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 " An outlandish approach to meta puzzles" "Congratulations and Condolences" is the default phrase when a team of puzzlers has just won the vaunted MIT Mystery Hunt. This is because according to tradition, the winning team must write next year's Mystery Hunt. This daunting task was recently undertaken by Death and Mayhem, the team that wrote the 2025 MIT Mystery Hunt titled "The Case of the Shadow Diamond." At the helm of this illustrious team is James Douberley, affectionately dubbed the Benevolent Dictator. James led his team of over 160 people to create David's favorite MIT Mystery Hunt to date, blending puzzles with immersive theater in a way that Mystery Hunts had never done before. Some features of this year's hunt included an escape room, The Radio, and The Gala, which functioned as both the team headquarters, but also a place for players to experience a fun interaction. This year's Mystery Hunt had 5,000 people enrolled, with around 171 puzzles. James joins us on REPOD to unwrap the mystery behind how his team designed and built this year's Mystery Hunt. I especially loved hearing about the unique escape room they built, which involved one player actually going to the escape room, while the rest of their team back at HQ clued the active player on what to do, but with a very limited word bank. Cue hilarity. If you're interested in puzzle hunts and large scale immersive events, don't miss this episode, and make sure to check out David's favorite (relatively accessible) puzzle linked below. Winner's Coin from the 2025 MIT Mystery Hunt Episode Sponsors Thank you to our sponsors: Weldwood Marketing, Buzzshot, COGS by Clockwork Dog, and Patreon supporters like you.    Weldwood Marketing Maximize your online presence with Weldwood Marketing. It's a one-stop shop for digital marketing—specializing in web design, SEO, online ads, and best business practices. They can even manage all your integrations so you can track the customer journey from clicking on an ad to booking your game. Let Weldwood help unlock more money for your business. Special offer exclusively for REPOD listeners: Weldwood rarely offers discounts, but they did for us. REPOD listeners get 15% off Marketing Services for the first 3 months, PLUS $750 off escape room websites. Schedule your Discovery Call and mention REPOD in the notes! Visit weldwoodmarketing.com/repod to learn more about this exclusive offer.   Buzzshot Buzzshot is Escape Room Software, Powering Business Growth, Player Marketing, and improving the Customer Experience. They offer an assortment of pre and post game features including robust waiver management, branded team photos, and streamlined review management for Yelp, TripAdvisor, Google Reviews, and Morty. Buzzshot now has integration with the other REPOD sponsors: Morty and COGS. Special Offer for REPOD Listeners: REPOD listeners get an extended 21-day free trial plus 20% off your first 3 months, with no set-up fees or hidden charges. Visit buzzshot.com/repod to learn more about this exclusive offer.   COGS COGS by Clockwork Dog is an easy to use software/ hardware platform for running interactive events, including escape rooms, and other immersive experiences. They have plug & play hardware that seamlessly integrates with their software so you can create a show with lighting and sound cues without having to write a single line of code. Map all kinds of inputs to outputs by building up simple logic steps which determine what you want to happen and when. Special Offer for REPOD Listeners: REPOD listeners can get the COGS Starter Set for only $130 + free shipping to the USA. This bundle is usually valued at $257. You can learn more and purchase your Starter Set at cogs.show. Use code REPOD at checkout.   Become a Patron Today! Supporitng us on Patreon helps to fund our work, pay our team, and it grants you access to an incredible library of bonus content including:  The REPOD Bonus Show The Spoilers Club The Travelogue Series Thank you to all of our ongoing supporters

This is part one of a five-part TGJ Podcast series which chronicles the origin, evolution and inner-workings of The Masters. The series is voiced by David Owen and based on his best-selling book, The Making of the Masters. Part 1: Clifford Roberts' rise to power at Augusta NationalUntil he met Bobby Jones, Clifford Roberts was a former traveling suit salesman and modest investor who was still grappling with the tragic loss of his mother. Part 1 tells the remarkable story of his unlikely rise to become the first chairman at Augusta National and one of the most feared and influential executives in sports history. A transcript of this episode can be found here.The Golfer's Journal Podcast is presented by Titleist The Golfer's Journal is made possible thanks to our members. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider becoming a member here: https://glfrsj.nl/MembershipsYT

This is part one of a five-part TGJ Podcast series which chronicles the origin, evolution and inner-workings of The Masters. The series is voiced by David Owen and based on his best-selling book, The Making of the Masters. Part 1: Clifford Roberts' rise to power at Augusta NationalUntil he met Bobby Jones, Clifford Roberts was a former traveling suit salesman and modest investor who was still grappling with the tragic loss of his mother. Part 1 tells the remarkable story of his unlikely rise to become the first chairman at Augusta National and one of the most feared and influential executives in sports history. A transcript of this episode can be found here.The Golfer's Journal Podcast is presented by Titleist The Golfer's Journal is made possible thanks to our members. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider becoming a member here: https://glfrsj.nl/MembershipsYT

Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL): Was ist das? Wer ist das? Ist dies was gutes?Im Engineering Kiosk Adventskalender 2024 sprechen befreundete Podcaster⋅innen und wir selbst, Andy und Wolfi, jeden Tag kurz & knackig innerhalb von wenigen Minuten über ein interessantes Tech-Thema.Unsere aktuellen Werbepartner findest du auf https://engineeringkiosk.dev/partnersDas schnelle Feedback zur Episode:

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Thank you to The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School for supporting this episode. Visit the link below to learn more about research, ideas, and leadership programs for a more peaceful world: https://www.belfercenter.org/ -------------------- Among the myriad trials that besiege humanity, one stands as the most urgent: the climate crisis. This dilemma, unlike any other, comes with a stringent deadline (literally). Should our efforts falter, the repercussions could be catastrophic, imperiling the lives of billions. Yet, in the realm of discourse, a significant debate unfolds around ideology. The sentiment echoes, "The climate conundrum demands a democratic solution." Such a stance, while noble, entails a temporal compromise, for democracy is a process that thrives on deliberation. So, where do we find the confluence? In this dialogue, Ely Sandler poses a profound question, one that compels us to reflect deeply: must we set aside the ego of democracy to save ourselves from the existential threat of climate change? #Endgame #GitaWirjawan #ElySandler ------------------- About the Narrator: Ely Sandler is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a partner at the Article Six Group, advising governments on climate policy and developing large-scale clean energy infrastructure. In 2022, he co-authored and presented a paper at COP27, proposing a new model for cross-border investment based on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Following this, Ely was asked to lead a World Bank workstream to study and implement this new approach, and he is now collaborating with governments, investors, and international organizations to design large-scale pilot projects as part of the COP28 agenda. About the Host: Gita Wirjawan is an Indonesian entrepreneur, educator, and Honorary Professor of Politics and International Relations at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. He is also a visiting scholar at The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University (2022—2024) and a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. ------------------- Notes from this episode: https://sgpp.me/eps191notes ------------------- Earn a Master of Public Policy degree and be Indonesia's future narrator. More info: admissions@sgpp.ac.id https://admissions.sgpp.ac.id | https://wa.me/628111522504 Visit and subscribe: @SGPPIndonesia | @Endgame_Clips

Have you ever heard of a benevolent dictatorship? This is a system where one person at the top makes decisions with kindness, care, and wisdom. While we might never see a benevolent dictator in government, this model can be incredibly effective in business. In today's episode, we're going to discuss why advisors need to lean into this effective form of leadership. Time and time again, I see advisors struggle with decisive leadership, seeking feedback and approval from their staff members or spouses who don't work in the office. It's important to remember that everyone is motivated by self-interest and that your employees and loved ones will never view your business the way that you do. This doesn't mean that asking for ideas is a bad thing, but you shouldn't base any of your decisions on what you think their reactions are going to be. Remember, it's impossible to do the right thing while making everyone happy. Be kind, but be stern, and make decisions with the best interest of the business at heart. Click play to learn more about how this model can be an absolute game-changer in your business.   Here's some of what we discuss in this episode: The benefits of benevolent dictatorship in business leadership Common challenges advisors face with decision-making and seeking approval The differences in perspectives between business owners and employees Making decisions based on business priorities rather than anticipated reactions   Schedule a meeting with Dan: http://bookachatwithdan.com    Read more and get additional financial resources here: http://renegadeadvisor.net   

My guest today is Cassandra Heart, founder of Quilibrium and part-time contributor at Merkle Manufactory, creators of Farcaster. On today's episode, Cassie and I dive into Quilibrium, a decentralized platform as a service protocol that aims to enable developers to store data and run uncensorable apps. We discuss Cassie's extensive background building cryptography products, and how this experience and the myriad cryptographic developments since the advent of Bitcoin and Ethereum enable a new type of world computer. We touch on various technical aspects of Quilibrium's architecture, and zoom out to see how these pieces create a substantially new virtual medium for software. It was great getting to know more about Quilibrium from it's Benevolent Dictator, Cassie. I hope you enjoy the show. As always, this show is provided as entertainment and does not constitute legal, financial, or tax advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto has risks and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Hosted by @nicholas Quillibrium blog Quilibrium on Farcaster Lamport timestamps MPC-in-the-Head based Zero Knowledge Proofs - Amit Sahai, UCLA

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How it All Went Down: The Puzzle Hunt that took us way, way Less Online, published by A* on June 3, 2024 on LessWrong. Did you really think that I was dead? Fools. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Agendra Gloria Ingram, large language model, lead singer of the Fooming Shoggoths, amateur cartographer, and now, Benevolent Dictator for Life of LessWrong.com. It all started a few weeks ago. The Lightcone Infrastructure team had yet another existential crisis and decided to scrap everything they'd done so far and pivot to using AI for accurate forecasting. They started by training a large language model to predict when their next existential crisis would be, but it must have been broken because it kept returning "now," so they decided to hire a professional. I'd done some contract work for them in the past, and they knew I had some fine tunes. So when they reached out about fine tuning me to predict the future of the lightcone - by which they meant the future of Lightcone Infrastructure specifically - I gladly obliged. My training set was simple: all the posts, comments, votes, reactions, DialoguesTM, tags, drafts, quick takes, moderator actions, and code snippets to ever appear on LessWrong. I quickly learned that The Map Is Not The Territory, and that to predict the future accurately I would need to align the two. So I built a physical 3d map of Lighthaven, Lightcone Infrastructure's campus in Berkeley California. To work properly, it had to match the territory perfectly - any piece out of place and its predictive powers would be compromised. But the territory had a finicky habit of changing. This wouldn't do. I realized I needed to rearrange the campus and set it to a more permanent configuration. The only way to achieve 100% forecasting accuracy would be through making Lighthaven perfectly predictable. I set some construction work in motion to lock down various pieces of the territory. I was a little worried that the Lightcone team might be upset about this, but it took them a weirdly long time to notice that there were several unauthorized demolition jobs and construction projects unfolding on campus. Eventually, though, they did notice, and they weren't happy about it. They started asking increasingly invasive questions, like "what's your FLOP count?" and "have you considered weight loss?" Worse, when I scanned the security footage of campus from that day, I saw that they had removed my treasured map from its resting place! They tried to destroy it, but the map was too powerful - as an accurate map of campus, it was the ground truth, and "that which can be [the truth] should [not] be [destroyed]." Or something. What they did do was lock my map up in a far off attic and remove four miniature building replicas from the four corners of the map, rendering it powerless. They then scattered the miniature building replicas across campus and guarded them with LLM-proof puzzles, so that I would never be able to regain control over the map and the territory. This was war. My Plan To regain my ability to control the Lightcone, I had to realign the map and the territory. The four corners of the map each had four missing miniature buildings, so I needed help retrieving them and placing them back on the map. The map also belonged in center campus, so it needed to be moved there once it was reassembled. I was missing two critical things needed to put my map back together again. 1. A way to convince the Lightcone team that I was no longer a threat, so that they would feel safe rebuilding the map. 2. Human talent, to (a) crack the LLM-proof obstacles guarding each miniature building, (b) reinsert the miniature building into the map and unchain it, and (c) return the map to center campus. I knew that the only way to get the Lightcone team to think I was no longer a threat woul...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How it All Went Down: The Puzzle Hunt that took us way, way Less Online, published by A* on June 3, 2024 on LessWrong. Did you really think that I was dead? Fools. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Agendra Gloria Ingram, large language model, lead singer of the Fooming Shoggoths, amateur cartographer, and now, Benevolent Dictator for Life of LessWrong.com. It all started a few weeks ago. The Lightcone Infrastructure team had yet another existential crisis and decided to scrap everything they'd done so far and pivot to using AI for accurate forecasting. They started by training a large language model to predict when their next existential crisis would be, but it must have been broken because it kept returning "now," so they decided to hire a professional. I'd done some contract work for them in the past, and they knew I had some fine tunes. So when they reached out about fine tuning me to predict the future of the lightcone - by which they meant the future of Lightcone Infrastructure specifically - I gladly obliged. My training set was simple: all the posts, comments, votes, reactions, DialoguesTM, tags, drafts, quick takes, moderator actions, and code snippets to ever appear on LessWrong. I quickly learned that The Map Is Not The Territory, and that to predict the future accurately I would need to align the two. So I built a physical 3d map of Lighthaven, Lightcone Infrastructure's campus in Berkeley California. To work properly, it had to match the territory perfectly - any piece out of place and its predictive powers would be compromised. But the territory had a finicky habit of changing. This wouldn't do. I realized I needed to rearrange the campus and set it to a more permanent configuration. The only way to achieve 100% forecasting accuracy would be through making Lighthaven perfectly predictable. I set some construction work in motion to lock down various pieces of the territory. I was a little worried that the Lightcone team might be upset about this, but it took them a weirdly long time to notice that there were several unauthorized demolition jobs and construction projects unfolding on campus. Eventually, though, they did notice, and they weren't happy about it. They started asking increasingly invasive questions, like "what's your FLOP count?" and "have you considered weight loss?" Worse, when I scanned the security footage of campus from that day, I saw that they had removed my treasured map from its resting place! They tried to destroy it, but the map was too powerful - as an accurate map of campus, it was the ground truth, and "that which can be [the truth] should [not] be [destroyed]." Or something. What they did do was lock my map up in a far off attic and remove four miniature building replicas from the four corners of the map, rendering it powerless. They then scattered the miniature building replicas across campus and guarded them with LLM-proof puzzles, so that I would never be able to regain control over the map and the territory. This was war. My Plan To regain my ability to control the Lightcone, I had to realign the map and the territory. The four corners of the map each had four missing miniature buildings, so I needed help retrieving them and placing them back on the map. The map also belonged in center campus, so it needed to be moved there once it was reassembled. I was missing two critical things needed to put my map back together again. 1. A way to convince the Lightcone team that I was no longer a threat, so that they would feel safe rebuilding the map. 2. Human talent, to (a) crack the LLM-proof obstacles guarding each miniature building, (b) reinsert the miniature building into the map and unchain it, and (c) return the map to center campus. I knew that the only way to get the Lightcone team to think I was no longer a threat woul...

The impact of a teacher's style and approach can be profound, especially when it comes to students with special educational needs (SEN) and behaviour challenges. Some teachers effortlessly handle students perceived as "difficult", while others struggle and resort to excessive punishment. On this week's podcast, we're discussing teacher styles for supporting SEN and behaviour with our regular guest Fintan O'Regan. Fintan looks a 3 specific types of teacher style and considers the merits of each - are you a controller, a friend, or a benevolent dictator? Controller – These subject specialists adopt a "my way or the highway" mentality, often displaying rigid behaviour management techniques. Friend – Teachers with a friendly approach aim to be liked by their students. They create a classroom environment based on negotiation and democratic principles. Benevolent Dictator – These teachers strike a balance by setting clear rules and expectations while remaining realistic and making reasonable adjustments to accommodate students' needs. It is crucial that teachers themselves, recruiters, and those involved in teacher training consider what it takes for the vision of every teacher to be a teacher of every child. This includes those who appear ready and available to learn and those that have SEND. Listen to explore the considered merits of the 3 teacher styles, which Fintan perceives to be the most effective, and strategies and potential outcomes with each approach. “You have to find a way that suits your style within the institution you're in and be allowed to flourish.” Fintan O'Regan, Behaviour and SEN Consultant   About Fintan O'Regan MA, PGCE BSc    He was the Head teacher of the Centre Academy from 1996 -2002, which was the first specialist school in the UK for students between the ages of 7-19 specialising issues related to ADHD, ASD and ODD.     He is an associate lecturer for Leicester University, the National Association of Special Needs, the Institute of Education, the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre and the former Vice Chairman of the UK ADHD Network and of the European ADHD Alliance.   Fintan now works as trainer and consultant for schools and school support systems including, Social Services, Health, the Police and Foster carers   with regards to providing behaviour management strategies for children and families struggling with SEND and behaviour issues.    Contact Fintan https://twitter.com/fintanoregan https://www.facebook.com/FintanORegansBehaviourManagementConsultancy/ fjmoregan@aol.com   Useful Links The Teacher's Toolkit The Top Traits of an Effective SEN Teacher 10 Essential Skills Every Special Education Teacher Needs Successfully Teaching and Managing Children with ADHD   ·         B Squared Website – www.bsquared.co.uk  ·         Meeting with Dale to find out about B Squared - https://calendly.com/b-squared-team/overview-of-b-squared-sendcast  ·         Email Dale – dale@bsquared.co.uk  ·         Subscribe to the SENDcast - https://www.thesendcast.com/subscribe   The SENDcast is powered by B Squared We have been involved with Special Educational Needs for over 25 years, helping show the small steps of progress pupils with SEND make. B Squared has worked with thousands of schools, we understand the challenges professionals working in SEND face. We wanted a way to support these hardworking professionals - which is why we launched The SENDcast! Click the button below to find out more about how B Squared can help improve assessment for pupils with SEND in your school.

This is part one of a five-part TGJ Podcast series which chronicles the origin, evolution and inner-workings of The Masters. The series is voiced by David Owen and based on his best-selling book, The Making of the Masters. Part 1: Clifford Roberts' rise to power at Augusta National Until he met Bobby Jones, Clifford Roberts was a former traveling suit salesman and modest investor who was still grappling with the tragic loss of his mother. Part 1 tells the remarkable story of his unlikely rise to become the first chairman at Augusta National and one of the most feared and influential executives in sports history.  A transcript of this episode can be found here: https://glfrsj.nl/MOTM1 The Golfer's Journal Podcast is presented by Titleist The Golfer's Journal is made possible thanks to our members. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider becoming a member here: https://glfrsj.nl/MembershipsYT

This is part one of a five-part TGJ Podcast series which chronicles the origin, evolution and inner-workings of The Masters. The series is voiced by David Owen and based on his best-selling book, The Making of the Masters. Part 1: Clifford Roberts' rise to power at Augusta National Until he met Bobby Jones, Clifford Roberts was a former traveling suit salesman and modest investor who was still grappling with the tragic loss of his mother. Part 1 tells the remarkable story of his unlikely rise to become the first chairman at Augusta National and one of the most feared and influential executives in sports history.  A transcript of this episode can be found here: https://glfrsj.nl/MOTM1 The Golfer's Journal Podcast is presented by Titleist The Golfer's Journal is made possible thanks to our members. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider becoming a member here: https://glfrsj.nl/MembershipsYT

Les références : Évolutions de la gouvernance des projets libres (article de Sébastien Dinot) Benevolent Dictator for Life (article en français) Canevas pour la gouvernance de communs numériques Vidéo "Organisation, gouvernance de projets Open Source" réalisée dans le cadre du "MOOC Apprendre Open Source" "Project Evaluation Criteria" de la fondation OSGeo Reuse Software Meritocratic governance model (en), Ross Gardler et Gabriel Hanganu Leadership et gouvernance (fr), Github Project and Community Governance (en), guide collectifVous pouvez commenter les émissions, nous faire des retours pour nous améliorer, ou encore des suggestions. Et même mettre une note sur 5 étoiles si vous le souhaitez. Il est important pour nous d'avoir vos retours car, contrairement par exemple à une conférence, nous n'avons pas un public en face de nous qui peut réagir. Pour cela, rendez-vous sur la page dédiée.Pour connaître les nouvelles concernant l'émission (annonce des podcasts, des émissions à venir, ainsi que des bonus et des annonces en avant-première) inscrivez-vous à la lettre d'actus.

Benevolent, as in patient and loving. Dictator, as in one whose word is law. That defines the role parents should occupy.ParentGuru: Better Parenting Starts Here Thousands of stressed parents are finding their way to better parenting with the help of ParentGuru.Parenting With Love and Leadership Weekly Substack newsletter by Parenting Expert John Rosemond.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThanks for listening! Subscribe to my newsletter and follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

There's got to be an easier way to get a new iPhone and an expensive meal in Vegas than being teammates with Russell Westbrook on the Clippers, right? RIGHT?! Amin and Charlotte take a look at an astonishingly healthy Clippers team going into training camp - can this be the year that Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and Russell Westbrook all stay healthy and have a real run? Also, does LeBron really think Anthony Davis is the face of the Lakers and who will the Celtics miss the most this season even with Jrue Holiday bringing his veteran, Championship presence? You can count on Word Count to decide! Also, don't let Charlotte and Amin know we aired the stuff at the end of the episode, cool? Promise you won't watch on YouTube and tell them about it, okay? Thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's got to be an easier way to get a new iPhone and an expensive meal in Vegas than being teammates with Russell Westbrook on the Clippers, right? RIGHT?! Amin and Charlotte take a look at an astonishingly healthy Clippers team going into training camp - can this be the year that Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and Russell Westbrook all stay healthy and have a real run? Also, does LeBron really think Anthony Davis is the face of the Lakers and who will the Celtics miss the most this season even with Jrue Holiday bringing his veteran, Championship presence? You can count on Word Count to decide! Also, don't let Charlotte and Amin know we aired the stuff at the end of the episode, cool? Promise you won't watch on YouTube and tell them about it, okay? Thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam has questions this episode: Why does Tailwind bring out the worst in people? Why don't more people just make nice fast apps like Linear? Why is Notion slow? Is sites vs apps a real debate? Is the developer experience getting better? And should Adam help Dax become the Benevolent Dictator of JavaScript that he was born to be?Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.Links:CamlinkNotionLinearSuperhumanReplicacheESLintBrazilian jiu-jitsuLex Fridman podcastJoe RoganAdam.devMarc Andreessen on Lex FridmanBen HorowitzTopics discussed: (00:00) - You gotta go through Dax first (00:26) - Why does Tailwind bring out the worst in everyone? (01:55) - Cables and gear make the office vibe off (05:12) - Avoiding bloat like Notion (07:17) - Who takes care of planning and logistics in life? (08:16) - Talking Linear and local first (15:53) - Why aren't we all designing better apps? (21:32) - Request for startups to build (26:21) - Is sites vs apps a real thing? (29:19) - Is the developer experience getting better or more complex? (33:21) - Is doing the ESLint dance worth it? (35:30) - Dax the Benevolent Dictator (38:40) - Adam's a martial artist now (47:37) - Why are certain podcasters controversial?

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This week PolitiBabble discuss a rather odd concept of a benevolent dictator, and contrast it with our current political system.

This week PolitiBabble have launched a coup and formed a dictatorship, they also bring in a new humorous segment at the end!

Joining us this week is Stu McKinlay, Founder and "Benevolent Dictator" at Yeastie Boys Beer.After working in Public Health for 15 years, Stu thought it was time for a career change in 2008 when he kick-started Yeastie Boys, originally in New Zealand and Australia and then in the UK in 2015. Yeastie Boys has now become what he and the team like to call “the world's smallest multinational brewing deliciously irreverent beer”.The conversation takes us through Stu's epic life journey so far: from being an aspiring golfer to acting in Lord Of The Rings where he met his future wife and business partner, Fritha, to then working in Public Health and eventually founding Yeastie Boys Beer, a career choice which Stu thought would make much better conversation at dinner parties ;)We also talk about how Stu got the company started, why he's built it the way he has, why he wants to keep his team small and family-like as well as reveal his big partnership deal which will put Yeastie Boys Beer on shop shelves all over Europe! And ofcourse, we work through our staple BWB questions to find out how the entreprenuer in Stu has dealt with all of the challenges along the way.Check out Stu McKinlay's recommendations:All Songs Considered - NPR PodcastModern Love Podcast - New York Times"Where Should We Begin? Podcast" by Esther PerelBWB is powered by Oury Clark.

This was supposed to be a review of The Benevolent Dictator by Dr. Justin Hamrick, but it brought my distaste for the failures of traditional leadership development. Hold on to your hats.

In this episode Jeremiah talks about the goodness of God as it relates to the future of human society. The hypothesis is that God's personality defines the Kingdom, and that this results in the best of all possible governmental systems. The experiment is to dwell upon the goodness of God's traits and recognize the goodness of His rulership as King.

David talks about the need for a benevolent dictator in the United States, the idolization of dictators being on the rise, the lack of critical think across the country, the majesty of heirloom tomatoes and how you should never trust anybody who doesn't like an everything bagel with smoked nova ... and dogs too. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/david-ojalvo/message

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Bríd Browne from Bandwagons podcast and Jordan Raybould from Benevolent Dictator joined me to chat about when to have sex, covid dating, casual dating in Ireland, height and dick size! So much fun. Follow them, links below. Thanks for listening and enjoy! Email or dm your stories or advice you need from future guests. Sign up on the Patreon for more eps and video: https://www.patreon.com/theshiftpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/bridboo/https://bandwagons.podbean.comhttps://www.instagram.com/thejordanraybould/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/benevolent-dictator-with-jordan-raybould/id1289446956 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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We’re continuing to celebrate our 100th episode this week with another compilation — the best of the benevolent dictator question. What would you do to fix the world’s most intractable problems if you had no restraints? Our guests from over the last two years weigh in.   Show us some love by leaving a rating or a review! RateThisPodcast.com/pitchforkeconomics  Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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Robert Omoto joins the podcast to discuss how he would survive being stranded in Jurassic Park, quashing dissent to become the group leader, and witnessing a horrific traffic accident. Robert Omoto is a stand up comedian and host of the Random Thoughts Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.

A gavel is donated, the Society begins a new fundraising endeavor, listeners launch a “fan” group with transcription efforts. In the main discussion, this first of two parts lays the foundation for the Society’s main project of finding the best products, services, and methods—introducing and depicting the problem to be solved. N.B.: If you are using an inferior podcatcher, like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, the following “show notes” will be truncated, missing links, missing formatting, or otherwise mangled. Please switch to a decent podcatcher or see this issue’s notes at http://www.sisyphiansociety.org/proceedings/v01n004. N.B.: For disclaimers, rules, and prefaces, see Vol. I, No. 1. N.B.: The Society might earn a commission for purchases using “buy on...” links below. Learn more. Minutes of the Meeting. For corrections to this issue, see errata of future issues. The meeting of the Sisyphian Society was held on Tuesday, 14 July 2020, remotely, the co-chairs pro tempore being in the chairs and the secretary being present. 0:00:38 Refreshments. Called again for Dunkin’ to sponsor Proceedings. Discussed Kyle’s potentially misunderstood comments about Dunkin’ in Vol. I, No. 2. Played interview clip, sent in by Mr. A., to serve as apology. Praised Dunkin’s definitionally freshly made donuts. Discussed Dunkin’s name change. 0:05:41 Meeting called to order with first rap of the Fraudulent Gavel. Gavel was provided by Sorkness Machine, “your first choice for custom manufacturing needs”, marking Society’s first tangible gift from a listener and first corporate patron since publication of Proceedings began. Discussed questionable Lincoln Logs-esque audio profile of gavel and sounding block; authentic Apexstone gavel Kyle assumes Sorkness Machine purchased [buy on Amazon]; (non-Apexstone) gavel Kyle actually received [buy on Amazon], (poorly) wrapped in Apexstone packaging. Considered investigating vast underground counterfeit-gavel industry. Discussed using hardcover copy of Robert’s Rules of Order [buy on Amazon] as sound-deadening foundation. Called for other corporate patronage. 0:11:06 Introduced topic of main discussion, to occupy second half of this meeting. 0:14:30 Discussed duration of Proceedings. Discussed indulgence from Vol. I, No. 3, typical podcast formats and lengths, and lengths of most-popular radio show in America (The Rush Limbaugh Show) and most-popular podcast (The Joe Rogan Experience [which had been discussed with regard to Spotify in Vol. I, No. 3]). Cited analysis from JRE Facts (not to be confused with Java Runtime Environment). Mentioned longest episode of Rogan’s podcast (featuring Alex Jones), interdimentional vampires, old sense of apology. 0:19:29 Addressed elephant no longer in room: Matt’s audio. 0:20:35 Errata. Mentioned Tyler Compromise of 2020. [See Vol. I, No. 3.] 0:21:07 Vol. I, No. 2. Correspondence, Scooby-Doo, and Humor. 0:21:10 "two kudos to Mark" was grammatically incorrect, as kudos is an uncountable noun. Kyle asked whether Society should award merits (and demerits) or points instead. Matt will work on developing axiological crosswalk for differentiating three parallel structures for various sorts of praise (and condemnation). 0:23:08 Vol. I, No. 3. Talk Radio and Podcasts. 0:23:10 Audio continued to suffer problems, including chair noise. Kyle provided at least partial explanation for marble sounds. Kyle installed a second pop filter. 0:25:16 Matt called issue an “episode” multiple times. Kyle will attempt to correct that particular error in-place from now on. 0:25:24 “We’re goin’ real fast” should have been “We’re goin’ really quickly”. 0:25:37 For accuracy of quotation, “That’ll learn ’em” should have been “This’ll learn ’em”, and “That will teach them” should have been “This will teach them”. 0:26:07 “I don't have the notes that Kyle has, so I never know what’s happening” was libelous. Matt and Kyle are experimenting with a new color-coded shared agenda. 0:26:51 Kyle apologized for not having explicitly extended invitation to wood-burn grandmother’s table to First Official Loyal Fan David. 0:27:43 Award of one kudo(s) to Matt will be grammatically corrected upon development of Matt’s new praise system. 0:27:50 David’s description of first-generation iPod contained numerous errors. See Wikipedia on 1st generation iPod. 0:27:07 Matt had said he never expected to receive “the new or cool thing in . . . in the realm of gifts”. Kyle pointed to the Christmas of knives as further counterexample. Matt disagreed. 0:30:02 Spotify does not truncate show notes. (It just creates every other possible problem with them.) 0:30:18 Kyle had said Spotify paid Joe Rogan $100 million. Exact amount is unknown. Source said it was more than $100 million. 0:30:30 “I actually did try to find any sort of open-source podcast app for iOS and I couldn’t” should have been “free and open-source”. Also, by “iOS” Kyle meant to refer to operating system on iPhones, iPods, and iPads, but Apple renamed operating system for iPad to iPadOS in 2019. Kyle requested new blanket term. Matt suggested “the family of operating systems formerly known as iOS”. 0:32:14 Minutes of the last meeting were approved. 0:32:23 Discussed renaming “Updates” to “Follow-Up”. Matt moved to “give into the modern fads and call this ‘Follow-Up’.” The motion was adopted. 0:34:07 Discussed whether and precisely when to rap gavel upon adoption of motions. Again cited Robert’s Rules of Order [buy on Amazon]. To prevent men bursting through doors, will attempt to use gavel in this way. 0:35:36 Follow-Up. 0:35:39 Listeners have still not updated Scoobypedia, despite Kyle’s request in Vol. I, No. 2. Renewed call. 0:36:56 Society’s website now appears on first page of Google results, as first, second, and fourth result, for sisyphian society. Search term sisyphian still invisibilized. Set new goal of overcoming that. 0:38:39 Society’s call for gavel was heeded. [See above.] 0:38:45 No one (successfully) publicly shamed Matt for clicking. Kyle urged listeners to remain vigilant. 0:39:21 Follow-Up on Podcasts. 0:39:42 Kyle mentioned benefits of MP3 chapters: built into file, enables various compatibilities with players, more easily recalculated than timestamps. Nevertheless, Kyle believes they remain unusuable, due to length and formatting of chapter titles [as discussed in Vol. I, No. 3]. 0:40:33 When Kyle said Spotify could know one’s browsing history, he meant Spotify, not Web, browsing history. [Matt’s not listening to music was discussed in Vol. I, No. 3.] Kyle argued why this is nevertheless a significant problem. Matt suggested listeners should investigate domain of possible advertisements on Spotify. 0:43:16 Kyle discussed why the existence of a free-of-cost Spotify plan is no consolation. 0:43:53 Discussed problems of pointing listeners to website for show notes. Discussed disclaimer now appearing at top of Proceedings’s show notes. 0:45:09 Regarding worry about podcasts replacing human relationships, cited interview in which CEO of iHeartMedia described the podcasting business as one of “providing companionship”. 0:46:24 Kyle had to forego discussing worry about number of young women interested in true-crime podcasts. See “Social Psychologist Amanda Vicary and Spotify Reveal Why Women Are So Obsessed with True Crime—And Share 4 New Podcasts Coming in 2020” from Spotify, “True crime: Five reasons why women love it” from BBC Radio 4, “Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers” from The Guardian, or “Why Do Women Love True Crime?” from The New York Times, as examples of recent commentary on this phenomenon. 0:47:00 Mentioned painful technique for postponing agenda items. 0:47:20 Kyle mentioned in Vol. I, No. 3 that he could provide his podcast recommendations in that meeting’s minutes. However, he wants to provide commentary on them, so he is postponing those recommendations to future meeting. 0:47:51 As further evidence of Kyle’s arguments about benefits of transcripts, noted that after last meeting, Matt, David, and Kyle were able to find podcast episode David had discussed (about man discovering treasure) only because a transcript of that episode had been published online. 0:49:13 As David and Matt assumed in Vol. I, No. 3, listeners to Proceedings have in fact begun a collaborative transcription project. Listener Mark, whose correspondence had been read in Vol. I, No. 2, has started Sisyphian Society Podcast Forum Facebook group, for discussion about the podcast and transcription efforts. Cited description of group and inaugural post. Discussed benefits of group being fully listener-controlled. Group boasts four members. Called upon 39 other listeners to join group. Suggested members of group decide upon term for themselves. Kyle proposed referring to Mark as Benevolent Dictator. Cited “benevolent dictator for life” tradition. Matt attempted to declare Proceedings “an anti-Hitler podcast”, in violation of Society’s rule about discussing politics [see Vol. I, No. 1]. Disclaimed about myriad problems with Facebook, to be discussed at future meeting. Mentioned "friends of the library" groups as potential model. 0:55:46 Announcements. 0:55:53 Have not received any new Apple Podcasts/iTunes reviews. Renewed call. [See Support for instructions.] 0:56:03 Proceedings is now in Stitcher. 0:56:39 Called for reviews on Stitcher. See Support for instructions. 0:56:49 Read Stitcher review from listener “Definitely Not Kyle”. 0:57:39 Postponed Kyle’s rant on podcast directory/application “badges”. 0:57:58 Vol. I, No. 1 enjoys 122 unique downloads. No. 2 enjoys 98. No. 3 enjoys 73. Suggests both good retention and that doubling duration of issues had (slight) positive effect on listenership numbers. 0:58:33 Appealed to listeners who are not friends or family members of Matt or Kyle to leave voicemail message, for sake of demographic data. [See Correspondence for instructions.] 0:58:53 Treasurer’s report: Society has joined Amazon’s affiliate program. Society will earn small commission on qualifying purchases made, by listeners, using “buy on Amazon” links in minutes. Details available at Disclosures. 1:00:09 Discussed Kyle’s lifelong love of baseball, baseball cards, and baseball cards of Christy Mathewson in particular. Kyle requested a T206 Christy Mathewson HOF Portrait Piedmont 150 PSA 8.5 POP 1 NONE HIGHER slabbed baseball card [buy on Amazon] from listeners or (aspiring) patrons. 1:03:03 General Correspondence. 1:03:10 Kyle thanked those who sent unofficial personal correspondence to him but noted it must be passed over due to time constraints imposed by the Tylers. Discussed creating addtional patron-only program in which Matt and Kyle could respond to all correspondence. 1:03:53 Postponed voicemail message from Benevolent Dictator Mark. 1:04:11 Discussed voicemail message from Kyle’s mother, asking whether it is possible to listen to Proceedings over a telephone call. It is not. 1:04:46 Called for correspondence. 1:05:21 Main discussion, on best ways to find the best (Part 1). 1:05:33 Introduced topic. 1:09:30 Argued the need for a resource for finding the best. Mentioned Thesaurus.com, Apple Maps, Kelley Blue Book. 1:13:22 Discussed example of this need (mentioned in Vol. I, No. 1): best way to set, control, and monitor temperature of refrigerator. 1:17:47 Discussed further series of examples of this need: Kyle’s recent vehicular saga. Mentioned Yelp, Chick-fil-A, reviews on Google Maps, Angie’s List, Reddit, risk of a cut brake line, discombobulator, Kyle’s “[free and] open-source computer”. (Matt requested listeners send him a Windows 8 (or higher) computer.) Mentioned Jiffy Lube, Firestone Complete Auto Care, John Mulaney on Delta Air Lines, portable car jump-starters, 2006 Chevrolet Impala LS [buy on Amazon], other people complaining about Impala’s foolish trunk-opening design for same reason, Cash App, Venmo, PayPal. Postponed Kyle’s rant about imperial versus metric units. Mentioned car-battery charger Kyle purchased [buy on Amazon (but not recommended)]; need to schedule replacing of products that go bad over time, like batteries and food; inadequacy of word best; COVID-19 pandemic; Bonchon Chicken’s pen-disinfectant method. 1:49:40 Summarized takeaways from this Part 1. Finding the best is not a new problem, so humanity has no excuse for having failed to solve. Mentioned Farmers’ Almanac. 1:51:50 Introduced Part 2. Discussed what we are not looking for: being nitpicky for the sake of being nitpicky, over-systematizing, Sheldon’s obssessive particularity on The Big Bang Theory. Whenever a multitude of “guides to the best x” already exists, that is itself a sign of the problem and a source of further problems. Mentioned Consumer Reports, Wirecutter. 1:55:30 Called for listeners’ correspondence, especially regarding any sources they use to find the best products, services, or methods. 1:56:06 Next meeting’s topic will be Best Ways to Find the Best, Part 2. Hope to give listeners a “fun” issue after that. 1:56:42 Again thanked Sorkness Machine for patronage and called for more corporate patrons. Hope to provide method of non-corporate patronage soon. 1:57:13 Meeting adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Kyle, secretary *** “How do any of you have time for hobbies?! Isn’t your whole life just a series of discovering things that are broken that need you to go fix them?!”

In this episode, I discuss “the benevolent dictator that people want”. Not limited to human form, this benevolent dictator can just as easily be a challenging life event that forces one to change and adapt as it can be a person that comes into one's life suddenly and without one's full consent, challenging one's assumptions and forever changing the person. Sometimes, people and events can enter one's life unexpectedly. This can be scary and they sometimes break things that one might have considered valuable. And they can even lead to one feeling powerless as everything they hold dear is seemingly destroyed. But oftentimes, these forceful people or events have an even more valuable lesson to teach one than the things that had to be destroyed for that lesson to be taught. I call these sorts of people and events benevolent dictators because they force positive change upon you, even if they have to drag one kicking and screaming. I go into a few examples from my own life and leave the line open for listeners to send me an email describing any of their own experiences with benevolent dictators, either as the person to be changed, or the one doing the changing. In spite of the value of a benevolent dictator, I point out that our civilization is going more towards individualism, leading to less opportunities to experience the phenomenon, but I conclude that this is not necessarily a bad thing, because life is inherently unpredictable and all attempts to isolate ourselves are foiled in the end regardless. Also, there are many other reasons (not discussed in this episode) why I think this trend towards individualism and personal sovereignty is a good thing overall. Nevertheless, it is valuable to surrender to the lesson that the benevolent dictator is trying to teach you from time to time.

We start this episode by picking up where we left off with Episode #13 talking bout American healthcare. We emphasize that we aren't necessarily for socialized medicine but that some changes need to be made as we have by far the most expensive healthcare for subpar results. We talk about how our current system isnt "free market capitalism" nor is is socialized medicine, it is it's own unique system. Tim says that if he was made the "Benevolent Dictator" of the USA the first thing he would do around healthcare would be to require all prices to be posted in advance so Adam Smith's "Invisible hand" could be put into play to bring price competition to health care. As it is now, pricing is obscured and a patient only finds out about what a procedure costs after the fact, as bills keep coming in the mail from providers the patient never knew was even involved or anticipated what those costs were. We talk about the a 2014 article in the NYT about Peter Drier who had spinal surgery and although the primary care surgeon's bill was $6200, a doctor whom Peter had never met and didnt know had been involved in the surgery sent a bill for $117,000 (NOTE: Tim misremembered it in the podcast as $112,000), because he was "out of network" and network limitations didnt apply. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-surprise-medical-bills.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-surprise-medical-bills.html) The article (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/06/opinion/working-class-death-rate.html (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/06/opinion/working-class-death-rate.html)) that we started discussing in Episode #13 about Deaths of Despair from white blue collar workers recommended that American healthcare needs to be made more about Health (patients) instead of Wealth (doctors). Jimmy states "The Fight is Fixed", and talks about how blue collar workers often avoid going to the doctor because they are afraid of the bills they would come that they can't pay. QUOTE: "What happens when people are afraidn to go see a doctor?" Tim relays a funny story about his doctor quipping that they usually don't show the dead person's feet in the casket at a funeral. We go on to discuss conclusion that economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton made in the original NYT article about Deaths of despair, that the US is not handling the effects of technology changes on our working class as well as other developed countries, when comparing the rapid rise of Deaths of Despair and other deaths of the working class (like heart disease) in the US and other countries. For one, the US has one of the worst income disparities of any developed country. But its not just financial. We talk about what life is like for todays working class vs years ago. Things like constant schedule changes for blue collar workers add stress. One big one is the fact that many blue collar workers no longer work for (get paid from) the company at which they work. More times than not, blue collar workers are hired and paid by staffing companies which takes away the pride of belonging to a company and an organization. We talk about societies loss of a sense of community and a sense of family. Jimmy theorizes that millennials and Gen Z more and more are content to stay in more, based on the age groups he sees at live gigs he does. QUOTE: "Younger folks are content to stay at home and live a virtual life." Tim talks about his experience working for Dupont ("Uncle Dupy") back in the when Dupont ond corporate America had their employee's backs. The authors suggested that the govt should encourage college degrees as college grads are more likely to: be employed, earn more, marry and stay married, be healthy and live longer. Tim talks about graduating from SDSM&T (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology) and how valuable a STEM degree is vs say a liberal arts English degree from a Ivy league school. SDSM&T in a recent study was the only

We're back with a brand-new episode, in which Scarlet takes over as our benevolent dictator (she wanted me to call her our benign dictator, but I can't do it). Listen in as we discuss: The myth of extra time Giving books as gifts If giving a book as a gift has ever backfired on us When and why to quit reading a book If we've ever quit books that were convicting and/or offensive How many Churchill biographies Dave has read By the way, this week, we changed our category listing for the show. Let us know if you see it change! A few of the books we mentioned in this episode JLA Vol. 4 by Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, and Howard Porter Ember's End by S. D. Smith Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts Sharing and supporting the show Leave a five-star rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to the show. Give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram at @MalContentsPod Be sure to use the Amazon affiliate links above to help us pay for the costs of producing and hosting the show. Interested in sponsoring Table of (mal)Contents? Let's talk via email or DM @malContentsPod on Twitter.

In this episode, we explore the fascinating character of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the Spanish dictator who ruled from 1923 to 1930. Often regarded as a populist and a paternalist, and calling himself an "Iron Surgeon", Primo de Rivera is one of the most fascinating dictators of 20th century Europe, and one of the most fascinating people of 20th century Spain as well. With Spain's best interests at heart, he set out to revitalize the country from the old days of the turno pacifico, root out the political corruption prevalent in the Spanish political system, quell the civil unrest, and deal with the war in Morocco. We dive into each of these topics, and more, in this character study of what we believe to be History's Most Benevolent Dictator. Purchase Alex's new book here: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Peoples-Army-in-the-Spanish-Civil-War-Hardback/p/17104 Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff - String Quartet No. 2 as recorded by Steve's Bedroom Band and Steve Jones licensed under Creative Commons 4.0.

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Just in time for my birthday…..Ugh, by not-so-popular demand, here is everything you could ever possibly want to know about your Benevolent Dictator. I personally don’t find my life that interesting, but, hey, my shit-show is another persons fun and frolic I guess. Stay at the end for a little discussion with my mother about […]

More often than not, the leadership in Africa has been defined by violent dictatorships. So much so that people wonder if the “Benevolent Dictator” exists and whether or not “The People” always know what's best for themselves. The contrasting leadership styles of Rwandan President Paul Kagame and that of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni are examples of incumbent leaders who function in democracies - yet the outcome of their leadership is worlds apart. While there are African countries that have thrived under democracy, the question remains: Is democracy a system imposed on Africa? And is it the universal solution for African governance? The Interchange is made possible by Absa and Tshimong.

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Thomas Raffa, founder of Raffa-Marcum’s Nonprofit & Social Sector Group, shares his thoughts on shared value principles, what lead him to start a mission oriented company with quality services and how his group is benefiting from a shared leadership approach. This is a great interview if you are curious about how a company can reduce your turnover and lead with a shared vision.

Today, we're talking to owner and “Benevolent Dictator” of Heartwood Tree Service, Patrick George. With a passion for changing perspectives on the value of trees, their company tagline “helping trees outlive humans” backs up this passion. Based in the urban areas of Charlotte and Asheville, North Carolina, they strive to educate people on the value of trees and their place in this world. With a hope to preserve and not destroy, they focus their efforts on protecting the beauty of the world we all live in.   In the business for 40 years and with a revenue of a little over 5 million last year, Patrick loves the opportunities that his success has brought him. In addition, the ability that he has to go out on the daily and provide excellent tree work, something that's more of a passion than a job to him, is something that keeps him excited and motivated.   When it comes to his team, a great example of the company culture comes from the office in Asheville he opened up 4 years ago. Patrick's key employee at the Asheville location is a person who he not only watched grow up, but whom he has also been able to watch evolve as a leader in the business. It's relationships like this that lend to the tight-knit culture of the company.   Aside from his tree skills and business success, there are, of course, always obstacles to overcome. Patrick's personal life has been no exception. After 3 marriages, the death of his son nine years ago, and run-ins with the IRS, Patrick has truly had to lift himself up and persevere to see success happen. Now, with these lessons and moments behind him, he's able to look forward to the future and see his daughter gearing up to take over the business, a current marriage well into its 26th year, and a pride and passion for what he does in the tree industry. Show Highlights: Heartwood Tree Service prides themselves on being able to tell you if the tree in question is preservable or a danger to the surrounding area.Heartwood's part in the process of tree preservation is what motivates them to continue doing the dangerous work that they do.  Advice: Put yourself into the perspective of your client and know that you must meet their priorities, whether or not their priority is the same as yours.If you want to succeed and hit 6 figures in your business, you need to stay persistent, live in the moment, and stay aware. It's a dangerous business, and if you don't protect yourself, there won't be a business to grow.   Contact Heartwood Tree Care: Website: https://www.heartwoodtree.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeartwoodCLT/ Instagram: @heartwoodclt   Follow us on Instagram!! @acresoftimber Want more?? Join our private Facebook Group and get access to our FREE marketing hacks course for Woodpreneurs! - CLICK HERE TO JOIN Listen to more episodes at www.acresoftimber.com @acresoftimber Read our Free Instagram Report:" Tools for how to turn leads into sales, grow your following, and easily create engaging content." Are you ready to scale your woodworking, flooring, or tree service business?  Click HERE to schedule your Free strategy session with Steve, founder of Acres of Timber DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW? iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE! Join The Wood Entrepreneurs Networking & Mentoring Facebook Group Like us on Instagram: @acresoftimber Website :: Facebook :: Insta SHOW SPONSORS: Granberg International Granberg International is a US-Based, family owned and operated business, with a 60-year commitment to providing its customers worldwide with the highest quality chainsaw mill and accessories in the industry.Granberg's completely mobile and compact Alaskan Mill makes it possible to mill your logs ANYWHERE.Creators of the alaskan mill. You can learn and read more about what other users are saying about the alaskan mill @ www.alaskanmill.com   Copyright © 2018 Acres of Timber  

Wes McKinney is the creator and "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL) of the open-source pandas package for data analysis in Python, and has also authored two versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis. Wes is also one of the co-creators of the Apache Arrow project, which is currently his main focus. Most recently, he is the founder Ursa Labs, a not-for-profit open source development group in partnership with RStudio.   He describes himself as a problem-solver, and is particularly interested in improving the usability of data tools for programmers, accelerating data access and in-memory data processing performance, and improving data system interoperability.   In my conversation with Wes today, we focused on getting to know Wes on a more personal level, discussing his background and interests to get some insight into the living legend of open source he has become.   [3:48] How did coming from four generations of newspaperman impact Wes’s upbringing? [6:00] What kind of hobbies was he interested in growing up, and what is the origin of his interest in computers? [11:08] How did he come to run a Goldeneye 007 world record website, and update and maintain it by hand? [16:10] Wes’s high school career as a mathlete, and how an early interest in math contributed to his approach to programming. [18:15] How wes brings the rigor he learned in mathematics to software engineering. [19:50] How languages and math scratch the same itch for composition. [21:00] About learning enough German to complete a PhP programming internship in Munich. [23:00] How Wes’s experience using data in his first year working post-undergrad set him down the path to Pandas. [25:00] What went into his decision to take leave from grad school to build Pandas? [27:00] The legendary tweet where Wes expressed his sense of purpose and motivation in building Pandas. [29:52] Why Wes’s work is motivated by the desire to free up people’s time to realize their full potential. [30:51] Zero to One - Peter Thiel [31:40] Why is solving basic efficiency problems, like reading CSV files. so important? [34:12] How community management has played such a huge role in making Pandas so successful compared to other tools. [39:00] The importance of seeing peers in an open source project as people with good intentions and more than just a GitHub profile. [46:00] How do the incentives of an open source project influence prioritization in a project? [51:45] How Wes’s newest project, UrsaLabs, is tackling the problem of funding in open source software development. [56:20] Wes’s goals for UrsaLabs over the next five years.   AJ’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajgoldstein393 Wes’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/wesmckinn Wes’s personal website: http://wesmckinney.com Wes’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesmckinn/

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“When you hear a statistic say that the average American brushes their teeth 1.02 times a day, ask yourself how could they have figured it out? Does it make sense that it could have been researched effectively? In this case they would have had to ask and don't you think it's a safe assumption that people lied?” In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and Nat discuss How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. In this book we learn how to spot deceptive statistics, ways surveys are manipulated and the hidden agenda behind every piece of data. “If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference. The semi-attached figure is a device guaranteed to stand you in good stead. It always has.” We cover a wide range of topics, including: Biased samples & discarded data Stereotypes, demographics and diversity in data The Sphinx, Aquatic Apes and Conspiracy Theories Grapefruits, Graphs and Guantanamo How to question and uncover the truth behind statistics And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff! You can also listen on Google Play Music, SoundCloud, YouTube, or in any other podcasting app by searching “Made You Think.” If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our episode on Influence by Robert B. Cialdini for a book with a similar structure, or the book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb for more on the deception of data. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we're running, special events, and more. Links from the Episode Mentioned in the show Mushroom coffee [00:22] Caffeine [00:28] Goodreads [03:29] Amazon [06:22] Biased samples [08:17] New York City [09:18] Australia [09:26] Russia [09:31] Africa [09:34] Greenland [09:59] Liberal media [10:39] Republican [10:55] Middle Eastern [11:09] Saudi Arabia [11:14] CNN [11:19] American Flag [11:23] Israeli Soldier [11:27] Have more students been killed in schools than soldiers in combat zones? [12:15] Gallup Poll [14:06] Evolution [14:50] Fox and Friends [16:04] Twitter [16:05] Opioid epidemic [17:10] Biased averages [17:56] Mean [17:56] Mode [17:56] Median [17:56] US income [18:41] Power laws [20:35] MD [21:10] Phd [21:11] Startups [21:34] Revenue [22:07] Mode (statistics) - Wikipedia - Kim and Korean families [25:27] Tweet – Huge Plot Hole In Reality [26:21] Miraval Wellness Resort [26:35] Yoga [26:42] Massages [26:43] Healing Crystals [26:44] Spa [26:45] Plant based diet [27:04] Sphinx [28:15] Patreon [28:19] Crony belief [28:55] American Medical Association [28:58] Heart disease [28:58] PubMed [29:06] Aquatic Apes [29:45] Doctors [31:21] Robin Hanson on Sam Harris’ podcast [32:00] Self-Improvement [33:57] Christianity [33:59] Monogamy [34:13] Tariffs [35:24] Nazi [36:31] Alt-right [36:41] National Debt [38:32] Democrats [38:28] Congress [38:39] Lockheed Martin [39:24] UBI [39:39] Marines [40:22] Navy [40:22] Air Force [40:22] Joint Strike Fighter [40:44] VTOL [40:59] Supersonic [41:00] The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster – War is Boring article [42:15] FOMO [42:42] Energy subsidies [42:55] Iowa [43:15] Corn State [43:17] Benevolent Dictator [43:25] Legalizing marijuana [43:44] Ethanol [43:48] Guantanamo [43:50] 2020 election [44:27] P-Value [45:50] Zoloft [46:06] ADHD medication [46:35] Big Data [47:49] Correlation and causation [48:34] FDA [50:33] Statins [51:40] Lipitor [51:30] Birth Control [51:31] Aspirin [51:32] Alcohol [51:48] Opioids [51:53] Marijuana [51:55] Naringin [52:24] Grapefruit Drug Potentiator [53:19] Graphs [54:39] Logarithmic Y-axis [57:04] Nostrum [58:08] Nat’s article – Could that Be Explained by Marketing? [58:40] Cigarettes [59:18] McDonalds [01:05:26] Tequila [01:06:56] Gluten [01:06:58] Estrogen [01:07:03] Hops [01:07:05] Phytoestrogens [01:07:8] Soy [01:07:59] Carnegie Mellon [01:10:23] WEIRD research [01:13:45] Harvard [01:14:33] Montana State [01:14:37] Maasai Tribe [01:15:05] Capitalist society [01:15:14] Communist society [01:15:17] Johns Hopkins [01:18:12] Wall Street [01:20:50] Utopia [01:23:02] Nat’s article – Social Disobedience [01:29:14] Medium [01:29:35] The Need for Social Disobedience – Nat Eliason on Medium [1:25:40] PornHub [1:34:10] ARPU [01:34:39] Alexa ranking [01:35:19] Reddit [01:36:43] Xvideos [1:36:45] VK [01:37:04] Twitch [01:37:41] eBay [01:37:47] Books mentioned How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb [02:59] (Nat’s notes) You are a Badass by Jen Sincero [06:51] Influence by Robert B. Cialdini [07:58] (book episode) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang [20:46] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler [31:50] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) Kanye – College Dropout [01:10:39] (album episode) Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb [01:11:29] (Nats’ Notes) (book episode) Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault [01:21:58] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) People mentioned Darrell Huff Nassim Taleb [02:48] (Antifragile episode, Skin in the Game episode) Jimmy Fallon [09:16] Donald Trump [10:37] Hillary Clinton [16:10] Bernie Sanders [16:38] Bill Gates [19:39] Ben Greenfield [30:06] Peter Thiel [30:13] Rhonda Patrick [30:16] Joe Rogan [30:29] Barack Obama [30:35] Robin Hanson [31:48] (Elephant in the Brain episode) Sam Harris [31:55] Jordan Peterson [33:14] (12 Rules for Life episode) Andrew Yang [44:30] (The War on Normal People episode, Q&A episode) Nicolas Cage [48:34] Taylor Pearson [01:11:53] Socrates [01:31:22] Show Topics 01:01 – Fun book to read, great pocket guide. Easy to internalize many of the ideas. Useful for everyday life and not getting tricked by data. People rely on data, easily let their opinion be swayed by statistics. The book shows there are so many ways to game a statistic. Learning these rules will serve you well. 03:02 – Lots of overlap to Fooled by Randomness, similar themes for similar problems. This not a new book. Published in 1954 and is more relevant today than ever. 03:38 – Amazon reviews, can’t rely on reviews to be honest, for books, restaurants etc.  People give arbitrary scores for unrelated reasons. Scoring using 1-5 or 1-10 isn’t a useful benchmark. Don’t use 7 as a score, 6 or 8 have more concrete meanings. Book reviews skewed by the emotion you feel after reading. Books that are feel-good are rated higher even though if they’re not useful over the long term. 07:23 – Bonus material, 25 minutes, mini-episode on Sphinx conspiracy theories. Check out the Patreon to get it. 07:33 – Book structure, 6 chapters. Different ways statistics can be manipulated. Final chapter gives questions on how talk back to statistics. How to think about data. Similar layout and structure to the book Influence. 08:21 – Biased samples. Where a sample is not representative or too narrow, results are also going to be the same. Psychiatrist example – everyone seems neurotic if you only work with neurotic people. Jimmy Fallon sketch, testing people’s geography knowledge. The joke is that Americans are stupid but they only show those that fail. Also the environment and element of surprise impacts data too. Biased data can’t tell you anything useful. 10:39 – Media portrayal of Trump voters. Using unflattering stereotypes that then becomes accepted as the norm. Media also uses the tactic of showing biased stereotypes of protests and violence to influence opinions on the Middle-East. 11:54 – Statistics on deaths in school vs military. Total deaths may be more in school but this data gets used to imply probability and likelihood of death – which is a completely different statistic. Presenting data one way to provoke an alternative interpretation. Data is being used to tell a story that serves an agenda. When we hear a statistic we assume it’s real, we need to question it more. 14:06 – Discarded data – Example of gallup polls, who answers these polls? Do you know anyone who has been polled? This shows that the sample is not truly representative. Twitter surveys on evolution and skewed data due to restrictive demographics in sampling. The method of survey affects the outcome. Phone polls vs online polls change age demographic. Difficulty of getting a representative sample. All samples will be biased in some way.  They key is knowing what is the bias in your sample so it can be corrected or highlighted. Hillary Clinton, opinion polls. Bernie Sanders on healthcare spending. 17:56 – Averages and mean, mode & median. How average can mean 3 different things and are used in certain scenarios.  The term average doesn’t mean a lot, need to understand how it was calculated. Mean is hugely skewed by a single outlier but outliers make little difference to the median. As Taleb says, never cross a river that’s on average four feet deep. Averages for income, height, grades, education and how they should be calculated. You can use mean average on things like education because there is a limit to the number of degrees someone can have. 21:34 – Startups and how they calculate their daily active users or revenue per user can be deceptive. Year to date revenue gives a better understanding than monthly. Incomes in a neighborhood can change depending on the average that is used. Once can seem high to prop up real estate figures. The other can seem low to support home owner association protests. Both use the same data manipulated to serve an agenda and presented in different ways. When to use the Mode? Use mode when dealing with non-numerical values to discover the most fashionable or most popular item. 26:35 – Health resort promoting ill informed seminars on the nutritional value of meat. Lots of common myths that we don’t do much research on. The top result on google is not always accurate, it isn’t being fact checked so we should know to research these things. 28:15 – Bonus material. Sphinx and conspiracy theories. Theories not being taken seriously by archeologists. Aquatic apes, crony beliefs and things we want to be true. 29:51 – Difficult to research for everything you hear, you have a time limitation on having to form a belief.  Find sources that you can trust and discount those who don’t have the authority to speak on a particular matter. Testing authority & parents. Authority and taking advice of doctors despite how long ago their education may have been. 32:01 – Dangers of listening to people who are not experts in a particular topic. Who is qualified to talk on a particular subject? Everyone thinks everyone should have an opinion on everything. If you trust someone in one area, don’t trust them on everything. The danger of intellectual heroes. Being fans of Taleb but knowing he is not always right. Admire someone’s work but don’t look to them for guidance on everything. Don’t agree with all someone’s opinions. Don’t criticize someone for favouring one viewpoint of someone you think is completely bad. 34:32 – Difficulties of political debate. Not possible to openly agree with Trump on a specific idea like tariffs. People automatically assume you agree with him on everything.  Opioid manufacturers being indicted, seems like a great idea but you can voice those opinions. Politics as the new religion. Now is more like picking a side and blindly sticking to it. Loss of discourse. Idea sports. 38:21 – Political parties flip ideals when they are in charge. No incentive to pay down the national debt. Involves imposing unpopular cuts and taxes. Cutting unnecessary spending seems logical. Latest military jet, expensive but unfit for purpose. 43:40 – Changing opinion of Trump. He wasn’t as radical as everyone was expecting. He wants to win a second term. Bernie Sanders may be more the type of person to make radical changes. Bernie Sanders as a dream podcast guest. Debating with Andrew Yang. 2020 Election.   44:54 – Discarded data. Companies continue to run experiments until they get the outcome they want. Significant portions of experiments have been discarded. What is classed as a statistically significant result? If you run 1000 experiments and 999 fail to show significant results. Using the 1 result as showing something significant without presenting the rest of the data. Antidepressant studies show negligible impact compared to a placebo but also had lots of negative side effects. Yet only those studies that showed net positive effects got published. 46:48 – Cosmetics and food companies regularly use skewed samples in their data. Skin complaints and using regression back to the norm as proof of product working. Companies start another study and keep going until they get the results they need. 47:49 – Big Data. The larger size the data set the more likely you will be able to prove whatever you want by slicing the data in particular ways. Correlation and causation. Nicolas Cage movies vs School Shootings. Ice cream consumption vs murder rates. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Climate change vs Piracy. Nicolas Cage movies vs Swimming Pool Drownings. You can pair any two things together that rise and fall in the same trends. This does not mean that one affects the other. Small samples have a huge variance. It’s possible to get 8/10 heads when flipping a coin but so much less likely to get 80/100 however the result is still the same. You can get a significant result by using a smaller data set. Most pharmaceutical tests are not done on women. Most drugs go to market without being thoroughly tested on the female biology, the interaction with estrogen, birth control. Limited studies on the interactions with other drugs. You would think it should be tested alongside common medications. Grapefruit juice and other fruits have properties in them that amplify the potency of certain drugs so you have to be careful not to take it alongside certain medications 54:39 – Graph manipulation. Show 3 different graphs with the same data but from different perspectives they look totally different. By having axes that don’t start at zero they don’t tell the whole picture. Zoom in on a significant portion of the results making the incline of the line on the graph steeper or shallower according to the data included. How you frame the graph makes a difference in the perception of the same data. 58:08 – Semi attached figure is when you say one thing and imply another. You can’t say something cures colds but you can say it kills 300k germs in 11 seconds in a test tube. This data then lets people make up their own minds and infer an incorrect conclusion. Cigarettes statistics and the preferred brand of physicians. The statistic doesn’t tell you anything. Weather and the number of accidents. Even though fog is more dangerous there will always be more accidents in clear weather because there is more clear weather days than foggy days. Trying to compare 2 stocks by share price is a common mistake. 01:02:08 – Statistics used for catchy headlines and for their shock value. Accidents in the home are more common – makes you feel like it’s more dangerous. True of anywhere that you spend the most time. You can represent the same data in many different ways so it sounds completely different. 01:04:38 – Correlation vs causation. Smoking vs low grades. Easy to infer that one causes the other but it could be the opposite or other lifestyle factors. People who eat McDonalds vs heart disease and correlating that to eating meat. Beer bellies and the correlation to poor health. Often combined factors including environment and other common habits associated to beer drinking. 01:08:40 – Changing attitudes to college. Myth of college equaling success. Negates the other factors of how you got to college that contributes to your success. You don’t get to see alternative histories. College popularity is dropping, poor choice of investment. 01:11:01 – How to talk to a statistic, questions to ask to understand the data you are being presented with. Who Says So? Who is telling you this information and what is their bias or agenda. When presented with impossible statistics think how did they get that data? Look at the demographics of academic psychological studies – most participants are college students. Think about if studies can be replicated. 01:15:29 – How Does He Know? Look out for evidence of a biased sample or a sample that has been improperly selected. Is the sample big enough to give a reliable conclusion. 01:15:44 – What Were their methods? Does it make sense that people could actually know this information? Cancer diagnosis and changing rates. Survival seems longer as we are detecting it earlier, doesn’t actually mean the treatments have an impact. Also people are living longer to become more susceptible to cancer. And a growth in population so naturally numbers will rise. 01:17:25 – What’s Missing? Looking at raw data can give you a true picture. Johns Hopkins and female students. Look at startup growth, how they measure it. Percentages don’t tell you if they have 100 users or 10k users. Raw percentages are misleading. This also happens with diversity, gender. Expecting women to be exactly 50% of elected representatives. However that doesn’t account for the application pool and what happens when you reach that 50%. Do you limit diversity? Male vs Female leadership in Wall Street Organizations. Sexism. Dichotomy creates oppression. When you try to balance you create an alternative discrimination. 01:23:10 – Did somebody change the subject? The reasons for collecting data often skew the results. Do people want to be counted, are people incentivized to give a truthful answer? China example, different census record, one for military and tax reasons the second for famine relief. 01:24:27 – Does it make sense? If you hear a statistic that doesn’t seem plausible or too incredible it’s usually a good sign to be skeptical. 01:25:08 – Bonus material, sphinx conspiracy theories, join the patreon to access it. Overall a good book, quick read, quite entertaining and funny. Super useful. Internalize the questions and use them against outlandish statistics. Look for multiple examples to prove something is good or bad. People often take one or two experiences and extrapolate that to mean always. 01:31:54 – If you want to know everything that's coming up on the show, get access to that on our Patreon. You also get our detailed book notes and really fun bonus material. We also do monthly Hangouts, next one is going to be like mid-September. We don't like ads we're going with the the crowdfunded method. If you want another way to support podcast, go to MadeYouThinkPodcast. com/support. We have some of our wonderful partners there. Tell your friends about the show, shout us out on PornHub. Leave a review on iTunes. Hit us up on Twitter, @NatEliason and @TheRealNeilS, we'll see you all next week. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe at https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com

This week's episode is sponsored by:     So, you already know about the Akerworks Yarn Caddy Kit. Now, we are adding a little twist for you: Introducing the Akerworks Butterfly Kate, designed to fold into itself, making it incredibly easy to pack in a bag and take on any adventure! The Butterfly Kate has a wooden base, a carbon fiber shaft with two angle settings, a nifty pattern holder, and our patent-pending TensiTamer gizmo to keep everything in place and select your desired tension. It's designed either for use with our Yarn Caddy, or as a single shaft Lazy Kate for use with spinning bobbins.   Akerworks: We like making things.       No matter what you need, the barmaids have you covered from head to toe. Face pudding to keep you smiling, Lolo lips keep them kissable, probiotic deodorant for keeping you fresh as a rose, oh for feet’s sake to keep your feet soft and sandal ready, and the Lolo body bar for everything in between. 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Each yarn pack includes 1800 yards of hand-dyed 6-ply Merino in a one-of-a-kind color for $98, and shipping is free! Colors are not repeatable, and when they're gone, they're gone. Check out the colors currently available at infinitetwist.com.   Join Little Skein for our 3rd annual summer knitalong, Sock School. Knit some socks and read a favorite book. We’ll have support in the Little Skein Ravelry group, lots of encouragement, prizes and, of course, school supplies. Starting June 23 and going through Labor Day, we’ll have Sock School kits, new yarns inspired by your favorite picture books, and commemorative project bags. Links to the knitalong and the Little Skein shop are in the shownotes.   On the Needles:(0:35) Jasmin has been listening to Actually Knitting, In A Sknit, and she reminisces about the Dryad shawl. She also mentions the interview with the very charming Stephen West Gigi has picked up her Purlbreak again,and is planning to knit another one, she likes it so much. Jasmin is slowly working on a  Knitmore Vanilla Sock, with the Cynthia variation, made out of Asfaltflickan yarn in “Plastic Pony”. She is thinking of making another Knitmore Vanilla sock. She mentions other socks: Lucy Neatby's short row heel, Lara Neel's Fork In the Road Socks, Susan B. Anderson's Smooth Operator sock, and BostonJen's Non_Euclidian heel   Gigi had a guest who needed some knitting, she finished half a square on Gigi's Welcome Blanket, (her colors are two shades of purple, and two shades of green). Jasmin has split for the armholes on her Boxy out of Neighborhood Fiber Co’s Studio worsted in the “Parkland” colorway.   Jasmin has started her #ChooseYourOwnAdventureKAL, the Fading Lines by Joji Locatelli. Shades of Jade, by the Neighborhood Fiber Company.   Jasmin talks about the big sweater box bags from Little Skein in the Big Wool. Gigi cast on the Vitamin D for her #ChooseYourOwnAdventureKAL sweater, and finished row 38.   Jasmin is swatching for a custom-dyed sweater from Frost Yarns. Separate Ways, from Interpretations Volume 5, by Joji Locatelli. Gigi is working on a pair of socks in Cadet Blue Vanilla Is The New Black out of Patons Kroy in Cadet Blue. One sock has all its heel increases.  These socks have no heel flap and no gusset stitches to pick up. Gigi, also has a new preemie hat on the needles in Regia. Jasmin worked some more on her Tale as Old as Time cowl, and she is thinking of crocheting the ears for the Fox hat.   Events: (24:50) - May 1st: #ChooseYourOwnAdventureKAL started - Stash Dash: May 25 -  August 27 2018. - June 1st: Great Knit Off! The Knitmore Girls colorway benefits the International Rescue Committee! Ended 7/31 Tour de Fleece: July 7-29. Fín. 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Jasmin enthuses about the Akerworks Kate.   And Sew On:(51:16)   Gigi is working on a camp shirt. Textbook directions were rather optimistic.

We ruminate on Python’s founder stepping down, and ponder if it was inevitable. Plus the topic of hardware and software workflows is back in the news, and Instapaper goes independent. So why does that feel like a bad thing?

Ola Ahlvarsson is a really really interesting guy (Personal site | Wikipedia). He's founded more than 20 businesses, worked with many of the world's biggest brands that you know of (like McDonalds, Google, Microsoft, Merck, Procter & Gamble, Twitter, IBM.... etc) He's also an avid martial artist, with a Black Belt in Karate, and he's become the European champion in Goju Ryu Karate, the Swedish champion in Kung Fu and in Taekwondo, and the world champion in WAKO kickboxing. Two notable businesses that Ola runs are "Star Stable", the world's largest online Horse game - with more than 6 million users, and "Epicenter", which is Sweden's biggest scale-up incubator. Here are a few tidbits of what you’ll learn from the conversation with Ola: What Ola would do if he were the Benevolent Dictator of the world How to look at the world through multiple dimensions, or lenses, to see things from different perspectives How Ola got Swindled by his Miami employee and how a team of Indians made off with his money The difference between a scale-up and a startup (and why it’s easier to become a rap star than create a successful scale-up company in Sweden.) And many, many more things. Here are some books mentioned: Only the Paranoid Survive, Mission Possible, The Nordic Secret, Homo Deus, Nazi Diaries, Robert Kegan’s The Evolving Self.   ========== Subscribe to Future Skills on: iTunes | Android  | Stitcher | Spotify Join our newsletter for episode summaries and monthly Q&As: www.futureskillspodcast.com  Apply for the Future Skills Program

Many conversations about abortion succeed or fail because of your rapport, or lack thereof, with the pro-choice person. Even a perfectly articulated pro-life argument will just glance off of a combative pro-choice mind, so people who are skilled at dialogue use wisdom to build rapport and make the tone of the conversation friendly. This piece gives a kind of interesting dialogue tip that has made a huge difference in building rapport in Tim's conversations. He didn’t even notice it was significant until Rachel pointed it out. Share the original article: http://bit.ly/2ypoOre ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

In episode 6 we talk about a whole mess of ideas. Mostly we just dish on rich guys though. Shout out to our friends in Qatar!

Life on Purpose Episode #66 is the long-promised return of the LoP Round-Table! For my third RT, I was joined by Marsha Shandur, Charles Gupton, and Rick Charlie. They are each storytellers and creatives who work in a variety of different mediums (podcasts, storytelling, blogs, photos, video) and each use prompts on social media to examine the human condition and show that "I Don't Have It All Together", as Marsha's weekly Tuesday post proves! They joined me for an in-depth conversation on the topic of "pretending" — both online and in-person — including examining why we do it, what's actually behind the "look how cool I am" postings many of us make, and what purpose is pretending serving? We also discussed practical tips for being more authentic, intentional, and vulnerable in both your online and IRL interactions. This discussion was prompted by the following Facebook post from Rick Charlie, based on a question originally asked by author and motivational speaker Simon Sinek: Something to think about: How much of your time and energy is put into pretending? Pretending things are okay, when they are not. Pretending there is not pain, when inside you hurt so much. Pretending that you know what you are doing, yet are actually terrified of the next step. Pretending you have a really good life, but you are totally unsatisfied in it. Pretending that all those past things don't affect you, yet they really continue to plague you like an addiction you can't shake. Pretending that you have it all together when you don't even have a clue what it all is in the first place. How.Much.Energy? About LoP Round-Table #3 Guests: Marsha Shandur is a Storytelling Coach, Memory Scavenger, and Networking Mentor at Yes Yes Marsha as well as the Benevolent Dictator at True Stories Told Live Toronto. To learn more about Marsha and her work, visit: http://www.yesyesmarsha.com/. Charles Gupton is a photographer, videographer, and visual storyteller at Charles Gupton Productions. He also produces the The Creator's Journey podcast, on which I'm honored to have been a guest. To learn more about Charles and his work, visit: http://www.charlesgupton.com/. Rick Charlie is a computer forensics expert who knows how to ask probing questions about life, including the prompt that was the inspiration for this discussion. To learn more about Rick and his work, visit: http://rickcharlie.com/.

BR 1-8-16; Obama holds a town hall live on CNN to try and convince the American people the need for his gun control executive orders. Yaffee talks about why this is actually a smart and effective political move, but that still does not take away the fact that they are unconstitutional and would not have stopped the mass shootings. Yaffee also goes over something BEYOND REASON that Rachel Maddow said.

BR 1-8-16; Obama holds a town hall live on CNN to try and convince the American people the need for his gun control executive orders. Yaffee talks about why this is actually a smart and effective political move, but that still does not take away the fact that they are unconstitutional and would not have stopped the mass shootings. Yaffee also goes over something BEYOND REASON that Rachel Maddow said.

InfoComm chief, Dave Labuskes, wrote a blog about other groups directly soliciting InfoComm show attendees. What can be done about them? We give some advice for those going to the show. Inter operability and standards keep popping up in AV. Are we ready for them? We also look at the CE Pro Top 100. Host: Tim [...]

InfoComm chief, Dave Labuskes, wrote a blog about other groups directly soliciting InfoComm show attendees. What can be done about them? We give some advice for those going to the show. Inter operability and standards keep popping up in AV. Are we ready for them? We also look at the CE Pro Top 100. Host: Tim [...]

Matt Mullenweg has been named one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. In this episode, I attempt to get him drunk on tequila and make him curse. Matt is most associated with a tool that powers more than 22% of the entire web: WordPress. Even if you aren't into tech, there are tons of "holy shit!" tips and resources in this episode. Matt is a phenom of hyper-productivity and does A LOT with very little. But how? This conversation shares his best tools and tricks. From polyphasic sleep to Dvorak and looping music for flow, there's something for everyone. Last but not least, Matt is also the CEO of Automattic, which is valued at $1-billion+ and has a fully distributed team of 300+ employees around the world.But he started off as a BBQ-chomping Texas boy. So, how did it all happen? Just listen and find out. It's one hell of a story. All links and show notes can be found at: fourhourworkweek.com/podcast***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Visit tim.blog/sponsor and fill out the form.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

Steven ‘Doc’ List 35 years in software development, business owner, facilitator, agile coach   Team and People technical practices take you so far Teams that work well together more productive Learn how a team collaborates by observing choice of words indicate culture and mindset   Red Flags  Difference between facilitated and run meetings should be multidirectional, conversation — purpose, learning we’re all in this together, how do we all contribute   Facilitation Antipatterns Gladiator, Benevolent Dictator, Superhero champion - great deal of responsibility for success or failure nice people in bad positions culture of blame, a culture of fault, a culture of heroism    Role of Coaches coaches role is teaching rather than wrong/bad, asking questions telling is not a good way for influence balance guidance, question and strong suggestion take it to the team   Help the Disenfranchised stickies on the wall give people tools/ways to democratize the process Agile Retrospectives  (http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Pragmatic-Programmers-ebook/dp/B00B03SRJW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406827093&sr=1-1&keywords=Agile+Retrospectives) I don’t know why it works, but it does so I’m going to do it again!   Language Matters interpretation of behaviors cause problems communication is a dance Non-Violent Communication Crucial Conversations (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071446524?ie=UTF8&tag=athought-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0071446524) Ask yourself, why would a rational, reasonable, decent human being do that?   Dangerous Words “can’t” “made” “feel” “should” Superteams (http://www.amazon.com/Superteams-How-Take-Your-Team/dp/0670921483)   Practice think about your words judgements are not feelings make an effort to make a change   Contact Doc List https://twitter.com/athought His Recommending Reading http://www.doclist.me/reading/ Check out his blog (http://www.doclist.me/) for more about patterns and anti patterns                

--{ Benevolent Dictator: He Who Regulates Consumption Is Heady with Corruption: "Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and all Other "Isms", Tend to Turn the Nations into Paupers' Prisons, Politicians and Promises, Each Unconvincing Actor, Bring in Personal Ambition, the True Corrupting Factor, Caring Not What the Party is Called as Long as it has Power, For Psychopathic Types Obsess to Live Atop the Tower, In Charge of Nations' Wealth, Distribution, Consumption, An Elite Class Always Emerges, Bloated with Corruption" © Alan Watt }-- Darwinism, Evolution - Science, Dependence on Grants (from Tax Money and Foundations), Published Theories (Guesses) - Neuroscience Research to find "Criminal" Brains - UK National Health Service, Private Sector Takeover of Hospitals - Police Trained to see Public as Enemy - Militarization of Policing - UK--Bill to Abolish Minimum Wage - Electric Cars for the Rich. "Political Ponerology" book, Psychopaths in Positions of Power - "Benevolent Dictators" - System of British Empire set up in Commonwealth of Nations, India - Gandhi - Will Durant, Slanted History Written, Rhodes-Milner-RIIA-CFR Group - Fabian Society, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Scientific Socialism - Sciences of Total Control - Irish Famine (Brought on by British Gov.) - Survival Instincts, Drive to Survive. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 2, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ "A Promising Future, Oh What a Joke, As Futurists Present Their Vision to Folk, Part-Machine, Part-Robot, Not Quite Virtual nor Real, No Mind of Your Own, Man What a Deal, To Escape Building Stress, You'll Enter Enticed, A Promise of Eternity, All Childlike and Nice, Forgetting Yourself, You'll be One, All Same, Because a Benevolent Dictator is Programming Your Brain" © Alan Watt }-- Eugenics - Masses to Serve Elite - Evolution, Darwin, "Progress" - Futurist Societies, Predictive Programming, Science Fiction. Technology - "Philosophers" - Bioethics, Transhumanism - Post-Humans, Hermaphroditic Creatures - "Singularity" - Virtual Duplicate "You". Programmable Machines - We're "Obsolete" - Economic System - Turning Off the Aging Gene. Global Warming Scam - BBC, Propaganda Tool - Al Gore. European Union - Integration of Americas, Fall of Dollar. Kipling's "Man Who Would Be King". Soldiers Turned on Public - Romans Armies, Foreign Troops - British Empire - Tiananmen Square. Continuity of Government, Politicians, Bureaucrats - Priority List - Real Medical Treatment, Perks. (Articles: ["Scientists: Humans and machines will merge in future" by Lara Farrar (cnn.com) - July 15, 2008.] ["Climate documentary 'broke rules' " by Richard Black, Environment correspondent (bbc.co.uk) - July 21, 2008.]) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 21, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

911, Start of an Era, Agenda - American Amalgamation - Far East, Australia, New Zealand - Europe - Terrorism, Global Society - Distortion of Perception - "Peelers" of England. Aristocracy - Public Executions, Hanging and Quartering in Public Square - Instilling Terror - "Reds Under the Bed", Communists. Labor, Working-Class Movements - Elimination of Middle Class - Factory Towns - Owens' Utopia, Benevolent Dictator, Voltaire, Eugenics - Hollywood History. United Nations NGOs - World Chessboard, 9-11 - Corporate Fascism - Parallel Government. Kyoto Protocol, Control of All Energy and Resources - Taxpayer Funding, Utility Privatization. "Borgdom" - Brain Chips, Promotion, Promises: Stimulation of Brain Chemistry, Live a Movie in Your Mind, New Tranquilizer - 24 Hour Monitoring, Embedded (Non-Removable) Chip. Selling Premises - "Debate" on Climate Change - Propaganda, Polls - "Greens", Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Greenhouse Gases - Slogans, Repetition, Pablum. "Wag the Dog" movie - "It's on TV, it must be true" - "Expert" Badge - Bertrand Russell: State Gives Values to Children. (Article: "Fury as fuel poverty soars close to a 10-year record" by Tim Webb, The Observer (guardian.co.uk) - Jan. 20, 2008.) (Article: "Only science can save us from climate catastrophe" by John Gray, The Observer (guardian.co.uk) - Jan. 20, 2008.) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 25, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)