are. [00:23:07] And then you got to go and, you know, like, don't worry because after the service, there's [00:23:12] a big meal, but it's mostly just going to be, you know, styrofoam plates and plastic forks [00:23:16] and, uh, cold rubbery chicken. [00:23:19] And then a whole lot of family members who want to pinch your cheeks, uh, had an aunt that [00:23:24] always wanted to, um, put on a bunch of red lipstick and kiss me and leave kiss marks. [00:23:30] And she thought that was adorable and everyone else thought it was funny. [00:23:33] And for whatever reason, I wasn't a fan, uh, that's the kind of, uh, yeah, so anyway, moving [00:23:45] right along the, uh, the, the other than having to dress up, the, the Christmas party was really [00:23:50] nice because it had an all you can drink martini bar. [00:23:52] So that, that helped that took the edge off a little bit since I hadn't been drinking for [00:23:57] the previous week. [00:23:57] Uh, and it was, you know, uh, they, they had a great bartender, the, the, I assume that [00:24:07] that people drank gin martinis back in the day of Gatsby, but it seemed to be a vodka forward [00:24:12] martini bar, which I appreciated. [00:24:15] Uh, as I get older and my taste buds start dying, uh, I found myself going from dry martinis [00:24:23] to martinis with an olive to martinis with two olives to me asking for like a little bit of [00:24:30] olive juice and then drinking the martini and realizing that wasn't quite enough olive juice. [00:24:34] So that's just disgusting, but, um, it's where, uh, it's one of the signs of age, I guess. [00:24:43] Uh, so the martini bar was good. [00:24:46] Uh, they also had an aged old fashion that they'd made, you know, homemade, um, with like nutmeg [00:24:51] and cinnamon in there. [00:24:52] That was impressive. [00:24:53] Uh, so yeah, had a, had a big old Christmas party last night, had a couple of drinks, uh, [00:25:00] and, and, uh, because of the contrast, whenever I go, you know, go a week without any alcohol [00:25:06] and then I have some alcohol and then I wake up the next morning and I'm like, oh yes, I [00:25:11] know what people mean now that alcohol is poison. [00:25:13] And it's a mildly poisonous thing because I feel mildly poisoned. [00:25:19] Um, and, and I just usually feel that most days until I forget about it. [00:25:23] So it's a data point, uh, to think about, uh, uh, I, I, I had a good, good run for, [00:25:30] for a while there, just cause like when you live in a fucking theme park and there's nowadays [00:25:34] alcohol everywhere that I go and every outing, I had a good run for a few months. [00:25:40] Um, not last year, the year before where I just didn't drink at home as a rule to myself. [00:25:46] I was like, you know, I'm not going to pour any liquor for myself at home unless I'm entertaining [00:25:49] guests. [00:25:50] And, uh, even then go easy on it because I I'm, I'm, I'm going to just the background radiation [00:25:56] of existence in when you live in a bunch of resorts. [00:25:59] Uh, I'll, I'll get, I'll get, I'll get plenty of alcohol subcutaneously. [00:26:05] Um, a contact tie. [00:26:07] So maybe I'll, maybe I'll try that again. [00:26:10] I don't know. [00:26:11] It's the stuff you think about in mid December when you're just inundated with specialty food [00:26:17] and drink options, uh, do other life stuff that isn't alcohol or religion or clothing [00:26:27] related. [00:26:28] Oh, uh, uh, I've been on a quest to not necessarily save a bunch of money, not necessarily. [00:26:35] Uh, I was going to say, uh, tighten my belt, but, uh, I don't know what the suspender equivalent [00:26:43] is because I did not wear a belt last night. [00:26:45] I just wore suspenders. [00:26:46] Uh, I've been interested in, in not budgeting either. [00:26:52] Just, I think awareness. [00:26:54] Like I want, I know that a lot of money flies through my pockets every month in the form of, [00:27:01] um, SAS software subscriptions and streaming services. [00:27:05] I mentioned this last, uh, last go round that I was recommending, Hey, let's say, go take a [00:27:11] look at like our unused streaming subscriptions of those. [00:27:14] Uh, yesterday I did cancel max. [00:27:16] Cause I realized that, uh, if I'm not watching a lot of news, I'm not going to watch John Oliver [00:27:20] and, and they frankly, a lot of HBO's prestige shows haven't been besides they cut a Sesame [00:27:28] street and it just so happened that I canceled that day. [00:27:31] So maybe there's a, some data engineer at HBO who's like, Oh man, people are canceling because [00:27:37] we got rid of Sesame street. [00:27:38] Uh, that would be good. [00:27:40] That would be good for America to get that feedback. [00:27:43] Uh, yeah. [00:27:44] I just want awareness of like, where's the money going and in what proportion and does that sound [00:27:50] right to me? [00:27:50] Uh, and I've, there are software tools for this. [00:27:53] Uh, they are all compromised in some way. [00:27:57] For example, we just, uh, we'd used lunch money in the past, which is a cool app. [00:28:02] And it has the kind of, you know, basic integrations you would expect. [00:28:06] I don't know if it uses plaid or whatever behind the covers, but like you, you connect your, your, [00:28:11] your checking accounts, your credit card accounts. [00:28:14] It lists all your transactions is very, um, customizable in terms of rules that you can [00:28:21] set. [00:28:21] It has an API. [00:28:22] Jen is a solo co-founder and she seems really, really competent and lovely and responsive, [00:28:27] which are all great things. [00:28:29] But the UI is a little clunky for me. [00:28:32] I don't like how it handled URLs. [00:28:33] It was like, once you got all the transactions in there and, and set up, it didn't feel informative [00:28:41] because there wasn't like a good reporting or graphs that just kind of at a glance would [00:28:45] tell you, this is where your money's going. [00:28:46] At least for me. [00:28:47] Uh, additionally, like it, it can't do the Apple card. [00:28:51] That's the, that's become the crux for a lot of these services is that, um, Apple card [00:28:55] only added support for reading. [00:28:59] Uh, well now you can read, uh, uh, so I, Apple added away on iOS and specifically iPhone [00:29:07] OS to read, uh, transactions from Apple card, Apple savings and Apple cash. [00:29:14] And this was like nine months ago, if that, but copilot, uh, money is one of two apps maybe [00:29:22] that supports this. [00:29:23] And so if you, if you have, we have, we each have an Apple card and we use it for kind of [00:29:29] our silly stuff whenever we're, you know, using a tap to pay. [00:29:33] So, so if, if you want to track transactions and you don't want to manually export CSVs [00:29:40] from your wife's phone every 30 days, which is the process that I'd fallen into with, with [00:29:44] lunch money, then you, you basically have copilot money. [00:29:50] And then there's another one, maybe Monarch, uh, the copilot money. [00:29:53] People are always talking about this other app called Monarch. [00:29:55] I haven't checked it out. [00:29:55] I don't know if that's why they like it or if it's just the other one that's being developed [00:29:59] right now in this post mint apocalypse, as we all grapple with the fact that mint was [00:30:04] always bad, uh, but people got into it and I don't copilot money is like nice, but like [00:30:11] it, like, for example, like if I'm, uh, if I buy a, uh, if I put $10, the equivalent of [00:30:19] $10, so 1000 yen on my Starbucks card in Japan, which is totally separate because of course it [00:30:25] is there's two Starbucks cards. [00:30:27] There's the one in Japan and then the one in the rest of the world. [00:30:30] So you open the Japanese only app, you put a thousand yen on it. [00:30:33] Uh, you pay for that with Apple pay. [00:30:36] So which goes to my Apple card and copilot money will read that transaction. [00:30:40] But if you read like the text in the merchant description, it's literally like [00:30:44] staba day and it's like all no spaces. [00:30:47] It's just like 40 characters in a row to, and if you really squint, you can kind of see [00:30:52] Starbucks, Japan, um, you know, app store payment, which is, you know, like I want to [00:31:00] change that to Starbucks, Japan, and then set up a rule to just like always change that. [00:31:05] So I don't have to like memorize these random ass merchant names. [00:31:08] Uh, apparently like after, after two hours of setting up copilot money yesterday, I realized [00:31:13] that there's like both no way to set up that kind of rule. [00:31:16] The only rule that it supports is categorization of, of spending fine, but then if you set [00:31:22] up a rule and you don't like it, there's no way to edit the rules cause there's no UI for [00:31:25] rule editing. [00:31:26] And so then, you know, where do you go, but read it and you're like, okay, well there's [00:31:30] a subreddit. [00:31:30] And then like, what's half the post in the subreddit? [00:31:32] It's about, Oh, of course it's a bunch of dads who are like, I can't see my rules and I have [00:31:36] to contact support. [00:31:37] And it's been nine months. [00:31:38] And I was like, Oh God. [00:31:39] So that's, uh, if anyone's got any great budgeting software that supports Apple card, you let me [00:31:46] know. [00:31:47] Uh, and also isn't a part-time job. [00:31:50] I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna spend all day on this. [00:31:52] I'm not, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna check in on this, uh, the four times a year that I, that [00:31:58] I wake up in a cold sweat wondering, Oh my God, how many subscriptions do I have? [00:32:02] Which is, uh, I, I really missed my calling by not being a dad, I guess. [00:32:07] But it did land me on looking at rocket money. [00:32:11] Uh, so, so, so there was an app called true bill that marketed heavily with like a lot of [00:32:19] other DTC apps where the pitch was, we will negotiate your bills for you. [00:32:26] And by bills, I think that one of the reasons why this, this, this business probably struggled [00:32:31] is that there's really only two that they could reasonably negotiate on your behalf. [00:32:37] You know, you, you imagine they've got a call center or they've got people who've, who [00:32:40] are trained, who have scripts that they follow, who, who will doggedly keep calling back until [00:32:44] they get what, you know, the discount, the, just the steps that you would have to go through [00:32:48] if you wanted to call Comcast or Verizon, they, they, they, they can basically could basically [00:32:57] only really negotiate your ISP and your cell phone carrier. [00:33:01] Cause those are the two sort of, you know, that are, that are transactional enough that [00:33:08] are regionalized or nationalized enough that they, that they could train on. [00:33:11] And then of course, like they, they're the ones that like get you in with a teaser rate and [00:33:15] then gradually turn up the heat over the course of a couple of years. [00:33:19] Well, Quicken Loans bought, they rebranded as rocket and then rocket fill in the blank [00:33:26] with other products. [00:33:26] And they bought true bill around the same time. [00:33:29] And I, my understanding from a distance is that true bill, uh, uh, that became rocket money [00:33:36] in order to be an entree into other rocket star services. [00:33:41] So like you, you now, when you install rocket money, it's still got the negotiation thing. [00:33:46] Cause that's what they market it on, but you have to slog through so much like, no, I'm actually [00:33:52] all set with credit and, and, and, and debt repayment services. [00:33:57] And I'm, I'm already all set with financial advisors and retirement goals. [00:34:00] I just get me to the, to the thing where I can pay you 35% of whatever you save me on [00:34:06] my ISP bill. [00:34:07] And so of course, you know, like I, I, I signed up for the first time, went through the app [00:34:12] onboarding. [00:34:13] I was not impressed with the bugginess of the app, but I was able to soldier on through [00:34:19] it. [00:34:19] And where I landed was I was, uh, following its little setup wizard for first. [00:34:27] Spectrum, which is my internet provider. [00:34:28] And I was, I'd initially paid a hundred dollars when I moved here in 2021, uh, a month for, [00:34:36] for one gig down, call it 30 megabits per second up. [00:34:40] And I can't get a, another ISP here. [00:34:43] They had an exclusive agreement. [00:34:44] They're building neighborhoods bullshit. [00:34:47] Uh, and I, I, so I can't get higher upstream and that really gets in my crawl. [00:34:53] Nevertheless, they have increased prices about $15 a year. [00:34:59] Each time I'm here to the point now where I think my monthly, you know, debit is like $150, [00:35:05] $145 and you fill it out and you give them your pin number. [00:35:11] You got this customer pin that like, you know, is secures your account. [00:35:14] I'm like, eh, all right, well, that's four digits, you know? [00:35:17] And besides I'm already on like this one dead simple plan. [00:35:20] It's just their normal plan. [00:35:22] And it's, you know, like I'm paying top dollar for it. [00:35:26] So what's the worst that they could do if they, if somebody else were to call and change [00:35:30] my plan up, you know, like it, it wouldn't cause that much lasting damage. [00:35:34] Cause it's not like I'm on some teaser rate. [00:35:36] It's not like I've got a great deal as it is. [00:35:38] So I let them do it. [00:35:39] And three days later, I had low expectations, right? [00:35:42] Cause you go on Reddit, speaking of Reddit, you go on and you, you search other people's [00:35:46] experiences and people will say, oh yeah, well like the, you know, I, some of them are [00:35:52] pretty hyperbolic. [00:35:53] It's like, you know, like they, they changed my plan to this and now I'm stuck with this, [00:35:57] you know, TV subscription for the next four years. [00:35:59] And then they charged me a thousand dollars in imagined savings that never materialized. [00:36:03] I'm like, shit. [00:36:04] All right. [00:36:04] Well, that's, that's not good. [00:36:06] But I, I gave them a shot. [00:36:08] They came back three days later and they said, congratulations. [00:36:12] We saved you $859. [00:36:14] I was like, what the, excuse me over the next 12 months. [00:36:18] And it turned out that they got me from $142, $145 down to 70 flat. [00:36:25] You multiply that by 12 and then indeed comes out to eight something. [00:36:28] And I was like, damn. [00:36:29] All right. [00:36:30] And so I've been, I've been looking for the other shoe to drop like ever since, like something [00:36:36] is fishy here. [00:36:37] Like I, they didn't sign me up for other services. [00:36:39] I did receive, I'm looking over at it now. [00:36:43] I did receive a relatively large box that has a, you know, one of those wifi modem router [00:36:50] combo units in it. [00:36:51] That was partly like apparently part of the deal. [00:36:54] I don't know if they canceled my service and then in one fell swoop also signed me up for [00:36:58] service. [00:36:58] But now I've got this gigantic fucking wifi thing that wouldn't even fit in my patch box [00:37:02] if I wanted it, which I don't. [00:37:04] So I'm, I'm, I'm currently in this ether of like, well, if my modem that I rent is still [00:37:11] going to work, I rent for $0. [00:37:14] It's one nice thing about spectrum. [00:37:15] If my modem that I rent is still going to work, uh, maybe I can just keep this wifi thing in [00:37:20] the box and not call anyone. [00:37:22] And maybe everything will keep working and I'll pay the $70 a month, or maybe I should send [00:37:27] the other one back, but then that might trigger some other thing. [00:37:30] Right. [00:37:30] I, so look like, do I recommend the service? [00:37:36] I don't really, I don't, we'll see. [00:37:38] Right. [00:37:39] Like call me in a year. [00:37:40] I should set a reminder. [00:37:41] Oh, I'm sure if something bad happens, I'll, I'll be right on the airwaves screaming about [00:37:47] it. [00:37:47] Like I, like I do, but even after this experience, saving me a lot of money, like what I trust [00:37:53] them with my T-Mobile account, right. [00:37:54] Where I have been grandfathered in on what was called the one choice plus plan in 2014 [00:38:01] or whatever. [00:38:02] And it's genuine, honest to God, unlimited data without any real throttling. [00:38:08] As far as I can tell, until you get to some absurdly high number where you can watch your [00:38:12] videos in HD on your, you know, like, like it's, it's, it's a good one. [00:38:16] It's better than their magenta crap. [00:38:18] Um, and a lower price than their magenta max thing. [00:38:21] Well, we got three lines. [00:38:22] You got, you know, the watches and I would love to pay less for that, but I just don't [00:38:27] try like you, you, you fill out the rocket money form, uh, with the, uh, the, the, it wants [00:38:34] your T-Mobile, like login information. [00:38:36] And that's, that was a bridge too far for me. [00:38:40] I got there and I was like, you know, I could just imagine this going poorly. [00:38:44] You know, these plans are so complicated and feels like even when I call T-Mobile and I [00:38:48] ask, Hey, how's the weather? [00:38:49] Like they click a button and it fucks up my shit for two weeks. [00:38:52] So I'm, I'm, I'm good. [00:38:55] I can probably afford a cell phone bill. [00:38:57] Uh, I just, I just would prefer not to have to pay it. [00:39:01] Only one other life item in the last week, I was given a special opportunity. [00:39:11] Um, I've talked about massages a couple of times on this program and the, uh, I mentioned, [00:39:15] uh, the one I went, uh, the one I had most recently in a previous episode, I, I, I was, I was wrapping [00:39:29] up my massage with a human like you do. [00:39:31] And the human said, have you, have you tried our robot massage? [00:39:36] And, uh, I didn't know how to take that. [00:39:38] And I said, I, I've heard of it. [00:39:41] I know Becky tried it. [00:39:43] If you check Becky's, um, Becky Graham, you'll see, uh, there's a video of her, uh, getting [00:39:48] felt up by a robot. [00:39:50] Uh, I forget the name of the company, but it's, it's, uh, it's like a robot that tries to simulate [00:39:59] the experience of a human massaging you. [00:40:02] So it's, uh, you're on a bed, you're face down. [00:40:06] It's, uh, got arms that kind of go back and forth, uh, on a track and they, they push and [00:40:13] whatnot. [00:40:13] And it kind of reminds me of the white birthing robot from star Wars episode three at the end [00:40:21] when, when Luke and Leah are being born, it does everything short of make the cooing [00:40:26] sounds to get the babies to calm down. [00:40:28] You know, like I, you do have a tablet and you can, you can pick out these pre-baked Spotify [00:40:34] playlists while it's pushing on you. [00:40:36] Anyway, all that to say, I signed up, um, mostly cause it was free. [00:40:41] So I had a 30 minute trial and, uh, the fact is trying to imitate humans was really interesting [00:40:49] to me because I had just spent a month in Japan, uh, getting, uh, what'd you call it? [00:40:54] Uh, massage chairs, our hotel chain that we stay at has always has massage chairs and even [00:41:01] bad massage chairs in Japan are pretty intense. [00:41:03] Uh, uh, but, but good ones are just like, you know, you go in there and it's just like, [00:41:09] I'm sure there's been, you've probably seen a horror movie image, right? [00:41:13] Where it's like, you sit in a chair and then like 25 hands grab all the parts of your body [00:41:18] simultaneously and that is meant to be horrific. [00:41:20] But if those hands, if there was some nice music playing and it was illuminated and those [00:41:25] hands were massaging you simultaneously all over your body, maybe it would be pretty, pretty [00:41:29] great. [00:41:29] And so that's what a Japanese massage chair is like. [00:41:33] Cause they, they don't have this arbitrary conceit that a massage must happen in a format [00:41:39] that resembles how it would happen if a single human on a bed surface was rubbing your tiddly [00:41:45] bits, which is what this robot is. [00:41:49] Right. [00:41:49] And so it's trying to think of another analog, right? [00:41:55] Like where we, we kind of retain the artifice of the way that it used to be before we automated [00:42:00] it. [00:42:00] And, and in some, sometimes we do that to keep people being comfortable like that rich [00:42:05] Corinthian leather. [00:42:06] It's like, we wanted to look like a traditional calendar. [00:42:08] So people know what they're looking at instead of just a bunch of boxes. [00:42:11] It's like, Oh yeah, this looks like a placemat style calendar that I would have had on my desk. [00:42:15] And then eventually that ages out. [00:42:16] And the younger people are like, I've never seen a calendar on a desk, even though my dad [00:42:20] grew up with one, you know? [00:42:24] So maybe that's it, right? [00:42:25] Like, like sometimes that's why we would have a robo massage that like, you know, pressures [00:42:31] and needs you, you know, kind of with just the two arms up and down in particular points, [00:42:35] sometimes at the same time, sometimes just one arm, you know, it's, it's, it's less efficient [00:42:41] is my immediate frustration. [00:42:43] Cause it's like, you could have 45 fucking arms going to town all over my body and I'd [00:42:49] get way more work done in 30 minutes. [00:42:52] Right. [00:42:52] Cause I'm just trying to min max my existence, but instead by, by, by, by imitating a human [00:42:59] massage, like nothing is really gained because I can't see it. [00:43:03] I'm facedown. [00:43:04] I'm looking at a silly tablet and watching imagery, imagery of forests and, and, and ocean waves [00:43:10] and whatnot, and I'm kind of getting a, you can look at a weird overhead view of what [00:43:14] your body is looking at, looking like right then, you know, like it scans your body and [00:43:19] then has like a little illustration of like, here's where I'm pushing you. [00:43:21] Here I go. [00:43:22] It's, it seems more to me like they designed this, you look at this unit and it's just like, [00:43:31] this has got to cost at least 15 grand. [00:43:34] This is an expensive, complicated piece of equipment. [00:43:38] It feels like a lack of imagination, uh, to, to somebody had the idea, let's take human [00:43:47] masseuses out of the equation and just make a robo masseuse thing that we could put in spas [00:43:53] when, uh, you'd actually have a better experience. [00:43:56] It would be cheaper. [00:43:57] And there's like more prior art at Panasonic or these other companies in Japan. [00:44:01] If you just made a, you know, massage chair, but that would be boring, I guess. [00:44:08] Uh, and massage chairs, like you, you hear the word massage chair right now as you're listening. [00:44:13] And if you haven't had like a real one, you know, at a Japanese Denki-yasan on the third [00:44:17] floor, where all the salary men on their way home tell their wives, oh, I got a, I got a big meeting [00:44:24] with the boss and then they go to, they go to Yamada Denki or they go to Yodabashi camera. [00:44:28] And then they just, you know, they take their briefcase and they set it down next to one of the [00:44:33] trial units of the massage chair. [00:44:34] And then they, they, they, they, they go into this little like sensory deprivation pod and [00:44:39] they get all their bits smushed simultaneously and they got a remote control and they can [00:44:45] say, just do it hard. [00:44:46] And then they can forget their worries for, for 15 minutes until, uh, one of the staff has [00:44:52] to remind them that, uh, they don't live there and that they have to go home now. [00:44:56] If you haven't had that experience, uh, you probably, when you hear a massage chair, think [00:45:02] of like those $2, you know, leather chairs that are, you know, just like our just normal [00:45:08] fucking chairs that may be vibrate, like the vibrating bed equivalent that you see at an [00:45:12] airport. [00:45:12] Um, this is not what I'm talking about. [00:45:15] So get your head out of there and, and go Google, you know, for high end Japanese massage [00:45:22] chair, and you might get some idea. [00:45:24] Uh, also I, uh, in the course of a 30 minute massage, I encountered so many fucking Android [00:45:32] tablet bugs. [00:45:33] I, I didn't, I gave them a lot of feedback cause they, this is sort of a trial that they're [00:45:37] doing. [00:45:37] They wanted to want to know how, what I thought. [00:45:40] And I gave them a lot of this perspective and feedback about like, well, you know, this [00:45:44] skeuomorphic design, yada, yada. [00:45:45] But I didn't even touch any of the software stuff. [00:45:49] Cause like there's an absolutely nothing that they're going to be able to do with that much [00:45:52] less like they won't even be able to communicate this back to the company in a way that's helpful, [00:45:55] but it was, you know, it would freeze or the display would become non-responsive. [00:46:01] One time I had the music just turn itself all the way up. [00:46:05] The, um, the, so many things about this design are meant to make you feel comfortable are [00:46:13] meant to make you feel safe. [00:46:14] Like if, if you, it moves at all, or if it detects anything is off at all, it basically [00:46:20] like will, will disengage entirely and reposition itself. [00:46:23] And then you have to actively resume the massage. [00:46:26] And then it's got to put the little flappy doos back over you. [00:46:30] Like it's really worried about people flipping out about this robot pressing up against them. [00:46:36] And it extends to, to like, you know, you pick your firmness, like light, medium firm. [00:46:41] And I clicked firm. [00:46:42] And then there, you could see there was like a little like pressure bar on the right. [00:46:47] And that even though I'd clicked the firm preset, I wasn't at a hundred percent pressure. [00:46:52] And I was like, well, that, that won't do. [00:46:54] And so I jacked it up to a hundred percent right out of the gate. [00:46:56] And the whole time, 30 minutes, like you could, uh, [00:46:59] Hmm. [00:47:01] It, I knew that a massage was happening. [00:47:05] Like I knew when contact was being made, but like, it was not a massage. [00:47:08] It was, it was somebody kind of like, like, like back rub would be generous. [00:47:14] It was like somebody like took an open palm hand and just pressed it. [00:47:18] Just, just, just an obnoxiously against different parts of my body and no firmness beyond that. [00:47:26] So you got a robo massage. [00:47:29] It's limited in what it can do. [00:47:33] Cause it's trying to imitate a human. [00:47:34] It's very worried about liability, which is why I imagine the max firmness is light pressure. [00:47:39] Uh, and it's fussy and it's buggy. [00:47:42] And of course it can only do very limited regions of the body. [00:47:45] Like if I was a massage therapist, I'd be like, Hey, sweet. [00:47:49] You know, I'm going to keep having a job longer than all these programmer juckle fucks. [00:47:52] You're going to get replaced by a Claude and open AI. [00:47:56] So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm confident that a massage therapist is going to be a, a lucrative, you [00:48:03] know, going concern as a career for a little while programming. [00:48:08] I'm not so sure of, but most of us listening have already made our choice, whether we're [00:48:14] going to be massage therapists or programmers. [00:48:16] So we're just going to have to see how this, how this plays out. [00:48:19] All right. [00:48:20] Well, that's all, that's everything going on in my life. [00:48:23] So let's, uh, well, let's follow up on stuff that had been going on in my life and is now [00:48:30] continuing or is once again, I started to realize that there's a, there's a certain theme to this [00:48:37] show. [00:48:37] Hmm. [00:48:38] All right. [00:48:46] There's basically two major areas of follow-up today. [00:48:51] Um, but somehow the two of them take up 11 bullet points in my notes. [00:48:59] So I'll try to be expeditious. [00:49:02] The first is I bought a, uh, M4 pro MacBook pro, I guess an Apple nomenclature, a MacBook pro [00:49:13] left parentheses, 2024, right parentheses with M4 pro. [00:49:19] I think is probably maybe the 2024 is at the end. [00:49:22] Maybe they don't put the date now that they have the chip name. [00:49:25] In any case, I needed a computer that was built for Apple intelligence, which is how they also, [00:49:32] they crammed that in the fucking name. [00:49:34] Um, and like the, every subheader says Apple intelligence on it, which, you know, I mean, [00:49:40] if you're, if you're a marketing dude, it's the thing that, you know, like you gotta, every [00:49:48] year is a struggle to goose people into, to buying computers. [00:49:51] And, uh, it's been a while since they've had anything new to say that your computer can do. [00:49:56] So it makes sense, but come on. [00:49:59] It can't even make Genmoji yet. [00:50:02] Uh, just if you've, if you've downloaded it, used 18.2 iOS or iPadOS, uh, go turn on the, [00:50:13] um, you know, the AI feature, if it's available in your region and language, and then you open [00:50:19] the image playground app and you click through there and let it download all of the image [00:50:24] playground shit, uh, in particular, the image playground itself, where you can take a person [00:50:30] and a place and kind of like, you know, create sort of a, uh, a witch's brew of bad imagery [00:50:35] and then, and then have a keep swiping to the right as, as they just all look bad that I have [00:50:43] no, no need for, but Genmoji, or at least the promise of Genmoji, I like quite a lot. [00:50:49] I enjoy, you know, um, typing in little like name, like, so we were at the parks, uh, with [00:50:57] our friends last week and it was a Jollywood Knights event, which is also Gatsby themed. [00:51:06] There's a reason why ordering 1920s era costumes on Amazon in Orlando was like not an overnight. [00:51:13] It was like a two, three day leg because this, this Jollywood Knights 1920s era themed, uh, [00:51:21] ticketed event at Hollywood studios has been going on. And it was one of those nights. And so some [00:51:26] flapper lady in line, she had a purse that had a phone handle on it. And her husband, who now that [00:51:34] I think back on this was dressed very similarly to how I dressed myself last night. So something tells [00:51:39] me he was sort of a long for the ride in this, she picked up the phone handle off of her purse and [00:51:46] handed it to Becky. And then he, you could sort of see him on the phone being a bad ventriloquist [00:51:53] and talking to her on the phone. So like his cell phone was somehow communicating to the purse phone. [00:51:59] It was very, it reminded me of get smart, you know, like that spy TV show from the sixties that was on [00:52:05] Nick at night in the eighties or nineties when I would have watched it. Uh, of course it didn't [00:52:10] work. And then we were just in line and it was like, sorry, we're in line. It didn't work. And then, [00:52:14] and then of course the way that lines work, right. As you turn left, turn right. And now it's up, [00:52:18] here's the same people again. And so they're like, all right, try again. So she picks up the purse [00:52:23] phone and here's the guy talk. And she's like, yes, this is indeed a telephone. That is a purse. [00:52:28] My reaction, my contribution to this experience was to try to generate a Genmoji for the group [00:52:35] that I was with. That was like purse phone. And, uh, wouldn't you know it, uh, it struggled to like, [00:52:43] I was like purse with a phone handle on top. And it was, it gave me like one with like a, [00:52:49] like a locker combination lock instead of a rotary dial in the middle. It was all, it was not, [00:52:54] not good. And, and I think like a lot of these Genmoji, in addition to being bad and not good, [00:53:01] they are when they, there's, they have to be so detailed because usually it's people mashing up [00:53:07] different concepts. They have to be so detailed that when in line with texts, you have to squint [00:53:12] and you can barely see what they are. And then if they're as a tap back, you have no hope of knowing [00:53:16] what they are. Like if it's of a person, for example, like it's, you're going to get like 80% shirt [00:53:21] and then like 10% head. So you're not going to be able to tell who's what. Uh, so those need work [00:53:27] and no one wants my Genmoji. My, my brother has formally requested. I stopped sending them and, [00:53:32] uh, I will, I will take that request under advisement. Anyway, uh, bought a MacBook pro. Um, [00:53:42] Oh, I've got a, I've got a parenthetical as a C notes. All right, well, here's eight more bullet [00:53:50] points. I'm going to rattle through these. So Becky, actually, it was her idea. She wanted to [00:53:54] get me this. We were in Japan. She's like, Hey, you know, I heard you talking about the nanotexture [00:53:57] display. And like, of course, you know, the, the, the brighter screen and us being in Orlando, [00:54:01] you never use a computer outside or out of the house. So she wanted to buy it. And she said, [00:54:06] it was just really complicated. I didn't want to fuck up. I didn't want to get you the wrong set of [00:54:09] options. I asked Aaron and Aaron didn't know either. He said he hadn't really been on top of it. [00:54:16] Uh, and I was like, honey, that's so I didn't say like, bless your heart. I, it was a such a sweet [00:54:23] gesture. And it is true that I've been curious about it. Um, but I didn't feel like, uh, I had [00:54:30] to get one right this minute. Uh, and, and honestly, the, the, the 14 inch MacBook pro is still too heavy. [00:54:36] I, I, I, I lifted tonal my, my weightlifting robot, uh, reported in my tonal wrapped because [00:54:46] everything has to do a goddamn wrapped dingus to try to share in social media as if like, you know, [00:54:52] one assumes that all these wrapped posts just go to the goddamn bottom of every algorithm because [00:54:57] they're all the same. But in any case, it showed me a little wrapped video and it said, I wait, [00:55:02] I, I lifted one and a half million pounds last year or over the course of 2024. And I was like, [00:55:07] that's a lot of weight that I lifted. I, yesterday I did the equivalent of like, you know, 250, [00:55:12] 275 pound deadlift barbell deadlift. And that was hard, but not too hard. It's the max weight that, [00:55:20] that tonal can do. Um, I, I, I, I like to think I'm pretty strong now. Uh, that four pound fucking [00:55:31] MacBook pro is backbreakingly heavy, no matter where I am, I'll pick it up and like, that is denser than [00:55:40] it looks. It's a, it's like when you pick up a baby, that's like a little bit too dense, you know, [00:55:46] and you're just like, Oh wow. I was expecting this to be more fun. This is just going to give [00:55:51] me pelvic floor problems. If I do this for more than exactly 30 seconds and then hand it back to [00:55:57] its mother who surely has pelvic floor issues. Um, I don't want to be carrying around this MacBook pro. [00:56:05] I don't want to carry it with my arms. I don't want to carry it in a bag. I don't want to carry it [00:56:09] into the car. I don't want to carry it, you know, uh, in a Starbucks. I want to hire a Porter to [00:56:16] bring it around to me, you know, from place to place. Maybe, maybe they could also saddle up and [00:56:23] have a, uh, vision pro. So that's what I really want. Uh, at least until, and unless Apple releases [00:56:30] the 12 inch MacBook pro, uh, that we were promised in our early years. [00:56:34] Anyway, when Becky said that it was hard to configure and figure out what she'd want to order [00:56:43] or what I would want her to order. And as a result would have made a pretty lousy gift because [00:56:49] the likelihood of her getting it right. Where if you look at the number of configurations for these [00:56:53] seeing this thing, like astronomically small, I actually spent, I sat down, I look, I, I said, [00:57:01] I didn't need the thing. And then I come home and then within a day and a half, uh, my MacBook air is [00:57:07] crying because it's out of storage to the point where like I composed an email and I hit send on the email [00:57:12] and then Apple mail reported, yo, we just barfed on all this and just deleted all your shit. Cause we [00:57:17] ran out of disk space, no warning. And in modern day Mac OS, you don't get to know how much disk space [00:57:23] you have because all of it is like optimized storage. So like whether it's your iCloud drive [00:57:29] or it's your Apple photos, once the system is under any sort of, um, storage stress, it'll, [00:57:35] it's supposed to detect that and start deleting shit. Your phone does this too. So sometimes like [00:57:41] you're like, like I was importing a bunch of raw images on the phone and it said, Oh, you're out of [00:57:45] storage. And then I knew, because I know how it works under the hood, even though it exposes zero [00:57:49] controls or visibility as to what is going the fuck on. I knew that when it ran out of storage, [00:57:54] the right solution was sit and wait for 30 seconds while it deletes shit in the background and then [00:57:59] just hit import again. Right. Well, I, that didn't work in this case. Like I actually went and deleted [00:58:05] like a hundred gigabytes of garbage. It's a small SSD. It's a 512 gigabyte MacBook air. I deleted all this [00:58:11] stuff, but, um, from my iCloud drive on another computer, because this one was finder was completely [00:58:17] unresponsive. Uh, and it never got better because it had suspended all iCloud drive syncing as a, [00:58:24] probably like some sort of like memory safeguard or storage safeguard to like make sure I didn't, [00:58:27] it didn't fuck up anything in the cloud. And so like even going, I'm not going to, [00:58:33] most of that storage was in my iCloud drive, which is how it got full while I was overseas. [00:58:38] And when I came back, I, I didn't have like, I could, I could have gone through and like run [00:58:47] RM dash RF from the terminal and deleted stuff from the iCloud drive to like as a, as an emergency break, [00:58:52] like get, get this SSD empty enough that the operating system can run and then figure it out. [00:59:00] But then of course it would have synced all of those deletions up to the cloud and deleted the [00:59:03] same things off of my other computers. So this is a tractable problem. And I, I, I ultimately did solve [00:59:10] it, but I, I realize now why Apple markets so much of its pro devices to photos and video people, [00:59:20] because photos and videos take up a shit ton of space. Uh, they have different performance [00:59:26] characteristics than programming and, and the, their needs in many ways are higher than what you need. [00:59:33] If you're just writing Ruby code, right? Uh, it just so happens that Swift, the programming language [00:59:38] that they wrote is also like, we'll, we'll take advantage of all of these cores during compilation [00:59:42] in a way that like a lot of local development in other languages won't. [00:59:45] But in my last year of doing a lot more video work, doing a lot more audio work, I can definitely [00:59:52] understand now like, Oh yeah, like the, the MacBook air actually is inappropriate for a lot of the [00:59:57] workflows of the things that I do. So that experience, I came to Becky and I was like, look, I know I said [01:00:05] I didn't need this, but I think I might need this. Um, where need is in very, you know, very gentle [01:00:12] text. It's, it's a thin font variant to say, I need this. What I mean to say is like, I, it would save [01:00:19] me a lot of time and stress and headache and, uh, uh, rework to have a better computer, a more [01:00:26] capacious computer. And of course you can't upgrade the storage and your existing max. So here we are. [01:00:32] Um, but anyway, I was in the configurator for the new MacBook pro. And the first decision you got to [01:00:36] make is do I want a regular M4 chip, which I did not, or one of the pro ones, which is a, you know, [01:00:43] 12 or 14 core. I want to say a chip, uh, which is a huge upgrade over the M3 pro the M3 pro had a way [01:00:53] more efficiency cores and the M4 pro has more performance score. So it's like a, it's doing [01:00:57] much better in synthetic benchmarking that that's impressive. It's a big year over year change or the [01:01:02] M4 max, which is, you know, uh, an incremental improvement over the M3 max, but to the extent [01:01:10] that it's better than the pro it's like, you know, got another meat and quote unquote media [01:01:14] e

In this conversation, Brent Peterson and Scott Ohsman engage with Hani from Adorama, discussing the company's evolution from a traditional retail store to a leading e-commerce platform. They explore how Adorama has transformed into an experiential brand that prioritizes customer engagement and community building. Hani emphasizes the importance of leveraging technology and first-party data to enhance customer experiences and compete in a challenging market. The discussion also touches on the significance of unlocking value beyond pricing and the company's optimistic outlook for the future.TakeawaysAdorama has evolved from a physical store to a digital-first company.The company focuses on creating an experiential brand for its customers.Customer intimacy and engagement are key to Adorama's strategy.Leveraging technology is essential for enhancing customer experiences.First-party data collection is a priority for understanding customer needs.Adorama aims to unlock value beyond just pricing.The company has diversified into various sectors beyond photography.Community building is crucial for customer loyalty.Adorama is one of the largest sellers of drones in America.The future outlook for Adorama is optimistic, with plans for growth.Sound Bites"We are David. We know it.""First-party data rules.""Flat is the new up."Chapters00:00Introduction to Adorama and Its Legacy04:06Adorama's Evolution and Market Positioning07:06Customer Experience and Community Engagement10:23Digital Transformation and E-commerce Strategy13:18Innovative Approaches to Customer Personalization16:03Leveraging Technology and Data for Growth19:09Future Outlook and Business Strategy

Nikon released the Z6 III, which has some pretty interesting features and trade-offs that we get into in this show. Also, where's our Fuji firmware update? Want to send us a question or comment, or just learn more about the show? Check out our website at https://cameragearpodcast.com, or email us directly at cameragearpodcast@gmail.com. Some links below to product sites are affiliate links and may result in a commission to the Camera Gear Podcast. Links: Fuji firmware updateThis came out 2 days after we recorded this episode. Firmware for X-H2S here.  We'll cover it in the next episode Nikon Z6IIINikon product page Product page on Adorama

In this episode, I briefly update my Namibia workshop, which I wrapped up a couple of days ago (an amazing group and a fantastic trip). I then dive into the Canon EOS R1 Development Announcement, the 'incorrect' Adorama specifications that were unfortunately published worldwide, and discuss the actual resolution and some of specifications of the camera from an inside source.Support the Show.Wild Nature Photo TravelPhotography Workshops and Expeditions around the Worldwww.wildnaturephototravel.comSupport the Show and fellow Nature Photographer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JoshuaHolko/membershipFind us on Social MediaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Joshuaholko/Twitter: https://twitter.com/HolkoJoshuaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuaholko/Need to Contact us? info@jholko.com

Thanks to OM SYSTEM for sponsoring the PetaPixel Podcast! Save on the OM SYSTEM lenses that made PetaPixel's The Best Lenses for Micro Four Thirds Cameras in 2024 list. Right now, you can get the incredible OM System M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro II for just $799, $200 off its retail price. Or how about the OM System M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/4 Pro, which is just $699 right now, also $200 off its retail price. However, the savings don't stop there. Right now, you can save up to $400 on EVERY M.Zuiko lens! Visit explore.omsystem.com/petapixel to learn more about these savings, as well as OM SYSTEM's Trade-in, Trade-up event throughout May and June. Because of Fujifilm's massive launch last week (and Sigma dropped a new 24-70mm f/2.8, too), the PetaPixel Podcast team had to record early and release later than usual, but that also meant a lot happened that they didn't get to talk about. That changes this week, because there was a ton to go over including Canon finally annoucning the development of the EOS R1, a camera that has been in development for at least three years. But that didn't go as smoothly as Canon perhaps would have preferred, as Adorama published fake specifications for the camera on their website and was then forced to make a public apology. Beyond that, Adobe announced that Firefly generative AI tools were coming to Lightroom and Ricoh's new GRIII HDF is so popular that Japan had to resort to selling it by lottery. This week, Panasonic announced the S9 and Chris and Jordan have some thoughts on it and also share how they think L-mount is doing now in mid 2024. In This Episode: 00:00 - Intro 05:26 - What is your favorite OM System lens? 09:20 - Canon is finally going to release the R1 10:24 - Subtle differences between the R1 and R3 body design 12:01 - Fake specs "leaked" 14:45 - Adorama apologizes for posting fake specs 18:41 - ASMP calls out Adobe for "shocking dismissal of photography" 22:43 - Meanwhile, Adobe adds Firefly AI to Lightroom 26:58 - Capture One's new "Studio" offering is wildly expensive 28:30 - Ricoh's new GR III HDF is so outrageously popular it's being sold by lottery 34:01 - So, about that Lumix S9... and how is L-mount doing in 2024? 50:22 - What have you been up to? 54:23 - Tech support 54:49 - How much of an issue is overheating on the Insta360 X4? 58:11 - What are the best lenses for the SL3 and GFX100S II when it comes to landscapes and sports photography? 1:01:40 - Is there a notable difference between adapted old Nikon glass and new Fujifilm X glass? 1:03:30 - Can you clarify how both megapixels and lens quality impact sharpness and crop-ability? 1:06:24 - Log is confusing, can you explain how to properly expose for it? 1:11:00 - Help managing the limitations of JPEG but the storage strain of RAW 1:13:02 - Never read the comments

Today, I'm thrilled to welcome Nick Usborne as our guest. Our connection dates back to a previous podcast where we delved into conversational copywriting. Today, our focus shifts to the captivating realm of AI in copywriting.Guest Introduction - Nick UsborneNick Usborne is a seasoned copywriter with over 40 years of experience. Since 1979, copywriting offline and then online, he has worked with dozens of major companies, including:Citibank, Apple, Chrysler, Franklin Mint, TV Guide, Diners Club International, J. Paul Getty Trust, MSN.com, Technogym, Encyclopedia Britannica, New York Times, Country Financial, Adorama, Reuters, WebEx, the U.S. Navy and others.He has spoken at numerous online marketing conferences and conducted in-house seminars and training sessions for many companies, including: Yahoo!, Intuit, Walt Disney Attractions, Association of American Publishers, Novartis Pharma, John Deere, National Cancer Institute, Merck & Co., Textron, and the Information Technology Media Advisory Council..As a business consultant for online entrepreneurs, I deeply appreciate Nick's commitment to connecting with the human side of his audience. His expertise in conversational copywriting and emotional intelligence has been transformative. Nick transitioned from corporate training to providing individual-focused courses and is now embracing AI, particularly ChatGPT, to accelerate his copywriting.The Role Of AI In Copywriting: Key TakeawaysEvolution Of Copywriting:We explore the evolution from hard-selling to conversational copywriting, emphasizing genuine connections with the audience.Introduction To AI In Copywriting:Nick spotlights ChatGPT as a game-changing AI tool, delving into its profound impact on transforming the copywriting landscape.The Role Of AI In Copywriting:Our conversation underscores that while AI enhances efficiency, it won't replace emotional intelligence. We stress the importance of combining AI with emotional intelligence for impactful and authentic copy.Adapting To Change:Emphasizing the significance of adapting to technological changes, especially the rise of AI, I encourage fellow online business owners to embrace and learn about these tools to stay relevant.Future-Proof Copywriting:Nick shares insights on future-proofing copywriting by seamlessly integrating AI and emotional intelligence. We recognize the unique value humans bring – the ability to infuse emotion into content.Example Of Human Touch:Sharing a real-life example, we discuss the irreplaceable human touch, such as forgetting a friend's name at a conference. We highlight how personal experiences and emotions add depth to copy that AI cannot replicate.Empathy In Copywriting:Nick and I identify emotional intelligence, specifically empathy, as a crucial element for creating a compelling and relatable copy. We emphasize the importance of maintaining a human touch in the age of AI.Key Quotes"AI plus emotional intelligence: that's the future of copywriting.""It'll be the death of the lazy copywriter.""Take AI and layer it with emotional intelligence."Resources MentionedNick's website: https://nickusborne.com Connect with Nick on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.usborne Subscribe to Nick's newsletter: https://nickusborne.com/newsletter Get my free guide: Fill Your Programs, Courses & Memberships Like...

In this episode of the RETHINK Retail Podcast, Kirat Anand sits down with Hani Batla, CTO and CIO of Adorama, at the Adorama Flagship Store in New York City. Adorama is a leading retail company with nearly 50 years of experience in photography, video, audio, and electronics equipment. They offer an extensive range of products, expert guidance, and competitive pricing, making them a trusted one-stop shop for both enthusiasts and professionals. Throughout his career, Hani has focused on leveraging technology and data integration to enhance customer experiences. Hani's passion for his work at Adorama also stems from his own experiences as a documentarian and content creator and his deep understanding of the needs and preferences of fellow creators. In this episode, Hani shares valuable insights on how small businesses can compete with retail giants by embracing cutting-edge technology and personalization, as well as why the brand's commitment to customer support, educational resources and community engagement efforts further distinguishes it as a go-to resource for creators. Resources: Connect with RETHINK Retail on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/rethink-industries/ For the latest retail insights, visit: www.rethink.industries Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to our channel and give us a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Goodpods! - - - - - - Hosted by Kirat Anand Produced by Gabriella Bock Research by Maggie Schwenn

The individual in question is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer at Opportunity Lab, a consultancy specializing in strategy and facilitation. Their primary focus is assisting mission-driven organizations in developing robust and resilient businesses that have a positive impact on everyone they connect with. Furthermore, they are the acclaimed author of the nonfiction bestseller on Amazon titled "Culture of Opportunity: Navigating Business Growth in an Era of Disruption." They have had the privilege of collaborating with prominent leaders from well-known companies such as Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. Their work and insights have been featured in various reputable publications and media outlets, including Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review-Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. They possess a deep-seated passion for aiding leaders in cultivating organizations that act as catalysts for positive change in the world. They firmly believe that a comprehensive strategy must encompass every facet of a business. To achieve this, they employ innovative yet tried-and-true facilitation techniques, helping leaders and teams pinpoint areas of improvement and blind spots, leverage their strengths, and maximize their influence in an ever-evolving market. This episode is brought to you by Authors Unite. Authors Unite provides you with all the resources you need to become a successful author. You can learn more about Authors Unite here: https://authorsunite.com/​​​​​​​​ Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on my future videos. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/authorsunite/support

Returning to the podcast today is Mark Monchek. Mark joined us for a conversation about the culture of opportunity about a year ago and we have the chance to hear his insight again. Mark is the founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on company growth through conscious business. Opportunity Lab applies models of growth to companies navigating through disruptive change and finds opportunity for sustained growth even in the most difficult situations. Mark is also the author of Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption, a fascinating book on this very topic. Mark has a fascinating take on business and how business should be. His view is refreshing but also challenging as he talks expertly on what types of businesses will thrive in the coming years post-Covid. It is definitely a different and unique approach to business today, but a conversation that needs to be had. What We Talked About in This Episode: Mark's updates since his last appearance on the Winning Teams Podcast Looking back on the radical change of the last few years Business in a time of radical disruption Organizational and leadership challenges with change The reality of AI's change on business What a conscious business is The purpose of a conscious business Shared Success The tipping point from useful and beneficial to dangerous The use of psychedelics The basics of awareness and beliefs Unconscious beliefs that don't align with your values Mark's book recommendations and daily rituals About Our Guest: Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on conscious growth. Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. He's the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption. He's been featured in Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Connect with Mark Monchek:  Opportunity Lab Website Mark Monchek on LinkedIn Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption by Mark Monchek Connect with John Murphy: LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Facebook If you liked this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, tune in, and share this podcast. Thanks for tuning in!

David Bergman is a New York based music and sports photographer. He has been Bon Jovi's official tour photographer since 2010, documenting the band on stage and on the road in more than 30 countries on 6 continents. Bergman has also toured with Barenaked Ladies, Lilith Fair, and Gloria Estefan, and worked with celebrity clients including Drew Carey, Avril Lavigne, and Joss Stone. With 13 Sports Illustrated covers to his credit including his image of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees raising his son over his head after winning the Super Bowl, Bergman has covered numerous Olympics, World Series', Super Bowls, NBA Championships, and Stanley Cup Finals. Noted as a pioneer of the GigaPan technique for making incredibly high-resolution images, his world-famous GigaPan of President Obama's first inaugural speech was viewed by over 30 million people. He has made similar images for commercial clients including Canon, Tishman Speyer, and MLB.com. As a former Miami Herald staff photographer, Bergman covered news and sporting events all over the world before moving to Manhattan in 2001. He has since produced still and video projects for clients including FremantleMedia, Embassy Row, EMI, and SONY Music and has been published in Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, People, Entertainment Weekly, Blender, Kerrang, USA Today, and The New York Times. An engaging and passionate public speaker, Bergman has given photo workshops and seminars for Canon, Apple, Adorama, Best Buy, and Columbia University among others. He is also the host of AdoramaTV's web series, “Two Minute Tips with David Bergman," was a charter member of Apple's prestigious Aperture Advisory Board, is on the design board for Think Tank Photo, and is an AdoramaPix Ambassador. http://www.davidbergman.net/ Checkout out his workshop http://shootfromthepit.com https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-qMYKWRd20PAWpNrBomCUzJh5NxgFpds Instagram: @davidbergman Twitter: @davidbergman Facebook: DavidBergmanPhoto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-brown57/support

Konstantin & Becky bring to you the latest Nikon news and photography related announcements. Rebecca Danese: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca_danese Konstantin Kochkin: https://www.instagram.com/konstantinkochkin Production: Konstantin Kochkin Contact us at media@graysofwestminster.co.uk Nikon Report 110 Nikon Z8 Rumours roundup: https://tinyurl.com/s2udrv83 Last week Nikon Pakistan had a Nikon Z8 in their lineup. https://tinyurl.com/3ha566r7 Nikon Q2070 digital camera prototype appears in Nikon trading data with HCL Technologies Ltd. India https://tinyurl.com/4y44vmdz Nikon Z8 Specs recap https://tinyurl.com/bdkvt835 Nikon Products Receive the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2023 https://tinyurl.com/5xkcz2r6 All Nikon flashguns are back in stock in the US. https://tinyurl.com/455wapz2 Nikon resumes dealer orders for Z 100-400 Lens and SC-29 TTL cable in Japan. https://tinyurl.com/3up9fape Nikon Corp Has decided to raise the base salaries of its employees by an average of 2.7% (approximately 10,000 yen) from July this year.  https://tinyurl.com/muaytmd7 3rd Party: The new Voigtlander NOKTON 55mm f/1.2 SLIIs lens for Nikon F-mount will start shipping in May https://tinyurl.com/bdaf6wd9 Meike announced a new 85mm f/1.4 STM full-frame mirrorless lens for Nikon Z-mount https://tinyurl.com/4rnt4pt7 NAB 2023 Recap: New Products, Show Highlights, & More by Adorama blog https://tinyurl.com/4jkkuyb8 Reviews Nikon Z 85mm f/1.2 S review by Digital Camera World https://tinyurl.com/yc4b58tx Nikon Z DX 12-28mm PZ. First Look. Power Zoom options by Ricci Chera https://tinyurl.com/39xz33en London Borough Market Street Photography with Voigtlander 50mm f/1.0 Nokton Lens for Nikon Z Mount by Grays https://tinyurl.com/4764w293 40mm f/1.2 Voigtlander for Nikon Z - FIELD TEST by Grays https://tinyurl.com/mr3zkcbr DXO mark published a review on Yongnuo 35mm f/2 lens.  https://tinyurl.com/5n8d46sr Thanks for watching! #nikon #z8 #z9 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grays-of-westminster/message

SHOW NOTES About Mark Monchek Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on helping businesses thrive through disruption. He is the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption. Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase,General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. He's been featured in Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Mark has a passion for empowering conscious leaders to build great companies that make a difference in the world. Through his strategy, he discovers and develops opportunities that merge profitability with sustainable growth, creating organizations that are more conscious, making life better for their customers, employees and communities. What is the dent you wish to make in the world? I want to change the way business thinks about itself. Episode Key Takeaway Listeners will learn examples of significant conscious business growth with clients and members of the Opportunity Lab community. They will also discover action steps to become a more conscious leader in order to develop a more conscious company. Something you should read... Daisy Jones & The Six Something you should listen to... Pura Rasa - Guided Meditations Something you should watch... The Trapped 13: How We Survived the Thai Cave (2022) Something interesting... I'm going to die one day. But the reason why it's so important is we have a society that denies that we are limited. Connect with Mark Download a free guide about the 5 Ways To Make Your Strategy More Resilient Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business In An Age of Disruption Opportunity Lab Website LinkedIn Get a consultation: discover@opplab.com Connect with Jeff Don't forget to subscribe. Rate the show 5-stars on iTunes If you really liked it, share the episode. Shareable is self-fun

This week's special guest is the founder of SLR Lounge, educator and serial entrepreneur Pye Jirsa. Pye shares with us his invaluable tips and insights on the essential elements of running a successful photography business.Pye will be discussing key topics such as improving your sales process, effective marketing strategies, as well as how to avoid some of the most commonly made mistakes. He will also be sharing his personal experiences and lessons learned from his own journey in the photography industry.Whether you're a budding photographer or a seasoned pro looking to take your business to the next level, this podcast episode is packed with practical advice and actionable tips that you can implement right away. So tune in and get ready to learn from one of the best in the business, Pye Jirsa!THIS WEEK'S LINKS:Check out our sponsor: www.dvestore.comJOIN THE CAMERA SHAKE COMMUNITY for the latest news and some behind the scenes insights:  https://camerashakepodcast.comINTERESTED IN THE LOFOTEN VIKING PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP?https://www.idavewilliams.com/trainingPye Jirsa on the web:30 Day Virtual Marketer: https://30dayviralmarketer.comSLR Lounge: https://www.slrloungeworkshops.comVisual Flow: https://www.vfpresets.comImpossible Things: https://things.co/Wedding Maps: https://weddingmaps.comPye Jirsa on Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pyejirsaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/payamjirsaJOIN THE CAMERA SHAKE COMMUNITY for the latest news and some behind the scenes insights:  www.camerashakepodcast.com======================================CAMERA SHAKE PODCAST ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/camerashakeFULL EPISODE 148 IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON: YouTube - https://youtu.be/y8AjysUfUk4Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2Y2LmfmSpotify - https://spoti.fi/304sm2G======================================FOLLOW US ONInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/camerashakepodcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camerashakepodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/ShakeCameraKersten's website:www.kerstenluts.comKersten on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kerstenluts/https://www.instagram.com/threeheadsinarow/

Ep. 23: Audio Gear Podcast This week we get a little too deep on the DJI Mic updates and some of the Zoom audio gear. Links below to product sites are affiliate links and may result in a commission to the Camera Gear Podcast.     Pre-show: Video Walls and Ed Wood ED Wood Potato Jet Video (Window Wall Mandalorian Wall Lucas' Legendary Lens List: Helios Prime and the Swirley Boys Helios 44-2 The Bokeh King Ebay Helios 44-2 Video showing the swirly boys Helios Swirly Samples   DJI Mic, Zoom 32-bit float recorders, Rode Video Micro V2 DJI Mic Single (Adorama) DJI Mic Original Kit (Adorama) Zoom F3 (Adorama) Zoom H5 (Adorama) Rode VideoMicro Original (Adorama) Rode VideoMicro II Zoom M3 Mictrak   Blindspot Power Junkie 2 Power Junkie 2 Blindspot Power Junkie NP-F Power original (Adorama)  

We're joined in this episode by PNW photographer Melissa Findley (@melissafindley).  Melissa has over a decade of experience photographing landscapes, people, nature, and wildlife. She has worked with well-known and reputable brands in the industry including Canon, Adorama, Adobe and Nat Geo. Melissa also has and incredible portfolio and expertise in working with tourism and hospitality boards such as Visit Saudi Arabia, the Banff Fairmont Springs, Switzerland Tourism and Tourism Australia. Her artistic way of storytelling through photo carousels and video format is engaging, authentic and pure, and something we can all look towards for inspiration.  Among many other topics, this episode focuses on the benefits of channeling our anxious feelings and nerves into excitement so that we begin to say "yes" to more scary opportunity. We talk about ditching your ideas of the way things "should go", or what you "should do", so that we don't put unrealistic expectations on outcomes or put our vision in a box. Lastly, we talk about the art form of learning how to best learn. It may seem like a confusing topic, but have you ever asked yourself what the most efficient way for you to learn is?Make a donation via PayPal for any amount you feel is equal to the value you receive from our podcast episodes! Donations help with the fees related to hosting the show: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Z36E4SCB6D3LWDisclaimer: We earn a small commission on any items you may purchase below.We're affiliated with Cotopaxi! Their apparel products are built to last, sustainably sourced and ethically made. Check out their lineup of bags, jackets, fleeces, shirts and more by clicking this link: https://www.pntrs.com/t/8-12830-279735-277476"Not Your Keys, Not Your Crypto"Take custody of your crypto assets and avoid heavy losses from holding coins on centralized exchanges. Check out Ledger cold storage wallets: https://shop.ledger.com/?r=ce122517c7cfThanks for listening!Go get shooting, go get editing, and stay focused.@sethmacey@mantis_photography@thephotographermindsetSupport the show

Welcome to the Photofocus Roundtable podcast, where each month, our panel discusses some current trends and topics on the minds of our panel. This month, our panel talks about using colored light in portrait photography, both strobe and constant, along with the people skills used in our careers. We also touch on how to find ideas for online content to promote our businesses. Thank you Photomatix for sponsoring; click the link to download and try for free. Shownotes: Erin's Featured Article ALL of Erin's Articles Rob's Youtube Pick, Premier Gal: https://www.youtube.com/@PremiereGal Erin's Youtube Pick, Lindsay Adler: https://www.youtube.com/@lindsayadlerphoto Ron's Youtube Pick, Adorama TV: https://www.youtube.com/@Adorama www.robmoroto.com (Real Estate Photography Course - Coupon Code: PHOTOFOCUS) About your hosts Erin Holmstead is a beauty and commercial portrait photographer, and is crazy about a creative self portrait. Erin has had the privilege of working with national brands like Paul Mitchel. She runs a local photo club with over 1,000 members, and has written educational articles for Photofocus for the last 5 years.  Here find her website and Instagram. Ron Pepper is a Bay Area photographer specializing in 360° panoramic images for businesses, destinations, homes, schools and more. He's a LinkedIn Learning author, mentor and trainer. You can follow him on his website or Instagram. Rob Moroto is a commercial photographer based in Vancouver Island. From homes to people to businesses, Rob loves showing a different perspective through his lens. He sees depth in every person and every object, no matter how plain they may seem. You can follow him on his website or at CalgaryPhotos.ca.

Part Three of the trilogy! Marie Nikondo has lain waste to Jeff's camera collection — now the question is, how to dispose of the booty? What's the best way to divest yourself of camera equipment — sell online? Donate to salivating photography students? Give to a potential paramour? Find all the answers in this holiday classic.was the Shroud of Turin the first contact print?Jeff sold three lenses and one camera — thanks, listeners!with the proceeds, he bought a vintage boombox and a 28mm f2.8 LW-Nikkor, an above-water lens for the Nikonosposting panoramas to Instagram? check out the extremely useful (and free) Instagram Swipe Panorama iPhone shortcutpushing film: Gabe has, Jeff never has!our prodigious mailbag, including shots fired about the proper pronunciation of “Nikon”!and now the main event: how to divest!eBay, Craigslist, FaceBook Marketplace, and what to do when you fear peoplethe KEH option — in person at their Atlanta HQ, with their buyers when they come to your neighborhood, or shipping them gear for a quote? (there are similar protocols at Adorama, B&H and other online retailers)local camera shopsthe local film community: Beers and Cameras, meetups, etc.ever had a bad experience as a seller?the reseller's creed: if you're not using and enjoying an item, its value to you is not what you paid for it, nor what it might fetch on the open market… it's zeroan alternate to selling: donating! The Film Photography Projects's school donation program is greatGabe's sudden brainwave: an I Dream of Cameras Garage Sale! are y'all in?another alternative: give a film camera to the new parents of a child or a puppy — or a gift for your date!your IDOC photo assignment: shoot a portrait of a friend, shoot a portrait of a stranger — post on Instagram and tag us to be amplified!'tis the season of giving, so why not check out our dazzling merch?Chris Chu is hosting a photowalk in Venice, California on Sunday, December 18Gabe got a $50 Mark O'Brien surprise package — which is another fun way to divest yourself of stuff!Still available from the Greenstein collection — email or DM if intrigued!Bell & Howell Dial 35 (with case)Bolex H16 Reflex 16mm movie camera (with case and accessories)Bolex 16mm lenses:10mm f1.6 Kern-Paillard Switar17.5mm-70mm f2.4 SOM Berthiot Pan-Cinor (with case, viewfinder and filters)25mm f1.8 SOM Berthiot Lytar75mm f2.8 Kern-Paillard YvarCanon Color Demi (red)Canon Color Demi (blue; with cap and case)Canon Color Demi (white; with case)Canon Dial Rapid (nonfunctional)Canon 110 ED 20 (with case)Canon AE-1 with 55mm f1.2 FDKodak Bantam SpecialKodak No. 2 Folding Autographic BrownieKonica Acom-1 with 50mm f1.7 Hexanon ARLeica M3 (single-stroke)Leica M lenses:50mm f1.1 7Artisans (chrome)50mm f2 Dual Range Summicron (with goggles and two cases)90mm f2 APO-Summicron-M (with box, case and caps)Minox B (with case and chain)Minox BL (metric scale; with case and chain)Nikon F with Photomic T Finder, Prism Finder and Action Finder and 50mm f1.4 Nikkor-S Auto and 55mm f3.5 Micro-NikkorNikon Speed MagnyNikonos III with 35mm f2.5 NikkorOlympus MFT lenses9mm f8.0 fisheye body cap lens14-42mm f3.5-5.6 M.Zuiko EZ ED MSC (silver, with caps)Pentax Auto 110 Super with Pentax 110 flashPentax 110 lenses:18mm f2.8 Pan Focus20-40mm f2.8 Zoom24mm f2.850mm f2.870mm f2.8Pentax Electro Spotmatic with 55mm f1.8 SMC TakumarPentax 6×7 MLU (with TTL finder and wooden grip)Pentax 6x7 lenses:45mm f4 SMC Pentax-6×7 (with caps)105mm f2.4 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6x7 (with caps)Petri Color 35 (black; with cap and case)Polaroid Big Swinger 3000 Land CameraPolaroid i-Zone (blue) + three packs of filmPolaroid Snap (black) + several packs of Zink paperVoigtländer Perkeo I (first version, Vaskar lens, Pronto shutter, with case)

Episodio 191. Un mapa de los huecos que cuando le pasas el dedito lo sientes claramente, Una experiencia mas bien pelúa. Adentro se ven cosas y no sirve para lo que yo quería, pero pienso que puede ser útil para otras cosas. ✅ Follow Up Un poco más de experiencia con Stage Manager AppleCare+ ad infinitum. Alfredo sin case again. Alfredo se compra un iPhone 14 Pro por culpa del capitalismo. Live activities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFrorzGqdBg La triste muerte de Instagram web (al menos para Alfredo) https://www.wsj.com/video/apple-executive-on-adoption-of-usb-c-under-eu-law/EFC73457-5D84-43DB-A50A-BE253AF3C962.html Alfredo intenta competir con Jorge Jorge vendió su iPhone 13 Pro Jorge no sabía que el “truco” de no pagar tax en Adorama y BH Photo ya no funciona La confusión de la pila, los lentes y UPS Jaime prueba Taskrabbit

Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy and facilitation consultancy helping mission-driven organizations grow thriving, resilient businesses that create abundance for everyone they touch. In today's episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how you can find the resources for exponential opportunity. Mark and I discuss: The blurring of the lines between employees and consultants [02:19] How to think about your resources and your value [04:54] An exercise to develop a generosity mindset [11:39] How consultants and coaches can leverage their resources [14:55] His own future opportunity [18:53] Mark is the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption. Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. He's been featured in Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Mark has a passion for helping leaders grow organizations that are catalysts for a better world and believes that a strategy only works if you take every part of a business into consideration. He uses innovative but tested facilitation techniques to help leaders and teams identify their gaps and blind spots, lean into their strengths, and amplify their impact in a changing marketplace. Learn more about Mark at https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmonchek/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmonchek/), https://opplab.com/ (https://opplab.com/) Thank you to Our Sponsors: The Smashing the Plateau Community https://community.smashingtheplateau.com (https://community.smashingtheplateau.com) Circle https://smashingtheplateau.com/circle (https://smashingtheplateau.com/circle)

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. What type of creator are you? Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to avoice@dnphoto.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Tweet Mentioned: https://twitter.com/RichardGlover/status/1561968347800997888?s=20&t=DbKMm51RmEj0mJl-boWJ9Q --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode the two types of fear that hold us back in life and as creators. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about what it means to be creative and how we should nurture this is people. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Marc Andreessen Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmarca --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about the idea of more kinds of success than just financial. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about being uncomfortable and how that is a growth state for artists. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Marc Andreessen Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmarca --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about beign original. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Marc Andreessen Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmarca --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

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Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about the struggle to say what we have inside. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF 1000 TRUE FANS https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about the process of creation and how inspiration can take us down very different paths and processes. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

I don't know about you, but there are times where leadership feels pretty heavy. We have a lot on us and the world seems to become an increasingly strange place to navigate, let alone lead.  That's why I was especially grateful for my conversation with Mark Moncheck. In this episode of The Bombshell Business Podcast Mark walks us through how to come from a place of “abundant leadership.”  He then encourages us to understand the difference between being and doing, and how “doing” from a “state of being” is the most powerful form of leadership.  After all, what is your legacy in the business that you are running? Throughout the episode, Mark challenges us to consider our impact on the world, our employees, and our communities. Then he walks us through how to pursue actual visioning of the future as he challenges us to define what we want our lives to stand for. Tune in to consider how “abundant leadership” is different from other forms of leadership and get a heaping dose of Mark's positive and powerful presence! You can listen on your favorite podcast app, on the website, or watch it on YouTube. About Mark Monchek Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy and facilitation consultancy helping mission-driven organizations grow thriving, resilient businesses. He is the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption.                         Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg and the New York Times. He uses innovative but tested facilitation techniques to help leaders and teams identify their gaps and blindspots, lean into their strengths, and amplify their impact in a changing marketplace.  Connect with Mark Monchek Website:  https://opplab.com/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmonchek/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OppLabTV Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/opportunity_lab/ Get Mark's Book, Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business In An Age of Disruption: https://amzn.to/3afH7qW Download Mark's Free Guide: 5 Ways to Make your Strategy More Resilient (found at https://opplab.com/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about what to do when we want to create but are unable to. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about how out art gives each of us a voice.. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about how much of ourselves we should share on Social Media. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Check out Seth's Work at: https://www.instagram.com/lastxwitness/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. In this episode I talk about changing directions as a creator as well as in life in general. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Mark Monchek  is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on helping businesses thrive through disruption. He is the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller "Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption". Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. Mark has a passion for empowering conscious leaders to build great companies that make a difference in the world. Through his strategy, he discovers and develops opportunities that merge profitability with sustainable growth, creating organizations that are more conscious, making life better for their customers, employees and communities.   Topics During this interview Mark and I discuss the following topics: What a culture of opportunity isHow to keep your team inspired to look opportunities during people periods of disruptionWhy disruptions are neither good nor bad they just are realityHow to make remote work, workHow to develop a culture of opportunity with teams across multiple continents How meetings kill a culture of opportunityHow to generate loyalty through meetingsHow to create a culture of opportunity in an organization For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website: https://leaddontboss.com/222

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I discuss why a creator might want to turn down work. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I discuss a subject near and dear to me, portraiture. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations.He's the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption. Mark has been been featured in Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle.Notes on the Opportunity Lab:Opportunity Lab is a strategy consulting firm focused on company growth through conscious business.We started Opportunity Lab during the Great Recession of 2008. It was a time of turbulence and anxiety for many companies. And people.We saw companies with static business plans struggle in the economic downturn. Remember the big companies that went out of business? Blockbusters, Borders Books.But companies that adapted to changing markets found ways to keep growing and winning. Companies like Netflix, Amazon and Apple.We applied these models of growth to companies navigating through disruptive change. And we found opportunity for sustained growth even in the most difficult situations.Through this period, we grew Opportunity Lab, our team, and our collaborative Culture of Opportunity Process. We focused on company growth by applying conscious business practices and working with conscious business leaders.Since then, we've helped many companies thrive in any economy and through any business disruption.Opportunity Lab helps conscious business leaders solve strategic growth challenges. We deliver measurable results to help solve your business problems, and we give you the tools and process you can use when future challenges arise.www.opplab.comwww.livelifedriven.com

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I discuss the idea of finding inspiration from outside our medium and give some examples of those things that inspire my work. Buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I discuss a message I received about organizing and categorizing photography. This seems a simple question... or does it? So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I talk about using our creative endeavors as a means to explore and discover the world and ourselves. So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I talk about taking your creativity to the professional level and potentially making money from your passion. So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF "Who Are You" exhibit: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/who-are-you/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I talk about equipment and what it means to us a creators, if you've ever been told "you have a nice camera" after showing your work, this episode is for you! So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I discuss how capturing a memory or special moment can sometimes be as important, if not more so than having a "perfect" exposure and composition. So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Check out the Create No Matter What page: http://www.adorama.com/createnomatterwhat Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Thanks to Steve and Nicky for the Messages! NPR: To Remember the Moment Try Taking Fewer Photos: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/05/1022041431/to-remember-the-moment-try-taking-fewer-photos?fbclid=IwAR0rqUnJHMr4Xr7CwE7_GRWR_Ya3ytEl1irBtr89wA7immXw5aWFdY5gO5E --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I discuss how and why we need to occasionally put down the camera and enjoy the world around us. So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

In today's Real Life Leadership episode, Chantel had the opportunity to speak with Mark Monchek!    Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, TerraCycle, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations.   He's the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption. Mark has been featured in Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle.   Enjoy!   -   Connect with Mark:  Website: https://opplab.com/a-new-book-by-mark-monchek/     Order Chantel's Book, One Meal And A Tasting: https://chantelrayway.com/onemeal/    Join CanZell HERE: https://joincanzell.com/    Check out the CanZell Cloud HERE: https://canzellcloud.com/    Claim Your Free Ticket For The Grow And Scale Now Summit! https://growandscalenow.com/    Chantel: https://www.instagram.com/thechantelray/     For more resources, visit http://www.reallifeleaders.com/podcast    Have a leadership question you want answered? Email podcast@reallifeleaders.com and you might even be in an episode!

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I talk about finding your creative voice. So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Thanks to enh22 for the awesome review! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message

Welcome to AVoice, a podcast where we discuss what it means to be a creator in today's content rich world. This week I talk about ego and how it effects the creative process in both artistic and commercial endeavors. So buckle up and let's take this ride together. You can share your thoughts here as well; send me a voice message on Anchor or an email to be featured on a future episode. Adorama supports this Podcast and you can too by picking up your Photo / Video / Audio and computing gear at http://www.adorama.com/danielnorton or by leaving me a rating or review on your favorite Podcast Server. Thanks so much for joining me on this journey, if you'd like to be part of the show, please send me a message and let's keep this conversation going. Send a voice message on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message Attach an audio file to your email and send it to adoramavoice@gmail.com If you'd rather not have your voice on the air, write me an email with your thoughts and I'll read them on the show. Join me on the the Adorama Discord server for more chat: https://discord.gg/pm7nBteg My Live Streams: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpogU98AazKmN3s_8icdt5MdIJaT4LEeF Thanks to Bashtord for the awesome review! Thanks Graeme and Mark writing in! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/avoicedn/message