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Consciousness arises as a fractal of the originating consciousness of the Father, through the Son, through the Aeons of the Fullness, and down to us.

Consciousness arises as a fractal of the originating consciousness of the Father, through the Son, through the Aeons of the Fullness, and down to us.

Do the fractal nature of the universe and the human brain have anything to do with each other? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O'Reilly welcome back Geek-In-Chief Charles Liu, for a grab bag covering deep space travel, fractal mathematics, multiverse theory, and what we might never know about the universe.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Mike Allen, Hailey Thorn, Daniel, Kyle Jones, Halloween Jack, Chris McDermott, AmberDawn, Jesabi Lornkapi, John Olsson,

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Obviously, I'll need to introduce why I'm the best person to explain this concept and how I did my research. After that, I dive into the core of he episode: the research. The Ultimate Guide To Spotting AI Generated Text That Every Writer Needs To Read. That title already has two tells: Title case : every word capitalised, which conveniently cannot be read out loud Hyperbole : a promise of ultimacy, for a ten minute podcast For most of this episode I am not myself, I am the machine, and every sentence I say is an example of the thing it describes. This page is the key to that part of the show: the tells in the order you hear them, with what they sound like in the recording. Most names come from tropes.fyi , so you can look them up there and get the longer explanation. As also stated in the podcast: these aren't errors. They are ordinary figures of speech that human writers have used for centuries. The tell is the density. Part one: Vocabulary Prestige vocabulary : words nobody uses out loud. e.g. delve, harness, utilise, robust, foster Grand nouns for ordinary things : e.g. tapestry, landscape, realm, ecosystem, paradigm Magic adverbs : imply significance, carry no information. e.g. quietly, fundamentally, arguably, remarkably Avoiding the verb "to be" : plain "is" swapped for something that sounds busier. e.g. serves as, stands as, represents, marks Invented concept labels : an abstract problem noun (trap, creep, paradox, inversion) welded onto a domain word, then used as if it were established. e.g. "the fluency trap", "prestige creep" Vague attributions : authority without a name. e.g. "experts agree", "industry reports suggest", "observers have noted" Appeal to familiarity : consensus claimed rather than proven. e.g. "a classic", "famously", "as we all know" Promotional register : describing turns into selling. e.g. unlocks, seamless, unprecedented Part two: Sentence shapes Negative parallelism : the "it's not X, it's Y" pattern, and the most reported tell of all. e.g. "This isn't a stylistic quirk, it's a structural signature." Not X. Not Y. Just Z. : the same move tripled, building tension for a reveal that needed none. e.g. "Not a habit. Not a tic. A tell." Sets of three : one tricolon is elegant, three in a row is a stuck needle. e.g. "it arrives in threes, it lands in threes, it exhausts in threes" Short punchy fragments : emphasis manufactured by full stops instead of earned by content. e.g. "Short. Parallel. Relentless." Self-answered questions : asks what nobody asked, answers it immediately. e.g. "The problem? Nobody asked." Anaphora : the same sentence opening until it becomes furniture. e.g. "They open sentences the same way. They open the next one the same way." Trailing "-ing" analysis : shallow significance bolted onto a finished sentence. e.g. "highlighting its enduring importance", "reflecting broader trends" False ranges : "from X to Y" where there is no scale and no middle. e.g. "from cesspit to citation" Filler transitions : connect nothing to nothing. e.g. "it's worth noting", "importantly", "notably" The interjection reflex : every sentence broken in half, whatever the punctuation. e.g. em-dash, double hyphen, comma pair, colon Comma-clipped tail : a short phrase hung off a comma instead of landing the point. e.g. "above the content, and save." Part three: Tone Manufactured suspense : the buildup arrives, the revelation does not. e.g. "here's the thing", "here's the kicker" Patronising analogy : teacher mode, uninvited. e.g. "think of it as a Swiss Army knife for condescension" Forced figurative language : a metaphor picked for cleverness rather than clarity. e.g. "Picture a bicycle. Now picture that the bicycle is prose." Stakes inflation : everything is historic. e.g. "a pivotal moment in the evolution of reading itself" False vulnerability : honesty performed, never risked. e.g. "let me be honest with you here. Genuinely honest." Assertion in place of evidence : e.g. "history is unambiguous on this point", "the evidence is clear" "Imagine a world where..." : the futurism sales pitch, pleasant outcomes if you accept the premise. e.g. "imagine a world where every paragraph carries a quiet intelligence" Quotable one-liners : slide bait that survives being pulled out of context because it never had any. e.g. "Every bite is a chance to be here, now, fully." The collaborative "we" : one author, plural pronoun. e.g. "we will unpack each one in turn" Sycophancy : not a figure of speech but a training artefact, and the fastest way to spot raw chatbot output. e.g. "What a genuinely profound question." Part four: Formatting Title case headings : see the top of this page Bullet lists where prose would do : the document turns into a slide deck. e.g. this page, from here to the bottom Bold-first bullets : every item opens with a bolded keyword and a colon. e.g. yes, also this page, I know Emoji as punctuation : rocket for aspiration, key for insight, sparkles because the paragraph ended Em-dashes : mid-sentence, twice, sometimes three times, where a comma would have done the job The find and replace tell : double hyphens everywhere, because someone removed the character and kept the habit Unicode decoration : arrows and curly quotes nobody typed on a keyboard. e.g. Input → Processing → Output One thought per line : paragraphs abolished. e.g. "It happened. Alone. On a Tuesday." Part five: Composition Announce then answer : says what the text is about to do instead of doing it. e.g. "This guide will explore what those signs look like." Rapid-fire historical analogies : authority borrowed from a list, with no argument underneath. e.g. "Marconi. Sony. Apple. Print, radio, web, mobile." The metaphor that will not end : e.g. the garden that stays a garden for six sentences, then becomes a north star that moves the needle Self-echo : a word from earlier returning as if it were being paid off, when it is the same narrow vocabulary surfacing again One point diluted : the same idea in five coats, sounding like progress. e.g. "put differently", "to rephrase", "in other words" Fractal summaries : every section summarises itself, including the one you are inside. e.g. "In this section we explored composition." The tie-back : closes by looping the answer back to the original question, long after the point was made. e.g. "So, to answer your question..." Concede and dismiss : e.g. "despite its fluency, it faces challenges typical of automated systems. Despite those challenges, it endures." Signposted conclusion : competent writing does not need to announce that it is ending. e.g. "in conclusion", "to sum up", "in summary" The conclusion that refuses to end : clause stacked on clause, quieter and more meaningful each time. e.g. "the real AI generated text was the paragraphs we scrolled past along the way" Engagement bait : e.g. "Agree?" plus a pointing emoji Tells on the list that did not fit in the episode The recording would have run to forty minutes. These are worth knowing anyway. Reasoning leak : the text narrating its own decisions instead of just making them. e.g. "I want to be exact about my own role here." Premise stacking : a paragraph of evidence in front of the point, so the point has been made twice before it arrives Compulsive counting : states the number of items before listing them. e.g. "Five things we wish to discuss" Excessive enumeration : a listicle disguised as prose. e.g. "The first wall is... The second wall is..." Belaboring the unnecessary : defending a minor point against an objection nobody was going to raise Synonym cycling : refusing to repeat a noun. e.g. the dashboard, then the interface, then the portal, then the analytics hub Wh-headings : the default shape a model reaches for when naming a section. e.g. "What this means", "Why it matters" Content duplication : the same paragraph appearing twice, because the model lost track of what it had written Why this is not a detector guide Liang, Yuksekgonul, Mao, Wu and Zou, Stanford, published in Patterns (Cell Press) on 10 July 2023. Seven commercial GPT detectors were run over 91 TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers and 88 US eighth grade essays. Average false positive rate on the TOEFL essays: 61.3 percent. 89 of the 91 essays were flagged as AI generated by at least one detector. All seven agreed on 18 of them. The US eighth grade essays came back near perfect. Plainer word choice, lower perplexity, reads as machine to the software. Feeding the TOEFL essays through ChatGPT with the prompt "enhance the word choices to sound more like that of a native speaker" dropped the false positive rate to 11.6 percent. So the way to stop being accused of writing like a machine was to have a machine rewrite you. Do not take my word for it, the paper is open access: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(23)00130-7 Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819 The pointers, for real Write with things in it: names, dates, prices, the model number of the drive that died. Say something a machine has no way to know, because it happened to you. Be willing to be wrong out loud. Keep one weird sentence that your editor would cut. Links and references The list this episode leaned on: tropes.fyi , by ossama.is The detector study: Liang et al., "GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers", Patterns, 2023 "Not an Addict", K's Choice, 1995. It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive. "Friends, Romans, countrymen" and "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him": Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act 3 scene 2 "Veni, vidi, vici", attributed to Julius Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch Over to you There is a comment section under this episode. Tell me which tell I missed, and which one you are guilty of. Better yet, record it. Read your worst, most machine sounding paragraph out loud and post it to Hacker Public Radio. The queue is always hungry. Provide feedback on this episode.

What if spending time in nature isn't simply good for you, but something your brain is biologically designed to need? In this solo episode, Darin explores the sensory neuroscience of nature and the growing research suggesting that our increasingly indoor lives may be fundamentally mismatched with the environments our brains and nervous systems evolved to experience. From walls and screens to fluorescent lights, traffic, right angles, and constant notifications, modern environments bombard us with sensory inputs our ancestors never encountered at this scale. The numbers put that mismatch into perspective. Darin highlights research suggesting the average American spends roughly 87% of life indoors and another 6% inside vehicles. In other words, we've effectively become an indoor species living inside outdoor-evolved bodies, brains, eyes, and nervous systems. Darin breaks down why this isn't merely another reminder to "go outside." He explores how modern environments place continuous demands on executive attention, why sustained attention can eventually give way to rumination and mental chatter, and what more than 100 brain-imaging studies may reveal about what happens when we finally return our brains to natural environments. This episode ultimately asks a surprisingly important question: What if nature isn't a luxury or lifestyle preference, but a biological input we've slowly removed from our lives? What You'll Learn Why your brain evolved for branches, coastlines, clouds, mountains, and irregular natural geometry instead of straight lines How much of the average American's life is now spent indoors or inside vehicles Why Darin describes modern life as an evolutionary mismatch for the nervous system How artificial environments continually demand processing from your executive attention system Why sustained directed attention can eventually lead to fatigue, rumination, and mental chatter How light, sound, movement, visual patterns, and circadian cues shaped the human nervous system Why simply telling people to "go outside more" may underestimate what's happening neurologically What researchers mean by high-load visual and auditory environments What a review of more than 100 brain-imaging studies investigated about nature exposure What the brain scans reveal about nature, fractal patterns, rumination, and neural restoration in the second half of the episode Chapters 00:00:03 – Welcome to SuperLife 00:00:34 – Sponsor: Alkemis 00:03:25 – When was the last time you stopped seeing straight lines? 00:03:49 – Your brain wasn't designed for the geometry of modern life 00:04:44 – The sensory neuroscience of nature 00:05:14 – Why your nervous system may be starving indoors 00:05:49 – Darin records the episode outside 00:06:04 – How much of our lives do we actually spend indoors? 00:06:48 – Outdoor-evolved humans have become an indoor species 00:07:47 – Why "go outside" is more than feel-good advice 00:08:22 – The evolutionary mismatch affecting your nervous system 00:09:33 – Ancient biological hardware in a radically modern environment 00:09:49 – How indoor environments overload your attention system 00:10:47 – Sponsor: Manna Vitality 00:12:42 – Your attention system wasn't built for infinite stimulation 00:13:00 – Rumination, looping thoughts, and mental chatter 00:13:24 – The fatal convenience of modern civilization 00:13:58 – What we've removed from the human sensory environment 00:14:19 – The neuroscience deep dive begins 00:14:40 – More than 100 brain-imaging studies on nature exposure 00:15:18 – The question researchers wanted to answer 00:15:19 – Why the rest of the neuroscience matters 00:15:34 – What do brain scans actually show when you enter nature? 00:15:49 – Continue the full episode on Patreon 00:15:52 – The four-stage neurological cascade coming next 00:16:02 – Fractal fluency and the hidden geometry of nature 00:16:07 – Nature, the brain, and depressive rumination 00:16:18 – How much nature does your brain actually need? 00:16:31 – Final thoughts and Patreon continuation Thank You to Our Sponsors Alkemis: Go to https://alkemispaint.com/ and use code DARIN10 for 10% off your order. Manna Vitality: Go to mannavitality.com/ and use code DARIN12 for 12% off your order. Join the SuperLife Patreon: This is where Darin now shares the deeper work: - weekly voice notes - ingredient trackers - wellness challenges - extended conversations - community accountability - sovereignty practices Join now for only $7.49/month at https://patreon.com/darinolien Find More from Darin Olien: Website: darinolien.com Instagram: @darinolien Book: Fatal Conveniences Platform & Products: superlife.com New Show: Roadmap to Happiness Key Takeaway "We've become an indoor species living inside outdoor-evolved bodies and brains. Your nervous system developed over hundreds of thousands of years surrounded by sunlight, wind, trees, irregular sounds, natural rhythms, and complex patterns, yet we've replaced much of that environment with walls, screens, fluorescent lights, traffic, notifications, and straight lines. Going outside isn't simply a nice thing to do when you have extra time. Nature may be one of the fundamental sensory inputs your brain has been waiting for you to put back into your life." Bibliography/Sources: Primary Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Bratman, G. N., Hamilton, J. P., Hahn, K. S., Daily, G. C., & Gross, J. J. (2015). Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(28), 8567–8572 . https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1510459112 Estarellas, M., et al. (2026). Your brain on nature: A scoping review of the neuroscience of nature exposure. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763426000205 Environmental Psychology & Physiological Stress Antonelli, M., Barbieri, G., & Donelli, D. (2019). Effects of forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) on levels of cortisol as a stress biomarker: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 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Ryan and Alex explore the Western esoteric tradition and the ancient ideas that have shaped humanity's search for hidden knowledge. They dive into alchemical elements, Atlantean wisdom, Hermeticism, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, examining what these traditions reveal about death, reincarnation, and the nature of consciousness. 

Episode 113A: Arcadia Footnotes Host: Douglas Schatz Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We'll discuss the play's origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. Tom Stoppard's dramatic masterpiece, Arcadia, is a teasing detective story, a joyous comedy, and an emotionally rich exploration of love and loss. It is also a play of ideas. These Footnotes supplement our main episode on Arcadia, with observations on subjects woven into the fabric of the play, including garden design, Fermat's Last Theorem, Iterated Algorithms and something called Fractals, the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Chaos Theory.

Dr. Kamaljit Anand, Managing Partner & Chief Data Scientist at KiE Square Analytics and founder of KiEVerse, joins ELI to unpack what really makes enterprise AI work. From IIM Ahmedabad to Gallup and Fractal, he shares two decades of lessons on data science, the rise of data engineering, and why "poor data in means poor outputs out" no matter how good your AI is.KiE Square is a data-to-decisions analytics firm that has delivered 200+ programs globally across pharma, FMCG, retail, and financial services. Its product suite KiEVerse — BrandVerse, SpendVerse, and MarketVerse — brings digital brand equity, ad spend optimization, and marketplace intelligence under one roof. Dr. Anand also makes a strong case for Sovereign AI and small language models as the future of enterprise data.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction01:00 - From IIM Ahmedabad to Gallup & Fractal03:20 - Building KiE Square: Services to Products07:00 - Real Use Cases: Pharma Pricing Engines & FMCG11:00 - Marketing Data Lakes & Real-Time ROI13:45 - Is AI a Disruptor or an Enabler?17:30 - Real-Time Streaming Pipelines (Kafka, Flink, Airflow)21:10 - AI Reality Check: Privacy & Safety Concerns22:00 - How Do You Price a Data Product? Unit Economics22:50 - Inside KiEVerse: BrandVerse, SpendVerse, MarketVerse27:40 - The Future: Sovereign AI, SLMs & Data Sovereignty33:40 - Closing

Goldie Griffith lived at least a dozen different lives. From preteen boxer in a sketchy snake-oil show, to bronco-riding superstar of the world-famous Buffalo Bill Wild West, to accidental bigamist and bartender - Goldie dived headlong into every new endeavor with her trademark fearless enthusiasm. And she never shot a husband who didn't deserve it. Olivia is on location in Nederland, Colorado with Kay Turnbaugh, author of The Last of the Wild West Cowgirls. Music featured in this episode includes "I Ain't No Angel" by The Strangebyrds, "You Win Again" by The Earth Stringband, "Cripple Creek" by Half Pelican, "Spirit Riders" and "Bone Dry" by Telecasted, "Western Spaghetti" and "Fractal of Light" by Chris Haugen, "Broken Promise" by Jimena Contreras, "Empty Bottle, Empty Bed" by the Mini Vandals, and "A Ghost Town" by Quincas Moreira Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the second episode from our recent meetup with Chris Lehto where we explore his work on the Fractal Universe, where macrobiological entities become a real possibility in the cosmos by way of adherence to NASA's own checklist definition for life. We explore the fractal organization of biological structures, what it means to be a subunit in a living system, and Lehto argues the case that many large scale structures, from nations to galaxies qualify incredibly well. Ultimately, we may prove to be living elements in a much greater order that is only just now coming into focus.Part 1: https://youtu.be/9fTSsLk5p34Chris' book: https://amzn.to/3S29crAPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Lehto Recap and the Ladder of Scales00:03:44 Cities, Nations, and the Life Test00:12:27 Corporations, Money, and Metabolism00:20:01 Why Scale Forces New Structure00:30:04 Large Systems as Living Bodies00:43:42 Life Cycles, Collapse, and Reproduction00:53:37 Earth's Kin and the Search for Peers01:05:40 Is the Sun Alive?01:11:21 Why the Solar System Looks Like an Atom01:19:25 Cosmic Lifespans and One Unifying Process01:26:15 What Changes If This Is True01:40:20 Cross-Scale Science and How Early We Are#physics #astrophysics #cosmology #emergence #cosmos #consciousness MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

This week we are going to the core of what it means to be alive. If we don't understand where matter turns into the living then how can we be sure we're not missing biological processes all over the universe? Chris Lehto joins us for this first part of a two part series on his work surrounding the Fractal Universe, where we establish the historic basis for our present understanding of what it means to be living. We look at the NASA criteria, Michod's individuality gate, and the overlooked importance of will. This sets us up for part two where we'll put larger scale cosmic structures to the test, working from the city up to galaxies and beyond.Chris' book: https://amzn.to/3S29crAPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Introductions and the Question of Life at Different Scales00:08:00 Anomalies and the Limits of What We Notice00:14:01 Microbes: Seen for Centuries, Never Called Alive00:24:38 Why Every Era Thinks It Sees Clearly00:33:08 Does Life Stop at Our Scale?00:42:49 Cosmic Analogies and the Trouble With Defining Life00:52:30 NASA's Four Tests for Life00:59:12 Drawing the Line: Fire, Rivers, Ecosystems01:05:00 Michod's Individuality Gate01:11:31 Intent, Agency, and the "Want" Problem#philosophy #philosophyofmind #emergence #consciousness #cosmos MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Imaging has traditionally been used to document what (already) happened. What if it could help determine what happens next? On the newest episode of Fractals, Colin Miller is joined by Fidēs Imaging CEO Roughan Sheedy and Head of Women's Health Beth Fisher to discuss how advanced imaging can support earlier, sharper development decisions. They explore:   Why early-phase programs need more than standardized endpoints   How imaging biology in motion can uncover previously invisible phenomena   Where dynamic imaging may add value across GI disease, women's health, fibrosis, inflammation, and solid tumors   What it will take for emerging imaging endpoints to earn regulatory credibility 

En la gran previa de Essen, nos concentramos en UN JUEGO en particular que prometía cautivar. Convocamos 4 almas para jugarlo y obviamente al autor para que nos lo enseñe. Le dimos una partida y como resultado terminamos de raja en el suelo ante tal pedazo de juego, porque no hay otra forma de describirlo.De Diego Burgos, Ka'an nos abrió la noche para hablar de su diseño disruptivo, de la magia que pone en la mesa, y por supuesto de la presencia latinoamericana en la feria de Essen que se aproxima. Revisamos los juegos que acompañan a Ka'an con su editorial The test Table (detestable) y, con la ayuda de Jose Manuel, revisamos uno a uno los títulos que presenta Fractal en la misma feria.Con la Sofi, Jose, la Dani, Diego y varios Gin and Tonic les compartimos la puntita del iceberg latinoamericano que se viene más potente que nunca en la escena de juegos de mesa. Afírmese y ponga atención, porque este capítulo también incluye una tremenda invitación.Aquí arranca, Entre copas y juegos.

Have you ever wondered why certain people feel more naturally aligned with your energy than others? In this episode we explore one of our favorite Human Design concepts — fractal lines  — the idea that certain people are naturally aligned with our unique energetic path and are meant to play a role in our journey. We dive into how following your Strategy and Authority allows your magnetic monopole to guide you toward the right people, places, and opportunities, while also helping you recognize when relationships may no longer be aligned. We discuss the importance of letting connections naturally evolve, trusting even the smallest nudges from your Authority, and choosing quality over quantity in friendships, community, business, and your audience. We also explore how your Human Design environment and Gene Keys Pearl Sequence can help you connect with people who resonate with your authentic frequency and support greater purpose, prosperity, and alignment.   Key Takeaways: How following your Strategy and Authority naturally guides you toward people who are aligned with your path and fractal. How small, aligned decisions can lead to unexpected relationships, opportunities, and major shifts in your life. How your Human Design environment can help put you in the right places to naturally connect with people who resonate with you. Why quality matters more than quantity when it comes to friendships, clients, collaborators, communities, and audiences. Why it becomes easier to attract people who genuinely resonate with your frequency and purpose when you express yourself authentically. Doors are Open for Activate Your Golden Purpose until August 23rd! Sign up below! Sign up here! Free Mini-Courses! FREE Transits & The Harmonic Gate Mini-Course FREE Human Design Readings 101 Masterclass Join us in Your Human Design Besties! Get our book: Your Human Design! Online Human Design Reader Training 64 Gates & Gene Keys Training Future trainings and retreats can be found on daylunalife.com Instagram: @‌d.a.y.l.u.n.a

You're Playing Tennis With a GhostYou hit the ball over the net. Nothing comes back. So you hit another one — a better one, an interesting one, surely thatone deserves a return. Silence. And still you keep serving, because you were raised to believe that if you just give enough, eventually something comes back.It doesn't. There's nobody on the other side of the court.Jess doesn't get tired. So when she found herself unable to keep her eyes open in the middle of an ordinary afternoon, she went looking for the reason — and what she found wasn't overwork. It was a day full of small, well-mannered lies. Finding the good thing to say about work that bored her. Meeting people with warmth she didn't feel. Being generous in a way that was really just dishonest.That's the discovery this episode is built on: exhaustion is not always physical. Sometimes it's moral. Every act of kindness that isn't true opens a cord, and something drains out of you through it.She remembers a woman from the school run. Everything aligned on paper — shared interests, daughters the same age, every reason to be friends. And every single time they sat down together, Jess could feel the life force leaving her body. White as a ghost. Sitting there thinking, I cannot stand this level of boredom — and then hearing herself say something warm anyway.That's the moment. That's the betrayal. Not the boredom — the sentence that followed it.Inside:Why "I can see the good in everyone" isn't enlightenment. It's innocence that outstayed its welcome, and it belongs to the early stage of individuation, not the mature oneThe equality wound — refusing to stand above anyone because it felt wrong — and the wreckage it leaves in a businessUnconditional love is not unconditional access. Hold the space. Guard the gate.Fractals of light: why the woman who drains you may be genuinely lighting up thousands of others, and why walking away judges nobodyHow a single act of self-betrayal drags bliss, delight, exquisiteness, unity and purity straight down into shadowTake it behind the shed. Why discernment has to be brutal — and why, by Jess's count, 99% of people won't survive itThe question she now asks every depleted client: who is in your field who does not belong there?And the standard she's setting from here: only the ones who bat it back. The ones where you send a high frequency over the net and one comes flying back at you, and it's the best game of tennis you've ever played.Everyone else can find their own court.-------------------------------------Currently in session: The Vessel for spiritual women building extraordinary legacy wealth - https://spiritualised-the-vessel.netlify.app

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Sarah Wilson discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Sarah Wilson is a multi-New York Times bestselling author, journalist, social philosopher, international keynote speaker and philanthropist. Sarah leads dynamic, global conversations about modern philosophy, creativity, existential risk, and climate change via her keynote speaking, Wild podcast, and her Substack and social communities. She lives nomadically, but is based between Paris and Sydney, and is a compulsive hiker and adventurer. Her new book is I Eat the Stars, which is available at https://www.waterstones.com/book/i-eat-the-stars/sarah-wilson/9781837827213. Fractal flourishing https://accidentalgods.life/fractal-flourishing/ Maison de Balzac https://sarahwilson.substack.com/p/how-balzac-made-me-feel-joyous-about Sufficiency https://sarahwilson.substack.com/p/sufficiency-as-a-way-of-living-a Vanessa Andreotti https://decolonialfutures.net/hospicingmodernity/ Ikaria https://www.bluezones.com/explorations/ikaria-greece/ Mug cakes https://uk.pinterest.com/meganusafwife/muggin-recipes/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

What happens when human health, animal health, and entrepreneurial drug development intersect? In this episode of Fractals: Life Science Conversations, Bracken CEO Colin Miller is joined by Senior Partners Graham Lumsden, BVM&S, Dip.M., MRCVS, and Jonathan Larkin, PhD, to discuss osteoarthritis innovation, One Medicine, and the collaborative pathways that can move novel therapies forward. Together, they discuss: Why osteoarthritis remains a major unmet need in both human and animal health How disease-modifying approaches could shift treatment beyond pain management The promise of bispecific antibody development in addressing both pain and cartilage degeneration How animal health studies can help inform human development programs, and vice versa Why human expertise, networks, and scientific judgment remain essential in the age of AI Tune in to Fractals on your preferred podcast platform, and reach out to Bracken to learn how we help life science teams connect strategy, science, and execution across development.

In this episode, Vanessa sits down with Clara Schroeder, ecotherapist and author of Re-Nature: How Nature Helps Us Feel Better and Do Better, for a conversation about ecopsychology, climate grief, ritual, and the healing intelligence of the natural world. Together they explore why “we are nature” is not just a poetic idea, but a psychological and spiritual reality - and how separation from the earth mirrors separation from self, body, belonging, and ritual. They also discuss nature as a co-regulating presence, the specific grief that can follow climate or human-caused ecological disasters, and what it means to repair our attachment with the original mother. This is a conversation about remembering that nature is not outside of us; it is one of the oldest relationships we have.For educational purposes only. This isn't therapy.Resources mentioned:Re-Nature by Clara SchroederUse for: Guest's book, Re-Nature: How Nature Helps Us Feel Better and Do Better.Link: https://www.claraschroeder.com/bookNote: Clara's site describes the book as exploring nature connection, mental health, resilience, climate disruption, and sustainable action.Ecopsychology / Theodore RoszakUse for: Defining ecopsychology as the bridge between psychology and ecology / the human psyche and the natural world.Link: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/psychology/ecopsychologyNote: Useful general background on ecopsychology and its association with Theodore Roszak's The Voice of the Earth.Nature exposure and healthUse for: Research support that exposure to natural environments is associated with decreased anxiety, rumination, and other mental health benefits.Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8125471/Note: Review article on associations between nature exposure and health.Nature relatedness and mental healthUse for: Research support that stronger nature relatedness is associated with fewer symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6069224/Note: Helpful support for the episode's claim that relationship with nature matters for mental health.Connectedness to Nature ScaleUse for: Research on emotional / experiential connection to the natural world.Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222621038_The_Connectedness_to_Nature_Scale_A_Measure_of_Individuals%27_Feeling_in_Community_with_NatureNote: Mayer and Frantz's Connectedness to Nature Scale is a common measure in environmental psychology.Andy Goldsworthy quoteUse for: “We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us…”Link: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/goldsworthy-andy/Note: This is a cleaner source than Goodreads for the quote used in the episode.Lisa Miller / Spirituality Mind Body InstituteUse for: Lisa Miller's work on spirituality, psychology, and the science of spiritual awareness.Link: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/lfm14/Note: This confirms Lisa Miller as Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute.Lisa Miller — The Awakened BrainUse for: Background on spirituality, resilience, and mental health.Link: https://www.lisamillerphd.com/Note: Important: I would not use wording that says Lisa Miller “proved synchronicities are real” unless you have a specific source from her work that says that directly. Safer wording: “Lisa Miller's work explores the science of spirituality and awakened awareness.”Fractal patterns and stress reductionUse for: Nature's fractal patterns and stress/mental fatigue reduction.Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8416160/Note: Supports the episode's discussion of repeated natural patterns and nervous system regulation.Disaster / climate-related mental healthUse for: Mental health consequences of disasters, including trauma, anxiety, and depression.Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11430943/Note: Broad support for the climate grief / disaster recovery part of the conversation.Forest therapy after wildfire disasterUse for: Nature-based, community-centered support after wildfire or disaster.Link: https://natureandhealth.uw.edu/publications/forest-therapy-as-a-trauma-informed-approach-to-disaster-recovery-insights-from-a-wildfire-affected-community/Note: Useful support for nature connection as part of disaster recovery.Nature attachment theoryUse for: Nature as an attachment figure / the human-nature bond through an attachment theory lens.Link: https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/14214Note: Useful support for the “Mother Nature / original mother / attachment wound” portion of the episode.Attachment theory overviewUse for: Bowlby, Ainsworth, secure base, attachment needs, and early bonds.Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4085672/Note: Good general research overview on attachment theory and secure base.Clarissa Pinkola Estés — Women Who Run With the Wolves / life-death-life cycleUse for: Life-death-life cycle, instinctual nature, and the archetypal feminine frame.Link: https://bookshop.org/p/books/women-who-run-with-the-wolves-clarissa-pinkola-estes/9929947Note: The concept is from Estés's Women Who Run With the Wolves. I did not find a high-quality free source with the full concept explained, so best to cite the book directly rather than a secondary blog.Human evolution / Homo sapiensUse for: Vanessa's comment that humans have existed far longer than modern attachment theory / nuclear-family assumptions.Link: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiensNote: Smithsonian source states Homo sapiens have lived from about 300,000 years ago to the present.Connect with Claire:Clara's website:https://www.claraschroeder.com/Book page:https://www.claraschroeder.com/bookInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingwithclarity/Book Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/ReNatureBook/Substack:https://claraschroeder.substack.com/If you want to go deeper, check out the written companion on Substack and explore community + training at https://www.vanessaBennett.com.Additional ResourcesExplore: VanessaBennett.comBook: The Motherhood MythCommunity: Inner Compass CollectiveTraining: Inner Compass AcademyConnect with Inner CompassFollow on InstagramConnect with Vanessa Bennett:Follow on InstagramFollow on TikTokLearn more on SubstackConnect with Vanessa Bennett on LinkedInSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

My personal journey of discovery in getting to know artists previously unfamiliar to me continues and I chat with the rising stars of Costa Rican prog metal upstarts, Fractal Sun. Join me as I learn all about what makes them unique, the challenges and benefits of arising from the music scene of Costa Rica, and their theatrical brand of progressive metal!--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Show your Bleeding Edge support!! Buy some merch! https://bleeding-edge.myspreadshop.com/orhttps://buymeacoffee.com/bleeding_edge---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The episode reveals a structural shift where “AI powered” has moved from a selling point to a source of liability and customer distrust. Surveys from WordPress VIP, the Pew Research Center, and Carnegie Mellon University indicate that both consumers and professionals increasingly see visible AI in products and services as a negative attribute, eroding trust rather than adding perceived value. This trend impacts MSPs directly, as their role in advising clients on technology adoption now brings increased accountability for customer experience outcomes tied to AI-driven automation. According to a WordPress VIP survey, 60% of US consumers are deterred by the term “AI” in brand marketing, and 86% do not fully trust AI-delivered information, preferring original sources. The Pew Research Center found that, while 49% of US adults now use AI chatbots, 40% believe AI will worsen society and 67% distrust regulatory oversight. A Carnegie Mellon study of working visual artists reported 99% disapproving of generative AI and 85% refusing to use it. These quantified findings underscore a broad disconnect between AI adoption and public trust. Additional research reinforces this skepticism and clarifies operational risks. AnswerConnect's survey of 6,000 consumers across the US, UK, and Canada found that 85% prefer human service over bot interactions, 57% lose trust in brands using AI for support, and 73% exhibit greater loyalty to businesses maintaining human involvement. Data from Fractal and Search Engine Land shows that the share of consumers who say heavy AI use would decrease their trust in a brand nearly doubled in a year, rising from 20% to 39%. Furthermore, 84% desire businesses to disclose AI use, yet only 20% of businesses consistently do so. These patterns suggest tangible declines in customer loyalty and increased expectation for transparency surrounding AI deployment. For MSPs and IT service providers, visible AI in customer-facing areas introduces pricing risk and trust liabilities. Delegating key customer interactions to AI without clear disclosure can erode brand equity and disrupt client retention metrics. The operational recommendation is to segment human-in-the-loop service as the standard premium offering, with fully automated AI positioned as a disclosed, lower-tier alternative. Writing these distinctions explicitly into contracts and statements of work—pairing them with actual client retention data—enables more defensible pricing and clarifies accountability, helping avoid unintended consequences tied to silent automation. 00:00 The Turn-Off  03:39 Reading the Motive 05:25 The Loyalty Account 08:35 Why Do We Care?    Supported by:  Pax8  ScalePad    Sign up for the SMB Online Conference: www.smbonlineconference.com

Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Fractals form the underlying pattern of all of life (in our bodies and in our food!) What does this have to do with discipleship? Everything! Understanding "Fractal Discipleship" not only tunes us in to the deep and natural realities of God's design of the universe, but it also exhorts us to expand our consciousness and our behavior as followers of Jesus.

We concluded the last episode with Jeff Kripal calling upon humanities scholars to break out of our conservative paradigms and to allow ourselves to “get weird.” So, let's do it! This season, we are going all-in on the mystical, mysterious, profound, reality-bending, and impossible aspects of Asian religions, medicines, and spiritualities.As usual, we'll launch the season the tables turned, with Lan taking up the mic to interview Pierce. Together, we think about traditional, modern, and postmodern approaches to Asian medicine. Usually, these epistemologies are competing or people are trying to integrate them… but could there be another approach that celebrates all of them without needing to reconcile dissonance?If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in multidisciplinary conversations about Asian healing and mystical traditions, then subscribe to Black Beryl wherever you get your podcasts. Also look us up on Substack to see what our guests have shared with you. Enjoy the show!Resources mentioned in this episode:* Pierce Salguero, “A Metadisciplinary Approach to Asian Medicine (and Other Epistemological Carnivals)” (2025)* Pierce Salguero, “The Fractal of Humanities” (2021)* Pierce Salguero, “A Pedagogy of the Soul” (2022)* Pierce Salguero, “Let's Put More Humanity into the Humanities” (2019)* Pierce's Human•ities Blog on Substack or on Medium Get full access to Black Beryl Podcast at blackberyl.substack.com/subscribe

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. In our sample game we look at playing as Austria and aiming for a Diplomatic Victory. And our focus is on puppeting Citty-States, but be I misunderstood and instead of making a Diplomatic Victory easier, it makes it harder. I still managed to get my Diplomatic Victory, but a Science or Domination Victory would definitely have been easier in this scenario. Playing Civilization V, Part 12 A Diplomatic Victory Strategy Civilization V introduced a new Victory type and I thought it might be fun to try this strategy for a sample game to see broadly how this would work. I decided I would play as Austria on Prince level, which means that all players are equal and no one is favored. For my map I chose Fractal, Map Size = Standard, Game speed = Standard. My only Advanced Option was Quick Combat, because I didn't need to see that drawn out, particularly since I plan to avoid combat as much as necessary. My leader is Maria Theresa, and her Austria has a unique ability called Diplomatic Marriage. This allows us to either Annex or Puppet any city-state that has been allied to us for 5 turns with the proper expenditure of Gold. My plan was to use this to Puppet the city-states to control their votes for the Diplomatic Victory, but that was a misunderstanding. I actually implemented one of the hardest ways to win a Diplomatic Victory. But that is what I did. Now to get them to ally with me the most effective way to do this is with cash and lots of it, and of course even more cash to actually effect to Puppeting of them. So my overriding objective in this game is to amass a large Treasury. But of course I cannot ignore my military either, since a weak military invites attacks form greedy neighbors. And I may need to “liberate” the occasional city-state if another player conquers them. Austria also has a Unique Unit, the Hussar, which replaces the Cavalry unit. It can move after attacking, has a flanking bonus, and has one extra movement. And the Unique Building is the Coffee House, which increases the generation of Great People in the city by 25%. So you can expect me to build these in every city as well. With that in mind, I started the game and settled in place, I had Mountains nearby, but also Sheep and Silver within my city, so some useful resources. I immediately started to produce a Scout as my first unit, and sent my Warrior out to explore. In the very early stage I focus on exploring the surrounding area and finding any Goody Huts, i.e. Ruins. My initial city site is not exactly ideal, as it is all hilly with Jungle nearby. After building my two Scouts, my next priority was to build a Worker unit to increase the productivity of my city. And for my first social policy I unlocked Tradition. When I got my second policy I picked Oligarchy, and plan to complete all of the Tradition tree. I cleared out a Barbarian encampment, and then discovered my first City-state, Vilnius. Then I needed to clear out another Barbarian encampment that was blocking me from finishing my exploration. Meanwhile I am focusing on getting techs for sailing the ocean blue, because that is how I plan to get trade routes, discover City-states I can puppet, and so on. Because money is key to my strategy I made a beeline for Currency in the my Science research. And while headed there I completed the Tradition tree. When I can get there I will work on the Commerce tree to maximize my cash, but until then the Patronage tree will let me improve my City-state relations, which is important for improving my relationships with City-states. After all, you need to be allies with them for 5 turns before you can puppet them. I now have three cities, and can probably squeeze out a few more, which should be sufficient to my needs. At Turn 141 I have 6 cities, which is all I will build in this game. I now have the technology to build Workshops, which are the first productivity boosters available, so I set all my cities to building them. For Research my immediate object was to get to Compass so I could build the Galleass, which would let me do more ocean exploration. But to go into deep Ocean I will need to go further to get Astronomy, which will let me build the Caravel which can enter deep ocean. Once I got that I switched to Banking, not just for the money, but as a prerequisite to building the Forbidden Palace, which grants two additional delegates in the World Congress/United Nations. When I get Banking I'll go back to Astronomy, and then Navigation, to advance my seagoing capabilities. By Turn 216 I had gotten Banking and started on the Forbidden Palace. And by luck, just as I got started I got a Great Engineer. I am holding him in reserve in case I need to hurry production, since Great Engineers are the only way to do that in Civ 5. I also picked up Astronomy, which will let me build Caravels to explore the whole ocean. My next research priority will be Gunpowder since it is time to beef up my defenses. At Turn 240 my Caravels started to come out, and I found several new City-States. And since my Treasury is healthy (I started with 6,000 gold, and I'm bringing in 100 each turn), I began the process of puppeting the City-states. Puppeting City-states as Austria Let's look at this in detail since it is important. The requirements are 2 things: Be allied with the City-state for 5 consecutive turns Have the cash needed. This amount is not too much early on, but it rises over time. So, how do you become allies with a City-state? There are a number of things you can do to improve your relationship. You can take on a quest that a City-state has published, which can be things like “Find another Natural Wonder” or “Create a Great Admiral”. These quests pop up continuously throughout the game, and you are free to ignore them, but fulfilling one will improve your relationship. Trade will also improve your relationship, so in this game all of my Trade routes were made with City-states. If you are in a position to have a successful war, you can find a former City-state that was conquered by one of the other Empires, liberate it, and then it will be your ally for the rest of the game. Giving them presents is how I usually do it, though. You can give them units or money. If your purpose is to get allies, money works best. But I do gift units in 2 circumstances. First, if I have obsolete units, giving them away might be better then deleting them. Second, if a City-state is under attack by another Empire. Gifting them units might help them hold out and make life difficult for a rival. The place where all of this is done is the City-state screen which opens up when you click on the bar above the City-state, which is where you handle all of your relationships. At the top of this screen you see your current status, which more often than not will be Neutral, which is how all City-state relationships start out. But you can get them angry by, for instance, moving a unit of your into their territory. If you only do it once, and give them time to get over it, they will go back to Neutral. You can also improve the relationship by pledging to protect them, but be careful. If they get attacked and you do not try to protect them, they will get very angry. Giving a gift opens a pop-up to say what kind of gift: 250 gold, 500 gold, 1000 gold, or a Unit. Note that a Unit is only worth 5 influence points, while 250 Gold is worth 20, so as I said Money is more powerful if your aim is to improve your status with them. So at Turn 242 I found the City-state of Singapore, and it appears that I was the first Empire to find them. So I immediately pledged to protect them. My Influence with them was 20, which is Neutral. We just met, and that is where things stand on first meeting. The be Friends you need to get to 30, and to be allies you need to get to 60. When I clicked Next Turn, I got a Quest from Singapore. They were worried about a Barbarian Encampment nearby, and if I cleared it out I would get additional influence with them. In this case, though, I let that go by. I want to move more quickly, and Singapore is across the Ocean from me. My influence with them at this point was 21, so only a modest increase. But I have 6038 Gold in my Treasury, and I am bringing in 102 per turn. So let's see what a gift of 500 Gold will do. It brings me to 65 influence, so we are now Allies. But when I mouse-over Singapore, the pop-up window reminds me that my Influence will decrease by 1.12 per turn. For an Empire other than Austria this would mean a regular infusion of cash to keep up your status. And I have won Diplomatic victories with other Empires by saving up a lot of cash and dumping it on City-states just before the United Nations vote. But for Austria you have special ability called Diplomatic Marriage that lets you turn the City-state into a Puppet, and that is permanent. But it also presents some obstacles as we will see. We are allies now, but my influence will drop by 1 each turn, and I might lose my allyship before I can puppet them. But I can gift a unit and get another 5, and I happen to have a very obsolete Warrior unit that will serve the purpose. However, it takes three turns for the Unit to arrive, so I lose few more points. At Turn 247 I can now use the diplomatic Marriage option to make a puppet of Singapore. Prior to doing this I was fourth in score with 604, while the leader had 729. My Happiness Level was +25, and I now had 5833 Gold in my Treasury. Then I made Singapore a puppet, and now I am third in the game with a score of 664. My Treasury has fallen to 5258, which means it cost me 575 Gold. But most significant is that my Happiness fell from +25 to +9, which is a huge loss. I have enough gold to puppet 4-5 more City-states at this time but if I did I would have rebellions breaking out and my Empire would eventually collapse. This is the obstacle that Austria has to face. We need to promote Happiness before we go much further with making puppets. Civ is always a game of balances. Links https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/City-state_(Civ5) https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Austrian_(Civ5) https://www.palain.com/gaming/civilization-v/playing-civilization-v-part-12/ Provide feedback on this episode.

Ag View Solutions: https://www.agviewsolutions.com/Farm Profit Manager: https://www.farmprofitmanager.com/Today's guest is Shay Foulk of Ag View Solutions and the Farm Profit Manager app. I've known of Shay for years as a podcaster and farm management consultant, and his presence on social media. Shay and I both have been a part of webinars for Fractal Ag in the past, and shout out to Ben at Fractal for helping to make today's episode happen. Some background on Shay: Shay Foulk is a farm business consultant with Ag View Solutions who works with operations to improve profitability and efficiency, manage risk, and grow. They offer this to farmers in the form of consulting, coaching, Peer Group facilitation and the Profit Manager app that we'll talk a lot about today. He grew up in NE Iowa working on a row crop and livestock operation with his father, uncles, and grandfathers. He attended Iowa State University where he majored in Agronomy. After graduating, Shay enlisted in the United States Army, and served 5 years with the 75th Ranger Regiment. He continues to serve with the Illinois National Guard out of Peoria. He also farms and runs Monier Seed with his father-in-law and wife, Hannah, near Sparland, IL.Shay's step dad, Chris Barron, started Ag View Solutions clear back in the mid 90s. He developed the foundation of what became what they called Profit Manager. He noticed that he knew his numbers a lot better on the hog production side of his farm, and wanted to apply the same business analysis to the crops side. So with his college roommate he developed the first version of Profit Manager on DOS. After years of consulting with farmers he turned it into an Excel-based tool. For years they have sold the tool and offered consulting services. Shay joined the business in 2019, and just this year they converted the Excel-based Profit Manager into this new app called Farm Profit Manager, and offered it for free.

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This week on Amigos: Everything Amiga, we dive into Captain Blood — a surreal sci-fi dreamscape packed with alien languages, a Jean-Michel Jarre soundtrack, and some of the strangest gameplay ever released on the Amiga — plus current Amiga news and more!

Today Pierce Salguero sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “impossible” experiences. This is a conversation I've been waiting a few years to have. Together we explore what you can or can't talk about in the humanities — and what we risk when we break the rules. Along the way, we touch on paranormal phenomena, epistemological pluralism, conspiracy theories, Plato's cave, and why no one dresses up as a humanities professor for Halloween. If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in deep conversations about the dark side of Asian religions and medicines, then subscribe to Black Beryl wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy the show! Resources related to this conversation: Jeff Kripal's website Archives of the Impossible & Conferences Pierce Salguero, "Secret Lives of Buddhist Studies Scholars" (2024) Pierce Salguero, "The Fractal of Humanities" (2021) Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, "On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research" (2023) Jeff Kripal, The Flip (2020) Jeff Kripal, Secret Body (2019) Commonweal Podcast Subscribe here to unlock our members-only benefits, including: PDF of the introduction of Jeff's book, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (2024) Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. See here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today Pierce Salguero sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “impossible” experiences. This is a conversation I've been waiting a few years to have. Together we explore what you can or can't talk about in the humanities — and what we risk when we break the rules. Along the way, we touch on paranormal phenomena, epistemological pluralism, conspiracy theories, Plato's cave, and why no one dresses up as a humanities professor for Halloween. If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in deep conversations about the dark side of Asian religions and medicines, then subscribe to Black Beryl wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy the show! Resources related to this conversation: Jeff Kripal's website Archives of the Impossible & Conferences Pierce Salguero, "Secret Lives of Buddhist Studies Scholars" (2024) Pierce Salguero, "The Fractal of Humanities" (2021) Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, "On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research" (2023) Jeff Kripal, The Flip (2020) Jeff Kripal, Secret Body (2019) Commonweal Podcast Subscribe here to unlock our members-only benefits, including: PDF of the introduction of Jeff's book, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (2024) Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. See here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

Today Pierce Salguero sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “impossible” experiences. This is a conversation I've been waiting a few years to have. Together we explore what you can or can't talk about in the humanities — and what we risk when we break the rules. Along the way, we touch on paranormal phenomena, epistemological pluralism, conspiracy theories, Plato's cave, and why no one dresses up as a humanities professor for Halloween. If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in deep conversations about the dark side of Asian religions and medicines, then subscribe to Black Beryl wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy the show! Resources related to this conversation: Jeff Kripal's website Archives of the Impossible & Conferences Pierce Salguero, "Secret Lives of Buddhist Studies Scholars" (2024) Pierce Salguero, "The Fractal of Humanities" (2021) Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, "On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research" (2023) Jeff Kripal, The Flip (2020) Jeff Kripal, Secret Body (2019) Commonweal Podcast Subscribe here to unlock our members-only benefits, including: PDF of the introduction of Jeff's book, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (2024) Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. See here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Today Pierce Salguero sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “impossible” experiences. This is a conversation I've been waiting a few years to have. Together we explore what you can or can't talk about in the humanities — and what we risk when we break the rules. Along the way, we touch on paranormal phenomena, epistemological pluralism, conspiracy theories, Plato's cave, and why no one dresses up as a humanities professor for Halloween. If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in deep conversations about the dark side of Asian religions and medicines, then subscribe to Black Beryl wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy the show! Resources related to this conversation: Jeff Kripal's website Archives of the Impossible & Conferences Pierce Salguero, "Secret Lives of Buddhist Studies Scholars" (2024) Pierce Salguero, "The Fractal of Humanities" (2021) Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, "On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research" (2023) Jeff Kripal, The Flip (2020) Jeff Kripal, Secret Body (2019) Commonweal Podcast Subscribe here to unlock our members-only benefits, including: PDF of the introduction of Jeff's book, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (2024) Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. See here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

In this powerful conversation, consciousness researcher and Portal to Ascension founder Neil Gaur joins Emilio Ortiz on Just Tap In Podcast to explore humanity's collective awakening and the release of long hidden truths. Drawing from ancient wisdom, meditation experiences, and scientific anomalies, Neil explains why society is entering a period of massive transformation where darkness must be exposed in order for healing to occur. Rather than fear, he believes this moment calls for awareness, responsibility, and conscious evolution.✦ Join Emilio's Private Community – The Deep Dive Membership | https://iamemilioortiz.com/the-deep-dive/The conversation dives into consciousness, past lives, human origins, ET phenomena, hidden civilizations, quantum reality, and the future of humanity. Neil shares insights from Vipassana meditation, discusses the idea of Earth as a school for consciousness, and explains why revealed truths could either divide humanity or bring it into greater unity. He also speaks about 2027 as a potential turning point in collective consciousness and asks one central question: how do we move forward with integrity as more truth comes to light?___________________PODCAST CHAPTERS00:00 – Neil Gaur Intro1:01 - What's Happening Globally Right Now? 3:11 - Has Humanity's True Story Been Inverted?3:53 - The Origin of Reality: From Singularity to Duality6:05 - The Missing Link in Evolution 7:17 - The 26,000-Year Cycle & Where We Are Now10:03 - Kali Yuga Explained: The Age of Delusion12:12 - The Shift into the Age of Energy & Sovereignty14:21 - The Wormhole Analogy: Humanity's Rapid Evolution16:30 - Earth as a “Galactic Mental Hospital”17:05 - Past Life Regression: Orion & Stargate Keeper Origins22:16 - Who Are the Founder Races?24:50 - The DNA Wars: Humans vs Reptilians25:46 - How Ancient Galactic Trauma Plays Out Today26:11 - Earth as the Final Frontier of Consciousness29:02 - Humanity as the DNA Library of the Galaxy29:48 - Are ETs Watching Us? 34:01 - The Biggest Secrets Still Being Hidden36:04 - Lost Civilizations Beneath the Sahara36:53 - The Amazon: A Forgotten Advanced Civilization37:33 - Peru's Ancient Beings & Elongated Skulls39:26 - Awakening Through DNA Memory & Remembrance42:11 - Vipassana & Accessing Past Lives44:16 - The Thinning Veil & Mass Awakening44:32 - Who Are the “Gods” We Speak To?47:05 - Higher-Dimensional Beings & Fractals of Source50:16 - Interdimensional ETs & The Nature of Reality51:46 - The New Age: Energy, Quantum Reality & Sovereignty57:35 - The Future: Telepathy, Levitation & Mastery59:57 - When Will Humanity Unlock These Abilities?1:02:12 - Fear, Division & The Illusion of Separation1:09:36 - The Final Trio Begins1:10:06 - Message to His Younger Self1:10:46 - The Question He Wishes People Asked1:11:29 - What Is Darkness, Really?___________________Guest: Neil Gaur, Portal to Ascension ✦ Website | https://portaltoascension.org/✦ Upcoming Events | https://portaltoascension.org/upcoming-events/✦ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/portaltoascension/Host: Emilio Ortiz✦ IG | https://www.instagram.com/iamemilioortiz/✦ Subscribe to Channel | https://www.youtube.com/EmilioOrtiz___________________© 2026 Emilio Ortiz. All rights reserved. Content from Just Tap In Podcast is protected under copyright law.Legal Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by guests on Just Tap In are solely those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Emilio Ortiz or the Just Tap In Podcast. All content is for informational purposes only and should not be considered professional advice.

Today I sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “impossible” experiences. This is a conversation I've been waiting a few years to have. Together we explore what you can or can't talk about in the humanities — and what we risk when we break the rules. Along the way, we touch on paranormal phenomena, epistemological pluralism, conspiracy theories, Plato's cave, and why no one dresses up as a humanities professor for Halloween. If you want to hear scholars and practitioners engaging in deep conversations about the dark side of Asian religions and medicines, then subscribe to Black Beryl wherever you get your podcasts. Also check out our members-only benefits on Substack.com to see what our guests have shared with you. Enjoy the show!Resources related to this conversation:Jeff Kripal's websiteArchives of the Impossible & Conferences Pierce Salguero, "Secret Lives of Buddhist Studies Scholars" (2024)Pierce Salguero, "The Fractal of Humanities" (2021)Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, "On the need for metaphysics in psychedelic therapy and research" (2023)Jeff Kripal, The Flip (2020)Jeff Kripal, Secret Body (2019)Commonweal PodcastSubscribe on blackberyl.substack.com to unlock our members-only benefits, including:PDF of the introduction of Jeff's book, How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else (2024)

On today's episode of the CLS Experience, host Craig Siegel sits down with inventor-entrepreneur turned psychic intuitive and bestselling author Julie Ryan for a fascinating conversation on angelic attendance, spirit communication, and past lives. Julie shares how she developed her ability to connect with spirit and now teaches others to access their own intuition through her Angelic Attendance method. She explains that everyone has intuitive capacity, and that it becomes accessible through focused attention, clear intention, and trusting the first intuitive response without overthinking. The discussion explores how spirit communication is always loving, how energetic scanning can reveal emotional and even past-life imprints, and how these insights can relate to physical and emotional healing. Julie also reframes death as a multi-phase transition surrounded by angels and loved ones, offering a perspective that reduces fear and invites more presence, courage, and joy in life. Let's go deep.7:29 Practical Spirit Communication15:13 Fractals of the Divine21:01 Past Lives and Energy Blocks28:42 Reframing Fear of Death36:22 The Twelve Phases of Transition45:52 Asking and Receiving Guidance52:06 Source Connection and FrequencyCheck out Julie on Instagram HERE:Check out Julie's Website HERE:Check out Julie's Book's HERE:Early Bird Tickets now available for our October live event, CLS: Formation HERE:To join our community click here.➤ Order a copy of Craig's book The Reinvention Formula today! ➤ Join our CLS texting community for free daily inspiration and wisdom to elevate your life, text (917) 634-3796➤ INSTAGRAM➤ FACEBOOK➤ TIKTOK➤ YOUTUBE➤ WEBSITE➤ LINKEDIN➤ X

Enterprise Software Reporter Kevin McLaughlin talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about SAP's move to block unauthorized AI agents from accessing corporate data. We also talk with Stephanie Palazzolo about Anthropic's talks to buy AI inference chips from U.K. startup Fractal and Ken Brown about how fund managers are selling big tech stocks to make room for the SpaceX IPO. Lastly, we get into the impact of mega-IPOs on the venture capital ecosystem with Darian Shirazi, Managing Partner at Gradient.Articles discussed on this episode: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex-ipo-set-drive-billions-tech-stock-saleshttps://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-buy-ai-chips-u-k-startupSubscribe: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theinformation The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/subscribe_hSign up for the AI Agenda newsletter: https://www.theinformation.com/features/ai-agendaTITV airs weekdays on YouTube, X and LinkedIn at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Or check us out wherever you get your podcasts.Follow us:X: https://x.com/theinformationIG: https://www.instagram.com/theinformation/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@titv.theinformationLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theinformation/

Can't sleep, and your brain has decided now is the perfect time for geometry? Great. In this episode, Benjamin Boster calmly reads about fractals, the endlessly repeating patterns that show up in mathematics, coastlines, snowflakes, and other places where nature gets a bit unusual. You'll learn what makes a fractal a fractal, why self similarity matters, and how these beautiful recursive shapes became such a big deal in math and science. It's steady, clear, and relaxing, with no whispering, no sudden energy, and no expectation that you need to understand every last equation at 2 a.m. Happy sleeping! Read with permission from Fractal, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Martin Eriksson is a Product Leader, Co-founder of Mind the Product and ProductTank, and Author. His new book, The Decision Stack, offers a mental model for connecting every layer of organisational strategy — from vision to the decisions teams make every single day.We discuss:— Why 95% of employees cannot name their organisation's strategy — and what that costs— The five questions every company must be able to answer, from vision to principles— Why strategy is the most commonly missing layer in the stack, and why exec teams are often reluctant to fill it— How to challenge upwards and surface strategic gaps without calling leadership out— Why empowering teams without context sends them running in every direction— How principles — not values — are the tool that eliminates recurring debates— The "this or that" technique for making trade-offs visible across a team— Why you cannot communicate strategy often enoughChapters— 00:00 Introduction— 01:11 Martin's background in product— 02:19 The origin of The Decision Stack— 03:44 The five questions the stack answers— 04:27 Why strategy is most often missing or unclear— 08:18 Who should be making strategic decisions— 09:44 Time horizons: how long should strategy last— 11:43 Using the decision stack in practice— 13:36 How to surface gaps from lower in the organisation— 16:01 Why context is the prerequisite for empowerment— 19:32 How the stack reduces decision-making overhead— 21:04 Language, frameworks, and avoiding rigidity— 23:43 Where to start: top-down or bottom-up— 26:34 Fractal stacks and scaling across teams— 28:44 Strategy for maintenance work and existing products— 31:41 The role of principles at the foundation of the stack— 33:38 How principles emerge — top-down and bottom-up— 37:07 The "this or that" technique for surfacing trade-offs— 39:26 Communicating strategy continuously across the organisation— 43:34 The most common mistake when getting startedFeatured linksThe Decision Stack — Martin's new book: https://www.thedecisionstack.com/The trade-off poll tool mentioned in the episode: https://thisorthat.thedecisionstack.com/ProductTank: Martin Eriksson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martineriksson/HBR: The Office of Strategy Management — source of the 95% statistic cited in the episode: https://hbr.org/2005/10/the-office-of-strategy-managementOur HostsLily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She's currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She's worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury's. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group's Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether) and Product Coaches. He's the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager's Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon's music stores in the US & UK.

Why does Human Design feel so accurate—like it's describing something you've always known but couldn't quite put into words? In this episode, Nicole explores the deeper layers behind that feeling, unpacking why alignment can feel less like learning something new and more like remembering who you've always been. If you've ever felt pulled toward something that didn't logically make sense, this conversation begins to explain why. Nicole introduces the concept of fractals and the idea that we are each part of a larger energetic pattern, unconsciously seeking our way back to the people, places, and purpose that are meant for us. She shares how being out of alignment can keep you stuck in repeating cycles that never quite click—and how small shifts in how you show up can completely change what you attract and experience. You'll also hear a powerful perspective on inner authority versus outer authority, and why true clarity and influence only come when you stop looking outside yourself for answers. This episode connects the dots between intuition, alignment, and the way your unique path unfolds—especially when it looks nothing like what you originally expected. If you've been craving a deeper understanding of why this work resonates so strongly, this conversation offers a new lens to trust your process, release the pressure to follow someone else's way, and start recognizing the signals already guiding you. Listen now!   Learn more about your Human Design and get your full chart for free at https://www.nicolelaino.com/chart To download a copy of Nicole's Free Guide - The Coaches Guide to Human Design DM her "COACH" on Instagram or go to nicolelaino.com/COACH    Be sure to visit nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more!    If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me:  Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts.  Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!  Interested in learning more about working with me? Click here to learn more about how we can work together.   

In Episode 297 we discuss how board games trigger dopamine and name our top 5 games loaded with dopamine hits. Timestamps:00:00 IntroductionTop 5 Dopamine Loaded Board Games05:57 Endeavor: Deep Sea9:02 No Thanks11:43 Champions of Midgard, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, Eclipse: 2nd Dawn for The Galaxy, Arcs, Star Wars Rebellion 16:00 Nippon: Zaibatsu19:48 Sol: Last Days of a Star22:32 Kanban EV, Barrage, Tapestry26:18 Slay the Spire: The Board Game 28:15 Tycoon: India 198130:53 Can't Stop, Quacks, Wonderland's War35:35 Grand Austria Hotel37:38 Dune, Fractal, Glory to Rome, Blood Rage43:45 Rebirth45:25 Brass: Birmingham, Steam Power49:06 Motor City, Darwin's Journey, Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers, CribbageIf you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgamehottakesFollow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgamehottakes.bsky.socialJoin our Board Game Arena Community: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=11417205Join our Discord server at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/vMtAYQWURd⁠

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This week on AppStories, Federico and John look at the confusing array of tools and naming conventions used by Anthropic and OpenAI. On AppStories+, John explains how he automated two unautomatable Mac apps. Also available on YouTube here. Subscribe here. We deliver AppStories+ to subscribers with bonus content, ad-free, and at a high bitrate early every week. To learn more about an AppStories+ subscription, visit our [Plans page](https://appstories.net/plans, or read the AppStories+ FAQ. This episode is sponsored by: Vitally: Your Copilot for AI-Powered Customer Success. Get a free pair of AirPods Pro when you book a qualified meeting. Links and Show Notes The Fragmented World of AI Tools Anthropic's Claude Claude for Mac Claude Cowork Claude Code Claude Code on the web Claude Code Remote Control Model Context Protocol (MCP) OpenAI's Codex ChatGPT for Mac Codex for Mac Codex CLI GPT-5.4 GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark Cerebras Codex Skills GitHub Repository Also mentioned: Playwright Todoist Notion Gmail Pushover Linear GitHub Brrr AppStories+ Post-Show iZotope RX 11 Hush Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Mastodon AppStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Follow us on Bluesky AppStories MacStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Join Annual$50/yearJoin Monthly$5/month

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What if trends in financial markets are not anomalies, but the natural consequence of how markets function? In this episode, Niels and Richard explore the structural foundations of trend following. Drawing on research spanning 68 futures markets across four decades, Richard explains why markets exhibit persistent trends, fat-tailed returns, and volatility clustering. The discussion moves from oil market shocks to deeper questions about feedback loops, participant behavior, and regime shifts in financial markets. The conclusion is striking: trend following does not rely on fragile patterns. It aligns with fundamental structural properties embedded in how markets actually evolve.-----50 YEARS OF TREND FOLLOWING BOOK AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO FOR ACCREDITED INVESTORS - CLICK HERE-----Follow Niels on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or via the TTU website.IT's TRUE ? – most CIO's read 50+ books each year – get your FREE copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here.And you can get a free copy of my latest book “Ten Reasons to Add Trend Following to Your Portfolio” here.Learn more about the Trend Barometer here.Send your questions to info@toptradersunplugged.comAnd please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest Rating & Review on iTunes or Spotify so more people can discover the podcast.Follow Rich on Twitter.Episode TimeStamps:00:00 - Introduction to the Systematic Investor Series02:08 - Oil market shock and the structural setup behind the spike06:10 - Why calm markets can hide explosive potential11:47 - How oil shocks ripple through inflation and the global economy15:29 - Why trend followers focus on process, not predictions22:15 - A changing regime that may favor trend following24:43 - The research behind The Fractals of Finance25:25 - Market memory and the meaning of the Hurst exponent31:22 - Why trends are structural rather than random patterns36:25 - Fat tails and why extreme market moves are far more common than expected41:12 - Divergent vs convergent market participants45:29 - The hidden risks in traditional volatility targeting49:33 - Phase transitions and regime shifts in markets55:33 - Why trend following aligns with market structure59:02 - Oil shocks, inflation risks, and the next potential market regimeCopyright © 2025 – CMC AG – All Rights Reserved----PLUS: Whenever you're ready... here are 3 ways I can help you in your investment Journey:1. eBooks that cover key topics that you need to know about In my eBooks, I put together some key discoveries and things I have learnt during the more than 3 decades I have worked in the Trend Following industry, which I hope you will find useful. Click Here2. Daily Trend Barometer and Market Score One of the things I'm really proud of, is the fact that I have managed to published the Trend Barometer and Market Score each day for more than a decade...as these tools are really good at describing the environment for trend following managers as well as giving insights into the general positioning of a trend following strategy! Click Here3. Other Resources that can help youAnd if you are hungry for more useful resources from the trend following world...check out some precious resources that I have found over the years to be really valuable. Click HerePrivacy PolicyDisclaimer

In Episode 291 we look back at some hidden gems from 2020-2024. We each name at least one game that doesn't get discussed much anymore from each of these years and talk about why they deserve more attention.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:49 Top 5 Overlooked Board Games (2020-2024)05:00 2020 - Whistle Mountain (Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers, The Castles of Tuscany, Star Wars Unlock, Mariposas)10:22 2020 - Godspeed11:23 2020 - New York Zoo15:20 2021 - Viking See-Saw (Boon Lake, Mille Fiori, Messina 1347)21:26 2021 - Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy25:42 2021 - The Emerald Flame27:33 2021 - That Time You Killed Me33:18 2022 - Vagrantsong (Sea Salt & Paper, Woodcraft, Creature Comforts, Paperback Adventures) 39:49 2022 - Mosaic: A Story of Civilization41:47 2022 - Age of Galaxy42:37 2022 - Aeon Trespass Odyssey44:29 2022 - Three Sisters48:45 2023 - Imperial Miners (Pirates of Maracaibo, Rats of Wistar, Surfasaurus Max)53:56 2023 - Fractal, Robot Quest Arena56:35 2023 - Europa Universalis: The Price of Power59:28 2023 - Sea Dragons1:03:33 2024 - Lone Wolves (Let's Go To Japan, Fromage, Rebirth, Windmill Valley, Flip 7, Captain Flip, Invincible: The Hero Building Game, Stamp Swap, Spring Cleaning)1:08:50 2024 - Frozen Frontier, Biohack1:10:08 2024 - Reforest, LoootIf you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgamehottakesFollow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgamehottakes.bsky.socialJoin our Board Game Arena Community: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=11417205Join our Discord server at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/vMtAYQWURd

The sisters describe how and why they build altars for creation and detail recalibrated writing nooks, work laptops, writing in the tub and car, vision boards, doodles for the self and bringing their creative and familial ancestors into the mix.---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRANSCRIPT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT OUR SHOW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PEEP us on IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠

The sisters nerd out on project (and self!) management, spreadsheets, procrastination, saving your work and ensuring you have adequate support for the art you're making.---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRANSCRIPT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT OUR SHOW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PEEP us on IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠

Another year, another fractal! Autumn and adrienne revel in the majesty their respective weirdness in the artistic process and how improvisation and structure co-mingle. ---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRANSCRIPT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT OUR SHOW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PEEP us on IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠

Another fractal! The sisters dive into the intricacies of storyboarding and structuring in their writing process and how visual mapping can aid in organizing thoughts and ideas. Also, how to balance structure vs. chaos.---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRANSCRIPT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT OUR SHOW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PEEP us on IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠