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The REAL culprit to Pain, Sleepless nights, Fatigue, Stress (and much more!) would AMAZE you!   Jump in as I interview Fred Foster, a man passionate about helping others - 1,000's of people! You can hear it in his voice as he brings Awareness of how simple it is to Re-Start your Health!  Don't miss this show!   People are suffering, and they don't NEED TO!  Don't wait till health conditions get worst, step up now and take CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS TODAY! The big question is, WHY can't our bodies eliminate all the toxins and fully hydrate any more? What's missing from your body's natural processes will surprise you! The answer lies in some very key elements your body is craving, and we have the solution in our up-coming show! And, we're not going to just talk about feeling better – it's about experiencing a complete Transformation! In today's processed world and toxicity, it's time to support your body's crucial detoxification processes, fully hydrate, all while replenishing vital essentials your body desperately needs. Is there really something the body is missing so everyone can live pain free and rejuvenate? The answer lies in some very key elements your body is craving, and we will go into all this in detail. For decades, we've been drowning in escalating toxicity and struggling with chronic dehydration as we've relentlessly moved toward a completely processed world. This is not just a minor concern—this is a CRISIS! And, to date, many people are not aware of the simple remedy! Are you struggling with sleepless nights, unexplained weight gain, pain, and a lack of energy? What if these health issues were not random, but instead, the result of hidden imbalances, deficiencies, and toxins building up in your body? The truth is, these silent culprits could be sabotaging your well-being, and it's time to take action before it's too late. Many people are affected, and it's not what you think! We are exposing all this in our upcoming live show, and have a simple yet essential remedy that you'll get benefits from almost right away, AND into your future health! Your body be overwhelmed by three very important key items - Toxic Overload, Dehydration, and some Essential Deficiencies! These invisible forces might be preventing your body from flushing out waste and harmful toxins effectively, causing devastating long-term damage to your health. It's more common than you think – and it's not something you can ignore. In today's toxic world, your body is constantly under stress from environmental pollutants and poor hydration, making it increasingly difficult to maintain Homeostasis – that delicate balance required for optimal health. Without it, your immune system weakens, and your well-being falters. What if there was a natural, life-changing solution? Imagine a natural product from the heart of the earth, sourced from volcanic regions, that could: * Help your body eliminate accumulated toxins, heavy metals, and harmful chemicals. * Re-hydrate your body up to 30% more effectively than regular water. * Restore your body's balance, support detoxification, and help rejuvenate your cells from the inside out. So, Why is everyone's body struggling to detoxify and hydrate properly?Since the Industrial Era, toxicy is rampant!  Addressing the Core issues is typically complicated when you read the hundreds of articles and various products in the marketplace on this epidemic, and then you have to depend on life changes, popping pills, gut-health products, smoothies, and trying to find a way to fully hydrate the body.  Not easy! There is though a unique, yet simple process, inspired by the volcanic magma deep within the earth, and it's designed to restore balance, detoxify, and revitalize your body at the cellular level. Our Guest today is Fred Foster, and no he didn't go into a Volcano to get this remedy, though, he almost did!   Re-imagine: Clearer, softer, healthier skin. A boost in energy and focus. Relief from chronic pain. Restful sleep and rejuvenation.   This is your chance for a fresh start, to reclaim your vitality and unlock the best version of yourself. Don't wait until your health deteriorates any further – take action now. Your body is telling you something, and it's time to listen. Take the first step towards a healthier, more energized life today! Your Natural Wellness Team at Pure Energy Connections!   Listen in for the chance of a FREE gift give-a-way on the show!   April 16th, 2025, at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific, join us at the LIVE STREAM HERE:     https://www.transformationtalkradio.com/watch.html  

Soaring demand drives the need for major advancements in energy and infrastructure. Hear from Chris Leslie and Sam Halpert, of Macquarie Asset Management as they unpack the trends driving long-term growth, and the investment opportunities across public and private markets.Explore our Outlook 2025: Plan for growth, prepare for volatility©2025 Macquarie Group Limited [4182473]Relevant disclaimers and other information can be found here.

Part 2: Every movement has a history, a moment in time where visionaries and pioneers stepped out and refused to part of the status quo. Before the Industrial Era, homeschooling was the common modality of the masses. But for over 150 years, children were pulled from the home, educated en masse, and treated as cogs in a machine. That was, until 1978, when across the US, pockets of "family schools" suddenly began popping up, unbeknownst to one another. One such "family schooler," Colonel Ray Moore, tells his story on part one of this show. He is considered to be the founder of what we know today as the modern homeschool movement. Learn about the history, the sacrifice, and his current work with Public School Exit and Exodus Mandate. Homeschooling works. You can do it; we can help. Learn how to start your own church-based homeschool academy at AcademicRescueMission.com. #publicschoolexit #exodusmandate #CEI #cvcu #academicrescuemission #homeschoolingworks 

The Industrial Era gave us 100 years of stable employment. 2025 marks the end of that century-long experiment. "Employment" is dead, which means there's new opportunity that's yours for the taking. ***

Every movement has a history, a moment in time where visionaries and pioneers stepped out and refused to part of the status quo. Before the Industrial Era, homeschooling was the common modality of the masses. But for over 150 years, children were pulled from the home, educated en masse, and treated as cogs in a machine. That was, until 1978, when across the US, pockets of "family schools" suddenly began popping up, unbeknownst to one another. One such "family schooler," Colonel Ray Moore, tells his story on part one of this show. He is considered to be the founder of what we know today as the modern homeschool movement. Learn about the history, the sacrifice, and his current work with Public School Exit and Exodus Mandate. Homeschooling works. You can do it; we can help. Learn how to start your own church-based homeschool academy at AcademicRescueMission.com. #publicschoolexit #exodusmandate #CEI #cvcu #academicrescuemission #homeschoolingworks 

The water crisis is one of the most pressing issues facing our planet, with climate change, population growth, and pollution threatening the availability of clean water worldwide. One company working to tackle this problem head-on is Spout Water. This California-based startup has developed an innovative solution, the Spout Monolith, a sleek kitchen device that produces pure drinking water from the moisture in the air. Spout founder and CEO Reuben Vollmer joins the conversation to explain how a personal challenge began his mission to solve water scarcity and quality issues. Reuben recently contributed an article to Earth911, mapping his journey into the world of water. It started with an unexpected letter his family received during a drought in 2010, warning that their olive farm's well could be restricted. Water production and distribution needs a good swift kick in the form of a surprising alternative to how we've done it during the Industrial Era. The Spout Monolith may be one kick in our complaisance. We are surrounded by water in the atmosphere. A June 2022 study by the University of Reading in the United Kingdom found that total atmospheric water vapor is increasing by about 1% a decade due to warming climates. One percent may not sound like much, but the United States Geological Survey reports that the planet's atmosphere contains 12 trillion gallons of water, so one percent more water vapor represents 120 billion gallons. That one-percent increase in atmospheric water vapor per decade means that between 2010 and 2050, as much as 480 billion gallons of additional water vapor will migrate into the air, around half of today's annual human consumption of freshwater. You can learn more about the company and preorder a Monolith with a $100 discount using the code "MITCH911" at https://www.spoutwater.com/

This week has us diving into a lot of music! We cover some really good songs in Usher's Burn (was Usher okay?) and Sia's Chandelier (what was her story with Maddie Zielger?). We also talk about the not-as-good music like Glee's 100th episode (and our own musical theatre experiences) and the musical stylings of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It's not always good this week, but it is always funny. Join us!

| SUMMARY - Nancy Pearcey Explains The Toxic War on Masculinity |  TIP JAR: https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV  In this episode of Dare to Think, Kerry Baldwin interviews Professor Nancy Pearcey about her book, The Toxic War on Masculinity. This book is not intended to take sides in cultural-religious debate between Complementarianism and Egalitarianism. Instead, Pearcey examines a socio-historical perspective of the phenomenon known as "toxic masculinity" and whether Christianity or secularism is responsible for it. Pearcey finds a number of surprising examples throughout history, and also today from prominent sociological and psychological marriage researchers. Pearcey's book is more of an academic apologetic written for educated layman, instead of a popular piece.  Join me, Kerry Baldwin, with Nancy Pearcey, as we Dare to Think about the Toxic War on Masculinity Read my review of Pearcey's book at https://mereliberty.com/041    | MAIN POINTS OF DISCUSSION | 00:00 Introduction 01:20 What is the main problem the book is trying to solve? 04:47 What has been the cause for controversy surrounding the book? 09:01 The "Good" man versus "Real" man scripts 12:13 The "Andrew Tate" phenomenon of masculinity & classical Christian schools 14:09 How Christian men are absorbing the secular ("real man") script 15:02 Research for Christian men splits into two different groups: devout versus nominal 17:22 Brad Wilcox on Christian marriages 19:57 Nominal Christian men marriage and divorce stats 21:47 Percentage of nominal to devout Christian men is 50/50 23:24 Fatherless boyhood: a problem of no-fault divorce or Industrialization? 25:23 How did we lose involved fathers? 27:50 Is there a way to flex the workplace so fathers are no longer absent from the family? 29:02 The impact of fatherlessness hits boys harder than girls 30:24 The impact of father substitutes 31:44 How the 1950s model of the household cant possibly be the Biblical ideal 33:28 Closing   | RESOURCE LINKS | Follow Nancy Pearcey on Social Media https://twitter.com/NancyRPearcey https://www.facebook.com/NancyRPearceyAuthor Visit Nancy Pearcey's Website and purchase her book! (Preferred by author) https://www.nancypearcey.com/  Or on Amazon (Affiliate Support for Dare to Think Podcast) https://amzn.to/3wzDPcX  | SUPPORT DARE TO THINK | https://mereliberty.com/membership https://mereliberty.com/membership/courses  LibertySeminar.com

In this episode, host Travis Miller delves into the captivating world of industrial technology and next-gen advocacy with special guest Jacob Sanchez. From igniting passion in young minds through hands-on experiences to navigating the intricacies of workplace autonomy and learning, Travis and Jacob share invaluable insights drawn from their own journeys.They discuss the pivotal role of education in shaping the future of manufacturing and robotics, highlighting the importance of fostering curiosity and allowing room for exploration and growth, even amidst inevitable mistakes. Jacob's rebellious spirit and passion for engineering shine through as they emphasize the significance of autonomy in learning and development, urging CEOs to trust their employees and provide opportunities for hands-on learning.Join us on this enlightening journey as Travis and Jacob explore topics ranging from attracting young talent to the industrial manufacturing industry to the evolving landscape of AI's role in education and industry. Plus, discover Jacob's advocacy for creating positive work environments where employees thrive.Jacob is a industry awareness and next generation advocate for skilled trades and our industry. With 10+ years of hands on experience in manufacturing and automation he uses his knowledge to revolutionize how our industry creates digital content for the world. He believes through education and creative thinking we can reshape the image of our industry to the world_________________________________________________Connect with Jacob SanchezLinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3IkGD00MSC Industrial Supply Co. - https://www.mscdirect.comhttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hKveeJMS3882H5LvWkW0cDBSNpKl8RI&si=WnI6t5lfupPvigWv_________________________________________________Want to stream our podcast on another platform?iTunes - https://apple.co/3vLWiNXAudible - https://adbl.co/3vJfOu7Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3xJFQzm

Science. Ownership. Speed. Openness.These are the four pillars of Andrew McAfee's observed structure for successful companies. It is the “geeks,” the leaders at the forefront of cross-industry innovation, who embrace these norms and have the potential to redefine business as we know it. In order to break ground and create the kind of future we dream of, organizational leaders need to banish the fear of failure, embrace mistakes, and accept hard feedback with open arms.Andrew is a best-selling author, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-founder of MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy. His books include More from Less and The Second Machine Age, co-authored with Erik Brynjolfsson. Today on the podcast, we discuss the ideas captured in his most recent book, The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results. In This Episode* The universal geek (1:35)* The four geek norms (8:29)* Tales of geeks and non-geeks (15:19)* Can big companies go geek? (18:33)* The geek way beyond tech (26:32)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation.The universal geek (1:35)Pethokoukis: Is The Geek Way really the Silicon Valley Way? Is this book saying, “Here's how to turn your company into a tech startup”?McAfee: You mentioned both Silicon Valley and tech, and this book is not about either of those—it's not about a region and it's not about an industry, it's about a set of practices. And I think a lot of the confusion comes because those practices were incubated and largely formulated in this region called “Silicon Valley” in this industry that we call “tech”. So I understand the confusion, but I'm not writing about the Valley. Plenty of people do that. I'm not writing about the tech industry. Plenty of people do that. The phenomenon that I don't think we are paying enough attention to is this set of practices and philosophies that, I believe, when bundled correctly, amounts to a flat old upgrade to the company, just a better way to do the thing a company is supposed to do. That needed a label, because it's new. “Geek” is the label that I latched onto.But there's a universal aspect to this, then.Yeah, I believe there is. I understand this sounds arrogant—I believe it's a flat better way to run a company. I don't care where in the world you are, I don't care what industry you are in, if you're making decisions based on evidence, if you're iterating more and planning less, if you're building a modular organization that really does give people authority and responsibility, and if you build an organization where people are actually comfortable speaking truth to power, I think you're going to do better.One reason I'm excited about this book is because, you as well, we think about technological progress, we think about economic growth and productivity and part of that is science and coming up with new ideas and a new technology, but all that stuff has to actually be turned into a commercial enterprise and there has to be well-run companies that take that idea and sell it. Maybe the economist's word might be “diffusion” or something like that, but that's a pretty big part of the story, which I think maybe economists tend not to focus as much on, or policy people, but it's pretty darn important and that's what I think is so exciting about your book is that it addresses that: How to create companies that can do that process—invention-to-product—better. So how can they do it better?Let me quibble with you just a little bit. There are alternatives to this method of getting goods and services to people, called “the company.” That's what we do in capitalist societies. Jim, like you know all too well, over the course of the 20th century, we ran a couple of experiments trying it a different way: These collectivist, command-and-control, centrally planned economies, those were horrible failures! Let's just establish that right off the bat.So in most of the parts of the world—I think in all the parts of the world where you and I would actually want to live—I agree with you, we've settled on this method of getting most goods and services to people, most of what they consume, via these entities called companies, and I don't care if you're in a Nordic social democracy, or in the US of A, or in Southeast Asia, companies are the things getting you most of what you consume. I think in the United States, about 85 percent of what you and I consume, by some estimates, comes from companies. So, like them or hate them, they're incredibly important, and if a doohickey comes along that lets them their work X percent better, we should applaud that like crazy because that's an X percent increase in our affluence, our standard of living, the things that we care about, and the reason I got excited and decided to write this book is I think there's an upgrade to the company going on that's at the same level as the stuff that [Alfred] Chandler wrote about a century ago when we invented the large, professionally managed, pretty big company. Those dominated the corporate landscape throughout the 20th century. I think that model is being upgraded by the geeks.It's funny because, I suppose maybe the geeks 50 years ago, maybe a lot of them worked at IBM. And your sort-of geek norms are not what I think of the old Big Blue from IBM in the 1960s. That has changed. Before we get into the norms, how did they develop? Why do we even have examples of this working in the real corporate world?The short answer is, I don't know exactly. That's a pretty detailed piece of corporate history and economic history to work on. The longer answer is, what I think happened is, a lot of computer nerds, who had spent a lot of time at universities and were pretty steeped in that style of learning things and building things, went off and started companies and, in lots of cases, they ran into the classic difficulties that occur to companies and the dysfunctions that creep in as companies grow and age and scale. And instead of accepting them, my definition of a geek is somebody who's tenacious about a problem and is willing to embrace unconventional solutions. I think a lot of these geeks—and I'm talking about people like Reed Hastings, who's really articulate about what he did at Netflix and at his previous company, which he says he ran into mediocrity—a lot of these geeks like Hastings sat around and said, “Wait a minute, if I wanted to not repeat these mistakes, what would I do differently?” They noodled that hard problem for a long time, and I think via some conversation among the geeks, but via these fairly independent vectors in a lot of cases, they have settled on these practices, these norms that they believe—and I believe—help them get past the classic dysfunctions of the Industrial Era that you and I know all too well: their bureaucratization, their sclerosis, their cultures of silence. They are just endless stifling meetings and turf wars and factions and things like that. We know those things exist. What I think is interesting is that the geeks are aware of them and I think they've come up with ways to do better.The four geek norms (8:29)It's funny that once you've looked at your book, it is impossible to read any other sort of business biography of a company or a CEO and not keep these ideas in your head because I just finished up the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson, and boy, I just kept on thinking of speed and science and the questioning of everything: Why are we doing this? Why are we building this rocket engine like this? Who told us to do that? Somebody in legal told us to do that?Exactly.So certainly those two pop to mind: the speed and the constant iteration. But rather than have me describe them, why don't you describe those norms in probably a much better way than I can.There's a deep part of the Isaacson Musk biography that made my geek eyes light up, and it's when Isaacson describes Musk's Algorithm—I think it's capitalized, too, it's capital “The,” capital “Algorithm,”—which is all about taking stuff out. I think that is profound because we humans have a very strong status quo bias. We're reluctant to take things out. It's one of the best-documented human biases. So we just add stuff, we just layer stuff on, and before you know it, for a couple different flavors of reason, you wind up with this kind of overbuilt, encrusted, process-heavy, bureaucracy-heavy, can't get anything done [corporation]. You feel like you're pushing on a giant piece of Jell-O or something to try to get any work done. And I think part of Musk's brilliance as a builder and an organization designer is to come up with The Algorithm that says, “No, no, a big part of your job is to figure out what doesn't need to be there and make it go away.” I adore that. It's closest to my great geek norm of ownership, which is really the opposite of this processification of the enterprise of the company that we were super fond of starting in the '90s and going forward.So now to answer your question, my four great geek norms, which are epitomized by Musk in a lot of ways, but not always, are:Science. Just make decisions based on evidence and argue a lot about that evidence. Science is an argument with a ground rule. Evidence rules.Ownership. We were just talking about this. Devolve authority downward, stop all the cross-communication, coordination, collaboration, process, all that. Build a modular organization.Speed. Do the minimum amount of planning and then start iterating. You learn, you get feedback, you see where you're keeping up to schedule and where you're not by doing stuff and getting feedback, not by sitting around asking everybody if they're on schedule and doing a lot of upfront planning.Finally, openness, this willingness to speak truth to power. In some ways, a good synonym for it is “psychological safety” and a good antonym for it is “defensiveness.”If anything, from what I understand about Musk, the last one is where he might run into challenges.That's what I was going to say. The ownership and the speed and the science struck me and then I'm like… the openness? Well, you have to be willing to take some abuse to be open in that environment.There are these stories about him firing people on the spot and making these kind of peremptory decisions—all of that is a violation, in my eyes, of the great geek norm of openness. It might be the most common violation that I see classic Silicon Valley techies engage in. They fall victim to overconfidence like the rest of us do, and they're not careful enough about designing their companies to be a check on their own overconfidence. This is something Hastings is very humble and very articulate about in No Rules Rules, the book that he co-wrote with Erin Meyer about Netflix and he highlights all these big calls that he was dead-flat wrong about, and he eventually realized that he had to build Netflix into a place that would tell him he was wrong when he was wrong, and he does all these really nice jobs of highlighting areas where he was wrong and then some relatively low-level person in the organization says, “No, that doesn't make sense. I'm going to go gather evidence and I'm going to challenge the CEO of the company with it.” And to his eternal credit, Hastings goes, “It's pretty compelling evidence. I guess I was wrong about that.” So that, to me, is actually practicing the great geek norm of openness.So someone reading this book is thinking that this book is wrong. Where would that come from? Would that come from overconfidence? Would it come from arrogance? Would it come from the idea that if I am in the C-suite, that obviously I have it figured out and I can probably do all your jobs better than you can, so why are you challenging me? Why are you challenging the status quo? “Hey, that's how we got here was through a process, so trust the process!”It's one of the main flavors of pushback that I hear, and it's very often not as naked as you just made it, but it is, “Hey, the reason I'm sitting in this executive education classroom with you is because I'm fairly good at my job. I made some big calls right, and my job is to provide vision to my team and to direct them not to be this kind of lead-from-behind more coach-y kind of leader.” That's one flavor of pushback I get. Another one is a very pervasive tendency, when we come across some challenging information, to come up with reasons why this doesn't apply to us and why we're going to be just fine. It's some combination of the status quo bias and the overconfidence bias which, again, two of the most common human biases. So very often when I'm talking about this, I get the idea that people in the room are going, “Yeah, okay, wow, I really wouldn't want to complete with SpaceX, but this doesn't apply to me or to my industry.” And then finally, look, I'm clearly wrong about some things. I don't know exactly what they are. Maybe the incumbents of the Enterprise Era are going to mount a surprising comeback by falling back on their 20th-century playbook as opposed to adopting the geek way. I will be very surprised if that happens and I'm taking bets like, “Let's go, let's figure out a bet based on that,” but maybe it'll happen. I'm definitely wrong about some things.Tales of geeks and non-geeks (15:19)Given what you've said, I would certainly think that it would be easier to apply these norms at a newer company, a younger company, a smaller company, rather than a company with a hundred thousand employees that's been around for 30 years. But it's possible to do the second one, right?It is possible. Let me violently agree with you, Jim. You and I are of a vintage and we're both Midwesterners. We both remember Arthur Andersen, right? And what an iconic American Midwestern symbol of rectitude and reliability and a healthy culture that kept the business world honest by auditing their books. Remember all that? Remember how it fell apart?I knew people, and if you got an interview with Arthur Andersen, they're like, “Wow, you are with the Cadillac of accounting consulting firms.”But beyond that, you were doing a valuable thing for society, right? These people had status in the community because they kind of kept companies honest for a living.That's right. That's right. You were true of the truth tellers.Yeah. It was a big deal and a lot of your listeners, I think, are going to be too young to remember it firsthand, but that company became a dysfunctional, unethical, ongoing, miserable train wreck of an organization in its final years before it finally fell apart. It could not have been more surprising to people of our vintage and where we came from. I tell the story of how that happened a little bit in the book to drive home that cultures can go off track in profound ways and in AA's late years, if someone had teleported The Geek Way and waved it around, would it have made any difference? I'd like to hope so, but I kind of don't think so.However, to tell a more optimistic story, I had the chance to interview Satya Nadella about his turnaround at Microsoft, which I think is at a level maybe even above the turnaround that [Steve] Jobs executed when he came back to Apple. The amount of value that Nadella has created at Microsoft in nine years now is staggering, and Microsoft is back. Microsoft has mojo again in the tech industry. But when he took over, Microsoft was still a large profitable company, but it was dead in the water. It wasn't innovating. The geek elite didn't want to go work there. The stock price was flat as a highway for a decade. It was absolutely an afterthought in anything that we care about. And so I use Nadella and I learned from him, and I try to tell the story about how he executed this comeback, and, to my eyes, he did it in a very, very geek way kind of a way.Can you give me an example?My point in telling that story is: I do think it's possible for organizations that find themselves in a bad spot—Established organizations.Established. Large, established organizations find themselves in a bad spot. Those kinds of leopards can change their spots. I firmly believe that.Can big companies go geek? (18:33)What are the first steps to change the corporate culture of a big company?That's why I'm so blown away by what Nadella and his team were able to do. Let me pick out a couple things that seem particularly geeky to me that he did. One was to say that—it doesn't matter if you develop them or not—you do not own code or data at Microsoft. What he meant by that was, subject to legal requirements and safety and some guardrails, if you want to grab some of the code repository at Microsoft to go try something or some data and go try something, you have the right to do that. That just eliminates huge amounts of gatekeeping and hard and soft bureaucracy and all of that inside the company. And that led to things like Copilot. It's a very, very smart way to start dealing with bureaucracy: just saying, “No, you don't get to gatekeep anymore.”He also did fairly obvious things like make sure that their really dysfunctional evaluation system was over. He also emphasized this thing that he called “One Microsoft,” which at first sounded like just CEO rah-rah talk. And it is to some extent, but it's also incredibly clever because we humans are so tribal. In addition to the status quo bias and the overconfidence bias, the third easy, easy bias to elicit is “myside” bias. We are tribal. We want our tribe to win. I think part of Nadella's brilliance was to say, “The tribe that you belong to is not Office versus Windows versus Bing versus… the tribe you belong to is Microsoft.”And he changed compensation, so that it also worked that way. He worked with incentives—he took an Econ 101 class—but he also kept emphasizing that “we are one tribe,” and that makes a difference if the leader at the top keeps saying it and if they behave that way. I think one of the deepest things that he did was act in an open way and demonstrate the norm of openness that he wanted to see all over the place. He got a ton of help with it, but if you talk to him, you immediately realize that he's not this table-pounding, my-way-or-the-highway kind of a guy. He's somebody that wants to get it right, and if you have an idea, you might get a fair erring for that idea. He also embraced agile methods and started to move away from the old ways that Microsoft had to write software, which were out of date, and they were yielding some really unimpressive projects.So as he and I were talking, I was doing my internal checklist and I kept on saying, “Yep, that's speed. That is science. That is ownership. That is openness,” and just emphasizing, as I listened to him, I just kept hearing these norms come up over and over. But one thing that he clearly knows is that this ain't easy and it ain't fast, and cultural change is a long, slow, grinding process, and you've got to keep saying the same thing over and over. And then I think, especially as a leader, you've got to keep living it because people will immediately sense if what you're doing is not lining up with what you're saying.One bit that popped out, because obviously I'm in Washington and I see a government that doesn't work very efficiently, and you wrote, “To accelerate learning and progress, plan less and iterate more,” and to iterate means to experiment, it means you're going to fail. And boy, oh boy, failure-averse organizations, you can find that in government, you can find it in corporate America, that acceptance of: try something and if it fails, it's a learning experience. It's not a black mark on your career forever. Now let's go try the next thing.Exactly. To me, it's the most obvious thing that the geeks do that's starkly different from Industrial Era organizations, “plan less, iterate more.” The great geek norm of speed, and there are a bunch of exemplars of that. The clearest one to me is SpaceX, where they blow up a rocket and that is a win for them, not a loss. And even if it gets written up in the press as, “Oh, Starship blew up, or whatever”—they don't care, right? They'd rather that it didn't blow up or that it stayed together longer, but if they got the learning that they were looking for, then they're like, “Great, we're going to incorporate that, we're going to build another rocket, we're not going to put any people on until we're very, very, very sure, but we're going to blow up a bunch of rockets.” From the start of the company, that has been an okay thing to do.They also are willing to embrace pretty big pivots. The first plan for Starship was that it was going to be a carbon fiber rocket because carbon fiber is so strong and lightweight, but their method for making it was too slow, too expensive, and had a reject rate that was too high. The thing's now made out of stainless steel! It's the opposite kind of material! But they said, “Look, the goal is the goal, and the goal is not to stick to the original plan, the goal is to build a great big rocket that can do all kinds of things. The way we get there is by trying—legitimately trying—a bunch of stuff and failing at it with the eyes of the world upon us.”I want to draw a really sharp distinction between the process and the product, and what I mean by that is a failure-tolerant process can yield an incredibly robust, safe product. We don't need to look any farther for that than the Dragon Capsule that SpaceX makes, which is the only capsule currently made in America that is certified by NASA to take human beings into space. It's how all Americans these days get back and forth to the ISS. NASA doesn't have one. NASA gave a contract to Boeing at the same time it gave one to SpaceX. Boeing still has not had the first crude test of its capsule. This geek way of speed, it's uncomfortable, and you got to be willing to fail publicly and own it, but it works better.Is the geek way, to some degree, an American phenomenon?So far.I was going to say, can the geek way be implemented in other countries? Is there something special about American culture that allows the geek way to work and to be adopted—I said universal earlier, maybe I meant, is it truly universal? Can it be implemented in other places?Jim, you and I, as proud Americans, like to believe that we're an exceptional country, and I do believe that. I don't believe the geek way only works with a bunch of Americans trying it. I travel lots of different places, and especially the energy that I see among younger people to be part of this transformation of the world that's happening (that you and I are lucky enough to get to observe and try to think about), this transformation of the world in the 21st century because of the technological toolkit that we have, because of the amount of innovation out there, the thirst to be part of that is very, very, very widespread. And I don't think there's anything in the drinking water in Munich or Kyoto or Lima that makes this stuff impossible at all. It is true, we're an individualistic culture, we're kind of mouthy, we celebrate these iconoclastic people, but I don't think any of those are absolutely necessary in order to start following norms of science, ownership, speed and openness. I hope those are universal.The geek way beyond tech (26:32)We've been talking a lot about tech companies. Are there companies which really don't seem particularly techie (even though obviously all companies use technology) that you could see the geek way working currently?I haven't gone off and looked outside the tech industry for great exemplars of the geek way, so I have trouble answering this question. But think about Bridgewater, which is really one of the weirdest corporate cultures ever invented, and I haven't read the new biography of Ray Dalio yet, but it appears that all might not be exactly as it appears. But one thing that Bridgewater has been adamant about from the get-go, and Dalio has been passionate about, is this idea of radical transparency, is the idea of openness. Your reputation is not private from anybody else in the company at any point in time. So they've taken this norm of openness and they've really ran with it in some fascinating directions. In most organizations, there's a lot of information that's private, and your reputation is spread by gossip. Literally, that's how it works. Bridgewater said, “Nope. We really believe in openness and everything that's important about your performance as a professional in this company, you're going to get rated on it by your colleagues, and you're going to have these visible to everybody all the time inside the company so that if you start espousing how important it is to be ethical, but your score as an ethical leader is really low, nobody's going to listen to you.” I think that's fascinating, and I think as time goes by, we're going to come across these very, very geeky norms and practices being implemented in all kinds of weird corners of the global economy. I can't wait to learn about it.I would think that, given how every country would like to be more productive, every country's having a white paper on how to improve their productivity, and this, to me, is maybe something that policymakers don't think about, and I'm not sure if there's a policy aspect to this, but I hope a lot of corporate leaders and aspiring corporate leaders at least read your book.Well, the one policy implication that might come up is, what happens when the geeks start unignorably beating up the incumbents in your favorite industry. When I look at what's happening in the global auto industry right now, I see some of that going on, and my prediction is that it's going to get worse instead of better. Okay, then what happens?Save us! Save us from this upstart!Exactly, but then there could be some really interesting policy choices being made about protecting dinosaur incumbents in the face of geek competitors. I hope we don't retreat into nationalism and protectionism and that kind of stuff. What I hope happens instead is that the world learns how to get geeky relatively quickly and that this upgrade to the company spreads.The only thing I would add here is I would also urge business journalists to read the book so you understand how companies work and how these new companies that work, companies that look like they are—and not to keep harping on SpaceX, but so many people who I think should know better, will look at SpaceX and think, “Oh, they're failing. Oh, that rocket, as you said earlier, the rocket blew up! Apollo had a couple of problems, they're blowing up a rocket every six weeks!” And they just simply do not understand how this kind of company works. So I don't know. So I guess I would recommend my business journalists to read it, and I imagine you would think the same.That recommendation makes a ton of sense to me. Jim. I'm all on board with that.Andrew. This is an outstanding book and a wonderful companion piece to your other work which is very pro-progress, and pro-growth. I absolutely loved it, and thanks so much for coming on the podcast today,Jim, thanks for being part of the Up Wing Party with me. Let's make it happen.Absolutely. Thank you.Thank you, sir. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

9-5 Girl on TikTok sparked a debate over the outdated ideas of the 9-5 work day, which was stared by Henry Ford for the Industrial Era. Time and again, new generations have reacted against conventions and ended up pushing for change. We consider how this will accelerate change in work, politics and more.Troy Young's People vs Algorithms newsletterBrian Morrissey's The Rebooting newsletterAlex Schleifer's Universal EntitiesFollow Alex, Brian and Troy on Twitter

In this episode Dawn dives into how our relationships with ourself and others develops. In the home environment for sure, but also when we enter and go through the educational system.  In Claim Your Dream Life,  Dawn explains how we have BIG DREAMS when we are children, believing we can be and do anything we want.  Then we become conditioned over time to temper our dreams and be "realistic".  By they time we reach adulthood, sadly just earning a steady paycheck is often our new “Dream”.  What can we do?  Dawn believes the answer lies in revamping the current system as our Industrial Era educational system's one-size-fits-all approach often leaves students disconnected with each other, bored and disinterested in learning. There is good news.A non-profit called Transcend is partnering with communities to LISTEN to young people and learn how we can reinvent learning and the educational system.Read the results of the 8 month listening study, Conversations with Kids: Insights From a Year of Listening. Use Transcend's Free Guide to start your own conversation with a young person.Did you get your Free Copy of Dawn's book yet?Other episodes you'll enjoy:How Radical Forgiveness Improves All of Your Relationships with Marina Valentina GeorgeTeaching and Coaching: I Love My Work That Makes a Difference with John FlemingConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midlifeinparadise/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawndfleming/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfleming/Website: https://www.lifeinparadisepodcast.comSupport the show

What is the most used material in the world? Cement, the basis for building most of the modern world, was invented during the Roman Empire and remains the most used material worldwide. In 2021, cement accounted for 1.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions globally, about 4.3 % of all greenhouse gas generated that year. Meet Grant Quasha, CEO of Eco Material Technology, a New York-based maker of low-carbon cement and materials for making concrete. Eco Material reengineered the Roman method of making pozzolanic cement using processed fly ash generated by industrial processes. The company uses a low-temperature process to remove carbon when making PozzoSlag®. This material can replace a significant portion of the portland cement required to make durable concrete used in buildings and bridges. The resulting concrete carries an embodied carbon footprint 95% lower than traditional portland cement. During the conversation, Grant explains that billions of tons of fly ash from the Industrial Era can be recovered to make low-carbon concrete. While the prospect of lowering annual CO2 emissions associated with building homes, skyscrapers, and roads by 95% is sufficiently important to justify enthusiasm about this technology, the opportunity to mine the residual fly ash pollution created and dumped during the Industrial Era should get everyone's attention. Society can do more than paper over environmental damage while continuing to build and expand a sustainable infrastructure — we can restore nature, making cities and their suburbs greener.You can learn more about Eco Materials Technologies at https://ecomaterial.com/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1900 #ScalaReport: Stagnation in #PRC; "Doom Loop" metaphor across Big Industrial era American cities. CEO Chris Riegel, Scala.com, #STRATACACHE https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-franciscos-decline-is-a-warning-to-other-american-cities/ar-AA1cqVo1

Mary Harrington joins the program from England and shows, from her book "Feminism Against Progress," that women's liberation appears to be leading to "a stark... dystopian future."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I am talking to BCG India's Ashish Kulkarni he is a part of BCG initiative called 'Centre for Sustainable Earth' - a dedicated climate and sustainability focused hub for India serving as a platform for collaborative climate action in India across multiple stakeholders, and guided by an experienced Advisory Council of Global Climate pioneers. Ashish gives us an insider's look into the clean tech initiatives and how climate financing is being implemented across different avenues. He and Siddharth discusses how it fits into the current geopolitical atmosphere of energy markets. They also talk about the major opportunities both globally and domestically for technology innovation.Support the showThanks for listening! Follow me on LinkedIn and our page for more insights from industry experts, seasoned practitioners and academicians

In Episode 105 of "The Dustin Gold Nugget," Dustin briefly discusses his latest analysis of the 1995 paper “Industrial Society And Its Future” and how it ties into the new theme of the show… CUT YOUR LEASH and EXIT THE SYSTEM. Dustin addresses the Damar Hamlin and “Diamond and Silk” stories and explains why he isn't going to be pulled down the rabbit hole. Dustin discusses the computer glitch that caused planes to be grounded and how this ties into the orchestrated collapse of our current system. Dustin shares a personal story about dealing with the hospital billing department. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35  Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS), introduces the Climate Solution Accelerator program, a 90-minute video-and-quiz program that explains the essential ideas in climate science, sustainable business, and the policies and paths out of the crisis. Earth911, Jump Digital, and the RSGS have partnered to make the program available in North America. More than 90,000 people globally have used the Climate Solution Accelerator to learn about climate strategies and train employees to start making informed environmental decisions. The program features globally renowned climate leaders, including the former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and the late Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and the former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson. Michael, who is based near Glasgow, Scotland, shares what business has struggled to learn and his impressions of the debates at the recent United Nations Climate Framework COP27 meeting in Egypt. You can learn more about the 148-year-old educational non-profit Royal Scottish Geographical Society at https://www.rsgs.org/The Climate Solutions Accelerator delivers an informative introduction to the most complicated and urgent challenge our species has ever faced. While there is plenty of evidence of the Climate Crisis in the news and in our neighborhoods, and billions of people are waking to the threat, most organizations and businesses are still trying to get their heads around the problem. The proghow they can respond, changing operations and investments to end CO2 emissions and prepare tp adapt to the disruptions that will continue to become more dire until society succeeds in reaching carbon neutrality and begins to drawdown the more than 1 trillion tons of anthropogenic CO2 emitted during the Industrial Era. You can learn more about the Climate Solutions Accelerator at https://earth911.com/featured-courses/climate-solutions/

Learn how businesses can accelerate the decarbonization of their operations and contribute to eventually removing that can help drawdown the more than 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide emitted by humans during the Industrial Era. Discover some of the complicated details of how carbon markets, credits, and allowances work with Jason Grant, chief operating officer of Climate Vault, a non-profit that purchases and manages carbon allowance and credits to support carbon capture and sequestration technologies, and Sanjay Srivastava, chief digital strategies at Genpact, a digital services firm provides carbon tracking capabilities for large organizations. The companies have partnered to deliver an end-to-end solution for tracking, managing, and turning a profit by reducing CO2 emissions.Climate Vault was named a World Changing Idea for 2022 by the business magazine, Fast Company. Jason and Sanjay explain the difference between a carbon allowance and a carbon credit. Carbon allowances let you emit, for example, one ton of CO2 within an overall carbon budget. Genpact's tools track whether the allowance goes unused, so that the resulting savings can be retired or sold. That's where Climate Vault comes into the picture — they buy carbon allowances and retire them to prevent the emissions, as well as turn that avoided emissions into finding that supports carbon capture and sequestration technology development. In other words, Climate Vault helps companies use one carbon allowance to both retire CO2 and fund the tools that will remove more CO2 in the future. You can learn more about Genpact at https://www.genpact.com and about Climate Vault at https://climatevault.org/ 

Jon Hansen recounts his discussion with Solemn Oath Brewery’s Danny Boccassini as he highlights the Naperville brewery located at 1661 Quincy Avenue #179. Over the discussion, they emphasize the variety of craft beer Solemn Oath has to offer, their tap room, and their 77 house lager, representing the 77 neighborhoods throughout Chicago.

Arthur Baker, associate director of the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago, explains why equity is essential to sustainability. He is the co-author, with Vijaya Ramachandaran, of Let Them Eat Carbon, a Center for Global Development policy paper that suggests it is not just unjust but inefficient to make the poorest countries carry the climate burden. The response to climate change involves a global responsibility to raise people's standard of living, which reduces population growth, as well as increase the utilization of renewable energy and innovation in food production, waste and water management. Take a few minutes to check out the sites Arthur shares during the show, Give Well and Evidence Action — they research the chartible donations that make the biggest impact.Sixty-four low-income countries, which have produced the least greenhouse gas emissions, face significant economic and environmental challenges that may prevent them from decarbonizing their economies. And, yet, even if they don't decarbonize, these nations will produce only 1% of global emissions by 2035. Without assistance, they will simply fall further behind the nations that have benefited the most from the Industrial Era. You can learn more about the University of Chicago's Development Innovation Lab at https://bfi.uchicago.edu/development-innovation-lab/ and about the Center for Global Development at https://www.cgdev.org/ 

Urvashi Bhatnagar, co-author with Paul Anastas of The Sustainability Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions, explains the four principles for managing and scaling sustainability. These ideas can be applied to build a sustainable business at a startup or large company dto accelerate progress toward low- and no-waste products and services. Urvashi discusses reframing business decisions to emphasize waste reduction. She suggests what we waste today can be the basis for profitable growth without the severe environmental damage that resulted from the Industrial Era. She shares ideas about how to engage executives and employees in sustainability programs and how to be transparent about their environmental commitments.The new book extends the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry that Anastas, who is known as the father of green chemistry, and John Warner first introduced in 1998. Those ideas transformed the way chemistry is done. Following their introduction, a new generation of chemists has focused on using low-temperature, biologically responsible processes that mimic natural processes. They create chemicals and products that are recyclable or biodegrade instead of leaving toxins in nature. The Sustainability Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions is available on Amazon and at Powell's Books.

Eliza Brightwell's family is from London, but when word on the street is that Australia is the place to be, the entire family moves in the hopes of making a fortune from the pearl trade. Taking place in the Industrial Era, Moonlight and The Pearler's Daughter follows Eliza as she steps foot in a new place--a place that just might make or break her family. As the story progresses, we're taken 10 years forward, when Eliza goes to meet her father's pearling boat at the dock. Except, as the crew starts to disembark, it becomes clear that her father isn't on the boat and no one knows what happened to him. Determined to find her father, with nothing more than an inkling that he's still alive, Eliza sets sail on a new adventure. With the help of her friend Min, and her new male friend, Axel, Eliza searches for the truth of what really happened to her father. Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter is a story of adventure, romance, corruption, and secrets.

John Doe: Punk rock pioneer with X, songwriter, poet, actor, solo artist, published author, folk musician. John Doe, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bass player. Doe co-founded LA punk band X, of which he is still an active member. His musical performances and compositions span rock, punk, country, and folk music genres. As an actor, he has dozens of television appearances and several movies to his credit, including the role of Jeff Parker in the television series Roswell   Fables in a Foreign Land, the debut release from The John Doe Folk Trio, his tales are now set in the pre-Industrial Era.“All of these songs take place in the 1890s. There's a lot of sleeping on the ground, a lot of being hungry, a lot of isolation. All of that fits into the kind of isolation and lack of modern stimuli that I think people started rediscovering during the pandemic lockdown: realizing that as parts of your life start getting taken away, what's important and what you live for becomes paramount.”And though many of the 13 songs were written over the last three years, the sound was born in loose weekly backyard jams on Kevin Smith's patio. Doe called the Willie Nelson And Family upright bassist on Tax Day 2020, as the country legend's seemingly endless tour schedule ground to a complete halt – probably for the first time ever-- due to the pandemic.“I called up Kevin and we just started playing on his patio on Tuesdays, just for something to do. And after about a month, we realized, ‘Holy shit! This is the first time we've been able to do this just for the hell of it! We're not doing it for a tour, for a record, or a show.' We're doing it just to play. Then we invited our drummer pal Conrad Choucroun out, I wrote more songs, and eventually, the project became more focused.      John's Info http://www.theejohndoe.com/about https://www.xtheband.com John's Show June 21st at the music box in Cleveland OH https://musicboxcle.com/event/john-doe-folk-trio-june21/ X's Next show in Ohio with Psychedelic Furs https://thepsychedelicfurs.com/#shows      

The traditional notion is that schools are failing and they need “reforming.” But our guest believes that our education system is obsolete and needs re-imaging. Why? Because our education systems were created at the Dawn of the Industrial Era, and we no longer live in the Industrial Era. Tony Wagner is at the Learning Policy Institute, and he's also been at Harvard University and a number of other institutions. He also published a memoir last year called “Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education.”In this episode we look at the modern education system from all angles;, how can we teach teachers, the future of microcredentials and how can parents embrace education at home.Episode QuotesIs learning content the most important thing anymore?:In the 21st century, content knowledge still matters. In a world where Google knows everything, it's a different kind of content that matters. Skills matter more, I argue in the innovation era, and motivation matters most.How creativity gets squashed out of kids:What happens in school, fewer and fewer think of themselves as creative in any way. It's something that happens off there in the corner, in a niche for just a few kids. And kids become obsessed with getting the right answer rather than asking their own questions. You don't have to take a creativity test to see this, you see it every day in classrooms, Greg. Kids aren't asking questions. They don't have time, they're not encouraged. If it's a question, it's -“ will this be on the test?” or “how much does this count towards my grade?”, which is what we're teaching in school.How will we change the current education system?:The challenge is, if we're going to get shaken out of our usual way of doing things at any of these levels, there has to be a sense of urgency. And that has to be created by leaders. Show Links:Guest Profile:Professional Profile at Learning Policy InstituteTony Wagner's Website Tony Wagner on LinkedinTony Wagner on TwitterTony Wagner at TEDxNYEDHis work:Tony Wagner's BlogLearning by Heart: An Unconventional EducationMost Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation EraCreating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the WorldThe Global Achievement Gap: Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship -- and What We Can Do About ItChange Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools

The primary indicator of global climate change is the Global Mean Surface Temperature of the Earth and the world's nations are trying to keep its increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial level.   That rise in temperature is called the Global Surface Temperature Anomaly and it actually reached an all-time high in 2016 at […]

In the third installment of our journey through Victorian architecture, we travel to the north and west of England to explore how new technologies - especially iron casting and glass manufacturing - led Industrial Era engineers to build entirely new types of buildings for an entirely new - and rapidly expanding - market.

As the world prepares for the United Nations' COP26 climate change conference, we talk with Rick Wayman, the new CEO of the Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR). They are working to return atmospheric CO2 levels to pre-Industrial Era levels by 2050. Members of the F4CR team have been on the show many times to discuss carbon capture and sequestration, an approach to permanently removing excess atmospheric CO2 that stores carbon in the ground or uses it to make new products and materials, from vodka to concrete. Earth911's Mitch Ratcliffe recently moderated a session about mining the sky for the F4CR's annual Second Annual Climate Restoration Forum.World leaders are meeting this week in Glasgow, Scotland, to set emissions goals to prevent catastrophic climate change. Rick explains that a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030 is critical to preventing warming in excess of 1.5C, at which climate change could reach a devastating tipping point. Carbon capture and sequestration technology is evolving quickly and may represent an important tool in humanity's response to rising CO2 levels. But first we need to stop the rising emissions from rich and poor countries in an equitable way. That's where COP26 comes into play, it is the world's last chance to agree on the path to an equitable transition to renewable energy. To learn more about F4CR, visit https://foundationforclimaterestoration.org/.

Why I think life has gotten better over the last couple hundred years.https://www.cold-takes.com/has-life-gotten-better-the-post-industrial-era/

In this episode, I sit down to talk with a Futurist, Rita J. King. We talk about the return to the office, the importance of designing effective meetings and the Imagination Age. Rita created The Imagination Age, a framework to transition from the Industrial Era to the Intelligence Era. About Rita: Rita has been featured in The New York Times, Psychology Today, TIME, CNN, NPR, and many more mediums. She's the Executive Vice President for Business Development at Science House, Co-founder of Model Meetings and a Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Engineered Natural Intelligence at UC San Diego. She's also served as a Futurist at NASA Langley's think tank, The National Institute of Aerospace.

Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric) Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones. About the episode: This fifth episode of the third series of LitSciPod features an interview with Dr John Holmes, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. John discusses how poetry helps us to negotiate the legacies of Darwin's discoveries and the Pre-Raphaelites' shaping of the culture of Victorian science (and vice versa). He introduces us to the Synopsis Network, which explores art in natural history museums, to the Ruskin Land project in the Wyre Forest, and to his more recent work responding to COP26 from an humanities perspective. We also debate the importance of method to disciplines. At the end of the episode, you can hear John read ‘Editorial. By the President of the Therolinguistics Association' from ‘The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Episode resources (in order of appearance): • Catherine Charlwood, ‘“Such a pair!”: The Twin Lives of Humans and Trees', Hay Festival 2019 • Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialisation of Light in the Nineteenth Century (1995) • Susanne Bach and Folkert Degenring (eds), Dark Nights, Bright Lights: Night, Darkness, and Illumination in Literature (2015) • Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (2020) • Isabelle Tree, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm (2018) • Russell Foster, Understanding the Impact of Sleep Loss in the Industrial Era (2018) • Jules Michelet, Le Peuple (1846) • John Ruskin, Unto This Last and Other Writings, ed. by Clive Wilmer (Penguin, 1985) • The Symbiosis Network • Ruskin Land in the Wyre Forest, Guild of St George • John Holmes, Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution • The Kogi people, From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brother's Warning (1990) • The Kogi people, Aluna (2012) • The Germ (1850) • John Holmes, ‘Rebels art and science: the empirical drive of the Pre-Raphaelites' Nature 562, 490-491 (2018) • Charles Allston Collins, Covent Thoughts (1850-51) • William Holman Hunt, The Light of the World (1851-53) • The Fairy Creek Blockcade • FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) • Alberta's Energy “War Room” takes on a Netflix family cartoon • Bigfoot Family (2020) • Michael E. Mann tweet 17th October 2020 • Yu-Tzu Wu et al., Perceived and objective availability of green and blue spaces and quality of life in people with dementia: results from the IDEAL programme (2021)

Erin Meyer is the co-author of No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, which she co-authored with Reed Hastings, the founder and CEO of Netflix. She is also the author of The Culture Map and a professor at INSEAD. For the book, No Rules Rules, Erin spent a lot of time observing the corporate culture inside of Netflix, she interviewed employees, and got first hand stories of how the company values started from Reed himself. Netflix definitely has a unique culture and an interesting way to give employees freedom. While not every company can use their method of autonomy, there are lessons we can all learn from how they operate. What led Erin to write No Rules Rules Erin's first book, The Culture Map, came out in 2014 and it dove into the topic of how people of different backgrounds and cultures can work together harmoniously and effectively. The book really took off over the next few years and in 2016 Erin received an email from a fellow Peace Corps volunteer who was interested in learning more about her book and how to implement the method in his own company. That person was Reed Hastings, the co-founder and co-CEO at Netflix. So Erin went in to help Netflix get ready for their international expansion and while she was there she became fascinated with the company's culture because it was so strange and unique. “I conducted a big research project, I interviewed about 200 employees at Netflix, and I spent a lot of time with Reed himself, trying to understand what it was about this organizational culture that was breeding so much innovation and flexibility in the company. And then what it was that other business leaders around the world or even just team leaders could learn from this company about how to be more innovative and flexible themselves. And that's what we wrote the book [No Rules Rules] about.” Why the culture at Netflix is so different When asked what her first impressions were of the Netflix culture when she first started, Erin admits she was a bit “startled” by it and there were some things that initially concerned her. One example of something that concerned her was one of the slides in the Netflix culture deck which said, “adequate performance gets a generous severance”. Erin says, “It concerned me because at INSEAD where I teach, there had been, there was so much talk, and still today, of course, about the idea of focusing exclusively on psychological safety in a workplace. I just didn't understand how an organization today could be running around, not make your employees feel safe, but tell your employees if they're not excellent, they're out.” But even though it initially concerned Erin, it also was intriguing and a bit refreshing to see a company be so blunt about what it was going to be like to work there. So many companies tell potential new hires wonderful stories about what it's like to work at the company, things they think people want to hear. It's a great work environment, you'll love everyone you work with, the work is exciting and engaging, and you won't ever get burned out. That's what they'll say when the person is interviewing for the job, but then once they start they find out that people are backstabbing each other, it's a toxic work environment, they are expected to work 60+ hours a week, and they are doing boring, monotonous tasks. To see a company really be blunt and open about what the culture is actually like is extremely rare. So even though the wording may sound harsh, anyone who applies for Netflix knows up front it's going to be hard work and you will have to bring your best self every day, and that may not be for everyone. “I was so tired, just so sick of looking at corporate cultures or people who worked at companies who said what their corporate cultures were and then say, Oh, it's about integrity and respect and excellence. You know, there's nothing wrong with saying that your organization values respect, it's just that there's no good credible option to respect right? No company would run around saying they value disrespect, or that they value corruption. And I think that was actually one of my really overarching learnings to this research, was that if you really want to articulate a corporate culture that means something, that takes a root and impacts the way your employees are behaving, that you really want to avoid speaking in absolute positives, like integrity or respect, that have no good opposite option. And instead, focus on the tensions or the dilemmas that your employees are facing on a day to day basis.” We are a team, not a family Another way Netflix goes against the grain is in the methodology behind their corporate culture. Their mindset is, we are a team, not a family. And we're not just a regular team, we are an Olympic team. We work together, we have cohesion and teamwork, but there's no job security. When you get hired for a certain position you are there for as long as you are the best person for that job, but when you are no longer the best person for the job you will be replaced by someone else who is. As Erin shares, in the Industrial Era most of the time employment was for life, so you really were a family. But now, with the increasing pace of change and uncertainties that is no longer the case, we can't have teams where we can't easily move people on and off. This may seem harsh, and it's definitely not for everyone, but employees who work for Netflix opt into that work environment. They know up front what it will be like and what is expected of them. And if they accept the job they know they will get paid well, they will get to work on some amazing projects, they will have exceptional co-workers, etc… How Reed came up with the Netflix culture foundation There are three main pillars that make up the Netflix culture and allow the leaders there to give employees freedom. And these three things came from the experience Reed had at the first company he opened, Pure Software. Because Pure Software was a small entrepreneurial startup they operated without formal processes and policies. Everyone was expected to use their best judgement and make good decisions for the company, which worked when they first started with a small team. People enjoyed working there, they had freedom, there was a lot of creativity and innovation. But then the company began to grow quite quickly. And as the company grew--from a handful of people to 1,000--people started to do stupid things and took advantage of the freedom they were given. There was no policy against having dogs at work, so one woman started bringing her dog in every day and he would chew through the carpets. Another employee who had to travel for work decided because there wasn't a policy about travel he would start flying first class all the time. Because this was still a fairly new company, they didn't have a lot of extra money, so these things people kept doing really hurt the company and frustrated Reed. So he sat down with HR and wrote an employee handbook to address all these issues. But as they implemented these rules and policies something else happened--the creative people started leaving and innovation slowed down. Erin says it got so bad Reed had to sell the company. So when Reed opened up Netflix he went in with two guiding principles--employee freedom breeds innovation and process kills organizational flexibility. But he was also worried that if he didn't have some policies in place the organization would descend into chaos. So he had to figure out how to give freedom without processes and policies. The three pillars of Netflix culture As Reed was figuring out what to do with the culture at Netflix he realized that in most organizations most of the procedures and policies are put into place to deal with medium to poor employees. So if you could get a culture that was made up of only top employees then you could give them a lot more freedom. And then you also have a culture with a lot of candid feedback so that employees could feel secure speaking up if and when someone did take advantage of the freedom. So Reed came up with three pillars that are still used inside of Netflix to create a culture of freedom, creativity, and innovation. They are: Talent Density--In order to give freedom without limits and policies you need a high performing team and you can't let middle performers hang around. Leaders perform regular “keeper test” exercises with employees. If that employee came to you today and said they were leaving, how hard would you fight to keep them? If you wouldn't fight or if you would feel a bit relieved, then they aren't the right person for the role. Candor--The leaders inside Netflix encourage a lot of candid feedback. The key is having some guidelines to the feedback and Erin shared the four A's--Aim to assist, it has to be actionable, show appreciation, accept or decline. Everyone provides feedback--employees to leaders, leaders to employees, and employees to coworkers. Freedom--Once you have talent density and candor, then you are in a position to give freedom. If you want to go on vacation--go, if you need to make a purchase--do it, if you need to make a decision--make it. You are expected to act like an adult and act in the best interest of the company. Instead of using a hierarchical pyramid, Netflix uses a decision making tree with the leaders at the bottom down in the dirt, watering the roots of the company. Now more than ever we need to take a step back to define what it means to be a leader and what great leadership looks like. But this isn't easy to do. In fact, many business leaders struggle with this. You cannot become and build what you don't define. In the PDF you will get a framework you can follow and also see how some of the world's top CEOs define leadership. Click here to get the PDF. Get the latest insights on Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience. http://futureofworknewsletter.com/  Let's connect on social! Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobmorgan8 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacobmorgan8 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jacobm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuturistJacob  

Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast Notes Key Takeaways There is evidence that humans are dreaming less often less vividly and experiencing less neuronal growth during sleep This is correlated with increased amounts of screen time leading to the hypothesis that whatever you watch on screens is accepted as your own thought processes and so your thinking is done for you Five core life skills according to Naval:ReadingWritingTalkingArithmeticLogicThe standardized method of education we use worked well during the Industrial Era, but we live in a completely different society now and education should change to reflect what is needed todayBen encourages exercise by natural, animal-like movement A criticism of just working out at the gym is that it only makes you effective at certain mechanical motions and doesn’t translate into real-world fitness or even longevity“I think that having that single, succinct purpose statement for your life is actually something that is important because that’s what gets you out of bed in the morning, right? In Japan, they call it ikigai. In Sardinia, they call it the plan de vida, like the plan for your life, this idea that when you wake up in the morning, you know what it is that you’re going to do with the life that God has given you.” – Ben Greenfield“A man is free to choose his attitude no matter what circumstances he is given in life”Many people have wasted their lockdowns binging Netflix or mindlessly scrolling social media while others have pursued productive endeavors Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgRiver and Terran Greenfield are my twin 12 year old sons. They are unschooled, they are hyper-creative, they can survive in the wilderness with a knife, backpack and wool blanket, they know more kitchen and cooking tricks than most adults (and have an amazing cooking podcast), and they are generally crushing life. So in this very special episode, I put my twin boys in the podcasting hot seat to discuss life, creativity, cooking and healthy eating for kids, fitness, and much more. During our discussion, you'll discover: -Best breakfast to crush the day.. 4:40 Fresh-baked sourdough bread w/ jam and butter Eggs and bacon Smoothies made w/ Organifi Florida Cells French restaurant in N. Idaho -How to tell River and Terran apart, especially on audio...6:50 -Books River and Terran like to read.. 8:15 Graphic novels (novel illustrated in comic book style) Wings of Fire Asterisk Graveyard by Neil Gaiman The Hero's Journey by The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler Graphic novels always contain a distinct style in the artwork The Lost Language of Plants (television destroyed dreaming) Almanac of Naval Ravikant -Unschooling and becoming self-directed learners.. 19:04 Essay by Naval Ravikant Ben mentions on the 5 core skills needed for life Reading Writing (long form) Logic and/or computer programming Arithmetic Rhetoric/persuasion The Almanac of Charlie Munger Mathnasium program River and Terran use for their schooling Unschooling allows learning how the world works alongside the subjects being learned (math, logic, etc.) Advantages of AI and robots outweigh the negatives (skills becoming obsolete) Rhetoric game Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em; then tell 'em; then tell 'em what you told 'em -A typical evening in the Greenfield home.. 35:00 Board/card games Quibbler Web of Spies Telestrations Boggle Scattergories Scrabble BGF podcast w/ James Altucher on game theory -An average day for River and Terran.. 37:35 Feed rabbits, play a game, play piano, workout, shoot bow More scheduled or structured play/learning til 3-5 pm Is life school, or is school life? BGF podcast on unschooling Journal on daily activities St. Andrews College in Moscow, ID Liberal arts studies is a good way to get a well-rounded education -Favorites things River and Terran do for their fitness.. 44:30 Make up own workouts; workouts w/ dad give more motivation Animal Movements by Darrell Edwards Irwin Lecour movement fitness Sandbags, kettlebells Exercise is more than workouts, gyms; movement throughout the day Breathwork: 4 in, 8 out promotes parasympathetic nervous system SOMA breathwork course BGF article on the SOMA course Far better for stress control than pill popping BGF podcast w/ Niraj Naik, the Renegade Pharmacist Fish oil supplement Restore for gut health Glutathione supplement Limit screen time -River and Terran's diet tips.. 50:45 Breakfast: natural eggs and meat Lunch: Sandwiches w/ mom's sourdough bread Wild Planet fish Pickles, lettuce, arugula in the sandwiches Walnuts, raisins for snacks Sesame seed rice crackers Sparkling water Halo stevia drink Mocktails at restaurants Izzy for parties Chai tea and Italian sodas Coconut ice cream for dessert -Is there a perfect diet all humans should follow?.. 54:40 Mediterranean diet seems more agreeable than other diets Eating w/ people, long family dinners Making your own food helps you appreciate it more Easy to overeat from packages vs. food prepared yourself -River and Terran's views on screen time and video games...57:00 They both have an iPod Touch and is for business purposes (podcast) Computer used mostly for school -About the Go Greenfields cooking podcast.. 59:15 Started 4+ years ago Began learning to cook at age of 3 (made mom eggs for Mothers Day) The Four Hour Chef by Tim Ferris Eggs are a great starting point for learning to cook Favorite recipes: Paleo doughnuts made w/ Magic Spoon cereal Terran: Soufflé River: Risotto Top baking tip from Terran: Don't overcook; don't rely on looks to determine if it's done Top risotto tip from River: Keep stirring, pay attention constantly Top tip from the chef: Don't add too many seasonings; keep it simple Clean up as you go Pay attention to recipes -Tips on hunting and plant foraging.. 1:09:30 Do it a lot at home to appreciate the diversity in other locales Bow hunting is more natural and dependent on physicality than w/ a rifle -How to care for yourself spiritually.. 1:12:45 First thing in the day: read Bible, journal, express gratitude Sing doxology every Sunday Spiritual Disciplines handbook by Adele Calhoun Abide app Self-examination at the end of each day allows you to reflect on how you did that day -River and Terran's own life purposes.. 1:15:30 "To make the love and joy of God through writing and art" "To use my art to make people feel strong emotions" -River and Terran's take on 2020 w/ COVID-19, lockdowns, masks, etc.. 1:16:35 They enjoy seeing dad more Different reactions w/ kids vs. adults -One thing River and Terran think everyone should know or experience.. 1:19:40 -And much more! Resources from this episode: -The GoGreenfields podcast Episode sponsors: -The Kion Fasting Challenge: The Challenge starts January 6th, it's completely FREE to join, and when you do you'll get a bunch of exclusive content including access to a Q&A by yours truly answering all your burning fasting questions. To join just go to getkion.com/fasting-ben -Organifi Green Juice: Now you can get all your healthy superfoods in one glass...with No Shopping, No Blending, No Juicing, and No Cleanup. Get a 20% discount on your entire order when you use discount code: BENG20 -Lucy Nicotine Gum: If you are looking for a cleaner and tastier alternative to other nicotine products, then this product is for you. The gum comes in three flavors - Wintergreen, Cinnamon, and Pomegranate - and the lozenges in cherry ice. To save 20% on any order, just use discount code: BEN 20. -Water and Wellness: The best solution for clean and safe drinking water. Water and Wellness also offers an amazing line of essential water additives such as Quinton Marine plasma which contain over 78 trace minerals and elements from the ocean to help restore your biological-terrain. Get 15% off your order when you use discount code: GREENFIELD Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for River Greenfield, Terran Greenfield or me? Leave your comments at bengreenfieldfitness.com/gogreenfields and one of us will reply!

Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast Notes Key Takeaways There is evidence that humans are dreaming less often less vividly and experiencing less neuronal growth during sleep This is correlated with increased amounts of screen time leading to the hypothesis that whatever you watch on screens is accepted as your own thought processes and so your thinking is done for you Five core life skills according to Naval:ReadingWritingTalkingArithmeticLogicThe standardized method of education we use worked well during the Industrial Era, but we live in a completely different society now and education should change to reflect what is needed todayBen encourages exercise by natural, animal-like movement A criticism of just working out at the gym is that it only makes you effective at certain mechanical motions and doesn’t translate into real-world fitness or even longevity“I think that having that single, succinct purpose statement for your life is actually something that is important because that’s what gets you out of bed in the morning, right? In Japan, they call it ikigai. In Sardinia, they call it the plan de vida, like the plan for your life, this idea that when you wake up in the morning, you know what it is that you’re going to do with the life that God has given you.” – Ben Greenfield“A man is free to choose his attitude no matter what circumstances he is given in life”Many people have wasted their lockdowns binging Netflix or mindlessly scrolling social media while others have pursued productive endeavors Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgRiver and Terran Greenfield are my twin 12 year old sons. They are unschooled, they are hyper-creative, they can survive in the wilderness with a knife, backpack and wool blanket, they know more kitchen and cooking tricks than most adults (and have an amazing cooking podcast), and they are generally crushing life. So in this very special episode, I put my twin boys in the podcasting hot seat to discuss life, creativity, cooking and healthy eating for kids, fitness, and much more. During our discussion, you'll discover: -Best breakfast to crush the day.. 4:40 Fresh-baked sourdough bread w/ jam and butter Eggs and bacon Smoothies made w/ Organifi Florida Cells French restaurant in N. Idaho -How to tell River and Terran apart, especially on audio...6:50 -Books River and Terran like to read.. 8:15 Graphic novels (novel illustrated in comic book style) Wings of Fire Asterisk Graveyard by Neil Gaiman The Hero's Journey by The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler Graphic novels always contain a distinct style in the artwork The Lost Language of Plants (television destroyed dreaming) Almanac of Naval Ravikant -Unschooling and becoming self-directed learners.. 19:04 Essay by Naval Ravikant Ben mentions on the 5 core skills needed for life Reading Writing (long form) Logic and/or computer programming Arithmetic Rhetoric/persuasion The Almanac of Charlie Munger Mathnasium program River and Terran use for their schooling Unschooling allows learning how the world works alongside the subjects being learned (math, logic, etc.) Advantages of AI and robots outweigh the negatives (skills becoming obsolete) Rhetoric game Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em; then tell 'em; then tell 'em what you told 'em -A typical evening in the Greenfield home.. 35:00 Board/card games Quibbler Web of Spies Telestrations Boggle Scattergories Scrabble BGF podcast w/ James Altucher on game theory -An average day for River and Terran.. 37:35 Feed rabbits, play a game, play piano, workout, shoot bow More scheduled or structured play/learning til 3-5 pm Is life school, or is school life? BGF podcast on unschooling Journal on daily activities St. Andrews College in Moscow, ID Liberal arts studies is a good way to get a well-rounded education -Favorites things River and Terran do for their fitness.. 44:30 Make up own workouts; workouts w/ dad give more motivation Animal Movements by Darrell Edwards Irwin Lecour movement fitness Sandbags, kettlebells Exercise is more than workouts, gyms; movement throughout the day Breathwork: 4 in, 8 out promotes parasympathetic nervous system SOMA breathwork course BGF article on the SOMA course Far better for stress control than pill popping BGF podcast w/ Niraj Naik, the Renegade Pharmacist Fish oil supplement Restore for gut health Glutathione supplement Limit screen time -River and Terran's diet tips.. 50:45 Breakfast: natural eggs and meat Lunch: Sandwiches w/ mom's sourdough bread Wild Planet fish Pickles, lettuce, arugula in the sandwiches Walnuts, raisins for snacks Sesame seed rice crackers Sparkling water Halo stevia drink Mocktails at restaurants Izzy for parties Chai tea and Italian sodas Coconut ice cream for dessert -Is there a perfect diet all humans should follow?.. 54:40 Mediterranean diet seems more agreeable than other diets Eating w/ people, long family dinners Making your own food helps you appreciate it more Easy to overeat from packages vs. food prepared yourself -River and Terran's views on screen time and video games...57:00 They both have an iPod Touch and is for business purposes (podcast) Computer used mostly for school -About the Go Greenfields cooking podcast.. 59:15 Started 4+ years ago Began learning to cook at age of 3 (made mom eggs for Mothers Day) The Four Hour Chef by Tim Ferris Eggs are a great starting point for learning to cook Favorite recipes: Paleo doughnuts made w/ Magic Spoon cereal Terran: Soufflé River: Risotto Top baking tip from Terran: Don't overcook; don't rely on looks to determine if it's done Top risotto tip from River: Keep stirring, pay attention constantly Top tip from the chef: Don't add too many seasonings; keep it simple Clean up as you go Pay attention to recipes -Tips on hunting and plant foraging.. 1:09:30 Do it a lot at home to appreciate the diversity in other locales Bow hunting is more natural and dependent on physicality than w/ a rifle -How to care for yourself spiritually.. 1:12:45 First thing in the day: read Bible, journal, express gratitude Sing doxology every Sunday Spiritual Disciplines handbook by Adele Calhoun Abide app Self-examination at the end of each day allows you to reflect on how you did that day -River and Terran's own life purposes.. 1:15:30 "To make the love and joy of God through writing and art" "To use my art to make people feel strong emotions" -River and Terran's take on 2020 w/ COVID-19, lockdowns, masks, etc.. 1:16:35 They enjoy seeing dad more Different reactions w/ kids vs. adults -One thing River and Terran think everyone should know or experience.. 1:19:40 -And much more! Resources from this episode: -The GoGreenfields podcast Episode sponsors: -The Kion Fasting Challenge: The Challenge starts January 6th, it's completely FREE to join, and when you do you'll get a bunch of exclusive content including access to a Q&A by yours truly answering all your burning fasting questions. To join just go to getkion.com/fasting-ben -Organifi Green Juice: Now you can get all your healthy superfoods in one glass...with No Shopping, No Blending, No Juicing, and No Cleanup. Get a 20% discount on your entire order when you use discount code: BENG20 -Lucy Nicotine Gum: If you are looking for a cleaner and tastier alternative to other nicotine products, then this product is for you. The gum comes in three flavors - Wintergreen, Cinnamon, and Pomegranate - and the lozenges in cherry ice. To save 20% on any order, just use discount code: BEN 20. -Water and Wellness: The best solution for clean and safe drinking water. Water and Wellness also offers an amazing line of essential water additives such as Quinton Marine plasma which contain over 78 trace minerals and elements from the ocean to help restore your biological-terrain. Get 15% off your order when you use discount code: GREENFIELD Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for River Greenfield, Terran Greenfield or me? Leave your comments at bengreenfieldfitness.com/gogreenfields and one of us will reply!

Pasi and Sami continue their conversation with ITSM legend Roy Atkinson, uncovering the different cornerstones of Employee Experience and what companies need to be doing in order to effectively manage their end-users experience; Experience Management. ----------------------------------------------- Topics Covered in this episode: The importance of feedback Why you need to start measuring now Experience Management process Employee Experience relating to business outcomes Goodhart's Law Plus, Read our The Practical Guide to XLAs. ------------------------------------------------- Roy Atkinson Roy Atkinson is a well-known evangelist in the ITSM arena, having authored and contributed to many pieces on content with ITSM.tools as well as a decade at Informa Tech. However, over the last 7 years, Roy has been offering his knowledge and services focusing on service management, customer service, customer experience, and content services. Recently this year, Roy has also been made a fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation, where he joins other Industry Experts who share their thoughts, opinions, and real-life experiences about the transition from the Industrial Era to the Digital Era Follow Roy on Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/royatkinson/ Twitter: @RoyAtkinson ------------------------------------------------- About HappySignals HappySignals is an Employee Experience Management platform for IT that makes experience data visible, understandable, and connected to operational data in IT, enabling enterprises to change their culture to be more open, outcome-focused, and data-driven. Established in 2014 and based in Helsinki, Finland, HappySignals discovers the experiences of over 2 million employees in 130 countries. Our customers have been able to make employees happier and increase productivity by 26% on average. ------------------------------------------------ Keep in contact Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HappySignalsLtd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/happysignals/ Twitter: @HappySignalsLtd

Today the guys are joined by ITSM legend, Roy Atkinson. Roy is currently the CEO and Principal Analyst at Clifton Butterfield LLC, offering business advice in service management. ----------------------------------------------- Topics Covered in this episode: What is Employee Experience The difference between Employee Experience and Employee Engagement Experience and end-user feelings Employee Experience from different viewpoints Shifting experience to deal with unprecedented events (Global Pandemic) ------------------------------------------------- Roy Atkinson Roy Atkinson is a well-known evangelist in the ITSM arena, having authored and contributed to many pieces on content with ITSM.tools as well as a decade at Informa Tech. However, over the last 7 years, Roy has been offering his knowledge and services focusing on service management, customer service, customer experience, and content services. Recently this year, Roy has also been made a fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation, where he joins other Industry Experts who share their thoughts, opinions, and real-life experiences about the transition from the Industrial Era to the Digital Era Follow Roy on Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/royatkinson/ Twitter: @RoyAtkinson ------------------------------------------------- About HappySignals HappySignals is an Employee Experience Management platform for IT that makes experience data visible, understandable, and connected to operational data in IT, enabling enterprises to change their culture to be more open, outcome-focused, and data-driven. Established in 2014 and based in Helsinki, Finland, HappySignals discovers the experiences of over 2 million employees in 130 countries. Our customers have been able to make employees happier and increase productivity by 26% on average. ------------------------------------------------ Keep in contact Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HappySignalsLtd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/happysignals/ Twitter: @HappySignalsLtd

Developing a Sustainable Textile Industry for the 21st CenturyGuest Amy DuFault, Sustainable Fashion Journalist & Organizer, Southeastern New England Fibershed How deeply do people consider the environmental impact of their clothing purchases? Eco-conscious fashion change makers are working to solve the environmental problems created by the “fast fashion” approach that has dominated the clothing industry for the past 50 years. Fast fashion is characterized by trendy, cheap, synthetic clothing produced overseas, marketed by mass media and sold by big-box retailers to spur mass consumption and mass disposal. This episode begins with a walk to the former site of the Greenwich Bleachery, an Industrial Era textile mill.The show's featured guest, Amy DuFault, has been a sustainable fashion journalist for over a decade. Amy focuses on regional supply chains, natural dyeing and human rights issues. She is also Sustainability Director for natural dye supplier and production house Botanical Colors and Communications Director for seed to shirt certified t-shirt company TS Designs. Amy takes her love of this work and puts it into action locally running the Southeastern New England Fibershed, which is part of the nationwide Fibershed network. A Fibershed is a regional fiber system centered around local fibers, local dyes and local labor. The Southeastern New England Fibershed is based in a geographic radius surrounding the historical textile processing centers of New Bedford, MA, and Providence, RI. The organization's goal is to reinvigorate a once-thriving New England textile industry with environmentally-sustainable practices.INFORMATION RESOURCES:Story Walking Photo Blog and Learning Resources - https://netwalkri.com/blog/f/eco-detective-at-bleachery-fallshttps://senefibershed.org/https://fibershed.org/https://botanicalcolors.com/http://www.amydufault.com/https://tsdesigns.com/Creating Sustainable Fashions Blog and Learning Resources - https://netwalkri.com/blog/f/creating-sustainable-fashion  Learn more at www.storywalking.com ,  https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.Subscribe to Wendy’s blog Writing with Wendy at www.wendyfachon.blog. Join Wendy on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadio

If one question has driven mankind’s quest for innovation, it very well might be this: How can we get more from less? For most of our time on this planet, the answer was simple: We couldn’t. As my guest Andrew McAfee points out, for just about all of human history – particularly the Industrial Era – our prosperity has been tightly coupled to our ability to take resources from the earth. We got more from more. That tradeoff yielded incredible positive contributions in nearly every field: Technology, industry, medicine. But there’s one glaring area – one of those “aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play” areas – where the trade wasn’t so incredibly positive. Of course, that’s the environment. As global industry rode the combination of human’s infinite ingenuity and Mother Nature’s finite resources – we all reaped the benefits and the costs: Exponential global warming. Perhaps it’s not an exact straight line, but the connection is clear to all but a few climate deniers. Luckily, we know the solutions: Consume less; Recycle; Impose limits; Live more closely to the land. Or do we? What if, instead, these central truths of environmentalism haven’t been the force behind whatever improvements we’ve made and, more importantly, aren’t the drivers that will solve the existential task at hand: Saving the planet? Instead, as McAfee argues in his new book, the answer is dematerialization – we’re getting more output while using fewer resources. We’re getting, as his title suggests: “More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next.” McAfee argues that the two most important forces responsible for the change are capitalism and technological progress, the exact two forces “that came together to cause the massive increases in resource use of the Industrial Era.” Combined with two other key attributes – public awareness and responsive government – we can and do “tread ever more lightly on our planet.” McAfee knows his prescription to save the planet is controversial. He knows it will frustrate – if not outrage – most of his friends… assuming they’re still willing to call him friend. But as the saying goes: He’s done the math. He’s researched the data. And like it or not, he’s ready for the conversation. For show notes & my newsletter, go to chrisriback.com.

If one question has driven mankind’s quest for innovation, it very well might be this: How can we get more from less?For most of our time on this planet, the answer was simple: We couldn’t. As my guest Andrew McAfee points out, for just about all of human history – particularly the Industrial Era – our prosperity has been tightly coupled to our ability to take resources from the earth. We got more from more.That tradeoff yielded incredible positive contributions in nearly every field: Technology, industry, medicine. But there’s one glaring area – one of those “aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play” areas – where the trade wasn’t so incredibly positive. Of course, that’s the environment.As global industry rode the combination of human’s infinite ingenuity and Mother Nature’s finite resources – we all reaped the benefits. But we also saw the costs: Exponential global warming. Perhaps it’s not an exact straight line, but the connection is clear to all but a few climate deniers.Luckily, we know the solutions: Consume less; Recycle; Impose limits; Live more closely to the land.Or do we? What if, instead, these central truths of environmentalism haven’t been the force behind whatever improvements we’ve made and, more importantly, aren’t the drivers that will solve the existential task at hand: Saving the planet?Instead, as McAfee argues in his new book, the answer is dematerialization – we’re getting more output while using fewer resources. We’re getting, as his title suggests: “More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next.”McAfee argues that the two most important forces responsible for the change are capitalism and technological progress, the exact two forces “that came together to cause the massive increases in resource use of the Industrial Era.” Combined with two other key attributes – public awareness and responsive government – we can and do “tread ever more lightly on our planet.”Some background: Put simply, Andrew McAfee studies how digital technologies are changing the world. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of “The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy” and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. One of his previous books, with MIT colleague and sometime co-author Erik Brynjolfsson was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal top ten bestseller; his books in total have been translated into more than 15 languages; and he and Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.McAfee knows his prescription to save the planet is controversial. He knows it will frustrate – if not outrage – most of his friends… assuming they’re still willing to call him friend. But as us non-academics say about people like McAfee: He’s done the math. He’s researched the data. And like it or not, he’s ready for the conversation.

According to Mark Britz, a leading learning strategist, many leaders are stuck in the Industrial Era, thinking learning and development belong to a specific department. In this episode, Mark shares why this needs to change. He reasons that new ways of thinking about organizational design, coupled with the transformation of managers into primary learning leaders, is spurring a new kind of learning environment that results in greater engagement and development for people at work. If you’d like to know how to achieve this in your organization, listen in. I’m sure you’ll learn a thing or two. About our guest: Mark is the Sr. Manager of Programming at The eLearning Guild & Chief Strategist of ThruWork where he helps businesses increase collaboration and maintain a connected culture. He lives in Syracuse, NY and is an avid runner and cyclist, raising money for several local medical causes. Read his blog at markbritz.com! For more on ThruWork visit thruwork.com and find Mark on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/markbritz and Twitter @britz. Resources cited: Friction of Logic by Mark Britz; Gary Vaynerchuck; Good to Great by Jim Collins; Dave Snowden; and, Drive by Daniel Pink

The changing nature of work is turning traditional employment on its head. More and more people are working in the gig economy or in jobs without formal employment contracts, and the payroll-based industrial-era social insurance policies are no longer providing the safety net for which they were designed. Michal Rutkowski oversees the World Bank’s work in developing systems that protect the most vulnerable sectors of society, and helped produce the 2019 World Development Report on the Future of Work. In this podcast, Rutkowski says 70 percent of the world’s population is now in the informal labor market without the means to contribute to health care insurance or pension plans. Rutkowski is author of Reimagining Social Protection featured in the December 2018 edition of Finance and Development Magazine. Michal Rutkowski is Senior Director for Social Protection and Jobs at the World Bank Group.

Welcome to OTH’s fifth podcast! For this episode we return to the subject of one of our first and most read articles: The Military Design Movement. As the author, Ben Zweibelson, notes at the outset, portions of the international military community have begun to turn toward a multi-disciplinary approach to planning and decision making that breaks from traditional and largely mechanistic methodologies of the Industrial Era. Ideas like complexity theory, alternative managerial theory (change management), instructional design, and post-modern philosophy blend to form a new context for the 21st century military practitioner. Ben is back with us for this podcast and has connected an incredible group of scholars and practitioners of design from Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Australia, and India. We discuss how each nation and individual came to design, what challenges we face, and what distinguishes each approach. While talking through the unique elements of each effort, we also come across our commonalities in context, struggles, and outlook. What follows is an incredibly rich conversation on the way we need to evolve our thinking to address the complexity and uncertainty of the future security environment.

3 big ideas discussed in this episode: Skyrocketing employee turnover and declining job satisfaction and productivity could be resolved if organizations transitioned from Industrial-Era talent management practices to Post-Industrial talent development. It's critical that organizations prioritize people (not profits). It's critical that organizations maintain a future focus, closely aligning with younger generations, and bringing executives and entry-level professionals into a closer relationship with one another. To Connect with BIG Thinkers and Hear More BIG Ideas: http://TheBookDistrict.com

This week’s host was Terry, who was joined by Jorge, Dann and Toby to discuss a bevy of topics.You can find each of the discussed topics below.This week's bonus discussion takes place at the end of the podcast, with Jorge discussing the recent Nintendo Direct, the games it brought forth, and the fact that Mario is almost definitely a human now.00:00:00 – Jorge – Tooth and Tail - An RTS where you, the leader of a faction of animals during an Industrial Era inspired worker's revolt, play as the cursor. The team discuss their thoughts on the game's controls and setting.00:11:40 – Terry – Digital Rights and Fair Use - It's the age old story, Boy meets Girl, they fall in love, then Boy says something disrespectful and racist and so Girl DMCAs the video that Boy made of their game. The team discuss how Youtube is still very much in a Wild West state, with both advertisers and creators having little control over what goes where — most importantly though they discuss who truly owns t

Humans have been altering the climate for a long time – but how long, exactly? This question is central to the Anthropocene debate. When did the human population collectively achieve colossal power that can be equated with geologic power? Was it at the start of the Industrial Revolution? Back during the Agricultural Revolution? And how on earth do climatologists pinpoint a date? This week, producer and resident paleoclimatologist Mike Osborne looks at two inflection points in human activity. Mike first discusses research on the global impact of Industrial Era emissions (newly published in ‘Nature’!) with scientists Nerilie Abram and Kaustubh Thirumalai. He then takes a step back in Earth’s history to the early Agricultural Revolution, and climate scientist Bill Ruddiman’s early Anthropocene hypothesis.

India achieved the distinction of highest economic growth rate ahead of China in the year 2015. It is well on its way to continue its growth journey to be the major economic power in Digital Era as it moves from being the back office of the world to be the leader in knowledge-based Digital economy. A lot is happening in India with several initiatives like Make in India, Digital India and, Start up India etc. Mr Avtar Monga, Chief Operating Officer at IDFC bank in India, who has been part of this journey joins us to discuss this important subject.

This episode covers the most important aspect of Financing for the Global Business. How the Global Business gets financed across multiple borders. The change in financing from the Industrial Era to the Digital Era. The interdependence of Global Business and financial markets and associated volatility. What effect has globalization had on international investments? How should one invest in the global markets. The impact of the rise of China and India on the Global Financing.

Today's buzz: Potential Is your company still operating by Industrial Era standardization, predictability, top-down authority? Enough! Progressive organizations are using a connected, collaborative, creative model to unleash and amplify the imagination, initiative, passion of inspired individual employees, customers, suppliers. How? The experts speak. Polly LaBarre, MIX: “Every great advance has issued from a new audacity of imagination” (John Dewey). Andrew Jones, Conjunctured Coworking: “In today's rapidly evolving ‘sharing economy,' traditionally managed large firms built purely on scale will struggle to receive respect and commitment from tomorrow's most talented knowledge workers.” Mario Kaphan, Vagas: “Individuals are empowered to do whatever they want, BUT everybody has everything to do with that.” Kerry Brown, SAP: “Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions” (Oliver Wendell Holmes). Join us for Unleashing Unlimited Human Potential.

Today's buzz: Potential Is your company still operating by Industrial Era standardization, predictability, top-down authority? Enough! Progressive organizations are using a connected, collaborative, creative model to unleash and amplify the imagination, initiative, passion of inspired individual employees, customers, suppliers. How? The experts speak. Polly LaBarre, MIX: “Every great advance has issued from a new audacity of imagination” (John Dewey). Andrew Jones, Conjunctured Coworking: “In today's rapidly evolving ‘sharing economy,' traditionally managed large firms built purely on scale will struggle to receive respect and commitment from tomorrow's most talented knowledge workers.” Mario Kaphan, Vagas: “Individuals are empowered to do whatever they want, BUT everybody has everything to do with that.” Kerry Brown, SAP: “Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions” (Oliver Wendell Holmes). Join us for Unleashing Unlimited Human Potential.

The organization of work in the software industry keeps on being reinvented, like a series of trials and errors. What about if the foundations of our understanding of collective work themselves were exaggeratedly influenced by principles as old as the eighteenth century, which had a hard time imposing themselves and become now toxic during the age of information ?

The organization of work in the software industry keeps on being reinvented, like a series of trials and errors. What about if the foundations of our understanding of collective work themselves were exaggeratedly influenced by principles as old as the eighteenth century, which had a hard time imposing themselves and become now toxic during the age of information ?

--{ Banksters: Raped Masses are Fearing, As Rapists are Steering: "Won't Get Rest, Like a Dog with Mange, Stampeding Through a Century of Change, Guided by Creme of Money Masters, Who Guide the Causes of Financial Disasters And See Opportunity as they View the Carnage, Always from Crises Comes their Advantage, All Planned of Course with Military Precision, Sneering Down at Vanquished with Derision, To the Victor the Spoils, the Old Saying Goes, Citizen as Collateral to He Who Knows, Debtors are Slaves to Lender's Severity, Soulless Predation, Merciless Temerity" © Alan Watt }-- Century of Change - Laissez Faire Economics, Industrial Era and Factories, China - Libraries Dumping Books and History - Waking Up and the Traps - Gentlemen's Clubs - Cults - Secular Humanism and Moral Relativity - View of Lower Classes in Darwinism - Bertrand Russell and his Experimental Schools - New "Family", No-one to Stand Up on Your Behalf - Orwell's "1984" - Ongoing Education, Upgrades - GATT Treaty - World Bank of International Banking Families - Soviet System (Rule by Councils), NGOs Appointed by Politburo. Group Mentality - Collective Society - Idea of Individuality - Prison of Surveillance to Ensure Sameness - UN: Greatest Enemy of "Peace" is the Individual - Guidance of the Stampeding Herd - Pharma-Drugged Society. Financial Shake-up Worldwide - IMF (Unelected Private Institution) Dictating to Governments - Private Central Banks over National Banks - IMF's Strauss-Kahn: "Crisis is an Opportunity". UN World Health Organization pushes for Billions in New Global Taxes - Non-Democratic UN - EU Commission. Gov. Run Medical Systems - Devaluation of Human Life - Euthanasia as "Duty" to the State. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - May 13, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Scientific Indoctrination for People Persuasion: "Century of Change, New Civilization, Well Into the Process of Dehumanization, An Essential Element, We Must Accept For the Herd Mentality, Politically Correct, Poor Lost Animals Gorging Trivia, Mulling, Agreeing with Experts, Solution, the Culling, Daily Media Updates, Ideas Shifting, People Parrot the Press, Need Little Convincing, No Comparative Memory, Original Thought, Nor Knowledge How Once Freedom was Bought, Happy Species, Soon to be Extinct, Oblivious They're Falling Over the Brink, Tell Them Why, They'll All Sing, Depopulation's a Very Good Thing" © Alan Watt }-- Social Upheaval, Industrial Era, Corn Laws, Movement to Cities - Rockefeller Foundation, Generation of Cannon Fodder. Internet and Computer Manufacturers, Military-Industrial Complex - Bank Foreclosures on Homes - Online Censorship, Banned Sites, Political Correctness, Communism. Abortion, Margaret Sanger - Dehumanized Art and Society - Depopulation / Eugenics Agenda, Eliminating "Useless Eaters" - Euthanasia - Producer-Consumers, "Burden" of Elderly. Emotive Topics, Division - Mandatory Web Filtering - Ulterior Motives - Economic Crash, Newly Homeless People and Families, Tent Cities, Shelters, Parking Lots. Post-911 World, War Scenario, Refugees - "Too Many People" - China, Training Engineers for Future Factories - Soviet "Efficiency". TOTAL Information Network - IBM, HAL, Cardex System - Vickers, Sales of World War II Armaments (Both Sides) - Integrated Networking, Steps to Brain Chip. Logic, Mr. Spock, Overruling Emotion - Age of Reason, Practical Psychopaths, Farmers Culling Herd - Gorbachev's Portraits - Jesus on Cross with Serpent. (Articles: ["Aussie censors implement six degrees of separation policy" by John Ozimek (theregister.co.uk) - May 7, 2009.] ["Economic casualties pile into tent cities" by Emily Bazar (usatoday.com) - May 4, 2009.] ["From Spitfires to sensors" [IBM] by Darren Waters (news.bbc.co.uk) - May 6, 2009.]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - May 7, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ "We've Seen the Shape of Things to Come, Ruled by Kyoto, Greening, Agenda 21, All That Was is to Pass Away, A New Son of Reason will Rule the Day, No Room for Dissent or Personal Opinion, In This Darkest Time of New World Dominion" © Alan Watt }-- Run by Deception - Reading Books - Iran, Refineries, Food, Iraq, Starvation - Definition of "Terrorism" - Collectivism, Communism, "World Peace". Front Foundations - Culling Off of "Useless Eaters" - China, Manufacturing, World Policeman - Borders for Containment, Weaponization of U.S.-Canada Border. Riots - Food Supply - Agenda 21 (21st Century), Mass Movements into Habitat Areas - Think Tanks - Service Economy - London School of Economics - Britain, Corn Laws, Industrial Era. Being Awake, Holding Onto Your Sanity - Rapid Changes - Domed Cities - Living Through Planned Script - Weather Modification and Warfare. New American Century - Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria. Oil, Georgia and Russia - Russian High-Tech Supercities - Pirates, Knights Templars - Looting the Profane. (Articles: ["U.S. tightens security along Great Lakes border" (cbc.ca) - Aug. 8, 2008.] ["Move south, it's too grim up north, says Tory think tank" by Gerri Peev (news.scotsman.com) - Aug. 13, 2008.] ["Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" PDF File (csat.au.af.mil) - Aug. 1996.]) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Aug. 13, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Management, Governance - Computer Interfacing - Intelligence Agencies, Secrets - Gordon Brown, Global System - UN, NGOs, Sustainable Development - League of Nations. Industrial Era, Economics, Banking - Experts - Darwin, Evolutionary Theory, "World Consciousness". Population Reduction, First-Born Sacrifices, Promiscuity - Dependence on System. Youth Culture, Hollywood - Cold War, CIA Funding of Left and Right Wing Groups - Plato - Plastic Surgery, Terror of Growing Older. "Evolution" - Autism, IQ Drop - Facts and Theories - Dropping Age of Female Puberty - New Medical "Normals". Targeting Hormonal Development, Charles Galton Darwin - Inoculations - Preponderance of Evidence. "Republic" and "Democracy - Plebeians, Elections, Voting (the Way the Elite Want Them to) - Re-Public (Another Con). Founding Fathers, Government of Ancient Rome, Aristocracy, Eagle - Senate (Chess Floor of Egypt). Ralph Nader, UN Agenda, Habitat Areas, Bureaucracy - Louvre of France, Dubai - London, Sales of Parts of Scotland - Edinburgh - Finland, EU. Secret Societies, Comacines, Cathedrals, Lake Como, Red Thread, Green Man - Trotsky, Freemasonry. Harry Potter. (Article: "Girl, you'll be a woman sooner than expected" by Susan Brink, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer (latimes.com) - Jan. 21, 2008.) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 23, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)