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Coop is clearly disappointed and disheartened as his Lakers trail 0-3 to the Denver Nuggets, but he hasn't thrown in the towel just yet! Join Michael Cooper in a lively discussion with Nick Gelso, where he provides his beloved LA Lakers with valuable advice, strategic planning, and the keys to overcoming this series and restoring their NBA Finals prospects. Conversely, on the opposite end of the court, Coop doesn't shy away from giving Nick Gelso a hard time about his Boston Celtics' total capitulation in games 1 to 3 against Miami. Support Coop's Sponsors: Factor Meals: Head to FACTORMEALS.com/showtime50. Use code 'showtime50' to get 50% off your first box.  That's 'showtime50' at FACTORMEALS dot com slash showtime50. FanDuel: FanDuel Sportsbook is the exclusive wagering partner of the CLNS Media Network. Get a NO SWEAT FIRST BET up to $1000 DOLLARS when you visit https://FanDuel.com/BOSTON! That's $1000 back in BONUS BETS if your first bet doesn't win. 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. $10 Deposit req. Refund issued as non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See full terms at fanduel.com/sportsbook. FanDuel is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star Casino, LLC. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MI, NJ, OH, PA, IL, TN, VA), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), Gamblinghelplinema.org or call (800)-327-5050 for 24/7 support (MA), visit www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), 1-800-522-4700 (WY), or visit www.1800gambler.net (WV). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm leaning heavily on an article from cnbc.com by Claire Hughes Johnson entitled “I was VP at Google for 10 years. Here's the No. 1 skill I looked for at job interviews—very few people had it” According to research references by Claire, 95% of people think they have this quality, but only 10% to 15% actually do. What is this important, yet rare, quality? Self-awareness. Here's a quote from the article: “Sure, your experience and skills matter, but they can be learned. And when someone is highly self-aware, they're more motivated to learn because they're honest about what they need to work on. They also relate better to their colleagues and managers.”One way the author checked for self-awareness during job interviews when she was a VP at Google was to pay attention to two words: “I” and “we.” Too much “I” is an indication that the candidate may not be humble or collaborative, and too much “we” may obscure the role the candidate played in the situation. There needs to be a balance between “I” and “we” language.She also would ask the candidate what his or her colleagues would say about them. If the response is only good things, she would probe as to what constructive feedback they have received. Then she would ask “And what have you done to improve in that area?” to see if they took the feedback to heart and made improvements.  How do you know if you are not self-aware? Here are some telltale signs:-You consistently get feedback that you disagree with. This doesn't mean the feedback is accurate, but it does tell you that how others perceive you differs from how you perceive yourself.-You often feel frustrated and annoyed because you don't agree with your team's direction or decisions. This is likely because you aren't aware of how you are presenting your ideas or how your ideas may be perceived. It may also indicate that you tend to disagree with ideas that aren't yours.-You feel drained at the end of the day and can't pinpoint why. Self-awareness helps you to focus on the things you both enjoy and are good at (Motivated Skills), minimize the time you spend on activities that don't play to your strengths, and have the proper mindset when you have to engage in Burnout Skills. -You can't describe what kinds of work you do and don't enjoy doing. Engaging in your Motivated Skills and minimizing the use of your Burnout Skills allows you to do more of what you enjoy and less of what you don't – it has to start there.  How to Build Self-Awareness1.    Understand your values. Knowing what is important to you, what gives you energy, and what steals your energy will help you make sense of how you work.With these insights, you will be able to express your values and understand when they are at odds with one another, or with someone else's values. 2.    Identify your work style. Take a few weeks to write down the moments when you feel like you are reaching new heights in your work or hitting new lows – you'll start to see patterns.If you have trouble trusting your own instincts, ask someone whose judgment you respect: “When have you seen me do my best and worst work?” 3.    Analyze your skills and capabilities. In an interview setting, you should be able to speak confidently about your strengths and weaknesses. Ask yourself these questions:“What can I do really well and really enjoy doing?” Which skills do you have, and which do you need to build on? What are my Motivated Skills? Conversely, “What skills am I good at, but don't enjoy using?” These are your Burnout Skills, and you want to minimize the time you spend doing these things. “What is an area I have the capacity to move the needle on, and how can I move that needle?” This is not a weakness, but rather an emerging strength you would like to turn into a signature strength.  Are you in the wrong job that chips away at you every day? The CareerSpring document and coaching program will help you find a job that uses your zone of genius, recognizes your value, and pays you what you're worth.  If you're ready to take your job search to the next level by working with a highly experienced professional with a track record of client success, schedule a complimentary consult to learn more:  https://calendly.com/lesaedwards/zoom-meetings2 

As investors attempt to find opportunities in an uncertain stock market, earnings disappointments and an ongoing debt ceiling debate loom overhead.----- Transcript -----Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Mike Wilson, Chief Investment Officer and Chief U.S. Equity Strategist for Morgan Stanley. Along with my colleagues bringing you a variety of perspectives, I'll be talking about the latest trends in the financial marketplace. It's Tuesday, May 16th, at 1 p.m. in New York. So let's get after it. Having spent the last few weeks on the road engaging with clients from around the world, I figured it would be useful to share some thoughts from our meetings and to touch on the most often asked questions, concerns and pushback to our views. First, conviction levels are low, given broadly elevated valuations and a challenging macro backdrop. While many individual longs and shorts have worked well in the context of a buoyant S&P 500, the most favorite trades have largely played out and clients are having trouble finding the next opportunity. Small cap and low quality stocks have underperformed and we continue to see crowding into mega-cap tech and consumer staples stocks as safe havens in a deteriorating growth environment.Second, there isn't much interest in the S&P 500 as either a long or a short anymore. Most clients we speak with have given up on the idea of a big breakdown of the index level. Conversely, there are few who think the S&P 500 can trade much above 4200, which has proven to be a key resistance since the October lows. What has changed is that the floor has been raised, with the large majority of investors thinking 3800 is now unlikely to be broken to the downside. In short, the consensus believes the bear market ended in October, at least for the high quality S&P 500 and NASDAQ. Third, there is little appetite to dive back into the areas of the market that have significantly underperformed like regional banks, small caps and energy. Other deep cyclicals are also out of favor due to either extended valuation and high earnings expectations In the case of industrials, and recession risk in the case of materials. Instead, most clients we spoke with remained comfortably long, large cap tech stocks, especially given the group's recent outperformance. While consumer staples and other defensives have outperformed strongly since March, there's less confidence this outperformance can continue. Our take remains the same. The market is speaking loudly under the surface, with its classic late cycle leadership and extreme narrowness, it is bracing for further macro and earnings disappointments. However, it is not yet pricing these outcomes at the index level. Such is the typical pattern exhibited by equity markets until clearer evidence of an economic recession arrives, or the risks of one are fully extinguished. With our economist forecasting close to 0% growth this year for real GDP and just modest growth next year, valuations at full levels and several other risks in front of us, we suspect 4200 will hold to the upside as most clients suggest. However, we continue to hold a more bearish tactical view than most clients in terms of the downside risk given our earnings forecast. The majority of our fundamental debate with clients has been over earnings. More specifically, there is broad pushback to our view that margins have not yet bottomed. In addition, many clients do not think revenue growth can fall towards zero or go negative given the still elevated inflation across the economy. Our take is that while many companies have taken decisive cost action, including layoffs, they have not yet cut cost nearly enough for a zero-to-negative revenue growth backdrop. But the odds of such an outcome increasing, in our view, we find it notable that many investors are more sanguine today on the earnings backdrop than they were five months ago. Meanwhile, many clients are worried about the debt ceiling. Most believe it will get resolved, but not without some near-term volatility. However, the discussion has evolved, with many clients framing this event as a lose-lose for markets. Assuming the debt ceiling is not resolved before the Treasury runs out of money, market volatility is likely to pick up meaningfully. Conversely, if the debt ceiling is lifted before the Treasury runs out of money, it will likely come with some concessions on the spending front, which could be a headwind for growth. Secondarily, such an outcome will lead to significant, pent up issuance from the Treasury to pay its bills and rebuild its reserves. This issuance from Treasury, could approach $1 trillion in the six months immediately after the ceiling is lifted, and potentially present a materially tightening to liquidity that could tip the S&P 500 back to the downside. To summarize, clients are less bearish on earnings than we are, although most are still fundamentally cautious on growth in the economic backdrop. Given the resilience in the large cap indices and leadership from perennially favored companies this year, many investors are now convicted that the equity market can look through a mild economic or earnings recession at this point. We think this is a very challenging tactical setup should growth or liquidity deteriorate as we expect over the next few weeks and months. We maintain our well below consensus earnings estimates for this year and believe narrow breadth and defensive leadership support our view that this bear market is yet to be completed, especially at the index level. Defensively oriented companies with a focus on operational efficiency should continue to outperform, especially if they exhibit true pricing power. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy Thoughts on the Market, please take a moment to rate the review us on the Apple Podcasts app. It helps more people to find the show.

Hey everyone, Chris and Melissa here, back with another episode of the Family Brand Podcast. This week Melissa's is battling a cold, so Chris will be taking the reigns but we're so excited to share our thoughts with you today, particularly about a topic that's close to our hearts - "Breathe Life Into Their Dreams." In this episode, we deep dive into the profound importance of supporting the dreams of our family members. We believe that no one needs judgment, and everyone deserves love. This philosophy has been a guiding principle for us, inspired by my coach, Steve Hardison. It's so essential, especially within a family context, to offer love and inspiration instead of judgment. We're all our own harshest critics, after all. We know from personal experience how discouraging it can be when you share a dream or goal with your family and they don't support you or even dismiss your ambitions. On the contrary, one of the most uplifting experiences is when you share your dream with a family member and they wholeheartedly believe in you, offering their support. The word 'inspire' literally translates to 'breathe or blow into'. We believe that when we inspire people, we breathe life into them. Conversely, when we discourage or criticize, we suck the life out of people. We discussed an instance where a successful entrepreneur wasn't supportive of his wife's dreams, despite her aspirations requiring less financial and time commitment than his own. It's important to breathe life into your loved ones' dreams, not stifle them. Melissa has always been a beacon of support and belief for me, even when my dreams seemed far-fetched. Despite the rough patches and challenges, we've made a conscious effort to support each other's dreams, a sentiment Melissa echoes. It's never been about one person's dreams taking precedence over the other's. We've learned the importance of growing together intentionally and supporting each other's dreams equally. We hope this episode inspires you to become proactive supporters of your family's dreams. Ask them what's important to them, what they're passionate about, and how you can support them in their journey. Remember, the essence of love and support lies in breathing life into their dreams, not passing judgment. Thanks for joining us on this journey, and we can't wait to share more insights with you in our next episode. Until then, keep breathing life into each other's dreams!   LINKS: Website: familybrand.com Social: Instagram: www.instagram.com/ourfamilybrand Facebook: www.facebook.com/FamilyBrandOfficial YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCGu-7odB6gkPbyXpUIQLkrg Twitter: https://twitter.com/OurFamilyBrand   NEW: What Culture are You Creating In Your Family? Take the Quiz Now! https://familybrand.com/quiz Denzel Washington's Graduation Speech: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6TFmEoBwA2lmgC6ehRpFGz?si=T9_UGQTATUq3arqxekxM0g Podcast Episode with Dan Martell: https://familybrand.com/buy-back-your-time-to-benefit-your-family-with-guest-dan-martell/   Episode Minute By Minute: 0:43 Welcome back and an intro into Inspiration!  1:27 The true definition of inspiration  7:18 When the opportunity arises this is what support looks like 9:35 How to respond when your dreams are not being supported 14:15 Sometimes you will have to stand up for your dreams 19:37 Wisdom of Denzel Washington everyone needs to hear 24:54 The two inspirational voices that changed our marriage and business 30:17 How many different people can you breath life and possibility into their life  

Jeff Ding is the leading US scholar on China and AI and author of one of the earliest China-focused Substacks, ChinAI. He recently published a fire paper called, “The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China's rise.” It makes the argument that diffusion capacity (not just innovation capacity) is critical to economic growth — and China actually fares much worse in diffusion capacity than mainstream narratives imply. In particular, “In cases when the emerging power has a strong innovation capacity but weak diffusion capacity (diffusion deficit), it is less likely to sustain its rise than innovation-centric assessments depict. Conversely, when the emerging power possesses a strong diffusion capacity but weak innovation capacity (diffusion surplus), it is more likely to sustain its rise than innovation-centric assessments portray.” Mainstream narratives, meanwhile, “only compare the U.S. and China's ability to produce new innovations, neglecting their ability to effectively use and adopt emerging technologies. By revealing the gap between China's innovation capacity and diffusion capacity, this paper argues that innovation-centric assessments mistakenly inflate China's S&T power.” We discuss lessons from past industrial revolutions, what Cohosting is Teddy Collins, formerly of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and DeepMind. Outtro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Y7-gm8STI midjourney prompt: "frank quietly industrial revolution" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to our blog post, "Unveiling the Secrets: What the Advertising to Sales Ratio on Amazon Reveals About Your E-commerce Business." In this post, we will delve into the importance of understanding the Advertising to Sales Ratio (A/S) on Amazon and how it can provide valuable insights for e-commerce brand owners. With the objective of helping you scale your brands with minimal capital, we will explore the significance of the A/S ratio and how it can optimize your business on Amazon. Understanding Advertising to Sales Ratio To make informed decisions about your advertising campaigns, it's crucial to comprehend the concept of the Advertising to Sales Ratio. This ratio represents the relationship between your advertising spend and your total sales on Amazon. By calculating the A/S ratio (Ad Spend / Total Sales), you gain insights into the efficiency and effectiveness of your advertising efforts. This knowledge is particularly valuable for e-commerce sellers on Amazon. Reality of E-commerce In today's competitive e-commerce landscape, clear communication and strategic planning are vital to success. Just as miscommunication during the Charge of the Light Brigade led to tragic consequences, poor communication and planning in e-commerce can hinder growth and profitability. Understanding and leveraging the A/S ratio is one of the keys to overcoming these challenges and scaling your business effectively on Amazon. Interpreting Your A/S Ratio To harness the power of the A/S ratio, it's essential to interpret its implications accurately. Evaluating your A/S ratio involves examining the relationship between your ad spend and organic sales. A low A/S ratio indicates efficient ad spend and strong organic sales, highlighting a healthy advertising strategy. Conversely, a high A/S ratio suggests inefficient ad spend or low organic sales, indicating the need for optimization and adjustment. Benchmarking your A/S ratio against industry standards and competitors is another valuable practice. By understanding how your ratio compares to others in your niche, you can identify areas for improvement and strive for excellence. Additionally, consider the role of the product lifecycle in interpreting your A/S ratio. Different stages of the lifecycle may require different advertising strategies, and understanding this relationship empowers you to make data-driven decisions. III. A/S Ratio as a Component of Overall Business Health While the A/S ratio is a critical metric, it should be viewed as part of the bigger picture. Balancing the A/S ratio with other key performance indicators (KPIs) allows for a comprehensive evaluation of your Amazon e-commerce business. Key metrics to consider alongside the A/S ratio include conversion rate, customer acquisition cost, and customer lifetime value. Analyzing these metrics collectively provides a holistic view of your business's health and performance. In conclusion, understanding the Advertising to Sales Ratio on Amazon is crucial for e-commerce brand owners looking to scale their businesses with minimal capital. By analyzing and interpreting your A/S ratio, you can make informed decisions about your advertising strategies, optimize your campaigns, and drive business success on Amazon. We encourage you to continue monitoring and optimizing your A/S ratio as an ongoing practice to stay ahead of the competition and achieve long-term growth. Next Episode: Tactics to Optimize Your A/S Ratio In our next blog post, we will dive into practical tactics to optimize your A/S ratio. We will explore strategies such as improving ad targeting and keyword selection, adjusting your advertising budget, enhancing product listings for higher conversions, utilizing promotions and discounts, and continuously monitoring and adjusting your A/S ratio over time. Stay tuned for valuable insights and actionable tips to take your e-commerce business to the next level.

Lots of questions about Christian Gonzalez for Zachary Neel, who covered Gonzalez at Oregon for USA Today: • What sort of player did the Patriots get at No. 17 overall? • When it came to his development, what surprised you the most? • What does he still need to work on? For example, if I'm Josh Allen and I want to go at him this season, what sort of weaknesses am I looking to exploit? • Conversely, what is he best at? Where is he going to shine? • What's the biggest takeaway that New England fans should know about him, either on or off the field? ...and much more.

In A Fresh Perspective, dig into topics central to the Christian experience in fresh ways, and (re)discover a faith you can love.__What's the Issue Anyway?_____________________ _____________ is a concept of God that many of us grew up with.This “Thin” concept of God has produced many ________________ and ________________ images of God.What Wisdom can a Fresh Perspective on God bring us?A Fresh Perspective embraces our understanding of God as ________________ and ________________. (Isaiah 55:8-9; Acts 10:17; Acts 22:4-5)A Fresh Perspective embraces a “____________” rather than “thin” concept of God.God is best understood as a _____________ presence that permeates everything in the universe.This _____________________ view is present and emerging in scripture.(Psalm 139:7-10; Romans 8:38-39; Acts 17:28)A Fresh Perspective embraces love as the ________________ nature within God. (1 John 4:8)A Fresh Perspective embraces ________________ __________________ with God. (Psalm 34:8; James 4:8)A Fresh Perspective embraces a ____________-_________ God. (John 14:9-10; Colossians 1:15-17)Don't Miss This!A Fresh Perspective embraces God as the life-giving, unchanging and loving _____________ revealed in Jesus that we can _________ ourselves in through personal experience. (Ephesians 3:17b-19)How can this fresh Perspective on God make me a better person and the world a better place?A Fresh Perspective on God sets the prisoner _________.A Fresh Perspective on God inspires us to love mercy, do justice and walk _____________.What is God inviting you into today?Consider whether I have been rejecting an understanding of God as Zeus-like being but not considering God as a loving presence that is the ground of all beingJump into a Conversation Group to discuss more about a Fresh Perspective on GodListen to S3 E15 (Reconstruction: An Interview with Brad Jersak) from the podcast “A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar”Thought provoking questions:How can I live out the values and principles that I believe are central to God's nature, such as love, compassion, justice, and peace, in my relationships, actions, and choices?What personal experiences (if any) have you had that made you question or reevaluate your understanding of supernatural theism, and how did those experiences shape your current beliefs about God?How can I deepen my personal relationship with God and experience God's presence in my everyday life?How do you think a "thick" concept of God can inspire a more compassionate and just approach to social issues such as poverty, racism and climate change? In what ways can this understanding of God motivate you to take action and make a positive impact in the world?What aspects of a "thin" concept of God do you find limiting or unsatisfying? Conversely, what aspects of a "thick" concept of God do you find liberating or fulfilling?For Further ReadingThe Heart of Christianity by Marcus BorgA More Christ-Like God by Brad JersakThe Divine Dance: The Trinity and your Transformation by Richard Rohr

We show how predictive prophecy which may or may not be true is worthless at the best. We discuss “strange doctrines” that never produce: “love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith” (1 Timothy 1:5b). Conversely, sound biblical teaching and personal concern for the well-being of each of the Lord's sheep will bring forth those virtues. Religious pomp which has been prominent throughout church history glorifies religi

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When it comes to spiritual things, many of us are doing the right things for the wrong reasons. Conversely, some of us aren’t doing much of anything at all. On Friday's Morning's with Eric and Brigitte, Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show, tells how she started feeling spiritually restless last year, so she went on a mission to add joy back to her relationship with Christ. And as she tried new ideas, she strengthened her faith and ultimately grew closer to God. If you’ve recently found yourself in a spiritual rut, Lisa has a few simple suggestions to jump-start your faith and see Jesus in a fresh, new way. 8 Simple Ways to Boost Your Faith See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's Podcast, we'll be discussing the art of selling art. I believe 100% of the art of selling art happens on the back end, not the front end. This means that everything you do to prepare your art is more important than what the customer experiences when they see it. The first step in preparing your art is making it to the best of your ability. It's essential to create something you're passionate about and genuinely excited to share with others. This passion makes it easier to talk about your art and helps you connect with potential customers. Conversely, creating something because you think it will sell is not likely to work. The next step is preparing your presentation. You should take beautiful pictures or videos that showcase your art's texture, scale, and context. Make sure you're presenting it in a way that does it justice. Spending time photographing, editing, and mixing your art is worth it. Social media is an excellent platform to share your art, but keeping it as a record is essential. It's also important to understand that not every post will lead to a sale, but it's an excellent way to build your brand and engage with your audience. In conclusion, selling art is more about the back end than the front end. Preparing your art and presentation with passion and care is crucial to selling art successfully. Find out more about us at www.rafiandklee.com 

In this episode, Kyle will explain why size matters. Size of your tox dose: (get your mind out of the gutter). The amount of tox dose matters for several reasons. Tox temporarily paralyzes the muscles responsible for causing wrinkles and fine lines. The amount of tox injected into the targeted area determines how effectively the muscles will be paralyzed and how long the results will last. Here are some key reasons why the amount of your tox dose matters:Effectiveness: The amount of tox injected determines how effectively the targeted muscles will be paralyzed. Too little tox may not be enough to relax the muscles, resulting in unsatisfactory results fully. Conversely, too much tox could lead to over-paralysis of the muscles and unnatural or frozen facial expressions. A skilled and experienced injector can determine the optimal amount of tox needed for your unique needs and facial structure.Duration: The amount of tox injected also affects the duration of the results. A smaller dose may wear off more quickly than a larger one, while an excessive dose can lead to prolonged muscle paralysis. Your injector can work with you to determine the right dosage to achieve the desired results while also ensuring that the effects wear off at an appropriate time.Safety: Finally, the amount of tox injected is important for ensuring your safety. Neurotoxin is a medication. Medications have to be prescribed by providers to be administered legally. You must receive your injections from a qualified and experienced injector who can ensure you receive the correct dose for your needs and minimize the risk of complications.Kyle will also explain why he prefers to charge for his tox treatments on an "outcome-based" pricing model; and what that entails.

Futures are financial contracts that allow traders to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price at a future date. Futures are commonly used in trading stocks, indices, and commodities, and understanding how they work is essential for traders who want to participate in these markets.In the context of stocks, futures are contracts that allow traders to buy or sell a stock at a predetermined price at a future date. These contracts are traded on futures exchanges, and they are settled in cash rather than the actual stock. Futures contracts on stocks are often used by traders who want to hedge their positions or speculate on the direction of the stock market.For example, a trader may believe that a particular stock will rise in value in the future. They can buy a futures contract on the stock at a predetermined price, and if the stock does indeed rise in value, the trader can sell the futures contract for a profit. Conversely, if the stock falls in value, the trader can sell the futures contract at a loss.Futures contracts on indices work in a similar way to futures on stocks, but instead of buying or selling a single stock, traders buy or sell a contract that represents a basket of stocks. For example, the S&P 500 index is a popular index of 500 large-cap stocks in the United States. Traders can buy or sell futures contracts on the S&P 500 index to speculate on the direction of the overall stock market.In the context of commodities, futures are contracts that allow traders to buy or sell a specific commodity at a predetermined price at a future date. Commodities futures contracts are traded on commodities exchanges, and they are settled in cash or by the physical delivery of the commodity. Futures contracts on commodities are often used by traders who want to hedge their positions or speculate on the direction of the commodity market.For example, a farmer who grows wheat may want to hedge their position by selling a futures contract on wheat at a predetermined price. If the price of wheat falls, the farmer will have locked in a price for their crop, protecting themselves from a potential loss. Conversely, if the price of wheat rises, the farmer will have missed out on potential profits, but they will have still sold their crop at a predetermined price.Futures contracts on commodities are also used by speculators who want to profit from the volatility of the commodity markets. For example, a trader may believe that the price of gold will rise in the future. They can buy a futures contract on gold at a predetermined price, and if the price of gold does indeed rise, the trader can sell the futures contract for a profit.In conclusion, futures are financial contracts that allow traders to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price at a future date. Futures are commonly used in trading stocks, indices, and commodities, and they are traded on futures exchanges. Understanding how futures work is essential for traders who want to participate in these markets and take advantage of the potential opportunities they offer. Whether you are a novice or experienced trader, futures can be a powerful tool in your trading arsenal. Take our 1 Week Free Trial and you'll never look at trading the same way again. To begin the journey and claim your 1 Week Free Trial in our Live Trading Room, visit MyTradingIQ.com. If you use TradingView, we'll enable the Indicators for you on TradingView, and other platforms, for 5 consecutive trading days. You'll have access to the Live Room 2 hours a day, full use of all of our resources, around the clock support, One on One mentoring, and much more. Read the CFTC Risk Disclosures and CFRN Disclaimers before starting the trial. You can begin the trial any day of the week or weekend. You'll still get 5 consecutive Trading Days. Questions? Call 949-42-EMINI or Email support@crn.net

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: A Case for the Least Forgiving Take On Alignment, published by Thane Ruthenis on May 2, 2023 on LessWrong. 1. Introduction The field of AI Alignment is a pre-paradigmic one, and the primary symptom of that is the wide diversity of views across it. Essentially every senior researcher has their own research direction, their own idea of what the core problem is and how to go about solving it. The differing views can be categorized along many dimensions. Here, I'd like to focus on a specific cluster of views, one corresponding to the most "hardcore", unforgiving take on AI Alignment. It's the view held by people like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, and John Wentworth, and not shared by Paul Christiano or the staff of major AI Labs. According to this view: We only have one shot. There will be a sharp discontinuity in capabilities once we get to AGI, and attempts to iterate on alignment will fail. Either we get AGI right on the first try, or we die. We need to align the AGI's values precisely right. "Rough" alignment won't work, niceness is not convergent, alignment attained at a low level of capabilities is unlikely to scale to superintelligence. "Dodging" the alignment problem won't work. We can't securely hamstring the AGI's performance in some domain without compromising the AGI completely. We can't make it non-consequentialist, non-agenty, non-optimizing, non-goal-directed, et cetera. It's not possible to let an AGI keep its capability to engineer nanotechnology while taking out its capability to deceive and plot, any more than it's possible to build an AGI capable of driving red cars but not blue ones. They're "the same" capability in some sense, and our only hope is to make the AGI want to not be malign. Automating research is impossible. Pre-AGI oracles, simulators, or research assistants won't generate useful results; cyborgism doesn't offer much hope. Conversely, if one such system would have the capability to meaningfully contribute to alignment, it'd need to be aligned itself. Catch-22. Weak interpretability tools won't generalize to the AGI stage, as wouldn't other methods of "supervising" or "containing" the AGI. Strong interpretability, perhaps rooted in agent-foundations insights, is promising, but the bar there is fairly high. In sum: alignment is hard and requires exacting precision, AI can't help us with it, and instantiating an AGI without robustly solving alignment is certain to kill us all. I share this view. In my case, there's a simple generator of it; a single belief that causes my predictions to diverge sharply from the more optimistic models. From one side, this view postulates a sharp discontinuity, a phase change. Once a system gets to AGI, its capabilities will skyrocket, while its internal dynamics will shift dramatically. It will break "nonrobust" alignment guarantees. It will start thinking in ways that confuse previous interpretability efforts. It will implement strategies it never thought of before. From another side, this view holds that any system which doesn't have the aforementioned problems will be useless for intellectual progress. Can't have a genius engineer who isn't also a genius schemer; can't have a scientist-modeling simulator which doesn't wake up to being a shoggoth. What ties it all together is the belief that the general-intelligence property is binary. A system is either an AGI, or it isn't, with nothing in-between. If it is, it's qualitatively more capable than any pre-AGI system, and also works in qualitatively different ways. If it's not, it's fundamentally "lesser" than any generally-intelligent system, and doesn't have truly transformative capabilities. In the rest of this post, I will outline some arguments for this, sketch out what "general intelligence" means in this framing, do a case-study of LLMs showcasing wh...

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: A Case for the Least Forgiving Take On Alignment, published by Thane Ruthenis on May 2, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. 1. Introduction The field of AI Alignment is a pre-paradigmic one, and the primary symptom of that is the wide diversity of views across it. Essentially every senior researcher has their own research direction, their own idea of what the core problem is and how to go about solving it. The differing views can be categorized along many dimensions. Here, I'd like to focus on a specific cluster of views, one corresponding to the most "hardcore", unforgiving take on AI Alignment. It's the view held by people like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, and John Wentworth, and not shared by Paul Christiano or the staff of major AI Labs. According to this view: We only have one shot. There will be a sharp discontinuity in capabilities once we get to AGI, and attempts to iterate on alignment will fail. Either we get AGI right on the first try, or we die. We need to align the AGI's values precisely right. "Rough" alignment won't work, niceness is not convergent, alignment attained at a low level of capabilities is unlikely to scale to superintelligence. "Dodging" the alignment problem won't work. We can't securely hamstring the AGI's performance in some domain without compromising the AGI completely. We can't make it non-consequentialist, non-agenty, non-optimizing, non-goal-directed, et cetera. It's not possible to let an AGI keep its capability to engineer nanotechnology while taking out its capability to deceive and plot, any more than it's possible to build an AGI capable of driving red cars but not blue ones. They're "the same" capability in some sense, and our only hope is to make the AGI want to not be malign. Automating research is impossible. Pre-AGI oracles, simulators, or research assistants won't generate useful results; cyborgism doesn't offer much hope. Conversely, if one such system would have the capability to meaningfully contribute to alignment, it'd need to be aligned itself. Catch-22. Weak interpretability tools won't generalize to the AGI stage, as wouldn't other methods of "supervising" or "containing" the AGI. Strong interpretability, perhaps rooted in agent-foundations insights, is promising, but the bar there is fairly high. In sum: alignment is hard and requires exacting precision, AI can't help us with it, and instantiating an AGI without robustly solving alignment is certain to kill us all. I share this view. In my case, there's a simple generator of it; a single belief that causes my predictions to diverge sharply from the more optimistic models. From one side, this view postulates a sharp discontinuity, a phase change. Once a system gets to AGI, its capabilities will skyrocket, while its internal dynamics will shift dramatically. It will break "nonrobust" alignment guarantees. It will start thinking in ways that confuse previous interpretability efforts. It will implement strategies it never thought of before. From another side, this view holds that any system which doesn't have the aforementioned problems will be useless for intellectual progress. Can't have a genius engineer who isn't also a genius schemer; can't have a scientist-modeling simulator which doesn't wake up to being a shoggoth. What ties it all together is the belief that the general-intelligence property is binary. A system is either an AGI, or it isn't, with nothing in-between. If it is, it's qualitatively more capable than any pre-AGI system, and also works in qualitatively different ways. If it's not, it's fundamentally "lesser" than any generally-intelligent system, and doesn't have truly transformative capabilities. In the rest of this post, I will outline some arguments for this, sketch out what "general intelligence" means in this framing, do a case-study of LLMs ...

Shop around online for a better mortgage rate with Credible. You can get multiple real quotes in one place so lenders can compete for your business. For more nuanced personal finance content, join 60,000+ others and sign up for the free Financial Samurai newsletter and posts via e-mail. Financial Samurai is one of the largest independently-owned personal finance sites that started in 2009.  If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a positive 5-star review! Episode Synopsis Do you have a high credit score? Congrats! You now have to pay higher mortgage fees or a higher mortgage rate starting May 1, 2023. Conversely, if you have a low credit score, you now get to pay lower mortgage fees or a lower mortgage rate.   Let's explore why this is and how the new rule could be a net positive for society. Because the initial knee-jerk reaction is negative.   Posts mentioned:   Higher Credit Scores Now Mean Higher Mortgage Fees Or Rates   No Such Thing As A No-Cost Mortgage   The 30/30/3 Homebuying Rule To Follow

Welcome to today's episode of the Open Your Eyes podcast where McKay shines his spotlight on navigating the peaks and valleys that we all experience. Noting that life can throw unexpected challenges our way, McKay examines how these challenges can affect our perspective and offers insight into how to navigate them with a positive outlook. By exploring the experiences of people from different walks of life, McKay provides a diverse range of perspectives on resilience, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. In addition to sharing their stories, McKay also highlights the importance of maintaining a positive outlook and finding the hidden good in difficult times. Throughout the episode, McKay emphasizes the importance of being able to learn from our experiences and use the pain and discomfort of the valleys in our lives to propel us towards growth and change. His main message here today is yet another powerful one: by embracing reality and stepping out of our comfort zone, we can prosper through both peaks and valleys and ultimately become the best versions of ourselves.Episode Highlights:Peaks and valleys in lifeStories of people who have faced challenging situationsThe importance of perspective in both peaks and valleysOvercoming challenging situationsFinding the hidden good in difficult timesThe importance of resilience and determination in overcoming adversityThe power of choice in shaping our response to difficult situationsAllowing yourself grace in navigating challenging timesLeaving a peak too soon and staying in a valley too longSteps to follow in the valleysTraps to avoidEmbracing reality, stepping out of your comfort zone, and bringing about the needed change in your lifePreparing to handle the next peaks or valleys betterQuotes:"It's natural for everyone everywhere to have peaks and valleys in work and business and life.""You can change your valley into a peak when you find and use the good that is hidden in the bad times in the valley.""Sometimes we get moved about in ways we don't want. And the outcome of these ups and downs in life always aren't easy and are disruptive.""Conversely, the view at life's peaks are just as warped. At peaks in life, we think the market will always grow, our business will always be strong and the sun will always shine.""You don't have to be perfect or have all the answers. You just have to choose to keep going.""At the peaks in our business or life, what we learn and do can keep us from the valleys in our life.""You see, if you're in a valley right now and feeling some pain, then it might be a great time to ask what you are to learn and how you can step out of your comfort zone.""A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.""There is power in seeing things as they really are. It's called reality.""Whether you're at a peak or a valley in your life or business, they don't last. And what we learn in our peaks and valleys prepares us to handle the next peaks or valleys better."Links:https://www.mckaychristensen.org/

What does our energy have to do with finding our unique Path in life? A lot, as it turns out. Stay tuned to learn how to put it to work for you.     Energy for the Win It was 2015, and I was a couple years into a major personal and professional evolution–much of which I share about in greater detail in the earliest episodes of this show. Part of that evolution had included a move to CO. Now, after a self-administered period of sabbatical, it was time to begin getting clearer on what the next chapter would be for me professionally. Though I didn't have the language for it back then, through a long process of self-discovery supported by family, friends, colleagues, my first partnership with a coach, and insights gained through assessments and reflection, I had already created something very similar to my very own Personal Owner's Manual. To learn how to create yours, tune into episode 035, Build Your Personal Owner's Manual: Understand Yourself Better, Enjoy Yourself More, and Live the Life You were Made to Live.  As a result of all that work, I was beginning to lean toward coaching as the next step along my professional path. I wasn't yet committed to it, though. Until, that is, I began to recall when I felt more and less energized in my previous professional chapter. Hands-down, I realized, I felt more energized when I was having meaningful conversations in 1-1 and small group settings about how to move forward. Those conversations left me on a high and helped those involved. Conversely, I felt much less energized when I returned to most of the other parts of my job.  What kind of work would involve a lot more of those kinds of conversations, I wondered, and a lot less of all the other stuff? In light of the new clarity that reflecting on my energy had provided, in conjunction with the accumulated insights from all of my previous self-discovery, the field of coaching, broadly speaking, became the obvious next step on my professional path. So I summoned the courage to put my Insight into Action, and began to move forward on that path. After 7+ years of coaching, I can confidently say that my energy didn't let me down. It was a reliable guide then, and it continues to guide me well today. Your energy can do the same for you.    The Energy Gauge Imagine with me for a moment a dashboard. This isn't any old dashboard, though. It's your personal dashboard. Its gauges and indicator lights are specific to you, and from it you gain important information about how well you're functioning. Your fuel gauge tells you when it's time to rest, recover, and recharge. Your emotions gauge informs you about how you're responding to internal and external stimuli and where attention is needed. You get the idea. It's your dashboard, and you can customize it any way you'd like. I recommend making sure that one gauge is present and prominent on your dashboard, however–your Energy Gauge.  When we pay attention to our energy, we get rich real-world feedback about what we were made to do and what we weren't made to do. Watch when your energy gauge goes up and when it goes down. In both cases, take note of the specific conditions that are causing it to go up or down. Then, take action to engineer the circumstances of your life to allow you to do more of what energizes you and less of what doesn't.  The magic of the energy gauge lies at least in large part in the fact that when our energy goes up, we can be confident that our innate personality, abilities, gifts, and talents, our life experiences, our interests, and our values are all being put to use in some significant way. When our energy goes down, we can be confident that those things are less present.  In other words, when we pay attention to our energy gauge, we get all that and a bag of chips.  Whether you need a tweak, a major adjustment, or feel like you have no clue at all what your path in life is, your energy gauge will serve you well. It's simple, reliable, actionable, and powerful. It demystifies what can feel like a daunting and hopelessly complex pursuit, i.e. finding your path in life.  Anyone can use it, and you can begin using it right now. The keys to unlocking its potential are the Courage and Humility to act upon what you discover.  Tune in to episodes 077 and 078 to learn more about Courage, Humility, and the rest of the Big 6 essential ingredients in the recipe for a life you'll be outrageously proud of when you die.    Check Your Personal Energy Gauge What is your energy gauge telling you? What's one thing you're willing and able to change today to act on what it's telling you and get even clearer on your unique path in life?  Remember, you are going to die. But you're not dead yet. So get after it.    Dedicated Support for the Road Ahead It's one thing to pay attention to your energy gauge. It's another thing entirely to act on what it's telling you and stay the course. That's where a 1-1 coaching partnership with me can make all the difference. I'll help you break free from the grip of the Status Quo so that you can become who you were made to be and live the life you were made to live.  To learn more, visit my website to schedule a free session, find me on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, or email me.  I'm so glad you tuned in today. Don't forget to follow this show, and I'll see you next time on Andrew Petty is Dying.   Follow Andrew Petty is Dying & Leave a Review Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher   If You Liked This Episode, I Think You'll Like These, Too Ep. 022 | Tune Out to Tune In: Hearing & Heeding Your Inner Voice in a World Full of Noise Ep. 062 | What Do You Do?: A Tool for Understanding Yourself Better and Finding Your Unique Path in Life

This week will likely be volatile for the market as it faces a series of tests from various events. Firstly, the fallout from First Republic Bank, Powell's, and Feds' speeches on Wednesday could have a significant impact. Secondly, the release of quarterly results by major companies such as Apple will also be closely watched. Additionally, the jobs numbers on Thursday and Friday will provide important indications about the economy's overall health. Unfortunately, last week's GDP numbers fell below expectations, indicating that the economy may be heading toward a recession and, in the worst case, stagflation. Despite this, the Meta index performed strongly last week, pushing the index into the green zone. Conversely, most stocks on the Nasdaq had a challenging week. In light of this, investors should remain cautious and continue to monitor the market closely. Jim plans to add Nvidia to his portfolio this week, which may offer potential growth opportunities. Stay tuned for further updates on these market events. YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEX_beEqzOK5PHSucVY8dLw Webpages with content: Stockinvest.us getagraph.com

Welcome to episode 143 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with historian, author, and Harvard master's graduate, Emily Ruhl, on her new paper and master's thesis, In League with the Devine: How Religion Influenced Nazi Perpetrators of the Holocaust. This is the first of a three-part episode. You will find my full and detailed question list at the bottom of today's show notes. Also, be sure to see the list "audio chapters" in all three parts to find exactly where each topic is discussed. (Here are links to parts two and three. A list of the audio chapters in this episode can be found right below [above the full-question list].) (In order to preserve both my podcast and sanity as I proceed through the Torrens graduate program, I've decided to slow my podcast from one episode a week to once a month.) The Nazi Party started by trying to resist and reject all religion, but soon, religion became a fundamental part of the Party's strategy of coercing and propagandizing everybody, from members of the public, to the highest ranking figures in both religious and political institutions, into accepting the brutal and systematic murder of eleven-million souls. The Nazi religion took elements of Christianity, Protestantism, and Paganism, to make one geared not to brotherly love, but primarily to erasing non-Aryans from the Earth. This Nazi pseudo-religion served both as coercion – you must kill the unworthy, or at least stand back while others do – and also as a salve, to come to terms with what you've just done. As you'll hear in the cool quote for part two (the first minute before the opening music), that salve can make the difference between sanity and insanity, and life and death. The Nazi's didn't want to murder eleven million people, they had to, because God said they had to. It was "unfortunate, but necessary." My primary goal for this interview is to demonstrate how this is parallel to mainstream economics, which is also a tool to justify suffering, this time in the form of austerity. Instead of a gun to the head at point blank range, austerity is mass deprivation and exploitation, resulting in a slow and torturous death by despair, starvation, exposure, and untreated sickness and injury – not to mention wasted potential. We currently have the ability to provide all with what they desperately need, including healthcare, education, decent food and shelter, un-poisoned water, and breathable air. As illuminated by Kate Raworth's doughnut, if we are to continue existing as a species, then we must provide the desperate with what they most desperately need. At the same time, we also have to stop the very few on top from using the vast majority of our precious and limited resources to needlessly lavish themselves. Unfortunately, we are instead digging ourselves into an even deeper ecological crisis, when we should be getting off fossil fuels entirely, and restructuring society so we don't require as much. On our current path, in the not-too-distant future, it may indeed become unfortunate but necessary to choose who must be deprived in order for the rest to live. Of course, given our obscene and still growing inequality, the most powerful few will be the ones to make those decisions, and the least powerful many will be the sacrificed. This is the lifeboat economics of the tragedy of the tragedy of the commons. Instead of the around eleven million murdered by the Nazi Party, mainstream economics is little more than a religion to justify what may ultimately result in the death of not millions, but billions. Austerity is genocide at a slower pace. As if riding in a bus hurtling towards a cliff, we as a species currently face a binary choice, between having a terrible accident, and plunging off into oblivion. As Mark Twain said, "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." There is still time to learn from that history. We can choose another path. On a completely unrelated side note, while attending her master's program, writing her master's thesis and working full time, Emily also wrote… an entire fantasy novel. You can find out more about it, and read the entire first chapter, at her website, emilyruhlbooks.com. In order to preserve both my podcast and my sanity as I proceed through Torrens University and Modern Money Lab's graduate program in MMT and ecological economics (

Most of us know this statement is nonsense, but it does get stronger and louder the more we see banks collapse and currencies inflate.  Some of these maxis really do think the rest of the blockchain will go to zero and Bitcoin is all that will remain.  We go over these people's arguments over the last ten years including today's, and try and make some real sense out of this.   Recommended Crypto Trading Platform (And Bonus Eligibility) - https://nononsenseforex.com/cryptocurrencies/best-crypto-trading-platform/   For Decentralized Crypto Trading - https://nononsenseforex.com/decentralized-trading-platform/   Blueberry Markets Blog (Top FX Broker) - https://nononsenseforex.com/uncategorized/blueberry-markets-review-my-top-broker-for-2019/   Markets.com Blog (Other top FX Broker)- https://nononsenseforex.com/uncategorized/markets-com-review/   US Residents Go Here (Top US FX Broker)- https://nononsenseforex.com/uncategorized/ig-us-review/   Follow VP on Twitter https://twitter.com/This_Is_VP4X   Check out my Forex trading material too! https://nononsenseforex.com/   The host of this podcast is not a licensed financial advisor, and nothing heard on this podcast should be taken as financial advice.  Do your own research and understand all financial decisions and the results therein are yours and yours alone.  The host is not responsible for the actions of their sponsors and/or affiliates.  Conversely, views expressed on this podcast are that of the host only and may not reflect the views of any companies mentioned. Trading Forex involves risk.  Losses can exceed deposits. We are not taking requests for episode topics at this time.  Thank you for understanding.  

The novel idea of leading an easy life is a common aspiration, but doesn't it raises some important questions? First, what exactly constitutes a so-called "easy life"? Secondly, can a life that is easy also be a happy, strong, resilient, and fulfilling one? Conversely, does a life full of ups and downs, messiness, and emotional highs and lows necessarily result in unhappiness, unproductivity, and brokenness? Perhaps the key to happiness and fulfillment lies not in the pursuit of an easy life, but in developing a stronger, more adaptable, and confident version of oneself. In this episode, life-guru Craig Harper and I delve into this topic and go balls deep (are we allowed to say that these days?) in vulnerability and openness. Tune in for what might very well be one of my favourite conversations with Harps so far! APOLLO NEURO WEARABLE DISCOUNT https://bit.ly/RollApollo  CRAIG HARPER Website: www.craigharper.net  TIFFANEE COOK Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/rollwiththepunches/ Website: www.rollwiththepunches.com.au LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/tiffaneecook/ Facebook:  www.facebook.com/rollwiththepunchespodcast/ Instagram:  www.instagram.com/rollwiththepunches_podcast/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiffaneeandco    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): Bradfo is joined by Matt Spiegel of 670 The Score in Chicago to try and make sense of his upside-down world in the Major League Baseball Standings, so far. The Pirates. The Rangers. The Orioles. The Diamondbacks. And, the team Matt follows every day, the Cubs. They have all gone a long way to shocking baseball with their early-season success, leaving smiles on fans who haven't turned those frowns upside down in some time. Conversely, there are teams like the White Sox — another club Spiegel is very familiar with — offering perhaps the most disappointing group thus far. It's not only even a month in, but what a ride it has been. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bryan Matthews, Caleb Jones, Henry Patton, Brian Stultz and Jay G. Tate reconvene for a new edition of The Rundown, which opens with talk about a generally slow — but potentially fast-finish — transfer portal for football. Auburn has played host to a few players and is expected to host a few more in short order. Let's discuss. On the basketball side, Auburn lost a commitment from Mobile point guard Labaron Philon. Conversely, the Tigers added an assistant coach, they're playing host to a coveted portal wing this week and may be lining up a visit from another. They also added UAH transfer Chaney Johnson, who will provide help at small forward and power foward next season.  Softball and baseball were pretty good last weekend. Progress! The guys finish with shoutouts and commendations for special contributions from Bunks on the Bunker! The show is presented by VooDoo Wing Company with locations in Auburn, Mobile, Tuscaloosa and Las Vegas. Check them out IN PERSON for delicious chicken or on the web at www.voodoowingco.com.

Is it possible to be a beautiful, accomplished woman in your 30s, and have never once cheated on a partner - not even a secret emotional flirtation? My guest Joanne Nosuchinsky, co-host of the show "Mornin' with Bill and Joanne" is that woman. Joanne has managed to remain faithful in her relationships even at times when a partner has cheated on her. Conversely, her very good friend and co-host Bill Schulz has slept with "many married women" (his words not mine). I plan on asking Bill how many is many, and why he thinks they all slept with him. Bill says the married women he's been with "don't expect very much." (Umm... what does that mean?) Bill, Joanne and I also play a game that tests their knowledge of modern dating terms and tactics. It's a show filled with LMAO moments, and some pretty surprising revelations from both Bill and Joanne.

Have you ever heard from someone that everything will be great in the world and not to worry? Be honest...are you likely to either shrug them off or offer a skeptical eye? Conversely, hearing you are in danger and that person has your undivided attention. These natural tendencies stem back to thousands of years ago in how we operate as human beings. When we use this behavior with our investing decisions, we are playing with fire. In this podcast episode, we discuss exactly why we are "seduced" by pessimistic news and how you can separate facts in the market from your own feelings. 

From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): Bradfo is joined by Matt Spiegel of 670 The Score in Chicago to try and make sense of his upside-down world in the Major League Baseball Standings, so far. The Pirates. The Rangers. The Orioles. The Diamondbacks. And, the team Matt follows every day, the Cubs. They have all gone a long way to shocking baseball with their early-season success, leaving smiles on fans who haven't turned those frowns upside down in some time. Conversely, there are teams like the White Sox — another club Spiegel is very familiar with — offering perhaps the most disappointing group thus far. It's not only even a month in, but what a ride it has been. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): Bradfo is joined by Matt Spiegel of 670 The Score in Chicago to try and make sense of his upside-down world in the Major League Baseball Standings, so far. The Pirates. The Rangers. The Orioles. The Diamondbacks. And, the team Matt follows every day, the Cubs. They have all gone a long way to shocking baseball with their early-season success, leaving smiles on fans who haven't turned those frowns upside down in some time. Conversely, there are teams like the White Sox — another club Spiegel is very familiar with — offering perhaps the most disappointing group thus far. It's not only even a month in, but what a ride it has been. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the short to medium term, the 3 cryptos I'm most excited about have changed just a bit, in light of recent events.  In Episode 98, I want to list them, explain why, and also explain why one of them (even though I still love it)  is currently no longer in my top 3.   Recommended Crypto Trading Platform (And Bonus Eligibility) - https://nononsenseforex.com/cryptocurrencies/best-crypto-trading-platform/   For Decentralized Crypto Trading - https://nononsenseforex.com/decentralized-trading-platform/   Blueberry Markets Blog (Top FX Broker) - https://nononsenseforex.com/uncategorized/blueberry-markets-review-my-top-broker-for-2019/   Markets.com Blog (Other top FX Broker)- https://nononsenseforex.com/uncategorized/markets-com-review/   US Residents Go Here (Top US FX Broker)- https://nononsenseforex.com/uncategorized/ig-us-review/   Follow VP on Twitter https://twitter.com/This_Is_VP4X   Check out my Forex trading material too! https://nononsenseforex.com/   The host of this podcast is not a licensed financial advisor, and nothing heard on this podcast should be taken as financial advice.  Do your own research and understand all financial decisions and the results therein are yours and yours alone.  The host is not responsible for the actions of their sponsors and/or affiliates.  Conversely, views expressed on this podcast are that of the host only and may not reflect the views of any companies mentioned. Trading Forex involves risk.  Losses can exceed deposits. We are not taking requests for episode topics at this time.  Thank you for understanding.

The health of the culture of our Christian community is largely determined by earnestly desiring “the spirituals” of 1 Corinthians 14.1. Conversely, the primary risk to our culture is “anti-Christian thought in the believing man's mind.” Sermon by Aaron Weaver.

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: OpenAI could help X-risk by wagering itself, published by VojtaKovarik on April 20, 2023 on LessWrong. While brainstorming on “conditional on things going well with AI, how did it happen”, I came up with the following idea. I think it is extremely unrealistic right now. However, it might become relevant later if some key people in top AI companies have a change of heart. As a result, it seems useful to have the idea floating around. OpenAI is at the center of attention regarding recent AI progress. I expect that in the view of both public and the politicians, OpenAI's actions and abilities are representative of actions and abilities of AI companies in general. As a result, if OpenAI genuinely tried to make their AI safe, and failed in a very spectacular manner, this would cause a sudden and massive shift in public opinion on AI in general. Now, I don't expect OpenAI to sacrifice itself by faking incompetence. (Nor would I endorse being deceitful here.) However, there might be some testable claim that is something of crux for both “AI-optimists” and, say, MIRI. OpenAI could make some very public statements about their abilities to control AI. And they could really stick their neck out by making the claims falsifiable and making a possible failure impossible to deny (and memetically fit, etc). This way, if they fail, this would create a Risk Awareness Moment where enough people become mindful of AI-risk that we can put in place extreme risk-reduction measures that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Conversely, if they succeed, that would be a genuine evidence that such measures are not necessary. I end with an open problem: Can we find claims, about the ability of AI companies to control their AI, that would simultaneously: be testable, serve as strong evidence regarding the question where extreme measures regarding AI-risk are needed, have the potential to create a risk-awareness moment (ie, be salient to decision-makers and public), be possible for an AI company to endorse despite satisfying (i-iii). Mostly, I don't expect this to happen, because any given AI company has nothing to gain from this. However, some individual employees of an AI company might have sufficient uncertainty about AI risk to make this worth it to them. And it might be possible that a sub-group of people within an AI company could make a public commitment such as the one above somewhat unilaterally, in a way that wouldn't allow the company to back out gracefully I will talk about OpenAI for concreteness, but this applies equally well to some of the other major companies (Facebook, Microsoft, Google; with “your (grand)parents know the name” being a good heuristic). Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Annabel Lee over Zoom video!Los Angeles-based alt-rocker Annabel Lee shares her debut album Mother's Hammer!Written mostly while in quarantine in 2020, Mother's Hammer gave Annabel Lee time to reflect on preceding years which were some of the hardest of her life. After a cross-country move to pursue music, Lee found herself in challenging situations, from struggling with addiction and running out of money to ending an eight year relationship that left her without a place to live. It was from this profound hardship that an incredibly intimate, expansive body of work emerged. Diving into the subject matter, Lee shares, "Some of the stories on the album relate to being strung along by vampires in the industry. Being mistreated and taken advantage of. Fumbling around trying to fall in love and staying numb at every turn. Grieving the loss of friends, gone much too soon, and trying to see the silver linings but losing hope. Being 3,000 miles from anyone that actually knew me. It was a very dark and informative time."Over 11 compelling tracks, Annabel paints a realistic portrait of the human experience that never hesitates to confront even the most grim aspects of her life. Conversely, Annabel matches these darker emotions with joyous moments, shining a bright light on womanhood with gritty, fiery energy as she finds her own strength and begins to fully trust herself. The music meets her where she is, putting both her artistry and humanity on full display like never before.All songs were written by Annabel Lee, and produced and recorded by Justin Glasco. It was mixed by Ryan Lipman and mastered by Jett Galindo at Bakery Mastering. All vocals are also by Annabel Lee and instrumentation is by Lee and Glasco.Annabel got her start as the acoustic opener for hardcore shows around New England and since moving out to Los Angeles, has quickly built a die-hard fan base as she fills clubs around town including the famed School Night showcase, the Echo, Gold Diggers, the Satellite, and the Hotel Cafe. The alt-pop singer/songwriter Mothica also cites herself as a fan, where she posted a TikTok of herself front row at an Annabel Lee concert with the caption “I love it when women…” cut to Annabel thrashing onstage to her song “Ugly Son of a Bitch.”Mother's Hammer, the raw, ethereal debut album by Annabel Lee is available everywhere now!We want to hear from you! Please email Hello@BringinitBackwards.com. www.BringinitBackwards.com#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #AnnabelLee #MothersHammer #NewMusic #ZoomListen & Subscribe to BiBhttps://www.bringinitbackwards.com/follow/ Follow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringinbackpod

From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): It's easy to ride the hot hand of a star pitcher, which is why it is tough to bet against the likes of Zac Gallen even against the Padres. But figuring out which pitchers are going to rebound from their bumps in the road is a true art form, one which Bradfo tries to master while talking with Red Sox starter Chris Sale. Sale, figured things out after totaling an ERA north of 11, dominating his most recent outing, explains the process and adjustments that went into fixing things. Conversely, just because a pitcher is wily and wise that doesn't mean it's going to click back in. Case in point: Madison Bumgarner. Bradfo talks to Sale and then looks at one of the most fascinating slate of pitching matchups for the season. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jean Yang, CEO of Akita Software, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how she went from academia to tech founder, and what her company is doing to improve monitoring and observability. Jean explains why Akita is different from other observability & monitoring solutions, and how it bridges the gap from what people know they should be doing and what they actually do in practice. Corey and Jean explore why the monitoring and observability space has been so broken, and why it's important for people to see monitoring as a chore and not a hobby. Jean also reveals how she took a leap from being an academic professor to founding a tech start-up. About JeanJean Yang is the founder and CEO of Akita Software, providing the fastest time-to-value for API monitoring. Jean was previously a tenure-track professor in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.Links Referenced: Akita Software: https://www.akitasoftware.com/ Aki the dog chatbot: https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/we-built-an-exceedingly-polite-ai-dog-that-answers-questions-about-your-apis Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanqasaur TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief 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 guest today is someone whose company has… well, let's just say that it has piqued my interest. Jean Yang is the CEO of Akita Software and not only is it named after a breed of dog, which frankly, Amazon service namers could take a lot of lessons from, but it also tends to approach observability slash monitoring from a perspective of solving the problem rather than preaching a new orthodoxy. Jean, thank you for joining me.Jean: Thank you for having me. Very excited.Corey: In the world that we tend to operate in, there are so many different observability tools, and as best I can determine observability is hipster monitoring. Well, if we call it monitoring, we can't charge you quite as much money for it. And whenever you go into any environment of significant scale, we pretty quickly discover that, “What monitoring tool are you using?” The answer is, “Here are the 15 that we use.” Then you talk to other monitoring and observability companies and ask them which ones of those they've replace, and the answer becomes, “We're number 16.” Which is less compelling of a pitch than you might expect. What does Akita do? Where do you folks start and stop?Jean: We want to be—at Akita—your first stop for monitoring and we want to be all of the monitoring, you need up to a certain level. And here's the motivation. So, we've talked with hundreds, if not thousands, of software teams over the last few years and what we found is there is such a gap between best practice, what people think everybody else is doing, what people are talking about at conferences, and what's actually happening in software teams. And so, what software teams have told me over and over again, is, hey, we either don't actually use very many tools at all, or we use 15 tools in name, but it's you know, one [laugh] one person on the team set this one up, it's monitoring one of our endpoints, we don't even know which one sometimes. Who knows what the thresholds are really supposed to be. We got too many alerts one day, we turned it off.But there's very much a gap between what people are saying they're supposed to do, what people in their heads say they're going to do next quarter or the quarter after that and what's really happening in practice. And what we saw was teams are falling more and more into monitoring debt. And so effectively, their customers are becoming their monitoring and it's getting harder to catch up. And so, what Akita does is we're the fastest, easiest way for teams to quickly see what endpoints you have in your system—so that's API endpoints—what's slow and what's throwing errors. And you might wonder, okay, wait, wait, wait, Jean. Monitoring is usually about, like, logs, metrics, and traces. I'm not used to hearing about API—like, what do APIs have to do with any of it?And my view is, look, we want the most simple form of what might be wrong with your system, we want a developer to be able to get started without having to change any code, make any annotations, drop in any libraries. APIs are something you can watch from the outside of a system. And when it comes to which alerts actually matter, where do you want errors to be alerts, where do you want thresholds to really matter, my view is, look, the places where your system interfaces with another system are probably where you want to start if you've really gotten nothing. And so, Akita view is, we're going to start from the outside in on this monitoring. We're turning a lot of the views on monitoring and observability on its head and we just want to be the tool that you reach for if you've got nothing, it's middle of the night, you have alerts on some endpoint, and you don't want to spend a few hours or weeks setting up some other tool. And we also want to be able to grow with you up until you need that power tool that many of the existing solutions out there are today.Corey: It feels like monitoring is very often one of those reactive things. I come from the infrastructure world, so you start off with, “What do you use for monitoring?” “Oh, we wait till the help desk calls us and users are reporting a problem.” Okay, that gets you somewhere. And then it becomes oh, well, what was wrong that time? The drive filled up. Okay, so we're going to build checks in that tell us when the drives are filling up.And you wind up trying to enumerate all of the different badness. And as a result, if you leave that to its logical conclusion, one of the stories that I heard out of MySpace once upon a time—which dates me somewhat—is that you would have a shift, so there were three shifts working around the clock, and each one would open about 5000 tickets, give or take, for the monitoring alerts that wound up firing off throughout their infrastructure. At that point, it's almost, why bother? Because no one is going to be around to triage these things; no one is going to see any of the signal buried and all of that noise. When you talk about doing this for an API perspective, are you running synthetics against those APIs? Are you shimming them in order to see what's passing through them? What's the implementation side look like?Jean: Yeah, that's a great question. So, we're using a technology called BPF, Berkeley Packet Filter. The more trendy, buzzy term is EBPF—Corey: The EBPF. Oh yes.Jean: Yeah, Extended Berkeley Packet Filter. But here's the secret, we only use the BPF part. It's actually a little easier for users to install. The E part is, you know, fancy and often finicky. But um—Corey: SEBPF then: Shortened Extended BPF. Why not?Jean: [laugh]. Yeah. And what BPF allows us to do is passively watch traffic from the outside of a system. So, think of it as you're sending API calls across the network. We're just watching that network. We're not in the path of that traffic. So, we're not intercepting the traffic in any way, we're not creating any additional overhead for the traffic, we're not slowing it down in any way. We're just sitting on the side, we're watching all of it, and then we're taking that and shipping an obfuscated version off to our cloud, and then we're giving you analytics on that.Corey: One of the things that strikes me as being… I guess, a common trope is there are a bunch of observability solutions out there that offer this sort of insight into what's going on within an environment, but it's, “Step one: instrument with some SDK or some agent across everything. Do an entire deploy across your fleet.” Which yeah, people are not generally going to be in a hurry to sign up for. And further, you also said a minute ago that the idea being that someone could start using this in the middle of the night in the middle of an outage, which tells me that it's not, “Step one: get the infrastructure sparkling. Step two: do a global deploy to everything.” How do you go about doing that? What is the level of embeddedness into the environment?Jean: Yeah, that's a great question. So, the reason we chose BPF is I wanted a completely black-box solution. So, no SDKs, no code annotations. I wanted people to be able to change a config file and have our solution apply to anything that's on the system. So, you could add routes, you could do all kinds of things. I wanted there to be no additional work on the part of the developer when that happened.And so, we're not the only solution that uses BPF or EBPF. There's many other solutions that say, “Hey, just drop us in. We'll let you do anything you want.” The big difference is what happens with the traffic once it gets processed. So, what EBPF or BPF gives you is it watches everything about your system. And so, you can imagine that's a lot of different events. That's a lot of things.If you're trying to fix an incident in the middle of the night and someone just dumps on you 1000 pages of logs, like, what are you going to do with that? And so, our view is, the more interesting and important and valuable thing to do here is not make it so that you just have the ability to watch everything about your system but to make it so that developers don't have to sift through thousands of events just to figure out what went wrong. So, we've spent years building algorithms to automatically analyze these API events to figure out, first of all, what are your endpoints? Because it's one thing to turn on something like Wireshark and just say, okay, here are the thousand API calls, I saw—ten thousand—but it's another thing to say, “Hey, 500 of those were actually the same endpoint and 300 of those had errors.” That's quite a hard problem.And before us, it turns out that there was no other solution that even did that to the level of being able to compile together, “Here are all the slow calls to an endpoint,” or, “Here are all of the erroneous calls to an endpoint.” That was blood, sweat, and tears of developers in the night before. And so, that's the first major thing we do. And then metrics on top of that. So, today we have what's slow, what's throwing errors. People have asked us for other things like show me what happened after I deployed. Show me what's going on this week versus last week. But now that we have this data set, you can imagine there's all kinds of questions we can now start answering much more quickly on top of it.Corey: One thing that strikes me about your site is that when I go to akitasoftware.com, you've got a shout-out section at the top. And because I've been doing this long enough where I find that, yeah, you work at a company; you're going to say all kinds of wonderful, amazing aspirational things about it, and basically because I have deep-seated personality disorders, I will make fun of those things as my default reflexive reaction. But something that AWS, for example, does very well is when they announce something ridiculous on stage at re:Invent, I make fun of it, as is normal, but then they have a customer come up and say, “And here's the expensive, painful problem that they solved for us.”And that's where I shut up and start listening. Because it's a very different story to get someone else, who is presumably not being paid, to get on stage and say, “Yeah, this solved a sophisticated, painful problem.” Your shout-outs page has not just a laundry list of people saying great things about it, but there are former folks who have been on the show here, people I know and trust: Scott Johnson over at Docker, Gergely Orosz over at The Pragmatic Engineer, and other folks who have been luminaries in the space for a while. These are not the sort of people that are going to say, “Oh, sure. Why not? Oh, you're going to send me a $50 gift card in a Twitter DM? Sure I'll say nice things,” like it's one of those respond to a viral tweet spamming something nonsense. These are people who have gravitas. It's clear that there's something you're building that is resonating.Jean: Yeah. And for that, they found us. Everyone that I've tried to bribe to say good things about us actually [laugh] refused.Corey: Oh, yeah. As it turns out that it's one of those things where people are more expensive than you might think. It's like, “What, you want me to sell my credibility down the road?” Doesn't work super well. But there's something like the unsolicited testimonials that come out of, this is amazing, once people start kicking the tires on it.You're currently in open beta. So, I guess my big question for you is, whenever you see a product that says, “Oh, yeah, we solve everything cloud, on-prem, on physical instances, on virtual machines, on Docker, on serverless, everything across the board. It's awesome.” I have some skepticism on that. What is your ideal application architecture that Akita works best on? And what sort of things are you a complete nonstarter for?Jean: Yeah, I'll start with a couple of things we work well on. So, container platforms. We work relatively well. So, that's your Fargate, that's your Azure Web Apps. But that, you know, things running, we call them container platforms. Kubernetes is also something that a lot of our users have picked us up and had success with us on. I will say our Kubernetes deploy is not as smooth as we would like. We say, you know, you can install us—Corey: Well, that is Kubernetes, yes.Jean: [laugh]. Yeah.Corey: Nothing in Kubernetes is as smooth as we would like.Jean: Yeah, so we're actually rolling out Kubernetes injection support in the next couple of weeks. So, those are the two that people have had the most success on. If you're running on bare metal or on a VM, we work, but I will say that you have to know your way around a little bit to get that to work. What we don't work on is any Platform as a Service. So, like, a Heroku, a Lambda, a Render at the moment. So those, we haven't found a way to passively listen to the network traffic in a good way right now.And we also work best for unencrypted HTTP REST traffic. So, if you have encrypted traffic, it's not a non-starter, but you need to fall into a couple of categories. You either need to be using Kubernetes, you can run Akita as a sidecar, or you're using Nginx. And so, that's something we're still expanding support on. And we do not support GraphQL or GRPC at the moment.Corey: That's okay. Neither do I. It does seem these days that unencrypted HTTP API calls are increasingly becoming something of a relic, where folks are treating those as anti-patterns to be stamped out ruthlessly. Are you still seeing significant deployments of unencrypted APIs?Jean: Yeah. [laugh]. So, Corey—Corey: That is the reality, yes.Jean: That's a really good question, Corey, because in the beginning, we weren't sure what we wanted to focus on. And I'm not saying the whole deployment is unencrypted HTTP, but there is a place to install Akita to watch where it's unencrypted HTTP. And so, this is what I mean by if you have encrypted traffic, but you can install Akita as a Kubernetes sidecar, we can still watch that. But there was a big question when we started: should this be GraphQL, GRPC, or should it be REST? And I read the “State of the API Report” from Postman for you know, five years, and I still keep up with it.And every year, it seemed that not only was REST, remaining dominant, it was actually growing. So, [laugh] this was shocking to me as well because people said, well, “We have this more structured stuff, now. There's GRPC, there's GraphQL.” But it seems that for the added complexity, people weren't necessarily seeing the value and so, REST continues to dominate. And I've actually even seen a decline in GraphQL since we first started doing this. So, I'm fully on board the REST wagon. And in terms of encrypted versus unencrypted, I would also like to see more encryption as well. That's why we're working on burning down the long tail of support for that.Corey: Yeah, it's one of those challenges. Whenever you're deploying something relatively new, there's this idea that it should be forward-looking and you, on some level, want to modernize your architecture and infrastructure to keep up with it. An AWS integration story I see that's like that these days is, “Oh, yeah, generate an IAM credential set and just upload those into our system.” Yeah, the modern way of doing that is role assumption: to find a role and here's how to configure it so that it can do what we need to do. So, whenever you start seeing things that are, “Oh, yeah, just turn the security clock back in time a little bit,” that's always a little bit of an eyebrow raise.I can also definitely empathize with the joys of dealing with anything that even touches networking in a Lambda context. Building the Lambda extension for Tailscale was one of the last big dives I made into that area and I still have nightmares as a result. It does a lot of interesting things right up until you step off the golden path. And then suddenly, everything becomes yaks all the way down, in desperate need of shaving.Jean: Yeah, Lambda does something we want to handle on our roadmap, but I… believe we need a bigger team before [laugh] we are ready to tackle that.Corey: Yeah, we're going to need a bigger boat is very often [laugh] the story people have when they start looking at entire new architectural paradigms. So, you end up talking about working in containerized environments. Do you find that most of your deployments are living in cloud environments, in private data centers, some people call them private cloud. Where does the bulk of your user applications tend to live these days?Jean: The bulk of our user applications are in the cloud. So, we're targeting small to medium businesses to start. The reason being, we want to give our users a magical deployment experience. So, right now, a lot of our users are deploying in under 30 minutes. That's in no small part due to automations that we've built.And so, we initially made the strategic decision to focus on places where we get the most visibility. And so—where one, we get the most visibility, and two, we are ready for that level of scale. So, we found that, you know, for a large business, we've run inside some of their production environments and there are API calls that we don't yet handle well or it's just such a large number of calls, we're not doing the inference as well and our algorithms don't work as well. And so, we've made the decision to start small, build our way up, and start in places where we can just aggressively iterate because we can see everything that's going on. And so, we've stayed away, for instance, from any on-prem deployments for that reason because then we can't see everything that's going on. And so, smaller companies that are okay with us watching pretty much everything they're doing has been where we started. And now we're moving up into the medium-sized businesses.Corey: The challenge that I guess I'm still trying to wrap my head around is, I think that it takes someone with a particularly rosy set of glasses on to look at the current state of monitoring and observability and say that it's not profoundly broken in a whole bunch of ways. Now, where it all falls apart, Tower of Babelesque, is that there doesn't seem to be consensus on where exactly it's broken. Where do you see, I guess, this coming apart at the seams?Jean: I agree, it's broken. And so, if I tap into my background, which is I was a programming languages person in my very recently, previous life, programming languages people like to say the problem and the solution is all lies in abstraction. And so, computing is all about building abstractions on top of what you have now so that you don't have to deal with so many details and you got to think at a higher level; you're free of the shackles of so many low-level details. What I see is that today, monitoring and observability is a sort of abstraction nightmare. People have just taken it as gospel that you need to live at the lowest level of abstraction possible the same way that people truly believe that assembly code was the way everybody was going to program forevermore back, you know, 50 years ago.So today, what's happening is that when people think monitoring, they think logs, not what's wrong with my system, what do I need to pay attention to? They think, “I have to log everything, I have to consume all those logs, we're just operating at the level of logs.” And that's not wrong because there haven't been any tools that have given people any help above the level of logs. Although that's not entirely correct, you know? There's also events and there's also traces, but I wouldn't say that's actually lifting the level of [laugh] abstraction very much either.And so, people today are thinking about monitoring and observability as this full control, like, I'm driving my, like, race car, completely manual transmission, I want to feel everything. And not everyone wants to or needs to do that to get to where they need to go. And so, my question is, how far are can we lift the level of abstraction for monitoring and observability? I don't believe that other people are really asking this question because most of the other players in the space, they're asking what else can we monitor? Where else can we monitor it? How much faster can we do it? Or how much more detail can we give the people who really want the power tools?But the people entering the buyer's market with needs, they're not people—you don't have, like, you know, hordes of people who need more powerful tools. You have people who don't know about the systems are dealing with and they want easier. They want to figure out if there's anything wrong with our system so they can get off work and do other things with their lives.Corey: That, I think, is probably the thing that gets overlooked the most. It's people don't tend to log into their monitoring systems very often. They don't want to. When they do, it's always out of hours, middle of the night, and they're confronted with a whole bunch of upsell dialogs of, “Hey, it's been a while. You want to go on a tour of the new interface?”Meanwhile, anything with half a brain can see there's a giant spike on the graph or telemetry stop coming in.Jean: Yeah.Corey: It's way outside of normal business hours where this person is and maybe they're not going to be in the best mood to engage with your brand.Jean: Yeah. Right now, I think a lot of the problem is, you're either working with monitoring because you're desperate, you're in the middle of an active incident, or you're a monitoring fanatic. And there isn't a lot in between. So, there's a tweet that someone in my network tweeted me that I really liked which is, “Monitoring should be a chore, not a hobby.” And right now, it's either a hobby or an urgent necessity [laugh].And when it gets to the point—so you know, if we think about doing dishes this way, it would be as if, like, only, like, the dish fanatics did dishes, or, like, you will just have piles of dishes, like, all over the place and raccoons and no dishes left, and then you're, like, “Ah, time to do a thing.” But there should be something in between where there's a defined set of things that people can do on a regular basis to keep up with what they're doing. It should be accessible to everyone on the team, not just a couple of people who are true fanatics. No offense to the people out there, I love you guys, you're the ones who are really helping us build our tool the most, but you know, there's got to be a world in which more people are able to do the things you do.Corey: That's part of the challenge is bringing a lot of the fire down from Mount Olympus to the rest of humanity, where at some level, Prometheus was a great name from that—Jean: Yep [laugh].Corey: Just from that perspective because you basically need to be at that level of insight. I think Kubernetes suffers from the same overall problem where it is not reasonably responsible to run a Kubernetes production cluster without some people who really know what's going on. That's rapidly changing, which is for the better, because most companies are not going to be able to afford a multimillion-dollar team of operators who know the ins and outs of these incredibly complex systems. It has to become more accessible and simpler. And we have an entire near century at this point of watching abstractions get more and more and more complex and then collapsing down in this particular field. And I think that we're overdue for that correction in a lot of the modern infrastructure, tooling, and approaches that we take.Jean: I agree. It hasn't happened yet in monitoring and observability. It's happened in coding, it's happened in infrastructure, it's happened in APIs, but all of that has made it so that it's easier to get into monitoring debt. And it just hasn't happened yet for anything that's more reactive and more about understanding what the system is that you have.Corey: You mentioned specifically that your background was in programming languages. That's understating it slightly. You were a tenure-track professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon before entering industry. How tied to what your area of academic speciality was, is what you're now at Akita?Jean: That's a great question and there are two answers to that. The first is very not tied. If it were tied, I would have stayed in my very cushy, highly [laugh] competitive job that I worked for years to get, to do stuff there. And so like, what we're doing now is comes out of thousands of conversations with developers and desire to build on the ground tools that I'm—there's some technically interesting parts to it, for sure. I think that our technical innovation is our moat, but is it at the level of publishable papers? Publishable papers are a very narrow thing; I wouldn't be able to say yes to that question.On the other hand, everything that I was trained to do was about identifying a problem and coming up with an out-of-the-box solution for it. And especially in programming languages research, it's really about abstractions. It's really about, you know, taking a set of patterns that you see of problems people have, coming up with the right abstractions to solve that problem, evaluating your solution, and then, you know, prototyping that out and building on top of it. And so, in that case, you know, we identified, hey, people have a huge gap when it comes to monitoring and observability. I framed it as an abstraction problem, how can we lift it up?We saw APIs as this is a great level to build a new level of solution. And our solution, it's innovative, but it also solves the problem. And to me, that's the most important thing. Our solution didn't need to be innovative. If you're operating in an academic setting, it's really about… producing a new idea. It doesn't actually [laugh]—I like to believe that all endeavors really have one main goal, and in academia, the main goal is producing something new. And to me, building a product is about solving a problem and our main endeavor was really to solve a real problem here.Corey: I think that it is, in many cases, useful when we start seeing a lot of, I guess, overflow back and forth between academia and industry, in both directions. I think that it is doing academia a disservice when you start looking at it purely as pure theory, and oh yeah, they don't deal with any of the vocational stuff. Conversely, I think the idea that industry doesn't have anything to learn from academia is dramatically misunderstanding the way the world works. The idea of watching some of that ebb and flow and crossover between them is neat to see.Jean: Yeah, I agree. I think there's a lot of academics I super respect and admire who have done great things that are useful in industry. And it's really about, I think, what you want your main goal to be at the time. Is it, do you want to be optimizing for new ideas or contributing, like, a full solution to a problem at the time? But it's there's a lot of overlap in the skills you need.Corey: One last topic I'd like to dive into before we call it an episode is that there's an awful lot of hype around a variety of different things. And right now in this moment, AI seems to be one of those areas that is getting an awful lot of attention. It's clear too there's something of value there—unlike blockchain, which has struggled to identify anything that was not fraud as a value proposition for the last decade-and-a-half—but it's clear that AI is offering value already. You have recently, as of this recording, released an AI chatbot, which, okay, great. But what piques my interest is one, it's a dog, which… germane to my interest, by all means, and two, it is marketed as, and I quote, “Exceedingly polite.”Jean: [laugh].Corey: Manners are important. Tell me about this pupper.Jean: Yeah, this dog came really out of four or five days of one of our engineers experimenting with ChatGPT. So, for a little bit of background, I'll just say that I have been excited about the this latest wave of AI since the beginning. So, I think at the very beginning, a lot of dev tools people were skeptical of GitHub Copilot; there was a lot of controversy around GitHub Copilot. I was very early. And I think all the Copilot people retweeted me because I was just their earlies—like, one of their earliest fans. I was like, “This is the coolest thing I've seen.”I've actually spent the decade before making fun of AI-based [laugh] programming. But there were two things about GitHub Copilot that made my jaw drop. And that's related to your question. So, for a little bit of background, I did my PhD in a group focused on program synthesis. So, it was really about, how can we automatically generate programs from a variety of means? From constraints—Corey: Like copying and pasting off a Stack Overflow, or—Jean: Well, the—I mean, that actually one of the projects that my group was literally applying machine-learning to terabytes of other example programs to generate new programs. So, it was very similar to GitHub Copilot before GitHub Copilot. It was synthesizing API calls from analyzing terabytes of other API calls. And the thing that I had always been uncomfortable with these machine-learning approaches in my group was, they were in the compiler loop. So, it was, you know, you wrote some code, the compiler did some AI, and then it spit back out some code that, you know, like you just ran.And so, that never sat well with me. I always said, “Well, I don't really see how this is going to be practical,” because people can't just run random code that you basically got off the internet. And so, what really excited me about GitHub Copilot was the fact that it was in the editor loop. I was like, “Oh, my God.”Corey: It had the context. It was right there. You didn't have to go tabbing to something else.Jean: Exactly.Corey: Oh, yeah. I'm in the same boat. I think it is basically—I've seen the future unfolding before my eyes.Jean: Yeah. Was the autocomplete thing. And to me, that was the missing piece. Because in your editor, you always read your code before you go off and—you know, like, you read your code, whoever code reviews your code reads your code. There's always at least, you know, two pairs of eyes, at least theoretically, reading your code.So, that was one thing that was jaw-dropping to me. That was the revelation of Copilot. And then the other thing was that it was marketed not as, “We write your code for you,” but the whole Copilot marketing was that, you know, it kind of helps you with boilerplate. And to me, I had been obsessed with this idea of how can you help developers write less boilerplate for years. And so, this AI-supported boilerplate copiloting was very exciting to me.And I saw that is very much the beginning of a new era, where, yes, there's tons of data on how we should be programming. I mean, all of Akita is based on the fact that we should be mining all the data we have about how your system and your code is operating to help you do stuff better. And so, to me, you know, Copilot is very much in that same philosophy. But our AI chatbot is, you know, just a next step along this progression. Because for us, you know, we collect all this data about your API behavior; we have been using non-AI methods to analyze this data and show it to you.And what ChatGPT allowed us to do in less than a week was analyze this data using very powerful large-language models and I have this conversational interface that both gives you the opportunity to check over and follow up on the question so that what you're spitting out—so what we're spitting out as Aki the dog doesn't have to be a hundred percent correct. But to me, the fact that Aki is exceedingly polite and kind of goofy—he, you know, randomly woofs and says a lot of things about how he's a dog—it's the right level of seriousness so that it's not messaging, hey, this is the end all, be all, the way, you know, the compiler loop never sat well with me because I just felt deeply uncomfortable that an AI was having that level of authority in a system, but a friendly dog that shows up and tells you some things that you can ask some additional questions to, no one's going to take him that seriously. But if he says something useful, you're going to listen. And so, I was really excited about the way this was set up. Because I mean, I believe that AI should be a collaborator and it should be a collaborator that you never take with full authority. And so, the chat and the politeness covered those two parts for me both.Corey: Yeah, on some level, I can't shake the feeling that it's still very early days there for Chat-Gipity—yes, that's how I pronounce it—and it's brethren as far as redefining, on some level, what's possible. I think that it's in many cases being overhyped, but it's solving an awful lot of the… the boilerplate, the stuff that is challenging. A question I have, though, is that, as a former professor, a concern that I have is when students are using this, it's less to do with the fact that they're not—they're taking shortcuts that weren't available to me and wanting to make them suffer, but rather, it's, on some level, if you use it to write your English papers, for example. Okay, great, it gets the boring essay you don't want to write out of the way, but the reason you write those things is it teaches you to form a story, to tell a narrative, to structure an argument, and I think that letting the computer do those things, on some level, has the potential to weaken us across the board. Where do you stand on it, given that you see both sides of that particular snake?Jean: So, here's a devil's advocate sort of response to it, is that maybe the writing [laugh] was never the important part. And it's, as you say, telling the story was the important part. And so, what better way to distill that out than the prompt engineering piece of it? Because if you knew that you could always get someone to flesh out your story for you, then it really comes down to, you know, I want to tell a story with these five main points. And in some way, you could see this as a playing field leveler.You know, I think that as a—English is actually not my first language. I spent a lot of time editing my parents writing for their work when I was a kid. And something I always felt really strongly about was not discriminating against people because they can't form sentences or they don't have the right idioms. And I actually spent a lot of time proofreading my friends' emails when I was in grad school for the non-native English speakers. And so, one way you could see this as, look, people who are not insiders now are on the same playing field. They just have to be clear thinkers.Corey: That is a fascinating take. I think I'm going to have to—I'm going to have to ruminate on that one. I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today about what you're up to. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Jean: Well, I'm always on Twitter, still [laugh]. I'm @jeanqasaur—J-E-A-N-Q-A-S-A-U-R. And there's a chat dialog on akitasoftware.com. I [laugh] personally oversee a lot of that chat, so if you ever want to find me, that is a place, you know, where all messages will get back to me somehow.Corey: And we will, of course, put a link to that into the [show notes 00:35:01]. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.Jean: Thank you, Corey.Corey: Jean Yang, CEO at Akita Software. 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 will then, of course, proceed to copy to the other 17 podcast tools that you use, just like you do your observability monitoring suite.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. 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The symbolic meaning of hair is both personal and cultural. It serves as an expressive medium through which we silently communicate. Sporting bed-head might convey a carefree attitude, while a polished prom-night hairstyle expresses maturity. Hair carries various announcements to our community. Its historical significance reveals ancient values that continue to influence our self-presentation. It is a malleable medium. Unlike body parts such as fingers or feet, it constantly grows, allowing for continuous transformation, and it resists decay. These universal attributes make hair an archetype. Haircuts often feature in rites of passage, like a baby's first trim, symbolizing a transition from innocence to cultural accommodation. Since hair grows directly from our bodies, it's seen as an immortal extension of one's self; imbued with primal magic, it retains its form on mummies or in lockets. Voluntary hair removal can signify sacrifice, as seen with monks and nuns shaving their heads to submit to religious constraints and a return to purity. Conversely, uncut, untamed hair represents casting off sexual restraints and embracing instincts, as observed during the 1960s Hippie movement. Depending on the era, body hair has been perceived as virtuous or demonic. Early 20th-century beauty standards associated minimal body hair with femininity and high moral character, while substantial beards indicated masculine virility. In various cultures, hair possesses spiritual power. Samson's uncut hair connected him to God and, when removed, left him helpless. Hair has also denoted status and roles throughout history; Samurai hair knots commanded respect, Roman women wore wigs to display wealth, and medieval women let their hair flow freely to indicate marital availability. From vibrant punk rock mohawks to a baby's soft curls, from intricate Mesopotamian royal braids to beehive hairdos, hair continues to captivate us. It speaks on our behalf and changes along with psyche. HERE'S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:  “I am in the garden of the house where I grew up, looking at a huge blooming flower bed with my mother, who is telling me how to garden while she is away for some time with my father. It is an extremely hot summer day, and she wants me to remember to eat the ripe oranges and yellow tomatoes. When I first look at the tomatoes, I think some of them are rotten, but it tums out that they are perfectly ripe. She also wants me to replant a blackberry bush, which I do immediately. I go inside the house, up the staircase, and get frightened. Suddenly a weird little creature (knee height) crawls up the staircase after me. It is black and has a tiny faceless head on a broader body. I know it is a mutated blackberry. It reaches out for me and begins to crawl my leg, I kick it down, but it keeps coming. It is needy and begins to lick my leg like a tiny dog. It wants me to take care of it, but I don't want it to depend on me. Finally, I feel desperate and call for my mother's help.”  BECOME A DREAM INTERPRETER: We've created DREAM SCHOOL to teach others how to work with their dreams. A vibrant community has constellated around this mission, and we think you'll love it. Check it out.  PLEASE GIVE US A HAND: Hey folks -- We need your help. So please BECOME OUR PATRON and keep This Jungian Life podcast up and running.  SHARE YOUR DREAM WITH US: SUBMIT YOUR DREAM HERE FOR A POSSIBLE PODCAST INTERPRETATION.  FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, LINKEDIN, TWITTER, YOUTUBE  INTERESTED IN BECOMING A JUNGIAN ANALYST? Enroll in the PHILADELPHIA JUNGIAN SEMINAR and start your journey to become an analyst. 

In this episode of The Leaders Life podcast with Ammar, we delve into the significance of the small things in our lives and how they can have a profound impact on our success. As the saying goes, "how we do small things is how we do all things," and this rings true for both our personal and professional endeavors. We discuss the importance of putting in our best effort and striving for excellence in every small habit we develop, as it sets the foundation for achieving our larger goals. Conversely, taking shortcuts and neglecting the small things can hinder our progress and reflect in our overall performance. Tune in to learn more about the power of small actions and how they can shape your success.

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In their best-selling book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff tell us that one of the cultural lies we and our kids have been led to believe is this: “What doesn't kill you will make you weaker.” Consequently, our goal in life is to do whatever we can to avoid pain, believing that it will destroy us. Conversely, we believe we should pursue pleasure and comfort at any cost, believing that pleasure is redemptive. Anyone who has endured difficulty and learned great lessons knows that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, as Christians we must recognize that nothing could be further from Gospel truth. Suffering is the fertile ground for great growth in character, wisdom, and virtue. Suffering brings us to the end of ourselves. It grows our dependence on God while undermining our dependence on our selves. I believe that we should be praying that our kids will suffer enough to lead them out of themselves, and into a deep trust and faith in God.

https://www.siegergolf.com/buy-nowIf you were to ask the average golfer which part of the game would they wish to improve, I think the short game would have the greatest number of requests. It is probably the single area of the game where, when it goes wrong it can go catastrophically wrong and in some cases, a remedy would appear almost impossible.It begs the question,  is it a mental problem or a mechanical problem, or do the mental and mechanical feed each other, "the worse you play the less confidence you have, the less confidence you have the worse you play".  It then becomes a downward spiral. Conversely, it may be demonstrable that the opposite is true and an upward spiral can be created.Is the technology, wonderful as it is creating more reliance on physics and design than on technique? Plus, what do all the great short-game players appear to have in common? (other than being great short-game players obviously :-)In this week's podcast, we discuss the short game that from our experiences we believe to be key factors, and I will look specifically at the mental side of it which I believe is definitely the keystone to the mechanical.

In this episode of Real Talk, KJK Student Defense Attorneys Susan Stone and Kristina Supler are joined by Dr. Christine Whelan, and academic researcher in helping people find purpose and meaning in life.  Topics that they discuss are around a growing portion of young people not wanting to have kids.  The conversation includes how young women view having families versus having a career; Did Covid impact young adults on wanting to have kids; and how young adults can find purpose and meaning with or without having children. Links: Dr. Christine Whelan's Website Show Notes: (02:40)  The Ups and Downs of a Declining Birth Rate (03:43)  Historical look at Women in the Home (05:42)  How young women started looking at their careers versus family (07:42)  A different but accurate viewpoint of young girls looking at motherhood (09:26)  How women look at satisfaction from something meaningful and purposeful (11:34)  How Dr. Whelan balances work with raising a family (13:59)  Looking at the costs of raising a child (16:16)  Did Covid negatively impact young adults on wanting children? (17:58)  College students are becoming more socially awkward (20:04)  Is finding purpose in life done through having children? (21:12)  Are adults without kids happier?(22:36)  How one Harvard Study defines happiness (24:32)  How Dr. Whelan teaches kids about purpose and meaning (27:25)  Dr. Whelan's perspective on how her kids shaped her life after 25 years (28:34)  How parents can talk to their adult kids about parenting (31:45)  Teaching young adults who don't want kids about being pro-social (33:46)  Changing from young adults into older adults: the evolution of our nature (34:50)  A simple exercise for parents to use to help their kids find purpose and meaning Transcript: Susan Stone: Around a year ago, I started hearing high school and college kids tell me that they don't want kids. When the first college student told me this, I thought that the sentiment was particular to that student. However, since that time, I've been hearing this from a lot of different kids. Kristina, what the heck is growing up? I mean, I remember when I was a little girl, fantasizing, what? What am I gonna name my babies when I have them? And now nobody wants babies.  Kristina Supler: I don't know. It's a really interesting question, Susan, and I'm really excited to explore today. I understand wanting to put off having children to develop a career, to launch yourself professionally, but I'm still sort of struggling with hearing from young adults who just say, I, I don't wanna have a family at all. Susan Stone: This seems to become more prevalent since Covid. And I'm wondering if it's just a coincidence. I'm hoping our guest today is gonna help us explore why students don't want children. Is it new or has the thought only been? Has it thought been around for a long time and I we're just noticing? It might be new to us. Kristina Supler: We're pleased to be joined today by, Dr. Christine Whelan, a clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She's the author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women, and Marry Smart, the Intelligent Woman's Guide to True Love. She also wrote another book called The Big Picture, A Guide to Finding Your Purpose in Life. And it's really a small steps program to help young adults figure out what matters and how to make it happen. And I just have to mention, there's one other piece in Dr. Whelan's that I love. And that is that at the age of eight, she hosted a nationally syndicated radio show called No Kidding, A Health Talk Show for Kids by kids.  Susan Stone: Today would be a podcast, not a radio show.  Kristina Supler: Welcome, Dr. Whelan. We're happy to have you with us.  Susan Stone: Oh, and I love that you wrote about purpose in life. I'm gonna be 57 and I keep telling everybody that after my last goes to college, I wanna find my purpose at life. But let's just kick this off. Am I right? Students don't wanna start a family. They don't dream about being mommy or daddy.  Dr. Christine Whelan: So the birth rate has been declining for, quite a while now. And, and in a sense we're seeing some positive trends. We are seeing fewer people getting pregnant accidentally. And, fewer unwanted pregnancies. We are seeing folks waiting longer to have kids perhaps until they are stably partnered and financially secure. So on the one hand, we, we can see some positive trends there. On the other hand, what we are seeing is that the United States is below replacement rate at this point. Which means that there are more people growing old and passing away than we are replacing with new babies born here. Now certainly you can have folks, who come to the United States by other means like immigration.  But when we look at changes around the decision to have or not to have a child, I think it's kind of of important to like sort of take a step back in history a little bit. Because part of my own history is the beginnings of this discussion.  So in, even as late as the 1960s, It was assumed that a man and a woman would get married and the woman would have children. And there was this assumption that you didn't really have a choice as a woman. You definitely were gonna have kids.  My mother was an epidemiologist and she looked at all sorts of demographic factors, including the choice to have children or not. And when she and my father were considering what to do, they actually went to all these child-free meetings. And so for the first couple years of their marriage, they decided they were not gonna have kids. And that this was really a radical idea in the mid seventies that a couple could get married and not have kids. So that, but then along the way, My mom thought, huh, maybe I should talk to other people who are making this decision. And she wrote a book called A Baby, Maybe A Guide to Making the Most Fateful Decision of Your Life. And she interviewed all these women who were saying, Gosh, should I have a child or should I not have a child? Which was a new topic in the 1970s. Crazy, by the end of the book, crazy. By the end of the book, She made a decision and and here you are. And here I am. So I'm, I am the Baby Maybe. But these Do have, you have siblings? I don't. I am the one and only,they obviously broke the mold when they made me. But Right. But the Baby Maybe thing is wild. so this question was coming up even the seventies.  Susan Stone: That's great. And I didn't realize that, and I wanted to comment that I read an article and I believe it was in the Times, don't quote me that China is actually rethinking. Yes, it's policy because for so long it was a one child rule and now the country is below replacement rate. Who would've thought? Yeah.  Kristina Supler: So what's the cause or the reason why young adults now are reevaluating. Life goal?  Susan Stone: Is it worse? is has something changed since the seventies?  Dr. Christine Whelan: Yeah. So first of all, in the seventies, the blame was placed on overachieving women who were not doing their responsible thing and staying home and having babies. And there was a lot of cultural commentary about these women who were getting too much education and wanted to work and weren't like, doing their part. How dare they. It became a sort of politically polarized issue. And,and what the role of woman was.  Then as we see, then as that began to fade, and especially as a nation, as we became,less religiously driven, and right, and more individually driven in our career choices. We then saw that in fact, those women who were highly educated and successful in their careers, we saw the tide turning. And it was those women who were in fact, more likely to get married, more likely to stay in stable relationships and more likely to have children. They were just doing so at a later age.  So in terms of lifetime childbearing, we were seeing women having children in their thirties and into their early forties, as a much more common occurrence rather than in their early twenties. And so that's what we began to seein the nineties and the early 2000. But unfortunately for, for those who are hoping for more of a replacement rate in the United States as that age of first birth kept getting pushed back and further back, yes, there were, there were advances in terms of in vitro fertilization and other treatments to help women have children, past normal childbearing age. But we also saw an increasing number of people saying, That ship has sailed. I have chosen to do different things in my life.  Susan Stone: So what's going on now? Why are younger kids, high school kids saying, I, I don't wanna do this. What's making them  Dr. Christine Whelan: think that way? A couple things. First, they watch their parents and how their parents are struggling. At one point, one of my kids, oh my God, mommy, that makes sense, mommy. It doesn't look like it's very much fun to be a mommy. You have to work, you have to do, all this stuff at home. You never rest or get a, abreak. This doesn't look like this is that much fun. And the mother in me, just cringes and says, oh no Ma, now I have to, on top of everything else I have to do now, apparently I have to make mothering look more fun. Otherwise I'm gonna raise a generation of kids who don't wanna do this. It. so I think first of all, kids are seeing the challenge of working motherhood. Second, we are really being raised in a very individualistic culture. And when it's all about me, me, me, and what makes me happy, parenting by its very nature, is a sacrifice, right? It is a giving of yourself. It is a generative thing, and that's not something our culture talks about. Kristina Supler: Totally agree. It's the ultimate act of selflessness in many ways because your life becomes about others.  Susan Stone: I, it's interesting because I am your statistic. I had my first child in 97 and my last child in the early two thousands, and I had three did my best to get them done with, but I will say age makes a difference. It's hard getting up the older you are in the middle of the night with that crying baby. And then you never sleep. Let's be real. You never sleep the same. I still am up at three in the morning thinking about my daughter who's 25. And so how do we present it in a way that's joyous? I think the joy comes later. Don't you think?  Dr. Christine Whelan: That is, yes. That is very true. And so in the academic world, we would say that it really, what you're talking about is Eudaimonic happiness. That's what Aristotle called the idea of,satisfaction from putting your all into something that is very meaningful and purposeful for you. And Eudaimonic happiness is really wonderful. Hedonic, happiness is happiness in the moment. And, I think we really need both. So what these young adults who are saying, I don't wanna have kids, what they're seeing is decades without any hedonic happiness in front of them. And, and so Eudaimonic happiness out in the distance doesn't seem quite as appealing as giving up all of your hedonic happiness right now. If that's the way society frames parenting.  And the reason I, in part, we frame it that way, is because we have this idea that you have to be a superwoman. You have to do it all. So you have to have a gr big career, and you have to, somehow be with your children all the time and leaving women feeling like they're failing all the time.  And interestingly enough, leaving the kids feeling like they are to blame for their parents overwhelm and discontent. And so then we wonder why kids don't wanna have kids themselves.  Kristina Supler: You have my thinking about the idea of it all. In essence, it all starts at home. I mean, when Susan and I are representing students across the country dealing with various form, Issues that are essentially crisis. So often the root of an issue, you know, you can trace it back to various family dynamics. And I'm just wrestling with this idea of children, seeing their mothers, struggle to balance it all and achieve professional goals. And it is a struggle.  But then also this idea and perhaps that, makes them not want to have kids. But then also you have to show, it's important to show your kids' happiness and joy. And I think it's important to, to have kids see both of that. But it sounds like there, there's risk in having your kids see moms struggle because it's hard to have it all and do it all. what are your thoughts on what the right balance is there? Dr. Christine Whelan: Man, I would love to know what the right balance is because I'm trying to figure it out on a day-to-day basis. I, there's that old adage that, you have to fill your own bucket before you can, before you can give to others. And so what I decided for myself is that I would not be who I am unless I did paid work of some sort At the same time, I also realized that I can't be who I am if I didn't spend a big chunk of my time with my family and, and mothering and engaged in all of the childcare activities. So what that meant is that I had to kindpull back in both and try to do a little bit in different, you know, at different times. Now it's not that I do 50 50 on a daily basis. There are some days where tomorrow I'm gonna be gone all day giving a guest lecture at Emory Law School. I will be gone all day and I won't see the kids in the morning when they get up or at night when they go to sleep. That's not a balanced day in terms of mothering. That's a day dedicated to my career. Sure.  But then there are plenty of other days where on Friday they're gonna be off school. I'm gonna be with them all day long. And so I think of finding the balance that works for you is important and also important for the next generation to see that there are choices that they can make to do things either differently than what I did, or differently than some of the other cultural messages that they're getting. Optionality is really what everybody wants, and yet not having, a clear path also stresses people out. So it's a double-edged sword.  Susan Stone: What is also stressful is just cost of raising children. Ugh, so expensive, and I'm not talking about the tennis lessons and the high price colleges. I'm talking basic copays for the pediatrician. They need medicine, all of it. Therapy, clothes, some people have kids that I have a really good friend, her son, she blinks and he needs new pants. And not everybody can afford that.  So the stress of economics has got to impact that choice. And then I hear students say, there's only so much to go around and I want that money that I make for me, is that selfish or realistic? Dr. Christine Whelan: I think it's quite realistic. So these students are also gonna be coming out with a whole lot of debt. So how do you think about adding another dependent person to your budget when you yourself are very much in the red?  My grandmother used to say that every baby comes with its own loaf of bread. And I, that was such a sweet expression and so not true. I was trying to sake,  Kristina Supler: I was pondering that. I'm like, wait, what?  Susan Stone: No. Even formulas expensive. Exactly.  Dr. Christine Whelan: Even formula diaper first. Sure. And and they're, and while there are ways to keep the costs down and to do sharing economy things. it's very difficult. The other thing that, that, by the way that is difficult is childcare. And because we have a generation of folks who, who are pursuing their careers, we also don't have a bunch of grandparents who are interested in giving free childcare to their grandchildren. And so that because they can't afford to do so. Susan Stone: Yeah, that's really interesting. I remember that when my daughter was in elementary school, that she had a project called Notable Woman, and she picked Indra Nui, who was the CEO of Pepsi. And we went to visit her. She shared that her dream would be that eventually when her children had children, she would give up this role of running a major conglomeration and help raise her kids because that was her culture that her parents helped her. Now, I was a single mother and boy, I could have used that help.  Kristina Supler: Oh yeah. you think about single parents and all the complicated dynamics that bear on child raising today. And,I'm just thinking to the comment about food and formula. And it popped into my head not that long ago, there was the formula shortage. Iwho would've predicted that? The stress of, oh my gosh, I literally don't know if I can give my child a bottle in two hours.  Susan Stone: That's scary. But do you think the pandemic and that the fact that more people can work from home, will that encourage maybe some rethinking of this issue? Dr. Christine Whelan: No. And in fact, I think it actually might make it worse. So what we're also seeing is young adults having first sexual intercourse at later ages. And while that is good from a disease and pregnancy, un unplanned pregnancy perspective, one of the things that we're really seeing is that the reason why young adults are not being physically intimate with each other is because they're not physically together. Yeah, a lot. And wow. You ha Yeah. So then you have a generation that's increasingly physically isolated. And the more that we physically isolate people, the less likely it is that you're going to create a family. As we delay marriage, as we delay,these kind of,these kinds of intimate partner bonds then obviously we're going to be delaying having children and, and making babies the normal way, right? So I worry that the pandemic actually is going to make things worse rather than better. And by the way, for all the moms out there who tried to raise their young children, during the, that, those early days of the lockdown, which is, youjust three years ago, we remember what it was like to try to do our jobs and have a toddler or two or three running around. So no work from home is not easier with kids.  Kristina Supler: I read some media interview you did where you were speaking about th this issue and the fact that there was no pandemic baby boom. Eventually, hopefully, fingers crossed when we all come back together at some point and we're not so in this idea of working from home, although I'm assuming we will come back together, perhaps we won't. Do you expect though, eventually to see birth rates climb again?  Dr. Christine Whelan: I worry about this a little bit because with my college students, they are really still socially awkward. They don't have the same, social skills or even really the desire to hang out with other people that I would have expected young adults to have at this age. And if we see a shift more toward virtual worlds, more toward virtual interactions, then just basic, basic, physiology. If you're not there together, it's gonna be really hard to, to make babies and raise them in co environment. Susan Stone: I wanna shift a little bit because you've written a lot about finding your purpose in life. And I come from the philosophical belief that we're all here to correct our character defects through finding meaning and that we all have a unique gift.  But I gotta tell you, nothing holds a mirror to your face as to your character defects or your strengths then having children. When you see that kid, I both good and bad. You know my daughter, I love to cook and I watched my youngest this weekend create a homemade focaccia. And she's mom, I just wanna be a good cook like you are. You always make such beautiful dishes. You feel pride.  Conversely, I have a spitfire temper, and when I see my kids lose their temper, I know exactly where that came from and who's to blame? But it gives me an opportunity to work on myself and say, ouch, I don't like that character trait. This is something that I need to work on to be a better person. And the more I model the mistakes I've made and how I correct them, I feel like I'm fulfilling my purpose through children. What are your thoughts on that?  Dr. Christine Whelan: That is very beautiful and very, a very evolved way of thinking about it. It's not the way that everybody else often thinks about it. If we, if the other way you could be thinking about it is when you see your children acting in ways that you don't like about yourself, a lot of people lash out at their kids. And are, and are particularly angry at their kids because they are embarrassed that is also their behavior. And so if you can do some really good work around it. And grow from it. That would be ideal. But not everybody is there. I, the joke that I make with my kids is that I will know that I have been a good mother if they are in therapy for different problems than what I am in therapy for.  Susan Stone: yes. Kristina Supler: That, that is very funny. That is very funny. Let's be real. We're talking, having kids is not a walk in the park. It can, it's high highs and low lows. And teens in particular can really be particularly frustrating and challenging and also awesome. But are people, what does the research say? Are adults without kids happier?  Dr. Christine Whelan: Yeah. So this is the, this is the tricky bit. is that, At the end of life, whether you have had a child or not doesn't really matter in terms of your happiness. It's not that adults with without kids are happier. It's that, and or that people with kids are less happy. It's that when I don't know any mother who look or father who looks at their children and says, I wish I had not had these children. We don't as humans, tend to have that feeling. So we make a choice one way or the other and we build a life around it.  And and it's one of life's, my, this was one of my mother's wonderful lines. She would say, it's just one of life's many options. And,and she, what she meant there was that we all have a lot of choices. But also there is that, that underpinning of that which is, and then those choices have consequences.  So if you are the type of person that does not wanna have children, and you know that about yourself, don't have children. Don't do it because somebody else wants you to or you think you should. And if you are the type of person that wants to have children and that, that really craves that, then don't worry about whether you're gonna be able to balance it all. Have the children. Create the family. Create the love. and you will. generations of us have figured it out. Live your life. I'm just gonna say it's live  Kristina Supler: your life it's what we tell our kids. Peer pressure. Don't succumb to it. You do you,  Dr. Christine Whelan: whatever it is, and  Susan Stone: whatever it is. If you want a baby, have a baby. If you don't You will find meaning in other ways. But we know from Harvard's happiness study And I love this study That the quality of relationships is what determines happiness. Absolutely. Yeah. it's not quantity. It is quality.  Dr. Christine Whelan: And you can have those quality relatations outside of your nuclear family. Those quality relationships very much can come from friends, from extended family. But often those quality relationships come in your intimate family from children, from partners. And that of course is the line with Ain't. If Mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy or you are only as happy as your least happy child.  Susan Stone: Yeah, I will say that I still remember that moment than when I had my first daughter. And Alex, if you're listening to this, it's about you. And I will say, when they handed that baby to me, it really was like a holiday Hollywood moment. I, I fell in love with her in a way that I have never experienced before. And yes, I fell in love with the siblings too. And you never did. You only  Kristina Supler: had  Susan Stone: that feeling once. Only once. No, but you do. When they hand you that baby. There is that euphoria that you get that depth of love. It's just different from other love. Kristina Supler: I'm gonna challenge you on that. That I think that is, I don't know that all women feel that. I think a lot of women hold that baby and they. Oh God, what now? or probably done.  Susan Stone: Yeah. that's a good point. Not ever. Some people feel depressed or overwhelmed.  Dr. Christine Whelan: Absolutely. And you can also have all of those feelings all at once. And you can have the love and the overwhelm and the terror. And those feelings will last throughout the lifetime. You know, we're all an experiment of one, right? This is, there is no one size fits all approach to this, which is why I really like teaching young adults about the idea of purpose and meaning. Because it's about asking questions of what are your core values? What are your strengths? Who do you wanna positively impact? What are the fears and anxieties that come up for you in a day? in a, when you are trying to tackle a big project or make a decision? And then how can you make purpose-based commitments one step at a time to do the things that matter to you? And what I, when I break it down for young adults like that, it really helps, I think, because these are huge topics that might otherwise emotionally paralyze us. And breaking it down hopefully demystifies it and allows people to make a decision that's right for them.  Kristina Supler: In that. In the introduction, we mentioned that you are a mother of five. And so if I may ask you personal question, tell our listeners what inspired you to have such a large family. Dr. Christine Whelan: I have a Brady Bunch family. I have my, okay, so we'll start with my, so I have a seven, nine, and 11 year old who are my biological kids. And then I am stepmom to twin 14 and a half year old boys. and. It is. and of course, because we had to be a Brady Bunch family, we also added a dog so who is a girl.  So now we have three girls and three boys, and we can do the whole squares. And we have a fabulous household manager who keeps me sane. So she's our Alice. and we have the full, you  Kristina Supler: really are the Brady Bunch. We,  Dr. Christine Whelan: we really are. Now. That's funny. The Brady Bunch Square thing going, and it's total chaos. I was an only child. I grew up in an apartment in Manhattan. I am now the mother of five and a dog with a minivan in the Midwest. And I often have those moments of, I have no idea how this happened. But yet I do because, the, I love the the energy, the chaos, the the joy and the laughter. And I, it is not at all what I expected. My life did not at all turn out how I expected. And yet it is so beautiful as a,as a teaching tool for me in terms of letting go of my otherwise type a personality and control freakness and wanting to everything to be just so, because do you know what, with five kids and a dog, It can't be perfect. It's not gonna happen.  Susan Stone: It depends how we define perfect. What is perfect for you might be just getting dinner on the table and having that really good conversation come up. I  Kristina Supler: agree. That's a good point. Iperfect is obviously very, it can be different for everyone and so  Dr. Christine Whelan: Absolutely. Now my 20 year old self would have defined perfect, in a much more organized and precise fashion. My 45 year old self would wanna give my 20 year old self a hug and say, it's gonna be a wild ride, honey. But, but you're gonna come out the other end of it with a lot of self-growth. So really to your point that children are wonderful teachers and mirrors into yourself and where you need to grow. Now, thinking about this from the kids' perspective, you also wanna make sure that you are supporting them in their own individual journeys. So that they can be a mirror to themselves and make good choices about their own future.  Susan Stone: Is it even worth having a conversation with young adults when they say they do or don't want kids? Because part of me thinks you just don't know until you are at that point in life. I remember in my early twenties, cuz I was, I waited till after law school to think about it. I wouldn't even really envision what that meant. And then all of a sudden, when you want that baby, it's like you see babies everywhere. Dr. Christine Whelan: pregnant women everywhere, and that's all you see.know, when I hear a young adult say, I do or don't want children, is it something that you just let them articulate and go? Mm-hmm. Because you and I know Man plans, God laughs and you just don't know until you know. Yes. And it's worthwhile to ask those questions because they can get at deeper issues. So if somebody says, I definitely don't wanna have children. Then explore why. What is it? Do you want to build a particular kind of life for yourself? And if you do, let's take some steps toward building a life that is going to fulfill those needs and those values, and use those gifts. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're not gonna have children along the way. If I could go back to myself with a, with an infant, the first time round, I would,would wanna remind myself and all young mothers that you can strap the baby to you and go do just about whatever you want. And, and that's a really cool, so by the time I had my youngest, he was just on me and I was off and gone. And it was great. Because you have more confidence of how the child can also incorporate into the life that you wanna have. But when you're young, you see it as an either or. and that kind of dichotomy scares people.  Kristina Supler: That's funny that you, you say that because I know with my first, there were times I was literally afraid to leave the house. Like I loved her so much. But I was like, okay, how am I gonna go to the grocery store with the baby, get the food I need, get it all in the car. And it just felt incredibly overwhelming. And of course, obviously you figure it out, but, you know that, that idea of strap the baby on you, go wherever, do whatever is, for first time mothers or just some mothers in general? it's, they just can't get there and they need a lot of support and encouragement to have that realization.  Susan Stone: I do have to ask a value-based question. I agree. Not everybody's meant to be a parent. And that's a perfectly wonderful choice for someone who has a vision of their life being different. Here's where I'm struggling. And maybe even being judgy. I'm gonna get a little judgey here. What be the first time? I struggle with this though. Maybe, Kristine, you're gonna give me a little soul correction. I don't have a problem with someone saying to me, I don't want children because I wanna pursue my passion for art, or I don't like children. Where it bites me a little bit is when I hear. It out of complete selfishness. Like I want all the money for me, me, me, me, me, me. It's not like I wanna volunteer or I wanna go into service, or I wanna go into government, or I wanna run for political office, or I wanna pursue a passion. But are we devolving as a sathi, as a society where it's just the hedonistic value? And should that be corrected when you hear it out of a teenager's mouth? Do you as a parent have to say, It's not always all about you. Yes. And why is that desirable?  Dr. Christine Whelan: Yes. And the answer doesn't have to then be kids. But I teach lots about agree, the importance of pro-social behavior. Pro-social behavior means doing something that benefits someone else. And the research is absolutely clear that we have, when we use our limited resources of time, of energy, of money in a way that is pro-social, that involves others and helps others, we as individuals are much happier.  And so to the person who says, no, I don't wanna have kids. I wanna spend all that money on me. That kind of self-focus is not a recipe for happiness. However, a when this is a person who potentially was raised not having the things that they wanted because they could see how much their parents struggled to put food on the table to make sure that their kids could get stuff, they might not want to repeat that.  And at this stage of their lives. So then maybe focusing on the idea of, then great, you're gonna have this extra money. What pro-social things are you going to do with it so that you can use your gifts in keeping with your values to make a positive impact on the lives of others? That's purposeful and doesn't have to involve kids. Kristina Supler: For what it's worth. Susan, I don't think that was a judgey question slash comment. I think it was a very good one.  Susan Stone: Thank you. Thank you. I, and I really love the way you frame that because it's okay to say I don't, like children. I don't want that path. But how are you gonna give back? What is gonna be your contribution? Dr. Christine Whelan: The one other thing that I will say though is that there are periods in your life that evolutionarily, and by their very nature and structure, are going to be more selfish than others. And that's okay.  So young adulthood is a fairly solipsistic selfish time of life. It should be that way because you are investing in yourself. You are, you're, do in your own education, in your future career. You're making decisions. You've gotta focus inward on you during that period. That's understandable.   As we get older, we tend to be more generative. We tend to wanna help other people more. We tend to wanna share our wisdom. And there is a sort of an arc and various religions and cultures have seen this,that, youthere is a, there's a time in life where you are focused on yourself a time in life when you're focused on others. And then potentially a time in life when you're focused on thinking and legacy. And, and then what comes next? If you have a selfish teenager, if you have a selfish, kid in their early twenties, yes talking about pro-social behavior is important. You can also put in that kind of pro-social behavior will make you as an individual happier if that's the language that they best understand. Kristina Supler: Last question, Dr. Whelan. What advice should parents give to their own children to help them find their purpose as they look to the future?  Susan Stone: She's asking for a friend. For a friend.  Kristina Supler: Asking for a friend. That's right. not my own two children. No.  Dr. Christine Whelan: listen, I do this with my own kids too, so I have this purpose statement exercise. It's free, it's on my website, on christine wheeland.com. You can download it.  But the but what I have my kids talk about, with me, and then for themselves is those questions of what do I value? What are the strengths I wanna use and who do I wanna help? And then what are the things I am anxious about and what are the goals that I can set? And these are five questions that are in this madlibs purpose statement.  I do it myself. And then I share mine with my kids. The teenagers absolutely roll their eyes. I'm not gonna sugarcoat that one. They think this is ridiculous. However, If I model purposeful behavior and I talk about how even by making a baked potato bar for the family, I am living on purpose and why that is using my values, why that's using my gifts and keeping with my values and how I'm positively impacting them. Honestly, you gotta model the behavior that you're seeking. And so we talk a lot about this, as a family. And it might be worth having a conversation about your family purpose statement for,for the week if you do a Sunday meeting or a,or a summer purpose statement and any way that you can get this idea of values, strengths and positive impact while acknowledging fears and anxieties, cuz that's a really important this. Otherwise this gets, of sugar coated too much. Acknowledging those fears and anxieties and then saying, you know what? I'm gonna do these things and I'm gonna feel good about myself when I do these. Have that conversation. See how it goes.  Susan Stone: I'm just gonna make a wish. I don't know. Is your mom still around?  Dr. Christine Whelan: She unfortunately passed away nine years ago.  Susan Stone: I am so sorry. Well, I won't get my wish because my wish would've been for Kristina and I could to create a trip and sit with a bottle of wine with you and your mom. So since I can't get your mom, I'm grateful that we could talk about your mom and hopefully one day I can have that wish and meet you in the flesh because I would love to sit down with some rosé with you and continue this conversation offline.  Dr. Christine Whelan: I would love that too. And my eldest daughter, Eleanor, who's nearly 12, would love to join in as well, because while I had my first radio show, She started, her Health is Everything, No Kidding podcast when she was eight and she never liked  Kristina Supler: her mother  Dr. Christine Whelan: like daughter. Oh, and mother, like daughter. She has lots of ideas on this topic as well.  Susan Stone: Let us know if she would like to be on our podcast because we had students talk to us.  Dr. Christine Whelan: I love it. Yes. I'll send you, I'll send you the link to her podcast and Okay. Do  Kristina Supler: well listen to that too. Thank you so much for joining us today. It was a real treat speaking with you and I'm, our listeners enjoyed it as well.  Susan Stone: This was a fun one. Thank you.  Dr. Christine Whelan: Thank you. 

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