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Recently I asked for a sign that a painting I’d been working on was the right course for me. The next day, a stranger’s near-death story described my painting almost perfectly. That coincidence reminded me of James Carse’s book Finite and Infinite Games. One is built on winning; the other on continuing to play. In this Gathering Room, I explore how shifting from chasing status to embracing growth and surprise can dissolve anxiety, deepen creativity, and open us to a much bigger, ongoing game. Join me! CONNECT WITH US Follow Martha on Instagram The Gathering Room Show Notes Join Martha for a Live Episode of The Gathering Room via Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

哲学美文：无限游戏的起点，从亲情哲学开始之前我们分享了安乐哲再《成人之道》这本书中关于“有限游戏”的精彩论述。今天我们来分享他关于“无限游戏”的论述部分。这段论述十分经典。也很好契合了安乐哲提出的“亲情哲学”。很多人非常疑惑，“亲情”如何和“哲学”搭上边呢？新儒家代表林安梧在最近一期关于《儒家的终极关怀》的播客节目中，详细介绍了儒家是如何帮助我们普通人安顿身心的。在节目中，他说道：儒家的终极关怀并不是要让我们追求外在的、人格化的、彼岸的世界，儒家是要我们去体会宇宙人生当中的生生之德。《易经》云：天地之大德曰生。《易经》也同样提到：寂然不动，感而遂通。但要如何感通宇宙的生生之德呢？这种抽象的“生生”是如何在我们日常的家庭和人伦中生根呢？答案就是：孝悌。儒家之所以强调孝悌，就在于：孝悌是一个人感通宇宙生生之意的实践起点。是一种根源性，决定一个人感通他人，感通世界，感通自我，决定一个人与他人，世界，自我相处方式源代码级别的根源性实践。而这一观点，也恰好和安乐哲在这段文字中对于“无限游戏”的理解不谋而合。接下来我们就来分享这段精彩的文字。人物介绍James P. Carse（詹姆斯·P·卡斯）詹姆斯·卡斯（James P. Carse，1932-2020）是美国纽约大学宗教历史系教授、当代宗教史学家和哲学家。他以《有限与无限的游戏：一个哲学家眼中的竞技世界》（Finite and Infinite Games）一书闻名于世，该书被译为多国语言，影响跨越哲学、管理学、教育学等多个领域。Roger T. Ames（安乐哲）安乐哲（Roger T. Ames，1947- ）是世界著名中西比较哲学家、汉学家，出生于加拿大多伦多。他曾任夏威夷大学哲学系教授，现任北京大学人文讲席教授、孔子研究院特聘专家、国际儒学联合会副会长。安乐哲是儒家哲学在当代英语世界最重要的翻译者和阐释者之一。他翻译了《论语》《大学》《中庸》《道德经》《孝经》《淮南子》《孙子兵法》等多部中国经典，蜚声海内外。他倡导“一多不分”的学术方法，强调中国哲学“焦点-场域”式的关系性思维。他的核心贡献是提出“儒家角色伦理学”（Confucian Role Ethics），主张将人理解为“生成中的人”（human becomings）——人是关系性、过程性的存在，在家庭与社会角色中不断“成人”“成仁”，而非西方个人主义范式下的孤立的“存在者”（human being）。林安梧（1957年－），台湾省台中县人，台湾师范大学国文系毕业，台湾大学哲学研究所硕士、博士，师从牟宗三。曾任美国傅尔布莱德访问学者、威斯康辛大学麦迪逊校区历史系访问学人。现任台湾慈济大学宗教与文化研究所教授兼所长、上海同济大学人文学院教授及博士生导师，兼任同济大学中国思想与文化研究院院长，山东大学易学与中国古代哲学研究中心特聘教授 。2024年当选国际儒学联合会副理事长 。曾任台湾清华大学教授暨通识教育中心主任、南华大学哲学研究所创所所长，并担任《鹅湖》杂志主编。学术专长为中国哲学、哲学史方法论及宗教哲学，提出"存有三态论"，从牟宗三"两层存有论"发展为存有的根源、开显与执定三重结构。著有《熊十力体用哲学之研究》《儒学革命论》《道的错置》等20余部专著，发表论文120余篇。在武汉大学、山东大学等高校主讲阳明心学、易经哲学等课程，强调中国哲学"存在与价值的和合性"优先于西方哲学"思维与存在的一致性"。structure /ˈstrʌktʃə(r)/n. 结构，构造desired /dɪˈzaɪəd/adj. 预期的，想要得到的outcome /ˈaʊtkʌm/n. 结果，结局Infinite games have a different structure and a different desired outcome.无限游戏则有着不同的结构和不同的预期结果。语法拆解主干：Infinite games have a different structure and a different desired outcome并列宾语：a different structure and a different desired outcome 作 have 的宾语过去分词作定语：desired 修饰 outcome，表被动含义 “被期待的”beginning /bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ/n. 开端，起源ending /ˈendɪŋ/n. 结尾，结局There are no beginnings or endings in infinite games.无限游戏中没有开始，也没有结束。语法拆解主干：There are no beginnings or endingsThere be 存在句型：there be + 真正主语（名词）否定并列：否定句中并列成分用 or，no beginnings or endings = no beginnings and no endings地点状语：in infinite games 介词短语作地点状语focus /ˈfəʊkəs/n. 焦点，重点collaborative /kəˈlæbərətɪv/adj. 合作的，协作的entity /ˈentəti/n. 实体competition /ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃn/n. 竞争，竞赛actor /ˈæktə(r)/n. 参与者，行动者And the focus is on strengthening collaborative relationships within entities to succeed together rather than engaging in a competition among single actors who then play to win.其焦点在于加强实体内部的合作关系以共同成功，而不是在单个参与者之间进行那种旨在获胜的竞争。语法拆解主干：the focus is on strengthening collaborative relationships rather than engaging in a competition固定搭配：the focus is on doing A rather than doing B 重点在于做 A 而非做 B；on 是介词，后接动名词介词短语后置定语：within entities 修饰 relationships；among single actors 修饰 competition不定式目的状语：to succeed together 表加强关系的目的定语从句：who then play to win 先行词 single actors，who 在从句作主语不定式目的状语：to win 修饰从句谓语 play，表目的固定短语：engage in 参与，从事further /ˈfɜːðə(r)/adv. 此外，再者alter /ˈɔːltə(r)/v. 更改，修改serve /sɜːv/v. 满足，达到（目的）Further, infinite games are played according to rules that can be altered by players as required to serve the purpose of continuing to play the game.此外，无限游戏的规则可以被玩家根据需要改变，以达到让游戏继续进行下去的目的。语法拆解主干：infinite games are played一般现在时被动语态：are played方式状语：according to rules 介词短语作方式状语定语从句：that can be altered by players 先行词 rules；can be altered 情态动词被动语态状语从句省略：as required = as (it is) required 状语从句省略主语与 be 动词不定式目的状语：to serve the purpose 表目的介词 + 动名词：of continuing to play the game，介词 of 后接动名词 continuing固定搭配：serve the purpose of doing sth 达到做某事的目的indeed /ɪnˈdiːd/adv. 事实上，诚然discernable /dɪˈsɜːnəbl/adj. 可识别的，可分辨的shared /ʃeəd/adj. 共享的，共同的flourishing /ˈflʌrɪʃɪŋ/n. 繁荣，蓬勃发展Indeed, with no beginnings and no discernable ends, the goal is quite simply a shared flourishing.事实上，没有开始，也没有可辨别的结束，其目标非常简单，就是共同的繁荣。语法拆解主干：the goal is quite simply a shared flourishing评注性状语：Indeed 副词修饰全句with 伴随状语：with no beginnings and no discernable ends with + 名词短语作伴随状语，交代背景状态副词作状语：quite simply 修饰整个主句过去分词作定语：shared 修饰抽象名词 flourishingrelationship /rɪˈleɪʃnʃɪp/n. 关系，联系commit /kəˈmɪt/v. 投入，致力于effectively /ɪˈfektɪvli/adv. 有效地manage /ˈmænɪdʒ/v. 处理，应对increasingly /ɪnˈkriːsɪŋli/adv. 日益，越来越complex /ˈkɒmpleks/adj. 复杂的The relationship among family members might be a good example of the infinite games we play, where a mother is committed to strengthening the relationship she has with her son, and son with mother, so that together they can effectively manage increasingly complex problems.家庭成员之间的关系或许是我们所玩的无限游戏的一个好例子，一位母亲致力于加强她与儿子之间的关系，儿子也致力于加强与母亲的关系，这样他们就能一起有效地处理日益复杂的问题。语法拆解主干：The relationship might be a good example后置定语：among family members 介词短语修饰 the relationship；of the infinite games 介词短语修饰 example省略 that 限制性定语从句：we play 修饰 the infinite games，that 在从句作宾语故可省略非限制性定语从句：where… 先行词 example，where=in this example，表抽象情形固定搭配：be committed to doing sth 致力于做某事，to 为介词，后接动名词 strengthening省略 that 限制性定语从句：she has with her son 修饰 the relationship书面省略结构：and son with mother，完整还原 and (the son is committed to strengthening the relationship) with motherso‑that 目的状语从句：so that together they can effectively manage… 引导目的，意为 “以便”副词修饰形容词：increasingly complex；副词 effectively 修饰动词 manageinterdependence /ˌɪntədɪˈpendəns/n. 相互依存coordinate /kəʊˈɔːdɪneɪt/v. 协调，调配effort /ˈefət/n. 努力In the case of infinite games, the interdependence of relationships means that mother and son either coordinate their efforts and continue to succeed together, or they fail together.就无限游戏而言，关系的相互依存意味着，母亲和儿子要么协调努力，继续共同成功，要么一起失败。语法拆解主干：the interdependence of relationships means that …介词短语状语：In the case of infinite games 就…… 的情况而言介词短语后置定语：of relationships 修饰 interdependencethat 引导宾语从句：that 后面全部内容作 means 的宾语并列连词结构：either…or… 要么…… 要么……，连接两个并列分句并列谓语：coordinate their efforts and continue to succeed together，and 连接从句内两套谓语proposition /ˌprɒpəˈzɪʃn/n. 事态，命题，局面Infinite games begin from strengthening relations and are thus always a win‑win or lose‑lose proposition.无限游戏始于强化关系，因此总是一个双赢或双输的命题。语法拆解主干：Infinite games begin from strengthening relations and are always a win‑win or lose‑lose proposition共用主语的并列谓语：谓语 1 begin from strengthening relations；谓语 2 are … proposition介词 + 动名词：from strengthening relations，from 是介词，后接动名词 strengthening副词作结果状语：thus 副词表因果，不能独立连接句子，依靠并列连词 and 连接两套谓语复合形容词定语：win‑win /lose‑lose 修饰名词 proposition更多卡卡老师分享公众号：卡卡课堂 卡卡老师微信：kakayingyu002送你一份卡卡老师学习大礼包，帮助你在英文学习路上少走弯路

Elizabeth Maxson has started noticing the tells. Beyond em dashes and "quotation marks," the certain phrases repeated a little too often. Leaders she's long admired, publishing content that no longer sounds like them. On this episode of Finite by Clarity, she makes the case that this matters more than most CMOs think, not because AI-assisted content is wrong, but because publishing without judgement, experience or voice quietly erodes trust.Elizabeth is Chief Marketing Officer of Contentful, a digital experience platform trusted by more than 4,800 customers. Before Contentful, she was CMO at Tableau, a Salesforce company, and led Strategic Technology Partnerships marketing at Salesforce, launching relationships with AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba and Apple.In this episode, Jodi Norris sits down with Elizabeth to unpack how the buyer journey has changed shape, and why the instinct to produce more content is usually the wrong one. Elizabeth explains how cutting webinar output and being more selective on topics increased registrations and conversions, and how keeping personalisation deliberately simple, segmenting by audience type rather than complex micro-targeting, delivered a 195% increase in click-through rate.Inside you'll find…Why the small, repeated tells of AI-generated content are quietly costing leaders their audience's trustWhy "less is more" content strategies are outperforming high-frequency productionHow simple, broad-strokes personalisation is consistently outperforming complex micro-targeting

Debbie Hendrickx spent 18 years as a Nordstrom buyer before a 2 AM idea sent her to a Seattle dog park with an orange cart and two flavors written on a cup in Sharpie. Nine years later, Swell is a premium frozen dog treat brand in 1,600 stores across the US and Canada. Peter Kenseth talks with Debbie about building a physical product the hard way, from the co-manufacturer problem that made her sell her house and buy a factory, to cold chain economics, channel strategy, and why she built her brand on independent pet. They get into trade show math, a DTC subscription idea that doesn't require her to ship a single box, and the thesis at the heart of it all. Ingredients make a product. A memorable experience makes a brand.

RTL Netherlands creative lead Ralph de Beurs reflects on the present and future state of unscripted TV, as part of our C21Formats100 series [01:50]; Finite Films AND TV's Amy Gardner and Paddy Hughes on working with Channel 4 and North Sails and the branded entertainment renaissance [21:32]; and Pure Flix co-founder Michael Scott on his new faith-based media venture EKKL [42:39].

英语美文：有限游戏正在撕裂世界，无限游戏才是人类的出路面对全球性危机，纽约大学宗教史教授詹姆斯·卡斯区分了“有限游戏”与“无限游戏”：前者旨在赢家通吃，后者追求共同繁荣。著名汉学家安乐哲据此指出，儒家“关系为本”的角色伦理学——把人视为“生成中的人”（human becomings）而非孤立的个体——正是实现“无限游戏”的文化资源。当西方个人主义将世界拖入零和博弈，儒家智慧或能为人类命运共同体提供出路。今天我们来分享安乐哲教授在《Human Becomings》这本书中对于“有限游戏”的论述。人物介绍James P. Carse（詹姆斯·P·卡斯）詹姆斯·卡斯（James P. Carse，1932-2020）是美国纽约大学宗教历史系教授、当代宗教史学家和哲学家。他以《有限与无限的游戏：一个哲学家眼中的竞技世界》（Finite and Infinite Games）一书闻名于世，该书被译为多国语言，影响跨越哲学、管理学、教育学等多个领域。Roger T. Ames（安乐哲）安乐哲（Roger T. Ames，1947- ）是世界著名中西比较哲学家、汉学家，出生于加拿大多伦多。他曾任夏威夷大学哲学系教授，现任北京大学人文讲席教授、孔子研究院特聘专家、国际儒学联合会副会长。安乐哲是儒家哲学在当代英语世界最重要的翻译者和阐释者之一。他翻译了《论语》《大学》《中庸》《道德经》《孝经》《淮南子》《孙子兵法》等多部中国经典，蜚声海内外。他倡导“一多不分”的学术方法，强调中国哲学“焦点-场域”式的关系性思维。他的核心贡献是提出“儒家角色伦理学”（Confucian Role Ethics），主张将人理解为“生成中的人”（human becomings）——人是关系性、过程性的存在，在家庭与社会角色中不断“成人”“成仁”，而非西方个人主义范式下的孤立的“存在者”（human being）。contemporary /kənˈtemprəri/ adj. 当代的，现代的historian /hɪˈstɔːriən/ n. 历史学家，史学家distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃn/ n. 区分，差别；卓越infinite /ˈɪnfɪnət/ adj. 无限的，无穷的Confucian /kənˈfjuːʃən/ adj. 儒家的，孔子的emerging /ɪˈmɜːdʒɪŋ/ adj. 新兴的，显现的Contemporary historian of religion James P. Carse provides us with a distinction between "finite" and "infinite" games that might be useful in beginning to think through how Confucian values might make an important difference in a newly emerging cultural order.当代宗教史学家詹姆斯・P・卡斯为我们区分了 “有限游戏” 与 “无限游戏”，这一划分有助于我们探讨儒家价值观如何能在新兴文化秩序中发挥关键作用。语法拆解主干：James P. Carse provides us with a distinction固定搭配：provide sb. with sth. = provide sth. for sb. 为某人提供某物后置定语 1：Contemporary historian of religion（同位语，修饰主语人名）介词短语定语：between "finite" and "infinite" games 修饰 distinction固定：distinction between A and B A 与 B 的区分定语从句：that might be useful… 先行词 a distinction介词 in + 动名词：in beginning to think through…think through 短语：透彻思考、梳理清楚宾语从句嵌套：how Confucian values might make an important difference…make a difference 起作用、产生影响形容词复合定语：newly emerging 新兴的（副词 + 现在分词作前置定语）formulate /ˈfɔːmjuleɪt/ v. 系统阐述，制定，构想analogy /əˈnælədʒi/ n. 类比，比拟，类推constitute /ˈkɒnstɪtjuːt/ v. 构成，组成，被视为broadly /ˈbrɔːdli/ adv. 广泛地，大体上，概括地military /ˈmɪlətri/ adj. 军事的，军用的security /sɪˈkjʊərəti/ n. 安全，保障，防卫In formulating this finite and infinite distinction, Carse uses "games" as an analogy for the many activities that constitute the human experience broadly—for the many things human beings "do" such as business, sports, politics, military security, international relations, and so on.在阐释这套有限 / 无限二分框架时，卡斯以 “游戏” 作为类比，指代构成广义人类经验的各类活动，即人类所有实践活动：商业、体育、政治、国防安全、国际关系等。语法拆解句首分词状语：In formulating… = When he formulates…介词 in 后动词必须用 doing 形式；formulate v. 系统阐释、构建（理论）主干：Carse uses "games" as an analogy固定：use A as an analogy for B 用 A 类比 B定语从句：that constitute the human experience broadly 修饰 activitiesconstitute vt. 构成、组成（正式学术用词）破折号并列补充：for the many things… 与前文 for the many activities 并列省略关系词定语从句：(that) human beings "do"，先行词 things，关系代词 that 作宾语可省略列举结构：such as + 并列名词短语，句尾 and so on 等等agency /ˈeɪdʒənsi/ n. 能动性，主体作用；机构，代理actor /ˈæktə(r)/ n. 参与者，行动者（非“演员”）engage /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ v. 参与，从事；吸引，雇佣accordance /əˈkɔːdns/ n. 一致，符合，依照guarantee /ˌɡærənˈtiː/ v. 保证，确保，担保finite /ˈfaɪnaɪt/ adj. 有限的，限定的With such finite games the focus is on the agency of single actors engaging in a game played over a finite period in accordance with a finite set of rules that guarantee a winner and a loser.有限游戏的核心是个体参与者的主观能动性：参与者在固定时限内，遵循一套固定规则开展游戏，而这套规则注定分出胜负双方。语法拆解状语前置：With such finite games 对于这类有限游戏而言主干：the focus is on the agency of single actorsagency 学术名词：主体能动性、自主行动权；actor 此处指参与者（非演员）现在分词后置定语：engaging in a game 修饰 actorsengage in 参与、从事两层过去分词定语：played over a finite period 修饰 gameover a finite period 在有限时长内介词短语后置定语：in accordance with a finite set of rules 依照一套有限规则in accordance with = according to（正式书面）定语从句：that guarantee a winner and a loser 先行词 rulesdefined /dɪˈfaɪnd/ adj. 明确的，清晰的，限定的agent /ˈeɪdʒənt/ n. 行动者，行为主体；代理人express /ɪkˈspres/ adj. 明确的，清楚的，特意的（非“表达”）purpose /ˈpɜːpəs/ n. 目的，意图，目标winning /ˈwɪnɪŋ/ n. 获胜，赢得，胜利thus /ðʌs/ adv. 因此，因而，这样Finite games thus have a defined beginning and end and are played by individual agents with the express purpose of winning.因此有限游戏拥有明确的起点与终点，参与者参与游戏的明确目标就是取胜。语法拆解并列谓语：have… and are played…（主动谓语 + 被动谓语共用主语 finite games）前置分词形容词：defined beginning and end 明确的起止点被动语态：are played by individual agents 由个体参与者开展介词短语作后置定语：with the express purpose of winningexpress adj. 明确的、刻意的；the purpose of doing sth. 做某事的目的immediately /ɪˈmiːdiətli/ adv. 直接地，立即；紧密地relevant /ˈreləvənt/ adj. 相关的，切题的，有意义的competitive /kəmˈpetətɪv/ adj. 竞争的，竞赛的means /miːnz/ n. 手段，方法，工具（单复数同形）direct /dəˈrekt/ v. 指向，对准，引导（be directed at 旨在）success /səkˈses/ n. 成功，胜利，成就This understanding of game playing seems most immediately relevant to those competitive human activities we think of in terms of means and ends and that are directed at the success of one player over another.这种对游戏的理解，最贴合我们以手段 — 目的框架审视的竞争性人类活动，这类活动的目标都是一方战胜另一方。语法拆解主干：This understanding… seems relevant to…be relevant to 与…… 相关；most immediately 直接、高度双重并列定语从句（先行词 activities）① (that) we think of in terms of means and ends（that 作宾语省略）in terms of 从…… 角度、以…… 框架；means and ends 手段与目的② and that are directed at the success…（that 作主语不可省略）be directed at 旨在、以…… 为目标名词所有格对比：the success of A over B A 胜过 B 的胜出individualism /ˌɪndɪˈvɪdʒuəlɪzəm/ n. 个人主义，个体本位pervasiveness /pəˈveɪsɪvnəs/ n. 普遍性，无处不在，渗透性liberal /ˈlɪbərəl/ adj. 自由主义的，开放的，自由的attend /əˈtend/ v. 伴随，随同，照料（此处为“伴随”）transaction /trænˈzækʃn/ n. 交往，互动，交易，事务sovereign /ˈsɒvrɪn/ adj. 主权的，独立的；n. 君主Our individualism's pervasiveness and the liberal values that attend this self-understanding of who we are as human beings has made finite games a familiar model of the way we often think about human transactions at every level of scale: as particular persons, as corporations, and as sovereign states.个人主义的普遍渗透，加之伴随这种 “何为人” 自我认知的自由主义价值观，让有限游戏成为我们思考各类人际互动的通用范式，覆盖全部层级：个人、企业、主权国家。语法拆解主语并列：A and B 并列主语A = Our individualism's pervasiveness（名词所有格：个人主义的普遍性）B = the liberal values + 定语从句 that attend this self-understanding…attend vt. 伴随、相随（正式文本）定语嵌套宾语从句：self-understanding of who we are as human beingsof 后接宾语从句 who we are主谓一致补充：本句谓语 has made（学术写作中，A and B 视作单一整体概念时可用单数谓语）make 复合宾语结构：make + 宾语 (finite games) + 宾语补足语 (a familiar model)省略关系词定语从句：the way (that/in which) we often think about…the way 作先行词，关系词可省略固定短语：human transactions 人际往来、社会交互；at every level of scale 所有规模层级冒号并列举例：as A, as B, and as C 三层并列核心学术短语汇总（背诵）provide sb. with a distinction between A and B 为某人区分 A 与 Bmake an important difference 产生关键影响、发挥作用formulate a distinction 构建 / 阐释二分框架use A as an analogy for B 以 A 类比 Bconstitute human experience 构成人类经验engage in activities 参与活动in accordance with rules 依照规则express purpose of doing sth. 做某事的明确目的in terms of means and ends 以手段 — 目的为框架be directed at 旨在、目标是at every level of scale 所有层级、各类规模human transactions 人际 / 社会互动更多卡卡老师分享公众号：卡卡课堂 卡卡老师微信：kakayingyu002送你一份卡卡老师学习大礼包，帮助你在英文学习路上少走弯路

Join me to paint the MUSEDear One, If you happen to have a chronic stress or chronic health condition, please listen because this matters. The hours of your day are not neutral. They're counting on your body's clock. Hypervigilance over time wears the body down. You know this, but what you might not know is how much pleasure builds the body back. Pleasure is not a treat. Pleasure is a counterweight to pain. And here's why I believe it. Chronos. Chronic. It means with time. So if you have chronic health and chronic stress, it means you're living with it, inside of it. These words come from the Latin and the Greek. When it first began to enter the human language, it was not about a severity, it was about duration, the time it takes. Chronic, on its own, isn't something bad. It's what travels with you. But it's not a singular event. It's time itself. And if the condition that you are navigating is having an impact on your life. It's impacting your time. Not just the quantity of your time, but the quality of your time. So what if the remedy to Chronos and Chronic is connected with time itself? Think about this for a moment with me. Chronos connects with the brainwave of Beta, what I call busybody beta, and hypervigilance, and also the critic. The critic lives in Chronos. Chronos is sequential, the clock, the calendar, the appointment, the countdown, the quantity. Beta is the brainwave that runs it. Hypervigilance is what beta feels like from the inside when you live in a body that communicates to you about what it is experiencing in languages that are hard to understand and so unpredictable. When you're always scanning for what's next, what's going to bring on the inflammation or the flare, whether or not you feel like showing up for something that you've already said yes to. Small example, yesterday I spent quite a few hours feeling creative and lit up and informed. And then suddenly my computer was out of battery and I was in a public place. And I didn't feel like expending the energy to get up and plug it in. So I just closed it and just sat there instead. I was weighing whether or not it felt worthwhile to find the socket. Because when you're navigating chronic conditions, sometimes the simple act like plugging in a cord can feel like you don't want to do it. Are you, like I am sometimes, weighing every move? The weighing itself, the evaluation is not free. Researchers have measured what it does to a body over the years. And this buildup is called allostatic load. The wear accumulates. And so when we stay hypervigilant and stressed and in the stressful parts of the beta brainwaves over and over and over, it accumulates. It's a toxic load. Accumulation: Is a word that's been changing everything for me. Hypervigilance is not waiting for a flare. It's showing up in the good times too. When I'm doing things that I love, it's just there in the background. And it fills up peaceful times with stress if I don't pay attention. But there's something else. This one has to be chosen. Chronos is Predictable. What is not predictable is Kairos. Kairos is a choice. Kairos is divine time, God timing, supreme timing, synchronicity, everything in right time. Kairos, theta brainwaves, flow state, and the Muse. Kairos is about quality, not quantity. It's about opportunity, never too early, never too late. It's the opening. The space to breathe in between, or what I would call Tea with Muse. Chronos is spent. It's finite. Kairos, you enter and it's infinite, or at least the experience of it can be when you enter a flow state. Theta is the brainwave that's operating in Kairos. You don't just arrive there all at once. You have to pass through other brainwaves. You begin to leave the beta and you pass through the imagination of alpha and into the spacious mystical theta. And as you go. Hypervigilance and stress dissolves along the way. This also counts, especially if you declare that it does. Flow is what it feels like from the inside. Flow is the felt sense of the Kairos state. And this is where science is on my side and the side of Intentional Creativity. The researchers have a name for what happens to time in that state. They actually call it time distortion. It's one of the defining markers where hours go by and you can't account for them. You're so in the flow. You're in your jam. There's a theory called transient hypofrontality that says that the self-monitoring part of the brain quiets down during times of deep absorption. The part of you that is over hypervigilant, that guards, that worries, goes quiet, measurably quiet during Kairos. So when you're in self-expression, particularly things like drawing or painting or singing or weaving or digging in the dirt or cooking food, things that require intention you go into Kairos. When you're sitting with the Muse and letting her have her way with you. Two hours go by and you don't even know where they went. That happened just this morning. Coffee with two people I adore. We read poetry from my book, Tea with the Midnight Muse. We did the Mother Mary Oracle Deck and applied it to our health. We talked to the kitties. We talked about the roses and the tomatoes. I made a soup of everything from the garden. And the hours were gone and they couldn't even believe it. And I said, that? That's Tea with the Muse. That's what I want to talk about today. We traveled out of beta and we stopped guarding the parameter of our consciousness. We stopped listening to the Chronos critic who told us we must be productive. We entered the place where there is no clock. Instead, there's a cuppa.Here's the interesting thing, is that this time wasn't about healing something completely, not about overcoming something. When we come back out of it, the same conditions are waiting for us, but our perspective is shifted and we can bring magic out of Kairos into the Chronos. Let me tell you this, the pleasure time, the Muse time, that also is accumulative, just like the stress. The body, the heart, the mind, and the identity, they begin to fill up with a different kind of energy. This is why my entire day is filled with little bursts of chosen micro-pleasure. Chronos, Beta, Hypervigilance, Critic, Finite. That one writes by itself all day long, whether we consent or not, where Kairos, Theta, Flow, and the Muse, and the Infinite, that one only writes in us when we choose it, and also choose to be conscious of it. Kairos offsets days of bracing and worry for the worst. What if Tea with the Muse Is this life-saving as I've been saying it is all these years? You might ask yourself, why does Shiloh spend so much time on pleasure when the world is on fire? Because I know what's possible, because I've seen it for myself. I've seen people move out of chronic pain and into practices of pleasure that change our world. You know what? Chronos gets the clock. It's operating all day long. Kairos only gets what we choose and appoint. While you might think that 15 minutes of Tea with the Muse against the rest of the hours spent just fighting the onslaught of overwhelm and chaos: I challenge you to consider this is not just a lovely invitation. For many of us, it's life-saving. Pleasure is our activism. Kairos, like the Muse, must be courted. Kairos doesn't just arrive on its own, usually. The only times I've seen it come are through falling in love or worshipping at the altar of the Divine. Every other time, I need to choose it. Pain is inevitable, but pleasure is chosen. Kronos never has to be chosen. Kronos is chronic, just like the critic is chronic, keeping you scrolling and reminding you that time is running out. Kairos is a ritual. And while many of us in our community do prefer a giant canvas, in addition, take a walk and let the flowers speak poetry to you. Look out the window at the farthest point you can find and ask what color that is, if you were to paint it. Talk to the part of your body that hurts and ask what it wants. One of the people I was sitting with this morning is navigating a health condition and I asked her to ask that part of her body what the message was. Only one small thing came. But for me, as I sat with her and listened to the space in between the spaces, I heard a very clear instruction about a particular form of rest and I invited her to take that rest today - and she did and she's doing it right now while I do this. Information comes when you're having Tea with the Muse. So open the page and give the Muse of Kairos the pen. Ask What wants to reveal itself to you today? Do you believe me that a practice of pleasure could be the counterpoint of a lifetime of pain and could actually be, not just a coping mechanism but a practice to deal with states of chronic health and stress? I know it works. The only question is how much? Will you try? I will. I'll see you with the Muse. This is Curate Shiloh Sophia for Tea with the Muse podcast and I'm grateful to be in your life. Let's choose the Muse.Amber and Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Sopra i boschi in fiamme della Gironda è comparsa una nuvola generata dal fuoco stesso: un pyro-cumulonimbus, fenomeno mai osservato prima in Francia. Mentre Francia e Spagna affrontano alcuni dei peggiori incendi della loro storia recente, con oltre 325 mila evacuati e una nuova ondata di calore in arrivo, capiamo come nasce una nube temporalesca da un rogo e perché rende il fronte del fuoco imprevedibile. Poi la privacy dell'intelligenza artificiale: centinaia di conversazioni condivise con Claude sono finite nei risultati di Google, tra strategie legali, codice e credenziali di accesso. Non è una fuga di dati, ma la storia dice qualcosa su quanto sia sottile il confine tra pubblico e privato online. Infine, a Washington un'azienda privata sta liberando seicentomila zanzare per eliminarne altre: come funziona il metodo Wolbachia e perché il dibattito scientifico non è chiuso. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1.    Consistency is Unpredictable   Consistency is not about performing the same way every day; it's about showing up in some capacity, regardless of the amount of effort.   Why it matters   Believing this allows professionals to sustain their efforts over time without the pressure of perfection, leading to long-term success.   In practice   Instead of feeling discouraged after a low-energy day, acknowledge that any small effort contributes to progress, like stacking bricks of varying heights each day rather than expecting uniformity.       2.    The Cycle of Stopping   The tendency to stop completely after missing a day or two is a prevalent cycle that undermines progress.   Why it matters   Recognizing this cycle encourages individuals to pick up where they left off instead of starting over, preserving momentum.   In practice   Instead of abandoning a project after a missed deadline, professionals should focus on incremental returns to the task, mitigating the all-or-nothing mindset.       3.    Energy is Finite, Efforts are Flexible   You can't give more than 100% of your energy, and that's okay; it's about the effort you can muster at any given time.   Why it matters   Accepting that energy levels fluctuate helps individuals prioritize their tasks without feeling guilty or overwhelmed.   In practice   On days when energy is low, professionals can still make progress by committing to smaller tasks that align with their capacity, like dedicating a few minutes to brainstorming rather than executing a full project.       4.    Momentum is Frictionless in Space   In a frictionless environment, each small push adds to momentum rather than losing energy, akin to consistency in personal development.   Why it matters   This perspective emphasizes that even small efforts accumulate and propel growth, encouraging continuous action despite setbacks.   In practice   Think of progress as ionic propulsion, where each little achievement builds upon the last, allowing for exponential growth over time, rather than relying solely on big pushes.  

Today we look at the nuances of looking forward to training each day as it comes. We talk about the importance of training where your fitness is vs. cramming for a race and why that will serve you better in the long run. We look at feeling younger as you get older. We talk about Guess Jeans, the Tour, and how a lot of times you're competing against ex-pros. We look at the faults in being obsessed with race times, especially when they may not be realistic. We talk what it takes to be the best in the world and more importantly what it takes to be the best you can be with your circumstances. Training is much more enjoyable when we can look at it as a long term journey and we tackle work in a way that makes more sense as it aligns with our current fitness. Consistency over peaks and valleys. Be the best version of yourself. Topics: Lake Placid and Ohio Your first time at a race venue Vingegaard out of the Tour What does winning look like for you? To be the best in the world Look like you're having fun Being as great as YOU can be Our own version of ourselves Narrow and blurry vision Putting all the stock in racing Me, me, me Accepting where you're at in training Feeling younger as you get older Being in shape to actually do the work Train where you're at Embrace each day as it comes Wrapped up in your time Guess Jeans Pedro Gomes wins AG at Lake Placid Addictive personalities Stop today so you can look forward to tomorrow Finite amounts of energy Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Winds of Change “Too much Noise” Ecclesiastes 1:12-15; 2:12-16; 12:12-13   Where does the anxiety of knowing come from?   Lie 1: More information will fix me. Ecclesiastes 1:12-15 We have infinite information and FINITE capacity. Knowledge is good, but knowledge is not God.   Lie 2: More wisdom will save me. Ecclesiastes 2:12-16 You cannot outsmart the grave. Peace is not found in what you know. It's found in Who you trust. Ecclesiastes 12:12-13 Peace comes from trusting the One who already knows it all.

In this episode, Jeffrey discusses finite resources.Email Jeffrey with any questions or feedback (jtefertiller@servicemanagement.us)Each week, Jeffrey will be sharing his knowledge on Service Delivery (Mondays) and Service Management (Thursdays). Jeffrey is the founder of Service Management Leadership, an IT consulting firm specializing in Service Management, Asset Management, CIO Advisory, and Business Continuity services.  The firm's website is www.servicemanagement.us.  Jeffrey has been in the industry for 30 years and brings a practical perspective to the discussions. He is an accomplished author with seven acclaimed books in the subject area and a popular YouTube channel with approximately 1,800 videos on various topics.  Also, please follow the Service Management Leadership LinkedIn page.

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Gudrun talks with Debajyoti Choudhuri. He is staying at KIT as a short term guest. He is Associate Professor in the School of Basic Sciences at IIT Bhubaneswar, India. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Hyderabad. His research interest lies in the analysis of elliptic PDEs using Functional Analytic and topological methods. In this he touches and has a slight overlap with the research of Gudrun. The conversation starts with the discussion about a small paper which Debajyoti put on the archiv. It is about understanding how to work with the Fractional Laplacian. This means extending the classical Laplace operator Δ to non-integer powers. This operator is the main part in PDEs which model, e.g, anomalous diffusion, probability theory, image processing, finance, and nonlocal mechanics. (-Δ)s, where 0 < s < 1. What makes It different to the ordinary Laplacian? While the traditional Laplace operator is local, i.e. it depends only on values of u and its derivatives near x, the fractional Laplacian is nonlocal, it depends on values of u everywhere in space. Thus, for the analytical and numerical treatment one needs very different methods. There are several possible definitions. Some of them can be found in the Wikipedia article which is cited below. On ℝn, the cleanest definition is the Fourier definition which follows the idea: Take the Fourier transform. Multiply by |ξ|2s. Transform back. In the short paper which is discussed the singular integral definition is used: For 0 < s < 1: (-Δ)^s u(x) = C(n,s) PV ∫ [u(x) - u(y)] / |x - y|^(n + 2s) dy This makes the nonlocality explicit: every point y contributes to the value at x. The method central in studying Laplace problems is variational. It considers an (infinite) family of generalised problems and works on the existence of so-called weak solutions. These problems are formulated with the help of Sobolev spaces. The weak solution for the Laplace problem is an element of the space H1=W1,2. This means the solution and its (generalised) gradient are bounded in L2 in the domain in which the problem is solved. This has physical meaning and due to known properties (embedding) of Sobolev spaces the pointwise (strong) solutions often can be constructed when enough regularitiy of the weak solutions is proved. Fractional Laplacians naturally live in fractional Sobolev spaces. These are not that easy to connect to physical properties and a few of the equivalent definitions in the context of classical Sobolev spaces are not equivalent any more everywhere. Common approaches for numerics for PDEs including the fractional Laplacian are: Fourier spectral methods (periodic domains) Finite element methods for fractional PDEs Matrix-function methods (As) Caffarelli–Silvestre extension methods Quadrature approximations of singular integrals The Extension trick introduced by Caffarelli and Silvestre in 2007 (their original paper is cited below) is also discussed as part of the short note. p-laplacian augurs well in the sense because the unicity of the definitions of the s-laplacian is still lacking. The conversation then turns to how Debajyoti found his way into mathematics and the topic of PDEs and how life and work feel like in his university. More information: Webpage of Debajyoti Choudhuri Debajyoti Choudhuri: A quick sneak-peek at the s-fractional Laplacian operator (2022) Wikipedia on the Fractional Laplace operator Mateusz Kwaśnicki: Ten equivalent definitions of the fractional Laplace operator (2015) E. Di Nezza, G. Palatucci, E. Valdinoci, Hitchhiker's guide to the fractional Sobolev spaces, Bull. Sci. Math., 136(5), 521–573 (2012) L. Caffarelli, L. Silvestre, An extension problem related to the fractional Laplacian, Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 32, 1245–1260 (2007)

Gudrun talks with Debajyoti Choudhuri. He is staying at KIT as a short term guest. He is Associate Professor in the School of Basic Sciences at IIT Bhubaneswar, India. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Hyderabad. His research interest lies in the analysis of elliptic PDEs using Functional Analytic and topological methods. In this he touches and has a slight overlap with the research of Gudrun. The conversation starts with the discussion about a small paper which Debajyoti put on the archiv. It is about understanding how to work with the Fractional Laplacian. This means extending the classical Laplace operator Δ to non-integer powers. This operator is the main part in PDEs which model, e.g, anomalous diffusion, probability theory, image processing, finance, and nonlocal mechanics. (-Δ)s, where 0 < s < 1. What makes It different to the ordinary Laplacian? While the traditional Laplace operator is local, i.e. it depends only on values of u and its derivatives near x, the fractional Laplacian is nonlocal, it depends on values of u everywhere in space. Thus, for the analytical and numerical treatment one needs very different methods. There are several possible definitions. Some of them can be found in the Wikipedia article which is cited below. On ℝn, the cleanest definition is the Fourier definition which follows the idea: Take the Fourier transform. Multiply by |ξ|2s. Transform back. In the short paper which is discussed the singular integral definition is used: For 0 < s < 1: (-Δ)^s u(x) = C(n,s) PV ∫ [u(x) - u(y)] / |x - y|^(n + 2s) dy This makes the nonlocality explicit: every point y contributes to the value at x. The method central in studying Laplace problems is variational. It considers an (infinite) family of generalised problems and works on the existence of so-called weak solutions. These problems are formulated with the help of Sobolev spaces. The weak solution for the Laplace problem is an element of the space H1=W1,2. This means the solution and its (generalised) gradient are bounded in L2 in the domain in which the problem is solved. This has physical meaning and due to known properties (embedding) of Sobolev spaces the pointwise (strong) solutions often can be constructed when enough regularitiy of the weak solutions is proved. Fractional Laplacians naturally live in fractional Sobolev spaces. These are not that easy to connect to physical properties and a few of the equivalent definitions in the context of classical Sobolev spaces are not equivalent any more everywhere. Common approaches for numerics for PDEs including the fractional Laplacian are: Fourier spectral methods (periodic domains) Finite element methods for fractional PDEs Matrix-function methods (As) Caffarelli–Silvestre extension methods Quadrature approximations of singular integrals The Extension trick introduced by Caffarelli and Silvestre in 2007 (their original paper is cited below) is also discussed as part of the short note. p-laplacian augurs well in the sense because the unicity of the definitions of the s-laplacian is still lacking. The conversation then turns to how Debajyoti found his way into mathematics and the topic of PDEs and how life and work feel like in his university. More information: Webpage of Debajyoti Choudhuri Debajyoti Choudhuri: A quick sneak-peek at the s-fractional Laplacian operator (2022) Wikipedia on the Fractional Laplace operator Mateusz Kwaśnicki: Ten equivalent definitions of the fractional Laplace operator (2015) E. Di Nezza, G. Palatucci, E. Valdinoci, Hitchhiker's guide to the fractional Sobolev spaces, Bull. Sci. Math., 136(5), 521–573 (2012) L. Caffarelli, L. Silvestre, An extension problem related to the fractional Laplacian, Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 32, 1245–1260 (2007)

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Introduction: Do I Have the Will to Go On? Do I even have the will to go on with this episode? Well, hey there, welcome back. Do I even have the will to go on with this episode? Um, I do, but I also have something better. The Willpower Battery: Why “Raw Dogging” Change Fails Let’s talk about that. If you’ve read my book Because… First of all, thank you. But if you haven’t, let me give you a refresher on something that’s really important. If you’ve ever tried to lose weight or make a change in your life and you’ve ever just tried to raw dog it, meaning you think, okay, I’m just going to use sheer force of will to do this. I’m going to stop eating so much, I’m going to shove myself into the gym, I’m going to change jobs, I’m going to be more tolerant with this, that, and the other thing. And you’re like, hey, it works. But you’re also like, oh my god, I’m running out of… energy. Because willpower is a battery with finite energy. Well, fine, you say. I’m just going to increase that battery, right? Like you said Mark, if you repeat something, you can increase it. So I’ll just keep using more and more and more willpower. Burning Out: The Hidden Danger of Relying Solely on Willpower Well, that can create a really dangerous situation, first of all. So if you decided to go the pure willpower route, you would be doing what a lot of people do in their situations that they’re not happy with. They just say, I’m just going to focus harder and harder and harder. But the problem is if the problem or the change is something that requires an inordinate amount of energy, in other words, a huge amount of energy that perhaps you hadn’t planned on or even if you had planned on it, it’s a huge amount of energy that you simply may not have because you’re busy dealing with all the other things in your life. But let’s just say you do it. You put all this effort into making this change and it’s working and that sort of delights you. But you’re like… I’m burning out, I have nothing left for me and my family, I’m crabby now, it’s starting to change me in ways that I don’t like, I’m starting to compensate for it, and so forth. Monsters and Unicorns: The Subconscious Forces Controlling Your Habits See, everything that I’m describing are things that happen under the understanding of Because, the monsters and the unicorns. And what you’re simply doing is ignoring the monsters and unicorns in place. Well Mark, what should I do? you ask perhaps. Well, that’s look to the monsters and unicorns first. And that’s what I do. And that’s what I do when someone works with me. It doesn’t mean we don’t use willpower, we use willpower in everything, it takes willpower to make a decision to go against your monsters and unicorns. If you say, look, I certainly enjoy eating, and I enjoy lots of eating, and I enjoy multiple eating sessions and and all that stuff, it takes willpower to say, oh, I want to give up that pleasure, I want to give up that comfort, right? Well, now you’re going against your unicorn. Diagnosing Your Coping Mechanisms: Are You Protecting Yourself From Pain? Well, instead of taking it that way, you’re kind of doing it backwards. What you should be doing is examining the unicorn itself. Are you really deriving that much pleasure, or are you deriving pleasure from something else? Is it a certain avoidance that allows you to have the pleasure? Or maybe by eating a lot and too much and often and too fast and so and so forth… you’re being forced to do that because you have a monster that is protecting you from pain. Maybe you believe that if you do all these things, these unhealthy eating habits, it will actually protect you from pain, even though it’s going to make you live shorter and make your life less happy. The “Aha” Moment: Triggering Lasting Psychological Change And as soon as you have that realization, as soon as that hits home, now your monsters and unicorns have literally just altered in your system. Just that one sentence I just said. If you’re like, well yeah, oh, wait a second. That’s when change happens. That’s when change happens in people, that’s when change happens in coaching. Because if you don’t do that, then it’s just cheerleading. Whether it’s you cheerleading yourself or someone else is being paid to cheerlead you. And I will tell you, I don’t get paid to cheerlead. I don’t want to get paid to cheerlead. I want to get paid to diagnose, to guide, and to help. Self-Examination and the Unseen Programs Running Your Life So this was a fast one. We’re not even at five minutes and I already switched to the portion of the episode in which I say, okay, now we recognize this, what do we do? Boom, already gave you that. Now, does everyone who is wildly successful or really successful at something go through this? Well, typically they’re not even aware of their monsters and unicorns, typically they just work. In fact, as I use in the case of Michael Phelps, he had both a monster and a unicorn for staying in the pool. He didn’t decide that, he didn’t consciously go, I would like to stay in this pool because it helps me with my ADHD. He just noticed that being in the pool helped him with his ADHD. And the same thing happens in your life. We typically don’t do a lot of self-examination. Well, most people don’t. I do that all the time, which is why I come up with this, but… you typically don’t do that, you go through life with all these programs running and you think, okay, well I I don’t know, look, I don’t know, and we have control mechanisms in place, we have safeties in our psyche that prevent us typically from pulling apart the cover and poking around in all the wires and gears and things. Understandably so, just like in a car, has a hood, it has caps, and has protective seals on lots of things, so does your psyche, for good reasons. And sometimes it’s not for such good reasons. You have childhood trauma or other kinds of trauma, you may have a protective shield around it because you’re not dealing with it. I don’t want to go there. Right? You have something that’s happened to you and you’re just not going there, which is why you don’t see the psychologist that people tell you to see. Or why you don’t even talk about something. Oh, that’s off limits with Bill. Don’t even go there. Right? Moving Beyond Cheerleading: Why You Need a Safe System for Transformation We all know we’ve encountered people like this. We all know we are people like this. If you work with a psychologist or a coach that has a system in place and puts you in a special place that allows you to feel comfortable enough to talk through things. And just being comfortable and talking about things isn’t enough, you have to have a system in place. You can’t just be brought bare in front of a stranger and talk about your hopes, dreams, aspirations, and everything that hurts you. That’s going to hurt. And that’s going to be difficult. So you need to have something in place. You need to know, you need to tell yourself, hey, we’re going to be looking under this cover, but we’re going to do it gently, we’re going to do it with care and respect for ourselves. Next Steps: Explore the Podcast Catalog and the ‘Because’ Framework Your first step in that, frankly, is to listen to podcast episodes like this. And I present my entire catalog of 300 plus episodes. And yes, I’ll stop saying that when we get to 400 plus episodes. But listen through them, listen through them in the 10 or 15 minutes it takes you to listen to them while you’re doing a chore, while you’re in the car… and just think. Think in the safety of your own mental space. And then when you want to learn more, pick up a copy of Because. It’s not that expensive, it’s a short read, but it is packed with information and citations from other books, medical journals, and things like that. And you can always go down your own rabbit holes to make sure that I’m telling you what I say I’m telling you. Finding Your Monsters and Unicorns But I’ll tell you, the moment you discover a monster or a unicorn in place and you go, oh… wait a second. He doesn’t belong there. Sure, he has a useful function, but not there… that’s going to be your aha moment. And all of a sudden, you’ll want to know more, and all of a sudden you’ll want to find all the monsters and unicorns you can. And if you want my help, all you have to do is reach out. You can go on my Calendly, which is a hard word to say, and schedule a 15-minute free appointment and we can have a nice chat about it and see if we’re a fit. And if not, just read some more books and do your due diligence. Conclusion and Resources Wow, this was fun. Thanks for listening as always. And as always, I have a tremendous amount of resources for you. Please, by all means, check out all my goodies. Go to alchemyforme, alchemyforlife, and markbradford.org. And take care of yourself, please. Thank you. Thank you for listening as always, go to markbradford.org to see all my author related things, go to alchemyfor.life to see coaching, speaking, writing, and this podcast. And go to alchemyfor.me to get a copy of CheckMark™

Joe Polish sits down with Strategic Coach Founder Dan Sullivan and The CEO of CEG Worldwide John Bowen to explore the research-backed framework behind their new book, The Greater Game — a 100x blueprint that reveals why only 5.4% of Entrepreneurs are playing a completely different game than everyone else. Together they unpack the shift from Founder-dependent businesses to scalable ecosystems, the finite-vs-infinite game divide, and why AI is less a technological revolution and more a cognitive one. Here's a glance at what you'll discover in this episode: The number that reveals whether you're winning or losing the only game that matters... and why 94.6% of Entrepreneurs are optimizing a game that's already coming to an end (you've probably already done 10x without calling it that — what you do next is the whole point) Dan Sullivan's quiet observation after 52 years and 7,000+ Entrepreneurs... the exact moment a successful person stops growing isn't failure — it's something far more seductive, and almost no one catches it in themselves (the first exercise he runs at Strategic Coach is designed to show you you've already crossed the line once) Joe typed a question into AI and got back the most brutal case study in modern business history... Blockbuster, Kodak, Borders, Toys "R" Us — and the one invisible shift every company on that list missed before it was too late (this isn't a technology story — it's a thinking story) Why John Bowen started three new companies on his 70th birthday... and the dashboard he and Dan built for roughly $2,000 that a top vendor quoted them $50,000 a year to provide (his tech team called after the first meeting and said "we'll just build it and give it to you tomorrow") The four-hour version of something that used to take Dan Sullivan four weeks... and what it reveals about the only AI upgrade that actually changes your trajectory (this isn't about using AI more — it's about using it in the right direction entirely) What Joe Polish teaches Genius Youth Members that no business school has ever covered... and why writing handwritten postcards in an age of AI might be the single highest-leverage thing you do this week (the killer app of 2026 is not what anyone is selling you) If you'd like to join world-renowned Entrepreneurs at the next Genius Network Event or want to learn more about Genius Network, go to www.GeniusNetwork.com. Show Notes: The Book: The Greater Game and the 5.4% Dan and John's new book — published by Hay House and instantly a #1 Amazon bestseller — grew out of a 25-year research partnership to study what separates the highest-performing Entrepreneurs from everyone else. Their research across 7,000+ Entrepreneurs found that 94.6% are still optimizing the game they're in — while only 5.4% are architecting a completely different one. The book maps out exactly what those 5.4% are doing. The book's central premise: "Every system that got you here is optimized for a game that's coming to an end." From 10x to 100x: Dan's Framework Dan has been coaching Entrepreneurs to 10x since the 1990s — starting with an exercise where he had Clients identify when they were one-tenth of where they are today. Everyone in his program had already done 10x without labeling it that way. When he challenged a Client who said they couldn't go 10x in three years, the Client responded they could do it in 15 — and then voluntarily suggested doing it again. That's when the 100x idea crystallized. Dan's thesis: give yourself a long enough time horizon, use AI as a genuine collaborator, and constant growth becomes the natural state — not the exception. The Four Levels of The Greater Game Level 1 — Foundation for Freedom: Vision, security, and financial confidence. Getting off the couch. Level 2 — Energy for Expansion: Motivation and IP development. Dan has built an extraordinary amount of intellectual property; John and Joe have too. Level 3 — Platform / Ecosystem: Moving from Founder-dependent to a scalable system. John's own company grew 58% while writing the book — by walking the talk of this level. Level 4 — Agency: Creating markets. Courage, commitment, and building an ecosystem where you're generating the category itself. Finite vs. Infinite: What the Game Shift Really Means Finite game: competing for market share, managing dependencies, staying indispensable personally, reacting to market pressure. Business value: 3–5x EBITDA. Infinite game: designing an ecosystem, multiplying unique genius through others, engineering your own absence, redefining the market. Business value: multiples that reflect systems, not the Founder. Joe's examples (finite → infinite): Blockbuster → Netflix, Kodak → Apple, Borders → Amazon, taxi companies → Uber, Toys "R" Us → Lego. The pattern: finite players optimize the current game; infinite players keep changing what the game is. Dan's real-world example: Paul Van Dyne came to Strategic Coach planning to retire at 65. He went on to take his engineering firm from #40 to #1 nationally in nine years through M&A — and now plans to build his gourmet coffee shop inside one of his medical centers. AI as a Cognitive Revolution Dan's framing: AI isn't a technological revolution — it's a cognitive revolution. He compares its impact to the introduction of zero in mathematics, which made economics, double-entry bookkeeping, and science possible. Practical example: Dan used to need four weeks to structure a new book. With AI, the same work takes four hours. He now writes a new book every quarter. John's vibe-coding story: his Team built the entire Greater Game Dashboard for roughly $2,000–3,000 using Lovable — after being quoted $50,000/year from a top vendor. They own the code and iterate freely. Joe's counterpoint: the killer app today is being fully human — knowing how to bond, connect, and think for yourself. "Write with your hands, think with your brain."  The Greater Game Dashboard John built this free interactive tool at TheGreaterGameDashboard.com to put the book's framework into action. The 15-minute assessment shows you exactly where you stand relative to peers and the 10 Greater Multipliers. The dashboard automatically calculates what your company is worth to a buyer today — and shows how each improvement raises that number. Dan calls it the greatest tool he's seen in 52 years of coaching Entrepreneurs. Monthly updates include an Entrepreneur Pulse confidence index. Useful whether you ever intend to sell or not — knowing your number changes how you invest in your business. Building Great Teams: Cast, Don't Hire Dan's principle: Strategic Coach treats itself as a theater company — with backstage and front-stage roles. They don't hire for jobs, they cast for roles. Every new hire is there to free up someone already in the company. Babs Smith built the Strategic Coach Team around Dan from the start — several Team members have now been with the company 20–30+ years. Beware the Founder-as-salesperson trap: if you're great at selling, you'll hire the wrong people — you'll confuse their excitement for the role with fit for the role. John, Joe, and Dan all find talent primarily through communities — mastermind groups, Genius Network, Strategic Coach — rather than ads. Great people seek out great people. Dan's upcoming book (Hay House): Casting Not Hiring. IP as a Strategic Asset Dan has had 82 thinking tools patented by the US Patent Bureau (none rejected), with 75 more pending. Each patent is a borrowable asset — you can borrow up to half the appraised value, creating a private intellectual property bank. Joe Polish's company operates as an ESOP — all Team members become equity owners after a vesting period, creating a true ownership culture without requiring employees to buy in upfront. Genius Youth and the Human Connection Advantage Joe's Genius Youth program focuses on skills AI can't replicate: human connection, handwritten notes, cold plunges, cooking and hospitality, ethical influence. Joe's 2026 Genius Network Annual Event —  features Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler (Authors of We Are as Gods), live robots, and a mystery musician on 300M+ albums. Resources: The Greater Game (Book) — Dan Sullivan & John Bowen The Greater Game (Audiobook) — narrated by Gord Vickman, Hay House Business TheGreaterGameDashboard.com — free 15-minute assessment & company valuation tool 10xTalk Podcast — Subscribe — 10xTalk.com 10xTalk on Apple Podcasts Strategic Coach — Dan Sullivan's coaching program Genius Network — Joe Polish's community for elite Entrepreneurs Joe Polish's Genius Network Annual Event CEG Worldwide (John Bowen) — research and coaching for financial advisors Cleator Ghost Town, Arizona — Joe's 40-acre ghost town & the Cleator Bar and Yacht Club Inside Strategic Coach Podcast — Episode on Hiring — Dan Sullivan & Shannon Waller AI Killed the Modern Company (Video) — Peter Diamandis & Salim Ismail Why Microsoft AI Chief Predicts AI Automation of White-Collar Work in 18 Months — Fortune / Mustafa Suleyman

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We're unable to record a new episode this week so we have remixed the sound and video on one of our favourites, from 2022, about a topic that we're thinking about a lot right now - time. So often our lives are ruled by 'clock time' - we're counting off how long there is to get something done, or we're aiming for a time-bound goal, or we're measuring time wasted or time used productively. But although this is the dominant way of understanding time for many of us, it is only one way of relating to the flow of things. What if, instead of filling time with work or play, we turned things around and allowed time to flow into our activity? And what if instead of trying to secure ourselves against an unpredictable future, we took up a playfulness with the unfolding of time itself? A conversation about living into our lives as an infinite unfolding, rather than a finite game.  This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast in all the usual podcast places.Our source for this week:What Is Time?There are two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play…For an infinite player there is no such thing as an hour of time. There can be an hour of love, or a day of grieving, or a season of learning, or a period of labour.An infinite player does not begin working for the purpose of filling up a period of time with work, but for the purpose of filling work with time. Work is not a way of passing time but engendering possibility. Work is not a way of arriving at a desired present and securing it against an unpredictable future but of moving towards a future that itself has a future.[So] infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarrelling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes from it…A finite player puts play into time.An infinite player puts time into play.James Carse, from ‘Finite and Infinite Games'Photo by Joe Pregadio on Unsplash---Join Us Live in 2026Professional Coaching Course, begins July 2-5 2026, OnlineOur year long programme, an opportunity to learn to support others in deep, life giving discovery and development.You can hear us talk about the programme here:www.turningtowards.life/coachingAnd you can read more about it here:www.wearethirdspace.org/professional-coaching-courseTurning Towards Life Live Season 3, from September 2026Our Turning Towards Life live programme of community, learning and reflection runs in six month seasons, in person on Zoom once a month. We're very excited about it. A chance to expand beyond the bounds of a podcast into forming a community of learning and practice.You can find out more and join us here: www.turningtowards.life/live----About Turning Towards LifeTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Amazon Music and Spotify.Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribeSupport Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife

Brought to you by the members of Manifesting Mastery Deluxe https://ManifestingMasteryDeluxe.comNeville Goddard quote:  The Wise Productive Use of Money“That experience taught me a lesson I have used throughout my life. When people ask me about my success, I must say that I believe it is because I have never made ‘making money' my goal: ‘My goal is the wise, productive use of money.' This man's inner conversations are based on the premise that he already has money, his constant inner question: the proper use of it.” - Neville GoddardMark's Money Manifesting Mistake:  How to Manifest $37,813.25 centsHere's what I'm doing....I am imagining my friends and I celebrating me having manifested the EXACT amount I imagined....$37.813.25 because sacred loves specifics....What do you think?TT:  Specific is terrific...  But that's not the real specific....Money...Money for...Money again for...Man with the money...People might want to borrow money....But what if they wanted you - to give them - wisdom....Wise Productive Use of MoneyTerry asks:  What do you think about group manifesting?We're forming a group...Getting together at 11:11 am...On the 7th day of each week...(Get why we're doing it this way?)Would you like to join us?Because it would be great to have a heavy hitter on the team.Thanks!Gazza in Remarkable:  Manifesting and Nervous System Dysregulation I LOVE! the Nervous System Dysregulation playlist on youtube.It is a wonderful intro to MMD and completely different..I like to share it when I notice people are lost...Years ago I said 'notice that you are always imagining something'The Nervous System Dysregulation playlist is my go to now..I guess my question could be how did you discover the name "Nervous System Dysregulation"Remarkable Lisa Ann LaRock: “Finite or Infinite”Hello Twenty and Victoria!“Finite or Infinite”Quantum Physics…Suggests…An Observer…Influences outcomes.Ultimately our…State is responsible…For what occurs.I confess…There are times when…I feel dilute.As if my true nature…Has been caught in…A rip tide.Circumstances…Unexpected necessary…Needs.Entanglements…There is a point…Where I know…My identity seems to…Be fractured into…Finite pieces.As human…I'm loosing my…Divine Perspective.The way I remember…Who I am…Is in the stillness…I go looking for…Evidence…What does history…Reveal about me?The tip I recently received…For excellent client service…The trembling voice and tears of a loved one…When I called simply to share my love for them at a difficult moment.People die.I will die.Life has a way of shattering  and scattering…Conscious awareness of…This infinite beautiful…Being that I am…Moment by moment…Is all that matters.Thank you for your insights!  Lisa

Alex, Water Resources Administrator for the Town of Berthoud, joins us to share what we can expect in this season of drought, how water resources are managed on a local and regional level, and what each of us can do to minimize the impact of low snowpack and water levels.

Today, I'm joined by Anthony Geisler, founder & CEO of Sequel Brands.   A multi-brand fitness and wellness platform, Sequel Brands' portfolio of concepts span Pilates, stretching, EMS, and longevity.    In this episode, we discuss building futureproof franchises.   We also cover:   Sequel's five-brand platform  Scaling longevity-focused experiences Consumer behavior shifts across modalities  Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast  Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe  Follow us on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/fittinsider    Website: www.sequelbrands.com Explore all five brand concepts on the site.   -   The Fitt Insider Podcast is brought to you by EGYM. Visit EGYM.com to learn more about its smart fitness ecosystem for fitness and health facilities.   Fitt Talent: https://talent.fitt.co/  Consulting: https://consulting.fitt.co/  Investments: https://capital.fitt.co/    Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:34) Five-brand platform overview (02:25) Pilates Addiction (02:55) iFlex stretching and recovery (03:13) beem infrared sauna (03:20) BODY20 EMS technology (04:23) Ultimate Longevity Center launch (05:47) 100% ownership structure (07:15) Portfolio selection strategy (08:30) Sauna research (09:05) Democratizing longevity access (10:25) Gary Brecka partnership (11:35) Modality evolution over time (12:20) Post-COVID consumer shifts (13:15) Cycling's global decline (14:15) Equipment and offering evolution (15:23) Franchise playbook constants (16:19) ChatGPT and AI impacts (17:38) Value equation fundamentals (19:15) Cross-portfolio membership challenges (21:27) Finite inventory dynamics (22:34) Growth without pressure (24:40) Royalty business mindset (25:25) Discovery Day process (27:20) Franchisee selection rigor (27:45) Xponential story context (29:45) Public market challenges (31:10) COVID and Delta variant timing (32:07) Why keep building (33:28) Franchise life realities (35:14) Future acquisition appetite (36:11) Where to learn more (36:29) Conclusion

B"H Our lives are finite. We hope for please God, 120 years in good health, but even that is fleeting. There's a powerful practice right after Pesach leading up to Shavuot. Every day, we count. Day 1, day 2, all the way to 49. It trains you to feel time. To stop drifting. To realize this day matters. King David says, teach us to count our days so we can gain a heart of wisdom. Not abstract wisdom, real felt awareness that life is precious. Every day is a chance to show up, to stop wasting time, to appreciate your breath and the people around you. Counting isn't just numbers. It's learning how to live. Happy Pesach! #Pesach #SefiratHaOmer #Torah #Judaism #Spirituality To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

This week, we conclude at least Part 1 of The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather, having learned nothing about said Red Feather, but a surprising amount about bugs, their legs, and the lexicon of demons and wizards. Suggested talking points: My Breaths Aren't Finite, Armpits of Steel, Caring is at a Minimum, Dropped Bundles From Weak-Armpited Men Running from Bug Children, The Problem of the Hot Lady, Strengthen Your Thoughts with Manliness, We're So Sick of These Horny Men, I'd Put a Bug in a Headlock Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

rWotD Episode 3251: Domain decomposition methods Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Sunday, 29 March 2026, is Domain decomposition methods.In mathematics, numerical analysis, and numerical partial differential equations, domain decomposition methods solve a boundary value problem by splitting it into smaller boundary value problems on subdomains and iterating to coordinate the solution between adjacent subdomains. A coarse problem with one or few unknowns per subdomain is used to further coordinate the solution between the subdomains globally. The problems on the subdomains are independent, which makes domain decomposition methods suitable for parallel computing. Domain decomposition methods are typically used as preconditioners for Krylov space iterative methods, such as the conjugate gradient method, GMRES, and LOBPCG.In overlapping domain decomposition methods, the subdomains overlap by more than the interface. Overlapping domain decomposition methods include the Schwarz alternating method and the additive Schwarz method. Many domain decomposition methods can be written and analyzed as a special case of the abstract additive Schwarz method.In non-overlapping methods, the subdomains intersect only on their interface. In primal methods, such as Balancing domain decomposition and BDDC, the continuity of the solution across subdomain interface is enforced by representing the value of the solution on all neighboring subdomains by the same unknown. In dual methods, such as FETI, the continuity of the solution across the subdomain interface is enforced by Lagrange multipliers. The FETI-DP method is hybrid between a dual and a primal method.Non-overlapping domain decomposition methods are also called iterative substructuring methods.Mortar methods are discretization methods for partial differential equations, which use separate discretization on nonoverlapping subdomains. The meshes on the subdomains do not match on the interface, and the equality of the solution is enforced by Lagrange multipliers, judiciously chosen to preserve the accuracy of the solution. In the engineering practice in the finite element method, continuity of solutions between non-matching subdomains is implemented by multiple-point constraints.Finite element simulations of moderate size models require solving linear systems with millions of unknowns. Several hours per time step is an average sequential run time, therefore, parallel computing is a necessity. Domain decomposition methods embody large potential for a parallelization of the finite element methods, and serve a basis for distributed, parallel computations.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:10 UTC on Sunday, 29 March 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Domain decomposition methods on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Jasmine.

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Welcome backkkk!!Today is a big catch up lol, and I am also chatting about reframing fitness as an infinite game - that you just need to keep playing.Chapters00:00 Emma's Wedding Journey12:25 Infinite Game of Fitness28:13 The Lifelong Journey of Fitness31:04 Finite vs. Infinite Mindset in Fitness35:52 Embracing the Infinite Game39:10 The Importance of Consistency and Patience47:54 Learning from Setbacks and FailuresI hope you enjoy, and don't forget to share and tag me on insta @emma.currivan xoxo⁠⁠⁠⁠CHAT TO ME ABOUT COACHING ON WHATSAPP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JOIN MY PATREON HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - just 5.99 a month hehe xTo submit a question for a Q&A episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Catch you in the next one xo

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion in the section "The Present And The Future", which centers on the notion of totalities like humanity, the universe, and history, which turn out to be "detotalized totalities", having their meaning for and through finite individuals To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - amzn.to/32IbKya

Bible StudyDon't just take our word for it . . . take His! We would encourage you to spend time examining the following Scriptures that shaped this sermon: Sermon NotesIntroductionIllustration: honeymoon betrayal → shocking picture of covenant unfaithfulness.This mirrors what Israel does in Exodus 32.While God gives instructions for the Tabernacle, Israel breaks covenant through idolatry.The passage shows:The pattern of idolatry in our heartsThe hope of intercession before a holy GodThree movements:Impatience → Idolatry → Intercession1. Impatience (v.1)Cause of Israel's sin: disappointment caused by delay.Moses delayed on the mountain (~40 days).The people grew restless and took matters into their own hands.Impatience reveals distrust in God's timing.ClarificationDifficult waiting itself is not sinful.Scripture invites honest lament and prayer (e.g., Psalms).DangerIf disappointment is not brought to God, it can become:distrustself-reliancetaking control2. IdolatryImpatience leads Israel to create the golden calf.Characteristics of Idolatry1. It is absurdCreatures say, “make us gods.”Finite humans attempt to manufacture a deity.2. It seeks a visible, controllable godA desire to see God is natural.But creating something to represent Him violates God's commands.3. It twists God's giftsGold meant for the tabernacle becomes material for an idol.Good gifts become ultimate things.4. It produces bad fruitLoss of self-controlMoral compromiseDamage to relationshipsDiagnostic QuestionWhere is your:ultimate hope?identity?security?Enjoy God's gifts—but steward them for his glory and the good of others.3. IntercessionThe covenant is broken.God's wrath is justly stirred (v.10).Moses' IntercessionMoses pleads for the people.Result:“The Lord relented…” (v.14)Judgment is restrained.The covenant continues.MeaningGod sovereignly chose intercession as the means through which mercy would come.Greater FulfillmentMoses points forward to Jesus Christ, the ultimate intercessor.Jesus:stands between God and sinnersbears God's wrathsecures forgiveness1 John 2:1–2:Christ is our advocatethe propitiation for our sins - the means by which God meets us in grace and mercy, rather than judgment and condemnationDiscussion Questions1. What delay in your life is testing your trust in God? Is it driving you toward prayer or impatience?2. What are examples of modern, even socially acceptable idols?3. Give an example of how God helped you recognize idolatrous tendencies in your own life?4. Jesus is the ultimate intercessor through his Cross.  But we can be "mini-intercessors" through our prayers for others. Discuss the relationship between God's sovereignty (he knows his good plans) and the genuine effectiveness of our prayers.Questions?Do you have a question about today's sermon? Email Randy Forrester ().

On this episode of The Football Card Podcast, Pack and Brett open Season 4 with momentum.Since their last recording, the hobby has seen 54 six-figure sales and two multi-million dollar sales. Only three were football cards. That gap sparks a bigger conversation.They break down massive 1997 Metal Universe PMG Green sales, including Brett Favre, Jerry Rice, and Dan Marino, and what those numbers mean for football long term.They debate Topps Chrome Football and whether it will match Prizm in price and popularity. They discuss what basketball's return to Chrome reveals about photography, scarcity, and the power of the Superfractor. They tackle a listener question about market fatigue. Are collectors chasing gold, Finite, and Kaboom because they love them—or because the market tells them to?They also spotlight recent Finite and Gold Vinyl sales, share updates on their personal collecting projects, and introduce a new Season 4 Card Call Out challenge.If you care about scarcity, psychology, and what really drives the football card market, this one hits.Check out Card Ladder the official data partner of Stacking SlabsFollow The Football Card Podcast on Instagram for memes and stuff.Get your free copy of Collecting For Keeps: Finding Meaning In A Hobby Built On HypeGet exclusive content, promote your cards, and connect with other collectors who listen to the pod today by joining the Patreon: Join Stacking Slabs Podcast Patreon[Distributed on Sunday] Sign up for the Stacking Slabs Weekly Rip Newsletter using this linkFollow Stacking Slabs: | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | TiktokFollow Pack: | Instagram ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Gabe Ravacci, CTO and co-founder at Internet Backyard, breaks down what the “computer economy” really looks like when you zoom in on data centers, billing, invoicing, and the financial plumbing nobody wants to touch. He shares how a rejected YC application, a finance stint, and a handful of hard lessons pushed him from hardware curiosity to building fintech infrastructure for compute.If you care about where compute is headed, or you are early in your career and trying to find your path without overplanning it, this one will land.Key Takeaways• Startups often happen “by accident” when your competence meets the right problem at the right time• Compute accessibility is not only a chip problem, it is also a finance and operations problem• Rejection can be data, not a verdict, treat it as feedback to sharpen the craft• A real online presence is less about networking and more about being genuinely useful in public• Time blocking and single task focus beats grinding when you are juggling school, work, and a startupTimestamped Highlights00:28 What Internet Backyard is building, fintech infrastructure for data center financial operations01:37 The first startup attempt, cheaper compute via FPGA based prototyping, and why investors passed04:48 The pivot, from hardware tools to a finance informed view of compute and transparency gaps06:55 How Gabe reframed YC rejection, process over outcome, “a tree of failures” that builds skill08:29 Building a digital brand on X, what he posted, how he learned in public, and why it worked13:36 The real balancing act, dropping classes, finishing the degree well, and strict time blocking20:00 Books that shaped his thinking, Siddhartha, The Art of Learning, Finite and Infinite GamesA line worth keeping“The process is really more important than any outcome.”Pro Tips for builders• Treat learning like a skill, ask better questions before you chase better answers• Make focus a system, set blocks, mute distractions, and do one thing at a time• Share what you are learning in public, not to perform, but to be useful and find signalCall to ActionIf this episode sparked an idea, follow or subscribe so you do not miss the next one. Also check out Amir's newsletter for more conversations at the intersection of people, impact, and technology.

What is infinity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad explore whether we are in a finite universe, the issues with infinity, string theory, and more with theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander.Originally aired April 11, 2023. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-understanding-infinity-with-stephon-alexander/ Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/EBAH/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/WBT865. CME/EBAH/AAPA credit will be available until January 25, 2027.Choices, Changes, and Global Perspectives in CLL Care: Real-World Insights and New Evidence on Finite Therapy With Targeted Agents In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

Life is starting to get back to normal for some, but not nearly for all.Power restoration is still slow-going in some communities. One in five homes in Nashville is still in the dark and cold. And in some parts of town, work has hardly begun. This hour, we're going to get an update about the arrival of the National Guard, hear about schools running out of snow days, and learn the warning signs about carbon monoxide poisoning. Plus we'll visit Brown's Diner where they're emptying the freezer before it goes bad — and we remember the ice storm of 1994. It's another recovery show.After the live show ends, tune into the latest Mayor's News Conference.Guests:  Rep. Caleb Hemmer (D), Tennessee House Representative, District 59 Camellia Burris, WPLN Education Reporter John Isbell, Sumner County Mayor Rose Gilbert, WPLN General Assignment Reporter Nadine Moore, Birria Babe Owner Justin Barney, WPLN Music Reporter

God is loving and merciful, not judgmental and cruel Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week I began sharing with you what is essentially a book report on the book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation by David Bentley Hart, and he's the translator of the New Testament that I've been using. So, last week we got up to page 21 out of this book, and now I'm all the way up to page 85, so we'll see what happened in this latest round of reading. Now, David Bentley Hart's style of writing may not be for everyone. It's very academic, very high-minded and educated and erudite—difficult to follow if you're not accustomed to reading scholastic writing. But I believe his heart's in the right place, and I agree with pretty much everything he says. I will do my best to reinterpret what he is saying in simpler words, in case you're interested in the content, but not in its delivery method. So, picking it up on page 21, Hart says, And what could be more absurd than the claim that God's ways so exceed comprehension, that we dare not presume even to distinguish benevolence from malevolence in the divine, inasmuch as either can result in the same endless excruciating despair? Here the docile believer is simply commanded to nod in acquiescence, quietly and submissively, to feel moved at a strange and stirring obscurity, and to accept that, if only he or she could sound the depths of this mystery, its essence would somehow be revealed as infinite beauty and love. A rational person capable of that assent, however, of believing all of this to be a paradox concealing a deeper, wholly coherent truth, rather than a gross contradiction, has probably suffered such chronic intellectual and moral malformation that he or she is no longer able to recognize certain very plain truths, such as the truth that he or she has been taught to approve of divine deeds that, were they reduced to a human scale of action, would immediately be recognizable as expressions of unalloyed spite. And he's talking about the idea that most everyone and everything is going to hell and will suffer eternal torment. That is an interpretation or misinterpretation of the word brought about by incorrect translation of the original Coptic. Most of our Bible translations come off of old Latin Vulgate translations, and then they've been modernized. But that's how errors are brought forward. And what Hart has done in his New Testament translation is go back to the original, very oldest transcripts, still in Greek, before they were translated to Latin. And he did what he called a pitilessly accurate translation, where Hart was not trying to make the words that are being translated fit into a predetermined doctrine, like everyone going to hell, or like the Trinity, or eternal damnation. These things we've been taught to believe are in the Scripture, but when you actually go back to the original Scriptures prior to the Latin translations, they are not in the Scripture. And so this book that I'm doing the book report on here, That All Shall Be Saved, this is about universal salvation, and doing away with the idea. And he says in this section I just read you, that it is a malevolent idea, unalloyed spite, unalloyed meaning pure spite on the part of God, that's going to send everyone to hell that doesn't get it. And that we have been commanded by the Church over the last 2,000 years to just nod our heads and say, oh, well, it's God's will, or oh, well, how can I presume to distinguish benevolence from malevolence, good intention from bad intention on the part of God, because God is so great and good. We're supposed to be docile believers, to acquiesce, that is, to go along with, to quietly and submissively accept that we don't get it, that we don't understand the depths of the mystery, and someday we will, and that God is good, and God is just, and therefore everyone's going to hell, except for those few preordained elect from before time began. So this book is entirely against that proposition. So moving on, what I did was I read the book through, and I've highlighted the parts that seem worth sharing or very interesting. Now we're jumping to page 35, where he says that certain people, of my acquaintance who are committed to what is often called an intellectualist model of human liberty, as I am myself, [he says], but who also insist that it is possible for a soul freely to reject God's love with such perfect perpiscuity of understanding and intention as to merit eternal suffering. And we can tell from the context that perpiscuity means you get it. So he's saying, how is it even possible for a soul to freely reject the love of God and consign oneself into eternal torment? It just doesn't work. It's not possible. He says, this is an altogether dizzying contradiction. In simplest terms, that is to say, they, [that is, the intellectualists], want to assert that all true freedom is an orientation of the rational will toward an end that the mind takes in some sense to be the good, and so takes also as the one end that can fulfill the mind's nature and supply its desires. This means that the better the rational will knows the Good, and that's a capital G, Good, for what it is, the more that is that the will is freed from those forces that distort reason and lead the soul toward improper ends. The more it will long for and seek after the true good in itself, and conversely, the more rationally it seeks the good, the freer it is. He says that in terms of the great Maximus the Confessor, who lived from 580 to 660, the natural will within us, which is the rational ground of our whole power of volition, must tend only toward God as its true end, for God is goodness as such, whereas our gnomic or deliberative will can stray from him, but only to the degree that it has been blinded to the truth of who he is and what we are, and as a result has come to seek a false end as the true end. In short, sin requires some degree of ignorance, and ignorance is by definition a diverting of the mind and will to an end they would not naturally pursue. So, in other words, we all want what's best for ourself, even in the most selfish sense, even in the most egoic sense. The ego wants what is best for this person that it is part of, that that is the rational end of the ego's striving, what is best, and that there is a thing called good in the absolute sense, and if we realize that, then we would strive toward the good, by definition. Carrying on, page 37, I'm not saying that we do not in some very significant sense make our own exceedingly substantial voluntary contributions to our estrangement from the good in this life. And, see, he's just saying we all screw up. Even if we are seeking the good, we often fall backwards into the bad, okay? Up to a certain point, [he says], it is undeniable, but past that point it is manifest falsehood. There is no such thing as perfect freedom in this life, or perfect understanding, and it is sheer nonsense to suggest that we possess limitless or unqualified liberty. Therefore, we are incapable of contracting a limitless or unqualified guilt. There are always extenuating circumstances. Well, in a sense, that's true of all of us and all of our circumstances. We are a product of our environment, to some extent. But don't forget that in the Gnostic view, we also contain the pure goodness of God, the capital S Self, that reflects the Fullness of God. So we do know what goodness is, even if we are surrounded by badness. Quoting Hart again, page 40, Here though, I have to note that it is a thoroughly modern and wholly illogical notion that the power of absolutely unpremised liberty, obeying no rationale except its own spontaneous volition toward whatever end it might pose for itself, is either a real logical possibility or, in any meaningful sense, a proper definition of freedom. See? He's saying it's thoroughly modern and wholly illogical to think that we have complete freedom of will, and that we can choose to follow any unethical or immoral end that we wish to, because what's it matter? One choice being pretty much the same as another, you see. He goes on to say, in page 40, A choice made without rationale is a contradiction in terms. At the same time, any movement of the will prompted by an entirely perverse rationale would be, by definition, wholly irrational. Insane, that is to say. And therefore, no more truly free than a psychotic episode. The more one is in one's right mind, the more that is that one is conscious of God as the goodness that fulfills all beings. And the more one recognizes that one's own nature can have its true completion and joy nowhere but in Him, and the more one is unfettered by distorting misperceptions, deranged passions, and the encumbrances of past mistakes, the more inevitable is one's surrender to God, liberated from all ignorance, emancipated from all the adverse conditions of this life, the rational soul could freely will only its own union with God, and thereby its own supreme beatitude. We are, as it were, doomed to happiness, so long as our natures follow their healthiest impulses unhindered. And we cannot not will the satisfaction of our beings in our true final end, a transcendent good lying behind and beyond all the proximate ends we might be moved to pursue. This is no constraint upon the freedom of the will, coherently conceived. It is simply the consequence of possessing a nature produced by and for the transcendent good, a nature whose proper end has been fashioned in harmony with a supernatural purpose. God has made us for Himself, as Augustine would say, and our hearts are restless till they rest in Him. A rational nature seeks a rational end, truth, which is God Himself. The irresistibility of God for any soul that has been truly set free is no more a constraint placed upon its liberty than is the irresistible attraction of a flowing spring to fresh water in a desert place to a man who is dying of thirst. To choose not to drink in that circumstance would not be an act of freedom on his part, but only a manifestation of the delusions that enslave him and force him to inflict violence upon himself, contrary to his nature. Do you follow the reasoning there? That boils down to simply saying it is logical. Even Mr. Spock would find it logical for a human to pursue the good in its own best interests, and that it is illogical, illogical all the way to insanity, to refuse the good, to refuse what is best for you. It's a manifestation of insanity, to refuse the love of God. How's that for laying it out? I really appreciate logic, you know, because this is a logical universe. If the laws of physics and chemistry didn't hold true to logic, and that includes math, you see, 2 plus 2 equals 4, etc., all the way through all the difficult math, the quantum physics, and the string theory, and so forth, this is a logical universe based upon the Aeon known as Logos, logic. And so, therefore, to reject logic, it's not smart, it's not clever, it's not freedom. And, by the way, this is about the level of pushback I see in, for example, YouTube comments that reject the gospel. They're pretty much on the order of, oh, yeah, I can die of thirst if I want to, so F off. Okay, well, good luck with that, right? Carrying on, page 43. None of this should need saying, to be honest. We should all already know that whenever the term justice and eternal punishment are set side by side as if they were logically compatible, the boundaries of the rational have been violated. If we were not so stupefied by the hoary and venerable myth that eternal damnation is an essential element of the original Christian message, and then he says in parentheses, which, not to spoil later plot developments here, it is not, we would not even waste our time on so preposterous a conjunction. From the perspective of Christian belief, the very notion of a punishment that is not intended ultimately to be remedial is morally dubious, and he says in parentheses, and I submit anyone who doubts this has never understood Christian teaching at all. But even if one believes that Christianity makes room for the condign imposition, [and condign means proper or fitting], imposition of purely retributive punishments, it remains the case that a retribution consisting in unending suffering, imposed as recompense for the actions of a finite intellect and will, must be by any sound definition disproportionate, unjust, and at the last, nothing more than an expression of sheer pointless cruelty. And of course, I do find that attitude on the part of Christians I talk to and try to explain the idea of universal salvation being Christ's true mission, that all shall be redeemed, every knee shall bow. They'd much rather send people to hell, and when you see their faces as they're saying it, it's not, oh, you know, I'm so sorry that it's this way and my heart breaks, but I'm afraid they're all going to hell. It's not like that at all. It's like, damn straight, they deserve to go to hell. Now, you take that kind of anger and cruelty when you consider that they are advocating unending, excruciating pain and punishment, and then you try to say that that is God's will, that goodness incorporates unending punishment. And Hart's saying, indeed, especially unending punishment that isn't for remediation, isn't to make them a better person, but simply to make them hurt. And who are you punishing? Finite beings with limited time and intelligence and ability to reason with things that happened in their past. Maybe they were brought up by someone very cruel who taught them cruelty, and so they carry on cruelty. And then that the God of all love and the God of all justice would send them to hell for eternal torment. And up until quite recently, even babies who were unbaptized would be sent to hell for eternal torment. And then someone came up with the idea of a baby purgatory where unbaptized babies never get to go to heaven, but they're not going to be eternally punished either. They're just going to go to a baby land where they're held apart from the rest of the redeemed. Well, really? That's hardly any better. I mean, it's somewhat better, but why shouldn't these pure babies who pretty much incorporate the Fullness of the Self and love of God, why wouldn't God want them back? You see, it doesn't make any sense. And if you're a Christian listening to me today who has had niggling doubts about certain things, and one of them being this idea of grandma being in hell and in the midst of eternal torture now because she wouldn't listen to your preaching, you can relax about it. Because we are the sower of seeds, but we are not the harvester. It is Christ who harvests the souls, who brings them all home. Back to Hart here again. On page 47, he says, Once more, not a single one of these attempted justifications for the idea of an eternal hell actually improves the picture of God with which the infernalist orthodoxy presents us. And he uses the word infernalist for like the infernal torments of hell. So an infernalist is someone who believes folks are going to hell for eternity. So he says, Once more, not a single one of these attempted justifications for the idea of an eternal hell actually improves the picture of God with which the infernalist orthodoxy presents us. And it is this that should be the chief concern of any believer. All of these arguments still oblige one to believe that a benevolent and omnipotent God would willfully create rational beings destined for an endless torment that they could never, in any rational calculus of personal responsibility, earn for themselves. And to believe also that this somehow is essential to the good news Christianity brought into the world. Isn't it true? When you're in church and you hear the preacher preaching a very nice, very good message about relationships or about moral virtue, and then there is a plea and a threat at the end that if you are sitting in the congregation and you have not accepted Christ as your personal Savior, you may go out and die this afternoon and go to hell. It's not right. It's contradictory. It is not the pure will of God. Page 47 goes on to say, In the end, there is only one logical terminus toward which all these lines of reasoning can lead: When all the possible paths of evasion have tapered away among the weeds, one has to stop, turn around, retrace one's steps back to the beginning of the journey, and finally admit that, if there really is an eternal hell for finite spirits, then it has to be the case that God condemns the damned to endless misery not on account of any sane proportion between what they are capable of meriting and how he chooses to requite them for their sins, but solely as a demonstration of his power to do as he wishes. Now, by the way, when I read the Old Testament, I see that that is often the attitude that Jehovah has towards his subjects. He commands things because he can, and he wants obedience because he wants obedience. Remember, the Demiurge controls through strong strings. He does not approve of willpower. Willpower is messy. Willpower means not obeying the will of God, and he wants to be the sayer of our souls. But the God Above All Gods, the Gnostic God, outranks the Old Testament God. The God Above All Gods is the Father who begat the Son. The Demiurge keeps chaos at bay by forbidding free will in his subjects And so when Jesus says, I and my Father are one, he's not talking about the Old Testament God. He's talking about the God Above All Gods, the originator of consciousness, of love, of life, of free will. And we are all fractals of that Father. Through the Son, through the Fullness of God, we are fractals of all of those powers of the Father–stepped down, because we're smaller fractals. So we all have to return to the Father in the end. When we loose these mortal coils and we're no longer bound to the material that deludes us, then we can finally return to the Father again. So onward and upward is not a trap. Onward and upward is freedom. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. So back to this idea of the Old Testament God enjoying his omnipotent sovereignty. On page 48, Hart is talking about Calvin and predestination. And he says, in book three of Calvin's Institutes, he even asserts that God predestined the human fall from grace, precisely because the whole of everything, creation, fall, redemption, judgment, the eternal bliss of heaven, the endless torments of hell, and whatever else, exists solely for the sake of a perfect display of the full range of God's omnipotent sovereignty, which for some reason absolutely must be displayed. He goes on to say he doesn't know how to respond to that, because, I know it to be based on a notoriously confused reading of Scripture, one whose history goes all the way back to the late Augustine, a towering genius whose inability to read Greek and consequent reliance on defective Latin translations turned out to be the single most tragically consequential case of linguistic incompetence in Christian history. In equal part, however, it is because I regard the picture of God thus produced to be a metaphysical absurdity, a God who is at once supposedly the source of all things, and yet also the one whose nature is necessarily thoroughly polluted by arbitrariness. And no matter how orthodox Calvinists might protest, there is no other way to understand the story of election and dereliction that Calvin tells, which would mean that in some sense he is a finite being, that is God, in whom possibility exceeds actuality, and the irrational exceeds the rational. A far greater concern than either of these theological defects, either the deeply misguided scriptural exegesis or the inept metaphysics of the divine, it is the moral horror in such language. So that's as far as we're going to go today. In next week's continuance of this train of thought, Hart will talk about the difference between the God Above All Gods, essentially, even though Hart's not calling himself a Gnostic. When he speaks of God, or Goodness with capital G, he is speaking of the God Above All Gods. And when he contrasts it with the God of Calvin and Augustine in the Old Testament, that is the Demiurgic God. I've noticed that many modern people seem to think of God as a yin-yang type of completion, that is, where evil balances good, where darkness is necessary to balance light, where the purpose of humanity, or what happens here in humanity, is that we are instantiating strife and struggle and evil for the teaching of God, for the completion of God. That is not right. That's wrong theology, folks. Our God is all goodness, and there is no evil that emanates from God. Well, where did evil come from then? It's merely the absence of good. So evil is the absence of goodness. The archons are the shadows of the Aeons. And when the light fully comes and fills all of space, the shadows will disappear, and the light comes along with the love. And so that's our job, to realize that universal and ethereal love, and to so let our light shine and our lives shine with love, that the Demiurge will be eventually won over. And as for the shadows, every time we bring light into the world, we're diminishing the power of the Demiurge. We're shining light onto a shadow and evaporating it. Next week, we'll pick this up for part three of That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart. Let me know what you think of this. Send me some comments. Onward and upward. God bless us all. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»> Please buy my book–A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. In this book you will find the original Christian theology as taught by Jesus before the Catholic Church and the Emperor of Rome got their hands on it. A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel is for seekers and scholars alike. 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