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De Bruyne's emotional Man City farewell in final home game, Asante Kotoko fans demand Karim Zito stays, full GPL match breakdown & more.

Barcelona vs Inter Milan UCL semi-final preview. Karmi Zito confident Kotoko can win the GPL despite sitting fourth. Ancelotti eyes Brazil job, plus latest on Thomas Partey.

Secondo un sondaggio Noto per Il Sole 24 Ore del Lunedì, l'inflazione percepita dagli italiani ad aprile è al 9,9%, quasi otto punti sopra il dato reale (2%). Un italiano su due ha tagliato i consumi negli ultimi sei mesi e il 61% giudica inadeguato il proprio reddito rispetto al costo della vita. Le spese più sentite sono per energia, salute e alimentari. La differenza tra inflazione reale e percepita è aumentata rispetto a ottobre 2023. Le donne avvertono incrementi di prezzo più forti degli uomini. Il decreto Bollette ha stanziato 3 miliardi, con bonus di 200 euro per famiglie sotto i 25mila euro ISEE. Intanto, le retribuzioni reali restano inferiori di circa l'8% rispetto a gennaio 2021, e il 70% degli intervistati non crede nell'efficacia delle misure del governo. Ne parliamo con Michela Finizio, Il Sole 24 OreCarburanti: proseguono ribassiI prezzi dei carburanti continuano a scendere per la quinta settimana consecutiva, con il Brent sotto i 60 dollari per la prima volta dal gennaio 2021. Tuttavia, il calo alla pompa non rispecchia pienamente il crollo delle quotazioni petrolifere (-15/20% su base annua), a causa dell'elevata componente fiscale nel prezzo finale. I prezzi medi: benzina self a 1,702 €/l, diesel self a 1,595 €/l. Gpl e metano in calo, come pure il Gnl. Anche in autostrada si registrano diminuzioni, ma più contenute. Il commento è di Gabriele Masini, direttore di Staffetta Quotidiana.Trump pensa a dazi del 100% sui film stranieri. Un'altra misura "Boomerang"?Trump ha annunciato possibili dazi del 100% sui film esteri, accusando altri Paesi di sottrarre produzioni agli Stati Uniti. Ma la misura rischia di danneggiare la stessa industria americana, che si appoggia spesso a studi stranieri per motivi di costo. Una risposta simmetrica da parte dell'Europa sarebbe disastrosa per Hollywood, che dipende anche dai mercati e dai festival europei. L'analisi ricorda che, come per l'automotive, queste misure protezionistiche possono ritorcersi contro gli stessi Stati Uniti. Interviene Cristina Battocletti, Il Sole 24 Ore.Sulla fuga dei cervelli è scontro Italia-FranciaIl vertice "Choose Europe for Science", convocato da Macron a Parigi, per attrarre ricercatori in fuga dagli USA, ha irritato l'Italia. Il ministro Bernini rivendica l'azione già intrapresa con un bando da 50 milioni. Il governo italiano si chiede se l'evento sia davvero europeo o promuova solo la Francia. Macron e Von der Leyen hanno annunciato un pacchetto da 500 milioni e una nuova "super sovvenzione" per ricercatori di eccellenza. La Francia aggiunge altri 100 milioni per attrarre talenti, mentre l'Italia era rappresentata dall'ambasciatrice a Parigi. Con noi Danilo Ceccarelli, Radio24.

Poteva avere conseguenze ben più gravi il rogo nel pomeriggio di oggi, martedì 29 aprile, nel basso vicentino, a Gambellara, dove sono prontamente intervenute diverse squadre di Vigili del Fuoco. Un allarme scattato qualche minuto prima delle 15 quando i pompieri si sono diretti verso Via Generale Framarin per l'incendio che ha coinvolto la copertura di un edificio di circa 200 metri quadri adibito a ricovero attrezzi, provocando lo scoppio di una bombola di GPL.

Michael Hüsgen im Gespräch mit Oliver Kantimm ("Der Aktionärsbrief"). Hier im Beitrag gibt es die Podcast-Variante zur eigentlichen Hauptsendung im Rahmen von BerneckerTV (Aufzeichnung am 24.04.2025). Schlaglichter:Tesla - Imageschaden durch Elon MuskWerblicher Hinweis auf kostenlosen Experten-NewsletterVolkswagen - China-OffensiveEli Lilly - Profiteur von Favortenwechsel bei GPL-1 Medikamenten?AppLovin - Furioses Wachstum, aber Shortseller-FragezeichenWir wünschen gewinnbringende Impulse mit diesem Beitrag.=======Jetzt abonnieren: "Der Aktionärsbrief". Weitere Infos unter:https://www.bernecker.info/aktionaersbrief=======Lust auf noch mehr Sendungen im Bernecker.TV? Noch mehr unterschiedliche Experten? Infos zu Bernecker.TV:https://www.bernecker.info/bernecker-tv=======Anmeldung zum kostenlosen Experten-Newsletter der Bernecker-Redaktion über unsere Website:https://www.bernecker.info/newsletter

Are you ready to live, celebrate and enjoy your life to the fullest? Tune in as Constance interviews Tracey Howse and learn how to heal your life. Tracey shares how she healed her trauma from the unexpected transition of her Son and healed from breast Cancer and unresolved childhood pain. She reveals how tapping into her Spirituality and attending Healing and Recovery Support Groups that she healed her life. She acknowledges that her inner healing has resulted in the release of 30 pounds. Even though she has been using GPL-1 Medication for 3 years, it was only the release of her inner emotional weight that caused her 30 pound weight loss on the outside. This is an amazing and inspirational episode!

What went wrong with Ancelotti's tactics? Real Madrid vs Arsenal UCL 2nd leg analysis. GPL 24/25: Aduana Stars beat Hearts & more!

Wes and Scott talk with Chad Whitacre, the newest member of the Syntax team, about all things open source—licenses, controversies, economics, and ethics. Chad breaks down what most people misunderstand, and how companies can support sustainable software development the right way. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:39 Meet Chad Whitacre 03:39 Chad's retro headphones Retrospekt 05:00 Chad's role at Syntax https://syntax.fm/oss Open Path 09:41 What do people get wrong about open source? 11:11 Why is open source so divisive? 13:01 The evolution of open source and free software 17:55 Single vendor vs. community open source 20:22 How do people build businesses off of a GPL license? 24:40 What's the most pure version of open source? 26:55 Fair source licensing explained 30:30 Brought to you by Sentry.io 33:09 Should you be concerned about dependencies in your app in relation to licensing? Fair Source 35:16 What's the most interesting/unusual open source license? Beerware License 40:00 What is Open Source Pledge? Open Source Pledge 45:41 Choosing the right open source license 48:31 Wes' most popular open source project wait 49:39 Interesting open source projects Mercedes-Benz embraces Open Source Porsche Open Source Platform 51:33 Licensing for educational content 53:46 The beauty of open source Plausible 56:12 Scott's various open source projects 56:44 The importance of contributing to open source projects 59:16 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Chad: Save The Cat! Shameless Plugs Chad: Coming soon Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

Having quality pitches allows players to control the ball better, move freely, reduce injuries, and fully showcase their potential and technical skills. To get the best from our GPL players, let's improve our pitches. - Herman Hesse Jnr (Hearts of Oak NCC Chairman)

Feeling exhausted, dealing with brain fog, or noticing unexplained weight gain—even though you're doing all the right things? This episode dives into the surprising root cause behind symptoms often blamed on hormone imbalance or stress. It's something most women overlook, and it could be sabotaging your energy, focus, and sleep. Tune in to uncover what might really be going on beneath the surface—and why your environment could be playing a bigger role than you think.

This week, we're diving into some real talk... fitness comparison, anxious tendencies, and the rise of weight loss drugs and GPL-1 patches. Are these quick fixes really the solution, or are we just chasing the next fad? We wrap it up with some laugh-out-loud toilet stories that are sure to make you feel better about your bathroom moments! Tune in for a mix of serious chats and hilarious laughs...Trust us, you'll want to hear this one!Send us more dilemmas and don't forget to subscribe and follow us on Instagram ⁠@navigatingwomanhoodpod⁠ for all the updates!Talilla- ⁠@talillahenchoz⁠Emily - ⁠@_emilysworld ⁠

ROMA (ITALPRESS) - Anche nel mese di febbraio prosegue la flessione nelle vendite di auto nuove nel Belpaese. Sono state immatricolate 137.922 unità, quasi 9.300 vetture in meno rispetto alle 147.170 del 2024, che aveva però un giorno lavorativo in più, con un calo del 6,3%. Come riportato dall'analisi di Unrae, il primo bimestre del 2025 si è chiuso con 271.638 immatricolazioni, in calo del 6,1% rispetto allo stesso periodo del 2024, ma con un pesante -21,0% rispetto al 2019. Nel secondo mese dell'anno la quota di auto 100% elettriche raggiunge il 5,0%, in crescita rispetto al 3,4% di febbraio 2024 che, però, risentiva dell'attesa dell'avvio degli incentivi, ma in linea con il 5,0% di gennaio. In crescita le vendite di auto ibride plug-in con un 4,5% rispetto al 3,6% di gennaio e al 3,2% di febbraio 2024. Complessivamente, le auto elettrificate raggiungono una quota di mercato del 9,5%. A Febbraio si evidenzia una flessione dei privati; mentre anche le autoimmatricolazioni cedono in volume e in quota. Recupera, invece, il noleggio a lungo termine; mentre quello a breve termine cede oltre il 17% delle immatricolazioni. Tra le alimentazioni il motore a benzina cede 4,6 punti, il diesel perde altri 5,1 punti, mentre il Gpl – seppur in calo in volume – recupera 0,2 punti, portandosi al 9,9%. Il metano non immatricola autovetture nel mese e nel bimestre.tvi/mrv

EA releases the recovered source code for Command & Conquer and C&C Red Alert under GPL! LACT now supports dynamically reattaching GPUs, the Steam Deck turns 3, TF2 Classic is headed to Steam, Framework announces a desktop PC, and there's new content for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

We have Kernel resignations, A GPL court case of some importance, and Mozilla's potentially broken promise. Curl maintainers have thoughts, Some gaming classics have gone open source, COSMIC has another Alpha, and ROCm probably isn't ready for the 9070. For tips we have Chronic out of MoreUtils, pipewire's pw-loopback for audio looping fun, wall for sending terminal messages, and usbip for spooky USB actions at a distance. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4h3ggLi and we'll see you next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

ROMA (ITALPRESS) - In crescita a dicembre 2024 il mercato delle auto usate. Secondo i dati diffusi da Unrae, sono stati oltre 454 mila i trasferimenti di proprietà, con una crescita del 7,3% rispetto allo stesso mese del 2023. In particolare, i trasferimenti netti segnano un +7,7% e le minivolture un +6,9%. L'anno chiude in aumento del 7,4%, con oltre 5,4 milioni di passaggi di proprietà complessivi. Rispetto al 2019, invece, si registra un livello inferiore del 6,2% nel mese e del 3,6% nell'intero anno. A dicembre il diesel mantiene la leadership fra le motorizzazioni, ma continua a ridurre il suo peso. Al secondo posto i propulsori a benzina, con una quota in leggero calo. Le ibride occupano una terza posizione molto distanziata, seguono Gpl, elettriche e plug-in. A livello regionale, la Lombardia è al primo posto, con il 15,8% dei trasferimenti di proprietà. Seguono Lazio, Campania, Veneto e Sicilia.gsl

ROMA (ITALPRESS) - In crescita a dicembre 2024 il mercato delle auto usate. Secondo i dati diffusi da Unrae, sono stati oltre 454 mila i trasferimenti di proprietà, con una crescita del 7,3% rispetto allo stesso mese del 2023. In particolare, i trasferimenti netti segnano un +7,7% e le minivolture un +6,9%. L'anno chiude in aumento del 7,4%, con oltre 5,4 milioni di passaggi di proprietà complessivi. Rispetto al 2019, invece, si registra un livello inferiore del 6,2% nel mese e del 3,6% nell'intero anno. A dicembre il diesel mantiene la leadership fra le motorizzazioni, ma continua a ridurre il suo peso. Al secondo posto i propulsori a benzina, con una quota in leggero calo. Le ibride occupano una terza posizione molto distanziata, seguono Gpl, elettriche e plug-in. A livello regionale, la Lombardia è al primo posto, con il 15,8% dei trasferimenti di proprietà. Seguono Lazio, Campania, Veneto e Sicilia.gsl

Heart of Oak's exit from the MTN FA Cup is a direct result of Pooley's death. The prolonged break in the GPL has left the players 'vulnerable.' – Kobby Jones (NCC P.R.O)

"Kotoko will soon resume the GPL, but their MTN FA Cup Round of 16 match has been postponed to next weekend." – Wilson Arthur (MTN FA Cup Committee Chairman)

ROMA (ITALPRESS) - Eletta Auto Europa 2025, Dacia Duster con la sua terza generazione ha rinnovato il successo delle precedenti edizioni, con 320 mila "dusteristi" solo nel nostro Paese. Totalmente rinnovato nella qualità, nel design, nei contenuti tecnologici e nel comfort, Duster rappresenta un'offerta quasi unica nel mercato. Un prodotto concreto, in grado di vivere le avventure di ogni giorno ma offrendo al contempo un costo di acquisto e gestione di riferimento nella categoria. Le nuove ed inedite motorizzazioni ibride, poi, ampliano ancor più la gamma di prodotto, permettendo di offrire ai clienti un SUV compatto ma anche moderno ed al passo coi tempi, ma sempre concreto, con un livello di tecnologia in linea con le esigenze degli automobilisti di oggi. In quest'ottica è arrivata la versione ibrida, la Hybrid 140 equipaggiata con un benzina 4 cilindri 1.6 litri e 94 cavalli, a cui si aggiungono un motore da 49 cavalli e uno starter/generatore ad alta tensione, gestiti da un cambio automatico elettrificato. Il tutto senza frizione. Grazie alla frenata rigenerativa, associata alla forte capacità di recupero energetico della batteria da 1,2 kWh e 230 Volt e al rendimento del cambio automatico, si potrà circolare in città fino all'80% del tempo in modalità elettrica, ridurre i consumi del 20% in ciclo misto e fino al 40% in ciclo urbano. Oltre alla versione ibrida è ora disponibile anche la TCe 130, una novità per il brand rumeno, che abbina un motore benzina turbo 3 cilindri da 1,2 litri di nuova generazione basato sul ciclo Miller a un sistema mild hybrid a 48V. Qui il cambio è manuale a 6 rapporti, sia per la versione a trazione anteriore che per la 4x4. Nuovo Duster TCe 130 4x4 si dimostra in grado di affrontare i passaggi più difficili. Leggero, compatto ma estremamente efficace anche in offroad. Ovviamente non poteva mancare uno dei cavalli di battaglia delle precedenti versioni Duster, la ECO-G 100 con alimentazione bifuel benzina-GPL, che consente un'autonomia fino a 1.400 km. Quattro le versioni disponibili: l'entry level Essential, la Espression, la Journey e la Extreme. I prezzi partono dai 19.900 euro della Essential, fino ai 27.900 della Journey Hybrid 140.gsl

The SD SportScene Podcast Season 2 Episode 23: The show reviews a busy week, examines the poll, and looks at the week ahead. Features guest clips from Central gymnast Regan Lust, Central girls' player Kenadi Withers, GPL girls' player Katherine Prahl, Central boys' player Jack Bertsch, and Cougars girls' player Aiden Raap.

ROMA (ITALPRESS) - Con poco più di 462.200 trasferimenti di proprietà, il mercato delle auto usate a novembre segna una sostanziale stabilità: -0,3% rispetto allo stesso mese del 2024. Negli 11 mesi la crescita è stata del 7,2%. Secondo l'Unrae, l'Unione nazionale rappresentanti autoveicoli esteri, il diesel mantiene la leadership fra le motorizzazioni, ma continua a ridurre il suo peso; al secondo posto il motore a benzina, con una quota in leggero calo. Le ibride occupano una terza posizione molto distanziata, con l'8,9% nel mese; seguono il Gpl e il metano. L'analisi per regione conferma a novembre al primo posto la Lombardia al 16,1% davanti al Lazio e alla Campania. La quota dei trasferimenti netti di vetture con oltre 10 anni di anzianità scende al 47,4%, 2,3 punti in meno rispetto al 2023.gsl

ROMA (ITALPRESS) - Con poco più di 462.200 trasferimenti di proprietà, il mercato delle auto usate a novembre segna una sostanziale stabilità: -0,3% rispetto allo stesso mese del 2024. Negli 11 mesi la crescita è stata del 7,2%. Secondo l'Unrae, l'Unione nazionale rappresentanti autoveicoli esteri, il diesel mantiene la leadership fra le motorizzazioni, ma continua a ridurre il suo peso; al secondo posto il motore a benzina, con una quota in leggero calo. Le ibride occupano una terza posizione molto distanziata, con l'8,9% nel mese; seguono il Gpl e il metano. L'analisi per regione conferma a novembre al primo posto la Lombardia al 16,1% davanti al Lazio e alla Campania. La quota dei trasferimenti netti di vetture con oltre 10 anni di anzianità scende al 47,4%, 2,3 punti in meno rispetto al 2023.gsl

Em 2024 chegaram às estradas portuguesas 209.715 novos automóveis ligeiros de passageiros, um aumento de 5,1% em comparação com o ano anterior, revelou a ACAPSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pessime Notizie: Accise Aumentano A Dismisura, Ecco Quanto!I carburanti tornano alle stelle: è subito polemica. Ecco di quanto sarà l'aumento!#breakingnews #ultimenotizie #notiziedelgiorno #notizie #cronaca #accise #benzina #carburante #diesel #gas #gasolio #giorgiameloni #gpl #matteosalvini #metano #notizie #promesse #quanto

ROMA (ITALPRESS) - Per il nuovo C-SUV Bigster Dacia ha presentato un'offerta inedita per il mercato, proponendo una gamma semplice e di facile comprensione. E' già possibile ordinare il modello in quattro livelli di allestimento: Essential, Expression e due allestimenti top di gamma, proposti allo stesso prezzo: Extreme è destinato agli appassionati della vita all'aria aperta, con tetto apribile panoramico, barre da tetto modulabili, sellerie lavabili, tappetini in gomma. Journey è invece pensato per i clienti che prediligono i lunghi viaggi e lo stile. Quest'ultima versione offre anche il portellone posteriore motorizzato e il sedile del conducente regolabile elettricamente di serie. Per Bigster è disponibile in esclusiva la nuova tinta metallizzata Indigo Blu, così come la carrozzeria Bi-Tono con tetto nero - optional su Extreme e Journey. Le motorizzazioni sono tutte elettrificate e alcune sono inedite, come la TCe 140 che offre un sistema mild-hybrid da 48 Volt che coadiuva il motore in fase di avviamento e accelerazione, riducendo i consumi e le emissioni di CO2. Disponibile anche la versione Eco-G che abbina alimentazione bifuel GPL / benzina e sistema mild-hybrid da 48 Volt. Dacia Bigster è il primo modello del Gruppo Renault a poter contare sull'inedita motorizzazione Hybrid 155 abbinata al cambio automatico, disponibile dal livello di allestimento Expression. La TCe 130 4x4 è invece disponibile sugli allestimenti Expression ed Extreme con trazione integrale, cambio manuale a 6 rapporti e sistema mild-hybrid da 48 Volt. Bigster è disponibile a partire da 24.800 e sarà disponibile presso la rete di vendita a partire dalla prossima primavera.tvi/gsl

Join hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham as they kick off a new season exploring the world of MySQL 8.4. Together with Perside Foster, a MySQL Principal Solution Engineer, they break down the fundamentals of MySQL, its wide range of applications, and why it's so popular among developers and database administrators. This episode also covers key topics like licensing options, support services, and the various tools, features, and plugins available in MySQL Enterprise Edition.   ------------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative  podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services. Nikita: Happy New Year, everyone! Thank you for joining us as we begin a new season of the podcast, this time focused on the basics of MySQL 8.4. If you're a database administrator or want to become one, this is definitely for you. It's also great for developers working with data-driven apps or IT professionals handling MySQL installs, configurations, and support. 01:03 Lois: That's right, Niki. Throughout the season, we'll be delving into MySQL Enterprise Edition and covering a range of topics, including installation, security, backups, and even MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud.  Nikita: Today, we're going to discuss the Oracle MySQL ecosystem and its various components. We'll start by covering the fundamentals of MySQL and the different licenses that are available. Then, we'll explore the key tools and features to boost data security and performance. Plus, we'll talk a little bit about MySQL HeatWave, which is the cloud version of MySQL.  01:39 Lois: To take us through all of this, we've got Perside Foster with us today. Perside is a MySQL Principal Solution Engineer at Oracle. Hi Perside! For anyone new to MySQL, can you explain what it is and why it's so widely used? Perside: MySQL is a relational database management system that organizes data into structured tables, rows, and columns for efficient programming and data management. MySQL is transactional by nature. When storing and managing data, actions such as selecting, inserting, updating, or deleting are required. MySQL groups these actions into a transaction. The transaction is saved only if every part completes successfully. 02:29 Lois: Now, how does MySQL work under the hood? Perside: MySQL is a high-performance database that uses its default storage engine, known as InnoDB. InnoDB helps MySQL handle complex operations and large data volumes smoothly. 02:49 Nikita: For the unversed, what are some day-to-day applications of MySQL? How is it used in the real world? Perside: MySQL works well with online transaction processing workloads. It handles transactions quickly and manages large volumes of transaction at once. OLTP, with low latency and high throughput, makes MySQL ideal for high-speed environments like banking or online shopping. MySQL not only stores data but also replicates it from a main server to several replicas. 03:31 Nikita: That's impressive! And what are the benefits of using MySQL?  Perside: It improves data availability and load balancing, which is crucial for businesses that need up-to-date information. MySQL replication supports read scale-out by distributing queries across servers, which increases high availability. MySQL is the most popular database on the web. 04:00 Lois: And why is that? What makes it so popular? What sets it apart from the other database management systems? Perside: First, it is a relational database management system that supports SQL. It also works as a document store, enabling the creation of both SQL and NoSQL applications without the need for separate NoSQL databases. Additionally, MySQL offers advanced security features to protect data integrity and privacy. It also uses tablespaces for better disk space management. This gives database administrators total control over their data storage. MySQL is simple, solid in its reliability, and secure by design. It is easy to use and ideal for both beginners and professionals. MySQL is proven at scale by efficiently handling large data volumes and high transaction rates. MySQL is also open source. This means anyone can download and use it for free. Users can modify the MySQL software to meet their needs. However, it is governed by the GNU General Public License, or GPL. GPL outlines specific rules for its use. MySQL offers two major editions. For developers and small teams, the Community Edition is available for free and includes all of the core features needed. For large enterprises, the Commercial Edition provides advanced features, management tools, and dedicated technical support. 05:58 Nikita: Ok. Let's shift focus to licensing. Who is it useful for?  Perside: MySQL licensing is essential for independent software vendors. They're called ISVs. And original manufacturers, they're called OEMs. This is because these companies often incorporate MySQL code into their software products or hardware system to boost the functionality and performance of their product. MySQL licensing is equally important for value-added resellers. We call those VARs. And also, it's important for other distributors. These groups bundle MySQL with other commercially licensed software to sell as part of their product offering. The GPL v.2 license might suit Open Source projects that distribute their products under that license.   07:02 Lois: But what if some independent software vendors, original manufacturers, or value-add resellers don't want to create Open Source products. They don't want their source to be publicly available and they want to keep it private? What happens then? Perside: This is why Oracle provides a commercial licensing option. This license allows businesses to use MySQL in their products without having to disclose their source code as required by GPL v2. 07:33 Nikita: I want to bring up the robust support services that are available for MySQL Enterprise. What can we expect in terms of support, Perside?  Perside: MySQL Enterprise Support provides direct access to the MySQL Support team. This team consists of experienced MySQL developers, who are experts in databases. They understand the issues and challenges their customers face because they, too, have personally tackled these issues and challenges. This support service operates globally and is available in 29 languages. So no matter where customers are located, Oracle Support provides assistance, most likely in their preferred language. MySQL Enterprise Support offers regular updates and hot fixes to ensure that the MySQL customer systems stays current with the latest improvements and security patches. MySQL Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This ensures that whenever there is an issue, Oracle Support can provide the needed help without any delay. There are no restrictions on how many times customers can receive help from the team because MySQL Enterprise Support allows for unlimited incidents. MySQL Enterprise Support goes beyond simply fixing issues. It also offers guidance and advice. Whether customers require assistance with performance tuning or troubleshooting, the team is there to support them every step of the way.  09:27 Lois: Perside, can you walk us through the various tools and advanced features that are available within MySQL? Maybe we could start with MySQL Shell. Perside: MySQL Shell is an integrated client tool used for all MySQL database operations and administrative functions. It's a top choice among MySQL users for its versatility and powerful features. MySQL Shell offers multi-language support for JavaScript, Python, and SQL. These naturally scriptable languages make coding flexible and efficient. They also allow developers to use their preferred programming language for everything, from automating database tasks to writing complex queries. MySQL Shell supports both document and relational models. Whether your project needs the flexibility of NoSQL's document-oriented structures or the structured relationships of traditional SQL tables, MySQL Shell manages these different data types without any problems. Another key feature of MySQL Shell is its full access to both development and administrative APIs. This ability makes it easy to automate complex database operations and do custom development directly from MySQL Shell. MySQL Shell excels at DBA operations. It has extensive tools for database configuration, maintenance, and monitoring. These tools not only improve the efficiency of managing databases, but they also reduce the possibility for human error, making MySQL databases more reliable and easier to manage.  11:37 Nikita: What about the MySQL Server tool? I know that it is the core of the MySQL ecosystem and is available in both the community and commercial editions. But how does it enhance the MySQL experience? Perside: It connects with various devices, applications, and third-party tools to enhance its functionality. The server manages both SQL for structured data and NoSQL for schemaless applications. It has many key components. The parser, which interprets SQL commands. Optimizer, which ensures efficient query execution. And then the queue cache and buffer pools. They reduce disk usage and speed up access. InnoDB, the default storage engine, maintains data integrity and supports robust transaction and recovery mechanism. MySQL is designed for scalability and reliability. With features like replication and clustering, it distributes data, manage more users, and ensure consistent uptime. 13:00 Nikita: What role does MySQL Enterprise Edition play in MySQL server's capabilities? Perside: MySQL Enterprise Edition improves MySQL server by adding a suite of commercial extensions. These exclusive tools and services are designed for enterprise-level deployments and challenging environments. These tools and services include secure online backup. It keeps your data safe with efficient backup solutions. Real-time monitoring provides insight into database performance and health. The seamless integration connects easily with existing infrastructure, improving data flow and operations. Then you have the 24/7 expert support. It offers round the clock assistance to optimize and troubleshoot your databases. 14:04 Lois: That's an extensive list of features. Now, can you explain what MySQL Enterprise plugins are? I know they're specialized extensions that boost the capabilities of MySQL server, tools, and services, but I'd love to know a little more about how they work. Perside: Each plugin serves a specific purpose. Firewall plugin protects against SQL injection by allowing only pre-approved queries. The audit plugin logs database activities, tracking who accesses databases and what they do. Encryption plugin secures data at rest, protecting it from unauthorized access. Then we have the authentication plugin, which integrates with systems like LDAP and Active Directory for control access. Finally, the thread pool plugin optimizes performance in high load situation by effectively controlling how many execution threads are used and how long they run. The plugin and tools are included in the MySQL Enterprise Edition suite. 15:32 Join the Oracle University Learning Community and tap into a vibrant network of over 1 million members, including Oracle experts and fellow learners. This dynamic community is the perfect place to grow your skills, connect with likeminded learners, and celebrate your successes. As a MyLearn subscriber, you have access to engage with your fellow learners and participate in activities in the community. Visit community.oracle.com/ou to check things out today! 16:03 Nikita: Welcome back! We've been going through the various MySQL tools, and another important one is MySQL Enterprise Backup, right?  Perside: MySQL Enterprise Backup is a powerful tool that offers online, non-blocking backup and recovery. It makes sure databases remain available and performs optimally during the backup process. It also includes advanced features, such as incremental and differential backup. Additionally, MySQL Enterprise Backup supports compression to reduce backups and encryptions to keep data secure. One of the standard capabilities of MySQL Enterprise Backup is its seamless integration with media management software, or MMS. This integration simplifies the process of managing and storing backups, ensuring that data is easily accessible and secure. Then we have the MySQL Workbench Enterprise. It enhances database development and design with robust tools for creating and managing your diagram and ensuring proper documentation. It simplifies data migration with powerful tools that makes it easy to move databases between platforms. For database administration, MySQL Workbench Enterprise offers efficient tools for monitoring, performance tuning, user management, and backup and recovery. MySQL Enterprise Monitor is another tool. It provides real-time MySQL performance and availability monitoring. It helps track database's health and performance. It visually finds and fixes problem queries. This is to make it easy to identify and address performance issues. It offers MySQL best-practice advisors to guide users in maintaining optimal performance and security. Lastly, MySQL Enterprise Monitor is proactive and it provides forecasting. 18:40 Lois: Oh that's really going to help users stay ahead of potential issues. That's fantastic! What about the Oracle Enterprise Manager Plugin for MySQL? Perside: This one offers availability and performance monitoring to make sure MySQL databases are running smoothly and efficiently. It provides configuration monitoring. This is to help keep track of the database settings and configuration. Finally, it collects all available metrics to provide comprehensive insight into the database operation. 19:19 Lois: Are there any tools designed to handle higher loads and improve security? Perside: MySQL Enterprise Thread Pool improves scalability as concurrent connections grows. It makes sure the database can handle increased loads efficiently. MySQL Enterprise Authentication is another tool. This one integrates MySQL with existing security infrastructures. It provides robust security solutions. It supports Linux PAM, LDAP, Windows, Kerberos, and even FIDO for passwordless authentication. 20:02 Nikita: Do any tools offer benefits like customized logging, data protection, database security? Perside: The MySQL Enterprise Audit provides out-of-the-box logging of connections, logins, and queries in XML or JSON format. It also offers simple to fine-grained policies for filtering and log rotation. This is to ensure comprehensive and customizable logging. MySQL Enterprise Firewall detects and blocks out of policy database transactions. This is to protect your data from unauthorized access and activities. We also have MySQL Enterprise Asymmetric Encryption. It uses MySQL encryption libraries for key management signing and verifying data. It ensures data stays secure during handling. MySQL Transparent Data Encryption, another tool, provides data-at-rest encryption within the database. The Master Key is stored outside of the database in a KMIP 1.1-compliant Key Vault. That is to improve database security. Finally, MySQL Enterprise Masking offers masking capabilities, including string masking and dictionary replacement. This ensures sensitive data is protected by obscuring it. It also provides random data generators, such as range-based, payment card, email, and social security number generators. These tools help create realistic but anonymized data for testing and development. 22:12 Lois: Can you tell us about HeatWave, the MySQL cloud service? We're going to have a whole episode dedicated to it soon, but just a quick introduction for now would be great. Perside: MySQL HeatWave offers a fully managed MySQL service. It provides deployment, backup and restore, high availability, resizing, and read replicas, all the features you need for efficient database management. This service is a powerful union of Oracle Infrastructure and MySQL Enterprise Edition 8. It combines robust performance with top-tier infrastructure. With MySQL HeatWave, your systems are always up to date with the latest security fixes, ensuring your data is always protected. Plus, it supports both OLTP and analytics/ML use cases, making it a versatile solution for diverse database needs. 23:22 Nikita: So to wrap up, what are your key takeways when it comes to MySQL? Perside: When you use MySQL, here is the bottom line. MySQL Enterprise Edition delivers unmatched performance at scale. It provides advanced monitoring and tuning capabilities to ensure efficient database operation, even under heavy loads. Plus, it provides insurance and immediate help when needed, allowing you to depend on expert support whenever an issue arises. Regarding total cost of ownership, TCO, this edition significantly reduces the risk of downtime and enhances productivity. This leads to significant cost savings and improved operational efficiency. On the matter of risk, MySQL Enterprise Edition addresses security and regulatory compliance. This is to make sure your data meets all necessary standards. Additionally, it provides direct contact with the MySQL team for expert guidance. In terms of DevOps agility, it supports automated scaling and management, as well as flexible real-time backups, making it ideal for agile development environments. Finally, concerning customer satisfaction, it enhances application performance and uptime, ensuring your customers have a reliable and smooth experience. 25:18 Lois: Thank you so much, Perside. This is really insightful information. To learn more about all the support services that are available, visit support.oracle.com. This is the central hub for all MySQL Enterprise Support resources.  Nikita: Yeah, and if you want to know about the key commercial products offered by MySQL, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for the MySQL 8.4: Essentials course. Join us next week for a discussion on installing MySQL. Until then, this is Nikita Abraham… Lois: And Lois Houston signing off! 25:53 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. 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Daniel Serpell (dmsc), Creator of FastBasic   Daniel Serpell (dmsc) is the creator of FastBasic, a modern implementation of the BASIC programming language for the Atari 8-bit computers. He released the first version to the public in 2017. Today, the GPL-licensed language is up to version 4.6, and is a favorite of 10-line BASIC game contest entrants and anyone who wants a speedy, modern take on Atari programming.    I'm going to crib from AtariWiki's description of FastBasic: "It is a complete re-implementation of the BASIC system, using a built-in bytecode compiler rather than a tokenizing interpreter. Typical BASICs use an interpreter that examines every line of code as the program runs. ... FastBasic works on an entirely different principle. When a line is parsed in FastBasic, it (essentially) compiles the entire line into tokens and then leaves them in memory. This way the line does not have to be repeatedly parsed, even from the simplified token format, which makes it much faster to run."   FastBasic has other enhancements, including new commands for player-missiles and communicating with FujiNet, an option to only use faster integer math instead of floating point, and structured programming instead of line numbers.   This interview took place on December 21, 2024.   Video version of this interview   FastBasic at github   FastBasic at AtariWiki   10-line BASIC Contest   Daniel at atariage   Viña del Mar, Chile   BW-DOS   ANTIC Interview 436 - Rodrigo Castro, Atari in Chile   FastBasic Debugger Extension for VSCode   Support Kay's interview on Patreon

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Episode 4 - Embed Mastodon Threads This is Episode 4 of the Plain Text Programs Podcast hosted at Hacker Public Radio. As always I will include links with the show notes rather than reading them on the podcast except there will be one exception to that today, the link to my Plain Text Blog, home.gamerplus.org. My blog and this podcast were my inspiration for writing the Embed Mastodon Threads program. Besides posting the show notes at Hacker Public Radio where they have a comments section I also post them at my blog. Then I make a Mastodon post that includes a link to the show notes on my blog and designate it as being the comment thread for that episode of the podcast. I also post a link to the comment thread on Mastodon in my show notes. Or at least I did in the past. It came to mind that it would be nice to be able to display the comment thread at the bottom of the blog post. So I made a Mastodon post about this, and I quote. So here's my idea. I want to use mastodon toots as a comment thread for my blog posts. At the bottom of the blog post I want to embed the toot and the replies. I can pull the toot id from the embed code. Then I want to make a database query to get all the replies to that toot. Then I can generate the embed codes needed to show the toot and all the replies. I'm a mysql guy, not postgres. Also a Mastodon newb. I want to know how to get the reply ids for a toot. Any help, links, etc? End quote. I immediately got responses from some programmers expressing interest in the idea and giving good advice. I did some research based on their suggestions. I had a good night's sleep. And then I made another post in the morning. And I quote. Mastodon is so great. I had this idea last night and fiddled around with it long enough to realize I was doing it wrong. So I made a post on Mastodon and almost immediately got help. I found some good info on the Mastodon API. I wake up this morning to more help and I found out about using curl in php to make https requests. Then a musician friend of mine who I've been following since before Mastodon sends a working example, with code, in a javascript environment. And I've got a plan. End quote. So credit where credit is due. The programmers, gamers, and musicians helping me were: Jeff the GenX Alien @jeff@soapbox.hackdefendr.com EcksDy @EcksDy@techtoots.com Malin @malin@dice.camp and Wayne Myers @conniptions@mastodon.social Now, I've known Wayne Myers since before I was ever on Mastodon. We share an interest in free culture music and I have played his songs on my radio show, Something Blue, recorded by his band, Fit and the Conniptions. He sent some links in a couple of comments to other blogs that were embedding Mastodon threads which confirmed that my idea could work. Jeff the GenX Alien gave me some significant technical help. And I quote. Use tootcli to learn everything you need to know about the inner workings of Mastodon. https://github.com/ihabunek/toot Whatever the API supports so does toot. End quote. So I looked into tootcli and the Mastodon API and I realized that I didn't need to access the database for my program, I could just use the API. So, thanks Jeff. My second clue came from EcksDy. And I quote. I've got some help too. Using the Mastodon API and curl in php it should be doable. End quote. So then I started to research using curl in PHP to retrieve json data from the Mastodon API and that's what I went with. I set up a testbed and Malin chimed in with test results. He continued to help with testing and ideas throughout the rest of the project. That's why Mastodon is so great! Way better than consulting an AI bot. So I had my work cut out for me. Here is where this program is like my Plain Text Programs. I work hard, up front, until I am convinced that I have an idea that will be easy to implement. This is much easier than doing it the hard way first and then rewriting the program later after it becomes difficult to maintain. I said I had a plan. This was my plan. Write a PHP program that will generate a webpage that can be embedded in an iframe. This program will take a link as a parameter included in the url. Get that link from the Mastodon embed code for the parent post. Use the API to retrieve the data associated with the parent post including the replies. Then generate the page by inserting the appropriate data into Mastodon's existing embed structure. That's kind of a broad framework but it certainly seemed doable. And it was. So first I wanted to make the API call so I could look at the data. I found this video by Alejandro AO. How to easily create cURL API requests in PHP (Wordpress, Laravel, Symfony) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLgEWMNA6w&t=602s He recommended that you use curl in the terminal to test your API call. Then you use a web app called Curl-to-PHP to generate your PHP code to make the same API call from your program. My first time consuming stumbling block was what I call the problem with the colon. There are some great documents detailing the syntax for API calls which I will link to in the show notes. And where you are supposed to insert an id they show that as :id. Like an idiot I thought the colon was part of the syntax, not as they intended, a marker to indicate insert your id here. This is why I like to see actual code examples in syntax documents. Anyway I couldn't get it to work so I searched around until I found some code examples and that turned on the lightbulb in my head. Now I was able to make API calls using curl in the terminal. I copied the working curl command and pasted it into the Curl-to-PHP website and it output some code. And it worked! Which I was very glad about because previous research into how to make API calls with PHP was confusing to say the least. Sometimes PHP gifts you with and abundance of riches which doesn't always make life easier. So I made my API call from my program. The Curl-to-PHP code returned $result. And then I used the json_decode command to turn the result string into an array of Mastodon data. $obj = json_decode($result, true); And I could use the print_r command to look at that data. print_r($obj); I immediately put the print_r command at the bottom of my program where it resides today as commented out debug code. This way while I was looking at my program output I could just scroll down or search to find what the actual data looked like. So I fumbled around for a while before I figured out that I would need the id and the url to make my idea work. Accessing json data is reading an array. So easy peasy or maybe not. This code returns the id of the reply from inside a while loop where $i is the index. $id = $obj['descendants'][$i]['id']; Like I said, it looks easy now. Needless to say it took some head scratching to figure out the exact syntax. I used to be a mason and people would always ask me how I learned masonry. I'd look them in the eye and say, "Trowel and error". There was, in fact, a lot of trowel and error going on. So then I generated the embed code to display each post and it worked. For all of my posts. Not for replies from other servers. So I scrolled down and examined the json data and I found the url field that had all the info about the replies, server, username, and id. So I picked up the url field the same way I picked up the id field and updated my code with the url server and name. This still didn't work. After staring at the json data for a while the light finally dawned. The id I was using was the gamerplus id from my server. The id I needed to use was in the url field from their server. Now that I had become enlightened it was easy to notice that the url field contained the exact info that I needed to use in the embed. Remember what I said about doing it the hard way before you replaced that code with the easy way. That can happen even when you have a plan. So by using the url data in the embed I have less string handling and fewer lines of code. I went to bed and in the morning I made this post. And I quote. > > I am able to pull the urls from the json call so that should solve the missing comments issue. > > And then it comes down to the issue of data structures. > > KISS > > I have decided, for now, to display the comments in chronological order without concern for whether a comment is a reply to the post or a reply to another comment. > > A chronological list rather than a tree. > > Easy to implement (kind of/relatively) and easy to understand. Also no indents. > > This project will be licensed GPL so I am certainly open to others applying other data structures to the data display. Everything you need to display a tree is in the json. > > End quote. So the data structure I needed is called a multidimensional array or an array of arrays. In terms of a database table it is two columns and a bunch of rows. In terms of PHP arrays it's an array where each element is an array with two values in it, the id and the url. Now, in my case, the id is from the gamerplus server. The url is from whatever server the replyer calls home. I initialize the array with the parent post. $ids = array(array($id,$url)); You can see the nested arrays in the code. Then I add items to the array like this. $ids[] = array($id,$url); I access an array item like this. foreach($ids as $id) { $url = $id[1]; The 1 refers to the second element of the array because programmers start counting at 0. Then using the url and the domain that I captured from the GET parameter that passes the parent url into the program I build the iframe embed for that post using the Mastodon embed as a template. Which worked but the posts weren't displayed in chronological order. Because the json data isn't necessarily in chronological order. So I had to sort the multidimensional array on the id. Which isn't as straight forward as the sort() command. So I found this article on stackoverflow called How do I sort a multidimensional array by one of the fields of the inner array in PHP? It had a two line solution that I modified to work with my array. And now all my posts were in chronological order. Stack Overflow code is licensed CC BY which is one way compatible with the GPL. Just include the attribution in a comment. My first post quoted above was posted on Friday, October 25, at 8:40 PM. On Monday, October 28 at 8:52 PM I wrote, "Here's the blog post proof of concept/working code." Three days from "I have an idea" to "working code". That wasn't all I did in those three days. Saturday I had a repertoire session with my band, Jazz Buskers. Sunday I produced my radio show, Something Blue. But when I'm in the middle of a programming project I get hyper focused. Sometimes I have to force myself to step away. And I have worked on the code a little bit today. And I will in the future too. I did a lot of testing today and some Mastodon servers and/or accounts just don't support embeds. But if you want to use Embed Mastodon Threads on your blog or website your toot will probably be the parent and if it works on your account, you're good. Also posts from different servers look different. Sometimes the background color is different. Sometimes the links look different. Sometimes the whole post is a link to that post on Mastodon. I decided to embrace that as a feature rather than a bug with the different look making it easier to distinguish posts made on Gamer+ from posts made on other servers. I have uploaded Embed Mastodon Threads to home.gamerplus.org. At my blog I have a post called Embed Mastodon Threads Hosted On Gamerplus where I say, "The program is licensed GPL and I will put up a codeberg repository so you can download it and install it wherever you want. But feel free to use my server." And then I go into detail about just how to do that in the embedded comments thread. The program is 46 lines of code with 11 lines of comments including attribution comments and debug code that is commented out. So 35 lines of code. Over three days that's 12 lines of code a day. About double normal expectations for a programmer. This has been a long podcast, certainly longer than most of my podcasts will be. But I wrote it right after I did the project and it gave me an opportunity to discuss the development process. There were many issues I had that I didn't mention but I think I hit the high points. Throughout the whole project I was posting to my threads on Mastodon so that also helped me check back on the development history of this three day project. The stream of boosts and replies from my compatriots helped keep me going too. It was a rush! So this is not exactly a plain text program because it uses a database accessed through the Mastodon API. Still, I do not have to maintain that database, it's just there on every Mastodon instance, ready to use. Most of my plain text programs are web apps or web pages. This one is a web service. And it is simple to use. All you have to be able to do is copy the embed code from Mastodon, extract the link, and paste the link into the url that calls the web service. Then you put that url into an iframe on your blog or web page. I have a help page for using Embed Mastodon Threads in the same directory as the thread.php program where you can generate and copy your iframe code. In fact the help page is also a Plain Text Program which I may talk about in a future podcast. On the help page are instructions on how to get a link from the Mastodon embed code. Then you paste the link into a form and hit submit. The page generates your iframe embed code that you can use in your blog or web page. The page also displays what the embedded thread will look like. If you would rather download the code and install your own instance of Embed Mastodon Threads I have a codeberg repository. Again all the links are in the show notes at Hacker Public Radio and at my blog at home.gamerplus.org. If you have questions you can reply to a thread on Mastodon or email me at hairylarry@deltaboogie.com. If you don't have a mastodon account you can get one at gamerplus.org. Links My Plain Text Blog https://home.gamerplus.org/ Embed Mastodon Threads Help Page https://home.gamerplus.org/Embed_Mastodon_Threads/ Codeberg Repository https://codeberg.org/hairylarry/EmbedMastodonThreads From Jeff the GenX Alien Use tootcli to learn everything you need to know about the inner workings of Mastodon. https://github.com/ihabunek/toot Whatever the API supports so does toot. How to easily create cURL API requests in PHP (Wordpress, Laravel, Symfony) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLgEWMNA6w&t=602s Curl-to-PHP https://incarnate.github.io/curl-to-php/ Playing with public data - Mastodon documentation https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/public/ Status - Mastodon documentation https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Status/ Context - Mastodon documentation https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Context/ How do I sort a multidimensional array by one of the fields of the inner array in PHP? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2426917/how-do-i-sort-a-multidimensional-array-by-one-of-the-fields-of-the-inner-array-i Embed Mastodon Threads Hosted On Gamerplus https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Embed_Mastodon_Threads_Hosted_On_Gamerplus.txt Gamer+DBN Mastodon server https://gamerplus.org Provide feedback on this episode.

What you don't know about GPL-1 drugs may hurt you, or your opportunity to improve your health. Misconceptions could limit your ability to make an informed decision about whether they're right for you. Whether you're someone considering these medications for your own health or a fitness professional trying to better understand how they fit into the broader health landscape, this episode will offer valuable insights on what you don't know about GPL-1. We're not having a persuasive argument here. Instead, we want to provide a balanced and nuanced discussion, offering you the information needed to make a well-rounded decision. We are opening up the conversation again with a physician who's been using GLP-1 for a long time. She's sharing what she's seen and experienced and if you're a health and fitness professional, stay tuned as we have something special for you too. My Guest: Dr. Tami Meraglia MD is a leader in Functional Medicine specializing in Hormones, Weight Loss and non-surgical facial rejuvenation. She is the best selling author of The Hormone Secret, published by Simon and Schuster, has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox, ABC, NBC and many podcasts and summits as a health expert. She lectures nationally and internationally and is the Medical Director of BioThrive Life that offers personalized medical programs in person in Seattle and virtually across the USA. Questions We Answer in This Episode: What are the risks and benefits of these medications? [00:11:01] (Benefits), [00:33:10] (Risk) If you use them do you need to take them for life? [00:11:19] If you use them does the weight loss involve muscle loss? [00:40:48] Future of GLP1 medications [00:28:23] Connect with Dr. Tami: https://www.biothrivelife.com/ On Social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/askdrtami/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askdrtami/ Other Episodes You Might Like: How to Spot Menopause Misinformation: A Doctor Talks: https://www.flippingfifty.com/menopause-misinformation/ Your Glucose Levels in Menopause with the Glucose Goddess: https://www.flippingfifty.com/glucose-levels-in-menopause/

The WordPress drama between WPEngine and Matt Mullenweg has been quite the stir up for primarily WordPress, but also the open source community in general. Not to mention, all the WPEngine customers that are effectively collateral damage having their websites adversely affected, sometimes without even realizing what's happening. In this episode, Matt and Mike discussed the WordPress drama and touched on how it could affect open source projects moving forward. Is WordPress in the right? Is WPEngine? You decide... Disclaimer/Correction: A section of this episode states a misinterpretation of the GPL license. We've published a correction in the show notes under the "Disclaimer & Correction" section. Show Notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/open-source-is-dead Thanks to Wix Studio for sponsoring this episode! Check out Wix Studio, the web platform tailored to designers, developers, and marketers via this link: https://www.wix.com/studio  

Traditional management uses "carrots," like bonuses, and "sticks", like Performance Improvement Plans, to motivate employees. But are humans really built that way? In this episode, Jacob Stoller and Andrew Stotz dive into the myth surrounding that approach and talk about what actually motivates people at work. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.7 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today, I'm continuing my discussion with Jacob Stoller, Shingo-Prize winning author of The Lean CEO and Productivity Reimagined, which explores applying Lean and Deming management principles at the enterprise level. The topic for today is myth number four, the myth of sticks and carrots. Jacob, take it away.   0:00:46.2 JS: Thank you, Andrew, and great to continue our conversation. Yeah, it is widely believed that people are motivated by threats and rewards. And to demonstrate that, all you have to do is go into an HR department and look at the job descriptions and the reward programs. And it's all assumes that people are motivated by externalities, right? And that goes back, actually, it's a very, very old way of looking at the world, that there's a term, it's a bit of Latin here, homo economicus. And it's the idea that humans are sort of goal seeking creatures. They seek what's better for them, and it's all material. They'll seek their material gain, and they will behave in very predictable ways, according to that. So you can set up external motivators, mainly money, and you can regulate the way people will behave.   0:01:38.2 JS: So that's the assumption that many businesses are built on. But science has proven that that's not the way human humans work. There've been a number... And starting really in the 1950s, a number of scientists have sort of poked serious holes in that thinking. One of them is Edward Deci, who talked about motivation and did a number of experiments to see that, to find out that people, you know, their motive for doing tasks really kind of transcends rewards. Often they'll do something, for the satisfaction of doing it, in spite of the rewards being greater. We have Frederick Herzberg who developed something called Hygiene Theory. And that's really that... He determined in an organization that money can't actually be a positive motivator. It can't motivate positive behavior, but lack of money can motivate negative behavior.   0:02:49.6 JS: So, you know, and a number of experiments to support that. And then we have, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, hard to pronounce, who talks about joy at work and really did experiments and kind of proved that joy at work isn't just some kind of fancy idea that somebody had. But it's actually a scientifically proven principle. Whereas when people have joy at work and they're fully engaged in their work, they do much higher quality work. So that's kind of the background really here. So what we want, when we manage, is we want people to be intrinsically motivated so that they do their best work. And Deming principles are very, very, I think representative of that. I think Dr. Deming understood that people are motivated when they feel a part of something, when they contribute, when they feel that their team members around them are supporting them. And so that's what we try to do. And Lean eorld tries to do that, and we try to do that with Deming principles.   0:04:06.8 AS: You know, when I start off my discussion on this with students and people that I teach in seminars and the like, I always ask them, you know, which, do you believe in, a carrot or a stick? Do you think more people are motivated by rewards or punishments? And it's a great...   0:04:18.1 Jacob Stoller: Oh, okay.   0:04:24.1 AS: Way to kick off a conversation. But, you know, obviously we're gonna get some people that say, I want people to be feeling, you know, positive rewards and feel positive. And then you have the other people that... What I invariably find is that people who are running large companies with lots of employees, it's sticks. Yes, because...   0:04:40.4 JS: Interesting.   0:04:41.8 AS: It's overwhelming. And then when I think about where it's easiest to do joy in work, and where it's easiest to get the intrinsic motivation is, you know, smaller companies where everybody's close and they're really working together. And that's a dilemma that I never really have had a great reconciling of, but I'm interested to learn more about it from the direction that you're coming. So continue on. But that's just something I have in my mind when heard you talk about it.   0:05:13.1 JS: It's tough to do with a big company, but I wanna tell you a big company story. And actually I'm gonna read, a page or two of the book just because it's, I don't want to, it's a complicated story and I wanna make sure you get all the...   0:05:32.5 AS: Well, you've it written so well. So might as well do that.   0:05:36.1 JS: Well, like, gosh, let's hope so. Let's hope so. But, anyway, this is actually by coincidence. I just, what appeared, this morning on their podcast, so, of this company called Barry-Wehmiller. So, but the CEO of Barry-Wehmiller is a gentleman named Bob Chapman. And he's become quite well known in the Lean world and outside of the Lean world because as a pioneer of what we could call human-centric leadership. So he believes in treating people in the company like family members. But he didn't start out that way. He started with a very traditional background. He took over his father's business and he had a typical MBA background with accounting. And so he grew that company in a traditional way. You know, it started, as one company, and it started really by acquisition.   0:06:25.5 JS: He got very, very good at finding undervalued companies and developing them. So the company grew and it became a sort of a multinational, diversified manufacturer of various kinds of machinery. And so he was a huge success. I mean, he was written up in Harvard Business Review, all this kind of stuff, but he had a feeling, he was very much a family man too, and he had a feeling that something wasn't quite right in the companies that he was running. And he's a... Bob is a very... He watches people, he's very sensitive about body language. And he told me of a time he was in the cafeteria of a company, and it was sort of basketball season, you know, March Madness. That's when the university teams, you know, have their finals and all that, and everybody's betting on them, you know, it's a big deal.   0:07:21.9 JS: So he remembers being in there, and the people in the cafeteria all just having a great time and watching them chatter. And then, he watched the... When the clock sort of moved, so it's a few minutes to having to go back to work, he said the body language changed, all of a sudden they just weren't that happy. You know, it just, all the joy kind of drained out of them. And then they went off to their jobs. And Bob said, you know, this is wrong. You know, that it shouldn't be this way. And he was a family man. He said, I wouldn't want my children who I care about to be working in this kind of environment. So how can we care for the people and how can we actually make that work? So here's what I'm gonna start to read, because here's where it gets complicated.   0:08:08.6 JS: "Chapman vowed to change how people were led at Barry-Wehmiller. His business background, however, didn't provide any help for this. 'When I was in business school, I was never taught to care,' he said. 'It was about creating economic value. It was all business models, market cap, market share. I don't remember in my undergraduate in accounting or my graduate school ever learning to care or inspire the people I had the privilege to lead. And I never read, never was told, never heard that the way I would run Barry-Wehmiller would impact the way people go home and treat their families and their health. But the biggest thing we've learned is that the way we learn impacts the way people live.' Working with a group of team members from across the organization, he developed a set of principles called the Guiding Principles of Leadership, or GPL, which put caring for people as front and center to the job for all leaders in the company.   0:09:05.2 JS: "But the question remained, how do we organize the work in a way that gives workers the experience of working in a caring environment? It happened that Barry-Wehmiller had recently acquired a Baltimore based manufacturer of corrugated paper machines called MarquipWardUnited the company had implemented a number of Lean tools and practices under the leadership of Jerry Solomon, who was also the author of several books on Lean accounting. In Chapman's first meeting with Solomon, he introduced him to the Guiding Principles of Leadership and Solomon immediately saw a connection with the challenges companies face when trying to create a Lean culture. Most companies practicing Lean, he noted, never get to the culture piece. The same concern that caused the Shingo Institute to revise its model in 2008." And by the way, I have to interject here. That was covered in a previous chapter, how Shingo Institute found that they had left out the people and the caring part.   0:10:14.4 JS: And that had caused a lot of companies that had adopted Shingo principles to actually, and had won Shingo prizes to actually fall off the ladder, so to speak. But that's another story. Anyway, "Solomon," Jerry Solomon, this is the, from MarquipWardUnited "felt that what the company needed was what he called a delivery mechanism to integrate the Guiding Principles of Leadership with the company's day-to-Day operations. How, for example, does a supervisor in the shop floor interact with the people doing the work? Solomon felt that Lean and GPL were an ideal fit. Chapman was skeptical, though, 'cause he'd heard that Lean is purely about reducing waste and increasing profits, but not about leading people ... passed.   0:11:06.2 JS: And the group that was working on it, this company in Green Bay, actually was ready to report on some of their results. So they invited Bob Chapman and Jerry to come, to fly in to see the report. So what they got was a sort of a typical consultant's report. They said, well, we've implemented this thing and we've got, we've shortened the lead time, we've reduced the defects, whatever. And Chapman's reaction was actually different than what you would expect. He was very, very upset. 'Cause he said, this is supposed to be about people and Guiding Principles of Leadership. That's what you told me Lean was about. But here all I hear is a bunch of numbers. So he was quite upset. He left the room, actually. And they sort of calmed him down, and they said, Bob, please give us another chance.   0:12:03.6 JS: And it so happened that, the next morning there was going to be a report out from people that were actually on the team that had made the improvements. So Bob says, okay, I'll give you another chance, but I want the people that were actually working on that project to come and report to the presidents. So, an incredible setup. You know, you can imagine, you have these people 7 o'clock in the morning. Well, that's not hard for you to imagine, with the hours you keep. But anyway, 7 in the morning, you have all the principals, presidents of these companies, and you have, a couple of, people in the team and a guy who's never presented to a group like that, getting up in front of a whole group of CEOs. So he had some notes, and he went through his presentation, which was very sort of, you know, what you would expect.   0:12:54.2 JS: It was, yeah, we've got the, pretty much what the consultants had said the day before, right? Yeah. We cut the lead time. We did this. And, Bob listened patiently. He said he listened for about 10 minutes, and then he says, and he says, I don't know where this came from. He stood up and said, Steve, that's the name of the guy presenting. How did this change your life? And there was a silence. And you imagine, right? All the CEOs and or the presidents. And then, and this guy who has never presented to a group like that. And Steve just sort of blurted out, my wife is talking to me more. And Bob said, help me, Steve. I don't understand. Please, please explain this. And Steve then went ahead and told, what Bob said was one of the most moving stories he'd ever heard, you know, and what Steve said is, well, Bob, you know how it is.   0:13:53.9 JS: You go to work and, you know, you punch in your clock. And then they give you some things to do. They give you a list of things to do, but they don't give you any support or anything, or they don't give you the tools you need, but you sort of figure it out. You know, you get through the day and you get nine out of 10 things, right? But then maybe that 10th thing you'll run into some problem. He said, and immediately what they do, they never thank you for the things you did right. They jump on you for the problem you have, that you confronted. They tell you, you didn't do things right. And then they complain about your salary and how they have to pay overtime and all these kinds of things.   0:14:41.6 JS: And he said, you know, at the end of the day, I wasn't feeling too good about myself. And I'd go home and I think it was rubbing off on me. I wasn't being very nice to my wife and she wasn't talking to me. But he said, now with this program we have, the Guiding Principles of Leadership with Lean, people, I'm part of something. I'm part of a team. We've worked on some things and I can see the results. And when I ask questions, these engineers are answering my questions. And when I say things, they listen to me. And, you know, we've got the satisfaction of this project where we see the flow now really working out in this area. So I go home and I'm feeling better about myself. And I think I'm nicer to my wife and she's talking to me. And at that point, Bob Chapman turned to Jerry Solomon and he said, we have a new metric for Lean's success. It's going to be the reduction of the divorce rate in America.   0:15:41.7 JS: So that's, I think, very, very central. That story to everything we're talking about here with intrinsic motivation. Because it's not about money. It's, you know, you've gotta pay people decently and then they have to be able to support their families. But it's about respect. It's about seeing yourself accomplish things. And this isn't just a frill, this is a basic human need. I think Dr. Deming recognized that. And he has a wonderful diagram in The New Economics where he talks about, he calls it Forces of Destruction. You know that diagram?   0:16:23.1 AS: Yeah.   0:16:27.5 JS: Yeah. It's the... How the school system and then the job environments just basically wear a person down, wear down their will and their enthusiasm. And, you know what, another CEO pointed out to me that, very interestingly, he said, we have a crisis in this country because people don't have purpose in their work. So they go from job to job when they don't like their job. It's, he said, it's like changing an app. Something goes wrong, they change it, but they got no purpose in their work.   0:17:03.3 JS: And this company, I should I call them out, 'cause he, mention his name is Mark Borsari. And it's a company that makes wire brushes in Massachusetts. But they do, you know... He said, you really have to find the purpose in the interactions of people. It's in the people and it's in the processes. You don't get people excited about wire brushes. You get people excited about being part of a work environment where your opinion is respected and where you can make improvements. So, he said, that's what people need in the workplace right now. And he said, the result is that people, you know, we have people just depressed and upset and, you know, it's a crisis that's perhaps underestimated, but really needs to be addressed. So that's why I feel maybe so passionate about this sticks and carrots myth, because I see how destructive it is to human beings. And I've experienced some of that myself in, you know, my early days in corporate life where you're kind of blamed and evaluated for things that often you have no control over. And it's, you know, you look at something like the Red Bead Game. There are people that actually live that.   0:18:31.0 AS: Just to highlight for the listeners and the viewers, the book that Bob Chapman wrote is called Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, very highly rated on Amazon. And it looks like it's also in audible form, which would be a fun one. And you also mentioned about Jerry Solomon, his book, Who's Counting is another one on the topic.   0:18:32.5 AS: But you know, I was thinking about this for a moment. And I was thinking, you know, I was kind of inoculated to this, I was vaccinated against negative thinking by two things that happened to me when I was young. The first one is, you know, I went into rehab as as a young guy with drug addiction. And I came out of that when I was almost 18. And from that point till today, I've been drug free, alcohol free. And so I had to kind of face all the demons that I had, you know, accumulated at that time, but I left it with a really positive outlook on life.   0:19:29.7 AS: Like I wanted happiness.   0:19:29.8 JS: Interesting.   0:19:29.9 AS: I wanted serenity. And then and then I went to work... I went studied, enjoyed that, I went to work for Pepsi, I really enjoyed it. And then I met Dr. Deming when I was, you know, 24. And and he told me, you know, we should have joy in work. And from that moment on, it's like, that's what I wanted in life. And so I never, I never got caught up in this idea when I worked at Big Bank, you know, Citibank and other places, I just never, nobody could ever convince me that, you know, I should be unhappy with what I'm doing.   0:20:05.5 AS: Like, I really, really enjoyed it. And then I was just thinking about how painful it is, if you haven't been inoculated from the beginning, to have to go through this, and then you end up with, you know, it's it's 9 to 5, it's painful work, it's called work for a reason, it's hard, you know. And I think that before I come to the next questions, you know, about the question we always get on the topic of carrots and sticks, what do we do instead?   0:20:30.6 AS: Before I talk about that, I think I really wanna highlight that what's important is getting your thinking right about this. Whether it's the thinking about I wanna treat people like a family, I want people to enjoy work, I want work to be a source of pride, I want people to wanna work here. You know, if you can get those thoughts right, the solutions to the carrots and sticks, and how do we evaluate and all of those questions, you know, can kind of, they wither away to some extent. What are your thoughts on that?   0:21:02.4 JS: Well, I think Jerry Solomon said it very well, actually. He said, you need a delivery mechanism. And Lean provided that, you know, it has a bunch of tools and organizing principles. So does the Deming's System of Profound Knowledge, right, and the various frameworks that Dr. Deming put together. So that provides that kind of framework. It's not easy to do. I think one of the big hurdles, and this is kind of central to my book is that you're dealing with a lot of unlearning. And they say that it's harder to unlearn something than it is to learn new skills. So we really can't afford to underestimate that.   0:21:51.1 JS: And I think when we have managers and leaders facing massive unlearning challenges, I think what's needed is compassion, you know, we shouldn't be putting them down for applying what they learned, we should be understanding about the changes. And I think Dr. Deming, you know, from the stories I've heard was very good about that.   0:22:00.0 AS: Well, he had something he would say, which was kind of one of his methods of compassions, but I remember him saying, how could they know? How could they know, you know, like, they were brought up in this system, as you've just said, and so, but it's based upon the carrot and sticks and all of these different things. But I'm curious, you know, which I think we at some point we'll get to in our discussion is the, there's listeners and viewers out there. It's like, okay, Jacob, totally agree with you. Andrew, totally agree with you. I want people to have joy in work. But you know, I'm constrained by, you know, the performance appraisals that I got to do.   0:23:07.3 AS: I'm constrained by the punishments and rewards that my company does. And or a leader of a company says, if I let these things go, we're gonna fall apart. How do you respond to that?   0:23:11.6 JS: Well, gosh, I mean, I think you have to just look at the case studies of people that have let that go. And that's why I emphasize I one of the points I emphasize in the book with advice for companies moving forward is a very first step before you do anything is go visit companies that have been successful. You know, go visit Bama Foods, where they have a great culture. Go watch how people interact with people. Go to some of the great Lean companies. All these companies understand that the best gift they can give their employees is to allow them to share what they've learned with other people. It's a great motivator for people. So it's a real win win. So I think it begins with that you've got to see it first. And then you can start to assess where you stand.   0:24:13.6 JS: But we're talking about a transformation here, as Dr. Deming said. We're not talking about implementing a few tricks that we can superimpose on our management system. You've got to manage it completely differently to actually get this kind of intrinsic motivation to be a driving force in your workplace.   0:24:19.2 AS: It just made me think that I wanna come up with the five happiest companies in Bangkok and do a tour and take my students out and my teams out and my company managers out and let's go, you know, see how they're turning on intrinsic motivation, you know. And one thing about Thailand that's interesting is that what people want from work is very different than in the West.   0:24:50.1 JS: Right.   0:24:51.2 AS: And what people want from work is good relationships, harmony.   0:24:57.6 JS: Really.   0:24:57.8 AS: They want connection. They want meaning, more meaning from their work than the typical Western.   0:25:05.8 JS: Isn't that interesting? Interesting.   0:25:05.9 AS: And so when I see and I rail sometimes on to my students about, you know, be very careful about bringing this KPI disease into Thailand, where all of a sudden, you're setting up the Thai people to go against each other, which takes away from what is a core strength is their desire and ability to get along.   0:25:33.3 JS: Isn't that interesting? Wow, so they got a head start.   0:25:42.5 AS: Yeah. My first move to Thailand in 1992, I taught an MBA class. And the first thing I did is what was done with me in my MBA class is say, all right, here's a case study, break into groups, and then, you know, and then they came back and, and then after getting to know them in my first semester that I taught, now I've been teaching for 32 years in Thailand. The first lesson I learned is Thais do not need group work. They need individual work. And because they need to kind of flex that muscle.   0:26:08.8 AS: And then I thought, well, why are we do so much group work in America? Well, because it's Americans are trained and taught from the beginning to think independently, have their own idea, watch out for themselves. And they need help in, let's say, MBA classes to work together.   0:26:26.8 JS: Isn't that interesting?   0:26:26.9 AS: And so what I just saw was a very different dynamic.   0:26:30.3 JS: Wow.   0:26:30.9 AS: And it helped me also to understand that we... The good side of the American, let's say, I know, American worker, I know Americans, just 'cause that's where I grew up. But the good side of that is that there is a lot of independent thinking, they can come up with the good systems and all of that.   0:26:47.3 JS: Sure.   0:26:48.9 AS: But the bad side is that they're oftentimes fired up to be in competition with each other. And KPIs just ignite that fire that just...   0:26:58.2 JS: They do.   0:26:58.3 AS: Really causes, you know, a lot of damage.   0:27:00.5 JS: Well, I got to ask you something, then, do you think that that East versus West kind of mindset is why Dr. Deming's ideas were taken up in Japan when they had been kind of ignored in the US?   0:27:16.9 AS: Yeah, I mean, I definitely I mean, Japan is like an extreme example of Asia and trying to have harmony and everybody, the bigger mission is the company, the bigger mission is the community, the bigger mission is the country. I would say that Japan is like the ultimate in that. Thailand is less so there's more independence and people don't have to be completely allegiant to those things. But still, that desire to be happy at work is there, you know, I think it's there more, it's more innate, for some reason in Thailand, than I saw it in America.   0:27:55.8 AS: And I always explain that, when I worked in America, I think I never went out on a weekend with my colleagues.   0:28:04.5 JS: Really. Interesting.   0:28:05.3 AS: And in Thailand is a very common thing to arrange activities together with your workmates, and go bowling and do this and do that. And I thought, I saw that everywhere. And I was pretty, you know, that just was fascinating to me. So I really, you know, this discussion is all about opening up people's minds, that carrots and sticks are not the only way. And as you said, it's a transformation, it takes time, you got to think about it, you got to reconcile it.   0:28:37.8 JS: Well, and that brings up another really important point, Andrew. And that is that teamwork, team productivity really makes the difference in a company. And when you think about it, you've got a whole bunch of individuals that productivity is very often not gonna add up for reasons, you know, that we've already talked about, you know, it's not part of the system. So team productivity becomes really, really essential. But team productivity, and Kelly Allen actually pointed this out really well to me. And I mean, I'm gonna just look in my notes here to get his words exactly, 'cause he said it so well.   0:29:21.0 JS: Let's see here. And here's Kelly, "a useful operational definition of a team is the collaborative and coordinated efforts of people working together in an atmosphere of voluntary trust." So you got to build that. And, you know, that's kind of tough to do in a lot of North American companies.   0:29:48.5 AS: Yeah. It's such a great point. And I think I've recently been teaching a corporate strategy. And I talk about Michael Porter and all the he's taught about strategy. But one of the things that he mentions towards the end of his books is the idea of fit. And he's talking about how do the pieces fit together in the company. And everybody knows that feeling when the when the process before you or the process after you in your company is being run by somebody that you have a good fit with. It's like everything comes together. And so I think what I realize now is that the power of that coordination that Kelly Allen's talking about is all about how do we get these pieces fit together, working together, coordinating together. That's the magic.   0:30:37.3 AS: Interesting. But Porter, I mean, he talked about a lot of I think, you know, it's been a long time since I've looked at his books, but a lot of his stuff was either or, right? I mean, you know, you decide, am I gonna be a price leader or am I gonna be a quality leader? And I think a lot of what he did disregarded, you know, Deming's Chain Reaction, you know, where he where you actually invest in both. So I mean, that's got a problem and with strategy people in general. Now, I know you've taught strategy. So maybe you're gonna take me apart on this one. But it seems to me that the strategy folks are really missing something.   0:31:29.1 AS: Well, I think most people are missing the type of stuff that Dr. Deming's talking about, but I use an example of McDonald's and Starbucks.   0:31:35.5 JS: Okay.   0:31:37.3 AS: You know, one is a low cost leader. And one is a premium, you know, differentiated, you know, product and service. And we all know which one's which. So which one leads to a sustainable competitive advantage? Which one is better? I always talk to my students. And I say, the fact is, is that both of them have led to a competitive advantage. So part of what, you know, I would say, when I think about corporate strategy, from my perspective, is figure out the direction that fits your DNA, and then pursue that, whether that's about making, you know, I like to tell my students that think of a company run by an engineer, who may be focused on the processes and all that, who may create a very efficient operation, versus a business, let's say run by a marketing or sales person who has a much better contacting and messaging to the customer. Those two business owners should be developing their corporate strategy around their DNA, you know, and if they do that right, that, in theory, should lead to some competitive advantage.   0:31:58.9 AS: And to me, competitive advantage is how do we make sure that our company creates a level of profitability that is higher than the industry average over a sustained period of time. If we think we're doing a corporate strategy that works, and we're making a very low amount of profitability, I think that there's enough reason to argue that that's probably not achieving a competitive advantage.   0:32:37.1 JS: Yeah. And I think we have to put the word sustainable competitive advantage. But along the McDonald's, Starbucks, though, I have a very interesting twist. And I think this was done locally in Canada. But somebody did a blind test of coffees from various outlets to see what rated the highest. And I have to tell you that McDonald's coffee rated very high, higher than Starbucks. So...   0:33:47.1 AS: But it's definitely the case in Bangkok that McDonald's coffee is fantastic.   0:33:50.8 JS: Really.   0:33:51.8 AS: I happen to know very much about that. But I highly recommend that.   0:33:55.7 JS: Yeah. Well, I think we're, you know, we are focusing in this book, essentially on, you know, productivity. Now, marketing, marketing strategy and stuff like that is yeah, I'll acknowledge that. Sure. And that's maybe, you know, I think what Michael Porter was talking about it's very true in terms of marketing. But in terms of quality, output of quality, I think that's where the Deming magic and the Lean magic all come into play.   0:34:12.2 AS: Yeah, I mean, it took me a long time to figure out that what Dr. Deming saying is, if we are continually improving our products and service and our quality, we're driving down costs, and we're making people happier, and we're bringing more value to the market. How... Shall we wrap this up? And how would you summarize what you want people to take away from this?   0:34:26.1 JS: I would say that intrinsic motivation is underestimated in workplaces, it's misunderstood. It's not reflected in the way most companies are organized or their strategies. So it's a big learning curve for companies to create the kind of environment where intrinsic motivation is connected with the workplace. But I think it's worthwhile, it's a very, very important thing. And we have a lot of unhappiness in society. And a lot of it can be traced to a lack of that. So, you know, I hope that more companies will see the importance of this.   0:35:16.6 AS: You know, it's my, my friend who never... He was helping me when I was writing my book, Transform your Business with Dr. Deming's 14 points.   0:36:02.2 JS: That's a great book.   0:36:02.7 AS: And he was editing a book.   0:36:02.8 JS: I love that book, by the way.   0:36:04.3 AS: Thank you. I was trying to make it as simple as possible for the 14 points. But my friend, as he was helping me edit it, he turned to me after many hours of working together over many weeks, he said to me, I figured it out. Dr. Deming is a humanist, he cares about people. And that was just so funny, because he thought going into it, it's all gonna be about, you know, charts and graphs and statistics. And I think that's, you know, that's the key, it's the mindset. I wanna wrap up by by just going through some of Dr. Deming's 14 points that apply to what we're talking about. And, you know...   0:36:39.2 JS: Great.   0:36:39.6 AS: The question really is, you know, when my friend said that Dr. Deming was a humanist, it's 'cause as he started working on the 14 points with me, he started to realize, just listen to these points. Here's point number eight, drive out fear. Yeah, that's critical to having a joyful workplace. Number nine, break down barriers between department. That's the source of so much trouble for people at work is that they're working in silos. Number 10, eliminate slogans and targets and exhortations. Stop focusing on pushing the workers constantly. Figure out how to improve the system.   0:37:10.2 AS: Number 11, eliminate work standards or quotas, eliminate management by objective, management by numbers, substitute leadership. And number 12, remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of the right to pride of workmanship. Remove barriers that rob people in management and engineering of their right of pride of workmanship. My goodness, from eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, all focused on this concept of intrinsic motivation. And to me, that thinking, changing that thinking is what's so critical. Anything you would add as we wrap up?   0:37:25.0 JS: Yeah, I will add one thing to that. And this is very strongly in the book. That is why the first step if you're gonna transform your company is making everybody feel safe. That's got to be the first step, even before you start training them with methods and things like that. You have to build safety, then you can build trust.   0:37:47.2 AS: Fantastic. Well, Jacob, on behalf of everyone at the Deming Institute, I wanna thank you again for this discussion. And for listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. So much happening there. You can find Jacob's book, Productivity Reimagined at jacobstoller.com. And this is your host, Andrew Stotz. And I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming that I just never stop talking about. And today we talked about it a lot. And that is, "People are entitled to joy in work."  

This week on the Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Höck, co-founder of Vendure. We talked about switching licenses from MIT to GPL, the ways that Vendure is different from it's competitors and how architectural decisions can be a powerful differentiator for an open source company. Favorite quote: “You need to build your product together with your clients.” Some specifics we talked about that you should pay attention to: Why they switched to GPL in order to encourage more people to reach out to them and get more visibility into who was using their open source projectOn the other hand, they wanted to make sure that big companies building commercial platforms on top of Vendure's platform are forced to pay for a commercial license. They also wanted to choose a less-permissive license, but something that was still well-known and wouldn't cause a lot of confusion among users or potential customersThe difference between being happy with people using your software for free, and being happy with competitors using your software to build a competitive product, without offering any support to the underlying software. Do your customers care about whether you are VC-backed or bootstrapped? We had an interesting conversation about this, because Vendure is bootstrapped. I think we settled on a real important nugget — if your technology is really critical to the company, they will care about your long-term sustainability. Being bootstrapped can help convince potential customers that you are independent and will be sustainable for the long term. The top advantage of open source, David says, is the ability to get fast product feedback from a community. —> I just was talking with someone yesterday about this advantage of an open source strategy, I think it is under-discussed but extremely important. If you're the founder of an open source company struggling with your product strategy — uncertain how to differentiate between project or product or how to differentiate the entire company in the ecosystem; don't know what your project is supposed to do for your business; aren't clear on the target market for your project or product — you might want to work with me. Find out more here. 

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In this Vital Health Podcast, Duane Schulthess speaks to Pernille Weiss, a former Member of the European Parliament and the Rapporteur of the European Parliament's revision of the EU's General Pharmaceutical Legislation (GPL). The GPL proposes many profound changes to the regulatory structures of the EU's pharmaceutical sector, and MEP Weiss sat at the centre of the European Parliament's revision which rolled-back many of the European Commissions' suggested cuts to regulatory data protection. Pernille Weiss is a qualified Nurse, and the CEO of the healthcare consultancy Archimed. Vital Transformation's analysis of the EU GPL's impact on the pharmaceutical ecosystem can be accessed here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this LIFTS podcast, Escape Fitness CEO, Matthew Januszek and Mo Iqbal, Founder & CEO of SweatWorks are joined by special guest, former pro-athlete, serial entrepreneur and Chief Concept Officer at MADabolic, Brandon Cullen This episode unpacks how new developments in entertainment, pharmaceuticals and technology are attempting to influence population behavior and encourage more people to engage with gyms. Specifics discussed include: DJ Diplo's new 5k soundtrack, protein brands reacting to the GLP-1 craze and Superpower's $4m investment to deliver bespoke preventative health care to the masses. Key topics discussed include: Parenting, Fitness and entrepreneurship. Brandon Cullen – pro athlete and fitness entrepreneur. DJ Diplo's new fitness soundtrack – engaging beyond the 15 percenters. Kabata – AI driven dumbbells. Is this the future of fitness? The impact of GPL1s and new GLP-1 complimentary products entering the market. Will GLP-1s drive gym engagement? Preventative healthcare platform, Superpower, raises $4 million. Creating a ripple effect. To learn more about Brandon Cullen, click here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/playingguilty/ ====================================================== Support fitness industry news by sponsoring future LIFTS episodes. Contact us at marketing@escapefitness.com for advertising opportunities. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on your notifications so you never miss a new video when it's published: https://www.youtube.com/user/EscapeFitness Shop gym equipment: https://escapefitness.com/shop View our full catalog: https://escapefitness.com/support/catalog (US) https://escapefitness.com/support/catalogue (UK)  ====================================================== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Escapefitness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/escapefitness Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/escapefitness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/escapefitness/   0:00      Intro 0:22     Parenting, Fitness and entrepreneurship 1:26     Intro to Brandon Cullen and brief bio 3:47     DJ Diplo's new fitness soundtrack – engaging beyond the 15 percenters 9:48     Kabata – AI driven dumbbells. Is this the future of fitness? 15:47   The impact of GPL-1s and new GLP-1 complimentary products entering the market 20:51   Will GLP-1s drive gym engagement? 23:18   Preventative healthcare platform, Superpower, raises $4 million 30:29   Creating a ripple effect

2023 年，让人「躺瘦」的 GLP-1 类产品司美格鲁肽无疑是减肥市场独一无二的明星。尤其是以减肥为适应症的产品 Wegovy，去年全球销量同比增长 407% , 甚至出现了供不应求，一药难求的情况。 药红是非多，司美格鲁肽的成功也带动了行业内的竞争。礼来的新药替尔泊肽也在今年 5 月 21 日在中国获批了糖尿病适应症。同时，国内多家制药公司也正准备将 GLP-1 类药物推向市场，也上演了一系列的专利之争。 这两年关于司美格鲁肽的各种副作用也被拿到了放大镜下讨论。比如除了降糖减肥，有研究发现司美格鲁肽还有降低心血管病风险、保护肾脏、治疗非酒精性脂肪肝等作用，对阿尔兹海默和帕金森病也有效；与此同时，它的负面新闻也不少，有报导就指出司美格鲁肽会导致严重的胃肠道反应，会增加抑郁、焦虑的风险，甚至导致勃起功能障碍。 在GPL-1药物火了一年多之后，这期节目我们邀请Josh Wu返场，再聊聊GLP-1 赛道上又出现了哪些与司美格鲁肽同台竞争的对手，他们有什么绝招；同时，也来看看与司美格鲁肽相关的副作用到底有没有科学依据，我们要怎么确保信息的真实性。最后我们还会来聊聊与医疗和大健康投资相关的话题。 本期人物 丁教 Diane，「声动活泼」联合创始人、「科技早知道」主播 Josh Wu，十维资本生物医疗产业合伙人 雅娴，「科技早知道」监制 主要话题 [04:33] GLP-1 药物的市场格局：群雄并起，烽烟遍地 [08:27] GLP-1 药物的上游产业链：国产原料药与诺和诺德的专利之争 [12:21] 什么样的专利算有效？创新药专利知识大科普 [22:03] 从心血管病到阿尔兹海默：司美格鲁肽的各种疗效靠谱吗？ [26:08] 司美格鲁肽导致 ED？来仔细读读学术文章 [27:55] 什么样的信息真实可信？信源金字塔的 1-10 级 [34:40] 减肥热潮雀巢也要来分一杯羹？ [40:23] 让 Josh 迷惑的严肃医疗和大健康领域投资区别以及严肃医疗的投资铁律 所涉部分术语 AD：即阿尔兹海默症 （Alzheimer's Disease） NASH：非酒精性脂肪肝炎（Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis） ED：即勃起功能障碍（Erectile Dysfunction） 延伸内容 S7E25 | 一款意外发现的减肥「神药」，正在横扫全球 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/64e53eafb9b032b7b9a40ee8) 汪诘老师播客：规律是相通的，从信源可靠性到AI底层算法 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/6654b5b54efbc0c3dc740730) 幕后制作 监制：丁教、雅娴 后期：Jack 运营：George 设计：饭团 商务合作 声动活泼商务合作咨询 (https://sourl.cn/6vdmQT) 支持我们，加入新一年的播客创新 2021 年我们发起了「声动胡同会员计划」，这是一个纯支持项目，支持「声动活泼」在播客内容上不断探索和创新。回顾 2023 年，得益于这些支持，「声动活泼」的每档节目都不断突破，不仅荣登苹果中国的年度热门节目榜单，还在 CPA 和喜马拉雅等平台都榜上有名。2024 年全新付费节目「不止金钱 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/65a625966d045a7f5e0b5640)」现已上线，欢迎收听。同时，新一季「跳进兔子洞」即将上线，敬请期待！ 胡同 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/4931937e-0184-4c61-a658-6b03c254754d/Z0YbNKpo.png ​ 加入我们 声动活泼正在招聘全职「节目监制」、「人才发展伙伴」、「商业发展经理」，查看详细讯息请 点击链接 (https://sourl.cn/j8tk2g)。如果你已准备好简历，欢迎发送至 hr@shengfm.cn， 标题请用：姓名+岗位名称。 关于声动活泼 「用声音碰撞世界」，声动活泼致力于为人们提供源源不断的思考养料。 我们还有这些播客：声动早咖啡 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/60de7c003dd577b40d5a40f3)、声东击西 (https://etw.fm/episodes)、吃喝玩乐了不起 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/644b94c494d78eb3f7ae8640)、反潮流俱乐部 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/5e284c37418a84a0462634a4)、泡腾 VC (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/5f445cdb9504bbdb77f092e9)、商业WHY酱 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/61315abc73105e8f15080b8a)、跳进兔子洞 (https://therabbithole.fireside.fm/) 、不止金钱 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/65a625966d045a7f5e0b5640) 欢迎在即刻 (https://okjk.co/Qd43ia)、微博等社交媒体上与我们互动，搜索 声动活泼 即可找到我们。 期待你给我们写邮件，邮箱地址是：ting@sheng.fm 声小音 https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/4/4931937e-0184-4c61-a658-6b03c254754d/gK0pledC.png 欢迎扫码添加声小音，在节目之外和我们保持联系。 Special Guests: Josh Wu and 雅娴.

Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn't a business model. Let's talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting.  SHOW: 816SHOW TRANSCRIPT: SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog)“figure out how to play nice with competition” (Twitter)The will never be another Red Hat - Economics of OSS (a16z)OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODELThere are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainersFREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONESRed Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributorsYellow flags:  Foundation owns copyright“There's the business side and there's the hippie side of OSS”“I have endless ambitions”“I didn't build a forever entity”“When is the rug pull going to happen?”If a company takes VC funding, is open source anything more than a marketing vehicle?“Docker figured it out and now they are doing like $100M”. Did they? When is OSS personal, and when is it a company?Will there never be another Red Hat, or just not another Linux?How much is too much when determining if a company should give things away for free?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

This week we're talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history and future of Git and Scott's new project Git Butler, a branch manager tool that's aiming to improve the developer experience of Git using Git. We also touch on the contentious topic of open source licensing and the challenges of defining “Open Source”, FSL vs GPL, and more.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

This is a little tale about the dangers of proprietary technology and, when I broke my own rules, it came back to bite me big time. Let this be a warning to you all – your first option should always be to find an open source version of anything you need.

GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions, The Geeks way of checking what the outside weather is like, Alpine on a FreeBSD Jail, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, Dealing with USB Storage devices on OmniOS, Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions (https://klarasystems.com/articles/gpl-3-the-controversial-licensing-model-and-potential-solutions/) The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather is like (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_geeks_way_of_checking) News Roundup Alpine on a FreeBSD Jail (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/01/18/installing-alpine-linux-on-a-freebsd-jail/) DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s (https://git.sr.ht/~tomh/dragonflybsd-on-a-laptop/tree/master/item/README.md) Dealing with USB Storage devices on OmniOS (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/dealing-with-usb-storage-devices-on-omnios/) Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS (https://dan.langille.org/2024/01/06/creating-a-time-capsule-instance-using-samba-freebsd-and-zfs-2/) Conferences FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2024/) AsiaBSDCon (https://2024.asiabsdcon.org/program.html) BSDCan (https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/papers.php) EuroBSDcon (https://2024.eurobsdcon.org/) Southeast Linuxfest (https://southeastlinuxfest.org/2024/01/self-2024-call-for-participation/) Dont let the name fool you, SELF is BSD friendly and they'd love to have BSD/Unix Talks if you're in the area. JT is staff at SELF, so he can put in a good word for you. ;) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

On this week's episode of the Escape Your Limits podcast, we are joined Paul Byrne, an innovative leader whose focus on progression and innovation has been instrumental in shaping the fitness industry as we know it. Today, Paul is a Partner at Harrison Co, a consumer-focused investment bank helping clients make the right strategic business decisions to capitalize on the rapidly changing consumer economy. Recently the company released a report exploring ‘The Impact and Opportunities of GLP-1s for the Fitness and Wellness Industry'.  In this podcast we dive into the detail, drawing on Paul's extensive firsthand industry experience to understand how fitness operators can optimize the introduction of these new ‘miracle' weight loss drugs. Paul is perfectly placed to comment, thanks to his extensive experience of driving innovation and growth in the fitness industry. Over the course twenty years, Paul transformed Precor from a ‘one trick pony' into a multi-product world renowned fitness company over the course of a twenty-year period. In addition to bringing to market iconic equipment innovations including the elliptical (EFX®) and the adaptive motion trainer (AMT), during his time as President, Paul also kick-started the gym floor technology revolution with the introduction of Precor's Preva - a personalized fitness technology providing tailored workouts, popular apps and live tv to cardio machine users.  There are few people who know more about the need to adapt to changing market conditions or the value in keeping a head of the curve with products and services relevant to the ever-changing needs and wants of the consumer. In this podcast, Paul talks about: The rationale behind the report. Defining GLP-1s – how they work, what benefits they deliver. How GLP-1s can be accessed. The disruption GLP-1s will cause to the fitness, wellness, weight loss and other industries. Whether GLP-1 use will drive more or less people to gyms. The need for gyms to adapt to accommodate GLP-1 users. A call for specialist coaches who understand GLP-1s. The fusion of fitness and wellness with traditional healthcare. The global adoption of GPL-1s. To learn more about Paul Byrne click here https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-byrne-a930408/ To request a free copy of the Harrison Co report entitled: “The Impact and Opportunities of GLP-1s for the Fitness and Wellness Industry', visit Harrisonco.com ====================================================== Subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on your notifications so you never miss a new video when it's published: https://www.youtube.com/user/EscapeFitness Shop gym equipment: https://escapefitness.com/shop View our full catalog:  https://escapefitness.com/support/catalog https://escapefitness.com/support/catalogue  ====================================================== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Escapefitness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/escapefitness Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/escapefitness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/escapefitness/