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From Netflix's new blockbuster earnings report to controversial moves announced by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, tech and media are navigating seismic shifts amid a rapidly evolving political and cultural landscape. CNBC's Julia Boorstin joins Bob Safian to decode the streaming wars, plus the business risks and reasons behind Meta's abrupt changes of course. As leader of CNBC's annual Changemakers list and author of the book “When Women Lead,” Boorstin also weighs in on why developing more women in business and entrepreneurship makes bottom-line sense in any era.Visit the Rapid Response website here: https://www.rapidresponseshow.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Jerry and Stably discuss The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin, a book that explores the construction of unreality in American media and culture. Jerry introduces the book as his pick and notes its thematic resonance with previous discussions, particularly those around Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. The hosts agree that Boorstin's work predates many of Postman's arguments and, in some ways, anticipates the cultural shift toward media-driven realities.Stably and Jerry unpack Boorstin's central argument that American culture increasingly operates within “mirrors upon mirrors of unreality,” where pseudo-events—artificial happenings staged for media consumption—dominate public perception. Boorstin, writing in the late 1950s and early 1960s, critiques how society becomes incentivized to embrace these fabricated realities, constructing what Jerry calls “castles in the air.” This critique extends across multiple facets of public life, including politics, advertising, and entertainment, all of which blur the line between authenticity and illusion.The discussion touches on Boorstin's seemingly conservative perspective, as he neither explicitly condemns the shift toward pseudo-events nor advocates for a return to a previous era. Instead, he opts to describe the phenomenon with striking clarity, allowing the implications to speak for themselves. This ambiguity prompts Jerry to reflect on Boorstin's ultimate goals or desired outcomes, noting that while the book is critical, it refrains from offering solutions or alternatives.Stably and Jerry also draw connections between Boorstin's work and Marshall McLuhan's theories on media, highlighting the shared observation of media as an environment that reshapes human experience. They discuss how Boorstin's observations remain relevant, despite the book's age, as contemporary media landscapes have only amplified the prevalence and impact of pseudo-events.Throughout the conversation, the hosts emphasize the enduring value of Boorstin's analysis, particularly in an era where digital media and social platforms further complicate notions of authenticity. They reflect on specific examples of pseudo-events in modern society, noting parallels to Boorstin's original case studies and illustrating how the themes of the book continue to manifest today.By the end of the episode, Jerry and Stably underscore the significance of The Image as a foundational critique of media culture. While Boorstin stops short of prescribing change, his work serves as a powerful lens for examining how societies construct and consume manufactured realities. The hosts conclude with a shared appreciation for Boorstin's prescient insights, leaving listeners with a deeper understanding of the book's arguments and their implications for contemporary life.

Adam Gopnik revisits two famous American essays from the 1960s and finds a remarkably contemporary vision - and one 'that seems to have an application to our own time and its evident crisis.' He couples Richard Hofstadter's 1964 essay, 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics' with Daniel Boorstin's 1962 classic on 'image' and America's tenuous relationship with facts. 'It is the admixture of Hofstadter's political paranoia with Boorstin's cult of publicity,' writes Adam, 'that makes Trump so very different from previous political figures.'Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Editor: Tom Bigwood

In this episode we hear from Ariel Boorstin, Co-founder and CMO of Cooper, a groundbreaking parenting support system designed to reduce stress, boost confidence, and help parents maximize their time. With Cooper's expert-led parenting groups, weekly classes, drop-in office hours, one-on-one coaching, and 24/7 expert-moderated chat, it's an always-on resource for parents at every stage of the journey. Ariel brings over a decade of experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketing, having worked with renowned brands like VOSS Water and Pernod Ricard USA. Inspired by her own challenges as a new mother, Ariel co-founded Cooper to create the kind of support system she wished she had when navigating parenthood. Now a mother of three - Ariel is passionate about offering evidence-based resources and fostering a strong community for parents. In this episode, Ariel shares: How Cooper provides personalized, expert support for all parenting challenges The platform's unique approach to combining expert guidance with community-based support The inspiration behind Cooper, rooted in Ariel's own experiences as a new mom How Cooper serves parents at every stage, from expectant families to those with adolescents Tune in to hear how Ariel and her team are reshaping the parenting landscape, creating a safe, reliable space for families to thrive. Ariel is offering listeners a free month of Cooper membership. To experience all Cooper has to offer, use code LIFE at checkout on yourcooper.com Ways to connect with Cooper: yourcooper.com Instagram: @your_cooper

Discussing the book "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America" and interviewing the author Professor Daniel Boorstin.

About This EpisodeJulia Boorstin has been making bold moves from the very beginning. Now CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent, her illustrious career began from taking a reporter job at Fortune magazine straight out of college, a gap year experience that turned into a new beginning. To Julia, it is a combination of humility and confidence as well as a growth mindset that makes up the best kind of leaders. She explains the differences between how women and men lead, in addition to the well-documented benefits of having gender-diverse teams. Her recent book, When Women Lead, takes this a step further and provides real-world examples of female leaders across industries showing what true leadership looks like. When it comes to making your own bold moves and overcoming any imposter syndrome along the way, Julia emphasizes the importance of doing the work, being prepared and understanding the challenges you are up against. Tune in to hear about how to unlock your own leadership superpowers.  About Julia BoorstinJulia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006, delivering reporting, analysis, and CEO interviews with a focus on social media and the intersection of media and technology. She is the author of When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them, which was published by Avid Reader Press on October 11, 2022. In 2013, Boorstin created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. She also helped launch the network's ‘Closing the Gap' initiative covering the people and companies closing gender and diversity gaps. A graduate of Princeton University, she has been a reporter for Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to CNN and CNN Headline News. Julia lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.  Additional ResourcesWebsite: https://juliaboorstin.com/Buy Her Book, When Women LeadInstagram: @JuliaBoorstinTwitter: @JBoorstinLinkedIn: @JuliaBoorstin

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Welcome to an episode with CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent, Julia Boorstin. Get Julia's Book here: https://amzn.to/3ekjT4Y In this episode, Julia speaks about female leaders and their struggles in facing gender bias and “pattern matching” in largely male-dominated industries. She discusses the key commonalities of female leaders who thrived in spite of the challenges that made them uniquely equipped to lead and grow successful businesses.  Julia also shared her journey of becoming a CNBC senior media and tech correspondent. As an expert, she shares tips on how to prepare for interviews, how to become a better communicator, and how to respond to opportunities. Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006. She also plays a central role in CNBC's bicoastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” delivering reporting, analysis, and CEO interviews with a focus on social media and the intersection of media and technology.  In 2013, Boorstin created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. She also helped launch the network's ‘Closing the Gap' initiative covering the people and companies closing gender and diversity gaps.  Julia is a graduate of Princeton University, she has been a reporter for Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to CNN and CNN Headline News. She also was an intern for Vice President Gore's domestic policy office. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.  Get Julia's book here: When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them. Julia Boorstin. https://amzn.to/3ekjT4Y Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006. She also plays a central role on CNBC's bicoastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” delivering reporting, analysis, and CEO interviews with a focus on social media and the intersection of media and technology. In 2013, Boorstin created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. She also helped launch the network's ‘Closing the Gap' initiative covering the people and companies closing gender and diversity gaps. Boorstin speaks with Spencer in this fireside chat recorded at the third annual dot.LA Summit, held on October 20 at The Petersen Automotive Museum located in Los Angeles. Julia's new book When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them, profiles female entrepreneurs and businesswomen and draws lessons and inspiration from their stories. A graduate of Princeton University, Boorstin has been a reporter for Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to CNN and CNN Headline News. She was also an intern for Vice President Gore's domestic policy office. She lives in L.A. with her husband and two sons.

Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech correspondent based at the network's Los Angeles bureau, where she reports and conducts CEO interviews across CNBC programming, and plays a key role on CNBC's bicoastal tech-focused program TechCheck, delivering reporting, analysis, and interviews around streaming, social, and the convergence of media and technology. She is also the author of When Women Lead. In 2013, she created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting the private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. Additionally, she reported a documentary on the future of television for the network, “Stay Tuned...The Future of TV” and helped launch CNBC's “Closing the Gap” initiative, covering the people and companies closing gender gaps, and leads CNBC's coverage of studies on this topic. Before joining CNBC, Boorstin was a writer and reporter at Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to “Street Life,” a live market wrap-up segment on CNN Headline News.This conversation is packed with SO many great topics, including a concept Julia calls the confidence dial, having empathy as a strategic skill, and why people who played sports make for much better leaders. To stay up to date on future episodes and learn more from Alisa, sign up for her newsletter.If you like what you hear, please subscribe to the podcast!Learn more about Julia | WebsiteFor more stories and advice on founders and CEOs, head to alisacohn.com

Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006. She also plays a central role on CNBC's bicoastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” delivering reporting, analysis, and CEO interviews with a focus on social media and the intersection of media and technology. In 2013, Boorstin created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. She also helped launch the network's ‘Closing the Gap' initiative covering the people and companies closing gender and diversity gaps. A graduate of Princeton University, she has been a reporter for Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to CNN and CNN Headline News. She was also an intern for Vice President Gore's domestic policy office. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. www.juliaboorstin.com

More senior-level women are leaving the workforce than ever before, and just 2% of venture capital funding goes to female-led start-ups. That said, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the future of female leadership and entrepreneurship. Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and the author of “When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them.” Deidre Woollard caught up with Boorstin to discuss:  - Closing the funding gap for female-led companies - Shifting power dynamics in healthcare - What sports can teach kids about business - Why female leadership strategies are valuable for any business Companies mentioned: RENT, REAL, SFIX Host: Deidre Woollard Guest: Julia Boorstin Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd

In her groundbreaking, deeply reported work, Julia Boorstin reveals the odds-defying leadership approaches of women running the world's most innovative and successful companies—and what we can learn from them. Now, in When Women Lead, Boorstin brings together the stories of over sixty of those female CEOs and leaders, and dozens of new studies. Her combination of narrative and research reveals how once-underestimated characteristics, from vulnerability and gratitude to divergent thinking, can be vital superpowers—and that anyone can work these approaches to their advantage. Featuring new interviews with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jenn Hyman, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Lena Waithe, Shivani Siroya, and more, When Women Lead is a radical blueprint for the future of business, and our world at large.

With less than a week to go until the midterms determine our country's future, Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox sit down with The Hive's newest star, special correspondent Molly Jong-Fast, and VF national political reporter Abby Tracy to break down the final stages of races across the country, including how abortion is playing as an issue.  Plus, CNBC's Julia Boorstin stops by for a timely discussion about women in power as her new book, When Women Lead, hits shelves. In conversation with Fox, who recently profiled The Wing cofounder Audrey Gelman, Boorstin runs through some of the common traits she sees in women leaders, such as Lena Waithe, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Whitney Wolfe Herd, who are among the interviews in the book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mosheh speaks with CNBC Senior Media and Technology Correspondent Julia Boorstin about her new book, “When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed and How We Can Learn From Them.”  In her book, she explains how female leaders differ from male counterparts and why those attributes (including vulnerability, empathy and gratitude) benefit a company's culture and bottom line. Boorstin also discusses why and increasing number of male leaders are now desperate to take on more traditionally female leadership attributes! She interviewed more than 120 women and men for the book and brings data to the conversation. She also dives into why women are still not making it into the C-suite despite now being the majority of the college graduates.  – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Newsletter: https://monews.bulletin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/moshehnews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mosheh speaks with CNBC Senior Media and Technology Correspondent Julia Boorstin about her new book, “When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed and How We Can Learn From Them.”  In her book, she explains how female leaders differ from male counterparts and why those attributes (including vulnerability, empathy and gratitude) benefit a company's culture and bottom line. Boorstin also discusses why and increasing number of male leaders are now desperate to take on more traditionally female leadership attributes! She interviewed more than 120 women and men for the book and brings data to the conversation. She also dives into why women are still not making it into the C-suite despite now being the majority of the college graduates.  – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Newsletter: https://monews.bulletin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/moshehnews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory   ➡️ About The Guest⁣ Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent based at the network's Los Angeles Bureau.  She covers media with a special focus on the intersection of media and technology. Boorstin also plays a key role in CNBC's bi-coastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” (M-F, 11AM-12PM ET/8AM-9AM PT) delivering reporting, analysis, and interviews around streaming, social, and the convergence of media and technology.  She joined CNBC in May 2006 as a general assignment reporter and in 2007 moved to Los Angeles to cover media. In 2013, Boorstin created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting the private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. Additionally, she reported a documentary on the future of television for the network, “Stay Tuned…The Future of TV.” She also helped launch CNBC's ‘Closing the Gap' initiative covering the people and companies closing gender gaps, and leads CNBC's coverage of studies on this topic. Her book called, “WHEN WOMEN LEAD: What they achieve, Why they succeed, and How we can learn from them,” is a groundbreaking, deeply reported work from CNBC's Julia Boorstin that reveals the key commonalities and characteristics that help top female leaders thrive as they innovate, grow businesses, and navigate crises—an essential resource for anyone in the workplace. Boorstin joined CNBC from Fortune magazine where she was a business writer and reporter since 2000. During that time, she was also a contributor to “Street Life,” a live market wrap-up segment on CNN Headline News. In 2003, 2004, and 2006, The Journalist and Financial Reporting newsletter named Boorstin to the “TJFR 30 under 30” list of the most promising business journalists under 30 years old. She has also worked for the State Department's delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and for Vice President Gore's domestic policy office. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/juliaboorstin/  https://twitter.com/JBoorstin/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaboorstin/   ➡️ Podcast Sponsors HUBSPOT - https://hubspot.com/ ➡️ Talking Points⁣ 00:00 - Intro 03:44 - Julia Boorstin's career, upbringing, and other factors which affected and motivated her to write her book 08:55 - Where are we standing today in terms of equity? 12:13 - Unpacking why some women received VC funding and others don't 17:45 - Julia Boorstin's thoughts on having more female-founded VC funds 19:13 - How to be successful raising capital 22:03 - Interesting success stories that Julia has covered over her career 27:45 - Leadership lessons and strategies 35:22 - Community building & examples from Julia's book 40:00 - How do we move towards equity within the next few years? 50:34 - Where can people connect with Julia Boorstin? 51:58 - The biggest challenge Julia has overcome in her personal life 53:23 - What keeps Julia Boorstin up at night? 53:55 - The most impactful person in Julia Boorstin's life 55:15 - Julia Boorstin's book or podcast recommendations 56:04 - What would Julia Boorstin tell her 20-year-old self? 57:00 - What does success mean to Julia Boorstin? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“We all have the opportunity to unlock our personal traits that we may have discounted,” says Julia Boorstin, CNBC's senior media and tech correspondent and author of When Women Lead. For her book, Boorstin interviewed many women leaders, GP among them. In her reporting, Boorstin found that successful female leaders shared a few common threads that helped them push through male-dominated industries. She shares these threads—and how we can all incorporate them into our daily lives to make them more meaningful. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Julia Boorstin finished her B.A. in history at Princeton and was headed to the London School of Economics, she decided to take a detour and work at Fortune magazine for a year to indulge her “hobby" of journalism. Two decades later, she is a key reporter for CNBC covering media, social media and technology, as well as the author of a new book, “When Women Lead."Hired as a business reporter based on her college journalism experience, Boorstin said she received a great education at Fortune that continues to inform her reporting at CNBC.“I was fortunate to have these amazing mentors who taught me not only how to tell a great story, but how to use the lens of a business story to tell the most important stories that were happening in the world," said Boorstin.When Boorstin started as a media reporter and then added social media and technology as additional subjects, each of those subjects were siloed, she said. Today, all three topics converge, and her role is to help viewers keep up with the pace of change driven by technology.Boorstin recently joined City National Bank's CEO, Kelly Coffey, for a conversation about being at the forefront of reporting on social media, the impact of technology and the lessons to be learned from women leaders.

“But my other favorite thing about the confidence piece, as someone who can be very anxious and nervous myself, is that sometimes it's valuable not to be confident. And there is this piece in the book about how everyone would benefit if, when you're making decisions, you start off in an information gathering stage. And instead of being super confident when you're trying to gather data, you turn down your confidence, be not confident at all, be confused, be concerned, be anxious. Gather all the data, as many differing viewpoints as possible. Once you've figured out the right answer with all the humility that you could possibly have, jack up your confidence and then you execute. And this idea that confidence can be on a dial and there's value in not being confident sometimes is something that I was never taught. And that feels very reassuring to learn,” so says Julia Boorstin, who has spent over two decades as a reporter, working for CNBC, CNN, and Fortune. She's also the creator of the “Disruptor 50” franchise, a list which highlights private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. Her first book, When Women Lead, draws on her work studying and interviewing hundreds of executives throughout her impressive career to tell the stories of more than 60 female CEOs and leaders who have fought massive social and institutional headwinds to run some of the world's most innovative and successful companies.  Combining years of academic research and interviews, Julia reveals these women's powerful commonalities—they are highly adaptive to change, deeply empathetic in their management style, and much more likely to integrate diverse points of view into their business strategies. This makes these women uniquely equipped to lead, grow businesses, and navigate crises in ways where their male counterparts don't seem as gifted.  Today's episode digs into Boorstin's meticulously researched book as we cover a few of the female tendencies that correlate with great leadership: how women embrace the role of fire-prevention as opposed to fire fighting; their ability to avoid ethical quandaries and group think; and the value of gaining confidence through experience. The monoculture tends to focus on iconic female leaders, she tells us, but there is so much more to gain from focusing on the stories that are not being told, expanding the diversity of images of success for women and men alike.  EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Female qualities correlate with great leadership… Women as fire preventers… The myth of the confidence gap… Feedback bias… MORE FROM JULIA BOORSTIN: When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them CNBC Disruptor 50 Follow Julia on Instagram and Twitter DIVE DEEPER:  “Better Decisions Through Diversity: Heterogeneity Can Boost Group Performance,” Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Study  “How the VC Pitch Process Is Failing Female Entrepreneurs,” Harvard Business Review “Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men,” Harvard Kennedy School Gender Action Portal “The Remarkable Power of Hope,” Psychology Today “Language Bias in Performance Feedback,” Textio 2022 Study To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the markets waver amid concerns of an oncoming–or ongoing–recession, Joe, Becky, and Andrew consider the latest economic commentary from the likes of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, investor Paul Tudor Jones, and Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard. After 16 years of reporting on founders, startups, and tech, CNBC's Julia Boorstin has woven together new research and 60+ interviews with female leaders for her new book, “When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them.” She shares how once-underestimated qualities in female leaders–like vulnerability and empathy–prove to be some of the most effective qualities in the C-suite. In a conversation about entrepreneur headwinds, funding flows, and leadership, Boorstin highlights how everyone can learn lessons from these women's successes. Plus, CNBC's Courtney Reagan reports on Piper Sandler's semi-annual teen survey, including the demographic's favorite trends and buying habits. (Spoiler: Crocs might only be cool for Gen Z.) In this episode:Becky Quick @BeckyQuickJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinJulia Boorstin, @JBoorstinCourtney Reagan, @CourtReaganKatie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 284, an episode with CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent, Julia Boorstin. Get Julia's Book here: https://amzn.to/3ekjT4Y   In this episode, Julia speaks about female leaders and their struggles in facing gender bias and “pattern matching” in largely male-dominated industries. She discusses the key commonalities of female leaders who thrived in spite of the challenges that made them uniquely equipped to lead and grow successful businesses.    Julia also shared her journey of becoming a CNBC senior media and tech correspondent. As an expert, she shares tips on how to prepare for interviews, how to become a better communicator, and how to respond to opportunities.   Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006. She also plays a central role in CNBC's bicoastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” delivering reporting, analysis, and CEO interviews with a focus on social media and the intersection of media and technology.    In 2013, Boorstin created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. She also helped launch the network's ‘Closing the Gap' initiative covering the people and companies closing gender and diversity gaps.  Julia is a graduate of Princeton University, she has been a reporter for Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to CNN and CNN Headline News. She also was an intern for Vice President Gore's domestic policy office. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.    Get Julia's book here: When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them. Julia Boorstin. https://amzn.to/3ekjT4Y   Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

Women's greatest strengths in the workplace are also their most underestimated.That's what CNBC senior media & tech reporter Julia Boorstin explains in her new book, "When Women Lead."Boorstin sat with sixty powerhouse female CEOs and leaders. In the book, she weaves their stories together with research on the most effective strategies women CEOs deploy at work. She provides invaluable lessons for anyone in the workplace.In this conversation, Boorstin explains how women like Katrina Lake, Lena Waithe and Gwyneth Paltrow not only rose to success but empower — and listen — to the people they lead. She breaks down the reasons empathy, gratitude and vulnerability can be superpowers for women leaders. And she shares key insight on confidence, pitching to investors and how women can unlock their leadership potential. In 2012, Boorstin founded the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list of 50 forward-thinking private companies that inspire change. For years she's followed the work of women leaders in her role at CNBC and a former reporter for Fortune Magazine. Pre-order When Women Lead here:https://bit.ly/3fFYFipJulia Boorstin➤instagram.com/juliaboorstin/➤twitter.com/JBoorstin➤facebook.com/JuliaCNBCYou can follow Jessica Yellin here:➤Instagram: instagram.com/jessicayellin​➤Twitter: twitter.com/jessicayellin➤Twitter: twitter.com/newsnotnoise➤Facebook: facebook.com/newsnotnoise➤YouTube: youtube.com/newsnotnoise➤Website: NewsNotNoise.com➤Newsletter: newsnotnoise.bulletin.comSupport this work:➤patreon.com/NewsNotNoiseJessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a channel dedicated to giving you news with real experts and providing facts, not panic attacks. Jessica is a veteran of network news, traveling the globe, covering conflict and crisis. A former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, she reported from around the world and won awards. Now, Yellin uses her voice to break down the news, calmly and clearly for you -- free of punditry, provocation, and yelling.

Julia Boorstin, CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and creator of CNBC Disruptor 50 list shares more about HER career journey AND talks about her new book, When Women Lead. Boorstin is known for creating and launching the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees highlighting private companies challenging companies in established industries. She is now the author of the fabulous book, When Women Lead. We discuss her book that shares stories of over sixty female CEOs and leaders and dozens of new studies including what women achieve, why they succeed and how we can learn from them when they do lead. Hear more about all of this on this episode. Today on #TheKaraGoldinShow. Enjoying this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow? Let me know by clicking on the links below and sending me a quick shout-out on social. Or reach out to me at karagoldin@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/karagoldin/ https://www.instagram.com/karagoldin/ https://twitter.com/karagoldin https://www.facebook.com/KaraGoldin/ Check out our website to view this episode's show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/298 List of links mentioned in this episode: https://www.instagram.com/Juliaboorstin https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaboorstin/ To learn more about When Women Lead and to purchase from a variety of sites: https://juliaboorstin.com/ To purchase When Women Lead on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3T2XZlN

Julia Boorstin, CNBC's senior media and technology correspondent, discusses her upcoming book, “When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed and How We Can Learn From Them.” Boorstin explains her interest in studying how female leaders differ from their male counterparts, and how those differences translate into bottom-line performance. She also calls out the venture capital sector for the woefully insufficient amount of investment dollars that flow into female-led and female-founded business startups.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week marks the anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 28, 1986. Unfortunately, Ukraine has been in the news again the last few months for the horrible things happening in their country. How did the incident in Chernobyl affect the world and what else was being reported on the same day it made headlines around the globe? SOURCES “Advertisement: Waiola Estates.” The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii), April 28, 1986. www.newspapers.com. “Al Capone.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, March 18, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone. Associated Press. “Child Fine after 4-Story Fall.” The Post-Star (Glen Falls, New York), April 29, 1986. www.newspapers.com. Associated Press. “Witnesses Attacked In Boston.” Quad-City Times (Davenport, Iowa), April 26, 1986. www.newspapers.com. Associated Press. “Witnesses Beaten, Harassed after Sentencing.” Springfield Leader and Press (Springfield, Missouri), April 26, 1986. www.newspapers.com. “Baby, Thrown from Window, Caught.” The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee), April 28, 1986. www.newspapers.com. Boorstin, Robert O. “Infant Is Tossed from 4th Floor, but It Is Caught.” The New York Times. The New York Times, April 28, 1986. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/28/nyregion/infant-is-tossed-from-4th-floor-but-it-is-caught.html. “Geraldo Rivera.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, April 6, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera#Talk_shows,_specials,_and_guest_appearances. History.com Editors. “Chernobyl.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, April 24, 2018. https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/chernobyl. Kennedy, John H. “Man Gets 7-10 Years in Racial Attack.” The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), April 17, 1986. www.newspapers.com. Learish, Jessica. “Horrifying Photos of Chernobyl and Its Aftermath.” CBS News. CBS Interactive, March 11, 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/horrifying-photos-of-chernobyl-and-its-aftermath/5/. “Lexington Hotel.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, December 21, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington_Hotel. “The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, December 25, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_Vaults. Quill, Ed. “Civil Rights Violator Loses His Appeal.” The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), December 3, 1987. www.newspapers.com. Williams, Carol J. “Accident Reported At Soviet Nuclear Plant.” Daily Sitka Sentinel (Sitka, Alaska), April 28, 1986. www.newspapers.com. Wishart, Bob. “Gang War Declared over Capone Show.” The Modesto Bee (Modesto, California), April 28, 1986. www.newspapers.com. SOUND SOURCES Al Jolson. “I'll Say She Does.” www.pixabay.com/music. Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies. “Cold Winter Blues.” www.pixabay.com/music. Sophie Tucker. “Reuben Rag.” www.pixabay.com/music.

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Happy holidays! As Christmas approaches, the average American prepares to spend nearly $1,000 on presents, decorations, and family feasting. How did an originally religious festival become so caught up in capitalist consumption? What really defines Christmas in an increasingly secular America? This holiday season, David and Ellie try not to be scrooges as they explore the Christmas Industrial Complex. From Hallmark movies to Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the stories we tell around Christmas can be incredibly varied. In looking at these narratives and more, Ellie and David discuss whether Christmas can be separated from the often heavily capitalist rituals around it. Episode 40.Works DiscussedNewSong, “The Christmas Shoes” Megan Garber, “The Cheesy Endurance of the Made-for-TV Holiday Movie”A New York Christmas WeddingDaniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in AmericaCharles Dickens, A Christmas CarolHistory.com, “Saturnalia”Mari Ruti, Penis Envy and Other Bad FeelingsJim Probasco, “Average Cost of American Holiday Spending”Jonathan Berr, “Hallmark's Christmas Movies Are Predictably Popular With Viewers”Website | overthinkpodcast.comInstagram & Twitter | @overthink_podEmail |  Dearoverthink@gmail.comYouTube | Overthink podcast

Khoa học, như chúng ta vẫn thường tưởng tượng, là những phát minh đầy tính cách mạng, mang trong mình những miêu tả như “độc nhất”, “vô tiền khoáng hậu”, “lừng lẫy năm châu, chấn động địa cầu”. Thực ra, khoa học giống như một quả bóng tuyết: khởi đầu là những viên tuyết nhỏ bé, cứ lăn dần qua hàng thế kỷ, để rồi trở nên khổng lồ. Quả bóng tuyết đó, nếu không có những đốm tuyết ban đầu bên trong, sẽ trở nên rỗng tuếch và tự sụp đổ bởi sức nặng của chính nó. Cuốn sách Những Nhà Khám Phá của Daniel J. Boorstin đã cho thấy khoa học là một hành trình không hồi kết, và con người đã luôn bồi đắp và tiếp sức cho nó. Tác giả lần theo bốn chủ đề chính trong quá trình khám phá thế giới và phát triển khoa học: thời gian, không gian, tự nhiên, xã hội. Đặt mua sách “SENECA: NHỮNG BỨC THƯ ĐẠO ĐỨC – CHỦ NGHĨA KHẮC KỶ TRONG ĐỜI SỐNG” tại đây: https://b.link/seneca-tap01 Ghé Nhà sách Spiderum trên SHOPEE ngay thôi các bạn ơi: https://shp.ee/ynm7jgy Kênh Spiderum Giải Trí đã có Podcast, nghe tại đây: https://anchor.fm/spiderum-giai-tri ______________ Bài viết: Lược sử khám phá khoa học - Phần 1: Thời gian và Không gian Được viết bởi: Tengaria Link bài viết: https://spiderum.com/bai-dang/Luoc-su-kham-pha-khoa-hoc-Phan-1-Thoi-gian-va-Khong-gian-6W27jEg0MfSU --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiderum/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spiderum/support

Does image-based media make us think less about our principles and ideals, and more about pursuing mere appearances? Daniel J. Boorstin thought so. In his book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, Boorstin breaks down why “The Graphic Revolution,” has built a world where our fantasies are more real than our reality. In this book summary, I'll explain why Boorstin says, “By sharpening our images we have blurred all our experience.” Pseudo-events The thirtieth anniversary of a hotel is coming up. They reach out to leaders in the community to form a committee: A banker, a society matron, a lawyer, a preacher. The committee plans a banquet to celebrate the thirty years of service the hotel has given the community. They invite journalists to the banquet to take photos and report it in the newspapers. This hotel's anniversary banquet is what Boorstin calls a “pseudo-event.” Pseudo-events have these four qualities: Pseudo-events are planned, not spontaneous. Pseudo-events are created so they can be reported. Pseudo-events are only ambiguously related to reality. Pseudo-events are self-fulfilling. The event is evidence of the thing the event was planned to illustrate. The thirtieth anniversary banquet didn't happen spontaneously: The hotel created a committee for it. The main reason to have the banquet was to generate press. If the hotel was so valuable, would they have to task members of the community with planning the banquet? It was hardly real. But since this contrived banquet happened, it served as evidence that the hotel was, in fact, valuable to the community. The Graphic Revolution Boorstin blames the proliferation of pseudo-events on what he calls “The Graphic Revolution,” or our rapidly-growing ability create and disseminate imagery. The Graphic Revolution was cited, by the way – as a trigger to our departure from long-form text – in Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, which I summarized on episode 252. The foundation of The Graphic Revolution was built when the telegraph was first applied to news reporting in the 1830s and 40s. The first American newspaper was monthly, but when information could suddenly be transferred around the world in seconds, news became a product to be manufactured. The Associated Press was founded in 1848, making news a salable commodity. As printing technology became more sophisticated – such as the New York Tribune's press, which in the 1870s could print 18,000 papers per hour – the capital required to run a newspaper meant it made good business sense to find more and more news to report. The American Civil and Spanish-American Wars, while newsworthy events, made the news machine bigger and more hungry, leaving more space to fill with pseudo-events once the real events subsided. As the term “Graphic Revolution” implies, graphics were a part of the proliferation of news. The first photograph that appeared in a newspaper was published in 1880. But also, audio is a part of the Graphic Revolution. The phonograph was invented in 1877, followed by radio broadcasts in 1900. The birth of Readers' Digest In 1922, De Witt and Lila Acheson Wallace used scissors and paste to put together the first issue of their magazine, in a one-room basement office in Greenwich Village. They carried the magazine copies to the post office and mailed them. It was an instant success. The Wallaces were able to start Reader's Digest with almost no money, because they didn't need editors or writers. De Witt simply went to the New York Public Library, and wrote summaries of articles in the magazines there. Reader's Digest became more popular than the magazines it was summarizing. In fact, it was nearly twice as popular as America's second-most popular magazine. Reader's Digest became so popular, that – according to the company's official historian – they had to help the magazines they were summarizing stay in business. To do this, they would write a short summary of an article. They would then write the article and place it in another magazine. At one point, more than half of summaries published in Reader's Digest were of articles they had placed in other magazines. The copy is more real than the original As Boorstin says, ”The image, more interesting than its original, has itself become the original.” The runaway success of Reader's Digest was a symptom that reading had become not about reading – it had instead become about creating the perception of being “well-informed.” People wanted to browse the summaries to feel that they were aware of what information was out there, not to learn anything from the information itself. As the Graphic Revolution and our ability to reproduce images has strengthened, copies have become more real to us than originals. We go to an art exhibit to see the original of the painting we've seen copies of – visitors to a Gauguin exhibit once complained that colors in the original paintings were less-brilliant than the reproductions they were used to. Movies became important in about 1910, often reproducing stories found in novels – by 1917, Publishers' Weekly was writing about “cinema novels.” In the 1880s, you could only enjoy music if you or someone near you was playing an instrument. By the 1930s, Muzak was mashing together 24-hour mixes of sound to be played in businesses as “background music.” At one point, streaming their “muzak” made them the largest user of telephone networks. And yes, bloggers like myself gain traffic by attracting readers to summaries of books, such as The Image, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Images beget images The proliferation of imagery creates demand for that imagery, which drives demand for pseudo-events. This shapes our culture, driving us away from our principles. Pseudo-events are in higher demand than actual spontaneous events for several reasons: Pseudo-events can be planned to be more dramatic. Pseudo-events are easier to spread (you can have the news release ready to go before the pseudo-event happens – Boorstin points out it should be called a news “holdback”). Pseudo-events are easily repeated. Pseudo-events cost money to produce, so there's more incentive to spread them (the publicist wants to show results, the client wants those results, the journalists need something to write about). Pseudo-events make more sense (they are planned, after all). Pseudo-events are more memetic. They have elements people want to spread. Pseudo-events are social currency. Knowing about pseudo-events happening in the world becomes a test of being “informed” – something that's encouraged on the societal level. Pseudo-events spawn other pseudo-events. The effects of pseudo-events As pseudo-events spread in our image-based media, they change what we value in our culture. Pseudo-events affect who we look up to in society, how we travel, and what art we value. Pseudo-events and heroes Pseudo-events shape whom we choose as heroes. We used to choose heroes based upon their accomplishments, and how those accomplishments represented our ideals. Now we choose our heroes based upon how they appear in media – are they in the news a lot, and do they project an image in which we see ourselves? I shared in my Amusing Ourselves to Death summary that early U.S. Presidents wouldn't have been recognized on the street. We didn't know them by their images – we knew them by the words they wrote or said. Demagogues such as Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler show what we get when we seek someone who fits our image of a “Great Leader.” Today, our heroes are our celebrities. We don't make them famous because they are great – we think they are great because they are famous. Celebrities know that to be celebrities they need to get in the news and stay there. They create pseudo-events of themselves, including intensifying their images by publicizing relationships between one another. Meanwhile, dead people who deserve to be heroes fall into the background – they won't hire a publicist, and journalists get nothing out of writing about them. Pseudo-events and travel Pseudo-events have shaped the way we travel. The word “travel” used to mean the same as “travail.” In other words, travel meant trouble, work, and torment. We love that we can easily get directly to our destination, and bypass any places that might be along the way. We calculate distance not in miles, but in hours. We don't move through space, we move through time. We expect the faraway to be familiar, and we expect the nearby to be exotic. But travel used to be travailing. It meant spending time with strangers and strange cultures. It meant getting lost and being disoriented. But the capital required to build railroads and then highways meant we needed more people traveling. And to get more people to travel, we had to make travel less travailing. Travel has become a tautology. At the time Boorstin wrote The Image, in 1962, that meant traveling to Mount Sinai to see where they filmed the movie The Ten Commandments – or traveling to Rome to see if the Trevi Fountain really looks like it did in the movie Three Coins in the Fountain. Today, we go to see the places we've seen on Instagram, then take a selfie to…post to Instagram. Pseudo-events and movies I already mentioned how novels were made into movies, which then spawned novels written to become movies. The mass-distribution of actors in movies spawned the star system. Movie-goers wanted to see stars with a distinctive look, such as Mary Pickford's golden curls or Charlie Chaplin's bowed legs and cane. By being put on film, actors no longer get direct feedback from their audiences. Actors aren't tested by how well they interpret the story – the story is tested by how well it displays the actor. The “bestselling” book is a pseudo-event The publishing industry became driven by what Boorstin calls best-sellerism. The Bookman was a literary journal that turned the idea of the best-seller into an institution, around the turn of the century. Printing books costs money, so publishers started planning “reprints” before they even released the originals. A paperback publisher wouldn't plan their paperback until they had a contract to print the hardback. The hardback publishers wouldn't print a hardback until they had a contract to print the paperback. Either contract served as evidence the book was popular, which would drive sales. Booksellers only wanted to order new books they were sure would be bestsellers. Yet the public became so obsessed with purchasing bestsellers, bookstores couldn't carry the really big bestsellers. Retail stores like Macy's would sell them below cost to attract customers, thus making bookstores unable to compete. We want to be deceived Pseudo-events are so ubiquitous in every part of our life, we've come to expect them. We actually want to be deceived. We expect the advertising we encounter to be hyperbolic and non-sensical. Maybe we want to see the originals of the photoshopped model not to change our unrealistic expectations, but rather to marvel at the work that goes into deceiving us? Consider that Schlitz advertised their beer bottles were steam-sterilized, which boosted their sales, or that Lucky Strike advertised the tobacco in their cigarettes was toasted. Nevermind that all beer bottles were already steam sterilized, and all cigarettes toasted. The claim by Ivory soap that their soap is 99.4% pure is just a little modest, so as to be believable nonsense. Are we pursuing images, or are we living life? Boorstin may sound like he wants people to get off his lawn – and he does write with a shrill tone much of the time. But much like Marshall McLuhan would say two years later in Understanding Media, which I summarized on episode 248, Boorstin is mostly trying to make us aware of our own illusions. Boorstin's concern is mostly that, “We fill our lives not with experience, but with the images of experience.” Neil Postman later built on Boorstin's ideas to warn in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that image-based media was devolving our discourse into nonsense. A final quote from Boorstin: Chewing gum is the television of the mouth. There is no danger so long as we do not think that by chewing gum we are getting nourishment. But the Graphic Revolution has offered us the means of making all experience a form of mental chewing gum. There's your The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America summary I hope you enjoyed this summary of The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America, and lest your reading experience consist only of summaries, check out the full book. I personally found it to be a great history of media and publishing. It's one of the major classics of media theory – a must-read for anyone who creates media. The Mind Management, Not Time Management audiobook is here! Listen to the Mind Management, Not Time Management audiobook free with an Audible trial, or search for the audiobook on your favorite platform. About Your Host, David Kadavy David Kadavy is author of Mind Management, Not Time Management, The Heart to Start and Design for Hackers. Through the Love Your Work podcast, his Love Mondays newsletter, and self-publishing coaching David helps you make it as a creative. 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ATELIER SPECIAL: YOU, ME, AND THE SCREEN BETWEEN (AN ELEGY) -- A novelist doesn't have to write about the here and now in order to be writing about the here and now. In this special installment of In the Atelier: a new essay by M. Allen Cunningham about how today's civic breakdowns are rooted in a pandemic of screen-addiction that goes back to a misunderstood chapter of American history. Cunningham's new novel Q&A reimagines those historic events in light of our own time. You can read Cunningham's essay in full at: medium.com/@M_A_Cunningham Find excerpts from Cunningham's novel at: mallencunningham.com/qa Mentioned in this episode: clarity of mind and clarity of line; M. Allen Cunningham's novel Q&A; what screens gave us; agitation; neverending flood of images; instantaneousness; Daniel J. Boorstin; involuntary commitments; landfills; questioning the value of privacy; all things reduced to equivalence; performing our lives; sharing economy; attention economy; gig economy; creative class; the Arab Spring; Occupy Wall Street; the Million Women March; Black Lives Matter; new neural networks; from ideas to memes; bots and trolls; 45th American presidency; impeachment; big onscreen metrics; television history; quiz shows; quiz show scandals; Twenty-One; Charles Van Doren; Columbia University; Pulitzer Prize; TV fakes; Van Doren's Congressional statement; disinformation; conspiracy theories; CBS Radio's Invitation to Learning; the warped logic of the small screen; rewards come to those who fake; Lionel Trilling; Trilling's Sincerity & Authenticity; self-deception; seeming over being; JFK assassination; Vietnam War; OJ Simpson trial; reality TV; "likes," "friends," & stats; Facebook; Twitter; Instagram; techno-cultural remodeling of self and society; democratic breakdowns; The Apprentice; counterfeit selves; ideological entrenchment; bamboozling the self; web-enabled tools of self-delusion; viral falsehoods; Covid; the 2020 election; windows versus mirrors; screen addiction; narcissism; the screen mind; YouTube; the insanity of January 6th, 2021. Music: "Youth" by ANBR; "Tremors" by Spearfisher; "Tell Me You Love Me" by Kick Lee; "Unknown" by Kutiman; "Blood Meridian" by Spearfisher; "Thoughts" by ANBR (All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/in-the-atelier/support

On this edition of Parallax Views, for a period in the 1970s a conspiracy-drenched genre known alternately as the paranoid thriller or paranoid political came into vogue. The aftermath of the political assassinations of the 1960s, which saw the violent deaths of public figures like Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., black radical Malcolm X, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy, combined with the tumult of the Vietnam War, the Presidency of Richard Nixon, the saga of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and the scandal of the Watergate break-in created the perfect storm for critical, bleak reassessments of the American political system that stood in stark contrast to the seeming innocence of the "Camelot years" that preceded it. Meanwhile, the collapse of the Old Hollywood studio system led to a period (often referred to as New Hollywood) of daring and creative flourishing in American cinema that produced such modern classics as Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, and Midnight Cowboy among others. It was from this fertile ground that the conspiracy-drenched 1970s paranoid thriller rose to prominence. Among the classics of this particular genre are such features as Three Days of the Condor, The Boys from Brazil, The Conversation, Soylent Green, Serpico, Capricorn One, and the film that's been referred to as "The Godfather of paranoid political thrillers", The Parallax View. Following in the footsteps of 1973's Executive Action, The Parallax View dealt with questions of conspiracy as they related to political assassinations. But whereas the Burt Lancaster starring Executive Action offered a conspiratorial explanation for the JFK assassination, The Parallax View took a different approach. Although the film featured veiled references to real life matters like the Warren Commission, the death of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, the PERMINDEX trade organization believed by New Orleans DA Jim Garrison to have played a pivotal role in the JFK assassination, and the "girl in the polka dot dress" of the RFK assassination, its characters and events are ultimately constructions of its makers imaginations. In other words, The Parallax View is a fictional exploration of political assassinations and the conspiracy theories that arise from them. The Parallax View stars Warren Beatty as dogged reporter Joseph Frady, who, after the fatal shooting of a presidential candidate, stumbles upon a vast conspiracy involving a shadowy organization known as the Parallax Corporation. As Frady falls deeper down the proverbial rabbit hole in his search for the truth he finds that the Parallax Corporation seemingly specializes in the recruitment of assassins for highly-valued hits on political leaders. Will Frady be able to bust the story wide open by staying one-step ahead of the Parallax Corporation? Or is the Parallax Corporation already one step ahead of him? Based on the novel of the same name by Lorenzo Singer, The Parallax View was adapted for the silver screen by David Giler and Three Days of the Condor's Lorenzo Semple, Jr. with a rewrite by Robert Towne amidst a looming Writer's Guild of America strike. The film marks the second entry in director Alan J. Pakula's "Paranoia Trilogy" that started with Klute and ended with All the President Men. Although The Parallax View received mix reviews upon it initial release, today it is generally considered a classic of its genre that reflects America in the 1970s and the worst fears many had about its political system during that turbulent moment in the nation's history. Although the film does deal with political assassinations and conspiracy, it also provides a powerful meditation, specifically through its infamous montage scene known as the "Parallax Test Sequence", on the U.S.'s often spoken of "loss of innocence" after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Additionally the film's cinematography by Gordon Willis and soundtrack by Michael Small have been praised as well. It is, perhaps, for this reason that The Parallax View, all these years later in 2021, received the coveted Criterion Collection treatment in a new Blu-Ray release. To coincide with this Parallax Views, which takes its name in part from this film, is offering up a three part retrospective of the classic 1970s paranoid thriller. In part three, Jon Boorstin, who worked as an intern/assistant to director Alan J. Pakula on The Parallax View, joins us to reminisce about the film and its significance in light of the January 6th riots. In addition to The Parallax View Jon also served as the director for the Oscar-nominated 1974 short documentary Exploratorium and has written such books as Mabel and Me: A Novel About the Movies and Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker. For Jon The Parallax View is more than a movie dealing with conspiracy. It is, he believes, a movie that uses conspiracy as a launching off point to explore the best and worst aspects of the human condition and how we can be manipulated by without realizing it. We talk about Gordon Willis's cinematography, Alan Pakula's vision intent when making the movie, comparing The Parallax View to Pakula's All the President's Men (which Jon helped produce), the character of Joseph Frady and what he has in common with the Parallax Corporation's assassins, the infamous "Parallax Test Sequence" and its meaning, and much, much more!

All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 76, I join writer, filmmaker associate producer and Alan J. Pakula's assistant on All The President's Men, Jon Boorstin. Jon and I discuss everything about his experience working on *President's* , the counterintuitive editing practices and sitting up close and personal with the under-rated master Alan J. Pakula. About Jon Boorstin ------------------ Jon Boorstin is a writer and filmmaker who works in a broad range of media. His novel The Newsboys' Lodging-House ( http://www.jonboorstin.com/the-newsboys-lodging-house ) won the New York Society Library Book Award for Historical Fiction, and Publishers Weekly called his novel Pay or Play ( http://www.jonboorstin.com/pay-or-play ) "the definitive send-up of Hollywood." He made the Oscar®-nominated documentary Exploratorium ( http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?program=609&project=76 ) ; created Time Mobile, a pioneer prototype video game, for Charles Eames and IBM; wrote the IMAX film To the Limit , winner of the Geode Award for best IMAX film; was Associate Producer on All The President's Men , and wrote and, with director Alan J. Pakula, produced the thriller Dream Lover , winner of the Grand Prix at the Festival du Cinéma Fantastique in Avoriaz, France. He is the co-creator (and show-runner) of the television series Three Moons over Milford, a People Magazine "Must See" comedy about the end of the world. Boorstin has written a book on practical film theory, The Hollywood Eye , re-issued as Making Movies Work ( http://www.jonboorstin.com/book ) and widely used in film schools, and has taught film at USC, the American Film Institute, and around the world, including as Fulbright professor at the National Film Institute in Pune, India. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. *Website:* http://www.jonboorstin.com/about On Its 40th Anniversary: Notes on the Making of All the President's Men ( https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-its-40th-anniversary-notes-on-the-making-of-all-the-presidents-men/ ) - By Jon Boorstin ( https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/jon-boorstin ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Julia Boorstin joined CNBC in May 2006 as a general assignment reporter. Later that year, she became CNBC’s media and entertainment reporter working from CNBC’s Los Angeles Bureau. Boorstin covers media with a special focus on the intersection of media and technology. Boorstin joined CNBC from Fortune magazine where she was a business writer and reporter since 2000. During that time, she was also a contributor to “Street Life,” a live market wrap-up segment on CNN Headline News. Follow Julia Boorstin on Twitter @jboorstin.

Today is International Coffee Day. There is a legend that tells of coffee's discovery: In Ethiopia, there was a goat herd who observed his goats didn't want to go to sleep at night after eating berries from a certain tree. After he reported this to the Abbot of a local monastery, the Abbott gathered the berries himself and then made a drink with them. The Abbott's discovered the drink kept him awake and alert for the long hours of evening prayers. The rest is history. The coffee plant is actually a shrub. It's an evergreen that has a light gray bark and shiny, dark leaves that are five inches long. If the coffee plant wasn't pruned back, it could grow up to thirty feet tall in the wild. It takes the coffee plant five years to be able to produce fruit. Coffee plants have an interesting life cycle; they can live to be 100 years old but their producing years are between the ages of 7 and 20.  And, the next time you think about the equator, reframe it as "The Bean Belt". Coffee plants grow best along the equator.       Brevities #OTD  Today is the anniversary of the death of the “Dean of Landscape Architects”, Jens Jensen, who died on this day in 1860. Jens Jensen was featured in The Living Green Documentary; he was an early pioneer in the conservation movement and used art as activism. He was ahead of his time. Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright were contemporaries. Jensen made over 600 Landscapes and was known as the "Poet of the Prairie." The prairie was the theme of his work and Jensen likened the prairie to the sea. He felt there was a spiritualism that rose out of the long grass and that every person on earth needed the living green. He valued the natural lands and he recognized that nature had restorative powers. Jensen was a maker of public parks and spaces.  Later in life, Jensen moved his family into a remote part of Wisconsin called Ellison Bay; located in northern door county. Even in 2010, the population was just 165. It was Jens Jensen who said, "Where there is forest, there is peace." and “Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.”       #OTD   Today is the birthday of California plant collector, LeRoy Abrams, who was born on this day in 1874.  Abrams was born in Sheffield Iowa. He moved west with his parents as a small boy. As a graduate student, Abrams performed yeoman's work botanizing the area around Los Angeles. A biographical sketch of Abrams said, "[Abrams] criss-crossed southern California in a wagon, on the back of a mule or burrow, and on foot to make field observations... and collect specimens from Santa Barbara to Yuma, from Needles to San Diego, and from the Salton Sink prior to its flooding to the summits of Old Baldy" In 1902, Abrams published a flora of Los Angeles and Vicinity. (The vicinity included a fifty mile radius around LA). In 1909, Abrams married a fellow student at Stanford. Her name was Letitia Patterson; they shared everything together - especially the joys of their mountain cabin they had built with their own hands on the west side of Fallen Leaf Lake. When their only daughter died a few short years after her college graduation, they shouldered their grief together. Abrams served as the director of the Natural History museum at Stanford where he taught botany for thirty-four years. He did not live to see the completion of his dream; a four volume work called An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States(Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1923–1960, 4 vols.). However, it was Abrams dream to carry out; he had been inspired by the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and their three-volume work, An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions,by Britton and Brown.  Abrams was a loving teacher. His students called him "Father."       #OTD On this day in 1887, the botanists John and Harvey Ruth made a trip to Wyker's Island to collect fall flora. Wyker's Island is now known as Lynn Island, in the Delaware River, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Ruth's rowed their own boat to the island on this day in 1887, where they discovered the island was covered with asters and butterfly weed.       #OTD On this day in 1891, the newspapers carried the obituary of the self-taught botanist and poet, Cyrus M. Tracy who had died on September 29th. Tracy was the Chair of Botany for the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. He is remembered for his work in creating the noble forest park known as Lynn Woods. Three times the size of Central Park, Lynn Woods is a massive green space located outside of Boston. A hidden gem, Lynn Woods enjoys less public awareness because it is not part of our National State Park system. It features a rose garden, three reservoirs and a 48-foot-tall stone tower. In 1850, Tracy was working to secure protection for Lynn Woods and he formed a group called the "Exploring Circle" with four other residents; the went botanizing in the woods and then shared their discoveries with others. When Tracy wrote his Studies of the Essex Flora - a flora of the area around Boston - he recognized the immeasurable value of Lynn Woods, saying "that a district so near the metropolis" was worth protecting. In 1891, when Lynn Woods was threatened by development, a Commission report noted Tracy's role in protecting the park: "His call, his inner inspiration was to teach the people of Lynn that they had in the Woods "an asylum of inexhaustible pleasures." ... He led parties of enthusiastic naturalists to scenes of beauty and grandeur hitherto unseen, save by his eyes. He dedicated hilltops and glens with mystic rites."        #OTD On this day in 1916, it was State Flower anniversary day in California. There was a program at the Native Sons Building at the University of California; featuring speakers and festivities. One hundred years earlier, the California poppy, the Eschscholzia californica had been named by Adelbert von Chamisso in honor of his friend, Johanns Friedrich Von Eschscholz. It was both a courtesy and a quid pro quo. In turn, Eschscholz named plants for Chamisso.           Unearthed Words  "All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to  field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken." - Thomas Wolfe, Novelist   “Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers” - Daniel Boorstin, Historian, born #OTD in 1914   "Few things are riskier than "fine writing," but Miss Welty has never been afraid to risk it. She spoke once in conversation of plant explorers who go to Nepal and Sikkim, risking their lives to introduce Alpine flowers to gardens. "Now that's something - discovering new primroses - that's worth taking trouble with, worth risking something for," she said. She seemed to set the plant explorers, bringing garden treasures from the Himalayas, over against the ordinary world we all live in everyday." - From an interview with American Short Story Writer and Novelist, Eudora Welty, in The Washington Post, 1972      Today's book recommendation: The Naturalist by Thom Conroy. Conroy's book is about the real life of Dr Ernst Dieffenbach who died on this day in 1855. Dieffenbach was a scientist, explorer, a loner, a revolutionary, and an outcast. Gardeners will recognize the name Dieffenbach because the dumb cane, or Dieffenbachia, is named in honor of Dieffenbach.  Dieffenbach was part of the New Zealand Company’s 1839 colonial expedition. Once in New Zealand, Dieffenbach predicted how colonization would impact the country.  The cover of this book, The Naturalist, is one of my personal favorites. It looks marvelous on a table beside the couch or on a bedside table; plus the story of Dieffenbach will stay with you; it's both beautiful and sad.     Today's Garden Chore #OTD Today is October 1st, the day all Poinsettia owners are to confine their plants to complete darkness for 14 hours a day. Place plants in a darkened closet or room (with no lights at any time) from about 5pm to 7am, daily, for 8 to 10 weeks. But, be sure to give your plant  10 hours of natural light daily. This change in the light will set the buds and cause bracts to color. The plant will come into full bloom November or December. Don't forget that the main attraction with poinsettias is not its flowers, but its leaves. In case you're wondering; the flowers are those little yellow clustered buds in the center.       Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart #OTD On this day in 1945, The Morning Call out of New Jersey shared the story of Nurseryman William Hallicy. During WWII, Hallicy had served for twenty-two months with the Seabees, the Navy's construction force. While he was relieved to go home to Clifton, New Jersey, he faced a grim scene. Right after joining he Seabees, Hallicy's nursery had been decimated by a brush fire. There wasn't much left to come home to; just weeds and charred trees. After he returned home and took stock of his situation, Hallicy estimated it would take him almost a decade to grow salable stock from new seedlings. He planned to raise poultry until his nursery could produce again. But a few days later, Hallicy and his wife were awakened early in the morning by the sound of truck motors on the front yard. Members of the North Jersey Nurseryman's Association had worked together to honor Hallicy's service with the Seabees. The newspaper said: "Unannounced, they appeared at the Hallicy home with $2,500 worth of small trees in 15 trucks. With tractor, plow and spades, they cleared the 4-acre plot and set out the trees. In a few hours, the Hallicy Nursery was right smack back in business. Neighbor Hallicy started and gulped. He finally managed to pull himself together and serve beer. But nothing could wash down v the lump in his throat... We're getting one of our own just thinking: about his neighbors. Makes us want to go right out and buy a big block of stock in human nature, common and preferred." This incident was so unusual that newspapers all over the country picked up the story. It even made The Reader's Digest.       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Pulse Evolution is an entertainment company that used a hologram technique several years ago to summon the ghost of slain rapper Tupac Shakur at the Coachella music festival. The necromantic language seems appropriate. This was not a music video per se, but a live performance. Whether Ghost Dancing will become a new entertainment venue or just another passing fad remains to be seen, but it says something about the progression of celebrity culture born more than a century ago out of the Graphic Revolution. In his groundbreaking book The Image, historian Daniel Boorstin described how our culture had created a thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life. Taken together, telegraphy, photography, radio, cinema, and television brought forth the pseudo-event, an occurrence staged to call attention to itself. Boorstin was not just concerned with the now-familiar photo-op or media event. He put his finger on a much larger problem. Americans not only confused the copy with the original but also actually preferred the copy to the original. News was no longer gathered; it was made. The traveler, a person who travails, had been replaced with the tourist a person who stays at American hotels in France made to look like French hotels. This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Arthur W. Hunt III about his CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL cultural discernment article Necromancing the Stone: The Thrill of Dancing with the Dead.

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, the media decided decades ago that they were going to report the news and interpret it for you from a liberal perspective and that’s what we are seeing today. Now the media is claiming we lost the suburbs in the election because of President Trump but that's wrong, its immigration that cost us the suburbs and consequentially some House seats in the election. When Ronald Reagan and the Bush's won, Florida, Texas, and Colorado, they were solid red states. Back then the media wondered how the Democrats would ever win the presidency without physically changing the electorate. Well they're doing it! As assimilation has become extinct, we continue to lose because the population is changing. Mark reiterated his thoughts from his book Liberty and Tyranny in 2008 outline that birthright citizenship is not guaranteed by the 14th Amendment and it is immigration, both legal and illegal, which is fueling our problem with assimilation. Then, we look at new pseudo-events in the media, through the lens of Daniel Boorstin's book "A Guide to Pseudo Events in the Media". Boorstin describes pseudo-events as events that are not spontaneous, not train wrecks, but are planned and planted and exist solely to be reproduced by the media. Ambiguity is also a telltale sign of a pseudo-event. What Jim Acosta did last week at the Presidential press conference is exactly what a pseudo-event is. Later, California is on fire and the media blames Trump for his comments on forest management. Yet, Governor Jerry Brown makes comments blaming climate change deniers and does not get criticized by the media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, the media decided decades ago that they were going to report the news and interpret it for you from a liberal perspective and that’s what we are seeing today. Now the media is claiming we lost the suburbs in the election because of President Trump but that's wrong, its immigration that cost us the suburbs and consequentially some House seats in the election. When Ronald Reagan and the Bush's won, Florida, Texas, and Colorado, they were solid red states. Back then the media wondered how the Democrats would ever win the presidency without physically changing the electorate. Well they're doing it! As assimilation has become extinct, we continue to lose because the population is changing. Mark reiterated his thoughts from his book Liberty and Tyranny in 2008 outline that birthright citizenship is not guaranteed by the 14th Amendment and it is immigration, both legal and illegal, which is fueling our problem with assimilation. Then, we look at new pseudo-events in the media, through the lens of Daniel Boorstin's book "A Guide to Pseudo Events in the Media". Boorstin describes pseudo-events as events that are not spontaneous, not train wrecks, but are planned and planted and exist solely to be reproduced by the media. Ambiguity is also a telltale sign of a pseudo-event. What Jim Acosta did last week at the Presidential press conference is exactly what a pseudo-event is. Later, California is on fire and the media blames Trump for his comments on forest management. Yet, Governor Jerry Brown makes comments blaming climate change deniers and does not get criticized by the media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Public libraries are important access points to the internet. But sometimes people use library computers to engage in activities that are controversial activities for public spaces, like watching pornography. We sat down with Rob Caluori, the Director of Information Technology for the Westchester Library System, to talk about the techniques libraries use to provide open, secure, and safe access to the internet. Audio Mastering by Dalton Harts Further Reading: American Council of the Blind v. Boorstin: http://www.leagle.com/decision/19861455644FSupp811_11311.xml "Braille Playboy Under Fire" by Lloyd Grove, July 19, 1985 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/07/19/braille-playboy-under-fire/3683a16a-8a3d-471b-8d6c-c0a7e2e72cc5/?utm_term=.6b9a53bc5562 FAQs on E-Rate Program for Schools and Libraries: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/universal-service-program-schools-and-libraries-e-rate Music and Soundtracks: Opening track: “Magic” by Otis MacDonald from the YouTube Audio Library "Rodeo Show" by The Green Orbs from the YouTube Audio Library "TasmanianPower" by Isaac Ionescu from freesound.org “A Gentleman” by Podington Bear from the Free Music Archive Tools used to record this podcast: Blue Yeti microphone: www.bluemic.com/products/yeti/ Transcribe: transcribe.wreally.com/app Reaper: www.reaper.fm/ Izotope: www.izotope.com/en/products/repai…plug-in-pack.html

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https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Wisdom-Unplugged2.png () Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 452 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomInvest in Yourself – Wisdom Unpluggedhttps://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Invest-in-yourself2.jpg () Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is day 452 of our trek, and it is Thursday and time for our 3-minute mini-trek called Wisdom Unplugged. This short nugget of wisdom includes an inspirational quote with a little additional content for today's trek. Consider this your vitamin supplement of wisdom each Tuesday and Thursday. So, let's jump right in with today's nugget. Today's quote is from Daniel J. Boorstin, who says, “Books are the main source of our knowledge, our reservoir of first faith, memory, wisdom, morality, poetry, philosophy, history, and science.” Have you read a good book lately? If not you are missing out on the potential for self-development that could be yours. Books, in whatever format that you prefer, will open a universe of knowledge to you that you will otherwise miss. With the resources that we have available on the internet today, there are virtually no barriers and the investment is very low, other than the time that you invest in improving yourself. An investment in yourself will always have a significant return. There are no limits to what you can learn and what you can become except for the limits that you place on yourself. As God instructed Joshua, “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Invest.jpg () That's a wrap for today's Wisdom Unplugged. If you would like access to my database of over 10,000 inspirational quotes, the link is available on the main page of https://wisdom-trek.com (Wisdom-Trek.com). As you enjoy these nuggets of wisdom, encourage your friends and family to join us, and then come along tomorrow for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy. Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly, your friend as I serve you through the Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal each day. As we take this trek of life together, let us always: Live Abundantly (Fully) Love Unconditionally Listen Intentionally Learn Continuously Lend to others Generously Lead with Integrity Leave a Living Legacy Each Day This is Guthrie Chamberlain reminding you to Keep Moving Forward, Enjoy Your Journey, and Create a Great Day Every Day! See you tomorrow for Philosophy Friday!

Amelia Earhart, Aviation Pioneer   "Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”   In the 19th century. It was thought by experts that going at speeds of over 30 miles an hour on railroad trains would induce suffocation. I am assuming that this was because the normal force of outward breath was less than the pressure of air rushing by at high speeds. This actually is logical in the absence of experimentation. I am assuming the only persons who had gone faster were those who had fallen from great heights, and they weren’t talking. Later it was proven to be just so much rubbish, and now we travel much faster with no ill effects other than the occasional bug on the windshield.  Sailing past the edge of the world that was thought to be flat, crossing the sound barrier, reaching the moon, and a myriad of other amazing things were once thought to be impossible, but humans surpassed their fear and reached these milestones, and lived. Humans who are less brave have a long history of predicting dire consequences when others are attempting something they are too afraid to try.  Those who spend so much time predicting doom and gloom are not going to accomplish much. Those who quietly experiment and work toward that “unreachable” goal, will have much more success. Remember, bravery is not the absence of fear, it is being afraid and pushing through that fear to accomplish the goal.   President of the United States, John Quincy Adams said: “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”   Don’t discount the value of discovery. Many of us are afraid to try things because we don’t know everything about the subject. It actually has nothing to do with being an expert. It doesn’t mean it can’t be done. It only means it hasn’t been accomplished YET. Learn what you need along the way, once you have set that theoretically unreachable goal. Don’t listen to those who know it can’t be done. They may have had the ability to innovate educated right out of them. You believe it can be learned and accomplished. Go for it.   “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel J. Boorstin     Amelia Earhart: The Official Site   Amelia Earhart on Wikipedia ----------------------------------     Samuel L. Jackson, Actor   “What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz.”   When humans meet each other, they feel the need to put others in a box for their own comfort. Stereotyping is something that we invent on our own. The fewer boxes we have to slot others into, the easier it is for us. Unfortunately, this makes it much harder for those we stuff into those boxes. According to Dictionary.com, a stereotype in culture is defined as: A too simple and therefore distorted image of a group. Believing that all old people are a certain way, all young people think this, all of a particular race have this habit, or rich people are all waiting to victimize any poor person that is out after dark, is simply wrong. Why not meet someone and reserve judgement  until the new person has proven what they REALLY are? It is a lot harder than you think to find two people who are exactly alike.  I was raised in a family with 5 boys, and no girls. One would think being raised in the same environment with the same parents would cause us to be identical. Not true. First of all, we each have a different turn to our personalities, and birth order has a lot to do with different pressures that shaped our lives and attitudes. Some live in town, some in the suburbs, and I like living out in the country. We have many different interests, and find that when one of us encounters a problem, we know who is best in a particular area, and we are each ready to listen to the expertise of the other. In the real world, I don’t like being told what I am thinking or what my value system must be because of what I appear to be. “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is really good advice in this case. Read the person over time and learn what they are really like. Don’t let your preconceived notions box them in and don’t attempt to force them into behaviors they find alien, just to make yourself more comfortable. There are so many variations in thought and experience that new people can’t help but be interesting if you are open to listen and learn about them. The people I find the most interesting are those who have had the most different lives than what I have lived. How boring would life be if everyone were just like you, or at least could fit into the few little categories we each have created in our minds to keep everything nice and tidy. It’s only so our ways of thinking won’t be challenged by meeting someone who behaves differently than we think they should. Let’s let everyone be who they really are, and let them show us themselves. Don’t try to make it up for them. Let them be who they are.     A final quote: “Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.” Albert Ellis   Samuel L. Jackson on International Movie Database   Samuel L. Jackson on Twitter   --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE!  iTunes  Stitcher  Tunein     CHECK US OUT ON   Facebook  Twitter  Tumblr

This Podcast Is Episode Number 0102 And It Will Be About The Top Ten Myths Of  Construction Bookkeeping Over The Past Few Decades We Have Heard And Read Some Really Good Construction Bookkeeping Myths And Legends And Here Are A Few #10 "I thought the QuickBooks website said that QuickBooks was easy to setup and use" #09 "Since it has Quick in the name then of course QuickBooks is easy, why else would they do that?" #08 "I know how to write checks and balance my bank statement so how hard can it be to use QuickBooks" #07 "I attended a full day QuickBooks class and got this pretty paper certificate that says I know QuickBooks"  #06 "I've been doing bookkeeping for over twenty years and you can't teach me nothing I don't already know" #05 "I have worked at a bank for over ten years and seen hundreds of financial statements so I can use QuickBooks" #04 "I am a C.P.A. and I know everthing about accounting, so doing the bookkeeping for a contractor child's play" #03 "I have lots of experience because the last four contractors I did bookkeeping for all filed for bankruptcy"   #02 "I took an accounting course in college so doing the bookkeeping for a construction company can't be that hard" #01 "I have a degree in accounting which I have never used, but I can do contractor bookkeeping how hard can it be?" We have heard hundreds more similar to the ones shown above; however, these are the top ten from number ten who will do the least damage to number one who will, has and does the most damage of all. As Daniel J. Boorstin said "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." I find the more I learn about construction accounting the more there is about that I don't know. This is why everyone working here at Fast Easy Accounting are continually learning and updating our skills. And that is why we specialize in contractor bookkeeping services and only allow a few highly qualified business owners who are not directly involved in construction to be a part of this exclusive club. Do we cost more than most other bookkeepers and bookkeeping firms? That depends on what you want. If you want to spend as little as possible on your contractor bookkeeping services search Craigslist they have hundreds of them. I know this because we fix a lot of their QuickBooks setup messes.  If you want to hire a bookkeper employee consider these three important things: #1 - It will cost more than you think and you will still need outside accounting help! #2 - Bookkeeper embezzlement is on the rise! #3 - You need to invest at least $10,000 in hardware and software or you will pay for it in bookkeeper labor! the graphic below which shows that an in-house bookkeeper paid $15.00 an hour will end up costing you $25.29 per hour! And in most cases we can do the job for less money, faster and more accurately with a team of people, each one specializing in different areas of construction accounting and contractor bookkeeping services. #1 - Fully Burdened Bookkeeper Cost Simply means what it will cost you to hire someone including the company portion of the payroll taxes and all those little costs that only an accountant like me would think about. The example below shows a part-time in-house bookkeeper at $15.00 an hour working 10 hours a week. Notice this poor soul does not have any benefits at all and they still cost the company $25.29 per hour! For more on this please visit www.FastEasyAccounting.com/bc These costs do not include heavy training for your bookkeeper; read The Nine Steps for more information on this. The two happiest days in a construction company owner's life is the day he hires a bookkeeper and the day he outsources his bookkeeping. Generally speaking we know from our research a typical contractor with 2-4 employees and annual sales of $500,000 will need at least a part-time bookkeeper for 10 hours a week and they will try to get away with only paying them $15.00 an hour plus overhead and it will cost their construction company approximately $13,000 - $15,000 a year and most of the time they will still overpay their taxes, have bad or non-existent financial and Job Costing Reports. But you’d still need an in-house bookkeeper, right? Well… perhaps not. See, outsourcing is often interesting in that, while you still need administrative resources, they can be less skilled. They don’t need to have any contractors bookkeeping service skills to pick up the mail, make bank deposits, print checks, which can be done on your local computer even with QuickBooks Desktop version in the cloud. It’s likely a part-time office assistant could do that in addition to other duties and errands. #2 - Bookkeeper Embezzlement Is On The Rise Due to the ever increasing belief in "redistrubution of the wealth", the ever increaseing rise of "entitlement mentality" and general feeling that workers are being taken advantage of by their bosses and business owners a lot more office employees are stealing more than ever, and it will only get worse. The least costly embezzlement is that on average office workers are spending two hours a day on personal errands, phone calls, Facebook, twitter, youtube, personal email, cyber shopping and other social media and at $25.29 per hour it costs construction company owners like you $50.58 a day! If your contracting company earns 10% net profit, which is over four times the national average, that means you must sell, produce work and collect $505.80 a day to make up for the loss! Every Ten Minutes Your Bookkeeper Is Costing You $4.21 The most costly embezzlement could destroy your business and personal finances. There are Twenty One Signs Of Bookkeeper Embezzlement and if you have an in house bookkeeper you need to study them carefully and be on gaurd against all of them. Click here to learn more. You may be surprised to learn who the biggest most frequent offenders are and how easily they avoid prosecution. #3 - Invest At Least $10,000 In Hardware And Software 1.Desk, Chair and starter pack of office supplies = $1,200 +/- 2.High-speed desktop computer with lots of power custom built = $2,000 +/- 3.Minnimum two computer monitors with high resolution = $1,000 +/- 4.Computer network system (hardwired and wireless capable) = $2,000 5.Laserjet Printer = $500 +/- 6.Highspeed Scanner = $500 +/- 7.QuickBooks for Contractors software = $350 +/- 8.Microsoft Office Professional Software = $500 +/- 9.Acrobat Pro Software = $450 +/- 10.Other assorted software = $1,500 +/- You do not have to invest anything more than a few dollars and get the cheapest hardware and software you can find and you will save money in the short run; however, in the long run it will cost you dearly. If you bookkeeper wastes a two hours a day trying to get cheap worn out office equipment to do your contractor bookkeeping could cost your contracting company $3,287.16 a year! At 10% Profit You Need $32,871.60 More Sales To Maintain Your Profit Margin! In Some Cases - We can do more work for less money by providing you with real construction bookkeeping and accounting + payroll processing + monthly and quarterly tax reports + year end W-2, W-3 + profit and growth management consulting + financial and job costing reports + paperless data storage and more at a lower overall cost and as an added bonus show you how to make more money than you are now! I trust this podcast helps you understand that outsourcing your contractors bookkeeping services to us is about more than just “doing the bookkeeping”; it is about taking holistic approach to your entire construction company and helping support you as a contractor and as a person. We Remove Contractor's Unique Paperwork Frustrations We understand the good, bad and the ugly about owning and operating construction companies because we have had several of them and we sincerely care about you and your construction company! That is all I have for now and if you have listened this far please do me the honor of commenting and rating podcast www.FastEasyAccounting.com/podcast Tell me what you liked, did not like, tell it as you see it because your feedback is crucial and I thank you in advance. You Deserve To Be Wealthy, Because You Bring Value To Other People's Lives! I trust this will be of value to you and your feedback is always welcome at www.FastEasyAccounting.com/podcast This is one more example of how Fast Easy Accounting is helping construction company owners across the USA including Alaska and Hawaii put more money in the bank to operate and grow your construction company. Construction accounting is not rocket science; it is a lot harder than that and a lot more valuable to construction contractors like you so stop missing out and call Sharie 206-361-3950 or email sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com Thinking About Outsourcing Your Contractors Bookkeeping Services? Click On The Link Below: www.FastEasyAccounting.com/hs Need Help Now? Call Sharie 206-361-3950 sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com In closing, I want to caution you that we may or may not be a good fit for your contracting company. This guide will help you learn what to look for in outsourced construction accounting. Thank you very much and I hope you understand we really do care about you and all contractors regardless of whether or not you ever hire our services.Bye for now until our next episode here on the Contractors Success MAP Podcast. Warm Regards, Randal DeHart | Contractors Accountant We Remove Contractor's Unique Paperwork Frustrations

Mabel and Me (Angel City Press) Join us tonight for a very special event from local publisher and friend of the store, Angel City Press. Mabel and Me is a novel about the Movies—a sharply observed, historically accurate, deliciously intimate story set in the earliest days of motion pictures. Beautifully told, this is a tale of Jack, his coming of age with the Movies, and his passionate, destructive, and ultimately liberating love for one of the very first movie stars, the sweetheart of slapstick—Mabel Normand. Theirs is the story of the birth of the modern movie age. It's a story they lived together. Day in, day out. Until they didn't. Mabel Normand was the model for the modern woman: her brief life, from slapstick girl to box­office bonanza to drug addict to modern savvy star, embodied the evolution of the Movies. She was the Queen of Comedy, a flapper a decade before flappers, the first to have her name emblazoned in the title of a picture, the first director of Charlie Chaplin's tramp—not to mention the person who convinced Mack Sennett to give Chaplin his first break, immediately recognizing his comic genius. Mabel was the first woman allowed to be both beautiful and funny, the model for the modern comedic star, and she was shockingly sexy at the time. Watching Mabel on screen was like “being slapped in the face with a perfumed glove.” Author Jon Boorstin portrays her love affairs—all fact­based, particularly her defining, explosive relationship with Mack Sennett—with humor, poignancy, and drama. Mabel and Me takes us directly inside the world of the birth of the Movies, inside the world of Hollywood 1912. We become obsessed with motion pictures, in love with their mesmerizing power. Entertaining, heartfelt, and unexpected, Boorstin's novel delivers us to the first moments of filmmaking and recreates the sense of all that was happening on film and behind the scenes for the very first time. Written in a voice that's side by side with Hollywood's premier female movie star, one that's close to her, and from a perspective that's often privy to what Normand is thinking—even when she starred with Chaplin in the first feature­length comedy ever made. Jon Boorstin's first novel, Pay or Play, was called “the definitive send ­up of Hollywood” by Publishers Weekly in a coveted starred review. His second, The Newsboys' Lodging-­House, won the New York Society Library Award for Historical Fiction. Boorstin has also written a book of practical film theory, Making Movies Work, which is used in film schools all over the world. The work of an Oscar®­nominated documentary filmmaker and longtime screenwriter and producer, Mabel and Me is the culmination of Boorstin's lifelong affair with the Movies.

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Check out this quote from Daniel J. Boorstin. He said,"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." How often have we kidded ourselves that we knew something only to get more data or evidence later that made it clear we didn't have the full story? It happens all the time. Probably more than we realize. I find a related observation when it comes to attention. We think we see the world or situations or people clearly but inevitably it's all being filtered through lenses. It could be argued that we have an illusion of observation. Have you ever seen the famous video that asks you to count the number of times a basketball is passed between a group of college students? Check it out: {youtube}vJG698U2Mvo{/youtube} Interesting, eh? Selective attention is alive and well, and for all of us who desire to lead and deliver, we need to be acutely aware of how it works. In this premium episode I want to take time to highlight some points from the interview with Cathy to help you put the learning into action. First, let's start getting our arms wrapped around Cathy's point that our schools and workplaces are often more designed for the early 20th century instead of the 21st. We may not have control of how your schooling was structured, but let's start thinking about how we best go about helping ourselves and our team learn and work going forward. How about finding ways to embrace collaborative technologies in new and interesting ways instead of making people check them at the door? For example, typical meeting protocol is to discourage people from using their laptops and cell phones during meetings. But why not encourage people to be texting and chatting during meetings, especially virtual ones? If this seems dangerous or rude or a recipe for chaos for meetings, that's OK. It's the years of conditioning that we've had! IBM has found that by actively encouraging chatting during virtual meetings, it keeps people more engaged. I've experimented with this myself and found that it can significantly change the culture of web-based meetings for the positive. In Cathy's book she lays out a strong case for how IBM uses "backchanneling" to leverage technology in meetings. Second, and related, here's a tip I learned years ago. If people are moving their attention to their laptops or other devices, it may not just be that they're rude. That's a possibility, of course, but here's my point: it just be that the meeting is boring and irrelevant. I've learned that if someone isn't paying attention when I'm facilitating, the problem may not be them: it may be me! Find ways to more fully engage people. Maybe a different venue? Maybe on Second Life! How about this? I love using Poll Everywhere to allow people to respond to a poll by texting their responses. It's an expensive tool and shows results real time. I love it! It's fun and engaging. Let's realize that asking people to check their electronics at the door causes us to miss opportunities to engage them. Third, a proven project management and leadership principle is to involve others in the planning. I've often said we need to make sure that n is greater than one! But the point brought up in the discussion with Cathy is that it shouldn't just be "in addition to me" but also "different from me." Diversity of thought is not just something to do because it's politically correct. It's just plain more effective. Cathy's organization calls it collaboration by difference. As she mentions in the interview, we often say we want diversity of thought, skills, and opinions, but then we recruit in our own image. Whether at work or in our personal lives, there is value in collaboration by difference: surrounding ourselves with people who don't just look, think, and see the same as we do. Fourth, remember that technology is here to serve us, not the other way around. If you're finding that social networking or your handheld device or some new software tool is chewing up too much of your time, the problem may not be the technology. It might just be you. We need new habits for the new technology. I've found this simple little cube timer is a handy way to block out some time to focus on one thing. When it goes off, then I can (in Tony Schwartz's terms) pulse to something else. In some situations I find it best to close my web browser or shut down my mail client. At times I completely turn off my phone. I love Cathy's idea of using a different computer for some of the more fun things, or at least get up and move as part of your switching. Make the technology work for you. It's not the enemy—we just need new habits. Finally, as much as interruptions from others is frustrating, remember what Cathy and I talked about regarding Gloria Mark's research on distractions. 44% of the distractions didn't come from others. Rather, it came from us. As Cathy said, "Heartache and heartburn are more distracting than technology!" Work on calming your own distractions. I'm finding that using a Kanban board is helping me and my family stay focused on the most important projects at work and home. David Allen's teaching on getting things out of our mind and onto a list can be helpful as well. Realize that we are often our own distraction problem. Cathy's book isn't for everyone, but the lessons are relevant for us all. If you are particularly interested in how to improve education and the workplace to be better prepared for today's demands, I recommend you get a copy of Cathy's book. What's a challenge you're having in managing your attention? Send me an e-mail at andy@i-leadonline.com. I love hearing from Premium Subscribers. Hey, the People and Projects Podcast is now on Facebook! I invite you to Like us at http://www.facebook.com/pages/People-and-Projects-Podcast/224005747630357 and join the discussion. Thank you for being a premium subscriber to The People and Projects Podcast! Please let me know what questions you have and if there's anything I can do to help you lead and deliver. Thank you for joining me for this premium episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! Total Duration 6:54 Download the premium episode

Looking to make a change? Remember: transformation happens experientially, not intellectually. We often receive instruction and agree, “I see what you're saying,” but seldom do we actually do the thing we learned. We just agree with it in our minds. This is a problem. Daniel J. Boorstin said, “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” Boorstin's statement becomes particularly poignant when you learn that he graduated with highest honors from Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and earned his PhD at Yale. By occupation he was a lawyer, a university professor and the U.S. Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987. Yet Boorstin warned us that the illusion of knowledge was the greatest impediment to discovery. Are you willing to go exploring with Boorstin and Dewar and Michener and me? Tommy Dewar said, “Exploration makes one wiser; even if the only wisdom gained is to know where not to return.” James Michener won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his book, Tales of the South Pacific. He went on to earn more than one hundred million dollars as the author of more than 40 novels. In his memoirs – published just a year before he died at the age of 90 – Michener wrote, “I feel almost a blood relationship with all the artists in all the mediums, for I find that we face the same problems but solve them in our own ways. When young people in my writing classes, for example, ask what subjects they should study to become writers, I surprise them by replying: ‘Ceramics and eurhythmic dancing.' When they look surprised I explain: ‘Ceramics so you can feel form evolving through your fingertips molding the moist clay, and eurhythmic dancing so you can experience the flow of motion through your body. You might develop a sense of freedom that way.'” – This Noble Land, chap.10 Michener, a novelist to whose success George Washington testified one hundred million times, instructed thousands of aspiring young writers during his years at the University of Texas and he gave each student the same advice. But do you suppose any of them actually took classes in ceramics and eurhythmic dancing? I doubt it. Would you have done what Michener said? Or would you have thought, “I get it,” and then walked on to seek advice from other experts? Would you have allowed the illusion of knowledge to rob you of http://wizardacademy.org/scripts/openExtra.asp?extra=39 (the joy of discovery?) Roy H. Williams

This year's Reith lecturer is distinguished Professor of American history, Dr Daniel J Boorstin, the twelfth Librarian of Congress. In his Reith lectures, entitled 'America and the World Experience', he explores how the USA developed into the superpower it is today. In this first lecture entitled 'The Birth of Exploration', Dr Boorstin explains why the desire to journey to new and undiscovered lands was important in the development of the United States of America. He considers the difference between a 'frontier' and 'the wilderness' for the first colonisers of the continent and explains how a community spirit of adventure made it all possible.

This year's Reith lecturer is distinguished Professor of American history, Dr Daniel J Boorstin, the twelfth Librarian of Congress. In his Reith lectures, entitled 'America and the World Experience', he explores how the USA developed into the superpower it is today. In this first lecture entitled 'The Birth of Exploration', Dr Boorstin explains why the desire to journey to new and undiscovered lands was important in the development of the United States of America. He considers the difference between a 'frontier' and 'the wilderness' for the first colonisers of the continent and explains how a community spirit of adventure made it all possible.