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Farmers are looking for ways to add more mechanization to address labor shortages, reduce costs and improve efficiency, and tomorrow, FFA student members, advisors, and leaders across the country will be celebrating National Ag Day.
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop welcomes Andrew Burlinson, an artist and creative thinker, for a deep conversation about technology, creativity, and the human spirit. They explore the importance of solitude in the creative process, the addictive nature of digital engagement, and how AI might both challenge and enhance human expression. Andrew shares insights on the shifting value of art in an AI-driven world, the enduring importance of poetry, and the unexpected resurgence of in-person experiences. For more on Andrew, check out his LinkedIn and Instagram.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversation!Timestamps00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome00:27 Meeting in LA and Local Insights01:34 The Creative Process and Technology03:47 Balancing Solitude and Connectivity07:21 AI's Role in Creativity and Productivity11:00 Future of AI in Creative Industries14:39 Challenges and Opportunities with AI16:59 AI in Hollywood and Ethical Considerations18:54 Silicon Valley and AI's Impact on Jobs19:31 Navigating the Future with AI20:06 Adapting to Rapid Technological Change20:49 The Value of Art in a Fast-Paced World21:36 Shifting Aesthetics and Cultural Perception22:54 The Human Connection in the Age of AI24:37 Resurgence of Traditional Art Forms27:30 The Importance of Early Artistic Education31:07 The Role of Poetry and Language35:56 Balancing Technology and Intention37:00 Conclusion and Contact InformationKey InsightsThe Importance of Solitude in Creativity – Andrew Burlinson emphasizes that creativity thrives in moments of boredom and solitude, which have become increasingly rare in the digital age. He reflects on his childhood, where a lack of constant stimulation led him to develop his artistic skills. Today, with infinite digital distractions, people must intentionally carve out space to be alone with their thoughts to create work that carries deep personal intention rather than just remixing external influences.The Struggle to Defend Attention – Stewart and Andrew discuss how modern digital platforms, particularly social media, are designed to hijack human attention through powerful AI-driven engagement loops. These mechanisms prioritize negative emotions and instant gratification, making it increasingly difficult for individuals to focus on deep, meaningful work. They suggest that future AI advancements could paradoxically help free people from screens, allowing them to engage with technology in a more intentional and productive way.AI as a Creative Partner—But Not Yet a True Challenger – While AI is already being used in creative fields, such as Hollywood's subtle use of AI for film corrections, it currently lacks the ability to provide meaningful pushback or true creative debate. Andrew argues that the best creative partners challenge ideas rather than just assist with execution, and AI's tendency to be agreeable and non-confrontational makes it a less valuable collaborator for artists who need critical feedback to refine their work.The Pendulum Swing of Human and Technological Aesthetics – Throughout history, every major technological advancement in the arts has been met with a counter-movement embracing raw, organic expression. Just as the rise of synthesizers in music led to a renewed interest in acoustic and folk styles, the rapid expansion of AI-generated art may inspire a resurgence of appreciation for handcrafted, deeply personal artistic works. The human yearning for tactile, real-world experiences will likely grow in response to AI's increasing role in creative production.The Enduring Value of Art Beyond Economic Utility – In a world increasingly shaped by economic efficiency and optimization, Andrew stresses the need to reaffirm the intrinsic value of art. While capitalism dominates, the real significance of artistic expression lies in its ability to move people, create connection, and offer meaning beyond financial metrics. This perspective is especially crucial in an era where AI-generated content is flooding the creative landscape, potentially diluting the sense of personal expression that defines human art.The Need for Intentionality in Using AI – AI's potential to streamline work processes and enhance creative output depends on how humans choose to engage with it. Stewart notes that while AI can be a powerful tool for structuring time and filtering distractions, it can also easily pull people into mindless consumption. The challenge lies in using AI with clear intention—leveraging it to automate mundane tasks while preserving the uniquely human aspects of ideation, storytelling, and artistic vision.The Role of Poetry and Language in Reclaiming Humanity – In a technology-driven world where efficiency is prioritized over depth, poetry serves as a reminder of the human experience. Andrew highlights the power of poets and clowns—figures often dismissed as impractical—as essential in preserving creativity, playfulness, and emotional depth. He suggests that valuing poetry and artistic language can help counterbalance the growing mechanization of culture, keeping human expression at the forefront of civilization's evolution.
Did you like this episode? Send us a text message and share your thoughts!“When you look at innovation, what can you do to your daily tasks to automate them, simplify them, and make them labor-friendly and super easy? That's where it's at – your daily tasks.”In this episode of Cow-Side Conversations, Josh Waddell of Apple Shamrock Farms LLC in Northwestern Pennsylvania talks about what innovation truly looks like – and how finding labor savings within daily tasks often gets forgotten on dairy farms. He shares some of the technology he utilizes on a daily basis and innovative decisions he has made to save on labor and drive efficiency. These include a three-cell lagoon system and sand lane system that helps reduce mechanization and labor costs by pumping manure versus hauling it. Josh also talks about the Afimilk cow monitoring system and feed tracking data he uses to make sure he's milking the right cows, a coherent group calving system and bedded pack barn he built for springer cows, and the unique system he developed for group housed, free choice fed calves.
Subscribe to Grand Tamasha on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or your favorite podcast app. I spoke with Steven Brownstone, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of California, San Diego. His research focus is on the fields of development economics, agricultural economics, and political economy. We discussed his job market paper, Labor Market Effects of Agricultural Mechanization: Experimental Evidence from India. We talked about the reason there isn't a natural mechanization in rice plantation in Telangana, the role of the state in the uptake of mechanization, the labor market in a developing country that is undergoing a structural transformation and much more. Recorded September 11th, 2024. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links. Connect with Ideas of India Follow us on X Follow Shruti on X Follow Steven on X Click here for the latest Ideas of India episodes sent straight to your inbox. Timestamps (00:00:00) - Intro (00:01:04) - Grand Tamasha (00:02:36) - The Wage and Labor Effects of Mechanized Drum Seeders in Telangana (00:07:43) - Wages Failing to Rise: NREGA and a Profitability Ceiling (00:09:41) - Women's Changing Role in the Farming Labor Market (00:11:07) - The Puzzle of Mechanization: Is Government Intervention Necessary? (00:15:41) - Mechanization or Migrant Labor (00:19:27) - The Role of Government in Mechanization Adoption (00:23:46) - Should Telangana farmers grow rice? (00:26:08) - Market Distortions and Maximizing Food Production (00:29:31) - Larger Economic Questions About Agricultural Subsidies (00:34:18) - Future of Mechanization and Agricultural Policy in Telangana (00:36:45) - The Long Shadow of Feudalism: Concentration of Land and Labor Market Power in India (00:39:00) - How the Feudal Structure Shaped Current Farm Ownership and Women's Labor (00:41:54) - New Research in Relation to Existing Stories of State Capacity (00:46:05) - Outro
Join the live global event, "Introduction to Regenerative Coffee Farming," an online event in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for coffee producers and the wider coffee industry on October 28, 29, and 30th.Register now at: https://mapitforward.coffee/workshops••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••This is the 2nd episode of a new five-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro by the Map It Forward Podcast, hosted by Lee Safar.Our guest in this series is returning guest, Brazilian coffee Agronomist, Jonas Ferraresso. Brazil is experiencing an unusual situation in 2024 regarding the production of most agricultural products. In this series, Jonas and Lee explore "The economics of the different ways of growing coffee in Brazil"The five-episode of this series are:1. Different Approaches For Farming Coffee - https://youtu.be/pRe56jiAodA2. The Costs of Different Coffee Farming Systems - https://youtu.be/m3g0UkgDlhM3. The Future Of Brazil's Coffee Crops - https://youtu.be/-nOeurlNlm04. Is Coffee Farming Making Money? - https://youtu.be/6q_hrsm56sY5. The Change Needed For Coffee Farming - https://youtu.be/7tulFSO3up0In this episode of The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward, host Lee Safar delves into the economics behind different coffee farming methods in Brazil, discussing the advantages and challenges of conventional, organic, regenerative, and agroforestry approaches. The conversation highlights the ongoing struggles with climate change and labor shortages, emphasizing the need for more resilient farming techniques. 00:00 Introduction to Regenerative Coffee Farming01:05 Upcoming Workshop Announcement02:32 Economics of Coffee Farming Methods03:28 Challenges in Organic and Conventional Farming11:19 Mechanization and Labor in Coffee Farming21:26 Impact of Farming Methods on Crop Resilience25:07 Conclusion and Next Episode Preview25:41 Closing Remarks and Call to ActionConnect with Jonas here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-leme-ferraresso-b5391027/https://www.instagram.com/jonascoffeeagronomist/••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Support this podcast by supporting our Patreon:https://bit.ly/MIFPatreon••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward Podcast Host: Lee Safarhttps://www.mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/leesafar••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Join the live global event, "Introduction to Regenerative Coffee Farming," an online event in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for coffee producers and the wider coffee industry on October 28, 29, and 30th.Register now at: https://mapitforward.coffee/workshops••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••This is the first episode of a new five-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro by the Map It Forward Podcast, hosted by Lee Safar.Our guest in this series is returning guest, Brazilian coffee Agronomist, Jonas Ferraresso. Brazil is experiencing an unusual situation in 2024 regarding the production of most agricultural products. In this series, Jonas and Lee explore "The economics of the different ways of growing coffee in Brazil"The five-episode of this series are:1. Different Approaches For Farming Coffee - https://youtu.be/pRe56jiAodA2. The Costs of Different Coffee Farming Systems - https://youtu.be/m3g0UkgDlhM3. The Future Of Brazil's Coffee Crops - https://youtu.be/-nOeurlNlm04. Is Coffee Farming Making Money? - https://youtu.be/6q_hrsm56sY5. The Change Needed For Coffee Farming - https://youtu.be/7tulFSO3up0In this episode of The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward, host Lee Safar delves into the economics behind different coffee farming methods in Brazil, discussing the advantages and challenges of conventional, organic, regenerative, and agroforestry approaches. The conversation highlights the ongoing struggles with climate change and labor shortages, emphasizing the need for more resilient farming techniques. 00:00 Introduction to Regenerative Coffee Farming01:05 Upcoming Workshop Announcement02:32 Economics of Coffee Farming Methods03:28 Challenges in Organic and Conventional Farming11:19 Mechanization and Labor in Coffee Farming21:26 Impact of Farming Methods on Crop Resilience25:07 Conclusion and Next Episode Preview25:41 Closing Remarks and Call to ActionConnect with Jonas here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-leme-ferraresso-b5391027/https://www.instagram.com/jonascoffeeagronomist/••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Support this podcast by supporting our Patreon:https://bit.ly/MIFPatreon••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward Podcast Host: Lee Safarhttps://www.mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/leesafar••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Aljon Bocobo and Juven Luzorata are Co-founders at ACMEC Pro. ACMEC Pro is advancing the commercialization and mechanization of industries in the Caraga region. ACMEC Pro started with their sago pith extraction machine, which can help sago farmers increase their productivity. ACMEC Pro is also devising machines for the cocoa industry and other industries. This episode is recorded at the TARA Agri-Aqua TBI office. TARA Agri-Aqua is a TBI at CSU (Caraga State University) in Butuan City incubating agri-aqua startups. IN THIS EPISODE | 00:45 Ano ang ACMEC Pro? | 02:09 What is the problem being solved? | 05:51 What is the solution of the startup? | 12:14 What is the story behind the startup? | 29:25 What is the vision? | 32:03 How can listeners find more information? TARA AGRI-AQUA | Facebook: facebook.com/TARA.AgriAqua THIS EPISODE IS CO-PRODUCED BY SPROUT SOLUTIONS | Website: sprout.ph | Sprout Payroll Starter: bit.ly/SproutPayrollStarter CHECK OUT OUR PARTNERS | Ask Lex PH Academy: asklexph.com - Get 5% discount on e-learning courses & certifications! Code: "ALPHAXSUP" | OneCFO: onecfoph.co - Get 10% discount on CFO and financial services! Code: "ONECFOXSUP" | Twala: twala.id | Wunderbrand: wunderbrand.com | Doon: doon.ph | Enspace Cebu: enspace.ph/en | Mommyki Super Pet App: mommyki.com | Marketmind Local: marketmindlocal.com | Mata Technologies: mata.ph | Hier Business Solutions: hierpayroll.com | Smile: getsmileapi.com | DVCode Technologies: dvcode.tech | Drive Manila: www.facebook.com/drivemanilaph | Ignite Careers: ignitecareers.ph | LookingFour Buy & Sell Online: lookingfour.com | NutriCoach: nutricoach.com | Benjoys Food Products: benjoysfoodproducts.com | ROC.PH: roc.ph/ref/1706/?campaign=ROCPHXSUP | Digest PH: digest.ph - Get 10% discount on legal services! Code: "DIGESTXSUP" | Contakt RFID Business Cards: contakt-ph.com - Get 10% discount on RFID Business Cards! Code: "CONTAKTXSUP" | CodeChum | Kazam | Jur.ph | Big Giant Games | Founders Launchpad | Packetworx | Uplift Code Camp | Pareto Consulting | Agile Data Solutions - Hustle PH | Board Prep | Zayls | SeriousMD | Pahatid.ph START UP PODCAST PH | YouTube: youtube.com/StartUpPodcastPH | Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6BObuPvMfoZzdlJeb1XXVa | Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/start-up-podcast/id1576462394 | Facebook: facebook.com/startuppodcastph | Patreon: patreon.com/StartUpPodcastPH | Website: phstartup.online This episode is edited by the team at: tasharivera.com
Jon is the developer of the Coracle Nostr client and an OpenSats grantee. He is focused on discovering what a healthy social network would look like, and helping nostr make that vision a reality. Find Jon on Nostr at npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , on twitter @hodlbod and on Coracle.social.Jordan Bush is the founder and the Head of Content and Education at TGFB Media and host of the Thank God for Bitcoin Podcast. Find Jordan on Twitter @jmbushwrites.The Thank For Nostr Podcast is a TGFB Media production. TGFB Media exists to educate and equip Christians to understand Bitcoin and use it for the glory of God and the good of people everywhere.Follow Jon- On Nostr: npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn- On Twitter: @hodlbod- On Coracle.social (the Nostr client he's building)Follow Jordan- On Nostr: npub14f0xen78ed7rgvw39v82fwp7tv65yasz2gsgpf4gvxy4q5nlsydsk37k3l- On Twitter: @jmbushwrites- At TGFB.com
ILIMS Deputy Director Jude Cobbing - Opportunities of Irrigation and Mechanization In November 2023, the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute announced a new USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Irrigation and Mechanization Systems (ILIMS). ILIMS enhances global food security by generating research-based solutions to support the growth of vibrant irrigation and mechanization markets; develops strong institutions and local capacity for their sustainability; and fosters opportunities for equitable access for smallholder farmers. In this episode, DWFI Communications Specialist Arianna Elnes speaks with the new ILIMS Deputy Director Jude Cobbing about his background and interest in ILIMS, the opportunities he sees with irrigation and mechanization, and upcoming projects for ILIMS. For more information, and to respond to RFA's, visit: waterforfood.nebraska.edu/irrigandmech
Charles Mayfield is the founder of Farrow Skincare, an animal-based skincare product that does not contain fillers, additives, and other harmful chemicals. Charles became fascinated by the benefits of lard on the skin when he made the connection between the biology of humans and pigs. The origins of Farrow all started after a long day out in the July Tennessee sun. Charles decided to use some lard from his farm to protect his skin from peeling out of necessity and it wasn't until the next day that he realized his skin never peeled and his burn had vanished. At that point, Charles realized he was on to something. Now, Charles is on a mission to bring lard-based skincare to the masses and convince people to throw away their toxic skin creams.Key topics discussed:- The benefits of cooking and consuming nutrient-dense, whole foods- The negative effects of modern lifestyle choices on physical health and how they can be reversed- The significance of using natural skincare products over conventional ones- The importance of understanding and improving metabolic health- The role of mental belief and positive mindset in the healing processTimestamps:(01:00) - The Bastardization of Pork in Media(02:00) - Historical Use of Lard and Tallow(05:00) - Modern Pig Breeding and Phenotypes(10:00) - Transition to Seed Oils and Fast Food Industry(12:00) - Skincare with Animal Fats(15:00) - Discussion on Sunscreens and Natural Alternatives(20:00) - Societal Health Decline and Reversal Opportunities*** SPONSOR ***CrowdHealth - They're providing an alternative to health care coverage in the form of a community-based approach.We've both used this service for the last two years. Check out their new Carnivore Crowd and if you sign up be sure to use code MEATMAFIA for a discount on your first 3 months!*** LINKS***Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what's happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Farrow Skincare:WebsiteTwitterInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It's a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA This episode of the podcast is brought to you by the CarnivoreCrowd over at CrowdHealth. When we first quit our jobs to focus on the podcast and Noble Origins full-time, we immediately signed up for CrowdHealth. They just launched their CarnivoreCrowd, which is designed to bring together metabolically healthy individuals into a cost-sharing community for medical bills. I don't know about you guys, but it's great knowing that the other members of the community care about their health as much as I do. If you're interested in joining the CarnivoreCrowd, use the code MEATMAFIA for $99 for the first three months. Also, check out the founder of CrowdHealth on episode 240 of The Meat Mafia Podcast.
In this in-depth 1992 interview, featuring pioneering Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman and Michael Ventura, a respected columnist, critic, and author (https://www.austinchronicle.com/autho..., the two discuss the societal implications of therapy. They also question our concept of the self in relation to the community and the importance of confronting life's complexities beyond the individual. This thought-provoking dialogue, which ironically lasts the same time as a therapeutic hour (just over 50 minutes), challenges conventional perspectives on therapy, urging a reconsideration of our approach to psychological well-being and societal health. 00:00 - Introduction to James Hillman and Michael Ventura 02:00 - The Mechanization of the Psyche: Impact of the Scientific Age 05:00 - Questioning Therapy's Role in Society: Beyond Therapeutic Garbage Compactors 08:00 - Exploring New Questions with Hillman and Ventura: "Who Am I? Why Am I Here?" 11:00 - The Beginnings of a Groundbreaking Collaboration: Hillman and Ventura's Meeting 14:00 - The Legacy of "A Blue Fire": Impact and Reception in Unlikely Places 17:00 - The Genesis of "100 Years of Psychotherapy": A Culturally Defining Cover Story 20:00 - From LA Weekly to Hollywood: Hillman's Discovery and Ventura's Insight 23:00 - The Interview Style of Michael Ventura: Engaging with Hillman Beyond the Surface 26:00 - Therapy, Transformation, and the Consumer Culture: Critiquing Modern Psychotherapy 29:00 - The Smugness of Therapy in a Broken Culture: Hillman and Ventura's Critique 32:00 - The Importance of Addressing Therapy's Blind Spots and Shadows 35:00 - Psychotherapy and Political Engagement: Exploring the Inner Child Work 38:00 - The Paradox of Hopelessness and Vitality: Moving Beyond Inner Child Focus 41:00 - Reimagining Life Backwards: Essential Psychology vs. Developmental Psychology 44:00 - Fate, Destiny, and the Innate Qualities of the Soul: A Philosophical Exploration 47:00 - The Invisible World and Modern Myths: Engaging with the Unseen Community 50:00 - Concluding Thoughts: Embracing Complexity and Vitality for a Fuller Life --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wevehadonehundredyears/message
What does it take to grow the perfect grape? Find out in today's episode with Stan Grant, a vineyard specialist with decades of experience in the grape-growing industry. We discuss Stan's journey into grape growing, the biggest issue in grape nutrition, balancing yield and quality, changes in grape growing practices, creating a crop nutrition plan, differentiating grape varieties for wine, table grapes, and raisins, the challenges and future of the grape industry, and Stan's publications and speaking engagements. Takeaways Grapevines require a balanced approach to nutrition and stress management to achieve high-quality yields. Mechanization and precision fertigation have revolutionized grape growing practices, allowing for more efficient use of resources. Different grape varieties are cultivated for wine, table grapes, and raisins, each with specific production goals and management practices. The grape industry faces challenges such as labor shortages, water availability, and disease management, but innovation and efficiency can help overcome these obstacles. Stan Grant's expertise and contributions to the grape industry have been instrumental in raising the level of knowledge and improving practices. Useful Links that we mentioned Lodi Growers Idaho Wine Commission
On today's episode, BLOOM FRESH's Chris Owens explains modern challenges facing raisin growers and how new varieties enhance sustainability while boosting profitability.
Adriel Yong, Head of Investments at Ascend Angels, and Jeremy Au discussed three major topics: 1. Southeast Asia Agriculture: Jeremy and Adriel talked about the variety of agriculture players, from smallholders to large conglomerates, and the range of crops cultivated, including staples like rice and cash crops like palm oil. Jeremy pointed out that understanding agriculture requires consideration of geography, market players, and crop types, noting that this sector is significantly more complex and boots-on-the-ground vs. well-covered business models like SaaS. They explore upstream inputs, financing, downstream off-take, storage, processing and trading functions. They also discuss the complexity of determining investment profiles suitable for venture capital return targets. 2. Digitization & Mechanization: Jeremy compared the region's agricultural landscape to the US, where both hardware and software advancements have been implemented. He explained that despite the potential benefits of digitization, the fundamental nature of agriculture requires a physical interaction with crops, which cannot be entirely replaced through digital solutions, and stressed the importance of understanding the practical limitations of agritech. He also discussed the potential of logistics as a fundamental layer in the agriculture sector and pointed out that while there are opportunities for increased efficiency through better maintenance, routing, and time management, the gains might still be limited. 3. Livestock vs. Crop Sector: Jeremy delved into the differences in managing poultry and livestock compared to crop-based agriculture. He explained that different animals require varied inputs and are subject to different risks, and recognized the higher price points for animal products due to their higher energy input requirements compared to plants. He also emphasized the anticipated increase in demand for protein-rich foods as the region grows richer. He discussed the impact of diseases on poultry and fishery yields and shared how to manage these risks, comparing it to an insurance model where consistent monitoring and preventative measures are vital. They also talked about the role of government support in agriculture, the impact of weather and seasonality on agricultural productivity & asset utilization, and the potential of cultured proteins. Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/southeast-asia-agritech Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.bravesea.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CeL3ywi7yOWFd8HTo6yzde Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TnqkaWpTT181lMA8xNu0T YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeremyAu Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/brave-southeast-asia-tech-singapore-indonesia-vietnam/id1506890464 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZC5jby9icmF2ZWR5bmFtaWNz TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea Learn more about Fluid! Get in touch with Trasy, Fluid's cofounder at trasy@gofluid.io
following questions:”What is the meaning of life?” “Why am I here?” “Why does mathematics work, anyway?” “If the universe had a beginning, who created it?” “Why are the physical constants in the universe so finely tuned to allow the possibility of complex life forms?” “Why do humans have a moral sense?” “What happens after we die?” Dr. Collins always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. Actually, Dr. Collins says that he finds no conflict here. Yes, he also claims evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. He affirms that if there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, then the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things. According to Dr. Collins' words, he found that there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. God can be found in the cathedral or in the laboratory. By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship. God Proved by Mathematics. When Gödel died in 1978, he left behind a tantalizing theory based on principles of modal logic, a type of formal logic that, narrowly defined, involves the use of the expressions “necessarily” and “possibly,” according to Stanford University. So the theorem says that God, or a supreme being, is that for which no greater can be conceived. God exists in the understanding. If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality. Therefore, God must exist. God Proved by Computer . Using an ordinary MacBook computer, they have shown that Gödel's proof was correct, at least on a mathematical level, by way of higher modal logic. In their initial submission on a research server, “Formalization, Mechanization, and Automation of Gödel's Proof of God's Existence,” the pair say that “Goedel's ontological proof has been analysed for the first-time with an unprecedented degree of detail and formality with the help of higher-order theorem provers.” But unsurprisingly, there is a rather significant caveat to that claim. In fact, what the researchers in question say they have actually proven is a theorem which was put forward by the renowned Gödel, and the real news isn't about a Supreme Being, but rather what can now be achieved in scientific fields using superior technology. The mathematicians say that their proof of Gödel's axioms has more to do with demonstrating how superior technology can help bring about new achievements in science. Benzmüller and Paleo believe that their work can benefit areas such as artificial intelligence and the verification of software and hardware. I have quoted from sources in this article and I will post on how God is proved by Indian Philosophy through Intuition,Faith,Logic and Personal experience. More at https://ramanisblog.in/2014/01/10/god-proof-by-biology-mathematics-computer/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ramanispodcast/message
We resume our adventures through our Inner Forests, and the return to the beginning prompts us to ask better questions. I will continue to fuse my life's stories with the voice of the Amazon, and today, I travel back to the memory of the days before my mother's death, the inspiration she became for my daughter's art and how they both have became teachers of humility for me. I also take you to Oaxaca to learn from the masters of the ancestral craft of pottery making and to perhaps create our own Oases of Mechanization within our lives. Let's libate, and remember that to Earth we Belong!
Rancho Mesa's Alyssa Burley and Account Executive of the Tree Care Group Rory Anderson talk about improving safety in the tree care industry through mechanization. Show Notes: Subscribe to Rancho Mesa's Newsletter. Director/Host: Alyssa Burley Guest: Rory Anderson Producer/Editor: Lauren Stumpf Music: "Home" by JHS Pedals, “News Room News” by Spence © Copyright 2023. Rancho Mesa Insurance Services, Inc. All rights reserved.
It's the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series on AI — the world premiere of the first episode of Planet Money written by AI. In Part 1 of this series, we taught AI how to write an original Planet Money script by feeding it real research and interviews. In Part 2, we used AI to clone the voice of our former colleague Robert Smith.Now, we've put everything together into a 15-minute Planet Money episode. And we've gathered some of our co-hosts to listen along.So, how did the AI do? You'll have to listen to learn what went surprisingly well, where it fell short, and hear reactions from the real-life hosts whose jobs could be at risk of being replaced by the machines. (This is part three of a three-part series. Click here for part one and for part two of our series.)This episode was produced by Emma Peaslee and Willa Rubin. It was engineered by James Willetts and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Keith Romer edited this series and Jess Jiang is our acting executive producer. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.
In this episode, we delve into the intricate balance between individual freedom and collective virtues, channeling the wisdom of John Dewey and his philosophies. Through the orchestral metaphor, we unveil the subtleties of this relationship, presenting society as a "symphony" and individuals as "musicians." We discuss Dewey's perspective on the pivotal role of the "conductor" (government) in guiding these diverse performances, not to limit personal virtuosity, but to facilitate its integration into a harmonious collective narrative.Drawing from Dewey's work, we delve into the significance of virtues, moral narratives, and shared values. We discuss how individual skill and commitment to the community contribute to the overall wellness of society, touching upon Dewey's emphasis on the interaction of personal growth and societal health. Lastly, we grapple with Dewey's concept of the "Great Society," contemplating the ramifications of technology and mechanization on our interconnected world. Engaging with his critiques, we explore how we can preserve a sense of belonging and shared purpose amid rapid societal transformation, and how we can utilize technology not as a tool for mere efficiency but as a means to foster deeper connections and nurture our shared humanity.Some Topics Discussed: John Dewey Pragmatism Charles Taylor Individual Freedom Collective Virtues Moral Narratives Shared Values (corporate social responsibility) Great Society Impact of Technology on Society Shared HumanityFurther Info: The Book: The Public and its Problems Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reviving_Virtue Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/RevivingVirtue Contact: revivingvirtue@gmail.com Music by Jeffrey Anthony: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Q9wJCeuUa3wrHrKKtsTFW?si=NeyPJ-dzRBeWfHhYDPgvvw Substack: https://revivingvirtue.substack.com/Book Recommendations based on the themes in this episode: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt: This book explores moral psychology, the foundation of our beliefs, and how they shape our society. "The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future" by Steve Case: Case explores how technology and societal norms are evolving and how they could shape our future. "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" by Robert D. Putnam: This book analyzes the decrease in civic engagement over the last few decades, highlighting the importance of rebuilding our sense of community.
Martine Hauwert ontving het bedrijf EXIN tijdens Let's Talk Business International. EXIN is opgericht als initiatief van het Ministerie van Economische Zaken en heeft tot taak het maken van een examen voor de opleiding ‘Automatisering en Mechanisatie van de Administratieve Informatieverwerking'. Sindsdien heeft EXIN professionals ondersteund met verschillende IT-standaarden, waaronder ITIL®, PRINCE2® en ISPL. Momenteel richt EXIN zich op het inspelen op moderne markttrends met certificeringen zoals AgileScrum, DevOps, SIAM, VeriSM, Security en technologieën zoals AI en Blockchain. EXIN heeft bijna 3 miljoen mensen over de hele wereld gecertificeerd. In 2021 nam Software Improvement Group (SIG) EXIN over, waarmee de cirkel tussen mensen, processen en technologie werd gesloten. Martine Hauwert ging in gesprek met Bessie Schenk, VP of Global Marketing; Stephanie Verhulst, VP Revenue; en Wouter Knigge, CTO bij EXIN. EXIN was founded as an initiative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and tasked with creating an examination for training in the ‘Automation and Mechanization of Administrative Information Processing'. Since then, EXIN has supported professionals with several IT standards including ITIL®, PRINCE2® and ISPL. Currently, EXIN focuses on responding to modern market trends with certifications such as AgileScrum, DevOps, SIAM, VeriSM, Security, as well as, technologies including AI and Blockchain. EXIN certified nearly 3 million people around the globe. In 2021, Software Improvement Group (SIG) acquired EXIN, closing the loop between people, processes, and technology. Martine Hauwert spoke with Bessie Schenk, VP of Global Marketing; Stephanie Verhulst, VP Revenue; and Wouter Knigge, CTO at EXIN. In het radioprogramma Let's Talk Business gaat het uiteraard over de business, maar vooral ook over de persoonlijke visie en de ambities van de hoofdgast. Er wordt teruggeblikt, vooruitgekeken en er worden persoonlijke ervaringen gedeeld. Wat ging er goed, wat zijn leerpunten en hoe ziet de business er over vijf jaar uit. Dit alles in een één uur durend radioprogramma, met lekkere muziek en onder de enthousiaste (bege)leiding van presentatoren Martine Hauwert, Fabienne de Vries, Ron Lemmens, Folkert Tempelman, Robert Denneman, Rick van Velthuysen en Koen Bugter. Voor internationaal opererende bedrijven is er ook Let's Talk Business International. Deze uitzendingen zijn Engels- of anderstalig. Ken je zelf ondernemende mensen die je graag in de uitzending zou willen horen? Laat het ons weten via info@newbusinessradio.nl of tweet het via @newbusradionl Let's Talk Business hoor je elke werkdag tussen 10:00 en 11:00 uur op New Business Radio. Let's Talk Business wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Baaz.nl
Banjo Strings and Drinking Gourds: How American Culture Came to Be
In this second half, we discuss the changes cotton production brought to the United States. Mechanization and factory towns shifted the economics not only of sleepy agricultural communities, but the country as a whole. Of course, factory work brought its own significant problems, but we really can't deny the long-term impact of cotton on the formation of the modern world. Intro Music: Zac Bell Transition Music: Beethoven, Sonata No. 4 in E Flat Major, Op. 7-III. Allegro, Paul Pitman Exit Music: Jean Claude Hatungimana Cover Art: Emily Noble Day
On today's episode we discuss the M2 and M2A1 Medium Tanks-- the answer to the Medium Tank question... or was it? Tune in to find out! Enjoy! John Burgess ThePanzerPodcast@gmail.com thepanzerpodcast.bigcartel.com Additional Sources: "Definition and Uses of RHA Equivalences for Medium Caliber Targets. Interlaken, Switzerland: 19th International Symposium of Ballistics, 7–11 May 2001", by Magness, and Burkins, "Panther: Germany's Quest for Combat Dominance" by Michael & Gladys Green, "Armor-Piercing Ammunition for Gun, 90-MM, M3" by Washington: Office Of The Chief Of Ordnance, January 1945, "The Commander's Vision in Blue and Grey: The Roles of Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., James H. Wilson and The American Civil War in The Development of American Armor Doctrine" by John T. Broom, "Tanks and Armor in Modern Warfare" by James Cary, "Mechanization in the Army" by Adna R. Chaffee Jr., "'Mechanized Cavalry.' Lecture delivered at the Army War College, 1939" By Adna R. Chaffee Jr., "Statement of Major General Adna R. Chaffee Jr. Delivered to the Sub-Committee of the Committee on Appropriations, 1941" by Adna R. Chaffee Jr., "Forging the Thunderbolt: A History of the Development of the Armored Force" by Mildred Gillie, "The Tank Pioneers" by Kenneth Mackey, "Mobility, Shock and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army's Armor Branch, 1917-1945" by Robert Stewart Cameron, "Table of Metallurgical Properties of Naval Armor and Construction Materials" by Nathan Okun, "From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States" by David A. Hounshell.
The first talk of four on Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization, covers Chapter 1, Cultural Preparation, and Chapter 2, Agents of Mechanization. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Boris Spassky, cofounder of Greenpods, joins us to talk about the critical role of project developers in creating bankable investable projects, the funds being raised and the missing deal flow.---------------------------------------------------Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Support our work:Share itGive a 5-star ratingBuy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture----------------------------------------------------Big funds are being raised, but they all complain about the missing deal flow. So we need more project developer, disciplined people, who put together the business plan, organise the permits, figure out the seed or tree genetics, the irrigation equipment, organise the off-take agreement, and, while it gets delayed, don't take a salary or a very low one for a few years. Boris is one of those project developers in France!More about this episode on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/boris-spassky.Find our video course on https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/course.----------------------------------------------------For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P. The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.Support the show Support the show
Pickers shortage at farm drives mechanization in Brazil. Big farms introduce more machines to pick and select coffee cherries for recent years. - パンデミックによる人手不足はどこも同じです。ブラジルのコーヒー農園でも機械による収穫や選別が進んでいます。
Fruit and vegetable import values rise to record levels, and the number of American farms continues slow, steady decline.
Melissa B. is back to help Phil, Jake & Jason rank the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and sliced bread on the List of Every Damn Thing. Plus we re-rank contemporary pop superstar Harry Styles.If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).SHOW NOTES: Valley Fever, also called desert rheumatism, is a respiratory disease that's thought to be caused by shark scales. It's endemic to Central and Southern California. Dungeons & Dragons is a role playing game invented by Gary Gygax and many others. It's really broad and open-ended but is the most popular game in that genre. In the game, players assume the roles of characters who have fantasy-themed adventures. Dungeons & Dragons was also the name of a cartoon made in 1985 as a tie-in for that game. It was about a group of teens that got transported to a different world and became fantasy adventurers with magic weapons. It had a kind of Narnia vibe. Gary Gygax was the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, although he didn't create it alone, and it grew out of other, similar games. JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit which are foundational works in modern fantasy. Along with Conan, these books more or less created the genre/setting for Dungeons & Dragons. Alcoholics Anonymous is a mutual-aid group formed in 1935 in which members work together to help themselves recover from alcoholism. Phil speculates that there are probably good AA Dungeons & Dragons games. Dice are polyhedral objects with numbers on the sides used to generate random numbers. The most commonly used dice are the six-sided dice you might use in a craps game or Monopoly or inside the Pop-o-Matic bubble of a Trouble game. Dungeons & Dragons requires different dice, 4-sided, 8-sided, 12-sided, 20-sided etc although now that Phil thinks about it, it's pretty unnecessary. With a few math changes, the game would work fine with 6-sided dice but people like to have that velvet dice sack. In prison, where dice are banned, Dungeons & Dragons players have to use other methods though. The Dungeons & Dragons movie looks like it has some pretty bad special effects, even for the time. Jeremy Irons appears to be having a fun time with it, though. SPOILER ALERT! Harry Styles plays Eros aka Starfox in Eternals. ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:chain mail * half-orcs * improv * the Satanic Panic * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial * role-playing games * the Golden Girls * video games * audio books * Sorry! * titties * The Matrix * Insane Clown Posse * karaoke * Bill Paxton * Spaceballs * graffiti * Star Wars * industrialization * bagels * NASCAR * Bakersfield, CA * knives * Triscuits * Top Ramen * rye bread * plastic straws * Tommy Bahamas shirts * Britney Spears * “Weird Al” Yankovic * Bill Murray * the Golden Gate Bridge * Bruce Springsteen * ShakiraBelow are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).TOP TEN: Dolly Parton - person interspecies animal friends - idea sex - idea bicycles - tool coffee - beverage Clement Street in San Francisco - location Prince - person It's-It - food Doctor Doom - fictional character Cher - person BOTTOM TEN:291. cops - people292. British Royal Family - institution293. Steven Seagal - person294. McRib - food295. Hoarders - TV show296. death - idea297. war - idea298. cigarettes - drug299. QAnon - idea300. transphobia - ideaTheme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Email us at list@everydamnthing.net.
There is a lot of work that goes into establishing a vineyard, from raising capital down to harvesting the last bunch. This process becomes even more difficult when you are working in a region without a long and fruitful history. Mason Moreland, Managing Partner at Texas Vine Country, hopes to place Texas firmly on the map as an autonomous wine region. Through proper investing, sustainable practices, and mechanized systems, he helps these projects age like fine wine. Show Notes: Contact Mason Moreland LinkedIn www.texasvinecountry.com
The machines that make the biggest difference are the ones that make things move and bring people together. This week, our postcards take us to critical moments in the history of technology: the completion of the Erie Canal from the Hudson River to Lake Erie across northern New York state, and the development of the first civilian computers just after the Second World War. In both stories there is a surprising amount at stake for music history.Just clearing a path for and then digging the Erie Canal (mile by mile, by hand) required an immense and dangerous effort. There were not enough workers available, so migrants, many from Britain and Ireland, but also free and enslaved people of color, were brought in to do the job. When the work was done the canal accelerated travel and communication, connecting the metropolis of New York to an immense hinterland to the west. The canal gave the new nation a vastly different sense of its borders and identity. Those who had given their labor (and in some cases their lives) to make it forged soundworlds for this new space. In the evenings and on rare days off they sang and danced together, making new kinds of music. What they did–a kind of synthesis travelling back and forth on the wonder they had built--would go on to underpin what we recognize as “American music” today. After 1945 Alan Turing, who had spent the war working in secret developing the electronic computers that helped break “unbreakable” German codes, helped set up a civilian computer lab at the University of Manchester. Turing was by all accounts not a particularly musical man, but there were good ears on his team. One night, for fun (!), one of Turing's junior colleagues, Christopher Strachey, used an alarm signal already built into a prototype computer to make a basic synthesizer, with hilarious-sounding but in the long run profound results. Thanks to recently discovered archival recordings we can hear its honky efforts, and the sleep-deprived giggles of Turing's young colleagues when they heard what they had done. The members of Turing's lab might not have known it, but what they did eventually opened up a wholly new chapter in the datafication of music. Like the workers on the Erie Canal two centuries ago, we suddenly find that our musical borders have shifted dramatically. Unlike them we ask ourselves where music “is” if it now only lives in digital code.Key PointsThe construction of the Erie canal brought labor and technology together to make new kinds of music, and the connections it made forged a new sense of American identity, also in sound.Alan Turing was involved in efforts to develop the first civilian computers in Britain after World War Two. Although they didn't set out to do so, members of his team found that they could synthesize musical sound, inadvertently setting the stage for the cultures of digital music we now live in.ResourcesChris Smith's The Creolization of American Culture: William Sydney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy explores how working people came together before the Civil War to make a new kind of “American” culture.In Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music Kyle Devine explores the idea that digital music is just as material music on other media (such as shellac, vinyl, and plastic), and just as bad for the environment.The IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electronics Engineers) website has a detailed and engaging description of early computing and music-making in Alan Turing's postwar Manchester lab.You can read more about Alan Turing in B. Jack Copeland, Alan Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age.All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!
As technology advances and demand continues to climb, blueberry growers are looking forward to the day when fresh harvest can be done with machines.
Warehouse mechanization is a part of our IT landscape where our IT meets the physical world. It is one of those places where we encounter that while we could scale our IT almost indefinitely in the cloud, the physical world and warehouses don't work that way. As you listen to this episode you will learn how the world of IT has to adapt to the physical world to make things work. And as Peter states this is also the place where e-commerce comes to life.What this episode coversThis is the place where all the bits and bytes in the webshop have to lead to tangible products that are picked and delivered to our customers. By all measures a real interesting place.:What sets warehouse mechanization apart from other software engineering?To enable our growth we need more and more warehouses. What do we need to get a warehouse live from a WMS and/or warehouse mechanization perspective?To what extent do you need access to the physical parts?Do we use simulation?GuestsFrank Lakerveld – WMS consultant in LogisticsDennis van Duijn - Systems Engineer in LogisticsNotesSimulation and Data Science for our warehousesPerformance boost the picking algorithmThe life of a WMS consultant
As technology advances and demand continues to climb, blueberry growers are looking forward to the day when fresh harvest can be done with machines.
Neil Dahlstrom is the corporate archivist at John Deere, and the author of three books, including The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere, and the upcoming Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture (available January 2022). He is a Quad Cities native, studied history and classics at Monmouth College, and received his masters in Historical Administration from Eastern Illinois University. He serves on the board of Visit Quad Cities, as well as the Kitchen Cabinet, the Food and Agriculture Advisory Board at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Reach Neil at www.neildahlstrom.com.
Given the labor challenges facing agriculture, blueberry growers are moving closer to all mechanical harvesting.
Given the labor challenges facing agriculture, blueberry growers are moving closer to all mechanical harvesting.
Setzt man sich mit den Prämissen technologischen Regierens auseinander, so gewinnt man nicht nur ein besseres Verständnis der Gegenwart, sondern auch eine Perspektive auf die drängende Frage: Wie könnten fundamental andere Techno-Logiken aussehen? Shownotes Vincent Augusts Homepage: vincentaugust.de Vincent auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/vinaugust Buch "Technologisches Regieren. Der Aufstieg des Netzwerk-Denkens in der Krise der Moderne. Foucault, Luhmann und die Kybernetik" (2021) von Vincent August: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5597-1/technologisches-regieren/?c=310000085 (Open Access) "Political ideas of the network society: Why digitalization research needs critical conceptual history, political theory, and the sociology of knowledge" von Vincent August. In: Journal of Political Science (ZPol): https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/allgemeine-soziologie/team/vincent-august/resolveuid/dadf0b9b82794501b4919dde38010edf (Open Access) "Network Concepts in Social Theory: Foucault and Cybernetics" von Vincent August. In: European Journal of Social Theory, 24 (online first): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431021991046 (Open Access) "Hierarchie, Markt, Netzwerk: Stabilitätsmodelle spätmoderner Demokratien" von Vincent August. In: Leviathan: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748907565-96/hierarchie-markt-netzwerk-stabilitaetsmodelle-spaetmoderner-demokratien?page=1 (paywalled) „Die Ordnung der Transparenz. Jeremy Bentham und die Genealogie einer demokratischen Norm“ von Vincent August https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-12277-3 Weitere Materialien: Buch "Strangers in Their Own Land. Anger and Mourning on the American Right" von Arlie Russell Hochschild: https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land Jerem Bentham (Wiki): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Kybernetik: Ackoff, R. L. (1979). The Future of Operational Research is Past. The Journal of the Operational Research Society: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3009290 Ashby, W. R. (1956). An Introduction to Cybernetics: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind: Collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology: https://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1972.-Gregory-Bateson-Steps-to-an-Ecology-of-Mind.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Dokumentation der Macy-Konferenzen: Pias, C. (Hg.). (2003). Cybernetics – Kybernetik: The Macy-Conferences 1946-1953 (Bd. 1): https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/cybernetics-3301 Foerster, H. von & Pörksen, B. (2019). Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Lügners: Gespräche für Skeptiker: https://www.carl-auer.de/wahrheit-ist-die-erfindung-eines-lugners Bzgl. Günthers "Kritik an den Wald-und-Wiesen-Kybernetikern" (seine Kritik an Habermas ist andernorts zu finden): Günther, G. (1975). Selbstdarstellung im Spiegel Amerikas. In L. J. Pongratz (Hg.), Philosophie in Selbstdarstellungen: https://www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/gg_selbstdarstellung.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Kline, R. R. (2015). The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/cybernetics-moment Bzgl. Dispute in der frühen Kybernetik und die Relevanz für die Entstehung der Kognitionswissenschaften: Dupuy, J. P. (2000). The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science: https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400823819/the-mechanization-of-the-mind Technokratie-Kritik: Ellul, J. (1964 [1954]). The Technological Society: With an Introduction by Robert K. Merton: https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Ellul_Jacques_The_Technological_Society.pdf (ganzer Text, PDF) Schelsky, H. (1961). Der Mensch in der wissenschaftlichen Zivilisation: https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783663002468 Habermas, J. (1973 [1968]). Technik und Wissenschaft als ›Ideologie‹: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/juergen-habermas-technik-und-wissenschaft-als-ideologie-t-9783518102879 Marcuse, H. (2002 [1964]). One-dimensional man: https://www.routledge.com/One-Dimensional-Man-Studies-in-the-Ideology-of-Advanced-Industrial-Society/Marcuse/p/book/9780415289771 Von Vincent August empfohlene Sekundärliteratur dazu (allerdings mit reproduziertem Kybernetik-Bild der Debatte): Seefried, E. (2015). Zukünfte: Aufstieg und Krise der Zukunftsforschung. 1945-1980. De Gruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/hzhz-2018-1181/html Beispiele zu technologischem Denken in den Sozialwissenschaften: Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist. Random House: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/110/1107761/doughnut-economics/9781847941398.html Für Vincent August ist Technologisches Denken eine unausgesprochene Grundlage von Foucaults neuer Macht-Theorie und -Praxis: Foucault, M. (1983 [1976]). Sexualität und Wahrheit I: Der Wille zum Wissen: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/michel-foucault-sexualitaet-und-wahrheit-t-9783518283165 Foucault, M. (2014). Dits et Ecrits: Schriften in vier Bänden (D. Defert & F. Ewald, Hg., 3. Aufl.). Nr. 86 & 88 (GIP), 194 (Machttheorie): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/michel-foucault-schriften-in-vier-baenden-dits-et-ecrits-t-9783518583715 Luhmann, N. (1987). Soziale Systeme: Grundriß einer allgemeinen Theorie: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/niklas-luhmann-soziale-systeme-t-9783518282663 Aus der Debatte der 70er Jahre: Wiki zu: Crozier, M. (1975). Western Europe. In M. Crozier, S. P. Huntington & J. Watanuki (Hg.), The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis_of_Democracy Crozier, M. & Thoenig, J.-C. (1976). The Regulation of Complex Organized Systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 21(4), 547–570: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2391716 Aus der Digitalisierungsdebatte etwa: Floridi, L. (2014). The 4th Revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-fourth-revolution-9780199606726?cc=at&lang=en& thematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden: Benjamin Seibel zu politischer Kybernetik: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e01-interview-mit-benjamin-seibel-zu-politischer-kybernetik/ Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/ Joseph Vogl zur Krise des Regierens: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e25-joseph-vogl-zur-krise-des-regierens/ Urs Stäheli zu Entnetzung: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e54-urs-staeheli-zu-entnetzung/ Kalle Kunkel zu Herrschaftstechnologien in der Krise: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e53-kalle-kunkel-zu-herrschaftstechnologien-in-der-krise/ Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today und diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast oder auf Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords #VincentAugust, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #Interview, #TechnologischesRegieren, #Netzwerk, #Neoliberalismus, #Netzwerkdenken, #Kybernetik, #Liberalismus, #Netzwerkgesellschaft, #Foucault, #AlternativeRegierungskunst, #Gouvernementalität, #Luhmann, #Crozier, #Netzwerk-Paradigma, #Regieren, #Governance, #Digitalisierung, #Herrschaftstechnologien, #Technokratie, #Souveränität, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #AlgorithmischesRegieren
Humanoids, Robots, Artificial intelligence...Are these the droids you're looking for? As mechanization continues to develop, questions arise regarding the broader impact of these advancements on the economy. And although mechanization has become necessary, and in many cases to grow. What are its benefits and do they outweigh the disadvantages? To help us with the discussion is Peter Hall. Peter is the Vice President and Chief Economist for Export Development Canada. With over 30 years of experience in economic analysis and forecasting, Peter is responsible for overseeing EDC's economic analysis, country risk assessment and corporate research groups. You can also watch Peter's weekly video commentary by visiting the EDC website at www.edc.ca.
On today's show, we talk about online content creation with Julilyn Woods, digital brand director at The Small Social Company. Guest host Ken Tencer takes over the hot seat with his new weekly segment, Say Hi to the Future. We get an overview on mechanization with Peter Hall and Brad Butt gives us our political update. But first: How has COVID-19 affected the benefits industry? To help us with the discussion is Doug Hynek. Doug is the Principal of Hynek Financial Group.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode we are going to have a look at investing in megatrends. When investing – there are many different approaches people can take – people have different return requirements – hence, when constructing a portfolio of investments, you may try to isolate certain sources of return – such as capital growth or income focuses If you are retired and needing a passive income, then an income focus is more important – so purchasing share that pay FF dividends, or owning a property that has no leverage or debt on it will be the focus If you are an accumulator – you may wish to focus on capital growth, or target sectors of that don't typically pay out high level of income returns, but have the potential for higher levels of capital growth – such as technology or healthcare shares As part of this focus on capital growth – one method that is available to investors is to target specific investment themes – or “megatrends” This is where investors focus on high growth opportunities in sectors of the economy that are expected to grow at higher rates than the economy at large So in this episode - we unpack what megatrends are, how they can be identified and invested in, and what they can offer investors as well as the dangers to look out for What are megatrends? A megatrend is a long-term structural shift that transforms economies – I studied these trends in a course at Uni, UQ which offered – Evolution of Economic Systems It involves trends of technological and demographic changes – as well as creative destruction To be classified as a megatrend – they have to have defining characteristic that distinguish them from normal economic cycles in the way that any changes they create are enduring – i.e. long lasting beyond a normal business cycle One of the biggest examples in the past 100 years is that of the creation of cars - this ended the industry of horse drawn carriage industry within 30 years This created major economic destruction – as not only did it displace a use for horses which were seen as a major economic good, but also those involved in providing carriages, driving those carriages as well as breeding the horses – ask yourself, who would invest in horse drawn transportation in the modern era? But go back to 1850 and this was a major business The invention and effect of cars (or automobiles) was dramatic and long lasting - Creating cars did not just make humans more mobile, it also created the modern geography of cities, including highways, suburbs and shopping centres. But it did take a number of years to get off the ground – as initially cars were only available to the wealthy who could afford the new novelty – but as supply ramped up with many competitors coming to the market, prices started to drop to the point that cars started to become affordable The introduction of the television is another example – this was first introduced to Australia in 1956 in a commercial capacity – and by 1975 there was a television in most households Television wasn't just a revolution for media and entertainment, it has also had profound social and cultural impacts. We have also had the megatrend of the internet – But this is where two or more megatrends can combine to create another dominate force in the economy, which translates into investment opportunities – In our current world – this would be in the form of streaming services, like Netflix What megatrends all have in common is they are intertwined with demographic and technological changes - However – to take off fully, they typically need to be allowed to occur by governments – i.e. the legislative power – we saw this back in England with cotton gins – which are a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibres from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation – this is also called ginning – but in the UK back in the day, to be granted a business licence you needed to seek royal assent - so the inventor of the cotton gin went to the Queen of England for a licence to start a business using this new technology, but was denied due to the economic destruction this would have caused – so they went to France and got granted the right to start their business Like all megatrends - the uptake in the use of the technology or service is usually exponential; at first there is a time-lag for adoption, then soon the megatrend is everywhere – which is why the UK soon allowed cotton gins to not fall behind the garment production of the French Needless to day - Megatrends can have implications for investors who can correctly identifying and act on them Those who invested in media businesses in the 1960s, went on to reap super profits. So too did those buying into computer businesses like Microsoft, Apple and IBM in the 1970s for the PC revolution. This is all an exercise in hindsight of course, however, illustrates the power that megatrends can play in shaping markets and investment outcomes – but there are also megatrends that just turn out to be part of a normal business cycle before creative destruction swallows them up – such as blockbuster Examples looking forward - Transformative Technology, Society & Lifestyle, Health & Wellness, and Environment & Resources. Transformative Technology - Such as cloud computing, 5G, robotics, automation and artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Technological breakthrough is the most obvious and has been a defining megatrend since the industrial revolution, which created factories and modern mechanics, But investing in disruptive technology is easier said than done. With many investors missing out even when the opportunities stare them in the face. The better question to ask is where might technological breakthroughs come from this decade? One possibility is robotics, automation and artificial intelligence (RAAI), or “industry 4.0”. There was Industry 1.0 – this was the Mechanization and the introduction of steam and water power Industry 2.0 Mass production assembly lines using electrical power, Industry 3.0 – was about automated production, IT systems, and robotics Industry 4.0 is about looking forward – it includes smart factory, Autonomous systems, IoT (or the internet of things), machine learning - Industry 4.0 is the increasing automation of manufacturing and services, such that machines manage other machines—via “machine learning”. In concrete terms, industry 4.0 is where businesses use modern robotics, the internet, and big data to create remotely controlled factories, self-driving cars, and self-programming computers and more. When looking at existing businesses as an example - Amazon's giant warehouses come to mind Historically, warehouses consisted of static shelves. Workers would come and add or remove items to and from the shelves as supplies and demand came in – each industrial revolution has increased the capacity of this economic environment – from people having to carry the goods through horse and buggy and manually lift the goods to shelves – to having trucks transfer the goods and machines like forklifts doing the heavy lifting However – looking forward – In an Amazon warehouse, the shelves are all mobile and moved by robots. The robots move items as customers buy them via a complex barcoding and computer system. Thanks to machine learning, the robots holding trending or popular items, have learnt to move nearer delivery points. In this picture, much of the work done by humans, has been replaced by machines This trend once introduced will likely not decline – so there is potential for further investment growth in this market segment Society & Lifestyle – This comes in the form of demographic changes like aging populations, the growing middle class in emerging economies and the further expansion of social media This is one of the more complex megatrends due to the tie into other megatrends – as an example -in emerging markets, especially India, the population is getting younger – however - in developed countries, especially Japan and North Europe, populations are ageing – so in some areas of the world – there is an ever-greater amount of social life that moving online where millennials' purchasing power is increasing, but in others the older population make up more of the social fabric of economic spending – what they spend money on also differs – however – across the board, online spending is increasing as well as socialisation online as well as working environments and socialisation The major winners of social life moving online have been Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google and the other so-called “FANG” stocks. Facebook and Google have replaced newspapers as the primary distributors of information and cannibalised their business models (selling audiences to advertisers) As part of a work demographic trend - Women entering the workforce has caused a booming day-care industry Demographic changes promise to create winners and losers, however, investment opportunities at this stage are less straightforward. India and China collectively have 1 billion young people, most of which are heavy internet users thanks to smartphone availability. This creates a strong runway for the digital economy in emerging markets. Meanwhile, aging populations have meant Japan buys more adult nappies than children's nappies. Aging populations have consequences for robotics and automation which will be required to meet labour shortfalls and likely consequences for healthcare – this brings up the next trend Health & Wellness – this includes biotechnology, genomics and gene editing technologies of the future the healthcare megatrend has been in play for a number of years where as there in an increasing demographic of wealthy older population across developed nations, there is naturally an increase in the money spent on medicines and longevity technologies Healthcare spending is growing faster than GDP in most countries, data from the World Health Organisation indicates. This means that that the healthcare sector is taking an increasingly large share of the global economy. Most of the growth owes to government support, which is substantial and increasing. Governments' hands have been forced into greater healthcare spending. On top of this, you have the wellness movement - Wellness refers to the growing concern with diet, exercise and lifestyle that has developed in developed countries – This predominately is within the younger generations which represents a different market share from that of the aging population But perhaps more problematically, obesity is climbing in many western countries. According to the WHO, the percentage of overweight adults is approaching 40% globally. Healthcare problems stemming from obesity are manifold – or in other words, obesity leads to many different health conditions - including heart conditions, diabetes, and some cancers – so health care providers have no shortage of demand for their services – both from the elderly population but also from younger portions of the population that require medical treatment due to obesity or other antithetical health behaviours – such as alcoholism or obesity however, healthcare technologies are also improving, tying into the first megatrend. Biotechnology has been a major area of development Environmental & Resources – this is part of the global political trend in the west to transition away from fossil fuels towards renewables and technology like battery storage – however - countries that we export our production to, such as China or India aren't beholden to the same regulations, which is why we see the trend of any energy or pollutant heavy industry being outsourced to these countries – This brings out the next megatrend – the western developed nations are focusing on sustainable energy and emissions when it comes to production of economic output - Batteries are essential for sustainable energy, as they store the electricity produced by wind, solar and hydro. Renewables are receiving renewed attention and government policies and subsidies – weather efficient or not – this is where hundreds of billions of dollars are anticipated to be spent in this industry So these are the four main areas of megatrends - The criticisms of investing in thematic trends – you are buying overpriced growth shares – Purchasing into thematic ETFs can result in buying expensive in vogue share, where their valuations have stretched too far due to people over purchasing these shares – i.e. they can have a negative earrings but be overpriced This is due to the market likely being already aware of the megatrend and hence has already “priced it in” to a shares price – which can often occur overoptimistically Tesla is an example - featured prominently in criticism to this effect in recent years, with many investors saying that Tesla is a “bubble”. This line of criticism is often extended to argue that investors are better off buying into “value” stocks, which are companies that trade on lower price-to-book or price-to-earnings. Or simply buying a passive market weighted index fund like the S&P 500 and not taking any long-term views. This brings up another point - that just because a company's share price looks expensive, does not mean it cannot rise further – this is based around traditional metrics – where if a company has a PE of 40+ it is considered growth – but this could mean that other people still want to buy and the PE rises further As an example - the rise of Afterpay is an example of this dynamic – a company with no PE due to having lost 10s of millions of dollars each period can be valued at the same market cap as Telstra How to access – you can try and select the share you think is going to do well yourself In my opinion – the better way would be to buy a basket of shares in a megatrend – through an ETF - there are many ETF providers for this form of investment thematic Megatrends can offer investors a lot - But trying to guess what the next trend is and accessing them has not always been straightforward. Previously, investors would have to research and identify the trend themselves, do all the work identifying potential winners, then go buy them With the rise of thematic ETFs over the past few years - megatrend investing has become more readily available Thematic ETFs are a new arrival in Australia and have become a popular tool for investors Thematic ETFs work like the familiar ETFs and index funds: they follow indexes. However, the indexes they track are devised specifically to target megatrends - They can in some instances be built by research houses or consultancies with specialist knowledge of a megatrend. How to select a thematic ETF - When selecting thematic ETFs, investors need to ask a series of questions. First and foremost is about the megatrend the ETF aims to target. Do investors find the megatrend convincing? How sustainable is the growth? And what does the evidence and data say about the theme? You can select an EFT for each specific megatrend – AI to demographics – so do you purchase one, or split between each? Secondly, investors must ask how the thematic ETF targets the megatrend. Does a thematic ETF offer true to label exposure to this megatrend? How does it go about identifying the companies driving a trend? How are they weighted when they are purchased? What is the overlap between this fund and any other funds or ETFs an investor might already have? A good thematic ETF should give true to label exposure, have a process for picking the right companies, and not hug a famous benchmark. In summary – these investment trends can provide additional growth for the future – but only if the trend continues Getting the right selection is important – historically this has been hard for an individual to achieve – but in recent times with the increase of professional managers providing these services through ETFs – accessibility has increased – but the issue comes back to identifying the correct megatrend and then relying on the ETF to purchase the correct companies to capitalise on this trend A google search can give you a list – let you come up with you own decisions – this isnt advice – but some of the major providers are ETF securities, Blackrock with ishares and statestreet are just to name a few reputable providers to look at Thank you for listening to today's episode. If you want to get in contact you can do so here: http://financeandfury.com.au/contact/
The Depression of 1893 was one of the worst in American history with the unemployment rate exceeding ten percent for half a decade. The Depression of 1893 can be seen as a watershed event in American history. It was accompanied by violent strikes, the climax of the Populist and free silver political crusades, the creation of a new political balance, the continuing transformation of the country's economy, major changes in national policy, and far-reaching social and intellectual developments. Between 1870 and 1890 the number of farms in the United States rose by nearly 80 percent, to 4.5 million. Farm property value grew by 75 percent, to $16.5 billion. The advancing checkerboard of tilled fields in the nation's heartland represented a vast indebtedness. Nationwide about 29% of farmers were encumbered by mortgages. One contemporary observer estimated 2.3 million farm mortgages nationwide in 1890. But farmers in the plains were much more likely to be in debt. Kansas croplands were mortgaged to 45 percent of their true value. Under favorable conditions the millions of dollars of annual charges on farm mortgages could be borne, but a declining economy brought foreclosures, tax sales and adverse weather could tip the balance over the edge. Railroads opened new areas to agriculture, linking these to rapidly changing national and international markets. Mechanization, the development of improved crops, and the introduction of new techniques increased productivity and fueled a rapid expansion of farming operations. The output of staples skyrocketed. Yields of wheat, corn, and cotton doubled between 1870 and 1890 though the nation's population rose by only two-thirds. Grain and fiber flooded the domestic market. The depression, which was signaled by a financial panic in 1893, has been blamed on the deflation dating back to the Civil War. The economy exhibited other weaknesses in early 1893. Then in the summer of 1893 agriculture was hit with drought. The drought started in June 1893 with a blistering heat wave that got underway on June 21 1893 when the mercury topped out at 106 degrees in Dodge City, Kansas and the drought didn't break for 3 years. The boom to bust cycle would repeat itself 4 decades later during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl in almost the same exact location. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year. Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year. Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year. Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast. Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana, he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year.Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF podcast.Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues.Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode!--- This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/app
William Morris. The Industrial Revolution & The Arts & Crafts MovementIn this episode Fatima Al Kurdi shares the philosophies of the Arts and crafts Pioneer William Morris during the industrial revolution and the age of Mechanization.
Jeffrey Boakye Appiagyei is a young Ghanaian agriculture and biosystems engineer, ag-tech entrepreneur and co-founder of SayeTech an agricultural manufacturing company in Ghana. As a student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana he developed his design and fabrication skills that he applied to portable soybean threshers, solar evaporative cooling units for fruits and vegetables, and vibrating seed cleaners. During his youth service as an elementary teacher in a rural community in Northern Ghana he noticed student absenteeism was high during the harvest season when parents usually remove children from class time to help with the harvest. His solution to the problem was to use his technical design skills with his co-founder to make machines that help farmers with post-harvest processing, improve post-harvest losses and help students stay in school throughout the school year. Key interview highlights: Necessity IS the mother of invention, at least in the SAYeTECH case. The need to reduce school attrition rates for students in Northern Ghana during the harvest season led Jeffrey and his co-founder to build local mechanized solutions placed in rural areas to help reduce drudgery for smallholder farmers and their families. A byproduct of the SAYeTECH mechanized harvesting machines is reduced post-harvest loss. Mechanization allows farmers to preserve more of their production and fetch premium prices on the market. Machines installed in 32 rural communities throughout Ghana create jobs and a circular economy in rural areas around the installation of the machines that helps to stem rural-urban migration You might have to change your initial business/product idea after you launch based on customer behavior and continue to innovate to ensure that you are meeting customer needs. Follow Jeffrey of LinkedIn Thanks for joining us for another episode of the WTF (Africa Edition) podcast. We would love to hear your feedback on the show and how we could improve so please complete this short survey. Guest appearance/sponsorship request: If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, please contact us at whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Where to find us: Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website agazella.com/podcasts. Help us grow: Please subscribe, stream or download, leave a rating or review and share your favorite episodes with family, friends, and colleagues. Follow the WTF podcast on Instagram and like or follow the WTF Africa Edition podcast on Facebook. Follow me on LinkedIn Join us for the next episode! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
We're chatting with Joe DeGroff, a true West Virginia entrepreneur. Owner of DeGroff Financial, The Healing Tree (CBD Store), Morgantown Box and Ship, and CFO at Mountain Craft Productions. Joe doesn't have a simple black and white path - he's a creative guy ready to break out of the norms. There is a lot to digest on this episode - We're already setting up a second visit to figure out what we missed!
The Kidnaping Of 30 Students Of The Federal College Of Forestry Mechanization In Kaduna, Nigeria --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alfredonline/support
This week we're exploring the latest trend in farm mechanization. Sure, row crop farmers ditched horses for iron decades ago, and even in specialty crop areas mechanization has come a long way. But when it comes to the actual harvest for those specialty crops, mechanization has been slow to arrive. Yet there's a new effort underway to ramp up the use of mechanization for more than corn and soybeans.Tim Hearden with Western Farm Press shares some insights on a new initiative in the West that has implications for specialty crop producers in other states and around the world. He shares some of what he's learned, and what it might mean. And even for a row crop farmer this move to mechanization in non-traditional crops is interesting.Photo: Vineyard tech Kaan Kurtural/UC Davis
BOOK LAUNCH An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia? FEB 9, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 10:30 AM EST Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent’s evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in adopting mechanization, offer a model for Africa? An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development analyzes the experiences of eight Asian and five African countries. The authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies. Hear from the authors and discussants on the book’s recommendations and insights, which are beneficial to national policymakers and the development community who can adapt this knowledge to local contexts and use it as a foundation for further research. Book Overview: Xinshen Diao, Deputy Division Director, Development Strategy and Governance Division, and Theme Leader, Agricultural Transformation, IFPRI Hiroyuki Takeshima, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Discussants: Geoffrey C. Mrema, Professor, Department of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Sokoine University of Agriculture Thomas Daum, Research fellow, Institute of Agricultural Science in the Tropics, University of Hohenheim Moderator: Katarlah Taylor, Events Manager, IFPRI LINKS: An Evolving Paradigm Of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn From Asia?: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/evolving-paradigm-agricultural-mechanization-development-how-much-can-africa-learn-asia An Evolving Paradigm Of Agricultural Mechanization Development: How Much Can Africa Learn From Asia? Synopsis: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/evolving-paradigm-agricultural-mechanization-development-how-much-can-africa-learn-0 More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/evolving-paradigm-agricultural-mechanization-development-how-much-can-africa-learn-asia Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription
For today’s podcast, we talk to BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas who wrote the Broader Look story titled “Mechanization moves agriculture sector slow, but sure, to modern farming,” which was published on January 7, 2021.
Unlike the United States, where the market development has reached its limits, China's economy itself has at least four major market dividends:First, urbanization dividends. Although the population of China living in cities and towns has reached 60%, the actual level of urbanization is only about 50%. These two figures are far from the general urbanization rate of 75% to 90% in developed countries. It determines that China's domestic demand growth space is huge and long-term, and will continue for at least 20 years.The second is the labor productivity dividend. Although China is the world's largest manufacturing country, China's per capita GDP is just over US$10,000, labor productivity is still at a low level, and there is still huge room for improvement. Mechanization, electrification, artificial intelligence, asset securitization, etc. can greatly increase labor productivity, and there is still a lot of room for optimization and refinement of the social division of labor, which determines that development space is still large.Given China's market size and space, China can certainly catch up with the United States in terms of per capita GDP, from US$10,000 to US$66,000. You can imagine the vast opportunities.More importantly, all of this is in China's control. China has the corresponding population base, education base, science and technology base, industrial base, etc., and the improvement of labor productivity is not constrained by any country. The third is to expand consumption dividends. Why is China's expanding consumption dividend so strong? There are three reasons: one is the objective demand for urbanization in China, the second is the room for improvement in China's labor productivity, and the third is China's savings rate as high as 45%. These three points determine that China not only has the current consumption potential supported by the high savings rate, but also the potential for urbanization and labor productivity improvement. This determines that China's consumption potential is sustainable and continuously developing. Therefore, China has great potential to expand its consumption dividend, and China's future market space will be at least five times that of the United States.The fourth is the innovation and upgrade bonus. For China, technological innovation, industrial upgrading and model innovation are all dividends. In terms of scientific and technological innovation, China has already made global leading breakthroughs like 5G, and there are also a series of other breakthroughs that are relatively leading, and there is huge room for breakthroughs in some backward areas. This determines that technological innovation can bring China a huge bonus.The same is true for industrial upgrading. China's R&D upgrading will bring about industrial upgrading and technological upgrading, which will increase labor productivity. At the same time, the huge market of 1.4 billion people also determines the huge room for model innovation.The dividends of innovation and upgrading in the United States and Europe are no longer as large. They are already developed countries and belong to the post-industrial era. Therefore, the space for innovation and upgrading is not as huge as China.China Explained will show you that because of China's continued success in industrial upgrading, technological innovation and realizing its huge potential, it is an unstoppable process. The inevitable rise of China may feel intimidating and some simply reject it. Don't be. China's rise is part of the new global trend unlike what we have seen in the past one hundred years. Embrace the change and seize the opportunity.Creating original content is hard work, your support is what keeps me going. Please donate to this channel: paypal.me/ChinaExplained
Seminar by Mr. Rajaram Patil Sir regarding topic Agricultural mechanization
This week, Marcus speaks with Founder/Author, Jeff Wald, about giving away a $10m prize in 2040, the future of jobs and work and his book, The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff is the founder of Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers (acquired by ADP). Jeff is the author of The Birthday Rules and The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff frequently speaks at conferences and in media on startups and labor issues. Jeff holds an MBA from Harvard University and an MS and BS from Cornell University. Jeff is giving away 10m for the Future of Work Prize - he’s a huge X-Prize fan - and explains why, when - and to whom, he will be awarding the $10m.Jeff talks about the intellectual antecedents (including OnForce) to his startup, Workmarket - the Freelance Management System that was eventually purchased by ADP.He shares the challenges they faced to raise their first $6m - and the strategy they took. He supports the notion that it’s crucial to get to market as soon as possible - you don’t really know what’s going to happen next until you get the product out to your first 1000 users. Instead of “The are using it wrong” they took the position that “They are using it right - we built it wrong”.Getting going out of the gate with 10-15 enterprise customers allowed them to generate $1.5m in the first year.The elevator pitch from origination is discussed - Workmarket is enabling corporations to efficiently and compliantly organize, manage and pay freelancers.Quotes: "Ideas are cheap - the will to execute is expensive”. "Doing it" is what separates people. "Release early, release often”Jeff thinks that he might change the title of the book given a chance - he was not in love with it, and thinks the irony of the title might be lost due to the economic repercussions of the Covid pandemic. He might have caledl it “The Future of Work is Here"Jeff shares thoughts on his “Labor equation” to evaluate the shape of the workforce and how to engage labor.Jeff cites Historic trends, data patterns, corporate decision making and even brings his Mum into the conversation!The duo talk about regulatory changes due to the pandemic and the impact moving forward.Jeff does not like “non data-driven” predictions - talks about de-globalization, remote working and Robots and AI.10-15% of jobs are going to disappear in the next 20 years - but there are plenty of jobs that are going to be created that will come close to balancing the equation.Marcus asks if the human aspect (in recruiting) can be automated.Mechanization, electrification and computerization are cited as previous drivers of major shifts in the workforce and the oncoming first services revolution is going to be the catalyst for some major retraining needs.Connect with Marcus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwald/Get the book: The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations.
The Depression of 1893 was one of the worst in American history with the unemployment rate exceeding ten percent for half a decade. The Depression of 1893 can be seen as a watershed event in American history. It was accompanied by violent strikes, the climax of the Populist and free silver political crusades, the creation of a new political balance, the continuing transformation of the country’s economy, major changes in national policy, and far-reaching social and intellectual developments. Between 1870 and 1890 the number of farms in the United States rose by nearly 80 percent, to 4.5 million. Farm property value grew by 75 percent, to $16.5 billion. The advancing checkerboard of tilled fields in the nation’s heartland represented a vast indebtedness. Nationwide about 29% of farmers were encumbered by mortgages. One contemporary observer estimated 2.3 million farm mortgages nationwide in 1890. But farmers in the plains were much more likely to be in debt. Kansas croplands were mortgaged to 45 percent of their true value. Under favorable conditions the millions of dollars of annual charges on farm mortgages could be borne, but a declining economy brought foreclosures, tax sales and adverse weather could tip the balance over the edge. Railroads opened new areas to agriculture, linking these to rapidly changing national and international markets. Mechanization, the development of improved crops, and the introduction of new techniques increased productivity and fueled a rapid expansion of farming operations. The output of staples skyrocketed. Yields of wheat, corn, and cotton doubled between 1870 and 1890 though the nation’s population rose by only two-thirds. Grain and fiber flooded the domestic market. The depression, which was signaled by a financial panic in 1893, has been blamed on the deflation dating back to the Civil War. The economy exhibited other weaknesses in early 1893. Then in the summer of 1893 agriculture was hit with drought, and the overproduction during the preceding half-dozen years had reversed the remarkable agricultural prosperity and expansion of the early 1880s in the wheat, corn, and cotton belts. The drought started in June 1893 with a blistering heat wave that got underway on June 21 1893 when the mercury topped out at 106 degrees in Dodge City, Kansas and the drought didn’t break for 3 years. The boom to bust cycle would repeat itself 4 decades later during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl in almost the same exact location. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One decade ago, amidst a limited labor supply and growing New Zealand wine industry, Klima co-founders Marcus Wichkam and Nigel George set out to solve their own labor issues with mechanization. By developing a highly efficient vineyard pruning system they have removed the physically demanding portion of the job opening the opportunity to employ fewer, more highly skilled tradesworkers to perform cane selection. This mechanization has enhanced consistency, improved quality, and, with a 50 percent reduction in labor required for pruning, significantly lowered costs. References: 22: Farm Labor Shortage (podcast) Immigration and Farm Labor with Dr. Phillip Martin (video) Klima.co.nz Klima Gen 2 (video) Klima Unified Wine & Grape 2020 booth B827 Mechanical Pruning | Vineyard Team Tailgate (video) SIP Certified Self-Assessment 2/26/20: Grower Perspectives on Redevelopment: Materials, Redesign, Equipment (event) Get More Subscribe on Google Play, iHeartRADIO, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.
In this episode the relationship between fear and bad habits and the importance of going easy on yourself are covered. You may notice that when trying to break a bad habit resolution fades and suddenly you're back to the bad habit maybe even more so than before the resolution. There's a good reason for that in this podcast is going to cover that issue. We will look at the chain of events that goes into the creation of a bad habit with a special focus on how bad habits interlock and are mutually reinforcing, making it difficult to shift to healthier, more constructive behaviors. Bad habits originate in one of five fears which, specifically, are: - fear of instability - fear of vulnerability and being consumed - fear of isolation - fear of not being good enough and getting destroyed - fear of being nothing With the fear of instability the belief that everything in one's world is going to fall apart. This leads to rigid behaviors which in turn leads to a sense of being trapped by the very things one’s trying to save. With the fear of vulnerability and being consume leads to trying to get along with everyone which, when taken to extreme leads to just freezing in place. With the fear of isolation one tries to do everything for everyone in order to dominate the situation to ensure sense of significance and not being left in isolation. One is left feeling burned out from trying to do everything in order to ensure constant recognition. With the fear of not being good enough rather than simply standing up for oneself the urge sets in to give endless explanations, create white papers, and slide into workaholic behavior rather than simply standing up for oneself due to fear of getting destroyed if a stance is taken. With this fear one is ultimately torn apart by trying to do more and more busywork. With the fear of being nothing a blankness can set in which leads to a fragmentation of one's worldview and not being able to see the overall picture. In other words, a sense of cluelessness is present. Ultimately, with this fear a sense of dissolving into nothingness develops. So these fears the result from reacting to situations lead to the creation of projective emotions, more commonly called projections. These comprise: - rage - greed - instinct - desire - jealousy - pride With rage there is the urge to tear people and situations apart, to destroy. With greed there is the urge to consume everything, never getting satisfied, and only wanting more after something has been gained. With instinct a reptilian type of behavior sets in it is a moral and simply focuses on having urges satisfied. Desire is a little more subtle and can be reflected in concerns about societal position, e.g., wanting to live in the right neighborhood, have the right job, have the children go to the right schools, worrying about one's image, seeing one's children as simply as an extension of themselves, etc. Jealousy is a projection of feelings of inadequacy. The individual is always wanting what others have and can harbor a deep resentment when the issue is actually all about not taking care of oneself in a healthy way. Pride comprises the projection of a sense of superiority over all others, treating them like objects to be manipulated on a chessboard. A tremendous insensitivity is present which, when combined with greed, becomes hugely destructive. So far, everything that is been described from the initial fears to the reactive emotions is inwardly focused. This negative energy, though, ends up being thrown into the outside world through the creation of negative, or karmic, behaviors. Karma, is commonly misunderstood as "what goes around comes around." This is not necessarily true. Many evil people die without experiencing the repercussions of their behaviors. The better way to view karma is as a negative behavior put out into the world the takes on a life of its own in an unpredictable manner. Karma comprises four elements: - actualization - execution - objectification - completion Actualization is the conscious thought around the performance of a negative act. Execution is putting that thought into action. Objectification is choosing another person or oneself is the target of the negative behavior. Completion is about being successful in creating the desired destruction. Now, when we execute these karmic behaviors if we do it often enough it starts becoming a pattern (more commonly called a habit). The pattern comprises four elements: - mechanization - resource consumption - crystallization - habituation Mechanization is the conversion of the act from a conscious one to a "spinal" one where the activity is performed in a reflexive manner. Think about figure skater focuses on where her hand is and how her fingers are during the figure skating routine they practice the behavior over and over and over again until it becomes, well, spinal. This means they no longer have to think about it, which frees their brain to move on to other considerations. Resource consumption is about channeling energy into the negative behavior. Over time this becomes very nasty because the resource consumption increases both in terms of the amount of energy consumed and the speed of onset. This is one of the elements that makes breaking that habits difficult. Crystallization is when the negative effects of karmic behavior is compounded. By this I mean one bad habit interlocks with another bad habit at the spinal level. These bad habits become self protective so that when you try to break one the other bad habits will kick in to cause you to behave in a self sabotaging manner in order to preserve the bad habits. For example, you may be successful in losing a few pounds and suddenly, before you know it, your reading multiple pieces of cake. Finally, this crystallization becomes even more intense through habituation. In other words, the karmic behaviors are the ones with which one leads with when going out into the world. And, because these behaviors are habituated and "spinal" there can be no sense of actually engaging in unhealthy behaviors. The individual doing karmic activities can feel just fine about themselves and have a sense of confusion when confronted by friends, relatives, coworkers, strangers. From reading all this you can hopefully see the changing bad habits and replacing them with healthy ones is not necessarily a straightforward process. It requires a coordinated effort across all areas of life in order to effect the change in a lasting manner. In future podcasts I will talk about how to bring about those changes. Your feedback is important. Choose from the following options: • place a review in iTunes, • click on “leave a comment” below, • send any comments along with your name and the show number to support@ctrchg.com Listen to future episodes for our reply.
A new report by the Canadian Farmers Union says that farm mechanization has driven farm incomes down and greenhouse gas emissions up. NFU president Katie Ward says the only way out of the farm crisis and the climate crisis is a more diversified farm landscape that will lower emissions and produce more local food. In this episode, she explains how those changes could come about.
A new report by the Canadian Farmers Union says that farm mechanization has driven farm incomes down and greenhouse gas emissions up. NFU president Katie Ward says the only way out of the farm crisis and the climate crisis is a more diversified farm landscape that will lower emissions and produce more local food. In this episode, she explains how those changes could come about.
Proof, in the form of step by step deduction, following the rules of logical reasoning, is the ultimate test of validity in mathematics. Some proofs, however, are so long or complex, or both, that they cannot be checked for errors by human experts.… read more »
Buildings that revolve or that have portions that do have been a dream for centuries, but generally never moved past the design stage. The rotary cell jail was very real. Touted as cost effective, modern, and escape-proof the concept spread quickly throughout the Midwest. Mechanization was coming of age; invention of the telephone and building of the transcontinental railroad fostered the notion man could solve any problem with his innovations. Nationally the enthusiasm for the rotary jails waned almost as quickly as it had spread. Decried as inhumane and dangerous, most were rapidly dismantled or converted to more traditional cells. Perhaps the most unique thing about the rotary cell jail in Council Bluffs is how long is lasted. Despite repeated efforts to close it, the “Squirrel Cage” remained the Pottawattamie County jail for 84 years. Learn more about Council Bluffs' unique jail at www.TheHistoricalSociety.org and join us on Facebook at Squirrel Cage Jail of Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
The idea of Industry 4.0 represents the fourth revolution in manufacturing. Industrial Revolution Phases Overview: 1.0: Mechanization through water and steam power 2.0: Mass production, assembly lines and electricity 3.0: Introduction to computers and automation 4.0: Enhance 3.0 phase with smart and autonomous systems fueled by data and machine learning In today’s episode we’ll discover: - What is Industry 4.0 overview why it’s important - What to consider as you start your leadership journey within Industry 4.0 - The necessary leadership skills and behaviors you need to advance in a technology driven era *** EPISODE CREDITS: If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com
You can only manage what you measure. And sophisticated sensors on modern tractors and combines offer growers an immense amount of environmental data. How can farmers put that data together in a meaningful way and use it to drive decision-making? Can we use that data to reward the growers who are already engaging in sustainable practices—and incentivize those who are interested in pursuing environmental stewardship? Dr. Emma Fuller is a Lead Data Scientist with Granular, a farm management software company working to apply data science to the agriculture industry. In her role, Emma tracks consumer trends in sustainability and works with NGOs and startups to identify opportunities for Granular growers to get rewarded for their stewardship. Today, Emma joins Christophe and Michael Leggett, Director of Product at Nori, to discuss the partnership between Granular and Nori and share their pilot program’s progress to date. Emma introduces us to Granular’s suite of farm management software and offers insight around the current trends in big ag and innovations in data collection for growers. She also addresses the way farmers think about climate change, offering insight on the best way to approach growers around adopting sustainable practices. Listen in to understand how Nori and Granular are working together to reward growers, tying financial incentives to environmental outcomes! Key Takeaways [2:07] Emma’s path to reversing climate change PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology Study commercial fisheries, policy incentives Work in commercial quantity ag led to Nori [5:29] The mission of Granular Help growers run strong businesses, steward land Software for business, agronomy + land acquisition [7:35] Emma’s insight on the top trends in big ag Increasing consolidation Generational change Pressure from consumers (e.g.: transparency) [9:08] Emma’s role with Granular Move from data wizard to product strategy Identify opportunities to drive value for growers [12:05] The lack of incentive structure around sustainability Buyers request data from growers No compensation in return (i.e.: long-term contract) [15:25] The consumer challenge around food labeling Terms used in marketing, no legal definition Arguments around regenerative ag labeling [19:14] Innovations in data collection on farms Sensors on sophisticated tractors, combines Fine-scale satellite imagery (drones) Farm management software [24:25] What’s driving change in big ag Consolidation (30K-acre family farms) Mechanization facilitates efficiency [29:53] The debate around small vs. large farms Row crop margins $1 to $5 per acre Power imbalance in how market food [34:05] How farmers think about climate change Hyper-aware of year-to-year weather conditions Communication breaks down when villainized Data gives opportunity to tell story of stewardship [38:57] How to approach farmers about the Nori pilot Validate those already engaged in stewardship Financial incentive to change practices [42:34] The partnership between Granular and Nori Granular offers detailed data + way to reach farmers Nori provides additional value for data collected [47:34] The current status of the Nori pilot program Offer Granular customers opportunity to participate Improve processes around data translation [52:28] How the Nori pilot is likely to evolve Enroll more farmers + automate data transfer Independent third-party verification adds value Connect with Ross & Christophe Nori Nori on Facebook Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Nori on GitHub Nori Newsletter Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources Granular Emma on LinkedIn Dannon White Wave General Mills Regenerative Ag Guidelines Patagonia Foods Regenerative Ag Guidelines John Muir Interstellar Dr. Charles Massy on RCC EP053 The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings by Wendell Berry Trey Hill on RCC EP059 COMET-Farm Email pilot@nori.com
Join Slidewhistle, Aaron, and Immunization as they talk about this week in World of Warcraft! This week, the boys continue their 8.2 patch discussion by doing a deep dive into the Mechagon region. The DNR cast details their Mechagon questing, daily questing, rare hunting, anticipation for newt week's raid, and sprinkle in a bit of Nazjatar discussion they missed last week. The continuation of the War Campaign & the Mechagon Comic Blizzard released a few weeks ago are also dissected! As always, send us anything you want on Twitter @DoNotRelentPod or on gmail at DoNotRelentPod@gmail.com for a shoutout on the pod!
Disc 14: Mechanization Takes Command (1984) - 14 discs in to the noise adventure. The gang gets mechanized. We slowly morph into pistons, steam turbines, and a train! Erik demands our listeners make him a Merzbanger from the Merziest Merzbop.
More than 75 percent of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa prepare their lands using only hand tools. It’s a practice that results in poor productivity and repels young people. Which is why the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, and the African Union have developed a framework to roll out sustainable farm mechanization across the continent. The aim is to reduce drudgery, increase agricultural efficiency and boost food security. On this episode of TZH, we hear from Her Excellency Josefa Sacko, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, and Joseph Mpagalile, an agriculture engineer and expert at FAO. Interview: Charlotta Lomas, FAO.
We talk about how our culture is starting to boil down to a science, and we talk about how technology tries to automate different aspects of life and the historical precedents. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clayton-james-hester/support
In this webinar conducted by Dr. Hiroyuki Takeshima (International Food Policy Research Institute) we summarize major lessons about mechanization learned from the South-South knowledge exchange. First, we discuss some key messages that have come out of a compilation and synthesis of the mechanization growth experience in Asia and Africa. We share new research findings on the determinants and impacts of mechanization. We then talk about our engagement with government officials in Africa and how that helped to facilitate the mindset shift that was necessary before any mechanization development policy reforms could be started. Finally, we discuss why agricultural mechanization should be seen as an important area for promoting private investment in rural transformation in general. Read more and access slides from the presentation: http://bit.ly/AgMechanizationWebinar
Africa has the youngest population in the world, with 60 percent of the population under the age of 25. Many young Africans are unemployed and are increasingly migrating away from rural areas in search of employment. Tens of millions of new jobs each year will have to be created in rural Africa just to include the new entrants into the labor market. Meanwhile, population trends suggest the demand for food across the continent will grow by 50 percent in the coming years. Josef Kienzle, an agriculture engineer at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), says the agricultural sector must digitalize and mechanize if it's to attract young people and ensure food security for a growing population. Interview: Charlotta Lomas
Ryan Thiessen farms four acres of vegetables in two locations at Creek Shore Farms in St. Catharines, Ontario. With 110 CSA members in the summer and 72 in the winter, as well as farmers market sales, Creek Shore Farms provides a modest living for Ryan and his wife, Amanda. While Amanda has been full time on the farm since its start in 2010, 2017 was Ryan’s first year with farming as his only job. We talk about the challenges he encountered while making the transition, and what he plans to do differently in 2018. Creek Shore Farms is highly mechanized for a farm of its scale, and Ryan shares where and how he’s made choices about mechanizing, and how he’s taken advantage of farming two properties as a way to organize what crops are raised using what methods. Ryan shares his adventures with two-wheeled Planet Junior cultivating tractors and how they revolutionized weed control at Creek Shore Farms. Perennial support for the Farmer to Farmer Podcast is generously provided by Vermont Compost Company and BCS America. Pictures, show links, and more at farmertofarmerpodcast.com/episodes/thiessen.
Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at http://patreon.com/champagnesharks. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2. We open up discussing recent developments with the Michael Slager case, then we go into the topic of blerds (Black Nerds) in response to a question from a listener about why I always go in on them. Discussed in this episode: Recent Michael Slager developments http://www.postandcourier.com/news/as-michael-slager-sentencing-nears-demise-of-north-charleston-police/article_ca264d16-98b6-11e7-a700-f76ce6d98c30.html Tariq Nasheed discussing the character Finn and how bad his character was in Star Wars: The Force Awakens http://ytcropper.com/cropped/t259c21e849e373 Twitter thread full of the type of black creator-owned comics full of black representation that your typical blerd will ignore: https://twitter.com/ChocCityComics/status/893929667257921536 The terrible T-Dog vs. Merle scene from Walking Dead, which was actually worse than I remembered. As the black thug gets beaten up by the white supremacist, the Asian guy and swarthy guy are looking on ineffectually and afraid and white women and a black women are also cowering, so basically everyone, including white women and men and women of color are all cowering before the white male supremacist until the other white alpha male comes in to take him down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpN3xl1pO3Q Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th http://amzn.to/2wFJVnG "Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body" by sonofbaldwin https://themiddlespaces.com/2015/03/31/humanity-not-included/ A thread about GothamGirlBlue's weird Hillary Clinton monarchy fantasy tweet: https://twitter.com/Bluepurplerain/status/909369406072827904 Luke Cage chasing down Dr. Doom for $200, "Where's My Money, Honey?" http://www.cbr.com/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-wheres-my-money-honey/ Thread by writer Myles Johnson about how a type of blerds, the Blavity Blacks (named after a website they tend to write for, Blavity.com) exoticize hood black people like Cardi B. in problematic ways, not too differently from how white people eroticize ratchet people: https://twitter.com/hausmuva/status/895502317931438080 A twitter thread doing exactly what Myles Johnson was bashing Blavity Blacks for doing with Cardi B. https://twitter.com/prezmomobologna/status/909061698191073280 Harmontown fans reacting, largely negatively, to GothamGirlBlue's appearance on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/6opl7a/episode_252_epeephany/ Postmodern geekdom as simulated ethnicity https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/SolesKunyoGeedom/ A video discussing a bunch of the problems with BBC's Sherlock, including how he actually sucks at deduction as D. and I were trying to explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM
Our civilization is at a crossroad with the acceleration of robotization, cyborgs, sex robots, and computer chipping of people. Calling for the violet flame to transmute the fascination with and nefarious side of mechanization concept. Let the technology of the sinister force be displaced by the accelerated spiritual unfolding of the sons and daughters of God, infinite energy and the conscientious use of Saint Germain's technology. This we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
Wendell Berry—farmer, essayist, novelist, poet, activist, teacher—lives with his wife Tanya on the banks of the Kentucky River. There he has farmed a Kentucky hillside for over half a century in his native Henry County, where his family has lived for eight generations.As a small-scale farmer who has used mules instead of machinery for plowing, Berry has taken a stand for decades against the destructive impact of industrial agriculture. He advocates for rural communities, for local economies, and for commitment to the land and one's place on it. Believing that one's work ought to be rooted in and responsive to one's place, he regards affection, knowledge, and memory as the prerequisites for good stewardship and good use.Wendell Berry delivered People, Land, and Community on October 24, 1981.If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of published works and transcripts. The Schumacher Center's applied work seeks to implement the principles described by these speakers within the context of the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. Our work, both educational and applied, is supported by listeners like you. You can strengthen our mission by making a donation at centerforneweconomics.org/donate, or call us at (413) 528-1737 to make an appointment to visit our research library and office at 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
We discuss how life has changed from mechanization, and the loss of wonder. Transportation, Communication and Social Living are examined.
Sharon and Ken decided to volunteer with CUSO to do something for the world. Ken worked in the agriculture mechanization division. He supervised the maintenance of the project's equipment to help the mechanization of the agriculture in Uganda. At the same time he was doing capacity building training. Sharon was a primary school teacher. They served during Idi Amins time as President. Volunteer for a better world! Join CUSO-VSO, share skills and volunteer in 43 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Volunteers, donate, share skills.www.cuso-vso.org
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
--{ The Emotive Changeling: "The Stage of Election is Over, it Seems, Voters Sit Back and Wait on the Dreams, The Internationalist Elect will Get His Orders, On Containing People Within His Borders, Using Increased Surveillance, Mechanization, Foes Abroad Standardized with Americanization, Borrowing for the Abyss will Know No Limit, The Cash of the World would Never Fill It, He Promises Dreams, Policy Major, Followers Entranced by Establishment Saviour" © Alan Watt }-- Election Hoopla, Sovietized System, U.S., Canada - Politicians, Presidents - Labour, Conservative, Privatisation. Saviours and Kings, Worship of a Human - Public Relations Image - Council on Foreign Relations - Rand Corporation. Setting Up of Israel, Palestine - Ulster - Knighthood by Queen. Schools, "Torture Chambers", Domestication - Britain, Pupils, Reflexology. Skyrocketing Autism Rate, Child Vaccinations - "Rainfall" Theory. Cloning, Mice - Helping "Sick and Infirm" - Brain-Computer Interfaces, Chip - Predictability, Total Information Network - Regional (Central) Computers, Programming You. Adult Children - Hollywood, "Lone Gunman" to Clean it Up - Hypnotic State. Images, Symbols, Cartoons, Public Opinion - 9-11-2001, Totalitarianism - Global Citizenship, Obama. (Articles: ["Shimon Peres to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth" Israel Today Staff (israeltoday.co.il) - Oct. 24, 2008.] ["Foot massages calm unruly pupils" (news.bbc.co.uk) - Nov. 3, 2008.] ["Rainfall autism theory suggested" (news.bbc.co.uk) - Nov. 4, 2008.] ["Harnessing The Power Of The Brain" by Scott Pelley (cbsnews.com) - Nov. 2, 2008.]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Nov. 5, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
The effect the mechanical revolution has had on farming is and continues to be enormous. From tractors to irrigation, our way of life would be not be the same without them. This podcast looks at just a few of the innovations that has changed the face of agriculture in the last century.
Jean-Pierre Dupuy is professor of social and political philosophy and director of the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée at the École Polytechnique, Paris. At Stanford University, he is a professor of French and Italian, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information and professor of political science by courtesy. A member of the French Academy of Technology, Dupuy’s research interests encompass cultural theory, social and political philosophy, the cognitive sciences, the epistemology of the social sciences, and the relationship of critical theory to logical and scientific thinking, extending to the paradoxes of rationality and the philosophical underpinnings and the future societal and ethical impacts of the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science. His book, The Mechanization of the Mind (2000), examined how the founders of cybernetics laid the foundations not only for cognitive science, but also artificial intelligence, and foreshadowed the development of chaos theory, complexity theory, and other scientific and philosophical breakthroughs. His recent publications include La Panique (2003), Aux origines des sciences cognitives (2005), and Retour de Tchernobyl journal d'un homme en cole`re (2006).
Wed, 1 Jan 1975 12:00:00 +0100 https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9246/1/9246.pdf Scriba, Peter Christian; Henner, J.; Erhardt, F.; Marschner, I.
This year's lecturer is the first and current Professor of Art History at Oxford University, Edgar Wind. The German-born British professor specialises in iconology in the Renaissance era. In his Reith Series entitled 'Art and Anarchy', Edgar Wind explores the concepts of creative energies produced through turmoil. In this lecture entitled 'The Mechanization of Art', Edgar Wind considers how machines have influenced art. He untangles conflicting opinions of how mechanics have influenced the production and evaluation of art now that works can be reproduced and multiplied. Professor Wind discusses how our experience of art is affected by the techniques of multiplication, and acknowledges that the creation, preservation and display of art can show signs of a mechanised style.
This year's lecturer is the first and current Professor of Art History at Oxford University, Edgar Wind. The German-born British professor specialises in iconology in the Renaissance era. In his Reith Series entitled 'Art and Anarchy', Edgar Wind explores the concepts of creative energies produced through turmoil. In this lecture entitled 'The Mechanization of Art', Edgar Wind considers how machines have influenced art. He untangles conflicting opinions of how mechanics have influenced the production and evaluation of art now that works can be reproduced and multiplied. Professor Wind discusses how our experience of art is affected by the techniques of multiplication, and acknowledges that the creation, preservation and display of art can show signs of a mechanised style.
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