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In this episode of Stronger Sales Teams, Ben Wright is joined by Matthew Whyatt, a distinguished sales leader from Australia renowned for his expertise in crafting high-impact sales strategies. The discussion kicks off with Matthew offering valuable insights into the science of buyer-centric selling, effective sales leadership, and his broad experience across various industries. The conversation takes a deep dive into the concept of the "buyer's process," stressing the critical importance of understanding customer behaviour in the sales journey. Matthew introduces a structured, four-step framework designed to guide sales interactions and convert potential into measurable success. About the Guest: Matthew Whyatt is an accomplished sales professional with extensive experience across a range of industries, including IT, software consultancy, real estate, healthcare, and business licensing. As the founder of Teck Torque Systems, he specialises in providing strategic sales consultancy and training, helping technology businesses expand and thrive. With a proven track record of leading organisations to generate over $100 million in sales, Matthew has a deep expertise in both managing and mentoring high-performing sales teams. Formerly the CEO of Velocity Sales Training, he collaborated with prominent sales experts and worked closely with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. A strong advocate for buyer-centric selling, Matthew is dedicated to empowering businesses to make informed, strategic decisions.Key Takeaways: Understand the buyer's process with a four-step framework to navigate successfully through “Just looking,” avoiding “Free consulting,” handling “Proposal requests,” and overcoming customer “Hiding.” Empower teams with a strong belief in the product and company to excel in sales engagements. Create actionable customer interaction plans, such as booking follow-up meetings during initial conversations to maintain momentum. Break up emails as a powerful tool to re-engage disengaged prospects and manage resource allocation effectively. The importance of leaders staying connected to frontline sales activities to enhance credibility and effectiveness in decision-making. Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:03 Guest Introduction 6:21 Broad Thoughts and Questions 12:19 The Framework 18:51 How To Turn on the Growth Tap and Where To Start 21:24 Guest Socials 22:37 Outro Rate, Review, & Follow If you're liking what you're hearing, make sure you ‘follow' the show wherever you listen to your podcasts…so you never miss an episode!I'd also love to hear what you think, so drop us a review after you close that next deal…tell me what you're liking, and what you want more of so I can look to cover it in a future episode.

This week we talk about Huawei, DJI, and ByteDance.We also discuss 5G infrastructure, black-box algorithms, and Congressional bundles.Recommended Book: The Spare Man by Mary Robinette KowalNote: my new book, How To Turn 39, is now available as an ebook, audiobook, and paperback wherever you get your books :)TranscriptIn January of 2024, Chinese tech giant Huawei brought an end to its years-long US lobbying effort, meant to help mend fences with western politicians.In mid-2019, then US President Trump had blacklisted the company using an executive order that, in practice, prevented Chinese telecommunications companies from selling specialized equipment in the US, as part of a larger effort to clamp-down on the sale of Chinese 5g and similar infrastructure throughout the US.Around the same time, a Huawei executive was jailed in Canada for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran, and several other western nations were making noises about their own bans, worrying—as Trump's administration said they were worried—that Huawei and similar Chinese tech companies would sell their goods at a loss or at cost, significantly undercutting their foreign competition, and as a consequence would both lock down the burgeoning 5g market, including all the infrastructure that was in the process of being invested in and deployed, while also giving the Chinese government a tool that could allow them to tap all the communications running through this hardware, and potentially even allow them to shut it all down, if they wanted, at some point in the future—if China invaded Taiwan and wanted to keep the West from getting involved, for instance.So while part of this ban on Huawei—for which the President made use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and declared a national emergency—was undoubtedly political (part of the trade war Trump started as part of the "China is the enemy" platform he was running on leading up to the 2020 election), there were also real-deal concern about China insinuating itself into the world's infrastructure, beginning with the rollout of the next phase of communications technologies; making themselves indispensable, disallowing foreign competition, and yes, possibly even creating a bunch of backdoors they could use at some point in the future to tip the scales in their favor during a conflict.This ban also ensured that Huawei's then quite popular line of smartphones wouldn't be available in the US, or many other Western countries. The company sold off its Honor brand of phones in a scramble to try to protect that line of products from these new blocks on its offerings, which among other things disallowed them from accessing the chips necessary to make competitive smartphone products, but the legislation just kept coming after that initial salvo, the US Federal Communications Commission banning the sale or import of anything made by Huawei in late-2022, and a bunch of fundamental US allies, especially those with which the US collaborates on military and intelligence matters, have likewise banned Huawei products on their shelves and in their communications networks; the idea being that even one Huawei transmitter or modem could tap into the whole of these networks—at least in theory—which is considered a big enough security concern to justify that blanket ban.Huawei has managed to survive, though it didn't scale the way its owners seemed to think it would back before all these bans.Now it exists as a primarily regional outfit, still making billions in revenue each year, though down to about half the revenue it was earning before 2019.Another popular Chinese tech company, DJI, is now scrambling to deploy its lobbyists and circle the wagons, as there's word that it's on a shortlist of potential Chinese security threats, in this case because the company makes very popular consumer and professional grade drones, which have successfully outcompeted many western brands of the same, and which have thus started to dominate aspects of the drone market.These drones tend to be of the six or eight mini-propeller variety, the kind that people fly for fun, or use to shoot aerial photos, but the success of drones, even of this kind of drone, in Ukraine, reworked to spy on enemy fortifications or to carry explosives, has had the US Defense Department thinking it might not be the best idea to allow a Chinese company to own a substantial chunk of the US and international drone market—for many of the same reasons that Huawei was considered to be a threat; because that would allow China to continue to take out international rivals, allegedly by stealing their competitor's tech back in the day, and by continuing to back their companies with government support and funding, which makes fair and level competition a bit of an impossibility.These companies are doing well for many reasons, then, and some of those reasons are not replicable outside the tight relationship the Chinese government has with its corporate entities.If DJI is ultimately targeted in this way, it would likely be via a similar mechanism as the ban that was slapped on Huawei: new drones made by DJI would be unable to use the US's communications infrastructure, which would make their continued functionality in the country all but impossible.This wouldn't ban DJI drones that are already owned by folks in the US, and it's anyone's guess as to how likely this will be to pass, as a bill to this end is currently working its way through the House, but DJI is lobbying heavily, is more common and popular in the US than Huawei was, and there's a chance that it simply won't be worth the potential political consequences for those who vote to ban it, if the bill works its way further through the process.What I'd like to talk about today is another potential ban of a popular Chinese product, TikTok, and how such a ban might play out.—Back in 2020, the Trump administration announced that it was looking into banning TikTok, a popular vertical video-focused social network that operates a bit like a cross between Instagram and YouTube, and which was becoming especially influential with young people, so-called Gen Zers.TikTok is owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance, and ByteDance has a version of the same app in other countries, including China, which there is called Douyin.That same year, TikTok hit back against the Trump administration with a legal challenge that said, in essence, the President was just trying to score political points by passing protectionist laws in the lead-up to the election, and that it might have also been revenge because there were young people on the platform posting videos about a prank they instigated at a Trump rally, which seemed to irk the former President.Around this same time, TikTok higher ups began working on what became known as Project Texas, which was meant to help address one of the government's concerns and complaints, that data and media shared on TikTok was sent to Chinese servers, which suggested all that information could be more easily siphoned off and used by the Chinese government.This project resulted in a re-working of how data on the platform is handled, bringing in US tech company Oracle to keep tabs on everything, ensuring that this data is safely managed and not sent somewhere the Chinese government can easily get it.A former employee of TikTok alleged in early 2023 that this Project didn't do what it was supposed to do, and TikTok's leadership said that this employee left before it was fully implemented; other involved people have spoken about their own takes on the matter since then, some of them saying the company is locked down tight because of all the oversight it's receiving, while others have said it makes big security claims, but is still not locked down the way it needs to be.This concern is the result of a law in China that says, basically, if the government tells you to hand something over, you do, or you can be stripped of all your wealth, can be put in prison, can even be killed.So ByteDance's leadership's claims that they have not handed this sort of data over to the Chinese government, and wouldn't do so if they were asked, can't be trusted, according to arguments against their claims, because they would of course lie about this if they had handed it over, and may not even be legally allowed to admit to so doing, but they also wouldn't really have a choice if they were asked—they would legally, in China, have to do so.That's the big argument and concern on the US security side of things: the Chinese system works different than the system in many other countries, and because of how integrated and entwined their government is with their market, every single Chinese company, like ByteDance, like Huawei, like DJI, should be considered a wing of the Chinese military, because in practice, they are.Thus, as soon as these concerns about TikTok started to hit the mainstream consciousness, we started to see those federal efforts to do something about it—most of which were initially unsuccessful, except for that Project Texas effort, about which no one seems to be able to say with any certainty whether it was successful or not.At the state level, we also saw a bunch of bans on having the TikTok app on corporate and government devices, and in some places, like Florida and Montana and Indiana, we've also see bans on Chinese individuals and Chinese companies acquiring land, working on some types of research, setting up factories, and other such things.All of which sets the stage for a piece of legislation that was passed by the US Congress earlier this month, and then signed by President Biden, saying that ByteDance needs to divest itself of TikTok, and soon, otherwise TikTok will be banned in the US.The specifics are important here: first is that this legislation was passed as part of a bundle with legislation that also provided funding for Ukraine, Israel and Palestinians, and Taiwan—so this is generally being seen as a sweetener to some further-right Republicans who otherwise would have opposed those funding efforts, and it may not have been passed if it hadn't been thus bundled.Second is that this isn't a TikTok ban, in the sense that Biden signed it and now TikTok is banned in the US. Instead, it says, basically, TikTok can keep operating in the US, but it can't be owned by a Chinese company, which again, if the Chinese government asks them to do spy or military stuff on their behalf, they would legally have to do. So the idea is that TikTok itself isn't the problem, it's those ties to the Chinese government and intelligence and military apparatus.Third is that the company now has nine months to figure out a deal to sell the whole or part of TikTok to some more acceptable—which in this case means non-Chinese-government-entangled—owner, and the President has the option of extending that to a full year, if it looks like a deal is about to be done, but needs a little more time.That's up from a previously proposed six months, and is considered to be more realistic, given the scope and scale of the company in question.And that scope and scale is point number four: TikTok is huge. It's an absolutely behemoth company, with about 170 million users in the US, alone, and about $16 billion in revenue each year.That's still nowhere near Meta's $134.9 billion of annual revenue, but it's still a colossal company that's generally considered to be worth more than $100 billion, again, for the US assets alone—though if the company were to sell everything but the algorithm it uses to decide what videos to show its users, it's though that price could drop to closer to $20 billion; which is still substantial enough that there wouldn't be many people or entities capable of affording it, and some of the big, well-moneyed US tech players, like Meta and Google, would be unlikely to even try, as their offer would probably be held up by antitrust concerns within the current, fairly hardcore regulatory environment.So ByteDance is being told to sell their US assets within a year, max, and they may have to find a buyer willing to spend tens of billions of dollars for it, and that buyer would have to be acceptable to the same US government that is telling the existing owner it has to sell or be banned in the country.Analysts are mixed on whether this is a bluff or not, but at the moment, ByteDance's leadership is saying, in essence, no—we're not going to play this game, we would rather shut down the US version of TikTok than sell those assets.Part of the rationale here might be that the Chinese government is telling ByteDance's owners that they're not allowed to sell these assets; it could be a requirement they're dressing up as staunch resilience to save face, basically.It could also be that they did the math and realized that their US offerings, despite being worth billions, are nowhere near their most profitable assets—those are in China—and they'd rather double-down on that larger market and other foreign markets than sell off something valuable in the US, which could then be used to challenge them in some of those remaining markets.It could also be that they're holding out for a good deal, or delaying, hoping that denying even the possibility of a sale will help their case in court.And they do, by some estimations at least, have a pretty solid case to lean on.Some legal experts are saying their First Amendment rights are being violated, and in a 1965 Supreme Court case, Lamont v. Postmaster General, the court ruled that foreign-produced propaganda—in that case communist propaganda—could still be distributed through the postal service because Americans have a first amendment right to receive it, even if they didn't specifically request it.This is considered to be relevant, here, because one of the arguments against TikTok by the US government is that the Chinese government could adjust what they show people, favoring content that supports positions and views of the world they like, over time adjusting the opinions and facts or pseudo-facts young people in particular are working from—which over time could also influence what they believe, how they vote, and so on. There have already been claims that TikTok favors pro-Palestinian content over pro-Israeli content, for instance, and it has long suppressed work that talks about the Tiananmen Square massacre and other things the Chinese government doesn't like; it doesn't generally fully disappear this stuff from the platform, but the algorithms show that sort of content to few people, which has a similar effect to deleting it on an app where people primarily discover things based on what they're shown by that algorithm.Of course, Facebook and Twitter and other networks have been accused of the same, in Meta's case downplaying news and political content, and in Twitter's, recently, post transition to X, favoring more conservative posts over more liberal ones—though in both cases, and in TikTok's, too, it's difficult to prove this sort of thing, and the algorithms are often black boxes rather than open code we can look at and judge objectively; so some such claims may be based on anecdote and the complainer's own bias.And it's worth mentioning here that although the Chinese government, TikTok's leadership, and a slew of free speech rights groups have come down on TikTok's side, citing the US's First Amendment and the support it would seemingly have for the popular app and those who want to use it to exercise their speech—and for the company to exercise its own, as well, sharing stuff those people watch—China has regularly banned US social networks from its highly controlled and censored portion of the internet, clamping down on those that survive so hard that they don't have much control, their data highly secured and allegedly tapped within China.So China is saying the US is in the wrong for doing something similar to what it does back home, though on a much smaller and more focused scale, and one of the counterarguments being made by some folks in the US, including some who are typically free speech proponents, is—well, tit-for-tat. Countries that remain open for US social networks will have their networks welcomed in the US in the same way, but those who don't? Their futures are less clear, because why should the US allow that kind of potential security and influence risk when the other side refuses to do the same?There's a question here, then, of what the modern, splintered internet is and how it should be treated—perhaps especially in free speech-favoring, democratic societies—now that we've moved past the veneer of free and open online activity everywhere.That's never been the case in China, and in many other countries around the world, so the idea that the US and Europe and similar nations need to behave as if it's equally open and free everywhere seems a little outmoded, and some such entities, like the EU, have been regulating based on that reality, while the US has been slow to do the same; this could mark a moment in which the US starts thinking along these same terms, or it could be another instance of maintaining the previous paradigm, because that tends to be easier, and because the relevant laws haven't been updated, yet.There's also the question of how expansive this particular bill will end up being.Does it apply to ByteDance's other apps, as well, including the popular CapCut video editing app, and its existing Instagram-dupe Lemon8, and potential future Instagram-clone TikTok Notes?Further, does it apply to other Chinese-owned apps, and other apps owned by companies in, for instance, Russia and other current and future antagonistic states?Also, to what degree will the law allow friendly nation states, like Japan and European nations, to scoop up these sorts of assets and operate them in the States, in a way China would no longer be allowed, when there's the chance that some of them—Hungary, for instance—might not always be so friendly? How does the friendly or unfriendly judgement get made, and what sort of process is involved in changing a nation's label from one to the other?Right now, the framing of all this is mostly whether we prioritize free speech or national security, and it's arguably the government's responsibility to make that argument, or face the electoral consequences of seemingly behaving in anti-speech ways without any real purpose, beyond potentially empowering US-based social platforms over foreign versions of the same.And lacking a stronger argument and more public evidence, there's a decent change a lot of people, especially young people will be irked at a TikTok ban, or even the possibility of one, despite the supposed security threat it poses.All of which suggests this will be an interesting year, as the clock ticks downward on those 9 months, plus another 3, possibly, that ByteDance has to sell its US assets, during which several companies will probably arise, stating their case for scooping up the most popular social platform, with young people at least, in the country, and during which ByteDance's lawyers will be filing cases on their employers' behalf.And this will all go down as the country winds its way toward the November election, which features two presidents that have spoken out against the app, while also having used it for their own political gains, to try to reach the youths of the country, who will play a major role in this upcoming election, but also a lot of elections after that, well into the future.Show Noteshttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/301/https://www.wsj.com/politics/states-take-on-china-in-the-name-of-national-security-7ed05257https://apnews.com/article/us-china-blinken-wang-yi-8c1c453df3afbd6ec87ced0c8d618064https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139036/biden-signs-tiktok-ban-bill-divest-foreign-aid-packagehttps://www.dw.com/en/eu-sets-tiktok-ultimatum-over-addictive-new-app-feature/a-68891902https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/business/tiktok-india-ban.htmlhttps://apnews.com/article/tiktok-divestment-ban-what-you-need-to-know-5e1ff786e89da10a1b799241ae025406https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-bytedance-lawsuit-biden-386e6d81e2eef61a756bcdea96cd0aefhttps://www.axios.com/2024/03/16/tiktok-ban-divest-ownership-chinahttps://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/five-observations-on-the-tiktok-bill-and-the-first-amendmenthttps://archive.ph/7Fiknhttps://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-bytedance-lawsuit-biden-386e6d81e2eef61a756bcdea96cd0aefhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/25/tiktok-legal-battle-is-certain/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/18/business/media/tiktok-ban-american-culture.htmlhttps://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/02/22/how-u-s-adults-use-tiktok/https://www.ypulse.com/article/2023/06/05/gen-z-is-officially-using-tiktok-more-than-any-other-social-media-platform/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/bytedance-tiktok-ban-bill.htmlhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/tech/who-could-buy-tiktok/index.htmlhttps://www.nbcnews.com/business/tiktok-ban-bill-why-congress-when-takes-effect-rcna148981https://www.wsj.com/tech/bytedance-says-it-wont-sell-u-s-tiktok-business-61f43079https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-china-is-holding-its-fire-as-u-s-moves-to-ban-tiktok-38a63cddhttps://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127579/tiktok-ai-virtual-influencers-advertisinghttps://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/project-texas-the-details-of-tiktok-s-plan-to-remain-operational-in-the-united-stateshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Project_Texashttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/china-tiktok-douyin.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c289n8m4j19ohttps://techcrunch.com/2024/04/27/will-a-tiktok-ban-impact-creator-economy-startups-not-really-founders-say/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/25/tiktok-ban-bill-us-communities/https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-tiktok-lost-the-war-in-washington-bbc419cchttps://archive.ph/pnMEGhttps://www.theverge.com/24141539/tiktok-ban-bytedance-china-dc-circuit-supreme-courthttps://www.axios.com/2024/04/23/tiktok-ban-bytedance-apps-capcut-lemon8https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/us/politics/us-china-drones-dji.htmlhttps://www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/huawei_ditches_us_lobbying_team/https://engadget.com/huawei-honor-sold-024435704.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaweihttps://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/15/trump-ban-huawei-us-1042046 This is a public episode. 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Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: my new book, How To Turn 39: Thoughts About Aging for People of All Ages is now available as an ebook, paperback, and audiobook! If you find value in my work, consider picking up a copy—it's written for people of all ages who want to figure out what it means to grow older, better :)G7 to target sixfold expansion of electricity storageSummary: Representatives from the G7 countries, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, have “agreed in principle” to a new goal that would expand global electrical storage capacity to 1,500 gigawatts by 2030.Context: That's up from about 230 gigawatts in 2022, and would represent a huge expansion in the deployment of battery storage, but also the use of other storage methods like pumped hydro, underground compressed air, and possibly even long-term heat storage and hydrogen conversion technologies; this is just one of several clean energy-related topics being discussed by these representatives at the moment, but widespread, reliable storage for the electricity produced by often intermittent renewable sources like solar and wind is vital if these sources are to replace existing, greenhouse gas-emitting fuels like coal, petroleum, and natural gas.—Financial TimesOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Spain's Sanchez says he will stay on as PM despite wife's graft probeSummary: The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, has said that he will remain in office after several days of uncertainty following an announcement in which he said he might resign due to harassment he said his wife is facing from far-right opposition members and their followers.Context: This post and the followup confirmation that Sanchez would not be resigning come in the wake of a preliminary probe into the prime minister's wife for alleged influence peddling and corruption; this probe is the result of a complaint by a far-right political organization that has sparked a series of similar, and thus far unsuccessful legal moves against politicians they don't like, and there's reportedly no evidence of the PM's wife's alleged corruption, other than media reports that also offer no evidence; Sanchez's Socialist party oversees a minority government that relies on far-left and separatist parties to get anything done, and some of the laws his government has passed to appease those further-left parties have consistently riled conservatives in the country, including a proposed amnesty for Catalan separatists.—France 24Philippines closes schools as heat soars to ‘danger' levelSummary: Public schools across the Philippines were closed yesterday and remain closed today, classes moved online for the duration, due to incredibly high temperatures that have coincided with a nationwide strike by jeepney drivers.Context: These high temperatures, which hit 45 degrees Celsius (which is about 113 degrees Fahrenheit) in Manila, follow a week of also high levels of heat, which have topped 40 C (100 F) in some parts of the country, the heat index even higher in most areas; jeepneys are open-air vehicles that make up the lion's share of public transit across most of the Philippines, and the drivers of these vehicles are protesting a government plan that will see their rides replaced with expensive new minibuses, which would be more energy-efficient, comfortable, and safe, but also a big investment for the drivers—many of whom say they can't afford to make the upgrade.—The New York TimesThe words we use to talk about our beliefs and politics matter, and a recent survey from Ipsos shows that “MAGA” and the “2nd Amendment” are among the most divisive terms in the American political lexicon, at the moment, while “National Parks” and “Honesty” are more likely to refer to shared, cross-spectrum values.—Axios3.6 millionNumber of babies born in the US in 2023 according to the CDC.That represents a decrease of 2% from 2022, and may mark the end of a small bump in the nationwide birthrate we saw from 2020 to 2022.—The Washington PostTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (howtoturn39.com), is available for pre-sale :)US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfightSummary: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, confirmed earlier this month that it has successfully tested an artificial intelligence controlled aircraft in dogfight conditions, as part of its Air Combat Evolution, or ACE program.Context: The purported goal of this program is to integrate autonomous systems into the US's military operations, including but not limited to allowing fighter jets to be controlled by machine-assisted humans, and in some cases, just machines; in this test-run, there were human pilots aboard the AI-controlled aircraft as it operated, ready to take control if necessary, but the AI system reportedly functioned properly and completed the test as they had hoped; this is a big deal in part because of how fundamental drones and other such autonomous-capable systems are becoming to warfare, and in part because of concerns related to using AI and other autonomous systems in combat and in other situations in which they might intentionally or accidentally harm or kill humans.—The VergeOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Biden unveils $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day messageSummary: On Monday, US President Biden announced $7 billion in grants for residential solar projects, and that applications are now open for the American Climate Corps.Context: These grants are meant to support projects that will power about a million low-income American households, and the American Climate Corps is a program that will help train young people to work in clean energy-related fields, paying them as they learn these skills and work on relevant projects around the country.—ReutersRocket Lab launches new NASA solar sail tech to orbitSummary: Earlier this week, a rocket carrying NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System was launched into orbit from New Zealand—the first project of its kind to be deployed by NASA.Context: Solar sails are lightweight materials that work like a kite or a sail, but which capture photons from the sun instead of wind, allowing them to slowly speed up over time using no fuel, which could mean they're ideal for carrying probes and other payloads vast distances, including other star systems that are out of reach using other, currently available technologies; other solar sail projects have been flown by Japan's space program and by the Planetary Society, but this most recent effort uses a new composite for the sail—which measures about 30 feet or 9 meters per side—and it's meant to help the agency test the utility of this propulsion method for future programs.—Space.comAfter years of encouraging news organizations to invest in growing their social platform subscriber numbers, Facebook- and Instagram-owner Meta has been pulling away from political and news coverage, biasing their algorithms against such content in order to nudge conversation away from hot-button issues.—The Washington Post6Number of new billionaires resulting from China's “bubble tea boom” over the past few years, which has seen several new bubble tea (or “boba tea”) chains raise hundreds of millions of dollars to expand their brands in-country and internationally.—BloombergTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (howtoturn39.com), is available for pre-sale :)Four killed in Guangdong floods, sparking concerns over extreme weather defensesSummary: Heavy weekend rains triggered floods in the heavily populated Pearl River Delta in China, leading to four confirmed deaths, the evacuation of around 110,000 people, and 25,800 people in emergency shelters earlier this week.Context: Officials in Guangzhou said they've tallied the highest cumulative rainfall figures since 1959 this April, and that flash flood and other storm-related warnings are still in effect for many of the region's cities, including the tech-hub megacity, Shenzhen; this part of China is prone to seasonal flooding, but as is the case in many parts of the world right now, floods have become less predictable and on average more potent, and as a result local infrastructure meant to protect locals from the impacts of flooding are proving to be less effective. —The GuardianOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.FTC issues ban on worker noncompete clausesSummary: The US Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that employers, except in rare cases, can no longer prevent their employees from going to work at rival companies after quitting or being fired using a type of contract called a noncompete.Context: Noncompetes allow employers to say, for instance, that once you've left our company, you can't work for another company in the same industry for a given number of years, which helps protect said company at the expense of the employee's career options; the FTC decided that this was bad for the economy and for workers, and that it is often coercive, as employers tend to have enough leverage to force people to sign these contracts if they want to work in their industry of choice; this decision will almost certainly see court challenges by businesses and the US Chamber of Commerce, which argue noncompetes help them protect their intellectual property and trade secrets from rivals.—The New York TimesSenate sends sweeping foreign aid package to Biden's deskSummary: As predicted, the US Senate voted on Tuesday, 79 to 18, to pass a foreign aid package that was recently passed by the House; yesterday, the President signed the bill into law.Context: This package contains about $61 billion in assistance for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel and Palestinians, and $8.12 billion for Taiwan and other Indo-Pacific interests; it also includes a provision that will require Chinese company ByteDance divest itself of its US assets, like TikTok, or face a ban in the country.—AxiosUS energy markets (and consequently, the energy markets of many US allies) have largely (though not entirely) defied expectations of disruption over the past few years, despite several land wars and burgeoning conflicts in the Middle East that previously—before the US became the biggest oil producer in the world on the strength of its shale oil fracking efforts—would have caused a whole lot of tumult and economic discomfort.—Financial Times34,183Number of confirmed people killed in Gaza following Israel's invasion of the Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.That's alongside 77,084 people who have been wounded, the around 7,000 people who are missing, and the 1.1 million people who are facing a “catastrophic” lack of food, which is the IPC's (a global hunger watchdog organization) worst hunger rating, at which point people are actively starving to death.—Al JazeeraTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (howtoturn39.com), is available for pre-sale :)UK Parliament approves Rwanda deportation bill, ending weeks of legislative stalemateSummary: Following months of unsuccessful attempts by British Prime Minister Sunak to kick off a program that would allow the government to send some migrants to the UK to Rwanda, the House of Lords dropped its proposed amendments to the policy and recognized the House of Commons' primacy in the matter, which has allowed the bill to move forward.Context: This deal has been in the works, in some form, for about two years, and would allow the British government to deport some migrants who enter the country illegally to Rwanda as a means of deterring future illegal entrants; this new legislation was formulated in response to a Supreme Court ruling on an earlier iteration of the bill, which said it's illegal to deport migrants in this way because the government can't guarantee the safety of people shipped off to Rwanda; a new treaty with the Rwandan government would seem to address these concerns, and now that the House of Lords has removed itself as a barrier, lawsuits brought by migrants are the last remaining threat to this policy.—The Associated PressOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.H5N1 strain of Bird Flu found in milkSummary: The World Health Organization has announced that very high concentrations of the H5N1 bird flu virus strain have been detected in raw milk in the US, but that pasteurization kills the virus, so the vast majority of milk sold in stores, even from dairies that have been impacted by bird flu in recent months, is safe to drink.Context: This announcement arrives shortly after news that all sorts of mammals in the US have been confirmed infected by H5N1, and that a dairy farm worker in Texas caught the disease after being exposed to infected cattle; there's no evidence so far that H5N1 is transmissible between humans, but any new vector for spreading this sort of disease, which is incredibly deadly in its bird and mammalian hosts, is concerning, and the relevant agencies are on high alert regarding this pathogen, right now.—Barron'sNYPD arrests Gaza war protesters at NYU in fresh US campus flashpointSummary: Multiple people have been arrested by police following protests at NYU's campus Monday night, which follows similar protests and arrests at campuses across the US, including Yale and Columbia University.Context: Most of these protests are focused on Israel's ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip, and protestors are generally demanding that their schools divest from weapons manufacturers and Israel-based entities that might be funding or otherwise supporting this invasion; there have been accusations of anti-Semitic language and attacks at and around some of these protests, there have also been concerns that non-students have mixed in with student protestors to co-opt these events and in some cases tilt them toward extreme language or small acts of violence, and many teachers and students have criticized the folks running these universities for calling the police to break up these protests, in some cases punishing students for protesting, even to the point of booting them from the university—all of which has created a firestorm of accusations and anger, and the emergence of more protests, at these and other educational institutions.—AxiosArgentina's economic activity is looking like to have dropped 5.9% in February compared to the same month in 2023, which (if confirmed) will mark the fourth straight month of declines during a period of intense austerity implemented by the country's new president, who ran on a platform of dramatically cutting spending and curtailing the nation's substantial inflation levels.—Reuters$2.4 trillionValue of global military spending in 2023—the highest it's been in 35 years.This uptick (of about 6.8% from 2022 levels) is primarily being attributed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and all the spending that has resulted (within Ukraine and Russia, but also across Europe).—The New York TimesTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (howtoturn39.com), is available for pre-sale :)China military's biggest shakeup in 9 years adds info, cyber, and space unitsSummary: The Chinese Defense Ministry announced a reorganization of the country's military, the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, late last week—a move that seems to give more direct control to Chinese President Xi and loyalists within his government.Context: The PLA now consists of ground, navy, air, and rocket branches, alongside information, aerospace, cyber, and joint logistics support arms, and while some analysts discussing this move have said that it seems likely the reorganization was sparked in part by seeing which aspects of Russia's military setup has failed them during their invasion of Ukraine, others have contended that this is primarily a means of ousting military leaders who were responsible for a series of flubs, embarrassments, and corruption schemes over the past decade or so, and of further consolidating military power under Xi's direct control.—Nikkei AsiaOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Unions take aim at South after UAW winSummary: The United Auto Workers' Union has won its first victory in the US South, despite opposition from governors in the region who fought to keep them out of the Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagen plant where they won 75% of cast worker ballots.Context: This comes in the wake of other recent UAW victories across the US, including a major pay raise for union workers that was negotiated after launching a significant strike against the Big Three automakers in 2023; this is considered to be a vital moment for automakers and autoworkers in the US, as the shift toward plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles is resulting in a lot of turnover, but also a surge of investment in new infrastructure, and these workers and the unions that represent them are trying to ensure their demands are worked into the math of the new auto industry that's emerging.—The Wall Street JournalTwo Mexican mayoral contenders found dead on same daySummary: Two mayoral candidates were found dead on a single day in Mexico last week, bringing the total number of assassinations of candidates running in the upcoming presidential, congressional, and local elections to 17.Context: Assassinations of candidates, especially those that run on a platform of opposing powerful cartels and clamping down on crime, in general, is not uncommon in Mexico, and the killings are often quite brutal, images of the slain person's body shared on social media by those who murdered them as a warning to others who might oppose them, and in some cases cartels even run their own candidates and threaten or kill anyone who runs against them; the Mexican government is now providing bodyguards for around 250 candidates, but those who are running for local positions—the ones that are most commonly targeted by cartels with local interests—are typically last on the list for such protections.—Al JazeeraWith government support and encouragement, the Chinese economy has rapidly scaled its battery production capacity, and this has resulted in a dramatic overshoot over not just local demand for such batteries, but international demand—a problem that's shrinking price tags on batteries in many markets, but also increasing tensions with Chinese trade partners, which are accusing these companies of attempting to kill competing battery entities with unsustainably low prices.—Bloomberg>$76 millionAmount of political donations the Trump campaign has spent on the former President's legal fees since January 2023.That's about 26% of all donations the campaign has raised, and these expenditures are widening the gap between the money his campaign has available for election purposes and what his opponent's campaign has available to spend.—Financial TimesTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (howtoturn39.com), is available for pre-sale :)House approves $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, and TaiwanSummary: After months of delay and uncertainty, a large, bipartisan majority of US House representatives voted to approved $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, alongside a bill that will require the Chinese company behind TikTok to divest its US assets or be banned in the country.Context: This approval will result in about $60 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel, including humanitarian aid for civilians in the region, and $8 billion for Indo-Pacific priorities like Taiwan, alongside a measure that could lead to a sell-off of frozen Russian assets to generate more money for Ukraine, and another that will apply further sanctions to Iran; there was a lot of politicking behind this vote, and House Speaker Johnson, a Republican, could be targeted by far-right members of his own party for an ouster because he worked with Democrats to make it happen, though Democrats have signaled that they would possibly protect him from said ouster if he brought a vote on aid for Ukraine to the floor, which he did; the Senate is expected to pass this legislation as early as Tuesday, and President Biden will likely sign it shortly thereafter.—The New York TimesOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Floods kill 58 in Tanzania with heavy rains persistingSummary: At least 58 people have been confirmed killed and more than 126,000 have been affected by floods in Tanzania triggered by heavy and persistent rainfall the first two weeks of April.Context: The Tanzanian government has said it will construct 14 new dams to help prevent flooding in the impacted areas in the future, as the country was hit by similarly destructive floods four months ago, those ones killing at least 63 people; April is the peak of Tanzania's rainy season, but this year's rainfall throughout the region has been especially intense, amplified by the now-waning El Niño phenomenon.—Al JazeeraIsrael's Iran attack carefully calibrated after internal splits and US pressureSummary: An apparent attack on Iran by Israel late last week is being seen as a measured response to Iran's, by many estimates also fairly measured, attack on Israel the previous week. Context: Many governments are worried that the long-lived shadow conflict between Israel and Iran, both governments hitting each other covertly and through proxies in order to avoid a direct, full-on war, might be pushed into the open by Israel's recent strike on an Iranian embassy in Syria, which, according to international law, is tantamount to a strike on Iran itself; Iran countered with a wave of rockets and drones, most of which were intercepted by Israel and its allies, so little damage was caused to mostly military infrastructure, and Israel then struck back with its own moderate, military infrastructure-targeting drone and missile strikes; all of which seems calibrated to avoid escalation, and even though Israel was encouraged to not strike back following Iran's attack, Iran's government seems to be playing down that most recent strike internally, and Israel's government seems to have done what it did in order to appease political factions that wanted a more significant, potentially war-starting attack; so relatively chilled-out tit-for-tatting all around, despite the indisputable significance and potential implications of these two nations launching attacks on each other, directly.—ReutersMore than 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, according to new numbers from BBC Russian, Mediazona, and a group of volunteers that have been keep track of such deaths since February 2022; Russia has been making more territorial gains this year, but they've reportedly suffered almost 25% more deaths as a result of that effort.—BBC News215.1 billionValue, in yuan, of direct foreign investment in China for the first two months of 2024—equivalent to about $29.88 billion.That's down 19.9% from the previous year, though it's still the third-highest haul of the past decade.—The Wall Street JournalTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (https://books2read.com/htt39), is available for pre-sale :)Historic Copenhagen stock exchange in Denmark goes up in flamesSummary: One of Copenhagen's oldest buildings, a stock exchange that was built in 1625, caught fire earlier this week, the cause of the fire currently unknown, about half of the building burning to the ground.Context: The director of the Danish chamber of commerce, which is housed in the old stock exchange, has said it would be rebuilt, as the building has similar symbolic meaning to the country as Notre-Dame (which burned down about five years ago) does to Paris; members of the public joined emergency services in hauling giant works of art out of the building as it burned, and the fire department chief said that it will take time to assess the full extent of the damage, as the fire was extensive and the building is covered by scaffoldings due to an extensive renovation it was undergoing.—BBC NewsOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Nigeria inflation climbs to 28-year high in MarchSummary: New data from the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics show that the country experienced its 15th straight month of increasing consumer inflation, that figure reaching 31.7% in February and 33.2% in March, marking a 28-year high.Context: The Bureau said that food and non-alcoholic beverage prices were the most prominent contributors to these inflationary effects, though the President's decision to end the country's petrol subsidy, which was costing the government a fortune but saving citizens a lot of money on energy costs, and two devaluations of the naira currency are also playing a major role.—ReutersUS to help Armenia modernize its militarySummary: In the wake of a major defeat at the hands of its chief rival and neighbor, Azerbaijan, which swept into the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region last September, taking control of the area and causing a wave of Armenians to flee from it into Armenia proper, the EU and US have offered Armenia more than $350 million in military assistance, alongside military cooperation with US forces.Context: This is being seen as a huge pivot for Armenia, which has traditionally been in Russia's military orbit, but which saw Russia's failure to act on their behalf when Azerbaijan invaded as a signal that it was being left in the lurch, and could no longer rely upon its long-time protector and patron; the US has not indicated that Armenia needs to sever its remaining ties with Russia as part of this deal, and many components of this cooperation have yet to be finalized, so the nature and strength of this newfound friendliness with the West aren't yet written in stone.—EurasianetWhile most of the world is weaning itself off of coal, for the fourth year in a row China has increased its construction of new coal energy infrastructure, apparently deviating from plans to retire a significant portion of its coal power plants in favor of cleaner versions of the same.—CarbonBrief2%Portion of total available electricity consumed by data centers powering AI chatbots, according to the chief marketing officer of British semiconductor company, Arm.Some analysts have said that use could double by 2026, and that same executive said that a quarter of all electricity in the US could be consumed by these AI-focused data centers by 2030 if the way we use energy doesn't change, soon.—QuartzTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (https://books2read.com/htt39), is available for pre-sale :)Heavy floods hit Dubai airport as Oman toll rises to 18Summary: At least 18 people have been confirmed killed in Oman, and parts of the UAE, including Dubai's airport and several major shopping centers, were shut down due to torrential rains and widespread flooding the first half of this week.Context: Portions of Dubai remained closed yesterday as more storms were forecast, but some parts of the region already received more rain in a single day than they receive in a whole year, and because this is a desert climate zone, infrastructure for handling these sorts of storms and this volume of rainfall is lacking; other countries in the region, like Bahrain, also received record-high levels of rainfall, but haven't yet reported any fatalities or major shutdowns.—Al-MonitorOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Venezuela and Honduras announce actions to protest Ecuador's embassy raidSummary: Following Ecuador's raid on Mexico's embassy in its capitol city, Quito, earlier this month, the governments of Venezuela and Honduras have said that they would be closing their consulates and embassy in Ecuador, and recalling their primary Ecuador-based diplomat, respectively.Context: These are being framed as protest actions by the governments in question, and they're just the latest of many similar actions taken by Latin American governments following what is generally considered to be a major breach of international law on the part of the Ecuadorian government, as another nation's embassy is legally treated as that nation's sovereign territory, making this raid akin to Ecuador sending police forces into Mexico; the Ecuadorian government maintains that it launched the raid in order to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Glas, who has been charged, twice, for corruption, and who had sought shelter in the Mexican embassy in order to avoid being arrested.—Al JazeeraTensions rise in Australia after a bishop and priest are wounded in a knife attack in a churchSummary: A 16-year-old boy has been accused of stabbing a Christian bishop and priest during a livestreamed church service in Sydney on Monday, marking the second high-profile knife attack in the city over the course of just a few days.Context: This is being treated as a hate crime by police, the teenage assailant's comments apparently pointing at a religious motivation for his attack, and after he was taken into custody, some police officers were wounded by a mob of parishioners who were prevented from seeking retribution against the attacker; police have since declared this attack to be an act of terrorism, and have stood guard around major mosques in the area to deter potential retaliations against the local Muslim community; another knife attack, which left five women and a male security guard dead at a Sydney shopping mall over the weekend is not being treated as terrorism, as the 40-year-old assailant, who was shot dead by police following his rampage, was apparently suffering from a mental illness that's assumed to be the trigger for his actions.—The Associated PressThere's been a boom in AI-oriented jobs across the US, but some hubs for these sorts of positions are beginning to develop, especially in areas with existing tech industry infrastructure and a cluster of related companies.—Axios250%Increase in the visa fee foreign musicians wanting to tour in the US have to pay as of April 1 of this year.In practice, that means if you're a musician wanting to enter the US to perform, the cost of filing your visa paperwork to do so is now somewhere between $1,615 and $1,655, up from just $460 before this price hike (and that fee applies to every performer and member of a performer's staff wanting to enter the country, and no money is refunded if a visa application is denied).The relevant agencies are saying these price increases are the result of higher levels of scrutiny that are being applied to visa requests, and a long delay in increases—the price not having changed since 2016.—The Associated PressTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: My new book about aging and growing older with intention, How To Turn 39 (https://books2read.com/htt39), is available for pre-sale :)Fourth global mass coral bleaching episode underwaySummary: Recent record-high ocean temperatures are causing coral around the world to turn white, indicating that these creatures and the ecosystems they support are deteriorating.Context: This new wave of widespread coral bleaching and subsequent die-offs is the fourth that has been tracked in recent years, and it was initially flagged last year in the Caribbean, but has since been confirmed in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and along coastlines in Tanzania, Mauritius, Brazil, and several Pacific Islands; recent record-high oceanic temperatures are partially the consequence of the El Niño phenomenon, which is in the process of retreating over the next few months, and human-amplified climate change, which by all indications is still growing in potency and impact.—BBC NewsOne Sentence News is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Microsoft's new AI play is a $1.5 billion investment in an Abu Dhabi firm with China tiesSummary: Microsoft has announced a $1.5 billion investment in a UAE-based AI company, Group 42 Holdings, or G42, in order to provide enterprise-grade AI services to customers in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.Context: This is interesting in part because it's a large investment by Microsoft in a non-Western business, which has been rare in the AI investment race, so far, but it's also notable because G42 has connections to China's military, and blacklisted Chinese businesses like Huawei and Beijing Genomics Institute, which has raised concerns in the US House that advanced AI technologies developed by and in partnership with Microsoft could end up in the hands of entities the US government isn't a big fan of; G42 has denied these China-related allegations, saying they've partnered with Chinese companies, but don't have any deeper ties to China, and Microsoft has said that both they and G42 have developed their working agreement in close consultation with the US and UAE governments.—QuartzGreece invests over €2 billion to fight climate change effectsSummary: Greece's government has announced that it will invest €2.1 billion in the Aegis program, which will provide new and better equipment for wildfire-fighting, including detection and monitoring drones and systems, but also new vehicles and aircraft.Context: This is the first program of its kind in Greece, and wildfires have become a significant issue for the country over the past few years, burning about 1.3% of its total land area in 2023, alone; Greece's fire season is also arriving earlier and earlier, historically beginning in May and ending in October, but this year kicking off in late March.—BloombergWe're broadly expected to be headed out of an especially strong El Niño period and into a La Niña phase within the next few months, which will impact weather patterns globally, and will provide more data about how (and to what degree) these phenomena impact climate models.—Axios0.7%Increase in US retail sales in March, which is more than was expected.This is being seen as one more data point supporting the assertion that the US economy is surprisingly strong, despite an array of what would typically be downward pressures, and all sorts of concerns related to the upcoming election, geopolitics, and a potential AI investment bubble.—ReutersTrust Click Get full access to One Sentence News at onesentencenews.substack.com/subscribe

This week we talk about diplomatic immunity, Trump's court cases, and the Supreme Court.We also discuss Nixon, Clinton, and the US Constitution.Recommended Book: My upcoming book, How To Turn 39 (https://books2read.com/htt39), which is available for pre-order today :)TranscriptThere's a concept in international law—diplomatic immunity—that says, in essence, certain government officials should be immune from the laws of foreign countries, including those within which they're operating.This is a very old concept, based on similar rights that were granted to envoys and messengers back in the oldest documented periods of human civilizations.The idea is that if different cultures, whether organized into tribes or kingdoms or nation states, are going to be able to deal with each other, they need to maintain open and reliable means of communication. Thus, the folks tasked with carrying messages between leaders of these different groups would need to be fairly confident that they wouldn't be hassled or attacked or prosecuted by the people they were bringing those messages to, and whose messages they were bringing back to their own leaders.Such representatives have at times been imprisoned or killed by their hosts, but this is relatively rare, because any governing body that treated ambassadors from other cultures in this way would have trouble dealing with anyone outside their current legal sway, and that would in turn mean less trade, less reliable peace, and less opportunity to generally cross-pollinate with cultures they might benefit from cross-pollinating with.As a general rule, at least in the modern iteration of diplomatic immunity, folks operating under the auspices of this policy can still be punished for their misdeeds, it's just that they'll generally be declared persona non grata, expelled from the country where they did something wrong, rather than punished under that country's laws.In some rare instances a country hosting a misbehaving or criminal ambassador or other diplomat might ask that person's home country to waive their immunity, basically saying, look, this person killed someone or got drunk and drove recklessly through our capitol city's downtown, we'd like to try them in our courts, and it may be that the government running that misbehaving person's home country says, okay, yeah, that's messed up, you go ahead; but usually—even if that person has done something truly reprehensible—they'll instead say, no, sorry, we'll pull them back and they won't be allowed to return to your country or serve as an ambassador anywhere else, because they've shown themselves to be unreliable, and we might even try them in a court here, in their home country, but we can't allow our people, no matter what they do, to fall under the legal jurisdiction of some other nation, because that would set a bad precedent, and it may make people wary of working for us in this capacity in the future—surely you understand.There are tiers of diplomatic immunity, depending on the seniority of the diplomat or other representative in question, and the Congress of Vienna of the early 1800s charted out the basis for how these things work, in much detail, formalizing a lot of what was already in the ether back then, and creating an outline that was then further formalized in 1961's Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which has been almost universally ratified and respected, though of course there's been a lot of grey area in terms of what harassment of a representative, which is a no-no according to this convention, entails, and to what degree it can be proven, and thus punished, if violated.We saw a lot of grey area utility during the height of the Cold War in particular, in part because many diplomats were moonlighting as spies, which is still true today, though it was even more overt and worrisome to their host countries, back then, so harassment, kidnappings, even assassinations of diplomats were more common then, than today, though they were still almost universally done covertly so that no one seemed to be violating these nearly universally accepted terms.What I'd like to talk about today is another type of legal immunity—in this case, Presidential Immunity in the US—and why this type of immunity is at the center of former US President Trump's ongoing legal cases.—In the United States, many politicians and high-level appointees enjoy some of the immunity-related privileges in their own country that diplomats of various stripes have traditionally enjoyed elsewhere.Most of these figures are only protected by this immunity under very specific circumstances, though, not universally.Judges, while doing court-related, judge-work, for instance, have absolute civil immunity—so a judge who falls afoul of the law in the course of their duty as a judge, doing judge-things, will tend to get away with whatever it is they did wrong, though this won't generally apply to non-judge things they do during that same periodSo a judge would have trouble arguing that they should get off with a warning for murdering someone because they happened to kill that person while they were on their lunch break, but they would likely be okay if they accidentally ruled in a way that exceeded their jurisdiction, even if their having done so caused all sorts of secondary problems.Similarly, and also within the US court system, a prosecutor can't be sued for withholding evidence, even if their having done so leads to a wrongful conviction, which would be a bad thing that happened as a result of their actions, but because they acted while performing their protected duty, they'll almost certainly be okay from a legal standpoint, even if not always a moral one.These are not rules novel to the US system of governance; most of them were borrowed from earlier forms of the same, and a lot of the US's version of these immunity rules are derived from those that exist within the British parliamentary system, where parliamentarians can't be prosecuted for things they say while in Parliament, and the same is true for politicians while engaged in their work on the floor of the US House of Senate.Interestingly though, while the US Constitution provides that kind of legislative immunity to Congresspeople, it doesn't grant the same, or anything similar, to the President; and this was apparently a hotly debated topic back in the Constitution-writing days, as those who set up the rules of the land were aware that it might be beneficial to allow folks at the top some legal leeway, so they don't make executive decisions based on whether or not they might be sued or otherwise punished for those decisions, but at the same time they really didn't want another king, or similarly authoritarian ruler to step into office and then get away with murder—perhaps literally.So the constitution doesn't give the President of the United States the same immunity as other members of government, but a slew of cases in the 19th and 20th centuries found, in general, that if the president or members of the president's cabinet take actions that are "more or less" within the scope of their duties, they should be granted absolute immunity, protecting them from lawsuits and legal punishments.A court case against President Nixon in the 1970s made that previously somewhat vague and general legal trend more formal, at first triggering a bunch of lawsuits against him and his people, but then a 1982 Supreme Court decisions said, in essence, that former or current presidents are immune from lawsuits related to anything that falls within the "outer perimeter" of their duties, due to the president's "unique status under the Constitution."This legal precedent was tested in the mid-1990s when then-President Bill Clinton was sued for sexual harassment during his governor of Arkansas days, and a lower court, then the Supreme Court, both affirmed that presidential immunity doesn't protect the president from things they did before taking that highest government office.As a result of all that, today we have a legal context in which the President is kind of granted some immunity for some things they do while in office, but the delineation between protected and not-protected is fuzzy, and there's a whole lot of theory on this matter, but less in the way of actual court precedent that establishes confident footing for anyone stepping into this corner of the legal world.All of which is newly relevant in 2024 because former President Trump is currently being prosecuted for all sorts of things in several different jurisdictions. And part of his legal strategy is based on a sort of Hail Mary play that's made its way to the Supreme Court, and which is premised on the concept of Presidential Immunity.But before we get to that case, let's talk real quick about the other cases that are currently in progress, all of which that bigger Supreme Court case may influence, depending on how it turns out.Beginning this week, as of the day this episode goes live, the week of April 15, 2024, Trump is scheduled to be in court four days a week for the next six to eight weeks, facing 34 criminal charges related to falsifying business records in order to get payoff money to Stormy Daniels, allegedly to cover up an affair they had, which he didn't want becoming public while he was running for his first term in office.Tentatively beginning in late-May of 2024, Trump will face 40 criminal charges in Florida for allegedly mishandling sensitive documents, and his alleged conspiracy to keep those documents even after the government demanded them back.A federal case in which Trump faces four criminal charges related to his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results was originally meant to begin the first half of this year, but it's looking increasingly likely it won't occur until after the November presidential election, as the judge overseeing the case has postponed it until after the Supreme Court makes their decision about presidential immunity, though there's a chance it could start as early as August, despite that delay.And Trump faces 10 criminal charges for the same general collection of alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, alongside 18 alleged co-conspirators; that trial has a proposed start date of August 5, but that would be tricky, as it would mean the trial could run through Election Day, which would be awkward and would likely complicate things further.Trump has also dealt with a flurry of recent civil, so non-criminal, no jail time possible, just fines, lawsuits, including one related to sexual assault and his defamation of the person he sexually assaulted, which led to a big payout recently, and another in New York related to his misrepresentation of the value of his real estate holdings in the state, which led to an even bigger fine, but which is currently being appealed.There's another federal civil case that's ongoing, Thompson v. Trump, which is related to the attack on the US Capitol by Trump's fans on January 6, 2021, and that's especially relevant here because, already, the judge in that case, ruled that Trump's presidential immunity does not shield him from this lawsuit, and an appeals judge ruled the same.There's now a Supreme Court case, which I mentioned earlier, that consolidates three separate civil lawsuits into one, Trump v. United States, and this case asks, in essence, whether Trump should be protected from these lawsuits by presidential immunity; that same immunity that was upheld in many cases in recent memory, though in different contexts.The reason this Supreme Court case is so fundamental here is that it could impact many or all of those other cases, plus others that might arise related to Trump's actions in the future, as it would give him a sort of legal whammy on just about anything he could argue was done within the perview of his role as President.Thus, he could argue he wasn't trying to overturn the 2020 election that he lost, he was looking into what he considered to be legitimate election irregularities as part of his duty as President. And if some other things happened as a result of that effort, like his supporters breaking into the Capitol building, he should be protected from that under the auspices of this immunity.Those two DC court judges that earlier ruled Trump wasn't protected by presidential immunity said that it's in the public interest to hold presidents accountable for their actions, because not doing so would leave anyone who holds that office "unbounded authority to commit crimes."They determined that it was worth the possibility that a president might make some executive decisions from a perspective of worrying about later lawsuits if it would prevent the creation of a political office from which someone could legally get away with any crime they chose to commit, including but not limited to, theoretically at least, assassinating their political rivals.The big question now is how the Supreme Court will decide on this matter; some people are predicting that the heavily slanted toward conservative justices court will be more likely to find in Trump's favor, though they've defied those expectations several times in recent years, in some cases seeming to take advantage of their current 5 or 6, depending on how you measure, versus 3, conservative to liberal composition in order to get a bunch of Republican priorities accomplished, like overturning Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to an abortion at the federal level, but in other cases they've made what seem to be more objective rulings, defying assumptions made based on those ideological leanings—so there's no way to know one way or the other on this, right now. We'll likely find out, though, sometime in May or June, as the court will begin considering these claims on April 25 of this year, and it's expected they'll have their ruling sometime in those subsequent two months.Until then, though, some of these other cases are a bit up in the air, as the granting of enhanced immunity could make Trump's current and potential future cases a slam-dunk for his defense team, while a ruling in favor of the contemporary, fuzzy standard, or one that weakens that standard, at least for his specific context, would deny him that potentiality.That said, Trump's defense team seems to have also been making use of the abundant delay tactics that are available within the US justice system, and there's a chance that if he delays long enough and then wins another term as president in November, that would allow him, when he steps back into office early next year, to either pardon himself or order someone in his government to get rid of the charges against him.Which is part of why the prosecutors working opposite him have been politely but firmly asking the judges in charge of these cases to pick up the pace, because there's a looming possibility that even if the courts decide against Trump in some key cases, he could still get off Scott free, because of that other apparent loophole in the system that would allow a sitting President to get away with just about anything, though in this case because of a different, in practice immunity-granting mechanism.Show Noteshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/01/30/7th-circuit-pokes-a-hole-in-prosecutorial-immunity/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Donald_Trumphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictments_against_Donald_Trumphttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/trump-investigations-charges-indictments.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-investigations-civil-criminal.htmlhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-2024-trials-where-they-stand-and-what-to-expecthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/trump-investigations-indictments/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68577638https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61084161https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/donald-trump-legal-cases-charges/675531/https://archive.ph/JFsIBhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictments_against_Donald_Trumphttps://apnews.com/article/trump-jury-selection-hush-money-trial-manhattan-56d540406cd174ab143fe12469e9adefhttps://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels-e40532d3bce7768e296fdaf9591ef05bhttps://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-criminal-hush-money-trial-begins-2a1bdd15https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fallout-trumps-bid-overturn-election-loss-heads-supreme-court-2024-04-14/https://www.reuters.com/legal/special-counsel-urges-us-supreme-court-reject-trump-immunity-bid-2024-04-09/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_immunity_in_the_United_Stateshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_immunityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_immunityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunityhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/diplomatic-immunityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations This is a public episode. 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Join Alex and Kirk as they go down memory lane in the 1st Annual Men of Doozy Anniversary Special! Episode Time Stamps: 0:00 - 10:52 INTRODUCTION 10:53 Ep. 1 “How To Save Money” 16:05 Ep. 2 “How To Nail A Job Interview” 21:09 Ep. 3 “How To Get A Six-Pack" 25:39 Ep. 4 “How To Win A Fist Fight" 27:39 Ep. 5 “How To Halloween" 30:17 Ep. 6 “How To Grocery Shop Efficiently" 33:28 Ep. 7 “How To Stay Motivated" 34:06 Ep. 8 “How To Get Rid Of A Hangover" 34:58 Ep. 9 “How To Survive Family Over The Holidays" 36:51 Ep. 10 “How To Strip Club” Featuring: Natalie Young 40:14 Ep. 11 “How To Improve Your Sleep" 42:39 Ep. 12 “How To Throw A Party" 44:07 Ep. 13 “How To Christmas” Featuring: Buddy The Elf 46:04 Ep. 14 “How To New Years Resolution" 48:28 Ep. 15 “How To Stay Organized" 50:20 Ep. 16 “How To Improve Your Public Speaking" 51:48 Ep. 17 “How To Get A Tattoo” Featuring: Chris Oktavec 53:42 Ep. 18 "How To Eat Healthy"   February Dating & Relationship Series: 55:01 - 1:09:25   56:36 Ep. 19 “How To Go On A First Date” Featuring: Maureen Shepard 58:10 Ep. 20 How To Be In A Relationship” Featuring: David & Rebecca Staub 1:02: 31 Ep. 21 “How To Break-Up With Someone 1:04:14 Ep. 22 “How To Propose” Featuring: Jimmy T. Martin   1:09:45 Kirk's Oklahoma Traveling Nightmare   Doozy Boys Take Oklahoma: 1:14:35 Ep. 23 “How To Social Media Detox" 1:16:03 Ep. 24 “How To Clubhouse" 1:17:16 Ep. 25 “How To St. Patrick's Day" 1:18:36 Ep. 26 “How To New Yorker" 1:21:13 Ep. 27 “How To April Fool's" 1:22:20 Ep. 28 “How To Golf” Featuring: Zachary Staub 1:23:52 Ep. 29 “How To Airpot"   1:26:13 Ep. 30 “How To Zoom" 1:29:13 Ep. 31”How To Swim" 1:30:35 Ep. 32 “How To Amusement Park" 1:31:12 Ep. 33 “How To Do Your Taxes” Featuring: David Staub 1:32:41 Ep. 34 “How To Summer Bod" 1:33:04 Ep. 35 “How To Beach" 1:34:21 Ep. 36 “How To Hike" 1:35:53 Ep. 37 “How To Hike”   1:37:50 AD BREAK   1:42:28 Ep. 38 “How To Turn 30” 1:44:15 Ep. 39 “How To Beauty Pageant” Featuring: Christine Electra Williamson 1:46:15 Ep. 40 “How To Fourth Of July" 1:48:00  Ep. 41 “How To Canada” Featuring: Emily “Thurste" Thurston 1:49:43 Ep. 42 “How To Own A Horse” Featuring Jess Zaniewski & April Renzella 1:51:13 Ep. 43 “How To Write A Play” Featuring: Matthew McLachlan 1:54:40 Ep. 44 “How To Spot A Karen" 1:57:28 Ep. 45 “How To Write A Song” Featuring: Kolby Koz 1:59:45 Ep. 46 “How To Math” Featuring: Lauren Dowling 2:00:35 Ep. 47 “How To Restaurant Etiquette”  2:58:00 Ep. 48 “How To Drive A Boat" 2:02:22 Ep. 49 “How To Back To School" 2:02:58 Ep. 50 “How To Body Language" 2:04:30 Ep. 51 “How To Solve a Mystery" 2:05:55 Ep. 52  “How To Start A Podcast"   Visit https://botticellifoods.com and use promo code "DOOZY" at checkout for 10% off!   Visit https://thebrrrn.com and use promo code "DOOZY15" at checkout for 15% off!    FOLLOW US! Instagram: @MenOfDoozy Alex Staub: @alexstaub Kirk Koz: @kirk_koz Theme Music: @kolbykoz /Pair of Sloths & ThikkPics (iTunes, Spotify, & Instagram)

Benton Crane talks with Mickie Kennedy, the CEO of eReleases. Together they discuss how to turn $269 into millions of dollars with tried and true PR practices, the type of PR strategy that serves small businesses, and the difference between empowering employees versus micromanaging employees. 06:14 How To Turn $269 Into Several Million Dollars.9:30 Learn The Best PR Strategy For Small Businesses14:52 Empowering Versus MicromanagingYou can find links to Noah's social media and other places to reach him below. If you're interested in learning more about Harmon Brothers, you can grab a copy of our book here.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Episodes published every Tuesday at 6 am EST. We'll see you on the next one.Find Mickie here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/publicity (LinkedIn)https://www.ereleases.com/meet-us/ (Website)https://www.amazon.com/Mickie-Kennedy/e/B00ZSBOPG6%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share (book)

Episode 9 interviews Aaron Bloom of Windermere located in Eugene, Oregon. Aaron takes us on a journey through the ins and outs of his life path starting out as a young adult trying to find his way in the world, jumping over countless love and career hurdles that ultimately end after landing the real estate project … Continue reading S2 Episode 9: How To Turn a Thank You Note Into $30 million with Aaron Bloom →

How do you rise above the literal ashes when life keeps handing you lemon after lemon after lemon? Justin and Amy dive head first into the mental and emotional endurance it takes to turn a flop into an opportunity (thus coining the term Floppertunity) once Spade and Archer's Seattle office was burned to the ground.   … Continue reading S2 Episode 7: How To Turn a Flop Into a Floppertunity →

“What they told me I was not destined to do became the very thing I was blessed to do.” Dr John Demartini has had more “setbacks” than most. Which is why he's supremely qualified to discuss how we can all turn out setbacks into comebacks.  This episode is the first of two parts. Today we discuss how to turn past events - particularly the hardest ones - into blessings and gifts.  Dr Demartini is considered one of the world's leading authorities on human behavior and personal development. He is the founder of the Demartini Institute, a private research and education organization with a curriculum of over 72 courses covering multiple aspects of human development. Dr Demartini -  Left school at 14 Nearly died aged 17 (strychnine poisoning) Met Paul Bragg at that time which changed the direction of his life Overcome learning difficulties including dyslexia Travels over 360 days per year to over 50 countries, where he shared his research and findings into living the lives we were born to live.  Is the author of over 40 books, 50 audio CDs and DVDs Was a featured expert in The Secret, Oh My God and Overfed and Undernourished just to name a few.  Presents The Breakthrough Experience almost every weekend of the year where he teaches and helps people reduce stress, resolve conflict and allow people to open their heart and mind to a new perspective and paradigm for life.  If you've never experienced Dr Demartini before I highly recommend you attend The Breakthrough Experience - which he presents online at the moment. The next Australian edition is coming up in May.  For further details, and to complete his values determination exercise, go to www.drdemartini.com On this episode we discuss -  5:40 - Saint COVID 24:10 - What did The Secret miss? 34:58 - How To Turn a setback into a comeback 45:25 - On empowering ourselves in all seven areas of life If you've loved this episode, I would love it if you gave it a 5-star RATING in the Apple Podcasts app :) If you're feeling really generous, a review is always appreciated! If you're yet to subscribe, you can do so on your favourite platform - Spotify https://pre.fyi/twf-spotify Apple https://pre.fyi/twf-apple Google https://pre.fyi/twf-google Youtube https://pre.fyi/twf-youtube   Take care,  Jason

Podcast: Top Advisor Marketing Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 285 – How To Turn a Podcast Into Your Main Source of New Business –– With Taylor SchultePub date: 2021-02-16Ten clients hired Taylor Schulte's financial firm directly from his podcast last year, generating about $100,000 in recurring annual revenue.  Taylor's podcast has become his primary source of new business. But, his podcast wasn't an overnight success. Taylor even says, “I've poured my blood, sweat, and tears into this thing.” So then, what does it take to evolve a podcast into a content marketing machine that turns listeners into ideal clients? In this episode, Matt and Kirk talk to Taylor Schulte CFP®, co-founder of The AGC™ and host of The Stay Wealthy Podcast. Taylor has been running his own podcast for over three years now and has found tremendous success, rising from 200 to 20,000 downloads per month! He's here to share the secrets behind his growth, mistakes that kept him from growing his listenership early on, and why giving away all of his knowledge for free is the key to converting listeners into clients.  You will learn: What pivot skyrocketed Taylor's podcast from 200 downloads per month to 20,000 How Taylor expanded his listenership by changing his podcast name What episode format Taylor's audience is loving right now  The case for sharing everything you know (not just enough to pique your prospect's interest) What Taylor did before going in for the “ask” with his podcast audience (he got a 56.3% close rate last year!) And more! Tune in now to learn how to successfully embark on your own podcast journey to grow your business! Resources:  ProudMouth | Matt Halloran on LinkedIn | Kirk Lowe on LinkedIn | Influence Accelerator Academy | Taylor Schulte on LinkedIn | Taylor Schulte's Website | The Stay Wealthy Podcast | The AGC™ | FinCon | Evan Carmichael | Libsyn | The Stacking Benjamins Show | SmartLessThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matt Halloran, CRO at ProudMouth, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Top Advisor Marketing Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 285 – How To Turn a Podcast Into Your Main Source of New Business –– With Taylor SchultePub date: 2021-02-16Ten clients hired Taylor Schulte's financial firm directly from his podcast last year, generating about $100,000 in recurring annual revenue.  Taylor's podcast has become his primary source of new business. But, his podcast wasn't an overnight success. Taylor even says, “I've poured my blood, sweat, and tears into this thing.” So then, what does it take to evolve a podcast into a content marketing machine that turns listeners into ideal clients? In this episode, Matt and Kirk talk to Taylor Schulte CFP®, co-founder of The AGC™ and host of The Stay Wealthy Podcast. Taylor has been running his own podcast for over three years now and has found tremendous success, rising from 200 to 20,000 downloads per month! He's here to share the secrets behind his growth, mistakes that kept him from growing his listenership early on, and why giving away all of his knowledge for free is the key to converting listeners into clients.  You will learn: What pivot skyrocketed Taylor's podcast from 200 downloads per month to 20,000 How Taylor expanded his listenership by changing his podcast name What episode format Taylor's audience is loving right now  The case for sharing everything you know (not just enough to pique your prospect's interest) What Taylor did before going in for the “ask” with his podcast audience (he got a 56.3% close rate last year!) And more! Tune in now to learn how to successfully embark on your own podcast journey to grow your business! Resources:  ProudMouth | Matt Halloran on LinkedIn | Kirk Lowe on LinkedIn | Influence Accelerator Academy | Taylor Schulte on LinkedIn | Taylor Schulte's Website | The Stay Wealthy Podcast | The AGC™ | FinCon | Evan Carmichael | Libsyn | The Stacking Benjamins Show | SmartLessThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matt Halloran, CRO at ProudMouth, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

How To Turn 1 Repair Into 5 Pieces Of Content In today's episode, I discuss how you can take a single repair job and transform it into 5 pieces of […] The post Episode 95 appeared first on PDR Marketing Minute.

Listen to Sound Investing on your favorite listening platforms: Four years ago we wrote one of our most popular articles, "How To Turn $3000 into $50 million."  This article, originally published at MarketWatch, has had over 500 comments and many of them were calling the strategy crazy.  In this podcast Paul offers at least 10 solid lessons about this …

Four years ago we wrote one of our most popular articles, "How To Turn $3000 into $50 million." This article, originally published at MarketWatch, has had over 500 comments and many of them were calling the strategy crazy. In this podcast Paul offers at least 10 solid lessons about this strategy, as well as discussing the first 4 years of returns. Lessons include return numbers that will help investors understand the unexpected path they are likely to travel with this strategy. Investors may be surprised to find that some investors in the strategy have earned a 24% compound rate of return over the first 4 years. For more articles and podcasts on this strategy, click here.

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Peter Newell is a retired US Army colonel of 32 years and a nationally recognized innovation expert whose work is changing how the government and companies compete and drive growth. He is the founder and CEO of BMNT, an innovation consultancy and early stage technology incubator that works with national security organizations to rapidly solve challenging problems. The post 297: How To Turn a Military Career Into a Successful Silicon Valley Company w/ Pete Newell, BMNT & Hacking For Defense [Main T4C episode] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

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Paul addresses questions raised during his recent presentations to more than 200 AAII members in Madison and Milwaukee. Also, he recounts an exciting meeting with 2 young women (ages 13 and 15) and their parents who announced the start of their daughters' lifetime investment journey modeled after How To Turn $3000 …

Go with me for a moment. Most of your friends come from your job. You are all close in age, you spend 40 hours together and often go to lunch together. In some cases, you even hang out after hours. Then you hire a new person. They are also similar to your age. Then you notice some characteristics: They seem to do things with little thoughts about long-term effects as you "only live once." They seem to talk negatively about many of the things you do They seem unfocused on your companies goals and are a bit self-centered. You try to ignore them, but every time you turn around they seem to be there. They seem to lie to you all the time Would you want to hang out with this person? How frustrating would this person be? How To Turn the Tides on Your Negative Inner Talk Notice it Notice what you're doing when you hear it Talkback and tell them to go away No matter what the inner critic has told you, you do have positive traits, although it may take you some time and discipline to retrain yourself to see them. We all have an automatic selective filtering system that (our brain) will look for evidence in our environment that matches up with whatever we believe to be true about ourselves. We will then disregard other evidence to the contrary. How We Feel About Ourselves Matters Events + Thoughts = Emotions If our thoughts determine how we feel, that means how we habitually think will determine how we habitually feel. (source) Give Your Negative Talker a Name I have a friend of mine who refers to his negative talker as "Grizz" as it's like a bear that roars at him to go eat bad things. I think I'm going to name mine "Charlie." I'm not sure why, but I can hear me telling Charlie to piss off, so I'm going with Charlie. Think about what kind of clothes this person would wear. Visualize this person. Now That It's Easier to See The Negative You Pay Attention to Your Environment The other night I found myself at an ice cream parlor. I thought to myself, why am I here? My inner voice told me one cone wouldn't hurt (lies). What had happened? I had been asked by my ex-wife to attend a Christmas party with her. Not as a date (They actual date had something come up and she didn't want to go stag). I wanted to help, and I'm not worried about us on a romantic level, but there was something in my gut that said this was not the best idea on the planet. The next thing I know, I'm at the ice cream parlor. Seeing Is Believing I have a wi-fi- Digital Scale which automatically enters my weight into My FitnessPal. Consequently, I don't really look at it much. My scale shows if I went up or down from the last time I weighed myself (which is typically daily). As the year is coming to an end, I downloaded all of my stats from Myfitnesspal and looked at the lowest and highest weight of the past years My goal for years has been 185 lbs.  May sites say 190 is the top of the range, and so I wanted to go to 185 Then I say that in 2016 I was five pounds from hitting my goal. After each year getting closer (with 2013, 2014, and 2105 each getting closer). I also see them when I get close to 220, or 225, I ge mad and get dedicated and focused. You Don't Need to Wait Two Weeks To "Start Over" Here is what I've done I'm using habitshare (I talked about this on a previous episode) to focus on the things I need to do (getting sleep, hitting calories goals, activity goals, etc) I joined a Stepbet this helps me focus on being active I bought a new treadmill (more on that later) I'm going to enter my weight into a spreadsheet that shows what my goal weight should be. (All Logical Losers can get a copy of this spreadsheet) My New Treadmill I've said the best exercise is the one you do. I tried a manual treadmill, but in a nutshell, I just liked a motorized treadmill better. I didn't really bother me until it started snowing. My activity went down to nothing, and the weight started to come back up. It wasn't cheap, but I know it would get used. I pulled out a credit card (not my favorite way to pay for things) and but the bullet. I bought a Horizon Fitness T101-05 Folding Treadmill that was on sale. Here is what I like: Built in blue tooth speakers built-in racks for tablets Featherlight folding Super quiet Goes up to 10 MPH and it also inclines Here is what I think needs improved: There are 40 different variations of programs that you can run, but the documentation on how to use them is poor. The built-in fan is an absolute waste of time Things to Know: It's heavy. While you can fold it up and drag it around, it's very heavy so pick where you want it, and put it down. From what I read, the Johnson company builds this brand all the parts for the unit, and they are well made and have won awards. Conclusion I've had it a week, and love it. https://youtu.be/CqDf2M6gq7c As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases Become a Logical Loser www.logicallosers.com

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Ep. 58 - Hakon Fuglaas of K2 Trading on How To Turn from Failure to Success in Trading Sponsored by XTB Brokers - Sign Up through TBT to get a dedicated TBT account manager and 15% Spread Rebate To get access to the profitable trading systems mentioned in this podcast (and a special listener price!)…

Ep. 58 - Hakon Fuglaas of K2 Trading on How To Turn from Failure to Success in TradingSponsored by XTB Brokers - Sign Up through TBT to get a dedicated TBT account manager and 15% Spread RebateTo get access to the profitable trading systems mentioned in this podcast (and a special listener price!) visit www.tscmember.co.uk/tbtIn this episode:Hakon Fuglaas of K2 Trading tells us about his disastrous start in trading and how he turned that around to manage over $2.5 million by age 19We reveal the results of our backtesting - all aboard the profit train!Owen has a minor meltdown about trading against the trendTom gets annoyed that someone younger than him is successful - a charming personality trait, I’m sure you will agreeWe send minor shade towards Daenerys Targaryen and risk the biggest backlash this show has ever seen. Podcasting winter is coming. (Sorry, yes, we are nerds.)Trader Interview - Hakon Fuglaas of K2 Trading - How to Turn from Failure to Success in TradingHakon Fuglaas started trading at age 16 and, like many new traders, quickly blew through several accounts. This interview is the story of how he turned it around in record time.Clearly Hakon is the kind of guy who learns from his mistakes and he turned his youthful enthusiasm into a disciplined trading methodology. By the time he was 19 he was managing $2.5m and well on the way to becoming a trading guru.Hakon first came to prominence on eToro, where he became one of their most copied traders with combined equity under management of $2.5m. He now runs K2 Trading where he provides education and mentorship, but he hasn’t stopped refining his own trading system.Simple Trading with a Good Mindset - Easy!He firmly believes that he became successful after he simplified his trading and focussed on his mindset. By removing the fear of loss and by ‘trading in the zone’ through the use of sensible risk management, he could start to see consistent profits.It is amazing how many times the consistently profitable traders we have on the show talk about mindset, risk management and money management as being the keys to long term profit. Hakon Fuglaas of K2 Trading is no different.COT DataNow, having a simple trading system does not mean having an unsophisticated trading system!Hakon piqued Owen’s interest with mention of the Commitment of Traders (COT) data. David Belle mentioned this briefly many moons ago. Although The Blokes looked into it at the time, now, with a bit more experience under their belts, they feel that this could be worth applying to their own trading.In other words, what are the people whose job it is to speculate on the Forex markets doing? And what about the people whose job it is to hedge long term (i.e. large corporations and governmental organisations)?For Hakon’s long term Position Trading he believes he needs to know what the commercial traders are doing, rather than the people trying to make money in the short term. It seems to Hakon (and we agree!) that if you know this, you may have a big leg up with predicting where the market will go next.Do Your Own Research etcAs ever, never trade something just because someone told you to. Owen will be going away and doing some secret squirrel work on the COT data. Feel free to do the same.Watch this space for Owen’s research findings in a few weeks.

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Our guest today is Bob Burg, author of Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion. Every day you are faced with the task of convincing someone to do what you want them to do. If you see the other person as an adversary, you feel like you must resort to coercion or manipulation to overcome their resistance. In this interview, Bob Burg explains an entirely new way to approach this problem to win people over. He will give you his powerful strategies for mastering the art of influence so both parties come out feeling like winners.

Our guest today is Bob Burg, author of Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion. Every day you are faced with the task of convincing someone to do what you want them to do. If you see the other person as an adversary, you feel like you must resort to coercion or manipulation to overcome their resistance. In this interview, Bob Burg explains an entirely new way to approach this problem to win people over. He will give you his powerful strategies for mastering the art of influence so both parties come out feeling like winners.