Podcasts about cataloguing

Why do New Year's resolutions usually fail by February? Forrest and Dr. Rick explore why traditional goal-setting falls short and offer a new approach to creating lasting change. They discuss how we can uncover our authentic wants and needs, move away from a punishment mindset, and use our new knowledge to find fulfillment. This episode will teach you how to get more out of any other New Year's content you listen to.  Rick and Forrest walk through a practical example of brain dumping “shoulds,” shifting the focus from means to ends, and working with internal resistance. They end the episode with a role-play focused on working with someone who wants to find a more meaningful relationship. Rick's Yearly Program: Rick's Foundations of Well-Being 2.0 is a year-long, science-backed journey through developing 12 key inner strengths like mindfulness, motivation, and confidence. It's currently on sale, and if you like Being Well we think you'll love it. Follow the link here and use coupon code beingwell20 for an additional 20% off: RickHanson.com/FWB You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:35: Fulfillment as a target, and other healthy ways of orienting to our goals 14:00: Cataloguing our “shoulds”, and being driven by a sense of enthusiasm 23:20: How Forrest has personally connected with his authentic wants 30:15: The “punishment part” 35:50: Practical techniques for identifying our values 41:45: A roleplay focused on how to find a meaningful relationship 51:25: Reviewing the roleplay 55:05: Knowing your why 59:50: Developing your personal psychology, and surrendering to the best within you 1:03:40: Recap I am writing on Substack, check out my work there.  Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Head to acorns.com/beingwell or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future Use promo code hanson at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual plan at incogni.com/hanson. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell.  Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BEINGWELL at https://www.oneskin.co/ Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wrestling Figure Database's Dylan Sharek joins the Wrestling Figure News Podcast to share how he got into cataloguing every wrestling figure ever made. Sharek also sticks around to go over the latest wrestling figure news, including all of the Walmart Collector Con reveals, recent Jazwares AEW reveals, and Ringside Collectibles' latest exclusive WWE Elite From the Vault series. Plus, he shares expectations for WrestleMania weekend reveals. Check out the Wrestling Figure Database. And stay up-to-date with the latest wrestling figure news at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WrestlingFigureNews.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Music: “Hackers” by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Cataloguing the tapestry of Islamic traditions is a task that lies well beyond our scope, but every now and again the topic overlaps with the subjects we are interested in. It's important to understand where the Qaramita and Fatimids came from, because these two foes will face the Abbasid Caliphate until its effective takeover by a rival dynasty. As these two communities emerged from Ismaili Shi'ism, we'll take the time to properly define and ground these terms before moving on. Please keep in mind that you are in no way getting a round-up of the religious or sectarian situation at the time; there were many more groups than the ones we're discussing. Refer back to the start of this paragraph for more information.

For many, the pyramids of Egypt take the centre stage when discussing these ancient and mystic structures. However, my journey has led me to uncover the mysteries buried within the enigmatic pyramids of China, specifically situated in the Guanzhong Plain and areas surrounding the dynamic city of Xi'an. My curiosity was ignited when an article introduced me to these pyramidal structures dotting the Chinese landscape, prompting a virtual exploration via Google Earth. Cataloguing 36 such structures, with tales of many more concealed across the sprawling plains, my ambition to visit these architectural marvels intensified, eventually materializing in 2023 during China's national holiday.British-Australian who lives in China

The Journey into the Night Floors begins with Sergio (Doomed To Repeat) and Vince (Black Project Gaming) discussing the first scenario from Impossible Landscapes. Learn the tips and tricks of making this a memorable scenario for your table. Want more of The Dead Drop? We offer over 30 minutes of bonus discussion from each episode on our Patreon. Subscribe at any level to hear the secrets we removed from this public version; patreon.com/maydayrp Make sure to leave your comments and questions in the chat below or message us directly on X (twitter) @surgettrpg and @suddenlyvince A soundtrack for The Night Floors by Black Project Gaming: https://blackprojectgaming.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-night-floors Listen to Black Project Gaming's playthrough of the Night Floors; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-project-gaming/id1448971789?i=1000512497834 We've got merch! https://ko-fi.com/maydayrp (t-shirts and stickers) We started as a podcast! Listen to us @: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mayday-plays/id1537347277 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vdTgXoqpSpMssSP9Vka3Z?si=73ec867215744a01 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mayday-roleplay Here are some of our other socials; Twitter: https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/ Website: https://maydayroleplay.com/ Thanks for your support! 00:00 Intro 02:06 Part 1: The Night Floors 03:41 The Briefing 05:53 Meeting Agent Marcus 06:47 The McCallister Building 07:30 How DG Got Involved 08:11 Abigail's Shrine 09:03 Back up NPCs 09:36 Cataloguing clues 10:30 Prioritizing Clues 11:46 The Hidden Microphone 13:00 Thomas Manuel 13:44 Day vs. Night 14:37 Roger Carun 16:44 Michelle Vanfitz 19:45 Louis Post 21:46 Finding the Night Floors 22:17 The Smoking Lounge 22:41 Mark Roark 23:22 Exploring The Night Floors 24:25 The Author JC Linz 25:33 The Night Manager 27:11 No Limits 28:10 Failure = Success 28:33 Have You Seen It? 30:00 A Satisfying Resolution 31:50 +30 minutes of extras available on our patreon 32:05 Tell us about your night floors 32:47 Outro

One whistleblower states that the Sasquatch species is cataloguing and categorizing Earth's ecosystem and plant life to better understand it as well as to utilize it for its own benefits. Not necessarily all Bigfoot type species are doing this however. Let's find out what each species is doing and why in this podcast!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lockdown-universe/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lockdown-universe/support

Sanjaya Singhal discusses Sangraha, an ambitious digital enterprise cataloguing India's millions of decaying Sanskrit manuscripts. Sangraha is a detailed, descriptive catalogue allowing users to find relevant manuscripts with a wide range of search terms. Eventually it will have 2.5 million entries.  Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Sanjaya Singhal discusses Sangraha, an ambitious digital enterprise cataloguing India's millions of decaying Sanskrit manuscripts. Sangraha is a detailed, descriptive catalogue allowing users to find relevant manuscripts with a wide range of search terms. Eventually it will have 2.5 million entries.  Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sanjaya Singhal discusses Sangraha, an ambitious digital enterprise cataloguing India's millions of decaying Sanskrit manuscripts. Sangraha is a detailed, descriptive catalogue allowing users to find relevant manuscripts with a wide range of search terms. Eventually it will have 2.5 million entries.  Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

Sanjaya Singhal discusses Sangraha, an ambitious digital enterprise cataloguing India's millions of decaying Sanskrit manuscripts. Sangraha is a detailed, descriptive catalogue allowing users to find relevant manuscripts with a wide range of search terms. Eventually it will have 2.5 million entries.  Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions

Sanjaya Singhal discusses Sangraha, an ambitious digital enterprise cataloguing India's millions of decaying Sanskrit manuscripts. Sangraha is a detailed, descriptive catalogue allowing users to find relevant manuscripts with a wide range of search terms. Eventually it will have 2.5 million entries.  Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

Bio Jeff helps organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX (now in it's 3rd edition) and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond. Starting off as a software designer, Jeff now works as a coach, consultant and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management and human-centred design. His most recent book, Forever Employable, was published in June 2020. Social Media ·         LinkedIn ·         Jeff Gothelf - coaching, consulting, training & keynotes ·         OKR-book.com ·         Twitter ·         Instagram ·         Jeff Gothelf - YouTube    Interview Highlights 04:50 Early career 16:00 Thought leadership 19:10 Outsource the work you hate, it shows 23:00 Defining a product 24:35 Product Managers as navigators of uncertainty 28:15 Succeeding as a Product Manager 37:25 Strategy, vision and mission 42:00 OKRs 48:00 Leading and lagging indicators 54:10 Do less, more often    Books and resources ·         Forever Employable - how to stop looking for work - Jeff Gothelf      ·         Best product management books - Lean UX, Sense & Respond... (jeffgothelf.com) ·         Lean vs. Agile vs. Design Thinking: What You Really Need to Know to Build High-Performing Digital Product Teams: Gothelf, Jeff ·         Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously: Gothelf, Jeff, Seiden, Josh ·         The role of a Product Manager: Product Managers are Navigators of Uncertainty https://jeffgothelf.com/blog/product-managers-navigate-uncertainty/ ·         Information Architecture, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Jorge Arango ·         The Lean Startup | The Movement That Is Transforming How New Products Are Built And Launched ·         Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, Tony Fadell ·         The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rubin, Rick Episode Transcript Ula Ojiaku Hello and welcome to the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. I'm Ula Ojiaku. On this podcast I speak with world-class leaders and doers about themselves and a variety of topics spanning Agile, Lean Innovation, Business, Leadership and much more – with actionable takeaways for you the listener. So I have with me the legend, Jeff Gothelf, who is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, highly sought after keynote speaker I must add, coach and much more. So Jeff, really honoured to have you on the Agile Innovation Leaders Podcast, thank you. Jeff Gothelf It's my pleasure, Ula, thanks so much for having me. I'm thrilled to be here. Ula Ojiaku Oh, good. Well, I usually start with a question for my guests to find out more about themselves as individuals. And during our pre-recording session, you mentioned something that was intriguing to me, that you actually played piano and you were part of a touring musical band, could you tell us about that? Jeff Gothelf Absolutely. I've played piano my whole life, my dad plays piano, there was always a piano in the house, and I had pretty big rockstar dreams as I was a kid growing up. It's really all I wanted to do. I can remember in high school everybody's like, what are you going to go to college for? I was like, I'm going to be a rockstar, figure that out. And, you know, I played in bands in high school, I played in bands in college, and towards the end of college I started playing in a couple of relatively serious bands, serious in the sense that they were decent bands, in my opinion. They were touring bands and they, you know, they made enough money to sustain themselves. They weren't jobs, they didn't sustain us as individuals, but they sustained the band system. And it's fascinating because, you know, at the time I was 19 and 20, I did this really until just about the time I met my wife, which, I was 25. And so I did it until about, I was about 25, and, you know, in hindsight you don't see it when you're in it, especially if you've never really done anything else. I'd always had jobs, but the jobs were always, you know, I delivered newspapers and I made sandwiches and I was a, you know, worked for a moving company, whatever, right? But in hindsight now it's clear to me that I was being entrepreneurial. In those days, the bands, each of them, especially the touring bands, were startups, you know, it's a bunch of folks getting together with a crazy idea, thinking that everyone in the world will love it, it's going to change the world, and doing everything they can and putting everything into helping folks realise that, and building that vision and, and executing on it. And, you know, scraping by and hacking things together and hustling and doing what you can to build a successful, in this case it was a musical group, but it was essentially a startup. And these days, not only do I look back fondly on those days and all those, all those guys that I played music with are my best friends to this day, we still talk almost every day, but I learned so many skills about being entrepreneurial, about experimenting, about learning, about failure, about iteration, about, you know, what's good, what's good enough, when do you call it quits, that's a really tough thing to do, you know, letting something go that you love is really difficult. And I know now, you know, 20 years later, that so much of that experience figures into my day-to-day work today. You know, even to this day, like if I get a new speech to give, if I get, a new client or a new, you know, assignment, I call them gigs. You know, I got a new speaking gig, I got a new consulting gig, I got a new coaching gig, that type of thing. It's impossible to remove that. And it's, it's amazing to me really, because at the time, you know, I could not have told you what I just said to you and, but in hindsight it's super clear to me what I was doing and what I was learning because I've put it to use over and over and over again in my life. Ula Ojiaku That's fascinating. It reminds me of what one of my mentors said to me, and he said, whenever you are given an opportunity to learn versus, you know, get more money doing what you already know, always choose to learn because there's no wasted knowledge. So it's more of tying it back to your days that, you know, as a musician, as a part of a touring band, you were learning and you're now using those transferrable skills, right? Jeff Gothelf Yes. Ula Ojiaku And would you, well, I don't play any instruments, but I used to be part of, you know, different choirs and my daughter also now does that, you know, kind of sings. But there are times when, you know, things would go wrong and you're finding yourself having to improvise so that the audience wouldn't know, okay, this isn't part of the script. Would you say that has also played a part in your experience as a band member did such? Jeff Gothelf I mean, the thing that comes immediately to mind is just comfort on a stage, right? Comfort in front of people and being able, you know, being comfortable in front of a room and performing to some extent or another. I think that that's, that came from that, the ability to, you know, hide or improvise, mistakes that happened. You know, I remember I was, we did this as a band all the time, and nobody ever knew really, unless they knew a particular song of ours very, very well. And you know, some things like that happen all the time when you're, giving a speech or teaching a class or whatever it is. I mean, I remember giving a speech in Budapest one time at Craft Conference in front of 2000 people, and the screen kept going out, my slides are up there in front of, and they kept flickering and, and going out. And it was just a question of, you know, what do you do? Do you just sort of collapse and be like, well, the slides are gone, I can't do anything, or do you keep going? And I think a lot of that drive and that ability to land on my feet in those situations came from being in that band and putting on so many shows. Ula Ojiaku And I'll say it helps that you knew your content as well, because if you had just read it 10 minutes before and you got on the stage, then it would be a different thing. Jeff Gothelf It would not have gone well. Ula Ojiaku Yes. Okay, now I understand you have a BA in Mass Communication and you also went on to do a Masters in Human Factors in Information Design, and in your previous life you used to be a software designer. Jeff Gothelf Correct. Ula Ojiaku How did the winding road go from band member, you know, through the academics, to Jeff we know today, I mean from software designer to now. Jeff Gothelf Yeah, it's interesting, it's a great question. The, look, the rockstar thing didn't work out, you know, there's a thousand reasons, but I think the bottom line is we just weren't good enough, that's, that's probably where it netted out, but… Ula Ojiaku  And you were getting married, you said you met your wife. Jeff Gothelf I was getting married, yeah. You know, and having no money doesn't, those two things don't really play well together, you know, and so the band thing was ending and, you know, the web was starting, so we're looking at the late nineties at this point, just to kind of date myself a little bit, we're looking at the late nineties and in the late nineties as the band was, the last band that I was in, was winding down, the internet was coming up and I'd always been prone, you know, to computers and a little bit of computer programming, just very basic stuff, you know, and I started building websites, basic, you know, brochure websites for my band and for other bands, and I taught myself HTML to be able to do that. And then as the band was winding down, web 1.0 was happening and, you know, back in 1999, if you could spell HTML, you could get a job, you know, and I could do a little bit more than that, I did a little bit of graphic design, a little bit of, of HTML, and so I got a job, I got a job because it was easy to get a job back then, they took a lot of risks on people, and we learned on the job and that's what kicked things off, that got me doing web design and shortly thereafter I moved into Information Architecture, which was a brand new term and a brand new field as defined in a book by Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville called Information Architecture for the Worldwide Web. And that book really changed my life because it gave me a sense that I, instead of just doing kind of the last step in the process, which was the markup and the design portion, I could move further up the waterfall, if you will, in the website creation process and do a lot of the Information Architecture, and that was great, and that was really, that really spoke to me and having sort of landed in that position, as the web evolved and became more interactive and Information Architecture expanded into, well, more fields showed up in interaction design, UI design, UX design, I expanded my skillset into that world. And then that really began the trajectory of starting to build design teams and then going into product management, eventually launching our own studio, our own firm, and then finally after selling that studio, going out on my own and teaching all this stuff. But that's, that's sort of like how I went from band, to the web and everything, and there's, you know, there's a lot, I skipped a lot of steps there, but that's the story in general. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for that, Jeff, and I think you also told part of your story in your book Forever Employable, How to Stop Looking for Work and Let your Next Job Find You. Since we're already on this topic, could we just delve into that? So you said something in that book about, you know, in your job as a software designer, you know, Information Architect, I can't remember the exact role you had, but you had an aha moment where you felt you, quoting this in my own words, I'm not quoting your book exactly, but you felt like you could always be replaced in that role and you wanted to carve out a niche where you are always in demand. Do you want to tell that story in your words so that I stop butchering it. Jeff Gothelf Yeah, I mean, look, it was interesting, you know, I progressed in my career in the same way that, you know, most people progress in their career, the way that my parents told me the world works, you know, you go to college, you get a job. It took me, and there was a little, you know, band break in there for me, but, you know, I got my first job, and then you work hard for a few years and you get a promotion, and then you, maybe you move to another company and you get a raise and, you know, you just kind of move your way, you climb your way up the corporate ladder. And that's what I did, I did that for a decade and I, you know, I clawed my way up into middle management like everybody does, or like most folks do. And when I turned 35, on the morning, in fact, of my 35th birthday is how the story goes in the book, I kind of woke up in a panic. I was concerned, like you said, that this wasn't going to last. I was going to become more expensive, the number of opportunities available to me as you climb, available to anyone, as you climb the corporate ladder gets smaller and smaller and smaller. Right? Exactly. Right. That's by design, right? You want fewer managers and more people doing the work. And I was genuinely concerned that I was going to run out of, I was going to get fired, I was, there's, I was hiring people at the time and the people that we were hiring were younger than me, they were smarter than me, faster than me, they were better than me, and they cost a lot less than me. And so I was really worried, and I saw this with my friends too, I had friends who were maybe five years older than me who were struggling with this very thing. They were struggling to find a job or stay employed, and stay relevant. And I was terrified. I was terrified I wasn't going to be able to feed my kids, you know, that was the big thing for me. And so I made an explicit decision when I turned 35 that I was going to stop chasing jobs. Like, as the subtitle of the book says, How to Stop Looking for Work and Let Your Next Job Find You, I was going to stop looking for work, and I was going to create a situation where jobs were constantly finding me, where opportunities were finding me, because that way if something happens to my current job, well there's a stream of inbound opportunities available to me. And to kind of cut to the chase here, the way that I decided to do that, and the way that I write about it in the book, is through thought leadership. That's it. Like, that's the, you know, recognised expertise, personal branding, right, becoming somebody who people know and somebody who can help solve specific problems, and that's what I did. And look, it took me years, a lot of years, to really build up my reputation and my profile, and I've done it to an extent, and it's impressive to me today to see how many people are doing it so much faster than me. Now, you can credit it to the tools that's available to them, the nature of conversation online these days that's fundamentally different than it was 10 or 15 years ago, and these folks have just kind of nailed, nailed the system here. But it's thought leadership is what's worked for me to do that. Ula Ojiaku And I'll say, I mean, yes, there are people who might have done it faster than you did, but there is this saying that people are able, if I'm able to see as far as I did, it's because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. I'm just saying it's credit to you for sharing your experience because it's helping us to know what to do moving forward. Jeff Gothelf Look, and that's, I think that that's the benefit here, right? I think I talk about this in the book, right? About sharing generously, giving back to the community, helping people avoid the mistakes that you made, helping them skip a step. And to me that's, you know, a lot of folks would see that as, well, aren't you enabling the competition? No, I'm helping the community get collectively better. And eventually I hope that if I get to a position of need, the community will help me, that's what I hope. I don't expect it, but that's what I hope happens. Ula Ojiaku So how, how did you go about setting up the systems then? Because you, you got this realisation, oh my gosh, I am going to be, I may be obsolete in my current role faster than I'd rather admit, so you said you now went, you said, okay, you're going to be a thought leader. How did you decide on what area to start from and how did you then go about setting up the systems and the structure you have right now that are helping you? Jeff Gothelf The first thing was really to decide what I wanted to be known for. You know, in the book we call it planting your flag, but it's a question of what is, if I'm going to be a thought leader, if I'm going to build a personal brand of some kind, if I'm going to be known for something, what is that thing? And, and you know, our natural tendency is to go for professional things. What do I know best at work? What do I do best? I'm a Project Manager, a Product Manager, I'm an agile coach, I'm a software developer, I'm a designer, but doesn't have to be professional. Could be personal, right? I told you I play piano and I happen to really love old vintage electric pianos. And I used to have a fairly large collection of vintage electric pianos. I could have built my thought leadership around vintage electric pianos, right, and it's viable to an extent, but the target audience here, so this is where kind of the product management hat comes on, right? The target audience is tiny. It's tiny. Like, even if you took all the keyboard players in the world, right? And, and then all those keyboard players who play vintage electric pianos, which is a subset, and all the people who care about this kind of stuff. I mean, it's still an infinitely smaller audience than say, web design, or product management, or even agile software development or things like that where I ultimately ended up. And so I chose that I wanted to be known for User Experience Design, and more importantly, UX design with Agile, because that's the problem that I was solving at the time, or solving for at the time, and nobody had a really good answer for it when we started solving for it, and that to me felt like an opportunity. And then that was what I, so then I started doubling down on that. And what that meant was starting to write, starting to share generously, speaking at conferences, getting on podcasts, things like that. And really starting to, at the very least, tell the story of the work that we were doing at the time, as I was the Director of UX at TheLadders in New York City at the time, and we were working on a daily basis, on a Sprintly basis, to tackle the challenge of good user experience design and agile together. So that's what I was writing about. And that eventually led to Lean UX, the book. But that's how it all started and that's where the focus was. Ula Ojiaku Okay. And how have you then set up the structure? Do you have a team currently or do you work in a lean manner? Jeff Gothelf So these days there is a system and there is a team. It's interesting, years ago I did a gig in the UK, see I said gig, comes out naturally like I told you. I did a gig in the UK for rentalcars.com in Manchester. And at the time, their Head of Product or Chief Product Officer, was this fascinating woman named Supriya Uchil. And she was a fantastic client. I really enjoyed working with her. And when the gig was over, she emailed me, she said, hey, would you like to hear some feedback about what it's like to work with you? No client has ever done that, by the way, not before, and not since. And I said, absolutely. I would love to get some feedback about what it was like to work with me. And she gave me a bunch of feedback, a lot of the work. And I took a lot of notes and I took a lot of post-it notes. One of those post-it notes has stuck with me for years now. It still sits here on my whiteboard, I still have it here, and it says outsource the work you hate, it shows. Right. And that's what she said to me. And she said, look, it's obvious to me that you hate doing sales. She goes, every time we had to have a sales conversation, you were clearly uncomfortable and not really into it. Right. She was right. I hate doing sales, I really do, and so over the years, as I've built this business, as it's grown, as it's become a, you know, a viable, successful business, you know, business of one per se. I have built a team of outsourced professionals to support a lot of the work that I do today. So, for example, I have a content marketing team. Now that team takes content that I create and they repurpose it across multiple channels, and they help me build, you know, my email newsletter and they help me build my LinkedIn presence and other things like that. It's my content, but they do all of that work. In addition to that, I've outsourced all my accounting. I have a fantastic accountant who works with businesses, only with businesses like mine, and so they understand my business and my way of working, everything's online, everything's digital, and that's super helpful. There is a woman that works for me part-time who basically handles the entire logistics of my business, scheduling, calendaring, travel. And then on top of that, she also handles BusDev and sales for me. And so that, to me, all that does is it removes all the things out of my way that I hate doing, and it leaves me with a tremendous amount of free time to do the things that I love doing, which is content creation and delivery. And that has made the ability to generate that content and distribute that content far more efficient and successful. And I'm super grateful to be able to, you know, to be in a position to be able to do that. And it supports the lifestyle that I'm trying to create and it allows me to, again, to focus on the things that I truly enjoy doing. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for sharing that, that's really insightful. Now, going back to something you said earlier about putting on your Product Management hat, there are some people in the audience who might be wondering, okay, what would you define a product as? Is it always something tangible or could we expand that word to mean anything that someone consumes, which might also be intangible, for example, going to a show, would a show be called a product? Jeff Gothelf That's a great question. The simplest definition that I've used and that I like for product is the way an organisation delivers and captures value. To me, that's a product. Now, that product could be a service, right? And I don't want to open up that can of worms. So if you're a band and you deliver a show, you cap you. that's how you deliver value. And if you capture value, like you sell tickets to that show, and merchandise, and maybe streaming revenue, then your product is the music and the show. So, yeah, absolutely, right, that's the way that you capture value. And so to me that's the simplest definition, the way an organisation delivers and captures value. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for that definition, and this leads me to my next question, which is, so how does it relate to the discipline of product management? What does a Product Manager do then? Jeff Gothelf I believe that Product Managers are navigators of uncertainty. So a Product Manager's job is to take an idea, right, or, you know, the way an organisation delivers value, and to take it from concept, to market, to successful business. Now, the challenge with that is that we live in a continuously changing world. The pace of that change is increasingly faster, and this idea that you can confidently predict exactly what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and be right all the time is false. There's just too much change in the world. I mean, think back three years ago, right? The world was radically different three years ago than it is today. Radically different from 10 years ago, we could, we could not have predicted the things. I mean, I started my job at TheLadders in New York City, I talk about this, in October of 2008. Everything was going great in October, in the early part of October 2008. Right, we had a roadmap, we had plans, you know, in three weeks after I started my brand new job as Director of User Experience, Lehman Brothers melts down, and the financial crisis ensues, right, and we, you know, we're a job market site and all of a sudden the whole ecosystem's upside down. And so, and so I believe that the Product Manager is a navigator of uncertainty. They take a specific set of skills, a specific set of qualities, like curiosity and humility, and they build a process for de-risking the product idea and maximizing its chances for success. That's what I believe Product Managers do at a very high level. How that manifests will vary from Google, to Bank of America, to Boeing, to whatever, to, you know, I'm thinking, I'm trying to think of something like Cisco, the food service people or whatever, right? Like every organisation is going to do Product Management differently for a variety of reasons. You know, domain, industry context, corporate politics, blah, blah, blah, you know, technology stack, whatever. But at the end of the day, I think if you're looking at sort of fundamentally what a Product Manager does is they help a team navigate the uncertainty of product development. That's their job. Ula Ojiaku I dare say that even within a sector, even an industry, the way it's carried out could also vary from company to company, would you? Jeff Gothelf A hundred percent, yeah, I mean, a hundred percent. I mean, it's absolutely true. And so I think to say like, oh, I did Product Management at Google, so I'm a great Product Manager. Well, you might have been a great Product Manager at Google, congratulations, right? Does that mean that you're going to be a great Product Manager at, you know, Barclays, I don't know. You're going to bring that skillset to bear in a completely different environment, in a completely different industry. So I think if you've got the fundamentals in place, you'll do great. But trying to sort of copy and paste what you did at Google very tactically into a different environment, I don't think it's going to work. I mean, happy to be proven wrong, but I don't think it's going to work. Ula Ojiaku So what are the fundamentals then that a Product Manager would have that would give them a higher chance of success? You know, transferrable success from one area to one another. Jeff Gothelf I'm going talk about two qualities that are, I believe are fundamental to the success of a Product Manager, and then kind of four things to keep in mind. And I think those are, I think that to me, those are the fundamentals. I think that the two qualities that a Product Manager needs to have is humility and curiosity. I think all successful Product Managers are humble and curious. And those are really two sides of the same coin, let's be honest, okay. There's really, there are two different ways to describe a very similar quality in a person. Now, humility simply means, people misunderstand humility. People think humility is a lack of vision or a lack of conviction or a lack of ideas. Or being a doormat. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. And it's not, humility simply says that, look, I have, uh, I'm going to use my expertise and my experience to come up with a strong opinion about what we should do. However, in the face of evidence that contradicts my strong opinion, I'm willing to change course. That's humility. That's saying, you know what? I was wrong about this. The evidence proves that I was wrong, so we're going to change course. The curiosity side of the story is the excitement in finding out if you were right or wrong, and to me, those two fundamental qualities of a person make for excellent Product Managers. Somebody who's willing to admit that they were wrong about their strong opinion, and somebody who's excited to find out if they're right or wrong about their strong opinion, and curious to see if maybe there's a better way, right? I think this is a good idea, but there's got to be a better way, no, let's go find it. To me, that makes for excellent Product Managers. So those are the fundamental sort of personality qualities. I think those are really hard to teach. I think you can train people to some extent but, you know, ego's tough and humility challenges the ego a lot. And so do the facts for that matter, facts challenge the ego a lot, the evidence you collect from the market. So then there's that. And I think the four sort of things to keep in mind for excellent sort of transferrable product management are customer centricity, agility, evidence-based decision making, and continuous learning and improvement. So a lot of agile concepts in there, you'll hear sort of a lot of agile concepts. You can argue all of them are agile concepts, although not exactly how all agile is implemented these days, but nevertheless, so customer centricity first and foremost, right? As a curious and humble Product Manager, your primary focus is making the customer successful, not shipping features, making the customer successful. That means understanding the customer, understanding the problem that you're solving for them, understanding what's getting in their way, understanding what they're doing today, understanding how the competition is solving this problem for people, understanding technology and how you might apply it to better solve this problem, understanding where the market is going so that you get ahead of it, you don't get caught behind, right? But it's all about understanding the customer. What are customers looking for? What are they trying to achieve? What's getting in their way? And really knowing them, not just quantitatively, but qualitatively, meeting them, talking to them, having regular conversations. To me, that's the first sort of key quality of a successful Product Manager. The second is agility, and that stems directly from those qualities of humility and curiosity. Agility is the ability to change course, it's the willingness to change course. It's the flexibility to say, you know, we started going down this path and I know we've spent a couple of Sprints heading down this path, but it doesn't make sense anymore, and so we're going to change course. And yeah, we burned two Sprints on this and that sucks, and I'm sorry, but we didn't burn two months on it, we didn't burn six months on it, right. And so we're going to shift to something more successful because of what we've learned in the past. And that brings me to the third point, which is evidence-based decision making. So those course corrections are being made based on data that you're gathering from the market, qualitative data, quantitative data that lets you know that, yeah, this is a good path to go down. Or, you know what, we really need to pivot here or to completely change course into something else, but you're making decisions based on data and not just opinion. And then finally, this continuous learning and improvement. This, again, this is that curiosity that says, we did a good job, we solved the problem, the product's successful, great. How do we make it better? How do we keep learning whether or not this still makes sense? Right? To me, that's what makes for successful Product Managers, right? Those multiple focus areas and two core qualities of humility and curiosity. I think that's what makes for good Product Managers. Ula Ojiaku That's awesome, thank you for that. And would you have, I mean you do, in your books, you've shared lots of war stories where you know, you had experience with product management or product leadership and to the audience, I'll say read the books, but is there any example maybe that comes to mind of someone who was a Product Manager that, you don't have to name names, you don't have to share like details, but that kind of brought to life all these personal qualities and focus areas and how that affected the work? Jeff Gothelf I mean, look, I've worked with a ton of remarkable folks over the years. I think I started really meeting folks who were working this way when I met folks like Janice Fraser who, in fact came up with the phrase ‘strong opinions, loosely held', which is exactly what I was just describing a few minutes ago. Janice has built multiple businesses and has really helped pioneer these ideas into sort of the mainstream. And I've seen her repeatedly do this. Eric Ries, you know, with The Lean Startup, really brought a lot of these ideas to light in a very easy to digest way, hence the success of his work in the past, and he lived this stuff in the businesses that he's built over the years. I had a colleague and co-worker and co-founder in a business named Giff Constable. Most recently, Giff was the Chief Product Officer at Meetup, but he's been a serial entrepreneur his whole life. Giff really embodied these ideas, like he's a smart guy, tons of experience, really great ideas, but he would test them all, and if he didn't get evidence that convinced him that they were right, he was willing to change course. And I learned a ton from working with him and building businesses with him. And it was inspirational because in many ways, you know, I appreciated his ruthlessness. You know, we all, it's hard, you know, this is personal stuff, this is my idea, all my ideas are great, I love my ideas, right. And he loved his ideas, but he was very, very good at separating emotion and evidence. And I really learned a ton from him as well. So those are three folks that kind of come to mind immediately. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for that, it reminds me in terms of what you said about Giff being ruthless, I think is a term in journalism to “kill your darlings” because you could write an article or, you know, write your first draft and you're so in love with it, but by the time the editor brings out their red pen or something and starts striking it out, you have to separate emotion from the love. Jeff Gothelf That's exactly right, kill your darlings is the reality of this, of good product management. It's, you know, if the data doesn't prove it, and the data we're looking for is changes, meaningful, positive changes in the behaviour of the customers that we're serving. And if the data doesn't show it, then no matter how brilliant this idea was, how much you love it or how much you thought it was just revolutionary, it doesn't make sense to continue to invest in it, we've got to find, figure out a different way. Ula Ojiaku That's awesome. I'd love to get to your take on the terms, you know, vision and strategy. How would you define these terms would be my first question, and my second question, and I'm happy to, you know, share this again, is how would you then tie this to, you know, for example, product development? How would they, how should they influence product development? Jeff Gothelf Yeah, so look, a couple things. There are, I'm not going to lie to you, you know, I struggle a little bit with, you know, vision and mission. Strategy is clear to me, but differentiating between vision and mission, some will say a vision is like what will the world look like in five years or something like that? Or if you're successful, what changes will you see in the world? That type of thing. Whereas a vision is sort of like the big motivational, like what was it for Google? Cataloguing all the world's data, that was their vision. Right? Ula Ojiaku Can I give you my own take? So my understanding mission is more like, okay, what do we stand for? We're going to save the world? And vision is like, okay, in this amount of time, you know, this is how we're saving the world. So it's kind of a picture from the future, say if we travel five years into the future and we see our customers, what are, how are they behaving? You know, what exactly does the world look like for us? While mission tends to remain constant. That's my understanding anyway. Jeff Gothelf Okay. Yeah. And so to me, look, it's directional, right? In the sense of like, we are, you know, we're going to make sure everyone is clean drinking water, like clean drinking water for everybody, right? That's our, is that our mission or our vision? I don't know. But like, or maybe that, maybe that's the mission and the vision is, you know, a world where no one's thirsty. To me, those are like you, I think you need that in the sense that like, you need to know sort of at a high level what problem is the company solving for in the world? I think that's important, right? Because I think that inevitably there are going to be initiatives that seem to stray from that. At the very least, you can point and say, look, is it our mission to bring clean drinking water to everybody in the world? And why are we like investing in a sports website? Right, doesn't make any sense. So at the very least, it gives us that perspective. Strategy, however, and I think strategy is really, really, really important. Strategy is super important for aligning the organisation so that everybody is pulling in the same direction, so that everybody is clear on what the short term goals are for the organisation and it gives people, if done correctly, it gives people the freedom to experiment and learn to figure out the best ways to achieve the strategy, because I do believe that strategy is a hypothesis. Our hypothesis is that we want to expand into the North American market in 2024. Okay, great, let's figure out all kinds of ways where we might start to build some market share in North America in 2024. Right. And to me, I think that that is the true benefit of strategy. I think that it can also be misused, at least, for alignment, that's very specific. Our strategy is, you know, North American market share and we're going to do it this way. And you can get very prescriptive with that. Now everybody's aligned, everybody knows what we're doing, but it doesn't allow for the flexibility and that push and pull that ultimately reveals a better way to do something or is more creative or more innovative. And so I think strategy is key. It's key to articulate it clearly and simply, it's key to disseminate it clearly and simply across the organisation. And I think no team in the organisation should have their project approved if they can't clearly state how they believe this might help achieve the strategy. That's what I believe. Ula Ojiaku And on that note, so you said no project or team should have their initiative approved unless they can show how it helps move the needle towards the desired strategy, the direction of travel, the organisation, I suppose that's what you mean, the organisation's direction of travel or what they want to achieve. Now how, because one of the shiny new objects, or, well, not an object per se, but more like a buzzword is OKRs, objectives and key results. So how can we use that? Or, let's say, can it be used to help with tying strategy with the work that, you know, the lower levels of the organisation might be doing? Jeff Gothelf I think it's critical to be able to tie the pieces together. Now, I don't expect an individual contributor necessarily to be able to do that, but certainly their manager can say, hey team, we're working on this very tactical thing because it's a component of these five other tactical things that when you put them together, they roll up and they achieve this much more meaningful thing together. Right, and so I, again, I think that there needs to be a clear, and it's rare, look, let's be honest, right? Everyone in the organisation needs to understand what the strategic focus is for the next six months, six to 12 months. Okay. And again, if you can't speak directly to why you're working on the thing that you're working on, then your boss should be able to answer that question for you. Ula Ojiaku So it's really about, what I'm hearing you say is that there needs to be a strategic focus for an organisation at least that looks ahead six to 12 months into the future to say, okay, this is what we're going to be doing. And for teams, they have to find a way of articulating how they are contributing to that strategic focus, to the fulfilment of that strategic focus. Now, how can OKRs be used? I know you said, okay, individual contributors may not necessarily use that, but in the situations where you feel they apply, how could they be, and by they, I mean OKRs, objectives and key results, how could this format help? Jeff Gothelf OKRs to me, are the key to bringing this alignment. So if there's a clear strategy. Without a clear strategy, the OKRs don't help, okay. But if there's a clear strategy and we've set success criteria for that strategy, for that strategic hypothesis, then, or we can start to say, okay, great. We are, our strategic focus for 2024 is North American expansion, we'll know we've achieved it when, you know, we've got 10% market share, this much revenue and a, you know, new customer referral rate of 20%, something like that. Right. All of a sudden, the organisation knows what it's targeting, not only what the strategic focus is, but the actual behaviour change that we're looking for. So fundamentally, every team in the organisation can then start to say, okay, we work on X, and X is a leading indicator of Y and Y is a leading indicator of market share. Okay. So the objective, while it should be local to the team, as well as the key results, they function as leading indicators for the strategic goal, right? So let's try to make an example on the fly, right? So we're talking about North American expansion in 2024. Let's assume that we are in the, you know, online furniture business, something along those lines, right? And so if, maybe you work on a merchandising team, right? And so there, in order to do proper merchandising, you need access to specific suppliers, right? And so there is a team that does supplier and vendor relations. Right. That team understands that for the merchandising team to be successful, they've got to build these relationships with these vendors. So their OKR is going to be about building those relationships, right? Those relationships in turn allow the proper merchandising to take place, which then allows for the proper, you know, for market share to grow in the North American market, for example. So, but that connection can be, you can literally draw it on a board because people understand the strategy. And so objectives and key results become the, sort of the tactical strategic beacons for each of the teams. Each team knows exactly what they're targeting and why, and they understand, in theory, how it might help achieve the overall strategy, which again is a hypothesis, it might be wrong, but at the very least, they've got a shared direction. Ula Ojiaku Thank you for that example. There's something you said about the leading indicators. So I assume that would fall under the key results part, because we'd have the objective which is like the, you know, ambitious statements and then the key results are like, this is what success looks like in terms of achieving that broad statement, the objective. Now, would you, I've read articles from respected thought leaders who say, okay, yes, leading indicators are good, but there also needs to be, you know, the lagging indicators, kind of a balance of, will I say measures, you know, leading, lagging and quality indicators. I don't know if you have any, I mean, I'd love to hear what your view would be on this, because if we're only looking at leading indicators, there might be a temptation to just be short term in our thinking and not also try to measure the lagging indicators, like okay, the actual revenue of the profit that you get versus our likelihood of getting that revenue. Jeff Gothelf Yeah. So look, so short answer is both are important, I think, obviously, and I think both are required. Slightly longer answer is the lagging indicators in an organisation often tend to be the, what we call the impact metrics for the organisation, the high level measures of the health of the business, like you said, revenue, sales, you know, customer satisfaction, etcetera. Right. So yeah, those things need to exist. Typically, they exist at the leadership level, and so then whatever's happening within the teams, tends to function as a leading indicator ultimately to those sort of high level lagging indicators. Right? So we're going to, you know, I've got a team working on email marketing, and they're working on email market opening click rates, right? Those are leading indicators of eventual sales, and those sales are leading indicators of revenue, which is a lagging indicator of the health of the business. And so those, that's,to me, both are needed. Typically the lagging indicators tend to be at the strategic and the leadership level. Ula Ojiaku I read on your blog post that you have another book coming up, whilst we're on the subject of OKRs, and you're going to be, or you are in the process of co-authoring yet another book with your co-author Josh Seiden. Could you tell us about that? Jeff Gothelf Absolutely. So, yeah, so Josh and I have been working and writing together for a long time. We have been talking about outcomes and OKRs together for a long time, and we feel there's an opportunity in the marketplace to build, to write a tactical how-to implementation guide for all, organisations of all size. And that's what we're doing. It doesn't have a title yet, we do have a website at okr-book.com where you can sign up and learn a bit more about it and then kind of be on the mailing list when we do have more info about it. We're writing it right now. To be honest, I've been writing it in public for the last two years on my blog every week at 500 to 700 words at a time. All those just kind of getting those ideas out there and experimenting to see what works and what doesn't and what gets feedback and what doesn't, and that's been super helpful and I expect this to be a popular book, and I expect this to be a very helpful and tactical book for organisations who are going through the process of implementing OKRs and are trying to make them work both as a goal setting framework, but also truly understanding the kinds of changes to ways of working that come after you've implemented OKRs. Agility, or agile ways of working, product discovery, Lean UX, right? Those types of activities as well, to help teams build that evidence-based decision making that we talked about earlier. Ula Ojiaku Awesome. Is there any timeframe or do we just go to your, to the website you mentioned and sign up to get more updates on the book as they unfold? Jeff Gothelf okr-book.com - that's the website? Ula Ojiaku Yes. And when do we expect it to be released? Jeff Gothelf October. Ula Ojiaku This October, awesome. So that would also be in the show notes. Are there any books or materials that you have found yourself gifting or recommending to people that have impacted or shaped the way you think right now? I mean, that is in addition to your, you know, Sense and Respond book, Lean UX. Unfortunately, I don't have the physical copy of the Forever Employable ones and, but yeah, are there other books that you could recommend to us? Jeff Gothelf Yeah, I think so recently I've read Tony Fadell, his book Build, the Tony Fadell of Apple and Nest and various other fame, Build is a really good book and really interesting insight as to how he works and builds products, and most recently I just finished the new book by Rick Rubin, legendary music producer Rick Rubin, it's called The Creative Act, and I found that book to be fascinating and really inspiring. I mean, it's, you know, he is very like, listen to this, you know, get into the zone and just the flow and, you know, there's a lot of that fluffy guru kind of stuff in there too. But I agreed with 90% of what I read in there about creativity, about, you know, working with an idea, about developing an idea, about getting feedback on an idea, about letting an idea go, about changing context and constraints to create more creativity and innovation. And I really enjoyed it. So it's called The Creative Act, it's by Rick Rubin, and it's an easy read and I would recommend that if you're looking for that kind of motivation, I think it was really smart. Ula Ojiaku Awesome. Is there anything else you'd like to ask of the audience? Jeff Gothelf I just hope that if you've got anything you'd like to ask me, don't hesitate to get in touch via Twitter or LinkedIn or my website. If you're interested in OKRs, do sign up for my newsletter, and go to okr-book.com and sign up there. And beyond that, I hope to see you online or in person sometime in the future, because it's nice to meet people in person again these days. Ula Ojiaku Great. Thank you very much, Jeff, for these. Any final words of wisdom for the audience before we go? Jeff Gothelf The pithy phrase I'll close with is this, do less, more often. That's the phrase that I would recommend for you. Ula Ojiaku Wow. Do less, more often. I am going to be pondering on that statement. Thank you so much, Jeff. It's been an honour speaking with you, learning from you, and I hope we would get the opportunity to do this again, hopefully. Jeff Gothelf Thank you, Ula. This was amazing. Thanks for having me on the show. Ula Ojiaku That's all we have for now. Thanks for listening. If you liked this show, do subscribe at www.agileinnovationleaders.com or your favourite podcast provider. Also share with friends and do leave a review on iTunes. This would help others find this show. I'd also love to hear from you, so please drop me an email at ula@agileinnovationleaders.com Take care and God bless!   

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Cataloguing Priors in Theory and Practice, published by Paul Bricman on October 13, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. This post is part of my hypothesis subspace sequence, a living collection of proposals I'm exploring at Refine. Preceded by an exploration of Boolean primitives in the context of coupled optimizers. Thanks Alexander Oldenziel and Paul Colognese for discussions which inspired this post. Intro Simplicity prior, speed prior, and stability prior — what do they all have in common? They are all means of tilting an optimization surface towards solutions with certain properties. In other words, they are all heuristics informing the navigation of model space, trainer space, etc. However, what brings them together is also a systematic divide between their theoretical/conceptual/abstract framings and their practical/engineering implementations. All those priors appear to have been used in contemporary ML in one form or another, yet conceptual-heavy researchers are often unaware of those interesting data points, while ML engineers often treat those implementations as mere tricks to improve performance (e.g. generalization). In the language of coupled optimizers I've explored over the few past posts in the sequence, such heuristics are artifacts of meta-optimization (e.g. a human crafting a trainer by building in certain such tendencies), and often tend to be direct human-made artifacts, rather than the result of downstream optimization. Though this need not be the case, as the simplicity prior happens to itself be quite simple... It might emerge naturally from a trainer which itself is trained to be simple. Similarly, the speed prior happens to itself be quite fast, as penalizing a duration is trivial. It might emerge naturally from a trainer, should it be trained to itself be fast. Anyway, let's briefly catalog a few popular priors, describe the rationale for employing them, list instances of their use in ML, and finally document possible failure modes associated with blindly following them. Priors Some members of the list can be better described as heuristics or biases than priors. However, there are some basic connections between those in that they all cause an optimization process to yield certain outcomes more than others. If you start with a prior of possible ML model parametrizations and use training data to update towards your final distribution, your choice of prior will naturally influence the posterior. This prior can be informed by heuristics, such as "we're more interested in simple models than complex ones from the get-go." Bias as in structural bias, inductive bias, and bias-variance trade-off describes a similar process of tailoring the ML model to broadly yield certain types of results efficiently. Simplicity Informally known as Occam's razor, and extremely formally known as Solomonoff prior, the simplicity prior biases optimization towards solutions which are simple. "Simple" here is often operationalized using the minimum description length: what's the shortest description of an algorithm/model/concept/world/etc. required to accurately specify it? Simple candidates are then the ones with a particularly short such shortest length. The rationale behind employing the simplicity prior in an optimization process is that it systematically reduces the variance of the solution. This means that it increases the odds that the solution will behave in a similar way in different situations, as opposed to growing too reliant on the idiosyncrasies of your finite/limited/bound optimization process. When training ML models, simplicity tends to yield strong generalization performance. When building world models, simplicity tends to yield theories which hold better against new empirical data. In ML, the use of simplicity is most associated with the bias-variance tr...

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Alex imagines a new form of social media: partly the encyclopedia and partly a Scratch and Sniff. We also have two separate listeners contact us about their anxieties around packing, and we really try our best to make them something to help them out.If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com, http://www.twitter.com/brainsoutside or http://www.instagram.com/brainsontheoutsideRate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or where ever you get your podcasts and please, please, please tell your friends!Keep your brains on the outside xoChapters00:00 Intro01:13 The Book12:54 "Ads"17:01 Innovative Storage Solutions28:02 the end~~~~~~~~~~~Indie Drop-InAll content legally licensed from the original creator. Thank you to Brains on the Outside for the great episode. You can find Indie Drop-In at https://indiedropin.comCheck out Indie Drop-In Networks other showsTrue Crime - http://www.dummies.fan/truecrimeScary Time - http://www.dummies.fan/scarytimeHelp Indie Drop-In support indie creators by buying us a coffee!https://buymeacoffee.com/indiedropinBrands can advertise on Indie Drop-In using Patreonhttps://patreon.com/indiedropinTwitter: https://twitter.com/indiedropinInstagram: https://instagram.com/indiedropinFacebook: https://facebook.com/indiedropinAny advertising found in this episode is inserted by Indie Drop-In and not endorsed by the Creator.If you would like to have your show featured go to http://indiedropin.com/creators~~~~~~~~~~~

Alex imagines a new form of social media: partly the encyclopedia and partly a Scratch and Sniff. We also have two separate listeners contact us about their anxieties around packing, and we really try our best to make them something to help them out.If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com,  www.twitter.com/brainsoutside or www.instagram.com/brainsontheoutsideRate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or where ever you get your podcasts and please, please, please tell your friends!Keep your brains on the outside xo

Sunday Worship for 6-5-22. John continues our series, "Romans, The Book of the Power of the Gospel", with a lesson on Romans 1:18-32 and man's desire to embrace sin.

As your soft-spoken, ASMR librarian today we'll be cataloguing some books. First we'll inspect the books for any damage, then enter the book into the system, and then fill out and stamp the card for the book. With a medley of plastic crinkles, crispy and smooth paper sounds, along with writing and typing sounds I hope you find this process relaxing and full of tingles.

Dr Falk Eisermann is head of the Incunabula Division at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and is considered a world expert in the field. He also heads the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Union catalogue of incunabula), GW for short. Founded in 1904 it's objective is to list all 15th-century items printed from movable type. Today the job is reportedly about fifty percent complete. Lots of work remains.  I met with Falk in his green-carpeted office at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin to talk about his role as a rare books librarian, about incunabula, and about his quest to find and catalogue it all.   

How does colonialism still shape museums today? In Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press, 2020), Hannah Turner, an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, reveals the complex history of cataloguing museum collections. Using a case study of The Smithsonian, the book details the material practices that underpin the contested collections of the National Museum of Natural History. Turner's research charts the early uses of ledgers and record books, through the use of drawings, card catalogues, and typed records, to computerisation of the collections' records. The analysis has important implications for contemporary debates over repatriation of collections, and the book is powerful illustration of the importance of understanding the long shadow of colonial practices and knowledges on the contemporary institution. Cataloguing Culture is essential reading for practitioners and academics, as well as for anyone interested in the past, and the future, of museums. Dave O'Brien is Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Edinburgh's College of Art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does colonialism still shape museums today? In Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press, 2020), Hannah Turner, an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, reveals the complex history of cataloguing museum collections. Using a case study of The Smithsonian, the book details the material practices that underpin the contested collections of the National Museum of Natural History. Turner's research charts the early uses of ledgers and record books, through the use of drawings, card catalogues, and typed records, to computerisation of the collections' records. The analysis has important implications for contemporary debates over repatriation of collections, and the book is powerful illustration of the importance of understanding the long shadow of colonial practices and knowledges on the contemporary institution. Cataloguing Culture is essential reading for practitioners and academics, as well as for anyone interested in the past, and the future, of museums. Dave O'Brien is Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Edinburgh's College of Art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

How does colonialism still shape museums today? In Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press, 2020), Hannah Turner, an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, reveals the complex history of cataloguing museum collections. Using a case study of The Smithsonian, the book details the material practices that underpin the contested collections of the National Museum of Natural History. Turner's research charts the early uses of ledgers and record books, through the use of drawings, card catalogues, and typed records, to computerisation of the collections' records. The analysis has important implications for contemporary debates over repatriation of collections, and the book is powerful illustration of the importance of understanding the long shadow of colonial practices and knowledges on the contemporary institution. Cataloguing Culture is essential reading for practitioners and academics, as well as for anyone interested in the past, and the future, of museums. Dave O'Brien is Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Edinburgh's College of Art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

How does colonialism still shape museums today? In Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press, 2020), Hannah Turner, an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, reveals the complex history of cataloguing museum collections. Using a case study of The Smithsonian, the book details the material practices that underpin the contested collections of the National Museum of Natural History. Turner's research charts the early uses of ledgers and record books, through the use of drawings, card catalogues, and typed records, to computerisation of the collections' records. The analysis has important implications for contemporary debates over repatriation of collections, and the book is powerful illustration of the importance of understanding the long shadow of colonial practices and knowledges on the contemporary institution. Cataloguing Culture is essential reading for practitioners and academics, as well as for anyone interested in the past, and the future, of museums. Dave O'Brien is Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Edinburgh's College of Art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

How does colonialism still shape museums today? In Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press, 2020), Hannah Turner, an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, reveals the complex history of cataloguing museum collections. Using a case study of The Smithsonian, the book details the material practices that underpin the contested collections of the National Museum of Natural History. Turner's research charts the early uses of ledgers and record books, through the use of drawings, card catalogues, and typed records, to computerisation of the collections' records. The analysis has important implications for contemporary debates over repatriation of collections, and the book is powerful illustration of the importance of understanding the long shadow of colonial practices and knowledges on the contemporary institution. Cataloguing Culture is essential reading for practitioners and academics, as well as for anyone interested in the past, and the future, of museums. Dave O'Brien is Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Edinburgh's College of Art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Our guest is Prof. Abel Méndez, a planetary astrobiologist and Director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo! His research focuses on the habitability of Earth, the Solar System, and extrasolar planets. Prof. Méndez is best known for developing the Earth Similarity Index, the Visible Paleo-Earth Project, and maintaining the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a database of potentially habitable worlds. Check out our website for the full transcript of this podcast, plus the full YouTube version of this episode: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/episodes/51/

Cataloguing the fall of an empire prompted an instant love affair with Russia. Moving on to explore various Babylonian worlds, the lure of black magic transported her back into the heart of St Petersburg. Whether she is ghostwriting or writing about witches, her books speak volumes. Honing her state of flow to channel her writing with a clear Focus on WHY, award-winning journalist, broadcaster, novelist and screenwriter Imogen Edwards-Jones describes what it is like to be a spectator in your own mind.   KEY TAKEAWAY “Sometimes you're a spectator in your own mind. So you are basically just recording what's being played out in your head.”   BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS* On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King by Stephen King - https://amzn.to/3AJP2F4 Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones - https://amzn.to/2XPo9AW The Witches of St Petersburg by Imogen Edwards-Jones - https://amzn.to/3AJPnHQ Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones - https://amzn.to/3oo8MuL Beach Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones - https://amzn.to/3kHGSHL   ABOUT IMOGEN EDWARDS-JONES Imogen Edwards-Jones is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, novelist and screenwriter responsible for the hugely successful Babylon series, which includes the Sunday Times best sellers Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon, Fashion Babylon. The series has sold over 1.5 million copies in the UK alone, been translated into some twenty different languages worldwide and made into two BBC Primetime TV shows. A broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 and 5 and television presenter, Imogen won the Independent scholarship from Bristol University, where she read Russian. She has written for numerous Fleet Street newspapers and magazines for the past 25 years. An honorary Cossack, Imogen has travelled extensively in the old Soviet Union writing a travel book, The Taming Of Eagles, Exploring the New Russia and was Editorial Consultant on Belgravia for Julian Fellowes (ITV) She is married and lives in London with two children. Co-founder of The Great Big Book Club, her latest novel – The Witches of St Petersburg – has recently been optioned in Los Angeles.   CONTACT IMOGEN https://twitter.com/gbigbookclub https://thegreatbigbookclub.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thegreatbigbookclub https://www.instagram.com/thegreatbigbookclub/       ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker, Mastermind Host and Property Investor. Through coaching and workshops, Amy works with businesses to Focus on WHY to create people-centred environments, by improving productivity and employee engagement by focusing on fulfilment, values and purpose. Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would like Amy to help you to launch your podcast or to focus on your WHY then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall Please sign up for the weekly Friday Focus newsletter at https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrowlinson/ https://www.instagram.com/focusonwhy/  https://www.instagram.com/amy.rowlinson/ https://www.facebook.com/RowlinsonAmy/ https://www.facebook.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/focusonwhy/ https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@amyrowlinson   HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson   DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.  *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

This week my guest is Anne Welsh from Tidy Beginnings. Anne has been a professional librarian for nearly 30 years, specializing in cataloguing, including creating inventories for estates, so I thought it would be a great to talk to Anne about the work she does and how she helps her clients. Anne mentioned a few booksellers which are a great resource to research more about the listing price of your books: Abebooks.co.uk Abebooks.com Library Thing Two bookseller associations which are: Antiquarian Booksellers Association ABA The Antiquarian Booksellers Association Hope you find this episode helpful, especially if you need to catalogue your collections currently. If you do, please share your love by leaving a comment in the comment section. Thanks as always for listening to the Decluttr Me podcast. Shelina --- Learn more about DeCluttr Me on our website or follow Decluttr Me on Social Media: Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Support the show!  

This week my guest is Anne Welsh from Tidy Beginnings. Anne has been a professional librarian for nearly 30 years, specializing in cataloguing, including creating inventories for estates, so I thought it would be a great to talk to Anne about the work she does and how she helps her clients. Anne mentioned a few booksellers which are a great resource to research more about the listing price of your books: Abebooks.co.uk Abebooks.com Library Thing Two bookseller associations which are: Antiquarian Booksellers Association ABA The Antiquarian Booksellers Association Hope you find this episode helpful, especially if you need to catalogue your collections currently. If you do, please share your love by leaving a comment in the comment section. Thanks as always for listening to the Decluttr Me podcast. Shelina --- Learn more about DeCluttr Me on our website or follow Decluttr Me on Social Media: Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Support the show!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode Steph and I are continuing our deep dive into the steps to launching a collection of art for sale. We focus in on the process of putting our art online for sale and our different workflows within this process. We share some nifty shortcuts on collating information to catalogue your art and how you can make your spreadsheets talk to your website. We also talk through some of the pain points that each of us have had with this aspect of our art businesses and what has worked best for us If tech is not your favourite thing, then you'll be glad to hear that it's not for us either, but we have found ways that may make this road easier to navigate for you. Some of the topics we cover include; Cataloguing our art for our records in intuitive ways. Our systems and methods for popping our works up for sale. How knowing ourselves informs our workflows. Some fantastic hacks we use to make recordkeeping more intuitive. How listing your art online makes it easier for your customers to purchase from you. How to hold a simple studio sale. Be sure to check the shownotes for the links to tutorials on our tech hacks. www.susannethercotestudio.com/podcast/selling-online I hope you enjoy the episode! Suse ox --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/susan-nethercote/message

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.Today's prompt: Create a plan for naming and storage, and then follow it. Resources File Naming in the Digital Age by Dean Rehberger and Brendan Coates http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/08/file-naming-in-the-digital-age/“Oral History Curation in the Digital Age: A Framework for Choices and Planning,” Michael Frisch, Douglas Lambert, Mark Tebeau, and Erin Bell  http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/oral-history-curation-in-the-digital-age/ Kenyon College, “Archiving Oral histories” https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=librarydocs Adventures in AV Archive at Duke University: https://sites.duke.edu/archivox/2015/01/29/oral-history-class-quick-reference/  Nancy MacKay, Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive, Routledge, 2016. Share your progress with us:@SMCChistory (Twitter and Insta)historysouthmountain@gmail.comMore and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

Damien Done (As Friends Rust, Culture) joins the show to talk about album running times and much more. RIP Caleb Stewart Damien Done updates I hate glam metal Full Of Hell Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress “I feel like i've been through a lot after those 16 minutes” 3500 units is way more than it actually it is. Cataloguing your listening habits Industry Standards No Echo: Damiel Moyal 90s EP Faves To Night EP on double 7”  Giving the middle finger to everyone What is an album? What is a Mini LP “$6 is fine…$7 is werd” Magū Age Of Apocalypse Maxwell House/Columbia House The Democratization of Music The Barriers Of Entry “I want shit to sound mean again” Pestilence - Spheres Power Trip leads us down a thrash rabbit hole  RIP Riley Gale Iron Age I solos… Damien Loves Solos Live sets and the correlation to album length Pink Flag love “You gotta play Break Down The Walls” “King Diamond doesn't owe the crowd shit” “You gotta be wary about other Pantera Fans” Furnace Fest Germans love BSF Sam McPheeters Mutations LORE Zine Fatamorgana and Boy Harsher ADDENDUM To get your copy of the latest issue Sex And Glue Zine visit SEXANDGLUEZINE.com or sexandgluexine.bigcartel.com   for contact about booking as a guest on the show or for advertising, please email sexandgluezine@gmail.com   find me on IG @sexandgluezine     Please visit the sponsors essexcoffeeroasters.com (use the promo code SNGZINE10 to get 10 percent off your entire order)   sonixcollaborative.com

Guests: Beth Shoemaker from Emory University and Karen Snow from Dominican University, co-chairs of the Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee. First broadcast February 19 2021. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2021/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-february-19th-the-cataloguing-code-of-ethics-episode-482/ "A cataloger can censor a book with a few keystrokes."

The son of prominent book collector Kenneth E. Hill, Jonathan A. Hill grew up in a house filled with old books.  After graduating from university in 1974 he served a classic apprenticeship, working for four leading antiquarian booksellers in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. In 1978 he started his own company and has specialized in science, medicine, natural history, bibliography and the history of book collecting, and early printed books. For the past 20 years he has, partnering with his wife Megumi, also sold antiquarian Japanese, Chinese, and Korean illustrated books, manuscripts, and scrolls.  During the past 43 years the company has issued more than 230 catalogues devoted to these various subjects.   It is thanks to them that I contacted Jonathan. We talk here about his (and Jerry Kelly's) impressive work, and about bookseller catalogues in general.   

In many parts of Africa, insects such as termites and grasshoppers are an important source of protein in people's diets. But in South Africa, edible bugs are facing increasing threats due to changes in their environment. Now, scientists are racing to log the DNA barcode of these insect species before they disappear.

Dante-the-pilgrim gets to a vantage point where he can look across the "enameled" green to see the crowd gathered in and around Limbo's castle. Our pilgrim, Dante--with our poet, Dante, never quite behind the curtain of this story--lists off the greats: Trojans, Romans, Caesar, Aristotle, even great pre-Socratic thinkers. Problem is, our poet didn't know many of these thinkers and writers except by name. He only knew of Plato by an incomplete translation of one minor work. What's more, he includes a few names in his list of the greats that are almost mind-blowing, figures I didn't see even after reading COMEDY for almost thirty years. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I continue on the slow journey across COMEDY. We've come to the end of canto IV in INFERNO, to the first big catalogue of COMEDY, a list of the great thinkers who Dante-the-poet damns if not quite completely. Here are the segments of this episode: [01:35] My English translation of the passage from INFERNO: Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151. If you want to see it, check it out on my website, markscarbrough.com. [04:20] A bit about my history with COMEDY--and my apparent blindness to some of its details, despite reading it for so many years. [05:40] The first pieces of this passage: questions about who the "we" is, questions about the description of the green grass in the castle ("enameled"?), and questions about the Dante-the-poet who never seems far behind the veil of these passages. [07:54] The first list of who the pilgrim sees: Trojans, Romans, and (here it comes) an Islamic ruler. I also talk a bit about the notion of "fiction v. history" in medieval literature--and why it may not make that much of a difference to the text in its historical context. [14:38] A second list of the ones the pilgrim sees as he "lifts" his eyes "higher: philosophers, thinkers, writers, mathematicians, astronomers, physicians--and two Islamic scholars, more names in the list I missed for years. [22:58] A bit about the rationalizations for a list like this one. Maybe there's an emotional component to listing off those you honor when you're on the run. [26:42] The last lines of the passage--and the intrusion of Dante-the-poet for one final time. The poet's never been far away in Canto IV, in Limbo. Why? What about this canto makes the poet continually pull back the curtain of the narrative to reveal himself? Those answers I'll hold until the next episode of this podcast. Support this podcast

This week the Docs are exploring some of their guilty reading pleasures, although as usual they don't stick to the topic and other guilts are exposed, not least of them someone's fantasies about Kevin Bacon's shorts. Prepare for the over-caffeinated enthusiasm, as we learn who was the bane of their primary school librarians, who has a sadistic streak, and who is a secret sports buff. High art/ low art divide be damned, we're taking on the hegemonic elite and flying our freak flags.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the Docs are exploring some of their guilty reading pleasures, although as usual they don't stick to the topic and other guilts are exposed, not least of them someone's fantasies about Kevin Bacon's shorts. Prepare for the over-caffeinated enthusiasm, as we learn who was the bane of their primary school librarians, who has a sadistic streak, and who is a secret sports buff. High art/ low art divide be damned, we're taking on the hegemonic elite and flying our freak flags.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the Docs are exploring some of their guilty reading pleasures, although as usual they don't stick to the topic and other guilts are exposed, not least of them someone's fantasies about Kevin Bacon's shorts. Prepare for the over-caffeinated enthusiasm, as we learn who was the bane of their primary school librarians, who has a sadistic streak, and who is a secret sports buff. High art/ low art divide be damned, we're taking on the hegemonic elite and flying our freak flags.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We check in with some local businesses to find out how the new mandatory mask policy is helping keep their businesses going. A runner tells us about completing an epic 100 mile run this weekend. We hear from a Rigolet woman seeking reassurance after she was slapped with a $2000 electricity bill for one month. An early childhood educator tells us about the importance of the great outdoors. And cataloguing hundreds of artifacts found in a historical trash pile. We speak to a Hopedale teenager who took on this unusual task.

Cataloguing and managing graphic assets Smart Folders are very in-depth Searching is great Check out eagle.cool - Mac and PC - $30 Life Log Tracking Presenting data in an interesting way Rating life experiences Easy to enter data The amount of data available about us for people in the future Photo a day for 18 […]

Cataloguing and managing graphic assets Smart Folders are very in-depth Searching is great Check out eagle.cool – Mac and PC – $30 Life Log Tracking Presenting data in an interesting way Rating life experiences Easy to enter data The amount of data available about us for people in the future Photo a day for 18 ... Read more

In this episode of the History Slam, Sean Graham talks with Hannah Turner about her new book Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation. They discuss the Smithsonian’s collection process, its relationships with the communities from which it took objects, and how its database was built. They also chat about the importance of terminology, […]

In this episode of the History Slam, Sean Graham talks with Hannah Turner about her new book Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation. They discuss the Smithsonian’s collection process, its relationships with the communities from which it took objects, and how its database was built. They also chat about the importance of terminology, […]

As the Coronovirus pandemic has changed many aspects of life over the past three months, the gardens and green spaces all across the UK have continued in full glory over the spring - but Summer has arrived and for many the outdoors is the sanctuary from the continued uncertainty of what lies ahead. Head Gardeners Saul and Lucy have still been full at work at Stonelands and Easy Donyland (as well as their own gardens) and continue to share their lives as professional Horticulturists, there tips and tricks and their observations of their gardening lives.Saul's personal plant collection numbers in the many hundreds, and including the sixteen acres at Stonelands, that's a lot of species and varieties to keep track of year on year - so there is something he really loves to do and that is to label and catalogue them. Spurred on by the purchase of a new label machine, Lucy and Saul reflect and enthuse about this most nerdy of subjects, but one that is actually more expansive than just sticking a name in a pot.... Twitter links:Saul @GardeningSaulLucy @HeadGardenerLCIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

What's the best way to keep track of a sprawling fictional universe? We talk with Dave Robison, the founder of Archivos, our worldbuilding software of choice.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme school librarian from the Albemarle School System in the State of Virginia in the United States, Ida Mae Craddock (Mae) makes the case for having a school librarian in every school. We discuss her work as a school librarian. Among the topics covered are: A description of the school she teaches in Allocation of librarians to schools in Virigina The job of school librarian Describing the library and the services offered Doing a masters in library science (Old Dominion University) Content of masters course The challenge and importance of locating resources that are relevant and used Developing the library collection The library of things “Being stuck at home is no fun, being stuck at home with no books is tragic.” Cataloguing library materials The kind of literature that is popular among the students in the school she works in Loss of library stock Value of having a librarian in a school The history of school libraries The future of school libraries – innovation hubs Writing regularly for School Librarian Connection and School Library Journal The Maker Educator Collective Laser cutting and 3-D printing CRICKETS – Computer Aided Cutting Teaching as a subversive activity by Neil Postman Walden by Thoreau

00:01 Introduction; 00:08 It's cold in here; 00:30 Cataloguing videos of all NASCAR races from 1994 to 2005; 01:20 Why not let Mary design the dinosaur games; 02:10 What is your favorite dinosaur and why is it a triceratops; 02:50 "You want all dinosaurs to die?"; 03:20 Dinosaur Table Battles; 04:05 Hollandays Sale; 04:35 Canvas maps list for the sale; 05:30 Larger map for Horse & Musket; 05:45 Multiplayer games; 06:50 "You ignore most of what I say"; 08:25 Shrink wrap; 08:45 Space travel is horrifying; 09:25 Back to shrink wrap; 10:00 Negotiation games; 10:45 Don't play Catan with Big Mike; 11:45 Sharing in the victory.

Just in time for National Small Business Month, here's a very relevant episode of our micro podcast, The 4 am Report. We're tackling the unsexy side of marketing: how small businesses can best measure ROI on their various marketing activities. Numbers, data, analytics. It's easy for small business owners to get bogged down in all this. It's difficult to know where to start.   This is definitely the case for this week's guest, Tracey Bissett, president and chief financial fitness trainer at Bissett Financial Fitness. In fact, Tracey points out an interesting paradox about herself: “I know how to help my clients think about return on investment, but how do I do this for my own marketing?” This led to an interesting discussion. What if you were to approach establishing your marketing ROI as if you were establishing the ROI on financial investments? Susan, Will and Tracey bring some cool hypotheses to life and discuss what an investor lens might look like when you assess your marketing investment. They also talk about what ROI looks like beyond just vanity metrics and data. Set your marketing goals Susan talks about how it's important to set overall goals.  Is it sales? In that case, is there a certain number of dollars that need to come in the door? Then that becomes a measurement factor. If it's a question of increasing lists, then again quantifying the goal from something vague to increase the list by 20%. Get into that discipline of numbers at the goal stage.  Awareness is a big goal for many people. That as well needs to be quantified. Does awareness mean you want more people to come to your page? Does it mean you want more people to be calling you? So quantify what the end result of those things are.  The importance of doing a full content audit (regularly) Will and Susan talk about why doing content audits is essential to fully understanding how your content is performing. Cataloguing content and measuring it against the 2 - 3 metrics you've already chosen is the only way to see what's working and what's not.   If you're looking for a guide on how to do a small business content audit, get it here.   Can we approach establishing marketing ROI in the same way we'd approach it with financial investments? This is where Tracey and the hosts have a little fun. They look at three factors that Tracey says help her establish ROI for her clients: What's the risk profile of the investment What fees are involved? And are we comparing apples to apples? Susan and Will talk about how low risk marketing is doing what you've been doing. You know your audience consumes it. But it's not getting you a jump in numbers/engagement.   Enter the higher risk marketing. Everyone wants to be a disrupter and get that 5X results. But it's not easy to predict what's going to gel with your audience. Some areas of marketing that are higher risk but are proving to be rewarding for some brands? Taking a stand on an issue. Newsjacking. And mindset marketing. The two tiers of measurement To keep you from the overwhelm, Will explains there are two simple tiers of measurement. The first tier is vanity metrics. Obviously that's the likes, the shares, all those things that make you feel good right away.  The second tier is engagement or behaviour related. Things like where on social is the traffic coming to your web from? Or is it coming from emails? And looking at how long people have spent on a page gives you some indication of what they're reading, watching or listening to. Are they clicking to go elsewhere on your site, staying within your site? Are they putting something in the cart? All of this helps with tweaks to your UX.   How using The Anchor Theory of content creation can help ease the volatility of your marketing portfolio (Look, another investing analogy) Susan explains that if you're investing time and planning a 2500-word lead magnet or a 45-minute podcast, you're putting a significant amount of effort into creating that content.  So you wouldn't just throw some money in an investment and pull it out after a month. We need to look at our content creation that way.  The c+p digital team call this ‘anchoring' your content and then spinning it off into bite size pieces, giving it as much exposure as possible. It's not the idea of duplicating content necessarily, it's just creating it in multiple formats.  For a great visual on what The Anchor Theory is all about, check it out here.  How do we measure the success of The 4 am Report Susan talks through how c+p digital measures the ROI on this podcast. It's a mix of traditional metrics but then she explains how going beyond the data can give you the true picture of overall worth. One key thing is the value of the relationships that are being built with podcast guests. This means and expanding network and new business opportunities. Will and Susan have also seen an actual impact on the industry (i.e. micro is where it seems to be at). If you want to read a case study on how The 4 am Report has been one of c+p digital's best marketing investments, check it out here.  Tracey then shares some of that same ROI she's encountered from her podcast Young Money, including reaching an international audience and being asked to appear on a popular podcast in Australia. We end with a plug from our guest To help entrepreneurs who have cash flow concerns, Tracey has created a master class called, Can I Afford It? How to be certain of what you can and can't afford in your business in five minutes or less every time. To check out the details for the master class, go to bissettfinancialfitness.com/afford About Tracey Tracey Bissett is the President and Chief Financial Fitness Trainer at Bissett Financial Fitness. She is on a mission to redefine the economic future of the world by addressing financial literacy of young adults and entrepreneurs. She does this through her weekly podcast, Young Money - the advice show for millionaires in the making, teaching and delivery of courses, coaching and consulting. Connect https://twitter.com/bissettfinfit https://www.instagram.com/bissettfinfit/ https://www.facebook.com/bissettfinfit/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceybissett/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/10570745/

"We're kind of the Men in Black... People don't even know we exist." - Mike N. Jason and Wendy wonder how a book gets from the publisher's catalogue to your local hold shelf. Jason digs behind the scenes to find out - and meets library staff you never knew existed. Books and videos mentioned in this episode: Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture by Louise Hartman and Scott Specht Amy processes Fire and Fury by Alice What Valerie's reading this season: Valerie's Picks, Winter/Spring 2019 Read episode transcript Your hosts: Christina, Mike, Jason, and Wendy Contact us at shelveunder@torontopubliclibrary.ca Please take our survey.

This week, mapping every cell in a mouse embryo and the benefits of cataloguing all the viruses on Earth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Games of all types are popular in libraries. However, the diversity of games and gaming formats present some unique cataloguing challenges. Mackenzie Johnson spoke with Emma Cross from Carleton University about those challenges and the current thinking about how to address them. Their conversation covers best practices, recommendations for those starting a gaming collection, and why games (and cataloguing games) matter. A transcript of this episode is available from our website: http://sowhat.fims.uwo.ca/1-2-cataloguing-games/ Episode producer: Mackenzie Johnson

Another long intro in part because Charis is moving to London. Feel free to skip ahead to the middle point of this episode when Eugene discusses the importance of analytical media in connection to an op-ed written by Lawrence Ware about The Source magazine. Charis' topic this week is about the online museum called Conserve the Sound which carefully catalogs images and audio snippets of analog items. This topic leads into a larger discussion about what is conceptually lost when new technology replaces older items. 00:19:22 Analytical media 00:31:24 Conserve the Sound Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/what-the-source-taught-me.html https://www.conservethesound.de/en/ What is MAEKAN? MAEKAN is a membership-based publication and community focused on the sights and sounds of creative culture. We're about learning, participating, and connecting with a global community on a deeper level that social media just doesn't provide. We’re defining the future of creative culture. We don't have all the answers, but our curiosity ensures we never stop looking. Sign-Up Today If you've enjoyed this story from the archives and want to see what else MAEKAN has to offer, sign-up for your membership at MAEKAN.com. You'll unlock all of our stories, be given exclusive member-only-access to our Slack community, and have the opportunity to participate in our monthly digital panel discussions. MAEKAN.com Follow Us instagram.com/maekan facebook.com/storiesforthecurious twitter.com/maekan stories@maekan.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maekanitup/message

Alissa McCulloch, perhaps better known by her twitter handle @lissertations, is the most passionate and enthusiastic cataloguer you’ve ever met. She’s a new librarian with big dreams about the future of library metadata, and how it might be used to help people feel welcomed, supported and empowered by libraries. Alissa works to decolonise the GLAM … Continue reading "Episode 18: Alissa McCulloch talks about critical cataloguing, zines and bibliographic data wizardry"

  Have you ever wondered what an archivist does? In this week’s podcast, NRS archivist Simon Johnson opens up the case papers of Scotland’s supreme criminal court in the early 19th Century. Case papers from the High Court of Justiciary provide endless research potential, both as a record of individual cases and as a tremendous … Continue reading From Disorder to Order: Cataloguing the 19th Century Criminal Case Papers of the High Court of Justiciary, with Simon Johnson

Feryal Sharfeddin (Department of Antiquities, Libya) gives a talk in the second panel of the second day of the conference. The Department of Antiquities possesses valuable quantities of historical documents stored in archives dated back from the beginning of the last century and still in use nowadays. The documents, estimated to be around 100 thousand pieces, includes: photographs, maps and reports, priceless publications mainly concentrated on the Department of Antiquities headquarters at the Castle Assaraya El-Hamra. Unfortunately this important heritage have suffered from severe neglect during the previous regime and continues to suffer to this day due to the current post-revolution crisis. All of these reasons affect the deterioration of the state of archives as they are under the threat of damage and loss. This have encouraged the people in charge to start an attempt to documentate the materials and looking for the necessary support to save this priceless cultural and scientific wealth through the establishment of a modern environment. The Red Castle houses a notable quantity of documents that require a wide range of interventions: from the Reconditioning, Sanitising, Restoration, Cataloguing, and Digitization to the provision of online and offline Consultation. The castle itself is in need of essential interventions in order to respect the security norms for the conservation of historical documents. The paper will give an idea about the DOA digitizing processes in both cartographic and photo archives as an important first step to preserve and documented their heritage.

Our pal James D'Amato from the One Shot and Campaign podcasts drops by this week to talk about his new project, Dungeon Dome, which combines gaming with pro wrestling! We talk about whether James is a wrestling guy, wrestling storytelling, new audiences for tabletop games, audience participation, gladiatorial weapons and much more! Plus, we add some new characters to the Panel President list!

This week I am joined by the incredible Bobby Hartry. I met Bobby when he was playing guitar with our friend Brenton Brown. In addition to being a ridiculously talented guitarist, Bobby is an Emmy winning songwriter and an accomplished music producer. Together with his wife Jen, they run Catbeach Music. In this conversation Bobby and I talk about:
 Cruising Alaska learning to dogsled from Cuba Gooding Jr Designing your creative space kids playing led Zeppelin Hunting down guitar gear Seeing U2 live How music triggers memories Gotta give it to the Edge Preschool instruments rock Recording like your painting The role of a producer Flaws are important Collaboration is critical The temptation to  silo yourself Inspiration will show up if you do Hitting a wall and pushing through it The allusive problem song Not being too precious in the process Don’t chase old muses Writing music on assignment Using Parameters to spawn creativity How to handle notes on your art Holding opportunities loosely Writing music for television Landing Mailbox money Cataloguing your creations When the hard drive crashes Making it sound good in the room, not just in the computer Capturing the player in the production Why do we document experiences instead of having them When artists decide to work with someone else Serving the artist and the song Saying no to the right things Realizing when your working too much Vacation and anxiety attacks Surprise Emmy nominations … and how you never know where opportunities will come from. 
Check out to Bobby’s work at BobbyHartry.com also check out their label Catbeachmusic.com
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Paul Langan, a senior reliability technician with more than 45 years of maintenance and reliability experience, joins the podcast to help us answer some of the major questions centered on asset hierarchy. We’ll go into the weeds of asset hierarchy by discussing topics such as the types of assets that should be catalogued, the importance of developing a parent-child relationship within your hierarchy system, and how to optimize your hierarchy. Discussion highlights include: Explaining what an asset hierarchy is and why it's important for an effective asset management program Identifying the types of assets that should be catalogued Uncovering the need to validate your assets Developing a parent-child relationship Optimizing your asset hierarchy system Additional Resources: Is Asset Hierarchy Validation and Optimization a Waste of Time and Money? Sample Functional Hierarchy

A culture shift is taking place in the Wellcome Library's Special Collections team. Driven by a growing realisation that past acquisition policies have left patient perspectives on health and well-being woefully under-represented, they have started to re-evaluate what kinds of material may constitute an 'archive'. Focusing on an exciting, non-traditional 'archive' acquired earlier this year, Helen Wakely reflects on the issues and opportunities that such challenging collections present to the Library.Helen Wakely is Archive Project Manager at the Wellcome Library. She has responsibility for sensitivity assessment and access issues in the library's Special Collections, and takes a special interest in promoting public engagement with its archive collections, particularly in the area of food history.

The Geeks, together again, celebrate Christmas together with the telling of tales, with a discussion of their Core 4 Christmas Specials. This, of course, means they can't agree on the ground rules and things fall apart quickly.  They also have a gift exchange that leads to a lot of conversation, as usual. The Geeks also recap Jekyll Con (a rousing success!) and Ron shows us his Christmas Card from Professor Alan. But listen for the gift exchange.  It's a classic.  After that Scott, feeling bad for the fact that he didn't get the episode out on time and instead put it out on Christmas Eve, decides to slather on the Christmas Cheer, resulting in our longest episode ever! It even includes visits from Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, C-3PO, R2-D2, Fred Flinstone, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Jack Skellington, among others.   This episode of Dinner 4 Geeks was recorded live at Zachry's Seafood and Steak in Brunswick, GA http:zachrys-restaurant.com  

Institute of Historical Research Anne Welsh (University College, London) Archives and Society Seminar

By the late 19th Century, storms plaguing early Victorian systematics and nomenclature seemed to have abated. Vociferous disputes over radical renaming, the world shaking clash of all-encompassing procrustean systems, struggles over centres of authority, and the issues of language and meaning had now been settled by the institution of a stable imperial museum and its catalogues, a set of rules for the naming of zoological objects, and a new professional class of zoologists.  Yet, for all that tranquillity, the disputes simmered below the surface, re-emerging as bitter struggles over synonyms, trinomials, the subspecies category, the looming issues of the philosophy of scientific language, and the aggressive new American style of field biology ñ all pressed in upon the received practice of naming and classifying organisms and the threat of anarchy. In the midst rose an index. This paper will explore the context of CD Sherbornís Index Animalium and those looming problems and issues which a laborious and comprehensive ìindex of natureî was meant to solve.Listen to this episode

Four volunteer cataloguers share interesting finds from Colonial Office records from 1900.

Bruno Pappalardo introduces the collection of medical officers' journals found in ADM 101. These journals give a detailed insight into a ship's daily activities, as well as the science and wildlife that was encountered by British Navy medical officers.

On January 20, 2011 Clute introduced the film Mildred Pierce at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, as part of their Noir Series. His talk was preceded by a question and answer session with Jared Case (Head of Cataloguing and Research Center) on several noir topics: the origins of the Out of the Past podcast series; certain underappreciated aspects of noir; how scholarly approaches to noir have limited what we see; a new film studies paradigm he and Richard Edwards worked out in their forthcoming book The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, which allows them unleash and understand other narrative potentials lurking in noir. For more information, visit www.noircast.net, or like us on Facebook under Noircast.