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In this episode, I'm joined by stand-up comedian and public speaking expert, Jenn Lederer, and we delve into the fascinating parallels between stand-up comedy and business presentations. Jenn shares how lessons from stand-up comedy—like structure, timing, and audience connection—can be applied to business and keynote speaking, and how those skills translate in both directions. We also explore how to find your own authentic voice, how boundaries can be a springboard for creativity, and the importance of reading the room to understand your audience. Jenn also offers insight into how anyone can tap into their creativity and craft a unique story that resonates. Whether you're speaking in front of a crowd or delivering a business pitch, this episode will help you refine your delivery, own your story, and connect with your audience in a meaningful way. These skills can help you build your personal brand or make a stronger impression during a presentation or networking event. Tune in for a deep dive into creativity, authenticity, and the art of public speaking and presenting! About our guest: Jenn Lederer is a comedian, keynote speaker, and consultant known for blending humor with business insights. Jenn specializes in helping individuals and businesses master the art of storytelling to create authentic connections and make an impact on their audiences. Whether performing on stage or advising clients, she empowers people to embrace their unique voices, foster creativity, and build meaningful relationships. Using her signature COMEDIAN'S FORMULA, she helps clients master the art of effective communication and become go-to experts in their fields. Jenn's unique blend of comedy, business insights, and coaching has made her a sought-after speaker and consultant, delivering impactful workshops on effective communication. Lederer's work has been featured by SiriusXM, Forbes.com, The Huffington Post, Inspiring Lives Magazine, and comedy clubs throughout New York City. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HLuZGTNz3xw Connect with Jenn Lederer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennlederer/ Learn more: https://www.jennlederer.com/ Jenn's Google Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC20zO2BFR8&ab_channel=TalksatGoogle
"We need to take these things that are ideas and figure out if they even have legs before we spend a bunch of time and money and invest in them."What would it look like if your association acted like a startup? That's the question explored in episode 2 with Chrissy Bagby of the American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB) and Elizabeth Engel of Spark Consulting. Learn how AAVSB is implementing a culture of innovation where employees at all levels of the organization have learned how to identify and develop non-dues revenue ideas with the help of a proven framework.Learn how to understand your audience, their needs and potential solutions to their problems before investing valuable time and resources moving in the wrong direction.The Association RevUP Podcast is presented by the Professionals for Association Revenue (PAR) and hosted by Carolyn Shomali.Learn more about PAR and its annual conference, The RevUP Summit. Special Thanks to podcast partner, the event production company VPC, Inc.Helpful Links:Lean Startup by Eric RiesSkateboard to Car: MVP analogyVideo: Eric Ries 2011 Google Talk
Got my DragonCon gear ready, survived a new haircut, and reminisced about my old Nokia N810. It may not have had cellular, but it was perfect for Twitter, Google Talk, and even geotagging my photos! Shoutout to Mark Kilfoil for the trip down memory lane. #podcastlife #techmemories #nostalgia Music by Lesfm from Pixabay
Wir befinden uns inmitten der Fasnachtszeit und farbige Gewänder, bunte Konfetti und laute Guggenmusik prägen die Tage. Viele Menschen lösen sich aus ihrem Alltag und begeben sich in eine andere Welt. In unserer neuen Podcast-Folge geht es gewissermassen auch darum, in eine andere Rolle zu schlüpfen oder zumindest Abstand vom Alltagzu nehmen: Wir sprechen über Psychedelika. Dr. Florian Elliker, ständiger Dozent für Soziologie an der Universität St. Gallen, angestellt an der «School for Humanities and Social Siences (SHSS)» forscht zum Thema Drogen und hat sich dazu mit Gabriel Imhof, unserem Podcast-Host unterhalten. Was sind Psychedelika, was machen sie mit dem Menschen und weshalb befinden wir uns in einer sogenannten «zweiten Renaissance» der bewusstseinserweiternden Substanzen? Diese und andere Fragen gehen wir in diesem intensiven Gespräch an. Das erwartet dich in der Podcast-Folge über Psychedelika: Teil 1 02:13 Wer ist Florian Elliker und was macht er an der HSG 05.55 Zur Begriffserklärung von Drogen und Psychedelika 07:28 Was geschieht beim Konsum von Psychedelika? 17:12 Was hat es mit dem All-Eins Gefühl auf sich? Hier findet Ihr den Google-Talk von Michael Pollan zu seinem im Podcast besprochenen Buch «How to change your mind»: https://youtu.be/KuhmZSFvhL0?si=1e2kB1STN2WkOOlr Wenn euch das Thema näher interessiert, findet ihr hier einige spannende Bücher zum Thema Psychedelika: Pollan, Michael: How to change your mind / Verändere dein Bewusstsein Muraresku, Brian: The immortality code Huxley, Aldous: Die Pforten der Wahrnehmung – Erfahrungen mit Drogen Und wenn ihr mehr über unseren Gesprächspartner Dr. Florian Elliker erfahren wollt, findet ihr auf dieser Seite weiterführende Informationen: https://www.unisg.ch/de/universitaet/ueber-uns/organisation/detail/person-id/205f58fb-71b2-42cf-925b-a2cab1ee29db/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fadegrad-podcast/message
Wir befinden uns inmitten der Fasnachtszeit und farbige Gewänder, bunte Konfetti und laute Guggenmusik prägen die Tage. Viele Menschen lösen sich aus ihrem Alltag und begeben sich in eine andere Welt. In unserer neuen Podcast-Folge geht es gewissermassen auch darum, in eine andere Rolle zu schlüpfen oder zumindest Abstand vom Alltagzu nehmen: Wir sprechen über Psychedelika. Dr. Florian Elliker, ständiger Dozent für Soziologie an der Universität St. Gallen, angestellt an der «School for Humanities and Social Siences (SHSS)» forscht zum Thema Drogen und hat sich dazu mit Gabriel Imhof, unserem Podcast-Host unterhalten. Was sind Psychedelika, was machen sie mit dem Menschen und weshalb befinden wir uns in einer sogenannten «zweiten Renaissance» der bewusstseinserweiternden Substanzen? Diese und andere Fragen gehen wir in diesem intensiven Gespräch an. Das erwartet dich in der Podcast-Folge über Psychedelika: 00:40 Renaissance der Psychedelika 05:24 Psychedelika und der Umgang mit dem Tod 07:11 Was Psychedelika und das Urchristentum gemeinsam haben könnten Hier findet Ihr den Google-Talk von Michael Pollan zu seinem im Podcast besprochenen Buch «How to change your mind»: https://youtu.be/KuhmZSFvhL0?si=1e2kB1STN2WkOOlr Wenn euch das Thema näher interessiert, findet ihr hier einige spannende Bücher zum Thema Psychedelika: Pollan, Michael: How to change your mind / Verändere dein Bewusstsein Muraresku, Brian: The immortality code Huxley, Aldous: Die Pforten der Wahrnehmung – Erfahrungen mit Drogen Und wenn ihr mehr über unseren Gesprächspartner Dr. Florian Elliker erfahren wollt, findet ihr auf dieser Seite weiterführende Informationen: https://www.unisg.ch/de/universitaet/ueber-uns/organisation/detail/person-id/205f58fb-71b2-42cf-925b-a2cab1ee29db/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fadegrad-podcast/message
8 Ways to Cope with Guilt & Grief LISTEN TO A GRIEF OBSERVED (Song by Paul Cardall)Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ftQX6Amazon: https://shorturl.at/ajsX2iTunes: https://shorturl.at/EFV01Apple Music: https://shorturl.at/insERPandora: https://shorturl.at/aoJQ0Deezer: https://shorturl.at/DLTV2 GET THE SHEET MUSIChttps://paulcardall.com/sheet-music ABOUT EPISODE 86 8 Ways to Cope With Guilt & GriefThere is no right or wrong way to grieve. People experience grief uniquely, and normalizing that guilt is often a component of grief is important. Self-reflection is a normal reaction to the death of a loved one, but these self-messages of “I should have done this differently” are not helpful. It is important to learn how to deal with grief healthily to begin the healing process. Fortunately, there are actions you can take to come to terms with your guilt.Here are eight tips for how to cope with guilt and grief: 1. JournalingJournaling is a powerful tool when experiencing grief. Putting your thoughts and memories to paper is a great way to clarify and self-reflect on your feelings and thoughts. It also helps to decrease the intensity of these emotions. Journaling also helps to chart your grief process by reviewing journal entries over time. Journaling can initially feel awkward if you have never tried it before and you are not certain about how to begin, so grief journaling prompts are a great tool to use to help get started. 2. Prioritize Self-CareIt is common to forget about self-care when people are in the midst of grief.This is especially true when guilt is experienced as a part of the grief process. Just getting out of bed can feel like a challenge. People forget to eat, exercise and can self-isolate. Guilt is a burden, and the message that comes with it is, “I don't deserve to treat myself well.” Self-care includes taking care of your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. You cannot begin to heal and work through grief until you engage in self-care behaviors.Mental Self-Care Examples:Practice mindfulness.Take a break.Play video games.Listen to music.Read a book.Listen to a podcast.Reflect on things you are grateful for. 3. Channel Your Guilt Into Something PositiveIt doesn't really matter if your guilt is rational or irrational. It is important to channelguilt in productive ways to begin to alleviate it. For example, if you have lostsomeone to suicide, work with suicide prevention programs. It will help give you insights about yourself, and learning from others that have had shared experiences can be enormously helpful. It also can offer some comfort in doing something that honors the memory of the person who has died. Apologizing.Making amends.Changing your behavior.Accepting your faults and moving on. 4. Acknowledge Your Feelings of GuiltYou need to be able to give yourself permission to feel whatever comes with the loss of a loved one. If guilt is one of those feelings, explore its roots and what it is really about. Are you being fair to yourself? Is your guilt based on reality, or is something else causing it? You are human, and remember that guilt often arises with grief. Show yourself compassion and learn how to forgive yourself as you explore your guilt and its source. Consider trying some of these strategies.Acknowledge it exists. ...Eliminate negative self-talk. ...Find out if there's a reason to feel guilty. ...Remind yourself of all that you do. ...Realize it's OK to have needs. ...Establish boundaries. ...Make amends. ...Understand what you can control. 5. Join a Grief Support GroupGrief support groups can be a wonderful way to learn how to cope with grief and guilt. It helps to hear that other people are experiencing similar thoughts and feelings. It is also a place where you can get support from others who have been through a loss. Grief support groups are places of support, education, and resources. You can find them online or locally by checking with local mental health centers, hospitals, or organizations associated with the cause of the death of a loved one. GoogleTalk to your pastor or bishop 6. Find Positive ThoughtsThought stopping is the practice of shifting your focus from the guilty thoughts you are having to more positive thoughts. This technique can be taught through behavior modification which involves reshaping negative thoughts into positive thoughts producing healthier behavioral patterns. It involves training yourself using different skills to stop thinking about thoughts that can be harmful to you.Identify areas to change. ...Check yourself. ...Be open to humor. ...Follow a healthy lifestyle. ...Surround yourself with positive people. ...Practice positive self-talk. 7. Share Your Feelings With OthersIf you have trusted close friends and family, you can talk with them and make opportunities to talk with them about what you are feeling. It is important not to keep your guilt feelings bottled up. It also can be helpful to talk with people who know the person who has died. Their insights may help ground your memories and feelings into a more realistic perspective.Take a deep breath. There are many benefits to deep breathing. ...Practice. Constructively sharing your feelings is a skill. ...Identify and accept your emotions. A big part of effectively sharing emotions is correctly identifying your feelings. ...Choose the right listener and the right time. 8. Consider Reaching Out to a TherapistGrief and guilt can be an enormous burden. They can evolve into depression. When this occurs, it may be difficult to manage and cope with grief without outside mental health professionals intervening. Healing cannot begin unless these issues are addressed. A therapist can help to unpack why someone is experiencing guilt surrounding their grief and process the emotions so they begin to ease. Signs you may need private therapyFeeling anxious.Generally feeling overwhelmed with everything.Overthinking and feeling as though you're unable to 'switch off' from your thoughts.Feeling low and more tearful than usual.Getting angry more easily or struggling to regulate your emotions.Sleeping more or less than usual. CONTACT:https://namica.org/ ABOUT OUR HOSTPaul Cardall, an acclaimed Dove Award-winning musician, composer, and producer, is renowned for his music that acts as a conduit to tranquility and spiritual introspection. Boasting over 3 billion lifetime streams, 11 No. 1 Billboard albums, and recognition as one of the world's premier pianists by Steinway & Sons, Paul's diverse repertoire spans Classical, Christian, and New Age genres. His extraordinary journey includes overcoming health challenges, notably being born with half a heart and undergoing a life-saving heart transplant in 2009. Inspired by his experiences, Paul has dedicated his life's mission to crafting healing piano music that resonates physically and emotionally. Beyond his musical accomplishments, he actively engages in philanthropy, collaborating with organizations such as The Ryan Seacrest Foundation and supporting causes like the fight against human trafficking. His album, "Return Home," showcases 13 improvisational piano pieces, a departure from his usual compositional approach. It invites listeners on a cinematic voyage through the landscapes of his European heritage. The album, inspired by his deep connection with his wife Tina and their journey through her family's homeland in Slovenia, underscores the power of music to connect us to our past. It serves as a testament to Paul Cardall's enduring impact as an artist and empathetic soul. 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Don't miss this insightful conversation on the intersection of finance, technology, and disruptive innovations! Guest: Kartik Gada, CEO & Founder at 3D Strategies Management https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartikgada/ Kartik Gada has given keynotes to audiences as large as 3000, and with a cumulative audience above 50,000 across all speaking engagements, and 28,000+ hours of cumulative YouTube viewership time. Kartik Gada has 20 years of experience across investment banking, hedge funds, and the CFO function. He is presently the CFO of two AI companies. He also teaches two of the most popular finance and technology classes at Stanford University. His focus is on all highly disruptive technologies, including Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. He was previously an Executive Director at Woodside Capital Partners, where he led the entire Artificial Intelligence and FinTech practices. Before that, he founded 3D Strategies Management, a commodities futures hedge fund that was among the highest returning small funds during that period, with portfolio returns of 70%/year from 2009-13. Kartik is the author of a widely read book on the new economics of technology, The ATOM (http://atom.singularity2050.com/), that has been featured in a Google Talk, multiple television programs, and numerous keynotes, including at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. Kartik has an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He additionally studied engineering at Stanford University and Case Western Reserve University. #GaryFowler #GSD #GSDAdvisory #GSDSuperScaler #KartikGada #AIEconomics
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Join Dave and Nick as they review the book, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Watch on YouTube HERE Thinking, Fast and Slow concerns a few major questions: how do we make decisions? And in what ways do we make decisions poorly? The book covers three areas of Daniel Kahneman's research: cognitive biases, prospect theory, and happiness. Here is the summary from the website Shortform.com "We're so self-confident in our rationality that we think all our decisions are well-considered. When we choose a job, decide how to spend our time, or buy something, we think we've considered all the relevant factors and are making the optimal choice. In reality, our minds are riddled with biases leading to poor decision-making. We ignore data that we don't see, and we weigh evidence inappropriately. Thinking, Fast and Slow is a masterful book on psychology and behavioral economics by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. Learn your two systems of thinking, how you make decisions, and your greatest vulnerabilities to bad decisions." Check out the Google Talk and interview with the author here About Shotwell Rutter Baer Shotwell Rutter Baer is proud to be an independent, fee-only registered investment advisory firm. This means that we are only compensated by our clients for our knowledge and guidance — not from commissions by selling financial products. Our only motivation is to help you achieve financial freedom and peace of mind. By structuring our business this way we believe that many of the conflicts of interest that plague the financial services industry are eliminated. We work for our clients, period. Click here to learn about the Strategic Reliable Blueprint, our financial plan process for your future. Call us at 517-321-4832 for financial and retirement investing advice.
Links from today's discussion:“Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company” New York Times Sept 14, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html Yvon Chouinard's statement on Patagonia's site https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/ Yvon Chouinard's Google Talk https://youtu.be/eBbmRLR_DNkAdam Conover's analysis of Yvon Chouinard's recent announcement and other billionaire philanthropist hype https://youtu.be/0Cu6EbELZ6I Support the show
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Send us a Text Message.In this episode you will learn the surprising truth about happiness from positive psychology researchers. Becca discusses how to support your educators' happiness (hint- it has nothing to do with candy or Jeans Day passes) and what you can do right now to grow your own happiness (even during the holidays).Useful links:[WORKSHOP] Helping Teachers Focus on What's Important[YOUTUBE] "Before Happiness" - Google Talk by Shawn Achor[PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT] Whole Educator OfferingsSponsor:Sibme Coaching Toolkit [FREE}Let's Stay Connected!Website | Instagram | Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook | Contact Us
Shaz Kahng is a serial CEO and Board Director and with a wealth of experience running companies and businesses and is also an award-winning author of two novels, with a third underway. In this episode she talks about the power of diverse perspectives on management teams and boards, and the tremendous impact it can have. Thanks for listening! We love our listeners! Drop us a line or give us guest suggestions here. Links Shaz's website https://www.ceilingsmashers.com/ Amazon for The Closer https://www.amazon.com/Closer-Ceiling-Smashers-Book/dp/0998656607/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1663614201&sr=8-1 Google Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKW0H9v4V0 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shazkahng/ Quotes The Closer [First Novel] I noticed in reading a lot of fiction novels was that if there was a male character who was a business leader, he was allowed to be attractive and smart and successful and athletic and had lots of friends. But whenever there was a female business leader, she was allowed to be competent at her job, but the rest of her life was really negative: for example, she was trying to quash the careers of other women, or she had 13 cats or she was desperate to get married. I thought that these fiction books were not reflecting reality. I've worked with and know so many incredible women who are leading businesses, leading companies who are very inspirational, very positive, who are really focused on helping other women, like Lisa Shalett [co-founder of EWOB] I thought there was just a void in the fiction marketplace. I wanted to address that and write a fresh novel that had a more modern and accurate take on women in business. Some publishers were a little concerned about the theme of the book. I was really surprised [at the reaction by some publishers] because I thought I was offering a very distinct and unique product and one that women would want to read, and I was surprised when I heard from some publishers that they didn't think women wanted to read about other smart women. They didn't want to read about successful women. They didn't want to read about women helping other women, and I just thought they were wrong. I pushed ahead and published the book, and it's gotten a great reception from women leaders and male leaders as well. I've heard some men who are CEOs say, "When I'm faced with a challenge, I think what would the main character Vivien Lee do in this situation," and then they make a decision that way. So, that's been very gratifying to hear. Big Ideas/Thoughts Extraordinary Women on Boards EWOB is really focused on educating current board members. In order to be on EWOB, you have to be currently on a board or previously on a board so it's for people who really are experienced board directors, but the focus is on continuing education, discussing topics that are top of mind for boards and just really expanding board members' capabilities and understanding of different issues. It is a really helpful resource to have such qualified women who are experienced on different boards to be able to share their experiences, share their perspectives, network, and also let each other know of opportunities. Strategic war games [at OMSignal, a biometric apparel startup] I suggested to the board and to the founders that we do a strategic war game, which is type of simulation game that you play, that helps you build a very forward-looking strategy. It helps you figure out what the holes are in your business strategy, what the opportunities are, where the industry sector is going. As a result of that strategic war game, we ended up focusing a little bit more on women and I had been asking the founders, "Why are you just focused on men's compression and introducing a smart sports shirt? Why not women's compression?" And they said, "Well, what product would that be?" And I said, "Well, women wear a compression product every day, which is a bra, so why don't we do a smart sports bra?" I think that's why populating your board with people of different backgrounds, different ways of thinking, differentexperiences are so critical to ensuring a successful future for your company. Onboarding: Private vs Public Boards It was a vastly different experience. With the private company boards, basically on my first day they said, "Okay, can you help us figure out our revenue projections? Do we do it the right way? We need help with marketing. What do you think about this copy? Or should we be spending more money doing these different things with our marketing budget?" it was very hands on, very deep. With the public company board, it was much more of a formal process. There were certain pieces of information that I needed to review, SEC documents that I had to fill out, and then I also had interviews with, I think, three or four members of the board before I was nominated, and I also asked to meet with all of the board members individually before I actually joined the board Science Background I think a science background was a great foundation for a business career, and one of the reasons is that it helps you really approach problems from a holistic point of view. I think it gives you an ability to develop hypotheses on how to solve problems, to experiment with different results that might work and to ultimately pick the right solution. LiveGirl LiveGirl was started by Sheri West. She was a former GE executive and she noticed that there weren't enough opportunities careerwise for women from diverse backgrounds and she wanted to do something about it and she's doing a terrific job with it. LiveGirl helps to provide girls, middle school and up, with the skills that they need to be able to succeed in the workplace, like better communication skills, negotiation skills, interviewing skills and things like that. They also help set up girls in the program with summer internships with different companies.
#85: Tiago Forte joins Chris to talk about his proven method to build a "Second Brain" to organize your digital life. They discuss the best tools to use to collect and store information, why it's important to become more of a maker than a consumer, why the most common way people categorize information might not be the best and a lot more.Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) is one of the world's foremost experts on productivity. His cohort-based courses teach people around the world how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their productivity, creativity, and personal effectiveness. 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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:02:17 - What Tom Russo learned from a life-changing encounter with Warren Buffett in 1982.09:53 - Why “agency” cost is one of the greatest risks facing all investors.14:02 - Why Tom favors companies that willingly endure pain today for gain tomorrow.16:02 - How he rode Berkshire Hathaway from $900 to more than $430,000 per share.21:08 - Why Buffett's team of successors should do fine when Berkshire is in their hands.27:17 - What Tom learned while working for investment legend Bill Ruane.38:16 - Why Tom immediately sold Wells Fargo & Altria after realizing they'd lost their way.48:46 - Why Tom loves brands where consumers believe there's “no adequate substitute.”53:39 - Why Tom is bullish about Heineken's long-term future, even after owning it for 36 years.01:07:08 - How Tom succeeds by resisting short-term temptations & deferring gratification.01:16:09 - What Tom failed to understand about Alibaba & the political risks of investing in China.01:23:11 - How Tom thinks about moral questions like whether it's okay to own tobacco stocks.01:25:51 - How innovators like Nestlé & Heineken are helping to combat climate change.01:35:13 - How Tom's investment success is fueled by his insatiable curiosity.01:37:41 - What Tom learned from Charlie Munger about the importance of trusting your gut.*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.BOOKS AND RESOURCESThomas Russo's 2018 Google Talk on “Global Value Investing.”Warren Buffett discusses Bill Ruane, who ran the Sequoia Fund & helped train Tom Russo. 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What do alcohol, religion and pandemics have in common? A lot, as it turns out. This episode is a deep dive to the origins of our human love of alcohol, religion and social connection. In short, whenever a drug (like gambling, opium, sex, religion, social media, lies, alcohol, etc.) becomes more potent and less social, humans get ourselves into trouble. The pandemic has accelerated our already-problematic relationship with both religion and alcohol, and the similarities are pretty obvious once you know where to look.For more on ancient cities built to produce and drink alcohol (including Göbekli Tepe), check out The Guardian article, "10,000 Years of Cheers: Why Social Drinking is an Ancient Ritual" or Edward Slingerland's book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced and Stumbled our Way to Civilization. For more on human genetic mutations that allowed us to drink much more alcohol than other animals, check out the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) article, "Hominids adapted to metabolize ethanol long before human-directed fermentation." To read more about the relationship between visits to the bar and personal happiness (based on friendship), check out Robin Dunbar's work. For a great supplement to this episode (with lots of additional information) check out Kate Julian's article in the Atlantic, "America has a Drinking Problem." Ted Slingerman's Google Talk is also worth a watch: "Trying not to Try"Music by prazkhanal from Pixabay
While I'm away briefly for vacation, here's a talk I gave at Google in December 2018 around the time my book came out. Just a condensed dose of my entire thesis of the technology industry's history from 1994-2006. Nothing much new if you've read my book, but if you want the cliff's notes version, here it is.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week. Elon Musk says Tesla's fake robot might be ready by September 30th. Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5. Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic. @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of. Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware. Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California. Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'. Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff. The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso. YouTube's new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily. Google Chrome's on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts. Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS. Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts. Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace. Google's changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern. Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday. The Floppotron 3.0. Picks: Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: nureva.com CDW.com/HPE cachefly.com
Android 13 Inches Even Closer to Launch with Its Third Beta. Some large screens can get Beta 3, can go to Beta Partners page to find out. Here's everything new in Android 13 Beta 3. Google's getting rid of SafetyNet Attestation, but the root and ROM crowd shouldn't celebrate yet. UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable. Qualcomm's super-expensive Snapdragon Insiders phone isn't getting its expected updates. Nothing will launch its debut smartphone on July 12th. New Nothing Phone 1 teasers give us a tiny glimpse of the handset. @nothing: Curious? So are they. @nothing: Hello pretty. Nothing (event): Return to Instinct. Samsung will fix your Galaxy smartphone's cracked screen for just $50 this month. Google finally kills a 16-year-old product that you probably thought was dead already. WhatsApp chat history can now freely move between Android and iPhone. Google removing third-party Assistant voice apps and Nest Hub games amid Android focus. Amazfit fans rejoice! Why is my phone unlocking when I call using my Pixel Buds? Here's what I loved about Dark Sky. Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3QnFasD Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Huyen Tue Dao Subscribe to All About Android at https://twit.tv/shows/all-about-android. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: itpro.tv/allaboutandroid promo code AAA30
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Android 13 Inches Even Closer to Launch with Its Third Beta. Some large screens can get Beta 3, can go to Beta Partners page to find out. Here's everything new in Android 13 Beta 3. Google's getting rid of SafetyNet Attestation, but the root and ROM crowd shouldn't celebrate yet. UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable. Qualcomm's super-expensive Snapdragon Insiders phone isn't getting its expected updates. Nothing will launch its debut smartphone on July 12th. New Nothing Phone 1 teasers give us a tiny glimpse of the handset. @nothing: Curious? So are they. @nothing: Hello pretty. Nothing (event): Return to Instinct. Samsung will fix your Galaxy smartphone's cracked screen for just $50 this month. Google finally kills a 16-year-old product that you probably thought was dead already. WhatsApp chat history can now freely move between Android and iPhone. Google removing third-party Assistant voice apps and Nest Hub games amid Android focus. Amazfit fans rejoice! Why is my phone unlocking when I call using my Pixel Buds? Here's what I loved about Dark Sky. Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3QnFasD Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Huyen Tue Dao Subscribe to All About Android at https://twit.tv/shows/all-about-android. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: itpro.tv/allaboutandroid promo code AAA30
It’s a goodbye season. Microsoft is finally retiring its web browser Internet Explorer today and messenger Google Talk is closing down later this week. For the deep dive today, we discuss the price hike plans of all major telecom companies in India.
This week, we're seeing Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer come to an end as Google pulls the plug (officially) on Google Talk. Plus we learn about Apples second-generation mixed reality hardware even before the company announces the first one, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Dr. Dave Shirazi is a functional orthodontist (don't worry we answer what that is) who has specialized in sleep, pain and jaw function for some 20 years. In this episode we get into: How jaw health affects sleep, pain, and inflammationHow treating the jaw can improve overall healthThe neuroanatomy of the jaw and nerves that make keeping your mouth and jaw healthy so importantThe solution to tension type headachesWhy we treat the neck and facial structures in TMJ/TMD casesAn amazing form of testing that can find the root cause of your problemsSleep hygiene techniques you can use todayHow to address recurring headachesWhat does clicking and popping in your jaw mean?What to do about it?This was a great episode so please share it with anyone who it can help!Find more information about our treatment for jaw pain and headaches at www.acadianapain.com. You can also find more information on todays show at www.derrickhines.comLinks from the show:TMJLA.comDave's Google Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ji4KjpkRYM&msclkid=b38ff255bb7e11ec95ab6ef4a7a7ec82
For those of you who grew up not seeing yourself in books, or for those of you who did, but want to understand what that may be like for others - this next episode is one you don't want to miss. Today, we're so excited to speak with Abigail Hing Wen, the author of both the New York Times bestselling book Loveboat Taipei and her newest book, Loveboat Reunion, and hear all about her writing journey, why she writes YA books, more about the characters in Loveboat Reunion, and why it's so important to have more Asian voices and characters, or really, diverse characters doing very normal things, in the books that we read and those that we share with others. What to listen for: Abigail's journey to writing - including when she and MIsasha intersected at law school! How Abigail wants to move the needle on representation, and what representation even means The decision to write an Asian character with a learning difference - and the reaction from her audience about it Writing from experience vs writing from research, and the tenacity required to get a book of this quality out. 26 drafts!!!!! About Abigail: "Abigail Hing Wen has a knack for trying and succeeding at new things." Forbes 2021 Abigail is a New York Times Best Selling Author, a rare woman-in-tech leader specializing in artificial intelligence, a new filmmaker as well as a wife and mother of two. She writes and speaks about tech, AI ethics, women's leadership, implicit bias, equity, and transforming culture. Abigail penned the New York Times best-selling novel, Loveboat, Taipei (sequel, HarperCollins 2022). She is executive producing the book-to-film adaptation with ACE Entertainment, creators of the Netflix franchise, To All the Boys I've Loved Before. She and her work have been profiled in Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Fortune, Cosmopolitan, NBCNews, Bloomberg, Google Talk, and the World Journal, among others. Abigail holds a BA from Harvard, where she took coursework in film, ethnic studies, and government. She also holds a JD from Columbia and MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In her career in tech, she has negotiated multibillion-dollar deals on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, worked in venture capital, and hosted Intel's Artificial Intelligence podcast featuring leading industry experts including Andrew Ng, Facebook's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, and US Congresswoman Robin Kelly. She also serves with the Partnership on AI. “One of the most respected voices in fairness and AI.” Forbes. Abigail lives with her husband and two sons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her third novel (2023) explores cognitive differences in Silicon Valley and she is writing her fourth novel and a feature film script based in Silicon Valley, as well as producing a girls-in-tech animated series. For more information: www.abigailhingwen.com Follow IG/Twi: @abigailhingwen
In this video, we continue with Deepinder Goyal's journey of building Zomato – not the Zomato we all know today but this is the story of Zomato's origins. Before it was even called Zomato, it's the story of Foodlet and Foodiebay. How Deepinder Goyal met his co-founder Pankaj Chaddah: At Bain & Company, Deepinder used to play foosball with this guy at lunch breaks who would keep beating him again and again. This guy was Pankaj Chaddah. During their lunch break, Pankaj happened to look at Foodiebay's analytics and realised that Deepinder was struggling to attract traffic to his website. As Deepinder kept looking, the number of users suddenly tripped from 3 to 10 users. He noticed that Pankaj had changed his Google Talk status to ‘go check out foodiebay.com' – which helped people in discovering Foodiebay. This was the moment Deepinder realised that he really needed a co-founder to help him scale this startup idea and on 10th July 2008 Pankaj joined Foodiebay as Deepinder's co-founder. Competition and Foodiebay's growth: By 2008, Foodiebay was starting to see a lot of competition from food websites like Hungry Bangalore, Burrp, Tasty Khana, Plan for Me, BiteQuest and A Place To Dine. This competition also helped Foodiebay to be a part of the competition story in the online food space that got Foodiebay the media attention that they desperately needed. By the end of 2008, Foodiebay had grown significantly - more than 1,400 restaurants had uploaded their menus on their website and that was just in the Delhi-NCR region alone. Over the next few years, Foodiebay started to expand to cities like Mumbai and Kolkata – while also adding new features like restaurant ratings and reviews and personalised recommendations. They had managed to do all this – while still working at Bain & Company. Foodiebay was still just a side hustle for them. Deepinder and Pankaj quit Bain & Company to focus on Foodiebay: Once Foodiebay was making more money than the two co-founders were making from their job at Bain and Company, they decided it was time for them to shift their complete focus on Foodiebay. That was the only way they could grow Foodiebay and take it to the next level. So, in 2009, both Deepinder and Pankaj quit their jobs and became full-time entrepreneurs. Foodiebay almost didn't get investment from Info Edge: Now, Deepinder and Pankaj want to grow and scale Foodiebay as fast as they could. But to do that, they would need money – more money than what they were making from Foodiebay. Even when Deepinder was actively looking to invest, he had received an email from someone at Naurki.com but thinking that it was just another sales email, he ignored it. Eventually, he did open that email and he was shocked to realise that he had ignored an email from the founder of Naukri.com/Info Edge himself – he was Sanjeev Bikhchandani. He was surprised to see that Sanjeev was in fact a user of Foodiebay. So, Deepinder decided to set up a meeting with Sanjeev and within 72 hours of that meeting, Info Edge had invested $1 million into Foodiebay. How Foodiebay became Zomato: In one of their early conversations with Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Sanjeev asked them why they had chosen the name Foodiebay. Sanjeev even raised some objections about the name – first, adding ‘Food' in the name made their business a lot restrictive and then the big one was ‘ebay' – this could turn out to be a legal issue if global e-commerce website Ebay noticed Foodiebay. So, Sanjeev urged them to come up with a different name. That's when they decided to used the word ‘Tomato' to come up with ‘Zomato'. And just like that – Foodiebay became the food delivery giant that we all know today – Zomato.
JL Collins joins Carl and Doug to talk about a terrible investment experience with Real Estate. JL tells the story in his new book, How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable: A Cautionary Tale. You probably recognize JL from our other talk with him, or more likely the Google Talk, or his first book, The Simple Path to Wealth. JL is amazing! 🔥 Check out his new book on Amazon [Affiliate Link so we get a commission if you buy it. thanks!] 🔥 How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable ____ ____
Todays episode is, again, not recorded in the studio. I am travelling but brought some stuff... Todays topics will be:The new project building a new podcasting studioMoving away from GoogleImportant to empty your headThe new project building a new podcasting studioWhat I have right nowWhy I want to changeWhat I plan to doSplit the room in twoCreate sound absorbation platesTable to have the MicrophonesRequirementsMoving away from GoogleTalk about my last de Google Attempt ( 2019-06-11 - https://martinhaagen.se/ungoogleing-the-blog/)WebsiteTutanotaThis timeLeave all personal accounts - keep only company and potentially one for youtubeProtonmail - you can use external tools if you want (bridge app)Migration process - DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARK, MX (All in DNS), Import Emails and Labels from Gmail.Migration of 700 emails - roughly 1hrTvå domains for my account.Plan for other account (mbh.se)Plan for TutanotaImportant to Empty your headI was in Italy for a wedding last week and there was something that really hit me. When you travel to new places - you get a lot of new impressions (this doesn't have to be achieved by travel - meeting people, exercise, having a hobby) - this will make your brain associate and you will likely find new similarities and patterns. You will be creative. But if your head is already full with thoughts and things you need to remember. You don't have room and this will not happen as frequently. Thoughts tend to come in the "wrong" place. In the shower. Batteries for the flash light when the power goes out. Bread when you are at work and the important task when you are at the store. You may get great ideas but you loose them as fast. Create a habit to quickly capture things and keep them outside of your head. Device tools and strategies to do it easily. I usePen and Paper. Note taker wallet.IPhone voice recorder - standard app.Drafts - voice-to-text functionality.Make sure to capture them and store that capture in a place you trust. You will need to come back to it and decide what it means to you and if, and if so, what to do with it.
JL Collins joins Carl and Doug to talk about a terrible investment experience with Real Estate. JL tells the story in his new book, How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable: A Cautionary Tale. You probably recognize JL from our other talk with him, or more likely the Google Talk, or his first book, The Simple Path to Wealth. JL is amazing! 🔥 Check out his new book on Amazon [Affiliate Link so we get a commission if you buy it. thanks!] 🔥 How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable ____ Join the Mile High FI Club – It's our email list! ____ **Disclaimer: The podcast is for informational purposes. Maybe entertainment but we won't even make such a claim. You shouldn't take the info as financial, legal, or tax advice. We aren't certified financial planners or advisors. We're not qualified for much. So get advice from professionals.**
Ole er en mand, der ret nemt kommer til at kede sig. Når ting bliver for stabile, skal de lige resettes, så noget nyt kan ske. Det kaldes et ”shallow dive into chaos”, og det kan du lære meget mere om i dagens episode. Mere specifikt har Ole fundet på, at vi skal lave vores første motorvejs-podcast. Derfor er vi i dagens episode på vej mod Kvægtorvet, TV2, og målet er at have en episode i kassen, før bilen rammer Odense. Og af alle emner vælger vi en abstraktheds-topscorer, nemlig frameworket Cynefin. Men lad dig ikke narre. Cynefin er verdens mest sexede model, der kan anvendes til meget, meget mere end at tale om vilkår for kompleks problemløsning. Et par lidt dybere spadestik, og der åbner sig en verden af dynamikker og ledelsesredskaber, som verden har brug for. Turen ned af E45 skaber visse udfordringer, fordi trafik er… kompleks, og dine værter nemme at distrahere. Når dine værter at udfolde Cynefin inden Kvægtorvet? Og giver det overhovedet mening? Lyt med og få svaret.
Not so long ago the idea of a wellness travel company was quite foreign to most people. That did not stop today's guest from forging a path for herself, and opening up a market for others to follow in her wake. Linden Schaffer is the Founder of Pravassa and Wander Home, as well as the author of Living Well on the Road, and today we get to talk to her about her many adventures, what motivated her to start her companies and why she is so dedicated to healthier practices while exploring the world. Linden is a yoga and meditation practitioner and actually began her adventures while she was still working in the fashion industry. It was through these work trips that she began to notice her passion for exploration and the strategies that enabled her and others to have the most rewarding time abroad. Linden explains the different steps in her business journey and also gets into the philosophy of being changed by travel, something she carries with her every day. We also talk about Linden's reaction to the pandemic, how to minimize the many stresses of travel, and a whole bunch of great tips for the different components of a trip. Be sure to catch this unmissable chat with the wonderful Linden Schaffer!Today on On Arrival: • Linden's favorite travel memory, meeting a nomadic tribe in Northern India!• The hugely impactful experience that Linden had traveling to Australia as a teenager. • Traveling for work in the fashion industry; Linden's reflections on her previous career. • How Linden brought her personal wellness practices into the company. • Yoga, meditation, pilates, and nutrition; the foundation of Linden's wellness routine. • The origin story of Pravassa; and the roots the company has in the 2008 recession. • Where the name Pravassa comes from and the evolution of the company. • Customized wellness focused trips for people based on their specific requests and needs. • How Pravassa has shifted during the pandemic and their main offers currently. • The inspiration behind Linden's book and the questions that prompted its publication. • Smarter hygiene and safety on planes and in hotel rooms. • Preparation and getting to the hotel from the airport; Linden's recommendations! • Linden's top choice for a relaxing destination right now! Visit Pravassa and Wander Home to learn more about Linden Schaffer and her work.Follow Linden on Instagram and Twitter.Check out Linden's book Living Well on the Road and her Google Talk!If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. If you know someone who you think would enjoy this episode, please share it with them!Do you have a burning travel question? Visit www.onarrival.com to submit your question for KT & Jordan to answer on the next show!
Welcome to Episode 95 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Abigail Hing Wenon this week's episode. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned! Abigail is a New York Times Best Selling Author, a rare woman-in-tech leader specializing in artificial intelligence, a new filmmaker as well as a wife and mother of two. She writes and speaks about tech, AI ethics, women's leadership, implicit bias, equity, and transforming culture. Abigail penned the New York Times best-selling novel, Loveboat, Taipei (sequel, HarperCollins 2022). She is executive producing the book-to-film adaptation with ACE Entertainment, creators of the Netflix franchise, To All the Boys I've Loved Before. She and her work have been profiled in Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Fortune, Cosmopolitan, NBCNews, Bloomberg, Google Talk, and the World Journal, among others. Abigail holds a BA from Harvard, where she took coursework in film, ethnic studies, and government. She also holds a JD from Columbia and MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In her career in tech, she has negotiated multibillion-dollar deals on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, worked in venture capital, and hosted Intel's Artificial Intelligence podcast featuring leading industry experts including Andrew Ng, Facebook's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, and US Congresswoman Robin Kelly. She also serves with the Partnership on AI. Abigail lives with her husband and two sons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her third novel (2023) explores cognitive differences in Silicon Valley and she is writing her fourth novel and a feature film script based in Silicon Valley, as well as producing a girls-in-tech animated series. Loveboat, Taipei paperback comes out on August 24th. You can buy it on Amazon and find more information on Abigail's website. Please check out our Patreon at @asianhustlenetwork. We want AHN to continue to be meaningful and give back to the Asian community. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to contribute to our future, we hope you'll consider becoming a patron. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianhustlenetwork/support
EP271 - Amazon Q2 2021 Earnings Recap Jason is back on the road and has some retail store visit reports: Bed Bath & Beyond Flagship in Chelsea Harry Potter Store New York Google New York Neighborhood Goods Starbucks Reserve New York Amazon Q2 2021 Earnings Recap Episode 271 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 30, 2021. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 271 being recorded on Thursday July 29th 2021, I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-hosts Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners, Jason is one of my favorite days of the year and what's exciting is it happens four times a year yep you guessed it Amazon earnings but before we jump into some pretty dramatic earnings this quarter you are coming to us live live live from New York city so it's good that you're out there on the road again and word has it you have some trip reports these are their first trip reports you've been able to give our listeners for last 18 months. Jason: [1:14] Yeah they like this feels like a little bit of normalcy for me is talking to you from a hotel room like I used to do this all the time and I think the first show in 18 months we recorded from a hotel. Scot: [1:28] Nice what's jump into I know you've been on many many store visits let's what's what what are you been seeing. Jason: [1:35] Yeah it was fun I mostly want to focus on stores that had opened for the first time during the pandemic and surprisingly. There are several of those in New York City so I'll start with the one that is closest to my hotel and therefore the first one I went to this morning there's a new flagship Bed Bath & Beyond store that opened in Chelsea. [1:59] And ordinarily folks might say why do we care about a Bed Bath & Beyond store that doesn't sound very interesting and I get it but. The reason it's a little interesting to me is because twofold, they've had a major management and Leadership change at Bed Bath & Beyond they the new CEO is a guy Mark Triton we've talked about a little bit he was responsible for a lot of the new product development at Target before he joined Bed Bath & Beyond, and he announced that he was. [2:31] Doing a dramatic story design and so this Chelsea store is that store and I wanted to check out how he's changed it from what we traditionally think of as a bit Bath and Beyond and it is. Pretty substantial change. Bed Bath & Beyond traditionally is a pretty chaotic treasure hunt so very hard to find your way around people complain that they get lost and can't find an exit the, the lines of sight in a Bed Bath & Beyond or horrific so they stack product to the roof so you can't see very far in any direction in the store. Um and you know it's usually a cluttered mess and so this store. From a visual merchandising standpoint is a much more organized attractive store they it's dramatically more open it has clear lines of sight it has, um like a nice wayfinding system in a visual hierarchy you know it doesn't feel as much like everything's about to fall on top of you or you do it you when you walk in the store so it. [3:36] Visually is more impressive and it's more important it's a more pleasant environment to stand in. Um and so I'll be curious from a pure retail design standpoint I would say it's way better. [3:49] It's pretty off-brand for bed but for what we traditionally have thought of as Bed Bath and Beyond and and because of all those, those sort of clean cleanliness approaches it actually has a fairly significant SKU rationalization so there's fewer skus in the store. And there's probably some Bed Bath & Beyond loyalists that are like you know looking for some of those old products that they no longer have so I'll be curious how the, if they successfully attracts a new Shopper that didn't used to shop Bed Bath and Beyond and whether alienates any of the traditional Bed Bath & Beyond shoppers. Part two of that store is that as he did it Target Mark has launched the first. [4:35] Owned brands for Bed Bath and Beyond and those brands have sort of significant. Prominence in this new store design so so there's I individual vignettes for every one of the Bed Bath and Beyond Brands they're all like, very prominently signed as exclusive to Bed Bath and Beyond and their well executed with attractive. Packaging and visual merchandising that makes them easy to recognize and differentiate so. A bunch of sort of traditional things right that you kind of you know things that are that targets well known for doing well like you're now seeing and Bed Bath & Beyond, um a fear is that people could walk in the store and say wait this is starting to feel like a Target store. Um so we'll see if how that all plays out but I would say if I had one knock on the store. It seems like they've changed the design team but they haven't really changed the store operations team and so, the thing I noticed as well the store was quite well designed and in the product layouts all made sense the store was still starting to feel a bit like a cluttered mess because of the same employees that used to work at the old store are working in this store and their parking shopping carts full of product that they mean to restock on shelves like out in front of things and blocking things and. It just it doesn't seem like they've. [6:00] Um Extended the the new visual merchandising approach to to the Staffing and store operations yet so maybe a work in progress. Scot: [6:10] Well how did they decide from the shopping carts Niles big decluttered it you mentioned they have less cues but did they go to kind of more of like a kiosk kind of a much more clear, kind of Department kind of orientation or how. Jason: [6:26] It's very it's segmented by department and it may not be a fair representation because well, this is a huge store so it made it easier to kind of reconfigure things it's a two-story store so you know you have a home section you have a bedding section you have organization section, um And you know there aren't all these like random nooks and crannies amongst other things I'll bet you shrink as way better in this store than Bed Bath and Beyond because it's super easy for shoplifters to hide and a Bed Bath & Beyond. The end and what they tended to have is like a featured. [7:06] Product display for every department so you know the there's a. Um a sparkling water Cafe sponsored by SodaStream for example. And you know SodaStream was a fast turn product and in bed bath and beyond that here they have a woman working behind a counter, pouring samples of Sodastream and they've launched all these SodaStream launch this new product at Bed Bath & Beyond all these. Branded flavors you can add to the water so IQ can get the bubbly branded flavors and so she's she's sampling different flavors for people they have a coffee bar where they're making you know Keurig copies. Um the other owned products again had their own like featured display where they you know set up a bedroom or a kitchen display that, was was featuring those Bed Bath & Beyond products one of the Bed Bath and bringing Beyond Brands is about green cleanliness and so they you know they have like a cleaning display and stuff like that. [8:14] I would also say they leaned into Mobile in the store and qr-codes more than they have in the past so I all of these feature displays had a big QR code you can scan that took you to a. Sort of a product specific landing page on in their mobile app. In-store pickup was was much more prominent with like a dedicated area for for Bo piss pickups in the front of the store you could do self checkout with scan and go using the mobile app and there was a lot of. Merchandising promoting you to download the mobile app and scan things with your your scan QR codes with your phone. Scot: [8:54] Very cool indeed I know you love QR codes and I think you love more is digital fact tags any exciting digital fact eggs. Jason: [9:01] They did not have any digital fact tags again they are using a lot more QR codes then Bed Bath and Beyond has ever used before and it kind of makes sense because you know, all the restaurants taught everyone how to use qr-codes. During the pandemic and side note I've been getting a lot of complaints from people that the restaurants are not. Give going back to paper menus and I've certainly noticed that here in New York City is that like things are open up they're not requiring people wearing a mask but they still don't have menus and they expect you to order your own food from that app. Um in a QR code on the table so I wonder if that's going to be a permanent thing I've talked to several people that kind of miss the. Paper menus and ordering from a waitress. Scot: [9:47] Cool what a where'd you go after Triple B. Jason: [9:51] So that's in Chelsea and around the corner from this store is the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, in this store opened during the pandemic as well about six weeks ago I actually had a chance to visit the store before it open but this is the first time I got to visit it with people in it. Um And you know this is a super well done themed store we've talked a little bit about it but you know it's the same. Sort of team that that did The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park experience so it's. You know they use they use the actual like tools and dies for props for the movie to make everything they have a. [10:38] A bunch of cool experiences that there's a bunch of personalized products you can get your name engraved on a bunch of stuff you know you can get your own admission letter to Hogwarts, um they have exclusive products like there's a particular version of the the Juan that golden finch one that you can only get from this store so if you're a collector of the ones. There's some product scarcity they have they have food they have a bar essentially for sailing it's selling the. The butterbeer which is from the the movie and is a horrible sweetened alcoholic beverage. There's a non-alcoholic version as well they're in the movies there's a there's a magic candy store so they have a magic candy store. And then in so the merchandising and stuff is really good what's interesting about this store is, that you have to get in a virtual line to get in the store so you you scan a QR code on your phone and that reserve your place in line and then you get texted when you're allowed to come back to the store and go into the store and so I showed up at like. 10:30 scan the qr-code and it said that I was 231 first in line to walk into the store. [12:02] I had to wait for about 45 minutes so that's you know two or three Starbucks for me and then I got to go in the store and. In the store are two virtual reality theme park rides, and sadly I have not gotten an opportunity to try either of those you buy tickets for those online separately from entering the store and, the the tickets sold out for the entire window that they're selling tickets for like the first week that the store opens so so it'll be a few months before you you can get a ticket and do one of these virtual reality rides. Scot: [12:39] So you just there's no motion the Motions all VR or there's like a combo your. Jason: [12:44] My so I don't know my understanding is one of them is a is like a sit-in VR so I do think it has motion but it's like. It's not forward motion it's like the jerkiness I don't know what the right word for that is but it moves a few inches in every direction is my. Understanding and you're looking through a VR headset the other experience you're walking and you wear like a backpack and a VR headset and I'm people say it's amazing I'm curious how that works because. From previous VR experiences you know first time people are not super. Comfortable in the VR environment and like people tend to like fall and stumble and do all kinds of things so I'm. I'm not exactly envisioning how this works so I'll be curious to try it one day. Scot: [13:36] Yeah yeah a lot you'll get nauseous from this viewer thinks do so I'll have to wonder how toned down it'll be. Jason: [13:43] Yeah yeah and I wonder what what cleaning protocol issues. Scot: [13:48] What well since it's magic that can just flick the wand and they're good to go did what house did you get sorted into. Jason: [13:55] Yeah so I didn't visit the Sorting Hat I did you know get my picture taken in Hagrid shoes and in the. It's quite a bit taller than me I'm about as wide as him but that's a separate issue, the the I got my picture taken in the phone booth and I got Steven a griffin door, Jersey and some unlimited Flavor jelly beans. Scot: [14:27] Nice very cool Bertie Botts. Jason: [14:31] Yeah exactly. Scot: [14:33] So you left their half drunk off butterbeer and where'd you go. Jason: [14:39] Exactly so then I went to the Meatpacking District which is just a little south of Chelsea. And my main destination there was that there is a new Google Store for the first time so Google has had pop-up stores and temporary stores in the past but this is their first, permanently open store, and it's open in what still is a Google office but was formerly the Google headquarters in in New York and so it just took like the ground floor of that and turned it into a retail experience. Scot: [15:16] So it's all the just mostly the Google what do they call it the Google home or Google Talk stuff. Jason: [15:22] Yeah it's so mobile so all the the Androids and pixels it's Google home so nest and and the. Google version of Alexa which is I think called Google home and then some some. Like miscellaneous stuff like there some gaming products and some things like that. Scot: [15:47] Cool are they still making Nexus phones haven't seen those in a long time. Jason: [15:52] Yes and I don't I don't think Nexus is them their version is called the pixel so the Google pixel is a Google branded Android phone. Scot: [16:01] They went from Nexus to pixel urgent. Jason: [16:03] Yeah and they might have a tablet that still branded Nexus but I'm not super current on the Google Hardware ecosystem, I would I would say I was a little underwhelmed by the store like it's a perfectly reasonably executed store it frankly doesn't feel any different than their pop-up stores it seems like it has a very consistent, um merchandising approach that doesn't feel like they invent anything new there's no digital fact eggs there's no qr-codes there's very limited product information and it feels more like a showroom than a store so like. There's you know one of everything kind of locked down and you have to talk to a person to get help you can't like. Pick up your own products and pay for them and I bought a few things from the store and they struggled to take my money like they. They all have mobile point-of-sale all the sales associates have mobile point-of-sale systems but like. Didn't seem like they mostly knew how to work them and this is a story that's been open for five weeks and none of them were logged into their point-of-sale terminals so they had to like take it out of their belt and go through like a five-minute like authentication process before they could take my money which, kind of tells you that they're not doing a high volume of selling stuff out of the store. Scot: [17:18] Did you try to pay with Apple pay. Jason: [17:20] I did in fact I didn't try I succeed. Scot: [17:23] Whoa really. Jason: [17:24] Yeah the in so I literally like looked at and then I might can I pay with Apple pay and then he like looked at me and said you mean NFC payment sure. [17:39] Yeah so that did work eventually once I found someone that had was logged into their point-of-sale terminal I would say the best part of this store, was that they had several vignettes in separate little rooms that were kind of great retail theater that was kind of telling the story of a particular genre of Google products so like I said down on a couch. In a in a little room that's you know kind of designed to look like a small house. And they teach you about all the Google Home Products so so they have like a projector that projects text down on the coffee table in front of you and they come up with all these scenarios like in the window, you see the silhouette of a UPS delivery driver come up and you hear someone knock on the door and then the table says you know teaches you how to use Google home to look at the front door camera. And so you can see the UPS driver and an approved the package and then, a woman in the background answer of your cooking lunch and the table teaches you how to use Google home to find a recipe to cook and you know the table teaches you how to pick some music to listen to and how to turn up the lights and run a good night routine to get ready for bed stuff like that so it was nice retail theater you know I can only serve one group group at a time and so again it feels like. [19:00] You know exactly what it is the stores you know mostly focus on sort of being a. In education showroom for for these Google Technologies more than like a high-volume retail. Scot: [19:14] Colts after being quote unquote that guy that had to pay with Apple pay at the Goodwill store where where did you go next. Jason: [19:21] I think they were just thrilled I was bad guy that paid for something, but yeah so then to other stores that are kind of kitty corner from the the Google store that I had been to before but like I really only opened just before the pandemic so I wanted to check them out again while I was there. The there's a neighborhood good store so we've talked about neighborhoods this is like one of these um d2c department store Concepts where it's like a shared retail space and Brands rent rent. Space primarily like DDC Challenger Brands rent space inside of this this department store so there's a bunch of vignettes in the store we visited one in Texas I think you were with me. And so this is a the Manhattan one and you know as I've discussed before like this it's reasonably well executed I actually think neighborhood Goods does. The best job amongst the companies that do this but I'm I'm not super bullish on the concept. Because it's the big problem is it's kind of a chaotic hodgepodge of Assortment like there isn't a merchant saying customers are coming to our store to solve problem X and so I'm going to have these products that solve that problem, so it's kind of a. [20:42] You have to go to the store you know willing to be completely surprised by what they have in the store right and it might be beauty products it might be a parallel in might be Beach where you know you couldn't go there with any specific need and have any confidence that, that there was going to be a product that match that need their but I would say. Neighborhood Goods feels a little more curated and a little more focused than with a point of view than some of these others. [21:10] And then I visited the the most important retailer in Manhattan which is the Starbucks Reserve store so, they're this is there's a small Fleet of Starbucks stores that are called the Starbucks Reserve stores they all have working, Coffee Roasters in them and have you buy the premium beings from any Starbucks anywhere in the world that come in the black bags they're getting roasted on premises in the stores, these doors all have like alcohol and unique coffee bars, in a bunch of drinks that you can't get in a regular store and they usually have some like third-party restaurants in the stores and their huge extravagant beautiful architecture. Um stores so the largest coffee shop in the world is a Starbucks Roastery in mine in my city in Chicago the first one of these was in Seattle which is home of Starbucks, the only other one in the u.s. is this Manhattan one in flat iron which is. Um well we execution but I would say nothing that I haven't seen in one of the other. Starbucks reserves and then there now is like a Starbucks Reserve in Shanghai and a Starbucks Reserve most controversial of all in one of the cities in Italy. [22:28] And I say controversially because the Italians like their coffee and don't necessarily appreciate the American coffee brand so it was kind of a bold move on Starbucks part to open this. Ginormous Coffee Emporium in in Italy. Scot: [22:42] Read teach them how real coffee is made. Jason: [22:45] Exactly my favorite feature of the Starbucks Reserve stores is I mentioned they wrote their own beans in the store and then they have these fancy coffee bars. So what they've done is they they have a Willy Wonka style vacuum tube or a series of tubes, so to me it's a metaphor for the internet that runs from the the Roasterie to the coffee bar and so the you literally like if you're there when they're roasting can watch beans. Flow through these tubes straight from where they've been roasted to the bar where they get ground into coffee drinks. Yeah yeah it's very very Willy wonka-esque and again the startx folks do a great job of visual merchandising, this kind of reminds me of the first time I walked into a Nike Town and it was kind of this like. Temple to the Nike brand and they did all these things that back then were not common like they you know design the door handles of the store to be swooshes and all these cool little touches, and in many ways this these Starbucks stores feel like the modern successor to that. Scot: [23:58] I noticed you didn't mention one of our favorite stores beta and that made me think about one of the big buzzes before the pandemic was that Hudson yards event is that right yeah is that what's going on with with those guys. Jason: [24:12] Um well so I don't have super first-hand information Hudson yard is still open a giant floor of Hudson yard was a Neiman Marcus the fanciest Neiman Marcus and that is out of business. Um I don't think they have another tenant for that yet but I didn't go to Hudson yard and this visit it's actually in this area so it would have been. [24:34] Possible to walk too but I just didn't have time and that Hudson yard does have a beta. You know I think beta struggled a little bit in the pandemic they kind of were optimized to be pandemic unfriendly like most of their stores are in malls like heads in yard that had. Significant decline in trout in traffic, and they're kind of the opposite of Essentials right like so there they have a very curated point of view their Consumer Electronic gadgets but again you wouldn't go there because you need a Bluetooth headset like you'd go there to find some new. [25:10] New Gadget that you didn't know existed that you wanted and I think that kind of shopping you know was particularly impacted by the pandemic like you tended only go to the store when you really needed something so, um you know I think some of the founders of beta including bib who's been on our show I think at least once, we're kind of public during the pandemic about some of the the challenges they were having trying to take care of their employees and you know stay open and generate Revenue, and I would say you know one thing that I've been a little critical of beta I think they do a bunch of things very well they've always been slow to embrace omni-channel in the web so they really focus on the in-store experience and I've been kind of critical that they don't have a, equivalent online experience and I have a feeling that that that deficiency probably you know was extra painful during the pandemic so hopefully they're starting to recover now. Scot: [26:05] Yeah yeah hope they make it too because this one of my favorite favorite gadgety places to go. Jason: [26:09] Yeah I have to be honest because I also I didn't even mention it because they're so boring but I bounced into the Flatiron Apple Store, and it like it dawned on me how fun I used to think it was to walk into a text or or a computer store or even a Best Buy because you would always discover something you didn't know existed that you wanted. And that doesn't happen anymore like there's there's very few sores that surprise and Delight you with their product assortment like you know because of the. The you know all the digital pre-shopping like you're way more likely to know about all the cool products from from the web before ever before you'd ever you know stumbled across it in the store and in the case of Apple. There you know rationalizing their inventory to exclusively Apple products so they just have less interesting accessories and you know lesser-known things than they've ever had before. Scot: [27:06] That sounds like a busy day you're missed. Jason: [27:10] Yeah yeah I'm a little tired and then of course I had to spend about eight hours deep diving into the Amazon earnings. Scot: [27:17] Yeah that's a good set of well thanks for doing those trip reports for so no enjoy hearing hearing your exploits as you're out there and hopefully you can keep exploring this Delta variant won't shut you down so let's jump into the Amazon quarter. [27:45] So Amazon released calendar Q2 results and I'd say it was the toughest Amazon quarter and quite a while so, you know the headline here is in Wall Street vernacular companies put out their own projections and then Wall Street Khan does their own math and which is called consensus a lot of times based on the history of how the company does Wall Street will either go above kind of what the company says or below it or whatnot and I would qualify and when you when you exceed wall Street's expectations that's called a beat and then when you then Wall Street always looking out it's a what have you done for me lately or in the future coming so then they're always thinking about you know what's going on in Q3 and they already have consensus for that so you either beat or miss the current quarter and then raise neutral or lower than forward quarter or the years Viewpoint and this is this is kind of the the worst scenario here is it was a myth so they missed wall Street's Revenue expectations and then they lowered Revenue expectations going forward so so that's no good and we'll dig into what happened there and then the Silver Lining here though is the in this part is really isolated to the on What's called the segment called online store which is effectively the e-commerce part of the business which was Amazon obviously is pretty big and important. [29:13] But they actually exceeded expectations on the high margin parts of the business that everyone really values even more than when you see the sum of the parts kind of things so things like the advertising piece we talked about AWS and some of the other the third party Marketplace they actually exceeded expectations on those side so if there's a silver lining it's that they kind of you know the e-commerce year-over-year comparisons were really tough and we'll go into why but then the other non e-commerce parts of the business did really well also as a reminder this is the first quarter where Jeff Jesse is taking over to the new CEOs taking over so the timing. [29:56] Yeah sorry yes I do Andy Andy Jesse is taking her so, you know the timing is tough for him because he gets to kind of reside over you know what feels like a long time since the company has missed a quarter but in a way, you know it's a chance it's kind of what a lot of Wall Street people are also called kitchen sink quarter so you kind of like if you're going to have a little bit of a rough quarter you might as well sweep everything into this quarter lower expectations and that resets the bar hopefully so that you can then start to get back to exceeding that those expectations so a lot of folks were kind of saying yeah. Projection didn't felt pretty aggressively low compared to the quarter so a lot of people were kind of framing it as maybe that's what's going on there. Jason: [30:44] Yeah it's interesting I listen to the the webcast. Where you know reporters and analysts get to call in and ask questions and you know one of the questions was kind of critical asking like what they what they missed in terms of pandemic trends that that adversely affected in this quarter and and I don't remember who the Amazon employee was that answered but he's like we've been pretty consistently bad at predicting the impact of the pandemic he's like you know in the in the good quarters we wildly underestimated what would happen and you know this quarter we over it we underestimated the the counter Trends and so you know he's like. At least we've been consistent in being being wrong. Scot: [31:33] Yeah it is hard to predict even now you know it's hard to predict what the second half of this year is going to look like right you can you know the data the immediate data is telling you everything is like on fire in but then you know this Delta variant you know there's always talk so shutdowns and stuff again so the cone of uncertainty is quite large right now for everybody. Jason: [31:55] Yeah and go ahead I was just going to say I had I almost wonder if. Amazon like is taking a little extra hit for being one of the earlier Q2 earnings calls. Because I feel like everyone is going to have a kitchen sink quarter it's going to be super complicated and they're going to be ups and downs. You know for a for a lot of retailers and I think you know the analysts are kind of learning about the factors through these first couple earnings calls but you know the, the Amazon quarter may not look as bad you know once once we get through the whole learning seen each season and see how everyone shook out. Scot: [32:35] Yeah I think what we'll do is we'll kind of track this through the next couple weeks and and maybe it actually won't look bad in hindsight but kind of been one of the first ones to report the only one that I saw that came out earlier was Shopify and they had a pretty rip-roarin quarter they exceeded that was a beat and exceed so so you know it's kind of kind of weird of the mix of what's going on here and, I can't hundred percent parse out like why would Shopify do better than Amazon and you know why would smbs do better than big old Amazon so maybe maybe it's just a comp thing you ever your butt will dig into that for listeners. Jason: [33:15] Sad no my hypothesis on Shopify would be that the pandemic taught a lot of small businesses that they needed a website and, ideally if they were in one of these categories where they were Outsourcing digital to Door – or instacart or you know my web grocer or someone else, that they started thinking about needing their own website and if they were you know mainly selling through marketplaces and then you know Amazon throttled FBA, like they suddenly realized they needed their own direct sales and so I do think. There are a bunch of the pandemic trends that would particularly cause small business this is to invest in their own website for the first time and so that that could have could mean that a bunch of, customers on boarded onto Shopify which kind of helped Goose their number. Scot: [34:08] Yeah they don't break out new net new. Jason: [34:11] No no I wish they did because that again like they had a huge GMB growth but the problem is we never know if that's because the stores that have been using Shopify for a while doubled in size or because they doubled the amount of stores they host. Scot: [34:25] Let's dig into the Amazon numbers to kind of give the context is kind of one of the early results here and then then we'll follow up with some more details so overall sales increased 24% taking out the effect of currency and variations for the quarter 213 billion for the second quarter that is the slowest growth since 2019 and that's when I stopped looking back so you know Amazon's been growing much much faster than 24% for quite a while here so this was a very slow quarter which is kind of funny because pre-pandemic e-commerce is growing 15% so so it's all relative I guess but slow for Amazon. [35:08] Actually above Baseline for normal e-commerce I would say this cause them to miss the consensus so the number they came out with his 113 consensus was 115 and change and then Amazon they did kind of come within their own guidance but at kind of the midpoint and whereas for the last six plus quarters they've come in at the higher beat their own guidance and then another thing you know if as you think about these moving parts Q 221 had prime day and last year it was in Q4 of 20 so we should have had the benefit of prime day but then you know obviously, Q 220 covid-19 at its peak in Amazon was was going to be benefiting from that Surge and all the PPE stuff they were pushing out and Essentials and all that and then obviously we don't have that this year so lots of moving Parts going on and then Amazon does peel the onion a little bit with the segments and want you walk us through that. Jason: [36:13] Yeah happy to so the big segments that the Amazon discloses are North America international and AWS, so North America in Q2 of, 20/20 had grown 43 percent. Tends to be growing a little slower than International it's the biggest piece of the business I want to say it so I 62 percent of the business, and so this this Q2 it only grew by 22 percent so the rate of growth substantially slowed down. Um The you know a couple of the things we try to zero in on in that are the online sales and the brick-and-mortar sales so the online stores grew by 13 percent which again is, the slowest rate of growth for North America online stores in at Amazon that I can find in history. [37:19] So so that that's a pretty significant deceleration and you know pre-pandemic we used to talk about e-commerce growing about 12% a year, and Amazon was typically their store their online store sales North American Sales were growing in though I Thirty to forty percent a year so, um it we won't know yet the Department of Commerce data on e-commerce won't come out for Q2 until August, but it's very possible that this will be the first time in a very long time that Amazon's growth in e-commerce was slower than the industry average I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that that's not going to be true. The industry average is going to slow down as well but like you know they're those numbers are flirting with each other and usually Amazon as well above the the industry average. [38:10] Um and then also interesting and quite complicated is physical stores So Physical stores had a rebound they were up 10% Q2 of this year versus Q2 of last year, and you know. Previous quarters had been going down quite a bit so Q2 of last year was down 13 percent from the previous year so. [38:35] The the thing then think about here is physical stores that Amazon mostly means Whole Foods so that they have about 15 on Hall food stores or maybe 70 now, but most of the revenue is Whole Food stores and there's a quirk where when someone buys an online delivery order from Whole Foods. Amazon online sales gets the credit instead of Whole Foods so so for a long time the stores their number has been declining and and the hypothesis has been that's because. [39:10] More people are learning how to shop online and that makes the, the people that are buying from the cash registers at Whole Foods look smaller and so this was the first quarter in a long time that Whole Foods had a net growth, which is interesting because that's grocery is not necessarily one of the categories that you would you know. Grocery had a huge quarter during the pandemic and so you would you would expect not to see real Healthy Growth in grocery stores this year comping against the pandemic quarter from last year so, I found that interesting so then the next category is international it was a little more, robust versus usual it was up 26%. Which I guess I misspoke because that's that's actually a lot slower than usual. [40:09] So so that also was kind of a downer and then AWS, um what what Drew quite robust so it was up 37 percent versus for example being up 29% the same quarter last year. So so the rate of growth of AWS accelerated and you know the funny thing is how this plays out because of these diverse businesses Amazon has and the fact that, you know a WS and some of the other businesses are so margin favorable when, you know retail is the biggest piece of their gross sales so so when retailgeek us down there grow sales go down but their profitability goes up basically. And conversely if retail has a gang Buster quarter likely is going to have a negative impact on their on their margins so. So you know there's always happy and unhappy news and in a company as complex's Amazon these days. Scot: [41:07] Yeah the International Center success scanning the results on a psycho 36 percent that's good but then it was like X FX was 26 percent so 10 points you know which is a pretty material chunk of that growth was due to currency so that was interesting the dollar must have been strong a year ago and then quite weak now to have moved ten percent against the basket of currencies they're measuring against. Jason: [41:32] Yeah in the press conference the CFO called out that this is like one of the, most complicated highest fluctuations of the international currencies and so he was he you know he was trying to exclusively talk about, the the normalized numbers because he's like you know this was a very unusual quarter from the currency standpoint. Scot: [41:53] Yes I've done this having operated. On the international side it's super frustrating because you're like oh man we had a great quarter and then you get the results of the taking out the currency then like knocks like half of the work in there and you're kind of like that's not fair I'd have no control over that but it is what it is. Jason: [42:12] Indeed and it is part of the cost of doing business on that scale unfortunately so a couple of things kind of Sub sub numbers within those numbers that were interesting. You know increasingly Amazon makes a lot of money selling services to the third-party Sellers and so the 3rd party seller Services number grew quite robustly that group 34 percent, that's a nice high margin business and I think the third-party Sellers as a percentage of total sales hit a new high mark, 422 they were 56 percent of all sales so I that's the highest number I remember because I want to say was 54% last quarter which was at the time the highest number. Scot: [42:57] Yeah that's interesting it's been for longest time it was just a fifty percent for years and years and then it seems to be on a bit of a take off right now just which is interesting I wonder if it's. Conspiracy theorists would say hmm I wonder if this is a way of further insulating themselves from scrutiny from from any Trust. Jason: [43:18] Yeah and then when number that I was curious to get your take on so subscription Services were up for 28%. And the thing that's interesting to me about that is I have always assumed that the bulk of subscription Services is prime. Um and I actually think there's some data points from outside of the earnings call that point to the. The growth rate of Prime members slowing substantially for Amazon so I think you know there were a bunch of forecast that that, you know they may have only added to % Nu Prime members on Prime Day last year which. You know the there over half of all the households in America are prime numbers so they're kind of is the law of large numbers kicking in here but you know they used to get. Very robust double-digit growth in Prime members just from Prime day and it felt like those things are slowing down so I was surprised to see subscription services so high do you have a. A take on why that might have been. Scot: [44:19] Yeah so let's see so we had to Prime days in the last under a year so we had October and then June, most people would be in there free window isn't there free window of prime still we get 30 days free. Yes I don't think June would have really moved the number so it must be residual from. Q4 now that does show up they'll kind of start in q1 I don't know that that's interesting I do I have read reports that there you know some of the international Prime was kind of slow to take off and they've tweaked the offerings in some of the countries like the UK has been popular but other parts of Europe like maybe Italy and Spain has been a little sluggish and then I think they've tweaked the offering and then India I think they've been doing a big push there if I recall so so maybe again it's kind of it'll break unfortunately don't break down that that piece by North American International like the other pieces we can kind of see my bet would be us as slow and maybe a lot of it came from. Jason: [45:24] No that's a great point I wasn't I wasn't thinking about that but you're probably exactly right in a reminder for listeners the prime offering in a lot of other countries is, significantly different than the North American offering the North American offerings the most robust so there's a lot of things, that you get in that North American offering that they're they you know they're not doing same-day delivery and every Market they're not doing Prime Video in all 22 markets where they offer Prime so. It said that the the offering is more compelling some places than others. [45:56] Um and then the most important number of all Scott you know the number I always focus on is the super descriptive other Revenue, and so as a reminder other Revenue we think in Amazon's case is mostly their advertising Revenue in this this has been a rapidly growing number of for them every quarter and it was rapidly growing again, it had 83 percent growth to you know just under eight billion dollars for the quarter I did some quick math and I think my math ended up being slightly different than you so I wonder if I did. Not trying to see adjusted and you did currency adjusted or something like that, but I think the Run rate at the last four quarters for other is now 28 billion. So that they are they are like the clear number three advertising Network in the US and they are they're rapidly gaining on Google and Facebook. Scot: [46:56] I think the trailing 12 would be that number and then I think the Run rate would be about eight times four which would be 32 would be the run right yeah. Jason: [47:05] Fair enough yes yeah although I don't think that's completely even so yeah. Scot: [47:10] Yeah that assumes that they're going to at least do that as well as they did this quarter 24 now this this is one of the things that would have had a in the quarter bump from Prime day yeah and I I heard anecdotally you probably have a better kind of quantitative data on this that this Prime day people get like really Knives Out fighting for customers and spinning out a ton on ad dollars as did you hear, some similar stuff. Jason: [47:36] Yeah and I think like every other advertising platform out of the world in the world like that Amazon is getting better and better about optimizing, the pricing for Prime which means that it is less profitable for the advertisers right because they're getting as much as they possibly can so the kind of the the return on ad spend is going down as the revenue to Amazon is is going up, um and increasingly like there is no visibility for your deals on Prime day like unless you support them with ads. So in the same way like no one's going to see your organic content on Facebook if you don't buy an ad you know nobody is going to see your product listings on on Amazon without add support. Scot: [48:26] Yep pretty amazing how fast they made that go from a hey if you want a little bit extra traffic do this now it's like hey if you want to sell anything you better run some ads. Jason: [48:36] Yeah it's the bane of my existence because every retailer is trying to recreate that you know on a smaller scale and. It creates all kinds of complications as a brand it's really hard right now because you're getting extorted for retail advertising dollars from all these retailers there are many cases don't have the reach to justify the money they're asking for but in some cases you can't say no because they're your wholesale partner is going to kick you out of the store if you don't give him the money so it's interesting. Scot: [49:06] Of course those were the segments and then so I would say well she was kind of looking at that like kind of a mixed bag you know we wish they had at least meet expectations there but it's nice that the high-margin things kind of beat our expectations and then the guidance came out and that's kind of like where it was like a this is this does not look good so what happened here is a guided to 106 to a hundred and twelve billion so at the midpoint it's 109 that is 13 percent year-over-year growth consensus was at 119 so they're off by kind of 10 billion there they, lowered the expectation by 10 billion and then during the Q2 results we didn't go into it in super detail but the they missed the Top Line because those high margin businesses exceeded the overall profitability of the business was decent right so it wasn't wasn't terrible. [49:58] But here they've now lowered the bottom line to pretty considerably below expectations and then that brings down the whole year so you know I looked after hours the stock was down 8% I think it'll be a little bit of a bloodbath tomorrow as everyone kind of like real lions towards you know this well what is it is a 13% grower I don't think anyone had modeled out 13 percent growth for Amazon this year so so that will be a little bit of a blood bath and a resetting them expectations which I think again if I'm the new CEO this is might as well go ahead and do it now and and then hopefully he can kind of like use that Foundation to start beating exceeding expectations but that was that was kind of the ugliest part I think that really kind of you know everyone's kind of mix quarter you know hopefully the guidance will be kind of you know not really impacted and it was kind of like a little bit of a shock at the end there about how low they did Diamond Stone. Jason: [50:58] Yeah yeah and again Amazon was one of the very first retailers to report their Q2 numbers and so I think it is going to be super interesting to follow the rest of the earnings. And see where the rest of retail lands. You know and whether they're adjusting their guidance for the end of the year because pretty good point that this fear of uncertainty is huge. And you know nobody knows like are we going to be back in the pandemic behaviors in Q3 and Q4 as variance get worse are, you know is they're going to be spending their money on weddings and vacations that you know had been deferred and instead of in retail like how does the. The you know tweaks in government stimulus and the childcare credits and all those things impact spending like there's just so many factors. It's really complicated and it's going to be interesting to see how those all net out for the Walmarts and targets and Best Buys of the world. Scot: [51:55] Yeah and you know for listeners we're going to this is kind of one one data point and we're going to keep track of other retailers as they report and kind of sort through it for you so we can figure out what's going on in the data and you know here in retail Land by the time July rolls around and we had in August we're all thinking about the fourth quarter so what we're trying to do is parse these tea leaves and see if we can help you think through any strategies for the fourth quarter so that's going to be where we'll start to lay down some content here in the next several episodes. Jason: [52:26] Yeah now a number of listeners asked me to ask you like because Amazon had such a soft quarter it's presumably going to affect the stock is that going to slow down your plans to buy a ticket on Virgin Galactic at all or. Scot: [52:39] I have no desire to go to space so I'm more than happy to watch the billionaires do their thing and you know and I'm glad they're not spending my tax dollars so I'm all good with what they're up to. Jason: [52:53] Fair enough I think the listeners will be thrilled to know that you're staying safe. Scot: [52:58] Doing my best. Jason: [53:01] Awesome well I think that wraps up this this quick take on Amazon earnings as always if this was valuable to you we sure would appreciate that five star review on iTunes. Scot: [53:16] Thanks everyone for joining us and… Jason: [53:19] Until next time happy Commercing.
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Dit is een interessant boek om te ontdekken waarom succesvolle bedrijven falen op innovatie. Het ligt niet aan het management of aan het ontbreken van focus op de klant, ze doen eigenlijk alles goed en toch gaat het mis. We lazen The Innovator's Dilemma van Clayton M. Christensen of het Innovatiedilemma in de Nederlandse vertaling. Het boek is opgedeeld in twee delen: Waarom grootse bedrijven kunnen falen (1 t/m 4)Het managen van disruptieve technologische verandering (5 t/m 11)Handleiding – met handige vragen De kern van het boek uit 1997 gaat over waarom zoveel succesvolle bedrijven later vervallen in middelmatigheid of zelfs volledig verdwijnen door nieuwkomers. Het innovator's dilemma bestaat uit de vraag die managers telkens weer proberen te beantwoorden: Moeten we investeren in een ontwikkeling waardoor ons product beter wordt voor onze bestaande klanten met een hoge marge, ofMoeten we investeren in een ontwikkeling, in een product dat slechter is dan onze huidige producten, tegen een slechtere marge, en in iets wat onze huidige klanten niet nodig hebben? Er zijn twee soorten innovaties in dit boek: Sustaining innovationDisruptive innovation In zijn Google Talk uit 2016 (zie video) zie je dat de schrijver zijn theorie heeft verrijkt – mede naar aanleiding van zijn boek Competing Against Luck – want dan praat Christensen over de volgende innovaties: Potential productsSustaining innovationDisruptive productsEfficience innovation Het bijzondere is dat de managers in de bedrijven met sustaining innovation doen wat het beste is voor het bedrijf en daar in hoogtijdagen ook voor worden geroemd. Ze doen precies het juiste, het product beter, efficiënter, sterker maken door in gesprek te zijn met klanten (zie ook Hidden Champions). Door te leren van bestaande klanten zijn ze in staat om verder te groeien en meer te verdienen. Een nieuwkomer die wil concurreren in de top van de bestaande markt krijgt het lastig, de bestaande partijen zullen je uiteindelijk vernietigen of overnemen. Nieuwkomers doen er goed aan om onder aan de markt te beginnen. Een segment in de markt waar de marges laag zijn waarin ze met rust gelaten worden door de bestaande partijen. Hiervoor gaan ze op zoek naar andere klanten. De eerste hoofdstukken zijn taai, lang en gedetailleerd. Het gaat onder andere over de disk drive markt en staalproducten. Bij de disk drives zie je dat er nieuwe ontwikkelingen zijn geweest naar een kleiner product, met minder opslag en duurder, die voor de huidige afnemers niet goed waren. Deze nieuwkomers bouwden van onderop een nieuwe markt op een klommen langzaam maar zeker door naar de top van de markt, tot een andere nieuwkomer het weer van ze overnam. Hij geeft ook voorbeelden met Toyota die de Amerikaanse markt binnendrong met een heel goedkope en kleine auto. Waarbij Toyota het later lastig kreeg met indringers als Kia en Hyundai. In zijn Google Talk laat hij tijdens de Q&A zien waarom veel bedrijven die nu als disruptive worden gezien niet vallen onder zijn definitie, zoals Tesla. Of het voorbeeld van Honda die met een betaalbare motor de Amerikaanse markt binnendrong. Bedrijven die succesvol in staat waren om een nieuw markt op te zetten met een niet rendabel product naast het bestaande hogemargeproduct deden dat op verschillende locaties. Zo wist HP de inktjetmarkt binnen te dringen naast de bestaande laserprinters vanuit een andere locatie in de VS met geheel eigen management en richtlijnen om succes te meten. Soms starten een aantal medewerkers van het bestaande bedrijf die wel toekomst zien in een nieuwe technologie maar geen gehoor krijgen binnen het bedrijf. Een slim bedrijf neemt een aandeel in een ander bedrijf om de eerste ontwikkelingen te financieren en kan bij succes eenvoudig de overige aandelen overnemen en integreren in het bestaande bedrijf. Beter management, harder werken, en minder domme fouten maken is in ieder geval niet het antwoord op het innovatie...
Dit is een interessant boek om te ontdekken waarom succesvolle bedrijven falen op innovatie. Het ligt niet aan het management of aan het ontbreken van focus op de klant, ze doen eigenlijk alles goed en toch gaat het mis. We lazen The Innovator's Dilemma van Clayton M. Christensen of het Innovatiedilemma in de Nederlandse vertaling. Het boek is opgedeeld in twee delen: Waarom grootse bedrijven kunnen falen (1 t/m 4)Het managen van disruptieve technologische verandering (5 t/m 11)Handleiding – met handige vragen De kern van het boek uit 1997 gaat over waarom zoveel succesvolle bedrijven later vervallen in middelmatigheid of zelfs volledig verdwijnen door nieuwkomers. Het innovator's dilemma bestaat uit de vraag die managers telkens weer proberen te beantwoorden: Moeten we investeren in een ontwikkeling waardoor ons product beter wordt voor onze bestaande klanten met een hoge marge, ofMoeten we investeren in een ontwikkeling, in een product dat slechter is dan onze huidige producten, tegen een slechtere marge, en in iets wat onze huidige klanten niet nodig hebben? Er zijn twee soorten innovaties in dit boek: Sustaining innovationDisruptive innovation In zijn Google Talk uit 2016 (zie video) zie je dat de schrijver zijn theorie heeft verrijkt – mede naar aanleiding van zijn boek Competing Against Luck – want dan praat Christensen over de volgende innovaties: Potential productsSustaining innovationDisruptive productsEfficience innovation Het bijzondere is dat de managers in de bedrijven met sustaining innovation doen wat het beste is voor het bedrijf en daar in hoogtijdagen ook voor worden geroemd. Ze doen precies het juiste, het product beter, efficiënter, sterker maken door in gesprek te zijn met klanten (zie ook Hidden Champions). Door te leren van bestaande klanten zijn ze in staat om verder te groeien en meer te verdienen. Een nieuwkomer die wil concurreren in de top van de bestaande markt krijgt het lastig, de bestaande partijen zullen je uiteindelijk vernietigen of overnemen. Nieuwkomers doen er goed aan om onder aan de markt te beginnen. Een segment in de markt waar de marges laag zijn waarin ze met rust gelaten worden door de bestaande partijen. Hiervoor gaan ze op zoek naar andere klanten. De eerste hoofdstukken zijn taai, lang en gedetailleerd. Het gaat onder andere over de disk drive markt en staalproducten. Bij de disk drives zie je dat er nieuwe ontwikkelingen zijn geweest naar een kleiner product, met minder opslag en duurder, die voor de huidige afnemers niet goed waren. Deze nieuwkomers bouwden van onderop een nieuwe markt op een klommen langzaam maar zeker door naar de top van de markt, tot een andere nieuwkomer het weer van ze overnam. Hij geeft ook voorbeelden met Toyota die de Amerikaanse markt binnendrong met een heel goedkope en kleine auto. Waarbij Toyota het later lastig kreeg met indringers als Kia en Hyundai. In zijn Google Talk laat hij tijdens de Q&A zien waarom veel bedrijven die nu als disruptive worden gezien niet vallen onder zijn definitie, zoals Tesla. Of het voorbeeld van Honda die met een betaalbare motor de Amerikaanse markt binnendrong. Bedrijven die succesvol in staat waren om een nieuw markt op te zetten met een niet rendabel product naast het bestaande hogemargeproduct deden dat op verschillende locaties. Zo wist HP de inktjetmarkt binnen te dringen naast de bestaande laserprinters vanuit een andere locatie in de VS met geheel eigen management en richtlijnen om succes te meten. Soms starten een aantal medewerkers van het bestaande bedrijf die wel toekomst zien in een nieuwe technologie maar geen gehoor krijgen binnen het bedrijf. Een slim bedrijf neemt een aandeel in een ander bedrijf om de eerste ontwikkelingen te financieren en kan bij succes eenvoudig de overige aandelen overnemen en integreren in het bestaande bedrijf. Beter management, harder werken, en minder domme fouten maken is in ieder geval niet het antwoord op het innovatie...
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Samual Silver is an Army veteran and currently a real estate agent. He's been assisting Southern California across many communities since 2003. In this episode of the Mettle of Honor, Sam is joined by his wife who is a nurse, as they discuss life as parents of twin teenagers- one of which has ADHD and the other who is on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). He also talks about life as a Jewish service member - Jewish via ethnicity and religious belief. Having been honored by the local media and positively reviewed by countless past clients, I continue to retain a strong following, bringing folks what they need and want, regardless of their deadlines and the like. I'm passionate about real estate and helping people, and upon visiting my website, you'll get the best idea of what to expect when we work together. As a top-notch REALTOR® who stops at nothing to help my clients, you'll be thrilled with what we could do together. What will you find when you visit his website for the first time? When you're ready to sell your home, you'll see he specializes in many varieties on the local market and then some. Perhaps you invested in commercial property. Maybe you've got a luxury home in a golf course community you want to sell. Let Sam Silver, real estate agent, guide you. Except for the time he served in the United States Military, his entire life has been in Southern California, so he knows these communities. As I continue to educate myself on the market and the latest methods and tricks of the trade, there's truly no one better suited to help you list and sell your property. Sam Silver Reliable REALTOR®! (License #: 01412755) Digital Business Card card.get-card.com/samuel-silver/ | Website https://www.samsilverhomes.net/ | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/samsilverhomes | Email Address: samsells@yahoo.com | Phone Number: 661.621.5340 Twitter samsilverhomes Instant Messaging (IM) | Skype samuelbsilver@msn.com | Google Talk samsilverhomes@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mettle-of-honor/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mettle-of-honor/support
For many parents, the teen years are filled with fears and challenges, especially as they approach leaving the nest and going off on their own. Will they be safe? Will they know what to do? Are they ready? If you have experienced any of these questions or similar ones, this episode is for you! Teandra Gordon, PhD, LMFT-Supervisor, and Director of School Based Therapy at Legacy Community Health, joins Tracy to talk about how parents can prepare themselves and their teens for the next stages of life, while building trust and teaching them to trust their instincts and be ready to venture out into the world. About Teandra Gordon: Dr. Gordon is Vice President of School Based Health at Legacy Community Health in Houston, TX. Legacy clinics are committed to drive healthy change in communities across Houston by providing primary care and behavioral health services to students and families on school campuses. Dr. Gordon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with a passion for seeing children succeed and promoting healthy families. She testified in front of the state Legislature twice as a champion for school-based health care, and during her tenure as a leader in school based health, Legacy increased its partnerships from 7 clinics to 27 clinics across Houston. Dr. Gordon has publications in several scholarly journals and her research has been presented at national conferences. She is also a wife, mother of five, and author of the parenting education book, https://purposefilledparenting.com/book (Purpose Filled Parenting.) Here are some resources mentioned in this episode: https://youtu.be/kHZzhKyBW-I (Dan Siegel's Google Talk) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707532-brainstorm (Dan Siegel's Book for Understanding Teens) https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare (Carol Dwecks TED Talk) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset (Carol Dwecks Book on Growth Mindset) A special thanks to our team: Tracy Lehman, Host & Executive Producer Os Galindo, Senior Producer & Engineer Yue Nakayama, Audio Engineer Jacel Dickson, Editor & Graphic Designer Administrators: Mary Elizabeth Hand and Audrey Omenson with music by Jim Roman Thanks for listening!
For this special episode, we are joined by Joe Beda who is currently Principal Engineer at VMware. He is also one of the founders of Kubernetes from his days at Google! We use this open table discussion to look at a bunch of exciting topics from Joe's past, present, and future. He shares some of the invaluable lessons he has learned and offers some great tips and concepts from his vast experience building platforms over the years. We also talk about personal things like stress management, avoiding burnout and what is keeping him up at night with excitement and confusion! Large portions of the show are obviously spent discussion different aspects and questions about Kubernetes, including its relationship with etcd and Docker, its reputation as a very complex platform and Joe's thoughts for investing in the space. Joe opens up on some interesting new developments in the tech world and his wide-ranging knowledge is so insightful and measured, you are not going to want to miss this! Join us today, for this great episode! Follow us: https://twitter.com/thepodlets Website: https://thepodlets.io Feeback: info@thepodlets.io https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/thepodlets/issues Special guest: Joe Beda Hosts: Carlisia Campos Bryan Liles Michael Gasch Key Points From This Episode: A quick history of Joe and his work at Google on Kubernetes. The one thing that Joe thinks sometimes gets lost in translation on these topics. Lessons that Joe has learned in the different companies where he has worked. How Joe manages mental stress and maintains enough energy for all his commitments. Reflections on Kubernetes relationship with and usage of etcd. Is Kubernetes supposed to be complex? Why are people so divided about it? Joe's experience as a platform builder and the most important lessons he has learned. Thoughts for venture capitalists looking to invest in the Kubernetes space. Joe's thoughts on a few different recent developments in the tech world. The relationship and between Kubernetes and Docker and possible ramifications of this. The tech that is most exciting and alien to Joe at the moment! Quotes: “These things are all interrelated. At a certain point, the technology and the business and career and work-life – all those things really impact each other.” — @jbeda [0:03:41] “I think one of the things that I enjoy is actually to be able to look at things from all those various different angles and try and find a good path forward.” — @jbeda [0:04:19] “It turns out that as you bounced around the industry a little bit, there's actually probably more alike than there is different.” — @jbeda [0:06:16] “What are the things that people can do now that they couldn't do pre-Kubernetes? Those are the things where we're going to see the explosion of growth.” — @jbeda [0:32:40] “You can have the most beautiful technology, if you can't tell the human story about it, about what it does for folks, then nobody will care.” — @jbeda [0:33:27] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: The Podlets on Twitter — https://twitter.com/thepodlets Kubernetes — https://kubernetes.io/Joe Beda — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbedaEighty Percent — https://www.eightypercent.net/Heptio — https://heptio.cloud.vmware.com/Craig McLuckie — https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/11/kubernetes-co-founder-craig-mcluckie-is-as-tired-of-talking-about-kubernetes-as-you-are/Brendan Burns — https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-co-creator-brendan-burns-on-what-comes-next/Microsoft — https://www.microsoft.comKubeCon — https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2019/re:Invent — https://reinvent.awsevents.com/etcd — https://etcd.io/CosmosDB — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introductionRancher — https://rancher.com/PostgresSQL — https://www.postgresql.org/Linux — https://www.linux.org/Babel — https://babeljs.io/React — https://reactjs.org/Hacker News — https://news.ycombinator.com/BigTable — https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/Cassandra — http://cassandra.apache.org/MapReduce — https://www.ibm.com/analytics/hadoop/mapreduceHadoop — https://hadoop.apache.org/Borg — https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes/Tesla — https://www.tesla.com/Thomas Edison — https://www.biography.com/inventor/thomas-edisonNetscape — https://isp.netscape.com/Internet Explorer — https://internet-explorer-9-vista-32.en.softonic.com/Microsoft Office — https://www.office.comVB — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/get-started/visual-basic/tutorial-console?view=vs-2019Docker — https://www.docker.com/Uber — https://www.uber.comLyft — https://www.lyft.com/Airbnb — https://www.airbnb.com/Chromebook — https://www.google.com/chromebook/Harbour — https://harbour.github.io/Demoscene — https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wgp7/who-killed-the-american-demoscene-synchrony-demoparty Transcript: BONUS EPISODE 001 [INTRODUCTION] [0:00:08.7] ANNOUNCER: Welcome to The Podlets Podcast, a weekly show that explores Cloud Native one buzzword at a time. Each week, experts in the field will discuss and contrast distributed systems concepts, practices, tradeoffs and lessons learned to help you on your cloud native journey. This space moves fast and we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel. If you’re an engineer, operator or technically minded decision maker, this podcast is for you. [EPISODE] [0:00:41.9] CC: Hi, everybody. Welcome back to The Podlets. We have a new name. This is our first episode with a new name. Don’t want to go much into it, other than we had to change from The Kubelets to The Podlets, because the Kubelets conflicts with an existing project and we’ve thought it was just better to change. The show, the concept, the host, everything stays the same. I am super excited today, because we have a special guest, Joe Beda and Bryan Liles, Michael Gasch. Joe, just give us a brief introduction. The other hosts have been on the show before. People should know about them. Everybody should know about you too, but there's always newcomers in the space, so give us a little bit of a background. [0:01:29.4] JB: Yeah, sure. I'm Joe Beda. I was one of the founders of Kubernetes back when I was at Google, along with Craig McLuckie and Brendan Burns, with a bunch of other folks joining on soon after. I'm currently Principal Engineer at VMware, helping to cover all things Kubernetes and Tanzu related across the company. I came into VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, where Bryan's wearing the shirt today. Left Google, did that with Craig for about two years. Then it's almost a full year here at VMware. We're at 11 months officially as of two days ago. Yeah, really excited to be here. [0:02:12.0] CC: Yeah, I am so excited. Your name is Joe Beda. I always say Joe Beda. [0:02:16.8] JB: You know what? It's four letters and it's easy – it's amazing how many different ways there are to pronounce it. I don't get picky about it. [0:02:23.4] CC: Okay, cool. Well, today I learned. I am very excited about this show, because basically, I get to ask you anything I want. [0:02:35.9] JB: I’ll do my best to answer. [0:02:37.9] CC: Yeah. You can always not answer. There are so many interviews of you out there on YouTube, podcasts. We are going to try to do something different. Let me fire the first question I have for you. When people interview you, they ask you yeah, the usual questions, the questions that are very useful for the community. I want to ask you is this, what are people asking you that you think are the wrong questions? [0:03:08.5] JB: I don't think there's any bad questions like this. I think that there's a ton of interest that's when we're talking about technical stuff at different parts of the Kubernetes stack, I think that there's a lot of business context around the container ecosystem and the companies and around to forming Heptio, all that. A lot of times, I'll have discussions around career and what led me to where I'm at now. I think those are all a lot of really interesting things to talk about all around all that. The one thing that I think is doesn't always come across is these things are all interrelated. At a certain point, the technology and the business and career and work-life – all those things really impact each other. I think it's a mistake to try and take these things in isolation. There's a ton of lead over. I think one of the things that we tried to do at Heptio, and I think we did a good job is recognized that for anybody senior enough inside of any organization, they really have to be able to play all roles, right? At a certain point, everybody is as a business person, fundamentally, in terms of actually moving the ball forward for the company, for the business as a whole. Yeah. I think one of the things that I enjoy is actually to be able to look at things from all those various different angles and try and find a good path forward. [0:04:28.7] BL: All right. Taking that, so you've gone from big co to big co, to VC to small co to big co. What does that unique experience taught you and what can you share with us? [0:04:45.5] JB: Bryan, you know my resume better than I do apparently. I started my career at Microsoft and cut my teeth working on Internet Explorer and doing client side stuff there. I then went to Google in the office up here in Seattle. It was actually in Kirkland, this little hole-in-the-wall, temporary office, preemie work type of thing. I’m thinking, “Hey, I want to do some server-side stuff.” Worked on Google Talk, worked on ads, worked on cloud, started Kubernetes, was a little burned out. Took some time off, goofed off. Did this entrepreneur-in-residence thing for VC and then started Heptio and then sold the VMware. [0:05:23.7] BL: When you're in a big company, especially when you're more junior, it's easy to get caught up in playing the game inside of that company. When I say the game, what I mean is that there are measures of success within big companies and there are ways to advance see approval, see rewards that are all very specific to that company. I think the culture of a company is really defined by what are the parameters and what are the successes, the success factors for getting ahead inside of each of those different companies. I think a lot of times, especially when as a Microsoft straight out at college, I did a couple internships at Microsoft and then joining – leaving Microsoft that first time was actually really, really difficult because there is this fear of like, “Oh, my God. Everything's going to be super different.” It turns out that as you bounced around the industry a little bit, there's actually probably more alike than there is different. The biggest difference I think between large company and small company is really, and I'll throw out some science analogies here. I think, oftentimes organizations are a little bit like the ideal gas law. Okay, maybe going past y'all, but this is – PV = nRT. Pressure times volume equals number of molecules times temperature and the R is a constant. The idea here is that this is an equation where as you add more molecules to a constrained space, that will actually change the temperature and the pressure and these things all rise. What happens is inside of a large company, you end up with so many people within a constrained space in terms of the product space. When you add more people to the organization, or when you're looking to get ahead, it feels very zero-sum. It very much feels like, “Hey, for me to advance, somebody else has to lose.” That's not how the real world works, but oftentimes that's how it feels inside of the big company, is that if it feels zero-sum like that. The liberating thing for being at a startup and I think why so many people get addicted to working at startups is that startups are fundamentally not zero-sum. Everybody succeeds and fails together. When a new person shows up, your thought process is naturally like, “Awesome, we got more cylinders in the engine. We’re going to go faster,” which is not always the case inside of a big company. Now, I think as you get senior enough, all of a sudden these things changes, because you're not just operating within the confines of that company. You're actually again, playing a role in the business, you're looking at the ecosystem, you're looking at the community, you're looking at the competitive landscape and that's where you have your eye on the ball and that's what defines success for you, not the internal company metrics, but really the business metrics is what defines success for you. The thing that I'm trying to do, here at VMware now is as we do Tanzu is make sure that we recognize the unbounded possibilities in front of us inside of this world, make sure that we actually focus our energy on serving customers. In doing so, out-compete others in the market. It's not a zero-sum game, it's not something where as we bring more folks on that we feel we're competing with them. That's a little rambling of an answer. I don't know if that links together for you, Bryan. [0:08:41.8] BL: No, no. That was pretty good. [0:08:44.1] JB: Thanks. [0:08:46.6] MG: Joe, that's probably going to be a context switch now. You touched on the time when you went through the burnout phase. Then last week, I think you put out a tweet on there's so much stuff going on, which tweet I'm talking about. Yeah. In the Kubernetes community, you’re a rock star. At VMware, you're already a rock star being on stage at VMware shaking hands with Pat. I mean, there's so many people, so many e-mails, so many slacks, whatever that you get every day, but still I feel you are able to keep the balance, stay grounded and always have a chat, even though sometimes I don't want to approach you, but sometimes I do when I have some crazy questions maybe. Still you’re not pushing people away. How do you manage with mental stress preventing another burnout? What is the secret sauce here? Because I feel I need to work on that. [0:09:37.4] JB: Well, I mean it's hard. The tweet that I put out was last week I was coming back from Barcelona and tired of travel. I'm looking forward to right now, we're recording this just before KubeCon. Then after KubeCon, planning to go to re:Invent in Vegas, which is just a social denial-of-service. It's just overwhelming being with that. I was tired of traveling. I posted something and came across a little stronger than I wanted to. That I just hate people, right? I was at that point where it's just you're traveling and you just don't want to deal with anybody and every little thing is really bugging you and annoying you. I think burnout is an interesting thing. For me and I think there's different causes for different folks. Number one is that it's always fascinating when you start a new job, your calendar is empty, your responsibilities are low. Then as you are successful and you integrate yourself into the organization, all of a sudden you find that you have more work than you have time to do. Then you hit this point where you try and like, “I'm just going to keep doing it. I'm going to power through.” Then you finally hit this point where you're like, “This is just not humanly possible.” Then you go into a triage mode and then you have to decide what's important. I know that there's more to be done than I can do. I have to be very thoughtful about prioritizing what I'm doing. There's a lot of techniques that you can bring to bear there. Being explicit about what your goals are and what your priorities are, writing those things down, whether it's an OKR process, or whether it's just here's the my top three things that I'm focusing on. Making sure that those things are purposefully meaningful to you, right? Understanding the difference between urgent and important, which these are business booky type of things, but it's this idea of there are things that feel they have to get done right now and then there are things that are long-term important. If you're not thoughtful about how you do things, you spend all your time doing the urgent things, but you never get to the stuff that's the actually long-term important. That's a really easy trap to get yourself into. Finding ways to delegate to folks is really, really helpful here, in terms of empowering others, trusting them. It's hard to let go sometimes, but I think being able to set the stage for other people to be successful is really empowering. Then just recognizing it's not all going to get done and that's okay. You can't hold yourself to expect that. Now with respect to burnout, for me, the biggest driver for burnout in my career has been when I felt personal responsibility over something, but I have been had the tools, or the authority, or the ability to impact it.When you feel in your bones ownership over something, but yet you can't actually really own it, that is what causes burnout for me. I think there are studies talking about how the worst job is middle management. I think it's not being the CEO. It's not being new to the organization, being junior. It's actually being stuck in the middle. Because you're given a certain amount of responsibility, but you aren't always given the tools necessary to be able to drive that. Whereas the folks at the top, oftentimes they don't have those constraints, so they actually own stuff and have agency to be able to take care of it. I think when you're starting on more junior in the organization, the scope of ownership that you feel is relatively minor. That being stuck in the middle is the biggest driver for me for burnout. A big part of that is just recognizing that sometimes you have to take a step back and personally divest that feeling of ownership when really it's not yours to own. I'll give you an example, is that I started Google Compute Engine at Google, which is arguably the foundational cloud service for GCP. As it grew, as it became more important to Google, as it got reorged, more or more of the leadership and responsibilities and decision-making, I’m up here in Seattle, move down the mountain view, a lot of that stuff was focused at had been in the cloud market, but then at Google for 10 or 15 years coming in and they're like, “Okay, that's cute. We got it from here,” right? That was a case where it was my thing. I felt a lot of ownership over it. It was clear after a certain amount of time, hey, you know what? I just work here. I'm just doing my job and I do what I do, but really it’s these other folks that are driving the bus. That's a painful transition to actually go from that feeling of ownership to I just work here. That I think is one of the reasons why oftentimes, people leave the companies. I think that was one of the big drivers for why I ended up leaving Google, was that lack of agency to be able to impact things that I cared about quite a bit. [0:13:59.8] CC: I think that's one reason why – well, I think that working in the companies where things are moving fast, because they have a very clear, very worthwhile goal provides you the opportunity to just have so much work that you have to say no to a lot of things like where you were saying, and also take ownership of pieces of that work, because there's more work to go around than people to do it. For example, since Heptio and VM – okay, I’m plugging. This is a big plug for VMware I guess, but it definitely is a place that's moving fast. It's not crazy. It's reasonable, because everybody, pretty much, wherever one of us grown up. There is so much to do and people are glad when you take ownership of things. That really for me is a big source of work satisfaction. [0:14:51.2] JB: Yeah. I think it's that zero-sum versus positive-sum game. I think that when you – there's a lot more room for you to actually feel that ownership, have that agency, have that responsibility when you're in a positive-sum environment, versus a zero-sum environment. [0:15:04.9] BL: All right, so now I want to ask your technical question. [0:15:08.1] JB: All right. [0:15:09.5] BL: Not a really hard one. Just more of how you think about this. Kubernetes is five and almost five and a half years old. One of the key components of Kubernetes is etcd. Now knowing what we know now and 2019 with Kubernetes have you used etcd as its key store? Or would you have gone another direction? [0:15:32.1] JB: I think etcd is a good fit. The truth of the matter is that we didn't give that decision as much thought as we probably should have early on. We saw that it was relatively easy to stand up and get going with. At least on paper, it had the qualities that we were looking for, so we started building with it and then just ran with it. Something like ZooKeeper was also something we could have taken, but the operational overhead at the time of ZooKeeper was very different from etcd. I think we could have gone in the direction of them and this is why [inaudible 0:15:58.5] for a lot of their tools, where they actually build the data store into the tool in a native way. I think that can lead in some ways to a simpler getting started experience, because there's just one thing to boot up, but also it's more monolithic from a backup, maintenance, recovery type of thing. The one thing that I think we probably should have done there in retrospect is to try and create a little bit more of an arm's length relationship in Kubernetes and etcd. In terms of having some cleaner interfaces, some more contractor and stuff, so that we could have actually swapped something else out. There's folks that are doing it, so it's not impossible, but it's definitely not something that's easy to do, or well-supported. I think that that's probably the thing that I wouldn't change in that space. Another thing we might want to change, I think it might have been good to be more explicit about being able to actually shard things out, so that you could have multiple data stores for multiple resources and actually find a way to horizontally scale. Now we do that with events, because we were writing events into etcd and that's just a totally different stream of data, but everything else right now – I think now there's room to do this into the future. I think we've been able to push etcd vertically up until now. There will come a time where we need to find ways to shard that thing up horizontally. [0:17:12.0] CC: Is it possible though to use a different data store than etcd for Kubernetes? [0:17:18.4] JB: The things that I'm aware of here and there may be more and I may not be a 100% up to date, is I do know that the Azure folks created a proxy layer that speaks to the etcd protocol, but that is actually implemented on the backend using CosmoDB. That approach there was to essentially create a translation layer. Then Rancher created this project, which is a little bit if you've – been added a bit of a fork of Kubernetes, where they're I believe using PostgresSQL as the database for Kubernetes. I haven't looked to see exactly how they ended up swapping that in. My guess is that there's some chewing gum and bailing wiring and it's quite a bit of effort for each version upgrade to be able to actually adapt that moving forward. Don't know for sure. I haven't looked deeply. [0:18:06.0] CC: Okay. Now I would love to philosophize a little bit, or maybe a lot about Kubernetes. In the spirit of thinking of different questions to ask, so I had a bunch of questions and then I was thinking, “How could I ask this question in a different way?” Maybe this is not the right “question.” Here is the way I came up with this question. We’re so divided out there. One camp loves Kubernetes, another camp, "So hard, so complicated, it’s so complex. Why even bother with it? I don't understand why people are using this." Basically, there is that sentiment that Kubernetes is complicated. I don't think anybody would refute that. Now is that even the right way to talk about Kubernetes? Is it even not supposed to be complicated? I mean, what kind of a tool is it that we are thinking, it should just work, it should be just be super simple. Is it true that it should be a super simple tool to use? [0:19:09.4] JB: I mean, that's a loaded question [inaudible]. Let me just first say that number one, if people are complaining, I mean, I'm stealing this from Tim [inaudible], who I think this is the way he takes some of these things in stride. If people are complaining, then you're relevant, right? If nobody is complaining, then nobody cares about what you're doing. I think that it's a good thing that folks are taking a critical look at Kubernetes. That means that they're taking a look at it, right? For five years in, Kubernetes is on an upswing. That's not going to necessarily last forever. I think we have work to do to continually earn Kubernetes’s place in the technology stack over time. Now that being said, Kubernetes is a super, super flexible tool. It can do so many things in so many different situations. It's used from everything from in retail stores across the tens of thousands of stores, any type of solutions. People are looking at it for telco, 5G. People are looking at it to even running it inside cars, which scares me, right? Then all the way up to folks like at CERN using it to do data analytics for hiring and physics, right? The technology that I look at that's probably most comparable to that is something like Linux. Linux is actually scalable from everything from a phone, all the way up to an IBM mainframe, but it's not easy, right? I mean, to be able to adapt it across all that things, you have to essentially download the kernel type, make config and then answer 5,000 questions, right, for those who haven't done that. It's not an easy thing to do. I think that a lot of times, people might be looking at Kubernetes at the wrong level to be able to say this should be simple. Nobody looks at the Linux kernel that you get from git cloning, Linux’s fork and compiling it and saying, “Yeah, this is too hard.” Of course it's hard. It's the Linux kernel. You expect that you're going to have a curated experience if you want something easy, right? Whether that be an Android phone or Ubuntu or what have you. I think to some degree, we're still in the early days where people are dealing with it perhaps at to raw level, versus actually dealing with it in a more opinionated way. Now I think the fascinating thing for Kubernetes is that it provides a lot of the extension points and patterns, so that we don't know exactly what those higher-level easier-to-use abstractions are going to look like, but we know, or at least we're pretty confident that we have the right tools and the right environment to be able to experiment our way there. I think we're not there yet, but we're set up for success. That's the first thing. The second thing is that Kubernetes introduces a whole bunch of different concepts and ideas and these things are different and uncomfortable for folks. It's hard to learn new things. It's hard for me to learn new things and it's hard for everybody to learn new things. When you compare Kubernetes to say, getting started with the modern front-end web development stack, with things like Babel and React and how do you deploy this and what are all these different options and it changes on a weekly basis. There's a hell of a lot in common actually between these two ecosystems. They're both really hard, they both introduce all these new concepts and you have to be embedded in it to really get it. Now that being said, if you just wanted take raw JavaScript, or jQuery and have at it, you can do it and you'll see on Hacker News articles every once in a while where people are like, “Hey, I've programmed my site with jQuery and it's just fine. I don't need all this new stuff,” right? Just like you'll see folks saying like, “I just SSH’d in and actually ran some stuff and it works fine. I don't need all this Kubernetes stuff.” If that works for you, that's great. Kubernetes doesn't have to solve every problem for every person. Then the next thing is that I think that there's a lot of people who've been solving these problems again and again and again and again, but they've been solving them in their own way. It's not uncommon when you look at back-end systems, to join a company, look at what they've built and found that it's a complicated, bespoke system of chewing gum and baling wire with maybe a little bit Ansible, maybe a little bit of Puppets and bash. Everybody has built their own, complex, overwrought system to do a lot of the stuff that Kubernetes does. I think one of the values that we see here is that these things are complex, unique complex to do it, but shared complexity is more valuable than personal complexity. If we can agree on some of these concepts, then that's something that can be leveraged widely and it will fade to the background over time, versus having everybody invent their own complex system every time they need to solve these problems. With that all said, we got a ton of work to do. It's not like we're done here and I'm not going to actually sit here and say Kubernetes is easy, or that every complex thing is absolutely necessary and that we can't find ways to simplify it. We clearly can. I just think that when folks say, “Hey, I just want this to be easy." I think they're being a little bit too naïve, because it's a very difficult problem domain. [0:23:51.9] BL: I'd like to add on to that. I think about this a lot as well. Something that Joe said to me few years back, where Kubernetes is the platform for creating platforms, it is very applicable here. Where we are looking at as an industry, we need to stop looking at Kubernetes as some estimation. Your destination is really running your applications that give you pleasure, or make your business money. Kubernetes is a tool to enable us to think about our applications more, rather than the underlying ecosystem. We don't think about servers. We want to think about storage and networking, even things like finding things in your cluster. You don't think about that. Kubernetes gives it to you. If we start thinking about Kubernetes as a way to enable us to do better things, we can go back to what Joe said about Linux. Back whenever I started using Linux in the mid-90s, guess what? We compiled it. Make them big. That stuff was hard and it was slow. Now think about this, in my office I have three different Linux distributions running. You know what? I don't even think about it anymore. I don't think about configuring X. I don't think about anything. One thing that from Kubernetes is going to grow is it's going to – we're going to figure out these problems and it's going to allow us to think of these other crazy things, which is going to push the industry further. Think maybe 20 years from now if we're still running Kubernetes, who cares? It's just going to be there. We're going to think about some other problem and it could be amazing. This is good times. [0:25:18.2] JB: At one point. Sorry, the dog’s going to bark here. I mean, at one point people cared about some of the BIOS that they were running on our computers, right? That was something that you stressed out about. I mean, back in the bad old days when I was doing DOS gaming and you're like, “Oh, well this BIOS is incompatible with the –” IRQ's and all that. It's just background now. [0:25:36.7] CC: Yeah, I think about this too as a developer. I might have mentioned this before in this podcast. I have never gone from one job to another job and had to use the same deployment system. Every single job I've ever had, the deployment system is completely different, completely different set of tooling and completely different process. Just being able to walk out from one job to another job and be able to use the same platform for deployment, it must be amazing. On the flip side, being able to hire people that will join your organization already know how your deployment works, that has value in itself. It's a huge value that I don't think people talk about enough. [0:26:25.5] JB: Well honestly, this was one of the motivations for creating Kubernetes, is that I looked around Google early on and Google is really good at importing open source, circa 2000, right? This is like, “Hey, you want to use libpng, or you want to use this library, or whatever.” That was the type of open source that Google is really, really good at using. Then Google did things, like say release the Big Table paper. Then somebody went through and then created Cassandra out of it. Maybe there's some ideas in Cassandra that actually build on top of big table, or you're looking at MapReduce versus Hadoop. All of a sudden, you found that these things diverge and Google had zero ability to actually import open source, circa 2010, right? It could not back import systems, because the operational characteristics of these things were solely alien when compared to something like Borg. You see this also, like we would acquire companies and it would take those companies way too long to be able to essentially re-platform themselves on top of Borg, because it was just so different. This is one of the reasons, honestly, why we ended up doing something like GCE is to actually have a platform that was actually more familiar from acquisition. It's one of the reasons we did it. Then also introducing Kubernetes, it's not Borg. It's a cousin of Borg inside of Google. For those who don't know, Borg is the container system that’s been in production at Google for probably 15 years now, and the spiritual grandfather to Kubernetes in a lot of ways. A lot of the ideas that you learn from Kubernetes are applicable to Borg. It's not nearly as big a leap for people to actually change between them, as it was before, Kubernetes was out there. [0:27:58.6] MG: Joe, I got a similar question, because it seems to be like you're a platform builder. You've worked on GCE, Kubernetes obviously. If you would be talking to another platform architect or builder, what would be something that you would recommend to them based on your experiences? What is a key ingredient, technically speaking of a platform that you should be building today, or the main thing, or the lesson learned that you had from building those platforms, like technical advice, if you will? [0:28:26.8] JB: I mean, that's a really good question. I think in my mind, the mark of a good platform is when people can use it to do things that you hadn't imagined when you were building it, right? The goal here is that you want a platform to be a force multiplier. You wanted to enable people to do amazing things. You compare, again the Linux kernel, even something as simple as our electrical grid, right? The folks who established those standards, God knows how long ago, right? A 150 years ago or whenever, the whole Tesla versus Thomas Edison, [inaudible]. Nobody had any idea the long-term impact that would have on society over time. I think that's the definition of a successful platform in my mind. You got to keep that in mind, right? I think that for me, a lot of times people design for the first five minutes at the expense of the next five years. I've seen in a lot of times where you design for hey, I'm getting a presentation. I want to be able to fit something amazing on one slot. You do it, but then all of a sudden somebody wants to do something different. They want to go off course, they want to go off the rails, they want to actually experiment and the thing is just brittle. It's like, “Hey, it does this. It doesn't do anything else. Do you want to do something else? Sorry, this isn't the tool for you.” For me, I think that's a trap, right? Because it's easy to get it early users based on that very curated experience. It's hard to keep those users as they actually start using the thing in anger, as they start interfacing with the real world, as they deal with things that you didn't think of as a platform. I'm always thinking about how can every that you put in the platform be used in multiple ways? How can you actually make these things be composable building blocks, because then that gives you the opportunity for folks to actually compose them in ways that you didn't imagine, starting out. I think that's some of it. I started my career at Microsoft working on Internet Explorer. The fascinating thing about Microsoft is that through and through and through and through Microsoft is a platform company. It started with DOS and Windows and Office, but even though Office is viewed as a platform inside of Microsoft. They fundamentally understand in their bones the benefit of actually starting that platform flywheel. It was really interesting to actually be doing this for the first browser wars of IE versus Netscape when I started my own career, to actually see the fact that Microsoft always saw Internet Explorer as a platform, whereas I think Netscape didn't really get it in the same way, right? They didn't understand the potential, I think in the way that Microsoft did it. For me, I mean, just being where you start your career, oftentimes you actually sets your patterns in terms of how you look at things over time. I think a lot of this platform thinking comes from just imprinting when I was a baby developer, I think. I don't know. It takes a lot of time to really internalize that stuff. [0:31:14.1] BL: The lesson here is this a good one, is that when we're building things that are way bigger than us, don't think of your product as the end goal. Think of it as an enabler. When it's an enabler, that's where you get that X multiplier. Then that's where you get all the residuals. Microsoft actually is a great example of it. My gosh. Just think of what Microsoft has been able to do with the power of Office? [0:31:39.1] JB: Yeah. I look at something like VB in the Microsoft world. We still don't have VB for the cloud era. We still haven't created that. I think there's still opportunity there to actually strike. VB back in the day, for those who weren't there, struck this amazing balance of being easy to get started with, but also something that could actually grow with you over time, because it had all these extension mechanisms where you could actually – there's the marketplace controls that you could buy, you could partner with other developers that were writing C or C++. It was an incredible platform. Then they leverage to Office to extend the capabilities of VB. It's an amazing ecosystem. Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you, Bryan. [0:32:16.0] BL: Oh, no. That's all good. I get as excited about it as you do whenever I think about it. It's a pretty exciting place to be. [0:32:21.8] JB: Yeah. I'll talk to VC's, because I did a startup and the EIR thing and I'll have them ask me things like, “Hey, where should we invest in the Kubernetes space?” My answer is using the BS analogy like, “You got to go where the puck is going.” Invest in the things that Kubernetes enables. What are the things that people can do now that they couldn't do pre-Kubernetes? Those are the things where we're going to see the explosion of growth. It's not about the Kubernetes. It's really about a larger ecosystem that Kubernetes is the seed crystal for. [0:32:56.2] BL: For those of you listening, if you want to get anything out of here, rewind back about 20 seconds and play that over and over again, what Joe just said. [0:33:04.2] MG: Yeah. This was brilliant. [0:33:05.9] BL: It’s where the puck is going. It's not where we are now. We're building for the future. We're not building for now. [0:33:11.1] MG: I'm looking at this tweetable quotes here, the last 20 seconds, so many tweetable quotes. We have to decide which ones to tweet then. [0:33:18.5] CC: Well, we’ll tweet them all. [0:33:20.0] MG: Oh, yes. [0:33:21.3] JB: Here’s another thing. Here’s another piece of career advice. Successful people are good storytellers. You can have the most beautiful technology, if you can't tell the human story about it, about what it does for folks, then nobody will care. I spend a lot of the time on Twitter and probably too much time, if you ask my family. That medium of being able to actually distill your thoughts down into something that is tweetable, quotable, really potent, that is a skill that's worth developing and it's a skill that's worth valuing. Because there's things that are rolling around in my head and I still haven't found a way to get them into a tweet. At some point, I'll figure it out and it'll be a thing. It takes a lot of time to build that skill to be able to refine like that. [0:34:08.5] CC: I want to say an anecdote of myself. I interview a small – so tiny startup, maybe less than 10 people at the time in Cambridge back when I lived up there. The guy was borderline wanting to hire me and no. I sent him an e-mail to try to influence his decision and it was a long-ass e-mail. They said, “No, thank you.” Then I think we had a good rapport. I said, well, anything you can tell me about your decision then? He said something along the lines like, I was too verbose. That was pre-Twitter. Twitter I think existed, but it was at the very beginning, I wasn't using it. Yeah, people. Be concise. Decision-makers don't have time to read long things. You need to be able to convey your message in short sentences, few sentences. It's crucial. [0:35:07.5] BL: All right, so we're nearing the end. I want to ask another question, because these are random questions for Joe. Joe, it is the week before KubeCon North America 2019 and today is actually an interesting day. A couple of neat things happened today. We had Docker. It was neat. Docker split somewhat and it sold part of it and now they're going to be a tools company. That's neat. We're all still trying decoding what that actually is. Here's the neat piece, Apple released a laptop that can have 64 gigabytes of memory. [0:35:44.4] MG: Has an escape key. [0:35:45.7] BL: It has an escape key. [0:35:47.6] MG: This is brilliant. [0:35:48.6] BL: Yeah. I think the question was what do you think about that? [0:35:52.8] JB: Okay. Well, so first of all, I mean, Docker is fascinating and I think this is – there's a lot of lessons there and I'm not sure I'm the one to tell them. I think it's easy to armchair-quarterback these things. It's hard to live that story. I think that it's fun to play that what-if game. I think it does show that this stuff is hard. You can have everything in your grasp and then just have it all slip away. I think that's not anybody's fault. It's just there's different strategies, different approaches in how this stuff plays out over time. On the laptop thing, I think my current laptop has 16 gigs of RAM. One of the things that we're seeing is that as we move towards a microservices world, I gave a talk about this probably three or four years ago. As we move to a microservices world, I think there's one stage where you create a bunch of microservices, but you still view those things as an app. You say, "This microservice belongs to this app." Within a mature organization, those things start to grow and eventually what you find is that you have services that are actually useful for multiple apps. Your entire production infrastructure becomes this web of services that are calling each other. Apps are just entry points into these things at different points of that web of infrastructure. This is the way that things work at Google. When you see companies that are microservices-based, let's take an Uber, or Lyft or an Airbnb. As they diversify the set of products that they're offering, you know they're not running completely independent stacks. You know that there's places where these things connect to behind the scenes in a microservices world. What does that mean for developers? What it means is that you can no longer fit an entire company's worth of infrastructure on your laptop anymore. Within a certain constraint, you can go through and actually say, “Hey, I can bring up this canonical cut of microservices. I can bring that up on my laptop, but it will have dependencies that I either have to actually call into the prod dependencies, call into specialized staging, or mock those things out, so that I can actually run this thing locally and develop it.” With 64 gig of RAM, I can run more on my laptop, right? There's a little bit of kick in that can down the road in terms of okay, there's this race between more microservicey versus how much I can port on my laptop. The interesting thing is that where is this going to end? Are we going to have the ability to bring more and more with your laptop? Are you going to be able to run in the split brain thing across like there's people who will create network connections between these things? Or are we going to move to a world where you're doing more development on cluster, in the cloud and your laptop gets thinner and thinner, right? Either you absolutely need 64 gig because you're pushing up against the boundaries of what you can do on your laptop, or you've given up and it's all running in the cloud. Yet anyways, you might as well just use a Chromebook. It's fascinating that we're seeing this divergence of scaling up, versus actually moving stuff to the cloud. I can tell you at Google, a lot of folks, even developers can actually be super, super productive with something relatively thin like Chromebook, because there's so many tools there that really are targeted at doing all that stuff remotely, in Google's production data centers and such. That's I think the interesting implication from a developer point of view with 64 gigabytes of RAM. What you going to do Bryan? You're going to get the 64 gig Mac? You’re going to do it? [0:39:11.2] BL: It’s already coming. They'll be here week after next. [0:39:13.2] JB: You already ordered it? You are such an Apple fanboy. Oh, man. [0:39:18.6] BL: Oh, I'm actually so not to go too much into it. I am a fan of lots of memory. You know what? We work in this cloud native world. Any given week, I’ll work on four to five projects. I'm lazy. I don't want to shut any of them down. Now with 64 gigs, I don't have to shut anything down. [0:39:37.2] JB: It was so funny. When I was at Microsoft, everybody actually focused on Microsoft Windows boot time. They’re like, “We got to make it boot faster. We got to make it boot faster.” I'm like, I don't boot that often. I just want the thing to resume from sleep, right? If you can make that reliable on that theme. [0:39:48.7] CC: Yeah. I frequently have to restart my computer, because of memory issues. I don't want to know which app is taking up memory. I have a tool that I can look up, but I just shut it down, flush the memory. I do have a question related to Docker. Kubernetes, I don't know if it's right to say that Kubernetes is so reliant on Docker, because I know it works with other container technologies as well. In the worst case scenario, it's obviously, I have no reason to predict this, but in the worst case scenario where Docker, let's say is discontinued, how would that affect Kubernetes? [0:40:25.3] JB: Early on when we were doing Kubernetes and you're in this relationship with a company like Docker, I looked at what Docker was doing and you're like, “Okay, where is the real value here over time?” In my mind, I thought that the interface with developers that distributed kernel, that API surface area of Kubernetes, that was really the thing and that a lot of the Docker stuff was over time going to fade to the background. I think we've seen that happen, because when we talk about production systems, we definitely have moved past Docker and we have the CRI, we have Container D, which it was essentially built by Docker, donated to the CNCF as it made its way towards graduation. I think it's graduated now. The governance ties to Docker have been severed at this point. In production systems for Kubernetes, we've moved past that. I still think that there's developer experiences oftentimes reliant on Docker and things like Docker files. I think we're moving past that also. I think that if Docker were to disappear off the face of the earth, there would be some adjustment, but I think we have the right toolkits and the right systems to be able to do that. Some of that is open sourced by Docker as part of the Moby project. The whole Docker file evaluation flow is actually in this thing called Build Kit that you can actually use in different contexts outside of the Docker game. I think there's a lot of the building action. The thing that I think is the most influential thing that actually I think will stand the test of time is the Docker container image format. That artifact that you upload, that you download, the registry APIs. Now those things have been codified and are moving forward slowly under the OCI, the open container initiative project, which is a little bit of a sister foundation niche type of thing to the CNCF. I think that's the influence over time. Then related to that, I think the world should be a little bit worried about Docker Hub and what that means for Docker Hub over time, because that is not a cheap service to run. It's done as a public good, similar to github. If the commercial aspects of that are not healthy, then I think it might be disruptive if we see something bad happen with Docker Hub itself. I don't know what exactly the replacement for that would be overnight. That'd be incredibly disruptive. [0:42:35.8] CC: Should be Harbour. [0:42:37.7] JB: I mean, Harbour is a thing, but somebody's got a run it and somebody's got to pay the bandwidth bills, right? Thank you to Docker for paying those bandwidth bills, because it's actually been good for not just Docker, but for our entire ecosystem to be able to do that. I don't know what that looks like moving forward. I think it's going to be – I mean, maybe github with github artifacts and it's going to pick up the slack. We’re going to have to see. [0:42:58.6] MG: Good. I have one last question from my end. Totally different topic, not Docker at all. Or maybe, depends on your answer to it. The question is you're very technical person, what is the technology, or the stuff that your brain is currently spinning on, if you can disclose? Obviously, no secrets. What keeps you awake at night, in your brain? [0:43:20.1] JB: I mean, I think the thing that – a couple of things, is that stuff that's just completely different from our world, I think is interesting. I think we've entered at a place where programming computers, and so stuff is so specialized. That again, I talk about if you made me be a front-end developer, I would flail for several months trying to figure out how to even be productive, right? I think similar when we look at something like machine learning, there's a lot of stuff happening there really fast. I understand the broad strokes, but I can't say that I understand it to any deep degree. I think it's fascinating and exciting the amount of diversity in this world and stuff to learn. Bryan's asked me in the past. It's like, “Hey, if you're going to quit and start a new career and do something different, what would it be?” I think I would probably do something like generative art, right? Essentially, there's folks out there writing these programs to generate art, a little bit of the moral descendant of Demoscene that was I don't know. I wonder was the Demoscene happened, Bryan. When was that? [0:44:19.4] BL: Oh, mid 90s, or early 90s. [0:44:22.4] JB: That’s right. I was never super into that. I don't think I was smart enough. It's crazy stuff. [0:44:27.6] MG: I actually used to write demoscenes. [0:44:28.8] JB: I know you did. I know you did. Okay, so just for those not familiar, the Demoscene was essentially you wrote essentially X86 assembly code to do something cool on screen. It was all generated so that the amount of code was vanishingly small. It was this puzzle/art/technical tour de force type of thing. [0:44:50.8] BL: We wrote trigonometry in a similar – that's literally what we did. [0:44:56.2] JB: I think a lot of that stuff ends up being fun. Stuff that's related to our world, I think about how do we move up the stack and I think a lot of folks are focused on the developer experience, how do we make that easier. I think one of the things through the lens of VMware and Tanzu is looking at how does this stuff start to interface with organizational mechanics? How does the typical enterprise work? How do we actually make sure that we can start delivering a toolset that works with that organization, versus working against the organization? That I think is an interesting area, where it's hard because it involves people. Back-end people like programmers, they love it because they don't have to deal with those pesky people, right? They get to define their interfaces and their interfaces are pure and logical. I think that UI work, UX work, anytime when you deal with people, that's the hardest thing, because you don't get to actually tell them how to think. They tell you how to think and you have to adapt to it, which is actually different from a lot of back-end here in logical type of folks. I think there's an aspect of that that is user experience at the consumer level. There's developer experience and there's a whole class of things, which is maybe organizational experience. How do you interface with the organization, versus just interfacing, whether it's individuals in the developer, or the end-user point of view? I don't know if as an industry, we actually have our heads wrapped around that organizational limits. [0:46:16.6] CC: Well, we have arrived at the end. Makes me so sad, because we could talk for easily two more hours. [0:46:24.8] JB: Yeah, we could definitely keep going. [0:46:26.4] CC: We’re going to bring you back, Joe. Don’t worry. [0:46:28.6] JB: For sure. Anytime. [0:46:29.9] CC: Or do worry. All right, so we are going to release these episodes right after KubeCon. Glad everybody could be here today. Thank you. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on Twitter. Follow us everywhere and suggest episode topics for us. Bye and until next time. [0:46:52.3] JB: Thank you so much. [0:46:52.9] MG: Bye. [0:46:54.1] BL: Bye. Thank you. [END OF EPISODE] [0:46:55.1] ANNOUNCER: Thank you for listening to The Podlets Cloud Native Podcast. 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There are a large number of management strategies that have been pushed over the years. The study and promotion of these approaches is a cottage industry unto itself. One of my favorite ideas is Management By Walking Around. This is a practice that works excellent for traditional office environments. However, it becomes a bit of a challenge when some or all of your team is remote. Casual Communication A key to management by walking around is the idea that you can get all you need from informal communication. Formal channels like status reports and meetings are sufficient. These methods are just not the most effective. There is also the challenge with reducing bias in communication that comes from a formal report. When you are communicating with remote workers, it can almost always feel like the conversation is formal. This is only heightened by so many of those workers being kept in the loop via status reports and similar scheduled communications. The disconnected way that we communicate with remote staff makes this even more of a challenge. Our opportunities to have a conversation are limited when it takes long periods of time between responses. Fortunately, modern technology has provided us with tools that help us have conversations with remote staff. This can even happen when someone is on the other side of the world. Old School I would be amiss if I did not mention a phone call. Rather than "dropping in" at the desk of a staff member, you can call them for brief discussions. Allow these calls to have a sort of introduction period to remove some of the formality. For example, ask the recipient how they are doing, what the weather is like, and if anything notable is going on. Keep it light and casual. Long-distance phone calls can rack up a sizeable bill. However, you can use voice over IP tools or even video calls to achieve the same result and often at a low or free cost. Chatting Online chat tools like Google Talk, Slack, and similar applications are cheap, easy to use, and well-suited for informal conversations. You often will have the option of including multiple people in the discussion or a one-to-one direct message. These are becoming very common with teams, and a manager will find it useful to stay in the loop with these as well. They are great tools for informal and quick conversations as you would have in a "walking around" approach. The very term "Management By Walking Around" implies physical movement. However, that is not the case. The modern work environment can allow you to touch base with your entire staff while never leaving your seat. Take advantage of this way to stay close to your team and maintain a constant, helpful presence.
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Jacob Krogsgaard (atmospheric scientist and project manager) is today's featured guest. Topics: Driverless cars are legal in California and Nevada, why smartphones are not done changing the world, such as using a smartphone to give an EKG test, why high-frequency computerized stock trading is a problem, how journalism is being radically changed by the Internet, and police officers using tiny drones to take aerial photos of automotive traffic accidents. Also: examples of volunteer driven productivity; such as: the uncountable number of free tutorial videos on uTube, and the thousands of classic books which can be downloaded from Librivox.org and listened to as audiobooks for free. As well as: swallowing a camera in a pill, the Chinese going to the moon, the coming boom in space missions for profit, why cable companies are dinosaurs, and the problem of dieing newspapers. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 19, 2012 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 31 minutes] This interview was recorded using Skype on December 1, 2012. Jacob Krogsgaard is currently working (along with Tom Canton) to create a documentary film entitled Mass Driver which will promote the idea of using of a mass driver as a space launch system to the general public (as well as to the scientific and political communities) as an alternative to rockets and space elevators. Jacob Krogsgaard is an atmospheric scientist and project manager. Tom Canton is a experienced director of business, training and music videos. News Item: This is the seven year anniversary episode of The Future And You. Seven years ago (on December 15, 2005) the very first episode of The Future And You became globally available for public enjoyment. Back then it was in a magazine format in which each episode contained many guests. This made the show very long; usually about an hour and a half. Too long, some listeners said, which is why I changed it to the current shorter format. Sound quality back then was also less than it is today since I was doing phone interviews through a traditional land line telephone instead of through Skype or Google Talk. Despite their age, I am pleased to say that my decision to keep all past episodes up and available indefinitely has proven to be a good one. All the past episodes, even the very earliest, continue to be downloaded at a rate that I find pleasing. I'm also pleased at the global nature of the show's popularity. While the USA makes up about 60 percent of the audience, I have listeners in over 140 nations around the world. China tops the foreign countries, followed by all the English speaking nations (in order of population), then the developed countries in Europe and Asia and the Americas, followed finally by what seem to be all the nations that have access to the Internet. I'd like to thank everyone who has helped to make this show a success: both those who listen and those who have let me interview them. The desire to hear and the desire to share ideas and opinion about the future is what keeps this show going. Thank you all, I appreciate your help.
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