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In one of the most impressive wins of our memory, Texas Tech overcomes an incredible deficit against Arkansas to rally for an overtime win. Inversely, Texas Tech had a meltdown at the end of regulation to lose the Elite Eight game against Florida - ensuring an all-chalk Final Four. We break down those two games here, as well as what's in store for the future, and even a little Lady Raider chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Outer Realm welcomes special Guest Dr. Christopher Macklin Host: Michelle Desrochers Date: March 26th, 2025 Episode: 541 Discussion : Are Various ET Races Interacting with Humanity? Who are they? what are their intentions? Dr. Macklin will discuss this and more! Contact for the show - theouterrealmcontact@gmail.com Rumble: TheOuterRealm X - MicheleDerocher Website: www.theouterrealmradio.com Please support us by Liking, Subscribing, Sharing and Commenting. Thank you all !!! About Dr. Christopher Macklin -Christopher Macklin presents an eye opening interview and understanding on how common and prevalent entities are and how they are manipulating scenarios around the planet through influencing and impacting governments and individuals, ultimately resulting in the current state of affairs in the world we are witnessing today.... that is culminating in planetary destabilization as well as the destruction of individual's lives, their well being and their quality of life. Is anyone on the planet untouched by their destructive and manipulative reach? Christopher has had interactions with both positive and negative races. As a very young child, reptilians would appear in his room and he learned even at that very young age how to stop them from interfering in his life and leave. He's had interactions with other negative races such as the Archons, Annunaki, Draconians and Snake beings. Inversely, there are also positive races that have been present on the planet, races like the Pleidians, Arcturians, Sirians and Lumerians. Their presence here has been for the purpose of helping humanity transcend the current levels of manipulation and negativity. Christopher works very closely with some of these races as well. Christopher specializes in healing abductees and others who have suffered related negative ET trauma. For over 14 years, Dr. Macklin assists people in removing negative ET presences from their lives, clearing homes and land, and closing multidimensional portals. He also works tirelessly with illuminati fall out children” who have been mind-controlled by ET influenced governmental agencies and institutions. In addition, Christopher works very closely with the Pleiadians and Arcturians to help heal and rebalance humanity. His new book History, Truth and Healing addresses the negative ET presence and how it has affected humanity...... Website: www.globalenlightenmentproject.com If you enjoy the content on the channel, please support us by subscribing: Thank you All A formal disclosure: The opinions and information presented or expressed by guests on The Outer Realm Radio and Beyond The Outer Realm are not necessarily those of the TOR, BTOR Hosts, Sponsors, or the United Public Radio Network and its producers. Although the content may be interesting, it is deemed "For Entertainment Purposes" . We are always be respectful and courteous to all involved. Thank you, we appreciate you all!
The Outer Realm welcomes special Guest Dr. Christopher Macklin Host: Michelle Desrochers Date: March 26th, 2025 Episode: 541 Discussion : Are Various ET Races Interacting with Humanity? Who are they? what are their intentions? Dr. Macklin will discuss this and more! Contact for the show - theouterrealmcontact@gmail.com Rumble: TheOuterRealm X - MicheleDerocher Website: www.theouterrealmradio.com Please support us by Liking, Subscribing, Sharing and Commenting. Thank you all !!! About Dr. Christopher Macklin -Christopher Macklin presents an eye opening interview and understanding on how common and prevalent entities are and how they are manipulating scenarios around the planet through influencing and impacting governments and individuals, ultimately resulting in the current state of affairs in the world we are witnessing today.... that is culminating in planetary destabilization as well as the destruction of individual's lives, their well being and their quality of life. Is anyone on the planet untouched by their destructive and manipulative reach? Christopher has had interactions with both positive and negative races. As a very young child, reptilians would appear in his room and he learned even at that very young age how to stop them from interfering in his life and leave. He's had interactions with other negative races such as the Archons, Annunaki, Draconians and Snake beings. Inversely, there are also positive races that have been present on the planet, races like the Pleidians, Arcturians, Sirians and Lumerians. Their presence here has been for the purpose of helping humanity transcend the current levels of manipulation and negativity. Christopher works very closely with some of these races as well. Christopher specializes in healing abductees and others who have suffered related negative ET trauma. For over 14 years, Dr. Macklin assists people in removing negative ET presences from their lives, clearing homes and land, and closing multidimensional portals. He also works tirelessly with illuminati fall out children” who have been mind-controlled by ET influenced governmental agencies and institutions. In addition, Christopher works very closely with the Pleiadians and Arcturians to help heal and rebalance humanity. His new book History, Truth and Healing addresses the negative ET presence and how it has affected humanity...... Website: www.globalenlightenmentproject.com If you enjoy the content on the channel, please support us by subscribing: Thank you All A formal disclosure: The opinions and information presented or expressed by guests on The Outer Realm Radio and Beyond The Outer Realm are not necessarily those of the TOR, BTOR Hosts, Sponsors, or the United Public Radio Network and its producers. Although the content may be interesting, it is deemed "For Entertainment Purposes" . We are always be respectful and courteous to all involved. Thank you, we appreciate you all!
In Episode 436, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig indulge in the usual coffee chat and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.1. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 / All computers go the heaven: Let's talk PECOTA.2. There is no such thing as a free agency. Some bigger names finally sign. 3. I am not shocked to find gamblong in this establishment: Is this a gambaling scandal? Maybe not, but there is probably one coming. 4. Around the Horn: We remember Fay Vincent, check out the waiver wire, and consider the Kansas Governor's race. 5. The usual lightining round Five and Dive is listener-supported, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com/fiveanddive. If you want to get in contact with the show, the e-mail address is fiveanddive@baseballprospectus.com. Our theme tune is by Jawn Stockton. You can listen to him on Spotify and Apple Music Spotify: http://bit.ly/JawnStockton_SpotifyApple Music: http://bit.ly/JawnStockton_AM
All truth must be embraced and practiced, but if you IGNORE these truths, you'll accelerate your demise. Inversely if you pay special attention to these things, you'll find great blessings on every level.
In dentistry, we are always working with precision and control over a patient's situation. Having acute attention-to-detail creates a perfectionist tendency in us all, and this trait is critical to achieving great clinical outcomes. Now, in a clinical setting this makes so much sense. But in a business and operational sense and a broader life perspective, it can be a real financial and cultural ‘handbrake'. Your ability to grow and scale your practice is inversely proportional to YOUR desire for control. In other words, if you desire control too much, it slows you down in your business growth, and your ability to create time for yourself and to create the results you're seeking. In this episode of The Savvy Dentist Podcast we pose the question, on a scale of one to ten, how strong is your desire for control in your business and your life? Dr. Jesse Green walks you through a very truthful and personal journey that will have you thinking differently within the next 19 minutes and 47 seconds. Press play.
The Size Of Our Problems Is Inversely Proportional To The Size Of Our Purpose... Gita 18.58 by Exploring mindfulness, yoga and spirituality
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rWotD Episode 2629: Complete information Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Monday, 15 July 2024 is Complete information.In economics and game theory, complete information is an economic situation or game in which knowledge about other market participants or players is available to all participants. The utility functions (including risk aversion), payoffs, strategies and "types" of players are thus common knowledge. Complete information is the concept that each player in the game is aware of the sequence, strategies, and payoffs throughout gameplay. Given this information, the players have the ability to plan accordingly based on the information to maximize their own strategies and utility at the end of the game.Inversely, in a game with incomplete information, players do not possess full information about their opponents. Some players possess private information, a fact that the others should take into account when forming expectations about how those players will behave. A typical example is an auction: each player knows his own utility function (valuation for the item), but does not know the utility function of the other players.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:00 UTC on Monday, 15 July 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Complete information on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Joanna.
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Title: You Will Have Trouble Text: Acts 11:25-30 FCF: We often struggle obeying God while we experience great trouble in this world. Prop: Because the church will always face trouble in this world, we must devote ourselves to growth and love. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 11. In a moment I'll read from the Legacy Standard Bible starting in verse 25. You can follow along in the pew bible on page 1244 or in whatever version you prefer. Last week we began a new episode in the book of Acts. The Gospel has gone forward once again, this time to Gentiles who have no familiarity or adherence to Judaism at all. Pagans. Worshippers of false gods. Debauched. Wicked. And God saved them through the Lord Jesus. Barnabas arrives and devotes himself to encouraging them in remaining faithful to the Lord. And the Lord continues to add to their numbers of those who were trusting the Lord. Today, we'll see this young church come under peril. They will face deficiencies in their maturity. They will face ridicule from those who used to be their peers. They will face their own temptations toward greed and selfishness. But by the grace of God, they will endure through these troubles and continue to obey their Lord. They will remain faithful to Him. It is a message far reaching and impactful for us today. One with many lessons for us to learn. So please stand with me out of respect for and to focus on the reading of the Word of God. Invocation: Father as Psalm 22 says, “You, O God, are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In You our fathers trusted; they trusted, and You delivered them. To You they cried and were rescued; in You they trusted and were not put to shame.” Today, Your people are again gathered before Your throne, crying out for Your deliverance from their sin, trusting in Your steadfast love, and praising You for Your righteousness. Incline Your ear, O God, to hear the prayers of Your people. Accept their worship and strengthen their souls with Your presence, I pray in Jesus name…Amen. Transition: [Slide 2] Although most of you probably didn't know nor do you care – this week was a bad week for video game news. In the last few years the US company Microsoft has spent over 75 billion dollars, that is billion with a B, to acquire two massive companies in the gaming world. But that wasn't the news this week. The news this week was how Microsoft now have well over 30,000 employees and many of them came from purchasing these two huge companies. What does that mean? They are being forced now to lay off people left and right. 3 studios under Bethesda were laid off this week and there is probably more to come. Added to that their sales figures have not done much to compensate their losses. Sometimes when organizations or groups grow too fast over short period of time it is difficult to train, manage, mobilize, and communicate your vision to that great number of people. Oftentimes companies lose competency, integrity, work ethic, or can't adequately transfer the passion and drive of the company to so many people all at once. This is exactly what happens to the church in Antioch. But instead of competency and integrity we are talking about spiritual maturity. Instead of work ethic we are talking about evangelism. Instead of communicating vision and passion, we are talking about love for other believers. This very young but immediately large church in Antioch is faced with a crisis. What will happen? Will they lose people like Microsoft? Let's look and see. I.) The church will always have trouble in this world, so we must devote ourselves to discipleship and evangelism. (25-26) a. [Slide 3] 25 – And he left for Tarsus to search for Saul; 26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. i. Although we are only 2 chapters separated from the conversion of Saul, we must remember that it has probably been around 8 years since Saul was sent to Tarsus. ii. We'll dig into the chronology of this a little later. But for now, just realize that several years have elapsed over the last couple chapters. iii. But what was Saul doing there? We don't know. But given Saul's character, we can assume that he was no doubt preaching the gospel in his hometown in the synagogues and to the Greeks, and even the neighboring villages and towns. iv. But here is a question… why did Barnabas go to Tarsus in search of Saul in the first place? If he needed assistance there in Antioch, wouldn't it have been better to send for aid from Jerusalem? v. There are 3 primary reasons that Barnabas went looking for Saul. 1. First, pragmatically, Tarsus was only 110 miles away from Antioch. Jerusalem was 330 miles away. To send word to Jerusalem for aid or to go himself would have taken about a month, one way. He could make it to Tarsus and back in a couple weeks. 2. The second and third reason go hand in hand. a. On the one hand, we must remind ourselves who are the primary converts in Antioch? Yes. The Greeks. The Pagans. Gentiles with no Jewish affiliation or familiarity are turning to Jesus of Nazareth as their Lord and Savior. And even though you do not need to be kosher to be Christian, calling in someone who is both a Christian and an expert in Judaism would be incredibly helpful to get these Gentile Christians up to speed. b. Also, Barnabas, who vouched for Saul's conversion before Peter, certainly had some insider knowledge of the conversion of Saul. What did Jesus say about Saul? Acts 9:15 – Saul will be a chosen instrument of Mine to bear My name before the Gentiles, Kings, and the sons of Israel. So not only is Saul a Christian who is an expert in Judaism – but he has been called out and chosen by Jesus to bear His name to many groups, one of which is the Gentiles. vi. Barnabas recognized that this situation was a perfect fit for Saul to jump in to. He recognized that Saul was the ideal candidate to continue to preach the gospel and teach these Gentiles the ways of God. b. [Slide 4] And it happened that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a considerable crowd. i. And so, we see Saul and Barnabas team up to teach. ii. Notice that they are meeting with the church and teaching a great crowd. iii. Although Saul and Barnabas will get to be missionaries soon enough, we should not see their endeavor here as only evangelistic. iv. Instead, as I hinted at before, this was more likely to disciple the fledgling believers who knew almost nothing of Yahweh, His law, or the nation of Israel. v. Again, not necessary to be saved – but certainly necessary to grow in faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ. vi. Much like how we grow in the knowledge of God when we study the Bible. For us, it is all culturally distant. And though knowing the intricate details of Jewish history, temple codes, or laws does not contribute to our justification – it certainly contributes to our sanctification. c. [Slide 5] And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. i. Here we see the evolution of the church. ii. As they were Jewish Christians trying to explain that Jesus was the next and final step of Judaism, they were known as the Nazarian Sect. iii. As they expanded and the Jews continued to oppose them, they became followers of The Way. iv. Now as the gospel has gone out to pagans, they have become known as Christians. v. But notice that this is what they were called and not what they called themselves. vi. What does the term Christian mean? vii. Simply it means “Of Christ.” viii. We see similar constructions and titles used to describe people who backed certain political leaders. If you backed Herod, you were a Herodian. If you back Augustus, then you are Augustian. ix. The Non-believing Jews would not have given them this title because it would suggest that they followed the true Messiah. x. The title then was probably given to them by non-believing gentiles in Antioch. xi. The title also further distinguishes and divides the church from the Jews. They are not of the Jews… they are something without ethnic background. Rather than being united by ethnicity or nationality, they were united by belief and devotion. xii. All this comes together to reveal to us that to be called a Christian at this time was probably a derogatory description. xiii. It was a term used to describe how these people were political fanatics of a Judean King… that has been dead for over a decade. xiv. It wasn't until well into the second century that we find writings of believers calling themselves Christians. By that point, they had accepted the derogatory title that was meant to poke fun at them. xv. And we have borne it ever since. xvi. It all began here. In Antioch. d. [Slide 6] Summary of the Point: Luke points out to us a couple areas of challenge that the fledgling church of Antioch faced. First, they were baby Christians who needed to be taught in the more rudimentary aspects of their faith, especially the Jewish roots. Second, as a fledgling church they began to experience the rejection of outsiders. Jewish rejection had been true since the beginning of the church. But along with the gentiles joining the church came opposition from unbelieving gentiles. In all of this we see that the church, no matter what culture, time, size, or maturity, will always face challenges in this world. But through these challenges the church must continue to devote themselves to discipleship and evangelism. Growing each other in the knowledge of Christ and sharing the gospel with those who do not believe. Transition: [Slide 7 (Blank)] But what other sorts of trouble will the church experience in this world? The next sort of trouble Luke brings to light is one that not only spans the church in the whole Roman Empire, but also spans the physical and spiritual troubles we can face. II.) The church will always have trouble in this world, so we must devote ourselves to brotherly love and meeting the needs of believers. (27-30) a. [Slide 8] 27 – Now in those days, some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 And one of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. And this took place in the reign of Claudius. i. The transition “now in those days” by itself is anything but specific. ii. But as these two verses unfold, we actually get quite a bit of specificity as to what time period we are looking at. iii. Luke mentions a Roman Emperor named Claudius. Claudius ruled Rome from AD 41 to AD 54. iv. Based on several historians, Claudius's reign was riddled with famines. 1. At the beginning of his reign, in AD 41 and 42, Rome and its surrounding lands underwent a famine. 2. In AD 45 the river Nile in Egypt over flooded, delaying the harvest season and making the harvest much less productive. Egypt was known as the bread basket of Rome. If Egypt has a bad harvest… Rome has a bad economy. 3. In AD 46-47 Syria and Judea suffered a great famine, although Judea received the brunt of it. 4. In AD 50 Greece suffered a famine. 5. And in AD 52 Rome again suffered famine. v. Although we do not have archeological or historical evidence to suggest a great worldwide famine occurred all at one time, we do have plenty of evidence to prove that during a 10-year window, throughout the whole Roman Empire, severe famine occurred in various places. vi. Therefore, one of two things are true about Agabus' prophesy. 1. Either we have not discovered the archeological evidence yet to prove a global famine that occurred at the same time. 2. Or more likely, knowing that there were famines throughout the Roman Empire over a 10 year span, this is probably what Agabus meant by his prophesy. For he does not say that the great famine which happens all over the world will be during the same year. Nor does the expression “all over the world” require it to be global. It merely needs to encompasses the Roman Empire, which is controlling the world scene at this time. vii. So, what will this growing church of Antioch do with this prophesy from Agabus? b. [Slide 9] 29 – And as any of the disciples had means, each of them determined to send a contribution for the service of the brothers living in Judea. i. Here we can read between the lines to see that Agabus certainly conveyed that the famine would have a greater impact upon the people in Judea than it would upon the believers in Syria. ii. Some of that most likely stems from the more affluent city of Antioch compared to the more agrarian Judea. iii. This is why the believers in Antioch immediately set out to take up a collection to help their brothers in Judea. iv. Notice this is not a compelled gift. It is not a percentage of what they earn. It is not even money taken from every believer. v. As they had means to help, they gave contribution. The motivation is not duty, intimidation, or merit. This isn't holy communism. It is love. Simple Christ borne charity for those who are our brothers and sisters. c. [Slide 10] 30 – And this they did, sending it in charge of Barnabas and Saul to the elders. i. And so, once a contribution was collected, the church of Antioch sends Barnabas and Saul to take it to their brothers in Judea. ii. Notice that Barnabas and Saul are sent to the elders. iii. There are a couple points we need to consider regarding this. 1. First, we see that even at this early stage in the history of the church, probably less than 15 years in existence, we have the establishment of Elders governing the church. 2. Second, we should try to arrive at the identity of these Elders. a. The city of Jerusalem is only mentioned in this text in reference to where Agabus came from. Many scholars assume that the Elders in question refer to the Elders in Jerusalem. This could be, but based on the text it does not have to be. b. Even if it is the Elders in Jerusalem, since Luke will differentiate between the apostles and the Elders in Jerusalem in a few chapters, we cannot assume as some commentators do that Elders is just a generic name for leaders or the apostles. c. Instead, we find that this is an office now established in the church which serves to make decisions, and particularly in this case, regarding benevolent distribution of aid. d. If this does not refer to the Elders of Jerusalem specifically, but of Judea, this might mean that Saul and Barnabas will take aid to several city churches throughout Judea over the course of the next year or two. iv. One final item we should point out about this verse before we conclude, is that verse 30 serves as a tying of a bow on the events. v. This does not mean that they were sent out right away. vi. [Slide 11] In fact, let us establish a bit of the timeline so we can have that in our back pocket going forward. 1. Based on his own account in Galatians 1 and 2, Saul tells us that from conversion to when he went back to Jerusalem was 14 years. He says in Galatians 2 that he went back to Jerusalem because of a revelation. Certainly, this would have been Agabus' prophesy about the famine. 2. Saul was converted roughly around AD 33. 3. We know he spent 3 years between Damascus and Arabia. 4. We also know from this text that he spent a year in Antioch with Barnabas teaching the church and the large crowds. 5. We know that Herod Agrippa the First died in AD 44 and Luke records that Saul and Barnabas did not complete their charge to distribute support to the Judean churches until after his death. Therefore, Saul was in his hometown of Tarsus for around 8 years. 6. He arrived in Antioch early in AD 44 and taught for a year. In that year Agabus came down from Jerusalem to prophesy about the famine and while the church in Antioch was gathering contributions the events of chapter 12 unfold and Herod Agrippa the First dies in the spring of AD 44. 7. The Antioch church gathers their aid and sends it with Saul and Barnabas to the churches in Judea, which sees them completing that mission in Jerusalem around AD 46, just ahead of the famine. 8. That adds up to around 14 years give or take a few months. d. [Slide 12] Summary of the Point: Luke again shows us various challenges of the church. We already know that the church in Antioch is brand new and needing to mature in Christ. Now, they have been told that a great famine is coming and that it would hit the Judean church hardest. The challenge here certainly would be for themselves facing the famine… but primarily it would be the battle against their fleshly desires to hoard rather than give. But instead, we see them devoting themselves to meet the needs of believers. Even to meet the needs of believers gathered in places distant from them. So, we too must devote ourselves to meeting the needs of God's people near and far. Conclusion: So, what have we learned today CBC and how then shall we live? What doctrine have we seen and how does that impact our daily lives? Doctrinal Takeaway: [Slide 13] Our Lord Jesus promised that His disciples would experience trouble in this world. In this text we have seen several facets of difficulty the fledgling church of Antioch faced. They grew in numbers very quickly but needed to grow in maturity. They experienced derision early on from folks they probably called friends. They also faced the foretelling of a great famine and were informed of the heavy need of their Judean brothers and sisters. Certainly, they would experience the famine too, but the greater challenge is the battle with their flesh to selfishly hoard their money and food rather than sharing it with brothers and sisters. Another layer of that is, being primarily Gentiles, they would be giving sacrificially to the church in Judea which is primarily… Jews. So, beyond their flesh's desire to hoard you also have a racial element happening here too. But in spite of all of the trouble that this young church faces… what do we see them do? They devote themselves to discipleship, evangelism, and sacrificial care and love to meet the needs of brothers and sisters. Is it the same for us today? Oh yes, we will face trouble in this world. But we must remember that Christ overcame the world. Therefore, we must be devoted to maturing in Christ, sharing Him with others, and loving and helping our needy brothers and sisters out of our abundance. But let me draw some more practical and relevant conclusions for us today. 1.) [Slide 14] Mind Transformation: “What truth must we believe from this text?” or “What might we not naturally believe that we must believe because of what this text has said?” We must believe that we will have trouble in this world. a. Jesus has promised his disciples that they will have trouble in this world. b. Jesus has said that as the world has hated Him, the world will also hate those who follow Him. c. The book of James tells us that we must consider it joy when we fall into various troubles. d. I and II Peter were written to a church suffering for the name of Christ. e. I John was written to a church who had many of their members apostatize the gospel. f. Jude was written to address members of a church who began insisting that they could live however they wanted since they were under grace. g. I and II Corinthians were written to address various internal problems within the church in Corinth. h. The first three chapters of Revelation are written to real churches with various degrees of problems. i. What is my point? j. The challenges that this new church in Antioch experienced, are not uncommon or peculiar. k. Indeed, the church does not fit in to the system of this world, nor are they excluded or exempted from the troubles and trials of this world. l. What does that mean? m. It means that we, in 21st Century America, should expect… we should anticipate… we should be convinced… that troubles will always be a part of our experience while in this world. n. The Kingdom is here… but it is also waiting for the King to return. o. The prince of the power of the air is still here, wreaking havoc. He has been defeated, but he has not been expelled. p. And sin is still present in the lives of those in the church. Its penalty has been paid; its power has been broken. But its presence remains. q. That means that while in this world, the church… from within and without…will have trouble. r. But some churches today… do not believe this. They think that it is only those who have little faith that have trouble. 2.) [Slide 15] Refutation: “What lies must we cast down” or “What do we naturally believe, or have been taught to believe, that this passage shows is false?” We must deny that only those with little faith will have trouble. a. Because God is good and God is all powerful. Because God is sovereign and loving. We tend to conclude that whenever we come upon trouble in our lives it is because we have done something to earn it. b. Inversely whenever we have a good day, or get a good job, or life generally treats us well, it is because we are living lives that are pleasing to God. c. In this, we make the mistake of Job's friends, who insisted that his sufferings were proof that he was living out of step with God's will. d. Yet God called him a righteous man. That there was none like him on the earth. e. So, who is right? God or Job's friends? f. There are churches today that teach that sickness, poverty, failure, and even death are symptoms of Christians who simply do not have enough faith in God. g. They teach that by faith, God has assured us that He will make us healthy, wealthy, and powerful. h. But my friends, nothing could be further from the truth. i. Little faith is not the issue. For it does not actually take big faith to get an easy life. In fact, in Ecclesiastes it seems that the way to have an easy life is to have no faith at all. j. Instead, it takes BIG faith to suffer for His name and endure in hope and joy. That is faith. Faith is trust in something hoped for, promised, yet unseen. k. From Hebrews 11, we observe that all the Old Testament saints died without seeing their faith made sight. l. Indeed, many spent centuries in Abraham's Bosom waiting for their faith to be made sight. m. Then suddenly in walked the King of Kings. He proclaimed victory and promises fulfilled. And He led them out to be with the Father in heaven. n. My friends… it is not BIG faith the leads to easy life. It is BIG faith that endures through troubled life. o. Christ promises His church trouble. But He also promises God's grace in that trouble. p. So, what do we do as the church, when we are guaranteed to have trouble? 3.) [Slide 16] Exhortation: “What actions should we take?” or “What is this passage specifically commanding us to do that we don't naturally do or aren't currently doing?” We must grow in Christ, be His witness, and care for His church amid this world's trouble. a. Oh my friends, we will have trouble. b. But that means we must redouble our efforts to grow in Christ. c. When we experience hardship, it means we must double down on sharing the gospel. d. When we are overwhelmed with difficulty, we must selflessly love and sacrificially give to others. e. Trouble does not excuse us from what Christ has called us to. f. For what Christ has called us to is how we can bear up under trouble! g. We need to be like Christ. What did Christ endure to complete His mission? h. Christ became sick so we could be made well. Christ became poor so we could inherit His heavenly wealth. Christ became weak so we could be made strong in Him. i. He endured trouble so that He could save us. j. The path to growth, being His witness, and caring for His church – that path goes through trouble. k. The work of the church doesn't stop when the going gets tough. l. Instead, if we look at history as a teacher, it seems that when the going gets tough is when the church truly gets to work. m. We will experience trouble… so we must, in the midst of that trouble… get to work. n. Growing and maturing in our faith. o. Sharing the gospel with friends, family, neighbors, even while we suffer. p. And alleviating the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Christ when we have more than we need. q. The church must thrive in trouble… not merely survive. r. But there is a dangerous trap in which we can fall my friends. We must avoid it at all costs. 4.) [Slide 17] De-Exhortation: “What actions should we stop doing” or “What behaviors do we naturally practice that this passage tells us to stop doing?” We must stop weathering troubles by fighting to preserve ourselves. a. So often when we experience hardship or difficulty in life, that is when we forsake the church. b. When we are sick we neglect our study of the scriptures. c. When we are out of work we forsake the assembling of ourselves with other believers. d. When we are grieved of loss, we care little for lost souls who have no hope at all. e. When we hear of other believers who are struggling too, we follow the wisdom of the world and turn ourselves to … self-care. f. Oh, my friends, it is natural, fleshly, worldly to weather all manner of trials and troubles by turning our hearts inward and caring only for ourselves. g. It is natural and evil to seek isolation when we are hurting. h. It is ungodly and wicked to keep the good news to ourselves when we are struggling. i. It is perverse and demonic to hoard our help when others of Christ are in greater need than we are. j. My friends. We must not be this way. k. The church will experience trouble. That is sure. But in the mist of that trouble, we must be sure to not collapse into our fleshly desires and tendencies. We must continue to be the church… especially in times of trouble. l. But let me offer a word of comfort for your hearts. Comfort even in the midst of trouble… 5.) [Slide 18] Comfort: “What comfort can we find here?” or “What peace does the Lord promise us in light of this passage of scripture?” Though we will have trouble in the world, Christ has overcome the World. a. I can think of no greater comfort than this. b. Though we are guaranteed trouble in this world, in the same text, our Lord assures us that He has overcome the world. c. We live for His Kingdom to come and not for this world. d. Why? e. Because it is passing away. It will all burn up. He will make it new one day. And all the troubles will cease. All the difficulty will end. All the failure will evaporate… forever. f. The assurance that that is true has already been provided in the death and resurrection of Christ. g. Our faith must not be Big to get out of trouble. Our faith must be big to endure trouble. To look to Jesus the author and perfector of our faith. So that we may finish the race. And win the prize. h. Race to win. Endure. Overcome. Let me close with a Puritan's prayer titled “Weakness”. O SPIRIT OF GOD, Help our infirmities; When we are pressed down with a load of sorrow, perplexed and knowing not what to do, slandered and persecuted, made to feel the weight of the cross, help us, we pray. If you see in us any wrong thing encouraged, any evil desire cherished, any delight that is not Your delight, any habit that grieves You, any nest of sin in our hearts, then grant us the kiss of Your forgiveness, and teach our feet to walk the way of Your commandments. Deliver us from our anxieties, and make us a happy, holy people; Help us to walk separated lives with firm and brave steps, and to wrestle successfully against our weaknesses; Teach us to laud, adore, and magnify You, with the music of heaven, And make us a perfume of praiseful gratitude to You. We do not crouch at Your feet as slaves before a tyrant, but exult before You as children with a Father. Give us power to live as Your children in all our actions, and to exercise sonship by conquering self. Preserve us from the intoxication that comes of prosperity; Sober us when we are glad with a joy that comes not from You. Lead us safely on to the eternal kingdom, not asking whether the road be rough or smooth. We request only to see the face of him we love, to be content with bread to eat, with raiment to put on, if we can be brought to Your house in peace. We pray this in Jesus name… Amen. Benediction: In your weakness, may the Lord satisfy you. In your soul's languishing, may He replenish you. He has loved you with an everlasting love; He will continue His faithfulness to you. Until we meet again… Go in Peace.
This episode covers overeating. We begin our conversation today by defining the difference between having more weight and having more fat. Some people weigh more, but their weight is muscle mass. Inversely, people with more body fat might not weigh more. If we can shift our mindset to body recomposition, more muscle and healthy levels of body fat, we would be a lot more successful staying out of the underweight/overweight yoyo diet pendulum. Individuals might choose to be in a caloric surplus to build muscle mass, however, most people that overeat are unintentionally doing so. This is because diets that contain processed foods are calories, carb, and fat dense but aren't nutrient rich. We then go over the symptoms and health impacts of overeating. Then we discuss binge eating, and ways to break free from the cycle of disordered overeating.In this episode, we talk about: What Is Overeating?Symptoms Of Eating Too MuchReasons For OvereatingRisks Of OvereatingBinge Eating DisorderHow To Manage OvereatingFinal Thoughts On Symptoms Of Undereating & OvereatingResources: Want support with your nutrition habits? Sign up for 3 weeks of help Podcast Episode: Being Healthy is not the Norm - https://strongerthanyourboyfriend.buzzsprout.com/1998045/14403737-being-healthy-is-not-the-norm
In dentistry, we are always working with precision and control over a patient's situation. Having acute attention-to-detail creates a perfectionist tendency in us all, and this trait is critical to achieving great clinical outcomes. Now, in a clinical setting this makes so much sense. But in a business and operational sense and a broader life perspective, it can be a real financial and cultural ‘handbrake'. Your ability to grow and scale your practice is inversely proportional to YOUR desire for control. In other words, if you desire control too much, it slows you down in your business growth, and your ability to create time for yourself and to create the results you're seeking. In this episode of The Savvy Dentist Podcast we pose the question, on a scale of one to ten, how strong is your desire for control in your business and your life? Dr. Jesse Green walks you through a very truthful and personal journey that will have you thinking differently within the next 19 minutes and 47 seconds. Press play.
Hamas and Israel exchange accusations in a hospital strike. Using Gazan cell data to develop intelligence, and using hostages' devices to spread fear. Black Basta ransomware is out and about, again. Qubitstrike is a newly discovered cryptojacking campaign. Preparing for post-quantum security. Tim Starks from the Washington Post looks at one US Senator's ability to gum up cyber legislation. In the Learning Layer, N2K's Sam Meisenberg explores the challenges and best practices of rolling out a large-scale corporate re-skilling program. And attention people of Pompei: that volcano alert is bogus. Probably. Learning Layer. On this segment of Learning Layer, N2K's Sam Meisenberg is joined by Phil, an N2K client who leads Talent Development at a large telecommunication company. They discuss the challenges and best practices of rolling out a large-scale corporate re-skilling program, including increasing learner engagement, accountability, and the importance of internal talent development and recognition. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/199 Selected reading. Blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital; Hamas and Israel trade blame, as Biden heads to Mideast (AP News) In deadly day for Gaza, hospital strike kills hundreds (Reuters) Hacktivist attacks against Israeli websites mirror attacks following Russian invasion of Ukraine (ComputerWeekly.com) Growing Concern Over Role of Hacktivism in Israel-Hamas Conflict (Infosecurity Magazine) Israel-Hamas war illuminates trouble with political hacking groups (Axios) ISRAEL GAZA CONFLICT : THE CYBER PERSPECTIVE (CYFIRMA) Tracking Cellphone Data by Neighborhood, Israel Gauges Gaza Evacuation (New York Times) Hamas Hijacked Victims' Social Media Accounts to Spread Terror (New York Times) TV advertising sales giant affected by ransomware attack (Record) Chilean government warns of Black Basta ransomware attacks after customs incident (Record) Qubitstrike - An Emerging Malware Campaign Targeting Jupyter Notebooks (Cado Security) DigiCert Global Study: Preparing for a Safe Post-Quantum Computing Future (DigiCert) SpyNote Android malware spreads via fake volcano eruption alerts (BleepingComputer) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this crossover episode with CSIS's The CommonHealth podcast, Andrew talks with Michaela Simoneau and co-host J. Stephen Morrison on their newly published analysis of the post-Covid moment, “The Worst is Over—Now What?” How do we define this moment we have entered, and what are the factors that lead inexorably toward pessimism? Inversely, what is the argument for a positive, sober realism? Optimism rests on pursuing five pathways for progress: rebuild trust, sustain bipartisan legislative achievements, operationalize new security doctrines, accelerate new technologies, and elevate U.S. health diplomacy.
In this episode of The CommonHealth, Andrew Schwartz engages Michaela Simoneau and co-host J. Stephen Morrison on their newly published analysis of the post-Covid moment, “The Worst is Over—Now What?” How do we define this moment we have entered, and what are the factors that lead inexorably towards pessimism? Inversely, what is the argument for a positive, sober realism? Optimism rests on pursuing five pathways for progress: rebuild trust, sustain bipartisan legislative achievements, operationalize new security doctrines, accelerate new technologies, and elevate U.S. health diplomacy.
What does it mean to read LA in the frame of the “Americas”, and to understand its police violence in the context of a hemispheric imperialist project of domination? Inversely, how can we understand abolitionism as a political project that is continental, local and circulating? We talk about this in this special episode from Traffic in the Americas about police violence and abolitionist resistance in Los Angeles (California) with Hamid Khan from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Ananya Roy from the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. It was made in collaboration with the Laboratorio de Narrativas Urbanas (LABNA) and Sergio Montero. Hosted by Isabel Peñaranda Currie. This episode also features an original composition and performance by FreeSoul Smith for Sur-Urbano, and which was produced by Upeksha - Voices of Resilience. Smith is part of the Esquina Redonda, an amazing group that brings together people displaced by the Bronx police operation in Bogotá, and which also participated in the Traffic in the Americas conference. Hamid explains the history and work of @stoplapdspying and their recent report, “Automating Banishment”, which studies the relationship of “data-driven policing” to real estate development and settler colonialism. It "belongs to the community, produced through collective study and grassroots self-defense". You can read the full report here. Ananya spoke about her work on “Racial banishment', which “emphasizes state-instituted violence against racialised bodies and communities”, shifting attention from displacement to the dispossession of personhood underpinning racial capitalism. She writes that “The antonym of racial banishment is, as the black radical tradition insists, freedom. These “freedom dreams” ([…] animate urban struggles around the world.” We end by talking about how abolitionist ideas participate in kinds of traffic in the Americas. You can find one of her articles on Racial Banishment here. This conversation arose within the framework of "Traffic in the Americas," a transnational initiative that sought to promote collaborations between academics and activists to theorize how different types of traffic (of people, objects, ideas) shape the cities of the Americas. It was organized by: Kevin O'Neill of the University of Toronto, Austin Zeiderman of LSE , Ananya Roy of UCLA and Sergio Montero of the Los Andes University thanks to funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Hamid Khan is an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. He was the founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Network (1990-2010), and serves on the board of Political Research Associates, an organization that seeks to advance progressive thinking and action by providing research-based information, analysis, and referrals. The mission of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is to build community-based power to dismantle police surveillance, spying, and infiltration programs. The coalition utilizes multiple campaigns to advance an innovative organizing model that is Los Angeles-based but has implications regionally, nationally, and internationally Founding Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy.
Disciple Up #297 The Gospel Coalition's Sex Article By Louie Marsh, 3-8-2023 An article was published on the Gospel Coalition's website last week. It immediately drew criticism, even from people who don't engage in online criticism like Rick Warren. In response TGC published a PDF of the intro and first chapter of the as yet unpublished book to help “give context.” That only drew even more criticism and so as of March 6th, 2023 the link to that PDF became a link to an Open Letter. I'll be reading the letter and then reading some excerpts from the PDF which I downloaded and is no longer available. In the show notes you'll find a few excerpts from the article but not the PDF since I don't own it and don't want to break the law. The link to the letter of apology is below. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/sex-wont-save-you/ Dear Readers, Thank you for your feedback on the Keller Center's book excerpt from Joshua Butler posted on March 1, 2023. And thank you for your patience while we took the time to listen to our critics and the serious objections from concerned fellows, as well as discuss this matter with our Board of Directors and care for our friend Josh. Earlier this week, we accepted Josh's resignation as a Keller Center fellow. He will no longer lead an online cohort with the center nor speak at TGC23. While he will no longer participate in these events, Josh remains a beloved brother and friend whom we respect and care deeply about. To our fellows and our readers, please forgive us. The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics is a new effort by TGC, and we are still learning how to work with our directors and our fellows to produce content that will serve our readers in a way that is trusted and wise. To ensure greater accountability with our fellows, we will develop better review systems for our work together. We will also review our publication processes more broadly at TGC and develop plans to ensure greater accountability to you, our readers. Again, thank you for your patience with us. At TGC, we want to provide a venue for healthy dialogue and robust debate on important matters that affect us all. We want to model grace-filled conversations, and we want to learn from one another. In this case, we failed you and hurt many friends. Thank you in advance for your continued prayers. For Christ and his gospel, Julius Kim President The Gospel Coalition Excerpts from the article that started it all Sex Won't Save You (But It Points to the One Who Will) MARCH 1, 2023 JOSH BUTLER I used to look to sex for salvation. I wanted it to liberate me from loneliness; I wanted to find freedom in the arms of another. But the search failed. Sex wasn't designed to be your salvation but to point you to the One who is. Union with Christ Sex is an icon of Christ and the church. In Ephesians 5:31–32, a “hall of fame” marriage passage, the apostle Paul proclaims, “‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church” (NIV; I've translated proskollao as “cleave”). Paul says both are about Christ and the church. This should be shocking! It's not only the giving of your vows at the altar but what happens in the honeymoon suite afterward that speaks to the life you were made for with God. A husband and wife's life of faithful love is designed to point to greater things, but so is their sexual union! This is a gospel bombshell: sex is an icon of salvation. How? I'd suggest the language of generosity and hospitality can help us out. At a deeper level, generosity is giving not just your resources but your very self. And what deeper form of self-giving is there than sexual union where the husband pours out his very presence not only upon but within his wife? Here again, what deeper form of hospitality is there than sexual union where the wife welcomes her husband into the sanctuary of her very self? Giving and receiving are at the heart of sex. The Bible makes this distinction explicit. The most frequent Hebrew phrase for sex is, literally, “he went into her” (wayyabo eleha). Translations often soften this for modern ears, saying he “made love to her” or they “slept together.” But the Bible is less prudish than we are, using more graphic language to describe what happens in the honeymoon tent. Sexual Union Pictures the Gospel This is a picture of the gospel. Christ arrives in salvation to be not only with his church but within his church. Christ gives himself to his beloved with extravagant generosity, showering his love upon us and imparting his very presence within us. Christ penetrates his church with the generative seed of his Word and the life-giving presence of his Spirit, which takes root within her and grows to bring new life into the world. Inversely, back in the wedding suite, the bride embraces her most intimate guest on the threshold of her dwelling place and welcomes him into the sanctuary of her very self. She gladly receives the warmth of his presence and accepts the sacrificial offering he bestows upon the altar within her Most Holy Place. Their union brings forth new creation. Editors' note: Josh Butler—a fellow at the newly launched Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics—will be leading a seven-week online cohort this spring on “The Beauty of the Christian Sexual Ethic,” based on his forthcoming book Beautiful Union (Multnomah, 2023). The cohort—limited to 200 participants—will meet weekly from May 11 to June 22, 2023. Learn more and register. This article was adapted from Beautiful Union: How God's Vision for Sex Points Us to the Good, Unlocks the True, and (Sort of) Explains Everything (Multnomah, April 2023) by Joshua Ryan Butler. Copyright © 2023 by Joshua Ryan Butler. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Josh Butler serves as a lead pastor of Redemption Tempe in Arizona, is the author of the critically acclaimed books Beautiful Union, The Skeletons in God's Closet and The Pursuing God, and is a fellow with The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He lives in the American Southwest with his wife, Holly, daughter Aiden, and sons James and Jacob.
Something magical happens in the presence of deeply nourishing relationships. Inversely, pain and drain can happen in the presence of toxic, non-reciprocal relationships. Don't be afraid to do a drives & drains audit on your relationships. Be intentional about who you spend time with, because the quality of your life depends on it.We've all heard the statement, "You're the product of the five people you spend the most time with". Crazy enough, it's true. And for some reason, unlike that of fitness, nutrition, and mental health, our culture has yet to prop up "community" as a pillar of holistic well-being. Further (like most of the wildly important aspects of living) we aren't taught the skills and strategies in order to create healthy relationships from childhood and into adulthood. In this episode we dive into why community is in fact one of the main drivers for health and growth. We debunk outdated myths about making friends as you age. Share helpful strategies for how you can really invest in building lasting, symbiotic relationships that serve everyone. And the always challenging topic of setting clear and confident boundaries.CONNECT WITH OWL & KEY:www.owlandkey.cowww.instagram.com/owl_and_key/linktr.ee/owlandkey
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.08.527622v1?rss=1 Authors: Yehuda, H., Madrer, N., Goldberg, D., Soreq, H., Meerson, A. Abstract: Anxiety disorders often associate with metabolic impairments, but the underlying developmental and molecular mechanisms are yet unknown. To seek RNAs that may link anxiety and obesity, we subjected RNA from zebrafish larvae of a caffeine-induced anxiety model and a high fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity model to RNA-sequencing. We found differentially expressed genes in the larval anxiety and obesity models, including long noncoding RNAs and transfer fragment RNAs. Surprisingly, they were inversely regulated and comprised overrepresentation of immune system pathways, e.g., interleukin signaling and inflammation. Similarly, inverse regulation persisted in adulthood, but with different overrepresented immune system processes, e.g., T cell activation, leukocyte cell-cell adhesion and antigen processing and presentation. Furthermore, unlike the known link in adult zebrafish, obesity in zebrafish larvae was not accompanied by anxiety-like behavior. These results may reflect an antagonistic pleiotropic phenomenon involving re-adjusted modulation of the anxiety-metabolic links with the immune system. Furthermore, the HFD potential to normalize the anxiety-upregulated immune-related genes may explain previously reported protective roles of high fat diet in rodent anxiety and Alzheimer's disease models. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
The Time Frame of Your Goals Should Be Inversely Proportional to The Resolution of Your Plan
Does your team view sales as spammy, scammy, and sleazy? If your sales team views sales in this way, it's likely that they are coming off that way to potential clients as well. In today's episode, I share with you how to shift this mindset. This wounded salesperson perspective is detrimental to your business. Through transparency, you can create long-lasting relationships between clients. Trust is key when it comes to sales. It shows that you want to be authentic and genuine with your clients, so they believe as much as you that what you're selling them, is for them! Inversely, if a client is coming to you and you don't believe they align as your ideal client, or they aren't ready yet, it's okay to turn them away. Listen to see how we can make sales sexy and spiritual! What you'll learn The importance of establishing trust between your clients Why transparency is important for your team The wounded salesperson perspective, and how to shift from this Turning away clients is not always a bad thing If you like what you're hearing, just wait! This is the 151st episode in a brand new season of the Inner Feminine Beast™ Podcast. That means there's plenty more content to inspire, teach, and motivate you as you develop your business and create your dream future. Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday and Thursday, Successful Soul! You can follow Angelique on Instagram, Facebook, and check out her website. To watch these recordings live or join a community of like-minded women, click here! Connect with me on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest & TikTok Subscribe to my Youtube channel and watch new episodes every week, click here! Reach out to us at info@cynthiastant.com for more information about how we can work together!
#entrepreneurship #smallbusiness #podcast #howtoAwareness and conviction of your business travels from what you think(mind) about it to how you feel about it(heart) then eventually you will begin to demonstrate it(actions) to others what those thoughts and feelings are. When it's time to pitch your business to potential business partners you will be able to better communicate your excitement toward them. Inversely, if you only have an idea with no conviction of the idea it may be difficult to be excited about it. That lack of excitement or reluctance will be communicated to the receiver as well.
Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi, and welcome to the Sales Enablement PRO podcast. I am Shawnna Sumaoang. Sales enablement is a constantly evolving space and we're here to help professionals stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices so that they can be more effective in their jobs. Today I’m excited to have Jeromy Proulx from Humana join us. Jeromy, I would love for you to introduce yourself, your role, and your organization to our audience. Jeromy Proulx: Hi Shawnna, thank you for having me. I’m Jeromy Proulx and I currently serve as the head of sales technology and transformation at Humana. We’re a leading Fortune 50 healthcare organization that provides a number of different products and services to help people achieve lifelong well-being. In addition to my responsibilities at Humana, I also serve as an adjunct faculty at Northeastern University, a top 50 research institution in Boston Massachusetts. My career started in sales and marketing across several different industries including consumer packaged goods, investments, and insurance products, before stepping into sales management, execution and enablement roles over the last several years. SS: Fantastic. Well, we’re excited to have you here Jeromy. I noticed that you also actually teach as a professor at Northeastern University and one of your areas of expertise is around project management. From your perspective, why are project management skills so critical for enablement professionals? JP: Thank you for the question, Shawnna. I believe project management skills are imperative regardless of what role you serve to an organization, but more particularly within the sales enablement space. My focus in the classroom has been on the intersection of common waterfall project management skills and agile project management skills that have become more prevalent in the workplace today. These are skills that absolutely transcend both disciplines, such as being an effective communicator, the art of negotiation and influence, general time management, and risk management skills, just to name a few. If you think about it, these are also critical skills to being a great enablement leader. Whether you’re focused on training and development activities or enablement tools and technology, you will undoubtedly have to use project management skills to deliver value to the organization. Over the last decade, the emergence of agile project management has created greater alignment in my opinion with the enablement space as you think about some of the core principles and agile methodologies. SS: I think that’s fantastic. You talk about this a little bit, but what are some of the key principles of project management that you found most essential to your role, particularly leading sales technology and transformation efforts? JP: One of the first agile principles centers around the rapid and continuous delivery of value. Whereas traditional project management methods would focus more on a big bang that could take several months to get to. In the sales enablement space, it’s all about the value of delivering to field-facing roles. If you have the ability to deploy practices, test, learn, and iterate, that is way more effective than doing a significant amount of work only to find out you missed the mark in the end. Agile inherently promotes this fail-forward mentality and teams which ensures that you achieve the desired impact as efficiently as possible in your work. By taking this test, learn and iterate mindset, you hit three other agile principles, simplicity is essential, regular reflection, and continuous excellence promotes agility. As an example in action, if you are tasked with building a 90-day sales onboarding program, rather than go build out all 90 days in detail, you would break down the work into minimum viable program elements that would allow you to get some feedback, incorporate that feedback and enhance the design. That might mean focusing on the first 30 days, or even smaller increments to understand what are the right things for a rep to know to improve ramp or time to market. SS: I love that approach. Now when it comes to implementing new tools in your tech stack, what are some of your best practices for managing that process? JP: This is a great question and I think there are two parts to this answer. First, is the project management side of implementation, and the second is the change management components. When implementing new tools, there was some advice I received from a leader a few years back as we worked through a pretty tough transformation and merger of two companies. She always used to say for every project it is imperative that there’s clarity on scope and that everyone operates with a sense of urgency. That’s not really earth-shattering advice but it’s a good grounding factor whenever you’re working towards bringing new capabilities to your sales partners. Having clarity on the scope means you’re crisp on what the new tools are intended to do, who your impacted audience is, and ultimately your path that gets you to that objective. Without a clearly defined and documented scope, you’ll end up moving the goalpost for the project and driving an increased risk of going behind schedule or more adversely, over budget. When it comes to a sense of urgency. I trace this back to the aforementioned points on value. The quintessential saying in sales time is money, the more time you take to implement a tool ultimately means time lost when the value could have been delivered to your end user. The second part of this answer is the change management components that support the delivery. We often get sucked into the project plan for the development of these capabilities and overlook the most important part, which is how we generate excitement and desire with the end users. Don’t discount how important this is having great change management, go-to-market or operational readiness plan can make an incredible difference in driving a successful tool or technology implementation. People often think of change management plans as being a communication plan, and while communication is absolutely a major component of the change management plan, it’s not the only thing, it’s about managing everything from the why we’re giving this awesome tool to you, to how you manage resistance and provide reinforcement as individuals move through the change curve. There’s a ton of research that points to, you know, nearly two-thirds of implementations failing due to the inability to manage behaviors and drive adoption. Two-thirds is a lot. SS: Absolutely, it is. As you mentioned, one challenge that can arise is driving that adoption, especially amongst reps who may be resistant to change. How can enablement practitioners overcome this challenge to help sales reps navigate digital transformation? JP: I’m a big believer in the adkar model for change management and every go-to-market or operational readiness plan should address each element within that model. Adkar stands for awareness, desire, knowledge, assessment, and reinforcement. While there is no one component of the adkar model that’s more important than the other, I want to focus our conversation on desire as executing well in that stage is the best way to manage rep resistance right out of the gate. Think of desire as either the carrot or the stick to quoting that often used idiom. In the enablement space nearly everything a team will deliver is an effort of making reps more efficient and effective in their job with the carrots being more time, more sales, and ultimately more commission in their pocket. To take that a bit further an approach I’ve used several times is to designate a pilot or change champion group. They get to be a part of the sausage making if you will and ultimately lead the change in their respective roles as you start to inch closer to deployment. A dear friend of mine and author of The Snowball System, Mo Bunnell, described this approach well. It’s called the red velvet rope approach. When you bring a certain group of people inside the red velvet rope, they feel that exclusivity, that special treatment that not everyone is getting, and in nearly all situations, they become your biggest supporters. Inversely, those that are outside of the velvet rope start to hear that positivity from your change champions and inherently develop a sense of excitement and desire for the change. If you do this well, you’ve likely captured the hearts and minds of 90% of the group. Now for the remaining 10%, this is where the preparation for your front-line managers with a plan to handle objections and resistance becomes important. Research shows that when it comes to talking about the impacts and importance of changes, they don’t want to hear from the enablement team or even the executive leaders. Over 70% of the recipients of change want that detail to come directly from their front-line leader. So ensuring that you equip sales leaders to handle those conversations and potential objections is very important. SS: Absolutely, I like that adkar model. Now, beyond adding new tools, what are some of your best practices for ensuring the long-term efficiency and effectiveness of your existing text stack to help drive up productivity? JP: In today’s world of sales enablement there are so many tools and technologies that can drive productivity and I think a lot of people inherently go to we need another application or vendor to solve X problem when really that problem could be the result of poor adoption in another capability. From my perspective, there are three core components in ensuring that you get efficiency and effectiveness out of your technology. Knowing your platform KPIs, creating a regular cadence of communication, and an approach to ongoing reinforcement are those 3 components. If you know what outcomes you want to see, maybe that’s time spent in a particular application or tool, you communicate regularly on how things are going, top to bottom of the organization, and use that data to build that reinforcement plan, maybe that’s more training, maybe that’s some sort of compensation penalty. By doing those three things consistently you’ll ensure you’re getting the most out of your text stack. The other piece of guidance I would give here is to look for opportunities for integration and rationalization for the organizations. I’ve led we don’t even consider a tool if there isn’t a CRM integration since that’s the primary technology we want our sales teams to utilize. There are so many things that a rep could use to execute their job effectively and going back to the agile principle of simplicity is essential, either rationalizing these tools into one vendor or having integrations that make them feel like it’s one vendor is a straightforward way to avoid barriers to utilization. SS: I do like that approach. Now, the last question for you, Jeromy. Looking ahead to the next year, how do you think the digital landscape will continue to evolve and how can enablement practitioners effectively prepare reps for those transformations on the horizon? JP: There’s a ton of research pointing to digital or omnichannel sales interactions being the way of the future coming out of the pandemic. B2B buyers have shifted their preferences to digital and when you think about the purchasing process, less than 20% of that time in the process will the buyer actually spend with a sales rep. That means as a sales rep, you need to find ways for you or your brand to show up in a digital mode. As a sales manager, you need to ensure that reps lean into those capabilities that promote that digital engagement. So much revenue intelligence can be gathered through digital channels and this can be incredibly insightful to how that buyer’s journey progresses. As a practitioner, preparation starts with the organization’s culture. The saying of change is the only constant is so true. We continue to be in this time of unprecedented technological advancement and that means the way in which we sell will also evolve. I believe if you create a culture of empowerment, and transparency and remain highly communicative, your organization will be less change adverse and will decrease the amplitude between the peaks and valleys of your transformation. The last piece of advice here is to watch for leaky sponges. When you think about the pace of transformation, like a sponge, an organization can only absorb so much. When you start to see people’s sponges leak, you know it’s time to take pause, let them dry out, and give them the ability to absorb more. SS: I like that analogy. Jeromy, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us. I appreciate your insights on digital transformation within sales enablement. JP: Thank you Shawnna. It was great speaking with you. SS: To our audience, thanks for listening. For more insights, tips, and expertise from sales enablement leaders, visit salesenablement.pro. If there is something you'd like to share or a topic you'd like to learn more about, please let us know we'd love to hear from you.
Optical-Radio Position Offsets are Inversely Correlated with AGN Photometric Variability by Nathan Secrest. on Wednesday 21 September Using photometric variability information from the new Gaia DR3 release, I show for the first time that photometric variability is inversely correlated with the prevalence of optical-radio position offsets in the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that comprise the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF). While the overall prevalence of statistically significant optical-radio position offsets is $11%$, objects with the largest fractional variabilities exhibit an offset prevalence of only $sim2%$. These highly variable objects have redder optical color and steeper optical spectral indices indicative of blazars, in which the optical and radio emission is dominated by a line-of-sight jet, and indeed nearly $sim100%$ of the most variable objects have $gamma$-ray emission detected by Fermi LAT. This result is consistent with selection on variability preferentially picking jets pointed closest to the line-of-sight, where the projected optical-radio position offsets are minimized and jet emission is maximally boosted in the observed frame. While only $sim9%$ of ICRF objects exhibit such large photometric variability, these results suggest that taking source variability into account may provide a means of optimally weighting the optical-radio celestial reference frame link. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09928v1
The 2013 ARUBA trial concluded that medical management alone is superior to medical management with interventional therapy for patients with unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations. A study was conducted to analyze AVM treatment and epidemiologic response to the ARUBA trial. Following ARUBA, there has been a stark decrease in interventions for uAVMs. Nationwide rAVM discharge incidence is inversely correlated with uAVM intervention rate. Less uAVM interventions may lead to a substantial increase in AVM rupture incidence. In this podcast, JNIS Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Felipe C. Albuquerque speaks with Dr. Evan Luther(1) and Dr. Robert Starke(2) about their paper "Unruptured arteriovenous malformation intervention rate is inversely correlated with ruptured AVM discharge incidence" - https://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/suppl_1/a163. Please subscribe to the JNIS Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest episodes. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the JNIS Podcast iTunes page: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jnis-podcast/id942473767 Thank you for listening! This episode was produced by Leticia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole. (1) Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA (2) Department of Neurosurgery & Radiology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
CHASING TIME AND MONEY.Time and money are inversely proportional . The more you have of one, the less you have of the other. If you have too much money you might not have time to spend it. 1. They can both be spent, they both offer value, and they can both be lost. The comparison list could go on, but one issue is that, in our opinion, money can be recovered, but time can't. 2. Which is more important money or time? In fact, time is much more valuable than money because you can use your time to make money, but you can't use the money to purchase more time. The reality is, you can lose all your money and get it back again, but you'll never be able to get back your time. There are no chances for you to create more time CHOICE IS YOUR'S , EITHER WAY YOU TILT THAT'S HOW YOUR LIFE WILL BE DEFINED. Please Take a Listen and see for yourself. Thanks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shaukat-ali4/support
It's a Supply Chain Spectacular as Device Nation sits down for an inspiring conversation with Assistant Vice President of Procurement and Medical Device Management with LifePoint Health, Greg Mays, HMBA! We talk about rep and supply chain "pearls and pitfalls", cap pricing, vendor contracts, vendor credentialing and more!Before joining LifePoint, Greg was a Group Director at HealthTrust Purchasing Group and specialized in consulting with member hospitals to help them achieve better value in their Medical Device sourcing.Greg was in Orthopaedic implant sales (Sports Medicine, Hip/Knee and Extremity) for over 14 years! He began his career as a "Tech-rep" and has progressed to a Full Sales Associate, then Territory Manager. This experience involved him with professionals from a variety of backgrounds from surgeons and hospital CEO's, to surgical staff and instrument techs. Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorymays/LifePoint Health: https://lifepointhealth.netWhat's a GPO? IDN? https://www.carevoyance.com/blog/gpo-and-idn-sales-processThe 1 in 60 rule is a rule of thumb which states that if a pilot has travelled sixty miles then an error in track of one mile is approximately a 1° error in heading, and proportionately more for larger errors. Inversely, if we stay on the same heading we've always been on in medical sales....will we land at the intended destination? Consider looking at degrees of course correction, NEW models to bring more value to all parties involved, especially the patient!Support the show
Have you noticed that invariably when you connect with someone who answers your call on a cell or mobile phone, you immediately ask, "Where are you?" Whether it is your teenager who is checking in with you, your husband who is on a business trip, or a friend you haven't heard from for a while, you want to know where the person is, so instinctively you ask, "Where are you?" Inversely if you get a call that originates from a friend who calls you on a cell phone, you are asked, "Do you know where I am?" Knowing this establishes an identity and a personal connection.
“The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong. . . . There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, Nat and Neil discuss their key takeaways from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. While the book is geared towards an academic audience, a lot of interesting ideas were brought up in terms of scientific progress, where Kuhn argues that science is anything but linear. We cover a wide range of topics including: Paradigm shifts in science (and other areas, too!) What is normal science, and how does it differ from paradigm-shifting science? Connections between science, religion, and politics The direction and timing of inventions over time How sciencing everything may lead to negative outcomes And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat and Neil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the show: Copernican system (11:20) Monday Medley (11:56) The Joe Rogan Experience (18:03) Nat's SS and Medicare tweet (20:50) Burton Oil (29:24) Neil's tweet on rationalists (35:20) Dancing Gorilla experiment (47:07) Bobbie formula (53:15) Obesity rates in Mexico (57:34) WTF Happened in 1971? (58:22) Metamask (1:00:28) Rainbow Wallet (1:00:29) Outside the System (1:03:46) (Check out Neil's new podcast!) Fountain (1:03:50) Lightning Network (1:04:30) What Viagra was originally used for (1:10:56) Tesla's vision of wireless energy (1:15:21) Riverside (1:23:40) Books Mentioned: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Nat's Book Notes) Gödel, Escher, Bach (0:58) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Finite and Infinite Games (3:23) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Happy Accidents (3:37) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) King, Warrior, Magician, Lover (28:53) (Book Episode) The Dictator's Handbook (41:03) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Merchants of Doubt (41:56) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Energy and Civilization (42:56) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Three-Body Problem (1:20:50) (Nat's Book Notes) The Martian (1:21:21) (Nat's Book Notes) Hail Mary (1:21:27) Seeing Like a State (1:24:19) (Nat's Book Notes) Infinite Jest (1:24:44) (Book Episode I) (Book Episode II) (Nat's Book Notes) People Mentioned: Malcolm Gladwell (2:35) Albert Einstein (6:45) Isaac Newton (14:53) Nicolaus Copernicus (14:53) Werner Heisenburg (14:56) Nassim Taleb (24:44) Al Gore (28:36) George Bush (28:39) Joe Biden (28:56) Nikola Tesla (1:14:59) Andy Weir (1:21:23) Adil Majid (1:24:12) Show Topics: 0:43 Today, Nat and Neil dive into their takeaways from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. The phrase "paradigm shift" was coined by Thomas Kuhn and used throughout the book to describe fundamental changes in underlying assumptions. 4:47 Kuhn argues that science doesn't progress linearly, it goes through cycles. There are foundational truths and beliefs that current science is being built on, and when those beliefs crack, we have to establish new ones. It doesn't mean the old ideas were unscientific, but perhaps insufficient or incomplete. 8:01 Neil applies the 'map vs. territory' analogy. Territory is the real natural world, and every theory and paradigm we test out is the map. 11:54 The book talks about normal science as trying to solve a puzzle. When you buy a jigsaw puzzle, you know what the picture looks like and that all pieces will fit together somehow. In the same way, theories of experiments have already predicted what the results of your experiment should be, you're just running the experiment to confirm it. Paradigm shifts are so rare and accidental because most of science is filling in gaps of the current paradigm, as that's also where the funding is. "The scientific enterprise as a whole does from time to time prove useful, open up new territory, display order, and test long-accepted belief. Nevertheless, the individual engaged on a normal research problem is almost never doing any one of these things." 15:20 What are the things in science today that feel like they might be invented to explain the anomalies in the current paradigm? Dark matter and gravity for example. 17:59 There aren't enough debates on science, and it's important to ask the question WHY to better understand the underlying assumptions. If you disagree with one of the provided assumptions, you can challenge it. 22:09 The book explains how science is an ever-evolving process that requires challenging the current assumptions in the paradigm. Asking questions is the scientific thing to do. We can have conflicting paradigms and ideas, and use those to get an accurate view of the world, but obviously nothing is perfect. 25:50 Over time, science has become more politicized. Global warming rebranded into climate change. 30:31 Most issues are never completely binary like they're positioned to be. The abortion debate for example. There are 2 different paradigms with completely different underlying assumptions: 1) Individual choice is more important than when life begins and 2) Life begins at conception and it's not an individual choice type of thing. 35:03 Every choice has a tradeoff. One problem in politics is when candidates aren't upfront about the tradeoffs of a certain choice or pretend that there isn't any, which makes it harder to believe them. Nat and Neil talk about the start of Covid with the stay-at-home orders and wearing a mask. 39:08 Linking to Dictator's Handbook (episode here), it is advantageous for politicians to say problems are more urgent and pressing than they are because you can use that to retain power and influence. 43:41 Differences in generations and the trust in scientists. Younger generations are starting to suffer the consequences of explorations like combining science with food. Does science need to be added to everything? 46:41 People find what they're looking for. If you go in with a set of beliefs, you won't be looking for anything that confirms against your beliefs, in fact you may discard anything that argues against what you think is right without acknowledging the other set of values. 51:20 What's a Made You Think episode without a tangent? Nat and Neil talk about the vaccine/Autism debate. With dietary changes and other factors in the first year of a child's life, why are some scientists so set on vaccines being connected to Autism? 58:22 Paradigm shifts aren't in science only. Nat and Neil talk about paradigm shifts in technology, Web3, single sign-on, and more. 1:05:29 A new paradigm of community ownership, fundraising, and access to capital arose as NFTs became bigger. There are now new standards for membership, and how we can own music, art, etc. 1:07:05 Paradigms are like little blips on the map, and occasionally one will present a lot of solutions to existing problems. The same things happens in both science and technology. 1:11:46 Normal science vs. paradigm-shifting science. What would have been figured out anyway vs. what was truly a leap forward. 1:14:44 The direction and timing of different inventions. There are some things that develop slowly for years but then have a period of rapid development because the underlying technology catches up. Are there things that we are technologically ready for now but just haven't come up with yet? 1:19:28 Inversely, there are also inventions where the timing wasn't dependent on the underlying technology. 1:23:30 Thanks for listening! If you want to read ahead before our next episode, make sure to pick up a copy of The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS and @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. 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Have you noticed that invariably when you connect with someone who answers your call on a cell phone, you immediately ask, "Where are you?" Whether it is your teenager who is checking in with you, your husband who is on a business trip, or a friend you haven't heard from for a while, you want to know where the person is, so instinctively you ask, "Where are you?" Inversely if you get a call that originates from a friend who calls you on a cell phone, you are asked, "Do you know where I am?" Knowing this establishes an identity and a personal connection.
Theme: What if… I had one month to spend 5ETH & couldn't sell any NFTs I bought for 3 years? Affordable project: Avastars - Avastars - Collection | OpenSea Select Prime and Series 1: https://opensea.io/collection/avastar?search[sortBy]=PRICE&search[sortAscending]=true&search[numericTraits][0][name]=series&search[numericTraits][0][ranges][0][max]=1&search[numericTraits][0][ranges][0][min]=0&search[stringTraits][0][name]=wave&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=prime NFT News Rantum NFT Market Data, Cryptoslam.io NFTs dominate Austin's SXSW Pixar NFT drop sells out on VeVe shortly after launch Ethereum NFT Sales Are Inversely Correlated to Crypto Market: Nansen - Decrypt NFTs Have Taken Over March Madness Transcript: [00:00:00] Today on all about affordable and FTS, we're doing a little, what if game? What if you had five Ethereum, one month to buy NFTs and you had to hold them for at least three years. So you had to hold all three years for NFTs that you bought this month. It's just a fun thought experiment to see what we come up with. [00:00:20] But first, Andrew, what are you seeing? [00:00:22] Yeah. What do we see now here? Let's see. So we've got March madness just started as we're recording this and we've got all sorts of NFT drops around this. I've been surprised by the number of NFT drops here. And if NFTU was the first one that I heard about, and then there was a let's see, another one from draft Kings. [00:00:43] But they've been quite popular. They both sold out the draft Kings one. It was a draft Kings. I believe it was their first direct and NFT collection that they, they had. Created before they had just hosted them on their own marketplace. That was 12,000 pieces. The an NFTU from recur was let's see almost nearly 18,000 and FTS there they've been popular and selling on secondary as well. [00:01:08] So I'm surprised that it has been as popular to is took me by surprise here. Anyway. I expected a lot during the Superbowl. Didn't really think about how much it may come into play with the NCAA tournament here. And I think. It's interesting for a couple of reasons that this will have exposure for a whole month here, essentially as the tournament spans multiple weeks. [00:01:30] And the other part is that we have the, we do have, the players could potentially start using NFTs as a way to. To cash in on their likeness, which has not been possible for the most part in NCAA history. It's interesting that those are coming at the same time. So watching that kind of closely over the next month to see how much, how much their exposure NFTs get during the during media publication of the events and how much the uh, uh, the market responds to to these NFTs. [00:02:01] How much do you think is dapper labs? Again, the folks behind NBA top shot and also now the the new NFL all day behind any. [00:02:09] No, I haven't heard their name as being directly tied to any of this, I don't know if there's. Who knows the reasons that maybe you would think they would be there, but I don't know if there's maybe an MBA issue with NCAA or I, that's a, that's outside of my knowledge, but I haven't seen their name come up in any of this NCAA NFT talk. [00:02:28] Yeah, it says N F T U largest unified collegiate sports, digital collectible NFD marketplace. Okay. Not going to be on my buyers list, but I think it may help people jump onto it. And if you're able to bring in some of the sports audience, you've seen a lot of success from dapper. Good luck. [00:02:44] Yeah, absolutely. It's not on my list either, but I am I am interested in the news of this or of these collections. [00:02:50] Okay. We have the Pixar drop, so I love Pixar and we've heard Disney getting into the NFT world. So what is this Pixar NFT drop sells out on the. [00:03:03] I never actually said that out loud. I think it's V the BV platform. So yeah, drop, they had a number of different, our picks picks our characters from their various movies available as NFTs, and it was popular. Not surprising that Disney has found their way to this and is using their IP. I think we've discussed this in the past when we heard some rumors of them getting into this, that they'd have amazing intellectual property rights to all of their characters, all their movies to. [00:03:30] Using NFTs and they have started doing this already. And it it sold out quickly. I had seen news of it and was actually somewhat interested and it sold out before I had a chance to to be able to admit it. And I haven't looked at it closely since then, but it has, I know that they had a decent amount of volume and let's see, it was almost 55,000 pieces. [00:03:51] Yeah, total volumes 3.3 million. It starts type saying. [00:03:55] It's an impressive amount and I'm sure we'll see a lot more from Disney as they are pretty good at this startup sort of thing. [00:04:02] Yeah, I've heard they're decent at branding as far as yeah. Something to check out. Yeah, a lot. I don't know about that. Big players in there. And especially if they're doing it the right. way, we've seen also big players do it wrong, with I would say last year tops, I was like my biggest like heartbreak. [00:04:17] So the question is it a money grab or is it a brand building established play? So we'll wait And see there, but Hey, maybe it ends up on the affordable list. Probably not at those prices. Okay. [00:04:29] lastly, we've got a report here and just to report and a lot of people have talked about how NFTs are. Inversely related to crypto prices. We've talked about it a bit. When crypto prices don't do well and FTE prices tend to do better. And the thought is that you're spending less us dollars for the same NFTE. [00:04:49] Doesn't seem to hold as true as the prices also do well during a NFE bull runs for the most part. And there's some news or report from Nansen a an FTE analytics company that has that they put some numbers behind this. So there's a very negative correlation between the two. So it's a interesting report here to jump a chance to dig into this George. [00:05:11] So it was interesting when they're building up this NFT 500 similar to an S and P 500 or the blue chip index. So they're putting this index and pairing it against saying, how does this perform against prices? When Eve goes down, how does this index go up? Because it's hard to say NFTs as a whole. [00:05:28] So they're basketing this top group and showing how it shows strength. When in fact may maybe going down. It is giving me hope that during a, down a down cycle, which is where we are, I think Right. now that actually. Still makes sense to be shopping for or potential NFTs are the keep in mind, the historical window that we get to look at something like this is remarkably short, especially hilariously comparing it with something like the S and P, which is, standard and Poor's history of the stock market, as opposed to history of when we were putting digital images on the internet. [00:06:03] Yeah, but the history, and I think there's a few more regulations involved with going public and trading on the sec regulated market versus minting a new collection and being one of the top 500 at this point. Doesn't exactly sound Bluechip. I think that may need to. They need to be reduced somewhat. [00:06:22] I didn't read that it was 500. I did read they're basketing these in different indexes. I think it is. I think as we see the market mature, we will see different index products, even if they're just for tracking and tracking the health of the market. And we'll see them come together that look at NFPS in more nuanced categories, such as maybe 3d worlds or PFP projects and get a little bit more nuanced than just saying these are the top 500, I think for awhile, we probably should be hesitant to say that there's really 500 quality and FTE projects out there. [00:06:54] Yeah, that's fair. All right. Should we move into our affordable. [00:06:57] Yeah, here we go. What do you got for us today, George? You get another one? [00:07:02] I look, I fell bad again. I apologize already last episode. [00:07:07] for last week, I felt like I didn't bring the as awesome as I could have. And here it is, this is the killer one. So this is looking at a project called add a star Ava stars. And it's our creator is someone like Jimmy dot E I believe it is, but at a very well-known collector, throwing back to it was established in February of 2020, and it is all on chain generative characters. [00:07:34] And it was, I would say second to auto glyphs for full on chain art, according to my rough NFT history, and also a sort of collective agreed history of this. Along that same time was also chain faces a project that we called out a little while back, but avatars is all on chain. These images that are, they look like a profile pic and they have various designs and formats and layouts. [00:08:03] And currently I will say the floor of this is that 0.1, one, five, which I think is remarkably low for a project like this. I will say that. The project also now has the ability to mint replicas. So when you go in, make sure that you're looking at and finding originals, and as best I can tell you can find that in the in the filters of course, but the replicas. [00:08:30] the wave attribute I believe is what you're looking for. There. A prime and replicant. [00:08:35] there it is. Yeah. So the primes are 25. Thank you, Andrew. There are 25,000 primes and only 326 replicants. And again, the ability to recreate new ones so that you can merge and mix traits is paired. As long as you buy an art token, art tokens are currently around 50 bucks. So I think there's one. Interesting history here. And it's just, I feel like it's just getting overlooked because of all of the new hotness running around. Andrew, what do you see on this project? You actually, you're old enough to have actually mentored this back in the day. [00:09:10] So I had one yet, so they've got different series of these. And I had one, I believe, or I had a couple from one of the later series. I didn't have one from the earliest series. As I look at these now looking the gen zero series, there's only 200 of those. Those are the hefty floor price of 19.5 E whereas all the others are much more reasonable. [00:09:32] The the gen one or the series ones looks like they start at a 0.1, two, five. So I think it would be interesting to look, know, if we're looking at some of the historic value, I think it'd be just going to look at the release dates of those. I am sure the is that again, zeroes are actually the oldest pulling up. [00:09:50] One now. So the gen ones was still like this pier was actually. To Jimmy, the creator on May 12th, 2020. So that's actually pretty interesting that is sitting at the floor right now of the gen ones. That's a pretty old piece and has some historic value. Also consider when looking at this as just the various rarities of the attributes. [00:10:13] When I, so when I invented one of these, there were how it worked was you could create your character using picking various hair attributes or skin. No, Tats different things like this, but then at different times they would take a selection of the of these different choices away. Throughout the minting, they would reduce the numbers. [00:10:36] So some of these become more rare both by the fact that they aren't available at a certain point and some are chosen by the people that do them. So it's worth looking at those, I think. Cool project still. It's a relatively, somewhat large collection at 25,000, but I certainly wouldn't say that is a reason not to to look at it. [00:10:55] We've seen very large collections go achieve quite high for prices. Not a reason to stay away. Definitely interesting project here. And I think it's a good reminder to look at this one. I, I've realized I actually do hold one of these in my wallet right now, as I look at this I had one yeah, I had sold some, but I do have one in there. [00:11:13] I may look at, they look to pick another up here, George. [00:11:16] So here's how you can tell us a good project. I brought this to the table and I think, I may have convinced you to go buy another one. [00:11:23] Absolutely. I [00:11:24] good project. Yes, [00:11:26] really interested when you [00:11:27] also full disclosure. I may have just bought a man bun, a gen one, man bun. [00:11:32] did you do it as live on air as we're [00:11:35] I did it live on air gen one minute. Gas was too low for meeting with. [00:11:38] Ignore it. And also it's man been only 1%, 1% of man bonds. So there you go. Full disclosure. [00:11:45] I'll let you know listeners, when he matches his avatar. I assume he's going that way soon. [00:11:51] I don't think I can do it. But this is, so this is exactly. If we're going to tie into the theme here on the smooth transition, what would you buy right now? If you had five E and couldn't sell anything for three years, right? Those two things are unique. One of the guardrails here is five eight. Yes. [00:12:10] This is well beyond our normal affordable project. But the guard rail there is saying like, all right, you're going to put a sizable bet. Would you buy all into one thing or would you spread it out? And then if you have the mindset of holding for three years, what does the market look like? [00:12:24] And in some ways it takes the. This FOMO, panic of oh my gosh, this thing just ripped and dumped. I got to get in on it. Do you really think it's going to last three years from now? And it just puts a different lens on it. So I will kick off our debates saying, I, I brought out a Starz because it is an old stablish collection, at the prices run up way, way back in the day, but know. [00:12:46] It's been mostly drama, but I think when a larger community looks at the historical context of NFTs, this has a place in it. [00:12:52] Yeah, I agree. I think this holds a place. I think it also has a respected creator. Very likely to stick around the industry and not not be out of the picture in three years. I think that's an important thing. We've talked about this recently and our, just our most recent episode about the role of the creator in establishing value. [00:13:11] And you've really got to start thinking. Who are the creators that will stick with this, with the teams that will grow and continue to work on their projects for three years. And that's not easy to say at this point, because most of these projects are well under a year old avatars. We've got something different here that is, we're actually looking at something that's two years old here. [00:13:31] And, I know that's not a lot, but it's a lot more than what most teams have at this point. [00:13:35] Yeah. So in my basket, I would say I would be looking for projects. That are like this. And I don't have, like this full list, but I want something that was minted in 2020 or 2019. And maybe I would shop, I would put say or two weeks toward just shopping on like a looks rare or something like that to be like, All right. Let me find artists that have a cohesive collection that have been doing the work and trying to pick up. Varieties of art. Obviously you're not buying the next copy, but that's not to say you can't find some glitch art potentially in some early works like that. So I would consider pieces like that, that just have art with the capital, a types of appeal and an age to them because I get nervous. [00:14:23] I would get nervous. If anything, if I'm buying and holding for three years, I get nervous of anything that was like minted with. Hysteria where like the last four or five months I think it's just a different atmosphere. And if I'm going to hold something through three months, I better know that. [00:14:37] Like for instance, that the other episode I talked about calling up human park and I know that the virtual human studios is behind Zed run and they're funded and that that's a studio that's going to be around for awhile. that's interesting. Although I wouldn't throw out there. So what, w where would you throw a bucket of your five five-year magical investment? [00:14:55] All right. Yeah. So I think this is a, it's an initially question, what's going to stick around we've talked about. One project that I, that is historic in the past and we've mentioned it. And I think Boone cats is one that I would still put some in. And I think there are some concerns about how active they'll be. [00:15:11] But I also think that, if assuming things continue to. That the NFD marketplace continues to be active, that the team will be around that they do have plans to be on Coinbase. And I think that is good that the team will be around that long. And that it's a historic project. Going back to 2017 I don't have to look at the floor price of that recently, but I believe that's around half an ear. [00:15:33] Could do that well on, and still have a lot to play with and get some historic value there. I like the avatars play as a another I don't know, maybe one of the earliest PFPs that isn't, isn't punks and certainly had a lot. Customizability than almost any project that we still see now. [00:15:51] So I liked that play a lot there. Again, I think the historic value is I don't know, it's important to look at, and, but we also need to start thinking like, are there teams now that are going to be supplanting these more historic teams, as we've seen with UGA versus larva and I think that's a, that's a tougher question. [00:16:08] To answer right off the bat. What's your thought on that, George? [00:16:12] I think. Looking at a scan. If I just scan what is on the top crypto slam top traded top volume. I take a look at that and I'm like here's a perfect list of exactly what I would not be throwing money at right now, because one it's just not affordable. With, if we're talking about an ape or a immediate, like maybe you could grab a meet at four for that right now, but I absolutely would not do that. [00:16:34] Because again, when I put that guard rail of five feet, I wouldn't want to put it all in one big purchase and then hold it for three years. I'd much rather see it spread across a few bets one or two of which could go to a larger return and spread out. [00:16:50] And then, remember the conversations about reputation and what might happen there. I've seen. Other works, I think I'd want, I want to get into some generative pieces. And I know you're the expert really on, on a lot of those those generated pieces, but, I know we're both collectors of pod Gans. [00:17:08] And I think some of those are interesting and I I would want to dig in to say like, all right, what's the generative plan. I can't afford a squiggle. I know you got squigglies for days. But what is the the affordable play of it's clear that in this moment of time, right? [00:17:21] Three years from now in this moment of time. Oh my gosh. People went absolutely nuts for generative artwork. So how do you fill out part of that in important? [00:17:31] That's a good question. I was thinking about that and it's, like you said, I do have some squiggles and I look at that as a somewhat being a safe Safe play in generative art. Yes. Expensive. But I I. Tended to go there because it wasn't quite as susceptible to the, how the market is reacting. [00:17:48] It was the first art blocks project that really led the way for a lot of these. And, again, I looked at the historic value there. So I think it's, trying to look at some of that, what has changed things, pod Gans, I don't know if it definitely changed things, but it certainly was the, it helped establish that new. [00:18:02] That new platform for AI generated art, China. So I think trying to look at look at the pieces or look at artists that have been transformative. We've talked about a an affordable project from Dimitri cherniak in the past, I think in general, trying to look at some of those artists. [00:18:20] Like Casey Reyes who's another, just very influential generative artist who maybe is somewhat overlooked in NFTs at this point. That could be an interesting one that I know that he has some pieces out there that are fairly affordable at this point. And. I don't know, certainly seems like he's interested in sticking around, has done a number of projects and is working on a lot of new projects with art blocks and bright moments teams that I've worked with a bit. [00:18:44] Some other artists that I tend to think of Tyler Hobbs. I would just keep an eye out for things that he's connected to. He does a lot with the feral file. I'm sorry. That's I, you know what I have that mixed up that is Casey Rio's that does something with federal file, I believe. I think that's an interesting platform to look at as something that's been somewhat overlooked but does generative art. [00:19:05] And another thing that we've talked about in the past is looking at non theory based NFTs. And I think. The worth putting some into a platform like Tezos we haven't gone into it a lot. There are certainly plenty of different platforms to go and do, but Tezos is one of the earlier ones and there has been a lot of generative art there. [00:19:26] A lot of just art in general, I would say. I think so that's a, it's a tough one to filter through. We've started to look at it a bit and it's a little overwhelming. I have some pieces there from when it was a lot newer and there was a lot less there. It was a lot easier to just navigate that world. [00:19:41] I haven't spent a lot of time that recently, but I think it may be interesting because there's a chance that there's. Some other, some additional historic value added to those pieces. I don't know enough of about other chains at this point. Such as avalanche or over. Phantom any those too, to know what the NFT world is really like there. [00:20:01] I would stay in with Ethereum for the most part, but perhaps put a little bit into other chains to just play that potential that they end up, that those chains just end up being popular in the end. [00:20:11] Yeah. If we're talking on Teslas, the only one that caught my eye, I did a little bit of a dive on object.com. That's O B J. A t.com, which is like the open sea, for for the Tezos and market is Tizzard's, which seems to be. Randomly generated little lizard Tizard things. And it seems to be the G project as far as that can go on that platform. [00:20:34] So that might be my play there. I'll do more digging to decide if it's like affordable makes sense for a project to feature. But I would throw a dart at that maybe and part of that portfolio, because again, if it's been around this long, it holds a place it's ridiculous for its own. It could have value again in three years. Cause what we're doing is walking this in a box and not touching it for three years, which just forces you to think a little bit differently about it. Notably absent. I was thinking about this notably absent from my basket would be game NFTs, simply because with games I'm very bullish this year on that, but they take so much careful monitoring. And management that I wouldn't necessarily trust that it would make sense to hold it for three years, as opposed to have some sort of unique opportunity to do something weird with it. Flip it, breed it, whatever it, and so I, we get nervous putting games in, into this basket that said this is a bit of a cheat, but I have been thinking about how important. How important. I think that dapper labs is going to be in the next three years of onboarding people and specifically their flow token, I think gets overlooked. Now it's not an NFT play, I'm thinking about how. It is a backdoor into saying like, all right, I'm not gonna collect NBA top shot or the, maybe NFL, I'll take a look at it, but it could be a backdoor at the same. [00:21:55] How do I make a bet on that platform as a whole? I'm an NFT way looking at flow token, but That's a little bit of a cheat. [00:22:03] yeah, that might be a little bit G I wouldn't actually rule out as an MBA top shot. I don't have much, but I do have some, a couple from season one. And again, somewhat of a historic thing helped usher in a lot of people to NFTs and. Debra labs going away anytime soon. I don't think, I don't know what the price is. [00:22:21] There are a lot of like right now, I'm sure there are values to be had with certain players, certainly that you could put some towards that with the five, eight under the five eith allocation. And feel like he's still got a lot to play with otherwise, but I think that might be interesting again. [00:22:36] To get out of necessarily just going with Ethereum based NFTs. And I think that is a question that we'd have, that you really have to look at when you're saying buy and hold for three years. What do you think of the chain that it's on is that network going to continue to hold value or to rise in value and are the pieces that are minted on it, going to hold that value or, are they gonna be valued in. [00:22:56] USD. And, if the Arrium, I shouldn't mention the report that we talked about earlier was talking about a theory based NFTs and they made that very specific. They didn't, they're saying that. The value of the NFTs that are held in a theory, them were held a value better than crypto tokens over that time period that they looked at. [00:23:16] So it's, it is interesting that you've got to take into account the value of the tokens that the the NFT is actually transacted in. And we've talked about that a bit in the past. I think, when you're thinking about this, how much are you taking that into account? Do you think of Ethereum is going to continue to hold that. [00:23:31] I think if I'm putting out all of the horses in the race, absolutely. This year, we're going to see the improvements to proof of stake over proof of work in the merge and Ethereum as a platform, if you look at it with regards to a PE ratio, it's actually being used, burned and utilized a lot more than any other token. [00:23:53] And in our current drop a lot of tokens have taken a haircut. Eve is still, hanging in into the mid, 2,500 to 3000 range. And it's still, half off, a high, as opposed to 90% off of a high, it is a strong platform to, to bet on all ready on a risky asset. [00:24:10] And yeah, I think that is why we've brought up that. [00:24:12] article and I like this basket, I think this basket would potentially do. It's risky. And we're talking about, buying images and find images on the internet. But I think having that lens, especially during right now and during recession shopping, we're where things are down to have that mindset of like, all right, there are, there is value out here and there's not a lot of customers running around, buying up stuff. Where's that value instead of. Trying to contemplate whether or not you should, ape into Abe token, which I have already warned, I believe will go down because of money versus go and find a project it's just straight up overlooked, but has long-term potential value. [00:24:48] Yeah, I like that play. I think going small, with a lot of these different projects is the way to go here. It's really difficult to pick one that is definitely going to work out in three years, especially at that five eighth level. I think, at any level, I should say I don't think that I could say with a hundred percent, or I can't say with a hundred percent certain that any of these will be around in three years. [00:25:09] So it's better to take a number of risks here and try multiple things. And I think there's a lot of value to be had in the market right now, if you can sift through things and come up with the projects that are being overlooked, it's not necessarily the easiest thing, but I think we've had a few good ideas here. [00:25:24] And I think that they can also, by looking at some of these. It's leads you to others. If you start looking at things that are admitted at a certain time, you can start finding other wallets. It may have been active at that time and what else it may have been doing. It takes some digging, but I think, if you had a month to do it, and this is the way that I would start going about it. [00:25:40] All right. I say we wrap it on there. It was a fun. What if keep it in the back of your mind? What if you had to hold whatever you were buying for three years and it. [00:25:46] may change how you are making that next purchase. Andrew, thanks so much for the advice and thoughts on. [00:25:53] All right. Good talking, George.
“It can be said that life's perhaps most fundamental dynamic is the attempt to move from a lower form of experience and consciousness to a higher (or deeper) level of consciousness.” In this episode of Made You Think, Nat and Neil discuss their key takeaways from King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. This book presents the 4 archetypes of manhood, and explores what undeveloped masculinity looks like in the form of the archetype Shadows. In this episode of Made You Think, we cover a wide range of topics including: The differences in Male vs. Female adulthood initiation King and Tyrant energy in politicians The rise in adult male virginity in the past decade The Shadows of each of the 4 archetypes Underdeveloped masculinity (Otherwise known as Boy psychology) And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat and Neil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Maasai Ritual (15:59) The Business of Being Born (30:53) Tonic Masculinity - Dr. Cam Sepah (42:03) Manager vs. Leader (47:15) Warrior Genes (59:18) Adult male virginity stats (1:08:40) Filtering by height on Bumble (1:09:21) FDA tweet on national cereal day(1:14:21) Colin Powell's 40-70 rule (1:40:53) OKCupid blog archive (1:47:14) SolPay (1:50:15) Books Mentioned: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover The Way of the Superior Man (1:07) (Nat's Book Notes) 12 Rules for Life (1:57) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Laws of Human Nature (2:10) (Book Episode) Man and His Symbols (2:14) The Fourth Turning (11:09) The Power of Myth (15:10) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Escape from Freedom (22:13) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Dictator's Handbook (57:01) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Mate (1:06:06) (Nat's Book Notes) Models (1:06:08) (Nat's Book Notes) What Got You Here Won't Get You There (1:17:08) Extreme Ownership (1:23:48) (Nat's Book Notes) The Alchemy of Finance (1:39:20) Flow (1:43:43) Thinking, Fast and Slow (1:44:23) Layered Money (1:53:46) People Mentioned: David Deida (1:09) Joseph Campbell (2:01) Robert Greene (2:07) Carl Jung (2:14) Paul Millerd (2:34) Robert Moore (5:17) Douglas Gillette (5:17) Tucker Max (31:00) Dr. Cam Sepah (42:01) Jordan Peterson (52:44) NLE Choppa (1:05:49) Mark Manson (1:06:08) James Altucher (1:28:05) Tony Robbins (1:29:47) Show Topics: 0:30 In today's episode, Nat and Neil cover the book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. This is the first book episode since Episode 66 with just Nat and Neil (featuring pop-ins from Pepper and Baby Eliason!). 5:12 King, Warrior, Magician, Lover provides a blend of psychology and ancient tradition. Moore and Gillette define four male archetypes that stand out through history, as well as the shadow forms of each of the archetypes. 7:52 Masculinity doesn't mean these ideas are just for men; it's a spectrum. It's just as beneficial for women to know and understand these archetypes and their shadows, too. 10:15 Knowing all forms of these archetypes, including the shadow form, can allow you to better adapt as an adult. The book's definition of patriarchy: "In our view, patriarchy is not the expression of deep and rooted masculinity, for truly deep and rooted masculinity is not abusive. Patriarchy is the expression of the immature masculine. It is the expression of Boy psychology, and, in part, the shadow—or crazy—side of masculinity. It expresses the stunted masculine, fixated at immature levels." 14:12 Boy psychology. A lot of what may be considered toxic masculinity today is what the book would call underdeveloped masculinity, or Boy psychology. Today, there seems to be a lack of societal rituals or clear transitions that take you from your boy stage to your man stage. In essence, your Boy ego has to die for your Adult ego to be created, it's not clear where that happens. 18:57 During your teenage years, you're somewhat psychologically competent to be an adult, but with so many restrictions on schooling, parenting, etc. it doesn't allow a lot of freedom to explore independence. It also creates a household struggle because there's not much externally to struggle against. If you're not being psychologically stimulated and challenged outside of the home, you may create that challenge in the form of conflict within your home. For many, the desire for challenge and quest is met through sports or other extra curricular activities. 22:04 School doesn't solve this desire for challenge, it may arguably make it worse. The struggle teens face with school isn't a struggle that is meaningful or fulfilling. In school, your work is mainly about following a rubric or certain criteria, which limits creativity and fits students into a box. It's not until college where young adults are given more autonomy and responsibility. Even then, many students still fit themselves into the box that they think they're supposed to be in. 27:51 The difference between male adulthood initiation and female adulthood initiation. There are completely different experiences between men and women who become first-time parents, because women are the ones carrying the baby and experiencing all that comes with it. 30:30 It can be argued that in some ways, modernity is destroying the womanhood initiation ritual around giving birth. The birthing industry in hospitals isn't designed around creating the best experience for the mother or retaining the sacredness of the experience. 36:38 Being more aware of environmental factors, diet, sunlight risks, etc. once you're a parent. 40:22 "They are all boys pretending to be men. They got that way honestly, because nobody showed them what a mature man is like. Their kind of “manhood” is a pretense to manhood that goes largely undetected as such by most of us. We are continually mistaking this man's controlling, threatening, and hostile behaviors for strength. In reality, he is showing an underlying extreme vulnerability and weakness, the vulnerability of the wounded boy." This quote gives insight on the wounded boy mentality, similar to what Nat and Neil reference a high-chair tyrant. 42:44 Nat and Neil introduce the 4 archetypes: King, Warrior, Magician and Lover. King energy in many ways is father energy. Being a good King isn't about being a ruler, it's about being a good leader and being able to provide strength and security. Kids want a noble father figure to look up to in order to see a sense of security and leadership. When they don't have that, they don't feel as secure within the family unit. 47:49 King energy is feeling present, centered, and in control. The inverse of King is similar to a Tyrant, who is never satisfied. The Tyrant is always looking for more material things, more work, and worries nonstop. 51:48 We all have King energy in us, and when you don't think you can rely on your own King energy, you form a dependency on someone else for that security instead. As a child, your father should be the source of the King energy, and manhood is when you begin develop your own King energy internally. 54:01 King energy in politics. On some level, the sense of hopelessness as civilians may come from a lack of King energy in politicians. Not many leaders are strong in their sense of King energy, but many give the Tyrant energy. King energy in political leaders fosters a sense of security and hope. 58:25 Warrior energy. Warrior instinct is a part of us in our psychology. You need to embrace your Warrior energy so the shadow side isn't manifested. Nat and Neil talk about warrior genes. How to channel your Warrior energy for good uses. 1:02:08 How do you measure if you're the best you can be? It's hard to test that. There's physical combat, physical challenges, intellectual challenges, but there's not much else to accurately measure this. If you have weak Warrior energy, everything is happening to you and you feel like nothing ever goes right. With positive Warrior energy, you're in control and choosing your fate. "The warrior is always alert. He is always awake. He is never sleeping through life. He knows how to focus his mind and his body. He is what the samurai called “mindful.” He is a “hunter” in the Native American tradition." 1:06:05 The choice of letting a situation or environment rule you can evoke the shadow version of these archetypes. Inversely, if you maintain control of your situation, you can harness the proactive and positive versions of these personalities. Sometimes you have to do what's hard to live a fuller life, and not settle for the easier choices that end up being unhealthy for you. 1:08:32 The rise in male virginity, especially since 2008. Is it due to dating apps and advance in technology? 1:15:04 Shadow Warrior energy can appear similar to an obsessive-compulsive personality. This is where you overcommit and take on too many challenges. The compulsive personality digs in and works harder rather than taking a step back when faced with danger signs. The healthy Warrior knows what to destroy in order to create. 1:20:16 Magician archetype: There's a duality in the Magician and Warrior archetypes because the Warrior is the one who acts and implements while the Magician is the thinker and the planner. It pays to have a healthy balance of both archetypes. 1:23:45 A good leader is able to step back and observe so the best decisions can be made. If you're too high on Warrior energy without the Magician energy, you may be doing too much action with little to no thought. And vice versa. 1:27:02 Using access to special knowledge for selfish purposes or for power, similar to negative gurus with overpriced content. 1:34:25 The Manipulator is the shadow side of the Magician. They always seek to control their experience and how others perceive them. “Whenever we are detached, unrelated, and withholding what we know could help others, whenever we use our knowledge as a weapon to belittle and control others or to bolster our status or wealth at others' expense, we are identified with the Shadow Magician as Manipulator. We are doing black magic, damaging ourselves as well as those who could benefit from our wisdom.” 1:37:29 Lover archetype, perhaps the most spiritual one. The Lover is very creative, and is in touch with their premonitions or intuitions about people, situations, or their future. 1:40:53 A lot of people want to have 100% of the information before making a decision, but it can take too long to have all of the information. If you have 40-70% of the information needed to make a decision you should make the decision. Any less than that, you may not make a good choice. 1:44:48 The Addict is the inverse to the Lover. The Addict rides on the ultimate and continuous high, adventure to adventure. Addictive behavior. 1:48:21 Thanks for listening! If you want to read ahead before our next episode, make sure to pick up a copy of The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS and @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. 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Do good manners exist anymore? And what are they if they do? America is divided on seemingly every question of truth and morality. As a result, what is meant by being polite or rude can be relied on to differ as well. Depending on the religion and politics of the part of the country you find yourself in, and depending on the people you are interacting with there, what might pass without notice in one place will be seen and heard as very offensive in another. In a rather progressive setting, for instance, you will probably find that it is considered rude to not use preferred pronouns and celebrate when a gay or lesbian couple announces their engagement. In more conservative settings, meanwhile, efforts at liberalizing the tone and tenor of a convention are met with outrage. To disagree substantively about politics and religion in many settings may be considered impolite. Passions will likely be excited. People will get upset, and everyone will feel uncomfortable. "Love is not rude" and "it is not irritable or resentful." So writes the Apostle Paul in his first epistle to the church in Corinth in what we typically refer to as "the love chapter." To my mind, this more than suggests that there is such a thing as rudeness, however it might differ from place to place and depending on your company. And if rudeness exists, so also must its opposite. But that is just another way of saying that politeness and manners exist in some objective sense. Where Paul writes that love is not rude then, we have to conclude also that love is polite and has good manners. Inversely, we must assume that actual good manners are aligned with love. As with good manners, defining love can prove tricky depending on our context. What passes for love in the mainstream and what God tells us about true love are more and more two wholly different things. Perhaps these two things are closely related, though - our changing definitions of love and our changing definitions of good manners. Proverbs comes to mind where we are told that open rebuke is better than hidden love. And in the very next verse we read "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy." This too should be instructive when we try to define good manners, since we need to define these things in order to learn them and teach them to our children. In the Deep South, for instance, it is usually understood that when someone says "Bless your heart" what they really mean is that someone is being foolish and naïve. And people in that part of the country say "bless your heart" instead of calling the person simpleminded to their face because of the kind of manners which are understood as proper. But when there is a shared understanding of how things will be taken, and when love is understood as the driver of the comment, we are not easily offended. Moreover, even when the meaning is less than clear, love will see us not taking offense too easily anymore than risking that we will give offense without careful consideration. The fact that love is not rude therefore means we do not give needless offense. But what about when we have to risk the other person being upset with us by disagreeing with them because we do love them? This is where things get tricky. And herein lies dilemmas which must be resolved. Yet without a fixed and objective standard of truth, goodness, and beauty, they can never be resolved, and we will argue endlessly about what is or is not polite. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support
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About StephanieStephanie Wong is an award-winning speaker, engineer, pageant queen, and hip hop medalist. She is a leader at Google with a mission to blend storytelling and technology to create remarkable developer content. At Google, she's created over 400 videos, blogs, courses, and podcasts that have helped developers globally. You might recognize her as the host of the GCP Podcast. Stephanie is active in her community, fiercely supporting women in tech and mentoring students.Links: Personal Website: https://stephrwong.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephr_wong TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. 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This means you can provision a virtual machine instance or spin up an autonomous database that manages itself all while gaining the networking load, balancing and storage resources that somehow never quite make it into most free tiers needed to support the application that you want to build. With Always Free, you can do things like run small scale applications or do proof-of-concept testing without spending a dime. You know that I always like to put asterisks next to the word free. This is actually free, no asterisk. Start now. Visit snark.cloud/oci-free that's snark.cloud/oci-free.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. One of the things that makes me a little weird in the universe is that I do an awful lot of… let's just call it technology explanation slash exploration in public, and turning it into a bit of a brand-style engagement play. What makes this a little on the weird side is that I don't work for a big company, which grants me a tremendous latitude. I have a whole lot of freedom that lets me be all kinds of different things, and I can't get fired, which is something I'm really good at.Inversely, my guest today is doing something remarkably similar, except she does work for a big company and could theoretically be fired if they were foolish enough to do so. But I don't believe that they are. Stephanie Wong is the head of developer engagement at Google. Stephanie, thank you for volunteering to suffer my slings and arrows about all of this.Stephanie: [laugh]. Thanks so much for having me today, Corey.Corey: So, at a very high level, you're the head of developer engagement, which is a term that I haven't seen a whole lot of. Where does that start and where does that stop?Stephanie: Yeah, so I will say that it's a self-proclaimed title a bit because of the nuance of what I do. I would say at its heart, I am still a part of developer relations. If you've heard of developer advocacy or developer evangelist, I would say this slight difference in shade of what I do is that I focus on scalable content creation and becoming a central figure for our developer audiences to engage and enlighten them with content that, frankly, is remarkable, and that they'd want to share and learn about our technology.Corey: Your bio is fascinating in that it doesn't start with the professional things that most people do with, “This is my title and this is my company,” is usually the first sentence people put in. Yours is, “Stephanie Wong is an award-winning speaker, engineer, pageant queen, and hip hop medalist.” Which is both surprising and more than a little bit refreshing because when I read a bio like that my immediate instinctive reaction is, “Oh, thank God. It's a real person for a change.” I like the idea of bringing the other aspects of what you are other than, “This is what goes on in an IDE, the end,” to your audience.Stephanie: That is exactly the goal that I had when creating that bio because I truly believe in bringing more interdisciplinary and varied backgrounds to technology. I, myself have gone through a very unconventional path to get to where I am today and I think in large part, my background has had a lot to do with my successes, my failures, and really just who I am in tech as an uninhibited and honest, credible person today.Corey: I think that there's a lack of understanding, broadly, in our industry about just how important credibility and authenticity are and even the source of where they come from. There are a lot of folks who are in the DevRel space—devrelopers, as I insist upon calling them, over their protests—where, on some level, the argument is, what is developer relations? “Oh, you work in marketing, but they're scared to tell you,” has been my gag on that one for a while. But they speak from a position of, “I know what's what because I have been in the trenches, working on these large-scale environments as an engineer for the last”—fill in the blank, however long it may have been—“And therefore because I have done things, I am going to tell you how it is.” You explicitly call out that you don't come from the traditional, purely technical background. Where did you come from? It's unlikely that you've sprung fully-formed from the forehead of some god, but again, I'm not entirely sure how Google finds and creates the folks that it winds up advancing, so maybe you did.Stephanie: Well, to tell you the truth. We've all come from divine creatures. And that's where Google sources all employees. So. You know. But—[laugh].Corey: Oh, absolutely. “We climbed to the top of Olympus and then steal fire from the gods.” “It's like, isn't that the origin story of Prometheus?” “Yeah, possibly.” But what is your background? Where did you come from?Stephanie: So, I have grown up, actually, in Silicon Valley, which is a little bit ironic because I didn't go to school for computer science or really had the interest in becoming an engineer in school. I really had no idea.Corey: Even been more ironic than that because most of Silicon Valley appears to never have grown up at all.Stephanie: [laugh]. So, true. Maybe there's a little bit of that with me, too. Everybody has a bit of Peter Pan syndrome here, right? Yeah, I had no idea what I wanted to do in school and I just knew that I had an interest in communicating with one another, and I ended up majoring in communication studies.I thought I wanted to go into the entertainment industry and go into production, which is very different and ended up doing internships at Warner Brothers Records, a YouTube channel for dance—I'm a dancer—and I ended up finding a minor in digital humanities, which is sort of this interdisciplinary minor that combines technology and the humanities space, including literature, history, et cetera. So, that's where I got my start in technology, getting an introduction to information systems and doing analytics, studying social media for certain events around the world. And it wasn't until after school that I realized that I could work in enterprise technology when I got an offer to be a sales engineer. Now, that being said, I had no idea what sales engineering was. I just knew it had something to do with enterprise technology and communications, and I thought it was a good fit for my background.Corey: The thing that I find so interesting about that is that it breaks the mold of what people expect, when, “If someone's going to talk to me about technology—especially coming from a”—it's weird; it's one of the biggest companies on the planet, and people still on some level equate Google with the startup-y mentality of being built in someone's garage. That's an awfully big garage these days, if that's even slightly close to true, which it isn't. But there's this idea of, “Oh, you have to go to Stanford. You have to get a degree in computer science. And then you have to go and do this, this, this, this, and this.”And it's easy to look dismissively at what you're doing. “Communications? Well, all that would teach you to do is communicate to people clearly and effectively. What possible good is that in tech?” As we look around the landscape and figure out exactly why that is so necessary in tech, and also so lacking?Stephanie: Exactly. I do think it's an underrated skill in tech. Maybe it's not so much anymore, but I definitely think that it has been in the past. And even for developers, engineers, data scientists, other technical practitioner, especially as a person in DevRel, I think it's such a valuable skill to be able to communicate complex topics simply and understandably to a wide variety of audiences.Corey: The big question that I have for you because I've talked to an awful lot of folks who are very concerned about the way that they approach developer relations, where—they'll have ratios, for example—where I know someone and he insists that he give one deeply technical talk for every four talks that are not deeply technical, just because he feels the need to re-establish and shore up his technical bona fides. Now, if there's one thing that people on the internet love, it is correcting people on things that are small trivia aspect, or trying to pull out the card that, “Oh, I've worked on this system for longer than you've worked on this system, therefore, you should defer to me.” Do you find that you face headwinds for not having the quote-unquote, “Traditional” engineering technical background?Stephanie: I will say that I do a bit. And I did, I would say when I first joined DevRel, and I don't know if it was much more so that it was being imposed on me or if it was being self-imposed, something that I felt like I needed to prove to gain credibility, not just in my organization, but in the industry at large. And it wasn't until two or three years into it, that I realized that I had a niche myself. It was to create stories with my content that could communicate these concepts to developers just as effectively. And yes, I can still prove that I can go into an hour-long or a 45-minute-long tech talk or a webinar about a topic, but I can also easily create a five to ten-minute video that communicates concepts and inspires audiences just the same, and more importantly, be able to point to resources, code labs, tutorials, GitHub repos, that can allow the audience to be hands-on themselves, too. So really, I think that it was over time that I gained more experience and realized that my skill sets are valuable in a different way, and it's okay to have a different background as long as you bring something to the table.Corey: And I think that it's indisputable that you do. The concept of yours that I've encountered from time to time has always been insightful, it is always been extremely illuminating, and—you wouldn't think of this as worthy of occasion and comment, but I feel it needs to be said anyway—at no point in any of your content did I feel like I was being approached in a condescending way, where at every point it was always about uplifting people to a level of understanding, rather than doing the, “Well, I'm smarter than you and you couldn't possibly understand the things that I've been to.” It is relatable, it is engaging, and you add a very human face to what is admittedly an area of industry that is lacking in a fair bit of human element.Stephanie: Yeah, and I think that's the thing that many folks DevRel continue to underline is the idea of empathy, empathizing with your audiences, empathizing with the developers, the engineers, the data engineers, whoever it is that you're creating content for, it's being in their shoes. But for me, I may not have been in those shoes for years, like many other folks historically have been in for DevRel, but I want to at least go through the journey of learning a new piece of technology. For example, if I'm learning a new platform on Google Cloud, going through the steps of creating a demo, or walking through a tutorial, and then candidly explaining that experience to my audience, or creating a video about it. I really just reject the idea of having ego in tech and I would love to broaden the opportunity for folks who came from a different background like myself. I really want to just represent the new world of technology where it wasn't full of people who may have had the privilege to start coding at a very early age, in their garages.Corey: Yeah, privilege of, in many respects, also that privilege means, “Yes, I had the privilege of not having to have friends and deal with learning to interact with other human beings, which is what empowered me to build this company and have no social skills whatsoever.” It's not the aspirational narrative that we sometimes are asked to believe. You are similar in some respects to a number of things that I do—by which I mean, you do it professionally and well and I do it as basically performance shitpost art—but you're on Twitter, you make videos, you do podcasts, you write long-form and short-form as well. You are sort of all across the content creation spectrum. Which of those things do you prefer to do? Which ones of those are things you find a little bit more… “Well, I have to do it, but it's not my favorite?” Or do you just tend to view it as content is content; you just look at different media to tell your story?Stephanie: Well, I will say any form of content is queen—I'm not going to say king, but—[laugh] content is king, content is queen, it doesn't matter.Corey: Content is a baroness as it turns out.Stephanie: [laugh]. There we go. I have to say, so given my background, I mentioned I was into production and entertainment before, so I've always had a gravitation towards video content. I love tinkering with cameras. Actually, as I got started out at Google Cloud, I was creating scrappy content using webcams and my own audio equipment, and doing my own research, and finding lounges and game rooms to do that, and we would just upload it to our own YouTube channel, which probably wasn't allowed at the time, but hey, we got by with it.And eventually, I got approached by DevRel to start doing it officially on the channel and I was given budget to do it in-studio. And so that was sort of my stepping stone to doing this full-time eventually, which I never foresaw for myself. And so yeah, I have this huge interest in—I'm really engaged with video content, but once I started expanding and realizing that I could repurpose that content for podcasting, I could repurpose it for blogs, then you start to realize that you can shard content and expand your reach exponentially with this. So, that's when I really started to become more active on social media and leverage it to build not just content for Google Cloud, but build my own brand in tech.Corey: That is the inescapable truth of DevRel done right is that as you continue doing it, in time, in your slice of the industry, it is extremely likely that your personal brand eclipses the brand of the company that you represent. And it's in many ways a test of corporate character—if it makes sense—as do how they react to that. I've worked in roles before I started this place where I was starting to dabble with speaking a lot, and there was always a lot of insecurity that I picked up of, “Well, it feels like you're building your personal brand, not advancing the company here, and we as a company do not see the value in you doing that.” Direct quote from the last boss I had. And, well, that partially explains why I'm here, I suppose.But there's insecurity there. I'd see the exact opposite coming out of Google, especially in recent times. There's something almost seems to be a renaissance in Google Cloud, and I'm not sure where it came from. But if I look at it across the board, and you had taken all the labels off of everything, and you had given me a bunch of characteristics about different companies, I would never have guessed that you were describing Google when you're talking about Google Cloud. And perhaps that's unfair, but perceptions shape reality.Stephanie: Yeah, I find that interesting because I think traditionally in DevRel, we've also hired folks for their domain expertise and their brand, depending on what you're representing, whether it's in the Kubernetes space or Python client library that you're supporting. But it seems like, yes, in my case, I've organically started to build my brand while at Google, and Google has been just so spectacular in supporting that for me. But yeah, it's a fine line that I think many people have to walk. It's like, do you want to continue to build your own brand and have that carry forth no matter what company you stay at, or if you decide to leave? Or can you do it hand-in-hand with the company that you're at? For me, I think I can do it hand-in-hand with Google Cloud.Corey: It's taken me a long time to wrap my head around what appears to be a contradiction when I look at Google Cloud, and I think I've mostly figured it out. In the industry, there is a perception that Google as an entity is condescending and sneering toward every other company out there because, “You're Google, you know how to do all these great, amazing things that are global-spanning, and over here at Twitter for Pets, we suck doing these things.” So, Google is always way smarter and way better at this than we could ever hope to be. But that is completely opposed to my personal experiences talking with Google employees. Across the board, I would say that you all are self-effacing to a fault.And I mean that in the sense of having such a limited ego, in some cases, that it's, “Well, I don't want to go out there and do a whole video on this. It's not about me, it's about the technology,” are things that I've had people who work at Google say to me. And I appreciate the sentiment; it's great, but that also feels like it's an aloofness. It also fails to humanize what it is that you're doing. And you are a, I've got to say, a breath of fresh air when it comes to a lot of that because your stories are not just, “Here's how you do a thing. It's awesome. And this is all the intricacies of the API.”And yeah, you get there, but you also contextualize that in a, “Here's why it matters. Here's the problem that solves. Here is the type of customer's problem that this is great for,” rather than starting with YAML and working your way up. It's going the other way, of, “We want to sell some underpants,” or whatever it is the customer is trying to do today. And that is the way that I think is one of the best ways to drive adoption of what's going on because if you get people interested and excited about something—at least in my experience—they're going to figure out how the API works. Badly in many cases, but works. But if you start on the API stuff, it becomes a solution looking for a problem. I like your approach to this.Stephanie: Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate that. I think also something that I've continued to focus on is to tell stories across products, and it doesn't necessarily mean within just Google Cloud's ecosystem, but across the industry as well. I think we need to, even at Google, tell a better story across our product space and tie in what developers are currently using. And I think the other thing that I'm trying to work on, too, is contextualizing our products and our launches not just across the industry, but within our product strategy. Where does this tie in? Why does it matter? What is our forward-looking strategy from here? When we're talking about our new data cloud products or analytics, [unintelligible 00:17:21], how does this tie into our API strategy?Corey: And that's the biggest challenge, I think, in the AI space. My argument has been for a while—in fact, I wrote a blog post on it earlier this year—that AI and machine learning is a marvelously executed scam because it's being pushed by cloud providers and the things that you definitely need to do a machine learning experiment are a bunch of compute and a whole bunch of data that has to be stored on something, and wouldn't you know it, y'all sell that by the pound. So, it feels, from a cynical perspective, which I excel at espousing, that approach becomes one of you're effectively selling digital pickaxes into a gold rush. Because I see a lot of stories about machine learning how to do very interesting things that are either highly, highly use-case-specific, which great, that would work well, for me too, if I ever wind up with, you know, a petabyte of people's transaction logs from purchasing coffee at my national chain across the country. Okay, that works for one company, but how many companies look like that?And on the other side of it, “It's oh, here's how we can do a whole bunch of things,” and you peel back the covers a bit, and it looks like, “Oh, but you really taught me here is bias laundering?” And, okay. I think that there's a definite lack around AI and machine learning of telling stories about how this actually matters, what sorts of things people can do with it that aren't incredibly—how do I put this?—niche or a problem in search of a solution?Stephanie: Yeah, I find that there are a couple approaches to creating content around AI and other technologies, too, but one of them being inspirational content, right? Do you want to create something that tells the story of how I created a model that can predict what kind of bakery item this is? And we're going to do it by actually showcasing us creating the outcome. So, that's one that's more like, okay. I don't know how relatable or how appropriate it is for an enterprise use case, but it's inspirational for new developers or next gen developers in the AI space, and I think that can really help a company's brand, too.The other being highly niche for the financial services industry, detecting financial fraud, for example, and that's more industry-focused. I found that they both do well, in different contexts. It really depends on the channel that you're going to display it on. Do you want it to be viral? It really depends on what you're measuring your content for. I'm curious from you, Corey, what you've seen across, as a consumer of content?Corey: What's interesting, at least in my world, is that there seems to be, given that what I'm focusing on first and foremost is the AWS ecosystem, it's not that I know it the best—I do—but at this point, it's basically Stockholm Syndrome where it's… with any technology platform when you've worked with it long enough, you effectively have the most valuable of skill sets around it, which is not knowing how it works, but knowing how it doesn't, knowing what the failure mode is going to look like and how you can work around that and detect it is incredibly helpful. Whereas when you're trying something new, you have to wait until it breaks to find the sharp edges on it. So, there's almost a lock-in through, “We failed you enough times,” story past a certain point. But paying attention to that ecosystem, I find it very disjointed. I find that there are still events that happen and I only find out when the event is starting because someone tweets about it, and for someone who follows 40 different official AWS RSS feeds, to be surprised by something like that tells me, okay, there's not a whole lot of cohesive content strategy here, that is at least making it easy for folks to consume the things that they want, especially in my case where even the very niche nature of what I do, my interest is everything.I have a whole bunch of different filters that look for various keywords and the rest, and of course, I have helpful folks who email me things constantly—please keep it up; I'm a big fan—worst case, I'd rather read something twice than nothing. So, it's helpful to see all of that and understand the different marketing channels, different personas, and the way that content approaches, but I still find things that slip through the cracks every time. The thing that I've learned—and it felt really weird when I started doing it—was, I will tell the same stories repeatedly in different forums, or even the same forum. I could basically read you a Twitter thread from a year ago, word-for-word, and it would blow up bigger than it did the first time. Just because no one reads everything.Stephanie: Exactly.Corey: And I've already told my origin story. You're always new to someone. I've given talks internally at Amazon at various times, and I'm sort of loud and obnoxious, but the first question I love to ask is, “Raise your hand if you've never heard of me until today.” And invariably, over three-quarters of the room raises their hand every single time, which okay, great. I think that's awesome, but it teaches me that I cannot ever expect someone to have, quote-unquote, “Done the reading.”Stephanie: I think the same can be said about the content that I create for the company. You can't assume that people, A) have seen my tweets already or, B) understand this product, even if I've talked about it five times in the past. But yes, I agree. I think that you definitely need to have a content strategy and how you format your content to be more problem-solution-oriented.And so the way that I create content is that I let them fall into three general buckets. One being that it could be termed definition: talking about the basics, laying the foundation of a product, defining terms around a topic. Like, what is App Engine, or Kubeflow 101, or talking about Pub/Sub 101.The second being best practices. So, outlining and explaining the best practices around a topic, how do you design your infrastructure for scale and reliability.And the third being diagnosis: investigating; exploring potential issues, as you said; using scripts; Stackdriver logging, et cetera. And so I just kind of start from there as a starting point. And then I generally follow a very, very effective model. I'm sure you're aware of it, but it's called the five point argument model, where you are essentially telling a story to create a compelling narrative for your audience, regardless of the topic or what bucket that topic falls into.So, you're introducing the problem, you're sort of rising into a point where the climax is the solution. And that's all to build trust with your audience. And as it falls back down, you're giving the results in the conclusion, and that's to inspire action from your audience. So, regardless of what you end up talking about this problem-solution model—I've found at least—has been highly effective. And then in terms of sharing it out, over and over again, over the span of two months, that's how you get the views that you want.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by something new. Cloud Academy is a training platform built on two primary goals. 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And I do it from time to time, but you know, getting gussied up and whatnot is easier than just talking into a microphone. As I record this, it's Friday, I'm wearing a Hawaiian shirt, and I look exactly like the middle-aged dad that I am. And for me at least, a big breakthrough moment was realizing that my audience and I are not always the same.Weird confession for someone in my position: I don't generally listen to podcasts. And the reason behind that is I read very quickly, and even if I speed up a podcast, I'm not going to be able to consume the information nearly as quickly as I could by reading it. That, amongst other reasons, is one of the reasons that every episode of this show has a full transcript attached to it. But I'm not my audience. Other people prefer to learn by listening and there's certainly nothing wrong with that.My other podcast, the AWS Morning Brief, is the spoken word version of the stuff that I put out in my newsletter every week. And that is—it's just a different area for people to consume the content because that's what works for them. I'm not one to judge. The hard part for me was getting over that hump of assuming the audience was like me.Stephanie: Yeah. And I think the other key part of is just mainly consistency. It's putting out the content consistently in different formats because everybody—like you said—has a different learning style. I myself do. I enjoy visual styles.I also enjoy listening to podcasts at 2x speed. [laugh]. So, that's my style. But yeah, consistency is one of the key things in building content, and building an audience, and making sure that you are valuable to your audience. I mean, social media, at the end of the day is about the people that follow you.It's not about yourself. It should never be about yourself. It's about the value that you provide. Especially as somebody who's in DevRel in this position for a larger company, it's really about providing value.Corey: What are the breakthrough moments that I had relatively early in my speaking career—and I think it's clear just from what you've already said that you've had a similar revelation at times—I gave a talk, that was really one of my first talks that went semi-big called, “Terrible Ideas in Git.” It was basically, learn how to use Git via anti-pattern. What it secretly was, was under the hood, I felt it was time I learned Git a bit better than I did, so I pitched it and I got a talk accepted. So well, that's what we call a forcing function. By the time I give that talk, I'd better be [laugh] able to have built a talk that do this intelligently, and we're going to hope for the best.It worked, but the first version of that talk I gave was super deep into the plumbing of Git. And I'm sure that if any of the Git maintainers were in the audience, they would have found it great, but there aren't that many folks out there. I redid the talk and instead approached it from a position of, “You have no idea what Git is. Maybe you've heard of it, but that's as far as it goes.” And then it gets a little deeper there.And I found that making the subject more accessible as opposed to deeper into the weeds of it is almost always the right decision from a content perspective. Because at some level, when you are deep enough into the weeds, the only way you're going to wind up fixing something or having a problem that you run into get resolved, isn't by listening to a podcast or a conference talk; it's by talking to the people who built the thing because at that level, those are the only people who can hang at that level of depth. That stops being fodder for conference talks unless you turn it into an after-action report of here's this really weird thing I learned.Stephanie: Yeah. And you know, to be honest, the one of the most successful pieces of content I've created was about data center security. I visited a data center and I essentially unveiled what our security protocols were. And that wasn't a deeply technical video, but it was fun and engaging and easily understood by the masses. And that's what actually ended up resulting in the highest number of views.On top of that, I'm now creating a video about our subsea fiber optic cables. Finding that having to interview experts from a number of different teams across engineering and our strategic negotiators, it was like a monolith of information that I had to take in. And trying to format that into a five-minute story, I realized that bringing it up a layer of abstraction to help folks understand this at a wider level was actually beneficial. And I think it'll turn into a great piece of content. I'm still working on it now. So, [laugh] we'll see how it turns out.Corey: I'm a big fan of watching people learn and helping them get started. The thing that I think gets lost a lot is it's easy to assume that if I look back in time at myself when I was first starting my professional career two decades ago, that I was exactly like I am now, only slightly more athletic and can walk up a staircase without getting winded. That's never true. It never has been true. I've learned a lot about not just technology but people as I go, and looking at folks are entering the workforce today through the same lens of, “Well, that's not how I would handle that situation.” Yeah, no kidding. I have two decades of battering my head against the sharp edges and leaving dents in things to inform that opinion.No, when I was that age, I would have handled it way worse than whatever it is I'm critiquing at the time. But it's important to me that we wind up building those pathways and building those bridges so that people coming into the space, first, have a clear path to get here, and secondly, have a better time than I ever did. Where does the next generation of talent come from has been a recurring question and a recurring theme on the show.Stephanie: Yeah. And that's exactly why I've been such a fierce supporter of women in tech, and also, again, encouraging a broader community to become a part of technology. Because, as I said, I think we're in the midst of a new era of technology, of people from all these different backgrounds in places that historically have had more remote access to technology, now having the ability to become developers at an early age. So, with my content, that's what I'm hoping to drive to make this information more easily accessible. Even if you don't want to become a Google Cloud engineer, that's totally fine, but if I can help you understand some of the foundational concepts of cloud, then I've done my job well.And then, even with women who are already trying to break into technology or wanting to become a part of it, then I want to be a mentor for them, with my experience not having a technical background and saying yes to opportunities that challenged me and continuing to build my own luck between hard work and new opportunities.Corey: I can't wait to see how this winds up manifesting as we see understandings of what we're offering to customers in different areas in different ways—both in terms of content and terms of technology—how that starts to evolve and shift. I feel like we're at a bit of an inflection point now, where today if I graduate from school and I want to start a business, I have to either find a technical co-founder or I have to go to a boot camp and learn how to code in order to build something. I think that if we can remove that from the equation and move up the stack, sure, you're not going to be able to build the next Google or Pinterest or whatnot from effectively Visual Basic for Interfaces, but you can build an MVP and you can then continue to iterate forward and turn it into something larger down the road. The other part of it, too, is that moving up the stack into more polished solutions rather than here's a bunch of building blocks for platforms, “So, if you want a service to tell you whether there's a picture of a hot dog or not, here's a service that does exactly that.” As opposed to, “Oh, here are the 15 different services, you can bolt together and pay for each one of them and tie it together to something that might possibly work, and if it breaks, you have no idea where to start looking, but here you go.” A packaged solution that solves business problems.Things move up the stack; they do constantly. The fact is that I started my career working in data centers and now I don't go to them at all because—spoiler—Google, and Amazon, and people who are not IBM Cloud can absolutely run those things better than I can. And there's no differentiated value for me in solving those global problems locally. I'd rather let the experts handle stuff like that while I focus on interesting problems that actually affect my business outcome. There's a reason that instead of running all the nonsense for lastweekinaws.com myself because I've worked in large-scale WordPress hosting companies, instead I pay WP Engine to handle it for me, and they, in turn, hosted on top of Google Cloud, but it doesn't matter to me because it's all just a managed service that I pay for. Because me running the website itself adds no value, compared to the shitpost I put on the website, which is where the value derives from. For certain odd values of value.Stephanie: [laugh]. Well, two things there is that I think we actually had a demo created on Google Cloud that did detect hot dogs or not hot dogs using our Vision API, years in the past. So, thanks for reminding me of that one.Corey: Of course.Stephanie: But yeah, I mean, I completely agree with that. I mean, this is constantly a topic in conversation with my team members, and with clients. It's about higher level of abstractions. I just did a video series with our fellow, Eric Brewer, who helped build cloud infrastructure here at Google over the past ten decades. And I asked him what he thought the future of cloud would be in the next ten years, and he mentioned, “It's going to be these higher levels of abstraction, building platforms on top of platforms like Kubernetes, and having more services like Cloud run serverless technologies, et cetera.”But at the same time, I think the value of cloud will continue to be providing optionality for developers to have more opinionated services, services like GKE Autopilot, et cetera, that essentially take away the management of infrastructure or nodes that people don't really want to deal with at the end of the day because it's not going to be a competitive differentiator for developers. They want to focus on building software and focusing on keeping their services up and running. And so yeah, I think the future is going to be that, giving developers flexibility and freedom, and still delivering the best-of-breed technology. If it's covering something like security, that's something that should be baked in as much as possible.Corey: You're absolutely right, first off. I'm also looking beyond it where I want to be able to build a website that is effectively Twitter, only for pets—because that is just a harebrained enough idea to probably raise a $20 million seed round these days—and I just want to be able to have the barks—those are like tweets, only surprisingly less offensive and racist—and have them just be stored somewhere, ideally presumably under the hood somewhere, it's going to be on computers, but whether it's in containers, or whether it's serverless, or however is working is the sort of thing that, “Wow, that seems like an awful lot of nonsense that is not central nor core to my business succeeding or failing.” I would say failing, obviously, except you can lose money at scale with the magic of things like SoftBank. Here we are.And as that continues to grow and scale, sure, at some point I'm going to have bespoke enough needs and a large enough scale where I do have to think about those things, but building the MVP just so I can swindle some VCs is not the sort of thing where I should have to go to that depth. There really should be a golden-path guardrail-style thing that I can effectively drag and drop my way into the next big scam. And that is, I think, the missing piece. And I think that we're not quite ready technologically to get there yet, but I can't shake the feeling and the hope that's where technology is going.Stephanie: Yeah. I think it's where technology is heading, but I think part of the equation is the adoption by our industry, right? Industry adoption of cloud services and whether they're ready to adopt services that are that drag-and-drop, as you say. One thing that I've also been talking a lot about is this idea of service-oriented networking where if you have a service or API-driven environment and you simply want to bring it to cloud—almost a plug-and-play there—you don't really want to deal with a lot of the networking infrastructure, and it'd be great to do something like PrivateLink on AWS, or Private Service Connect on Google Cloud.While those conversations are happening with customers, I'm finding that it's like trying to cross the Grand Canyon. Many enterprise customers are like, “That sounds great, but we have a really complex network topology that we've been sitting on for the past 25 years. Do you really expect that we're going to transition over to something like that?” So, I think it's about providing stepping stones for our customers until they can be ready to adopt a new model.Corey: Yeah. And of course, the part that never gets said out loud but is nonetheless true and at least as big of a deal, “And we have a whole team of people who've built their entire identity around that network because that is what they work on, and they have been ignoring cloud forever, and if we just uplift everything into a cloud where you folks handle that, sure, it's better for the business outcome, but where does that leave them?” So, they've been here for 25 years, and they will spend every scrap of political capital they've managed to accumulate to torpedo a cloud migration. So, any FUD they can find, any horse-trading they can do, anything they can do to obstruct the success of a cloud initiative, they're going to do because people are people, and there is no real plan to mitigate that. There's also the fact that unless there's a clear business value story about a feature velocity increase or opening up new markets, there's also not an incentive to do things to save money. That is never going to be the number one priority in almost any case short of financial disaster at a company because everything they're doing is building out increasing revenue, rather than optimizing what they're already doing.So, there's a whole bunch of political challenges. Honestly, moving the computer stuff from on-premises data centers into a cloud provider is the easiest part of a cloud migration compared to all of the people that are involved.Stephanie: Yeah. Yeah, we talked about serverless and all the nice benefits of it, but unless you are more a digitally-born, next-gen developer, it may be a higher burden for you to undertake that migration. That's why we always [laugh] are talking about encouraging people to start with newer surfaces.Corey: Oh, yeah. And that's the trick, too, is if you're trying to learn a new cloud platform these days—first, if you're trying to pick one, I'd be hard-pressed to suggest anything other than Google Cloud, with the possible exception of DigitalOcean, just because the new user experience is so spectacularly good. That was my first real, I guess, part of paying attention to Google Cloud a few years ago, where I was, “All right, I'm going to kick the tires on this and see how terrible this interface is because it's a Google product.” And it was breathtakingly good, which I did not expect. And getting out of the way to empower someone who's new to the platform to do something relatively quickly and straightforwardly is huge. And sure, there's always room to prove, but that is the right area to focus on. It's clear that the right energy was spent in the right places.Stephanie: Yeah. I will say a story that we don't tell quite as well as we should is the One Google story. And I'm not talking about just between Workspace and Google Cloud, but our identity access management and knowing your Google account, which everybody knows. It's not like Microsoft, where you're forced to make an account, or it's not like AWS where you had a billion accounts and you hate them all.Corey: Oh, my God, I dread logging into the AWS console every time because it is such a pain in the ass. I go to cloud.google.com sometimes to check something, it's like, “Oh, right. I have to dig out my credentials.” And, “Where's my YubiKey?” And get it. Like, “Oh. I'm already log—oh. Oh, right. That's right. Google knows how identity works, and they don't actively hate their customers. Okay.” And it's always a breath of fresh air. Though I will say that by far and away, the worst login experience I've seen yet is, of course, Azure.Stephanie: [laugh]. That's exactly right. It's Google account. It's yours. It's personal. It's like an Apple iCloud account. It's one click, you're in, and you have access to all the applications. You know, so it's the same underlying identity structure with Workspace and Gmail, and it's the same org structure, too, across Workspace and Google Cloud. So, it's not just this disingenuous financial bundle between GCP and Workspace; it's really strategic. And it's kind of like the idea of low code or no code. And it looks like that's what the future of cloud will be. It's not just by VMs from us.Corey: Yeah. And there are customers who want to buy VMs and that's great. Speed up what they're doing; don't get in the way of people giving you their money, but if you're starting something net-new, there's probably better ways to do it. So, I want to thank you for taking as much time as you have to wind up going through how you think about, well, the art of storytelling in the world of engineering. If people want to learn more about who you are, what you're up to, and how you approach things, where can they find you?Stephanie: Yeah, so you can head to stephrwong.com where you can see my work and also get in touch with me if you want to collaborate on any content. I'm always, always, always open to that. And my Twitter is @stephr_wong.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:40:03]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me.Stephanie: Thanks so much.Corey: Stephanie Wong, head of developer engagement at Google Cloud. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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TakeawaysNeither here nor there Last week our team talked about minimalism, which resulted in a tangential (a stretch, we'll admit) conversation about Wes Anderson movies. Stephanie was to watch Moonrise Kingdom, and Chase was assigned to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel.Both reported on this episode offering positive remarks for the cinematography, yet a skeptical outlook on the quirky style.A little inspiration from industries outside of healthcareThe Effie Awards are notable marketing awards that focus on effectiveness. While many awards get a bad rap for celebrating cool ideas alone, The Effies celebrate engaging campaigns that produce quantifiable results.What better way to inspire bold marketing initiatives in the health industry than to look at what's working in other sectors? Each member of our podcast team selected one Effie Award-winning campaign to talk about.Live from the LibraryStephanie selected the Chicago Public Library's campaign, "Live from the library." The campaign, born in the middle of COVID-19 shutdowns, sought to increase access to books.Live from the Library was a daily storytelling series where celebrities, Chicago residents, and others read stories to audiences on Facebook Live. The campaign featured everyone from the Obamas to Dolly Parton.In Stephanie's opinion, one of the primary drivers of success was the campaign's simplicity and the naturalness of the content for the platform. Another was that the celebrities donated their time and produced the video from home. So, overall, the campaign cost was extremely low.High-profile influencers may be willing to do similar 'pro-Bono work for health systems, provided health system marketers produce simple concepts that support the common good."Escape Mountain," Ski-Doo. Chase's favorite campaign was "Escape Mountain" by snowmobile brand Ski-Doo. To engage with a new generation of snowmobilers, the brand launched the three-part reality TV series.In the series, participants were dropped in the middle of nowhere on a mountain with GPS coordinates. They then navigated their way back to civilization through a series of clues and Ski-Doo products.Together, the three 15-minute videos collected 5 million views. The case study did not indicate whether or not the views were organic or paid.Our team discussed the merit of paid media impressions and views and agreed that this metric is insufficient to gauge paid media performance. "The beauty of no artificial preservatives," Burger King (aka Moldy Whopper) Chris took a different approach, bringing his favorite campaign to dispute. His pick: the Moldy Whopper Burger King campaign.The campaign sought to debunk the myth that all fast food is low quality and uses artificial preservatives by creating a time-lapse of a Burger King Whopper aging over 34 days.The case study published by Burger King and the agency that produced the work cites a 26% increase in quality ingredient perception, a 22% increase in visitation consideration, and a 14% increase in whopper sales.For many (including Chris), these results don't line up. Chris referenced a case study published to Marketing Dive demonstrating much different, less impactful results.Chris expressed that audiences who care about artificial preservatives likely were not considering the Burger King Whopper to begin with. Inversely, he predicted that the people eating at Burger King probably cared less about artificial preservatives.This campaign could be jolting enough to get people to test it out against competing products. Even if the individual doesn't become a frequent customer, they will have had heightened the consumer's brand awareness. A question from our listenersLast week we received the following question from a listener of the show.“I've observed a twist in the very competitive marketing among the four major systems in my city. There are vaccination billboards signed by all four major health systems in the area rather than the typical competitive differentiation.Would all four health systems benefit from a combined effort focused on prevention? Would their brand image improve if they collectively addressed health and well-being rather than “I'm better than you” traditional marketing?” Our response:Yes, there are many cases, like COVID-19 vaccine promotion, in which an individual system would benefit from joining a collective. In this sort of situation, you're not losing much margin or receiving a big brand lift from administering a vaccine.COVID-19 prevention is where the water gets murky on collectives between health systems. While it would be beneficial for public health, it could potentially undermine a system's ability to differentiate itself as consumers' partner in health.A good line to draw when considering collectives with other health entities is whether or not the initiative would impact patients' decisions to return to care at your system versus a competitor's system.
In today's conversation with Steph, we're continuing our series on steps to prepare a collection for launch with a chat about product photography for art. This has been a bit of a pain point for me personally as, no matter how hard I try, I'm just really not very good at taking photos of my art and I really really dislike photo editing. Therefore this is an area of my business where I have brought in help. Inversely for Steph, it's a strength area, so she does it herself. We talk through the pros and cons of using a professional photographer and also what kinds of photos you need to sell your art. Some of the key moments include; Different product images that you can use to sell your art. Giving yourself permission to invest in help with areas of your art biz that are a struggle. How combining product photography with lifestyle images is a powerful combination. To start where you're at and use the tools that you have. I hope you enjoy the episode. More shownotes and links are over at www.susannethercotestudio.com/podcast/product-photos Suse ox --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/susan-nethercote/message
Tones in Mandarin carry roughly as much information as vowels do, but still some people insist that tones are not very important, or even that native speakers don't really use tones. Why is that and what can we learn from digging deeper into this misconception? Link: The importance of tones is inversely proportional to the predictability of what you say More information and inspiration about learning and teaching Chinese can be found over at Hacking Chinese (www.hackingchinese.com) Music: "Traxis 1 ~ F. Benjamin" by Traxis, 2020 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)Music: "Traxis 1 ~ F. Benjamin" by Traxis, 2020 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
Send us a textNew bikes have been pretty tough to come by, so many people are turning to the used bike market so they can get out and ride. We discuss many purchasing tips and tricks to help ensure that you get the best bike for you without buying someone else's problem! Inversely, we suggest using many of these tips in your favor if you're looking to sell a bike. Additionally, juniors bike racer and Dialed Teammate, Elijah Engstrom, joins us to talk about some of his recent races, which included meeting some cycling superstars. Support the show
New bikes have been pretty tough to come by, so many people are turning to the used bike market so they can get out and ride. We discuss many purchasing tips and tricks to help ensure that you get the best bike for you without buying someone else's problem! Inversely, we suggest using many of these tips in your favor if you're looking to sell a bike. Additionally, juniors bike racer and Dialed Teammate, Elijah Engstrom, joins us to talk about some of his recent races, which included meeting some cycling superstars.
New bikes have been pretty tough to come by, so many people are turning to the used bike market so they can get out and ride. We discuss many purchasing tips and tricks to help ensure that you get the best bike for you without buying someone else's problem! Inversely, we suggest using many of these tips in your favor if you're looking to sell a bike. Additionally, juniors bike racer and Dialed Teammate, Elijah Engstrom, joins us to talk about some of his recent races, which included meeting some cycling superstars.
There are many reasons to Forgive. No one is perfect. We are all subject to mistakes. In life, there were times when we said or did something to make someone unhappy. Inversely, someone may have said or done something to hurt us. Sometimes that hurt is too painful and shameful to talk about. I hope these quotes will help you understand the Power of Forgiveness and inspire you to move forward in your quest for inner peace. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/mind-garden/donations
What happens when the esteemed godfather of mass torts, Howard Nations, decides to hit the town and shoot the breeze with Mirena? Well, of course, we stutter to a stop, sit mesmerized, and hang onto every perfect doctrine he sends our way! In The Heart of Law's third episode, our incisive host, Mirena Umizaj enjoys the riveting, first-hand account of Howard's stint as a US Army intelligence officer commissioned as a Russian translator—intercepting cryptic messages from a Soviet naval base in a northern island off Hokkaido, Japan. After eavesdropping on submarines, fleets, and every bit of water traffic for months, life in the military intelligence pretty much set the tone for the disciplined and purposeful life Howard led throughout his 55+ years practicing law. Howard gives copious, razor-sharp advice on how to survive in the cutthroat mass tort business. Ironically, resisting avarice and the “absolute disregard for money,” with “total expulsion” of materialism charts the course to a successful outcome of a case. Dovetailing that ideology with mental fortitude, depositional ingenuity, strategic witness management, and profound procedural patience, he gives us a basic (even banal) formula of an honorable value-system tested by time. During half of the show, their conversation turns on a sober note as Howard and Mirena immerse us into the complex acquisition of mass tort cases, hundreds of millions of dollars depleted, ethical dilemmas, hedge fund controversies, conflict of interests, lead purchasing, and contentions within the industry. They touch on austere issues like gigantic med-tech and pharma companies distributing defective products, as well as disquieting financial games negatively affecting people's lives. Inversely, we have an awareness about the meaningful life Howard leads. We hear a deep love for his family, his plight for the weak (he is famed for representing over 300 pro bono cases), and three decades of passionately teaching law. We grasp how he fearlessly copes with a family tragedy, endearing us as he flouts every cynicism life thrusts his way. He shares his knowledge freely, exercises systematically, reads voraciously … all the while, managing to disarm us with his stalwart faith. What a testament to us all. People like Howard make living in this not-so-happy world so worthwhile. EPISODE SURVEY [00:07:02] In the U.S. Army Military Intelligence as a Russian linguist [00:12:23] once tort reform happened in Texas, Howard adapted and reinvented himself, starting a mass tort firm and changing the entire game. [00:16:35] Howard officially declares himself to be a mass tort lawyer. [00:16:57] Adventures with Zyprexa and 78 depositions all over the country. [00:21:48] "And they said, 'We'll never pay you a thousand cases!' So I said, 'Okay; then pay me on 999.' " [00:41:58] On the Trial Lawyer's Summit and the Entrepreneurship of Law. QUOTABLE QUOTES " The thing is, you have to have an absolute disregard for money because if you're worried about money, don't get in the mass tort business because [in the industry] there's a complete, total expulsion of money." "You have to be fearless because if you're not fearless, you'll worry yourself to death." "The outcomes are only as good as what you gather." "You have to have skillsets for a trial ... you have to have a lot of skills in depositions because depositions are a crucial part of mass torts." You have to be articulate with experts because choosing the right expert [and] getting them prepared … [and] keeping them under control is a major part of mass torts." "You have to have the world's greatest patience ... because it's a five-year proposition." “I give back by education and by sharing everything.” LINKS FROM THE SHOW Check out Howard's Fully Loaded Bio Swing by Howard's Practice Catch Howard's NTL Interview of Top 100 Lawyers Visit Mirena's Chic Website and LinkedIn Resources Howard recommends: Trial Lawyers College, Trial School Show Notes and content management by Almond Tree Writers' Ink, LLC's Founder, Caryl Veloso ABOUT OUR GUEST: Howard Nations A trailblazer in personal injury and civil litigation, as well as mass tort for over 55 years. Leader of the trial bar President of The National Trial Lawyers, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, the Belli Society, and the Aletheia Institute Five years on AAJ's Executive Committee A pioneer in courtroom technology and the first attorney to have computer-generated liability and medical animations admitted into evidence at trial. Co-founded AAJ's National College of Advocacy One of the most sought-after educators in the law profession. Howard's Published Papers, Articles, & Editorials Howard's Awards Howard's Acceptance Speech for Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame Award 2012 Howard's Superlative Resume'
Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer tells us the ONLY way to be careful in regards to our speech is through establishing fixed study in learning the laws of proper speech. The Chofetz Chaim expresses shock that people chase after all types of remedies despite the fact that not being careful with their speech deems it worthless. Inversely if they are careful it will bring the greatest blessing considering it was given from Hashem and answered Amen by all Jews. Letter From HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, Shlita, on Coronavirus | Hamodia.com https://hamodia.com/2020/03/13/letter-harav-chaim-kanievsky-shlita-coronavirus/ Ikrei Dinim (Rav Shmuel Hominer) - Haskama Shemiros Halashon - 2nd Chelek, 9th Perek וּבֶאֱמֶת לְפֶלֶא הוּא בְּעֵינַי, שֶׁטֶּבַע בְּנֵי הָאָדָם לְחַפֵּשׂ סְגֻלּוֹת וּבְרָכוֹת מֵאֲנָשִׁים גְּדוֹלִים לְהַצְלָחָה עַל פַּרְנָסָה, וּמַה יּוֹעִילוּ לָהֶם כָּל הַסְּגֻלּוֹת וְהַבְּרָכוֹת, אִם, חַס וְשָׁלוֹם, הוּא מֻרְגָּל בְּזֶה הַחֵטְא שֶׁל לָשׁוֹן הָרָע וּרְכִילוּת, הֲרֵי יֵשׁ עַל זֶה אָרוּר מְפֹרָשׁ בַּתּוֹרָה (דברים כ"ז כ"ד): "אָרוּר מַכֶּה רֵעֵהוּ בַּסָּתֶר", שֶׁהוּא קָאֵי עַל לָשׁוֹן הָרָע, כְּמוֹ שֶׁפֵּרֵשׁ רַשִּׁ"י. וְאָמְרוּ חֲזַ"ל (שבועות ל"ו.): אָרוּר, בּוֹ קְלָלָה, בּוֹ נִדּוּי. וְזֶה לֹא יָצָא מִפִּי אִישׁ אֶחָד, כִּי אִם בְּהֶסְכֵּם כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּצֵרוּף הַכֹּהֲנִים וְהַלְוִיִּם, כְּדִכְתִיב בַּקְּרָא, וַהֲרֵי הוּא מְכַלֶּה הַשְׁפָּעָתוֹ. וְאִם הָיוּ שׁוֹמְעִים לִדְבָרַי, הָיִיתִי מְיַעֵץ לָהֶם יוֹתֵר, שֶׁיִּשְׁמְרוּ עַצְמָם בִּזְהִירוּת יְתֵרָה מִזֶּה הַחֵטְא, וּבִפְרָט מִלַּעֲשׂוֹת בְּפֹעַל מַמָּשׁ רַע לַחֲבֵרוֹ מֵעִנְיַן גֶּזֶל וְחָמָס וְאוֹנָאָה וְכַיּוֹצֵא בָּזֶה, [שֶׁזֶּה בְּוַדַּאי גּוֹרֵם גָּדוֹל שֶׁיְּבֻזְבְּזוּ נְכָסָיו עַל יְדֵי זֶה וְיֵרְדוּ לְטִמְיוֹן, כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתַבְנוּ בְּקוֹנְטְרֵס "שְׂפַת תָּמִים" בְּפֶרֶק שֵׁנִי וּשְׁלִישִׁי מִכַּמָּה פְּסוּקים וּמַאַמְרֵי חֲזַ"ל, עַיֵּן שָׁם], שֶׁאָז בְּוַדַּאי יִתְבָּרְכוּ נִכְסֵיהֶם יוֹתֵר מִכָּל הַסְּגֻלּוֹת, וּכְמוֹ שֶׁיָּדוּעַ, שֶׁכָּל הָאֲרוּרִים פָּתְחוּ מִתְּחִלָּה בִּבְרָכָה וְאָמְרוּ: "בָּרוּךְ אֲשֶׁר לֹא יַכֶּה אֶת רֵעֵהוּ", וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל עָנוּ עַל זֶה אָמֵן, וּבְוַדַּאי תִּתְקַיֵּם הַבְּרָכָה הַזּוֹ. Please send any feedback for any of the episodes to ekuritsky1@gmail.com
Hadrathi chant made using the Hadrathi conlang by Ben Scerri, which can be found https://bitd.gplusarchive.online/2017/03/09/inspired-by-the-uduasha-special-edition-ive-been-working-on-a-hadrathi-conlang/ (here) . Line Bulls are intimately familiar with ghosts: spirits lacking bodies and yet forced to persist. Inversely, it is possible to remove the spirit from a body and yet force the body to continue living. These living vessels are called Hollows after their emptiness, and their creation is often a punishment where one's flesh will be enslaved. But in Iruvia there is the practice of Hollowing willing individuals into Guardians, leaving some amount of the individual within so they may think and speak. These Gua'lim demonstrate supernatural abilities beyond a typical Hollow; a demonic nature remains unconfirmed by the Imperium but it stands to reason that what is empty can be filled. Pippin doesn't want to talk about the rats. Andrel finds herself comping up short in front of an old friend. Drix is haunted by the past (but not HIS past). Content Warning for Child Death from ~00:07:11 to ~00:10:58, Four teens fight a Summoned Horror but only one survives. For the full transcript, go to https://ghosts-on-a-train.captivate.fm/episode/ep-23-a-guardian-conceived You can't find special guest Jack Wisnosky online... YET! Follow https://twitter.com/whatrulespod (@whatrulespod) on Twitter and listen to We Never Learned the Rules on Apple Podcasts here Ghost Lines by John Harper. Music by Sebastian Black. Art by Yoshiko Agresta. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd?refcode=cwg&fbclid=IwAR26tAnbuOt9SDjt7F6wDEbEqeZ183QAITXTm8R-rrLM-9JrrEr3zthzIDQ (https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd?refcode=cwg) https://www.joincampaignzero.org/?fbclid=IwAR1RI-kn0ukkY0BPTh3pO6BAHMop3funxm6-zy8z6cRmghpcojVhbU3_hKU (https://www.joincampaignzero.org) https://www.navajowaterproject.org/ (https://www.navajowaterproject.org/) https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Ffundraising%2Fcontribute-to-the-atlanta-solidarity-fund%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3FMa9F34YB6K73zsYHtcfNosNwf0mwYHjtRzSm0SvoXeMcd_8vi9s-CMs&h=AT1j_pUV7Bmk5xLa4UliXieo2G3tzcPvL62jRR0ExRB8l9C8_TMedB2vkKwNg8wRwSXhMyiydkNVtvta6eaQcKju2_YSQp6-rc6pFzhpM6Xrfp9xSDC45MfBv11h-wdUWvc (https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/contribute-to-the-atlanta-solidarity-fund) Follow us on https://twitter.com/ghosts_train (Twitter @ghosts_train), and if you have questions or suggestions for the train email them to ghosttrainpod@gmail.com or leave a voice message at https://anchor.fm/ghosts-on-a-train/message (https://anchor.fm/ghosts-on-a-train/message) and you might hear yourself on the show We are a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network of podcasts! Join the Faustian Nonsense Network discord https://discord.gg/7wyS37xXRX (here) Help the Show by Rating and Reviewing on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghosts-on-a-train/id1507682855 (Apple Podcasts) TRANSCRIPT: Radio Announcer Greg 0:00 In an ancient chamber that reeks of death, torches flicker as if shivering, they timidly illuminate the unnatural form sprouting from an arcane circle along the ground. But summons horror takes root in our reality as a coil of thorns, menacing with a snarling cry that comes not from any mouth, but from its own unnatural locomotion. Four youths surrounds the fiend, dress in Iruvian encounter suits and equipped with standard Line Bull equipment. They are Gua'ata, hopeful apprentices to become Gua'lim, or city guardians. Should they succeed this test, they will be granted a taste of the power of the Demon Princes. The tallest looks to be 16, though he is neither the oldest nor the youngest of the apprentices here. His name is Jamu'kha, and he wields a lightning web throw with the confidence of an apprentice spider. As the cursed coil draws near, the youths hear instruction from their Proctor, a member of the noble House of Ixis who is invisible...
The Aussie share market is set to kick off its shortest and last trading week of the year on solid footing. The futures are suggesting a lift of 0.5% at the open.It comes as European markets closed higher on Monday and US equities soared to brand new record highs – for two key reasons. Firstly, Trump unexpectedly signed the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill into law, that includes paying most Americans $600. Secondly, the UK is expected to approve Oxford-Astra Zeneca's COVID-19 vaccine this week.Commodities- Oil fell 1% to US$47.70 as supply looks to increase.- Iron ore rose 0.2% to US$155 - a new high.- Inversely, expect selling today in Gold stocks as the safe haven came under pressure again, down 0.3% to US$1,877 on US stimulus being rolled out.What else to watch- No economic news today. All eyes will be on local company news.- Whether or not the US House vote on increasing the $600 payout to Americans to $2,000.Trading ideas:- UBS increased Fortescue Metals' (ASX:FMG) buy rating and target price to $24.- UBS also reiterated CSL (ASX:CSL) as a buy with a $346 target.- Qantas (ASX:QAN) looks likely to rally once travel restrictions ease. QAN is buy stock for UBS and Morgan Stanley.- Resimac Group (ASX:RMC), EMvision Medical Devices (ASX:EMV) and - People Infrastructure (ASX:PPE) are all showing bullish charting signals according to Trading Central.
Joey Miller joins the program to predict the western conference standings, obligatory James Harden discussion, season awards, and the opening night games. 3:00 West Predictions 54:00 Award Predictions 1:12:10 Opening Night Picks This episode was really fun. We went crazy with predictions surrounding Facu Campazzo, Bol Bol, The Timberwolves, The Mavericks, The Grizzlies, and Danillo Gallinari. You can follow Joe Miller on Twitter. PS: Joey Miller owes Joe Miller a pizza from Pizza Tree if The Los Angeles Clippers make the Western Conference Finals. Inversely, Joe Miller owes Joey Miller a pizza from Pizza Tree is The Minnesota Timberwolves make the Western Conference Finals.
The reign of King Asa of Judah is instructive on several fronts, and will occupy our attention both today (2 Chron. 14–15) and tomorrow.Asa’s long reign began with ten years of peace (2 Chron. 14:1), “for the LORD gave him rest” (2 Chron. 14:6). During this time Asa “commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to obey his laws and commands” (2 Chron. 14:4). The people sought the Lord, “and built and prospered” (2 Chron. 14:7). At the end of ten years, Asa faced the devastating power of the Cushite forces (from the upper Nile). Asa could not possibly have forgotten how his grandfather Rehoboam was subjugated by Shishak of Egypt (2 Chron. 12). Asa’s own conduct is exemplary, a foretaste of how his descendant Hezekiah would handle himself centuries later when he faced the Babylonians: he called on the Lord, frankly acknowledging his utter powerlessness against such forces. “Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this vast army. O LORD, you are our God; do not let man prevail against you” (2 Chron. 14:11). By whatever means (the text does not specify), the Lord answers, and Asa’s relatively tiny army crushes the Cushite host.Enter Azariah son of Oded, a prophet with a message of encouragement for Asa and for all Judah and Benjamin (2 Chron. 15:1–2). Reflecting on the terrible years of anarchy under the closing years of the judges and the opening years of the monarchy, when travel and trade were dangerous and when the Levites were not sufficiently disciplined and organized to teach the people, Azariah encourages king and people alike to seek the Lord, for “he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you” (2 Chron. 15:2). Such a message strengthens Asa’s resolve. He proceeds against the remaining idolatry in the land and pours resources into the maintenance of the temple. This is the covenant community, and under Asa it begins to act like one. “They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side” (2 Chron. 15:15) for a further quarter century, to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign (2 Chron. 15:19). The “high places” were not removed (2 Chron. 15:17)—a residue of competition with the temple—but for the most part Asa was a straight arrow.We should not be embarrassed by the blessing of God on integrity and righteousness. Righteousness exalts a nation: it lifts it up and strengthens its hand. This is not merely a sociological inference: it is the way God has structured things, the way he providentially rules. Inversely, corruption attracts the wrath of God, and sooner or later will bring a nation down. This podcast is designed to be used alongside TGC's Read The Bible initiative (TGC.org/readthebible). The podcast features devotional commentaries from D.A. Carson’s book For the Love of God (vol. 1) that follow the M’Cheyne Bible reading plan.
Why would someone start their own property management company instead of just hiring a third party? Today’s guest, Colin Douthit has some answers. Colin is the founder and owner of Atlas Property Management, has been in the real estate space for just three years, and already manages over 360 doors, with another hundred in the pipeline. In this episode, we talk about why Colin decided to start his own property management company, and the pros and cons of doing do versus hiring a third party. He explains some of the challenges, standard operating procedures, and tools he uses, as well as some tips about what owners can do to partner with property management companies to make it a little easier for both parties. Don’t miss this episode!Key Points From This Episode:Colin introduces himself and explains how he got into real estate as an investor.The pros and cons of starting your own management company versus hiring a third party.Inversely, why someone would hire a third party versus starting their own company.Some challenges with owning a property management company, like investors and tenants.Dealing with the balance between the goals of different customers, particularly disparities in desired rent and maintenance pricing.Standard operating procedures when running a successful property management company.Colin talks about using Buildium property management software and why it is a great service.The three top skills one needs as an investor before starting a property management company: Understanding investors, organization, and business acumen.The number of doors necessary per property manager to start a profitable company.The specialized approach that Colin takes to focus the work that property managers do.Colin talks a bit more about the role his leasing agent plays and the commission she takes.What owners can do to partner with property management companies to make it easier.How COVID-19 has impacted Colin’s business and projected long term implications.Why Colin can’t do without G Suite, and why you should always take out a construction loan.Tweetables:“There’s a certain number of doors that you need per property manager to, at least in our analysis, every company’s going to run it differently, but to be profitable, right?” — Colin Douthit [0:10:53]“As much as we wanted to give as much attention to the owners is we can, once we hit 30, 40 owners, you might not always remember all the plans that you had set forth. So like, ‘Hey, what was the goal on this one again?’ Just be understanding that we’re trying to execute your goal. We want it to be as successful as possible.” — Colin Douthit [0:15:28]Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Colin Douthit on LinkedInAtlas Property ManagementAtlas Property Management on LinkedInAtlas Property Management on InstagramAtlas Property Management on FacebookBuildiumG SuiteAPT Capital GroupPassive Income Through Multifamily Real Estate on FacebookSchedule a Call with Kyle Mitchell
Repetition is valuable in meditation. By repeating the same actions, we are able to train the mind and find comfort in the practice. Inversely, each moment and each breath is also different from the last, making each practice a new experience. Practice with Headspace. Download it for free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Welcome to Monday Motivation - Three Ways to Supercharge Your Creative EnergySo, this is a five-minute version of a five-day course that I have in HappyWriter about how to build, maintain, and manage your creative energy. As I am putting the finishing touches on the core HappyWriter curriculum and the promise of the platform—all of that I'll share in a few weeks—the one skill that touches almost every part of the writing life and is interwoven into the curriculum is the ability to manage your energy.People love to say that time is the most valuable resource, I know you've heard that before, but people are wrong.Your most valuable resource is energy.Look at it this way: you can have all the time in the world, but with no energy, you’ll get nothing done and be miserably aimless.Inversely, you can have just a little time, but if you’re filled with energy, working will come easily. If you’ve ever sat down to write and felt completely drained, chances are one or more of your energy buckets are empty. A good example of the feeling of a drained energy bucket is when you are low on physical energy—aka you are really tired. Physically you are sluggish, mentally foggy, maybe even grouchy (or worse!). If you stay awake for just 18 hours, you’ll drive as if you have a blood-alcohol level of 0.05 (0.08 is considered drunk driving).So forget about trying to write under those conditions!I want to share three quick ways to increase your writing energy, but more than that, I want you to have overflowing creative energy, because nothing that feels better than sitting down and just writing with full focus and creative energy. To me, this full-energy experience is just as important as my output. It makes the long months and years of writing worth it.To set this up, recognize your creative energy is like a muscle. You can use the muscle, but you then need to rest it. And also, just like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger the muscle will get. So the more you learn to use your creative energy, train it, and strengthen it, and then let it rest, the "more in shape" your creative muscle will be. resulting in more energy to use.If you want to go deep on this—so like five days of visualizations to help you tap into your energy, a workbook so you can document your progress, and focused lessons to help you really dive into your energy—I invite you to join HappyWriter. This course as well as many other author masterclasses, storytelling spotlights, and so much more is now live. It's all there to help you get your story onto the page, for just $39/month. Check out HappyWriter at howwriterswrite.com to sign up.Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you have a wonderful week of writing.Support the show (http://www.howwriterswrite.com)
Thriving Thursday's are “chew-able” episodes, where Nkechi is joined by Gaby Mammone, and asked to share perspectives from her life experiences. You will get a taste of her wisdom and leave with a call to action.In this episode, Nkechi and Gaby nicely round up the power packed Four-part series of the Book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. Today they discuss agreement #4: Always do your best!They expand on the fourth agreement, by speaking about the importance of pushing ourselves in everything we do and giving it our all under any circumstance.We are encouraged to challenge and stretch ourselves. Inversely, we were encouraged to try not to judge ourselves too much, when we think we didn't put in as much as we anticipated on certain days or times in our lives. As giving your best, is also transient and can vary based on different stages or times that we are in our life.In conclusion, if we always try to do our best, it will become ingrained and be a part of our habits which will lead to a wholesome and more fulfilling life.Listen in as they share their insights, and how they see this agreement unfolding in their lives.If this episode resonates with you, then please remember to subscribe, and give us a 5-star rating. You can also, comment and share this podcast! Find us online at:https://linktr.ee/nkechinwaforrobinson
Scale by Geoffrey West focuses on the the principles and patterns connecting the ways that cities, organisms, and companies grow. West, a theoretical physicist, studied the way in which sizes of mammals related to their life expectancy, and further connected these laws to the growth and longevity of cities and the world of business. Nat and Neil unpack these laws and principles on today's podcast episode. We cover a wide range of topics including: The idea of '1 billion heartbeats' per lifetime How COVID has impacted growth of cities and business Human life expectancy Paradigm shifting innovations Growth in its relation to socioeconomic factors And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of Scale by Geoffrey West! Links from the Episode Mentioned in the show Readwise (0:02) Antilibrary (Umberto Eco) (4:41) Evernote (1:07) Notion (1:07) Roam (1:07) Airr (8:58) Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale (21:08) Steve Jobs introduces WiFi…with a hula hoop! (48:43) Books mentioned Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott (7:36) (Nat’s Book Notes) Antifragile (7:40) (Nat’s Book Notes) (Book Episode) The Blueprint for Armageddon by Dan Carlin (8:48) The Startup Gold Mine (Neil Soni) (13:05) Scale by Geoffrey West (14:08) (Nat’s Book Notes) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett (27:08) (Nat’s Book Notes) (Book Episode) The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch (30:05) (Nat’s Book Notes) (Book Episode) The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (35:31) (Nat’s Book Notes) Happy Accidents by Morton Meyers (59:02) (Nat’s Book Notes) (Book Episode) In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1:17:44) (Nat’s Book Notes) (Book Episode) People Mentioned Umberto Eco (4:41) Dan Carlin (8:48) Geoffrey West (14:08) David Deutsch (27:03) Daniel Dennett (27:08) Arthur Clarke (50:14) Nassim Taleb (1:29:30) Show notes: 0:27 - Using Readwise to gather your notes to export to other sites. Scanning book pages of physical books. Nat and Neil discuss their preferences surrounding digital vs. physical books. 6:32 - Re-reading books. The difficulty of finding a ‘mind-blowing’ book to read. If you have any book recommendations for a future podcast episode, send them our way! 8:45 - Airr - Highlight audio as you listen to podcasts. How to make podcast listening more educational for yourself. Purposes of podcasts can be both educational and entertaining. The massive market for “How To” content. 14:08 - This week’s episode is on the book Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies by Geoffrey West. The book talks about how things grow, continue to grow, decline in growth, or decay. The author primarily focuses on growth of organisms, cities, and companies, as the book title suggests, but also within these large structures are smaller substructures that grow and change, too. Some of the same laws of growth apply in seemingly different systems. 20:31 - There are many things that scale along with size that are not growing at a 1:1 ratio. The number of heartbeats in a specific mammal’s life is roughly the same across species. Neil describes an article in which each species receives an average of 1 billion heartbeats per lifetime. The heart rate varies on size of the being. Different lifespans between species. From an objective standpoint, an elephant tends to live longer than a mouse, but subjectively, do life spans feel the same length to each individual creature? 23:45 - How humans fit into this research of lifespan vs. body size. Differences in lifespan pre-technology vs. today’s era. Life extension - whether or not the maximum life expectancy can be extended. The age of 125 seems to be the maximum at this point according to West. 28:02 - Entropy and natural decay in the cell’s ability to replicate. You can bring things from disordered back to ordered, and with that creates externalities. Example: the waste created when we use the bathroom. Are there ways to minimize that? 30:46 - “The problem is that the theory also predicts that unbounded growth cannot be sustained without having either infinite resources or inducing major paradigm shifts that reset the clock before potential collapse occurs. We have sustained open-ended growth and avoided collapse by invoking continuous cycles of paradigm shifting innovations, such as those associated on the big scale of human history with discoveries of iron, steam, coal, computation, and most recently digital information technology.” (pg. 31) This quote is talking about finite-time singularity. This leads into a discussion in paradigm shifting innovations in today’s world. Resetting the paradigm clock. 35:45 - The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin - One thing brought up in this book is that humans, technologically, are an exponentially developing species. Geoffrey West brings up the possibility of hitting a wall and running out of paradigm shifts. To continue growing at an exponential rate, do we have to keep discovering this innovations at an exponential rate? 37:12 - Growth and the way society is structured. A shrink in population would pose the issue of how a generation smaller in numbers would have to be paying Social Security for the generation above them. Continued growth is ‘built-in’ to the system, and if it doesn’t grow at the anticipated rate, a collapse is possible. 41:09 - Across different cultures and countries comes different values: community, family, the state, society, tradition, religion. In America, it’s perceived that one’s self is the most valued, also referred to as individualism. 45:06 - The release of new inventions and technology in the ‘80s and ‘90s: computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and laptops. From big, clunky, and colorless inventions to high-speed and attractive new pieces of technology. It becomes interesting to think about how unique and magical these inventions feel at the time they come out, and also how quickly the next piece of upgraded technology follows. 52:11 - There are products that improve and add more features at a higher rate, and products where that growth is not as rapid. As noted in the book, these paradigm shifts happen, there’s a massive spike, and new innovations slowly come from that spike. The spike jump starts the innovations, and the innovations slow until there’s another spike. 54:26 - Discussions over whether COVID will bring a new spike. There have been many changes in our society with the way we work, make money, education, etc. that it poses the question on what will follow. Making use of underutilized resources. It comes down to what is more efficient. 56:34 - Intellectual capital has been opened up in a new way since COVID, as we are no longer expected to be in the same place. The downfall of Silicon Valley between COVID, remote work, and being on literal fire. With people working remotely now more than ever, it seems to point us in the direction of growth in the digital space and information innovation. 1:00:07 - How these changes in the way we live and work will affect the scaling laws discussed in the book. Urbanization in the U.S. People moving out of big cities. Changes in the way companies and their employees are now working. 1:06:05 - Companies and their current policies: remote, in-person, or a mixture of both. Depends on the needs and what industry they are in. Coworking spaces and working remotely around people, without actually working with them. 1:10:10 - Human’s ability to regulate their internal body temperature. West brings up global warming, and how an increase of 2 degrees Celsius could increase the pace of all biological lives by 20-30% - living and dying faster. Inversely, if you could lower your own body temperature by 1 degree Celsius, you could enhance your life span by 10-15%. 1:14:32 - Growth of cities and its relation with socioeconomic factors: wages, innovation, crime, pollution, etc. “The multiplicative compounding of socioeconomic interactivity engendered by urbanization has inevitably led to the contraction of time. Rather than being bored to death, our actual challenge is to avoid anxiety attacks, psychotic breakdowns, heart attacks, and strokes resulting from being accelerated to death.” (pg. 332) 1:20:03 - Population size in cities and productively interacting with others - discussions on whether innovations can come from a city that stays stagnant or even decreases in size. Commute times and the ‘one hour’ rule. 1:25:03 - Shared ideologies from across the world without a way to bring those people together. Sense of community from these shared interests and ideas, even if there is no physical meeting place for all to share. 1:29:58 - The next book we will be reading and discussing is Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil. Feel free to pick up a copy of the book to read along with us before the next podcast episode! If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! 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Welcome back to let's chat diets! In this episode, we talk everything carnivore diet. It would have been great to get a guest on board who is a carnivore but it proved quite difficult as a large proportion of the vocal carnivores are either absolute zealots or will refuse to remove the tunnel vision and have a logical discussion. We assure you though that we did our best to look at both sides of the coin and we certainly came prepared with multiple solid studies to get into. As well as Toms craziness (this week it went to a new level) we focus on breaking down certain claims made by carnivores. Weight loss ("Insulin Spikes") Better Heart Health (Saturated fat) Lower inflammation Plants are bad (Antinutrients) Don't need fibre Sugar is toxic Pesticides Environmental impact We go in study heavy on this one BUT as you'll find out studies are sometimes very misleading. Bill brings up 3 whopping studies showing no link between high levels of saturated fat and coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease Tom then replies with some very important information. What we found is that it's very easy to cherry-pick certain data and certain studies to fit your bias and when it comes to actual decent relevant data there are no decent studies in support of this diet. If you go online you'll see numerous "success" cases but we get into why these may be and reiterate that anecdotal evidence is the lowest form of evidence. New to the show? Head back to episode 1 of the main show "Let's Chat, Covid & Fitness" where we give an introduction into who we are and talk about the current state of ourselves and the fitness industry during this Covid pandemic. Check out the website: chatshitgetfit.com Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ChatShtGetFit Find us on Instagram @cf_bill @highcaliberfitness_uk @a_new_man87 Studies Mentioned Questionable Saturated Fat Studies The effect of replacing saturated fat with mostly n-6 polyunsaturated fat on coronary heart disease Association of saturated fat and cardiovascular disease Associations between fatty acids and coronary disease The Data That Matters Saturated Fats Compared With Unsaturated Fats and Sources of Carbohydrates in Relation to Risk of Coronary Heart Disease A study that unequivocally established that LDL causes ASCVD Importance of reducing SFA to limit CHD Studies on Fibre Questionable 1999 study Consumption of dietary fibre from cereals and fruits INVERSELY associated with risk of coronary heart disease High intake of dietary fibre reduces the risk of incident colorectal, adenoma and distal colon cancer High fibre intake was associated with a lower risk of CVD Rectal Cancer: 20% Risk Reduction Thanks to Dietary Fibre Intake Mechanical being Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg malfunction Is this how humans drink water? Is this how humans apply sun cream?
“I’m so proud of you!” is a common celebratory statement in our society. Inversely, it’s actually a hateful and wicked statement before Yah. After a few of these scriptures, those with an ear to hear will understand clearly most high willing. Praise Yah! Go to ServingYah.com for articles, videos, activities and more!
This is a part two of a two-parter based on a #requestion from Erin: Which interview did you go into thinking it'd be a challenge (for whatever reason), and it turned out amazing? Inversely, who did you think would be easy to interview and ended up not going as expected? This episode tackles the second question. Look to episode 5 for the 1st question to be answered!
This is a part one of a two-parter based on a #requestion from Erin: Which interview did you go into thinking it'd be a challenge (for whatever reason), and it turned out amazing? Inversely, who did you think would be easy to interview and ended up not going as expected? This episode tackles the first question. Look to episode 6 for the 2nd question to be answered!
Dennis Prager reasons “The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.” 1 I am sure many more have said and believed likewise, but he recently sparked my thoughts that as a government grows in size and scope, certain things shrink as a result. Goodness, particularly defined as people acting charitably to each other dwindles as the government tries to federalize communal generosity. And personal character diminishes while liberties becomes more restricted. In short, more government equates to more laws which stifles personal and corporate liberty, thus, “The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.”To add my thoughts onto this sentiment above in which might be a bit simplistic, but compellingly true, I would add - The bigger the government the smaller the God. I should note that it is not God Himself that becomes smaller but the place of God in people’s lives - that is, faith in God.We see this true in ancient history. The Hebrew people under a Theocracy were led by chosen leaders and prophets. In wanting to be like the other nations, I Samuel chapter eight accounts the Jewish people asking their leader Samuel to give them a King. Both Samuel and God were discouraged by this request and warned of the outcome. The end result in granting the people’s desire of a monarchy was straightforward. Liberties, personal finances, and land would all be given over to the King. Many people would become his slaves as well. As the Jewish people embarked into a monarchy, God’s place in officially governing His people would begin the long process of fading. Ever so slightly, one’s faith for livelihood was not erased, but shifted from an invisible and perfect God to a visible and fallible King.Since then it seems the separation between God and people via governments has only increased as time progresses and consequently, as governments become larger. And as the 18th century has freshly shown, Atheism is the default faith of oversized and unaccountable governments, and wickedness its work. Even a cursory understanding of the age of social catastrophe would confirm the bigger the government, the smaller the god. Socialist and Communist governments are by nature large and by nature atheistic. The Communist dictatorships of China and Russia unabashedly wiped out all religions in its pursuit of imperialistic domination. When the founder of Communism believed that “Religion is the opium of the people” it should be no wonder why places of worship were systematically removed. Even in the National Socialist (Nazis) regime of Hitler, which was against Communism, sparks of true Christianity were equally stamped out. In both Nazism and Communism, there was no room for religion when the government tried to take its place. Thus the bigger the government the smaller the god.Inversely, a small government should equate to a big God. This is seen no clearer than the founding of America. Its young founders made up of Deists and Christians were separating from a monarchial government belonging to the most powerful country in the world. With life and death on the line, the dire circumstances demanded that they placed much faith in God both personally and politically. Is it a coincidence that the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Amendments which all proclaim the intrinsic value of all people worthy of certain unalienable rights - life, liberty, property and the ability to pursue happiness, were the same founders who strove to make and maintain a small government with checks and balances in place so that the budding nation of the United States would not in time become like the other countries whose leaders naturally oppress? They believed, the smaller government the better, and agreed with what Thomas Paine famously wrote, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” 2The acknowledgment of a divine God and the awareness of their human proclivity towards sin played no small part in guiding the United States Constitutional Republic. Their mistrust of powerful men and trust in God’s providence is unquestionable. Washington said “No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have been advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of his providential agency.” 3The English poet, Percy Shelley wrote that “Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.” 4 If then government is an evil, albeit a necessary one, then it would be wise to keep it as small as possible. Less intrusive governments allow for more freedoms. And more freedoms require more responsibilities from its citizens. That is why Thomas Jefferson said that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” 5 and why he believed that the government is best when it governs least.Until the Prince of Peace reigns with the government upon His shoulders, 6 much ailments of humanity could be lessened if we seek to make mortal governments small and God big.1. Dennis Prager video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr638pCfPxs2. Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 13. George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Thursday, April 30, 17894. Percy Bysshe Shelley ,"Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes." BrainyQuote.com. BrainyMedia Inc, 2018. 17 December 2018. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/percy_bysshe_shelley_1559195. John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, October 11, 17986. Isaiah 9:6
Get your EGO in check. Confidence is fantastic. Experience, success, achievement, promotions, and titles can twist confidence into hubris. And guess what, now you have an ego problem. No worries though. I had an ego problem and recovered. It's actually easier to fix then you think. The problem is truly identifying your ego problem. Let's talk Corona one more time while we tackle our ego issues. Time to have an awesome Friday the 13th intentionally.
Future Females is a movement that exists to connect, inspire and support current and aspiring female entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs – to rapidly increase the number of and success of these women. A remarkable platform that provides an environment digitally, physically and emotionally, where women [and men] can connect with each other and access the resources they need to succeed. The Future Females movement was founded by Lauren Dallas and Cerina Bezuidenhout in August 2017, and has grown to over 60 contributors, 3,000 global members and 26 cities around the world - watch out for this global domination! During this terrific edition on the Outcome Podcast I was joined by the extraordinary Flora Fontes (Marketing Manager) and Sasha Zakharova (Programme Manager). During our conversation (I was quite nervous to be honest - haha!) we unpacked the Future Females movement from how Lauren and her team found their niche in the world of entrepreneurship and how the movement engages with their community to create safe spaces for women globally, opening up a place where each individual can feel vulnerable, give and receive feedback and share wins and losses alike. We also dove a little deeper into the psychological frameworks behind women in entrepreneurship and what some of the often recurring limiting (mental and physical) factors were experienced by these individuals. But, this episode was not recorded to highlight only the struggles. Inversely, Flora and Sash provided some great information on how in over a few years their content, business school, mentorship programme and events are used to combat the above factors. This episode was unashamedly a massive milestone for me to record on the podcast, for which I would like to thank the Future Females team! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Resources and key points: 00:00 - Welcome back and shout out / refresher of Episode #3: Simone and Simon - Movero 05:04 - Flora and Sasha take the floor Get in touch: Website: Future Females Email: hello@futurefemales.co Instagram: @futurefemales Facebook: Future Females LinkedIn: Future Females -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple Podcast: Apple Podcast Spotify: Spotify Google Podcasts: Google Podcasts Instagram: @outcome_podcast Email: outcomepodcast@gmail.com Website: Coming Soon!
Cooperative board gaming has always existed but the past decade has seen a rise of cooperative experiences over competitive. Inversely, competitive gaming is on the rise. Why is it that board games are having a thriving market for collaborative experiences? Raf and Ray discuss the trials and tribulations that happen in the living rooms across the world with our DnD 5E correspondent, Paul, and our Board Game Correspondent, Kelsey! *Cited Article: :"Collaborative Games: Lessons Learned from Board Games" by Jose Zagal, Jochen Rick and Idris Hsi.
Jim Lehrer is one of the last of the great American Journalists, dead at age 85. Founder of what became PBS Newshour. Featured snippets are special boxes where the format of regular listings is reversed, showing the descriptive snippet first. Read more about how Google's Featured Snippets work. Google's John Mueller said on Reddit "A site is not going to outrank your site just because of hidden text." He also added, "Inversely, just having hidden text on a page won't get the site banned from Google."Google uses many signals for ranking, John explained. He said "Lots of sites get things wrong, lots of sites have text accidentally hidden or even purposely hidden until you interact with the UI. The sites aren't perfect and so our algorithms work to deal with these imperfections in a reasonable way. Sometimes that means the top ranking site is one that does a lot of things technically incorrect." This is the one our algorithms currently think is a good match for a user's query. The person who started this Reddit thread wrote: "My Competition is cheating – is there anything I can do?". He explained, "Two of my biggest competitors use invisible keyword stuffing text". John Mueller from Google is saying said: "Well, it isn't that simple".
Jim Lehrer is one of the last of the great American Journalists, dead at age 85. Founder of what became PBS Newshour. Featured snippets are special boxes where the format of regular listings is reversed, showing the descriptive snippet first. Read more about how Google's Featured Snippets work. Google's John Mueller said on Reddit "A site is not going to outrank your site just because of hidden text." He also added, "Inversely, just having hidden text on a page won't get the site banned from Google."Google uses many signals for ranking, John explained. He said "Lots of sites get things wrong, lots of sites have text accidentally hidden or even purposely hidden until you interact with the UI. The sites aren't perfect and so our algorithms work to deal with these imperfections in a reasonable way. Sometimes that means the top ranking site is one that does a lot of things technically incorrect." This is the one our algorithms currently think is a good match for a user's query. The person who started this Reddit thread wrote: "My Competition is cheating – is there anything I can do?". He explained, "Two of my biggest competitors use invisible keyword stuffing text". John Mueller from Google is saying said: "Well, it isn't that simple".
Ight. My grown ass still believes in Santa. Because a story, y’all. I saw some things with my five year old eyes that will forever make me a believer. Inversely, after being a few places around the world, I’ve seen a few things with my own grown eyes that contradicted some beliefs I thought to be true. Have a listen. Be social! Host: http://www.instagram.com/_dCarrie Show: http://www.instagram.com/travelnshit_ Network: http://www.instagram.com/Beatsonfilm Be sure to check out dCarrie.com for all relevant links and more info! New to Airbnb? Support Travel N Sh!t and use my referral code for $55 towards your first trip! https://www.airbnb.com/c/danaa3028?currency=USD
Stubbornness is holding onto your own understanding, perspective or beliefs instead of surrendering to divine direction(s). This is the opposite of motion and flow. Stubbornness affects the colon and often people who have the energy of stubbornness experience constipation. Inversely, colon issues is a sign of stubbornness.
We can do our best to clean up our world and leave it better than we found it. We can do this in our own small ways. Clearing out and decluttering your environment can help your mind feel more organized. Inversely, when your mind is clear, the chaos of your external environment may not disturb you as much. Meditation is a way to clarify your mind, just as your physical body benefits from clean water, sleep and fresh food. Sa ta na ma meditation is known as the garbage cleaner of the subconscious mind. We owe it to ourselves to take out the trash.
Research supports the premise that regardless of age, sex, race, and comorbidities (simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or conditions), there is an inverse relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and mortality. By the same token, CRF has also been associated with a higher quality of healthy life – owning to reductions in the risk to coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and cancer.
Episode Summary In this week’s episode of The Freelancers Show the panel discusses the importance of defining success. Jeremy Green explains why this concept of defining what success means to you is so important. Without success behind defined you might put your nose to the grindstone and miss your own success. Inversely you might be grinding away, missing the signs that what you are doing isn’t taking you to success and you need to stop and reevaluate. The panel considers some of the obvious signs of success like key performance indicators. Are you making enough to pay your bills, save and play? It is easy to think success is making a million dollars. If that is your definition of success, the panel explains that you will all your success along the way. They invite everyone to sit down and really think of what success means to you. How do you want to spend your time? Are you doing something you love? Do you want to spend more time with friends and family? Jeremy explains why he wanted to talk about this topic. He went to a conference and this seemed to come up a lot during talks at the conference. It can be hard to reconcile how you feel about success when looking at other people and their circumstances. Deciding what success means to you can help guide your life and get rid of some of that uncertainty. Erik explains the hedonic treadmill, which shows a phenomenon that says highs from successes wear off fasters than the pain of failure. No matter how high you climb there is always someone higher and your success of getting where you are is forgotten as you attempt to catch the person above you. If you set goals then you can more easily see the success as the come along. Jeremy shares some of his success criteria. He realized at this conference that he was doing well enough in freelancing and consulting that could pull back and focus more on other things he has been wanting to improve. He realized he got sidetracked and started grinding towards saving as much money as he could for retirement. By figuring out his goals, he saw that was actually doing much better than he thought and didn’t need to grind so much. Erik describes a similar moment of realization for him at the end of 2016. He was feeling pretty burnt out from traveling, so he sat down and quantified all his work for that year and decide what he wanted out of his lifestyle and made goals in his work life to help him reach that lifestyle. Erik explains that by not having explicit goals, implicit goals be pressed on us by our surroundings. The panel considers how in this world there is never enough money, but by defining our earning goals and deciding what is enough for us, we can find success in more than one way. The panel considers how easily freelancers can get carried away overworking and pushing themselves. Employees have an employer that won’t let them overwork, employees have gaurd rails that protect them from this sort of abuse. Freelancers constantly feel that pressure to use their time wisely, to do more. By defining success, you give yourself a way to take an objective look and say I am doing well, I can’t take the night off. Erik shares his approach to this process. He explains that he starts by looking at his life and what will make him happy and work his goals back to work from there. He gives tips on how to quantify qualitative things in your life so you can evaluate your success. The definition you give to success is very personal and will differ for each person. The panel considers it from a Maslow’s Hierarchy of business standpoint. The survival needs being are you staying afloat and the different needs moving up a pyramid all the way up to self-actualization or success. Finally, the panel discusses the need to define failure as well as success. It’s important to know when to bail out or reevaluate a situation. Panelists Jeremy Green Erik Dietrich Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan Adventures in DevOps Views on Vue CacheFly Links https://www.facebook.com/freelancersshow/ Picks Jeremy Green: Company of One The Mythical Man Month Erik Dietrich: The 4-Hour Workweek Hit Subscribe
Episode Summary In this week’s episode of The Freelancers Show the panel discusses the importance of defining success. Jeremy Green explains why this concept of defining what success means to you is so important. Without success behind defined you might put your nose to the grindstone and miss your own success. Inversely you might be grinding away, missing the signs that what you are doing isn’t taking you to success and you need to stop and reevaluate. The panel considers some of the obvious signs of success like key performance indicators. Are you making enough to pay your bills, save and play? It is easy to think success is making a million dollars. If that is your definition of success, the panel explains that you will all your success along the way. They invite everyone to sit down and really think of what success means to you. How do you want to spend your time? Are you doing something you love? Do you want to spend more time with friends and family? Jeremy explains why he wanted to talk about this topic. He went to a conference and this seemed to come up a lot during talks at the conference. It can be hard to reconcile how you feel about success when looking at other people and their circumstances. Deciding what success means to you can help guide your life and get rid of some of that uncertainty. Erik explains the hedonic treadmill, which shows a phenomenon that says highs from successes wear off fasters than the pain of failure. No matter how high you climb there is always someone higher and your success of getting where you are is forgotten as you attempt to catch the person above you. If you set goals then you can more easily see the success as the come along. Jeremy shares some of his success criteria. He realized at this conference that he was doing well enough in freelancing and consulting that could pull back and focus more on other things he has been wanting to improve. He realized he got sidetracked and started grinding towards saving as much money as he could for retirement. By figuring out his goals, he saw that was actually doing much better than he thought and didn’t need to grind so much. Erik describes a similar moment of realization for him at the end of 2016. He was feeling pretty burnt out from traveling, so he sat down and quantified all his work for that year and decide what he wanted out of his lifestyle and made goals in his work life to help him reach that lifestyle. Erik explains that by not having explicit goals, implicit goals be pressed on us by our surroundings. The panel considers how in this world there is never enough money, but by defining our earning goals and deciding what is enough for us, we can find success in more than one way. The panel considers how easily freelancers can get carried away overworking and pushing themselves. Employees have an employer that won’t let them overwork, employees have gaurd rails that protect them from this sort of abuse. Freelancers constantly feel that pressure to use their time wisely, to do more. By defining success, you give yourself a way to take an objective look and say I am doing well, I can’t take the night off. Erik shares his approach to this process. He explains that he starts by looking at his life and what will make him happy and work his goals back to work from there. He gives tips on how to quantify qualitative things in your life so you can evaluate your success. The definition you give to success is very personal and will differ for each person. The panel considers it from a Maslow’s Hierarchy of business standpoint. The survival needs being are you staying afloat and the different needs moving up a pyramid all the way up to self-actualization or success. Finally, the panel discusses the need to define failure as well as success. It’s important to know when to bail out or reevaluate a situation. Panelists Jeremy Green Erik Dietrich Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan Adventures in DevOps Views on Vue CacheFly Links https://www.facebook.com/freelancersshow/ Picks Jeremy Green: Company of One The Mythical Man Month Erik Dietrich: The 4-Hour Workweek Hit Subscribe
Research, which appears in the June 2019 issue of Nutrients – Association of Dietary Omega 3 & 6 Fatty Acid Intake with Hypertension: NHANES 2007-2014 - says, “that dietary n3 (omega 3) and n6 (omega 6) fatty acids intake were inversely associated with the risk of hypertension in US adults.”
In an age of technological disruption and democratization opportunities are at their highest. Inversely we realize that the new breed of gatekeepers are more psychological than literal. The new brand of kings arrive self-anointed and demonstrate their ability to maintain the crown.
In an age of technological disruption and democratization opportunities are at their highest. Inversely we realize that the new breed of gatekeepers are more psychological than literal. The new brand of kings arrive self-anointed and demonstrate their ability to maintain the crown. The post HTT 183 – The Inner Gatekeeper appeared first on Halftime Talks.
We picked a real bomb coming off Star Wars Month: 2001's "Glitter," shockingly *not* Mariah Carey's film debut, but certainly the role that cemented her diva reputation. Inversely, of course, this movie is pretty boring, only managing to differentiate itself from the legions of other artist narratives by presenting a surprisingly cynical depiction of show business. Come for Carey's voice, stay for the weird, wonky edits and special effects. https://www.patreon.com/pro_con Music- "when the struggle itself becomes identified with a series of defeats" by 红山郡 (hongshanjun.bandcamp.com/album/-) "Loverboy" by Mariah Carey
This podcast covers topics within electromagnetism. First, I will talk about charge and electric fields. This will include discussions on static charge, the amber effect, and electric potential. Then, I will introduce magnetism. I will discuss the concept of magnetism, force applied by a magnetic field, the right hand rule, and the magnetic characterization of different materials. *Corrections* 1. Electrostatic force is INVERSELY proportional to the distance between charges squared 2. Amperes = Coulombs/Second For comments and concerns email: MCATpodcast@medschoolcoach.com Thanks for listening!
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Why IoTs have created a security crisis and strained the communications infrastructure along the way. By Acreto IoT Security. 5G is coming! 5G is coming! But in the 4G LTE era where access is lightning fast, what is driving the push for 5G? 4G networks is a technology from the 2000's with one primary intent -- to enable mobile devices to take advantage of apps. In order for the apps, app stores, streaming and other services to be successful, mobile devices need to just plain work. This means they must work transparently, reliably and consistently for users to interface and interact with their apps and content. 4G solved the problem with 2G, which was data unusable, and 3G, that at best was used for email and some browsing in a pinch. To that extent, it has been a resounding success. However, connected devices have seeped into everyday life in a low-key and transparent way. So much so that the prevailing industry mantra is that "IoTs are coming". In reality, IoTs arrived long ago. Today, mobile phones are ubiquitous. So ubiquitous that the mobile phone market has all but saturated. However, IoTs that are perceived to be "coming" number twice that of mobile phones today (16 billion vs. 8 billion). Just think about how many smart devices are in your personal life already. All the smart TVs, smart thermostats, smart door locks and video doorbells, and more. Today, some version of anything and everything comes with an IP address. Tomorrow, everythingwill just be assumed to have an IP address. IoTs are used for measurement, reporting, monitoring, content dissemination, cost management or performing a variety of functions. And in many instances, technologies are IoT enabled due to plain old peer pressure. Everybody else is connected and we have to keep up with the Kardashians. Today, things that matter are connected - and there are a lot of things that matter. And we are well on our way on the trajectory for “connected everything” to be the standard. The exponential growth of connected devices has strained our communications infrastructure beyond its breaking point. This has driven the complete exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, which has forced unwilling network operators to fast-track transition to IPv6. Moreover, network operators have realized that much like IPv4, the 4G LTE network is cracking under the burden of connected devices. In reality, 4G just can't keep up with the scale trajectory and performance demands of IoT technologies. One of the key factors for 4G is that it is not decentralized enough. As decentralized as 4G networks are, they are still too centralized for the continuing increase in the volume of IoTs. There are three missing infrastructure elements that have to mature in order to fully support the scale, form and function of 21st century Internetwork of Everything. First, Scale - Comparatively, enterprise technologies are like a gorilla, emphasizing static tools, however, IoTs are like a swarm of bees. Completely manageable in small quantities, overwhelming in medium quantities and suffocating at full scale. Second, Form - In comparison to autonomous and network-centric technologies, IoTs are distributed and operate on many different public and private networks with dependencies on remote third-party operated applications and management. Third, Function - Today's standards-based technologies can be used in a variety of roles. Inversely, connected technologies are often small and resource limited, single-function devices that perform micro-functions. Connected devices, IoTs, cloud-enabled technologies or, whichever other name they may be referred to as, operate at a radically different scale, with radically different form and function characteristics. Ultimately, they demand a radically different technology infrastructure altogether. First, let’s talk about Addressing. The Internetwork of Everything requires each and every device, server, cloud, desktop and anything else that makes up the Internet – no matter how small – to have a unique identity. Today we primarily use the IPv4 addressing scheme. IPv4 has a maximum capacity of 4.2 billion addresses (4,294,967,296 to be exact). However, consider that we have over 8 billion mobile phones alone, and another 16 billion IoTs in use today, not to mention all the computers. The world has turned to tricks like Network Address Translation (NAT) in order to compensate, but these are just band-aids that are currently straining at the seams. IPv6 has been around since 1994 and in contrast to IPv4's 4 billion addresses, it sports 3.4 x 10 to the 38th power addresses – or 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 463 quintillion, 374 quadrillion, 607 trillion, 431 billion, 768 million, 211 thousand and 456, to be exact. Its support for the next generation of IP addresses is adequate for the massive scale of IoTs – but, this also makes it more complex to configure. Many technologists have not had the "muscle memory" experience they have developed with IPv4. However, there are no IPv4 addresses left. Because of this, technologists are pushing to implement IPv6 on all their networks. All the major players have already fully implemented IPv6. Anecdotally, IPv6 is said to have as many IP addresses as we have grains of sand on the earth, which should serve us well in supporting the massive expansion of IoTs to near 50 billion in the next few years. Next, let’s talk about 5G Networks. 5G, as its name implies, is the 5th Generation of mobile networks. It has several advantages over previous generations of mobile network tech including scale, performance, and availability as well as demands on its constituent devices. Believe it or not, the highly decentralized 4G/LTE networks are not decentralized enough to support IoT and connected device platforms. It all comes down to density. The sheer number of IoTs are driving a level of density that can best be described by an "IoTs per square foot" model compared to today's devices per base station cell area. Making some broad, yet reasonable, assumptions, the average 4G/LTE cell tower today supports an area from a few miles up to 10 square miles. Each cell tower is supporting several thousand connections at up to one gigabit per second of data throughput. The number of mobile phones and IoTs in any cell area is starting to outpace the maximum connection or bandwidth capacity of the towers. At this rate it won't be long until portions of the infrastructure are fully saturated. Another factor that needs to be addressed is frequency spectrums. Currently, most mobile networks operate within the 700Mhz (Megahertz) to sub 3.0Ghz (Gigahertz) frequency spectrum. This sub 3.0Ghz spectrum is also becoming saturated, and will soon not be able to support the spectrum needed to support the volume of connected devices. This though, is where 5G networks really shine. 5G operates using a greater number of cell towers with smaller coverage areas each with the capability to support a greater number of devices. 5G also operates at much higher frequency ranges – from 3Ghz to 30Ghz. The additional range buys much more capacity for existing carriers as well as providing more operating room for additional more nuanced carrier networks. More carriers means more competition driving lower prices and more specialized service providers supporting specialty technologies. There is also more capacity and intelligence built into 5G. It uses cognitive techniques to distinguish between mobile and static devices to determine the best methods for content delivery to each network subscriber. 5G offers robust performance that meets or beats network bandwidth only available via fiber optic networks today. 5G has been tested in a lab up to an astonishing 1Tbps (Terabit per second) while still maintaining a real-world practical performance of 10 to 50Gbps. 5G's scale, capacity and performance is a game-changer. Finally, let’s talk about IoT Security. Aside from adequately scalable addressing and communications infrastructure, securing all of these distributed and diverse platforms that use them is another challenge that has to be overcome. Realistically, the combination of 1) unique identity for every individual technology that IPv6 provides, 2) the enhanced communications capacities and capabilities of 5G along with 3) the support for many to many communications that the combination of IPv6 and 5G offer, makes security not just important, but an imperative necessity. Today's security models are not adequate for the new generation of infrastructure. The challenge is that a whole new security model is necessary to support the IPv6 / 5G new generation of communications. On-device security is not viable because the sheer volume and large variety of unique and purpose-built technologies that need to be secured create an uncontrollable hyper-fragmented jumble of security tools. This creates a patchwork quilt of security tools that organizations have to acquire, implement, integrate, operationalize, manage, troubleshoot and refresh. A complete non-starter! Network security tools just don't support mobile and distributed technologies -- the very thing that 5G enables. This is like trying to fit a square peg in the security round hole. Then there are the cloud-based IoT security companies. Securing distributed platforms from the cloud is very viable, except that almost all IoT security cloud plays are what is referred to as "You're Screwed" technologies. They are notification oriented technologies that collect logs from devices and analyze them to determine malicious behavior. Once malicious behavior is detected, they notify administrators who have to manually respond to each incident. This approach is reactive and not sustainable at scale. The Future of IPv6, 5G and IoT Security. IPv6, 5G Networks and IoT Security are the critical trio that have to work cohesively and effectively at scale to serve as the enablement platforms for a more prolific use of Internet-of-Things. A shortcoming in any one of these areas translates to shortcomings in the overall solution. Today, IPv6 is well established and though not ubiquitous, it's close, and there is clarity on how to get it there. 5G is very much well on its way and the telcos have already started their 5G rollouts. Security still remains an unanswered challenge. Acreto recognizes the weakness in today's available security options and has developed a platform from the ground up to work hand-in-hand with IPv6 and 5G networks to empower and enable the Internet-of-Everything. Learn more about Acreto's platform on our website here. Also on our website, you can find links to the American Registry of Internet Numbers' (ARIN) notification to network providers of IPv4 address exhaustion, as well as another letter on how to deal with IP address depletion from the Number Resource Organization (NRO). Learn more or read online by visiting our web site: Acreto.io — On Twitter: @acretoio and if you haven’t done so, sign up for the Acreto IoT Security podcast. You can get it from Apple – Google or your favorite podcast app. About Acreto IoT Security Acreto IoT Security delivers advanced security for IoT Ecosystems, from the cloud. IoTs are slated to grow to 50 Billion by 2021. Acreto’s Ecosystem security protects all Clouds, users, applications, and purpose-built IoTs that are unable to defend themselves in-the-wild. The Acreto platform offers simplicity and agility, and is guaranteed to protect IoTs for their entire 8-20 year lifespan. The company is founded and led by an experienced management team, with multiple successful cloud security innovations. Learn more by visiting Acreto IoT Security on the web at acreto.io or on Twitter @acretoio.
Episode 44: Lion or Lamb: Part 3 - Gentleman Doesn’t Mean Pansy The word PANSY is often used to describe a weak man - but let’s make sure not to equate that title with the title of gentleman. My grandmother always told me that a pansy was actually a tough flower. It could stand against the cold, and grow in pretty adverse conditions… it still though has a reputation for being “girly” – and the flower’s name has been embedded culturally to imply weakness or a lack of masculinity. This civility does not erase the wild, passionate strength that lies in a man’s heart. A gentleman can hold his own in a bout of fisticuffs or fencing. He can heft a child on to his shoulders, pick up his bride to carry her over the threshhold, and defend the tender things he holds dear with ferocity and strength. My thoughts on this are two-fold. 1. Just because you wear a tie to work, or drive a minivan, or eat kale – does not exempt you from the wilder side of manhood. Make sure that you know how to defend yourself and the things and people you love. Make sure you keep your physical body strong and ready to perform. 2. Inversely, just because you are a strong and brave, do not neglect the tender touches needed in civilized life. Say Please and Thank you. Snuggle with your children. Read poetry. These things do not affect your ability to be manly. In fact, I believe they enhance them. http://www.manlihood.com/lion-or-lamb-gentleman-doesnt-mean-pansy/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/manlihood/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/manlihood/support
Did you know we have a Pregnancy And Infant Loss (PAIL) awareness month in America? Neither did I until one of our Happy Lifers revealed it to me. So we, my wife and I, interviewed her on the topic. It's amazing what can happen when someone doesn't deal with the crappy that life throws at them. Inversely, it is amazing as well when someone deals correctly with the crappy that happens. Here is a very powerful story that will inspire you. This episode went longer than the usual. In fact, this is our longest one to date, but the topic was too tender, vulnerable and intense to just end it after 10 or 15 minutes. You've probably heard it said "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." In the same way, most of us love to see miracles, but nobody wants to need one. Unfortunately, we can't have one without the other. So, if you've faced, or are currently facing, a loss, whether it's a miscarriage or something else, there is hope! You are not alone! Listen, be encouraged, and let hope arise. "You are not alone" by Michael Jackson www.HappyLife.lol www.Facebook.com/HappyLifeStudios www.Instagram.com/HappyLife_Studios www.Twitter.com/HappyLifStudios www.PayPal.me/StevoHays
When circumstances dominate us it is easier to notice how the things we think manifest in our lives. Let's talk about balance and how we can turn the negative outcomes into positive ones! Camron is back from the city that never sleeps, so he and Brian dive right into another fantastic Superhero Friday installment of The Real Brian Show. In This Episode Do you like Autumn? Hopefully more than the Nightfox... Guinness and Gouda Bread, courtesy of Great Harvest Will Smith's motivational sky diving speech What we think about ourselves and about our situations manifest Happiness is a choice Alien: Isolation and Overwatch comments Manifests “What you sow in thought, either useful or useless, manifests itself sooner or later in your circumstances.” Cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. It's a phrase people toss around like candy at an Independence Day parade, thinking there is so much pride in thinking and, thus, being. The phrase, originally penned by Rene Descartes (philosopher from the 1600s), was fascinated by the idea that in order to contemplate doubt our existence, we also must have the capability of doubting (thinking), which thereby negates any doubt we can have over our existence. In the centuries since Descartes' day, many people have taken his words in many directions, have argued semantics and have been skeptical of proper definitions... but if we strip all that away for a moment and just meditate on the basic premise, we're left with a stunning realization that we're only capable of questioning the things we have enough knowledge on to know any different way of being. Follow? It's kind of interesting. I had the issue as a kid of being well-read, but lacking formal instruction around pronunciation. I read a lot of stories and inferred many words from context, but the building blocks of language were only beginning to come together for me and, as a result, I didn't know how to pronounce a lot of the words I was reading. The one that I always remember most vividly is the word facade. Properly pronounced, it sounds like fuh-sawd. The way I pronounced it was more like fah-cayd. But I never questioned the word, or pronunciations in general, up until I said the word in public and was lovingly chided. I didn't know enough to question the pronunciation, but after I did... it became quite consuming and is still something I work on getting correct to this day. Brian and Camron talk a lot about how our situations perpetuate our thought process, and vice versa. What we think about ourselves and our situations begins to manifest. Like biting the same spot on the inside of your mouth repeatedly, we inadvertently point ourselves to the things we think even when it stuff we don't want. Inversely, as Brian points out, we are fully capable of producing positive effects from this tendency! When we can be confident about decisions, about who we are and why we know what we know, we can think about things that point us to what we want and achieve those goals. Having the capacity to question ourselves is a great tool, but it should be a tool we wield in order to grow and better ourselves and our circumstances instead of it becoming a road block. Links Will Smith's Motivational Sky Diving Speech
Synopsis Here is an explanation of the differences between the two main types of paperback books: mass-market paperbacks and trade paperbacks. As a self-publisher, these are the two formats that you'll be typically dealing with most often. Therefore, you need to be familiar with and understand the similarities and differences between them. So, here is a quick discussion and explanation of mass-market paperbacks and trade paperbacks. What You Will Learn In This Post 1. You will learn the significant characteristics of mass-market paperback books and a trade paperback books. 2. You will learn how each type of these paperbacks are similar and different. 3. You will learn how British paperback books compare to America's paperbacks. Introduction In the USA, the most common formats for fiction and non-fiction printed books fall into three main categories: 1. Hardcover; 2. Trade paperback; and, 3. Mass-market paperback. Each of them can then be broken down into several more categories. But here, we're concerned with understanding the differences between the two types of paperbacks. As a self-publisher, these are the two formats that you'll be typically dealing with most often. Therefore, you need to be familiar with and understand the similarities and differences between them. Share This Image On Your SitePlease include attribution to https://kunzonpublishing.com/ with this graphic. Here is a quick discussion and explanation of mass-market paperbacks and trade paperbacks: 1. Mass-Market Paperback Books Overview For the masses on a budget. A mass-market paperback is a small, usually non-illustrated, and less-expensive bookbinding format. The standard size is 6.75” tall x 4.25” wide, and frequently uses a font, leading (pronounced: ledding), and line spacing that's smaller. When the big publishing companies sell them, they're frequently released after the hardcover edition. And, they're most known for being sold in non-traditional bookselling locations such as airports, newsstands, drug stores, and supermarkets, etc. Some people refer to them informally as “pocketbooks.” Examples of mass-market fiction and non-fiction paperback books. A. Sales And Distribution The books that are in the non-traditional locations are generally within the periodical-distribution industry. These books are distributed by the same companies that are placing magazines in these locations. Conversely, the trade paperbacks are distributed by book wholesalers and distributors – or trade channels – hence the name “trade paperback.” Title page of a mass-market paperback book. The paragraph in the middle discusses the cover and what happens when a book is stripped. B. Strippable Vs. Non-Strippable Mass-market paperbacks are also distinguished from hardcover and trade by the different business practices that publishers and booksellers apply to them. Mass-markets are “strippable.” This means that bookstores can rip off the front cover and return only the cover for full credit from the distributor. The book retailers are supposed to destroy the rest of the book. Inversely, trade paperbacks are not strippable. Therefore, the book retailers must return the entire book, not just the cover. “Understanding the differences between ‘mass-market paperback' and ‘trade paperback' formats will help you start to feel and sound like a real book publisher.” (Tweet) C. Self-Publishers When self-publishers publish their fiction books, they're typically only released in the mass-market format. These books will most commonly never receive a hardcover printing. This format helps keep the cover price down, making these books more attractive to a broader audience in a very competitive market. 2. Trade Paperback Books Overview Trade paperbacks are the less expensive version of the hardcover edition. They usually have a thicker cover than the mass-market books. They're typically the same size as the hardcover books,...
Hey Duhmericana listeners! Thanks as always for tuning in! This week, Wilx and Benzy discuss one of the most common pitfalls of consumerism culture: buying things that were a waste of money. From subscription services, to high-end yet cheaply made items, to Wilx's insight as a new mommy and what she did and didn't need, we have it all! Inversely, we also recall inexpensive yet super helpful, quality product that surprised us and saved our wallets. Chime in: what have you purchased and regretted? What had been a sleeper hit and pleasant surprise? #consumerism #buyers remorse #culture #newmom #girltalk #gossip #superbowl #commercials #quality #finance #girlboss
Professor Barry Latzer sits down with Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books to discuss his new book "The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America." During the interview, Prof. Latzer and Ben discuss a range of topics including Prof. Latzer's difficulty in publishing a book that talks about the correlation between violent crime and race, the link between war and crime, the interesting theory of the inverse relationship between homicide and suicide rates, the surprising lack of correlation between economics and crime, what caused the spike of crime from the late 1960s through the early 1990s and the drastic plummet of rates from the late 1990s to today, the deep question of whether crime is attributable to economics or culture, and what the future of violent crime looks like in America. Read 'The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America': http://tinyurl.com/hor5oz2 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb
As a leader, how can you be immensely present in the moment with people, both at work and in your personal life and in any situation? In my insightful and humorous discussion with Shawn Hunter we discuss his book Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes and the wisdom gleaned from interviewing hundreds of thought leaders and executives from all walks of life. Shawn not only writes about this topic as an author, but has also had to live it as an entrepreneur who has built and sold a company which was acquired by Skillsoft. He has interviewed so many successful people that he can see patterns of success and achievement that might take us 100 – 200 books and years to learn. In this interview ideas come fast and you will surely want to capture them. Take notes. Shawn shares numerous anecdotes and stories throughout the interview and every one of them will present a teaching moment for you. Here are 10 of the highlights: One of the best questions to ask yourself this coming year “What am I capable of becoming in a year?” The impact of Energizers and De-energizers in a company and what to do about them. The importance of strategic storytelling for a business. Does happiness precede success, or do we have to be happy first to be successful? Lack vs Surplus mentality - Wanting what you have vs wanting what you don’t have. What is the difference between a person who is creative vs innovative vs inventive. The buzz word is that people have to be more creative. Well what does this mean vs innovative? Why as a leader you need to be Immensely present in the moment with people and in situations. Examples of how leaders do this. How to scale and grow leadership. An expectation of excellence - This is an honor, it’s a gift. When you believe that those around you have the capacity to do their best, automatically they start performing to match that expectation. As a Leader and Manager, how do you create the right conditions for people you lead to have a sense of “flow” and sense of “excellence” in performing their work? Shawn is an author and the Executive Producer & Vice President for Leadership Development Channel at Skillsoft. He has been interviewing and writing about amazing leaders from around the globe for over ten years. Skillsoft provides cloud-based solutions for customers worldwide, who range from global enterprises, government and education customers to mid-sized and small businesses. He originally co-founded Targeted Learning Corporation with his father Hal Hunter, Ph.D., which was acquired by Skillsoft in February 2007. He has a degree in Political Science and Government from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. As quoted from Shawn’s website eloquently , “We’ve entered a new era. Call it the age of imagination, ideation, conceptualization, creativity, innovation – take your pick. Creativity, mental flexibility, and collaboration have displaced one-dimensional intelligence and isolated determination as core ingredients of competitive advantage. Creative people who can bring innovation to the world are our greatest capital now and with the right leadership and inspiration, creativity and execution can be nurtured in everyone. In any field, expertise is not only expected – it is given. Success for workers and companies centers on being nimble, creative and having the initiative to bring unique solutions to unexpected problems. " Books Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes New Book: Transform. Behaviors Mind-sets as a leader you need to make up. Available for sale Fall of 2016. Huffington Post Article: Signs of an Impending Bozo Explosion How to get in touch with Shawn ShawnHunter.com Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Resources Mentioned Dan Coil – The Talent Code Theresa Amabile ProgressPrinciple.com Shawn Achor - The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance Shawn Achor - Before Happiness Stephen Kotler "flow" Angela Duckworth and the Research on 'Grit' Bob Sutton – Energizers and De-Energizer research PhD Stanford Scott Eblin – Overworked and Overwhelmed - The Mindfulness Alternative Douglas Conant TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments Timberland Company Story Skillsoft Mindscaling.com Summarized Show Notes Very unique quotes throughout the book that Shawn collected Innovation comes from mashing up – putting different disparate ideas together to make new values and combinatory thinking Difference between creativity, innovation and invention. Coach people to do little small micro changes. Large changes take small incremental progress over time. To coach someone to become more innovative – you coach people to be more creative – you conceptually create. Then you recognize where you take action. Sense of wellbeing and contribution at work– comes from your intrinsic motivation. Sense of meaningful, incremental progress in your work. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor- start with lack of something or feeling good about what you’ve achieved. Happiness comes from the success you have enjoyed and what you have achieved; as if our own competence creates confidence. Big fan of gratitude thinking and journaling, and competence in your work, it creates a higher level of confidence. Practice, hard work, tenacity. Does happiness precede success, or do we have to be happy first to be successful? Happiness precedes success. The notion of the impostor syndrome, notion that you feel like you are a fraud and you will be revealed as an impostor. You don’t deserve the bonus, job etc. Maya Angelou was afflicted with deep sense of self doubt that she was a fraud. Kate Winslet is another example. The more success you enjoy – the more you are surrounded with more successful people which compounds the problem which brings in more self-doubt. The key to the problem is to stop comparing - it is a form of self-sabotage. When you let go, you find more self-satisfaction in what you are doing If you assume the very best in yourself, capabilities and deservedness - then by extension - you do this with other people, that they have the best intentions. An expectation of excellence: when you believe that those around you have the capacity to do excellent work, they automatically start performing to match that expectation. That can get you over your head. Ability and challenge - there is an intersection where the challenge and skill meet, this sweet spot known as flow. The key with finding flow is very personal. Shawn speaks about effort and grit and the way of coaxing out creativity and performance. Evidence based theory – Angela Duckworth. When you tell someone that they are brilliant. They will get that heroic status. They will adopt of status of brilliance. Inversely when you give people this status they also believe it is hard work that got them there and not their brilliance. They will choose for themselves harder challenges because of the reward system. To build in natural growth. IF they think they are naturally brilliant they will choose tasks within their sweet spot and will be less likely to be challenging themselves. Matthew May - innovation workshop session - importance of transparency. To create a sense of transparency in the organization. During the workshop - game where you have to have the right balance of ingredients for a trip to the moon. There is actually a correct answer for the equation for the game. Unbeknownst to anyone else, he took the most junior member of the team at table and he gave them the key code to answer the puzzle. They could do anything to say that they had the answer without saying they had the correct answer. No one got it right, everyone lost.As a leader, or manager or boss - can you induce a sense of flow into someone else? No, but you can create the conditions for it. You can create the challenge and the circumstance. Push people outside of the comfort zone if it’s within the scope of their capacity. Energizers and de-energizers in a company. Different people energy in a work environment. What does it mean to be fully engaged and present in a team? Power disparities in a workplace. When someone is newly elevated to a position of power. When someone leaves with you - do they leave confused, depressed, angry, annoyed. Or do you leave provoked to the point of encouragement, poised? These type of people tend to be talent attractors. In war for talent - you will never hear anyone say that they will stay irrespective of relationship with their boss. The Boss is the direct relation to their relationship with the company. Whomever you are speaking with or interacting with, to give someone the gift of your time is a honor and an obligation. Leadership presence requires that you are present. Scott Elbin - Mindfulness and bringing this back into the workplace. Book by Douglas Conant (CEO of Campbell’s soup), absolutely practices what he preaches. In a room full of people he will be so patient and so thoughtful with every individual in the room. Scaling leadership is by taking the time and being immensely present in the moment. How do you accomplish this from a practical point of view? It’s a conscientious choice. Stand up, close your computer - intentionally remove the distraction. The mere presence of a smartphone between us - distracts you. The anticipation - distracts your mind from the immediacy of the conversation. Be as present as you can. The idea of a Digital Sabbath - starting Friday evening - until Sunday evening, turning everything off. Spend time together with your family. Control the technology and don’t let the technology control you. What am I capable of becoming in a year? Aspiration. Envisioning clearly and with as much detail as possible is critically important to motivating you. Paint it with as much detail as you can. Shawn’s recommendation - strategic stories. Stories with a purpose. Within many organizations, there’s a story where in the telling of the story conveys the value of the organization. Story of Timberland’s annual conference - they choose cities with economic distress where they can provide some pro-social value and community building. Story of when they went to New Orleans after Katrina is inspiring. Push forward. You deserve to be where you are in your life and take the next step. This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, reducing the complexity of your IT Security initiatives. All methods of how to access the show are below: Listen on iTunes (for iPhones etc.) Listen to it on Stitcher (This is for Android Phone Users. Download the Stitcher app here) Stream it on Libsyn Listen to it on Soundcloud (This is for listening via PC/Mac Browser) Please subscribe here to Bill Murphy’s Redzone Podcast on iTunes Subscribe to my RSS Feed here LinkedIn Blog Post Leave a podcast review here How do I leave a review? Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT Business Leader. You can find him online through LinkedIn and Twitter. Subscribe to weekly podcast updates and information about CIO Mastermind Discussion Topics here.
Collective memory—sometimes referred to as public memory, or social (or cultural) memory—is a term commonly used in the humanities. It posits the act of remembering as ineluctably linked to what the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (who is credited with elaborating the concept) called the “social frameworks” of memory such as family, class, ethnic, national or religious communities. Within these social frameworks, an individual’s recollection of events is shaped by the shared experience of that event as the group in question frames it. Cognitive scientists, on the other hand, speak in terms of personal memory, distinguishing among three types—procedural, semantic, and episodic—that enable individuals to register and recall a range of experiences. How do we go from the multiplicity of private, individual memories to the potential unity of collective memory? Inversely, can the collective memory of an event shared by a social group influence the way an individual recollects her experience of that same event? For humanists the concept of collective memory is a useful analytical tool, while scientists find it questionable, if not useless to their inquiries. Can we--humanists and scientists—talk across these differences and, if so, how? Our discussion will address this question on the basis of a CMBC-sponsored seminar in the field of Memory Studies to see what common ground may exist to facilitate bridges between scientific and humanistic inquiry in this field. [February 24, 2015]
Collective memory—sometimes referred to as public memory, or social (or cultural) memory—is a term commonly used in the humanities. It posits the act of remembering as ineluctably linked to what the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (who is credited with elaborating the concept) called the “social frameworks” of memory such as family, class, ethnic, national or religious communities. Within these social frameworks, an individual’s recollection of events is shaped by the shared experience of that event as the group in question frames it. Cognitive scientists, on the other hand, speak in terms of personal memory, distinguishing among three types—procedural, semantic, and episodic—that enable individuals to register and recall a range of experiences. How do we go from the multiplicity of private, individual memories to the potential unity of collective memory? Inversely, can the collective memory of an event shared by a social group influence the way an individual recollects her experience of that same event? For humanists the concept of collective memory is a useful analytical tool, while scientists find it questionable, if not useless to their inquiries. Can we--humanists and scientists—talk across these differences and, if so, how? Our discussion will address this question on the basis of a CMBC-sponsored seminar in the field of Memory Studies to see what common ground may exist to facilitate bridges between scientific and humanistic inquiry in this field. [February 24, 2015]
In the United States we live in relative physical comfort compared to the rest of the world. This has led us as a people to develop a poor understanding of God, and the manner in which He works. We have been deceived into thinking that if God is pleased with me, my life will be relatively comfortable. Inversely, we believe that if I am suffering then I must be in sin. God must be mad at me. This week Pastor Doug dives into this fallacy. He begins the journey of unpacking Jesus' miracle of healing the man born blind.John 9:1-3
In this episode I discuss the Pareto Principle of Productivity, so 20% of the next two minutes contains 80% of its productive value! ;-) Enjoy!At a very young age, we understand that some things are more important than others. As soon as we're born, we learn that the scent of our mothers is important for our survival as the source of our nutrition. As we get a bit older, we realized quickly that mom and dad are more important than the strangers on the street. And as the comparison between objects and concepts get stronger and more complex, we learn to differentiate. Did you ever hear that 80% of your success comes from 20% of your effort? Inversely, you commit 80% of your effort on outcomes that provide you only 20% of your success.Have you heard of the 80/20 rule, or better known as the Pareto Principle? This notion comes from economics..to be precise, from an Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto at the turn of the 20th century. He observed that 80% of land (ergo, 80% of its wealth) was owned by 20% of the people, therefore 80% of the wealth was owned by the 20% that were wealthy, and not just in Italy but in many other countries as Pareto did more statistical analysis. This Pareto Principle has been applied in business, health care, mathematics and many other fields, and now it's made its way into personal productivity. I'll take the latitude of stating generally the Pareto Principle for productivity as 80% of your success comes from 20% of your effort. The standard advice therefore is to focus on that 20% then eliminate the rest. And, I mostly reject this notion for anyone who is already working efficiently and effectively. You see, if you've learned a productivity methodology (like GTD) or have your own productivity system designed, especially how to actively process your inputs into actions, delete, delegate, defer, and archive your inputs, you probably won't find much value in the stated corollary to the Pareto Principle. My take on the 80/20 rule has more to do with the over-arching strategy behind your productivity system and making it work better for your already productive life. While most productivity experts speak of efficient, effective effort (the 20%), So, at the project and system level, use 20% of your time to plan AND review to yield the best 80% of your productive DOING time. For example, you make a list, do what's on that list then afterward review what you did. I recommend that 80% of your time should have been spent doing what was on the list, 10% planning, and 10% reviewing. Although 80% is a rough estimate (and you should find out how much planning and review is really good for you), the 80/20 rule gives you a good standard set to know when you're planning and reviewing too little or too much. From Wikipedia: The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. The Pareto principle was a prominent part of the 2007 bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. Ferriss recommended focusing one's attention on those 20% that contribute to 80% of the income. More notably, he also recommends 'firing' – refusing to do business with – those 20% of customers who take up the majority of one's time and cause the most trouble.
Background: Elevated plasma preprovasopressin (copeptin) levels are associated with cardiovascular complications as well as with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Here, we studied, whether plasma copeptin is related to carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a measure of early atherosclerosis, and may thus be one explanation for the high cardiovascular risk in T2D. Methods: Plasma concentrations of copeptin and IMT of the common carotid artery were determined in 1275 participants of the population-based KORA F4 study. We used linear regression models to investigate associations between copeptin levels and IMT. Results: In the whole study group, copeptin levels were not significantly associated with IMT after adjustment for age and sex. Copeptin and IMT were significantly inversely associated after multivariable adjustment in the total cohort (beta = -0.020 mm, 95% CI: -0.037 mm; -0.003 mm), in men (beta = -0.035 mm, 95% CI: -0.061 mm; -0.009 mm) and in study participants with prediabetes (beta = -0.041 mm, 95% CI: -0.078 mm; -0.005 mm) comparing quartile 4 vs quartile 1. The negative association of copeptin and IMT in men was present after adjustment for age alone. In women and patients with T2D, copeptin was not significantly associated with IMT. Conclusions: Plasma copeptin was not associated with an increased IMT in our study cohort. In contrast, copeptin levels were related to a lower IMT in men and subjects with prediabetes, suggesting that elevated copeptin concentrations do not exert proatherogenic effects on carotid arteries.
Background: Most colorectal carcinomas are driven by an activation of the canonical Wnt signalling pathway, which promotes the expression of multiple target genes mediating proliferation inavasion and invasion. Upon activation of the Wnt signalling pathway its key player beta-catenin translocates from the cytoplasm to the nucleus and binds to members of the T-cell factor (TCF)/lymphoid enhancer factor (LEF-1) family namely LEF-1 and TCF4 which are central mediators of transcription. In this study we investigated the expression of beta-Catenin, LEF1 and TCF4 in colorectal carcinomas and their prognostic significance. Methods: Immunohistochemical analyses of LEF-1, TCF4 and nuclear beta-Catenin were done using a tissue microarray with 214 colorectal cancer specimens. The expression patterns were compared with each other and the results were correlated with clinicopathologic variables and overall survival in univariate and multivariate analysis. Results: LEF-1 expression was found in 56 (26%) and TCF4 expression in 99 (46%) of colorectal carcinomas and both were heterogenously distributed throughout the tumours. Comparing LEF-1, TCF4 and b-catenin expression patterns we found no correlation. In univariate analysis, TCF4 expression turned out to be a negative prognostic factor being associated with shorter overall survival (p = 0.020), whereas LEF-1 expression as well as a LEF-1/TCF4 ratio were positive prognostic factors and correlated with longer overall survival (p = 0.015 respectively p = 0.001). In multivariate analysis, LEF-1 and TCF4 expression were confirmed to be independent predictors of longer respectively shorter overall survival, when considered together with tumour stage, gender and age (risk ratio for LEF-1: 2.66; p = 0.027 risk ratio for TCF4: 2.18; p = 0.014). Conclusions: This study demonstrates different prognostic values of LEF-1 and TCF4 expression in colorectal cancer patients indicating different regulation of these transcription mediators during tumour progression. Moreover both factors may serve as new potential predictive markers in low stage colon cancer cases in advance.
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