Podcasts about JSX

React Core team member Dan Abramov joins us to explore "JSX over the wire" and the evolving architecture of React Server Components. We dive into the shift from traditional REST APIs to screen-specific data shaping, the concept of Backend for Frontend (BFF), and why centering UI around the user experience—not server/client boundaries—matters more than ever. Links https://danabra.mov https://github.com/gaearon https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov https://overreacted.io https://www.youtube.com/@danabramov Resources JSX Over The Wire: https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/ Impossible Components: https://overreacted.io/impossible-components/ What Does "use client" Do?: https://overreacted.io/what-does-use-client-do/ Our Journey With Caching: https://nextjs.org/blog/our-journey-with-caching https://parceljs.org https://nextjs.org/docs/app We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com (mailto:emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com), or tweet at us at PodRocketPod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod). Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we'll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understand where your users are struggling by trying it for free at [LogRocket.com]. Try LogRocket for free today.(https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Dan Abramov.

Sovereignty wins the Kentucky Derby but are horse real athletes? Andrew Berry says Deion Sadners had nothing to do with Shedeur’s slide in the Draft. Plus, Southwest vs JSX vs PJ’s and the FSR IR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why did Eddie Van Halen leave Peavey? In this episode, we dive into the real story behind Eddie's departure from Peavey in 2004, taking the iconic 5150 amp and Wolfgang guitar with him to launch EVH with Fender. According to a new Guitar World interview with Peavey CEO Courtland Gray, Joe Satriani's endorsement deal may have played a key role in Eddie's decision to walk away. Was Eddie upset that Peavey signed another guitar legend? Did the launch of the JSX amp cause friction? We'll break down the timeline, the behind-the-scenes tensions, and how this split shaped the future of EVH gear.

The business jet maintenance industry faces a persistent challenge: getting aircraft out on time and on budget seems nearly impossible. At the core of this issue? Labor shortages, high turnover, and a lack of skilled talent. Hiring new mechanics is costly, the learning curve is steep, and customers ultimately bear the financial burden. While many have tried to solve these issues, Jets MRO took a bold, innovative approach that's transforming the game.  What if the secret to better bizjet MRO performance lies in treating mechanics with respect and offering them a compelling reason to stay? By prioritizing technician satisfaction and retention, Jets MRO has cracked the code for delivering top-tier service without the delays and cost overruns. In this episode, Jets MRO founder and CEO Suresh Narayanan reveals how his company is tackling the labor crisis head-on, building a culture that retains top talent, and reshaping the way bizjet maintenance is done.   Tune in to discover: The origin story of Jets MRO. The innovative strategies they use to overcome MRO labor challenges. Why prioritizing people leads to better outcomes for customers and the industry.   If you're in the aviation or MRO space, this is the must-listen episode for you. Guest Bio Suresh Narayanan is the founder and CEO of Jets MRO. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, and visionary leader with deep roots in aviation. With a passion for aviation and an unyielding commitment to people first, Suresh continues to raise the bar in how the industry treats its people. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Florida State University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. A pilot himself, Suresh's interest in aviation began at a young age in the repair station his parents opened after his father completed his career as a Concorde mechanic. Before incorporating Jets MRO, he worked alongside his brother Raj at Aerospace Quality Research & Development (AQRD), contributing significantly to the growth and success of the aerospace engineering, repair station, and military jet modification firm. Suresh brings invaluable experience as the former COO of JSX and boasts expertise in aviation mergers and acquisitions, steering ventures towards success. He is a proud member of the YPO-North Texas chapter and serves as a dedicated Board Member at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. With a blend of hands-on experience and commitment to driving innovation in the aviation industry, Suresh is poised to lead Jets MRO towards unparalleled heights of success. To learn more visit https://jetsmro.com/ and  About Your Host Craig Picken is an Executive Recruiter, writer, speaker and ICF Trained Executive Coach. He is focused on recruiting senior-level leadership, sales, and operations executives in the aviation and aerospace industry. His clients include premier OEMs, aircraft operators, leasing/financial organizations, and Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul (MRO) providers and since 2008, he has personally concluded more than 400 executive-level searches in a variety of disciplines. Craig is the ONLY industry executive recruiter who has professionally flown airplanes, sold airplanes, and successfully run a P&L in the aviation industry. His professional career started with a passion for airplanes. After eight years' experience as a decorated Naval Flight Officer – with more than 100 combat missions, 2,000 hours of flight time, and 325 aircraft carrier landings – Craig sought challenges in business aviation, where he spent more than 7 years in sales with both Gulfstream Aircraft and Bombardier Business Aircraft. Craig is also a sought-after industry speaker who has presented at Corporate Jet Investor, International Aviation Women's Association, and SOCAL Aviation Association.    Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so our show reaches more people. Thank you! 

In this episode, I speak with Elian Van Cutsem about one of my favourite web frameworks and what I use for my own website, Astro. We talk generally about the project, its history, and version 5, which was released this week! For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla.com/contact/To support the show for ad-free listening and extra content, visit chrischinchilla.com/support/

In this episode, Dominik Dorfmeister, TanStack maintainer, joins us to discuss component composition in React. He discusses breaking components apart, managing conditional rendering, and the benefits of early returns in improving code readability and maintainability. Links https://tkdodo.eu/blog/component-composition-is-great-btw https://tkdodo.eu/blog https://github.com/TkDodo https://www.dorfmeister.cc https://x.com/TkDodo https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominik-dorfmeister-8a71051b9 We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com (mailto:emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com), or tweet at us at PodRocketPod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod). Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we'll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understand where your users are struggling by trying it for free at [LogRocket.com]. Try LogRocket for free today.(https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Dominik Dorfmeister.

CJ joins Scott and Wes to dive into why he's all-in on Hono, a fast and lightweight web framework for every JavaScript runtime. From familiar route creation to type-safe middleware, find out how Hono keeps things simple, powerful, and ready to use inside Next.js. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:46 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 01:11 What is Hono? Watch CJ's Video Here 03:21 Syntax Meetup San Francisco. 04:02 Why I like Hono, and why you should try it. 04:08 Familiar route creation. Connect: an extensible HTTP server framework for node. 05:45 Supports every JS Runtime. 07:00 How a service worker works. 08:48 Helpers. 09:16 Middleware. 10:40 Sentry middleware. 10:55 JSX support. 13:21 Organizing route handlers while keeping Types. 14:24 Type safety. hono-open-api-starter. zod-openapi. 15:46 Defining base type. Pinojs 17:36 Validation. 18:52 Hono RPC client. 22:09 Hono inside of Next.js. 23:30 Testing. 25:22 The community. 27:34 Type support. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

En este episodio hablaremos sobre Brisa Framework, una plataforma innovadora que combina rendimiento y simplicidad para crear aplicaciones web, escritorio y móviles con componentes JSX renderizados en el servidor. Exploraremos sus características únicas, acciones del servidor sin necesidad de “client-side” y soporte completo para internacionalización. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fernando-her85/support

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about the future of JavaScript frameworks, building custom authentication systems, limiting API access, using Caddy server proxy for local development, component props in JSX, structuring a relational database, and more! Show Notes 00:00 - Welcome to Syntax! 01:48 - Brought to you by Sentry.io 04:37 - The future of JavaScript frameworks 09:09 - How to use Caddy for local development SvelteKit Vite 14:27 - When to use an API Strapi 17:38 - Where does Scott get his amazing t-shirts? Sentry.shop Syntax Snack Pack 21:33 - Best screwdriver for kids toys PicQuic Sixpac Plus LTT Screwdriver 24:31 - Strategies for database design MongoDB Prisma 30:21 - Do we need frameworks? 796 - Do We Need JS Frameworks × Are You Over-Engineering? × Webview vs Native Frontend Masters 32:19 - Best tech stack for building a basic login system 336 - How To Build Your Own Auth 37:56 - Syntax video episodes 40:25 - Component props in JSX 45:26 - Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Scott: Loop Quiet Ear Plugs Wes: Gecko's Toes Water Hose Rack Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax YouTube Channel Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

Delphine Bugner, Mobile Tech Lead at BAM, discusses the inner workings of Yoga in React Native. Yoga is responsible for positioning components on the screen based on their dimensions and styling props. Delphine emphasizes the importance of understanding how things work under the hood and why they were designed that way. She shares her uncommon journey into becoming a React Native tech lead and her passion for exploring the technical aspects of technology. She also discusses the architecture of Yoga and how it works under the hood, including the translation of JSX into native views, the creation of shadow nodes and Yoga nodes, and the communication between JavaScript and native code. The conversation concludes with a discussion about the future of Yoga and its alignment with React on the web.Learn React Native - https://galaxies.devDelphine BugnerDelphine Twitter: https://twitter.com/DelphineBugnerDelphine Github: https://github.com/delphinebugnerLinksDelphine "The Yoga Enigma" talk in Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3vK3IbprYYoga: https://www.yogalayout.dev/TakeawaysYoga is responsible for positioning components on the screen based on their dimensions and styling props in React Native.Understanding how things work under the hood and why they were designed that way is important for developers.Yoga was created as a replacement for CSS in React Native and provides a common platform-agnostic layouting solution.The architecture of Yoga involves the translation of JSX into native views, the creation of shadow nodes and Yoga nodes, and the communication between JavaScript and native code.The new architecture in React Native improves code maintenance and performance.View flattening is a concept in Yoga that minimizes unnecessary containers in the view hierarchy.Debugging Yoga can be done by using breakpoints in C++ to understand the algorithm and identify the source of bugs. The new architecture in React Native brings more conformity with the web and allows for features like suspense and transitions that were not possible before.Working with native modules in React Native is not as difficult as it may seem, and developers can use tools like Bob or Create React Native Library CLI to simplify the process.Expo provides a more maintained and active ecosystem compared to the community libraries, making it a good choice for new projects.Yoga is continuously evolving to align React Native with the web, and future updates will offer more configuration options for developers.

Presented by Brand USA Episode Notes New York City has cracked down on short-term rentals by requiring hosts to register since last September. Since then, the city has only approved a little less than 2,300 applications, reports Executive Editor Dennis Schaal. Schaal writes the figure is a sign of the lack of short-term rentals in New York City. Christian Klossner, the Office of Special Enforcement's executive director, said Local 18, which also requires hosts to be present during the stay, has helped reduce illegal short-term rental listings in the city. The office has only approved roughly 36% of applications submitted since September.  Next, the Federal Aviation Administration is looking to tighten safety requirements on public charter airlines such as JSX. That could be a blow for companies like JSX, writes Airlines Reporter Meghna Maharishi.  Maharishi notes that if the changes are approved, public charter airlines would fly under the same rules as commercial airlines. The FAA has said some public charter flights operate like commercial airlines. Major carriers such as American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have lobbied the U.S. government to consider more stringent rules on JSX, arguing that JSX was benefitting from a regulatory loophole.  Maharishi writes that tougher safety rules would be a problem for carriers like JSX since part of their appeal is a private jet-like experience. JSX, for example, operates out of small private terminals, and passengers don't go through a typical TSA security screening. .  Finally, China is continuing to expand its visa waiver program, adding Australia and New Zealand to the list recently, reports Asia Editor Peden Doma Bhutia.  Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced on Monday that China would include Australia in its visa waiver program. While Beijing hasn't revealed the details of the new visa arrangement, Bhutia notes Chinese officials announced a similar decision concerning New Zealand passport holders last week.  China's moves to provide travelers from more countries visa-free access are part of its strategy to rejuvenate its tourism industry. The country only welcomed about 36% of its 2019 foreign visitor total last year.  Get more travel news at https://skift.com Producer/Presenter: Jose Marmolejos

JSX and Contour have completely different business models, but they both have something in common.  They are able to take advantage of a loophole that allows them to run their operations more flexibly in terms of pilots, security, and more under Parts 135 and 380. The industry is divided on whether this is good or bad, but it has generated some real debate in Washington. Jon Ostrower and Brett Snyder talk about what's happening as well as the pros and cons.We would like to thank Plusgrade and Uplift for their sponsorship of The Air Show.Visit www.theairshowpodcast.com to get in touch with us.

In today's episode, we sit down with Uma Subramanian, a seasoned aviation expert with a wealth of experience in the industry.Having known Uma for many years, we've been really eager to bring her insights to our audience. From her time as an engineer working on F-18s, to doing corporate development and strategy at Rolls Royce, to leading the urban air mobility network Voom, an Airbus company, to being the founding CEO of Aero, an airline catering to premium passengers, from March 2019 to September 2023, Uma truly brings a unique perspective to the table.Our conversation with Uma covers a wide range of topics, from the genesis of Aero and the economics of running an airline to the challenges and opportunities in the ever-evolving aviation industry. One particularly contentious topic we explore is the ongoing debate surrounding Part 135 and Part 380 regulations, sparked by the success and recent public discourse around JSX.Throughout our discussion, we delve into the intricacies of airline operations, exploring questions such as the right strategies for profitable growth, the role of labor in shaping airline policies, and the regulatory structures that either hinder or foster innovation in air travel. We also touch upon exciting developments in electric aviation and the potential for regional air services in the U.S., shedding light on the future of aviation and the path forward for industry innovation.So join us as we unpack the complexities of starting and running an airline, navigate the economics of air travel, and explore the fascinating intersections of innovation and regulation in aviation.

CSS-in-JS has been around for years now, but have you tried JS-from-CSS? This week we talk about the new alternative trend sweeping through the web development community: writing only CSS to create a fully styled and typed React component. Two early frontrunners in this race are MistCSS and Stylin, and we'll keep an eye out for if this new twist on writing JSX components catches on. AnalogJS, the meta-framework for Angular we covered several months ago, announces release 1.0 with all the bells and whistles we've come to expect from other meta frameworks: Vite integration, filesystem routing, SSR/SSG, server routes, tRPC support, etc. and plans for future integrations with libraries like Astro, Nx, Vitest and Storybook. Chrome officially replaces the First Input Delay (FID) web vital metric with Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to try to do a better job of evaluating a webpage's performance beyond just the first user interaction. And to round the episode out, an API that is pure fun to play with on the demo site: Emojispolsion. It's worth a look just to see how creative the demos get (hint: the very last one is extra far out).News:Paige - AnalogJS 1.0 Jack - MistCSS and Stylin TJ - Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a Core Web Vital (check your own site at pagespeed.web.dev) and Chrome Perf Tooling in 2024Bonus News:Emojispolsion API demo siteWhat Makes Us Happy this Week:Paige - iPhone 15 Pro and Dune: Part TwoJack - Downfall: The Case Against Boeing documentary and https://www.ismyplanea737max.com/ TJ - NCAA tournamentThanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, reach out to us via email or Tweet us on X @front_end_fire.Blue Collar Coder on YouTubeBlue Collar Coder on DiscordReach out via emailTweet at us on X @front_end_fire

Find me and the show on social media @DrWilmerLeon on X (Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd   TRANSCRIPT: Announcer (00:06): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Wilmer Leon (00:14): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I'm Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they happen in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between current events and the broader historic context in which these events take place. This enables you to better understand and analyze the events that are impacting the global village in which we live on today's episode. The issue before is what are the problems facing African-American aviators and other aviators of color in the commercial aviation space? To assist me with this discussion, let's turn to my guest. He's a man with well over 12,000 hours in the cockpit. In the commercial cockpit. He is Captain Clovis Jones, retired. Captain Jones, welcome to the show. Capt Clovis Jones (01:23): Thank you so much for having me. Wilmer Leon (01:25): If you would please introduce yourself. You have such a broad, such a vast resume. I don't want to give short shrift to any of your accomplishments, so please take a moment and introduce yourself, sir. Capt Clovis Jones (01:39): Okay. Clovis Jones Jr. Born in Dawson, Georgia. I wanted to be a pilot since I was four years old. I actually turned down a scholarship to Morehouse College in premed to go to the Army High School to Flight School program. However, my recruiter put something different on my contract. One reason is that he didn't get credit for recruiting officers and secondly, and that part of the world as a black person, that was not something that people who looked like him wanted people like me who looked like me to do so. I wound up in the infantry for three years, got out and asked for my scholarship back and went to Morehouse for a semester and was called by the Army's Aviation Department to see if I was still interested in flight school and I said yes. So I reenlisted into the army and did go to flight school, completing flight school. (02:35) I was a turnaround flight instructor for both the Huey Helicopter and for the Huey Gunships. Deployed to Vietnam as an instructor pilot, the safety officer and assistant officer officer. My second two in Vietnam. 10 days prior to that end, I was commissioned in the Army Field Artillery branch as a second Lieutenant Aviator returning to the states, I went to the basic course field artillery, then to the Army Aviations school at Fort Rucker, Alabama and became an academic instructor leaving the army. After about 10 years of active duty, I got my first line job with Hugs helicopters when they were working on the Army's new attack helicopter, the Apache and I was there from its flight test department, the Hughes helicopters from the building of the helicopter to its initial test flight through its delivered to the Army. Then my second flying job was with Xerox Flying Executives, third flying job with the Western Airlines, which is now part of Delta Airlines. Then to California, which is now part of American, and I found a home at FedEx and retired from FedEx as an MD 11 captain. I have been involved in flight organizations, both black and white and current president of the United States Army Black Aviation Association, and former president of the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, which is now the organization of black aerospace professionals. And my most recent flying job was with as a captain with JSX, a regional airline. Wilmer Leon (04:16): You are rated to fly both, as you just mentioned, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. How unique is that for an aviator, particularly an African-American aviator? Capt Clovis Jones (04:30): Well, I don't know how unique it is, but there are a few of us who are dual rated and even fewer who were black. During Vietnam era, there were only about 600 black army aviators. So there's a book 600 more or less. And so to be dual rated, that's rare Wilmer Leon (04:54): To be dual rated. That is rare. Before we go any further, I'd be remiss if I did not mention the passing of Captain David E. Harris, the first African-American pilot for a major US passenger carrier. He died March 8th at the age of 89, and he once said, there's no way I should be the first. It should have happened long before 1964. I know you were friends with Captain Harris. If you could speak about him and his accomplishments. Capt Clovis Jones (05:37): Well, Dave Harris, just a principal gentleman, he was just outstanding and always he was a mentor, he was a good friend based on his experiences, he basically told us what to look out for and that was a time where the airlines use sickle cell trait testing to keep us from being hired. Yes, either you have sickle cell and one blood test says it all, but they would continue to test you to see if you had the trait. And that was one way that they would not bring us on board. Another was testing, so Dave Harris with American Airlines, he challenged that. So with the psychological testing, which had no barrier on you becoming a pilot. So he challenged that as well as the repeated blood testing to see if somehow if we didn't have the sickle cell trait with the first blood test, they would keep testing you hoping that you would show the trait and they could deny you hiring. So that was one of the milestones, and he was one of the presidents of the organization of black airline pilots. But just a principal gentleman Wilmer Leon (07:00): Mentioning the psychological testing, one would think someone with your background, Vietnam aviator, that all of the trials and tribulations that you went through overseas that the fact that you survived, that should be enough psychological testing to warrant you to be a commercial. I mean, if you can fly there, you can probably deal with passengers going between Dallas and wherever it is you're going to go. But that sounds as though that was another exclusionary process, not an inclusionary process. Capt Clovis Jones (07:40): Yeah, that's correct. That is correct. And when Marlon Green won his Supreme Court decision, Supreme that broke the barriers of us being kept out of the industry. He was hired but not trained, so he didn't get a chance to fly. So it was a delay even in that process. So there are a lot of delaying tactics that were used and there are those that are still out there. Wilmer Leon (08:07): Talk a little bit about Marlon Green. He was an Air Force aviator hired by Continental in I think 1957, but they rescinded his offer and then it took about six years for it to go through the Supreme Court, and the ruling was in his favor and sent a very wide message to the US airline industry about hiring. And I think he started flying for Continental in 65. Is that right? Capt Clovis Jones (08:39): Roughly around that time. I'm not sure exactly on the exact year or date, but you look at his background, he was well qualified to be hired, but then when they found out he was black, they rescinded it. So that's when he engaged in the lawsuit that wound up making his way to the Supreme Court. But this industry was supposed to be all white. Curtis Collins, a congressman from Illinois. She knew some of us filed it, and we talked about the challenges, trials and tribulations. So a congressional study was initiated and the University of Pittsburgh did that study, and it showed that the airline commercial airline industry wants to be all white, not a janitor, not a baggage handler or anything. Wilmer Leon (09:33): Even down to that level, Capt Clovis Jones (09:35): Down to that level. The other piece is that the Airline Policy Association Alpha had a clause in its bylaws that if you were black, you could not be a member. So even if an airline did hire you, you were not allowed on the property. So it was no point in them hiring you. Wilmer Leon (09:54): That sounds like the American Bar Association sounds like the American Dental Association. There were so many professional organizations. I know for example, my grandfather was a dentist. He graduated from Howard in 1911 and was the first African-American licensed dentist in New Orleans, but he could not join the American Dental Association, so he had to go to their conventions and wait tables so that he could be in the room while the latest advances in dentistry were being discussed. So it sounds like the airline industry was right along the same lines as so many of the other professional organizations in this country in terms of their restrictive, restrictive covenants and whatnot. Capt Clovis Jones (10:48): Well, that was just a reflection of America, what it was all about. We were to serve others and we were not to advance and we would to have restrictions on what we could do, what professions to go into. Nevertheless, with that in place, there was no profession that we were not proficient in. And as a point of history from Pineville, Louisiana, there was a gentleman by the name of Charles Frederick Page who had a flying machine. It was a lighter than air, kind of like a balloon, but it had directional control as well as a propeller, so it could move and change directions rather than just go up like a hot air balloon and let the wind take it where it would. 1903, you had a patent. The patent was finally granted in 1906. Well, here was a black man who was born during enslavement, taught himself how to read and write, invented this flying machine, filed for a patent and eventually was granted a patent. So we've been in and around the industry for a long, long time. Wilmer Leon (12:03): Over the past three years or so, we've been hearing a lot about DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and according to McKinsey and Company in the workplace, these are three closely linked values held by many organizations that are working to be supportive of different groups of individuals, including race, which is an artificial construct, but they list it, so I'll say it, ethnicities, religions, abilities, genders, and whatnot. With that being said, according to NBC, news Tech, billionaire and Tesla, CEO and SpaceX, founder Elon Musk has drawn a lot of recent criticism After he criticized efforts by United Airlines and Boeing to hire non-white pilots and factory workers, he claimed in a series of posts on X, that efforts to diversify workforces at these companies have made air travel less safe. Of course, he offered no evidence to support that claim because there is no evidence to support it, and he winds up getting into this exchange with people talking about it'll take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy. Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritize DEI hiring over your safety? And he then went on to say, this is actually happening. That post got 14 million views with just a few hours. I know you've got some ideas on the issue of DEI as well as some of Elon Musk's comments, and of course, we all know Elon Musk being a South African. He was obviously well-trained and well-versed. But your thoughts Capt Clovis Jones (14:08): Well, on the subject of DEI or as Elon Musk assembles, those D-I-E-V-I-E want to doc, first of all, when I hear the word diversity, basically it's a non-starter, and I don't like the term when it applies to black people, because black people have been in every industry. We have been from the White House to the outhouse, build a White House, build a capital, had engineers doing the building of the White House who were black, even though enslavement was the status of black folk in the country for the most part. Wilmer Leon (14:58): And to that point, design the city of Washington DC That's Capt Clovis Jones (15:01): Right, that's right. Wilmer Leon (15:02): Since you mentioned the capital in the White House design, the city of Washington DC after having designed the city of Paris. Capt Clovis Jones (15:08): Yes. Well, here you have us serving from the highest levels down to the lowest level and excelling. By the way, the first book on hospitality was written by a black man, and it is in the archives of the University of Massachusetts. Here's a successful man who basically set the standards for how you serve people in terms of accommodations as well as restaurant service. So we've been at the top of the games in every industry. We wouldn't have the space program that we have. We wouldn't have the internet that we have today. We wouldn't have self lubricating engines if it wasn't for black people wouldn't have turbocharges if it wasn't for black people. (15:54) So when I'm hearing this diversity piece, to me that's just the way the headcount, because now we can say we are diverse. We want to include everybody, and yes, they are, including everybody, because between all different groups and categories that HR departments have now, they can reach out and say, we have the most diverse work group because we have Pacific Islanders, we have Latinos, we have Africans, we have whatever other category you want to name. But then when it comes to the crux of fairness of black folks, there's an exclusion because you can hire all these others and fulfill your diversity claim, yet avoid hiring black people. So that's one of the reasons to me, if you are fair in your hiring and you have the standards set and you know what it is that you want, you're going to have a range of people from all colors, all genders if it's fair. So if it's not fair, then you have these made up constructs to basically for exclusion purposes. Now, that's my personal view. Wilmer Leon (17:07): Well, and to that point also, when you start looking at the categories and the qualifications or the demarcations within the categories, you start drilling down into, okay, you have 15 African-Americans. What positions do they hold? Is your CEO African-American is your CFO, African-American is your COO, African-American within your management structure and management chain within your elite classification of managers? Then all of a sudden we start to fight a different day. Capt Clovis Jones (17:44): Yes. One of the young fathers that I knew, he was asking me, I was flying for this company, he says, Clovis, why don't I have you as the chief pilot? I said, Hey, I don't have the complexion for the connection. So that ends that. Wilmer Leon (18:02): Did you fly President Mandela? Capt Clovis Jones (18:05): No, that was Captain Ray Doha. Wilmer Leon (18:08): Ray do. Oh, okay. Ray did that. Okay. Okay. Okay. (18:13) So give us a little bit about your background getting into the industry and overcoming the barriers that you had to overcome and how prevalent are those problems today? Because when I look at the data today, 90% of the pilots are still white male, 3.4% are African-American, 2.2% are Asian, and half of a percent are Hispanic or Latino. So those numbers tell me that we're still having a problem. In fact, I got a little bit ahead of myself because the question I was going to ask you to get into this conversation is we've spent a lot of time in the fifties and since the fifties singing we shall overcome. We can now board a plane and see African-American captains and first officers. Have we overcome? Capt Clovis Jones (19:21): By no means things have changed. There are things that are different. There are some things that are better, but the underlying system has just changed. So we still have this system where the overarching piece is that we're encapsulated to only hold certain positions, and that of course depends upon the company and the culture of the company, but we don't have, for example, desegregation. You had that and then you have the opening of opportunities for the airline at for minorities and women were considered a minority. So there were more white women, higher than black pilots, and that's still the case today. (20:05) So overcoming obstacles, my first day on the flight line to be trained as an army aviator, I had an instructor from the Northeast from either Vermont or New Hampshire, I don't recall exactly which. But en route to the helicopter for our first flight, he said to me, you look like a pretty good athlete. Do you know who Jackie Robinson is? I said, yes. Jackie's cousin lives down the street from me, says, well, I think you should get out of the army and go play baseball because black people don't make good pilots. And here's a person who is telling me that I shouldn't be a pilot and he's going to train me, but blacks don't make good pilots, so I should leave the program. So I knew what was in front of me. So I went to the flight commander and asked for a change of instructors, and the upshot of that conversation was, well, both of you are new. (21:03) He's a new instructor. You are his first student. You are a new warrant officer candidate, and this is your first flight, so it's going to look bad for both of you. And he wanted to know why. And I explained to him without saying, the guy's a racist. And he says he mulled over it for a second or two and says, this is what I'll do. I'll ensure that you have every opportunity that any of the other one officer candidates have in this program. And I said, okay, that's good. However, when I come back and ask for a change of instructors, I want a change of instructors, no questions asked. And that is what happened. This gentleman was, you can read the syllabus, you can understand what is to be done and you can mimic it, but there are certain standards or there are certain ways that the army wants you to fly. (21:59) And if you aren't trained to do that during your check rides, you get downgraded. He was teaching me wrong. So I had a progress ride. A young instructor who was about the same age as I was, was about 21 years old, and he'd been flying. He had his license when he was 16 to 17 years old. His came from a wealthy family and his family got him trained in the helicopter instructor and all that. He asked me to do a taxi, oh, this is not how we do it, asked me to do a takeoff. Oh, I got the aircraft. This is not how we do it. So he demonstrated every maneuver that he asked me to do because I was doing it as I had been trained to do it. When he showed me the way that I needed to do it in order to meet the standards that were expected of me, I did them as he demonstrated. (22:50) And at the end of the flight he says, I've got to talk to the flight commander. That's something not right here. You started this flight off unsatisfactory now, but you end it. You're above average. But I can't give you an above average because where you started, I just got to talk to the flight commander, and I just smiled. And so I said to myself, I already have. So my next day of flying, the Deputy flight Commander, Dick Strauss, need to give him props. And also the flight commander, Sam Countryman, Dick Strauss, we got into the helicopter, flew out to the stage field, we landed. He says, take it around the past three times and park it on a certain spot. And that's what I did. I soloed that day with this gentleman just flying with me from the main hella Ford at Fort Walters, Texas out to the stage field that we were operating from that day. (23:42) And at the end of my primary flight training, Dick Strauss showed me some things that you could do with a helicopter that were not in the syllabus. He said, it may come in handy one day, and it did for me because in a COBRA helicopter, which is know is heavy, I was an instructor giving an in-country orientation to a new pilot. And on very short final, we lost our 90 degree gearbox and tail rotor. And without a tail rotor, you do not have directional control in the helicopter. So we went from a nose up attitude to a nose down attitude spinning right, and it wanted to roll inverted left. And all of that last day of flying that Dick Straus showed me what the helicopter could do. Instinctively I did it. I stopped the turn by closing the throttle right rear cyclic to level the aircraft, pull the collective up, and we spawned about 1800 degrees like in about two seconds. But I was able to land the helicopter with just minimal damage. And I was told that's the first time that you'd had such a catastrophic failure that either the helicopter was not destroyed or the palace would not either killed or injured. (24:51) So everybody encounter is not against you, but you do have the remnants of the shadows of the echoes of you still have the echoes of slavery. You still have the echoes of containment of us being in certain categories, and there are people who really want to keep us there and some people who want to put us back there. So that is prevalent in our industry as well. Wilmer Leon (25:17): You're 21 years old, you're in the service, which is a hierarchical organization, and your instructor tells you that you need to leave the service and go play baseball. Capt Clovis Jones (25:30): Yes. Wilmer Leon (25:31): Where did you find the intestinal fortitude to manage that circumstance? By A, not punching him in the face, B, not saying anything derogatory to him and then punching him in the face. You see, I got to think about punching people in the favor, but no. So where did you get that ability to manage that circumstance to your favor, not your detriment? Capt Clovis Jones (26:09): Well, I learned firsthand about white racism and at four years old, and we had black insurance agents and white insurance agents come to the house to collect whenever that cycle was. And this one agent, he had a white car. My father had a black car, and so it happens that my father's car was parked in front of the house that day. He pulls up and he calls me over, and I was hesitant about going, but then I did go. He says, come over. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm not going to do anything to you. He says, put your hand on my car. And I hesitantly raised my hand. So he put my hand on his car. He said, how does that feel? I said, it feels okay. He said, now, go touch your father's car. So I put my hand on my father's car, and because it was about 11 o'clock in the day, sunshiny day in the summer, it was hot. (27:02) I jerked my hand off the car. He said, that's what I wanted to show you. White is better than black. And from that point on, I didn't like that gentleman anymore. So I realized there are people who will be encouraging to you and people who will try to convince you that you should take some lesser position or that you are inferior to them. So with that background, it's like then I knew about the Tuskegee Avenue at that point. Plus one of my mentors, Carl Bohannan, who was the first black presidential pilot when I was in an infantryman, he was flying the flying cranes in Vietnam in the first cab division. So I had examples of excellent black aviators that I knew about. So with that, I'm thinking, this guy's totally out of his head, and I know he's not going to train me properly. And so that's why I went to the flight commander and asked for a change of instructors, and it worked out in the end, but I had to put up with this nonsense and even accused me of leaving, of causing a circumstance where the engine could fail because he said, I didn't put the Carter pin back in the oil cap, and the vibrations could have caused the cap to unscrew, and because we of flying, the wind would pull the oil out of the reservoir hints causing the engine to seize, and we would have to do a forced landing. (28:34) I know that I didn't do that, and that was the day that I asked for change of instructors Wilmer Leon (28:39): Because Capt Clovis Jones (28:39): This guy, if he's going to lie and say that I did something that I know I didn't do because I was meticulous about everything, but you just have to understand who you're dealing with. Wilmer Leon (28:50): That was my second question on this issue, which was the subjective nature of your instructor's evaluations. So knowing that in circumstances like you're articulating, there's the checklist that he would go through, but then there were also the subjective factors that would enable him to fail you if he so chose to because he didn't like the fact that you tied your shoes because you're right-handed versus tying your shoes because you're left-handed or whatever it might be. Speak to that, please. Capt Clovis Jones (29:32): Well, that was the case. In fact, one of my dearest friends who's now made transition, Robert B. Clark Jr. He and I started in the same class. We didn't graduate in the same class because Bob was terminated from flight training because his instructor said that he could not fly. However, Bob knew how to fly helicopters before he came to flight school. He had the syllabus, he knew everything, and he appealed it all the way to the Department of Army. And the base commander was asked to get involved. So he asked Bob, can you fly this helicopter? He says, yes. Well, let's go out to the airfield and let's go fly to the stage field to where your flight group is flying. He did. I mean, he was off for three months, got in the helicopter, flew out there, landed, and they went and talked to the flight commander. And also that instructor, that instructor was fired on the spot. Of course, the flight commander was trying to protect him because it was civilian pilots training us, and they were with Southern Airways based out of Birmingham, Alabama. So again, that cultural piece, Wilmer Leon (30:40): Was that Birmingham or Bombingham? Well, both. What year are we talking about? Capt Clovis Jones (30:47): We're talking about 1967. Wilmer Leon (30:49): Okay, we're talking Bombingham. Yes. Capt Clovis Jones (30:52): Yes. 1967. Wilmer Leon (30:54): Okay. Capt Clovis Jones (30:54): So you have people who don't want to see you there in the first place. And there was this rule, there's only going to be one black graduate per class, just one. I don't care how many start, there's only going to be one. But after complaints by Bob, by me and others about what the situation was, in fact, that was a program. You had these data sheets that you would answer your questions on when the final exam for any of the courses we were taking, and they could program things based on the way we were using social security numbers. Then even if we knew that we scored a hundred based on going down after the test was over and looking at what you had marked versus what the answers were, black pilots could only get in the eighties if you got everything right, you were in the low to mid eighties, you never got higher than 86 on any exam because if you were just average going through your flight training and you were excellent with your academics, you could wind up being in the running for honor graduate for that particular class. (32:10) So they program that the black pilots could not score 100 on all of the written exams. So that was another trick, and it was proven that that was the case. So there are all kinds of obstacles out there, but you just have to be well versed enough to understand and identify and just not take things. I saw during the civil rights era of where corporations would come and they'd say to people who had, do you have a college? Oh, you're different. They try to tell 'em, oh, you're a different kind of black person, and they give them jobs. So jobs that black people never had an opportunity to have, make the kind of money. And then you have some of these people who got that because people were demonstrating an industries and some people got killed. They said, well, I have to pick my fight. Well, no, the fight picked you now. Do you have the fortitude to stand up and fight the fight, or are you just going to IQS and say nothing and go along with maltreatment? Wilmer Leon (33:10): What you just discussed in terms of taking the exams and the particular scoring parameters that were set. One of the things that both of my parents would say to me repeatedly, but my mother was incredibly emphatic, you have to be three times as good, four times as smart, and worked seven times as hard because you're black in America. And with that, you'll only get half as far. Because when it came to education and grades, my folks didn't play, and that was their thing. You have no idea how hard you are going to have to work to be successful because you are black in America. And what you just articulated is the living example. And the other thing, when I went to law school, what I found out my first year was if I was in a class, actually it was my second year, I was in a contract negotiating class and kicked everybody's butt in the negotiating rounds that we would go through, only got a B. And what I found out was the a's were reserved for the third year, students who needed that A, there were only going to be a certain number of a's awarded, and they were reserved for the third year students who needed that grade to increase their GPA. Capt Clovis Jones (34:48): Yeah. The thing is, this system was not designed by us. It's not a fair system, but we have to learn how to navigate it. And unfortunately, some of what I call the under 40 crowd, young people who are 40 and under, maybe I could increase the year by another five years or so, they came up thinking that things are fair, and it's all about your qualifications and your abilities, but there is a whole nother system that governs whether you get an opportunity, whether you succeed or whether you fail. The thing is you need to be aware enough to navigate those challenges. And some of my young people, Wilmer Leon (35:30): Well, you just said, be aware enough. And what I have found is a number of my contemporaries, they don't want to have these discussions with their kids. They don't want to. When I taught at Howard, I would say to my students, you got to be three times as smart and workforce. Many of them, they never heard that before. Dr. Leon, what are you talking about? Well, that's life in America. Oh, no, no, no, not anymore. Oh, Dr. Leon, you don't understand. Capt Clovis Jones (36:07): Well, that's the brainwashing. That's the brainwashing that's taking place. Yeah, it's example. I used to wear a P 51 pen and I'd paint the cockpit black, and that was several of those black pilots who did that, and that was just honoring the Tuskegee ever because they were the first to people in mass to show that we could do this. But you had pioneers like Eugene, Jacque Bullock, who was a World War I fighter pilot, had to go to Germany, not Germany, to France, France, France. But he caught a ride to France on a German boat, learned to speak German in route, and he wound up during World War II of being in the French Underground because he had a nightclub in Paris. And the German officers wanted to come and enjoy the entertainment and the music and the atmosphere. So he got a lot of intelligence that he passed on to the French Underground, and he and Charles de Gall were good friends, and he was given Wilmer Leon (37:12): Awards, the Legion of Merit. Capt Clovis Jones (37:14): Say again, Wilmer Leon (37:15): The French Legion of Merit. Capt Clovis Jones (37:22): Well, I'd have to do the research, but Charles Gall came to the US and he wound up coming back to us, and he was an elevator man for the NBC where the NBC studios were in New York, and he was interviewed, but his background is phenomenal, and I happen to know his grandson and other members of his family, a cousin, (37:49) But he couldn't fly in America. But in France he did Bessie Coleman. And you have Chief Anderson, who was the civilian chief pilot for the Tuskegee Airman, who by the way, trained Captain Dhar. He taught himself how to fly. He wanted to fly. His father borrowed money from the white person that he worked for, bought a plane for his son. No one would teach chief how to fly, but he'd go to the airport every day and he'd listen to the white policies. They came back and talk about what they did was successful and the stupid stuff they did. And Chief would get it in his airplane every day, crank it up and taxi. And one day he taxied it fast enough that he lifted it off the ground. He said, now I got to figure how to land this thing. Eventually he did get some instruction from the Wright brothers, and I've had the opportunity to fly one flight with Chief. So I guess I'm one degree or two degrees away from the Wright brothers and my flight journey. But you have all those obstacles in a way. (38:57) You have other pioneers, Janet Bragg, Cornelius Coffee, you have Willow Brown, and there are any number of others that have pioneered the way for us. Chauncey Spencer, Edwin Wright, Dwight, the sculptor. He was chosen to be the first black astronaut, but again, he was a pilot, but then that didn't the astronaut program because they didn't want any blacks in the program. And he had difficulties there. But he wound up being followed his passion in business and with art, and he is one of the most prolific sculptors in the country and doing art eye kind of art for us to recognize our heroes and sheroes. Wilmer Leon (40:01): You had as a Morehouse man, you had a relationship with Dr. King. Capt Clovis Jones (40:08): Yes, yes, I did. Wilmer Leon (40:09): If you could elaborate on that a little bit, please. Capt Clovis Jones (40:12): Yes. During the Albany movement, I would go down and listen to Dr. King's speech almost every night that I could. So I would catch a ride with teachers who lived in Albany, but worked in Dawson, walked to the church, and because we were young, they would put us young people right on the front row below the pulpit. And my minister of my church and Dr. King were Morehouse classmates. They graduated at the same time. So he said, well, when you see Martin again, you tell him I said, hello. I did. So that started a relationship with Dr. King and I, and after my tour in Vietnam, my foxo buddy invited me to Chicago to work on a political campaign, which I did, and that was this organization called the New Breed Committee. And they had a bunch of black organizations that were meeting with Dr. King on this one particular night when they were planning to march through downtown Chicago. (41:17) So I go to Hyde Park, and who do I sit next to? Dr. King. So we reignited our friendship, and he was saying during the meeting, we need some young people to lead our march through downtown Chicago. And I said, well, hey, I'll do it. And some of my Vietnam buddies, and we led that march through downtown Chicago. And then when I did leave Chicago and went to Morehouse for the second time, he would come, well, for the first time actually, because that was 1966, he says he would come to the college, Hey, come by the office and talk to me. And I just thought he was being nice. And that's one regret that I have that I did not take him up on just going to his church office and sitting down and having a conversation with him. But I did become good friends with his press secretary, junior Griffith. So he and I would have wonderful conversations, but I'd see Dr. King often come into Morehouse and every time come by the office and talk to me, come by the office and talk to me. And that's something that I didn't do because it's like he's just being nice. But now I wished I had Wilmer Leon (42:29): You do your tour in Vietnam, you go to Chicago, Dr. King asks you to lead a protest in Chicago. How did you reconcile what you fought for in Vietnam versus what you were subjected to when you got back home? Capt Clovis Jones (42:56): Well, during those days, it was tough with Vietnam veterans coming back didn't call us baby killers and spat on us. It was no reconciliation. Thing is is that Vietnam was dangerous. Being black in America was dangerous. So it was no different than walking through downtown Chicago for a purpose for black people in America than going to Vietnam, supposedly fighting for democracy when all they wanted to do was have their own independence. Because Ho Chi Minh came to America and he was trying to speak to the President of the United States, and that never did happen for whatever the reasons are. I mean, there are a number of stories as to why it never happened. And Ho Chi Minh lived in Harlem. He worked in a restaurant, but he lived in Harlem, so he understood the plight to black people in the country. That was one patrol we on. You have North Vietnamese out in the middle of nowhere, and they see that the unit is mostly black, wave at each other and keep going. Why are we going to fight each other out here? For what? So it was dangerous. It was dangerous in Vietnam. It was dangerous here in America because then as well as now you get in the wrong situation, in the wrong part of town, you can wind up dead. Wilmer Leon (44:21): You can wind up dead in the right part of town. Capt Clovis Jones (44:23): Well, look, you can wind up dead in your own house with no consequences. Nobody held accountable, nobody indicted. And Dr. King's last book, where Did We Go From Here, Wilmer Leon (44:38): Chaos or Community? Capt Clovis Jones (44:40): He said that shooting was the new lynching, and that is what we're living through right now. Wilmer Leon (44:49): I asked you that Vietnam question because I had an uncle, senior Master Sergeant George W. Porter, who was a Tuskegee Airman, an original and flew World War II and Vietnam, and I'm originally from Sacramento, California, and Uncle George lived around the corner. And so the Sacramento Kings honored him at a basketball game, and he could barely walk. By this time, he was about 89, maybe 90, he could barely walk. But when they played the national anthem, he stood up so fast and so erect. And so when it was all over, I said, oh, help me understand something. He said, what's that son? I said, how is it that with all that you went through? And he used to tell me all these stories about all the stuff that he was subjected to. I said, how is it after all that you went through, you still have the reverence that you have for this flag? And he looked at me like I had three heads, and he said, boy, that's my flag. I fought for that flag. I risked my life for that flag just because they want to claim it doesn't make it theirs. Do you understand me? Yeah, unc, I got it. And so that's why I asked you that question. Capt Clovis Jones (46:30): Well, just on the question of flags, black people live under a lot of different flags, but almost anywhere you go in the world, we're treat it the same. So just to me, a flag is just a marker. It is not something to be reverenced. Yeah. America treated me poorly in some instances, but America gave me opportunities as well. So just need to understand. This is where, to me, the principle that's going to liberate us all is where is the fairness? Where's the fairness in this whole process? Because you have communities that have been deliberately destroyed by local, federal, and state governments because black people were successful. Jacksonville, Florida, for an example, highway five, right through the black community, destroyed it. Other places, Wilmer Leon (47:28): Oakland, Detroit, Cleveland, urban Renewal, and the interstate highway system has decimated African-American communities. Capt Clovis Jones (47:41): Yes. And you have off ramps to get into the community, but you don't have on-ramps for people to leave the community to get back on the freeways. Wilmer Leon (47:52): The freeway in New Orleans that goes past, I don't remember the name of it, but it goes past the Superdome. Yeah. That's another example of how that has decimated the communities. Capt Clovis Jones (48:07): Yes, yes. And that's by design. And people talk about the government. Well, the thing is the government, you have to demand treatment from government, from anyone who have laws. And of course, you have to understand laws are things that are written on paper, but the real law is whatever that judge says, and you can appeal it if you want to, but you might fight for who knows how long and how many different appeals to different courts. But the laws, whatever that judge says, look at Plessy versus Ferguson. Separate, but equal is the law of the land. Then you have the 54 Brown versus Board of Education, no, separate. It is not equal. Okay. Same document, different judges. So when that happened, in my mind it's like, wait a minute. That's something not right about this whole picture because why you have the same document. Where is the fairness in all of that? What is really right? And now you have school desegregation, but you have most of the teachers a female, and they are not black. And you have this whole school system of charter schools being created by white women who didn't want their children to go to school with black children. So you still have people say, oh, we have overcome. Oh, it is better now. Yes, it's different, but in a lot of ways it's the same. Wilmer Leon (49:40): So what do you see as being the, if we look at the, again, I gave the data a little earlier, about 3% of commercial pilots are African-American. The system that they're flying under down does not seem to be that much different from the system that you flew under when you were in the commercial space. Capt Clovis Jones (50:10): Well, that's true. You have airlines having their own programs, which we tried to get them to do decades ago. They didn't do it until they have the critical pilot shortage. But it was oap that had the first US based flight training program from no Time to getting you into the commercial space. That was a venture between oap, the organization of Black Airline Palestine and Western University. With the support of Kellogg and the transportation department. You had foreign pilots being trained from no time to becoming first officers for British Airways, Emirates and United Arab Emirates, and Air Lingus and Ireland. I'm saying, well, wait a minute. Why don't we create a program where black people who want to become pilots, who have degrees go through the interview process, go through the testing process, and if they qualify and this meets the criteria for what the airlines want, then let's train them and let's move them into commercial airline space. Well, that program lasted until money was diverted from training black pilots to buying airplanes. And now the airlines are replicating what was done by BAP and University Western Michigan University. Wilmer Leon (51:46): Is there a sense of comradery today amongst black pilots that there was when you were coming through the system, or do many of them feel a sense of accomplishment and a sense of success and participation in the system to where that sense of comradery isn't deemed necessary? Hopefully that made sense. Capt Clovis Jones (52:16): Well, kind of both are true at the same time. Two opposites can be true at the same time. The younger group, if they kind of know each other, then there's that comradery, Hey, we're going to support each other. We're going to party together. Hey, we're going to have each other's backs when during the ups and the downs and all of that. But among those of us who came along early, we would talk about whoever was being put upon by the system or by that airline or by something we knew about it, and we would support, because if something was happening at one airline to a black pilot, we look for it to happen at our airlines. So how did we outmaneuver that? How did we navigate those systems? How did we learn from those challenges so that we wouldn't even be confronted with those issues? (53:12) But now, the young people who know each other, they tend to have that camaraderie. But with us, Hey, if you were a brother, and when sisters black women became pilots, we embraced and supported them because we knew how tough it was going to be for all of us young people. They think, oh, well, hey, it is fair. And the story I wanted to tell about the pen I used to wear with the P 51 and with the cockpit painted black. Oh, there was a white pilot and a black pilot, and they were both academy graduates, air Force Academy graduates. And the white pilot said, oh, Tuskegee Airmen. I said, oh, yeah, yeah. I said, they're some of my heroes. And the black pilot says, what? (54:05) And then the white pilot told him, oh, the Tuskegee Airmen did this, this, this, and this. He said, oh, well, I guess I need to brush up on my history. I said, yes, you do. I mean, you a Force Academy grad, and you don't know who the Tuskegee airmen are. That gives you some idea of the deficit in our history that is not being taught among our own people. And some people think that because they have a job and some money in the bank or millions in the bank, that they are immune. None of us are immune from how this system operates when it operates against us. And we need to own our own. We need to train our own. We're at a point now where there's no way that we should be dependent on somebody else to teach or train our own. Because as I experienced doing with my first stint with my first flight instructor, you can be taught wrong. (55:09) The subject can be covered with the items that need to be covered, but you can be taught wrong. And sometimes, for example, just one degree off on a heading for 60 miles, you are one mile off course. So small deviations can cause you to be way off course if you continue on that path. So we really need to know our own history. We need the truth to be taught so that our young people understand, number one, who they are to this social system that we live under and who we are to each other, that we'd better have each other's back and hold each other accountable. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Just because you're black, you don't get a chance. And all this I don't snitch. Well, the thing is, is that what you need to do is hold somebody accountable for bad behavior and destructive behavior in our own community. And we need to understand that our communities are precious and that we need to maintain the land that we have, the homes that we have in our communities, because others will come in and you won't recognize it five, 10 years from now. Wilmer Leon (56:22): I'm chuckling, I'm debating. I'm going to go ahead and bring this up. Just to your point. When the Willis situation developed in Atlanta, I did a show criticizing her for the horrific mistake that she made resulting in the process that she had to go through, and the weapon I took mostly from black women because all I was saying was that behavior is indefensible, especially at that level. She's playing at the level of the game where she's going after the former face of the empire. Capt Clovis Jones (57:13): Yes. Wilmer Leon (57:17): And I made the comment, you have now brought this on yourself. You couldn't keep your panties on, and homeboy can't keep his fly up, man, they came at me, but I hate black women. I have a colonized mind. Oh, who am I to? Oh, because one of the points I made was the community should not be tolerating this type of behavior. We don't want to go and tell our daughters or go and tell our sons that they're supposed to engage like this in the workplace. Oh, man. It was brutal. It was Capt Clovis Jones (57:55): Brutal. And you can attest to this. There's a course that you have in ethics in law school. So hey, where's that? I like the philosophy of Maynard Jackson, first black man of Atlanta. He says, his philosophy was if you are close enough to see the line that you're not supposed to cross, you're too close. And young people need to understand that, hey, you can take risks, but don't take risks on things that are going to come back and hurt you. We used to be told there's always somebody watching you and they were talking about God, the creators. There's always somebody watching you. Well, now there's always somebody watching you because you have these devices that your cameras can be turned on, microphones turned on track wherever you are. Wilmer Leon (58:53): And what was one of the things that they got her on? Cell phone records? Capt Clovis Jones (58:57): Yes. Wilmer Leon (58:58): Yes. Cell phone records. Yes. Well, you said that you only visited him so many. Oh, but his phone seemed to wind up in your driveway 55 times. Now, when I worked in corporate America, at one point, I taught sales ethics to the sales team, and my line to them was the appearance of impropriety in many instances could be worse than the impropriety itself. So just ask yourself, how does it look? And if it looks bad, it's going to be bad. Capt Clovis Jones (59:45): Simple enough. Wilmer Leon (59:46): Hey, simple enough. You and I did a show last week, and as a result of that show, you got a phone call from a young man who was very, very encouraged by what you had to say, a lot of which we have covered in this conversation. And he said to you that you, through your story, let him know he had a lot of work to do in his community. Could you elaborate on that, please? Capt Clovis Jones (01:00:20): Yes. Well, it's a group of us who are in narrative and learning about our history, understanding the principles, Africana studies that no matter where in the world you are, you're an African and your black person, and there's a whole system that's designed not to have you rise above a certain level. How do we recapture? When do we start our history? We started in 1619. We've cut ourselves out of millennia of culture, religion, spirituality, science, inscribed on the pyramid walls. Our people have depicted surgical instruments that are used to this day. So the Greeks did not invent medicine. Hippocratic was not the one who basically founded medicine, not the father of medicine. It was African folk folks that look like you and I. So with that, where's our mindset and what are we waiting on? So it encouraged him to do the work in the community. (01:01:35) So one of the things that I've learned through the years is that for a group of people to make progress or to make any change, good or bad, you have the square root of that number of people say 300,000. Well, you need 600 people, like-minded folks moving in the same direction, maybe not always agreeing, but you're like-minded in making things better, and you're doing the work on the ground to make it happen with whatever your talents are. That shifts the entire population. And so he talked about, Hey, we need to find a way to make this happen so that we can do our work on our own, teach our children. And he's on the ground doing just that. So he said, Hey, I figured it out. I know what we need to do. This is what we need, and these parts of town, now we have the template. Now we got to do the work to make it happen. (01:02:38) And one of the elders said, Hey, we already have the teams in place. It's just a matter of educating the teams to get them to think outside of the borders that they live in and expand their minds and understand that, hey, we were educating folks long before we came to America. We had culture. We had all kinds of things. Now, again, I have to say that everything about Africa is not glor flyable, but there are some things that are so you pick the best because when you do your best, you're going to get better and you're going to advance things rather than destroy things. Wilmer Leon (01:03:22): Captain Clovis Jones, Jr. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your commitment. Thank you for your work. Thank you for joining me today. Capt Clovis Jones (01:03:33): You're more than welcome. It is my pleasure. And thank you for having me. Wilmer Leon (01:03:37): Well, I'm going to have you back, folks. Thank you so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wier Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. And remember, this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter on connecting the dots. See you again next time. Until then, I'm Dr. Wilmer Leon. Have a good one. Peace. Some lessons. I'm out Announcer (01:04:26): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge.

 Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Bloomberg News Chief Technology Correspondent Mark Gurman and Bloomberg News Senior Executive Editor Tom Giles report on news that Apple is in talks to build Google's Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone. Bloomberg Intelligence Chief US Interest Rate Strategist Ira Jersey looks at the interest rate environment heading into the FOMC meeting this week. Bloomberg News US Airlines Reporter Mary Schlangenstein and Alex Wilcox, CEO of JSX, discuss why airlines want to stop upstart JSX from luring flyers away. And we Drive to the Close with Amanda Agati, Chief Investment Officer at PNC Asset Management Group.Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's Eye on Travel Podcast with Peter Greenberg – The Chileno Bay Resorts and Residences in Los Cabos. This month marks the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of MA Flight 370 - one of the most confusing and perplexing mysteries in the history of commercial aviation. Florence De Changy - Author of The Disappearing Act - has the latest on what we know 10 years later and if there is hope of ever finding out conclusively what really happened. Then, there is an airline you have probably never heard of but is making great inroads on many popular routes. It is called JSX and is about as close to flying private as you can get. CEO Alex Wilcox talks about the new option of getting from Point A to Point B.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week's Eye on Travel Podcast with Peter Greenberg – The Chileno Bay Resorts and Residences in Los Cabos. This month marks the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of MA Flight 370 - one of the most confusing and perplexing mysteries in the history of commercial aviation. Florence De Changy - Author of The Disappearing Act - has the latest on what we know 10 years later and if there is hope of ever finding out conclusively what really happened. Then, there is an airline you have probably never heard of but is making great inroads on many popular routes. It is called JSX and is about as close to flying private as you can get. CEO Alex Wilcox talks about the new option of getting from Point A to Point B.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get ready to learn all about the JSR package registry with Wes, Scott, and special guest Luca Casonato of Deno, as they discuss its benefits, share insights on when to use it, and teasing some secret features that promise to enhance your coding journey. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:37 Brought to you by sentry.io. 00:51 Who is Luca Casonato? 01:18 Why do we need another package registry? Wes Bos Tweet 04:35 Is it ESM only? 06:08 What exactly is JSR? 07:22 How do you install things from this registry? 09:38 NPM specifier in NodeJS? 12:18 Why can't we just fix NPM? 14:28 When you make things easier, people make cooler stuff. 17:49 A little bit about auto-documentation. 21:18 Auto-Types. 22:33 Can't you just put TypeScript files on an NPM? 24:04 Package Provenance. NPM Package Provenance 25:14 Does JSR have any plans for scanning dependencies? 27:56 GitHub action integration. 30:08 Does JSR replace url imports in Deno? Import Maps, Ep.596 32:15 What about publishing JSX, TSX, CSS, WASM, etc? 34:16 What are Slow Types? 36:34 Do you think we'll ever see another implementation of a TypeScript type checker? 38:23 Types as comments or adding types to JavaScript. 40:10 What is the anticipated timeline? 41:52 Are there any parts of TypeScript that you don't like? 43:32 What about when TypeScript breaks? 46:20 JSR community funding. 49:39 Are you planning on pre-registering popular names? 52:26 Super secret new features! 56:39 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Luca: Hono Shameless Plugs Luca: jsr.io Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

Dive into the world of manifestation with Nikole Mitchell, who narrates her transition from living on food stamps to achieving a seven-figure income. This episode breaks down the practical strategies and mindset shifts necessary for manifesting financial freedom and personal success. Explore the role of integrity in your aspirations, the importance of believing in your vision.   If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Misconceptions when it comes to manifesting your dreams.Why calling in requires clarity, belief, and consistent action.The power of visualizing your success in detail. Why you should cling to the voice that resonates with you.The importance of owning the audacity and size of your dreamsWhy there is no one-size-fits-all solution in coaching.Episode References/Links:Nikole Mitchell's WebsiteNikole Mitchell's TwitterNikole Mitchell's FacebookNikole Mitchell's InstagramNikole Mitchell's YoutubeNikole Mitchell's TiktokGuest Bio:She is known as the pastor-turned-stripper. She left a religious community for the adult industry and has never been happier, healthier, or wealthier. She transitioned from food stamps to 7 figures by embracing the truest version of herself, even if it meant being misunderstood. She is an expert in pleasure, power, and profit, as well as self-expression and being an online sex worker.  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. Get your free Athletic Greens 1 year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 free travel packsGet your discount for some Toe Sox using the code: LESLEY Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar  Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramFacebookLinkedIn  Episode Transcript:Nikole M. Mitchell 0:00  People get really frustrated and they burn out and they say it's all a hoax. But really when it comes to the art of manifestation, there's a lot of grit and tenacity that is required like you absolutely have to have a vision. You absolutely have to believe like the loose stuff is real, but it has to be backed up and substantiated with action, and ongoing action, especially when it looks like it's not working.Lesley Logan 0:20  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 1:02  Hi, hi. Okay, you guys. This woman needs no introduction. You've already heard her on the podcast before but we're already having her back because she's phenomenal and multifaceted in so many ways. Nikole Mitchell, thank you so much for being here. One, we had the best time in person with you last time and we talked about so many things. So if you missed that episode, it's linked in the show notes go listen to it. However, one of the things that I have been following you and just loving you talk about is manifestation like making our visions happen. And so I wanted to bring you back and I wanted to like nerd out and go deep because I think people can get a little woowoo on the manifestation thing. But I guess before we go right into that, maybe just a quick little two-second, two-minute intro like who you are and what you rock at. Just in case you haven't listened to the last one. Nikole M. Mitchell 1:49  Yes. So thank you, Lesley, for having me. I'm Nikole Mitchell. I'm known as many things one of those things is past return stripper. I'm a life coach. I've gone from food stamps to seven figures, and I'm really good at helping people unlock their power, their pleasure and their profit.Lesley Logan 2:04  Yeah, I I love how concise all that is. And like each one has its own like life story. I guess like, the I feel like the only way any of those could have happened was because of visualization and true, like clarity around what you want. So maybe, I hear people say I'm manifesting this. They throw that word around a lot. What are some, like myths around manifesting that you hear are some misconceptions about it? Nikole M. Mitchell 2:33  Yes. I think one of the biggest one is like if you just say it, it'll happen. If you think it once, it will happen. Yes, it's just like a one and done kind of thing. And people get really frustrated. And then they burn out. And they say it's all a hoax. But really, when it comes to the art of manifestation, there's a lot of grit and tenacity that is required, like you absolutely have to have a vision, you absolutely have to believe like the woowoo stuff is real. But it has to be backed up and substantiated with action, and ongoing action, especially when it looks like it's not working. That to me, I found my own personal journey the manifestation is right when everything looks like it's falling apart. That has always been my catalyst to the greater things. But most people freak out, everything's falling apart, you're thinking this doesn't work. Not only does it work, it's made everything worse. And that's when they bail. It's literally three feet from the goal. They're right for like right there. And they quit right before the finish line. And it kills me every time. So like I've seen this happen so many times that shift that rearranging that feels like a disaster. It's a divine rearranging means you're right there, stay the course.Lesley Logan 3:35  Yeah, I can I like so when we, this house that we're sitting in, when I like I spent time in April with one of my coaches and when she had this whole, like quantifying your vision, so it wasn't just enough to like have a vision like she had all these questions. All these prompts. We're to quantify it, we had actually go How much does all these things that we want in this dream life cost? Because not to scare you to be like you can't ever afford that. But to like, have clear goals around what that is you can actually say yes to that. And so I was very clear on this, like five bedroom house, I had this yard like I would be had it all pictured and Brad and I were on the same page and we came to Vegas, you guys and the real estate agents took all these houses and I was like none of these are the vision and how did I get this so wrong? Like I felt like I was so wrong about it. And we got in the car kind of bummed because we first we rented a car to come to Vegas to see these houses cuz we didn't have a car. And we got in the car we're like, let's just drive to where we fell in love with Vegas first and then like drive around until we find something. And I remember being on the phone with someone and I was just kind of like at a loss. We came back to LA we hadn't found anything but I just hadn't couldn't give up on this goal. And I wanted to move by June 1st and this is like nine days before June 1st and I'm on the phone with her I'm like I can't be wrong about this. Like I know I have had the vision I'm so clear and I know everything that I it's going to cost we can afford all of this like everything is ready. But I didn't find it and I don't understand. And I got off the phone with her. And I was like, I just can't be wrong. I know I'm not wrong about this. I opened my phone and there was an email from a real estate agent like, I think I found this one house for you. And you guys there were staying in the house. And you know, no one was everyone said, you can't move in nine days. I'm like, no one moved in nine days, we moved in nine days. But I think there was that moment where I could have just given up and we we did not we like we kind of get through so I feel like that is the heart that is the hardest part. What do you do when you are like in everything is a mess and like you're like, you I mean, you're, you're so equipped that you know that it's going to work out but like what did what are some tools that you use to like, when everything feels like it's falling apart? Nikole M. Mitchell 5:42  I still panic. Like, as a professional manifester I do feel like I've really nailed the art of it. I still panic. I call it my holy tantrums. Like I throw divine fits where I like, I'll punch pillows, I'll curse the universe. I'll be so mad. I was like I know these laws. I know how this works, why the f this is not happening yet? Why the f does it look like everything's falling apart? Why do things have to fall apart like I am so like, direct with the divine because I know the universe can handle it first of all. And second of all, it does something in me when I can get all that rage out and not have to pretend like I'm okay with it. It does something to me, once I get it out. I come back. But I found when I tried to keep in to be proper and to be appropriate and to like be a person of faith and trust, like it would just boil under my skin. So I've really found that having a tantrum really helps me get it out of my system without letting me quit.Lesley Logan 6:36  Okay, thank you for saying that, I have I have to throw the tantrum. And then sometimes I'm like, why do I throw tantrums all the time? Like why can I just like, get to the point where it's after the tantrum. But there's something about like, if you're not going to fight for it, you know, like Nikole M. Mitchell 6:53  It shows how much you care about it. It's like we have this idea like Zen, like I'm just always gonna be at peace, and it's totally fine. But when you really care about something, and you're so passionate about it, and your your heart is screaming, that this is meant for you. It doesn't make sense that you'd be calm, it makes sense that you would panic and be mad and fret because you care so deeply. And this is what I love about it. It just that tantrum communicates how committed you are to that vision. And it's it's, it's really is a genuine spot of misery to know what it's meant for you and to not be there yet. And it's in that state of misery. It's temporary, but gosh, it feels eternal. When you're in it. Can you stay the course long enough to not quit nine days before that house showed up or whatever the goal you're calling in? Because it is temporary, but it's because you care so much, you know that is meant for you. It's gonna cause you to throw some tantrums.Lesley Logan 7:44  Yeah. I love that. Okay, you said this calling in? Yeah. Can you explain what you mean by that? Because I think that that's probably a part of manifestation most people don't do.Nikole M. Mitchell 7:55  So for me. So I think we're maybe a little different. I do way better manifesting things, I don't know the logistics around things I don't know the numbers like I like to get so dreamy in my head that I have no idea how on earth this could ever happen. And the more I try to figure out the how the more I go crazy. So then my goal is to be like such a magnet that it just it is forced to shoot my reality like literally pulls it in. And I almost view it as like the split through fabric in time like this whole visualize it. And like my hand grabbing the future and pulling it for like it gets to be mine now. It was interesting, when I was flying into Vegas, today, I always journal on my flights, or I read old journals. It's like my time like as I'm elevating literally, I elevate energetically. Lesley Logan 8:38  Oh, that's so fun. Nikole M. Mitchell 8:39  It's my favorite ritual. So like, I'm very careful as like, as I'm with you rise up higher and like I am rising higher my life and making more money, having more success, I'm having more fun, like it is such a symbol for me like what's coming my way. So it says reading an old journal and I read what I'd written in 2021. I'm like in 2021, I'm going to be a million dollar woman. And it was in 2022 that I became a million dollar woman. But I was like, Oh my gosh, like back then I had no concept of how I'd make a million dollars. I just knew I was meant to make a million dollars, I had a heart for it. I had a vision for it. And I declared it and over time as you take inspired action and you try different things and you put yourself out there like it will find its way to you so for me it's less about me trying to chase it down and force it to happen. It's more of like I surrender to this desire. I show the f up for it. And then I let the universe surprise me with how it shows up.Lesley Logan 9:29  Yeah, I think I'm I definitely do the big picture vision. And the only that quantify was the first time I ever did it. The only reason that helped me is because I actually grew up since I grew up with no money. I've never had money and actually six so this year was my 10th year anniversary when I was homeless for the third and last time. So like I actually was just like you know when you like I'll buy a house like I never even knew like how much money one would need for that. So doing that has allowed me to know, okay, I have to make X number of dollars. And y'all, we made it the next weekend. So like, but like, I didn't go into that with the I'm gonna make this like I was like, we have this thing and it can do that, and I'm gonna keep that vision in life. So I think, but I do, but I do like that youI like that elevating up, I've got this new, I got a new remarkable tablet guys here to hear me talking about all the time because I can't read my own writing, which is why I've had I've stopped journaling because I can't read it. But I hate that I've stopped journaling, because that's when I have been the most clear about what I want. So my we had (inaudible) on the show, and she has one I was at her house in the UK. And she's I was like, Can I just try it? You guys, it can read my own horrible writing. I'm lefty, itcan read it. So it's on its way to this house right now. And I'm like, good. That's what I mean. I knew ritual on planes because I love that. Nikole M. Mitchell 10:50  Do you know, the reason I actually started this is back. So I was on food stamps for nine years. And I made this intention that because traveling, I couldn't afford it. And I was afraid that when I would travel, I was losing money, right? This was my mindset back then very traditional, very lack based. And I want to believe the principle right of the law of multiplication, that anytime you circulate, spend or invest money, it always comes back to multiply so very much direct that towards travel. So I very intentionally said whenever I travel, I always make more money, I have money making ideas, I make connections clients hire me like so I very intentionally every time I feel I'm journaling and I'm journaling kind of saved my life because I'm like, I'm spending this money. I'm on food stamps. This is so irresponsible. My heart says this is what I'm meant to do. So I'm journaling like, I'm a wealthy woman, I make millions of dollars, massive success, like massive fame, like almost as like a plea to God. Like I'm doing this as a commitment to my future self into who I'm becoming I refuse to stay where I am. And that ritual is now carried on for five years. Like it's become my most sacred time to remember who I am as I elevate as a reminder that we are always evolving and transforming and I've only just gotten started.Lesley Logan 11:57  I love that. Okay, so I want to know how what, because I feel like I can picture you there and I am because I've had similar situations. How do you write I am this when you're not that yet? Like what is the what is what do you have to tell yourself or believe like, what's that? Because I feel like that's being it until you see it. And that's my manifestation like so many people like I believe I am a million dollar person. But if you are on food stamps, like there is there's dissonance there that the brain is you know, there's a brain there that means like you're not so how did you how do you overcome that?Nikole M. Mitchell 12:30  So for me for my truth, let me know if this resonates with you, Lesley and those of you listening? I actually find when I get still and I declare these statements. They feel like the truth is truth I could speak me on food stamps felt like a fraud. That actually felt like a fraud me wanting a million dollars did not like when I got really still since I was a young girl. I've wanted to be famous, I wanted to be rich, I've wanted to be successful, it was never allowed in the spaces I grew up in that was never looked up when I was very much looked down upon very much shamed and shunned and so I quickly and quietly stuffed those desires down. So when I got older and started learning manifestation, and owning these desires have always had it felt like coming home. And sure this was your brains like you're not that but more than not it was like It felt good to breathe until breathe life into and speak into existence what I've always wanted. And the frustration the frustration was, why am I this when I meant to be that? Why am I in food stamps when I meant to be a millionaire? Why? Why am I struggling at home when I am meant to be a CEO? Like this. this is the fraud. This is truth. And so it became easier like to really own it. And I think that's what people need is permission to own the audacity and the size of your dreams. Because we're always taught to shrink to make it palatable for me to be like I want to be a millionaire would never have flown in my family, in my circles or in my church. So I keep that quiet. But what would it look like for us to believe in each other's size of our dreams and our audacity and ability to manifest it to become it to achieve it? It would make it so much easier for people to speak it aloud own it and I think call it in.Lesley Logan 14:06  Okay. So many just different gems. Everyone has to rewind and go back because I want to listen, I love all of it. But I love that you share what it is that the life you're living was actually the fraud. That I think is actually most people's existence, but they don't they think it's real. Nikole M. Mitchell 14:23  Yes. And this is the power of the illusion. Like it's strongest fog. It's like when you're on food stamps and you can't pay your bills and you're crying I would cry myself to sleep I'm starving except such severe anxiety from not able to provide for our family like it feels as real as anything. And so this is where I had to work really hard at finding two minutes of peace to find the the teeny tiny kernel of truth and my soul. Where like that whisper that would not go away that said you were meant for more than this, Nicole. This is not all there is but it was quiet enough to where I think a lot of people stuffed it down, ignore it and convincing them selves. This is as far as they're gonna get. This is how it's always going to be. But for those of us brave enough to water, that kernel to water, that seed to let it grow a little sprouts within you, and you're going to feel crazy, people are going to tell you like, don't don't raise your hopes be willing to lose them. Like, be realistic. Yeah, I don't want to be realistic. Because at the end of the day, I don't want to realistic life. I want a mind-blowing life. So I'd have mind-blowing beliefs about mind-blowing possibilities, if that's what I actually want. So the more I watered it, the more I started to feel it, the more I started to identify it, the more I started to experience it. But you have to intentionally cultivate that, because it will not happen on its own with all the odds you're facing. Lesley Logan 15:37  Yeah, because your internal voice is just yours and every other voice around you of all the people and all their fears and all the protection all those people who haven't listened to their voice and generation. Telling you something (inaudible) I think that's so cool. Okay, so how did you listen to your voice? Did you know it was your voice like this might sound crazy, but like, I feel like when I first heard my own voice, I remember who is that? You guys, I remember driving on the one on one freeway, as in my last relationship. And I heard myself say, Dear God, can you just have him break up with me because I don't actually know how to get out of this. And I'm going who is talking?Nikole M. Mitchell 16:20  But it's so true. Like, we've become so disconnected from our own truth and our own voice that it does feel foreign. And then we've been taught to not especially as women, and if especially if you're from a marginalized community, if you're a person of color, if you're queer, if you're disabled, like you've been taught to not trust your body, you've been taught to not trust your desires, you've been taught to not trust your intuition. So when you're working, you're trying to find your voice again, there is a lot of doubt, and there is a lot of confusion. But the more you just practice and try it will become clearer and clearer. So what I did in the beginning, when I didn't have my voice, I clung on to the person whose voice resonated with me. And that like kind of woke up my voice the more I heard them speak the more I read what they wrote, the more I listened to their live streams on like, I could feel her coming alive in me. And then back then I had my kids were really little have three kids and I was exhausted, and I'm still nursing and all were so broken, everything's so stressful. And I'm not a morning person. So the only time I could afford peace and sanity in my life, I would set my alarm two minutes, literally two minutes before my kids got up. I couldn't do five I couldn't do 30 minutes, but I'm not I'm not that extreme. I'm, I need my sleep. But then I laid two minutes. And I would just I would visualize being a wealthy woman, I would visualize the big home I would have I'd visualize living in the state of my dreams. And it felt crazy considering my circumstances. But those two minutes eventually became five minutes eventually became my tradition back then was every time I was at a red light, because driving all the time, I would stop and I'd visualize and I would start crying because I could see it and feel it and smell it and taste it so clearly, the light would turn green, I'd snap back to reality and go so I would incorporate these moments is trigger it's like a red light or flying on a plane. Who are you really Nikole? What is your truth? What do you want? Remember that above all the noise that you're facing right now.Lesley Logan 18:07  Okay, so some of the things I love about this first of all, y'all, when you if you do this right before you wake up, there's a reason why morning pages are called morning pages and you're supposed to do them as soon as you wake up. And I have people go, what can I do after I have coffee? No, you're because it says in the morning, why? Your theta it's like there's a wave. It's the it's you're almost still in hypnosis. So it's actually when the best time to do meditation, visualization, journaling, because there's just the the part of your brain that's actually still kind of doing the work is the one that's in that's I'm gonna be wrong. But I had a hypnotherapist on here. It's it. It's like almost hypnotic. And so you can actually really retrain your brain rewire your brain to what it is you want to see. The other thing I love about it is you're doing small doses, so it's not, you're not changing your entire life. 30 minutes is way too much. Y'all retiming habits, he will even tell you, you cannot go from zero to 30 minutes on anything, no matter how much you want it. The other thing I love is that like you're spending more and more time trying to hear your voice and see your thing and it throughout the day because that's the only way to find the evidence that the universe is out there. So you can be the magnet that you're saying and like to go back to manifestation the only way you can magnet anything in is if you can actually see that oh, that's that's the turn I'm supposed to make. And you can only trust that turn because you've seen it so many times in your in your visions.Nikole M. Mitchell 18:07  I would write affirmations down on sticky notes and plastered them all over my kitchen, my bathroom, my hallways my bedroom literally everywhere I walked because I just I had to inundate my psyche that was convinced I would be poor for the rest of my life that possibilities exist up leveling exists. Manifestation exists. Wealth exists for Nicole not just I felt like it existed for everyone but me and then friends would come over and I'd tear through my house to tear all the sticky notes down because I couldn't afford anyone's kickback. I couldn't afford anyone making fun of me because I was so fragile at this and I was such a baby like it not an insult like a beginner. And so I would take them all down and no one's ever left I've classroom backup like I was very protective myself the first year when I was learning how to manifest and visualize a different future for myself. So anything you can do count every small thing and I teach to my clients it will compound like your cup is going to fill fill, fill, fill fill, and then it's going to spill over into up on it. So if you do those sticky notes, you take two minutes here a minute at the stoplight, it all adds up and it will help you get where you're meant to be.Lesley Logan 20:26  Yeah. Thank you for bringing back up and we talked about this more in the first episode we had you on was just like protecting you have to you have to protect this beginner this new version of you, whatever it is, because you we are you don't have the muscle to like articulate always, like, why you're doing what you're doing. And anyone who could act like even if it was a simple question, like why do you do this and it doesn't even have to have the tone of negativity. It could just be curiosity. But if you're if you don't feel like you have the words to say it in a way that feels confident that could actually keep you from putting them back up. So I love that brought that back up. Okay. So manifesting. Obviously you do visualize there's that but like, it can't just be okay speak into existence like the secret which everybody was like all in I think my own family gotten to the secret which I thought was very interesting for a moment there like speak it out, guys speak it out. But what, but it's also combined with as you said, grit and tenacity. So how do you do you you write these things down? Do you put them somewhere? And then you call them in? Like, what are those looking like.Nikole M. Mitchell 21:32  So it's easier to call something and the more it's normalized in your brain in your body. So when I was poor, I wanted I had no idea what wealth was like. And so I started going to like fancy cafes just to sit and I'd order the cheapest thing on their menu and then I remember one time, like I'm going to order the most expensive and is a latte that had gold flakes on it, like 24 karat flakes. I sat there I'm like, I'm so rich right now but like just to normalize oh, people do this every day. I can afford one latte a month people do this everyday. I go to the lobbies of super rich hotels. I felt like such a fraud. I was like waiting to get caught like you miss what are you doing here? Like I no one cares. It's a freaking hotel. But it just showed what an outsider I felt like when it came to beautiful things to wealth to elegance to glamour. And so like I started to expose myself, I would make vision boards right literally like old school sky. I'm like printing off million dollar homes from California and printed off beach sunsets and plenty off dollar signs and productive number of money I want to make some day. I started like, one time to my girlfriend. I'm like, I want to meet a millionaire. I never met one before and that felt like an alien from space. Like there's so few and far between. They probably don't exist. I hear they exist. I've never seen one in my real life. And now, almost everyone I know in my life is a millionaire. It is crazy. Lesley Logan 22:44  It's crazy. Y'all it is insane. How many millionaires are out there? In fact, now it's like that's not even enough. Like the billionaires like,Nikole M. Mitchell 22:52  Yeah, millionaires. I'm like, that's cute. Before it was like, woahLesley Logan 22:56  No, but, if you haven't like I only got it. You're taking me back in time because I there's certain things I would do to like, make sure that I could tell myself I was wealthy like even when I was homeless. I ate at Whole Foods. Yeah. And I went to the I went to the salad bar guys, and I have no idea how much it was gonna cost. But like I was like, nope, I am not. I am not someone who is going to have ramen. I don't even know how I get gluten-free ramen. But I'm not going to have ramen for lunch. Like, I'm going to have a regular meal. I'm going to sit out here in Brentwood, while celebrities walk out of that Whole Foods. Not because I wanted to be that was I wasn't actually manifesting being famous, but I wanted to live and be welcomed in that neighborhood. And I wanted to stop like my manifestation was like, I will no longer get an apartment somewhere because that's what I can afford. I will get an apartment somewhere because that's where I want to live. And that was like my thing and I would so I would sit there and it was this way of taking action in like, action towards the vision like this is going to be comfortable. In fact, it'd be so normal for me to park and this Whole Foods it's not gonna go like who is this person here? Is she selling like signatures on the front of the Whole Foods? No, I don't work here. This is where I shop. This is where I eat. There was somebody who used to write their scripts I think at it wasn't the Waldorf. There's a very famous hotel that's escaping me over on Sunset Boulevard. It's a, if Brad was here he could tell he's like probably he's trying to tell me what it is to my brain but like where script writers would go to write their scripts because they wanted to someday be staying be famous enough and rich enough to stay at that hotel. All I can think about you guys if you're trying to like which hotel? It is the one Lindsay Lohan was at there's been other famous people I just can't think of it right now. Nikole M. Mitchell 24:39  I love it. The other thing that's really helped me manifest and normalize my goals is hiring those who already have it. So hiring mentors or coaches or guides, people who have the lifestyle you want them when you want, the business you want. Even today I was interviewing a business owner. He's been a restaurant and gambling owner for 20 years and I'm like If you need to mentor people that like opening a restaurant, a brick and mortar business is absolutely terrifying, huge risk lots people don't make it, you've had a massively successful for 2020 years, you need to mentor he is like I want to mentor people. So you want to gravitate towards those who have what you want. If you can't afford them at first, read everything you can on them online, watch their podcasts interviews, like do everything to be in their energy. And if there's ever an opportunity to take a free masterclass or a small price best, like, do whatever you can to learn from them. I would say that's been one of my biggest hacks isn't trying to fumble along and figure it on my own. I hire people who are already where I want to be like, Tell me everything you know, and then being in their energy being in that like being learning their understanding how they approach things. makes it so much faster for me to get there. Lesley Logan 25:45  Okay. Yes. Okay, that is awesome. Because you are skipping the line. You're not because also when you're especially when you're new to manifesting, you're, especially when you're new to like calling in what you want and haven't gotten tenacity. Nothing sucks more than trying to like fumble along, and then realize you've been going down the wrong road this whole time. It is and if you don't have the strength and that muscle believing like no, I do believe this, it could be a setback that just takes you out. So I do love that I um, the first time I hired a business coach, and people are like, why do you need to hire a business coach? I'm like, I'm taking my business to private school. And they're like, What am I? Why does everyone pay for private school for their kids? It's not like they're learning anything different. They're learning the same things that every other kid is learning. It's just that they have smaller class sizes. And what a network. And so that is what happens and I need my business to be in private school because you get to skip the line. You get more connections and and, yes, I everything I did before I hired a business coach, I learned from a podcast and I like I treat a podcast like I paid for that education I'm like, I had a notepad out every time I listen to certain podcasts. I was like, what are my three takeaways? In fact, I found a podcast where the host actually goes, here's my takeaways. And I was like, great, I'll just write yours down. That sounds great. Thank you. But like so that's what's so crazy in the world that we live today that there's actually so much that you can do if you can't afford to hire anyone. In fact, every, every single one of these multi-figure coaches out there have podcasts or have free content. I'm gonna tell you right now, I promise you, they're giving their best stuff away for free. If they're doing it right. It's just out of order. So if you can take the time to reorder it, you you can get an MIT to education without paying for MIT. Now, as all their education is free, the only way you get the degree is if you pay them. So if you want the certificate, you pay them but like, it's all out there, it goes back to that grit and tenacity like are you going to be willing to like, stop just thinking about it and actually, like, take some action towards what you're thinking about.Nikole M. Mitchell 27:43   I will give that feedback once awhile, like, why do you charge for this, this should be free. If it's if it matters so much you shouldn't make it available to the masses. So a couple of thoughts on that, like I put out so much free content that if you if you consume my free content and implement it in your life, it will change your life period. Second, we take for granted things that are free. If advice worked, the coaching business wouldn't exist. Obviously taking free advice does not have the same impact as hiring a mentor who can guide you through real real shit in real time. So just trusting that there is enough information for you to get started. And then I will say this because it's really important because woo and manifestation and personal love is so popular right now. Don't let yourself get scammed. There's a lot of people who can make you big, lofty promises, you're gonna make $7 million in seven weeks, it's like, and it gets you excited because you feel like anything's possible. But if your gut is saying something feels off, your gut is always telling you the truth. So I would much rather start with someone smaller, someone more grounded, someone who's not as big because it's like, there's something I can relate to this and I can connect to so really trust your intuition. Don't get caught up on the gimmicks and the bells and whistles of people trying to like dazzle you into the program. Hire the person or the people that you really resonate with. You can tell they have integrity. You can tell they're legit. Those are the people to learn from.Lesley Logan 28:58  Oh, yes. Yes. Because I mean, even some of the really big name coaches out there that you know, everyone knows who these guys are they have they sell people courses, but if you don't actually have an idea, if you don't know how to, even if you can buy it, it doesn't mean it's gonna make you money. In fact, there's like a shout out to this podcast it's my favorite I listen to Queen of the Con Season Four is all about the real housewife from Salt Lake City. And she had these companies that would, they look legit, you would like Google like work from home course. And then you know they had all this stuff but they were like oh well if you want that, buy this. Oh, that only works if you buy this and it was like all these things. It's truly like as a business coach, we're very honest. We'll tell you what's right for you. What's wrong for you. Like oh, actually, this is not gonna be the best thing for you. You go do these things. Here's why we think your ideas amazing. Here's what it's gonna take to get there. Super, super honest. Even in the 15 minute consultation call with Brad does you'll get coaching because we'll be like, I love that idea. Here's why you need to have anan assistant to do that. Like just really honest information you got to find coach like that because you can get you can buy the wrong course or be scammed or also, you got to know yourself do you need like I, I bought a course recently and I'm halfway through it and I have six more months to finish it. And I had to make appointments of myself to do it because I actually show up better when it's live.Nikole M. Mitchell 30:26  I'm so that is gonna say the exact same thing. And like you have to know what kind of learner you are. I will ship something live, I will not ship something pre recorded. I just know myself and the only way I will ship something pre recorded is just like you said, I literally put my calendar 4pm on Tuesday watching module ones program, otherwise I never get around to it, but live in it. Which is why to this day even though I've been in business for five years, I could automate and sell all my programs forever and ever never teach live again. I teach every single one live, because I know I'm a better learner when it's live energy, I love be able to like meet you in real time. Like talk to me. Where are you at? I'll give you feedback right now. Like, yeah, there's benefits to both. So I have people who thrive in courses, and I'm the kind of person who thrives on live energy. So just know your style and support yourself in that direction.Lesley Logan 31:05  Yeah, and like, and then also, it's okay to be where you are like, yeah, for example, the particular course I bought, the reason I bought it was I was like, I liked this idea. I've listened to a podcast, issue is valid information. I don't want to spend, like I love spending money but I was like, I don't want to spend that money on that thing. What I think I just want this module. So I've had to go, Okay, it's in my calendar, I had to literally tell Brad, okay, this is Mondays at 10am. I'm going to watch the thing, I'm going to do the thing. And then I'm going to do these things. And so I've had to do it and tell them every Monday, okay, here's what I learned today on this course. Because otherwise I know myself, but if I, if I can I love a live event, I love being in a room with people, even if it's a Zoom Room. And even as a presenter, like, one of the things we did this year was were we a bunch of courses, they're not outdated, but like the technology is better. And so it was like, you know, I want to update the content, we're filming them live. And we're selling the tickets to come live for like nothing 25 bucks. So if I can give this information away, but I know that the recorded content will have the energy of how I show up when it's live. Because if I if I pre-record stuff, it's like you're like talking to a white wall in this room. So it's not fun. So that but I I would prefer more people to come to the live one, and pay less amount and get all that information. It's just how I am. So I began to do you have to like a learner and you have to know what you have access, what's accessible and what you're valuing right now. And it's okay to go. Oh my god, I would love to spend that. But this is all I have who does that? But there's a couple people who are into the coaching industry who are like, well, why don't you just spend the money if this is like the the new secret where it's like you say it out loud. Now there's people who are like, just once you invest the money, that's the same, like you basically have done it. It's like, no, you should get coaching for the money that you're investing. Like, yeah, there should be calls, there should be some sort of something that's going to help you it can't just be like putting the money out there. It's like those old church shows of like, send your money and we'll pray your bills away. That's the same thing. It's still not going to work. Their bills are still there. Nikole M. Mitchell 33:10  Totally. Yeah. I love that you said that. Like you just start where you are. I know we all wish we're further down the road and we wish you can do this and I want to give you this piece of wisdom is like you are the only one who can save you. And that's like both good and bad. It's bad because we want someone else to save us it just feels easier if I can throw money at you and Lesley can save me hallelujah. That's not how it works. I'm the only person who can save me at the end of the day so if there's a mentor or guide or coach who's like if you don't hire me you're not going to make it, run. You are so brilliant, you're so capable, you come from the Divine, you've got this, you're gonna make it and it might take a little bit longer but you you've got this on your own you only want to hire someone not because you need to need them not because you're pressuring you not because they save you don't buy the highest ticket you're not actually committed I see all this kind of bogus stuff on the internet is like you want to hire someone because there's there's there's no electric charge there there's an alignment they're not because they're gonna save you but they represent who you can become. They've saved themselves and us now see oh, I can save myself so just be aware of any coach or leader who's like well if you don't hire me or if you don't buy my highest ticket you can't make it that's all BS you'll make it and just you're going to hire the right person the right amount the right price for you. Lesley Logan 34:18  Yeah, there's something to every level there because there's just always is and I love that you brought that up because it's it is all in you like the coach the coach is a thing that people I think fig get wrong with coaches, they are a guide they're not the hero. Nikole M. Mitchell 34:32  Yes. You're the here in your own story. Lesley Logan 34:34  Yes, yes. Yes. And like I think that's what a lot of people if you're listening if you are in the service industry of some kind whether you're a coach or a teacher, whatever that we also get wrong. We think I like as a Pilates instructor I used to think I have to be the one that helps them get that exercise. No, they have to show up. They have to do their part they have to, they have to get their mind in the moment. All I can all I can do is choose the exercise I think are the best for them. But they have to do the work. And once you can change that, it helps you have so much ownership nothing. It's, it's not happening to you, it's happening for you. And then you can also go okay, what am I supposed to learn from this? And how do I grow from this and you I don't know, it's very more empowering to figure out like you have it all in you, and this person can help you because it's a nice reminder, like my most recent coach, she was not even that many steps ahead of us, she was just enough ahead of us that I could learn a lot. She had grit and tenacity. And she, she pushed me to dream even bigger. And then she showed me how she was even doing it in that moment. And I loved that because it was this, it was, it was helpful. And it has accountability. And I couldn't let the old stories ever show up, because I kept surrounding myself with her. So I just think that it's really, really important. But she always reminded me, she's like, you are the one doing the work. All I can do here are the tools and tips. If I was in your shoes, here's what I would do. But you have to show up and do it, you have to believe that you're going to do it. And I think that's where a lot of people get it wrong, because they they either hire a person who tells them it's my way. And that's the only way you can make it or they stop believing and they stopped doing it. They think that if I spent the money it's going to happen because I I put the money over here.Nikole M. Mitchell 36:17  It drives me crazy crazy when I see coaches promote that. And it makes me so mad because like you said, it's the same message just wrapped in different clothing or you know, it's like, just give me your money. And you'll somehow miraculously make it it's not that simple. Like if it I'm like run, run run because you have to show up and you have to save yourself and I think a really good coach or guide like, reflects back to your greatness and also like I can, you've learned things about business, I learned things about this, I've so much business sage and wisdom I can give you that I knew nothing about a few years ago. So we have a lot of practical stuff. We have a lot of energetic stuff that I tell my clients, you're gonna think long term, when they first start we're gonna be there's a lot of information, there's a lot of knowledge, and then it elevates and evolves into energetic transmissions, and then it evolves into vibration. So now people come to me further along in their journey less for the information and more for the vibration. Like when they come into my world, they feel me they feel and they they feel them shifting. And then when situations come through in their life or their business or finances, they show up differently because of this vibration, they feel so big, it becomes more woo and it becomes incredibly effective. But it can be different for you along your journey if you're in a journey of like you need lots of information you're going to hire coaching give me a lot of information if you're in a season of like I just need you to infuse my days with like energetic laws then do that. I see you crushing it I want to be a mentee under you're watching you live your life absorbing the way you do life because that's going to meet you and serve you massively so there's like different phases you're going to find yourself in, which is why there is no like just pay here and you'll you'll be saved. Where are you? What do you need? What do you desire? Hire based on that.Lesley Logan 37:46  Yeah. Okay, so something that like there's a I'm one of those people who's like, I love to know a little bit more about the manifestation to you. So you journal and you you elevate, you elevate on the plane all that stuff. Do you vision board? Do you like vision board? Do you think that's part of it? Like what are some tools and tips that people who are wanting to make manifestation because I, I'm like, I feel like that is anytime I've ever had gotten what I wanted. It's because I was I got clarity, I had the division and I took the action. And then anytime I'm not where I want to be I'm like oh, when's the last time you actually thought about that? When's the last time you actually took some time to to remind yourself of why you're doing what you're doing what you want, and maybe even dream a little bigger because sometimes we get we get a little small on that and then call it in. I I'm very clear. I'm like, Oh, we're we're not happy because we didn't do the vision mark. So what are what are your tools?Nikole M. Mitchell 38:43  I do all the things so I journal. I used to not be a journaler. It's annoying. I don't have time what my hand gets cramped rather tight, but I am just, I'm left-handed so when you said that I was like she's left-handed, too.Lesley Logan 38:54  I just watched her do it with her hand. It crimps because no one taught us how to hold a pencil. And also if you're using the pin, you can just smear it or a pencil like you can't read it.Nikole M. Mitchell 39:02  And because you're not, we're raised in a right hand society, you're you use your hand right hand for almost everything. So you just don't utilize your left hand as the same amount like you. Yeah, yeah, I feel you. So for those of you who are not journalers there's hope for you is what I'm saying because I was not a journaler but now I'm very intentional about it. I did sticky notes. I definitely believe in vision boards. Like when I was living in Midwest and the food stamps and we're struggling to make our 700-dollar mortgage payment. I didn't know how on earth you're gonna move to California that has $5,000 lease payments, and like so I printed like these gorgeous, huge California homes to start normalizing my psyche. I'd watch YouTube videos of the ocean crashing because I so badly want to get out of the frigid weather for warm weather I'm like I'm gonna be selling beach every day like this is gonna be my norm someday. I make playlists of music that makes me feel so alive and powerful. I have a money playlist and I have an unleashed playlist the money's about all about becoming rich. And then my unleash is like feeling expressed, empowered. I say what I want I do what I want I wear when I would listen to that. Working out used to be a big component. My first a few years ago, whenever I work out, I'd feel so powerful and as often when I'd go live on my Facebook sweaty, no makeup, gross and so fucking charged and alive and like that's how I started joining some of my clients because there's no pretense there's no perfection, there's no perfect post, it's just like real-time to call in the flow and in the zone. And that helps call in. The last thing I will say in addition to visualization. So back in the day when I was poor, and I was like, someday I'm only going to fly first class, like that is a dream. Well, it's one thing to say that visualize it, it is another thing to fork over the money for it. And so I remember the first time I paid for first-class ticket was like, Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh, my gosh, this is irresponsible. Because I'm, I'm on food stamps. But it was such an expander for me. So I flew the first flight that offers first-class, totally life-changing. A month or two later on my next flight, and I was like, oh, gosh, and this one I went to look at the first class, it was four times the price of the economy. So it wasn't even double. My last one was double. This is four times the price. I'm like, oh, no, that I can't. So I chickened out, bought the economy. I could not sleep that night, because I was out of integrity with my identity. My identity says I'm a first class woman then why on earth did you buckle because I believed I couldn't make it like what if I pay for it, and then the money doesn't show up is all fear based and lack-based. The next morning, I called the airline and like, I need to upgrade to first class like good, you called within 24 hours, we can upgrade you. I paid four times the price for it. It's freaking out. I'm like, how can I say I'm gonna become a woman who flies first class, who only buys it once and never buys it again. You have to have integrity. And so even now, this iteration of my journey, I want to fly private. And so I just bought a month ago my first ever private jet plane ticket for me, my partner, mind you, which is so amazing to be able to pay for two people. And I had like it was a chance to normalize my nervous system like this is this is safe. This is allowed. It's more than I pay for a regular ticket. But like, this is the life I want to be and have and like came out here today, I bought another private jet ticket just like I have to be integrity with what I say I wantLesley Logan 41:59  So I just wanted to know, on your suitcases, the house, I looked and saw the JSX and I was like, yes, she did. I love you. I love that you're in my life so much because like it's so there's, I think there's there's different each person in our life gives us a little nugget of something right? Our mutual friend Michael like he's, he's like, the drive he has like he is like, I feel he's a hummingbird. He just doesn't stop. But there's a couple things about you that remind me of things that like sometimes in my busyness, I can forget the manifestation, the showing up, getting dressed up, like planning an outfit, I'm like, look at her earrings, they change every time I see her, they're a different pair. Like there's just certain things I know I don't I don't want to be able to (inaudible) earrings, but like, there are things about people that are reminders of like the things that we want. And just to go back to manifesting like putting people in our lives that are reminders of like, that's who I am. That's actually who I am. This this person over here I'm not a fraud, but I'm just saying like the like when like going back to like when you are living in a place where you're like nothing about this makes sense. Nothing about this is the life I want to live, like putting those people in your life. And I'm just so glad you got into like you came into ours. Because you're there's so many things about your love. And I just I love that you have a different you have different things, you have sound, you have pictures, you have things you can touch, all of that. That is so cool. And then yes with the action and I think like you guys it is it is really true, like putting the money putting on the line. It does come back because there's a part of you that like will fight to make sure that happens you will look for the evidence to make sure that happens. Because you won't if you just bought the economy ticket you actually wouldn't probably worry about making sure you can pay for that. But holy fuck you spent four times the price you better put out the email or go meet the person or go to that networking event or or do the buy the domain you might as well do the thing to like actually get that money back. I love that.Nikole M. Mitchell 44:12  It makes me want to read something I read yes so this is one of my old journal entries and I'm like this is so appropriate because it's about this next version of ourselves and having integrity and alignment and acting as though you're already her. This is another key part of manifestation is like there's this idea like oh, I'll act like an actor once I win an Oscar. Well how the f you begin to win an Oscar you first have to identify as an actor, you have to show up as an actor even before you get your first acting gig you have to show up in the identity before the thing is ever here. Right. So when I was flying here, I was reading my old like, when I money's my big thing right I am. I was so familiar with poverty. I only want to know well from now on. And because there's a lot of people in poverty. There's a lot of people I want to help so it's really important for me that I stay connected to my desire for why I want more money. So this is just one of my journal entries and I hope it like serves everyone and blesses anyone who's listening, I wrote, I am a mother fucking queen. I am a child of the Divine who is worthy of all her desires, who is supported in all of her desires, who receives all of her desires, because she is open to receiving, open to having open to more, she knows she is safe in her spending and safe in her having. And anytime she spends money, she makes more money every damn time. Any feelings of loss or lack or not being able to finish pain is just an illusion. Fear trying to convince that it's real. When only love is real, and love leads, guides and provides always love is infinite. Money is infinite. I'm infinite. I can afford anything and everything and always have extra surplus excess always. That was me manifesting calling it in before I even had it trying to imagine what would it look like to live in a world where every time I spend money, it always comes back to me multiplied, where I identify as a queen who receives everything she wants, because she feels worthy of it. And now I feel like I'm there and I'm now taking it to the next level.Lesley Logan 46:04  Yeah. Oh my god, I love that. And I like it thing is like I'm gonna I think I would transcribe the podcast because y'all it's on you can just likeNikole M. Mitchell 46:12  Copy, paste it, paste it.Lesley Logan 46:14  Put it up, put on little Post Its around where you need it. There's a Abraham Hicks has a money rampage on YouTube. And whenever I'm feeling a little lack, I play it. It's five minutes long, you guys, I'll put it in the show notes. It is it literally, I can't not think about how wealthy we are. As soon as I'm done listening to it, because I just like it like it's like, she's, it's just so it's so good. When it comes on. I can actually quote it. I can't quote it in this moment. But like it's so good. And I light the money candle.Lesley Logan 46:43  Yeah, I light the money candle.Lesley Logan 46:45  I love it. Oh my God, I love my money candle. And it's, and it's because I really, I think a lot of people can listen to this. And they might be like we've said many, many times you guys money is the is energy that allows us to not only show up more fully as ourselves, but allows us to be there to give to the people that we love around us. I love when I can hire someone whose strength is a weakness of mine. And I love when that they're when I get to pay them. And that strength they have allows them to support their family. Like I believe so fully in that. I love that. One of our assistants has been with us, she built a fucking house, you guys, she built a house, she's having her second kid, like she can do this one of our other people where he lives. He is upper middle class where he lives because he works for us and I get to pay him. And you know what, when he got sick, he didn't go where people who are poverished go he got to go to an actual doctor and get seen. And that is a difference between life and death sometimes and so like I make I love making money because I can then give it away to these people who who's who get to do their thing that they love so much. And and it just makes me feel really good. So if you are listening to this and still at this point, after we said money all the time, and you're like I don't know, try to hope find other reasons to don't like us, I'm gonna tell you right now. You you need to understand that you deserve all the money you want. It's not a bad thing. And someone told you a story a long time ago and you can do really amazing things. We coach a lot of women whose partners make a lot of money and so that sometimes they're like, oh, I don't really need to make any money. And there's so many things I just say that one you don't know what's gonna happen to your partner. So you just Nikole M. Mitchell 48:29  Death, divorce, disability happens all the time. Lesley Logan 48:32  All the time. So unless your life insurance policy for that person is going to afford you the life you're accustomed to for many, many years. You you need to make money. Second, then make a money goal to give away just like, what if you could give away $100,000 this year? What if you can give away a million dollars this year? What would that look like? Well, how could you show up? Because you know what? It is really fun. Like we give to the cupcake girls, I fucking love seeing that money leave. I love it. I love giving it away. I wish we can give more away. I'm always looking for different charities. I'm like, oh, what can I how much have we give them? I love it. So it's you can also have a money goal that gives things away that you deserve. You don't have to like you don't have to be barely like okay, I'm fine with all this. You don't have to and go well, I'm lucky my partner makes a lot so I don't, you're not taking you are not taking money away from people because you made it so just because you're living the fine life doesn't mean that you you don't have to you can't want more or you can't want to do something to provide for your children in a different way.Nikole M. Mitchell 49:37  Yes, ultimately money doesn't come from people it comes through people. So like that can just eliminate guilt because if it doesn't come to that person the Divine is gonna find another way to get that money to me but it doesn't come from them. It comes through them their channels or portals from the Divine to give me my birthright which is abundance. I always tell my people if you have a good heart you actually have a responsibility to get rich. Might be offensive or polarizing but it's like the amount of good you can do if you have a good heart is more is exponentially more when you have resources. And so when I first started wanting to make money, I the only way I felt worthy of it was knowing I would give it away. I didn't feel worthy of it, but I felt worthy of passing it on. So if that becomes your only way to feel connected to money, let that become your portal for now. And then my hope is over time, you directly feel worthy of it, whether or not you give it away, because eventually wants you to feel so worthy that you have as much money as you desire that you can do whatever you want with, you can invest it, you can give it, you can build a company with it, you can hire employees with it, like you can do so many things with it. But sometimes, especially for women, I find, they first have to justify, they're gonna give a lot away to be able to call it in, which is great. But I don't want you to stop there, I want you to get a point where you can be like, I'm a motherfucking, queen, I deserve all the money, I'm going to make millions of dollars. And then I will decide how I'm going to use tha

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Cet épisode news discute de langages, de bibliothèques, d'intelligence artificielle bien sûr et même de Web. Et puis de challenge Java et même de Père Noël ! Enregistré le 12 janvier 2024 Téléchargement de l'épisode LesCastCodeurs-Episode-305.mp3 News RIP Niklaus Wirth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth Informaticien Suisse Conception des langages ALGOL, Modula-2 et… Pascal Plusieurs distinctions: Turing 1984, John Von Neumann 1994. Depuis 1987 un prix créé à son honneur Plusieurs livres dont Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs 1976 La Loi de Wirth: La beauté d'un programme réside dans la clarté de sa structure. Niklaus Wirth a toujours prôné la simplicité, la lisibilité et la compréhensibilité. Approche pragmatique https://recording.zencastr.com/lescastcodeurs/news-305 Langages L'enfer sur terre: equals and hashCode pour les entitées JPA. Tout le monde a un avis, faire le sien est compliqué - https://vladmihalcea.com/hibernate-facts-equals-and-hashcode/ - https://vladmihalcea.com/how-to-implement-equals-and-hashcode-using-the-jpa-entity-identifier/ - https://vladmihalcea.com/the-best-way-to-implement-equals-hashcode-and-tostring-with-jpa-and-hibernate/ - https://jpa-buddy.com/blog/hopefully-the-final-article-about-equals-and-hashcode-for-jpa-entities-with-db-generated-ids/ Kotlin va t'il décliné en 2025, faute d'innovation et avec les nouvelles features de Java ? https://shiftmag.dev/kotlin-vs-java-2392/ Selon l'auteur, d'autres langages alternatifs pour la JVM ont décliné, comme Groovy et Scala L'auteur pense qu'il y aura de moins en moins de différenciants par rapport à Java, et Kotlin n'a pas rajouté de fonctionnalités significatives depuis un an ou deux Comment enlever des accents et autres marques diacritiques dans des chaines de caractères en Java https://glaforge.dev/posts/2024/01/url-slug-or-how-to-remove-accents-in-java/ Pour les URLs d'un blog post, par exemple, on souhaite avoir le titre dans l'URL, mais de manière URL-friendly, donc sans accents, en remplaçant les espaces par des tirets, etc Guillaume propose une approche basée sur la normalisation de chaine unicode et les expressions régulières Mais il évoque également la librairie Slugify qui est en plus capable de faire de la translitération (pour transformer aussi des idéogrammes et autre caractères non-ASCII) Les “gatherers” de JDK 22 https://blog.soebes.io/posts/2024/01/2024-01-07-jdk-gatherer/ Nous avons mentionné récemment le JEP 461 pour Java 22 : Stream Gatherers, qui sera en preview Permet de faire des choses qui étaient un peu compliquées à faire avec l'API stream avant, comme par exemple implémenter des fenêtres glissantes sur les données du stream L'article parle des différentes capacités des gatherers, avec un Integrator, un Initializer et un Finisher, et enfin un Combiner, avec différents exemples de code pour les illustrer Librairies Le fonds tech souverain d'origine allemande sponsorise le développement de Log4J https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/log4j-investment 3 contributeurs pourront bosser dessus à temps plein permet de sécuriser le développement du projet réaction à l'impact de la CVE Log4shell qui avait bien marqué les esprits et fait bosser plein de gens le weekend pour tout patcher ! Cloud Le glossaire de la Cloud Native Foundation a été traduit en Français https://glossary.cncf.io/fr/ Web Sortie de Vue.JS 3.4 https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-3-4 le parseur de composants (SFC) est 2x plus rapide amélioration du système de réactivité en particulier pour les propriétés “computed” (recalculées) le namespace JSX deprecated a été supprimé Cédric Exbrayat de NinjaSquad couvre également les nouveautés dans cet article https://blog.ninja-squad.com/2023/12/29/what-is-new-vue-3.4/ Astro JS 4.1 https://astro.build/blog/astro-410/ Découverte de ce FW grâce à Petipois https://medium.com/front-end-weekly/create-a-website-using-astro-in-2024-f5963003c19c Astro est le framework web pour la construction de sites web axés sur le contenu tels que les blogs, le marketing et le commerce électronique. Astro est surtout connu pour être le pionnier d'une nouvelle architecture frontend afin de réduire la surcharge et la complexité de JavaScript par rapport aux autres frameworks Architecture en “Astrot Islands” (interface en composants isolés) SSG et SSR (Static Site Generator ey Server Side Rendering) 0 Javascript si tu veux Tu utilises React, Angular ou Vue pour tes composants Lis plus ici : https://kinsta.com/fr/blog/astro-js/ React à 10 ans… et là ma découverte de React Server Components https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/server-components/#introduction-to-react-server-components-3 “At a high level, React Server Components is the name for a brand-new paradigm. In this new world, we can create components that run exclusively on the server.” L'idée est de n'est pas faire des composants entiers en react dans le backend, et de n'est pas déléguer aux rendering client pour ces composants Prédictions 2024 https://thenewstack.io/2024-predictions-by-javascript-frontend-framework-maintainers/ Angular: Optional Zone.JS Next.js (nouveau compilateur, + backend ?) React: adoption de React Server Components, SPA ne suffit pas. React auto-memorizing (useCallback/useMemo deprecate) Solid 2.0 viendra après SolidStart (framework web) Data et Intelligence Artificielle Retour d'experience sur faire du RAG avec des LLMs https://x.com/taranjeetio/status/1742587923189596531?s=20 Gunnar Morling a lancé le 1 billion row challenge : https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/ L'idée est de calculer le min / max, la moyenne, de températures, indiquées ligne par ligne dans un énorme fichier Il y a énormément de contributions. Les plus rapides ont utilisé des memory mapped files, ou bien des instructions SIMD Le challenge était en pur Java, mais d'autres personnes ont tenté l'expérience avec diverses bases de données ou autres langages de programmation Didier Girard parle de Shadow AI https://www.linkedin.com/posts/didiergirard_shadowai-genai-gouvernance-activity-7150031627006464000-IF1G/ Comme on a parlé de “shadow IT” à une époque, la nouvelle ombre du jour, c'est l'intelligence artificielle Pour être plus productifs, les employés utilisent l'IA, sans forcément le dire à leur employeur Le problème étant qu'avec certains système d'IA, les données que vous envoyées peuvent être sauvegardées et utilisées pour ré-entrainer l'IA… et potentiellement, l'IA pourrait recracher verbatim du texte provenant de ces données à d'autres utilisateurs. D'où une brèche dans la sécurité des données de l'entreprise Appel de fonction avec le LLM Gemini de Google https://glaforge.dev/posts/2023/12/22/gemini-function-calling/ Les Large Language Model sont limités par les connaissances qu'ils ont acquises lors de leur entrainement Une approche possible pour se baser sur une base documentaire est d'utiliser l'approche Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) où l'on utilise une base de données vectorielle pour récupérer des passages de texte qui correspondent à la requête demandée Mais il existe aussi une approche intéressante qui permet d'appeler des systèmes externes (APIs, service local, etc) en permettant au LLM de savoir qu'il peut répondre à une demande donnée en se basant sur l'appel d'une fonction. Dans cette approche, le LLM répond qu'il faudrait appeler une fonction (par exemple pour connaitre la météo à Paris) et il indique quels paramètres passer (“Paris”). Le développeur ensuite appel cette fonction et retourne le résultat de l'invocation au LLM, qui va ensuite pouvoir générer du texte avec ces données. C'est l'approche “function calling” qui permet d'étendre à un LLM pour lui donner accès à des données live, derrière une API, etc Méthodologies Une video sur le père Noël et la pensé critique de la Tronce en Biais https://youtu.be/tqlYKO_asFw?si=g1Fq5OfCvQONNb2i Vidéo interessante pour comprendre comment nous, dans la tech, on peut tomber facilement sur des croyances qui sont doutantes si on développe pas l'esprit critique. Le père Noël, véritable complot planétaire des adultes, magasins, médias … d'un mensonge Un enfant qui essaie d'appliquer le procédé épistémologique, il n'a pas d'autre source pour vérifier que le père noël n'existe pas, tous ses sources fiables duquel il apprend le monde (parents, profs, medias, histoires, medias) valident que le père noël existe. Expliquer les incoherences par la magie, c'est quelque chose de complément banal dans l'univers d'un enfant à qui on parle en permanence de magie La découverte de la mensonge aux alentours de 7 ans, l'age de la raison, est une bonne opportunité pour aborder l'esprit critique avec les enfants Loi, société et organisation EU AI Act cheat sheet https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_eu-ai-act-cheat-sheet-understand-activity-7139980837013331971-TDqI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios Les entreprises vont avoir 1 ou 2 ans pour s'y conformer Basics: Definition de l'AI, extraterritorialité, exceptions (oss, r&D, mais aussi défense …), classification par niveaux de risks (Prohibited > High Risk > Limited Risk > Minimal Risk) Prohibited: Biometrique, social credit scoring, detection d'emotions, renforcement des lois basées sur l'identification biometrique en public High (des régles sont définies pour controler ces usages: transparence, qualité, risque …): Le matériel médical, les véhicules, l'éducation, les élections, … General: Transparence et information ChatGPT n'est pas un super médecin https://x.com/drhughharvey/status/1736308984288563550?s=46&t=C18cckWlfukmsB_Fx0FfxQ ces d'utilisation ChatGPT en copilote Trop de non déterminisme dans les réponses à la même question 41% des réponses dans le consensus médical 7% dangereuse Faire du rag n'a monté que de quelques pourcents 5 Transcription de la conférence donnée PGConf EU par Laetitia Avrot et Karen Jex (expertes Postgresql): Trying to be Barbie in Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House https://karenjex.blogspot.com/2023/12/trying-to-be-barbie-in-kens-mojo-dojo.html Il s'agit d'une conférence en sociologie. En sociologie, il suffit que quelque chose soit vrai pour la majorité des cas pour être considéré comme une vérité, car cela repose sur des statistiques. Sujet donné pour susciter de l'attention sur un problème qui existe bien dans la tech. Elles ont réalisé que la grande majorité de la population n'en était pas consciente (barbie)! Le film Barbie les a fait comprendre qu'elles doivent expliquer ce à quoi les femmes sont confrontées au quotidien, afin que les autres puissent comprendre à quel point cela peut être épuisant. Très bien documenté avec bcp de liens et références au delà de l'expérience personnelle Transcription et slides dans l'article Lien entre film Barbie et la place des femmes dans la tech. Idées non neuves mais cela a été un impact Les biais en général ne sont pas particuliers à un genre, sont globales. Test sur les biais implicites Il existe un déficit de talents technologiques (estimé atteindre de 1,4 million à 3,9 millions de personnes d'ici 2027 dans les pays de l'UE-27), qui pourrait potentiellement être comblé en doublant la proportion de femmes dans le secteur technologique. Cependant, la part des femmes dans les rôles technologiques connaît sa plus basse représentation dans les domaines en pleine croissance tels que DevOps et le cloud. plus de la moitié des femmes quittent l'industrie technologique 10 à 20 ans après le début de leur carrière, soit le double du taux des hommes. (manque d'opportunités, difficultés face aux biais, se sentir comme une outsider etc…) La part des femmes dans les rôles technologiques en Europe risque de diminuer pour atteindre 21% d'ici 2027. Solutions: roles modèles, combattre nos biais (si on ne les reconnait pas, on ne peut pas le combattre), mentoring, faire attention à donner de la voix etc… New York Times porte plainte à open ai https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67826601 réclame des billions en copy right, suit aussi Microsoft et Bing qui utilise open ai on peut trouver des extraits des articles avec suscription disponibles Si on demande à chat gpt sur des news actuelles, reprend des explications tirés du NYT sans le mentionner Sur bing on peut trouver aussi des extraits sans citer ni linker la source Conséquences pour NYT: moins d'accès à leur site, moins de consultations, moins des clicks, chute des suscriptions, pertes monétaires importantes Réponse de OpenAI au NYT https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-journalism We collaborate with news organizations and are creating new opportunities Training is fair use, but we provide an opt-out because it's the right thing to do “Regurgitation” is a rare bug that we are working to drive to zero The New York Times is not telling the full story Outils de l'épisode Userscripts https://github.com/quoid/userscripts: extension pour changer le CSS et JS des sites dans votre navigateur Rubrique débutant Guillaume a publié 2 “codelabs” pour démarrer sur LangChain4J, en utilisant le LLM PaLM de Google https://glaforge.dev/posts/2023/12/18/get-hands-on-codelabs-to-dabble-with-llms/ Ces 2 tutoriels pratiques permettent de découvrir les deux modèles text et chat de PaLM Différentes tâches sont illustrées pour faire de simples questions/réponses, de simples chat, mais aussi comment extraire des données structurées d'un texte, comment faire de la classification (avec un exemple d'analyse de sentiment) Google Summer of Code - 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Drew and Doug are both on the job the week of Christmas with Drew working the busy hub operation and Doug doing flights to London, then Houston, back to London, and then home to SFO.  We talk about news stories as presents and what we'd like to see under the avgeek Xmas tree. We also discuss:JSX buys 300 electric and hybrid planesBoeing resumes deliveries to ChinaLufthansa orders 737 Maxes We explain what “airline chicken” isJoin the discussion! https://www.nexttripnetwork.com/

Det har blitt tirsdag 19.desember, det er fem dager til jul og i årets siste episode skal vi se på en rekke flykjøp - er det ordrebøkene som må lukkes før nyttår? Bonusene skal beregnes? Uansett, mange nye bestillinger, SAS har gjort justeringer på interkont og Air India får nye uniformer. Velkommen ombord på flight 280. ULYKKESFLIGHT 280: American Flyers 280 Gulfstream G280Wibault 280 Bell V-280 Valor   SAS har gjort endringer i intercont - klargjør de seg for SkyTeam? Air India får nye uniformer Lufthansa Group bestiller A220 og 737MAX-8 JSX bestiller inntil 330 elfly BA med rene award-flights ITA Airways øker på London City Reitan bytter ut King Air med Citation Første A220 levert til Qantas

The dust up between American Airlines and JSX is an interesting airline industry development. The pilot's unions say it's all in the name of safety, but that couldn't be further from reality.   What's up with FAR Part 380?   Smaller airlines are trying to take the suck out of flying and continue service for small communities. Why are the majors so dead-set against these small players? Can we really buy the argument that they want to make the industry safer?   The answer is… complicated. There is more to the feud than meets the eye (or the press).   In this episode I'm joined by acclaimed aviation attorney, Paul Lange. We talk about the real motivation behind the industry's opposition to FAA Part 380 carriers.   The majors and unions don't want to provide choice to the American public. They want the only model available to be their airlines and fortress hubs. -Paul Lange    Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode    -An end to the pilot shortage… Is the 1500 hour rule the real reason for the opposition to Part 380 carriers (who can circumvent it). Are there more efficient and effective ways to train pilots?   - Why Part 380 carriers worry the majors How can major carriers view charter carriers as competitive, existential threats when they have just 30 seats and a small fraction of the business?     - Safety or sabotage Major carriers are harping on about the safety (or lack thereof) in the Part 380 carrier space. Is that really what they care about?   Guest Bio   Paul represents aviation businesses in solving significant and challenging problems. His background litigating and trying to verdict judgment aviation matters nationwide before federal and state courts as well as administrative agencies, sometimes simultaneously, brings a breadth of opportunities to the table when seeking to resolve disputes at their earliest opportunity or in complicated business structures restricted by regulatory overlays. In addition to remaining current trying cases, Paul's transactional and aviation regulatory practice includes formation, mergers and acquisitions of fixed base operators (FBO's), air carriers, air charter brokers, public charter operators, maintenance and repair organizations (MRO's), and the purchase, sale and lease of aircraft. Go to http://lopal.com/ or call 203-375-7724.  Learn More About Your Host:   Co-founder and Managing Partner for Northstar Group, Craig is focused on recruiting senior-level leadership, sales, and operations executives for some of the most prominent companies in the aviation and aerospace industry. Clients include well-known aircraft OEMs, aircraft operators, leasing / financial organizations, and Maintenance / Repair / Overhaul (MRO) providers.    Since 2009 Craig has personally concluded more than 150 executive searches in a variety of disciplines. As the only executive recruiter who has flown airplanes, sold airplanes, AND run a business, Craig is uniquely positioned to build deep, lasting relationships with both executives and the boards and stakeholders they serve. This allows him to use a detailed, disciplined process that does more than pair the ideal candidate with the perfect opportunity and hit the business goals of the companies he serves.

Embark on a journey through the vibrant skies with JSX, a trailblazing public charter operation rooted in the heart of Dallas, Texas. Much like its counterparts in the realm of public charter services, JSX finds itself amidst a complex web of allegations touching on safety, security, and environmental concerns.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has invited public comments to assist in assessing the necessity and potential scope of rulemaking related to an existing exception for public charter operators. This exception currently keeps them outside the FAA's domestic, flag, and supplemental operations regulations.Ben unravels the layers of this dynamic saga, addressing the allegations that dance in the airspace. Together, we'll illuminate the potential impact on passengers, the heartbeat of small communities, and the very essence of air travel safety. Step into the cockpit of knowledge as we navigate the regulatory landscape governing the exhilarating world of public charters. Your ticket to understanding awaits!---------------This episode of On Your Flight Today is brought to you by IFECtiv, an inflight entertainment and connectivity consulting company. Dedicated to elevating the aviation industry's inflight entertainment products and experiences for airlines and suppliers. Visit www.IFECtiv.aero to learn more! A message from our advertisers - Inflight is your go to source for industry leading news coverage for the end-to-end in-flight experience. Apply for your complimentary subscription at www.inflight-online.com To sponsor an episode or advertise on the On Your Flight Today podcast, visit the show website: www.onyourflighttoday.com www.onyourflighttoday.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/onyourflighttodayhttps://www.youtube.com/@onyourflighttodayhttps://twitter.com/YourFlightToday

In this explosive episode of the Mark Moss Show, dive deep into a multi-segmented breakdown of America's current political and economic landscape. From the upheaval in the House to the contentious issues surrounding immigration, Mark dissects the nuanced intricacies of modern America's corporatocracy. Learn about the concerning normalization of omnibus bills, the crypto scene's turbulent dance with the SEC, and the latest in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial. As record numbers breach the borders and big airlines take on their smaller counterparts, Mark highlights the diminishing spirit of capitalism and the rise of legal plunder. Stay tuned for his insights on the way power, profit, and police states intermingle and how to potentially shield yourself with traditional assets like gold and silver. Remember, knowledge is power.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(0:00) Bestie intros: Jason's operation! (1:57) Airtable correction (5:03) McCarthy ousted as Speaker of the House, what the eight defecting Republicans are looking for, solving the omnibus spending problem (25:20) US Southern Border: Understanding the situation based on data (44:39) Cruise robotaxi "accident" in SF, lack of risk tolerance limiting technological progress in the West (1:09:09) JSX facing potential regulatory capture from incumbent airlines and Friedberg's trip to The Sphere Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect Referenced in the show: https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555 https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/politics/republicans-vote-remove-mccarthy-house-speaker https://www.wsj.com/politics/nancy-mace-explains-why-she-nixed-kevin-mccarthy-as-house-speaker-32148d9d https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/04/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-vote-press-conference https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-oust-mccarthy-matt-gaetz-remove-speaker-of-the-house https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/13/congress-has-long-struggled-to-pass-spending-bills-on-time https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1709321746673786896 https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/politics/house-speaker-republican-vote-mccarthy-webster-chaffetz https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/rising-interest-rates-mean-deficits-finally-matter-74249719 https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1709728378339705099 https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-first-bus-of-migrants-arrives-in-new-york-city https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1556727876757737474 https://youtu.be/-09DzvdLaEw https://apnews.com/article/migrants-new-york-adams-abbott-colombia-58d423ab3e84e5692d50f773803254 https://www.nytimes.com/article/nyc-migrant-crisis-explained.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/455813/alien-apprehensions-by-the-us-border-patrol-by-border https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/border-apprehensions-hit-new-yearly-high-another-migrant-caravan-gathers-n1281995 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-border-crossings-fiscal-year-2022-topped-276-million-breaking-rcna53517 https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/29/supreme-court-migrant-protection-protocols-remain-mexico-biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/08/31/border-families-record-crossings-biden https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/23/us/mexico-us-border-patrol-agreement-migration-surge/index.html https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-22176.pdf https://www.nextgenborder.com https://www.anduril.com/hardware/sentry https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-quietly-auctions-trump-border-wall-parts-stunt-republican-effort-restart-construction-report https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB994028904620983237 https://twitter.com/Cruise/status/1709114532042576305 https://twitter.com/usENTchannel/status/1707035020098142404 https://www.valuepenguin.com/car-accident-statistics https://waymo.com/blog/2023/05/waymo-one-doubles-service-area-in.html https://www.jsx.com https://www.united.com https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1708164333451289062 https://twitter.com/latest_gg/status/1709948932489445478 https://twitter.com/SBJ/status/1677419552991244289 https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/jet-service-jsx-lands-at-center-of-pilot-fight-86a4f669 https://keep-jsx-flying.webflow.io https://www.votervoice.net/JSXAir/Campaigns/107888/Respond

Thanks to the almost 30k people who tuned in to the last episode!Your podcast cohosts have been busy shipping:* Alessio open sourced smol-podcaster, which makes the show notes here! * swyx launched GodMode. Maybe someday the Cursor of browsers?* We're also helping organize a Llama Finetuning Hackameetup this Saturday in anticipation of the CodeLlama release. Lastly, more speakers were announced at AI Engineer Summit!

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Florence about Remix, working at Shopify, the history of licensing and pricing, quitting Twitter, the state of React Server components, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome Ryan Florence Ryan Florence (@ryanflorence) / X React Training React Router Docs Moved ryanflorence (Ryan Florence) · GitHub 01:42 Collarbone update 06:47 What is Remix? Remix.run 11:43 Server actions 15:33 What was the history around licensing? 20:30 Open source is weird now 22:21 Working with Shopify and Hydrogen Remixing Shopify | Remix CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web: Shea, Dave, Holzschlag, Molly E.: 9780321303479: Amazon.com: Books 28:04 On quitting Twitter 35:33 What's coming up with v2 of Remix? 40:30 The reality of breaking changes 44:18 What's the status of React Server components? 49:46 Will Remix ever have React Server components in it? 50:55 How should we be fetching our data? 53:04 Do you have a wishlist for JSX? 58:45 Supper Club questions Strapi - Open source Node.js Headless CMS

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what polyfills, transpiling, and monkey patching mean, how and when to do it, and libraries that can help you out. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:07 Toast follow up 02:45 What are transpiling, ponyfill, polyfill, and monkey patching TC39 Proposals Pretty excited about the new JavaScript non-mutating array methods. Currently in stage 3 11:18 Transpiling unsupported CSS 15:11 Polyfills Popover polyfill 19:22 Polyfilling CSS 21:06 HTML polyfills 27:47 How to transpile and polyfill Babel TypeScript: JavaScript With Syntax For Types CoffeeScript Civet cronn/jsxtransformer: Pipeline for transforming JSX files using Babel.js and Uglify.js Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps Polyfill.io core-js - npm 35:46 Shiv and shims Shim vs Shiv 38:16 Monkey patching 49:08 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Cable sleeve Wes: Air Purifier AliExpress Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

Host Jackie Powell is joined by the one and only Ari Chambers. The pair discuss how what happened to Brittney Griner on June 10 in the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport informs us on why the WNBA's travel situation is the way that it is. How are WNBA teams and the Players Association trying to make traveling on commercial airlines a little bit less stressful for players and what exactly is JSX? What are its benefits and its drawbacks? Jackie and Ari also question, why does it have to be this way. Photo Credit: Domenic Allegra Links to take a look at: Lindsay Gibbs explores how the NBA handled charter flights https://www.powerplays.news/p/fromthearchives-how-charter-flights Candace Buckner on how the league handled Brittney Griner and JSX https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/15/brittney-griner-wnba-charter-planes-travel/ Josh Weinfuss on Brittney Griner and the Mercury's updated situation https://africa.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/37866349/mercury-brittney-griner-now-allowed-fly-charter Follow & Subscribe on All Podcast Platforms…

Host Jackie Powell is joined by the one and only Ari Chambers. The pair discuss how what happened to Brittney Griner on June 10 in the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport informs us on why the WNBA's travel situation is the way that it is. How are WNBA teams and the Players Association trying to make traveling on commercial airlines a little bit less stressful for players and what exactly is JSX? What are its benefits and its drawbacks? Jackie and Ari also question, why does it have to be this way.Photo Credit: Domenic AllegraLinks to take a look at:Lindsay Gibbs explores how the NBA handled charter flightshttps://www.powerplays.news/p/fromthearchives-how-charter-flightsCandace Buckner on how the league handled Brittney Griner and JSXhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/15/brittney-griner-wnba-charter-planes-travel/Josh Weinfuss on Brittney Griner and the Mercury's updated situationhttps://africa.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/37866349/mercury-brittney-griner-now-allowed-fly-charterFollow & Subscribe on All Podcast Platforms…

Bringing you on another date night! Thank you all so much for the feedback you provided on our first episode. Please, continue to share any thoughts as we go. To those of you who are new, this is what you can expect to hear on a dinner date with my husband, Timmy, and me. In this sode, we discussed the Vanderpump Rules reunion (do we feel bad for Sandoval?), bumping up our intimacy, tips for getting through family vacations, parenting advice, and more.    This episode is brought to you by JSX and Ready, Set, Food.     Enjoy all the perks of private jet flying without the price tag, and book by the seat on jsx.com.     Food allergies are on the rise and every child is at risk. Visit readysetfood.com/WITHWHIT to learn more and get exclusive discounts on amazing early allergen introduction products.   Produced by Dear Media

Happy Monday Sisters!  03:33:50 - Jade Spain Recap: Jade recaps her trip to Spain with Mr. Roberts and how she's in the part of her movie where she's skipping down the street in love and waiting for the other shoe to drop. She talks about watching The Whale on the plane, Gwyneth on Call Her Daddy, and how she has been processing her divorce. 14:10:58 - Paige Dating Recap: Paige is back on the horse and recaps a recent date from the weekend! We talk about getting gassed up on a date and Jade's unbearableness factor. 18:03:53 - Baily's Recap: Baily let's us know about a cute little date idea she had with Sticks! 19:27:24 - The trauma of booking a European Vacation with our parents. Jade takes a JSX to DFW and can't shut up about it, we are going to Oktoberfest this September and we discuss how stressful it has been to plan with our parents, flight anxieties, and Paige defends our poor mom against Jade.  33:38:39 - Curfews. We discuss how different our curfews were based on how badly you wanted to hit the town. 38:52:49 - Alix Earle Graduates and we hope the girls are alright. It's so hard being a young woman on social media and we must protect her at all costs and also hope the girlies don't compare their lives to her. 45:09:28 - Tom Sandoval in ATX! We discuss our anticipation of VPR's reunion and how Sandoval was JUST IN AUSTIN! 50:43:35 - Listener Stories: One listener asks for help in dealing with a very toxic brother in law and all of the girls weigh in on their experiences with Mark and Tyson. It gets DEEP so maybe a little trigger warning if you're sensitive to discussing abusive relationships or addiction.  Next week we're talking about crazy High School stories, moving in High School was tough and we have some wild stories including the time Jade's cheer squad made the national news. Tell us your stories! Email us at yourpoordad@gmail.com or DM us on Instagram at instagram.com/yourpoordadpod  

Thanks to the over 42,000 latent space explorers who checked out our Replit episode! We are hosting/attending a couple more events in SF and NYC this month. See you if in town!Lexica.art was introduced to the world 24 hours after the release of Stable Diffusion as a search engine for prompts, gaining instant product-market fit as a world discovering generative AI also found they needed to learn prompting by example.Lexica is now 8 months old, serving 5B image searches/day, and just shipped V3 of Lexica Aperture, their own text-to-image model! Sharif Shameem breaks his podcast hiatus with us for an exclusive interview covering his journey building everything with AI!The conversation is nominally about Sharif's journey through his three startups VectorDash, Debuild, and now Lexica, but really a deeper introspection into what it takes to be a top founder in the fastest moving tech startup scene (possibly ever) of AI. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!Full transcript is below the fold. We would really appreciate if you shared our pod with friends on Twitter, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky, or your social media poison of choice!Timestamps* [00:00] Introducing Sharif* [02:00] VectorDash* [05:00] The GPT3 Moment and Building Debuild* [09:00] Stable Diffusion and Lexica* [11:00] Lexica's Launch & How it Works* [15:00] Being Chronically Early* [16:00] From Search to Custom Models* [17:00] AI Grant Learnings* [19:30] The Text to Image Illuminati?* [20:30] How to Learn to Train Models* [24:00] The future of Agents and Human Intervention* [29:30] GPT4 and Multimodality* [33:30] Sharif's Startup Manual* [38:30] Lexica Aperture V1/2/3* [40:00] Request for AI Startup - LLM Tools* [41:00] Sequencing your Genome* [42:00] Believe in Doing Great Things* [44:30] Lightning RoundShow Notes* Sharif's website, Twitter, LinkedIn* VectorDash (5x cheaper than AWS)* Debuild Insider, Fast company, MIT review, tweet, tweet* Lexica* Introducing Lexica* Lexica Stats* Aug: “God mode” search* Sep: Lexica API * Sept: Search engine with CLIP * Sept: Reverse image search* Nov: teasing Aperture* Dec: Aperture v1* Dec - Aperture v2* Jan 2023 - Outpainting* Apr 2023 - Aperture v3* Same.energy* AI Grant* Sharif on Agents: prescient Airpods tweet, Reflection* MiniGPT4 - Sharif on Multimodality* Sharif Startup Manual* Sharif Future* 23andMe Genome Sequencing Tool: Promethease* Lightning Round* Fave AI Product: Cursor.so. Swyx ChatGPT Menubar App.* Acceleration: Multimodality of GPT4. Animated Drawings* Request for Startup: Tools for LLMs, Brex for GPT Agents* Message: Build Weird Ideas!TranscriptAlessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO on Residence at Decibel Partners. I'm joined by my co-host Wix, writer and editor of Latent Space. And today we have Sharish Amin. Welcome to the studio. Sharif: Awesome. Thanks for the invite.Swyx: Really glad to have you. [00:00] Introducing SharifSwyx: You've been a dream guest, actually, since we started drafting guest lists for this pod. So glad we could finally make this happen. So what I like to do is usually introduce people, offer their LinkedIn, and then prompt you for what's not on your LinkedIn. And to get a little bit of the person behind the awesome projects. So you graduated University of Maryland in CS. Sharif: So I actually didn't graduate, but I did study. Swyx: You did not graduate. You dropped out. Sharif: I did drop out. Swyx: What was the decision behind dropping out? Sharif: So first of all, I wasn't doing too well in any of my classes. I was working on a side project that took up most of my time. Then I spoke to this guy who ended up being one of our investors. And he was like, actually, I ended up dropping out. I did YC. And my company didn't end up working out. And I returned to school and graduated along with my friends. I was like, oh, it's actually a reversible decision. And that was like that. And then I read this book called The Case Against Education by Brian Kaplan. So those two things kind of sealed the deal for me on dropping out. Swyx: Are you still on hiatus? Could you still theoretically go back? Sharif: Theoretically, probably. Yeah. Still on indefinite leave. Swyx: Then you did some work at Mitra? Sharif: Mitra, yeah. So they're lesser known. So they're technically like an FFRDC, a federally funded research and development center. So they're kind of like a large government contractor, but nonprofit. Yeah, I did some computer vision work there as well. [02:00] VectorDashSwyx: But it seems like you always have an independent founder bone in you. Because then you started working on VectorDash, which is distributed GPUs. Sharif: Yes. Yeah. So VectorDash was a really fun project that we ended up working on for a while. So while I was at Mitra, I had a friend who was mining Ethereum. This was, I think, 2016 or 2017. Oh my God. Yeah. And he was mining on his NVIDIA 1080Ti, making around like five or six dollars a day. And I was trying to train a character recurrent neural network, like a character RNN on my iMessage text messages to make it like a chatbot. Because I was just curious if I could do it. Because iMessage stores all your past messages from years ago in a SQL database, which is pretty nifty. But I wanted to train it. And I needed a GPU. And it was, I think, $60 to $80 for a T4 on AWS, which is really slow compared to a 1080Ti. If you normalize the cost and performance versus the 1080Ti when someone's mining Ethereum, it's like a 20x difference. So I was like, hey, his name was Alex. Alex, I'll give you like 10 bucks if you let me borrow your 1080Ti for a week. I'll give you 10 bucks per day. And it was like 70 bucks. And I used it to train my model. And it worked great. The model was really bad, but the whole trade worked really great. I got a really high performance GPU to train my model on. He got much more than he was making by mining Ethereum. So we had this idea. I was like, hey, what if we built this marketplace where people could rent their GPUs where they're mining cryptocurrency and machine learning researchers could just rent them out and pay a lot cheaper than they would pay AWS. And it worked pretty well. We launched in a few months. We had over 120,000 NVIDIA GPUs on the platform. And then we were the cheapest GPU cloud provider for like a solid year or so. You could rent a pretty solid GPU for like 20 cents an hour. And cryptocurrency miners were making more than they would make mining crypto because this was after the Ethereum crash. And yeah, it was pretty cool. It just turns out that a lot of our customers were college students and researchers who didn't have much money. And they weren't necessarily the best customers to have as a business. Startups had a ton of credits and larger companies were like, actually, we don't really trust you with our data, which makes sense. Yeah, we ended up pivoting that to becoming a cloud GPU provider for video games. So we would stream games from our GPUs. Oftentimes, like many were located just a few blocks away from you because we had the lowest latency of any cloud GPU provider, even lower than like AWS and sometimes Cloudflare. And we decided to build a cloud gaming platform where you could pretty much play your own games on the GPU and then stream it back to your Mac or PC. Swyx: So Stadia before Stadia. Sharif: Yeah, Stadia before Stadia. It's like a year or so before Stadia. Swtx: Wow. Weren't you jealous of, I mean, I don't know, it sounds like Stadia could have bought you or Google could have bought you for Stadia and that never happened? Sharif: It never happened. Yeah, it didn't end up working out for a few reasons. The biggest thing was internet bandwidth. So a lot of the hosts, the GPU hosts had lots of GPUs, but average upload bandwidth in the United States is only 35 megabits per second, I think. And like a 4K stream needs like a minimum of 15 to 20 megabits per second. So you could really only utilize one of those GPUs, even if they had like 60 or 100. [05:00] The GPT3 Moment and Building DebuildSwyx: And then you went to debuild July 2020, is the date that I have. I'm actually kind of just curious, like what was your GPT-3 aha moment? When were you like GPT-3-pilled? Sharif: Okay, so I first heard about it because I was also working on another chatbot. So this was like after, like everything ties back to this chatbot I'm trying to make. This was after working on VectorDash. I was just like hacking on random projects. I wanted to make the chatbot using not really GPT-2, but rather just like it would be pre-programmed. It was pretty much you would give it a goal and then it would ask you throughout the week how much progress you're making to that goal. So take your unstructured response, usually a reply to a text message, and then it would like, plot it for you in like a table and you could see your progress over time. It could be for running or tracking calories. But I wanted to use GPT-3 to make it seem more natural because I remember someone on Bookface, which is still YC's internal forum. They posted and they were like, OpenAI just released AGI and it's GPT-3. I asked it like a bunch of logic puzzles and it solved them all perfectly. And I was like, what? How's no one else talking about this? Like this is either like the greatest thing ever that everyone is missing or like it's not that good. So like I tweeted out if anyone could get me access to it. A few hours later, Greg Brockman responded. Swyx: He is everywhere. Sharif: He's great. Yeah, he's on top of things. And yeah, by that afternoon, I was like messing around with the API and I was like, wow, this is incredible. You could chat with fake people or people that have passed away. You could like, I remember the first conversation I did was this is a chat with Steve Jobs and it was like, interviewer, hi. What are you up to today on Steve? And then like you could talk to Steve Jobs and it was somewhat plausible. Oh, the thing that really blew my mind was I tried to generate code with it. So I'd write the function for a JavaScript header or the header for a JavaScript function. And it would complete the rest of the function. I was like, whoa, does this code actually work? Like I copied it and ran it and it worked. And I tried it again. I gave more complex things and like I kind of understood where it would break, which was like if it was like something, like if it was something you couldn't easily describe in a sentence and like contain all the logic for in a single sentence. So I wanted to build a way where I could visually test whether these functions were actually working. And what I was doing was like I was generating the code in the playground, copying it into my VS code editor, running it and then reloading the react development page. And I was like, okay, cool. That works. So I was like, wait, let me just put this all in like the same page so I can just compile in the browser, run it in the browser and then submit it to the API in the browser as well. So I did that. And it was really just like a simple loop where you just type in the prompt. It would generate the code and then compile it directly in the browser. And it showed you the response. And I did this for like very basic JSX react components. I mean, it worked. It was pretty mind blowing. I remember staying up all night, like working on it. And it was like the coolest thing I'd ever worked on at the time so far. Yeah. And then I was like so mind blowing that no one was talking about this whole GPT three thing. I was like, why is this not on everyone's minds? So I recorded a quick 30 second demo and I posted on Twitter and like I go to bed after staying awake for like 20 hours straight. When I wake up the next morning and I had like 20,000 likes and like 100,000 people had viewed it. I was like, oh, this is so cool. And then I just kept putting demos out for like the next week. And yeah, that was like my GPT three spark moment. Swyx: And you got featured in like Fast Company, MIT Tech Review, you know, a bunch of stuff, right? Sharif: Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of it was just like the API had been there for like a month prior already. Swyx: Not everyone had access. Sharif: That's true. Not everyone had access. Swyx: So you just had the gumption to tweet it out. And obviously, Greg, you know, on top of things as always. Sharif: Yeah. Yeah. I think it also makes a lot of sense when you kind of share things in a way that's easily consumable for people to understand. Whereas if you had shown a terminal screenshot of a generating code, that'd be pretty compelling. But whereas seeing it get rendered and compiled directly in front of you, there's a lot more interesting. There's also that human aspect to it where you want to relate things to the end user, not just like no one really cares about evals. When you can create a much more compelling demo explaining how it does on certain tasks. [09:00] Stable Diffusion and LexicaSwyx: Okay. We'll round it out soon. But in 2022, you moved from Debuild to Lexica, which was the search engine. I assume this was inspired by stable diffusion, but I can get the history there a little bit. Sharif: Yeah. So I was still working on Debuild. We were growing at like a modest pace and I was in the stable... Swyx: I was on the signup list. I never got off. Sharif: Oh yeah. Well, we'll get you off. It's not getting many updates anymore, but yeah, I was in the stable diffusion discord and I was in it for like many hours a day. It was just like the most exciting thing I'd ever done in a discord. It was so cool. Like people were generating so many images, but I didn't really know how to write prompts and people were like writing really complicated things. They would be like, like a modern home training on our station by Greg Rutkowski, like a 4k Unreal Engine. It's like that there's no way that actually makes the images look better. But everyone was just kind of copying everyone else's prompts and like changing like the first few words. Swyx: Yeah. Yeah. Sharif: So I was like using the discord search bar and it was really bad because it showed like five images at a time. And I was like, you know what? I could build a much better interface for this. So I ended up scraping the entire discord. It was like 10 million images. I put them in a database and I just pretty much built a very basic search engine where you could just type for type a word and then it returned all the prompts that had that word. And I built the entire website for it in like 20, in like about two days. And we shipped it the day I shipped it the day after the stable diffusion weights were open sourced. So about 24 hours later and it kind of took off in a way that I never would have expected. Like I thought it'd be this cool utility that like hardcore stable diffusion users would find useful. But it turns out that almost anyone who mentioned stable diffusion would also kind of mention Lexica in conjunction with it. I think it's because it was like it captured the zeitgeist in an easy to share way where it's like this URL and there's this gallery and you can search. Whereas running the model locally was a lot harder. You'd have to like to deploy it on your own GPU and like set up your own environment and like do all that stuff. Swyx: Oh, my takeaway. I have two more to add to the reasons why Lexica works at the time. One is lower latency is all you need. So in other words, instead of waiting a minute for your image, you could just search and find stuff that other people have done. That's good. And then two is everyone knew how to search already, but people didn't know how to prompt. So you were the bridge. Sharif: That's true. Yeah. You would get a lot better looking images by typing a one word prompt versus prompting for that one word. Yeah. Swyx: Yeah. That is interesting. [11:00] Lexica's Explosion at LaunchAlessio: The numbers kind of speak for themselves, right? Like 24 hours post launch, 51,000 queries, like 2.2 terabytes in bandwidth. Going back to the bandwidth problem that you have before, like you would have definitely run into that. Day two, you doubled that. It's like 111,000 queries, four and a half terabytes in bandwidth, 22 million images served. So it's pretty crazy. Sharif: Yeah. I think we're, we're doing like over 5 billion images served per month now. It's like, yeah, that's, it's pretty crazy how much things have changed since then. Swyx: Yeah. I'm still showing people like today, even today, you know, it's been a few months now. This is where you start to learn image prompting because they don't know. Sharif: Yeah, it is interesting. And I, it's weird because I didn't really think it would be a company. I thought it would just be like a cool utility or like a cool tool that I would use for myself. And I really was just building it for myself just because I didn't want to use the Discord search bar. But yeah, it was interesting that a lot of other people found it pretty useful as well. [11:00] How Lexica WorksSwyx: So there's a lot of things that you release in a short amount of time. The God mode search was kind of like, obviously the first thing, I guess, like maybe to talk about some of the underlying technology you're using clip to kind of find, you know, go from image to like description and then let people search it. Maybe talk a little bit about what it takes to actually make the search magic happen. Sharif: Yeah. So the original search was just using Postgres' full text search and it would only search the text contents of the prompt. But I was inspired by another website called Same Energy, where like a visual search engine. It's really cool. Do you know what happened to that guy? I don't. Swyx: He released it and then he disappeared from the internet. Sharif: I don't know what happened to him, but I'm sure he's working on something really cool. He also worked on like Tabnine, which was like the very first version of Copilot or like even before Copilot was Copilot. But yeah, inspired by that, I thought like being able to search images by their semantics. The contents of the image was really interesting. So I pretty much decided to create a search index on the clip embeddings, the clip image embeddings of all the images. And when you would search it, we would just do KNN search on pretty much the image embedding index. I mean, we had way too many embeddings to store on like a regular database. So we had to end up using FAISS, which is a Facebook library for really fast KNN search and embedding search. That was pretty fun to set up. It actually runs only on CPUs, which is really cool. It's super efficient. You compute the embeddings on GPUs, but like you can serve it all on like an eight core server and it's really, really fast. Once we released the semantic search on the clip embeddings, people were using the search way more. And you could do other cool things. You could do like similar image search where if you found like a specific image you liked, you could upload it and it would show you relevant images as well. Swyx: And then right after that, you raised your seed money from AI grant, NetFreedman, then Gross. Sharif: Yeah, we raised about $5 million from Daniel Gross. And then we also participated in AI grant. That was pretty cool. That was kind of the inflection point. Not much before that point, Lexic was kind of still a side project. And I told myself that I would focus on it full time or I'd consider focusing on it full time if we had broke like a million users. I was like, oh, that's gonna be like years away for sure. And then we ended up doing that in like the first week and a half. I was like, okay, there's something here. And it was kind of that like deal was like growing like pretty slowly and like pretty linearly. And then Lexica was just like this thing that just kept going up and up and up. And I was so confused. I was like, man, people really like looking at pictures. This is crazy. Yeah. And then we decided to pivot the entire company and just focus on Lexica full time at that point. And then we raised our seed round. [15:00] Being Chronically EarlySwyx: Yeah. So one thing that you casually dropped out, the one that slip, you said you were working on Lexica before the launch of Stable Diffusion such that you were able to launch Lexica one day after Stable Diffusion. Sharif: Yeah.Swyx: How did you get so early into Stable Diffusion? Cause I didn't hear about it. Sharif: Oh, that's a good question. I, where did I first hear about Stable Diffusion? I'm not entirely sure. It must've been like somewhere on Twitter or something. That changed your life. Yeah, it was great. And I got into the discord cause I'd used Dolly too before, but, um, there were a lot of restrictions in place where you can generate human faces at the time. You can do that now. But when I first got access to it, like you couldn't do any faces. It was like, there were like a, the list of adjectives you couldn't use was quite long. Like I had a friend from Pakistan and it can generate anything with the word Pakistan in it for some reason. But Stable Diffusion was like kind of the exact opposite where there were like very, very few rules. So that was really, really fun and interesting, especially seeing the chaos of like a bunch of other people also using it right in front of you. That was just so much fun. And I just wanted to do something with it. I thought it was honestly really fun. Swyx: Oh, well, I was just trying to get tips on how to be early on things. Cause you're pretty consistently early to things, right? You were Stadia before Stadia. Um, and then obviously you were on. Sharif: Well, Stadia is kind of shut down now. So I don't know if being early to that was a good one. Swyx: Um, I think like, you know, just being consistently early to things that, uh, you know, have a lot of potential, like one of them is going to work out and you know, then that's how you got Lexica. [16:00] From Search to Custom ModelsAlessio: How did you decide to go from search to running your own models for a generation? Sharif: That's a good question. So we kind of realized that the way people were using Lexica was they would have Lexica open in one tab and then in another tab, they'd have a Stable Diffusion interface. It would be like either a discord or like a local run interface, like the automatic radio UI, um, or something else. I just, I would watch people use it and they would like all tabs back and forth between Lexica and their other UI. And they would like to scroll through Lexica, click on the prompt, click on an image, copy the prompt, and then paste it and maybe change a word or two. And I was like, this should really kind of just be all within Lexica. Like, it'd be so cool if you could just click a button in Lexica and get an editor and generate your images. And I found myself also doing the all tab thing, or it was really frustrating. I was like, man, this is kind of tedious. Like I really wish it was much simpler. So we just built generations directly within Lexica. Um, so we do, we deployed it on, I don't remember when we first launched, I think it was November, December. And yeah, people love generating directly within it. [17:00] AI Grant LearningsSwyx: I was also thinking that this was coming out of AI grants where, you know, I think, um, yeah, I was like a very special program. I was just wondering if you learned anything from, you know, that special week where everyone was in town. Sharif: Yeah, that was a great week. I loved it. Swyx: Yeah. Bring us, bring us in a little bit. Cause it was awesome. There. Sharif: Oh, sure. Yeah. It's really, really cool. Like all the founders in AI grants are like fantastic people. And so I think the main takeaway from the AI grant was like, you have this massive overhang in compute or in capabilities in terms of like these latest AI models, but to the average person, there's really not that many products that are that cool or useful to them. Like the latest one that has hit the zeitgeist was chat GPT, which used arguably the same GPT three model, but like RLHF, but you could have arguably built like a decent chat GPT product just using the original GPT three model. But no one really did it. Now there were some restrictions in place and opening. I like to slowly release them over the few months or years after they release the original API. But the core premise behind AI grants is that there are way more capabilities than there are products. So focus on building really compelling products and get people to use them. And like to focus less on things like hitting state of the art on evals and more on getting users to use something. Swyx: Make something people want.Sharif: Exactly. Host: Yeah, we did an episode on LLM benchmarks and we kind of talked about how the benchmarks kind of constrain what people work on, because if your model is not going to do well, unlike the well-known benchmarks, it's not going to get as much interest and like funding. So going at it from a product lens is cool. [19:30] The Text to Image Illuminati?Swyx: My hypothesis when I was seeing the sequence of events for AI grants and then for Lexica Aperture was that you had some kind of magical dinner with Emad and David Holtz. And then they taught you the secrets of training your own model. Is that how it happens? Sharif: No, there's no secret dinner. The Illuminati of text to image. We did not have a meeting. I mean, even if we did, I wouldn't tell you. But it really boils down to just having good data. If you think about diffusion models, really the only thing they do is learn a distribution of data. So if you have high quality data, learn that high quality distribution. Or if you have low quality data, it will learn to generate images that look like they're from that distribution. So really it boils down to the data and the amount of data you have and that quality of that data, which means a lot of the work in training high quality models, at least diffusion models, is not really in the model architecture, but rather just filtering the data in a way that makes sense. So for Lexica, we do a lot of aesthetic scoring on images and we use the rankings we get from our website because we get tens of millions of people visiting it every month. So we can capture a lot of rankings. Oh, this person liked this image when they saw this one right next to it. Therefore, they probably preferred this one over that. You can do pairwise ranking to rank images and then compute like ELO scores. You can also just train aesthetic models to learn to classify a model, whether or not someone will like it or whether or not it's like, rank it on a scale of like one to ten, for example. So we mostly use a lot of the traffic we get from Lexica and use that to kind of filter our data sets and use that to train better aesthetic models. [20:30] How to Learn to Train ModelsSwyx: You had been a machine learning engineer before. You've been more of an infrastructure guy. To build, you were more of a prompt engineer with a bit of web design. This was the first time that you were basically training your own model. What was the wrap up like? You know, not to give away any secret sauce, but I think a lot of people who are traditional software engineers are feeling a lot of, I don't know, fear when encountering these kinds of domains. Sharif: Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense. And to be fair, I didn't have much experience training massive models at this scale before I did it. A lot of times it's really just like, in the same way when you're first learning to program, you would just take the problem you're having, Google it, and go through the stack overflow post. And then you figure it out, but ultimately you will get to the answer. It might take you a lot longer than someone who's experienced, but I think there are enough resources out there where it's possible to learn how to do these things. Either just reading through GitHub issues for relevant models. Swyx: Oh God. Sharif: Yeah. It's really just like, you might be slower, but it's definitely still possible. And there are really great courses out there. The Fast AI course is fantastic. There's the deep learning book, which is great for fundamentals. And then Andrej Karpathy's online courses are also excellent, especially for language modeling. You might be a bit slower for the first few months, but ultimately I think if you have the programming skills, you'll catch up pretty quickly. It's not like this magical dark science that only three people in the world know how to do well. Probably was like 10 years ago, but now it's becoming much more open. You have open source collectives like Eleuther and LAION, where they like to share the details of their large scale training runs. So you can learn from a lot of those people. Swyx: Yeah. I think what is different for programmers is having to estimate significant costs upfront before they hit run. Because it's not a thing that you normally consider when you're coding, but yeah, like burning through your credits is a fear that people have. Sharif: Yeah, that does make sense. In that case, like fine tuning larger models gets you really, really far. Even using things like low rank adaptation to fine tune, where you can like fine tune much more efficiently on a single GPU. Yeah, I think people are underestimating how far you can really get just using open source models. I mean, before Lexica, I was working on Debuild and we were using the GP3 API, but I was also like really impressed at how well you could get open source models to run by just like using the API, collecting enough samples from like real world user feedback or real world user data using your product. And then just fine tuning the smaller open source models on those examples. And now you have a model that's pretty much state of the art for your specific domain. Whereas the runtime cost is like 10 times or even 100 times cheaper than using an API. Swyx: And was that like GPT-J or are you talking BERT? Sharif: I remember we tried GPT-J, but I think FLAN-T5 was like the best model we were able to use for that use case. FLAN-T5 is awesome. If you can, like if your prompt is small enough, it's pretty great. And I'm sure there are much better open source models now. Like Vicuna, which is like the GPT-4 variant of like Lama fine tuned on like GPT-4 outputs. Yeah, they're just going to get better and they're going to get better much, much faster. Swyx: Yeah. We're just talking in a previous episode to the creator of Dolly, Mike Conover, which is actually commercially usable instead of Vicuna, which is a research project. Sharif: Oh, wow. Yeah, that's pretty cool. [24:00] Why No Agents?Alessio: I know you mentioned being early. Obviously, agents are one of the hot things here. In 2021, you had this, please buy me AirPods, like a demo that you tweeted with the GPT-3 API. Obviously, one of the things about being early in this space, you can only do one thing at a time, right? And you had one tweet recently where you said you hoped that that demo would open Pandora's box for a bunch of weird GPT agents. But all we got were docs powered by GPT. Can you maybe talk a little bit about, you know, things that you wish you would see or, you know, in the last few, last few weeks, we've had, you know, Hugging GPT, Baby AGI, Auto GPT, all these different kind of like agent projects that maybe now are getting closer to the, what did you say, 50% of internet traffic being skips of GPT agents. What are you most excited about, about these projects and what's coming? Sharif: Yeah, so we wanted a way for users to be able to paste in a link for the documentation page for a specific API, and then describe how to call that API. And then the way we would need to pretty much do that for Debuild was we wondered if we could get an agent to browse the docs page, read through it, summarize it, and then maybe even do things like create an API key and register it for that user. To do that, we needed a way for the agent to read the web page and interact with it. So I spent about a day working on that demo where we just took the web page, serialized it into a more compact form that fit within the 2048 token limit of like GPT-3 at the time. And then just decide what action to do. And then it would, if the page was too long, it would break it down into chunks. And then you would have like a sub prompt, decide on which chunk had the best action. And then at the top node, you would just pretty much take that action and then run it in a loop. It was really, really expensive. I think that one 60 second demo cost like a hundred bucks or something, but it was wildly impractical. But you could clearly see that agents were going to be a thing, especially ones that could read and write and take actions on the internet. It was just prohibitively expensive at the time. And the context limit was way too small. But yeah, I think it seems like a lot of people are taking it more seriously now, mostly because GPT-4 is way more capable. The context limit's like four times larger at 8,000 tokens, soon 32,000. And I think the only problem that's left to solve is finding a really good representation for a webpage that allows it to be consumed by a text only model. So some examples are like, you could just take all the text and pass it in, but that's probably too long. You could take all the interactive only elements like buttons and inputs, but then you miss a lot of the relevant context. There are some interesting examples, which I really like is you could run the webpage or you could run the browser in a terminal based browser. So there are some browsers that run in your terminal, which serialize everything into text. And what you can do is just take that frame from that terminal based browser and pass that directly to the model. And it's like a really, really good representation of the webpage because they do things where for graphical elements, they kind of render it using ASCII blocks. But for text, they render it as actual text. So you could just remove all the weird graphical elements, just keep all the text. And that works surprisingly well. And then there are other problems to solve, which is how do you get the model to take an action? So for example, if you have a booking page and there's like a calendar and there are 30 days on the calendar, how do you get it to specify which button to press? It could say 30, and you can match string based and like find the 30. But for example, what if it's like a list of friends in Facebook and trying to delete a friend? There might be like 30 delete buttons. How do you specify which one to click on? The model might say like, oh, click on the one for like Mark. But then you'd have to figure out the delete button in relation to Mark. And there are some ways to solve this. One is there's a cool Chrome extension called Vimium, which lets you use Vim in your Chrome browser. And what you do is you can press F and over every interactive element, it gives you like a character or two characters. Or if you type those two characters, it presses that button or it opens or focuses on that input. So you could combine a lot of these ideas and then get a really good representation of the web browser in text, and then also give the model a really, really good way to control the browser as well. And I think those two are the core part of the problem. The reasoning ability is definitely there. If a model can score in the top 10% on the bar exam, it can definitely browse a web page. It's really just how do you represent text to the model and how do you get the model to perform actions back on the web page? Really, it's just an engineering problem. Swyx: I have one doubt, which I'd love your thoughts on. How do you get the model to pause when it doesn't have enough information and ask you for additional information because you under specified your original request? Sharif: This is interesting. I think the only way to do this is to have a corpus where your training data is like these sessions of agents browsing the web. And you have to pretty much figure out where the ones that went wrong or the agents that went wrong, or did they go wrong and just replace it with, hey, I need some help. And then if you were to fine tune a larger model on that data set, you would pretty much get them to say, hey, I need help on the instances where they didn't know what to do next. Or if you're using a closed source model like GPT-4, you could probably tell it if you're uncertain about what to do next, ask the user for help. And it probably would be pretty good at that. I've had to write a lot of integration tests in my engineering days and like the dome. Alessio: They might be over. Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. I don't want to, I don't want to deal with that anymore. I, yeah, I don't want to write them the old way. Yeah. But I'm just thinking like, you know, we had the robots, the TXT for like crawlers. Like I can definitely see the DOM being reshaped a little bit in terms of accessibility. Like sometimes you have to write expats that are like so long just to get to a button. Like there should be a better way to do it. And maybe this will drive the change, you know, making it easier for these models to interact with your website. Sharif: There is the Chrome accessibility tree, which is used by screen readers, but a lot of times it's missing a lot of, a lot of useful information. But like in a perfect world, everything would be perfectly annotated for screen readers and we could just use that. That's not the case. [29:30] GPT4 and MultimodalitySwyx: GPT-4 multimodal, has your buddy, Greg, and do you think that that would solve essentially browser agents or desktop agents? Sharif: Greg has not come through yet, unfortunately. But it would make things a lot easier, especially for graphically heavy web pages. So for example, you were using Yelp and like using the map view, it would make a lot of sense to use something like that versus a text based input. Where, how do you serialize a map into text? It's kind of hard to do that. So for more complex web pages, that would make it a lot easier. You get a lot more context to the model. I mean, it seems like that multimodal input is very dense in the sense that it can read text and it can read it really, really well. So you could probably give it like a PDF and it would be able to extract all the text and summarize it. So if it can do that, it could probably do anything on any webpage. Swyx: Yeah. And given that you have some experience integrating Clip with language models, how would you describe how different GPT-4 is compared to that stuff? Sharif: Yeah. Clip is entirely different in the sense that it's really just good at putting images and text into the same latent space. And really the only thing that's useful for is similarity and clustering. Swyx: Like literally the same energy, right? Sharif: Yeah. Swyx: Yeah. And then there's Blip and Blip2. I don't know if you like those. Sharif: Yeah. Blip2 is a lot better. There's actually a new project called, I think, Mini GPT-4. Swyx: Yes. It was just out today. Sharif: Oh, nice. Yeah. It's really cool. It's actually really good. I think that one is based on the Lama model, but yeah, that's, that's like another. Host: It's Blip plus Lama, right? So they, they're like running through Blip and then have Lama ask your, interpret your questions so that you do visual QA. Sharif: Oh, that's cool. That's really clever. Yeah. Ensemble models are really useful. Host: Well, so I was trying to articulate, cause that was, that's, there's two things people are talking about today. You have to like, you know, the moment you wake up, you open Hacker News and go like, all right, what's, what's the new thing today? One is Red Pajama. And then the other one is Mini GPT-4. So I was trying to articulate like, why is this not GPT-4? Like what is missing? And my only conclusion was it just doesn't do OCR yet. But I wonder if there's anything core to this concept of multimodality that you have to train these things together. Like what does one model doing all these things do that is separate from an ensemble of models that you just kind of duct tape together? Sharif: It's a good question. This is pretty related to interoperability. Like how do we understand that? Or how, how do we, why do models trained on different modalities within the same model perform better than two models perform or train separately? I can kind of see why that is the case. Like, it's kind of hard to articulate, but when you have two different models, you get the reasoning abilities of a language model, but also like the text or the vision understanding of something like Clip. Whereas Clip clearly lacks the reasoning abilities, but if you could somehow just put them both in the same model, you get the best of both worlds. There were even cases where I think the vision version of GPT-4 scored higher on some tests than the text only version. So like there might even be some additional learning from images as well. Swyx: Oh yeah. Well, uh, the easy answer for that was there was some chart in the test. That wasn't translated. Oh, when I read that, I was like, Oh yeah. Okay. That makes sense. Sharif: That makes sense. I thought it'd just be like, it sees more of the world. Therefore it has more tokens. Swyx: So my equivalent of this is I think it's a well-known fact that adding code to a language model training corpus increases its ability to do language, not just with code. So, the diversity of datasets that represent some kind of internal logic and code is obviously very internally logically consistent, helps the language model learn some internal structure. Which I think, so, you know, my ultimate test for GPT-4 is to show the image of like, you know, is this a pipe and ask it if it's a pipe or not and see what it does. Sharif: Interesting. That is pretty cool. Yeah. Or just give it a screenshot of your like VS code editor and ask it to fix the bug. Yeah. That'd be pretty wild if it could do that. Swyx: That would be adult AGI. That would be, that would be the grownup form of AGI. [33:30] Sharif's Startup ManualSwyx: On your website, you have this, um, startup manual where you give a bunch of advice. This is fun. One of them was that you should be shipping to production like every two days, every other day. This seems like a great time to do it because things change every other day. But maybe, yeah, tell some of our listeners a little bit more about how you got to some of these heuristics and you obviously build different projects and you iterate it on a lot of things. Yeah. Do you want to reference this? Sharif: Um, sure. Yeah, I'll take a look at it. Swyx: And we'll put this in the show notes, but I just wanted you to have the opportunity to riff on this, this list, because I think it's a very good list. And what, which one of them helped you for Lexica, if there's anything, anything interesting. Sharif: So this list is, it's pretty funny. It's mostly just like me yelling at myself based on all the mistakes I've made in the past and me trying to not make them again. Yeah. Yeah. So I, the first one is like, I think the most important one is like, try when you're building a product, try to build the smallest possible version. And I mean, for Lexica, it was literally a, literally one screen in the react app where a post-process database, and it just showed you like images. And I don't even know if the first version had search. Like I think it did, but I'm not sure. Like, I think it was really just like a grid of images that were randomized, but yeah, don't build the absolute smallest thing that can be considered a useful application and ship it for Lexica. That was, it helps me write better prompts. That's pretty useful. It's not that useful, but it's good enough. Don't fall into the trap of intellectual indulgence with over-engineering. I think that's a pretty important one for myself. And also anyone working on new things, there's often times you fall into the trap of like thinking you need to add more and more things when in reality, like the moment it's useful, you should probably get in the hands of your users and they'll kind of set the roadmap for you. I know this has been said millions of times prior, but just, I think it's really, really important. And I think if I'd spent like two months working on Lexica, adding a bunch of features, it wouldn't have been anywhere as popular as it was if I had just released the really, really boiled down version alongside the stable diffusion release. Yeah. And then there are a few more like product development doesn't start until you launch. Think of your initial product as a means to get your users to talk to you. It's also related to the first point where you really just want people using something as quickly as you can get that to happen. And then a few more are pretty interesting. Create a product people love before you focus on growth. If your users are spontaneously telling other people to use your product, then you've built something people love. Swyx: So this is pretty, it sounds like you've internalized Paul Graham's stuff a lot. Yeah. Because I think he said stuff like that. Sharif: A lot of these are just probably me taking notes from books I found really interesting or like PG essays that were really relevant at the time. And then just trying to not forget them. I should probably read this list again. There's some pretty personalized advice for me here. Oh yeah. One of my favorite ones is, um, don't worry if what you're building doesn't sound like a business. Nobody thought Facebook would be a $500 billion company. It's easy to come up with a business model. Once you've made something people want, you can even make pretty web forms and turn that into a 200 person company. And then if you click the link, it's to LinkedIn for type form, which is now, uh, I think they're like an 800 person company or something like that. So they've grown quite a bit. There you go. Yeah. Pretty web forms are pretty good business, even though it doesn't sound like it. Yeah. It's worth a billion dollars. [38:30] Lexica Aperture V1/2/3Swyx: One way I would like to tie that to the history of Lexica, which we didn't go over, which was just walk us through like Aperture V1, V2, V3, uh, which you just released last week. And how maybe some of those principles helped you in that journey.Sharif: Yeah. So, um, V1 was us trying to create a very photorealistic version of our model of Sable to Fusion. Uh, V1 actually didn't turn out to be that popular. It turns out people loved not generating. Your marketing tweets were popular. They were quite popular. So I think at the time you couldn't get Sable to Fusion to generate like photorealistic images that were consistent with your prompt that well. It was more so like you were sampling from this distribution of images and you could slightly pick where you sampled from using your prompt. This was mostly just because the clip text encoder is not the best text encoder. If you use a real language model, like T5, you get much better results. Like the T5 XXL model is like a hundred times larger than the clip text encoder for Sable to Fusion 1.5. So you could kind of steer it into like the general direction, but for more complex prompts, it just didn't work. So a lot of our users actually complained that they preferred the 1.5, Sable to Fusion 1.5 model over the Aperture model. And it was just because a lot of people were using it to create like parts and like really weird abstract looking pictures that didn't really work well with the photorealistic model trained solely on images. And then for V2, we kind of took that into consideration and then just trained it more on a lot of the art images on Lexica. So we took a lot of images that were on Lexica that were art, used that to train aesthetic models that ranked art really well, and then filtered larger sets to train V2. And then V3 is kind of just like an improved version of that with much more data. I'm really glad we didn't spend too much time on V1. I think we spent about one month working on it, which is a lot of time, but a lot of the things we learned were useful for training future versions. Swyx: How do you version them? Like where do you decide, okay, this is V2, this is V3? Sharif: The versions are kind of weird where you can't really use semantic versions because like if you have a small update, you usually just make that like V2. Versions are kind of used for different base models, I'd say. So if you have each of the versions were a different base model, but we've done like fine tunes of the same version and then just release an update without incrementing the version. But I think when there's like a clear change between running the same prompt on a model and you get a different image, that should probably be a different version. [40:00] Request for AI Startup - LLM ToolsAlessio: So the startup manual was the more you can actually do these things today to make it better. And then you have a whole future page that has tips from, you know, what the series successor is going to be like to like why everyone's genome should be sequenced. There's a lot of cool stuff in there. Why do we need to develop stimulants with shorter half-lives so that we can sleep better. Maybe talk a bit about, you know, when you're a founder, you need to be focused, right? So sometimes there's a lot of things you cannot build. And I feel like this page is a bit of a collection of these. Like, yeah. Are there any of these things that you're like, if I were not building Lexica today, this is like a very interesting thing. Sharif: Oh man. Yeah. There's a ton of things that I want to build. I mean, off the top of my head, the most exciting one would be better tools for language models. And I mean, not tools that help us use language models, but rather tools for the language models themselves. So things like giving them access to browsers, giving them access to things like payments and credit cards, giving them access to like credit cards, giving them things like access to like real world robots. So like, it'd be cool if you could have a Boston dynamic spot powered by a language model reasoning module and you would like to do things for you, like go and pick up your order, stuff like that. Entirely autonomously given like high level commands. That'd be like number one thing if I wasn't working on Lexica. [40:00] Sequencing your GenomeAnd then there's some other interesting things like genomics I find really cool. Like there's some pretty cool things you can do with consumer genomics. So you can export your genome from 23andMe as a text file, like literally a text file of your entire genome. And there is another tool called Prometheus, I think, where you upload your 23andMe text file genome and then they kind of map specific SNPs that you have in your genome to studies that have been done on those SNPs. And it tells you really, really useful things about yourself. Like, for example, I have the SNP for this thing called delayed sleep phase disorder, which makes me go to sleep about three hours later than the general population. So like I used to always be a night owl and I never knew why. But after using Prometheus it pretty much tells you, oh, you have the specific genome for specific SNP for DSPS. It's like a really tiny percentage of the population. And it's like something you should probably know about. And there's a bunch of other things. It tells you your likelihood for getting certain diseases, for certain cancers, oftentimes, like even weird personality traits. There's one for like, I have one of the SNPs for increased risk taking and optimism, which is pretty weird. That's an actual thing. Like, I don't know how. This is the founder gene. You should sequence everybody. It's pretty cool. And it's like, it's like $10 for Prometheus and like 70 bucks for 23andMe. And it explains to you how your body works and like the things that are different from you or different from the general population. Wow. Highly recommend everyone do it. Like if you're, if you're concerned about privacy, just purchase a 23andMe kit with a fake name. You don't have to use your real name. I didn't use my real name. Swyx: It's just my genes. Worst you can do is clone me. It ties in with what you were talking about with, you know, we want the future to be like this. And like people are building uninspired B2B SaaS apps and you and I had an exchange about this. [42:00] Believe in Doing Great ThingsHow can we get more people to believe they can do great things? Sharif: That's a good question. And I like a lot of the things I've been working on with GP3. It has been like trying to solve this by getting people to think about more interesting ideas. I don't really know. I think one is just like the low effort version of this is just putting out really compelling demos and getting people inspired. And then the higher effort version is like actually building the products yourself and getting people to like realize this is even possible in the first place. Like I think the baby AGI project and like the GPT Asian projects on GitHub are like in practice today, they're not super useful, but I think they're doing an excellent job of getting people incredibly inspired for what can be possible with language models as agents. And also the Stanford paper where they had like the mini version of Sims. Yeah. That one was incredible. That was awesome. Swyx: It was adorable. Did you see the part where they invented day drinking? Sharif: Oh, they did? Swyx: Yeah. You're not supposed to go to these bars in the afternoon, but they were like, we're going to go anyway. Nice. Sharif: That's awesome. Yeah. I think we need more stuff like that. That one paper is probably going to inspire a whole bunch of teams to work on stuff similar to that. Swyx: And that's great. I can't wait for NPCs to actually be something that you talk to in a game and, you know, have their own lives and you can check in and, you know, they would have their own personalities as well. Sharif: Yeah. I was so kind of off topic. But I was playing the last of us part two and the NPCs in that game are really, really good. Where if you like, point a gun at them and they'll beg for their life and like, please, I have a family. And like when you kill people in the game, they're like, oh my God, you shot Alice. Like they're just NPCs, but they refer to each other by their names and like they plead for their lives. And this is just using regular conditional rules on NPC behavior. Imagine how much better it'd be if it was like a small GPT-4 agent running in every NPC and they had the agency to make decisions and plead for their lives. And I don't know, you feel way more guilty playing that game. Alessio: I'm scared it's going to be too good. I played a lot of hours of Fallout. So I feel like if the NPCs were a lot better, you would spend a lot more time playing the game. Yeah. [44:30] Lightning RoundLet's jump into lightning round. First question is your favorite AI product. Sharif: Favorite AI product. The one I use the most is probably ChatGPT. The one I'm most excited about is, it's actually a company in AI grants. They're working on a version of VS code. That's like an entirely AI powered cursor, yeah. Cursor where you would like to give it a prompt and like to iterate on your code, not by writing code, but rather by just describing the changes you want to make. And it's tightly integrated into the editor itself. So it's not just another plugin. Swyx: Would you, as a founder of a low code prompting-to-code company that pivoted, would you advise them to explore some things or stay away from some things? Like what's your learning there that you would give to them?Sharif: I would focus on one specific type of code. So if I'm building a local tool, I would try to not focus too much on appealing developers. Whereas if I was building an alternative to VS code, I would focus solely on developers. So in that, I think they're doing a pretty good job focusing on developers. Swyx: Are you using Cursor right now? Sharif: I've used it a bit. I haven't converted fully, but I really want to. Okay. It's getting better really, really fast. Yeah. Um, I can see myself switching over sometime this year if they continue improving it. Swyx: Hot tip for, for ChatGPT, people always say, you know, they love ChatGPT. Biggest upgrade to my life right now is the, I forked a menu bar app I found on GitHub and now I just have it running in a menu bar app and I just do command shift G and it pops it up as a single use thing. And there's no latency because it just always is live. And I just type, type in the thing I want and then it just goes away after I'm done. Sharif: Wow. That's cool. Big upgrade. I'm going to install that. That's cool. Alessio: Second question. What is something you thought would take much longer, but it's already here? Like what, what's your acceleration update? Sharif: Ooh, um, it would take much longer, but it's already here. This is your question. Yeah, I know. I wasn't prepared. Um, so I think it would probably be kind of, I would say text to video. Swyx: Yeah. What's going on with that? Sharif: I think within this year, uh, by the end of this year, we'll have like the jump between like the original DALL-E one to like something like mid journey. Like we're going to see that leap in text to video within the span of this year. Um, it's not already here yet. So I guess the thing that surprised me the most was probably the multi-modality of GPT four in the fact that it can technically see things, which is pretty insane. Swyx: Yeah. Is text to video something that Aperture would be interested in? Sharif: Uh, it's something we're thinking about, but it's still pretty early. Swyx: There was one project with a hand, um, animation with human poses. It was also coming out of Facebook. I thought that was a very nice way to accomplish text to video while having a high degree of control. I forget the name of that project. It was like, I think it was like drawing anything. Swyx: Yeah. It sounds familiar. Well, you already answered a year from now. What will people be most surprised by? Um, and maybe the, uh, the usual requests for startup, you know, what's one thing you will pay for if someone built it? Sharif: One thing I would pay for if someone built it. Um, so many things, honestly, I would probably really like, um, like I really want people to build more, uh, tools for language models, like useful tools, give them access to Chrome. And I want to be able to give it a task. And then just, it goes off and spins up a hundred agents that perform that task. And like, sure. Like 80 of them might fail, but like 20 of them might kind of succeed. That's all you really need. And they're agents. You can spin up thousands of them. It doesn't really matter. Like a lot of large numbers are on your side. So that'd be, I would pay a lot of money for that. Even if it was capable of only doing really basic tasks, like signing up for a SAS tool and booking a call or something. If you could do even more things where it could have handled the email, uh, thread and like get the person on the other end to like do something where like, I don't even have to like book the demo. They just give me access to it. That'd be great. Yeah. More, more. Like really weird language model tools would be really fun.Swyx: Like our chat, GPT plugins, a step in the right direction, or are you envisioning something else? Sharif: I think GPT, chat GPT plugins are great, but they seem to only have right-only access right now. I also want them to have, I want these like theoretical agents to have right access to the world too. So they should be able to perform actions on web browsers, have their own email inbox, and have their own credit card with their own balance. Like take it, send emails to people that might be useful in achieving their goal. Ask them for help. Be able to like sign up and register for accounts on tools and services and be able to like to use graphical user interfaces really, really well. And also like to phone home if they need help. Swyx: You just had virtual employees. You want to give them a Brex card, right? Sharif: I wouldn't be surprised if, a year from now there was Brex GPT or it's like Brex cards for your GPT agents. Swyx: I mean, okay. I'm excited by this. Yeah. Kind of want to build it. Sharif: You should. Yeah. Alessio: Well, just to wrap up, we always have like one big takeaway for people, like, you know, to display on a signboard for everyone to see what is the big message to everybody. Sharif: Yeah. I think the big message to everybody is you might think that a lot of the time the ideas you have have already been done by someone. And that may be the case, but a lot of the time the ideas you have are actually pretty unique and no one's ever tried them before. So if you have weird and interesting ideas, you should actually go out and just do them and make the thing and then share that with the world. Cause I feel like we need more people building weird ideas and less people building like better GPT search for your documentation. Host: There are like 10 of those in the recent OST patch. Well, thank you so much. You've been hugely inspiring and excited to see where Lexica goes next. Sharif: Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Get full access to Latent Space at www.latent.space/subscribe

I'm back with part 2 of our conversation with therapists and couple Vanessa Bennett and John Kim. In this episode, we continue with their thoughts on taking breaks from fights and confronting your partner about annoyances. Additionally, we discussed codependency, abandonment issues, personal accountability, and more! John is a licensed therapist and author whose journey started with divorce and healing from a broken heart. Through helping others, he found his voice and fell in love with talking about love. Vanessa is also a licensed therapist and author. Her goal is to make therapists feel accessible. To show that they are not above anyone else. You'll love their approaches. Together they wrote a book titled "It's Not Me, It's You: Break the Blame Cycle. Relationship Better." In it, they analyze their relationship to help untangle the common and frustrating barriers many individuals face on the road to a happy, loving, rewarding partnership. This episode is brought to you by JSX, Tree Hut, and Canopy. Enjoy all the perks of private jet flying without the price tag, and book by the seat on jsx.com. Tree Hut just released hydrating gel washes. Complete your shower routine with Tree Hut - shop at Target and Ulta.  Go to getcanopy.co to save $25 on your Canopy Humidifier purchase today with Canopy's filter subscription. Even better, my listeners can use code WITHWHIT at checkout to save an additional 10% off your Canopy purchase. Hurry! Your skin + your baby will thank you.   Produced by Dear Media This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.

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This week on the show, we talk about stuff we've been working on or thinking about lately. Adam dazzles us with his use of 1Password's Secrets Automation feature to drive key rotation in his production app. Ben misses the beautiful agony of having to support IE11 (and how it make the web more predictable). And, Carol shares her frustration with React and, especially, with JSX. It turns out, not everyone loves JSX or - clutches pearls - the idea of single-file components!Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday.And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon.With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Honor Creative, a boutique design studio based in Nashville, is my go-to for creating a unique brand identity. Brooke Boling, Founder and CEO, totally understood my vision and brought it to life!! So grateful. We discussed the weight an intentional logo can have, her design process, and how to avoid creative burnout. PLUS, I get her insight on a new business venture I have. Brooke's career spans everything from several advertising agencies and record labels to fashion magazines and the Target Corporation. A graduate of the Portfolio Center, Brooke's design work has won local, regional, and national awards and has been recognized in publications like Communication Arts and Archive. This episode is brought to you by Droplette, Tree Hut, Topgolf, JSX, and Dr. Pimple Popper. Droplette is the breakthrough patented Micro-Infuser. For a limited time, you can get 50% off your Droplette device at droplette.io and use code With Whit.  Tree Hut just released hydrating gel washes. Complete your shower routine with Tree Hut - shop at Target and Ulta.  It's golf. It's not golf. It's Topgolf. Download the app, book a bay and Come Play Around. Enjoy all the perks of private jet flying without the price tag, and book by the seat on jsx.com. Watch an All-New Season of Dr. Pimple Popper, Wednesdays at nine, eight central on TLC. Set your DVR.   Produced by Dear Media This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.

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Amanda Hirsch. Officially obsessed with her. So fun. If you don't listen to "Not Skinny But Not Fat, " you must! Her show and social are homes for everything pop culture, celebrity gossip, and reality TV recaps. My cup of tea!! So glad she spills it. I could talk about this stuff all day. Amanda's self-deprecating humor, honesty, and relatability will have you hooked. We talked about everything "Not Skinny But Not Fat," the latest Vanderpump drams, staying confident in ourselves, listening to your gut, and more! You can also follow her @notskinnybutnotfat. This episode is brought to you by Topgold and JSX. It's golf. It's not golf. It's Topgolf. Download the app, book a bay and Come Play Around. Enjoy all the perks of private jet flying without the price tag, and book by the seat on jsx.com.   Produced by Dear Media This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Carniato about Solid.JS, SolidStart, how web components work with Solid, why he chose JSX, and what the future of Solid is. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:38 Who is Ryan Carniato? @RyanCarniato on Twitter Ryan on Dev.to Solid.JS 02:37 Why did you build Solid? Knockout.JS Marko JS 09:15 What is Solid? 12:55 What does it mean to compile to vanilla JavaScript? SolidStart Tanstack Query 19:39 What are observables and signals? 27:17 How are web components used inside of Solid? 29:38 Why aren't we using web components more? 32:37 Why would someone pick SolidStart vs Solid? 39:07 Why did you choose JSX? 44:45 How did you build live code examples into documentation? SolidJS Docs Solid-Movies.app 47:19 What is Solid.JS built on? 53:36 What is the future of Solid? 00:39 Supper club questions 02:57 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Alice in Borderland Shameless Plugs Ryan on Twitch Ryan on YouTube Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Miško Hevery about why developers should check out Qwik, the benefits of lazy loading, sharing state between components, and other Builder.io projects like Partytown and Mitosis. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:19 Guest intro Miško Hevery @MHevery 01:58 What is Resumability? 05:06 What is Qwik? Qwik Qwik City 07:03 Why would you want to make a component resumable? 12:08 Qwik code can be lazy loaded 15:28 How is server side rendering handled? 18:12 How does Vite help? 22:40 A bit more about hydration 31:03 How does the server collection information? 32:11 How do you share state between components? 34:45 How is data fetching handled? 37:47 Why are you using JSX? 41:53 Dealing with components in other frameworks Mitosis 49:21 What is Partytown? Partytown 54:30 Supper Club questions ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Thinking Fast and Slow Shameless Plugs Builder.io Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

 If you are going to create generational wealth, you must own something. Whether it is a business, real estate, stocks, or insurance, you must have meaningful relationships that propel you forward to get to that first liquidity event and understand the power of encouragement.This is the mindset of Derrick l Miles, president and CEO at Courmed, a healthcare solutions company offering enterprise software and innovative concierge delivery of healthcare products and services. He has failed forward many times before he learned what he needed to do in scaling a crowdsource healthcare delivery service.Failure is a part of the success story. Words of encouragement speak power into your business and your life. A simple word of encouragement can save your life and the lives of others. Says Derrick Miles as a former hospital executive, he experienced a tremendous amount of early success on the operational side of the business, becoming a CEO of a specialty hospital at age 31, and being part of teams that financially transformed poorly performing hospitals.After launching a Q4 or 2018 at Vizient headquarters in North Texas and with additional regional headquarters expansion plans, including a gateway city in Arizona and California. As a result, Miles is now a private aviation customer of JSX. With the CourMed proprietary software, they can utilize the Microsoft marketplace and AppStore portals to quickly add more states and foreign countries to their access range.Will Miles join Robert F. Smith, David Stewart, Oprah Winy, and Michael Jordan on the short list of black billionaires with Microsoft support and worldwide scalability? It's a real possibility as reported in JetSet Magazine. Derrick L Miles founded CourMed in 2018 is a pharmaceutical delivery service.The company has since further diversified its offerings to provide well-care solutions through partnerships with physicians, nurses, and pharmacies to the company's target market, which includes health-conscious adults, performance athletes, and people 50 and older with an above-average networth. You can be in your home, at your corporate office, or in a luxury hotel like the efficient on Miami Beach and get monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, prescriptions, or IV vitamin therapy.According to Derrick Miles, now headquartered in McKinney, Texas with a new regional office recently announced in Miami Beach, CourMed is significantly expanding its region to upscale areas in need of healthcare concierge services of all types. Miles. A former hospital administrator and 15-year healthcare executive have taken the company's offerings beyond just delivering.To provide enterprise software and innovative concierge product and service delivery, Derek Miles receives both an MHSA and MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also holds a BS and Medical Tech. With a minor in chemistry from Bethune- Cookman University. Derrick L. Miles received a certificate in Lean Healthcare from the University of Michigan and is enrolled at Stanford University working towards professional certification in Innovation and entrepreneurship. Derek is married with two sons. His family lives in Collin County, Texas, and county Florida. Let's welcome  Derrick to the podcast where we are building a 5 star brand that you can follow!