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NOSTR Is a MASSIVE Paradigm Shift! i am joined by bitcoiner and dev Austin from pleb devs and he breaks down what he's done and what he's working on with nostr and it is not only bullishAF but mind blowing. an awesome interview of pure bitcoin builder signal. ✔ Special Guest: ► @bitcoinplebdev► Dev focused on #Bitcoin / Lightning⚡️ / Nostr► Implementation @voltage_cloud► Founder/Instructor: @pleb_devs► Resident plebdev @pleblab► Wayplebdevs.com✔ links:► https://x.com/bitcoinplebdev/status/1907463450680336793?s=52&t=CKH2brGypO5fEYTgQ-EFhQ ► https://x.com/pleb_devs/status/1906041835245695180 ► https://plebdevs.com/✔ Twitter Handles: @coinicarus ✔ ShoutOuts: ► @BitkoYinowsky - PlebUnderground Logo► @WorldofRusty - YT backgrounds ► @luckyredfish - Outro Graphic ► @robbieP808x - Outro music► Join Our telegram: https://t.me/PlebUnderGroundChat For Awesome pleb content daily http://plebunderground.com/GM #Bitcoin (mon-fri 10:00 am ET) and The #Bitcoin Council of Autism Spaces on twitter Timecodes:0:00 - Intro0:27 - Pleb Underground welcomes Austin from PlebDevs!02:00 - There's 2 Bitcoin conferences Austin Says are a must!03:35 - The Plebdevs beginnings and pleb lab08:15 - How Austin Started coding on bitcoin11:49 - Austin Breaks down the look and resources on the https://plebdevs.com/ site 15:47 - Anyone can Learn to code! 23:15 - NOSTR's amazing features, distribution and redundancy26:00 - What is NOSTR missing? 27:03 - Sponsors Ad Spot 27:50 - advertising and algorithms 34:53 - Centralizing forces may not be avoided?39:36 - Can FROSTR fix NOSTR's Biggest problem?47:00 - Education around FROSTR its brand new and we need people to test and provide feedback! 53:00 - Austin's free learn to code course on the https://plebdevs.com/ site ✔ Check out our Sponsor, support Bitcoin ONLY Businesses:► https://archemp.co/Discover the pinnacle of precision engineering. Our very first product, the bitcoin logo wall clock, is meticulously machined in Maine from a solid block of aerospace-grade aluminum, ensuring unparalleled durability and performance. We don't compromise on quality – no castings, just solid, high-grade material. Our state-of-the-art CNC machining center achieves tolerances of 1/1000th of an inch, guaranteeing a perfect fit and finish every time. Invest in a product built to last, with the exacting standards you deserve.► Tselly Says: FUG!► Join Our telegram: https://t.me/PlebUnderGroundChat #Bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #dailybitcoinnews #memecoins The information provided by Pleb Underground ("we," "us," or "our") on Youtube.com (the "Site") our show is for general informational purposes only. All information on the show is provided in good faith, however we make no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness of any information on the Site. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL WE HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF THE SHOW OR RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE SHOW. YOUR USE OF THE SHOW AND YOUR RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION ON THE SHOW IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

In this episode of Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby speaks with Benjamin Ard, co-founder and CEO of Masset.ai, about creating ABM content that sales teams actually use. They discuss how to identify relevant content, organize it effectively, and involve the entire organization in content creation—while making use of AI to streamline the process.Best Moments:(01:27) The importance of relevancy over personalization in content creation(02:51) Centralizing content and organizing it by customer questions(05:01) Documenting customer questions across all touchpoints(08:59) Running pilot programs before full implementation(12:03) Using AI to organize and search content efficiently(17:24) Leveraging AI for content creation while maintaining authenticity(18:55) Involving the entire organization in the content creation processGuest Bio:Benjamin Ard is the co-founder and CEO of Masset.ai. With a background in marketing, Ben specializes in helping businesses centralize and organize their content for more effective sales and marketing utilization, particularly within ABM programs. He's also the host of the Content Amplified podcast.

Send us a textWelcome to another exciting episode of the Laundromat Resource Podcast! In today's show, we're thrilled to have back on the podcast Shawn Dandridge, a technology executive and former laundromat owner, who is here to shed light on the vulnerabilities that might be lurking in your laundromat without you even realizing it. We'll be diving deep into the intersection of technology and laundromats, exploring how interconnected systems are shaping our businesses, and the critical steps you must take to protect your laundromat from potential threats. Shawn, with his rich experience in managing enterprise technology infrastructure, offers valuable insights into making your business more secure and efficient. Whether you're a seasoned laundromat owner or just entering the industry, this episode promises to arm you with vital information to safeguard your operations. Plus, you'll get a preview of how professional-grade technology is becoming more accessible, enabling even small business owners to run their operations like pros. So tune in, take notes, and elevate your laundromat's technology game with Shawn Dandridge!In this episode, Jordan and Shawn discuss: 00:00 "Protect Your Laundromat Tips"04:45 Essential Tech Integration for Businesses10:13 "Technology: Double-Edged Sword"11:33 Cybersecurity Threats to Small Businesses14:28 WiFi Security Risks in Stores20:34 "Credit Card Compliance for Small Businesses"22:22 "Advancing Industry Professionalization"26:48 Laundromat Cybersecurity Concerns Grow28:24 Rise in ADA Lawsuits32:37 Underreported Corporate Hacks36:37 Technology's Impact on Laundromat Industry37:52 Centralizing for Economies of Scale42:01 Advanced Network Security Solutions44:39 Preventing Internet Downtime in Business50:03 Maximizing Laundromat ROI with WiFi51:42 Laundromat Marketing Opportunities54:47 Laundromat Resource's Impact PraisedShow Noteshttps://laundromatresource.com/show185ResourcesWebsite: https://trylaundrytech.com/Connect With UsYouTubeInstagramFacebookLinkedInTwitterTikTok

Meet Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles, the dynamic duo behind the groundbreaking book “Product Operations: How Successful Companies Build Better Products at Scale.” Melissa's expertise spans from founding Produx Labs, a product management training and consulting company, to spearheading product strategies at esteemed companies like Insight Partners, Capital One, Vanguard, and Walmart/Sam's Club. Meanwhile, Denise brings over a decade of product leadership experience at Condé Nast, Cision, and Understood.org to the table. Together, they have driven meaningful outcomes for various businesses through their targeted support in product operations, design, and coaching.  Dive deeper into Melissa and Denise's book as we explore the three principles of product operations, the responsibilities and values that come with a great product leader, and how effective product operations lead to more impactful product outcomes.  Resource Links Check out Melissa and Denise's book,  Product Operations Check out Melissa's book,  Escaping the Build Trap Visit the Produx Labs website Learn more about Melissa on her website Follow Melissa on LinkedIn Learn more about Denise on her website Follow Denise on LinkedIn Follow Holly on Twitter Follow Holly on LinkedIn Visit the Product Science Group website Explore Product Science Workshops and Courses Quotes from Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles: “I see this connection between continuous discovery and a team's capacity for creativity... If you have the time available to you and space has been made to think deeply about what's actually valuable to the people that you're creating things for, I think that puts you in a creative space.” - Denise Tilles “Try to show people what you can do as quickly as possible so they realize the value. The more that you can achieve value for people and help them realize it, the more buy-in you're going to get.” - Melissa Perri “The customer and market insights is really about aggregating all the feedback that we're hearing from our customers, from all different parts of the organization... Where do those live? And how do we make sure that people can read those studies, understand what has been asked of customers, use it to identify problems and put back into their work, and then also, where do they go to help contact customers?” - Melissa Perri  Lab Notes Lab Note 601.1: Product ops ties into each of the Product Science Principles. - Holly Hester-Reilly (31:25)  Lab Note 601.2: Centralizing product operations is worth it. - Holly Hester-Reilly (35:34) Lab Note 601.3: The work of product operations has been around longer than the name. - Holly Hester-Reilly (36:23) Lab Note 601.4: On a small, growing team, hire product ops before research ops.  - Holly Hester-Reilly (38:07) Lab Note 601.5: Organization of your insights goes a long way toward driving evidence-based product decisions.  -Dina Levitan (40:05) Lab Note 601.6: Product Operations may be an opportunity to systematically bring design in earlier in the product discovery and strategy process. - Mark Enache (43:06) View the Transcript and the full episode description on the Product Science Podcast websiteReady to elevate your product leadership game? Dive deep into practical solutions for real-world product challenges. Register now: productsciencegroup.com/services 

In this episode of The Marketing Intelligence Show, Gokul Prasad, Media Performance Manager at Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, shares how his team transformed their approach to omnichannel marketing analytics. Host Zachary Bricker dives deep into OLG's journey of centralizing data, automating reports, and making smarter, data-driven decisions. Key discussion points include: Centralizing data from earned, owned, and paid channels into Looker Studio. Overcoming challenges in data integration and building a unified analytics hub. Scaling automation to save 30–35% of time on data processes. Using predictive analytics to adapt to market trends like sports seasonality. Ensuring compliance with evolving data privacy regulations. You'll also hear how they: Identified surprising audience behaviors during live sports events. Leveraged insights to align marketing strategies with customer needs. Adopted a two-pronged approach of storytelling and automation for analytics. Whether you're a marketing professional or analytics enthusiast, this episode is packed with actionable insights to inspire your next move.

In this conversation, Dan Laufer, CEO of PipeDreams, discusses their innovative approach in acquiring and growing plumbing and HVAC businesses. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining the original brand identity while centralizing operations to enhance efficiency. The discussion also covers the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in the trades, the integration of technology and AI, and strategies for addressing the labor crisis and improving employee retention.TakeawaysPipeDreams focuses on acquiring plumbing and HVAC businesses to help them grow.Maintaining the original brand identity is crucial for value creation.Centralizing operations can alleviate the burden on small business owners.AI can augment team capabilities but also commoditize services.Effective communication and training are key to employee engagement.Apprenticeship programs can successfully develop talent in the trades.Setting clear expectations helps in retaining employees.Creating a positive culture is essential for employee satisfaction.Top performers should be prioritized for good calls and compensation.The labor crisis requires a multifaceted approach to recruitment and retention.Chapters02:48 Challenges in the Trades Industry06:09 The Role of Technology in Business Growth08:56 AI's Impact on the Trades12:01 Addressing the Labor Crisis14:58 Retention Strategies in the TradesConnect With Dan:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dlaufer/Website: www.pipedreams.com Support Titans of the Trades: If you found this episode insightful, please subscribe, share, and leave a review for Titans of the Trades. Your support goes a long way in helping us bring more impactful discussions your way.

David DuByne discusses the momentous civilizational changes that are happening on the planet and how we are entering a new historical cycle. The cost of living is reaching an untenable point as food production is intentionally being sabotaged to get us on a centralized system. As the middle class is wiped out many will be forced to migrate from rural and suburban areas to urban smart cities. He comments on the climate shifts and how perhaps there is missing history that would explain our cycles and why we're ending up in feudalism again. He gives his thoughts on the specter of war, BRICS, strategic relocation, geoengineering, and more! Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · David DuByne: They're Centralizing Food Production as We Enter New Cycle & Reset #489 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use promo code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using this link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites LibertyLinks https://libertylinks.io/SolarMinimum Adapt 2030 https://www.youtube.com/@Adapt2030 Civilization Cycle Podcast https://civilizationcycle.com About David DuByne David DuByne's ADAPT 2030 Channel and Civilization Cycle Podcast discuss timelines for what you can expect from now through 2030 as society resets so you can keep your families safe. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

David DuByne discusses the momentous civilizational changes that are happening on the planet and how we are entering a new historical cycle. The cost of living is reaching an untenable point as food production is intentionally being sabotaged to get us on a centralized system. As the middle class is wiped out many will be forced to migrate from rural and suburban areas to urban smart cities. He comments on the climate shifts and how perhaps there is missing history that would explain our cycles and why we're ending up in feudalism again. He gives his thoughts on the specter of war, BRICS, strategic relocation, geoengineering, and more! Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · David DuByne: They're Centralizing Food Production as We Enter New Cycle & Reset #489 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use promo code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using this link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites LibertyLinks https://libertylinks.io/SolarMinimum Adapt 2030 https://www.youtube.com/@Adapt2030 Civilization Cycle Podcast https://civilizationcycle.com About David DuByne David DuByne's ADAPT 2030 Channel and Civilization Cycle Podcast discuss timelines for what you can expect from now through 2030 as society resets so you can keep your families safe. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Podcast: PrOTect It All (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Bridging IT and OT in Cybersecurity for Power Plants with Jori VanAntwerpPub date: 2024-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn Episode 29, host Aaron Crow is joined by cybersecurity expert Jori VanAntwerp to delve into Power Grid Security and Redundancy. This episode explores the segmented design of the US power grid, addressing the challenges and necessary upgrades to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities. Jori highlights security monitoring gaps, the impact of hardware updates, and the cost implications of modernizing infrastructure. The discussion also emphasizes the importance of asset inventory and collaborative efforts between IT and OT professionals. Real-world incidents, such as unexplained power plant reboots, illustrate the critical role of operator awareness and system maintenance. The potential of AI in cybersecurity, alongside the need for a collaborative, learning-focused approach, is also discussed. Tune in to gain expert insights on balancing modernization, cost, and operational efficiency to ensure the stability and security of our power infrastructure. Join us for a packed episode to learn how to "Protect It All." Key Moments:    05:30 Restoring power grids involves complex, staged processes. 11:01 Centralizing data improves efficiency, introduces vulnerabilities. 17:47 Network segmentation essential for security, mitigates risks. 26:12 Cybersecurity tools revealed crucial system issues. 32:15 Understanding systems fully prevents unintended negative impacts. 36:31 Understand OT environment before implementing IT solutions. 41:24 Equip must survive extreme heat, unlike typical data centers. 54:28 Strict access control in nuclear power plant. 57:48 Assess likely risks for protecting plant operations. 01:00:59 Rushed training weakens foundational cybersecurity skills.   About the guest :  For nearly two decades, Jori has enabled industrial and IT organizations to be successful in reducing risk, increasing compliance, and their overall security efforts. Jori has the ability to quickly evaluate situations and determine innovative solutions and possible pitfalls due to his diverse background in security, technology, partnering and client-facing experience. Approaching situations with intuitive insight and methodology, leveraging his deep understanding of business and technology, ranging from silicon to the cloud. He had the pleasure of working with such great companies as Gravwell, Dragos, CrowdStrike, FireEye, McAfee, and is now Founder and Chief Executive Officer at EmberOT, a cybersecurity startup focused on making security a reality. How to connect Jori :  Website : https://emberot.com/ Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvanantwerp/   Connect With Aaron Crow: Website: www.corvosec.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronccrow   Learn more about PrOTect IT All: Email: info@protectitall.co  Website: https://protectitall.co/  X: https://twitter.com/protectitall  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PrOTectITAll  FaceBook:  https://facebook.com/protectitallpodcast    To be a guest or suggest a guest/episode, please email us at info@protectitall.coThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron Crow, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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In this episode of the Social Media Decoded podcast, Michelle discusses the challenges entrepreneurs face in managing their digital lives, including websites, domains, and social media. She provides actionable tips for streamlining domain management, emphasizing the importance of centralization, automation, and security. The episode also highlights the benefits of using Porkbun as a domain registrar to simplify online presence management. Takeaways Managing multiple online assets can be overwhelming. Centralizing domain management simplifies tracking and renewals. Automation helps avoid the risk of domain expiration. Using a password manager saves time and frustration. Regular audits of online assets can eliminate unnecessary tools. Prioritizing security protects your website and visitors' data. Porkbun offers user-friendly domain management solutions. A .bio domain can enhance your online presence. Free essentials with every domain save time and money. Excellent customer service is vital for support. Use my link https://porkbun.com/SMDecoded24 to get a .bio domain for less than $2 now at Porkbun!

One of the outcomes of the American Civil War was the movement toward centralization of political power in Washington. The Reconstruction regime imposed upon the former Confederate states following the war was an overt attempt to further impose federal power there.Original article: Centralizing Federal Power through Southern Reconstruction

One of the outcomes of the American Civil War was the movement toward centralization of political power in Washington. The Reconstruction regime imposed upon the former Confederate states following the war was an overt attempt to further impose federal power there.Original article: Centralizing Federal Power through Southern Reconstruction

Welcome to the Corporate Treasury 101 podcast!In today's episode, we discuss Treasury Regionalisation Best PracticesKatarzyna Stefanska-Balos, a seasoned finance expert specializing in global cash management and FX operations, plays a key role in Treasury Operations at Colgate Palmolive's European Treasury Center.Colgate-Palmolive, a global leader in consumer products, is shaping a healthier future for people, pets, and the planet with innovative, sustainable solutions that enrich lives and strengthen communities.In this episode, we discuss Treasury regionalization insights from Colgate-Palmolive.Coordinating front office and back office operations.Centralizing key treasury functions like FX management.Enhancing efficiency through regionalized treasury models.Key advice for treasurers on regionalization strategies.Whilst at AFP,We've been doing this podcast for two years and half now and the most listened to episodes are always the ones talking about career and certifications in treasury. So we decided to partner up with the AFP, the Association for Financial Professionals, so we can offer you a $100 discount code on all of the AFP's products. This includes, of course, the CTP, the Certified Treasury Professional, which is hands down the most renowned and recognized certification in treasury out there.With all that being said, please welcome, Katarzyna Stefanska-Balos.Links & References:Katarzyna Stefanska-Balos on LinkedIn: Click Here Colgate-Palmolive Website: Click Here__________________________Learn the fundamentals of corporate treasury by downloading our free ebook at www.corporate-treasury-101.com Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corporate-treasury-101/ If you have any questions or topics you want us to tackle in the future, reach out to us on Instagram or email us at contact@corporate-treasury-101.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Get $100 off any AFP product, including their CTP Exam Prep Platform, using our discount code! Find this and More on our partner's pagehttps://lnkd.in/dFKQiveh

In this episode of We're Only Human, Ben Eubanks interviews Marcus Thorpe, Global Head of Talent Acquisition (TA) at ThoughtWorks, during the Starcircle Supernova Conference in Cork, Ireland. Marcus shares his experiences and strategies for scaling TA functions across 20 countries, centralizing recruiting processes, and leveraging data to make informed hiring decisions. Key topics include the importance of calibration, data-driven decisions, and building a cohesive global TA strategy. Marcus also provides actionable advice for TA leaders facing similar challenges in alignment and data utilization.00:00 Introduction and Welcome00:03 Overview of the Conference 00:57 Conversation with Marcus Stuart Begins01:17 Marcus Thorpe's Background at Google and other companies01:50 Challenges and Strategies in Talent Acquisition04:05 Centralization of Talent Acquisition05:15 Importance of Data in Talent Acquisition08:32 Advice for Talent Acquisition Leaders16:54 Connecting with Marcus ThorpeConnect with Marcus on LinkedInSee the show archives and sign up for episode updates

This episode gives an in-depth insight into healthcare digitalization in Portugal. Cátia Sousa Pinto, Head of Global Digital Health and International Affairs at SPMS - shared services of ministry of health of Portugal talked about healthcare digitalization in Portugal, European Health Data Space (EHDS), patient data and more. Key Points Summary Portugal's Digital Health System Design: To accelerate digital health development, Portugal created a national eHealth agency (SPMS) over a decade ago. SPMS Role: SPMS plays a dual role, not only regulating but also developing and maintaining ICT solutions for Portugal's healthcare system. This centralization helps prevent fragmentation and ensures interoperability. European Health Data Space (EHDS): EHDS is the EU's regulatory framework for cross-border health data sharing, building on initiatives like MyHealth@EU. The goal is to allow seamless healthcare across Europe, where any EU citizen can access healthcare in other countries as if they were at home. My Health at EU: A foundational initiative that enables cross-border exchange of health data like patient summaries and e-prescriptions between EU countries. Patient Data: Catia emphasized the importance of patients controlling their health data and being able to share it across healthcare providers. This includes e-prescriptions, laboratory results, and, eventually, medical images. Portugal's National Electronic Health Record: A key project for the country is the creation of a unified electronic health record system, allowing citizens to access all of their health data, both public and private, from a single source. Use of EU Funding: Portugal has allocated €300 million from the EU's recovery funds for digital health transformation, focusing on infrastructure, citizen-centric services, and reducing the burden on healthcare professionals. Challenges and Future Outlook: The integration of digital health into national governance and improving interoperability between systems remain ongoing challenges. Katia stressed the importance of moving towards real-time, structured health data to improve future healthcare outcomes. www.facesofdigitalhealth.com Newsletter: https://fodh.substack.com/ Show notes: [00:02:00] - Overview of Digital Health in Portugal [00:06:00] - National-Level Initiatives and Successes [00:10:00] - European Health Data Space (EHDS) and My Health at EU [00:16:00] - Cross-Border Care and Digital Infrastructure [00:20:00] - The Role of SPMS in Portugal's Digital Health Journey [00:30:00] - Challenges and Workforce Management in Digital Health [00:34:00] - Benefits of Centralization in Small Countries [00:38:00] - Electronic Health Records and Expanding Digital Services, Secondary use of data [00:42:00] - Portugal's National Electronic Health Record [00:46:00] - Future Vision for Health Data Integration

Beth Barney, VP of Talent Acquisition at Cintas, joins Ryan Dull on this episode. They dive into Beth's extensive experience within the company and her approach to building a culture-focused TA strategy.(02:15) Beth's career journey at Cintas.(06:42) The importance of culture in driving success.(08:42) Recognition program for top recruiters.(09:21) Key metrics for measuring TA success.(12:00) Customer-first and partner-obsessed culture.(15:00) Innovations in ATS and CRM systems.(15:30) Centralizing relationships with RPO providers.(16:39) Building trust with business leaders.(17:00) Data-driven decision-making in TA.(17:54) The importance of resilience in TA.Resources Mentioned:Beth Barney - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-barney-9057b313/Cintas | LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/cintas/Cintas | Website - https://www.cintas.com/This episode is brought to you by Sagemark HR.Sagemark HR can help you:✔ Improve your talent practices and make better, more informed people decisions.After 20+ years of experience leading Recruiting and Talent Acquisition across a wide variety of industries, I've seen enough hires (over 100,000 to date) to know that hiring decisions truly can make or break an organization.✔ Identify opportunities to not only improve your talent practices, but also delivering tangible business results.We understand every organization is different, and there's no one-size-fits-all magic solution. So we listen first and identify the gaps and sticking points in your current process before ever recommending a solution.✔ Bridge the gap from “traditional” to modern recruiting, without the painful learning curve.We believe recruiting, talent, and HR technology is a deep well of untapped business potential, and our mission is to help you identify and implement those hiring tools in a way that works for you.If you're interested in learning more, you can reach me at:www.sagemarkhr.com✉ ryan.dull@sagemarkhr.com#Talent #Recruiters #Recruiting #HRTech

In this special sponsored episode, Dax Cross, CEO of Revenue Analytics, shares insights into the evolution of revenue management in hospitality.[00:22] - Dax's background and the origins of Revenue Analytics.[03:21] - Overview of Revenue Analytics.[04:14] - The benefits of cross-pollination of ideas from different industries.[05:57] - The transition from a consulting company to a software as a service (SaaS) company.[07:35] - The size and scope of Revenue Analytics' business in hospitality.[09:01] - Trends in revenue management today.[11:20] - The shift towards "above-property" revenue management.[14:12] - The importance of thinking at a higher level for commercial strategy and how technology can enable this shift.[17:04] - Challenges in managing data and the importance of synthesizing information for better decision-making.[21:00] - Insights from enterprise companies that can be applied to midsize hotel groups.[25:06] - A case study of a midsize hotel group that successfully transitioned to a more automated revenue management system.[27:57] - The importance of building trust in technology and the role of transparency in system recommendations.[30:14] - Advice for overwhelmed revenue managers on how to move towards a more strategic approach.[32:29] - Resources and next steps for listeners interested in learning more.Resources:Learn more about N2Pricing RMSFree guide: Experience a day in the life with N2Pricing™ RMS See more resources from Revenue AnalyticsNew to Hospitality Daily? Start here. Want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day? Subscribe here for free.Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram.Music by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands

Do you have your mission, vision, and values written out? Understanding these is essential for creating meaningful content. But, it can be overwhelming when you're just starting out. You might wonder how to connect these pillars to your social media posts or any other type of content you're creating. Gayla Scrivener, along with co-host Fran Groesbeck share their experiences and strategies on how to build a content library. They emphasize the importance of authority in your content. Whether you're teaching your audience or simply showing them, your content should position you as an expert in your field. They discuss different tools you can use and how to keep your content library organized. Google Docs and Notion were mentioned as great platforms for keeping your content in one place. Centralizing your content not only saves time but also ensures consistency across your team. One key takeaway is the idea of commitment. Commit to publishing regularly. This could be a blog post, a podcast episode, or a YouTube video. Start small if you need to, but the act of publishing regularly helps build your content library. Another important point is to review your content library periodically. This allows you to see how far you've come, whether your messaging still aligns with your brand, and if there are any old pieces of content that could be repurposed. Episode Highlights: The significance of content and its role in conveying your brand's message The importance of having a well-structured content library Tips on designing a content plan and organizing your content library Insights on combining images and words to create compelling content The necessity of consistency and commitment in publishing content The role of content in establishing authority in your field The value of revisiting old content and learning from it Strategies for repurposing and reusing content The need for quality in both images and written content The power of content in creating connections and fostering relationships with your audience Continue the conversation. Join the Live Full Work Fun Facebook group and share your biggest takeaway from this episode. Connect with Gayla: Website: https://www.gaylascrivener.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaylascrivener/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GaylaScrivenerWorkFromAnywhere/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gscrivener/ Connect with Fran: Website: https://tentouchcreative.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran-groesbeck/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tentouchcreative Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tentouchcreative/ This episode is brought to you by Scrivener Social. The easy-to-use social scheduling platform built for the busy solopreneur. Go to ScrivenerSocial.com and schedule a demo today!

Christian Koberg Pineda, Principal Security DevOps Engineer, joins Erica Toelle and guest host Bojan Magusic, on this week's episode of Uncovering Hidden Risks. In today's episode Erica, Christian and Bojan explore the complexities of managing security across multiple cloud platforms, highlighting the importance of standardization and centralized management. They also cover some of the challenges in identity management, securing cloud-native applications, and the evolving role of AI in both enhancing and threatening cloud security. Christian and Bojan share with Erica the need for innovative, adaptable approaches to stay ahead in the rapidly changing cloud security landscape.    In This Episode You Will Learn:        Importance of standardization and centralization for security solutions  Centralizing identity management to handle multiple identity providers  Implementing security checks in development pipelines to detect vulnerabilities  Some Questions We Ask:      What should organizations consider when standardizing CSPM across multiple clouds?  How can organizations defend against next-gen AI attacks on cloud infrastructure?  What future factors will impact securing multi-cloud environments?  Resources:     Download the “2024 State of Multicloud Security Report" today to identify your greatest risks and learn actionable strategies for strengthening multicloud security.     View Christian Koberg Pineda on LinkedIn View Bojan Magusic on LinkedIn   View Erica Toelle on LinkedIn                  Related Microsoft Podcasts:                    Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson  The BlueHat Podcast    Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast  Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts   Uncovering Hidden Risks is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of N2K media network.   

The need for consistency, collaboration, and good internal controls cannot be overstated for implementing GASB 96, which establishes uniform accounting and financial reporting for subscription-based information technology agreements (SBITAs). With upcoming fiscal years ends on the horizon, REDW National Tribal Practice Leader Wes Benally and Audit Principal Chris Bitakis take some time to discuss GASB 96 implementation thus far and provide insights for tribal organizations to consider. They cover some of the challenges some Tribes have experienced during implementation and the similarities and differences between GASB 87 and GASB 96. They also discuss the importance of centralizing contracts and agreements, calculating liabilities, and creating disclosures. Professionals that are in need of a brief check in (and maybe a few laughs) while navigating the implementation of GASB 96 will find practical guidance in this episode.TakeawaysImplementing GASB 96 can be challenging, especially for organizations that did not adequately plan for the implementation of GASB 87.Centralizing contracts and agreements is crucial for effectively implementing GASB 96.Calculating liabilities requires extracting significant data, determining the legally enforceable term, and using an appropriate interest rate.Creating disclosures for GASB 96 should include a separate right-to-use subscription asset, note payable roll forward, and a subscription liability footnote.Consistency, collaboration, and good internal controls are key to successfully implementing GASB 96.Chapters00:00 - Introduction and Overview03:01 - Understanding SBITA and Its Importance07:20 - Calculating Liabilities for GASB 9609:48 - Centralizing Contracts and Agreements12:42 - A Few Notes on Best Practices16:26 - Creating Disclosures for GASB 9621:44 - The Final Stretch for Implementing GASB 9624:18 - Conclusion and Closing RemarksReferencesContact Chris and the Audit team at REDW for questions.Get connected to expert insights for Tribal Nations. Subscribe to the Insight in Indian Country Newsletter. REDW Advisors and CPAs is proud to bring you the Insight in Indian Country Podcast, covering important advisory, accounting, and finance topics that impact Tribal Nations and business affairs. Thanks for listening!

On this episode, Chris Zlocki, Global Head of Client Experience for Collier's Occupier Services, explores the changing landscape of commercial real estate in today's world. Chris emphasizes the importance of being a proactive and consultative partner to clients, understanding their needs, and driving meaningful change. Plus, he touches on the importance of both a top-down and bottom-up approach to creating a decisive company culture. And when it comes to customer success, Chris emphasizes tracking the voice of the customer and how he uses the Net Promoter Score. Key Takeaways:Commercial real estate providers need to be proactive and consultative partners, understanding clients' needs and driving meaningful change.Employee engagement and productivity are key considerations in designing office spaces that attract and retain top talent.The future of real estate will be shaped by AI, and organizations need to be prepared for continuous change and adaptation. A strong company culture requires both a top-down and bottom-up approach.Centralizing data is crucial for providing a holistic view of information for clients.Tracking customer success involves gathering feedback through dedicated conversations and measuring Net Promoter Score.–How can you bring all your disconnected, enterprise data into Salesforce to deliver a 360-degree view of your customer? The answer is Data Cloud. With more than 200 implementations completed globally, the leading Salesforce experts from Professional Services can help you realize value quickly with Data Cloud. To learn more, visit salesforce.com/products/data to learn more. Mission.org is a media studio producing content alongside world-class clients. Learn more at mission.org.

We're going to dig-in to the transformation of The Ohio State University's social media landscape with Associate Director of Social Media Dani Dean. She will uncover the strategic pivot towards a coordinated social media presence and share the trials, triumphs, and tactics of navigating one of the largest university social ecosystems. Tune in for an insider's perspective on policy-making, community building, and why sometimes, less is more in the world of social media. Dani speaks candidly about embracing change, fostering connections, and the unexpected joys of a well-organized digital space. Don't miss this episode of Enrollify, where we turn the wild, wild west of social media into a blueprint for an integrated presence.Guest Name: Associate Director of Social Media at The Ohio State UniversityGuest Social: LinkedInGuest Bio: As the Associate Director of Social Media at The Ohio State University, Dani Dean oversees the social media strategy for the enterprise social accounts with a focus on growing the brand, engagement and lead generation across the university. She builds collaborative relationships across Ohio State by leading the Social Media Community of Practice, a group of 100+ marketers and communicators interested in creating or expanding the social presence of their colleges and departments at the university. She also serves as a social media consultant for the university, concentrating on best practices, creating content strategies and guiding enterprise-wide social media campaigns.Before her current role, Dani was the Social Media Production Manager for Ohio State and led the creative direction and content creation for the university on social. She has a background in sports digital media as a broadcast journalist, social media manager and content creator for The Ohio State University Department of Athletics and local news stations. She graduated from Ohio University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree. Outside of the social media world, she loves to travel, hike, try new workout classes, go to concerts and sporting events (especially the Cincinnati Bengals) and walk her mini Goldendoodle, Cooper. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Jenny Li Fowlerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jennylifowler/https://twitter.com/TheJennyLiAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:Confessions of a Higher Ed Social Media Manager is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Some of our favorites include Higher Ed Pulse and Confessions of a Higher Ed CMO.Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.Connect with Us at the Engage Summit:Exciting news — Jenny will be at the 2024 Engage Summit in Raleigh, NC, on June 25 and 26, and we'd love to meet you there! Sessions will focus on cutting-edge AI applications that are reshaping student outreach, enhancing staff productivity, and offering deep insights into ROI. Use the discount code Enrollify50 at checkout, and you can register for just $200! Learn more and register at engage.element451.com — we can't wait to see you there!

In this episode of the Multifamily Innovation® Podcast, part of our Meet the Partner series, we explore the transformative impact of AI in the multifamily industry with Eugene Keplinger from LeaseHawk. With a robust background in engineering and product management, Eugene brings a rich perspective from his experiences at American Express and Invitation Homes.Eugene and Patrick discuss the strategic use of AI to improve interactions between multifamily operators and their residents. Eugene provides insights into the importance of data in tailoring resident experiences and how LeaseHawk leverages vast amounts of call data to refine customer service strategies and drive resident satisfaction.Eugene addresses the broader implications of AI in the industry, including the challenges of adopting new technologies and the potential for AI to revolutionize resident engagement. He emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to integrating AI, highlighting its capacity to enhance service delivery without replacing the human touch entirely.The episode wraps up with Eugene reflecting on the future of AI in multifamily operations, focusing on the ongoing need for innovation and adaptation to meet evolving resident expectations. He underscores the significance of continuous learning and staying ahead in technology to maintain competitive advantage and improve the quality of resident interactions.Eugene Keplinger's insights underline the critical role of AI in shaping the future of the multifamily industry, from streamlining operations to enhancing resident interactions. His forward-looking approach provides valuable lessons on leveraging technology to build more connected and responsive community environments. About the Multifamily Innovation® Council: The Multifamily Innovation® Council is the executive level membership organization that makes a difference in your bottom line, drives a better experience for your employees, and allows you an experience that keeps demand strong for your company. The council is uniquely positioned to focus on the intersection of Leadership, Technology, AI, and Innovation. The Multifamily Innovation® Council is for Multifamily Business leaders who want to unlock value inside their organization so they can create better experiences and drive profitability inside their company.To learn more or to join, visit https://multifamilyinnovation.com/council.For more information and to engage with leaders shaping the future of multifamily innovation, visit https://multifamilyinnovation.com/. Connect:Multifamily Innovation® Council: https://multifamilyinnovation.com/council/Multifamily Innovation® & AI Summit: https://multifamilyinnovation.com/Patrick Antrim: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickantrim/

This episode is sponsored by Oracle. AI is revolutionizing industries, but needs power without breaking the bank. Enter Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): the one-stop platform for all your AI needs, with 4-8x the bandwidth of other clouds. Train AI models faster and at half the cost. Be ahead like Uber and Cohere. If you want to do more and spend less like Uber, 8x8, and Databricks Mosaic - take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/eyeonai Explore the journey of AI within the technology industry with Thomas Lah in episode #180 of Eye on AI. This dialogue features Thomas Lah, Executive Director of the Technology and Services Industry Association (TSIA), as he delves into the influence of AI on technology companies and their operating models. In this episode, Thomas offers a compelling narrative on how AI is being integrated into the fabric of technology businesses, altering the landscape of innovation and competition. Discover the intricacies of AI adoption strategies, the challenges of data management, and the evolution of business models in response to AI advancements. From Microsoft to Salesforce, uncover how leading tech giants are harnessing AI to redefine efficiency, creativity, and growth. Dive deep into the core of TSIA's research, unveiling the pivotal role of benchmarking and operational research in navigating the AI revolution. Thomas sheds light on the actionable insights and best practices that are guiding technology companies through this era of rapid technological change. Whether you're intrigued by the operational shifts AI is catalyzing in the tech sector, or you're keen on understanding the future directions of AI-driven business models, this episode is a treasure trove of knowledge. Remember to give us a thumbs up on YouTube if this deep dive into the AI transformation within tech companies enriches your understanding.  Subscribe for more insights into how AI is sculpting the technological landscapes of tomorrow. Stay Updated: Craig Smith Twitter: https://twitter.com/craigss Eye on A.I. Twitter: https://twitter.com/EyeOn_AI (00:00) Preview and Introduction  (01:19) AI's Impact on Tech Companies' Internal Processes (04:22) Thomas Lah's Background and Contributions to Tech Services (07:49) Future Trends: AI Agents and Physical World Actions (10:12) Real-World AI Use Cases and ROI in Tech Companies (13:44) The Rapid Maturation of AI Tools and Its Impact (16:48) The Right Timing for AI Adoption and Investment (20:09) AI Advantaged vs. Severely Lagged Tech Companies (25:31) Addressing the Consumption Gap with AI in Education (32:17) AI in Operations (38:35) The Evolution of AI Agents and Co-Pilots in Tech Services (45:12) Centralizing and Rationalizing Data for AI Readiness (48:31) Cultural and Technical Shifts Required for AI Integration (51:06) AI's Impact on Business Models and Headcount Reductions

In this dynamic episode of the Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast, Host Sean V. Bradley unveils the transformative strategies propelling the automotive industry forward! Joining Sean is Mike Trudeau. Mike Trudeau is the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Montway Auto Transport.  Mike, with a wealth of experience in automotive logistics, unravels the complex web of auto transport management. He educates dealers on consolidating various vendors to enjoy a seamless one-stop shop experience! Moreover, Mike explores strategic car acquisitions beyond traditional channels, shedding light on innovative approaches to sourcing vehicles and optimizing inventory management! Tune in to this episode to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic forces shaping the future of automotive sales and discover practical strategies for staying ahead in this rapidly evolving industry!  

Join Erika Spicer Mason on the Becker's Healthcare Podcast as she sits down with Anshul Rathi, Founder, and CEO of CertifyOS, to discuss improving healthcare by addressing critical issues like administrative burdens on providers, inefficiencies in provider data management and the impact on patient care. Learn how improving provider data accuracy will improve access to quality care, enhance provider satisfaction, and ultimately transform the healthcare industry's operational framework for facilitating better care matching.This episode is sponsored by CertifyOS.

Ryan Dahle spoke about “Centralizing Scriptural Resources” at the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference on Saturday, September 19, 2020. All of the conference presentations were filmed, and both video and audio recordings of each presentation are available. Videos, audio recordings and transcripts are available at https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2020-book-of-moses-conference/papers/. The videos are also available […] The post Conference Talks: Centralizing Scriptural Resources first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

In this Supplier Wire Series episode of Modrn Business Podcast, Ryan Hicks chats with Dan Broudy, CEO of Clayton Kendall. Clayton Kendall's marketing supply chain program helps franchise communities and multi-location businesses scale rapidly, save money, and better manage their promotional products, signage, apparel, POP kits, and marketing collateral. Ryan and Dan discuss why it's more important than ever to centralize your marketing supply chain to help your brand succeed. Connect with today's guest: franchisesuppliernetwork.com/featured-supplier/clayton-kendall/ Register for the Franchise “UnConferences” at www.franchisors.com

Ever felt like you're wrestling a mythological creature every time you try to manage your email list? Well, you're about to learn how to tame that beast and turn your email campaigns into a well-organized powerhouse of engagement and conversion.Topics covered in today's conversation include:Centralizing data into a master contact list for efficiencyThe importance of choosing the right CRM and email service (mentions of Constant Contact and ConvertKit)Segmenting your audience for tailored messaging and higher engagementUsing dynamic content to streamline email creationOrganizational tips for managing email lists and avoiding chaosKendra's personal experiences and client examples to illustrate key pointsResources:Free list management makeover guide: kendracorman.com/makeoverConnect with Kendra on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kendracormanJoin Kendra every Tuesday and Thursday for more Imperfect Marketing insights. Looking to save time or get more information from AI?If you're just starting out with AI or looking to enhance your outputs, my book 'Mastering AI in Communications' is your essential guide. Whether you're a beginner or ready to take your skills to the next level, grab your free electronic copy or purchase it on Amazon right here!Amazon: https://a.co/d/bhblVcGFree e-version: https://courses.kendracorman.com/aibookDon't miss this opportunity to transform your approach and make AI your most powerful tool yet in saving time and improving efficiency!

Welcome to a world of entrepreneurial insights! In this episode, we delve deep into success strategies with Etienne Garbugli, unveiling the secrets behind scaling startups and boosting business growth. Join us for a dynamic conversation packed with actionable advice and innovative approaches to entrepreneurial triumph.   Chapter Stamps: Introduction & Customer Research (00:00:00 - 00:04:00): Etienne's background in customer research and aiding entrepreneurs in understanding their audience. Targeting Segments & Emerging Tech (00:04:00 - 00:09:00): Discussion on startup focus areas, emerging industries like AI, and computer vision's impact. Productivity & Time Management (00:12:00 - 00:14:00): Insights into productivity, separating thinking from execution, and energy management. Authoring & Problem-Solving (00:14:00 - 00:17:00): Writing books based on business challenges, methodologies for growth, and finding the right market. Accelerating Growth Strategies (00:17:00 - 00:20:00): Transitioning from success to exponential growth, understanding customer journeys, and continuous business model improvement.   Pullout Quotes: "Continuous learning fuels innovation in business." "Success isn't about one big move but compounding tiny improvements." "Centralizing feedback channels is crucial to spot market shifts." "A book is made of books; learning is building on the work of others." "Understanding the customer journey accelerates business growth." Social: Website: etiennegarbugli.com Social: @egarbugli Disclaimer: Please be aware that the opinions and perspectives conveyed in this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent the views, ideologies, or principles of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, its associated entities, or any organizations they represent or are affiliated with. We provide a platform for discussion and exploration, and the content of each episode is understood to be independent expressions from our guests, rather than a reflection of the beliefs held by the podcast or its hosts. Notice to the Super Entrepreneurs community: Before we part, remember to join our Private Facebook group, 'Mindset for Business Success' Here we share mindset wisdom to elevate your life and business LIVE every Tuesday morning(EST), ready for a transformative journey? This group is your key to unlocking potential and achieving business growth. Don't miss out on this incredible free resource. Join us in 'Mindset for Business Success' Today! https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindsetforbusinesssuccess/ The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. Bob Proctor  ▬▬▬ Free Clarity Call with Shahid▬▬▬  https://calendly.com/shahiddurrani/free-clarity-call-with-shahid-durrani ________________________________________________________________________ OFFERS: https://zez.am/officialshahiddurrani  ▬▬▬ Get my Free Webinar▬▬▬ How to super scale your business to the next level without chasing strategies and feeling stuck https://shahiddurrani.com/registration/  ▬▬▬ Business Funding▬▬▬  https://www.7figurescredit.com/superfunding  ▬▬▬ Fund Your Clients▬▬▬  https://join.7figurespartners.com/?a_aid=superfunding  ▬▬▬ The TEDx Talk Program▬▬▬ https://info.shahiddurrani.com/tedx ▬▬▬ Professional Investment Ideas Delivered to your Inbox▬▬▬ https://capexinsider.com/insider-newsletter/?orid=90906&opid=94 ▬▬▬ FREE DOWNLOAD Reveals Recession Proof Business▬▬▬ https://www.b2bfundingpartner.com/b2bfree100?a_aid=superfunding&a_bid=1f1eb0a5 ▬▬▬ START-UP INVESTOR READY TO HELP▬▬▬ https://info.shahiddurrani.com/ideas ▬▬▬ How to make $3,493 commissions without doing any selling▬▬▬ https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=superentre&vendor=ambsador ▬▬▬ Stock/Options Trading Academy That Works▬▬▬ https://lddy.no/1gqxb  ▬▬▬ Real Estate Investing on Terms! No Credit | No Down payment▬▬▬ https://smartrealestatecoach.com/?sld=super Affiliate Disclaimer: If you buy through one of the links provided, I may receive a commission (without any additional charge to you).  @SuperEntrepreneursPodcast   @officialshahiddurrani 

By Adam Turteltaub The topic of conflicts of interest (COIs), especially in healthcare, is a very broad one. It can encompass professional activities, board membership, purchasing, procurement and more. But it is the financial conflicts, especially for those that conduct research, that can be most problematic. To help unpack the topic we are joined in this podcast by Will Crawford (LinkedIn), an associate in the DC office of Hogan Lovells. He explains that, in the case of research, a COI occurs whenever the interest of the investigator, their spouse or children can affect the design, conduct, or reporting of institutional research. And, of course, there is a potential conflict when activities like consulting and speaking can affect primary employment areas. Federal regulations have expanded greatly in this area, with the Public Health Service now being joined by the US Department of Energy and even NASA with regulations of their own. Compliance teams need to monitor the changing direction from all three. What else should compliance teams be doing? First, ensure the training is adequate and reflects the changing regulations. That includes helping others understand that the changing regulations are a necessary reflection of evolving risk. Second, ensure that the compliance team, itself, understands the current rules; there is much confusion out there. Other things to consider or embrace: Centralizing the process for managing COIs Requiring more disclosures and independent review boards Planning for greater transparency Developing policing and monitoring systems Finally, be mindful of joint ventures. They can create great opportunity, but they also carry substantial risk.

This episode is sponsored by Netsuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, streamlining accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, and more. Download NetSuite's popular KPI Checklist, designed to give you consistently excellent performance - absolutely free at NetSuite.com/EYEONAI   On episode 158 of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith dives deep into the world of AI safety, governance, and open-source dilemmas with Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture, an AI company specializing in AI safety. Connor, known for his pioneering work in open-source large language models, shares his views on the monopolization of AI technology and the risks of keeping such powerful technology in the hands of a few. The episode starts with a discussion on the dangers of centralizing AI power, reflecting on OpenAI's situation and the broader implications for AI governance. Connor draws parallels with historical examples, emphasizing the need for widespread governance and responsible AI development. He highlights the importance of creating AI architectures that are understandable and controllable, discussing the challenges in ensuring AI safety in a rapidly evolving field. We also explore the complexities of AI ethics, touching upon the necessity of policy and regulation in shaping AI's future. We discuss the potential of AI systems, the importance of public understanding and involvement in AI governance, and the role of governments in regulating AI development. The episode concludes with a thought-provoking reflection on the future of AI and its impact on society, economy, and politics. Connor urges the need for careful consideration and action in the face of AI's unprecedented capabilities, advocating for a more cautious approach to AI development. Remember to leave a 5-star rating on Spotify and a review on Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this podcast.   Stay Updated:   Craig Smith Twitter: https://twitter.com/craigss Eye on A.I. Twitter: https://twitter.com/EyeOn_AI   (00:00) Preview (00:25) Netsuite by Oracle (02:42) Introducing Connor Leahy (06:35) The Mayak Facility: A Historical Parallel (13:39) Open Source AI: Safety and Risks (19:31) Flaws of Self-Regulation in AI (24:30) Connor's Policy Proposals for AI (31:02) Implementing a Kill Switch in AI Systems (33:39) The Role of Public Opinion and Policy in AI (41:00) AI Agents and the Risk of Disinformation (49:26) Survivorship Bias and AI Risks (52:43) A Hopeful Outlook on AI and Society (57:08) Closing Remarks and A word From Our Sponsors  

Phil Kerpen from American Commitment provides an overview of recent changes being pushed by the Biden Administration to add regulations on the internet and internet service providers. https://www.americancommitment.org/fcc-chairs-bad-wi-fi-is-not-a-reason-to-regulate-the-internet/

Are you looking for a way to automate your intake system? Do you use various tools within your firm? In this podcast episode, Kelsey Bratcher from Hired Gun Solutions shares a presentation on automation intake and the evolution of the process.The intake process began with a simple piece of paper. When someone called a firm, a receptionist or administrator would write their name and number down on a piece of paper. This would then get passed to the attorney. In the legal field today, there are many tools and softwares that are used to automate the intake process, making it more efficient and faster. The ideal intake system will get a client on board in one call, without having to bother with scheduling an appointment.You want a level of consistency in the intake process. The same questions should be asked, the same information collected and the handoff of information should be right after everything is collected. This will ensure every client is treated the same and nothing is left out for the attorneys. Kelsey emphasizes the need to have a centralized system. If a firm is tracking calls and messages, scheduling meetings and has a marketing channel, all of this needs to be in one place or within one software.Take a listen!1:05 Kelsey Bratcher shares the fundamentals of the ultimate intake system3:46 The need for consistency in how calls are handled6:38 Centralizing information in one place8:43 The importance of staying organized in the intake process9:36 Easy and real-time access to reports and metrics

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 25, 2023, with Corey Quinn. Links: Today Corey is hosting a drink-up at 6 PM in Seattle at Outer Planet Brewing. If you're in town / free, come on by; let him buy you a beer. Later this week Corey will be hosting an AMA on 9/27 @ noon PDT over on YouTube. Bring questions! Accenture Extends Generative AI Capabilities to Accelerate Adoption and Value on AWS  New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers  How Chime Financial uses AWS to build a serverless stream analytics platform and defeat fraudsters  Centralizing management of AWS Lambda layers across multiple AWS Accounts Handle traffic spikes with Amazon DynamoDB provisioned capacity Streamline interstate Department of Motor Vehicles collaboration with Private Blockchain  How to host your Unreal Engine game for under $1 per player with Amazon GameLift  How United Airlines built a cost-efficient Optical Character Recognition active learning pipeline How VirtuSwap accelerates their pandas ... -based trading simulations with an Amazon SageMaker Studio custom container and AWS GPU instances Provision sandbox accounts with budget limits to reduce costs using AWS Control Tower Reducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based Architecture - Reducing the Scope of Impact with Cell-Based Architecture From Massage Therapist to Cloud Associate with AWS Academy 

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: AI is centralizing by default; let's not make it worse, published by Quintin Pope on September 22, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: AIs will probably be much easier to control than humans due to (1) AIs having far more levers through which to exert control, (2) AIs having far fewer rights to resist control, and (3) research to better control AIs being far easier than research to control humans. Additionally, the economics of scale in AI development strongly favor centralized actors. Current social equilibria rely on the current limits on the scalability of centralized control, and the similar levels of intelligence between actors with different levels of resources. The default outcome of AI development is to disproportionately increase the control and intelligence available to centralized, well-resourced actors. AI regulation (including pauses) can either reduce or increase the centralizing effects of AI, depending on the specifics of the regulations. One of our policy objectives when considering AI regulation should be preventing extreme levels of AI-enabled centralization. Why AI development favors centralization and control: I think AI development is structurally biased toward centralization for two reasons: AIs are much easier to control than humans. AI development is more easily undertaken by large, centralized actors. I will argue for the first claim by comparing the different methods we currently use to control both AIs and humans and argue that the methods for controlling AIs are much more powerful than the equivalent methods we use on humans. Afterward, I will argue that a mix of regulatory and practical factors makes it much easier to research more effective methods of controlling AIs, as compared to researching more effective methods of controlling humans, and so we should expect the controllability of AIs to increase much more quickly than the controllability of humans. Finally, I will address five counterarguments to the claim that AIs will be easy to control. I will briefly argue for the second claim by noting some of the aspects of cutting-edge AI development that disproportionately favor large, centralized, and well-resourced actors. I will then discuss some of the potential negative social consequences of AIs being very controllable and centralized, as well as the ways in which regulations (including pauses) may worsen or ameliorate such issues. I will conclude by listing a few policy options that may help to promote individual autonomy. Why AI is easier to control than humans: Methods of control broadly fall into three categories: prompting, training, and runtime cognitive interventions. Prompting: influencing another's sensory environment to influence their actions. This category covers a surprisingly wide range of the methods we use to control other humans, including offers of trade, threats, logical arguments, emotional appeals, and so on. However, prompting is a relatively more powerful technique for controlling AIs because we have complete control over an AI's sensory environment, can try out multiple different prompts without the AI knowing, and often, are able to directly optimize against a specific AI's internals to make prompts that are maximally convincing for that particular AI. Additionally, there are no consequences for lying to, manipulating, threatening, or otherwise being cruel to an AI. Thus, prompts targeting AIs can explore a broad range of possible deceptions, threats, bribes, emotional blackmail, and other tricks that would be risky to try on a human. Training: intervening on another's learning process to influence their future actions. Among humans, training interventions include parents trying to teach their children to behave in ways they deem appropriate, schools trying to teach their students various skills and ...

Graphic designer, product marketer, and co-founder of Conversion Factory, Zach Stevens, joined me on Ditching Hourly to explain how he and his co-founders went from zero to more than $36k MRR in one month with a productized subscription business that helps SaaS teams turn traffic into revenue. Zach's links: https://www.conversionfactory.co/ https://twitter.com/zstvns https://www.designdive.co/ Talking Points:The fear of not being able to fulfill client expectations led to starting small with a hypothesis-driven approach.Communication is primarily done through asynchronous channels like Notion and Loom, with some exceptions for in-person meetings.Building rapport with clients and providing detailed explanations of deliverables enhances communication and feedback.Centralizing communication efforts avoids the nightmare of having to navigate multiple platforms and channels.Work-life harmony is about acknowledging that work and personal life will fluctuate in priority.Quotable Quotes:“Our conversion rate only had to be in the thousandths of a percentage point to be booked solid.”“We only wanna take on five clients at one time to see how well we manage the workload.”“More than half of our clients right now are on a higher strategy-based $9k/mo tier.”“At the initial onset, it did feel like there was a lot going on, but then it kind of fizzled out, and things got a lot smoother.”“We love using tools like Loom, anything that we can do to make it feel like we are in the room with them.”“If you follow this model and it works, you're going to have way more concurrent clients than you're used to.” ----Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for your time? Positioning yourself as the go-to person in your space? Productizing your services so you never have to have another awkward sales call or spend hours writing another custom proposal? Book a one-on-one coaching call with me and get answers to these questions and others in the time it takes to get ready for work in the morning.Best of all, you're covered by my 100% satisfaction guarantee. If at the end of the call, you don't feel like it was worth it, just say the word, and I'll refund your purchase in full.To book your one-on-one coaching call, go to: https://jonathanstark.com/callI hope to see you there!

Elizabeth Woodcock sits down with Greg Addicott, Clinical Triage Nurse Manager at ColumbiaDoctors, Kendra Sutton, Director of Telehealth Nursing at Baylor, Scott & White Health and Laurie O'Bryan, Director of Outpatient Access Center at The University of North Carolina Health to discuss centralized nurse triage. Nurse triage and advice is not novel, as the service has been offered by doctors' offices for years. Centralizing nurse triage is, however, a new and innovative approach for health systems to ensure a consistent, optimal experience for patients – and most importantly, one that supports the delivery of quality care, particularly essential to access and care transitions. We'll address key questions such as advice for starting a centralized nurse triage team, keys to maintaining its success, and current challenges for today's leaders.  

Ezra and Exodus; Tree of knowledge vs Tree of life; Your opinion does not change God; Hiding from God; Denying responsibility; Knowing thyself; Bondage of Egypt; Reducing the value of money; Trajan's persecution of Christians; Explaining Christianity; What the Torah says; Interpreting Abraham and Moses; Centralizing the Temple; Charity; Lovers of soft things; Cyrus's release; Religion; Duties to God; Moses' government; Ezra's mission; Man's errors; Your generations; World vs Christians; Private Religion; Free bread of Rome/Babylon/Egypt; Law of Nature; Hearing the cries of your brothers; Robbing widows and orphans; Repentance; Nazis?; "Cylinders"; How good was Cyrus?; Legalizing The Church; Ignatius of Antioch; Governing ourselves; Connecting dots; Republics; Democracies; What Christ said; Christian Roman Soldiers; Attacking delusion; Urim and Thummim = stones?; Ex 28:30; Ezra 2:63; Revealing the word of God; Eucharist; Impure Religion; Wave offering; World government religion; Coercive church; Word meanings; Living network of charity; Biting your neighbor; What you should do; Commandments; Honoring father and mother; Urim aleph-vav-resh-yod-mem = lights; Thummim tav-mem-yod-mem = perfection; Priest seeing truth?; John the Baptist; Investigating what you've been told; Kings and high priests; Sanhedrin; Corruption; Lawmakers; Executive orders; What made America great; Gabbi and Molchi; Ministers without authority; Peculiar people; Freewill vs force; Servant government; Returning to Jerusalem; Leaven; Altars; Conversation; Good news; Guarding against corruption; Constantine's church; Kings in the home; Good news of hard times; Set the captive free.

Che Sharma was the 4th data scientist at Airbnb, later he joined Webflow as an early employee. In 2021 he founded Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform designed for modern data and product teams to run more trustworthy and advanced experiments. We talked about A/B testing best practices, A/B testing for ML models, and Che's career journey. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Che's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetanvsharma/ Try Eppo for A/B testing: https://www.geteppo.com/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:26) Getting started in data science at Airbnb (00:03:08) Keys to successful A/B testing (00:06:53) Interpreting and communicating A/B test results (00:15:00) A/B testing best practices testing machine learning models (00:41:39) Centralizing experiment analysis (00:53:46) Preparing data scientists for the future (00:59:33) Developing communication skills as a data scientist (01:08:43) Transitioning from individual contributor to manager (01:12:28) The future of experimentation

August 17: Today on TownHall Matt Sullivan, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at Advocate Health speaks with Joe Evans, MD, VP and Chief Medical Information Officer and Dave Torgerson, Chief Analytics Officer at Sentara Health. The three delve deep into the challenges and complexities organizations face in streamlining analytic reporting, particularly in large setups. Dave and Joe share their experiences in attempting to centralize information sources, the utilization of Epic for analytics, and the significance of user experience in analytic platforms. How did Sentara tackle the challenge of providing centralized analytic reporting in a large organization setting? How are they ensuring the security and controlled access of reports, especially when integrating with tools outside of Epic? Why is the user experience a paramount concern for Sentara, and what measures are taken to ensure simplicity and intuitiveness in their analytics platform?As healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/ai-journey-in-healthcare/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

Family Mobbing is a phenomenon where daughters in families are estranged or shunned and singled out because they don't follow the family's explicit or implicit rules. Today, I am joined by Stephanie A. Sellers to discuss her book, Daughters Healing from Family Mobbing.In 2007, Stephanie was mobbed by one side of her family. Stephanie holds a doctorate and has been on the faculty at Gettysburg College since 2000, during which time she was the inaugural director of the Women's Center from 2009 to 2015. She has been a volunteer counselor advocate in shelters and a community organizer for decades.To read the full blog post and get Stephanie's book recommendations about female divinity click hereWe talk about…[2:32] - The context of family mobbing[5:26] - What is family mobbing? The cycle of abuse[8:13] - What does mobbing feel like?[12:27] - The significance of the goddess, Sedna, and her story[17:06] - Understanding our history: identifying women's issues as humanity's issues[22:18] - Centralizing ourselves and owning our preferences as women[28:26] - The return of family and the self-realization after the mobbing[31:42] - Healing and grieving from mobbing[36:56] - How women can nurture and understand their divinityQUOTES“What happens to women and girls eventually touches everyone in their personal circle and their community, ultimately that means what happens to women and girls impacts everyone.” - Stephanie SellersTHIS WEEK'S INTENTIONI am a divine spirit of God and step into a deep knowing of my worth and powerWRITING PROMPTWhen do I feel my divinity the most? How can I start sensing my preferences and emotions more?RESOURCES AND LINKS:Daughters Healing from Family Mobbing* by Stephanie SellersLearn more about Stephanie SellersGet our free daily emails hereBuy:Our Happy Habits TrackerOur productivity eBookGet our free guides:Learn about masculine and feminine energy hereMake a sustainable morning routine hereSupport us:Love this podcast and want to help us keep going? Become a member hereLET'S STAY CONNECTEDSubscribe: Apple, Spotify, StitcherFollow us on Instagram: click hereVisit our website: click hereNEW EPISODE EVERY TUESDAYNEW MINI-EPISODE EVERY THURSDAY*This affiliate link helps support the podcast at no extra cost to you!

Our way of life that is currently largely dependent on "Big Corporations" and "Big Government" is not sustainable. We need look no further than to the most recent primary example of Covid and what took place during the shutdowns and then the proceeding supply chain issues and staffing challenges across the globe. If we want a sustainable future, we need a more "localized" form of community. My website with free audio download of my book: https://ungraduated.com Ungraduated Book for purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Ungraduated-Finding-dropping-outdated-systems-ebook/dp/B09SXCBY6R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28QTYUU7T5BN4&keywords=ungraduated+book&qid=1655499090&sprefix=ungraduate%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1 Join the Ungraduated Living Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/454790476338234

Once positioned to reduce the overall software spend, SaaS has become one of the highest spend categories for companies. A company could use as many as 1600 apps across the software categories. The spend might even be more for software companies that are buying someone else's software to manage their own infrastructure. Industrial companies might struggle to understand why building custom software might not be the smartest idea because of the amount of software required to manage the software infrastructure.In today's episode, our guest, Indus Khaitan, discusses the strategies for centralizing and controlling SaaS spend. He also discusses the difference between other similar technologies such as P-card, corporate credit cards, and the technology he developed. Finally, he discusses other features, such as why it's important to control the spend before it actually occurs and blacklisting the spend categories.For more information on growth strategies for SMBs using ERP and digital transformation, visit our community at wbs.rocks or elevatiq.com. To ensure that you never miss an episode of the WBS podcast, subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform.

Chris Farris, Cloud Security Nerd at PrimeHarbor Technologies, LLC, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss his new project, breaches.cloud, and why he feels having a centralized location for cloud security breach information is so important. Corey and Chris also discuss what it means to dive into entrepreneurship, including both the benefits of not having to work within a corporate structure and the challenges that come with running your own business. Chris also reveals what led him to start breaches.cloud, and what he's learned about some of the biggest cloud security breaches so far. About ChrisChris Farris is a highly experienced IT professional with a career spanning over 25 years. During this time, he has focused on various areas, including Linux, networking, and security. For the past eight years, he has been deeply involved in public-cloud and public-cloud security in media and entertainment, leveraging his expertise to build and evolve multiple cloud security programs.Chris is passionate about enabling the broader security team's objectives of secure design, incident response, and vulnerability management. He has developed cloud security standards and baselines to provide risk-based guidance to development and operations teams. As a practitioner, he has architected and implemented numerous serverless and traditional cloud applications, focusing on deployment, security, operations, and financial modeling.He is one of the organizers of the fwd:cloudsec conference and presented at various AWS conferences and BSides events. Chris shares his insights on security and technology on social media platforms like Twitter, Mastodon and his website https://www.chrisfarris.com.Links Referenced: fwd:cloudsec: https://fwdcloudsec.org/ breaches.cloud: https://breaches.cloud Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcfarris Company Site: https://www.primeharbor.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. My returning guest today is Chris Farris, now at PrimeHarbor, which is his own consultancy. Chris, welcome back. Last time we spoke, you were a Turbot, and now you've decided to go independent because you don't like sleep anymore.Chris: Yeah, I don't like sleep.Corey: [laugh]. It's one of those things where when I went independent, at least in my case, everyone thought that it was, oh, I have this grand vision of what the world could be and how I could look at these things, and that's going to just be great and awesome and everyone's going to just be a better world for it. In my case, it was, no, just there was quite literally nothing else for me to do that didn't feel like an exact reframing of what I'd already been doing for years. I'm a terrible employee and setting out on my own was important. It was the only way I found that I could wind up getting to a place of not worrying about getting fired all the time because that was my particular skill set. And I look back at it now, almost seven years in, and it's one of those things where if I had known then what I know now, I never would have started.Chris: Well, that was encouraging. Thank you [laugh].Corey: Oh, of course. And in sincerity, it's not one of those things where there's any one thing that stops you, but it's the, a lot of people get into the independent consulting dance because they want to do a thing and they're very good at that thing and they love that thing. The problem is, when you're independent, and at least starting out, I was spending over 70% of my time on things that were not billable, which included things like go and find new clients, go and talk to existing clients, the freaking accounting. One of the first hires I made was a fractional CFO, which changed my life. Up until that, my business partner and I were more or less dead reckoning of looking at the bank account and how much money is in there to determine if we could afford things. That's a very unsophisticated way of navigating. It's like driving by braille.Chris: Yeah, I think I went into it mostly as a way to define my professional identity outside of my W-2 employer. I had built cloud security programs for two major media companies and felt like that was my identity: I was the cloud security person for these companies. And so, I was like, ehh, why don't I just define myself as myself, rather than define myself as being part of a company that, in the media space, they are getting overwhelmed by change, and job security, job satisfaction, wasn't really something that I could count on.Corey: One of the weird things that I found—it's counterintuitive—is that when you're independent, you have gotten to a point where you have hit a point of sustainability, where you're not doing the oh, I'm just going to go work for 40 billable hours a week for a client. It's just like being an employee without a bunch of protections and extra steps. That doesn't work super well. But now, at the point where I'm at where the largest client we have is a single-digit percentage of revenue, I can't get fired anymore, without having a whole bunch of people suddenly turn on me because I've done something monstrous, in which case, I probably deserve not to have business anymore, or there's something systemic in the macro environment, which given that I do the media side and I do the cost-cutting side, I work on the way up, I work on the way down, I'm questioning what that looks like in a scenario that doesn't involve me hunting for food. But it's counterintuitive to people who have been employees their whole life, like I was, where, oh, it's risky and dangerous to go out on your own.Chris: It's risky and dangerous to be, you know, tied to a single, yeah, W-2 paycheck. So.Corey: Yeah. The question I'd like to ask is, how many people need to be really pissed off before you have one of those conversations with HR that doesn't involve giving you a cup of coffee? That's the tell: when you don't get coffee, it's a bad conversation.Chris: Actually, that you haven't seen [unintelligible 00:04:25] coffee these days. You don't want the cup of coffee, you know. That's—Corey: Even when they don't give you the crappy percolator navy coffee, like, midnight hobo diner style, it's still going to be a bad meeting because [unintelligible 00:04:37] pretend the coffee's palatable.Chris: Perhaps, yes. I like not having to deal with my own HR department. And I do agree that yeah, getting out of the W-2 space allows me to work on side projects that interests me or, you know, volunteer to do things like continuing the fwd:cloudsec, developing breaches.cloud, et cetera.Corey: I'll never forget, one of my last jobs I had a boss who walked past and saw me looking at Reddit and asked me if that was really the best use of my time. At first—it was in, I think, the sysadmin forum at the time, so yes, it was very much the best use of my time for the problem I was focusing on, but also, even if it wasn't, I spent an inordinate amount of time on social media, just telling stories and building audiences, on some level. That's the weird thing is that what counts as work versus what doesn't count as work gets very squishy when you're doing your own marketing.Chris: True. And even when I was a W-2 employee, I spent a lot of time on Twitter because Twitter was an intel source for us. It was like, “Hey, who's talking about the latest cloud security misconfigurations? Who's talking about the latest data breach? What is Mandiant tweeting about?” It was, you know—I consider it part of my job to be on Twitter and watching things.Corey: Oh, people ask me that. “So, you're on Twitter an awful lot. Don't you have a newsletter to write?” Like, yeah, where do you think that content comes from, buddy?Chris: Exactly. Twitter and Mastodon. And Reddit now.Corey: There's a whole argument to be had about where to find various things. For me at least, because I'm only security adjacent, I was always trying to report the news that other people had, not make the news myself.Chris: You don't want to be the one making the news in security.Corey: Speaking of, I'd like to talk a bit about what you just alluded to breaches.cloud. I don't think I've seen that come across my desk yet, which tells me that it has not been making a big splash just yet.Chris: I haven't been really announcing it; it got published the other night and so basically, yeah, is this is sort of a inaugural marketing push for breaches.cloud. So, what we're looking to do is document all the public cloud security breaches, what happened, why, and more importantly, what the companies did or didn't do that led to the security incident or the security breach.Corey: How are you slicing the difference between broad versus deep? And what I mean by that is, there are some companies where there are indictments and massive deep dives into everything that happens with timelines and blows-by-blows, and other times you wind up with the email that shows up one day of, “Security is very important to us. Now, listen to how we completely dropped the ball on it.” And it just makes the biggest description that they can get away with of what happened. Occasionally, you find out oh, it was an open S3 buckets, or they'll allude to something that sounds like it. Does that count for inclusion? Does it not? How do you make those editorial decisions?Chris: So, we haven't yet built a page around just all of the recipients of the Bucket Negligence Award. We're looking at the specific ones where there's been something that's happened that's usually involving IAM credentials—oftentimes involving IAM credentials found in GitHub—and what led to that. So, in a lot of cases, if there's a detailed company postmortem that they send their customers that said, “Hey, we goofed up, but complete transparency—” and then they hit all the bullet points of how they goofed up. Or in the case of certain others, like Uber, “Hey, we have court transcripts that we can go to,” or, “We have federal indictments,” or, “We have court transcripts, and federal indictments and FTC civil actions.” And so, we go through those trying to suss out what the company did or did not do that led to the breach. And really, the goal here is to be able to articulate as security practitioners, hey, don't attach S3 full access to this role on EC2. That's what got Capital One in trouble.Corey: I have a lot of sympathy for the Capital One breach and I wish they would talk about it more than they do, for obvious reasons, just because it was not, someone showed up and made a very obvious dumb decision, like, “Oh, that was what that giant red screaming thing in the S3 console means.” It was a series of small misconfigurations that led to another one, to another one, to another one, and eventually gets to a point where a sophisticated attacker was able to chain them all together. And yes, it's bad, yes, they're a bank and the rest, but I look at that and it's—that's the sort of exploit that you look at and it's okay, I see it. I absolutely see it. Someone was very clever, and a bunch of small things that didn't rise to the obvious. But they got dragged and castigated as if they basically had a four-character password that they'd left on the back of the laptop on a Post-It note in an airport lounge when their CEO was traveling. Which is not the case.Chris: Or all of the highlighting the fact that Paige Thompson was a former Amazon employee, making it seem like it was her insider abilities that lead to the incident, rather than she just knew that, hey, there's a metadata service and it gives me creds if I ask it.Corey: Right. That drove me nuts. There was no maleficence as an employee. And to be very direct, from what I understand of internal AWS controls, had there been, it would have been audited, flagged, caught, interdicted. I have talked to enough Amazonians that either a lot of them are lying to me very consistently despite not knowing each other, or they're being honest when they say that you can't get access to customer data using secret inside hacks.Chris: Yeah. I have reasonably good faith in AWS and their ability to not touch customer data in most scenarios. And I've had cases that I'm not allowed to talk about where Amazon has gone and accessed customer data, and the amount of rigmarole and questions and drilling that I got as a customer to have them do that was pretty intense and somewhat, actually, annoying.Corey: Oh, absolutely. And, on some level, it gets frustrating when it's a, look, this is a test account. I have nothing of sensitive value in here. I want the thing that isn't working to start working. Can I just give you a whole, like, admin-powered user account and we can move on past all of this? And their answer is always absolutely not.Chris: Yes. Or, “Hey, can you put this in our bucket?” “No, we can't even write to a public bucket or a bucket that, you know, they can share too.” So.Corey: An Amazonian had to mail me a hard drive because they could not send anything out of S3 to me.Chris: There you go.Corey: So, then I wound up uploading it back to S3 with, you know, a Snowball Edge because there's no overkill like massive overkill.Chris: No, the [snowmobile 00:11:29] would have been the massive overkill. But depending on where you live, you know, you might not have been able to get a permit to park the snowmobile there.Corey: They apparently require a loading dock. Same as with the outposts. I can't fake having one of those on my front porch yet.Chris: Ah. Well, there you go. I mean, you know it's the right height though, and you don't mind them ruining your lawn.Corey: So, help me understand. It makes sense to me at least, on some level, why having a central repository of all the various cloud security breaches in one place that's easy to reference is valuable. But what caused you to decide, you know, rather than saying it'd be nice to have, I'm going to go build that thing?Chris: Yeah, so it was actually right before the last time we spoke, Nicholas Sharp was indicted. And there was like, hey, this person was indicted for, you know, this cloud security case. And I'm like, that name rings a bell, but I don't remember who this person was. And so, I kind of realized that there's so many of these things happening now that I forget who is who. And so, when a new piece of news comes along, I'm like, where did this come from and how does this fit into what my knowledge of cloud security is and cloud security cases?So, I kind of realized that these are all running together in my mind. The Department of Justice only referenced ‘Company One,' so it wasn't clear to me if this even was a new cloud incident or one I already knew about. And so basically, I decided, okay, let's build this. Breaches.cloud was available; I think I kind of got the idea from hackingthe.cloud.And I had been working with some college students through the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, and I was like, “Hey, anybody want a spring research project that I will pay you for?” And so yeah, PrimeHarbor funded two college students to do quite a bit of the background research for me, I mentored them through, “Hey, so here's what this means,” and, “Hey, have we noticed that all of these seem to relate to credentials found in GitHub? You know, maybe there's a pattern here.” So, if you're not yet scanning for secrets in GitHub, I recommend you start scanning for secrets in your GitHub, private and public repos.Corey: Also, it makes sense to look at the history. Because, oh, I committed a secret. I'm going to go ahead and revert that commit and push that. That solves the problem, right?Chris: No, no, it doesn't. Yes, apparently, you can force push and delete an entire commit, but you really want to use a tool that's going to go back through the commit history and dig through it because as we saw in the Uber incident, when—the second Uber incident, the one that led to the CSOs conviction—yeah, the two attackers, [unintelligible 00:14:09] stuffed a Uber employee's personal GitHub account that they were also using for Uber work, and yeah, then they dug through all the source code and dug through the commit histories until they found a set of keys, and that's what they used for the second Uber breach.Corey: Awful when that hits. It's one of those things where it's just… [sigh], one thing leads to another leads to another. And on some level, I'm kind of amazed by the forensics that happen around all of these things. With the counterpoint, it is so… freakishly difficult, I think, for lack of a better term, just to be able to say what happened with any degree of certainty, so I can't help but wonder in those dark nights when the creeping dread starts sinking in, how many things like this happen that we just never hear about because they don't know?Chris: Because they don't turn on CloudTrail. Probably a number of them. Once the data gets out and shows up on the dark web, then people start knocking on doors. You know, Troy Hunt's got a large collection of data breach stuff, and you know, when there's a data breach, people will send him, “Hey, I found these passwords on the dark web,” and he loads them into Have I Been Pwned, and you know, [laugh] then the CSO finds out. So yeah, there's probably a lot of this that happens in the quiet of night, but once it hits the dark web, I think that data starts becoming available and the victimized company finds out.Corey: I am profoundly cynical, in case that was unclear. So, I'm wondering, on some level, what is the likelihood or commonality, I suppose, of people who are fundamentally just viewing security breach response from a perspective of step one, make sure my resume is always up to date. Because we talk about these business continuity plans and these DR approaches, but very often it feels like step one, secure your own mask before assisting others, as they always say on the flight. Where does personal preservation come in? And how does that compare with company preservation?Chris: I think down at the [IaC 00:16:17] level, I don't know of anybody who has not gotten a job because they had Equifax on their resume back in, what, 2017, 2018, right? Yes, the CSO, the CEO, the CIO probably all lost their jobs. And you know, now they're scraping by book deals and speaking engagements.Corey: And these things are always, to be clear, nuanced. It's rare that this is always one person's fault. If you're a one-person company, okay, yeah, it's kind of your fault, let's be clear here, but there are controls and cost controls and audit trails—presumably—for all of these things, so it feels like that's a relatively easy thing to talk around, that it was a process failure, not that one person sucked. “Well, didn't you design and implement the process?” “Yes. But it turned out there were some holes in it and my team reported that those weren't there and it turned out that they were and, well, live and learn.” It feels like that's something that could be talked around.Chris: It's an investment failure. And again, you know, if we go back to Harry Truman, “The buck stops here,” you know, it's the CEO who decides that, hey, we're going to buy a corporate jet rather than buy a [SIIM 00:17:22]. And those are the choices that happen at the top level that define, do you have a capable security team, and more importantly, do you have a capable security culture such that your security team isn't the only ones who are actually thinking about security?Corey: That's, I guess, a fair question. I saw a take on Twitter—which is always a weird thing—or maybe was Blue-ski or somewhere else recently, that if you don't have a C-level executive responsible for security with security in their title, your company does not take security seriously. And I can see that past a certain point of scale, but as a one-person company, do you have a designated CSO?Chris: As a one-person company and as a security company, I sort of do have a designated CSO. I also have, you know, the person who's like, oh, I'm going to not put MFA on the root of this one thing because, while it's an experiment and it's a sandbox and whatever else, but I also know that that's not where I'm going to be putting any customer data, so I can measure and evaluate the risk from both a security perspective and a business existential investment perspective. When you get to the larger the organization, the more detached the CEO gets from the risk and what the company is building and what the company is doing, is where you get into trouble. And lots of companies have C-level somebody who's responsible for security. It's called the CSO, but oftentimes, they report four levels down, or even more, from the chief executive who is actually the one making the investment decisions.Corey: On some level, the oh yeah, that's my responsibility, too, but it feels like it's a trap that falls into. Like, well, the CTO is responsible for security at a publicly traded company. Like, well… that tends to not work anymore, past certain points of scale. Like when I started out independently, yes, I was the CSO. I was also the accountant. I was also the head of marketing. I was also the janitor. There's a bunch of different roles; we all wear different hats at different times.I'm also not a big fan of shaming that oh, yeah. This is a universal truth that applies to every company in existence. That's also where I think Twitter started to go wrong where you would get called out whenever making an observation or witticism or whatnot because there was some vertex case to which it did not necessarily apply and then people would ‘well, actually,' you to death.Chris: Yeah. Well, and I think there's a lot of us in the security community who are in the security one-percenters. We're, “Hey, yes, I'm a cloud security person on a 15-person cloud security team, and here's this awesome thing we're doing.” And then you've got most of the other companies in this country that are probably below the security poverty line. They may or may not have a dedicated security person, they certainly don't have a SIIM, they certainly don't have anybody who's monitoring their endpoints for malware attacks or anything else, and those are the companies that are getting hit all the time with, you know, a lot of this ransomware stuff. Healthcare is particularly vulnerable to that.Corey: When you take a look across the industry, what is it that you're doing now at PrimeHarbor that you feel has been an unmet need in the space? And let me be clear, as of this recording earlier today, we signed a contract with you for a project. There's more to come on that in the future. So, this is me asking you to tell a story, not challenging, like, what do you actually do? This is not a refund request, let's be very clear here. But what's the unmet need that you saw?Chris: I think the unmet need that I see is we don't talk to our builder community. And when I say builder, I mean, developers, DevOps, sysadmins, whatever. AWS likes the term builder and I think it works. We don't talk to our builder community about risk in a way that makes sense to them. So, we can say, “Hey, well, you know, we have this security policy and section 24601 says that all data's classifications must be signed off by the data custodian,” and a developer is going to look at you with their head tilted, and be like, “Huh? What? I just need to get the sprint done.”Whereas if we can articulate the risk—and one of the reasons I wanted to do breaches.cloud was to have that corpus of articulated risk around specific things—I can articulate the risk and say, “Hey, look, you know how easy it is for somebody to go in and enumerate an S3 bucket? And then once they've enumerated and guessed that S3 bucket exists, they list it, and oh, hey, look, now that they've listed it, they know all of the objects and all of the juicy PII that you just made public.” If you demonstrate that to them, then they're going to be like, “Oh, I'm going to add the extra story point to this story to go figure out how to do CloudFront origin access identity.” And now you've solved, you know, one more security thing. And you've done in a way that not just giving a man a fish or closing the bucket for them, but now they know, hey, I should always use origin access identity. This is why I need to do this particular thing.Corey: One of the challenges that I've seen in a variety of different sites that have tried to start cataloging different breaches and other collections of things happening in public is the discoverability or the library management problem. The most obvious example of this is, of course, the AWS console itself, where when it paginates things like, oh, there are 3000 things here, ten at a time, through various pages for it. Like, the marketplace is just a joke of discoverability. How do you wind up separating the stuff that is interesting and notable, rather than, well, this has about three sentences to it because that's all the company would say?Chris: So, I think even the ones where there's three sentences, we may actually go ahead and add it to the repo, or we may just hold it as a draft, so that we know later on when, “Hey, look, here's a federal indictment for Company Three. Oh, hey, look. Company Three was actually this breach announcement that we heard about three months ago,” or even three years ago. So like, you know, Chegg is a great example of, you know, one of those where, hey, you know, there was an incident, and they disclosed something, and then, years later, FTC comes along and starts banging them over the head. And in the FTC documentation, or in the FTC civil complaint, we got all sorts of useful data.Like, not only were they using root API keys, every contractor and employee there was sharing the root API keys, so when they had a contractor who left, it was too hard to change the keys and share it with everybody, so they just didn't do that. The contractor still had the keys, and that was one of the findings from the FTC against Chegg. Similar to that, Cisco didn't turn off contractors' access, and I think—this is pure speculation—I think the poor contractor one day logged into his Google Cloud Shell, cd'ed into a Terraform directory, ran ‘terraform destroy', and rather than destroying what he thought he was destroying, it had the access keys back to Cisco WebEx and took down 400 EC2 instances that made up all of WebEx. These are the kinds of things that I think it's worth capturing because the stories are going to come out over time.Corey: What have you seen in your, I guess, so far, a limited history of curating this that—I guess, first what is it you've learned that you've started seeing as far as patterns go, as far as what warrants inclusion, what doesn't, and of course, once you started launching and going a bit more public with it, I'm curious to hear what the response from companies is going to be.Chris: So, I want to be very careful and clear that if I'm going to name somebody, that we're sourcing something from the criminal justice system, that we're not going to say, “Hey, everybody knows that it was Paige Thompson who was behind it.” No, no, here's the indictment that said it was Paige Thompson that was, you know, indicted for this Capital One sort of thing. All the data that I'm using, it all comes from public sources, it's all sited, so it's not like, hey, some insider said, “Hey, this is what actually happened.” You know? I very much learned from the Ubiquiti case that I don't want to be in the position of Brian Krebs, where it's the attacker themselves who's updating the site and telling us everything that went wrong, when in fact, it's not because they're in fact the perpetrator.Corey: Yeah, there's a lot of lessons to be learned. And fortunately, for what it's s—at least it seems… mostly, that we've moved past the battle days of security researchers getting sued on a whim from large companies for saying embarrassing things about them. Of course, watch me be tempting fate and by the time this publishes, I'll get sued by some company, probably Azure or whatnot, telling me that, “Okay, we've had enough of you saying bad things about our security.” It's like, well, cool, but I also read the complaint before you file because your security is bad. Buh-dum-tss. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Please don't sue me.Chris: So, you know, whether it's slander or libel, depending on whether you're reading this or hearing it, you know, truth is an actual defense, so I think Microsoft doesn't have a case against you. I think for what we're doing in breaches, you know—and one of the reasons that I'm going to be very clear on anybody who contributes—and just for the record, anybody is welcome to contribute. The GitHub repo that runs breaches.cloud is public and anybody can submit me a pull request and I will take their write-ups of incidents. But whatever it is, it has to be sourced.One of the things that I'm looking to do shortly, is start soliciting sponsorships for breaches so that we can afford to go pull down the PACER documents. Because apparently in this country, while we have a right to a speedy trial, we don't have a right to actually get the court transcripts for less than ten cents a page. And so, part of what we need to do next is download those—and once we've purchased them, we can make them public—download those, make them public, and let everybody see exactly what the transcript was from the Capital One incident, or the Joey Sullivan trial.Corey: You're absolutely right. It drives me nuts that I have to wind up budgeting money for PACER to pull up court records. And at ten cents a page, it hasn't changed in decades, where it's oh, this is the cost of providing that data. It's, I'm not asking someone to walk to the back room and fax it to me. I want to be very clear here. It just feels like it's one of those areas where the technology and government is not caught up and it's—part of the problem is, of course, having no competition.Chris: There is that. And I think I read somewhere that the ent—if you wanted to download the entire PACER, it would be, like, $100 million. Not that you would do that, but you know, it is the moneymaker for the judicial system, and you know, they do need to keep the lights on. Although I guess that's what my taxes are for. But again, yes, they're a monopoly; they can do that.Corey: Wildly frustrating, isn't it?Chris: Yeah [sigh]… yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think there's a lot of value in the court transcripts. I've held off on publishing the Capital One case because one, well, already there's been a lot of ink spilled on it, and two, I think all the good detail is going to be in the trial transcripts from Paige Thompson's trial.Corey: So, I am curious what your take is on… well, let's called the ‘FTX thing.' I don't even know how to describe it at this point. Is it a breach? Is it just maleficence? Is it 15,000 other things? But I noticed that it's something that breaches.cloud does talk about a bit.Chris: Yeah. So, that one was a fascinating one that came out because as I was starting this project, I heard you know, somebody who was tweeting was like, “Hey, they were storing all of the crypto private keys in AWS Secrets Manager.” And I was like, “Errr?” And so, I went back and I read John J. Ray III's interim report to the creditors.Now, John Ray is the man who was behind the cleaning up of Enron, and his comment was “FTX is the”—“Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy information as occurred here.” And as part of his general, broad write-up, they went into, in-depth, a lot of the FTX AWS practices. Like, we talk about, hey, you know, your company should be multi-account. FTX was worse. They had three or four different companies all operating in the same AWS account.They had their main company, FTX US, Alameda, all of them had crypto keys in Secrets Manager and there was no access control between any of those. And what ended up happening on the day that SBF left and Ray came in as CEO, the $400 million worth of crypto somehow disappeared out of FTX's wallets.Corey: I want to call this out because otherwise, I will get letters from the AWS PR spin doctors. Because on the surface of it, I don't know that there's necessarily a lot wrong with using Secrets Manager as the backing store for private keys. I do that with other things myself. The question is, what other controls are there? You can't just slap it into Secrets Manager and, “Well, my job is done. Let's go to lunch early today.”There are challenges [laugh] around the access levels, there are—around who has access, who can audit these things, and what happens. Because most of the secrets I have in Secrets Manager are not the sort of thing that is, it is now a viable strategy to take that thing and abscond to a country with a non-extradition treaty for the rest of my life, but with private keys and crypto, there kind of is.Chris: That's it. It's like, you know, hey, okay, the RDS database password is one thing, but $400 million in crypto is potentially another thing. Putting it in and Secrets Manager might have been the right answer, too. You get KMS customer-managed keys, you get full auditability with CloudTrail, everything else, but we didn't hear any of that coming out of Ray's report to the creditors. So again, the question is, did they even have CloudTrail turned on? He did explicitly say that FTX had not enabled GuardDuty.Corey: On some level, even if GuardDuty doesn't do anything for you, which in my case, it doesn't, but I want to be clear, you should still enable it anyway because you're going to get dragged when there's inevitable breach because there's always a breach somewhere, and then you get yelled at for not having turned on something that was called GuardDuty. You already sound negligent, just with that sentence alone. Same with Security Hub. Good name on AWS's part if you're trying to drive service adoption. Just by calling it the thing that responsible people would use, you will see adoption, even if people never configure or understand it.Chris: Yeah, and then of course, hey, you had Security Hub turned on, but you ignore the 80,000 findings in it. Why did you ignore those 80,000 findings? I find Security Hub to probably be a little bit too much noise. And it's not Security Hub, it's ‘Compliance Hub.' Everything—and I'm going to have a blog post coming out shortly—on this, everything that Security Hub looks at, it looks at it from a compliance perspective.If you look at all of its scoring, it's not how many things are wrong; it's how many rules you are a hundred percent compliant to. It is not useful for anybody below that AWS security poverty line to really master or to really operationalize.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to catch up with me once again. Although now that I'm the client, I expect I can do this on demand, which is just going to be delightful. If people want to learn more, where can they find you?Chris: So, they can find breaches.cloud at, well https://breaches.cloud. If you're looking for me, I am either on Twitter, still, at @jcfarris, or you can find me and my consulting company, which is www.primeharbor.com.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to all of that in the [show notes 00:33:57]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. As always, I appreciate it.Chris: Oh, thank you for having me again.Corey: Chris Farris, cloud security nerd at PrimeHarbor. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with an angry, insulting comment that you're also going to use as the storage back-end for your private keys.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

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