Podcasts about master switch

Did you know that poor sleep can stall fat loss—no matter how perfect your diet and workouts are? Why Sleep is the Master Switch for Metabolism: sleep is more important than diet and exercise when it comes to metabolic health. Think of your metabolism as a symphony—sleep is the conductor. Without it, everything falls apart. 4 Ways Poor Sleep Wrecks Your Fat-Burning Ability 1️⃣ Increases Blood Sugar & Insulin Resistance After just one week of poor sleep, blood sugar levels mimic prediabetes. Hunger hormones (ghrelin & leptin) go out of whack, leading to overeating. 2️⃣ Slows Down Metabolism Poor sleep lowers resting metabolic rate (RMR) and reduces fat-burning capacity. It also elevates cortisol, increasing fat storage, especially belly fat. 3️⃣ Toxic Buildup in the Brain The glymphatic system clears toxins during deep sleep. Without it? Buildup of beta-amyloid (linked to Alzheimer's). Poor sleep is associated with brain fog, mood disorders, and accelerated aging. 4️⃣ Circadian Rhythm Mismatch = Shortened Lifespan Night shift work & erratic sleep increase the risk of metabolic diseases and even cancer. The WHO classifies night shift work as a probable carcinogen.

Thousands of people cross Pheasants Nest Bridge on the Hume Highway every day, probably unaware of its haunting past. Beneath this towering structure lies a history shrouded in tragedy—suicide, dismembered remains, mysterious deaths, and dozens of unanswered questions. In 1989, the bridge became the site of a chilling case: the untimely deaths of two 15-year-old boys, Matthew Kelly and Jaymie Egner, who were discovered inside one of the bridge's 33m high pylons. Forensic Investigator Esther McKay was brought in to examine the scene—a task that would forever change her life. If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline (Crisis support and suicide prevention) 13 11 14 1800 Respect (National sexual assault, family and domestic violence counselling line) 1800 737 732 Full Stop Australia (National violence and abuse trauma counselling and recovery Service) 1800 385 578 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HERE WE GO MY SHOW FOR 15-AUGUST-2024 WITH A MIXED BAG OF OLD CLASSICS INCLUDING ( KENNY BURK, BRIDGE, THE BLACKBYRDS, ROBERTA FLACK & DONNY HATHAWAY, JOHNNY BRISTOL, THELMA HOUSTON, SHERRICK) AND MANY MORE ALSO SOME TOP NEW TRACKS FROM ( MFSB ft MASTER SWITCH, KC & SUNSHINE, LUKAS SETTO  ) WE ALSO HAVE THE CONNOISSEURS CORNER ( THIS WEEK WE HAVE GROVER WASHINGTON JR ) AND WE HAVE THE BACK TO BACK CLASSICS BY A CLASSIC ARTIST (THIS WEEK WE HAVE TWO TRACKS FROM GEORGE BENSON ) THEN WE HAVE THREE TRACKS DUG OUT FROM THE GARAGE FROM ( SOLAMON BURKE. THE ISLEY BROTHERS, JOHNNIE TAYLOR ) FINNISHING OF WITH A COUPLE OF SLOW TRACKS AND MUCH MUCH MORE SIT BACK WITH A GLASS OF SOMETHING AND ENJOY OR DOWNLOAD FOR LATER

How do you balance the stress of tech with the benefits? Noah and Steve dig through the delicate issue of work life balance. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Migrations Complete! $22/month on EMS to $50/month Self Hosted 02:30 Ajit Praise - Cory Their are cultural differences between Japan and the US Most of us want "maximum absence of coercion" People have different views of "justice" Internet going from luxury to necessity in a generation Still learning the effect of internet and technology Book recommendation The Master Switch (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/) Moral compasses Things are moving fast in multiple directions 12:40 Django vs PHP - Joe Batteries included approach Open Source Tech Training Overview (https://opensourcetechtrn.blogspot.com/p/open-source-tech-training-overview.html) Our Note Organizer (GitHub) (https://github.com/JoeMrCoffee/OurNoteOrganizer) 15:40 Naelr from Mumble Suggestion: iRedMail (https://www.iredmail.org/) Suggestion: MailCow (https://mailcow.email/) Mail in a Box (https://mailinabox.email/) Noah has not decided to self host email Going on 3 months of Microsoft unable to send email to Yahoo 23:20 Smart Vacuums - Charlie Tech should be there from me Some smart vacuums can be locally controlled via MQTT Home Assistant integration Some smart vacuums can be "flashed" NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/roomba-irobot-data-privacy.html) Digital Trends (https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/how-to-map-house-with-roomba/) 28:00 News Wire OpenSUSE systemd-boot - OpenSUSE (https://news.opensuse.org/2024/03/05/systemd-boot-integration-in-os/) Tails 6.0 - Beta News (https://betanews.com/2024/02/27/tails-6-0-linux-privacy-big-brother/) KDE 6 Update - How To Geek (https://www.howtogeek.com/kde-6-update-plasma-desktop-linux/) Gnome Variable Refresh Rate - GitLab (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1154) GDB 14.2 - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-14.2) Shotcut 24.02 - GitHub (https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/tag/v24.02.29) Gparted 1.6 - Source Forge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted/gparted-1.6.0/) Distrobox 1.7 - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Distrobox-1.7) Linux 6.8 Back on Track - The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/04/linux_6_8_rc_7/) Ubicloud AWS Alternative - Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/ubicloud-wants-to-build-an-open-source-alternative-to-aws/) AMD's HDMI 2.1+ Rejected - Tech Radar (https://www.techradar.com/pro/amd-just-had-its-proposition-for-a-new-open-source-hdmi-driver-rejected) GTPDOOR - The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2024/02/gtpdoor-linux-malware-targets-telecoms.html) BIFROSE - The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2024/03/new-bifrose-linux-malware-variant-using.html) 29:25 Balance of Technology Shut off all devices for 1 Day Noah has staff You have to have a passion for IT to work in IT Example of a day off win Work Life Balance Steve's experience Turning off the device and walking away can be the best choice It can be challenging Turn the box off Responsibility/Stimulus Noah's experience and reaction Finding a win Cancel Culture Face to Face vs Online communication Book Recommendation Irresistible (https://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Addictive-Technology-Business-Keeping/dp/1594206643) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/379) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they're excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

TUNE IN TO LEARN:  The most successful people go through a lot more stress than the average person.  The more you want - The more you'll have to overcome.  And not just once but consistently over a long time.  How do people do that?  How do people perform and become better under pressure? Instead of choking and doing worse?  As it turns out you have a “master switch”, which activates a “diamond” version of you under pressure.  The best part?  This master switch is already in your head and with practice that's the only one you'll use, becoming stronger, smarter and more successful with every additional challenge life throws at you.  Want to learn more LIVE?  Join our Audio Thursdays on LinkedIn! 

This podcast is RICH with nectar for your soul! Christina McGrath and I go deep into conversation about a variety of topics including the importance of being in your body to heighten your intuition, the use of Psych-K and the Master Switch to effortlessly change the programming of your subconscious mind, how to find nourishment in your darkness, how to find the missing link to your purpose, and the Forbidden Journey retreat this fall!  This is not a podcast to miss! It is packed full of sweet nectar nourishment for your soul. CONNECT W/ CHRISTINA WEBSITE: https://swellfitliving.com/ And join both of us this September 2023 at… The Forbidden Journey Retreat 2023 https://www.nicolefrolick.com/forbidden-journey-retreat SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe to iTunes and leave me a 5 star review!  This is what helps the podcast stand out from the crowd and allows me to help people find a refreshing spin on spirituality with a great blend of entertainment and credible advice. Storefront: https://stan.store/nicolefrolick Website: http://nicolefrolick.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nicolefrolick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolefrolick/ Tiktok: https://tiktok.com/@nicolefrolick Spotify: shorturl.at/fikF7 iTunes: http://apple.co/2ve7DtE PayPal: https://paypal.me/theforbiddenjourney Alcheme: https://alchemyacademy.teachable.com/p/alcheme  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enlightenup/support

Targeting the Master Switch in Cancer Research.  In this episode, Stacy Blain talks about her personal history and how she got involved in clinical research and biotech, touching upon CONCARLO's focus on developing a transformative cancer therapy targeting the p27 protein. She discusses the challenge of scaling up research, transitioning it into a consistent, scalable, and stable product for human trials while remaining optimistic about the power of science to bring new treatments to patients. Tune in to learn about CONCARLO's revolutionizing cancer research! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Effort is the Master Switch - Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance [Running Experience]This episode will be talking about his latest book ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.In what role does the brain play in a race?Does your cognitive development correlate to your physical development?Fatigue: Inability to continue vs sense of effortWhat about refocus or concentration? Explain the last lap kick? What is brain endurance training and how does it work?What role does Oxygen plan in endurance?How do you apply endurance in the workplace ABOUT NICK GLIMSDAHLSubscribe to my bi-monthly newsletterFind Press 1 For Nick on YouTubeFind me on TwitterFind me on LinkedInLISTENER SUPPORTPurchase Nick's books: Reasons NOT to Focus on Employee Experience: A Comprehensive GuideApparel: https://www.teepublic.com/user/press-1-for-nick Support this show through Buy Me A CoffeeBOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:Learn about all the guests' book recommendations here: https://press1fornick.com/books/ BROUGHT TO YOU BY:VDS: They are a client-first consulting firm focused on strategy, business outcomes, and technology. They provide holistic consulting services to optimize your customer contact center, inspiring and designing transformational change to modernize and prepare your business for the future. Learn more: https://www.govds.com/ This podcast is under the umbrella of CX of M Radio: https://cxofm.org/Podcast-Shows/ SPONSORING OPPORTUNITIES:Interested in partnering with the Press 1 For Nick podcast? Click here: https://press1fornick.com/lets-talk/ 

Dan Romero (@dwr) of Farcaster joins Erik on this episode. Takeaways:- Dan says that his first love was information. He loved RSS and the goal with Farcaster is to improve RSS enough so that it can compete with Twitter.- He aims to grow Farcaster large enough so that developers can innovate using their API and data permissionlessly.- Any developer can build whatever they want on Farcaster — features are not limited to what the core team wants to see built.- Eugene Wei's Status as a Service theory is correct in Dan's opinion.- They doubled down on the client and having a polished UX at Farcaster. Dan says that the platform is only as good as the number of people using it. The client helps grow the user base.- Dan believes in first principles thinking when it comes to product decisions. He strongly believes that the average user is not going to spend money to take action on a social network.- According to Tim Wu's The Master Switch, all major communication technologies typically start out decentralized and become more centralized over time because centralization has tended to provide a superior consumer experience.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.Check us out on the web at www.villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.vc/signup

Happy World IBD Day (May 19th)! On this Clubhouse Replay, holistic health and self-care expert JoAnne Pavin and I discuss the 3 healing practices for IBD that have reduced my inflammation by 80% in less than eight months! Also, grab my Master Switch for DNA Healing meditation for FREE from May 19 thru May 26, 2022. Follow @joanne.pavin | Check out JoAnnePavin.com and her beautiful seasonal magazines at TheMeal.net! Follow me @twoinchesofftheground | Grab my FREE meditation: Turn On the Master Switch for DNA Healing | Check out my UC & IBD resources, including my book!

Why Should you Create a Culture of Innovation - Brandon RhotenAlex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, contributing editor at Outside, a columnist at the Globe and Mail, and a senior editor at Canadian Running. This episode will be talking about his latest book ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.In what role does the brain play in a race?Does your cognitive development correlate to your physical development?Fatigue: Inability to continue vs sense of effortWhat about refocus or concentration? Explain the last lap kick? What is brain endurance training and how does it work?What role does Oxygen plan in endurance?How do you apply endurance in the workplace ABOUT NICK GLIMSDAHLSubscribe to my weekly newsletterFind me on TwitterFind me on LinkedInLISTENER SUPPORTPurchase Nick's books: Reasons NOT to Focus on Employee Experience: A Comprehensive GuideApparel: https://www.teepublic.com/user/press-1-for-nick Support this show through Buy Me A CoffeeBOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:Learn about all the guests book recommendations here: https://press1fornick.com/books/ BROUGHT TO YOU BY:VDS: They are a client-first consulting firm focused on strategy, business outcomes, and technology. They provide holistic consulting services to optimize your customer contact center, inspiring and designing transformational change to modernize and prepare your business for the future. Learn more: https://www.govds.com/ This podcast is under the umbrella of CX of M Radio: https://cxofm.org/Podcast-Shows/ SPONSORING OPPORTUNITIES:Interested in partnering with the Press 1 For Nick podcast? Click here: https://press1fornick.com/lets-talk/ 

What we are witnessing unfold in the psychedelic movement is truly unprecedented. We are reaching a tipping point where psychedelic medicines are rapidly entering mainstream society.  But is this really a good thing? And how do we make sense of the sacramental and sacred use of psychedelics within the cultural context of late-stage capitalism?  In this episode, Laura Dawn drops in with best selling author of Stealing Fire and Recapture the Rapture, Jamie Wheal, who holds strong opinions about the dark underbelly of the psychedelic movement. Jamie shares the pitfalls we need to be aware of and how this psychedelic party isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Jamie shares his criticisms and cynicism with a twist of hope and invitation to tend to and feed the holy in our lives. This is how we build our lives around meaning 3.0.      Click here to access this episode's page complete with a full transcript, more about the author, and complete list of resources. Resources Mentioned Books  https://amzn.to/3rpJFJ2 (Tim Woo's book The Master Switch ) https://amzn.to/34gflHN (Feed the Holy quote from Martin Prechtel)   https://amzn.to/3J2JHwc (How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis by James McCrea ) https://amzn.to/3ufgtpK (Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit) Other resources https://northstar.guide/ethicspledge (North Star Pledge) https://lauradawn.co/psychedelic-leadership-for-women/ (Psychedelic Leadership Mastermind for Women) https://lauradawn.co/Vet-Your-Shaman (Vet your shaman Guide ) https://lauradawn.co/Psychedelic-Integration-101 (Guide to Integration ) Featured Music Episode #42 of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast features a song called Chosen Ones by Mary Isis. https://open.spotify.com/track/5xQzQ5BcLtaM8gKC3lSTGj?si=ffb7a87fea98422c (Listen on Spotify) https://maryisis.bandcamp.com/track/chosen-ones (Listen on Bandcamp)

בפרק הזה נעסוק בחלבון בשם PGC1 Alpha. החלבון הזה ידוע גם כמתג הראשי המוביל לאדפטציות אירוביות בשרירים שלנו. במסגרת הפרק נדון במהו החלבון הזה, איך הוא עובד, מה ההשפעה שלו. והכי חשוב - איך אנחנו יכולים להפעיל אותו בצורה הנכונה על מנת להוביל לאדפטציות אירוביות בשרירים שלנו. האזנה נעימה!dror@trainbyscience.com

Brian Armstrong is the Founder and CEO of Coinbase. As a pillar of innovation and adoption in crypto, Brian is playing a pivotal role in determining the kind of future we'll see in the space. The Crypto movement is a battle for hearts and minds, and Coinbase is fighting on the front lines. Building bridges between the legacy world and the Metaverse is a daunting task, but Brian has been a headstrong leader with a powerful vision. Coinbase finds itself in a position to maximize a user's choice for what they do with their assets. With new features on the way like their NFT platform, Coinbase is steadily opening the doors for composability, decentralization, and ultimately… sovereignty. ✨ EPISODE DEBRIEF ✨ https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/exclusive-debrief-brian-armstrong  ------

Joel Polk takes us through Philippians 4:11-23Support the show (https://pushpay.com/g/borocitychurch?src=hpp)

I’m joined in this episode by Jackson Ford, author of THE FROST FILES modern day sci-fi series, which follows the misadventures of telekinetic and involuntary government operative Teagan Frost. The series includes THE GIRL WHO COULD MOVE SH*T WITH HER MIND and RANDOM SH*T FLYING THROUGH THE AIR, both of which are available now. The third book, EYE OF THE SH*T STORM, arrives April 27th from Orbit Books. Where to purchase these books: Book 1 — THE GIRL WHO COULD MOVE SH*T WITH HER MIND: Amazon » Bookshop » Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million IndieBound Book 2 — RANDOM SH*T FLYING THROUGH THE AIR: Amazon » Bookshop » Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million IndieBound Book 3 — EYE OF THE SH*T STORM: Amazon » Bookshop » Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million IndieBound » Some of these are affiliate links. Using them supports the channel, at no additional cost to you! Whenever possible, though, I encourage you to purchase from your local bookstores.  About Jackson Ford Author. Tall. Basketball-player-length arms. Lots of tattoos. Bad hair. Writes the ongoing Frost Files series. The series has been picked up for TV by CBS/Secret Hideout. Government name: Rob Boffard. Under that name, wrote the Outer Earth series (Tracer, Zero-G, Impact, Echoes 2015-2016) and Adrift (2018). Proud South African. Born in Johannesburg. Splits time between London and Vancouver. Visited forty-plus countries. May or may not have been banned from some of them over a horrible misunderstanding about burning cars. Former journalist and editor. The Guardian. Wired Magazine. The BBC. IO9. Huck Magazine. The Master Switch. Noisey. Boat Magazine. Many more. Award winner. Dumb question asker. Editor botherer. Source finder. Wrongs righted. Justice dealt. Follow Jackson Ford Website Twitter Instagram Amazon Profile » Goodreads About THE GIRL WHO COULD MOVE SH*T WITH HER MIND For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real. Sure, she’s got telekinetic powers – a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she’s normal for once. But then a body turns up at the site of her last job – murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. She’s got 24 hours to clear her name – and it’s not just her life at stake. If she can’t unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that’s on the brink of exploding…

Adrianne tries to deconstruct how a big city got a seemingly low-prestige area code. If you like the show, support us on Patreon and get access to our bonus show, Overunderstood. Show notes: 02:41 – LincMad.com 04:00 - Adrianne says here that Idaho got area code 702. This is not correct!! Idaho got 208. We regret the error. 04:43 – The rotary dial demonstrated in an AT&T video from around the time area codes were added 07:41 – AT&T, or Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph, was a monopoly provider of telephone service until it was broken up in 1983 as part of an antitrust settlement with the U.S. government. That’s really all you need to know, although a good book about this is The Master Switch 06:52 – A table of the original area code assignments 18:13 – Mark J Cuccia on the 50th anniversary of the North American Numbering Plan 18:34 – Mark J Cuccia mentions the Boston “anomaly” 19:03 – Nation-wide Toll Dialing (Bell Laboratories Record, October 1945) 19:19 – Billy worked on a video about the AT&T archive at The Verge 27:07 – 201, 609 And Now, Oh My, 908 (The New York Times, 1991) 32:40 – An example of Telephone Topics, the in-house magazine for New England Telephone 32:45 – It was actually “Tracing the Telephone in Western Massachusetts”

Matthew Siegel, CMO + Co-Founder of Aperture Investors, is bringing vulnerability to active fund management- an industry they say is designed to fail.  An unusual CMO in financial services, he was previously the Chief Digital Officer of Roc Nation, Jay-Z's media company, and VP at Ripcord Innovation Studio. In this episode, he discusses aligning alpha with client fees, Mariah Carey, and why their portfolio managers are on Instagram. Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewlsiegel?lang=enLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattsiegel/Website: https://apertureinvestors.com/Mentioned in this episode:Roc Nation: https://www.rocnation.com/Peter Kraus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterskraus/New Skool Episode #3: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humanizing-financial-advice-with-carl-richards/id1529343494?i=1000494670852Mount Kilimanjaro: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/kilimanjaro/The Master Switch by Tim Wu: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993 

Rev. MarciaGrace, B.A., M.S.C. was ordained as an Interfaith minister in 1995 and has been a chaplain at Northwell Health in Manhasset. She has been counseling business people since 2007 and teaching her “Turn on Your Master Switch” program for stressed-out business women seeking a higher perspective for their business and relationships. She has been a student and teacher of the metaphysical discipline, A Course in Miracles, for 40 years and is fervent in her desire to help women become aware of their inner wisdom which will give them all the answers they need for their business and personal life. This show is sponsored by BenfoComplete.com, a business based upon the goal of living a better life for those with neuropathy. Here's to happy and healthy hands and feet – use discount code “standup” for 5% OFF your every order!

A look at the use of skunkworks projects to circumvent bureaucratic hurdles. Full transcript of the episode with links to additional sources follows. === It was 1943. The world was at war. German engineering was producing an array of terrifying weapons, and even before the war, had already demonstrated working jet aircraft.  German jet fighters and bombers could potentially leave the Allies nearly helpless to defend against this technological threat with their own outmoded fleet of propeller-driven craft.  In this ecosystem of urgency, the US government approached airplane manufacturer Lockheed Martin with an incredible challenge. They wanted an American jet fighter to be developed. It would need to fly 600 MPH, maneuver and perform in intense aerial combat, and as if that weren't absurd enough, it needed to be ready to demonstrate in 180 days. Further constraints existed. Lockheed Martin was already using all of its floorspace for the war effort. How would it come up with a way to execute on this incredible directive? The answer came in the form of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), now commonly known as "Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works." The ADP is now the most famous example of the rapid solution approach now generically referred to as a "skunkworks project." In the earliest part of the 1980s the personal computer market was dominated by Apple and Commodore, but IBM - who dominated the server-rooms of the IT departments at the time - had taken notice. IBM wanted to get a piece of the home user and desktop computer market, but - as dramatically stated in the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds, IBM's own estimate is that due to bureaucracy and internal controls, it would take nine months just to ship an empty box.  The solution around this was a skunkworks project.  IBM had been experimenting with "Independent Business Units" that could shrug off the limitations of normal IBM procedures and act swiftly to get things done. The skunkworks project it undertook became the IBM PC and the project's design choices became the new paradigm for business computing. The name "Skunk Works" has an interesting origin. Because the group tasked with this 180 day miracle had no floorspace, they had to set up shop under a circus tent by a plastics factory in Burbank, California.  The fumes from the factory reminded workers of a recurring feature of the popular Lil' Abner comic strip, a smelly factory outside the fictional town of Dogpatch, Kentucky known as the "Skonk Works." This became the name of the group until the copyright owners of the Lil' Abner comic strip complained in the early 1960s and Lockheed Martin formally changed it to "Skunk Works" to appease the lawyers.  The name stuck and has become synonymous with this kind of project. Another famous skunkworks project was the Apple Macintosh.  The history of that project has become quasi-mythical because of books like Insanely Great, by Steven Levy and Revolution in the Valley by pioneering Mac programmer Andy Hertzfeld.  This story was also heavily featured in PBS' Triumph of the Nerds. In 1981, Apple was primarily funded by sales of the Apple II, but it was desperately trying to create the next revolutionary personal computer. After some internal struggles, Steve Jobs took over a project that had originally been envisioned by Jef Raskin as a friendly and inexpensive home computer. Jobs changed the focus to make a revolutionary graphical user interface based machine. He embraced the "rebel" mentality for his team, famously telling them "It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy." The team took this mentality seriously enough to hoist a Jolly Roger flag over the remote office complex where the Mac team worked. While it was not an instant success financially, the Macintosh project would also change the world. You can purchase a hand-painted Mac Jolly Roger flag from original artist Susan Kare (but they are pricey!) Apple itself (and Microsoft, for that matter) took its transformative windows and desktop metaphor from an even earlier and more innovative skunkworks project - one run by XEROX. The big copier company had setup its legendary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) facility and by the time Apple's Mac team got to visit, they had the Xerox Alto, a personal computer decades ahead of its time. Ethernet, the Graphical User Interface (GUI), the computer mouse, object-oriented programming (OOP), email, laser printers and a full concept of what is now the "modern office" all existed almost two decades before they would become ubiquitous parts of modern business.  1979 Xerox Alto commercial There's a lesson to be learned from the Xerox Alto, but we'll get back to that. Most skunkworks projects fail. We remember the successes but can't recall the failures because they never make it across the finish line into our consciousness.  Researchers call this "Survivorship Bias" and it's important to keep in mind, but it also suggests a key concept to potential success:  a successful skunkworks project keeps trying until it finds something that works.  In Silicon Valley, where tech startups rise and fall like sparks above a campfire, the innovations and lessons learned have been distilled down into the pithy phrase "fail fast, fail often."  As with any catchphrase, it is frequently misapplied, misunderstood, and misattributed - but the core lesson is to try things, see if they work, change if they don't, and keep trying until you find the formulation that succeeds.  Of course, it helps to have a genius team. The original Lockheed Martin Skunk Works project was run by legendary engineer Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson. His team consisted of 23 designers and 30 mechanics. Under a circus tent in the smelly shadow of the plastics factory, Johnson and his team put together a prototype in less than 150 days. That jet became the P-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational jet fighter. The same "skunkworks'' approach would be used to create the U2 Spy Plane, the SR71 Blackbird and the stealth fighter. Different leaders, different engineers and mechanics, but the same "outsiders on the inside'' method would drive their success. The P-80 Shooting Star (wikimedia) Apple's Macintosh team was full of superb engineers and programmers and their work continues to influence and inspire modern computing. Having Steve Jobs at the helm of the project, while certainly interpersonally challenging for the team, was also undeniably inspiring as well. The Mac team would dissolve shortly after the initial product release despite its accomplishments. Future successful Apple products like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad have not become synonymous with the skunkworks approach. The original Apple Macintosh (wikimedia) Most skunkworks projects are conducted by large businesses and should be funded accordingly, but sometimes these projects are done through stealth by rogue leadership. Often these are computer-related projects and have become known as Stealth IT or Rogue IT. As we'll discuss in a moment, the rise of such projects signals that your company has serious challenges that need to be identified. Such projects can be the result of interpersonal differences between the IT management and the business divisions, an IT delivery ability insufficiently fast at delivery, departmental functional needs not being addressed, or a variety of other causes. The emergence of such rogue efforts can also indicate that your knowledge workers have innovative ideas and are yearning to see them made real. Stealth IT is a bigger topic than we can address here, but it will be a future episode. These aren't technically skunkworks projects and therefore have to overcome not just the limits of doing the work without the blessing and funding of management but also with the risk of possible rejection of their output because of the manner in which it was created. Skunkworks projects have historically been behind amazing innovation, but they are not a magic potion for success. There are specific places where they've been most helpful.  Because of the wildly different backgrounds that have driven the use of skunkworks projects, some of the things one can infer from looking at the examples may seem conflicted, but here are a few observations: Skunkworks projects are often used to break through corporate bureaucracy to allow quick innovation. Before throwing together a skunkworks project, you need to make sure that the obstacles faced are the kind that can be worked around.  For instance, if the obstacles are statutory or regulatory, then a skunkworks project might not only be ineffective, but illegal. Kelly Johnson came up with a set of 14 rules for running a skunkworks project.  I will put a link to those in the show notes. His rules are written specifically for a government contract aeronautics industry, but some key points are still applicable.  I'm going to distill a few of these: A skunkworks project's leadership should effectively have total control of the project, reporting only to a limited and clearly identified executive management structure.  The project should have designated office space away from the regular workers. Isolation and exceptionalism are vital to making a skunkworks effective. Restrict access to the team. Use a small team. Use an exceptional team. Minimize the number of reports required. Let the team focus on accomplishment, not documentation - but appropriate documentation must be part of the effort. Fund the project adequately. Reward your team because you'll be asking it to do the extraordinary. A skunkworks project calls for exceptional workers.  It will be an extraordinary challenge to manage a team that will likely contain the arrogant and potentially iconoclastic. The lead will manage not just the technical challenges but also the interpersonal ones.  Skunkworks teams are a means for building entrepreneurial spirit in a mature - perhaps even stagnant - corporate environment. They are not typically suitable for start-ups themselves. Finally, a skunkworks project must deliver! To quote Steve Jobs, "real artists ship." Skunkworks projects fit nicely into the human need for myth. The narrative of a rogue band of genius workers saving the company or even the world from some disastrous situation is literally the formula for thousands of movies, books and TV shows. But is that really the way business should get done?   As much as I understand the visceral appeal of such narratives, it is possible that a successful company that is not using skunkworks is actually a sign of health. There are other ways to achieve innovation. Google famously has its 80/20 rule. Since the mid-2000s, it has encouraged its workforce to spend 80% of their time on primary work tasks, but 20% on innovative side projects. But even with all that, the company set up its X-project division, which is a skunkworks-style incubator.  There is another way, a second route to achieving innovation, and that is adopting an internal policy of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). In software, CI/CD means instead of producing single massive product rollouts, the engineers continuously provide updates and improvements with additional features and fixes. This becomes a reliable and continuous stream of innovation that never lets the project grow stale. This kind of corporate culture can avoid the need for a skunkworks approach because it is literally fed on the input and feedback from the users and that is a major pipeline for innovation and improvement.  The bigger a company gets, the more mired in complex organizational structures, the slower it tends to move. The corporation becomes a victim of inertia, slow to turn or maneuver. A corporation is like a cargo ship maneuvering through an icy ocean. Icebergs are a threat that requires maneuverability, but bureaucracy can also be an ice-flow that stifles movement. We could think of our skunkworks projects as a kind of icebreaker, a ship that specializes in plowing through such ice and making safe passage for the bigger cargo ships. The CI/CD in this metaphor would be a large, maneuverable ship that avoids the ice entirely.  I wondered, "Could the need for a skunkworks project counterintuitively be a canary-in-the-coalmine that a corporation is in danger of getting stuck in the ice?" But then the mixed-metaphor police gave me a warning ticket, so I decided to check and see what companies are still using this approach. Samsung, Google, Ford, Staples, IBM, and many massive corporations still use the skunkworks approach to foster innovation outside of bureaucratic constraints. I suspect there is some risk that business journalists have, to some degree, confused the skunkworks approach with the kind of "pure research" labs of the type that AT&T famously ran.  Which brings us back to Xerox.   In his book, The Master Switch, Tim Wu describes multiple examples of how massive corporations use their resources to find innovative solutions to problems, but then discover that their findings are so disruptive they threaten the structure currently funding their existence. Rather than monetize the new products at the risk of disrupting their own status quo, they succumb to the temptation to patent and bury the technologies.  Again and again, this approach gives years to decades of protection to the old ways, but inevitably some outsider will find an unpatented approach to these institutionally suppressed innovations. It is shameful, but understandable, that innovations are often stifled because it is easier in the short term to maintain the status quo. It takes extraordinary leadership and vision to risk disruption in order to overcome the inertia of the mentality of "if it ain't broke don't fix it."  Such corporate pivots are more often the result of desperation than insight.  Which brings us back to Xerox.  The PARC team handed Xerox the future of business, but Xerox leadership didn't know what to do with it.  Unexploited by Xerox, the various innovations of PARC crept out into the world either directly at the hands of individual creators, or through the emulation of their innovations by competitors like Apple. Innovations are going to happen - but who will control them? Suppression of innovation is a dead end, it just sometimes takes a decade or more to prove it. So what is the right answer to your innovation needs? Do you need a skunkworks project? Do you need to adopt CI/CD in your organization? Will your stifling of discovery make your smartest and boldest workers break off and become entrepreneurs?  There's lots to consider here. As always, Apex Process Consultants are here to help you figure this out with our team of expert consultants and software tools designed to foster innovation and help you accelerate YOUR business transformation. Check our show notes for links about the companies and people in this episode.

The premiere of and commentary on the new Arby 'n' the Chief Bytes episode "Master Switch", I wanna choke every Youtuber, Rooster Teeth reviews and downsizing, synthetic human voice generation, Epstein's suspicious suicide, Pedophile Island and more on the See Me After Class Podcast with Jon Graham. Donate: https://streamlabs.com/joncjgvideo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jcjgraham Website: http://www.imaginativelogo.com/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/joncjg-420-69 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jcjgraham Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcjgraham Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joncjg/

Dr. Ralf Herwig is an Austrian urologist, scientist and cofounder of an innovative pharmaceutical company. His groundbreaking research goes far beyond Urology. In fact, it’s impact goes far beyond medicine and has the potential to improve the health and functionality of every human being. This is not and exaggeration. ​He sat down with Dr. Marco Pelosi III to discuss his work.   SHOW NOTES You optimize [2:45] human body for performance without drugs. The Master Switch [6:15] for the immune system has been identified. How [9:18] did you get involved in this science? A biochemist [10:42] and I began working together at the University of Graz 20 years ago. Simple ingredients [12:30] can help the body to heal itself more quickly and effectively. Necessity [13:30] forced us to produce products out of our research. Basic science [15:00] to clinical testing and trials was a 20-year process. I found [20:40] tumor cells could be detected inside macrophages in the bloodstream   They laughed [22:00] when I presented my findings Oxidative stress [22:45] and the recovery of free radicals from vitamins was the next area of breakthrough. Rubbish [24:30] is converted into energy with our molecule. Performance [25:40] levels are enhanced by this process. Over 200 diseases [26:30] will improve with reduction of oxidative stress with one agent. Snake oil [27:50] didn’t have double-blinded placebo-controlled proof of efficacy like this. Treatment [28:50] before and after lung resection surgery for example reduced hospitalization by 1 week vs placebo. In sports [31:30] muscle fatigue and 20% enhanced performance were measured like doping without doping. Treadmill [33:30] testing of parameters was used on elite athletes. Skin responds [36:30] quickly to this agent in cream with rejuvenation effects. In the vagina [39:00] the cream has not been tested, but the ingredients are harmless in any dose even when injected intravenously. They are substances that already exist within the body. Your other [40:20] research shows that we can increase speed and effectiveness of T cells and macrophages with a Vitamin D – protein complex. How [42:13] is this being used in the treatment of autism? Personal unscientific [45:00] shows complete elimination of the common cold in 10 hours. Oral formulations [47:00] are sufficient, but this agent is not stable in liquid so it comes as a powder that is reconstituted. Insurance companies [49:00] view this as experimental and don’t cover this. One dose [52:00] per week should show results in 4 weeks in autism if it’s working for the child. How would [56:30] one obtain and use your products for surgical patients? You started [59:45] a company in Austria. ​ Dubai [1:07:00] entered my world as the result of a conference. Dr. Ralf Herwig can be reached via his website https://hg-pharma.shop/en/

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A.K.A. Brainn Medication Today's Report Includes: “The Perfect Metaphor for The Christmas Season”[1], “Hey Fido! He Likes It!”[2],  “It's Like Janet From The Good Place”[3], “She Has A Name”[4], “It's CGI, I Saw Infinity War”[5], & “So, A Bar Joke Walks Into A Bar…”[6] Also, New Segment: Notes From The Editor!!!   Intro & Outro: Macross 82-99 Hosts: Brandon Babcock, André LaMilza, Nicole Rodriguez     Game Corner: Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee if You're A Pokémon Master [Switch] (3/10) , Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee otherwise [Switch] (10/10), Moonlighter [Switch] (9/10) What's Good?: https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/article/south-korea-legalizes-medical-cannabis/ Article Links: 1. https://www.upi.com/Runaway-inflatable-Santa-Claus-blocks-traffic-on-busy-road/2271543434316/ 2. https://www.chewboom.com/2018/11/28/burger-king-unveils-the-dogpper-a-dog-bone-with-bks-flame-grilled-taste/ 3. https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17642868/robots-turn-off-beg-not-to-empathy-media-equation 4. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/japanese-man-spends-14000-marry-13594893 5. https://globalnews.ca/news/4703769/cow-knickers-slaughterhouse/ 6. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/horse-charges-bar-sending-stunned-13345505     Til' Next Time, Big Robot. Me And You. Anime As Hell. Moving Feet In Different Times. And Hands. We Pick Up This Cup Together.   #TLYK #ShowerThoughts #NotesFromTheEditor

Best known for coining the phrase “net neutrality” and his book The Master Switch, Tim Wu has a new book coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. In it, he argues compellingly for a return to aggressive antitrust enforcement in the style of Teddy Roosevelt, saying that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other huge tech companies are a threat to democracy as they get bigger and bigger. Nilay sits down with Wu for this week's interview episode of The Vergecast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

W siedemnastym już kompocie dyskutujemy (tzn. Remek więcej mówi, a Marek słucha) o książkach w wersjach cyfrowych z naciskiem na postać audio – audiobookach. Jak się okazuje, to wciąż rynek rozwijający się, a jednak już dziś jest w czym wybierać i to zarówno pod względem oferty, sposobu dystrybucji jak i rozwiązań wspomagających – jak to brzydko brzmi – konsumpcję treści. Jak zwykle załączamy garść odsyłaczy do usług i aplikacji wymienionych w podkaście. Książki audio za darmo: Wolne Lektury LibriVox Open Culture Gdzie kupować?: Audioteka Virtualo Audiobook.pl Publio Audible Humble Bundle UpolujEbooka.pl Kupować taniej w abonamencie: Audioteka Audioteka Plus – 19,90 zł, Audioteka w T-Mobile – 19,90 zł, Audioteka w Orange – 19,99 zł, Audiobooki w Play – 19,99 zł, Audioteka w Plusie – 19,99 zł, karnety: 5 książek 149 zł (1 książka 29,80), 10 książek 249 zł (1 książka 24,90), 20 książek 429 zł (1 książka 21,45), Audible miesięcznie 1 książka 14,95 $ (1 książka 14,95 $), miesięcznie 2 książki 22.95 $ (1 książka 11,48 $), rocznie 12 książek 149,50 $ (1 książka 12,46 $), rocznie 24 książki 229,50 $ (1 książka 9,56 $), dodatkowe 3 książki 34,41 $ (1 książka 11,47 $), StoryTel  – abonament 29,90 zł miesięcznie. Czym słuchać?: Aplikacje sklepów: Audioteka (iOS), Audible (iOS), Storytel (iOS), Apple (i)Books (iOS), Bound (iOS), CloudBeats (iOS). Jak konwertować? (DRM to zło!): AudioBook Builder / MAS Fission The Tagger TunesKit Co wybrać na start?: Historia – Tim Wu, The Master Switch (audible), Fantasy – Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard (audible), IT – Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (audible), SF William Hertling, Avogadro Corp (audible), Janusz Zajdel, Limes inferior (Audioteka), Stanisław Lem, Wizja lokalna (Audioteka), Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioteka), Thriller Mark Russinovich, Zero Day (audible), Daniel Suarez, Influx (audible), Mario Puzo, Ojciec Chrzestny (Audioteka), Biografia Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking (audible), Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, Kreatywność S.A. Droga do prawdziwej inspiracji (Audioteka), Zdrowie – Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat And What to Do About It (audible), Dla młodzieży – John Flanagan, Zwiadowcy cz.1 Ruiny Gorlanu (Audioteka), Nasz podcast znajdziecie w iTunes (link), możecie też dodać do swojego ulubionego czytnika RSS (link) lub przesłuchać bezpośrednio w przeglądarce (link). Zapraszamy do kontaktu na Twitterze: Remek Rychlewski @RZoG. Marek Telecki @mantis30. Natomiast całe przedsięwzięcie firmuje konto @ApplejuicePl. Jesteśmy również dostępni dla Was pod adresem e-mail kompot[at]applejuice.pl

Time stamped show notes: [0:59] Richard's journey and struggles [1:55] Started at 15--early days of advertising online, before the bubble burst [4:53] Formula for success: team, right capitalization, idea   [6:07] Make sure team members and partners are in a good place in their lives. [7:23] Stability is a state of mind. [10:08] Make sure everyone is aligned toward the same goals and vision. [10:27] Have a clear vision. | Can you articulate it in a sentence? Can you explain it to your grandma? [10:54] Know what's in it for you and what's in it for the other people. Set up clear incentive structures. [11:16] Offer coaching and guidance along the way. [13:01] Learn by foundation first. If people are missing all their goals and don't have an evolution, part ways. [14:59] Ways to get closer to understanding if someone is a good fit or not [15:00] Trust your intuition. Give people test projects. Learn to read people quickly. [15:57] Give people a chance to course correct. [17:02] What is he working on? [in cryptocurrency] [18:45] Metric he will use to measure his success [19:47] Where he thinks the market is right now [22:12] Cypto is a market with “hot money.” [23:14] You can't show people what this [crypto] is going to be. [23:33] Cryptocurrency gold rush - based on emotions, not on economics [31:14] Things he wish people would read | What he recommends to people in the Crypto market Three key points: Formula for success: team, right capitalization, idea Make sure everyone is aligned toward the same goals and vision. Finding a good fit: Trust your intuition. Give people test projects. Learn to read people quickly. Resources mentioned: The Master Switch - book Last question: Launching an Investment Fund to invest, build and operate in the market. Build infrastructure. How to contact Richard if you want to get involved: richie@tractionandscale dot com Looking for capital partners, an investment professional (background in private equity and crypto), an investment relations person, a Chief Operating Office and project leads. He's always looking for talent. Twitter: @RichieBlueEyes

There’s not a big third-party in the middle taking thirty, fifty, or whatever percent of the cut on the way, it’s just directly from one individual to another individual. In this episode of Made You Think we mixed it up by bringing in two guests: Taylor Pearson and Adil Majid, to ask them all of our burning questions about cryptocurrency. Neil came into the episode completely fresh and asked them everything he could think of, so if you’re new to bitcoin, ethereum, and cryptocurrency, or have a basic understanding but want to learn more, this is the crash course you’ve been looking for. We cover a wide range of topics, including: The history and the creation of cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies pros, cons, and uses Various types and forms of cryptocurrencies The major benefits of cryptocurrencies usage Long and short-term price speculations Reliable sources of cryptocurrency news and information And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure check out Taylor and Adil online! If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to also listen to our launch episodes on Antifragile by Nassim Taleb to learn how to profit from chaos, and on The Sovereign Individual, to better prepare yourself for the cyber-economic future. Mentioned in the show: Spire [1:28] Cypher Punks [13:37] E-Gold [13:57] Dropbox [17:22] Filecoin [17:38] Source Wifi [17:42] Uber [19:21] Nick Szabo’s Blog - Unenumerated [23:19] Steem Crypto-Reddit [38:54] Made You Think: The Sovereign Individual [48:35] Coinbase [50:05] JP Morgan [54:11] JP Morgan trading Bitcoin after fraud claim [54:11] The Silk Road marketplace [1:10:00] Bitcoin forums [1:11:05] Ethereum [1:15:30] The DAO [1:18:45] (the DAO hack) Alibaba [1:23:14] Inneo [1:23:23] Belaji’s article on quantifying decentralization [1:24:20] Bitcoin Whitepaper [1:29:10] Vitalik Buterin’s blog [1:30:56] Social Scalability article [1:35:55] Nick Szabo’s Tim Ferriss Podcast episode [1:36:43] Cryptocurrency on Medium [1:37:03] Books mentioned: The Dictator’s Handbook [4:18] The Master Switch [4:46] Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital [57:37] Digital Gold [1:08:11] The Sovereign Individual [1:30:22] (Made You Think episode) (Nat’s Notes) The Internet of Money [1:34:59] People mentioned: Taylor Pearson [0:49] (Twitter) Adil Majid [1:21] (Twitter) Tim Wu [4:46] Satoshi Nakamoto [11:19] Nick Szabo [14:02] Kevin Kelly [34:05] Gandhi [51:38] Jamie Dimon [54:11] Carlota Perez [57:37] Ari Paul [1:07:47] Chris Burniske [1:07:47] Balaji Srinivasan [1:07:47] Barry Silbert [1:07:47]    Vitalik Buterin [1:07:47] Laura Shin [1:07:47] Elizabeth Stark [1:07:47] Fred Wilson [1:07:47] Naval Ravikant [1:07:47] Hal Finney [1:12:13] Bruce Mesquita [1:34:47] Andreas Antonopoulos [1:35:09] Nassim Nicholas Taleb [1:36:20] (Antifragile Made You Think episode) Tim Ferriss [1:36:43] Useful resources: Taylor’s articles on cryptocurrency (here and here) Nat’s articles on cryptocurrency (here and here) 0:00 - Intro to the show and some information on what the episode will be about. 0:49 - Taylor Pearson and Adil Majid’s introductions and how they both got into cryptocurrency. 5:32 - Some of the ways that cryptocurrency is useful due to it being decentralized and free from governmental control. 8:45 - The two types of cryptocurrencies: currencies and tokens, and some key differences between them. 10:13 - What makes cryptocurrencies able to be decentralized and free from governmental control. Also, why people can’t create more bitcoins, info on the blockchain, and info on mining cryptocurrencies. 13:15 - Cryptocurrency creation attempts that came before the creation of Bitcoin. 14:26 - Who is creating cryptocurrencies, how they are created, and how they attain value. 16:23 - Some more information on tokens and some examples of these tokens. 18:11 - Why we would want to use tokens for transactions instead of traditional currency. 23:00 - What the customized contract aspect of cryptocurrencies is and how it is much more beneficial to all parties involved compared to traditional contracts or transactions. 30:59 - The international commerce aspect of cryptocurrencies and the huge impact they can have on minimizing transactional fees. 35:21 - How cryptocurrency is possibly going to affect tech and non-banking companies in the future. 39:18 - The potential of decentralized autonomous organizations in the future and huge impacts these can have on our daily lives. 41:20 - The difference between protocols and applications in cryptocurrencies. 44:49 - Some things that are holding cryptocurrencies back right now. 48:32 - Cryptocurrency regulation and the issue with governmental opposition to cryptocurrencies. 50:39 - Exchanges facing opposition, crypto being free of regulations, and some thoughts on governmental intervention. 54:11 - An example of large companies manipulating the price of cryptocurrencies and how the market cap increasing may help stabilize the currencies. 59:14 - Thoughts on the fluctuations of cryptocurrencies and whether or not it’s going to be valuable long-term or short-term. 1:03:15 - What’s been going on with the Chinese regulations and how that may play out with the different coins in the future. 1:05:45 - Some excellent sources of cryptocurrency information and news, and what types of sources to avoid. 1:08:05 - The backstory of Bitcoin and its creation. Also, some speculations on who the creator actually was. 1:16:10 - The creation of Ethereum, who the creator is, some benefits it has over Bitcoin, and the DAO hack. 1:22:01 - The Bitcoin fork, where Bitcoin split into Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash, and the differences between them. 1:23:29 - Quantifying the decentralization of these various cryptocurrencies. 1:26:28 - The energy arbitrage with Bitcoin, the possible environmental impacts, and Bitcoin mining. 1:30:08 - What you should check out after this episode to learn more about cryptocurrency. 1:32:58 - Where to go to learn more about the application aspect of crypto rather than the currency aspect. 1:38:40 - Wrap-up and where to find Taylor and Adil online. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe at https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com Part of what makes it so complex is also part of what makes it so interesting. There’s political philosophy, geopolitics, no regulations, network effects, incentivizing people to participate in a network, a kind of economics, and then, there’s the technical standpoint involved.

Columbia law professor Tim Wu makes me feel boring and underaccomplished. He’s been a Supreme Court clerk, a Silicon Valley startup employee, a bestselling author, and a star academic. He coined the term "network neutrality," wrote the superb book The Master Switch, and was dubbed "Genius Wu" by Richard Posner — a man many consider to be our smartest living judge. And this is to say nothing of Wu's award-winning side-gig as a — yes — travel writer.Anyway, screw that guy. Wu's new book is The Attention Merchants, and it's a history of how the advertising business has shaped the information we consume, the products we crave, and the way we think. We talk about that book, but we also talk about Wu's approach to life. He explains why his great strength is his ability to ignore inconsistency, how Larry Lessig shaped his career and his marriage, why working in Silicon Valley left him skeptical of markets, and Marshall McLuhan and Timothy Leary’s advertising jingle for acid (really).We also go deep into antitrust law, the inner workings of the Supreme Court, whether Google and Facebook are monopolies, and what a world without advertising in media might look like. So this conversation covers a lot of ground. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the hidden impact of constant demands on our attention? How does it affect how we think, how we act, and how we live? We have clickbait on our mobile devices and computer screens, ads on buses, and commercials on radio and TV. But as Tim Wu, author and Professor at Columbia University Law School points out, this is a fairly recent development that has turned into a constant monetization of our attention.    Tim is the author of three books: Who Controls the Internet?, The Master Switch, and most recently, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. He has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, and Slate magazine. He points out that this constant barrage of messaging actually shapes who we are, often without our realizing it. Highlights from our conversation include: How does what we are exposed to determine what we decide? The connection between early war propaganda and the rise of advertising How the science of advertising was built on engineering demand Why early suffragettes were hired to sell cigarettes How the Paris poster period led to an early revolt against the attention merchants How Consumer Reports grew out of frustration with ads The original remote control took the shape of a gun to blow away commercials Bringing TVs into our homes meant attention merchants now had more access 1950s provided a captive prime time TV programming audience for advertisers How advertising convinces us that to be individuals we need to buy things How novelty and unpredictability makes things addictive How idealistic tech founders work against own values in reliance on ads Tech innovation of today focused more on getting inside our minds and featuring ads Why harvesting captures so well how our attention is sought and used How such a tiny sector of the economy has such a big impact on us and how we live How spending time with others is actually a revolt against advertising Where are the sacred spaces in our lives? What is the role of public virtue in decision making today? Selected Links to Topics Mentioned Tim Wu @superwuster William James Benjamin Day Herbert Kitchener George Washington Hill French Poster Period Singletasking by Devora Zack Timothy Leary Mad Men Coca-Cola Commercial Charlie Brown Christmas Special Space Invaders You’ve Got Mail Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull Buzzfeed Netflix Temenos If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening! Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo, and thank you to Rob Mancabelli for all of his production expertise! www.gayleallen.net LinkedIn @GAllenTC

 In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials, and other efforts to harvest our attention. In his new book, The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch who coined the phrase “net neutrality,” explores the rise of firms whose business models are the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. Wu visits ALOUD for a revelatory look at the cognitive, social, and unimaginable ways that industries feeding on human attention are transforming our society and ourselves.Click here for photos from the program.

Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and professor at Columbia Law School, discussed his new book, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, during a conversation at the Shorenstein Center with Erie Meyer, Joan Shorenstein Fellow. Wu, whose past work also includes the FTC, Google, and Free Press, discussed the historical origins of the attention economy, how people are fighting back against the encroachment of advertising, and considerations for media and technology companies. This Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event was recorded on October 25, 2016, at Harvard Kennedy School.   

The author of the Master Switch says that while the right to be forgotten is a good idea in theory, the reality is that it may hamper entrepreneurship in Europe.

While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean’s surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, totally unharmed... ...and smiling. This man was a "freediver", and his superhuman abilities inspired James to seek out the secrets of the little-known discipline of free diving, and to write the new book, . In the book, he embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming not only our knowledge of the planet and its creatures, but also our understanding of the human body and mind. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away through sonar, sharks that swim in straight lines through pitch-black waters using built-in, natural electromagnetic sensors, and seals who dive to depths below 2,400 feet for up to eighty minutes. From each of these strange phenomena are, James shows how humans themselves could be capable of these remarkable feats such as extreme breath-holding, echolocation, and alternate forms of communication. James has written for Outside Magazine, Dwell Magazine, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Men's Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and more, and in today's interview with James, you'll learn: -Why ... -How you can use something called "the Master Switch of Life" to enhance your heart and lung function... -What you can train your body to do to survive as you dive to greater depths... -A new form of air pressure equalization that allows you to go to incredible depths, and how to learn it... -How to use breath-hold walks and other forms of dry land breath training to increase your oxygen capacity... -Why WiFi routers and cell phones may actually be destroying your innate ability to sense your physical location on the planet... -How you can learn to navigate without seeing and instead by using a built-in ability called echolocation... -How you can learn to freedive... Resources From This Episode -The book . -Ted Hardy from who can teach you the Frenzel Technique on Skype. -This if you want to teach yourself. - to learn how to freedive. If you have questions, comments or feedback about how to start freediving, the book Deep, or anything else James and I discuss in the podcast, then leave them at .

James Nestor - The ocean is the final, unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilderness. In fact, we know more about other planets and stars lightyears away than we do about our oceans, which cover more than 2/3 of our planet. Join us this week as we follow author James Nestor on an amazing journey to the depths of the ocean. James is the author of Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves which is ranked as one of Amazon's best non-fiction books of 2014. The book follows clans of extreme athletes, adventurers, and scientists as they plumb the limits of the ocean's depths and uncover weird and wondrous new discoveries that, in many cases, redefine our understanding of the ocean and ourselves. James has written for Outside Magazine, Dwell Magazine, National Public Radio,The New York Times, Men's Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and more.  Nestor’s first book, Get High Now (without drugs) humorously explores the worlds of neurology, biology, and physiology through meditations, illusions, household herbs, and some bizarre anthropological discoveries. The accompanying website, gethighnow.com, was awarded in Time Magazine’s Top 50 Websites of 2009 and receives about 200,000 hits per month. "Our bodies are equipped with reflexes that allow us to withstand the incredible pressures of a deep dive - our bodies completely transform.  It is the most profound transformation that we can naturally experience." - James Nestor Quotes from James:  What we learn in this episode: How does someone make a living as an author? What is the "Master Switch of Life"? What is the sport of freediving? How can the human body withstand the pressure imposed on it at 300+ feet below sea level where lungs shrink down to the size of baseballs? Resources: Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves http://mrjamesnestor.com/index.html Performance Freediving International Twitter: @MrJamesNestor -- This episode is brought to you by: 99Designs: Go to 99designs.com/SMART to get a $99 Power Pack of services for FREE today! Personal Capital: With Personal Capital, you’ll finally be able to see all your accounts in one place and get a clear view of everything you own. To sign up for free go to personalcapital.com/smartpeople.

Anders and Scott discuss the impact of large corporations on innovation and competition with The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu as the backdrop.

Professor Timothy Wu of Columbia Law School gave a free public lecture on Thursday, March 22, 2012, based on material from his most recent book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Alfred A. Knopf: 2010). In The Master Switch, Wu speaks of the cycle of monopolization that has beset the development [...]

This month's podcast looks at Facebook's dominance and internet censorship in China. It features interviews with Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, and Professor Tim Wu, author of the Master Switch.

In the first review, I discuss a recent report from the journal Nature Genetics that has identified on how master regulator gene may contribute to a cascade of metabolic effects in other genes. This gene (KLF14) is linked to type 2 diabetes and cholesterol and is a "master switch" that controls other genes found in fat in the body. In the next report, the importance of recognizing early symptoms of coronary artery disease in women is discussed. These include: jaw discomfort, back pain, heartburn, feeling light-headed, and, cold clammy skin. Heart disease is the number one killer of women and it is important to be proactive.