Podcast appearances and mentions of Fred Turner

Best known as the wife and partner of Timothy Leary, Rosemary Woodruff was in fact a central figure in the psychedelic movement in her own right—a political radical, underground fugitive, and neglected architect of the counterculture. In this episode, Phil and JF speak with journalist and author Susannah Cahalan about Woodruff Leary's life and legacy. Cahalan's new book, The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, brings its subject into focus as a complex and courageous individual whose story has been overshadowed for too long. The conversation follows the threads of the biography while branching into the weirdness of biographical writing, the ongoing relevance of the 1960s counterculture, the troubling figure of Timothy Leary, and the enduring promise—and peril—of psychedelics. Susannah Cahalan is the New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire, a memoir about her experience with autoimmune encephalitis. Her second book, The Great Pretender, which investigated a seminal study in the history of mental health care and diagnosis, was shortlisted for the the Royal Society's 2020 Science Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey with her family. Photo from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at UCLA, via Wikimedia Commons. REFERENCES Susannah Cahalan, The Acid Queen Weird Studies, Episode 189 with Jacob Foster Marion Woodman, Canadian feminist author Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle, Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s & '70s Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture Eric Davis, TechGnosis Lutz Dammbeck, The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet Robert Greenfield, Timothy Leary: A Biography Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay Blanche Hoschedé Monet, French painter Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destroying Our Government Blames Tesla's Sales Slump on "Paid" Demonstrators | Vance Announces a Shameful Sellout Of Ukraine Allowing Russia to Conquer and Subjugate What Putin Could Not Win on the Battlefield backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Because of the Happy Meal McDonalds is the world's largest toy distributor. Larger than Hasbro or Mattel. This is an Empire! Dave Young: Welcome to The Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not-so-secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I'm Stephen's sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today's episode, a word from our sponsor, which is... Well, it's us, but we're highlighting ads we've written and produced for our clients. So here's one of those. [Out Of This World Plumbing Ad] Dave Young: Welcome back to The Empire Builders Podcast. Dave Young here, along with Stephen Semple, and I was ranting and raving about a new book I'm fascinated with and crazed about. And Stephen hit the record button and decided we were going to talk about Happy Meals instead of that. So here we are. Happy Meals, huh? Stephen Semple: Happy Meals, yeah. Dave Young: The McDonald Happy Meal. The precursor to the Playland. I've always enjoyed going through the McDonald's drive-through and ordering a happy meal, whether I had a kid in the car or not. Stephen Semple: I could see you doing that. Dave Young: And then sometimes they look and go, "Well, where's the kid?" I'm like, "Hey, mind your own business about the kid." Stephen Semple: They're in the trunk. Dave Young: There's a kid somewhere. Give me my damn toy. Stephen Semple: I was going to ask, what's your favorite part? Is it the toy? Dave Young: Absolutely. You can get a nugget, a few of them. Stephen Semple: Well, here's the crazy thing is it is the most sold meal in history. There's been like 35 billion happy meals sold. Dave Young: Is it, really? That's a lot of happy. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: And it actually makes McDonald's one of the largest toy distributors in the world. They've given away billions of toys. Dave Young: Oh, sure they did. Stephen Semple: More toys than Hasbro or Mattel. Dave Young: And just controversy like when they were giving away Beanie Baby toys. Good Lord, people were losing their minds. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Yeah. Dave Young: I'm trying to think of who this is. It might be our mutual friend, Gordon. Somebody in our circle tells a story about their dad driving the family through McDonald's when they were kids and everybody getting really excited because like, "I'm going to get a Happy Meal." And their dad orders one cup of coffee and just keeps going. I'm like, "Oh, man, that would suck." Stephen Semple: That would be a very unhappy car. Dave Young: So when did the Happy Meal start? Stephen Semple: There's a bit of a debate about who actually created the Happy Meal. So we're going to explore a couple of the different stories, but it was basically 1974. Dave Young: Okay. Yeah. Stephen Semple: One of the stories is it was created in Guatemala by Dona Yoly and her husband who opened the first franchise in that country. Dave Young: Wow. Stephen Semple: And Dona wanted her restaurant to feel like a family restaurant. Look, she understood things had to be done the McDonald's way- Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: ... to the corporate standards because McDonald's even has a Hamburger University- Dave Young: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Stephen Semple: ... which was a brainchild of Fred Turner, and it's a training program for franchisees. We could even do a thing on Hamburger University because it was the first of its type. It was the first training program of its type for franchisees. So there's always this thing that McDonald's is trying to set where there's this goal of a consistent experience, but they also want to give franchisees some freedom because what they have found is that franchisees oft...

La maison mitoyenne de deux chambres où David Bowie a vécu enfant à Bromley est désormais sur le marché pour 449.500 livres sterling. Un enregistrement inédit de Yes reprenant "Eleanor Rigby" des Beatles vient d'être dévoilé en ligne. Après AC/DC : INXS, Dua Lipa a tenu sa promesse de reprendre une chanson d'un artiste local dans chaque ville où s'arrête sa tournée ‘'Radical Optimism'', en interprétant sa version du classique "Never Tear Us Apart" d'INXS à la Qudos Bank Arena de Sydney, en Australie, le 26 mars. Après plus de 25 ans d'absence discographique, Bachman-Turner Overdrive fait son grand retour avec "60 Years Ago''. Bien que Sum 41 ait terminé sa tournée d'adieu en janvier et sorti son dernier album ‘'Heaven : x : Hell'' l'an dernier, le groupe punk canadien offre encore quelques surprises à ses fans. Mots-Clés : icône, 1953, famille, East End, propriété, quartier résidentiel, Bickley, frontière, annonce immobilière, tranquillité, 1969, sessions, studios, Polydor, Londres, direction, producteur, John Anthony, publié, document d'archives, version, introduction psychédélique, guitariste, Peter Banks, claviériste, Tony Kaye, basse, Chris Squire, relais, performance, Jon Anderson, fin, morceau, rappel, chanteuse, coup d'envoi, tournée mondiale, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, héros locaux, pop star,Highway To Hell, Extraordinaire, foule,extrait, Randy Bachman, genèse, hommage, Winnipeg, ville, Tal Bachman, KoKo Bachman, Fred Turner, chant, solo, Neil Young, scène musicale, local, créativité, Liverpool, Amérique du Nord, véritable, melting-pot, talent, Victoria, Colombie-Britannique, États-Unis, reprise explosive, Sleep Now in the Fire, Rage Against the Machine, version acoustique, Landmines", extrait, sessions, communiqué, gratitude, fans, session, célébrer, monde. --- Classic 21 vous informe des dernières actualités du rock, en Belgique et partout ailleurs. Le Journal du Rock, en direct chaque jour à 7h30 et 18h30 sur votre radio rock'n'pop. Merci pour votre écoute Plus de contenus de Classic 21 sur www.rtbf.be/classic21 Ecoutez-nous en live ici: https://www.rtbf.be/radio/liveradio/classic21 ou sur l'app Radioplayer BelgiqueRetrouvez l'ensemble des contenus de la RTBF sur notre plateforme Auvio.be Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement. Découvrez nos autres podcasts : Le journal du Rock : https://audmns.com/VCRYfsPComic Street (BD) https://audmns.com/oIcpwibLa chronique économique : https://audmns.com/NXWNCrAHey Teacher : https://audmns.com/CIeSInQHistoires sombres du rock : https://audmns.com/ebcGgvkCollection 21 : https://audmns.com/AUdgDqHMystères et Rock'n Roll : https://audmns.com/pCrZihuLa mauvaise oreille de Freddy Tougaux : https://audmns.com/PlXQOEJRock&Sciences : https://audmns.com/lQLdKWRCook as You Are: https://audmns.com/MrmqALPNobody Knows : https://audmns.com/pnuJUlDPlein Ecran : https://audmns.com/gEmXiKzRadio Caroline : https://audmns.com/WccemSkAinsi que nos séries :Rock Icons : https://audmns.com/pcmKXZHRock'n Roll Heroes: https://audmns.com/bXtHJucFever (Erotique) : https://audmns.com/MEWEOLpEt découvrez nos animateurs dans cette série Close to You : https://audmns.com/QfFankxDistribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Musk's Ungoverning Tactic of "Wreck Then Rob" | Inside the PRC's Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionaries

Matt Prewitt and Gary Zhexi Zhang discuss Chinese cybernetics, focusing on pioneer Qian Xuesen and how the field developed differently in China versus the West. They explore how Chinese cybernetics emerged as a practical tool for nation-building, examining its scientific foundations, political context, and broader cultural impact. Together, they discuss key concepts like information control systems while highlighting the field's interdisciplinary nature and its evolution from thermodynamic to information-based approaches.Links & References: References:The Critical Legacy of Chinese Cybernetics by Gary Zhexi Zhang | Combinations Magazine Cybernetics - WikipediaNorbert Wiener ("Father of Cybernetics")Whose entropy is it anyway? (Part 1: Boltzmann, Shannon, and Gibbs ) — Chris AdamiCollection: Norbert Wiener papers | MIT ArchivesSpaceRelationship between entropy of a language and crossword puzzles (a comment from Claude Shannon) - Mathematics Stack ExchangeA Mathematical Theory of Communication BY C.E. SHANNON | Harvard MathA Mathematical Theory of Communication - WikipediaCybernetics - MITBrownian motion - WikipediaIntercontinental ballistic missile - Wikipedia AKA “ICBMs”Summary: The Macy ConferencesWarren Sturgis McCulloch (Neuroscience), Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (Cultural Anthropology)Claude Shannon (Mathematician)The Bandwagon BY CLAUDE E. SHANNONFrom Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner, introductionFrom Cybernetics to AI: the pioneering work of Norbert Wiener - Max Planck NeuroscienceMarvin Minsky | AI Pioneer, Cognitive Scientist & MIT Professor | BritannicBios:Gary Zhexi Zhang is an artist and writer. He is the editor of Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor Press, 2023) and most recently exhibited at the 9th Asian Art Biennial, Taichung.Gary's Social Links:Gary Zhexi Zhang (@hauntedsurimi) / X Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt's Social Links:ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ᴘʀᴇᴡɪᴛᴛ (@m_t_prewitt) / X Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:RadicalxChange Website@RadxChange | TwitterRxC | YouTubeRxC | InstagramRxC | LinkedInJoin the conversation on Discord.Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

The Incoming Horror of Trump and the Outgoing Sadness of Biden | Biden's Warning of a Tech-Industrial Complex and That We Are Losing Our Democracy to Plutocracy | The Future of TikTok Which the Supreme Court Shut Down Today backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Top 10 highlights from my conversation with Peter Ritchie AO: 1. Peter's journey with McDonald's Australia started with an unexpected opportunity. Despite initial doubts, he took a leap of faith, setting the foundation for a transformative career. 2. Peter emphasised that true leadership means accepting full responsibility while maintaining consistency, fairness, and justice. Leaders must project energy and foster environments where teams thrive. 3. Confronted with high labour costs, Peter committed up to 30% of annual profits to training for five years. This strategy turned McDonald's Australia into a global benchmark for productivity. 4. Peter stressed that genuine self-confidence in leadership comes from deep competence, cultivated through structured training, feedback, and measurable outcomes. 5. It took McDonald's Australia seven years to become profitable. Peter's perseverance, backed by key figures like Fred Turner, enabled the company to overcome challenges and succeed. 6. By involving partners, franchisees, and mentors, Peter ensured McDonald's was built on strong relationships that fostered shared growth and success. 7. Peter attributed McDonald's success to its willingness to test, learn, and pivot—such as recognising the pivotal role of marketing in the late 1970s. 8. Peter's commitment to community and philanthropy is exemplified by his role in establishing Ronald McDonald House Charities in Australia, which continues to support families of sick children. 9. Peter's forward-thinking approach turned McDonald's Australia from struggling stores into an industry leader by embracing global best practices and planning for the long term. 10. Despite his extraordinary achievements, Peter remains grounded, acknowledging the contributions of his team and the ongoing lessons he learns from others. In episode #79 of the Be Better Off Show, I speak with Peter Ritchie AO, the visionary who brought McDonald's to Australia and transformed it into a powerhouse. We discuss leadership, overcoming challenges, and the impact of investing in people.

As California looks forward (!) to the beginning of a new Presidential Administration, there is growing trepidation about what it might mean for the state.  Is it time to secede and join with other West Coast states to create a new country? Fifty years ago, Ernest Callenbach published Ecotopia, a vision of a new country dedicated to protecting people and the environment. In 2015, on the 40th anniversary of Ecotopia, UCSC held a conference called “Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of imagined futures in California and at UCSC.”  Speakers included a number of academics, critics and dreamers. None of us, of course, imagined that Donald Trump might be the next President of the United States. Listen to three talks from the conference: a keynote by Kim Stanley Robinson, best-known today for The Ministry of the Future;  a critique by UC San Diego Professor of Latin American Literature and Chicano Literature Rosaura Sanchez; and an account of how Silicon Valley has become the generator of utopian and dystopian futures, by Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. You can find videos of the complete conference at https://www.youtube.com/@ronnielipschutz8900.  And you can read an article on California eco-utopias at: https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ecotopia-or-ecocatastrophe.pdf.

Corporate and the local operators. Change or die. Alex P. Keaton. Ray Kroc. Fred Turner. THREE LEGGED STOOL (not poop). Private equity. Balloons. Kill yourself with whatever is left...

National Sports day.  Entertainment from 1978.  Poland got a female King, Largest battle fought in Europe before WW1, Booker T. Washington is first black family to dine at the White House.  Todays birthdays - Noah Webster, Oscar Wilde, Angela Landsbury, Barry Corbin, Fred Turner, Suzanne Somers, Tim Robbins, Wendy Wilson, Kellie Martin, John Mayer.  Marie Antoinette died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard     https://defleppard.com/All Star - Smash MounthKiss you all over - ExileTear time - Dave & SugarBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent   https://www.50cent.com/ Aint seen nothing yet - BTOHold on - Wilson PhillipsWainting on the world to change - John MayerExit - In my dreams - Dokken    https://www.dokken.net/Follow Jeff Stampka on facebook or cooolmedia.com

Founded as a COVID-19 testing firm, Texas-based Curative has pivoted into employee benefits with a unique approach: No copays and no deductibles as long as members complete a Baseline Visit or orientation to the plan within the first 120 days. As a member of the Luminaires Class of 2024, Curative is being recognized in the category of Humanizing Benefits. CEO and co-founder Fred Turner recently sat down with BenefitsPRO contributor Michael Krieger to discuss how the company's approach helps expand coverage by removing financial barriers to quality health care.

Fred Turner is the executive director of Beyond Sport. He leads efforts to place sport at the heart of addressing the world's most pressing issues through funding, capacity building, partnerships and campaigning. He has led a period of transformational growth for the Foundation, resulting in new programs and initiatives supported by increased income and a diversification of partnerships and delivery. He oversees staff delivery of several global multi-million-dollar grant programs and partnerships, including with Under Armour, the NBA, Z Zurich Foundation, New Balance Foundation, Unilever, NFL, ESPN, Olympism365 and Sun Life. Prior to Beyond Sport, Fred worked with prominent UK sport and business network, Sport Industry Group, and global corporate engagement initiative, Square Mile Relay - helping deliver events, production and content offerings. Fred sits on the Commonwealth's Open Ended Working Group for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the BOND SDP Group, and is a regular judge for the Sport Industry Awards in the UK. Beyond Sport is a global foundation that leverages sport's transformative power to address today's critical social issues. They champion people, programs and communities that use sport to build opportunity and equity, creating a more inclusive and progressive world. Since 2008, their global foundation has raised more than $20 million to promote social change. They've granted over $12.3 million to 539 initiatives across 77 countries in addition to vital capacity-building tools, supporting leaders to create lasting impact. They create environments where people and communities can flourish – because sport isn't just a game; it's a catalyst for good. Links: https://beyondsport.org/ ----  Please subscribe to the Sports for Social Impact Podcast wherever you get your podcast! Leave us a review and a 5 star rating to help bring others in the world of sports into the conversation! The Sports for Social Impact podcast was nominated for a Sports Podcast Award and Canadian Podcast Award. Send us an email at ⁠sportsforsocialimpact@gmail.com⁠  Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/sportsforsocialimpact⁠ Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/sports-for-social-impact⁠ Follow us on Instagram (@SportsSocImpact)  Visit our website at https://www.sportsforsocialimpact.com/

Stora LSD-fester i San Francisco med kalejdoskopiska ljusshower och lantliga kollektiv i sfärformade hus känns som ljusår från andra världskriget och kalla krigets militära forskning, men skenet bedrar. Det finns raka linjer från andra världskrigets militärindustriella komplex till 1960-talets motkultur och gröna våg.När det tidiga kalla krigets rumsstora datorer med hålkort byts mot persondatorer kom motkulturens centralfigurer att intressera sig för datorernas möjligheter. Senare skulle både hackarna och den framväxande tech-industrin komma att inspireras av motkulturens tankegods.I detta avsnitt av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med David Larsson Heidenblad, docent i historia vid Lunds universitet, om boken From Counterculture and Cyberculture – Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism av professor Fred Turner.Det militärindustriella akademiska komplexet var centralt vid framväxten av techindustrin i Silicon Valley. Utan denna generösa offentliga finansiering hade varken minneskretsar, mikroprocessorer eller persondatorer kunnat utvecklas där och då. Det militärindustriella komplexets forskning skulle också inspirera motkulturen i Kalifornien.I centrum för boken From Counterculture and Cyberculture står Stewart Brand, född 1938, och mest känd som redaktör för The Whole Earth Catalog, utgiven mellan 1968 och 1972. Det var en kombination av tidskrift och produktkatalog riktad direkt till motkulturen. Stewart Brand var en entreprenör med en förmåga att sammanföra olika sociala världar, skapa dynamiska nätverk och bygga relationer.Katalogen visade att 1960-talets motkultur visade ett stort intresse för informationsteorier framtagna av militärforskare på 1940-talet. Och när kalla krigets rumsstora datorer med hålkort slimmades ner till persondator med skärm och tangentbord öppnades möjligheter för digitala nätverk inom motkulturen.LSD kom att läcka ut till motkulturen från militära forskningsprojekt både i USA och Sverige. Och i hippiesarnas bibel, The Whole Earth Catalog, fanns böcker om informatik från 1940-talets militärforskare. Och de sfärformade husen som hundratusentals grönavågare byggde när de skapade lantliga kollektiv i slutet på 1960-talet var direkt inspirerade av skyddshöljen från radaranläggningar som skulle upptäcka en sovjetisk kärnvapenattack.Motkulturen var intresserade av konsumentteknik som stereos och bilar, men förkastade stordatorerna som kontrollerades av militären och stora bolag. Därför blev persondatorn en symbol för individens frihet. Och de var mer intresserade av personlig utveckling och förverkligande än kollektivt politiskt arbete.Det är väl känt att Apples grundare Steve Jobs var hippie och att hans partner Steve Wozniak hackade telefonsystem. Men det är kanske mindre känt att techindustrins sätt att organisera sig i entreprenöriella och projektbaserade nätverk i stället för byråkratier kom från amerikansk militärforskning under andra världskriget.Bild: Timothy Leary, familj och band på föreläsningsturné; State University of New York at Buffalo (1969) (Buffalo, New York). OBS: Foto: Dr. Dennis Bogdan, Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0Musik: Swing It Smooth av Jon Presstone, Storyblocks AudioLyssna också på Sveriges psykedeliska historia.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Fred Turner, CEO of Curative, shares the journey of scaling the company from a COVID-19 testing powerhouse to a disruptive force in the commercial health plan space. He discusses Curative's unique no-deductible model, the importance of early patient engagement, and the challenges of entering a highly regulated industry dominated by a few major players.

Summary This week Anna (https://x.com/AnnaRRose) and Nico (https://x.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Arnaud Schenk (https://x.com/_arnauds_), one of the original co-founders of Aztec (https://aztec.network/) and creator of the Polaris Fellowship (https://www.polaris-fellowship.com/). They discuss Arnaud's recent blog post ‘On Trust Infrastructure', exploring the down sides of a trustless system, the need to make online community building more possible and how programmable cryptography may play a role in these solutions. They explore the history of computer culture, the rejection of institutions by mid-90s internet culture and how the seeds for this were set by the 60s counterculture. Here's some additional links for this episode: 05:09 * Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson (https://zeroknowledge.fm/75-2/) 05:09 * Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec (https://zeroknowledge.fm/176-2/) 05:09 * Episode 273: History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3 (https://zeroknowledge.fm/273-2/) 07:38 * Episode 237: Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth (https://zeroknowledge.fm/237-2/) 20:01 * Into the deep end: making sense of PLONK - Zac Williamson (CTO, Aztec Protocol) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-LZf0YCK0&list=PLj80z0cJm8QFnY6VLVa84nr-21DNvjWH7&index=156) 23:55 * Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work by Michael P. Farrell (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3645929.html) 27:05 * No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-sense-of-place-9780195042313?cc=us&lang=en&) 29:33 * On Trust Infrastructure by Arnaud Schenk (https://gestalt.cafe/trust-infrastructure/) 39:28 * Crypto's Three Body Problem by Lotti, Shorin, Hart (https://otherinter.net/research/three-body-problem/) 48:13 * Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell by Vitalik Buterin (https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/21/plurality.html) 52:21 * From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3773600.html) 52:21 * The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test-Tom-Wolfe.pdf) * On Crypto Article by Arnaud Schenk (https://gestalt.cafe/on-crypto/) * Knot Group Wiki (https://knot-group.github.io/wiki/) Check out the ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com (https://www.zksummit.com/), apply today as early bird tickets are limited! Episode Sponsors Attention, all projects in need of server-side proving, kick start your rollup with Gevulot's ZkCloud, the first zk-optimized decentralized cloud! Get started with a free trial plus extended grant opportunities for premier customers until Q1 2025. Register at Gevulot.com (https://gevulot.com/). Aleo (http://aleo.org/) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ (http://aleo.org/). If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g)

Every company has an inside, an outside, and an engine.This is why successful companies have a Mother, a Trumpet, and a CEO.The CEO chooses a destination and builds a machine to take us there.The Mother looks inward to the people in the company.The Trumpet makes beautiful noises for the public to hear.The Mother in your company is the person everyone goes to when they are frightened, angry, or confused. The Mother keeps your family traditions alive and makes sure that everyone feels included. (“Mother” refers only to the role in the company. It can be a man or a woman.)If your company has a strong culture, your people will deliver exceptional customer service. They will do it because their Mother has convinced them of who they are. Your company culture and your customer service will be average at best if your people don't have a strong Mother to comfort, encourage, and motivate them.The Trumpet is the person who makes the public think highly of you. Your company will become the one people think of first – and feel the best about – when your Trumpet plays the kind of music that people love to hear.Let's review:The CEO is the visioncaster who is building a Rube Goldberg machine of systems and procedures and vendors and processes and levers and pulleys and profit margins represented by all those flow charts and diagrams and spreadsheets.The Mother makes the internal business strategy come alive through employee feelings and actions.The Trumpet makes the external business strategy come alive by using media to deliver stories that will bond future customers to your company.The Mother and the Trumpet must know, like, and respect each other, because they are the left and right hand of a person playing basketball.Back in the early 2000's, when McDonald's had lost their way and was circling the drain, they asked their original Mother to come out of retirement and help them get back on track.In a June 27, 2004, story called “McDonald's Finds Missing Ingredient,” Chicago Tribune staff reporter David Greising wrote:“Fred Turner did not need to look at financial statements to know McDonald's was in trouble. He could taste it. The man who worked alongside founder Ray Kroc to turn McDonald's into a global colossus, Turner noticed when penny-pinchers at corporate headquarters changed recipes to cut costs.”The article ends by saying,“The return of the special sauce is one of hundreds of changes, big and small, that McDonald's made after they made a return to ‘Inspect What They Expect,' and the result was one of the most stunning turnarounds in corporate history.”Fred Turner's ‘Inspect What They Expect' program taught and encouraged McDonald's employees to make sure that customers received the happy experience they were expecting.Fred Turner was the “inward-facing” Mother who made McDonald's operationally excellent.Keith Reinhard was the “outward-facing” Trumpet who made McDonald's famous.Keith Reinhard told us that a trip to McDonald's would be a transformative experience:“You deserve a break today, so get up and get away, to McDonald's” and that famous advertising jingle for the Big Mac, “Two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a-sesame-seed-bun… You deserve a break today, at McDonald's.”When Keith Reinhard wasn't busy writing McDonald's ads, he wrote, “Just Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm Is There.”Reader, do you trust me enough to let me to offer you some insanely good advice?Tear up your mission statement. It's just a collection of aspirational words on paper. The hearts and minds of your people are not guided by that paper, but by the mother whose face they see and whose voice they hear. Do you know who your Fred Turner is?Quit looking for an

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we talk to Stanford University professor Fred Turner, who's been studying the impact of new media technologies on American culture for decades. Turner is also among those most vocal in denouncing the injustices faced by people living and working in Silicon Valley.You can find more written content about this story on SWI swissinfo.ch: in English in Italian (original) in German Journalist: Sara IbrahimHost: Jo Fahy Audio editor / Video journalist: Michele Andina Distribution and Marketing: Xin ZhangSWI swissinfo.ch is a public service media company based in Bern Switzerland. It publishes independent news and information in 10 languages about Switzerland for a global audience.

Fred Turner, co-founder and chief executive officer of Curative, joins Eric to discuss how Curative is reinventing health insurance by adopting a more preventative approach to drive better results and lead to a more affordable delivery of plans.   Fred shares Curative's journey from a pandemic testing company to a health insurance provider with a first-of-its-kind plan that eliminates copays and deductibles and advocates that the most effective approach to promote early preventive care is ensuring accessible and cost-free access to top-tier healthcare providers.   Fred underlines the significance of simplifying the healthcare system and the positive impact of Curative's approach. The innovative health insurance plan offers unmatched transparency into healthcare costs, providing reassurance to both employees and employers about the affordability and accessibility of healthcare.    Tune in and learn what makes Curative different from other plans and how it makes health care affordable, accessible and engaging for members. About Fred Fred Turner is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Curative. A British scientist from West Yorkshire, Turner attended the University of Oxford. Fred was named one of the top 100 practicing scientists in the UK by the Science Council in 2013. Turner was included in Forbes “30 Under 30” list and ranked first in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists.    About Curative Curative has been critical and a national leader in bringing COVID-19 testing and vaccine-administration resources in response to the pandemic, providing more than 32 million tests and two million vaccines across thousands of locations in 40+ states. Concurrently, Curative has created and launched a first-of-its-kind health insurance plan offering that offers unmatched transparency into health care costs.

While many insurance plans include preventive care, Curative's distinctive feature is providing 100% coverage for all in-network care to actively promote prevention. In this episode, Fred Turner, co-Founder and CEO of Curative, shares insights into the dire need for transformation in employer-sponsored health insurance, addressing the issues faced by both employees and employers. He discusses the company's unique model that focuses on providing preventative care with zero out-of-pocket costs for members during the first 120 days. Fred also emphasizes the importance of simplifying the healthcare system and highlights the positive impact Curative's approach has on both employees and employers. Fred sheds light on the skepticism and reluctance of employers to adopt new health plans but emphasizes the significant impact experienced by those who embraced Curative's approach.  Tune in to learn more about the inspiring work Fred and his team are doing to revolutionize healthcare and improve access to quality care. Resources: Connect with and follow Fred Turner on LinkedIn. Follow Curative on LinkedIn and visit their website.

Plutocrats Are Backing Trump, Not Because They Like Him, But to Extend Trump's Tax Cuts For the Ultra-Rich | RFK Jr's Pick For His Running Mate Has Deep Pockets But a Shallow Resume | Guns and Ammo From the US Fuel Anarchy in Haiti backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Summary   Eric Escobar (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss compromising networks and information security. He has a coveted DEFCON Black Badge.    What You'll Learn  Intelligence  -What keeps Eric up at night   -Thinking like an ethical hacker (aka a “penetration tester)  -Protecting your information (i.e., “Hardening the attack surface”)  -Plain English explanations of key cyber concepts like “Kill Chains” and “Zero Days”  Reflections  -Having a cool job  -The information revolution and life in the modern world  And much, much more…  Episode Notes  Eric Escobar commits several thousand felonies on any given day, if he didn't have permission to do what he was doing.  A Principal Security Consultant with SecureWorks, Eric has compromised pretty much everything out there: from healthcare and banking to technology and critical infrastructure, through to amusement parks and next generation military aircraft.  “From my perspective, it's the coolest job in the entire world.”  His team consecutively won first place in the Wireless CTF category at DEF CON 23, 24, and 25, snagging a Black Badge along the way. He has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering.   And…  The links between computing, hacking and the 60's counterculture are FASCINATING. Learn more by dipping your toes here and here, or dive deeper with What the Dormouse Said (2005) by John Markoff and From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) by Fred Turner.      Quote of the Week  "Watching any critical infrastructure get compromised is really the thing that keeps me up at night because lives are in the balance…and we do a lot of testing for critical infrastructure, and I've seen computers and machines that have been online and not been taken offline, longer than I've been alive…So really interesting to see those types of things because they interact with really big, expensive hardware…there's a catch 22 that happens where you can't really take the machine offline to do maintenance on it because it's critical infrastructure. So then how do you test it to make sure that a hacker can't take it offline, or maintenance can't be done on it? " – Eric Escobar. Resources  *Andrew's Recommendation*  -Word Notes   From beginner thru advanced, you'll find some helpful definitions of things like “Web 3.0,” “NFT's” and “Digital Transformation” on this Cyberwire audio glossary.  *SpyCasts*  -Inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) – with John Lambert and Cristin Goodwin (2021)  -The Cyber Zeitgeist – with Dave Bittner (2021)  -Securing Cyberspace – with Charlie Mitchell (2016)  *Beginner Resources*  -What is Hacking? The Economic Times (n.d.) [web]  -Ethical Hacking in 8 Minutes, Simplilearn (2020) [8 min video]  -Cybersecurity in 7 minutes, Simplilearn (2020) [7 min video]  Books  -The Cyberweapons Arms Race, N. Perloth (Bloomsbury, 2021)  -Cult of the Dead Cow, J. Menn (PublicAffairs, 2020)  -Breaking & Entering, J. Smith (Mariner Books, 2019)  -The Art of Invisibility, K. Mitnick (L, B & C, 2017)  -Ghost in the Wires, K. Mitnick (Back Bay Books, 2012)  -Kingpin, K. Poulson (Crown, 2012)  -The Cuckoo's Egg, C. Stoll (Doubleday, 1989)  -Neuromancer, W. Gibson (Ace, 1984)  Articles  -2022 State of the Threat: A Year in Review, Secureworks (2022)  -The Anthropology of Hackers, The Atlantic (2010)  -Timeline Since 2006: Significant Cyber Incidents, CSIS (n.d.)  Documentary  -DEFCON, The Documentary Network (2013)  Resources  -Government Hacking Bibliography, S. Quinlan, New America Foundation (2016)  *Wildcard Resource*  -“The Aurora Shard”  Come to the International Spy Museum to see an ugly chunk of metal. Why? Well, it speaks to a revolution in the relationship between the material world and the non-material world. Broken down? 30 lines of code blew up a 27-ton generator. Zeros and ones can cause violent explosions! 

Fred Turner underwent bariatric surgery at Enloe Health in 2016. He shares his experience of losing more than 300 pounds and how the surgery completely transformed his life. Erik Simchuk, M.D., Medical Director of Enloe Health Bariatric & Metabolic Services, also joins the conversation to talk about the benefits of bariatric surgery.To learn more about Enloe Health Bariatric & Metabolic Services, visit www.enloe.org/weight.

About Fred Turner:Fred Turner is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Curative. Turner was named one of the top 100 practicing scientists in the UK by the Science Council in 2013. He was also included in Forbes' ‘30 Under 30' list and ranked first in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists. Recently, Fred was awarded Comparably's Best CEO Award and Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Emerging Leaders in 2021.Under Turner's leadership, Curative launched a first-of-its-kind health insurance plan that offers unmatched transparency into healthcare costs. Inspired by his vision to create a healthcare system that works for and supports patients' whole health through every step of their personal health journey, Turner and the Curative team developed a path-breaking health plan with no copays, no deductibles, and no cost-sharing for its members.Previously, Turner led Curative as it became the national leader in bringing COVID-19 testing and vaccine administration resources to people in response to the pandemic, providing more than 36 million tests and two million vaccines across thousands of locations in more than 40 states. Before creating both of Curative's highly innovative business models, Fred founded and led a 16z and YC-backed diagnostics (Dx) startup that built a CLIA lab for validating and launching an STD testing product in Menlo Park, California.Things You'll Learn:High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) are leaving insured individuals functionally uninsured, unable to afford out-of-pocket costs for care.Curative's unique model offers 120 days of no out-of-pocket cost for in-network care, promoting preventative care and simplifying health benefits.Employers experiencing rising insurance costs can benefit from exploring new options like those offered by Curative to better support their employees' health and well-being.The importance of making healthcare access and benefits clear and straightforward. Curative's approach yields an impressive 98% member engagement rate, demonstrating the effectiveness of its model in promoting proactive health management.Resources:Connect with and follow Fred Turner on LinkedIn.Follow Curative on LinkedIn and visit their website.

Two-time CASBS fellow Fred Turner engages CASBS board of directors chair Abby Smith Rumsey before a live audience to discuss her new book "Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History." When the erasure or distortion of collective memory through storytelling hijacks fact, truth, and history itself, what kind of information infrastructures can effectively confront those false narratives? Turner and Rumsey explore the tensions between history and storytelling and resulting implications for political beliefs, actions, and our collective sense of reality.ABBY SMITH RUMSEYCASBS website bio | Personal website | Talk at Long Now Foundation in partnership with CASBS MIT Press web page for Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with HistoryCASBS Q&A with Rumsey (2022)FRED TURNERStanford University profile | Fred Turner's books |  on Google Scholar |"Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism," Harper's Magazine (2019)  Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford UniversityExplore CASBS: website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach​

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with Fred Turner, CEO of Curative, in this month's episode. The two talked about the challenges middle-class Americans face in dealing with medical debt, exploring the causes behind it and the impact on overall health. Fred also touched on potential solutions, both from the perspective of organizations like Curative and through collaborative efforts between various stakeholders in the healthcare system. The solutions mentioned in the conversation focus on making healthcare more financially accessible and creating a sustainable and inclusive healthcare system for all Americans.

Alan Fredendall // #LeadershipThursday // www.ptonice.com  In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, ICE COO Alan Fredendall highlights the key principles behind growing & scaling your practice, using McDonald's as an unlikely but successful example. Take a listen to the podcast episode or read the full transcription below. If you're looking to learn more about courses designed to start your own practice, check out our Brick by Brick practice management course or our online physical therapy courses, check out our entire list of continuing education courses for physical therapy including our physical therapy certifications by checking out our website. Don't forget about all of our FREE eBooks, prebuilt workshops, free CEUs, and other physical therapy continuing education on our Resources tab. EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION 00:00 ALAN FREDENDALL Good morning, PT on ICE Daily Show. Happy Thursday morning. Hope your day is off to a great start so far. My name is Alan. Happy to be your host today. Currently, I have the pleasure of serving as Chief Operating Officer. I'm a faculty member in our fitness athlete division. We're here on Leadership Thursday. We talk all things practice, management, ownership, small business, leadership, that sort of thing. Leadership Thursday means it is also Gut Check Thursday. Gut Check Thursday this week is a workout I actually did this past Monday. It is 9, 15, 21 calories on a rowing machine, power snatches with a barbell, 75 pounds for gentlemen, 55 pounds for ladies, and pull ups. Ascending reps game automatically. You should proceed with caution as you get more tired. The reps go up, something we don't like to see too often. Also very redundant in this workout on pulling and grip, right? Pulling on the rower, you have grip on the barbell, and then you have grip and pulling up on the pull-up bar. So it gets redundant, gets really grippy, even with that light barbell. That barbell should be so light you could do all of those rounds unbroken if you really needed to. Maybe one break in the round of 15, maybe one or two breaks in the round of 21. Definitely should be aiming to get that workout done under or around the 10-minute mark. I did that, rested three minutes, and then did 9, 12, 15, rested three minutes, and did 6, 9, 12. I don't recommend doing the extra two rounds. Just stick with the 9, 15, 21. That's plenty of fitness for the day. Courses coming your way from us here at IEFCE. I want to highlight our Extremity Management division led by Lindsay Huey, Mark Gallant, and Cody Gingrich, the newest lead faculty to join the Extremity Management team. You can catch those three out on the road this fall. A couple of different courses coming your way. September 9th and 10th, Mark will be down in Amarillo, Texas. Lindsay will be out in Torrington, Wyoming. The next weekend, September 16th and 17th, Mark will be on the road in Cincinnati, Ohio. The weekend after that, Lindsay will be on the road September 23rd and 24th in Twin Falls, Idaho. The first weekend in October, the 7th and 8th, Lindsay will be up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Mark will be in Rochester, Minnesota. November 11th and 12th, Mark will be down in Woodstock, Georgia, which is north of Atlanta, kind of out in the suburbs. The weekend of November 18th and 19th, Mark will again be on the road, this time in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. That's a little bit southeast of Nashville. Cody's first weekend as a lead faculty in the division will be the weekend of December 2nd and 3rd. That'll be out in Newark, California. That's the Bay Area, the Fremont area. And then December 9th and 10th, the last chance to catch extremity management for the year will be in Fort Collins, Colorado with Lindsay. So that's what's coming your way from the extremity division. 03:21 GROWING & SCALING YOUR PRACTICE Today we're going to be talking about hiring from the viewpoint of growing and scaling your practice. And I want to highlight the McDonald's story. So I want to talk about kind of what's always in our mind when we're thinking about growing our team, which is that little voice in the back of our head that says, geez, I hope the person that I hire is mostly like me, right? When we think about growing our team, we're often thinking about how to basically mirror or replicate ourselves. And while that's not 100% possible, that is the goal as we grow and scale. That what we're really talking about when we're bringing new people on the team, we're growing our current practice. We're thinking about maybe even a second location. We're thinking about maintaining our standards of how we run our business, of how we practice physical therapy and preserving our company's culture. So we're going to talk about the who, the what and the how. The who today is going to be McDonald's. Yes, McDonald's, the Golden Arches, the fast food company. The what is going to be talking about how they grow and scale their businesses. And the how is going to be the foundational training that every member of the team has, how that relates to your team as a physical therapist growing your practice and how shared belief systems are really important. So as a company grows, those things tend to get diluted over time. Over multiple generations of leaders and employees, teammates, whatever you want to call the folks who work with you. As we tend to get many generations deep, we noticed a subtle decline in quality and culture of when you first went to the business, when it was a single owner operator, you knew the owner. You knew how things went. You had a relationship with that person. And maybe when you come back to that business, our business in this case being physical therapy, maybe you can't see that provider before. Maybe their schedule is full and they offer to have you see another provider. As the customer is the end user, how do we know that that person is good as the first person? And how do we know that the 10th person is as good as the third person? And so on and so forth. And unfortunately, what we see happen is companies tend to grow, especially as they tend to grow to new locations and maybe even start to franchise. We see that that stuff just gets diluted over and over again until the current business that we are going to no longer resembles the initial encounter with that business. Maybe even to the point that as the customer is the end user, we decide not to give that business our money anymore. So how do we avoid that? How do we avoid the customer coming to that conclusion? 07:26 THE WHO: MCDONALD'S Well, we need to start with the who. We need to start with McDonald's. If you're not familiar with McDonald's, we'll talk about that and we'll talk about how they grew and really the foundations that allow them to grow there. So love or hate them. Everybody has their thought immediately in their mind, their knee-jerk reaction about McDonald's, but they certainly know how to run a business. They know how to deliver a consistent product. That product, at least in my personal opinion, may be quite mediocre. But dang, when you go to McDonald's in Texas or McDonald's in Michigan or McDonald's in Seattle, it doesn't matter. McDonald's in Hong Kong, it is maybe mediocre, but it's consistently mediocre, right? A McDonald's hamburger in Texas tastes the same way as a McDonald's hamburger in New York and the fries are the same and the experience of purchasing from McDonald's is largely the same as well. So they know how to deliver a consistent product and we want to figure out how they do that. They also certainly know how to grow. McDonald's has been in business for 83 years, almost 100 years of continuous business. We've talked here on Leadership Thursday before about how many businesses don't make it to the one-year mark, to the five-year mark, that about the 10-year mark, 75% of all businesses are gone. They have gone out of business before they reach the 10-year mark. So to have been in business almost 100 years continuously is quite impressive. They are the largest restaurant business in human history. They have $24 billion a year in gross revenue. Now that is an amount of money that can be hard to conceptualize. Let me break it down for you. If you haven't heard of ATI Physical Therapy, they are the largest chain of physical therapy clinics in the world. They only grow $600 million a year in annual gross revenue. So any town that is big enough to have a McDonald's, a Walmart, probably also has an ATI Physical Therapy for reference. Nonetheless, McDonald's is almost 40 times larger. They are present in 120 of the 195 countries on the planet, and they are the fourth largest employer in human history. Of the largest employer on the planet currently is Walmart. The second is the Chinese Government Railroad. The third is the Chinese Government Police Service, and the fourth is McDonald's. So of the jobs that you could currently get, you can't go work for the Chinese Government Railroad or police service. You can't just go drop an application and start. We're talking about the second largest American-based employer on the planet. Now if you haven't seen the movie The Founder, I highly recommend you watch that movie. It's one of my most favorite movies. Every time I watch it, I take something away from it. Came out in 2016, and it's really kind of the tale of the start of McDonald's and the growth of McDonald's across the country and eventually the world. 11:27 THE WHAT: SUCCESSFUL GROWTH So that's the what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about the franchising of the McDonald's Corporation. Amazing movie. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch play the McDonald's brothers who formed the first McDonald's out in California many, many, many, many years ago. And Michael Keaton does a great job playing Ray Kroc, the guy who finds the McDonald's brothers and becomes the person that franchises McDonald's into the business that it is today. So the original McDonald's started out in San Bernardino, California. It was a one-location restaurant run by the McDonald's brothers. They had a very systematic way of approaching a business. They practiced and trained and redesigned the restaurant again and again and again to optimize efficiency, to basically make burgers and fries and shakes as fast as possible in the almost pre-drive-through era of you had to drive to McDonald's and walk up to the window and order your food. And they created a wonderful, flourishing business that Ray Kroc stumbled upon. He actually was selling a machine that could make six milkshakes at once. And he was hand delivering it to the McDonald's brothers out in California when he watched just how busy their restaurant was all day long and decided this, these guys are onto something. If we could take this business and multiply it, we could really make a lot of money. So those brothers practiced. They had their employees practice work, right? They trained almost military style of running and operating their business. And they did so with a systematic approach, a fundamental approach to how to cook and serve food in a high quality, yes, but also a consistent and efficient manner. And it was built upon a common foundation of training and also of shared values of we want to deliver a high quality product, but we want to do it efficiently. People don't want to sit and wait 30 minutes for a hamburger. They want to be able to walk up to this window and a couple of minutes, get their food, pay and be on their way. Right. The person that's on lunch break or grabbing a bite to eat after work or before work or whatever, walk up, grab your food, go again in the pre drive through area, definitely the pre door dash era of delivering a high quality product. Very, very fast. So Ray Kroc stumbled upon these guys and started to franchise it. Initially did not go the right way. And I think it's important to know that it did not start off in an amazing way that immediately started cheapening ingredients, started using premixed milkshakes instead of actual milk in the milkshakes and initially started with a model that had really minimal control over new locations and leaders. And early on, and you'll see this if you watch the movie, McDonald's all over the country was completely random and different as far as what you might expect. You might find a McDonald's in Illinois that sold hamburgers and french fries and milkshakes, but you might go to a McDonald's in Wisconsin and find barbecue food. You might go to a McDonald's in St. Louis and find them selling tacos. So they kind of had a rocky start that they got away from their foundations. They no longer kept that regimented training, that regimented shared value systems. But I'll tell you the tale of how they turned it around. One of the cooks that worked at one of the original McDonald's, his name was Fred Turner In 1961, he created a training system called what is now known as Hamburg University of saying, hey, this is getting crazy. Every location that the customer goes to, they might be serving completely different food. There may be a completely different experience. They might be dirty at one location, unbelievably clean at the next, a different food just all over the place with consistency and quality. We have to fix this. And that kind of evolved with Fred Turner working alongside Ray Kroc into forming now what is known as the present day McDonald's, which again, the food may not be the highest quality, it might not taste the best, but darn it, it is consistent. And that is really the values that McDonald's presents today. Consistency and simplicity and uniformity with a goal and a shared belief system of quality, service and cleanliness. So they formed this university back in the 60s, Hamburg University. They now have locations in eight countries. They started in 1961. That guy, Fred Turner, who was just a cook, worked his way up and eventually became the CEO of McDonald's for 20 years and really kind of led the global expansion of McDonald's across the planet onto every street corner in America, into 120 countries across the planet. Down to really specific stuff. He was really insistent that fries had to be cut 0.28 inches thick, that one pound of beef should make exactly 10 1.6 ounce patties, so on and so forth. Consistency, the ability to replicate that business across not only shifts at the same location, but at every location across the town, across the state, across the country and eventually across the planet. So that is the who, that is the what. 13:59 THE HOW: SHARED TRAINING & BELIEFS Now we need to talk about how, how did they get there? Again, they had a rocky start, but how they arrived at where they're at now, again, one of the largest, most successful businesses in the history of our species. How did they get there? They get there these days by being very, very selective that each addition to their team is of similar quality to the rest of the team, that they have a shared belief system and that they all go through the same foundational training of when you are maybe a line cook or fry cook or you work the drive through McDonald's. Yes, you are just an hourly wage employee, but once you are maybe going to get promoted when the regional manager, when the owner decides your management material, you go to Hamburger University. If you are thinking about starting a McDonald's franchise, you also go to Hamburger University. They are very selective in who goes to Hamburger University. Only 1% of the people who apply get accepted. And the goal of Hamburger University is to teach managers and owners how to run a McDonald's to the McDonald's standard. Again, we have that common shared training foundation. We are hiring people with a shared common belief system. We are allowing the business to grow and scale without the end user, the customer being really able to notice any change in quality. McDonald's is doing it right. If you leave your house at 6 a.m. and you have a 12 hour road trip and you grab a coffee from McDonald's and a McMuffin at the start of your journey, if you stop at McDonald's four states away for lunch or dinner, it should feel almost exactly like the McDonald's that you stopped at at the start of your journey right by your house. It should really be no different. And even you have probably done this and if you haven't done this, you are a liar. You have gotten a drink at McDonald's in the morning on a long road trip and you have stopped maybe at multiple McDonald's along your route to get a refill of your drink. And again, if you haven't done that, you are probably lying. A lot of us have done that. So that replicated experience location over location over location. And I think we have a lot to learn from that model. And that model does not start with putting money first. It does not start with putting numbers first. It starts with making sure that we are incredibly selective of who we let join our team. And so that brings me to the how. How do we do that? We do that by being extraordinarily picky with who we let join our team. A lot of people will see your clinic, your business, whatever you are doing, being very successful and they want to invite themselves to come on board the ship. They are happy to stop by and drop off their resume and let you know that they are ready to start a position whenever you are ready to start paying them. And oftentimes we find ourselves as our business, our clinic, our practice is growing. We need people more than we care about exactly who that person is. And we have the mindset of we can train that person later. We can mentor that person later. All that matters is that I have more patients on my schedule than I can see. I have a month long wait list. I have a three month wait list. I have a six month wait list. And that's money I'm not capturing now. So I'm just going to hire that person who walked in the door and threw their resume on my desk. And we can't do that. Not if we want to replicate a really high quality experience, a consistent quality experience for our patients and our clients. Not enough businesses are picky enough at this process of making sure that person has the same beliefs that we do, making sure that we have a common shared foundation of training. Us here, we now only hire students who do a long rotation here or folks who have passed the ICE certification exam. That's where our standard is at now. That tells us that person either we have trained them in our training, our foundation as well, and we find out if they have our common belief systems or not, or we know that is on board already because they have passed such a rigorous certification as the ICE cert. But not enough of us are that picky. 17:23 WHEN GROWTH GOES WRONG And what happens if we don't do that? What happens when growth goes wrong? I want to just share a hypothetical example, speaking of the extremity management division today. Imagine that folks just have maybe even a little bit of a difference in what they believe and what they have been trained to do as physical therapists. And we say, you know what? They're only like 20% different. It doesn't matter. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Let's just hire this person anyways, even if they are maybe 20% different than the rest of the folks already on the team. Let's take an example of Lindsay and Mark from our extremity management team. Let's say that Mark believes that the foot, the ankle and foot, has no orthopedic value whatsoever. When he teaches his course, he just kind of glosses over that material and maybe even ends his class early. He ends faster than he planned to, right? Maybe he just kind of flips through the slides, shows a couple techniques, maybe an exercise, and he says, you know what? The ankle is really not that important to the body. Have a great weekend. Thanks for being here. Bye. And we're done at 3.30. Now, as we take that person who is now going to train more people underneath of them, the next person Mark trains is likely going to give even less attention to the ankle and foot. They're going to pass over even more of the fine details. And you can imagine if we take that now several generations deep, three, four, five generations deep, that that next person teaching extremity management may not even teach the ankle and foot, right? They may delete it from their slides entirely. Hey, we don't teach that in this course. Which is not true at all, right? Now we have a consistency problem in the product. What about the other end of the continuum? What if Lindsay believes the opposite? What if she believes the foot is the most important structure in the human body? What if she believes that great toe extension is linked to developing Alzheimer's disease? What if she spends so much time on the ankle and foot when she teaches extremity management that now her classes run until 7 p.m. on Sunday? Again, we have for a different reason, a consistency product, a consistency problem with the product we're delivering. Now again, that same example, as we get multiple generations deep, you could imagine the next person Lindsay trains underneath her maybe believes the foot is even more important and spends even more time on the ankle and foot. And maybe three, four, five generations deep, that person spends all of Sunday talking about the ankle and foot. We don't even talk about the hip and the knee anymore. Everything's about the ankle and the foot. And eventually what we come upon is a divergent offering of the same product. That the consistency of the product is diminished or absent entirely. And we have an entirely splinter product being offered. We're now offering two separate products from the same company, even though up many layers above in the leadership position, we're trying to figure out why the inconsistency is there. And it comes from not having that shared common training foundation and that shared belief system. So who is McDonald's? What is how they have franchised across the planet into one of the most successful businesses And the how is being really particular in who you let on your team and making sure that they already arrive with similar belief systems about how to practice physical therapy in a common training foundation. So many people arrive, new students, new grads with a wide variety of beliefs depending on where they went to school, what continued education courses they may have taken after it really can lead to that divergent offering of product that really creates a consistency and a quality product for your business over time. And again, in our mind is the original owner, the leader of the business. That's something we're trying to avoid at all costs. When we think about hiring new people, we're thinking about how can I essentially copy myself as much as possible so that when people come to see this new person I've hired or this eighth new person I've hired or my new location, how can I be sure that they get the same consistent product that I initially delivered when I started the business and it comes down to that shared common training foundation and that belief system. So that's the first part of this series. I want to take you all through the who, the what and the how. Next time I want to talk about once you have actually found that person, where do we go from there into the nitty gritty of things like operating agreements, things of making sure that our training foundation stays the same as we move through our practice, as we move through time together with these members on our team. I hope this was helpful. I hope you have fun with Gut Check Thursday. I hope you have a wonderful, fantastic Thursday and a great Labor Day weekend. We'll actually see you next week for a little bit of talk on carbohydrates on Fitness Athlete Friday. Have a great Thursday. Have a great weekend. Bye everybody! 21:52 OUTRO Hey, thanks for tuning in to the PT on Ice Daily Show. If you enjoyed this content, head on over to iTunes and leave us a review. Be sure to check us out on Facebook and Instagram at the Institute of Clinical Excellence. If you're interested in getting plugged into more ICE content on a weekly basis while earning CUs from home, check out our virtual ICE online mentorship program at ptonice.com. While you're there, sign up for our Hump Day Hustling newsletter for a free email every Wednesday morning with our top five research articles and social media posts that we think are worth reading. Head over to ptonice.com and scroll to the bottom of the page to sign up.

Randy Bachman left The Guess Who in 1970 after experiencing lifestyle differences with the other band members.  After exploring a number of alternatives, Bachman formed a group with his brothers Tim Bachman (guitars, vocals), and Robbie Bachman (percussion), and with Fred Turner (bass, vocals).  The group took the name Bachman -Turner Overdrive, often shortened to BTO.  Although their self-titled first album did not produce a single, it was regionally successful, and the band made the most of it with a heavy touring schedule.  It was their second studio album, Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, which would bring the band significant success.  The album would go to number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, and number 6 on the charts in their native Canada.  Powered by bluesy guitar riffs and infectious choral hooks, BTO-II would become a staple of classic rock radio, and demonstrate the signature rock sound of the early 70's.Tim Bachman would be replaced by Blair Thornton prior to their third and most successful studio album, "Not Fragile."  This lineup would produce a further three studio albums before founder Randy Bachman's departure in 1979.  The band would continue on until 2005 before calling a hiatus.  A number of reunions would follow starting in 2009.Rob features this influential group who maintained a guitar-led hard rock sound during a time when soft rock, glam, and disco were on the rise. Takin' Care of BusinessRandy Bachman originally developed this song while a member of The Guess Who, and it's working title was "White Collar Worker."  The Guess Who turned it down because they thought it was too similar to The Beatles' "Paperback Writer," so Bachman rearranged it for BTO as "Takin' Care of Business."  Randy Bachman is on lead vocals for this anthem.BlownThe lead track to the album is a deeper cut that describes a long-ago day when smoking drugs led to a collapse and a time "when they locked me up."  It has a great hook in the chorus and a fast pace.  "I was blown (woo woo) ran and jumped and screamed.  I was blo-o-own right inside a dream."Welcome HomeThis is a quirky song has an alternating acoustic Latin verse and heavier chorus, with a jazzy finish.  The lyrics talk about life on the road and how good it feels to go back home, drive your own car and sleep in your own bed.  It could not be confirmed that Animal from The Muppet Show was an uncredited contributor to this track.Let It RideFred Turner is on lead vocals for the first BTO single to crack the US Top 40 (at number 23).  The inspiration for the song was a time when the band was on a highway in their tour bus and got boxed in by a couple of trucks.  When the band confronted the truckers about it at a truck stop, they were told to settle down and just let it ride. ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:Opening theme from the television series "The Six Million Dollar Man"This is where we learned about "Steve Austin.  Astronaut.  A man barely alive."  The weekly exploits of the Bionic Man would have us running in slow motion on the playground to simulate his 60-mph dashes.  STAFF PICKS:Seasons In the Sun by Terry Jacks Wayne brings us a song adapted from a Belgian tune called "The Dying Man."  The lyrics portray a dying man's farewell to his loved ones.  It was a worldwide hit that went to number 1, becoming the largest-selling Canadian single in history at the time.  Jacks rewrote the lyrics to reflect a life that acknowledges rights and wrongs of his life as he passes away peacefully.Living for the City by Stevie Wonder  Lynch features a song on which Wonder plays all the instruments and performs all the vocals.  The lyrics tell of a young kid from Mississippi who moves to New York City.  While down south he had hardships, but was surrounded by caring people.  In the city, people take advantage of him, and he is caught with drugs and sentenced to 10 years in jail.Let Me Be There by Olivia Newton-John Bruce's staff pick is Newton-John's first top 10 hit in the US, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.  This would also be the start of a more country direction for the singer, and would continue for the next couple of albums.  Olivia Newton-John would win a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocalist for this upbeat tune.Mind Games by John  LennonRob finishes off the staff picks with a single originally released in 1973 from Lennon's album of the same name.  It made it to number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Lennon started writing this in 1969 under the working title "Make Love, Not War."  That phrase had been overused by the early 70's, and he took inspiration from a book title for the change to "Mind Games." INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:Space Race  by Billy Preston Long time Beatles collaborator Billy Preston wrote this instrumental sci fi funk number.

With a focus on preventative care, and described by its CEO as the "Netflix of healthcare", Curative is poised to disrupt the delivery model for care. In this download, Founder and CEO Fred Turner joins ABJ Managing Editor Will Anderson for an insightful conversation  that impacts business owners in Austin, and across the nation.

Warning: this episode of High Theory is very silly. In our new summer series of “Sillies,” Saronik and Kim ask each other how simple things will achieve the grandiose task of saving the world. In this episode, Saronik asks Kim how jeans will save the world. Yes, we mean denim, not genes. Some reading that might help assuage the silliness, and support our absurd arguments is listed below: Raymond Malewitz, The Practice of Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture (Stanford UP 2014). Sam Binkley, Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (Duke UP 2007). Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago UP 2006). Herbert Schiller, “Communication and Cultural Domination,” International Journal of Politics 5 no. 4 (Winter 1975/1976). {apparently the source of the term “cultural imperialism”} In this episode we used sound effects from freesound.org. To make the episode we downloaded sounds created by the following users: MATRIXX, aj_heels, deleted_user_5959249, LittleRobotSoundFactory, TarynMichelle101, Yellowbear, voxlab, NikiPlaymostories, TasmanianPower, trader_one, milkywaysurroundsme, josefpres, BugInTheSYS, paulnorthyorks. Click the link to hear the sound. This episode's silly image was created by Saronik Bosu. 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

Warning: this episode of High Theory is very silly. In our new summer series of “Sillies,” Saronik and Kim ask each other how simple things will achieve the grandiose task of saving the world. In this episode, Saronik asks Kim how jeans will save the world. Yes, we mean denim, not genes. Some reading that might help assuage the silliness, and support our absurd arguments is listed below: Raymond Malewitz, The Practice of Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture (Stanford UP 2014). Sam Binkley, Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (Duke UP 2007). Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago UP 2006). Herbert Schiller, “Communication and Cultural Domination,” International Journal of Politics 5 no. 4 (Winter 1975/1976). {apparently the source of the term “cultural imperialism”} In this episode we used sound effects from freesound.org. To make the episode we downloaded sounds created by the following users: MATRIXX, aj_heels, deleted_user_5959249, LittleRobotSoundFactory, TarynMichelle101, Yellowbear, voxlab, NikiPlaymostories, TasmanianPower, trader_one, milkywaysurroundsme, josefpres, BugInTheSYS, paulnorthyorks. Click the link to hear the sound. This episode's silly image was created by Saronik Bosu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a reason a Slack notification can trigger anxiety — these days WFH means not a moment off. Fred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University and a 2022 Guggenheim fellow. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the established workday patterns that the pandemic upended – and how workers can wrestle back control of the clock from their employers. His article in the New York Times is “You Call This ‘Flexible Work'?”

Fred Turner is the Chief Executive Officer of Curative, a healthcare start-up that made a splash scaling COVID-19 testing and vaccinations during the pandemic. In this episode, join Fred and host Jeff Gourdji as they discuss Curative's journey and some of the biggest issues in healthcare that “Curative 2.0” aims to address. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the Standoff Over the Debt Ceiling Gets Closer to Default, Can Biden Call the House Republicans Bluff? | Running an Anti-American Campaign, Erdogan is Likely to be Reelected, Making Him Less Constrained and More Authoritarian | Not Only Do We Have a Mad Candidate, Countries Can Fall Into the Grip of Madness as Germany Did in the 1930's backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Fred Turner continues our series on the Holy Spirit by discussing what it looks like to hear from the Spirit.

In this exciting and inspiring talk, Professors Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner discuss the great potential art holds in creating shifts in the public consciousness through examples of historical art movements, art's impact on technology and society at large, and its effective way of communicating democratic ideals.They also cover the background and process behind Fred's latest book "Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America", a collaboration with notable photographer Mary Beth Meehan. This episode was originally produced for the 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.SpeakersCharlotte KentCharlotte Kent, PhD (@Lucy2Scribbles) is the Assistant Professor of Visual Culture at Montclair State University and an arts writer. Her work theorizes how visual and linguistic rhetorical devices constrain what we see by exploring their historical and political context. Her current research investigates the absurd in contemporary art and speculative design. She writes for academic journals (Word and Image, Leonardo, Journal of Visual Culture, etc) and general audience magazines (Art Review, BOMB, Wired, among others), with a monthly panel and column on Art and Technology for The Brooklyn Rail, where she is also an Editor-at-Large. Prior to academia, she developed education for the eyecare industry and managed an art school located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate Center, St. John's College, and Philips Academy Andover. She currently lives in New York City.Fred TurnerFred Turner (@fturner) is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of five books: Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (with Mary Beth Meehan); L'Usage de L'Art dans la Silicon Valley;  The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties;  From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism; and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. Before coming to Stanford, he taught Communication at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT's Sloan School of Management. He also worked for ten years as a journalist. He has written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Harper's.This is a RadicalxChange production.:: Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation ::RxC Discord@radxchange TwitterRxC YouTube

Revisit episode 53 and the story of Randy Bachman, Gary Bachman, and the song that was never meant to be a song - let alone a hit record. SHOW NOTES: Songs used in this episode: "You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet" Bachman Turner Overdrive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive_song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachman%E2%80%93Turner_Overdrive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guess_Who https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Turner_(musician) https://www.loudersound.com/features/story-behind-the-song-you-aint-seen-nothing-yet-by-bachman-turner-overdrive Bus Stop – “You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5NLoy7dJpY

Summary   Eric Escobar (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss compromising networks and information security. He has a coveted DEFCON Black Badge.    What You'll Learn  Intelligence  What keeps Eric up at night   Thinking like an ethical hacker (aka a “penetration tester)  Protecting your information (i.e., “Hardening the attack surface”)  Plain English explanations of key cyber concepts like “Kill Chains” and “Zero Days”  Reflections  Having a cool job  The information revolution and life in the modern world  And much, much more…  Episode Notes  Eric Escobar commits several thousand felonies on any given day, if he didn't have permission to do what he was doing.  A Principal Security Consultant with SecureWorks, Eric has compromised pretty much everything out there: from healthcare and banking to technology and critical infrastructure, through to amusement parks and next generation military aircraft.  “From my perspective, it's the coolest job in the entire world.”  His team consecutively won first place in the Wireless CTF category at DEF CON 23, 24, and 25, snagging a Black Badge along the way. He has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering.   And…  The links between computing, hacking and the 60's counterculture are FASCINATING. Learn more by dipping your toes here and here, or dive deeper with What the Dormouse Said (2005) by John Markoff and From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) by Fred Turner.      Quote of the Week  "Watching any critical infrastructure get compromised is really the thing that keeps me up at night because lives are in the balance…and we do a lot of testing for critical infrastructure, and I've seen computers and machines that have been online and not been taken offline, longer than I've been alive…So really interesting to see those types of things because they interact with really big, expensive hardware…there's a catch 22 that happens where you can't really take the machine offline to do maintenance on it because it's critical infrastructure. So then how do you test it to make sure that a hacker can't take it offline, or maintenance can't be done on it? " – Eric Escobar.   Resources  *Andrew's Recommendation*  Word Notes   From beginner thru advanced, you'll find some helpful definitions of things like “Web 3.0,” “NFT's” and “Digital Transformation” on this Cyberwire audio glossary.  *SpyCasts*  Inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) – with John Lambert and Cristin Goodwin (2021)  The Cyber Zeitgeist – with Dave Bittner (2021)  Securing Cyberspace – with Charlie Mitchell (2016)  *Beginner Resources*  What is Hacking? The Economic Times (n.d.) [web]  Ethical Hacking in 8 Minutes, Simplilearn (2020) [8 min video]  Cybersecurity in 7 minutes, Simplilearn (2020) [7 min video]  Books  The Cyberweapons Arms Race, N. Perloth (Bloomsbury, 2021)  Cult of the Dead Cow, J. Menn (PublicAffairs, 2020)  Breaking & Entering, J. Smith (Mariner Books, 2019)  The Art of Invisibility, K. Mitnick (L, B & C, 2017)  Ghost in the Wires, K. Mitnick (Back Bay Books, 2012)  Kingpin, K. Poulson (Crown, 2012)  The Cuckoo's Egg, C. Stoll (Doubleday, 1989)  Neuromancer, W. Gibson (Ace, 1984)  Articles  2022 State of the Threat: A Year in Review, Secureworks (2022)  The Anthropology of Hackers, The Atlantic (2010)  Timeline Since 2006: Significant Cyber Incidents, CSIS (n.d.)  Documentary  DEFCON, The Documentary Network (2013)  Resources  Government Hacking Bibliography, S. Quinlan, New America Foundation (2016)  *Wildcard Resource*  “The Aurora Shard”  Come to the International Spy Museum to see an ugly chunk of metal. Why? Well, it speaks to a revolution in the relationship between the material world and the non-material world. Broken down? 30 lines of code blew up a 27-ton generator. Zeros and ones can cause violent explosions! 

Summary   Eric Escobar (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss compromising networks and information security. He has a coveted DEFCON Black Badge.    What You'll Learn  Intelligence  What keeps Eric up at night   Thinking like an ethical hacker (aka a “penetration tester)  Protecting your information (i.e., “Hardening the attack surface”)  Plain English explanations of key cyber concepts like “Kill Chains” and “Zero Days”  Reflections  Having a cool job  The information revolution and life in the modern world  And much, much more…  Episode Notes  Eric Escobar commits several thousand felonies on any given day, if he didn't have permission to do what he was doing.  A Principal Security Consultant with SecureWorks, Eric has compromised pretty much everything out there: from healthcare and banking to technology and critical infrastructure, through to amusement parks and next generation military aircraft.  “From my perspective, it's the coolest job in the entire world.”  His team consecutively won first place in the Wireless CTF category at DEF CON 23, 24, and 25, snagging a Black Badge along the way. He has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering.   And…  The links between computing, hacking and the 60's counterculture are FASCINATING. Learn more by dipping your toes here and here, or dive deeper with What the Dormouse Said (2005) by John Markoff and From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) by Fred Turner.      Quote of the Week  "Watching any critical infrastructure get compromised is really the thing that keeps me up at night because lives are in the balance…and we do a lot of testing for critical infrastructure, and I've seen computers and machines that have been online and not been taken offline, longer than I've been alive…So really interesting to see those types of things because they interact with really big, expensive hardware…there's a catch 22 that happens where you can't really take the machine offline to do maintenance on it because it's critical infrastructure. So then how do you test it to make sure that a hacker can't take it offline, or maintenance can't be done on it? " – Eric Escobar.   Resources  *Andrew's Recommendation*  Word Notes   From beginner thru advanced, you'll find some helpful definitions of things like “Web 3.0,” “NFT's” and “Digital Transformation” on this Cyberwire audio glossary.  *SpyCasts*  Inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) – with John Lambert and Cristin Goodwin (2021)  The Cyber Zeitgeist – with Dave Bittner (2021)  Securing Cyberspace – with Charlie Mitchell (2016)  *Beginner Resources*  What is Hacking? The Economic Times (n.d.) [web]  Ethical Hacking in 8 Minutes, Simplilearn (2020) [8 min video]  Cybersecurity in 7 minutes, Simplilearn (2020) [7 min video]  Books  The Cyberweapons Arms Race, N. Perloth (Bloomsbury, 2021)  Cult of the Dead Cow, J. Menn (PublicAffairs, 2020)  Breaking & Entering, J. Smith (Mariner Books, 2019)  The Art of Invisibility, K. Mitnick (L, B & C, 2017)  Ghost in the Wires, K. Mitnick (Back Bay Books, 2012)  Kingpin, K. Poulson (Crown, 2012)  The Cuckoo's Egg, C. Stoll (Doubleday, 1989)  Neuromancer, W. Gibson (Ace, 1984)  Articles  2022 State of the Threat: A Year in Review, Secureworks (2022)  The Anthropology of Hackers, The Atlantic (2010)  Timeline Since 2006: Significant Cyber Incidents, CSIS (n.d.)  Documentary  DEFCON, The Documentary Network (2013)  Resources  Government Hacking Bibliography, S. Quinlan, New America Foundation (2016)  *Wildcard Resource*  “The Aurora Shard”  Come to the International Spy Museum to see an ugly chunk of metal. Why? Well, it speaks to a revolution in the relationship between the material world and the non-material world. Broken down? 30 lines of code blew up a 27-ton generator. Zeros and ones can cause violent explosions! 

Paris Marx is joined by Malcolm Harris to discuss the legacy of Stewart Brand and why the myth we're often told about him overstates the reality of his impact.Malcolm Harris is the author of Kids These Days, Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit, and his forthcoming book Palo Alto. He also writes for New York Magazine. Follow Malcolm on Twitter at @BigMeanInternet.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Malcolm Harris wrote a critical review of John Markoff's Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand.Benjamin Kunkel also wrote a critical review of Whole Earth.The Stewart Brand documentary We Are As Gods about his quest to bring back wholly mammoths to solve climate change is slowly being rolled out after two years of delay and seeming lack of sales interest.Brand's Long Now Foundation is building a 10,000-year clock in Texas that's funded by Jeff Bezos.We also mention Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture.Support the show

Video also available at https://cms.mit.edu/video-seeing-silicon-valley-mary-beth-meehan-fred-turner. Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley historian and media scholar Fred Turner discuss their recently published and award-winning book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America, a collaborative exploration of the culture of Silicon Valley — not the culture of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that we see in the press, but the lives of the men and women who inhabit the Valley and make it work. If Silicon Valley is building the world's future, Meehan and Turner argue, then we must learn to see through the tech industry's marketing campaigns. We need to see the kind of society the tech industry is actually creating, in its own back yard. Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford, he taught Communication at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT's Sloan School of Management. He also worked for ten years as a journalist. He has written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Harper's. Mary Beth Meehan is an independent photographer, writer, and educator, who has spent more than twenty years embedding herself in communities across the United States. Beginning in her native New England, and continuing in the Midwest, the American South and in Silicon Valley, her work, which combines image, text, and large-scale public installation, stems from her belief in a collaborative process that should function in and for the communities it reflects. Co-opting the scale of celebrity and advertising, Meehan's portrait banners activate public spaces and spark conversations among and about the people who inhabit them.

Fred shares a great message about the kinds of friendship we should have on our journey with Jesus!

Paris Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss Peter Thiel's history, how the network he cultivated has influenced Silicon Valley, and his recent move into funding Republican candidates.Moira Weigel is an assistant professor at Northeastern University, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic magazine. She also co-edited Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It. Follow Moira on Twitter at @moiragweigel.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Moira wrote about Peter Thiel and the importance of his network in The New Republic.Paris wrote about why Peter Thiel isn't an outlier in Silicon Valley.Reason Magazine asked “wasn't Peter Thiel supposed to be a libertarian?”In February 2020, Peter Thiel stepped down from Facebook's board.Books mentioned: The Contrarian by Max Chafkin, From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner, Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, The PayPal Wars by Eric Jackson, Predict and Surveil by Sarah Brayne.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

We discuss Jordan Hall Twitter and ideology critique, from developmental to ideological blindness, conservative naturalization, leftist contextualization/epistemologization, deep diving ontology, MIP and integral post metaphysics, and shared ontological grounds, Ryan doesn't like “what comes next” stuff, Epistemes and ideological granularity, Fred Turner and the necessity of historical literacy, ideology critique, 5 pillars of meta-ideological awareness, ideology is a scary word and left/right appeal, having discernment when choosing the right analytic frame, disciplinary polarization and the need for consilience, myopic divisions of knowledge, ideological dismissal, platform socialism, ideological non-exclusivism and DEI trainings, integrating class analysis with the “meaning crisis”, diversifying the meaning crisis, Bodhisattva vs Arhats, bridge-building, escapism, meta-tribal politics.

Fred, aka BFFred, continues "The Jesus Series" with a message encouraging us to "eavesdrop" on the way Jesus speaks to people in scripture.

We celebrate our 50th episode with a holiday special, where Ethan is visited by the Reimagining the Internet producers of past, present, and future to remember some of our favorite interviews from 2021. Tune in for highlights with Omar Wasow, Fred Turner, Heather Ford, Michael Wood Lewis, Lola Hunt and Eliza Sorensen, Damon Krukowski, Elizabeth Hansen-Shapiro, and Tracy Chou.

How did hippies living on communes help create the Internet? Is Mark Zuckerberg today's PT Barnum? What can we learn from 17th Century Protestantism about inequality in Silicon Valley? Fred Turner, perhaps the definitive historian of the Internet and counterculture, joins us for a thrilling conversation about how we need to shake post-WWII politics to make not just a better Internet, but a better world. For links to projects mentioned and a full transcript of this episode, please visit https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/47-fred-turner Key takeaways: 1. Communes were insular, and so was the first Internet community created by back-to-land hippies. 2. Silicon Valley's cult of personality follows from Protestants' belief that wealth is a sign of godliness. 3. "Seeing Silicon Valley" documents the inequality that fuels tech with portraits of the rich and poor. 4. We need to reckon with issues of class that started during the Vietnam War. 5. Institutions that bring people to come together despite identity and ideology differences are crucial.

Fred prepares us for next week's Dirty Laundry with teaching about evangelism. He also invites a student panel (Jared Rose, Claire Moore, Emily Parker, and Stephen Wilson) to share their own experiences.

Fred brings a message reminding us that college is amazing, but it's also a time that includes and requires weakness and vulnerability.

Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of five books: Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (with Mary Beth Meehan); L'Usage de L'Art dans la Silicon Valley; The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties; From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism; and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. Before coming to Stanford, he taught Communication at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT's Sloan School of Management. He also worked for ten years as a journalist. He has written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Harper's. Subscribe to our newsletter today A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS