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Scattered Spider Related Domain Names A quick demo of our domain feeds and how they can be used to find Scattered Spider related domains https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Scattered+Spider+Related+Domain+Names/32162 Excel External Workbook Links to Blocked File Types Will Be Disabled by Default Excel will discontinue allowing links to dangerous file types starting as early as October. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/external-workbook-links-to-blocked-file-types-will-be-disabled-by-default-6dd12903-0592-463d-9e68-0741cf62ee58 CISA Releases Thorium CISA announced that it released its malware analysis platform, Thorium, as open-source software. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/07/31/thorium-platform-public-availability

Pipes, Thorium, Excel, Weird Ports, ATM Hillbilly Cannibal Attack, Lambdas, National Guard, AIs, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-499

Kristina Stanley is the bestselling author of SECRETS TO OUTLINING A NOVEL, SECRETS TO EDITING SUCCESS, and SECRETS TO WRITING A SERIES, as well as the award-winning STONE MOUNTAIN MYSTERIES SERIES. In 2019, she developed a brand-new structural editing software, Fictionary. After years of outlining and editing in complex Excel spreadsheets, she designed the program she always wished she had. Since then, Fictionary has grown fast, now offering Fictionary Live!, an in-depth program of outlining, writing, and editing courses, and StoryTeller software, which supports writers through their entire writing journey. In this interview, we talk about misconceptions about writing, the importance of outlining and the different approaches, Fictionary, and much more. Want more? Steal my first book, INK BY THE BARREL - SECRETS FROM PROLIFIC WRITERS, right now for free. Simply head over to www.brockswinson.com to get your free digital download and audiobook. If you find value in the book, please share it with a friend as we're giving away 100,000 copies this year. It's based on over 400 interviews here at Creative Principles. Enjoy! If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It only takes about 60 seconds, and it really helps convince some of the hard-to-get guests to sit down and have a chat (simply scroll to the bottom of your iTunes Podcast app and click “Write Review"). Enjoy the show!

Juan Pablo went from a late-start sophomore at UChicago to securing a coveted Private Banking summer analyst seat at JPMorgan in Miami. In this episode he reveals: How 50+ cold calls turned into warm referrals—and three Superdays The mock-interview routine inside WSO Academy that leveled up his technical & market questions fast Why targeted outreach (15 banks) beat the scatter-shot 50-application strategy Insider tips on speaking to directors with confidence, building a “precision hobby” resume, and turning econ coursework into market-moving insight If you're gunning for asset & wealth management, private banking, or any front-office role, Juan Pablo's playbook is pure gold. Watch, take notes, and start lining up your own calls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Unlock the power of Alteryx for tax professionals in this insightful episode of Alter Everything! Join us in an interview with Adrian Steller, Director of Tax Technology at Ryan, to explore how Alteryx revolutionizes tax processes, automates data workflows, and enhances efficiency for tax teams. Discover real-world Alteryx use cases in VAT compliance, transfer pricing, and automation, and learn practical tips for transitioning from Excel to Alteryx. Whether you're a tax analyst, data professional, or business leader, this episode provides actionable insights on leveraging Alteryx for tax data transformation, reporting, and analytics.Panelists: Adrian Steller, Director @ International Tax Technology - LinkedInMegan Bowers, Sr. Content Manager @ Alteryx - @MeganBowers, LinkedInShow notes: Ryan (Company)Ryan Tax Lab (Podcast)Alteryx Community BlogsAlteryx Help Docs Interested in sharing your feedback with the Alter Everything team? Take our feedback survey here!This episode was produced by Megan Bowers, Mike Cusic, and Matt Rotundo. Special thanks to Andy Uttley for the theme music.

A fulfilling Christian life requires a process of change, and an intentional renewing of the mind and attitude—it is a lifestyle of becoming more like Jesus. We are called to renew our minds to live as God intends, using every endeavour to win battles, overcome pain, and move on to abundant life. As we set our minds on the Spirit and see life from God's perspective, we are transformed rather than conformed, walking in the Spirit and aligned with His will.

Danica Smith, Hospitality Daily's guest experience correspondent and founder of MorningStar GX, returns to share what she's learned from recent conversations with industry leaders and her consultancy work. She explains why guest expectations are evolving so rapidly, discusses key trends shaping guest experiences today, and provides real-world examples of personalization at its best. Danica also previews her "4 Ps" framework for guest experience, an influential tool hospitality leaders can use to design and deliver exceptional guest experiences.Read Danica's article: The New 4Ps of Guest Experience: Designing for Connection, Not ConversionIf you like this, you'll also love:Beyond Buzzwords: The Truth about Guest Experience - Danica SmithGuest Experience Tech: What I Learned Building, Selling, and Using It - Danica SmithFrom Micro Feedback to Macro Impact: The Future of Guest Experience - Danica SmithOur Vision: Hospitality Can Be More - Dina Belon, Staypineapple HotelsAI & Hotel Tech Bets For Our People-First Approach - Dina Belon, Staypineapple HotelsNo Receptionist, No Problem: How Numa is Thriving with a Digital-First Guest Experience - Eva Klausner, NumaThe Red Carnation Blueprint: Making Every Guest Feel Like the Only One - Suzie Thompson, Red Carnation HotelsBreaking the Colonial Mold: How Kenya's Tribe Hotel Sets a New Standard for Luxury Hospitality - Shamim Ehsani A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you want to advertise on Hospitality Daily, here are the ways we can work together. If you found this episode interesting or helpful, send it to someone on your team so you can turn the ideas into action and benefit your business and the people you serve! Music for this show is produced by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands

Join me as I chat with Nico Christie where he demos Shortcut, an AI-powered spreadsheet tool that functions like "Excel built for the future." Through several live demos, he shows how the platform can create financial models, update existing spreadsheets with new data, and build custom analysis tools using simple natural language prompts. The product aims to make Excel-based work significantly faster while maintaining transparency about data sources and calculations. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 00:53 - Overview of Shortcut 02:08 - First Demo: How Shortcut works with Existing Excel files 04:44 - Different User Types Who Benefit From Shortcut 08:50 - How to Prompt Shortcut Effectively 11:20 - The benefits of Using Shortcut 13:42 - How Shortcut handles data verification and transparency 17:03 - Best Use Cases for Shortcut 19:03 - Obvious ideas and market opportunity 22:23 -Building a Utilization Model for Agencies 34:59 - Greg's Custom Utilization Rate Dashboard Demo 39:29 - Who should try Shortcut Checkout: https://www.tryshortcut.ai Key Points: • Shortcut is an AI-powered alternative to Excel that allows users to create and modify spreadsheets using natural language prompts • The tool can perform complex financial modeling tasks in minutes that would take hours in traditional Excel • Shortcut provides transparency by showing data sources and allowing users to trace where information comes from • The platform serves both Excel experts (making them faster) and non-experts (making complex spreadsheet tasks accessible. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ Boringmarketing - Vibe Marketing for Companies: boringmarketing.com The Vibe Marketer - Join the Community and Learn: thevibemarketer.com Startup Empire - a membership for builders who want to build cash-flowing businesses https://www.skool.com/startupempire/about FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/ FIND NICO ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/nicochristie Shortcut: https://www.tryshortcut.ai

“Manager and leader”? What's the difference. During my conversation this time with Scott Hanton, our guest, we will discuss this very point along with many other fascinating and interesting subjects. As Scott tells us at the beginning of this episode he grew up asking “why” about most anything you can think of. He always was a “why” asker. As he tells it, unlike many children who grow out of the phase of asking “why” he did not. He still asks “why” to this very day.   At the age of 13 Scott decided that he wanted to be a chemist. He tells us how this decision came about and why he has always stayed with it. Scott received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Michigan State and his PHD from the University of Wisconsin. Again, why he changed schools for his PHD work is an interesting story. As you will see, Scott tells stories in a unique and quite articulate way.   After his university days were over Scott went to work, yes as a chemist. He tells us about this and how after 20 years with one company how and why he moved to another company and somewhat out of constant lab work into some of the management, business and leadership side of a second company. He stayed there for ten years and was laid off during the pandemic. Scott then found employment as the editorial director of Lab Management Magazine where he got to bring his love of teaching to the forefront of his work.   My hour with Scott gives us all many insights into management, leadership and how to combine the two to create a strong teaming environment. I believe you will find Scott's thoughts extremely poignant and helpful in everything that you do.     About the Guest:   Scott Hanton is the Editorial Director of Lab Manager. He spent 30 years as a research chemist, lab manager, and business leader at Air Products and Intertek. Scott thrives on the challenges of problem-solving. He enjoys research, investigation, and collaboration. Scott is a people-centric, servant leader. He is motivated by developing environments where people can grow and succeed, and crafting roles for people that take advantage of their strengths.   Scott earned a BS in chemistry from Michigan State University and a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an active member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), and the Association of Lab Managers (ALMA). As a scientist Scott values curiosity, innovation, progress, and delivery of results. Scott has always been motivated by questions beginning with why. Studying physical chemistry in graduate school offered the opportunity to hone answers to these questions. As a professional scientist, Scott worked in analytical chemistry specializing in MALDI mass spectrometry and polymer characterization.   At Scott married his high school sweetheart, and they have one son. Scott is motivated by excellence, happiness, and kindness. He most enjoys helping people and solving problems. Away from work, Scott enjoys working outside in the yard, playing strategy games, and participating in different discussion groups.   Scott values having a growth mindset and is a life-long learner. He strives to learn something new everyday and from everyone. One of the great parts of being a trained research scientist is that failure really isn't part of his vocabulary. He experiments and either experiences success or learns something new. He values both individual and organizational learning.   Scott's current role at Lab Manager encompasses three major responsibilities: ·      Writing articles and giving presentations to share his experience with lab managers. ·      Driving the creation and growth of the Lab Manager Academy (https://labmanageracademy.com/) that currently contains three certificate programs: lab management, lab safety management, and lab quality management. ·      Helping people through his knowledge of science, scientists, management, and leadership. He is very happy sharing the accumulated wisdom of his experiences as a researcher, lab supervisor, and lab manager. Each article posted on Lab Manager addresses a decision that a lab manager needs to make. Lab management is full of decision-making, so helping people make better, faster, more complete decisions is very satisfying. Ways to connect with Scott:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hanton/   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset where inclusion diversity and the unexpected meet, and mostly we get to deal with the unexpected, as opposed to inclusion or diversity. But that's okay, because unexpected is what makes life fun, and our guest today, Scott Hanton, will definitely be able to talk about that. Scott has been a research chemist. He comes from the chemistry world, so he and I in the past have compared notes, because, of course, I come from the physics world, and I love to tell people that the most important thing I learned about physics was that, unlike Doc Brown, although I do know how to build a bomb, unlike Doc Brown from Back to the Future, I'm not dumb enough to try to go steal fissionable material from a terrorist group to build the bomb. So, you know, I suppose that's a value, value lesson somewhere. But anyway, I am really glad that you're all here with us today, and we have lots to talk about. Scott, as I said, was in chemistry and research chemist, and now is the editorial supervisor and other things for a magazine called lab manager, and we will talk about that as well. So Scott, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad   Scott Hanton ** 02:38 you're here. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to have this conversation with you today.   Michael Hingson ** 02:43 Well, I think it'll be a lot of fun, and looking forward to it. Now, you're in Michigan, right?   Scott Hanton ** 02:48 That's right. I live in South Lyon, Michigan,   Michael Hingson ** 02:51 ah, what's the weather back there today?   Scott Hanton ** 02:55 It's probably about 55 degrees and cloudy   Michael Hingson ** 02:58 here today. Well, it's still fairly sunny here, and we're actually, according to my iPhone, at 71 so it was up around 80 earlier in the week, but weather changes are still going to bring some cold for a while   Scott Hanton ** 03:15 in here in Michigan, I visited a customer earlier this week, and I drove by about 1000 orange barrels on the highway, which means it's spring, because there's only two seasons in Michigan, winter and construction.   Michael Hingson ** 03:29 There you go. Yeah, I know. I went to the University of California, Irvine, UCI. And if you ask somebody who doesn't know that UCI stands for University of California at Irvine. If you ask them what UCI stands for, they'll tell you, under construction indefinitely. Sounds right? Yeah. Well, it's been doing it ever since I was there a long time ago, and they they continue to grow. Now we're up to like 32,000 fresh, or excuse me, undergraduates at the university. And when I was there, there were 2700 students. So it's grown a little. That's   Scott Hanton ** 04:05 a lot of change. I'm used to big universities. I'm a graduate of both Michigan State and the University of Wisconsin. So these are big places.   Michael Hingson ** 04:13 Wow, yeah. So you're used to it. I really enjoyed it when it was a small campus. I'm glad I went there, and that was one of the reasons that caused me to go there, was because I knew I could probably get a little bit more visibility with instructors, and that would be helpful for me to get information when they didn't describe things well in class. And it generally worked out pretty well. So I can't complain a lot. Perfect. Glad it worked well for you, it did. Well, why don't you start, if you would, by telling us kind of about the early Scott growing up and all that sort of stuff.   Scott Hanton ** 04:49 I grew up in Michigan, in a town called Saginaw. I was blessed with a family that loved me and that, you know, I was raised in a very. Supportive environment. But young Scott asked, Why about everything you know, the way kids do? Yeah, right. And my mom would tell you that when I was a kid, why was my most favorite word? And most kids outgrow that. I never did, yeah, so Me neither. I still ask why all the time. It's still my most favorite word, and it caused me to want to go explore the sciences, because what I found, as I learned about science, was that I could get answers to why questions better in science than in other places.   Michael Hingson ** 05:34 Yeah, makes sense. So what kinds of questions did you ask about why? Well, I asked   Scott Hanton ** 05:43 all kinds of questions about why, like, why are we having that for dinner? Or, why is my bedtime so early? Those questions didn't have good answers, at least from my perspective, right? But I also asked questions like, why is grass green, and why is the sky blue? And studying physical chemistry at Michigan State answered those questions. And so   Michael Hingson ** 06:03 how early did you learn about Rayleigh scattering? But that's you know?   Scott Hanton ** 06:07 Well, I learned the basic concepts from a really important teacher in my life, Mr. Leeson was my seventh grade science teacher, and what I learned from him is that I could ask questions that weren't pertinent to what he was lecturing about, and that taught me a lot about the fact that science was a lot bigger than what we got in the curriculum or in the classroom. And so Mr. Leeson was a really important person in my development, and showed me that there was that science was a lot bigger than I thought it was as a student, but I didn't really learn about rally scattering until I got to college.   Michael Hingson ** 06:43 But at the same time, it sounds like he was willing to allow you to grow and and learn, which so many people aren't willing to do. They're too impatient.   Scott Hanton ** 06:58 He was a first year teacher the year I had him so he hadn't become cynical yet. So it was great to just be able to stay after class and ask him a question, or put my hand up in class and ask him a question. He also did a whole series of demonstrations that were fabulous and made the science come to life in a way that reading about it doesn't stir the imagination. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 07:23 I had teachers that did that too. I remember very well my freshman general science teacher in high school, Mr. Dills, and one day, and he loved to do kind of unique things, just to push the boundaries of students a little bit. He came in one day and he said, I got a pop quiz for everybody, which doesn't help me, because the pop quiz was in print, but he handed it out. And then he took me to the back of the room, and he said, You're not going to really be able to do this quiz. Let me tell you why. And he said, Oh, and one thing he said is, just be sure you follow all the instructions and you'll be fine on the test to everybody. He brought me back to the back of the room. He says, Well, here's the deal. He says, if people really read the instructions, what they'll do is they'll read the instruction that says, Read all the questions before you start answering, and if you get to the last question, it says answer only the first question, which is what is your name and and sure enough, of course, people didn't read the instructions. And he said, so I wouldn't be able to really deal with you with that one, with that whole thing, just because it wouldn't work well. And I said, I understand, but he loved to make students think, and I learned so much about the whole concept of realizing the need to observe and be observant in all that you do. And it was lessons like that from him that really helped a lot with that. For me,   Scott Hanton ** 08:48 I had a high school chemistry teacher named Mrs. Schultz, and the first experiment that we did in her class, in the first week of classes, was she wanted us to document all of the observations that we could make about a burning candle. And I was a hot shot student. Thought I, you know, owned the world, and I was going to ace this test. And, you know, I had maybe a dozen observations about a burning candle, and thought I had done a great job describing it, until she started sharing her list, and she probably had 80 observations about a burning candle, and it taught me the power of observation and the need to talk about the details of those observations and to be specific about what the observations were. And that experiment seems simple, light a candle and tell me what you see. Yeah, but that lesson has carried on with me now for more than approaching 50 years.   Michael Hingson ** 09:47 Let's see, as I recall, if you light a candle, what the center of the flame is actually pretty cool compared to the outside. It's more hollow. Now I wouldn't be able to easily tell that, because. Is my my process for observing doesn't really use eyesight to do that, so I I'm sure there are other technologies today that I could use to get more of that information. But   Scott Hanton ** 10:12 I'm also sure that that experiment could be re crafted so that it wasn't so visual, yeah, right, that there could be tactile experiments to tell me about observations or or audible experiments about observation, where you would excel in ways that I would suffer because I'm so visually dominant. The   Michael Hingson ** 10:33 issue, though, is that today, there's a lot more technology to do that than there was when I was in school and you were in school, but yeah, I think there is a lot available. There's a company called Independence Science, which is actually owned and run by Dr Cary sapollo. And Carrie is blind, and he is a blind chemist, and he wanted to help develop products for blind people to be able to deal with laboratory work. So he actually worked with a company that was, well, it's now Vernier education systems. They make a product called LabQuest with something like 80 different kinds of probes that you can attach to it, and the LabQuest will will provide visual interpretations of whatever the probes are showing carry, and independent science took that product and made it talk, so that There is now a Talking LabQuest. And the reality is that all those probes became usable because the LabQuest became accessible to be able to do that, and they put a lot of other things into it too. So it's more than just as a talking device, a lab device. It's got a periodic table in it. It's got a lot of other kinds of things that they just put in it as well. But it's really pretty cool because it now makes science a whole lot more accessible. I'm going to have to think about the different kinds of probes and how one could use that to look at a candle. I think that'd be kind of fun.   Scott Hanton ** 12:15 And it's just awesome to hear that there's innovation and space to make science more available to everybody. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 12:23 the real problem that we face is the one that we mostly always have faced, which is societal attitudes, as opposed to really being or not being able to do the experiments, is people think we can't, and that's the barrier that we always, usually have to overcome.   Scott Hanton ** 12:39 What I find in my time as a coach, mentor, supervisor, is that if somebody believes they can't do it, they can't do it. Yeah. And so it's often about overcoming their own mental limitations, the limitations that they've placed on themselves,   Michael Hingson ** 12:56 and that's right, or unfortunately, the limitations that other people place on us, and we, all too often and weigh too much, buy into those limitations. So it's it is something that we, especially in the sciences, should recognize that we shouldn't be doing so much of. I know that when I was at UC Irvine as a graduate student, I learned once that there was a letter in my file that a professor wrote. Fortunately, I never had him as a professor, but it and I was in my master's program at the time in physics, and this guy put a letter in my file saying that no blind person could ever absorb the material to get an advanced degree in physics at the University. Just put that in there, which is so unfortunate, because the real thing that is demonstrated there is a prejudice that no scientist should ever have.   Scott Hanton ** 13:51 I'm hopeful that as you graduated, there was a retraction letter in your file as well,   Michael Hingson ** 13:57 not that I ever heard, but yeah. Well, I'd already gotten my bachelor's degree, but yeah. But you know, things happen, but it is a it is a societal thing, and society all too often creates limitations, and sometimes we don't find them right away, but it is one of the big issues that, in general, we have to deal with. And on all too often, society does some pretty strange things because it doesn't understand what science is all about. I know when we were dealing with covid, when it all started, leaving the conspiracy theorists out of it. One of the things that I learned was that we have all these discussions about AI, if you will. But AI was one of the primary mechanisms that helped to develop the mRNA vaccines that are now still the primary things that we use to get vaccinated against covid, because they the artificial intelligence. I'm not sure how artificial. It is, but was able to craft what became the vaccine in a few days. And scientists acknowledged, if they had to do it totally on their own, it would take years to have done what AI did in a few days.   Scott Hanton ** 15:13 The AI technology is amazing and powerful, but it's not new. No, I met a person who shared her story about AI investigations and talked about what she was doing in this field 30 years ago. Yeah, in her master's work. And you know, I knew it wasn't brand new, but I didn't really realize how deep its roots went until I talked to her.   Michael Hingson ** 15:37 I worked as my first jobs out of college with Ray Kurzweil, who, of course, nowadays, is well known for the singularity and so on. But back then, he developed the first reading machine that blind people could use to read printed material. And one of the things that he put into that machine was the ability, as it scanned more material, to learn and better recognize the material. And so he was doing machine learning back in the 1970s   Scott Hanton ** 16:07 right? And all of this is, you know, as Newton said on the shoulders of giants, right, right? He said it a bit cynically, but it's still true that we all in science, we are learning from each other. We're learning from the broader community, and we're integrating that knowledge as we tackle the challenges that we are exploring.   Michael Hingson ** 16:27 So what got you to go into chemistry when you went into college?   Scott Hanton ** 16:33 That's a good question. So when I was 13 years old, I went on a youth a church group youth trip to another city, and so they split us up, and there were three of us from our group that stayed overnight in a host family. And at dinner that night, the father worked in a pharmaceutical company, and he talked about the work he was doing, and what he was doing was really synthetic chemistry around small molecule drug discovery. And for me, it was absolutely fascinating. I was thrilled at that information. I didn't know any scientists growing up, I had no adult input other than teachers about science, and I can remember going back home and my parents asking me how the trip went. And it's like, it's fantastic. I'm going to be a chemist. And they both looked at me like, what is that? How do you make money from it? How do you get that? My dad was a banker. My mom was a school teacher. They had no scientific background, but that that one conversation, such serendipity, right? One conversation when I was 13 years old, and I came home and said, I'm going to be a chemist, and I've never really deviated from that path. Did you have other siblings? Younger brother and another younger sister?   Michael Hingson ** 17:54 Okay? Did they go into science by any remote chance?   Scott Hanton ** 17:58 Not at all. So they were both seventh grade teachers for more than 30 years. So my brother taught math and English, and my sister teaches social studies.   Michael Hingson ** 18:10 Well, there you go. But that is also important. I actually wanted to teach physics, but jobs and other things and circumstances took me in different directions, but I think the reality is that I ended up going into sales. And what I realized, and it was partly because of a Dale Carnegie sales course I took, but I realized that good sales people are really teachers, because they're really teaching people about products or about things, and they're also sharp enough to recognize what their products might or might not do to help a customer. But that, again, not everyone does that, but so I figure I still was teaching, and today, being a public speaker, traveling the world, talking, of course, about teamwork and other things, it's still all about teaching.   Scott Hanton ** 18:57 I think I've always been a teacher, and if you talk to my coworkers along the way, I enjoy helping people. I enjoy sharing my knowledge. There's always been a teacher inside but only in this job as the editorial director at lab manager have I really been able to do it directly. So we've developed what we call the lab manager Academy, and I create e learning courses to help lab managers be more successful, and it's been a passion project for me, and it's been a load of fun.   Michael Hingson ** 19:30 And it doesn't get better than that. It's always great when it's a load of fun, yes,   Scott Hanton ** 19:35 well, so you left college and you got a bachelor's and a master's degree, right? No masters for me, that step you went right to the old PhD, yeah. So I went straight. I went graduated from Michigan State. So Michigan State was on terms back in those days. So graduated in June, got married in July, moved to Wisconsin in August. To graduate school at the end of August at the University of Wisconsin. Okay? And my second year as a graduate student, my professor asked me, Do you want to stop and complete a master's? And I said, Wait, tell me about this word stop. And he said, Well, you'd have to finish the Master's requirements and write a thesis, and that's going to take some time. And I said, Do I have to and he said, No, and I don't recommend it. Just keep going forward and finish your PhD. So that's   Michael Hingson ** 20:30 and what does your wife do?   Scott Hanton ** 20:33 So my wife also is in the graduate program at the University of Wisconsin, and she decided that a master's degree was the right answer for her, because she didn't want to be a PhD scientist in XYZ narrow band of science. She wanted to be a master of chemistry. Okay, and so we took different paths through graduate school, but each of us took the path that worked best for us, and each pass has great value, so we're both happy with the choices that we made,   Michael Hingson ** 21:06 and complement each other and also give you, still lots of great things to talk about over dinner.   Scott Hanton ** 21:12 Absolutely. And she took that master's degree, went into the pharmaceutical industry and largely behaved as a librarian in her first part of her career, she wasn't called a librarian, but what she really did was a lot of information integrating, and then moved into the Library Group, and was a corporate librarian for a long time, and then a community librarian. So that path worked brilliantly for her. She also has a Masters of Library Science. So I have one PhD. She has two Master's degree. I have one bachelor's degree. She has two bachelor's degree.   Michael Hingson ** 21:50 Oh, so you can have interesting discussions about who really progressed further,   21:54 absolutely.   Michael Hingson ** 21:57 Well, that's, that's, that's cute, though. Well, I I got my bachelor's and master's. My wife, who I didn't meet until years later, wanted to be a librarian, but she ended up getting a a Master's at USC in so in sociology and and ended up getting a teaching credential and going into teaching, and taught for 10 years, and then she decided she wanted to do something different, and became a travel agent, which she had a lot of fun with. That is different, it is, but she enjoyed it, and along the way, then we got married. It was a great marriage. She was in a wheelchair her whole life. So she read, I pushed, worked out well, complimentary skills, absolutely, which is the way, way it ought to be, you know, and we had a lot of fun with it. Unfortunately, she passed now two and a half years ago, but as I tell people, we were married 40 years, and I'm sure she's monitoring me from somewhere, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it, so I try to just behave. Sounds like good advice. Yeah, probably certainly the safe way to go. But we, we, we had lots of neat discussions, and our our activities and our expertise did, in a lot of ways, complement each other, so it was a lot of fun. And as I said, she went to USC. I enjoyed listening to USC football because I thought that that particular college team had the best announcers in the business, least when when I was studying in Southern California, and then when we got married, we learned the the day we got married, the wedding was supposed to start at four, and it didn't start till later because people weren't showing up for the wedding. And we learned that everybody was sitting out in their cars waiting for the end of the USC Notre Dame game. And we knew that God was on our side when we learned that SC beat the snot out of Notre Dame. So there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Oh gosh, the rivalries we face. So what did you do after college?   Scott Hanton ** 24:09 So did my PhD at the University of Wisconsin. And one of the nice things, a fringe benefit of going to a big, important program to do your PhD, is that recruiters come to you. And so I was able to do 40 different, four, zero, 40 different interviews on campus without leaving Madison. And one of those interviews was with a company called Air Products. And that worked out, and they hired me. And so we moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania to go to work. I went to work at Air Products and and Helen found a role in the pharmaceutical industry at Merck. And so we did that for a long time. I was initially a research expert, a PhD expert doing lasers and materials and analytical stuff. And over the years. I progressed up the ladder from researcher to supervisor to what did we call it, group head to Section Manager, to operations manager, and ultimately to General Manager.   Michael Hingson ** 25:13 Well, at least being in Allentown, you were close to a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Yes, that is true. That was the closest to one to where we lived in New Jersey, so we visited it several times. That's how I know   Scott Hanton ** 25:26 about it. Maybe we were there at the same time. Michael, maybe this isn't our first. It's   Michael Hingson ** 25:31 very possible. But we enjoyed Cracker Barrel and enjoyed touring around Pennsylvania. So I should have asked, What prompted you to go to the University of Wisconsin to do your your graduate work, as opposed to staying in Michigan. So   Scott Hanton ** 25:47 my advisor at Michigan State, our advisor at Michigan State, told us, here's the top five schools, graduate programs in chemistry, apply to them all. Go to the one you get into. And so I got into three. Helen got into two. The one that was the same was Wisconsin. So that's where we went, yeah?   Michael Hingson ** 26:09 Well, then no better logic and argument than that.   Scott Hanton ** 26:14 It was a great Madison. Wisconsin is a beautiful city. It one of the things I really liked about the chemistry program there then, and it's still true now, is how well the faculty get along together so many collaborative projects and just friendliness throughout the hallways. And yes, they are all competing at some level for grant support, but they get along so well, and that makes it for a very strong community,   Michael Hingson ** 26:41 and it probably also means that oftentimes someone who's applying for something can enlist support from other people who are willing to help.   Scott Hanton ** 26:50 And as a graduate student, it meant that I had more than one professor that I could go to my advisor. There was a whole group of advisors who ran joint group meetings and would give us advice about our work or our writing or our approach, or just because we needed a pep talk, because completing a PhD is hard. Yeah, right, so that community was really important to me, and it's something I took away that when I started my industrial career, I had seen the value of community, and I wanted to build stronger communities wherever I went, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 27:26 So what does a company, does air products do   Scott Hanton ** 27:31 that's sort of in the name, right? They're an industrial gas company. Got some of their big, biggest products are taking air and separating it into its components of nitrogen, oxygen, oxygen, argon, whatever, right? But at that time, they also had a chemicals business and a semiconductor business, or electronics business. So there was a lot of chemistry going on, although a lot of my work colleagues were chemical engineers who were working on the gasses side of the business, we had significant number of chemistry, sorts material science, sorts of people who are working on the chemicals side. Now, over time, Air Products divested those businesses, and now it's much more of a true industrial gas company. But I had the opportunity to work in an integrated science company that did all sorts of things.   Michael Hingson ** 28:23 Yeah, and as as we know, certainly a little helium never hurt anyone.   Scott Hanton ** 28:30 No little helium, you know, raises people's spirits, it   Michael Hingson ** 28:34 does and their voices, it does. I I've visited helium tanks many times at UC Irvine when they had liquid helium, which was certainly a challenge because of how cold it had to be. But occasionally we would open a valve and little cold but useful helium gas would escape   Scott Hanton ** 28:56 very cold. Please be safe. Cryogens are are dangerous materials, and we gotta make sure we handle them with due respect.   Michael Hingson ** 29:05 Yeah, well, we, we all did and and didn't take too many chances. So it worked out pretty well. So you stayed in Allentown and you stayed with Air Products for how long   Scott Hanton ** 29:19 I was in Air Products for 20 years. So the analytical group that I was part of, we were about 92 or 93 people when I joined the company, when I just left after earning my PhD. After 20 years, that group was down to about 35 just progressive series of decisions that made the department smaller, and as the Department got smaller and smaller, we were worried about our abilities to sustain our work. And so a dear friend and a key colleague, Paula McDaniel, and I, worked to try to see what other kind of opportunities there were. Yeah. And so we reached out to a contract research organization called Intertech to see if they would be interested in maybe acquiring our analytical department. And when we called them, and by the way, we called them before we talked to our boss about it, she forgave us later, but when we called the guy on the end of the phone said, Wait a minute, let me get your file. And it's like, what you have a file on Air Products, analytical, really? Why? Well, it turned out that they had a file, and that they had an active Merger and Acquisition Group, and they wanted an integrated analytical department on the east coast of the US. And so we engaged in negotiation, and ultimately this analytical department was sold by Air Products to Intertech. So on Friday, we're a little cog in a giant engine of an global, international company, and our funding comes from Vice Presidents. And on Monday, we're a standalone business of 35 people, we need to write quotes in order to make money. So it was an enormous challenge to transition from a service organization to a business. But oh my goodness, did we learn a lot,   Michael Hingson ** 31:13 certainly a major paradigm shift,   Scott Hanton ** 31:18 and I was lucky that I lost the coin flip, and Paula won, and she said, I want to be business development director. And I said, thank God. So she went off to be the key salesperson, and Paula was utterly brilliant as a technical salesperson, and I became the operations manager, which allowed me to keep my hands dirty with the science and to work with the scientists and to build a system and a community that allowed us to be successful in a CRO world.   Michael Hingson ** 31:49 So at that time, when you became part, part of them, the new company, were you or the standalone business? Were you working in lab? Still yourself?   Scott Hanton ** 32:01 Yes. So I had the title Operations Manager and all of the scientific staff reported into me, but I was still the technical expert in some mass spectrometry techniques, particularly MALDI and also tough Sims, and so I still had hands on lab responsibility that I needed to deliver. And over time, I was able to train some people to take some of those responsibilities off. But when the weight of the world was particularly heavy, the place for me to go was in the lab and do some experiments.   Michael Hingson ** 32:34 Yeah, still so important to be able to keep your hand in into to know and understand. I know I had that same sort of need being the manager of an office and oftentimes working with other people who were the engineers, coming from a little bit of a technical background as well. I worked to always make sure I knew all I could about the products that I was dealing with and selling, and my sales people who worked for me constantly asked, How come, you know, all this stuff, and we don't then, my response always was, did you read the product bulletin that came out last week? Or have you kept up on the product bulletins? Because it's all right there, whether I actually physically repaired products or not, I knew how to do it. And so many times when I was involved in working with some of our engineers, I remember a few times our field support people, and we were working out of New Jersey, and then in New York at the time, in the World Trade Center, we had some customers up at Lockheed Martin, up in Syria, Rochester, I think it was. And the guys would go up, and then they'd call me on the phone, and we'd talk about it, and between us, we came up with some bright ideas. And I remember one day, all of a sudden, I get this phone call, and these guys are just bouncing off the walls, because whatever it was that was going on between them and me, we figured it out, and they put it in play and made it work, and they were all just as happy as clams at high tide, which is the way it ought to   Scott Hanton ** 34:13 be. It's great to work in a team that finds success. The longer I was in technical management, the more I enjoyed the success of the team. It didn't need to be my success anymore that helping the scientists be successful in their roles was truly satisfying,   Michael Hingson ** 34:33 and that helped you, by definition, be more successful in your role.   Scott Hanton ** 34:36 And no question, it could be seen as a selfish byproduct, but the fact is that it still felt really good.   Michael Hingson ** 34:43 Yeah, I hear you, because I know for me, I never thought about it as I've got to be successful. It's we've got problems to solve. Let's do it together. And I always told people that we're a team. And I have told every salesperson. I ever hired. I'm not here to boss you around. You've convinced me that you should be able to sell our products, and sometimes I found that they couldn't. But I said my job is to work with you to figure out how I can enhance what you do, and what skills do I bring to add value to you, because we've got to work together, and the people who understood that and who got it were always the most successful people that I ever had in my teams.   Scott Hanton ** 35:30 One of the things I strive to do as a leader of any organization is to understand the key strengths of the people on the team and to try to craft their roles in such a way that they spend the majority of their time executing their strengths. Yeah. I've also discovered that when I truly investigate poor performance, there's often a correlation between poor performance and people working in their weaknesses. Yeah, and if we can shift those jobs, change those roles, make change happen so that people can work more often in their strengths, then good things happen.   Michael Hingson ** 36:07 And if you can bring some of your skills into the mix and augment what they do, so much the better.   Scott Hanton ** 36:16 Yeah, because I'm just another member of the team, my role is different, but I need to also apply my strengths to the problems and be wary of my weaknesses, because as the leader of the organization, my words carried undue weight. Yeah, and if, if I was speaking or acting in a space where I was weak, people would still do what I said, because I had the most authority, and that was just a lose, lose proposition   Michael Hingson ** 36:43 by any standard. And and when you, when you operated to everyone's strengths, it always was a win. Yep, which is so cool. So you went to Intertech, and how long were you there?   Scott Hanton ** 36:57 I was at Intertech for 10 years, and work I can if you know, for any listeners out there who work in the CRO world, it is a tough business. It is a grind working in that business, yeah? So it was a lot of long hours and testy customers and shortages of materials and equipment that was a hard a hard a hard road to plow,   Michael Hingson ** 37:22 yeah, yeah, it gets to be frustrating. Sometimes it's what you got to do, but it still gets to be frustrating gets to be a challenge. The best part   Scott Hanton ** 37:32 for me was I had a great team. We had senior and junior scientists. They were good people. They worked hard. They fundamentally, they cared about the outcomes. And so it was a great group of people to work with. But the contract lab business is a tough business. Yeah, so when covid came, you know, the pandemic settles in, all the restrictions are coming upon us. I was tasked as the General Manager of the business with setting up all the protocols, you know, how are we going to meet the number of people this basing the masks, you know, how could we work with and we were essential as a lab, so we had to keep doing what we were doing. And it took me about a week to figure non stop work to figure out what our protocols were going to be, and the moment I turned them into my boss, then I got laid off. So what you want to do in a time of crisis is you want to let go of the the general manager, the safety manager, the quality manager and the Chief Scientist, because those are four people that you don't need during times of stress or challenge or crisis. On the plus side for me, getting laid off was a bad hour. It hurt my pride, but after an hour, I realized that all the things that I'd been stressing about for years trying to run this business were no longer my problem. Yeah, and I found that it was a tremendous weight lifted off my shoulders to not feel responsible for every problem and challenge that that business had.   Michael Hingson ** 39:14 And that's always a good blessing when you when you figure that out and don't worry about the the issues anymore. That's a good thing. It was certainly   Scott Hanton ** 39:25 good for me. Yeah, so I'm not going to recommend that people go get laid off. No world to get fired. But one problem that I had is because Paula and I worked to create that business, I sort of behaved like an owner, but was treated like an employee. And my recommendation to people is, remember, you're an employee, find some personal boundaries that protect you from the stress of the business, because you're not going to be rewarded or treated like an owner.   Michael Hingson ** 39:58 Yeah, because you're not because. Or not.   Scott Hanton ** 40:01 So I got laid off. It was in the height of the pandemic. So, you know, I'm too busy of a human being to sort of sit in a rocking chair and watch the birds fly by. That's not my style or my speed. So I started a consulting business, and that was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed doing the consulting work, but I learned something really important about myself, and that's that while I can sell and I can be an effective salesperson, I don't like selling, and as a company of one, when I didn't sell, I didn't make any money, yeah, and so I needed to figure out something else to do, because I really hated selling, and I wasn't doing it. I was procrastinating, and that made the business be unpredictable and very choppy   Michael Hingson ** 40:51 in that company of one, that guy who was working for you wasn't really doing all that you wanted.   Scott Hanton ** 40:56 Exactly the Yeah, you know me as the founder, was giving me as the salesman, a poor performance review was not meeting objectives. So I had a long time volunteer relationship with lab manager magazine. I had been writing articles for them and speaking for them in webinars and in conferences for a long time, probably more than 10 years, I would say, and they asked me as a consultant to produce a a to a proposal to create the lab manager Academy. So the the founder and owner of the the company, the lab X Media Group, you really saw the value of an academy, and they needed it done. They needed it done. They couldn't figure it out themselves. So I wrote the proposal. I had a good idea of how to do it, but I was new to consulting, and I struggled with, how do I get paid for this? And I had four ideas, but I didn't like them, so I slept on it, and in the morning I had a fifth, which said, hire me full time. I sent in the proposal. An hour later, I had a phone call. A week later, I had a job, so that worked out fantastic. And I've really enjoyed my time at lab manager magazine. Great people, fun work. It's really interesting to me to be valued for what I know rather than for what I can do. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 42:23 the two relate. But still, it does need to be more about what you know, what you really bring, as opposed to what you can do, because what you can do in general probably is an offshoot of what you know.   Scott Hanton ** 42:38 So this gives me the opportunity to help lots of people. So on the outside of the company, I'm writing articles, creating courses, giving talks to help lab managers. Because I was a lab manager for a long time, yeah, over 20 years, and I know what those challenges are. I know how hard that job is, and I know how many decisions lab managers need to make, and it's wonderful to be able to share my experience and help them, and I am motivated to help them. So was it hard? Oh, go ahead, on the inside, I'm literally an internal subject matter expert, and so I can coach and teach and help my colleagues with what's the science? What do lab managers really think? How do we pitch this so that it resonates with lab managers, and I think that helps make all of our products better and more successful.   Michael Hingson ** 43:31 So was it hard? Well, I guess best way to put it is that, was it really hard to switch from being a scientist to being a lab manager and then going into being a subject matter expert and really out of the laboratory. So   Scott Hanton ** 43:48 people ask me all the time, Scott, don't you miss being in the lab and doing experiments? And my answer is, I miss being in the lab. And I do miss being in the lab. You know, on very stressful days at Intertech, I'd go in the lab and I'd do an experiment, yeah, because it was fun, and I had more control over the how the experiment was run and what I would learn from it than I did running a business. But the flip side of that is, I do experiments all the time. What I learned as the general manager of a business was the scientific method works. Let's data hypothesis. Let's figure out how to test it. Let's gather data, and let's see if the hypothesis stands or falls. And we ran a business that way, I think, pretty successfully. And even now, in in media and publishing, we still run experiments all the time. And it's kind of funny that most of my editorial colleagues that I work with, they think my favorite word is experiment. My favorite word is still why, but we talk all the time now about doing experiments, and that was a new thing for them, but now we can do continual improvement more in a more dedicated way, and we do it a lot faster. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 45:00 yeah. So what's the hardest thing you think about being a lab manager?   Scott Hanton ** 45:06 I think the hardest thing about let me answer that with two. I'm not going to be able to narrow it down to one, so I'll give you two. The first one is you transform, maybe one day to the next, from really being in control of your science and working with whether it's animals or rocks or electrons or chemicals, whatever you're working with, having a great degree of knowledge and a lot of control, and the next day, you're hurting cats. And so it's about that transition from having control over your destiny to influencing people to get the work done, and working with people instead of working with experiments, that's really hard. The second is, as a lab manager, there's endless decisions, and so combating decision fatigue is a big deal, and everybody in the lab depends upon you for the decisions you make. And it's not that every decision has to be perfect, you know, that's just a different failure mode if you try to make perfect decisions, but every decision needs to be made promptly. And as a scientist, I could always make more data in order to make a better decision, but as a lab manager, I would often only have maybe 40 or 50% of the data I wanted, and a decision had to be made. And getting comfortable making decisions in the face of uncertainty is really hard.   Michael Hingson ** 46:29 So certainly, being a lab manager or Well, dealing with managers in the way we're talking about it here, has to be very stressful. How do you how do you cope with the stress?   Scott Hanton ** 46:42 So I think ways to cope with the stress successfully is, first of all, you've got to take care of yourself. You know, we've all flown on airplanes, and what is the safety person in the aisle or on the video? Do oxygen masks will fall from the ceiling, and what do we do with them? We put them on before we help somebody else, right? We all know that. But in the workplace, especially as a manager, it's hard to remember that as we care for our team and try and take care of our team, there might not be enough time or energy or capacity left to take care of ourselves, but if we don't fill that gas tank every day doing something, then we can't help our team. And so one way to deal with the stress is to make sure that you take care of yourself. So   Michael Hingson ** 47:28 what do you do? How do you deal with that? So   Scott Hanton ** 47:31 for me, ways that I can reinvigorate is one. I like being outside and get my hands dirty. So I'm not really a gardener, but I call myself a yard dinner. So I grow grass and I grow flowers, and I trim trees, and I want to go outside, and I want to see immediate return on my effort, and I want it to be better than when I started. And it's good if I have to clean from under my fingernails when I'm doing it. Another thing I like to do is I play all kinds of games I'm happy to play, sorry, with little kids, or I'll play complicated strategy games with people who want to sit at a table for three or four hours at a time. Yeah? And that allows my brain to spin and to work but on something completely different. Yeah. And another thing that's been important for me, especially when I was a lab manager is to be involved in youth coaching, so I coached kids soccer and basketball and baseball teams, and it's just beautiful to be out there on a field with a ball, with kids. And you know, the worries of the world just aren't there. The kids don't know anything about them. And it's fun to work with the ones who are really good, but it's equally fun to work with the ones who have never seen the ball before, and to help them do even the most basic things. And that kind of giving back and paying it forward, that sort of stuff fills my tank.   Michael Hingson ** 48:51 Yeah, I empathize a lot with with that. For me, I like to read. I've never been much of a gardener, but I also collect, as I mentioned before, old radio shows, and I do that because I'm fascinated by the history and all the things I learned from what people did in the 2030s, 40s and 50s, being on radio, much Less getting the opportunity to learn about the technical aspects of how they did it, because today it's so different in terms of how one edits, how one processes and deals with sounds and so on, but it's but it's fun to do something just totally different than way maybe what your normal Job would be, and and I do love to interact with with people. I love to play games, too. I don't get to do nearly as much of it as I'd like, but playing games is, is a lot of fun,   Scott Hanton ** 49:52 and I agree, and it it's fun, it's diverting, it's it helps me get into a flow so that I'm focused on. Me on one thing, and I have no idea how much time has gone by, and I don't really care. You know, people who play games with me might question this. I don't really care if I win or lose. Certainly I want to win, but it's more important to me that I play well, and if somebody plays better, good for   Michael Hingson ** 50:14 them, great. You'll learn from it. Exactly. Do you play   Scott Hanton ** 50:18 chess? I have played chess. I've played a lot of chess. What I've learned with chess is that I'm not an excellent I'm a good player, but not an excellent player. And when I run into excellent players, they will beat me without even breaking a sweat.   Michael Hingson ** 50:34 And again, in theory, you learn something from that.   Scott Hanton ** 50:37 What I found is that I don't really want to work that hard and yeah. And so by adding an element of chance or probability to the game, the people who focus on chess, where there are known answers and known situations, they get thrown off by the uncertainty of the of the flip the card or roll the dice. And my brain loves that uncertainty, so I tend to thrive. Maybe it's from my time in the lab with elements of uncertainty, where the chess players wilt under elements of uncertainty, and it's again, it's back to our strengths, right? That's something that I'm good at, so I'm gonna go do it. I've   Michael Hingson ** 51:20 always loved Trivial Pursuit. That's always been a fun game that I enjoy playing. I   Scott Hanton ** 51:25 do love Trivial Pursuit. I watch Jeopardy regularly. A funny story, when we moved into our new house in Pennsylvania, it was a great neighborhood. Loved the neighbors there. When we first moved in, they invited my wife and I to a game night. Excellent. We love games. We're going to play Trivial Pursuit. Awesome like Trivial Pursuit. We're going to play as couples. Bad idea, right? Let's play boys against the girls, or, let's say, random draws. No, we're playing as couples. Okay, so we played as couples. Helen and I won every game by a large margin. We were never invited back for game night. Yeah, invited back for lots of other things, but not game night.   Michael Hingson ** 52:06 One of the things that, and I've talked about it with people on this podcast before, is that all too often, when somebody reads a question from a trivial pursuit card, an answer pops in your head, then you went, Oh, that was too easy. That can't be the right answer. So you think about it, and you answer with something else, but invariably, that first answer was always the correct answer.   Scott Hanton ** 52:32 Yes, I'm I have learned to trust my intuition. Yeah. I learned, as a research scientist, that especially in talking to some of my peers, who are very dogmatic, very step by step scientists. And they lay out the 20 steps to that they felt would be successful. And they would do one at a time, one through 20. And that made them happy for me, I do one and two, and then I'd predict where that data led me, and I do experiment number seven, and if it worked, I'm off to eight. And so I they would do what, one step at a time, one to 20, and I'd sort of do 127, 1420, yeah. And that I learned that that intuition was powerful and valuable, and I've learned to trust it. And in my lab career, it served me really well. But also as a manager, it has served me well to trust my intuition, and at least to listen to it. And if I need to analyze it, I can do that, but I'm going to listen to it,   Michael Hingson ** 53:31 and that's the important thing, because invariably, it's going to give you useful information, and it may be telling you not what to do, but still trusting it and listening to it is so important, I've found that a lot over the years,   Scott Hanton ** 53:47 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink, where he talks about the power of the subconscious, and his claim is that the subconscious is 100,000 times smarter than our conscious brain, and I think when we are trusting our intuition, we're tapping into that super computer that's in our skulls. If you want to learn more, read blank. It's a great story.   Michael Hingson ** 54:10 I hear you. I agree. How can people learn to be better leaders and managers?   Scott Hanton ** 54:18 So I think it's there's really three normal ways that people do this. One is the power of experiment, right? And I did plenty of that, and I made tons of errors. It's painful. It's irritating, trial and error, but I used to tell people at Intertech that I was the general manager because I'd made the most mistakes, which gave me the most opportunity to learn. It was also partly because a lot of my peers wanted nothing to do with the job. You know, they wanted to be scientists. Another way is we, we get coached and mentored by people around us, and that is awesome if you have good supervisors, and it's tragic if you have bad supervisors, because you don't know any better and you take for granted. That the way it's been done is the way it needs to be done, and that prevents us from being generative leaders and questioning the status quo. So there's problems there, too. And I had both good and bad supervisors during my career. I had some awful, toxic human beings who were my supervisors, who did damage to me, and then I had some brilliant, caring, empathetic people who raised me up and helped me become the leader that I am today. So it's a bit of a crap shoot. The third way is go out and learn it from somebody who's done it right, and that's why we generated the lab manager Academy to try to codify all the mistakes I made and what are the learnings from them? And when I'm talking with learners who are in the program, it's we have a huge positive result feedback on our courses. And what I talk to people about who take our courses is I'm glad you appreciate what we've put together here. That makes me feel good. I'm glad it's helping you. But when these are my mistakes and the answers to my mistakes, when you make mistakes, you need to in the future, go make some courses and teach people what the lessons were from your mistakes and pay it forward. Yeah. So I recommend getting some training.   Michael Hingson ** 56:17 What's the difference between management and leadership?   Scott Hanton ** 56:21 I particularly love a quote from Peter Drucker. So Peter Drucker was a professor in California. You may have heard of him before.   Michael Hingson ** 56:29 I have. I never had the opportunity to meet him, but I read.   Scott Hanton ** 56:34 I didn't either material. I've read his books, and I think he is an insightful human being, yes. So the quote goes like this, management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. So as a technical manager, there's a bunch of things we have to get right. We have to get safety right. We have to get quality right. There's an accuracy and precision that we need to get right for our outcomes and our results. Those are management tasks, but leadership is about doing the right things. And the interesting thing about that definition is it doesn't require a title or a role or any level of authority. So anyone can be a leader if you're consistently doing the right things, you are exhibiting leadership, and that could be from the person sweeping the floors or the person approving the budget, or anyone in between.   Michael Hingson ** 57:33 Yeah, I've heard that quote from him before, and absolutely agree with it. It makes a whole lot of sense.   Scott Hanton ** 57:41 Other definitions that I've seen trying to distinguish management and leadership tend to use the words manage and lead, and I don't like definitions that include the words that they're trying to define. They become circular at some level. This one, I think, is clear about it, what its intention is, and for me, it has worked through my career, and so the separation is valuable. I have authority. I'm the manager. I have accountability to get some stuff right, but anyone can lead, and everyone can lead, and the organization works so much better when it's full of leaders   Michael Hingson ** 58:21 and leaders who are willing to recognize when they bring something to the table, or if someone else can add value in ways that they can't, to be willing to let the other individual take the leadership position for a while.   Scott Hanton ** 58:40 Absolutely, and you know that really comes down to building an environment and a culture that's supportive. And so Amy Edmondson has written extensively on the importance of psychological safety, and that psychological safety hinges on what you just said, right? If the guy who sweeps the floor has an observation about the organization. Do they feel safe to go tell the person in charge that this observation, and if they feel safe, and if that leader is sufficiently vulnerable and humble to listen with curiosity about that observation, then everybody benefits, yeah, and the more safe everyone feels. We think about emotion. Emotional safety is they anyone can bring their best self to work, and psychological safety is they can contribute their ideas and observations with no threat of retaliation, then we have an environment where we're going to get the best out of everybody, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 59:46 which is the way it it really ought to be. And all too often we don't necessarily see it, but that is the way it ought   Scott Hanton ** 59:53 to be. Too many people are worried about credit, or, I don't know, worried about things that I don't see. Yeah, and they waste human potential, right? They they don't open their doors to hire anybody. They they judge people based on what they look like instead of who they are, or they box people in into roles, and don't let them flourish and Excel. And whenever you're doing those kinds of things, you're wasting human potential. And businesses, science and business are too hard to waste human potential. We need to take advantage of everything that people are willing to give. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:33 we've been doing this for quite a while already today. So I'm going to ask as a kind of a last question, what, what advice do you want to leave for people to think about going forward in their lives and in their careers?   Scott Hanton ** 1:00:48 So I was participating in a LinkedIn chat today where a professor was asking the question, what sort of advice would you wish you got when you were 21 Okay, so it was an interesting thread, and there was one contributor to the thread who said something I thought was particularly valuable. And she said, attitude matters. Attitude matters. We can't control what happens to us, but we can control how we deal with it and how we respond, right? And so I think if we can hold our attitude as our accountability, and we can direct our strengths and our talents to applying them against the challenges that the business or the science or the lab or the community faces, and we can go in with some positive attitude and positive desire for for change and improvement, and we can be vulnerable and humble enough to accept other people's ideas and to interact through discussion and healthy debate. Then everything's better. I also like Kelleher his quote he was the co founder of Southwest Airlines, and he said, when you're hiring, hire for attitude, train for skill. Attitude is so important. So I think, understand your attitude. Bring the attitude you want, the attitude you value, the attitude that's that's parallel to your core values. And then communicate to others about their attitude and how it's working or not working for them.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:31 And hopefully, if they have a positive or good enough attitude, they will take that into consideration and grow because of it absolutely   Scott Hanton ** 1:02:41 gives everybody the chance to be the best they can be.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:47 Well, Scott, this has been wonderful. If people want to reach out to you, how can they do that?   Scott Hanton ** 1:02:51 So LinkedIn is great. I've provided Michael my LinkedIn connection. So I would love to have people connect to me on LinkedIn or email. S Hanson at lab manager.com love to have interactions with the folks out there.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:08 Well, I want to thank you for spending so much time. We'll have to do more of this.   Scott Hanton ** 1:03:13 Michael, I really enjoyed it. This was a fun conversation. It was stimulating. You asked good questio

Welcome back to What's New at CFI on FinPod! In this exciting episode, we're joined by Paul Barnhurst, The FP&A Guy, as he introduces CFI's brand-new course: FP&A Tool Selection.Are you an FP&A professional struggling with chaotic Excel models, disconnected reports, or overwhelmed by the sheer number of available planning tools? This course is your ultimate guide! Paul walks us through why choosing the right tool is more strategic than ever and how to navigate the exploding FP&A software market.In this episode, Paul reveals:Key signs it's time to upgrade from Excel: When do broken models, collaboration issues, and countless budget versions signal a need for a dedicated FP&A tool?Navigating the 150+ FP&A tools: Frameworks to narrow down your options based on desired functionality (spreadsheet-native vs. complete replacement), company size (small to enterprise), industry focus, and platform capabilities.The critical groundwork for tool selection: Why building robust requirements, writing a solid problem statement, and managing a rigorous RFP process are essential to avoid the "wow factor" and ensure a good fit.Paul's personal must-have productivity tools (beyond Excel!): Discover his favorite non-FP&A tools like ClickUp, ChatGPT, and Claude, and how he leverages them for productivity, research, and even devil's advocacy in decision-making.This course is a must-have for anyone evaluating new FP&A software or seeking a smarter process for optimizing their finance tech stack. Learn from the expert and make informed decisions to empower your finance career!

On this episode Pat sits down with Gaurav Biswas, Co-Founder & CEO of leading freight forwarder and logistics scaleup Trukker. We dive into the company's journey from their initial launch in India, focusing on MENA scaling to 200M+ in revenues, servicing 1,500 clients across 9 countries and raising $300M+ from the likes of ADQ, Ruya and Investcorp You will learn aboutScoping the opportunity and setting your target focusScaling in a fragmented, archaic industry picking your battles and finding your sweet spotLet expansion be driven on the back of your customer needs Excel doesn't lie if the numbers don't add up you are on the wrong track 

Send us your thoughtsIn this Transformation Troubleshooter edition of Financial Transformation Live, hosts Hannah Munro and Neil Lynchehaun tackle real-world finance transformation challenges shared by listeners. From project overload to spreadsheet sprawl, they offer practical strategies to help finance leaders navigate complexity with confidence.In this episode, they cover:How to manage multiple overlapping transformation projects without burning out your teamApproaches to reprioritising and phasing work to avoid chaos and maintain momentumWhat to do when a new CFO questions an in-progress finance system rolloutThe importance of focusing on outcomes—not just solutions—when defending project decisionsHow to engage teams stuck in Excel and manual processes without triggering resistancePractical ways to build buy-in, uncover hidden capabilities, and lead change effectivelyLinks mentionedPrevious session: Future Proofing your Finance Software ArchitectureConnect with Hannah MunroConnect with Neil Lynchehaun Explore more Finance Transformation Live sessionsWhich Sage Product is Right For You Quiz!Our Implementation Options and MethodologyCustomer Success StoriesBook a discovery call Explore other CFO 4.0 Podcast episodes here. Subscribe to our Podcast!

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So many workplace struggles can be alleviated by starting with mindset. What is your current set of beliefs and expectations? How is this impacting your ability to feel content and excel? Shift your mindset to better excel at work by believing it to see it, focusing on MY career, MY responsibility, realizing you can lead at any level, and managing your energy. We wanted you to learn from the Mindset Monk himself, so we welcomed on V. Krishna Lakkineni. He's the CEO of ROI Media Works, an Investor, TEDx speaker, and Author of 3 Amazon Best Sellers. For more about ForthRight Business by ForthRight People or for 1:1 consultation, check us out at ForthRight-Business.com And as always, if you need Strategic Counsel, don't hesitate to reach out to us at: ForthRight-People.com FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/forthrightpeople.marketingagency INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/forthrightpeople/ LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/company/forthright-people/ RESOURCES https://www.forthright-people.com/resources VIRTUAL CONSULTANCY https://www.forthright-people.com/shop

Chad Dittberner of Werner talks about supply chain sustainability - challenges, alternative fuels, cost, partnerships, and why it's a strategic advantage.     IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:   [04.09] Chad's 32-year career at Werner, and an introduction to their Innovation Council and what it does. [06.37] The biggest sustainability challenges for the industry, and for Werner clients. “It can be messy aligning goals and initiatives. The overall pressure to reduce greenhouse gases is immense. There's progress in so many different things… But solutions aren't widely available at scale, especially in long-haul operations… And most of those solutions come with a premium cost.” [10.13] Why sustainability is good business, not just the right thing to do, and why it's a strategic advantage for Werner. [12.23] How Werner are helping organizations approach their sustainability efforts, a closer look at alternative fuels like bio and renewable, and what a future-ready fleet might look like. “What people often forget… is that the newest trucks on the roadway are very efficient and their emissions are much lower. So we believe in keeping the cleanest trucks on the road. Our average age of truck is just over two years old, the industry average is six plus.” [19.29] The impact of sustainability investments in both the short and longer term. “It's tough. We do a lot of exercises, and a lot them end with: ‘Whoa, I didn't want to pay any more money for that.' But we have to share that cost if it's going to work. Short-term, there are some operational costs incurred to get emissions savings and efficiency gains. But we're seeing many shippers who are prioritizing partnerships with carriers that can demonstrate sustainability progress.” [21.11] The importance of data for making smart decisions, and how Werner give real-time insight into sustainability issues like emissions. “It's a lot of information, it's a daily capture of fuel economies… and you're talking about millions of miles run every day. It becomes very difficult to do it in an Excel spreadsheet!” [23.27] How Werner use data to scorecard and report their own sustainability performance, and demonstrate their successes to inspire others. [26.11] Why it's so important that logistics solutions are scalable and built for sustainability. “To get real impact, efficiency requires solutions… And ultimately all of our big shippers want real solutions. Not just one lane, not just once in a while – they want it every day… It has to be scalable.” [29.17] Two case studies highlighting how Werner helped a food client overcome challenges to successfully establish an electric fleet, and helped another client add devices to trailers and save 3% in fuel economy. “Companies have different themes of what they're working towards. So we need to know where we are today and where we're looking to go tomorrow.” [33.52] From solar charging to carbon capture, the sustainability innovations Werner have their eye on for the future.   RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED:   Head over to Werner's website to find out more and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Werner and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, or X (Twitter), or you can connect with Chad on LinkedIn. If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more from Werner, check out: 477: 95% of Cybersercurity Breaches Start With Email 446: Keep America Moving, with Werner 460: Discover the Limitless Value of Dedicated Freight in Today's Market, with Werner

Episode: 00277 Released on July 28, 2025 Description: What happens when a 911 dispatcher becomes the driving force behind an entire analysis and intelligence center? This week on Analyst Talk, host Jason Elder sits down with Jennifer Scavotto of the Seminole County Sheriff's Office to explore her 20-year journey in law enforcement. Jennifer shares how a spontaneous decision led to a lifelong passion for analysis, beginning as a 911 operator and rising through the ranks to become manager of the agency's Analysis and Intelligence Center. From building Excel workbooks during a multimillion-dollar gambling investigation to launching a real-time crime center with no additional budget, Jennifer reflects on defining moments, leadership lessons, and the evolution of crime analysis. Tune in for stories of grit, growth, and geekery including her favorite badge stories and a bonus segment on Disney vs. Universal!

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In this powerful episode, we dive deep into the transformative journey of Kidane—from wearing leg braces as a child to becoming an elite athlete and now a high-performance coach. We explore the identity shifts, mental discipline, and defining moments that forged his mindset. Find Kidane here:IG-https://www.instagram.com/_kidane__/Tik Tok- https://www.tiktok.com/@_kidane_Find me here:Apple Podcast/Spotify (Audio): https://anchor.fm/ezekiel-funchesMeditation Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVs_dLp5JfFnwSnu2Dsv8QIG: https://instagram.com/ezekiel011?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Outro Music CreditsLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...Darren Curtis- Camelot Monastery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Vgb8UC07IBusiness inquiries/Collabs:Expandedmindsbusiness@gmail.comFeel free to Donate:https://buymeacoffee.com/expandedmindshttps://www.paypal.me/EzekielFunches

2 Corin. 8: 1-15: Excel in Giving!  Which kind of a person are you- a giver or a taker?  Come and see a great example of people in the Bible who were GREAT GIVERS but were very poor people themselves, AND they were happy to give! If you are blessed by today's Bible study, please support my channel by liking, subscribing, commenting, and sharing with your friends and family!  I am not a Pastor, and agree with God's word that women are not supposed to be Pastors.  However, all people are called to share the gospel. It is perfectly acceptable and Biblical for women to lead Bibles studies outside the church as an ancillary addition to the church, and especially if it is a viable avenue for study of the Word on a daily basis, like I'm doing on this show, and paving the way for all of us to be closer to the Lord and become more knowledgeable of the Bible.  If you care to contribute to my work with the Daily Bible study and sharing the Gospel, as part of your tithes and offerings, you can do so through PayPal by sending it to my PayPal address of: ReneHoladay@gmail.com  Thank you for watching and God Bless you all! ;() --------------------- The primary study bible that Rene' uses is the 'Spirit-filled Life Bible, by Jack Hayford, and is available in hard cover or faux leather on Amazon at:  https://amzn.to/434fBnQ You can watch this episode on Youtube at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v9ekffu7ds Please be sure to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, and SHARE!

Yesterday, we focused on the death of the American way of work. But today the news on the AI front isn't quite as dire. According to the New York based economic historian Dror Poleg, AI will be too busy to take your job. That's the provocative thesis of Poleg's upcoming book focused on the radical opportunities in our AI age. He argues that AI's massive energy consumption will actually preserve human employment, as society redirects computing power toward critical tasks rather than simply replacing human labor with algorithms. Unlike Yuval Noah Harari's pessimistic "useless class" prediction, Poleg cheerfully envisions a future where everyone becomes valuable through constant experimentation and human connectivity. He believes we're entering an era where work becomes indistinguishable from leisure, interpersonal skills command premium value, and the economy depends on widespread human creativity and feedback to determine what's truly valuable in an increasingly unpredictable world. That's the electrifying truth about our AI era. For Poleg, AI represents something even more transformative than electrification itself—a utility that will flow like water and affect everything, reshaping not just how we work but the very nature of economic value and human purpose.1. AI's Energy Demands Will Preserve Human Jobs"Energy is too valuable to waste on tasks humans can do... we as an economy, as a society, will basically want to throw as much electricity as possible at the things that matter up to the point that maybe automating different tasks that human can do... we'll decide to take electricity away from today's computer, even from people using Excel today and saying, Okay, that electricity is more valuable somewhere else."2. AI Is More Transformative Than Electrification"I would say it's more significant... I think it's at least as significant as electricity and electrification. And in many ways... it is more of a utility than anything else for better or worse. So it will flow like water and it will affect everything."3. Everyone Will Become Valuable Through Experimentation"My view of the future is actually exactly the opposite [of Harari's useless class]. I think that in the future everyone will be valuable and almost any activity would be valuable because we will not have any idea what is or who is valuable... as a society we will need as many people as possible to constantly do whatever they feel like, create whatever they want to create."4. Work Will Merge With Leisure and Human Connection"The general trend that I see is that work will become increasingly indistinguishable from leisure if we're looking long-term... we'll see more of these types of jobs, basically giving each other attention, helping each other know that we exist and sharing with each other more and more specialized and granular types of... service that only we can give to each other."5. Physical, In-Person Interactions Will Become Premium"If you wanna know if something is true, the only way to know that is to be there or to know someone who was there... I think that also pushes us back towards offline. In-person physical interactions that will be at a premium." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

En la primavera de 1940, Francia se sentía segura. Había pasado las dos décadas anteriores invirtiendo el equivalente a miles de millones de euros en la construcción de una maravilla de la ingeniería defensiva: la Línea Maginot. No era un muro; era una idea hecha hormigón y acero. Fortalezas subterráneas conectadas por trenes internos, cúpulas de artillería retráctiles que emergían de la tierra como setas de metal, y campos de tiro entrelazados con una precisión matemática. El orgullo de una nación herida, forjado para garantizar que el horror de la Gran Guerra jamás se repitiera. Estaba diseñada para detener al enemigo en seco, para desangrarlo en un asalto frontal inútil. Era la respuesta perfecta a la guerra de 1918. Seis semanas después, los soldados alemanes desfilaban por los Campos Elíseos. La Línea Maginot no fracasó por ser débil. Fracasó por ser una obra maestra de la irrelevancia. Mientras un millón y medio de hombres esperaban en sus búnkeres una ofensiva que nunca llegó, el zumbido de los Stukas y el rugido de los Panzers se escuchaban en otra parte. El ejército alemán no intentó atravesar la fortaleza. Simplemente, la rodeó. Atravesaron el "intransitable" bosque de las Ardenas, un lugar que el alto mando francés había descartado por pura falta de imaginación. La mayor fortaleza del mundo no fue derrotada por la fuerza, sino por un cambio de paradigma. Por una nueva idea. Esta historia no trata sobre tanques y trincheras. Trata sobre la peligrosa comodidad de prepararse para la última guerra, sobre la ceguera que produce la experiencia pasada y sobre cómo los sistemas más complejos pueden volverse inútiles, no porque fallen, sino porque el mundo a su alrededor cambia las reglas del juego sin avisar. Y hoy, en los mercados financieros, una nueva Línea Maginot está siendo defendida con una fe inquebrantable. Sus soldados son analistas, gestores de fondos y graduados de las mejores escuelas de negocio. Sus murallas son los múltiplos; sus fosos, los flujos de caja descontados; su artillería, los informes trimestrales y las proyecciones de beneficios. Están perfectamente equipados para luchar la guerra financiera del siglo XX, una guerra de lógica, valor y fundamentales. Pero el enemigo ya no ataca de frente. Una ofensiva relámpago, lanzada desde foros anónimos de Reddit, es capaz de tomar por asalto una cadena de grandes almacenes y convertirla en un campo de batalla especulativo. Un arma psicológica, en forma de una valoración empresarial que desafía la gravedad y la cordura, redefine el valor hasta hacerlo irreconocible, atrayendo capital como un agujero negro. Y mientras tanto, una fuerza aérea de narrativas sobre inteligencia artificial bombardea el mercado con la promesa de un futuro tan radicalmente distinto que hace que los resultados del trimestre actual parezcan una nota a pie de página en un libro de historia. El mercado ya no es un debate sobre números. Es una guerra de narrativas. Una batalla por la atención y la creencia. Y los viejos generales, atrincherados en sus fortalezas de Excel, miran sus pantallas y no entienden por qué sus defensas no funcionan. No entienden que el juego ya no consiste en tener la mejor fortaleza, sino en anticipar por dónde va a rodear el enemigo el campo de batalla. En el nuevo episodio de Actualidad Semanal +D, no te vamos a dar las viejas armas para defender la vieja fortaleza. Eso sería inútil. Te ofrecemos algo mucho más valioso: un mapa de este nuevo y desconcertante territorio. Hemos ido de safari a través de esta locura, hemos hablado con los nuevos generales y hemos intentado descifrar su estrategia. Analizamos las empresas que viven de contar historias y aquellas que, silenciosamente, están construyendo el mundo donde esas historias ocurrirán. Exploramos la psicología que permite que un meme valga más que un balance y que una promesa de futuro eclipse una realidad de pérdidas. La pregunta que debes hacerte no es si tus análisis son correctos. La pregunta es si estás luchando en la guerra correcta. Escúchalo ya. Puede que sea la pieza de inteligencia más valiosa que consumas esta semana. El enlace está en comentarios o bien disponible en tu plataforma de podcasts favorita.

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In this episode of CPM Customer Success, we explore how OneStream's relational blending capability empowers FP&A teams to plan faster, forecast smarter, and tie every strategic decision back to granular operational data — all in real time. This episode covers: The biggest pain points finance teams face when working with disconnected data How relational blending allows real-time integration of HR, sales, project, and operational data into financial models Real-world use cases, including People Planning, CapEx, Zero-Based Budgeting, and Lease Accounting A detailed success story from a large state university in the Southeast that streamlined 24 legacy apps and enabled planning across 25,000 employees with OneStream Whether you're struggling with siloed systems, Excel chaos, or slow decision cycles, this episode will help you reimagine FP&A with a unified, driver-based approach. Subscribe to stay ahead in your finance transformation journey.

Bob at Star Trek Las Vegas on August 10. The new Wall Street Journal Trump/Epstein bombshell. There's an Excel spreadsheet of all the Trump mentions in the Epstein files. Greg Kelly wants Ghislaine Maxwell to be pardoned. Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Maxwell. Mike Johnson doesn't think it's a hoax. Last night's South Park is going to make Donald stroke out. This could end up killing the Skydance merger. Obama releases a statement about Donald's threat to prosecute. Actual examples of collusion. Heroes of Democracy: Los Angeles grand juries. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Substance Abuse, Vision Video, and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From managing construction sites in Ann Arbor to breaking into a real-estate private-equity shop—Chandler's detour pays off. After a non-target MBA at Georgia and zero on-campus finance recruiting, he leaned on WSO Academy for brutal coursework, mocked interviews and relentless networking. Hear how he leveraged a single phone call to land a full-time REPE internship, slashing MBA debt with a full ride and proving persistence beats pedigree. Perfect for career-switchers aiming at high-finance from unconventional backgrounds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sean Tepper is the founder and CEO of Tikr, a software platform empowering everyday people to confidently invest in individual stocks. Before launching Tikr,, Sean mastered a system for generating consistent 15–50% annual returns in the stock market—with some years surpassing 100%. Today, Tikr, serves over 12,000 customers in more than 50 countries, combining technology, smart design, and a value investor's discipline to help regular investors outperform the S&P. On this episode we talk about: Sean's journey from picking strawberries and playing real-time strategy games to building a career in marketing, starting an agency, and investing in stocks The limitations of traditional education for creative and entrepreneurial thinkers—and how gaming taught Sean more about real-world strategy and multiple income streams than school ever could How Sean transitioned from agency work to investing, then eventually built his own SaaS business without raising outside capital The step-by-step process that took him from Excel spreadsheet to global SaaS platform, all while bootstrapping and keeping expenses lean Why businesses (especially SaaS) are more scalable than real estate, and how stock investing in carefully chosen companies can outpace buy-and-hold real estate strategies Sean's approach to value investing, using Tikr, to find and monitor 10–15 high-potential stocks at a time, and switching to index funds for wealth preservation closer to retirement The critical importance of confidence and education for first-time investors—and why most people lose money trading instead of investing How Tikr, works (and doesn't touch your money), using its own green–yellow–red rating system and push notifications to signal when to buy or sell Top 3 Takeaways Start Where You Are, Then Leverage Up: Build skills and income with what you have—then invest in scalable businesses or stocks to create real wealth. Invest, Don't Trade: 99% of traders lose money; all billionaire stock-market fortunes are built through long-term investing, not day trading. Confidence Beats Complexity: Knowledge, a clear process, and the right tools (like TKR) empower anyone—even beginners—to make smart investment decisions and outperform the averages. Notable Quotes “Video games actually taught me more about the real world and how to win at money than school ever did.” “Businesses—and especially the right SaaS business—will scale astronomically higher than real estate.” “The home run is people buying their first stock confidently. That is worth its weight in gold.” Connect with Sean Tepper: • • Website & App: ⁠https://www.tikr.com/⁠ (search for TKR on iOS, Android, or web)

PRUF guestmix: 01. Pruf - INTRO 02. Pruf - WHAT 03. Nick The Lot, Amplify - Compliments 04. Dimension - Offender (Dimension & Grafix remix) 05. Excel, Sub Zero - Remarkable 06. Lexurus - Crystalize 07. Pruf - SILA 08. Majistrate & Subzero - TheUntitled Tune (vip) 09. Circadian, Mozey - LOUDER 10. G Dub - Back in Business 11. Pruf - WHAT KIND OF CAR 12. J Bookey, Captain Bass - The Inside 13. Pruf - DARK HOME 14. Nick The Lot - Talk To Me 15. Pruf - CYBORG KILLER 16. Metrik - Fatso 17. Sub Killaz, Nu Elementz, Profile - Underwater 18. Sub Zero - Bullet 19. Vital - Beg Steal & Borrow 20. Subsonic - Breakdown 21. 1991 & Alex Hosking - Jungle 22. Master Error, Gino - Who You Messin With 23. Sub Zero - Straight in 24. Logan D - Snake 25. Upgrade - Lycra Lout 26. 1991, Luciana, Dave Audé - Yeah Yeah 27. Pruf - CRIME DETECTIED 28. Pruf - NORTH SIDE 29. Logan D & Dominator - Filthy Dog 30. Lexurus, Rhode - Magnify 31. Pruf - EVERYONE IS DANCING 32. Pruf - DREAMS 33. Riptide - Nawty 34. Pruf - STRASHNO 35. Nu Elementz - Hulk 36. Pruf - ENIGMATIC GVOZD vibez: 01. Children of Our Stars - Nostalgia 02. 1991, Mugatu, Mali-Koa - Love Is The Answer 03. Silk/Subsonic/Nito-Onna - I NEED U 2 04. The Death Beats, Sara Cruz - Alone (Drumwave Mix) 05. Random, Syanai - If We're Really Friends (DNB Remix) 06. Rosco - I Need Your Love 07. Askel - New Light 08. DKN - Represent 09. Cartoon, Vallo, Blooom, KAZHI - Euphoria feat. Blooom (Extended Mix) 10. Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Back to Life 11. Amog - Bad (Arkitect Remix) 12. Dc2 - In My Head 13. Urbandawn - The 5th 14. Akrom - Pantheon 15. Anizo - Maaf Fulla Teef 16. SLWDWN - Veil 17. Rude Mood - LV-426 18. Armodine & Tasteful House - Sotni Ognei 19. Neothrope, Vaces, RUPS - Dragon Tamer 20. Trei - Punch Drunk 21. Ekko & Sidetrack - Up Late 22. Flowidus - Bounce Like 23. BURSTON - Flashing Lights 24. CRYSTAL CLEAR/D*Minds - Push Em Up 25. Tryst Temps/Hystatus - Timekeepers SILENTIUM guestmix: 01. Rhythm Essence - Refraction (Original Mix) 02. Henry - False Dawn 03. Alex Barton - Amber Mist (Original Mix) 04. Liquefaction - Hypnotized 05. Tubba T - Feelin Love (Original Mix) 06. Mystific Klushe & Yunna Feint - Dare You (Original Mix) 07. Alpha Rhythm - Subarctic Signal (Subwave Remix) 08. Glowing Embers - Jasper To Banff 09. Smote - Glory Mood (Original Mix) 10. ALB - Confession 11. Intergalactic Alliance Of The Blessed feat. FX909 - Mirror (Original Mix) 12. FX909 - The Rain Dance (Original Mix) 13. reckage Dubs feat. Lottie Jones - From Far Away (Original Mix) 14. Royksopp feat. Astrid S - Just Wanted To Know (Yusca DnB Flip) 15. Phadix - What You Think 16. Glowing Embers - Deep Down GVOZD vibez: 01. Soultec - Situations 02. Larigold - Oh My 03. Low:r/Aev.aya - Dance Dance Dance 04. Hybrid Minds/Homesick - Rescue Lights 05. antoanesko - The Last Dance 06. Vodkah, Dr Khan - After Midnight 07. Alex Briza - Julia 08. Henry, Nostre - Elements 09. SOLAH x Hugh Hardie - On Fire 10. Myriad - Jazz Dance 11. Con-Figure - Free To Do Anything 12. Kipsy - Last Chance Saloon 13. Ben Soundscape/Collette Warren - Soul Denier 14. Mollie Collins, Harry Shotta - Dancing Til The Sun Comes Up 15. Kuttin Edge - Onyeabor 16. Ornyo - Hide And Seek 17. TESFAH - You Wanna Run 18. Auris, Breezy Lee - Like A Feverdream 19. ArchAngel - Chapel Song

In the final episode of our three-part “Unlocking AI in Education” series, host Matt Levine reconnects with Microsoft's Carlos Fernandez to explore how Copilot is transforming everyday productivity. From drafting emails in Outlook to analyzing data in Excel, Carlos walks us through the practical ways Copilot integrates with Microsoft 365 to make faculty and staff more efficient. Hear tips, real-world examples, and onboarding insights that help ease the learning curve and accelerate adoption. Plus, get a glimpse of what's on the horizon for M365 Copilot in higher ed. It's a powerful close to a series focused on turning AI into actionable impact. Guest: Carlos Fernandez, Director Specialist, MicrosoftHost: Matt Levine, Category Marketing Manager, E&I Cooperative Services Cooperatively Speaking is hosted by E&I Cooperative Services, the only member-owned, non-profit procurement cooperative exclusively focused on serving the needs of education. Visit our website at www.eandi.org/podcast.Contact UsHave questions, comments, or ideas for a future episode? We'd love to hear from you! Contact Cooperatively Speaking at podcast@eandi.org. This podcast is for informational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host(s) or E&I Cooperative Services.

PRUF guestmix: 01. Pruf - INTRO 02. Pruf - WHAT 03. Nick The Lot, Amplify - Compliments 04. Dimension - Offender (Dimension & Grafix remix) 05. Excel, Sub Zero - Remarkable 06. Lexurus - Crystalize 07. Pruf - SILA 08. Majistrate & Subzero - TheUntitled Tune (vip) 09. Circadian, Mozey - LOUDER 10. G Dub - Back in Business 11. Pruf - WHAT KIND OF CAR 12. J Bookey, Captain Bass - The Inside 13. Pruf - DARK HOME 14. Nick The Lot - Talk To Me 15. Pruf - CYBORG KILLER 16. Metrik - Fatso 17. Sub Killaz, Nu Elementz, Profile - Underwater 18. Sub Zero - Bullet 19. Vital - Beg Steal & Borrow 20. Subsonic - Breakdown 21. 1991 & Alex Hosking - Jungle 22. Master Error, Gino - Who You Messin With 23. Sub Zero - Straight in 24. Logan D - Snake 25. Upgrade - Lycra Lout 26. 1991, Luciana, Dave Audé - Yeah Yeah 27. Pruf - CRIME DETECTIED 28. Pruf - NORTH SIDE 29. Logan D & Dominator - Filthy Dog 30. Lexurus, Rhode - Magnify 31. Pruf - EVERYONE IS DANCING 32. Pruf - DREAMS 33. Riptide - Nawty 34. Pruf - STRASHNO 35. Nu Elementz - Hulk 36. Pruf - ENIGMATIC GVOZD vibez: 01. Children of Our Stars - Nostalgia 02. 1991, Mugatu, Mali-Koa - Love Is The Answer 03. Silk/Subsonic/Nito-Onna - I NEED U 2 04. The Death Beats, Sara Cruz - Alone (Drumwave Mix) 05. Random, Syanai - If We're Really Friends (DNB Remix) 06. Rosco - I Need Your Love 07. Askel - New Light 08. DKN - Represent 09. Cartoon, Vallo, Blooom, KAZHI - Euphoria feat. Blooom (Extended Mix) 10. Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Back to Life 11. Amog - Bad (Arkitect Remix) 12. Dc2 - In My Head 13. Urbandawn - The 5th 14. Akrom - Pantheon 15. Anizo - Maaf Fulla Teef 16. SLWDWN - Veil 17. Rude Mood - LV-426 18. Armodine & Tasteful House - Sotni Ognei 19. Neothrope, Vaces, RUPS - Dragon Tamer 20. Trei - Punch Drunk 21. Ekko & Sidetrack - Up Late 22. Flowidus - Bounce Like 23. BURSTON - Flashing Lights 24. CRYSTAL CLEAR/D*Minds - Push Em Up 25. Tryst Temps/Hystatus - Timekeepers SILENTIUM guestmix: 01. Rhythm Essence - Refraction (Original Mix) 02. Henry - False Dawn 03. Alex Barton - Amber Mist (Original Mix) 04. Liquefaction - Hypnotized 05. Tubba T - Feelin Love (Original Mix) 06. Mystific Klushe & Yunna Feint - Dare You (Original Mix) 07. Alpha Rhythm - Subarctic Signal (Subwave Remix) 08. Glowing Embers - Jasper To Banff 09. Smote - Glory Mood (Original Mix) 10. ALB - Confession 11. Intergalactic Alliance Of The Blessed feat. FX909 - Mirror (Original Mix) 12. FX909 - The Rain Dance (Original Mix) 13. reckage Dubs feat. Lottie Jones - From Far Away (Original Mix) 14. Royksopp feat. Astrid S - Just Wanted To Know (Yusca DnB Flip) 15. Phadix - What You Think 16. Glowing Embers - Deep Down GVOZD vibez: 01. Soultec - Situations 02. Larigold - Oh My 03. Low:r/Aev.aya - Dance Dance Dance 04. Hybrid Minds/Homesick - Rescue Lights 05. antoanesko - The Last Dance 06. Vodkah, Dr Khan - After Midnight 07. Alex Briza - Julia 08. Henry, Nostre - Elements 09. SOLAH x Hugh Hardie - On Fire 10. Myriad - Jazz Dance 11. Con-Figure - Free To Do Anything 12. Kipsy - Last Chance Saloon 13. Ben Soundscape/Collette Warren - Soul Denier 14. Mollie Collins, Harry Shotta - Dancing Til The Sun Comes Up 15. Kuttin Edge - Onyeabor 16. Ornyo - Hide And Seek 17. TESFAH - You Wanna Run 18. Auris, Breezy Lee - Like A Feverdream 19. ArchAngel - Chapel Song

The Pittsburgh Steelers are entering a pivotal second year under Offensive Coordinator Arthur Smith. After a season of ups and downs in 2024, the team has made significant moves, including acquiring Aaron Rodgers and D.K. Metcalf for the 2025 season. This episode of Steel City Underground dives deep into the burning question: Can Arthur Smith […] Will Arthur Smith's Steelers offense excel in year two? appeared first on Steel City Underground.

In this special episode, guest host Brian Kennedy sits down with Chris Gaffney to explore how supply chain professionals can take control of their careers by embracing artificial intelligence. Chris introduces the “AI Maturity Ladder,” a step-by-step roadmap that helps individuals and teams evolve from foundational tools like Excel to advanced capabilities like predictive analytics, machine learning, and AI agents.The conversation covers:The evolution of AI in supply chain rolesPractical skills to stay relevant in a data-driven marketHow tools like Python, SQL, and Power BI tie into career growthWhy applied analytics beats theoretical knowledge in today's job marketStrategies for leaders to upskill their teams and create a culture of innovationWhether you're a student, mid-career professional, or supply chain leader, this episode offers clear, actionable guidance for climbing the AI ladder and ensuring you're leading change instead of reacting to it.

Feel like every tech company is trying to sell you the next “must-have” tool for your bar? You're not crazy, and half of them don't even understand how bars actually work. In this episode, we're talking about why most bar tech ends up wasting your time and money and how to figure out what's actually worth the investment. 

With just three months left in his MEng at University College London, Alkin ditched an engineering track and sprinted into high-finance. Hear how he combined a last-minute PE internship, CFA Level I prep and WSO Academy's modeling + interview bootcamps to master derivatives, send laser-targeted cold emails and wow SocGen's X-Asset Solutions Sales team by nailing the only “impossible” technical of the day—earning the job on the spot. Perfect for late pivots who still want an elite markets seat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mike & Tommy have a great conversation on how do we still build for Excel? Thanks for the mailbag!I'm building Excel sheets for my company to use as sales metrics dashboards. Can you talk about what would make of the ideal Excel migration strategy? I want to build in a way that makes migrating easier in the future, not harder.Get in touch:Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page.Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/powerbitipsSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVvSubscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tipsFollow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/Follow Seth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-bauer/Follow Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/

In this episode, Aydin sits down with Rob Williams, a former Chief Product Officer turned AI consultant, to explore the future of work, apps, and personal development—powered by generative AI. Rob demos Limitless, an AI pendant that helps him become a better human, and Claude Code, an agentic AI development environment that builds apps like a team of tireless developers. Plus, he shares his game-changing discovery-to-deliverable workflow that cuts a week's worth of consulting into a single day.Timestamps:01:00 – Rob's tech background and founding an AI consultancy05:01 – Demo 1: Limitless AI pendant – the wearable mentor08:19 – Rob's daily AI automations for personal growth10:28 – The privacy dilemma and how Rob handles it13:35 – Society's shifting comfort with constant recording18:20 – Rewind: screen-tracking AI and quantified work21:16 – Dystopia or augmentation? Competing views on AI ubiquity27:02 – Demo 2: Claude Code – a real agentic AI dev experience33:10 – Claude Code spins up dashboards from Excel in minutes37:39 – Debugging and security auditing with Claude40:20 – Rob's gamified AI-powered habit tracker41:47 – Claude Code for prototyping with dev teams44:47 – Implications: Will dynamic apps kill the App Store?47:00 – AI as the new operating system50:26 – Future: UIs disappear, apps build themselves52:00 – Demo 3 (Explained): Deep research AI for consulting workflows54:00 – Talking for the AI: How Rob narrates calls for context58:30 – Why you must rethink—not just speed up—your workflows59:36 – Two more tips (in newsletter only!)Tools & Technologies Mentioned:Limitless (limitless.ai) – Wearable AI pendant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your day with daily automations and feedback loops.Claude Code – Anthropic's CLI tool for building full applications using agentic AI workflows, including dependency management and debugging.Rewind – Screen-capturing app that logs your activity with searchable recall capabilities.Fellow – AI meeting tool that transcribes and summarizes meetings. Used by Rob for work-related action tracking.Typora – Markdown editor Rob uses to annotate and refine AI outputs.Deep Research – Rob's name for his long-context LLM-based analysis prompt stack, used for summarizing 20+ hour discovery projects.RescueTime – Productivity analytics tool used to track app usage and categorize time spent.

Cuando alguien se lanza a vender en Amazon FBA, suele imaginar resultados rápidos y ganancias fáciles. Pero, según Daniel Miranda, mentor de vendedores en Estados Unidos y autor del libro “Cómo vender en Amazon FBA desde cero”, uno de los mayores errores no tiene que ver con la plataforma, ni con temas técnicos, sino con la mentalidad con la que se empieza: “Mucha gente cree que el fracaso en Amazon se debe a ciertos errores técnicos, como no saber importar, usar PPC, definir los taxes, etc., pero el problema más grande es que la mayoría de las personas tienen expectativas poco realistas”. Para Daniel, el exceso de promesas vacías que circula en redes sociales y cursos sin metodología, alimenta falsas ideas de éxito instantáneo. Este tipo de expectativas suele provocar desánimo frente a los primeros tropiezos. “Sucede que después de una caída, los emprendedores que recién comienzan siempre se desaniman”, dice. La clave no está en evitar los desafíos, sino en tener un enfoque más estratégico, realista y rentable. “El problema de Amazon no es la falta de ventas porque tienes el PPC para activarlas. El problema real es ser rentable”, sostiene nuestro invitado. Lanzar un producto no se trata de subirlo y esperar. Se trata de comprender el mercado, hacer números y tomar decisiones con datos. Daniel insiste en que sin una mínima claridad financiera, el camino puede ser cuesta arriba. Y esa claridad puede comenzar por lo más simple: “Una claridad financiera te la da una simple hoja de Excel. Si no te llevas bien con esa herramienta, difícil que puedas llevar un estudio financiero”. Muchos emprendedores no dimensionan correctamente el costo real de lanzar una marca: “Dejando de lado los gastos de accesorios, como Helium 10 o Amazon Seller Central, te puedes gastar USD 6,000 para lanzar una marca. Hay personas que han gestionado los precios con los chinos y han comenzado con USD 3,000, pero no es la regla común. Esto incluye producto, flete internacional, taxes, certificaciones e inspecciones”. Más allá del presupuesto, elegir bien el producto es un paso decisivo. Y ahí también hay errores frecuentes. “El estudio del mercado es el 80 por ciento del éxito o el fracaso de un negocio. Puedes dar un brinco de fe y luego ocurre que tenemos mil unidades de productos stockeadas en Amazon, no se venden y perdemos mucho dinero”. Por eso Daniel recomienda no enamorarse de una idea y testear antes de invertir. “No nos enfocamos en un producto, sino que filtramos entre cientos de opciones para elegir los que tienen mayores probabilidades de éxito”. Y aclara que “los productos que llegan a producirse son los que ya validamos en el mercado”. Esa validación comienza mucho antes del lanzamiento oficial. “En la segunda fase hacemos las cotizaciones. Tenemos que validar el producto de manera financiera y si es rentable comprar los productos para luego venderlos”, cuenta nuestro experto. Incluso, Daniel va un paso más allá: “Hago una preventa como validación de mercado”. Esta práctica permite no solo testear si el producto tiene salida, sino también reducir el riesgo inicial. Una vez validado el producto, muchos vendedores cometen el error de invertir grandes sumas en publicidad, sin conocer realmente los márgenes o el nivel de competencia. “El PPC es una métrica que no puedes conocer hasta que ya gastaste. Lo que yo hago es buscar productos que no requieran PPC o que necesiten muy poco”, relata Daniel. En este punto, sugiere prestar atención a los productos High Ticket: “Con los productos High Ticket hay mucha menos competencia, por eso solemos elegirlos”. Otro mito que nuestro invitado desarma es el del branding obligatorio desde el inicio: “La mayoría de las personas no tienen grandes presupuestos, por eso no tiene sentido al inicio registrar la marca si no saben si tienen ventas”. Lo que aconseja es avanzar paso a paso, evaluando cada decisión en función de su retorno. En ese camino, evitar mercados saturados también es una estrategia clave: “Un error muy grande es que las personas entran a mercados extremadamente saturados, porque cuesta mucho dinero destacar”. Aunque lanzar una marca propia puede parecer más profesional, también puede implicar riesgos mayores si no se hace con respaldo de datos. “Hoy está impuesto como una verdad inamovible que, si haces Private Label, sí o sí necesitas PPC, pero no es cierto. Yo tengo productos que se venden orgánicamente, pero mis competidores son pocos”, subraya nuestro experto. En esos casos, bastan acciones simples para lograr tracción inicial: “10 reseñas son suficientes para que el comprador te elija”. Para quienes quieren resultados más rápidos o tienen poco capital, Daniel propone otro enfoque: “El dinero no se puede hacer de la noche a la mañana en Amazon, pero para tener dinero más rápido recomiendo siempre Arbitraje”. Mientras se gana experiencia, esta estrategia permite generar flujo de caja sin tantos riesgos. Vender en Amazon no es magia. Requiere estrategia, paciencia, validación y análisis. Y sobre todo, evitar errores que se repiten en quienes se lanzan sin una metodología clara. “La ejecución es sólo apretar algunos botones al final”, recuerda Daniel. Sin embargo, lo importante sucede mucho antes. Instagram: danieljmiranda2

What if your small church isn't broken? What if it's exactly the size it's meant to be?In this illuminating conversation, third-generation pastor Karl Vaters shares his 32-year journey leading the same congregation and his revolutionary discovery that transformed his ministry: small churches aren't failed big churches—they're a strategic approach to effective ministry.His message resonates deeply with the 90% of pastors leading congregations under 200 members: small isn't a problem to fix but a strategy to leverage. As Karl powerfully states, "Discipleship fixes everything" and "Integrity is the new competence"—challenging us to measure success not by attendance but by faithfulness and character.Whether you lead a church of 50 or 5,000, Karl's wisdom will transform how you view effective ministry. Subscribe now and share this episode with a leader who needs this freeing perspective!Send us a textWe want to help you find your next steps in ministry.Connect here with EXCEL. Ministry Partner: Christian Community Credit Union

In this week's Born to Watch, the lads swing for the fences with their deep dive Moneyball (2011) Review. Whitey, Dan on the Land, and Will “The Worky” take to the mound to dissect why this unconventional baseball flick, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, continues to resonate over a decade later.From the get-go, it's clear this isn't your typical sports movie review. The team kicks off with backyard renovations, foot fetish tangents, and a laugh-out-loud discussion on the bizarre world of Japanese vending machines, classic Born to Watch territory. But once they find their groove, it's all baseball, banter, and brilliance.Moneyball, based on the true story of Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, gets the full pod treatment. The trio wax lyrical about Pitt's understated performance, Hill's against-type turn as the socially awkward numbers guy, and Philip Seymour Hoffman's quietly simmering portrayal of sceptical coach Art Howe. Whitey makes the case for this being one of Pitt's finest performances, yes, even better than his Oscar-winning turn in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Dan and Will aren't far behind in their praise, though they're quick to point out the poetic license the film takes with some of its real-life counterparts.Of course, it wouldn't be Born to Watch without the gang tackling the “overs and unders.” Will throws a curveball with a surprisingly low watch count, while Whitey admits he's clocked in over 40 viewings. Dan, as always, brings the analytical fire, no surprise for a man who appreciates Michael Lewis' storytelling DNA, also behind The Big Short.The trio also tackles one of the episode's core questions: Why are baseball movies so damn good? Is it the history? The romance? The slower pace that allows for actual acting? Whatever the formula, it works. From The Natural and Field of Dreams to Major League and Bull Durham, the guys rattle off their favourites with the kind of passion you only get from true movie lovers.There's also an appreciation for the film's dry, cerebral tone. Unlike other sports flicks that rely on big plays and locker room speeches, Moneyball thrives on boardroom tension, Excel spreadsheets, and quiet moments of doubt. Yet somehow, it's riveting. It's a film about math, risk, and the emotional cost of change, and yet it's as compelling as any game-winning homer.Listeners are treated to the usual podcast hallmarks: mock trailers, roast reviews (with one critic thoroughly torn apart), and a beautifully read back-of-the-DVD synopsis that outshines the studio blurb. Whitey's disdain for the critic who panned the movie is particularly entertaining, while Dan gives a thoughtful defence of Moneyball's cinematic liberties.The episode also veers into classic BTW chaos. There's a spirited debate on the merits of Jack and Jill (spoiler: there are none), a nostalgic dive into The Inbetweeners as a sleeper hit of 2011, and an epic sidetrack into surfing journalism and Jonah Hill's transformation from comedy darling to surf-culture punching bag. It's podcast whiplash in the best possible way.As always, the “Ordinary People” segment stands out, offering a nuanced examination of the film's characters and the performances that bring them to life. The pod pays homage to Philip Seymour Hoffman, laments Jonah Hill's real-life reputation despite his on-screen brilliance, and even finds time to praise an uncredited Spike Jonze cameo that nearly steals the film.In the end, Moneyball gets the respect it deserves, a deeply human story wrapped in a sports movie shell. For the Born to Watch crew, it's not just about baseball; it's about challenging the system, betting on the misfits, and finding magic in the margins.So whether you're a sabermetrics savant or just love a good underdog story, this episode is a must-listen.Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts!Join the conversation:Is Moneyball the smartest sports movie ever made?Could you build a winning team with just data?And is Brad Pitt's Billy Beane his most underrated role?#BornToWatch #Moneyball #BradPitt #JonahHill #BaseballMovies #Sabermetrics #SportsMovies #FilmPodcast #AaronSorkin #MichaelLewis #PhilipSeymourHoffman #UnderdogStory #MovieNight

ChatGPT Agent is here!↳ What the heck is it? ↳ How does it work? ↳ What do you need to know? Glad you asked, shorties. Join us for the answers. Square keeps up so you don't have to slow down. Get everything you need to run and grow your business—without any long-term commitments. And why wait? Right now, you can get up to $200 off Square hardware at square.com/go/jordan. Run your business smarter with Square. Get started today.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Thoughts on this? Join the convo and connect with other AI leaders on LinkedIn.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:ChatGPT Agent Mode Overview & NamingLive ChatGPT Agent Demo WalkthroughChatGPT Agent Mode Availability & PricingOperator vs. Deep Research Capabilities ExplainedChatGPT Agent Virtual Computer FunctionsSpreadsheet and PowerPoint Generation in ChatGPTMini RAG-Ready Agents with Data ConnectorsChatGPT Agent Security and Biological Risk ClassificationTimestamps:00:00 "Introducing ChatGPT Agent"03:41 Potential Delay for Paid Plan Rollout09:24 "Chat GPT Agent: New Tools Overview"12:44 OpenAI-Microsoft Tensions Over Software Overlap16:42 "ChatGPT's New RAG Feature Unveiled"21:55 AI Agent with Weapon Risk23:31 Agent Models: Boon or Bane?29:05 "Agent Mode: Seamless Editing Integration"Keywords:ChatGPT Agent, Agent Mode, OpenAI, virtual computer, Agentic skills, Operator, Deep Research, browsing websites, web research, synthesizing information, Microsoft competitor, PowerPoint creation, Excel spreadsheet creation, terminal access, public API integration, connectors, data analysis, image generation, multi-agent environments, retrieval augmented generation, mini RAG, AI operating system, human-in-the-loop, security concerns, biology classifier, biological weapons classification, chemical weapons classification, O3 model, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, agentic models, AI workflows, editable slide deck, Microsoft Office alternative, AI-powered presentations, spreadsheet automation, cloud-based agents, AI task automation, calendar integration, Gmail connector, Google Drive connector, Outlook connector, team collaboration, premium AI features, desktop to browser transition, file creation, terminal commands, workflow automationSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Ready for ROI on GenAI? Go to youreverydayai.com/partner

Send us a textWelcome to your no-fluff, sarcasm-fueled download of the Ones Ready Ops Brief for July 17th. In this episode, we cover everything from Excel-budget nightmares and B-1 Lancer drama to Space Force doing... whatever it is Space Force does. Jared rips through the latest military headlines with his signature blend of humor, eye rolls, and reluctant patriotism.We kick things off with a sneak peek at the Operator Training Summit and a shoutout to the surprisingly effective (and very unscammed) Tasty Gains gummies. Then it's all gas, no brakes through a gauntlet of DoD absurdities: pipe-dream weapon standardization in NATO, a billion-dollar GPS system that's somehow still in testing, and the Air Force saving $10 billion by using—wait for it—Excel. Yeah, that's a real thing.We wrap with cyber hacks, Ukraine fatigue, F-35 wishlists, and a whole lot of “wait, that's real?” moments. Buckle up, this one's got teeth.

For some reason when the topic of money comes up, many people immediately want to jump into Excel and start exercising the so-called rational part of their brain. Money seems to demand sober, quantitative analysis, devoid of emotion which obfuscates the mathematical truth of the situation. Yet we rarely make decisions in a purely rational manner; emotion plays a large, if not bigger role, than rational thinking in how we choose to act. And if there's anything you've learned hanging around YNAB, it's that money is really just you -- it's a medium for translating your energy and effort in the world into things and experiences.   That's why YNAB came up with five questions, to help you make better decisions with your money while considering your whole self -- both your emotional needs and a rational analysis of your financial situation.   In today's episode Jesse shares the example of a conversation with a self-described highly rational friend, talking about whom he was going to marry. The conversation highlights how the biggest decisions often don't come down to rational analysis alone. Working the five questions, however, you end up at a reasonable place, considering your whole self, both rational and emotional. In a word, we call it spendfulness.   Resources mentioned in this show: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel   Watch The Jesse Mecham Show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jessemechamshow   Got a question for Jesse? Send him an email: askjesse@ynab.com   Sign up for a free 34-day trial of YNAB at www.youneedabudget.com   Follow YNAB on social media: Facebook: @ynabofficial Instagram: @ynab.official Twitter/X: @ynab Tik Tok: @ynabofficial

We're hours away from OpenAI's livestream announcement of what's reportedly called Agent Mode. There's been a few lines of reporting of what's coming!We tackle the rumors, what they mean, and how to be prepared for what this means for our day-to-day work lives. Square keeps up so you don't have to slow down. Get everything you need to run and grow your business—without any long-term commitments. And why wait? Right now, you can get up to $200 off Square hardware at square.com/go/jordan. Run your business smarter with Square. Get started today.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion:Thoughts on this? Join the convo and connect with other AI leaders on LinkedIn.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:ChatGPT Agent Mode Release RumorsChatGPT vs Microsoft Office CompetitionPotential Excel and PowerPoint IntegrationDeep Research and Agent Mode FeaturesOpenAI Operator and Browser UpdatesImpact on Microsoft Office Business ModelWorkflow Automation and App ConnectorsProductivity Tool Advancements for Knowledge WorkersTimestamps:00:00 "OpenAI's New Agent Announcement"04:56 OpenAI's New Features Reveal Tomorrow07:35 Microsoft-OpenAI Integration: Enhanced ChatGPT Features10:28 "ChatGPT-Powered Document Creation"13:42 "AI Tools for Visual Presentations"17:18 OpenAI's Enhanced Operator Unveiled19:55 "Anticipating Software Agent Reveal"25:28 AI Evolution: New Industry NormsKeywords:ChatGPT agent, OpenAI, agent mode, Microsoft Office competitor, Excel automation, PowerPoint automation, generative AI tools, spreadsheet AI, presentation AI, Operator, OpenAI browser, Canvas mode, Advanced Data Analysis, Microsoft Copilot, document management AI, workflow automation, browser automation, deep research, computer using agent, data analysis AI, GPT-4o image generation, Google Drive integration, report generation, database analysis, visual creation AI, productivity tool, chat-based document editing, slide generation, formula automation, business productivity AI, AI-powered presentations, AI-powered spreadsheets, AI advancements, IP sharing, OpenAI-Microsoft relationship, slide transitions AI, corporate data analysis, public data synthesis, Mac user productivity, PowerPoint, Excel, real-time updates AI, web sources integration.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Ready for ROI on GenAI? Go to youreverydayai.com/partner

A CyberTruck technicality; the tragic life of his Rover SD1; why insurance is important; when small cars REALLY matter; the unsung Corvette King; cars are too fast; and more! Patreon questions include:Would Jason get a Golf R or R32?Why did he create his famous Excel file?What new car are we excited about?Ever drive an Audi A2?Which "performance" cars couldn't keep up with Jason's Pacifica camera car?Rather work with Top Gear or Parts Unknown?Is there another Ferdinand Piech video coming?F/M/K each other's garagesWhich cars drive similar but look nothing alikeAnd more!Recorded July 11, 2025 https://www.instagram.com/jasoncammisa/https://www.youtube.com/hagertyShow Notes:DeleteMeTake control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for DeleteMe. Now at a special discount for our listeners.Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/TIREand use promo code TIRE at checkout.  FitBodJoin Fitbod today to get your personalized workout plan.Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at Fitbod.me/TIRE. SmallsFor Smoking Tire listeners, you can get 60% off your first Smalls order PLUS free shipping when you head to Smalls.com/TIRE. That's 60% off when you head to Smalls.com/TIRE, plus free shipping!   New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! For a 10% discount on your first case go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Instagram:https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtirehttps://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TST10 for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to http://www.offtherecord.com/TST. Watch our car reviews: https://www.youtube.com/thesmokingtire Tweet at us!https://www.Twitter.com/thesmokingtirehttps://www.Twitter.com/zackklapman Instagram:https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtirehttps://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman