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NEW YORK (STATI UNITI) (ITALPRESS) - "E' stato un crescendo incredibile, ricordo quando siamo partiti la prima volta da Miami: New York è stato sempre un appuntamento irrinunciabile, poi siamo cresciuti. Abbiamo cercato di coprire tutto il territorio degli Stati Uniti per raccontare il Salone del Mobile. Questo ci sta portando grandissima affluenza da parte dei visitatori americani, che è poi l'obiettivo che ci siamo prefissi" A dirlo Marco Sabetta, Direttore Generale Salone del Mobile.Milano, in occasione del road show a New York della manifestazione in programma dall'8 al 13 aprile. f11/fsc/gsl
NEW YORK (STATI UNITI) (ITALPRESS) - "E' stato un crescendo incredibile, ricordo quando siamo partiti la prima volta da Miami: New York è stato sempre un appuntamento irrinunciabile, poi siamo cresciuti. Abbiamo cercato di coprire tutto il territorio degli Stati Uniti per raccontare il Salone del Mobile. Questo ci sta portando grandissima affluenza da parte dei visitatori americani, che è poi l'obiettivo che ci siamo prefissi" A dirlo Marco Sabetta, Direttore Generale Salone del Mobile.Milano, in occasione del road show a New York della manifestazione in programma dall'8 al 13 aprile. f11/fsc/gsl
How we live, work, and innovate is changing, transforming not only our interactions within cities but also how regions interact with each other. In this episode, we welcome back Richard Florida to explore his concept of the Meta City. We discuss and dissect how the physical and digital relationships between regions are rooted in historical connections and the emerging ecosystem models of today.Episode HighlightsThe Meta City represents an evolution of the spatial division of labor, expanding beyond urban/suburban distinctions to digitally connect distant cities with unique economic specializations into a global network.Informed by LinkedIn data on skilled professionals' mobility, the Meta City concept was born out of an attempt to understand remote work's impact and instead uncovered new linkages that redefine the connections between cities.The relationship between Austin-Silicon Valley, Miami-New York, and Nashville-Los Angeles exemplifies these interconnected ecosystems, where talent and innovation flow is not only a result of their historical and cultural ties but also significantly enhanced in the digital connectivity era of the Meta City.What's Next Austin?"Linking innovation, university research, high-tech ecosystems, startup ecosystems with popular culture innovation, and music, and all lifestyle, and not only music but outdoor recreation, all the things I like with now a production component. So it's kind of a more full-fledged model. So I like that. You know, I think what next for Austin, just keep doing what you're doing."The Rise of the Meta CityRichard Florida: Website, LinkedIn, X/Twitter -------------------Austin Next Links: Website, X/Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn
Miles & Kirk review a rainy Monday Night Classic between Eagles and Chiefs! Then, we take to the Thanksgiving slate heavy with lopsided lines. Will there be an upset between Seattle-San Francisco, Washington-Dallas, and Green Bay- Detroit? Or, perhaps, Miami-New York?
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Join the Patio as they discuss headlines from the day!T, Fortenberry, Skoff, DW, and Marty Mar are all in studio for the first time in a long timeCanadian Wild fire!New York City Air Quality!Lionel Messi to Miami!Barcelona!Joe Biden!Chris Christie!lifefromthepatio.comWatch us on YouTube
We have our first NBA conference finalist! As the Nuggets annihilate the Suns in Phoenix and the boyers discuss Denver's dominance and where Phoenix goes from here (4:35). After, CJ gloats after Jayson Tatum's miracle 4th quarter and Henry opines about what chokers the 76ers are (16:55). Then the boyers preview what we will see tonight in Miami between the Heat and Knicks (36:00) and LA for the Lakers and Warriors (48:10). Thanks for Listening!
Nick Kostos & Ken Barkley share their thoughts on the Miami/New York series, which the Heat lead 3-2. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chris and Jarod talk about the Boston/Philadelphia series, Denver/Phoenix series, Los Angeles/Golden State series and the Miami/New York series, along with possible superstar movements in the offseason. Follow @sttppodcast on all socials and turn on notifications to know when new content becomes available.
(00:00-27:18) – The Fan Midday Show opens on a Monday with Jimmy Cook and James Boyd recapping rookie minicamp for the Indianapolis Colts with Anthony Richardson making his first appearance at their complex, what James overall thoughts were of his first rookie minicamp, and the report of Washington calling Andrew Luck to see if he would come out of retirement to quarterback the Commanders along with Jim Irsay's tweet last night. (27:18-44:42) – Former Warren Central Head Coach and current Frank Central football Head Coach Jayson West joins the Fan Midday Show with Jimmy Cook and James Boyd to explain what kind of player Julius “JuJu” Brents was at Warren, how beneficial it was for him to go up against David Bell in high school, the relationship that his family has with JuJu, and preview the upcoming season for his Flashes. (44:42-49:15) – Hour one concludes with Jimmy and James speculating what is next for veteran quarterbacks Nick Foles and Matt Ryan now that both are off the roster. James seems to have a strong feeling as to what the former Colts quarterbacks will be doing in 2023. (49:15-1:22:14) – Colts.com's JJ Stankevitz joins the program to explain why he is so confident in the ability of Shane Steichen to develop Anthony Richardson following his work with Jalen Hurts, how the tandem of Richardson and Jonathan Taylor will make the passing game easier for the Colts rookie quarterback, what he thought of the rookie minicamp performance of Josh Downs, and gives a shout out to all the people involved with putting together With The Next Pick. (1:22:14-1:33:55) – Jimmy and James give away a combo pack of tickets for a listener to answer a trivia question to attend Carb Day along with qualifications for the Indianapolis 500. Then, they transition into the epic flop by Phoenix owner Matt Ishbia after receiving a brief shove from Nikola Jokic last night. (1:33:55-1:41:14) – The one o'clock hour concludes with Jimmy and James discussing the comments made by the owner of the Houston Texans dismissing the idea that he was the one that demanded for the team to select C.J. Stroud. (1:41:14-1:58:42) – The final hour of today's show opens with Jimmy, James, and producer Eddie Garrison sharing their thoughts on the All-Rookie teams being announced because Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin was tabbed as first team. Additionally, they examine how the franchise must continue having good drafts to surround Tyrese Haliburton and Mathurin with talent to make a run in the playoffs for years to come. (1:58:42-2:17:27) – After teasing it all show, Jimmy finally asks James for his opinion on how the NBA Playoffs have gone in the second round with Devin Booker, Nikola Jokic, and Jimmy Butler delivering night in and night out. They break down the two games tonight in Miami/New York and Golden State/Los Angeles. (2:17:27-2:21:49) – The final segment of the show is spent with Jimmy sharing his JCook Plays of the Day along with Eddie sharing one bet he likes for tonight and James giving final thoughts on tonight's NBA Playoff slate!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Le podcast NBA Corner revient sur la victoire des Warriors face aux Lakers dans le Game 2 de leur confrontation en demi-finale de conférence Ouest. Josh et Charles passent également en revue toutes les autres séries en cours, notamment Denver contre Phoenix et Boston face à Philadelphie avant leur Game 3. Mais aussi Miami/New York. Le podcast se termine sur la décision des Bucks de se séparer de leur coach, Mike Budenholzer. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
In this episode, CJ is furious at Henry for jinxing the Celtics as James Harden put on a performance for the ages in Game 1 without Embiid to take down the Celtics in Boston (1:40). Then they discuss Denver taking a 2-0 series lead on the Suns and Chris Paul leaving Game 2 with injury (19:40). Then they discuss the Heat taking Game 1 from the Knicks in MSG (34:20) and then preview the epic 5th chapter of the LeBron-Steph playoff rivalry (48:10). Thanks for listening!
0:00 Intro 0:46 Scott reflects on what he remembers about Utah Jazz center Greg Ostertag 2:35 Bruce shares a quick story on Olden Polynice before providing his opening tip on his Boston Celtics 4:50 Scott gives some love to Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler who has been unbelievable in the playoffs 6:04 Ross provides a friendly reminder to the listeners to remain buckled up for a wild ride in this year's NBA playoffs 7:20 1st Quarter: the guys recap the Heat/Bucks 1st Round Series offering their insights 17:10 2nd Quarter: Knicks bury the Cavs & a Miami/New York 2nd Round Series Preview with predictions 25:46 3rd Quarter: The road Warriors get a big Game 5 win in Sacramento. Will they put the Kings to bed in Game 6? 37:11 4th Quarter: Phoenix Suns/Denver Nuggets 2nd Round Series Preview with predictions 51:10 A fun game of Word Association with NBA Champion Scott Williams 58:22 Scott provides an update on his book & where you can purchase a copy
Theny Valero es Fotógrafo comercial, Comunicador Social y Diseñador Gráfico venezolano, actualmente reside en Medellín, Colombia. Theny ha sido galardonado en el “One Eyeland Photography Awards” en el que quedó como finalista en el año 2020 y con una publicación en el libro “Best Of The Best Photographers 2021”. La Plataforma Fotográfica Latinoamericana “Enfoque Conecta” lo nombró como autor fotográfico latinoamericano ganador en la categoría “Alta Trayectoria” en Fotografía Publicitaria en el año 2020 y el “WPE International Photography Awards” lo posiciona en el puesto N°20 de fotógrafos a escala mundial, en donde participan más de 8000 fotógrafos; Theny cuenta con 26 fotografías galardonadas en “FOODELIA”, una de las plataformas más destacadas en fotografía de alimentos. Además de ser fotógrafo comercial, desde el año 2015 se dedica a dar cursos de fotografía de alimentos y fotografía de producto, enseñando en: Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Panamá, Chile, Venezuela, y además a dictado recientemente workshops en Madrid,Barcelona, Miami New York; llegando hasta la fecha a adiestrar a más de 1200 fotógrafos en más de 35 ciudades de distintos países de habla hispana. Instagram: ThenyValero Divinafoto Web: thenyvalero.com Instagram: sinmarcadeagua_podcast Espacio conducido por Yessica Duque Instagram: yessica_duque_photography Web: yessicaduque.com Productora: Mónica Correa Instagram: laprofemon Web: monicacorrea.com Música: Patrick Patrikios - Know Myself Patrick Patrikios - Beyond Copyright 2022© Yessica Duque. All rights reserved.
Mr. Model is back from lab with his NCAA Basketball model and he has some early season games that you don't want to miss. He explains how his model works and what to look for when making bets. We also have Caz, Coulter and Hews talking Week 13 in the NFL. There's already been some crazy line movement on games like Miami/New York, Indy/Houston and New England/Buffalo. We've got plenty of crossfire picks and lots of action this week --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/double-down-trent/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/double-down-trent/support
Ryan, Quinton & Trysta preview this weekend's AFC East divisional matchup between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today on NBA Morning Deuce, Joey Levin, and Alex Ruane discuss the remarkable turnaround to the season by the Sacramento Kings, Zion Williamson going off again against the Celtics, and the Celtics awful trade deadline, The Heat snapping their losing streak against the Knicks, and why a Miami-New York playoff series would be good for the league, Russell Westbrook's MONSTER game, Brooklyn nearly losing to Minnesota despite another MVP game from James Harden, Toronto's rough season continues, OKC benching Al Horford, early evaluation of Nikola Vucevic on the Bulls. Follow the show on Twitter @nbamorningdeuce Follow Joey on Twitter @josephrlevin Submit your Blue Wire Hustle application here: http://bwhustle.com/join
Today on NBA Morning Deuce, Joey Levin, and Alex Ruane discuss the remarkable turnaround to the season by the Sacramento Kings, Zion Williamson going off again against the Celtics, and the Celtics awful trade deadline, The Heat snapping their losing streak against the Knicks, and why a Miami-New York playoff series would be good for the league, Russell Westbrook’s MONSTER game, Brooklyn nearly losing to Minnesota despite another MVP game from James Harden, Toronto’s rough season continues, OKC benching Al Horford, early evaluation of Nikola Vucevic on the Bulls.Follow the show on Twitter @nbamorningdeuceFollow Joey on Twitter @josephrlevinSubmit your Blue Wire Hustle application here: http://bwhustle.com/join
What's the commercial real estate confidence levels? What do commercial real estate brokers think of work from home strategies? Find out in today's podcast. We track commercial real estate so you can focus on your business. Other CRE topics discussed include: Blackstone makes further enormous investment in Miami New York lawmakers introduce more chase away business proposals One NYC law firm brings employees back to the office Perhaps Hub and Spoke isn't all we thought Please consider liking and subscribing to the podcast. For your South Florida commercial real estate needs, please visit www.blueboxre.com.
From our group chat on the phone to your ears. Radio veterans Mike Meltser, Landry Locker, and Cody Stoots chop up what they've been texting about in Houston sports. (00:10) - I don't know why we started with David Johnson but we did and why we don't like it and Mike doesn't listen to Cody and it makes Cody Mr. Grumps for the rest of the podcast (06:41) - Landry doesn't believe the Jets OR the Dolphins are in on Watson. Mike disagrees. Cody thinks the Jets have to move soon or tip their hand (19:33) - Carolina and Denver as potential suitors for Watson and what the deal could look like (26:27) - The timeline really accelerates at the end of this month so Houston can't tip their hand (29:09) - Jack Easterby should be laying low, Cody doesn't believe he will and Landry thinks Caserio will dismiss Jack's input (37:27) - Mike is struggling with excitement, about the Texans not in the bedroom, and Cody and Landry try to excite him, about the Texans. Would the Texans pick 1.1 in 2022 would that mean Easterby is done? (47:55) - Your Questions including what will Culley be asked and what to make of the new center for the Texans and what would the team look like if Brian Gaine was never fired? (01:01:46) - Astros including Crane stepping up after Framber was hurt and Cody has finally quit a player in the organization
0 (1s): Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning. Online it's a little different for me and the band and just like last week, we're going to go ahead and we're going to worship here. We're going to trust that you're going to worship with us at home. You know, we'll remember that it doesn't matter where we're at. God is everywhere. Omnipresent. We can praise him from the rooftops, from the empty rooms to the living rooms, to the bedrooms. He's worthy to be praised. So wherever you are, join us worship with us this morning and we'll get it going, Lord, please accept our worship this morning. 0 (45s): As pleasing we come to you, we humbly confess that we have nothing to offer. Lord. Everything we have is because of you. We praise you. We worship you in Jesus name. Amen. 1 (1m 6s): . 1 (6m 21s): Hi, 2 (11m 30s): 1 (11m 42s): 0 (15m 51s): Lord, we thank you this morning for your great gift of grace to each one of us. We thank you, Lord, that you've made it obvious to everywhere. We look at your creation, cries out of a creator. I pray this morning that you'd help us all to remove the scales from our eyes. Only you can remove Lord that we could see that every day we'd sent your presence. Remember who we serve and worship. Pray that you'd bless your word this morning. 0 (16m 32s): You anointed. You'd give us ears to hear what you want to say to us. We ask in Jesus name. Amen 3 (16m 42s): For let's see here flows of you standing there in the back. We've got a couple of seats right up, over here in front. And then I think we have a seat right back there in the back free. Now I'm just having fun with you anyway. It's great to be here. You guys, and let's let's, let's go ahead and pray and Lord God, we thank you father that you, that you do see all Lord God that you do know all. And just thank you father, that you have equipped us as believers with everything that we need to address and face the challenges that come before us. Even if we feel powerless, even if we feel like there's a we're out of control, like we don't have control or God, these are, these are the opportunities father for us to lean on you completely. 3 (17m 27s): And to see your power work in your grace abound father, we pray for your Holy spirit to move through this message this morning. And for those who don't know you father, we pray Lord God, that they will be receptive to your Holy Spirit's call to become a member of your family in Jesus name. We pray amen. What happens in when everything is going really smooth and there you are driving, and you're finally on cruise control and things are going really well. What happens in life? I'll tell you what happens. Suddenly a big cow gets in the middle of the road and you have to go left or right, or have lots of hamburger meat. 3 (18m 9s): And you know, that works much better in Texas, but anyway, but the reality is that's what life is about. We have, we, we never had a stay on cruise control forever. There's just things that happen. Even if you think you're doing everything correct. We live in a fallen world and things happen. I know I was challenged once I was a Western regional coordinator for an organization called Rutherford Institute, and that was coordinated litigation in 14 Western States out of our, out of the Sacramento office and everything was going really smooth. I had this network of attorneys developed and Aaron's going great coordinating over 40% of their active litigation. 3 (18m 50s): And what happens? The national office calls me and says, Brad, we're shutting down the last regional offices, including yours, but don't worry. We have a promotion for you. Why don't you hit up our public affairs office in Washington, DC you'll have a higher salary, larger staff, larger office. You'll be the face of the organization. You'll be literally the media and media rep for all television and radio throughout the country. For all of our litigation. Of course, I don't have to pray about that. You know, I mean, right. When something is just like, so obviously God was closing, wonder opening it elements. You don't have to pray about that. Yes. Yeah. And I had insomnia. 3 (19m 31s): I couldn't sleep. Couldn't sleep the next night couldn't sleep the next night. Why? Because I was wrestling with the Lord. I knew that if I prayed that God was going to probably challenge me to take the rough path and not the easy path. That's just what happens in my life. You know, when, when you pray, I usually very rarely feel led to go the easy way. It's this thing called faith that needs stretching going this way. And so I went ahead and prayed and that's what I should've done from the beginning. But I prayed. And when I did the Lord gave me this question, which is Brad what does Isaiah I put on your heart real pointed, really clear. 3 (20m 12s): And the answer was to make sure people got the help they needed here on the West coast. That was a passion on my heart. The next question was, what do I choose to follow the passions on my heart or something else? So with boldness and courage, I stepped up and I said, Lord, I will face the challenges I will boldly go. I will do exactly on several conditions. And isn't that what we are sometimes in life, we say yes to we're going to do it, but I'm scared. That's okay because God's stretching us. And when he stretches us, it's not supposed to just really be, you know, when you're, when you're lifting weights, I had some, maybe some guys here in the audience here, weightlifters, you know, we lifted the weights. 3 (20m 54s): You lift it with. So it's easy. No, you lift as hard and you're stretching those tit, those muscles and everything. Well, that's what God does with us spiritually. When we go through situations where we have to stretch our faith. And so I says, God, I've just, I got a few things here. One, I want to make sure that we have a free office space indefinitely donated free in Sacramento, a free computer system donated, you know, keep me on the radio stations for free. There were two, a rate, two radio stations. At the time we have to use the black Lord in just three months. And I'm never going to charge anyone at any time for any legal work I ever do. Ever. I thought it was very reasonable with my business model. 3 (21m 35s): And anyway, God, he knows where he knew I was at. He knew exactly where I was and he takes us right where we are in that great that God knows inside and out. He says, so he took care of everything. I get a call out of the blue. We're shutting down the other for the office. It's the last month I get a call. I didn't tell anyone about the free office space I was looking for. I thought I don't have to. I told God, God doesn't provide it fine done. It's not at him. And I'm getting on my boat and I'm leaving Nineveh. Okay. I'm just from head to Barcelona. I'm just, I was already, you know, it's anyway. Yeah. 3 (22m 15s): Biblical analogy there. Okay. Gotcha. So, so there, so, so what happens? I get a call answer. The phone guy says, yeah, I heard you needed office space to have office space for you. Free office space. Now did I say praise the Lord? Thank you. No, this was my ticket to avoid going to Nineveh. Okay. The office space. So instead I raised my voice and said, well, Hey, how'd, you know, I need office space. Well, my secretary who's my tone quickly comes in, says, put him on hold, put him on hold. She goes, yeah. I just, I Brad, you didn't know this, but I knew there before we knew they were shutting down our office, I knew our lease was going to expire here. 3 (22m 55s): So I thought I would surprise you. And so I called KYC radio and I asked him to put in an announcement that we're looking for free office space too, because yes, we need office space. But that's how God works in the computer. I told one person computer system, we needed. One person goes, Oh yeah, I've got a computer system for you. The boat is not leaving. It's going to stay in it. So it's how God works. Radio stations. They said, Oh, we'll keep you on. And now by God's grace, we have a half hour radio show and it's heard on over 500 stations and transmitters across the country for free the, the commentary. 3 (23m 40s): We have the legal EDS for that over. Well, I'll say over 790, plus at least radio stations Monday through Friday, it's for free. I mean, this is how God works. And we now have offices. Pacific justice. Now has offices went to theaters anyway. I've I don't know how many offices, but coast to coast, Miami New York, Dallas, Mississippi, Denver, Seattle, Salem, foreign, California, Reno, Nevada, all donated office space. It's it's what God does. It's when we let go, we let God, he goes beyond what we can think or imagine when you're facing things in life. 3 (24m 23s): Remember none of this takes God by surprise. If you feel out of control, it's obviously it's a great time for those spiritual muscles to be stretched called faith. And we could put our trust and hope in the Lord. Now, why is this a good introduction? It's a good intro because what we're going to talk today is about perilous times from God's word. If you turn, if you will, to second Timothy chapter three second, Timothy chapter three, verse one, are you don't bother turning there. Just trust. I mean, I'm a lawyer. So that was a joke. That's good. You guys laughed. Okay, good. 3 (25m 4s): Yeah. It starts off what I love about this. This is understood by many to be the last writings of the apostle Paul. So this is, this is the last two chapters. We're going to finish all chapter four for time, but this is the last two chapters of the last letter of the apostle Paul and Guest who he's writing it to. He's really addressing it to us, I believe. And here's why here's the first verse, but understand this, that in the last days there will come times of diff difficulty or perilous times. That's, that's not, I think, written to the early church. I think it's written to the last days. I think it's written to us. 3 (25m 46s): And yet we act as though some, some strange things happening and we see crazy things happening our world, right? And yet Paul makes it really clear of the word of God, makes it very clear that we're to face these things. Verse two also love it. That he doesn't leave it just obscure. Like what does he mean by perilous? Well, he actually says it real clearly here. Verse two for people who we lovers of self don't. We see that in our society, what's the most common picture for someone to take, what's it called? 4 (26m 16s): Selfie? It's not a 3 (26m 17s): UAE or they it's a selfie. Right? And lovers of self lovers of money. Don't we see that that's part of our culture materialism and, and it's very apparent. And we see it around the world and we see it around the world now arrogant, abusive disobedient to their parents. Now I used to say, you know, things that disobedient to parents, you know, I thought, well, this is the end of the world's happening. 3 (26m 58s): All these teenagers are just so rebellious. Well, that's part of growing up in a way you've becoming your own person. I get that. But what we're talking about here is rebelling, not just becoming their own person, but disobedient to the parents and the teachings of their parents pulling away from the faith of their parents. We see that statistically, like we've never seen it ever in us. History is greater now than it was even back in the late sixties. And they're the, the counter, the cultural revolution it's happening at a very fast clip in our society. The fastest growing religion in America today are nuns. Now I'm not talking about the ladies with the black, you know, thing and the okay. 3 (27m 40s): And the Catholic church. No, no. I mean, there are none there, nothing. They don't believe in anything you say, Oh, you're an atheist. No, you are you this? No, I'm just nothing. That's the fastest growing religion, turning away from the parent teaching of their family and their parents. Ungrateful ungrateful. It's interesting because I think the synonym for an ungrateful is entitlement. You don't need to be grateful for something. If you're entitled to it. If, if you're owed it, if you're dessert, if you deserve it, do we have that in our society? Is that a part of what's? Our children are learning and our government schools in particular and our universities, actually a lot of private quote, Christian universities. 3 (28m 27s): I know there's a number here in the state of California, frankly, that need to be called out because of this, this, this new thinking of, of entitlement, very progressive quote unquote philosophy that goes totally against the teachings of scripture and the word of God. So it's unholy. What's that? Holy being separate from God and what's righteous. And what's good. A turning from God heartless on a, on a peaceable slanderous without self-control. When I was a kid, self-control was a good thing. 3 (29m 8s): It's what we learned. Right? Self-control exercise. Self-control what do they teach you? What's our society embracing. Now I'll tell you right now, we're all indoctrinated. I'm going to say the first few words and you're going to repeat it. If it feels right. Good do it. We're programmed. And our society does that. What God's word says no, no. Self-control is a good thing. We're human beings. God has given us moral choice. And with that comes a responsibility and self control. And our society is just, if it's a log as someone, you know, wants to, or it feels like this is something they're there they desire to do, then that's who they are. 3 (29m 51s): They should do it. Well, no, no. That's called temptation. We should turn from temptation because temptation leads to sin and see it. Sin leads to destruction and death. And that's what the stats show the statistics lovers. I was always, sorry. We'll keep here without self-control brutal. No loving good. Instead of what's hip in our society is, is to love that, which is evil and it's evil to, and instead to, to hate that, which is good. We see it in our society today. When I was growing up, there are two kinds of people. Pretty much there were those who went to church and those who are knowing that they should be going to church. 3 (30m 33s): Right? That's what I grew up with. Yeah. I know we should give you one. Church I just our society today, not that Church saves us, but it's just, it's an indicator oftentimes of our desire to, to be close and to fellowship. Fellowship is a part of healthy, spiritual growth as Christians. And yet our society today are those who go to church and then you have, and they have those who despise churches and what they stand for and what they teach and a very large part of our culture society. And then those, even those who go to church, you have those. When I was a kid, I'm selling an old man, this is not good when I was a child. Let me tell you no, but it was always thinking like two groups of Christians, you got those, the sprinkle and those that dunk. 3 (31m 20s): And that's the big divider. That was my mind thinking I was a kid and I wasn't sure about the sprinklers. Okay, boy, have things changed. The real question today is, is your church one that believes that Jesus is the way the truth and the life that no one comes to the father, but to faith in Jesus, is your church, or is it, or is it more of a universal status that decides to dilute the word and believe just everything sort of gets there. We see main did not mainline denominations falling into this deception. We also see, you know, is your church one that believes that the Bible is the Holy word of God and you don't need to apologize for this, but it live by it because this is God's word. 3 (32m 3s): Or do you believe, are you part of a church that decides to dilute, cross out, tear out and modify what the word of God says? That's where we are in our society today. Unlike at any time in world history, do we have a tearing away among the churches from those who are followers of Jesus and the Holy word of God and those that follow something else. And then love is a good treacherous. Reckless this verse for swollen with conceit pride. Pride is basically saying that I know more than God. I know that I know the way and I'm, and I know what's best for me more than God. That's sort of the conceit. 3 (32m 44s): It's pride lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God. I'll never forget. When I, the Supreme court decision regarding same-sex marriage came out from the Supreme court. It was a five to four decision, very close, actually. And the majority of the decision wrote that not only was equal protection, the basis of it. And I thought that's probably how they're going to go with the equal protection clause. We'll get into the details of that. But instead, they went much farther than that. And they said they defined a sexual fulfillment as a fundamental right. Individuals' sexual fulfillment. I looked at this, I thought this makes bigamy, polygamy, BCL. 3 (33m 30s): I mean, my mind started going, going off the edge there, thinking this just opens up the flood gate for all kinds of just immoral activity and justifying it as a constitutional fundamental, right? What's the fundamental, right? By the way, it's something given to us by our creator. How can you ignore the laws of nature? And nature's God the source of our fundamental rights in claiming something that goes totally against those rights. It's, it's, it's crazy. It makes no sense. And yet that's what we see facing us today. And that's what the Supreme court ruled. It basically, it was like, they shook their fist at God and say, we'd rather be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of you. 3 (34m 22s): First five, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. I remember I was on an airplane. You know, those people that they talk and talk on the airplane and you're just like, I wish it'd be quiet so you can CA that's me. Okay. Right here. It just happened. So I'm sitting here talking with this guy and I said, somehow it comes up. I said, if you don't mind me asking, I said, what'd you do you have religious background? And he says, he goes, no, I'm not religious, but I am very spiritual. So we know it. We know the language, we know the lingo, right? Spiritual, it's very hip to be spiritual. So I said, well, what does it mean? What do you, what do you believe? 3 (35m 2s): Well, I just really feel that I'm at one and at peace with the universe. Okay. And where does that come from? What's 1 (35m 17s): That's it. 3 (35m 20s): Okay. So there's nothing to this cloud. It's just a cloud. It's a floating, it's a floating cloud. There's no nothing, no substance. And our society embraces sort of this spiritual ism as an alternative because it makes you feel good. Doesn't it? You feel like you're, you're somewhere, even though you really know where, but it makes you feel better. Right? And, and yet it's a deception. And yet it says, but denying its power, it has no power because, or does not come from our, our mind. It doesn't come from our, our own energy. Doesn't come from the universe. Power comes through Jesus Christ and the powerful working of our creator. 3 (36m 5s): One thing I love about being a Christian and I'm a lawyer too. I'm sorry. Okay. Let me just tell you something about lawyers. It's the 99% out there. They give us 1% of bad reputation. No one laughed at that one. That was a lawyer joke. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Some courtesy. Laughter. Appreciate it. Okay. But anyway, I keep talking about before I lost my place. This is not good. Okay. So beginning, back onto where I was. All right, here we go. But the thing is, is that God wants us to recognize that we need to understand that. 3 (36m 49s): Like I said, all power comes from him. I have a very logical mind. So as a Christian it's makes sense because we have a history. We have God, two thirds of the prophecy has already been fulfilled. We have 12 eye witnesses that gave their lives. The concept that Jesus has been not only risen from the dead, but they saw him risen from the dead, from an evidentiary perspective. It makes sense. Even the understanding of the, the origins of the universe and the development correlates with the science correlates, with what we've learned, it makes complete sense. And then we also have the witness and the power of the gospel transformation in our lives and what we've seen. 3 (37m 34s): And yet that's shunned by the world to follow something else. None of this takes God by surprise. And it shouldn't take us by surprise. And yet the word says in verse five, avoid such people. No, Whoa, wait a minute. We, as believers are not to avoid people who don't know the Lord, right? So we're talking about, we're talking about people that are invading the church. That's very different. Actual, these are people eating the Church with these attitudes and philosophies and ideas. And that's why the church has to be strong too, for extra rotation. We're going to see that in a moment. Now, if we were to stop right here, be terrible. Wouldn't it it'd be like this terrible cycle. 3 (38m 15s): Do you know the world's coming to an end? Now let's go out and have some coffee. What's really awesome. Is that starting in verse, verse 10, we have a whole blueprint of victory and miss these hard times. So let's continue. Let's go on right here. But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, my, my aim until in life, my faith, my patients, my love, my steadfastness. Now notice that word love is right there. I always say, then he has my persecutions and sufferings. Love is right there. Missed all these things have challenged. How can we love when we're going through persecution? Right? 3 (38m 55s): Instead, you know, long suffering stays is another word used for steadfastness. How can we love? We can't love in these situations. Can we not on our own, but through Jesus, we can. The more of a church is persecuted. The more we're trounced on the more we're attacked, the stronger our testimony, because the more resilient and more evident is the love of Christ. And it baffles the world. When we are able to love those that hate us, able to turn the other cheek. We're able to walk the extra mile. These, these are coming from from Jesus. And we can do that as followers of Jesus, verse 11, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch and a code them. 3 (39m 38s): And it lists what persecution is. I had toured yet from them all the Lord rescued me, wait a minute. How did Lord rescue them? You guys know what Paul went through, right? He had a shipwrecked stone poison, flogged near death or died. I mean, the guy, you really can't get much more persecution than what this guy went through. I mean, he didn't end his life even with a big mansion. I mean, he didn't have a nice ending. Yeah. You know, and his power from his testimony was all the more powerful because of all that he went through it. Wasn't about avoiding persecution. It didn't say the Lord prevented me from going through persecution as the Lord delivered me for what? We're a purpose to continue to share the good news of Jesus to share the gospel and the life changing opportunity to hope in Christ, verse 12. 3 (40m 26s): He see, he reveals that. He says, indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ. Jesus will be persecuted. Isn't that a great promise. You're going to be persecuted. Now let me know if you're like, well, I don't want this promise. We don't live for this world. We live for a whole nother world. This is a train station. This is temporary. And, and we're going to be suffering persecution. Verse 13 while evil people and imposters will go from bad to worse deceiving and being deceived posters is he, there's going to be imposters in the Church right? Who are deceiving. I've seen him on television before for you continue in what you've learned and from an F and have firmly believed knowing from whom you've learned it. 3 (41m 15s): And now from childhood you've, you've been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ. Jesus. What are the sacred writings? Is it from some ancient something? No, it's the Bible God's word. And so we're supposed to, to, to clean to it. We're supposed to, to, to learn from it and, and, and, and to grow from it. Verse 15 and now, and how from childhood, you have been acquainted with the sacred rice, which we would like your wife to Christ for salvation through faith in Christ. Jesus. All scripture is breathed out by God profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training and righteousness. 3 (42m 3s): Would you say that the Bible is pretty, has it all together? I mean, this is the most important book. Good read. This is, this is it. And oftentimes we neglect the word don't we so much of our time. We, or we could be religious about it. I remember my life. It was a time I read one chapter a day. If I didn't have time, I read the chapter and the presence of many witnesses, trust, phase one managers or and quickly go through it and say, okay, what one thing did you get out of it? I don't know. I was too busy reading it. You ever been done that before? It's called religion and death. God doesn't want religion. He wants a relationship. It's better. I think to read one verse and to be open to the spirit of God than to go through this big rigid ritual. 3 (42m 48s): I got to read the whole Bible in one year. So I got to quickly do I didn't make time. Walk with God and let him speak to you in his word. He's talking to you in his word and is it has a trustworthy will verse 16. All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training racist, that the man of God may be complete equipped for every good work. Did she love these absolutes and God's word. We can put our hands, our trust completely. And when he teaches us and tells us in his word, it's proven itself, time and time again, and the testimonies and the evidence is overwhelming. 3 (43m 33s): If we'd only listen and hear what God has to tell us, we're going to face tough times. Verse four, chapter four, verse one. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ. Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing and his kingdom. Would you say what he's about to say is pretty important? I mean, I don't, I don't, there's not many times in scripture. I see this kind of an intro to an exhortation, to a command verse two. We see what that command is. Preach the word. Pretty awesome. Isn't it preach the word whenever you feel like it? 3 (44m 16s): No, no, no. Preach the word. Be ready. The in season and out of season. In other words, when you see the results and when you don't see the results, DePaul always see the great results. When they're about to just read acts chapter 22, you know, it was, he was preaching and they wanted a fling. Dustin, the air traffic cooks. They wanted the guy dead. He didn't base his ministry on results. His ministry was on faith in Jesus. God's the one who moves Gaza. Results person is a great that God doesn't count on us for results. What does he want from us? He wants to obedience and we can put our trust in him, preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke and exhort with complete patience and teaching. 3 (45m 7s): I'll never forget. There was one guy. I was getting my house in citrus Heights and it was a for sale by owner. And I was writing down the number. He says, Hey dude, you want to commit? Obviously, dude, he goes, Hey, you want to come in and see the house? And my uncle's not here, but he really needs it. So I go in and watch, look at it and everything. And, and, and I said, wow, this, this ad on here had this big add on with the slanted roof, but it's okay. The floor matched it. So it was fine. So it's all slanted. I said, well, you could, you could have a church service here. He goes, Oh, are you a Christian? I go, yeah. Are you? He goes, no, I go, well, what are you going? Well, you don't want to know. I said, well, yeah, I do. No. I thought I'm not gonna be able to get this house anyway. 3 (45m 48s): And by the way, I ended up getting the house. So it was like, like a total God thing, another story. So I sit down with him and he goes, cause I was, since I went to college, I learned some new ways of thinking, Oh, well there are no absolutes. Yeah. And how it may be right for you, but it may not be right for me. And he goes, yeah. And how everything is relative. Yeah. I said, well, let me tell you that's wrong. And I went through and I went through the apologetics and I gave him the, the bridge diagram, you know, man on one side, God, since separating, you know, and then I gave him more than a carpet. But the book later on, more than a carpenter and his eyes were just glassed over. And I thought, what a waste of my time. 3 (46m 31s): And that's what my attitude was. I'm going to be honest with you. It wasn't like a whole Lord just work in his life. No, I thought kids hopeless rebel. What a waste of my time. And I shared this story. A number of times with people saying, nonetheless, we still need to share the good word. Even if we know people have rejected it and they're not going to, well, you don't have it. About 17 years later, someone knocks on my door. I wasn't there. Someone else answered the door. He says, yeah, yeah. I'm here to see brags on here. Okay. Well, he shared with me gospel about 17 years ago here in this house. And I didn't accept it and made some bad decisions. I went to prison, but when I was in prison, I remember what he shared with me. 3 (47m 14s): And I gave my life to Christ. I'm now out of prison. I'm now in full-time ministry. I just wanted to come by and thank you for taking the time. And when I heard that, I was like, Chris, where are you going to be like happier praise the Lord. Well, you know what the Holy spirit did. First thing was brought to my mind exactly what I said and felt afterwards, which was what a waste of my time. I wish I hadn't bothered that. So reality is it's not a waste. So, and let the Lord do the reaping. Let God, let God move in his, through his Holy spirit. And maybe someone else down the road will, will lead them to cry. So the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions. 3 (48m 5s): Do we see it? There's churches in this town probably that fits this criteria very well. We have denominations that have pledged to be followers of this and to do this verse four. And we'll turn away from listening to the truth. What is the truth? This the word of God and wander off into myths. As for you always be sober-minded enduring suffering. Do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. Sometimes in life we say, well, that's, I don't really have a ministry to talk about pastor Steve, pastor Steve we're rooting for you, pastor Steve. 3 (48m 48s): No, no. They're talking about you. If you've given your life to Jesus, the way God wants to work in your life, how do you know if God has a ministry for you? Ask yourself two questions there. One, have I received Jesus, my Lord and savior. And number two is my heartbeat. Cause otherwise God to take you home, he's a gracious God heaven so much better than this place. He has a purpose. Even this one lady, I know she was going blind and she loved Jesus. She says, I can't even do anything. And I says, this is a prayer warrior. You can be a primary, like never before she goes, you're right. And she was a prayer warrior all the way up until the time she passed away, two months later, it's a living for Jesus and not ourselves. 3 (49m 31s): And, and also I, when I was 16 years old, I w too much time on this cause time. But I loved the Lord. I was in my little Opal GT driving motorcycle hits me head on, goes through my windshield smashes through this whole part of my head, I was going 55 on a, how fast he was going, rushed me to Parkland general hospital. I was in ICU. I had major brain damage. How many people can say I had major brain damage? Not many. My parents were told quote from the doctor. I was struggling to live critical condition. They said your son has had major brain damage. 3 (50m 11s): Even if he lives, he still could be a vegetable. You may still have to pull the cord and quote. And yet Californians. Our God is a great recycler. He loves to take that, which the world throws away, do something new. And that's what he did in my life and incredible healing buddy, by the act of God, do I still have the same brain? No. I think my kids will tell you. I'm a little weird. I got my idiosyncrasies, but, but the reality is it's not about us. It's what God wants to do with us. It's not about what gifts we have. It's not about, it's not about who we are. It's about whose we are. We realize it's about who we are in Christ and not about this other stuff. 3 (50m 53s): We have freedom. There's freedom in Christ because it's not about us. It's about who we are in Christ and what he wants to do with what he's given us at this time. And this day, by the way, I supposed to have serious problems with, with logic, reasoning, analytical skills and speech communications, the left frontal lobe. This whole thing was like was swelling. I've had to cut a large hole just for the swelling. You could see the swelling of the brain. Talk to a neurologist. I'll tell you that's not a minor head injury. I ended up getting my degree in finance at Texas a and M university. That's where I learned my manners. And that was a joke. You could say, you're not supposed to do that guys. I could just sit here. 3 (51m 33s): And I graduate with a finance degree, logic reasoning, 3.8, six in my major, put myself through school. Undergrad worked two years, went to one of the top 20 law schools in the country graduated the top half of my class by God's grace, because it's not about us. It's about him and what he wants to do through us and, and following his direction. It's exciting. Being a Christian. You want purpose in life, become a member of the family, of other living and powerful God that created life. Verse six for I'm already being poured out as a drink offering at the time of my departure has come. 3 (52m 16s): What's that mean? I'm about to die. People say really important things right before they're going to die. Here's what he says. I have fought the good fight I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. There is laid up for me, the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge will award to me on that day. Wait a minute, Paul, you're the Zola bin Ladin of the early church. Your name needs to be saw. It used to persecute the Christians. You are the biggest loser. The righteous judge giving you a crown of righteous. Yes. You know why? Because it wasn't based on who he was or what he'd done based on who who's. He was that he'd received Jesus Christ as his Lord and savior. And he was washed clean by the blood of the lamb. 3 (52m 59s): What about the rest of us? Oh, he responds to that. But the rest of the verse, it says, and not only to me far as awarding the crown, but also to all who have loved his appearing. You, what I love about this is that he didn't say all people who've went to confession or went to church camp or goes to church all the time, or even set a certain prayer a certain time. It's loved his appearing. There's a relationship. And you may not have a relationship with the Lord. You may have gone through religion. You may be a religious person all your life. But if you knew that Jesus was coming back tomorrow at 2:30 PM and no one knows the day of the time I get that, this is hypothetical. 3 (53m 40s): Okay. If you knew that two 30 he's coming back, what would you be thinking and feeling? Would you be loving his appearing or would you be saying to yourself, Oh shoot. At three 30, I've got a big real estate deal. I've got a corporate merger. I've got this big data I'm going on or would it possibly also be, Oh shoot, he's not going to take me. He's not going to take me. I I've got this ugly closet, this dark ugly closet. W and by the way, just for the record, everyone has a dark ugly closet. Okay. But you see, but all, but this mine's really bad. I've got stuff here. So shameful. So disgraceful, I can't even forgive myself. How can God forgive me? 3 (54m 22s): You know what you're really doing? When you say that it's like walking up to Jesus on the cross. Let's just say, he's he's right here at lacrosse bleeding and dying in pain and agony for our sins, gasping in pain and agony to bear our sins on the cross, to pay for our death penalty for our sins on the cross that he's paying for. And we walk up to him and we say, nice try Jesus. But you see, for me, that's just not good enough. In other CROs, his response to that lie was revealed when he said it is finished. 3 (55m 5s): And all's we have to do in humility is to believe it and receive it. Receive his gift of payment for our sins on the cross and surrender our lives at the foot of the cross to be a follower of Jesus. And he will separate that ugly sin. As far as the East is from the West. He will wipe, you will wash you clean from, with his blood on the cross. He will wash you clean and pure in his eyes and receive you as a child of the living God for eternity. Awesome. Some of you may, what I just shared that may just felt convicted. There's a good chance. 3 (55m 45s): That's the Holy spirit. Speaking to you, giving you the call right now to receive Jesus. And we're going to give you that opportunity to do that right now. Let's please bow your heads, father. I thank you, Lord God that you are on the throne. Thank you, Lord God, that you are the way the truth and the life through Jesus Christ, your son, and that no one comes to the father. No one gets clean. No one gets redeemed, but through faith in Jesus Christ, Lord got to pray for the believers, hearing this father right now that we will be exhorted not to follow into the, the trappings of this world. Oh Lord God, where we're tempted. And we fall, Lord God, bill that put us back up, father, Lord. And, and to be followers you Lord God, not to give up, not to turn to the left or right, but to keep her eyes on you and to share your good news father, many people right now watching this broadcast or here, even here. 3 (56m 35s): And they say to themselves, I really felt convicted when he said about shame, about not having that personal relationship, playing religion, but never receiving Jesus in a personal way and surrender my life to him as my Lord and savior. If I would pray right now, father for your Holy spirit father, to speak to them in their hearts. And w and, and if you're one of those people out there right now, just pray this prayer with me, right? Where you are just say, Lord Jesus, I'm a sinner. You know, all the garbage in my life, all the shame. And right now in faith, I receive your full payment for my sin on the cross, through Jesus Christ. 3 (57m 21s): I thank you for forgiving me for covering all my sin through dying on the cross in my place. And I receive that forgiveness right now. Thank you for forgiving me and I surrender my life to you. I want to be a follower of Jesus from now on. Thank you for being my Lord and my savior from this day forward in Jesus name. Amen. Now, if you just prayed that parameter to tell you, Satan is really ticked off because he just lost his hand, a dominion in your life in a he's hoping you. So you're going to forget what just happened. So what I'm gonna exhort you to do is to, is to contact someone, maybe contact us. 3 (58m 1s): Church give them a call, talk to them, let them know that you just made that decision that you want to grow, because we need each other as we're going to grow as Christians and they'll help you. They'll give you some, some good counsel on how to grow as a Christian and be a follower of Jesus. As we move forward today, this is not the time to hesitate. This is not the time to fear. Fear is gripping our nation, but we have not received a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and discipline, or sound mind through faith in Christ, brothers and sisters. Let us live that faith as we move forward. Amen. 2 (59m 8s): 1 (59m 35s): stop. 1 (1h 7m 46s): . 0 (1h 10m 3s): And remember, there's not much else to say, but that you are worthy. The one true and Holy God, thank you for your word this morning. Thank you for speaking to us. We pray that you would be with us this week. Give us strength to walk hard after you let me pray in Jesus name. Amen. Everybody have a great week.
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We had the pleasure of interviewing Bossi of Cosmic Gate over Zoom audio! GRAMMY ® nominated trance legends Cosmic Gate aka Nic Chagall and Bossi have proved to be a matchless musical union. The last 20 Years set them on the course to becoming Germany’s most enduringly successful electronic music duo. Smashing the biggest festivals and road-blocking clubs worldwide, got them highest climber on DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart and racked up plentiful other awards & nominations along the way. Numerous Singles like ‘am2pm’, ‘Fall Into You’ and ‘Falling Back’, countless Remixes and 9 Artist Albums, including scene-defining classics like ‘Be Your Sound’, ‘Fire Wire’ and ‘Exploration of Space’, their star on dance music’s walk of fame has long since been laid.Introduction: From their very first drumbeat, through to the release of ‘[Forward Ever Backward Never]’ – their ‘20 Years’ commemorating longplayer, Cosmic Gate’s Nic Chagall and Bossi have proved to be a matchless musical union. A chance encounter in a Cologne recording studio two decades ago set them on the course to becoming Germany’s most enduringly successful electronic music duo.Their original productions have taken them to the highest reaches of streaming lists and download charts, whilst their remixography eclectically includes everyone from revered Hollywood composers like James Horner (Avatar/Titanic) to in-scene demigods like Armin van Buuren and Tiësto. Nic & Bossi’s behind-decks-brotherhood has triggered critical mass in a now uncountable number of countries. They’ve dominated electronic music capitals and spun at the veritable A-through-Z of major festivals. In the process they’ve picked up a Grammy nomination (in 2019’s Best Remix category), become the highest climber on DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart and racked up numerous other awards & nominations along the way. Driven by their critically applauded albums, Spotify-busting singles like ‘am2pm’, ‘Fall Into You’ and ‘Falling Back’ (each with 5million streams to their name) and scene-defining classics like ‘Be Your Sound’, ‘Fire Wire’ and ‘Exploration of Space’ (10million Spotify streams), their star on dance music’s walk of fame has long since been laid.As DJs, kinetically bouncing off the others energy, week in, week out, Cosmic Gate continue to push floors to supernova. In North America they’ve smashed the biggest festivals like EDC, Ultra, Electric Zoo, IleSoniq, Spring Awakening, Paradiso, Global Dance, Veld, Dreamstate and more. Road-blocking clubs and events like Space (both Miami & New York), Governors Island NY, LA’s Palladium and the Great Hall at Brooklyn’s Avant Gardner has become their SOP. Floors have felt similar pressure in hotspots worldwide. Among them have been Tomorrowlands in Belgium & Brazil, ASOTs internationally, Creamfields, Ministry & SW4 in the UK & Ultra Europe, Untold Romania, Mysteryland & Luminosity in Holland and Parookaville, Boothaus & Nature One in their native Germany. Their WMC/MMW Miami Sunset Cruises have long since passed into clubbing legend and the pair famously sold out a 2000 capacity solo show on the island of Honolulu.Grammy nomination: the final month of 2018 Nic & Bossi were nominated for their first Grammy award. Selected in the Best Remixer category, their work on Gabriel & Dresden and Sub Teal’s ‘Only Road’ from a year earlier drew nomination praise from the academy. The remix was further described by DJ Mag as “masterful”, with “alchemic sequencing”, “shrewd use of context” and was “wily” in its “sound design”C.G. Productions & Albums: In their homeland, Cosmic Gate has maintained a consistently high level of mainstream success, charting no fewer than 7 top 40 singles. Further afield ‘Fire Wire’ signalled the pair’s arrival, becoming a pan-European chart smash and hitting the top ten in a number of countries.Albums have, and continue to play a substantial part in their production career. Most recently that’s been evidenced by ‘20 Years’, which was released in August of 2019.Significantly subtitled ’[Forward Ever Backward Never’], it was conceived as an album that innovatively took their body of work to new floors and audiences. Including new Cosmic Gate productions, it also incorporated 2.0 renovations of CG anthems. Further, it featured reworks of tunes personally inspirational to CG, as well as new takes from other artists on classic Cosmic moments. Its first single releases brought a brace of Beatport hits with the MINT-playlisted ‘Come With Me’ and the “profound” (said DJ Mag) “9/10” ranked ‘Need To Be Loved’ both hitting the #1 position.The album also gave rise to the 20 Years live tour, which to date has reached 30 cities globally. Of the tour’s LA stop, EDM.com said: “Los Angeles played host to one of their biggest shows on the tour where they performed at the legendary Hollywood Palladium. Their extended three-hour set included guest performances by JES, Eric Lumiere, and Emma Hewitt, who have lent their vocals to some of the duo’s biggest tracks”. The Dallas Observer meanwhile hailed their Stereo Live, Houston show as a “cruise through two decades of varied, quality productions.’20 Years’ was preceded by the two ‘Chapters’ of the longplayer ‘Materia’ – the release of which musically bookended the group’s 2017. It was the album mothership for a clutch of new Cosmic Gate singles and releases. Among them were ‘Fall Into You’, ‘Edge Of Life’, ‘Noom’, the Beatport #1 ‘am2pm’, ‘AR’, ‘Dynamic’ (“melody and grit in equal proportions” said DJ Mag’s 8/10 review) and others. Following their ‘Start To Feel’ long-player (more info below), the release scored a MIXMAG Album of the Month plaudit, representing – said the magazine – an “impressive”, “roots-return” to their origin sound. Upon their release the ‘Materias’ were met with comparable sales success, hitting iTunes’ top 10s in 9 countries and reaching the #2 spot in both the United States and Canada.The period 2015 – 2016 saw Cosmic Gate continue to embrace the collaboration medium through a number of high-profiles co-production projects. Among them was ‘Embargo’, which was the result of studio time shared with Armin van Buuren. The track was subsequently featured on the latter’s 2015 album, ‘Embrace’. A year later Nic & Bossi teamed up with Ferry Corsten to record ‘Event Horizon’. Garnering substantial praise from fans, DJs and press alike, it topped Beatport’s Trance chart in October of 2016.Released in the summer of 2014, Cosmic Gate used their sixth album ‘Start To Feel’ to inspire fans to experience electronic music in a “deeper, wider, more complete way”. It’s first single – the Eric Lumiere-sung ‘Falling Back’ – was described as “9.5/10” scoring “anthem in a can” by the UK’s DJ Mag. Further singles including ‘So Get Up’, Yai (Here We Go Again’) and ‘Fair Game’ cemented its reputation. Upon release, the album hit the iTunes’ top 10 in the US, Canada, Germany and Russia. A MIXMAG 9/10 rated release, ‘Start To Feel’ was hailed as “audio chemistry and production physics in their most quantum forms”. It also catalyzed the Start To Feel bus tour, which famously saw Nic & Bossi perform 13 shows in just 16 days, coast-to-coast across North America, playing to over 20,000 fans.In 2011 the duo released ‘Wake Your Mind’. It produced ‘Be Your Sound’ – a single that MIXMAG suggested: “finally unseats ‘Fire Wire’ as Cosmic Gate’s best-known-for track”. With its official video just off 16 million views on YouTube, it bagged an IDMA nomination in 2012, (with the JES-sung ‘Flying Blind’ following suit a year later).Cosmic Gate’s album movements began with ‘Rythm & Drums’ (in 2001), ‘No More Sleep’ which followed a year later and ‘Earth Mover’ in ‘06. The latter was the album platform for the club hits ‘Analog Feel’, ‘Should Have Known’ and the IDMA-nominated ‘I Feel Wonderful’. ‘Sign of the Times’ arrived 3 years later, bringing the vocal anthem ‘Body of Conflict’, a further IDMA-nod for ‘Not Enough Time’ and spurred (a then near unheard of) 43-place leap up DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart. It also edged the pair towards a more open-plan electronic music style (later to fully manifest in ‘Wake Your Mind’ and ‘Start To Feel’).Cosmic Gate’s Wake Your Mind marque was subsequently spun off into a number of other areas. WYM Radio is a comprehensively formatted show, which features Nic & Bossi discussing and airing their most highly rated tracks of the week. It’ll also encompasses first-listen music premieres and tunes from the deeper side of the CG psyche. The show – which is broadcast on Sirius XM, DI.FM and many other stations – also features comprehensive info on up-and-coming gigs, Nic & Bossi’s Big Bang track of the week and a host of other features, latterly including the ThrowBack weekly classic and their Private Playlist tune. In January of 2019, the show passed its landmark 250th episode.Since 2013, Wake Your Mind Records has been the label base for all of Cosmic Gate’s releases. It’s also served as a dais for Cosmic Gate to sign and release music from other artists. Of late, tracks from producers like Maor Levi Greenhaven DJs and Steve Brian, as well as Nic Chagall’s own solo material have featured, alongside co-productions with Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, Super8 & Tab and others. Latterly, the Wake Your Mind Sessions compilations have also come to play a part in the WYM make-up, with the third in the series reaching release in March of 2018.Other remixes: Over their production lifetime, Cosmic Gate’s remixes have become almost as illustrious as their productions. In essence a blow-by-blow of A-list artists, Nic & Bossi have lent their studio know-how to releases by Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Deadmau5, Paul van Dyk, Above & Beyond’s OceanLab project, Markus Schulz, John O’Callaghan, Gareth Emery and Ferry Corsten. In early 2010 Atlantic Records US approached them to remix James Horner’s ‘I See You’ – the main theme from the film Avatar. This run culminated in Nic & Bossi being nominated for Best Remixer at the 2010 IDMAs and not to forget their Grammy nominated remix for „Gabriel & Dresden – The Only Road“ in 2019 (see paragraph “Grammy Nomination” above for more infos) We want to hear from you! 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Subscribe to the podcast and notes: https://qurantalk.podbean.com/ Quran translation on iOS: https://apple.co/2C1YGXj Additional Resources: http://www.masjidtucson.org Contact: qurantalk (at) gmail (dot) com [2:183] O you who believe, fasting is decreed for you, as it was decreed for those before you, that you may attain salvation. [2:184] Specific days (are designated for fasting); if one is ill or traveling, an equal number of other days may be substituted. Those who can fast, but with great difficulty, may substitute feeding one poor person for each day of breaking the fast. If one volunteers (more righteous works), it is better. But fasting is the best for you, if you only knew. [2:185] Ramadan is the month during which the Quran was revealed, providing guidance for the people, clear teachings, and the statute book. Those of you who witness this month shall fast therein. Those who are ill or traveling may substitute the same number of other days. GOD wishes for you convenience, not hardship, that you may fulfill your obligations, and to glorify GOD for guiding you, and to express your appreciation. [2:186] When My servants ask you about Me, I am always near. I answer their prayers when they pray to Me. The people shall respond to Me and believe in Me, in order to be guided. [2:187] Permitted for you is sexual intercourse with your wives during the nights of fasting. They are the keepers of your secrets, and you are the keepers of their secrets. GOD knew that you used to betray your souls, and He has redeemed you, and has pardoned you. Henceforth, you may have intercourse with them, seeking what GOD has permitted for you. You may eat and drink until the white thread of light becomes distinguishable from the dark thread of night at dawn. Then, you shall fast until sunset. Sexual intercourse is prohibited if you decide to retreat to the masjid (during the last ten days of Ramadan). These are GOD's laws; you shall not transgress them. GOD thus clarifies His revelations for the people, that they may attain salvation. [17:78] You shall observe the Contact Prayer (Salat) when the sun declines from its highest point at noon, as it moves towards sunset. You shall also observe (the recitation of) the Quran at dawn. (Reciting) the Quran at dawn is witnessed. [2:189] They ask you about the phases of the moon! Say, "They provide a timing device for the people, and determine the time of Hajj." It is not righteous to beat around the bush;* righteousness is attained by upholding the commandments and by being straightforward. You shall observe GOD, that you may succeed. The new moon timings to determine the month of Ramadan are as follows: May 04, 2019: 22:45 (10:45PM; UTC/GMT) = 3:45pm PST / 6:45pm EST June 03, 2019: 10:02 AM (UTC/GMT) = 3:02am PST / 6:02am EST https://www.onlineconverter.com/utc-to-pst http://masjidtucson.org/submission/practices/ramadan/#dates Sunset New York on May 4th 2019 = 6:45 pm EST Sunset San Francisco on May 4th 2019 = 8:01pm PST 05 May 2019 - 03 June 2019: God willing the first day of Ramadan is 05 May, and the last day of Ramadan is 03 June for USA and Canada (e.g., we checked for Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Phoenix, Tucson, Chicago, Dallas, Miami New York, Washington DC, Ottawa, Toronto). Please verify / check with the information available for your location using the Ramadan Calculation Assistant and the US Naval Observatory solar & lunar data. 06 May 2019 - 03 June 2019: God willing the first day of Ramadan is 06 May, and the last day of Ramadan is 03 June for Europe (e.g., we checked for London, Berlin, Rome, Moscow, Istanbul), much of Asia (e.g., we checked for Mecca, Tehran, Dubai, Karachi, Mumbai, Chennai, Dhaka, Hong Kong) and Africa (e.g., we checked for Lagos, Tripoli, Cairo, Johannesburg, Nairobi). Please check with the information available for your location using the Ramadan Calculation Assistant and the US Naval Observatory solar & lunar data. 06 May 2019 - 04 June 2019: God willing the first day of Ramadan is 06 May, and the last day of Ramadan is 04 June for parts of Asia (e.g., we checked for Tokyo), Australia, New Zealand. Please check with the information available for your location using the Ramadan Calculation Assistant and the US Naval Observatory solar & lunar data (moon phase calculator). The Night of Destiny (Night of Power) will start, God willing, at sunset on May 30, 2019 for those places that start fasting May 5. For those locations that start Ramadan on May 06 (a day later), the Night of Destiny falls on May 31, 2019 God willing. Sura 97: Destiny (Al-Qadr) [97:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful [97:1] We revealed it in the Night of Destiny. [97:2] How awesome is the Night of Destiny! [97:3] The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. [97:4] The angels and the Spirit descend therein, by their Lord's leave, to carry out every command. [97:5] Peaceful it is until the advent of the dawn.
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My guest today is Fabricio Teixeira. Fabricio has led design teams at various agencies over the past 15 years; now he's at Work & Co, a digital product design studio based in Brooklyn, NY. I came to know Fabricio because he's one of the founders and publishers of UX Collective, one of the largest design and UX online publications. In this episode, we focus on how Fabricio and his partner Caio Braga make UX Collective happen through mindful information management. Listen to the full conversation https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/episode-3-fabricio-teixeira.mp3 Show notes Fabricio Teixeira UX Collective Work & Co Feedly Digg Reader (sadly, no longer available) Pocket Buffer If This Then That Getting Things Done Gmail Gmail canned responses Google Sheets Google Tasks Read the full transcript Fabricio: I'm a designer. I've been working on the agency side of things for the last 15 years. I started back in Brazil. Moved to the US, I think, 10 years ago. Lived in Miami New York, San Francisco, and I'm now based in Brooklyn. And as a designer, I'm a more focused on the systematic/functional side of things. And I've always been a maniac when it comes to information organization. So when I heard about your podcast, I was like “this is this is amazing!” I started out as an information architect back in the day, you know, that was a cool name at the time. And to me felt like it was a perfect calling in a way. I've always liked both kind of arts and science, and that whole universe of IA was the best of two worlds for me. So it's kind of bringing it all together. Jorge: I first got to know about you because you are one of the two founders of a publication that has had a lot of visibility online about UX design, right? Fabricio: That's right, UX Collective. Jorge: I had seen your site, and it was very memorable because it used images of polar bears — which I'm very drawn to — and also a very distinctive light blue color. And yeah, so it's very it's got this branding that is very recognizable. And I remember I posted an article on Medium, and you all reached out and asked me to include it in the publication. And that's how I came to be… Well, I had been aware of it before — I recognized it immediately because of the branding — but that's how I came to be more in the loop here. So I'm curious about UX Collective. How does it work? Fabricio: Sure. So we started UX Collective, I think, twelve years ago. Even more, maybe. When I was starting in UX, and I was learning about the topic, there wasn't a lot of information available in Portuguese at the time — my native language — so I had to learn English to be able to read the blogs that were out there like Boxes and Arrows and A List Apart and all that great stuff. And then I started using my blog as a way to translate what I was learning to my fellow Brazilian designers. So it started really as a tool to document some of the things that I was learning through that journey and then, fast forward a couple years, I was doing that more and more often. I was doing that in English now, and Medium came about and suddenly we became the largest design publication on Medium. So you can imagine how much effort that itself takes, to manage a publication. And the goal for UX Collective has always been giving back to the community some of the content that is available online, right? There's a lot of content online, but at the same time that creates a little bit of noise for designers that are starting in the field. So it's a way for us to curate everything that's going on and give back to the community in a more digestible way, I guess. Jorge: Yeah, it's a service that you provide. Right? Fabricio: Right. Yeah. Jorge: So you talked about a few things there that I'm very intrigued by. One was the fact that the original intent behind UX Collective was to bring to the Brazilian community the stuff that was happening elsewhere in the world. Is that right? Fabricio: That's right. Yeah, Jorge: So there was a point where you switched over to English. And you said that you are the largest design publication in Medium and I'm guessing that that would not be the case if it had stayed as a Portuguese publication. So I'm curious about that decision to switch to English. How did it come about? Fabricio: I think it was part of my journey as a designer, right? I moved to the US and English suddenly became my primary language, and all the vocabulary that I was getting and learning and developing as I was working in design was in English. So it felt like almost like a natural process to start shifting to English. We still publish articles in Portuguese as well. I haven't stopped doing that. But it's interesting how English has become my primary professional language while Portuguese is still my primary personal language in a way. Jorge: You live in New York. Do you engage day-to-day with a lot of people in Portuguese? Fabricio: Yeah, there are some Brazilians in our office at Work & Co. So, I get to talk Portuguese at least a little bit every day. But usually the topics we talk about are not exactly work-related, right? Versus English, which is a language I'm using for everything design-related. Jorge: Right. I'm asking you these questions because I'm curious — for obvious reasons, I think — English is also not my native language. And I'm in a very similar situation to you in that I moved to the US and English became my primary language. You talk about this distinction between work and personal stuff, and in the design field, especially, there's a lot of terminology that doesn't easily translate, right? Fabricio: True. Jorge: How do you choose which articles go in Portuguese and which go in English? Fabricio: That's a really good question. All articles work in English, at least they work well for me in English, and then I pick the ones that make more sense to translate to Portuguese based on kind of the zeitgeist of the Brazilian design community and the discussions that I see happening in the level of maturity of the Brazilian industry. So it's kind of a curation in a way as well picking the ones that I think makes sense to translate. There are some things that are maybe too technical or that talk about a certain technology that it's not as popular in Brazil as it is, you know here in the US. So yeah, I follow I usually follow my instincts to decide what to translate, I guess. Jorge: Is it just you or do you have a team working with you? Fabricio: I have a partner, Caio. Also Brazilian. We split our responsibilities on the blog. Jorge: And are you doing the translation yourselves or do you have folks helping with that? Fabricio: No, we are. I'm writing at least one article a week in Portuguese. Jorge: Well, that's amazing. Kudos! So I'm curious… you're running a publication, right? And having been a part of the process from the authoring side, I know that you and Caio have ways of managing this publication and keeping track of what gets published when, I'm guessing. Right? Some kind of editorial schedule? I was hoping that you could tell us about that about the systems and structures that you have in place to help you manage the publication. Fabricio: Yeah, of course. So just for context: It's a lot of stuff; it's a lot of content. We have the Medium publication where we publish I guess around five or six articles every day and to get to those five articles. I have to read through, you know, 15-20 articles every day to decide what gets published. We also have a newsletter that we send every week with the best links of the week. We have our trend report that we launch at the end of the year. We have mentorship sessions that we offer we have to manage our social accounts; Twitter and Linkedin and Facebook. So it's a lot of effort and the interesting part is I have a full-time job. This my side project; my hobby. but I also have a full-time job. I'm a design director at Work & Co. which is a product design studio in Brooklyn. So it's challenging to manage it all at the same time. And the way I like to think about how to manage information, I think there's a term that's stuck in my head right now… information diet, right? I think I read about it on your blog the first time, and since then I really started paying attention, you know to pay more attention to it. It's so important today, being able to manage how much information you consume every day, the same way one would limit their red meat consumption. It's like it's really essential and I feel like. As consumers not only as a blog editor or as a writer. We have reached a point where we are consuming more information every single day than our brains are able to process, you know. We're scrolling through feeds, we're getting hundreds of emails, and we're being stimulated by video audio and notifications. And there's a lot going on, so that certainly starts to affect our overall well-being as humans. So I'm really mindful of balancing my own information diet and especially having the blog and having my full-time job and being exposed to a lot of information every day, the way I try to organize myself when it comes to managing that amount of information. I try to think about it in three different levels. First, it's the intake piece. Right? What's the right of right amount of information to consume and from which sources? This layer is really about preventing the wrong content or distractions from getting to me the first place. I when I say “wrong,” I mean unhelpful content. Then there is like, “cool, the content got to me.” And then there's a second layer of, “how do I organize that content with the information that I do need and that I do want to receive every day?” Which is still a lot. How can I organize myself to distribute that information throughout my day, my week, in different mindsets I'm in. So that's the second layer. And then there's a third layer of, “cool, I have a lot of stuff that I have to put out: tweets and posts and emails.” And so how do I create efficiencies? How do I automate my workflow as much as possible to be able to keep up with all this all these side projects at the same time. So yeah, that's how my brain kind of breaks down that challenge: intake, organization, and then automation. And then of coursem for each of these layers, I have specific tools that I use and specific mechanisms that have been successful or not as successful. Jorge: That's fantastic. It's a really clear way of thinking about it. Can you share with us one tool each for these layers? The ones that you feel are most important? Fabricio: Yeah. The first one is the intake of information. So this is really about curation tools. You're probably similar to me Jorge, but I've been building an RSS feed. I don't know if you use Google Reader… not Google Reader, but Feedly, or Digg Reader, or one of those RSS services. So I've been building that list over the years. That's my primary source of information. Every time I find a reliable blog or site or something, I add that feed to my to my reader. And then I try to balance that with Twitter, which adds to that serendipity aspect of, “let's just follow a few random folks here and see what they're up to you and see what they're talking about.” That way, I'm balancing heavy reading and design-related content versus random topics like culture and politics that people are talking about on Twitter. One thing I try to do — kind of a hack that I that I've been doing the last couple years — is just to silence my phone as much as possible. Sometimes it's not about too much information, but it's about information trying to get to you too many times throughout the day, if that makes sense. I think five years ago I redesigned my phone experience to turn off all notifications except for one or two apps, removed the number of icons that I have on my home screen so there's not a lot of visual clutter and information every time I unlock my phone. Removing all those red badges from the app icon, so there's no anxiety or tapping them and opening them. So in a way, it's almost like I designed my technology experience so that it doesn't get in the way of the actual information I want to get access to, if that makes any sense. Jorge: It sounds like you're configuring your environment so that you can be more in control of your attention, right? Fabricio: That's right. Yeah, and that's not only around technology. Of course, technology plays an important role there, but being mindful of my surroundings… I always try to keep the books from authors that I admire next to my desk. So I'm always surrounded by that feeling of… It's hard to describe, but even my apartment walls are a hundred percent white; there's no paintings or anything. My desk has as few objects as possible. As a designer, I'm making sure that I'm designing the space around me to avoid too much cognitive load throughout the day. Jorge: The degree to which our environments and the busyness of the environment impinges upon your ability to be effective. Right? Fabricio: It's really hard to measure. It's not a quantity, right? It's hard to measure the return over investment over those things because ultimately it's really qualitative. It's really about feeling lighter at the end of the day. I guess that's my KPI, ultimately. Jorge: I'm wanting to dig a little bit more into the inputs through RSS and Twitter. That sounds very similar to the way that I get my information. And it can be a fire hose, right? Even with RSS like you said. Well, you see something interesting you have to feed to your RSS. There comes a point where there's a lot coming through; I'm wondering what the mechanics are behind saying, “this is one that I need to follow up on.” How do you keep track of that? Fabricio: I usually pick the ones that I'm not going to find… the type of content that I'm not going to find anywhere else, right? Because there's tech news and there's design news. If you open ten different blogs, they're all going to be talking about the same thing. Right? So I know that eventually, I'm going to stumble upon that news or someone going to talk about the latest iPhone or the latest design tool at work or in other places. So I try to curate my feeds to the sources to the type of content. I'm not going to find anywhere else and then what I do is every time I feel that. Oh, there's that's too much content because I'm the feed zero inbox zero type of person. I like to go through everything that I have, but it starts to get overwhelming at some point. So every end of the year, I stop and look back at my feed. I do that across the board. I look at my wardrobe, and I donate things that I'm not using; not wearing. But I also do that on my feeds. I look at my feeds, and I'm like, “well, I haven't really gotten anything super relevant from this blog or from this website.” So once a year I make sure I clean up my sources, so I'm not spending too much time on Feedly every day. Jorge: You publish on UX Collective an end-of-year review of the UX design field that spots patterns and tries to surface the things that you are seeing as being worthy of our attention. And this is getting into your second step which has to do with organizing content. Right? I'm curious how you take that fire hose of content and then start spotting patterns that you will then raise to our attention through UX Collective. Fabricio: Yeah. So for that second layer, I feel like I have too many tools and hacks that I use some of them are pretty embarrassing. So maybe I'll share the most important ones. So I use a lot of Gmail labels to be able to control all the information that gets to me all the emails and messages that I get. I also use Pocket, the Chrome extension, to save the most exciting and interesting articles. And then I have a whole tagging system. If I tag a certain article as newsletter, it then saves that article to a Google spreadsheet that I can open every weekend to curate the links that I'm going to include in my weekly newsletter. If I tag an article — I forgot the specific tag — but it's almost like if each different tag drives that article to a different workflow. If I tag an article “Twitter,” it automatically schedules a tweet with that link using Buffer, which is another management tool that I have. So I've built a system around how to navigate that information and all those links. And then at the end of the year, there's also a tag for that. Usually, Caio and I go back to our bookmarks and to what we feel were the most relevant topics that year, and then we start trying to find patterns: “Okay, what are the 10 biggest topics that the UI and design community talked about this year?” So there's a lot of automation and tools going on. Jorge: To be clear, you are doing the tagging in Pocket. Is that right? Fabricio: I am. So I'm saving all the links in Pocket. I'm tagging in Pocket. Then I'm setting up some If This Then That bots to then connect those Pocket links to other services that I use like Buffer, Google Drive, Dropbox, Google Tasks, right? But everything starts from Pocket. Jorge: Yeah, it sounds like Pocket is the collection bucket where everything goes in. Fabricio: Yeah. Jorge: Are you doing the tagging the moment that you save the link, or do you go back? Fabricio: I read an article and I'm like, “well, this would be a good tweet,” so I tag “tweet.” “This would be a great fit for the newsletter,” so I tag “newsletter,” right? So my brain is processing, knowing all the different contexts in which that article, post, whatever can be used. My brain is kind of making the… Almost like the mental mapping of where this could go. Jorge: You mentioned Google Tasks in there, what role does Google Tasks play? Fabricio: Oh, it's embarrassing. It's my brain. It's where I put all my to-do items. Like everything that I have to do, I save there, which is interesting. I mean, it's going to be silly, but even like getting a haircut is there every two weeks, three weeks. It's about habit-forming. So now I have this instinct that every time I think, “oh, yeah, I have to do that!,” my brain immediately connects to Google Tasks. So I open Google Tasks, and I write down whatever I have to do there. And then I can pick a specific date or due date, or I can make it recurring or not recurring. That's where I outsource a lot of my brain power my memory power, especially. Jorge: I don't think it's embarrassing at all. In fact, I think it corresponds to the drive you were describing earlier to create a physical environment that respects your attention. Fabricio: That's right. Jorge: Are you familiar with the work of David Allen? Fabricio: I'm not, no. Jorge: Getting Things Done? Fabricio: Oh, okay. I've seen something. Jorge: So in the Getting Things Done methodology or approach one of the things that Mr. Allen talks about is getting the tasks that you have to do out of your head and onto lists. Fabricio: Yeah. Jorge: And he uses this martial arts metaphor. He says, you want to have “mind like water” — where your mind is still, right? And you're not troubled by all this stuff rattling around in your head. And I think that that's a similar drive to what you were describing with the white walls in your apartment. Fabricio: Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. It's about having peace of mind so that I can focus on the right things throughout the day. Jorge: Great. So there's a third layer to this which is sharing the information back. And I'm particularly curious about how you and Caio collaborate on things like that end-of-year report. Fabricio: Yeah, not only the report, but also we get like 25 or 30 emails every day from authors; Medium writers submitting or pitching an article idea for UX Collective. So, that itself is a lot of work, and I'm so thankful to Caio for helping me manage that. We have a shared email address that is the blog's email address, and we are CC'ed on every exchange so we know the emails that the other person has responded or not. That helps a lot. We also have Gmail response template. I think they're called “canned responses” and that helps a lot, right? Because we have a response for, “Great, your article is approved! Here are the next steps.” We have a template for, “Well this article is not a good fit for reasons X, Y, & Z.” So there's a bunch of different templates we've created over the years, and that helps a lot because it takes away 95% of the work so we can focus on the more custom messages and the more custom article editing for specific articles. And then, the other tool in the third layer of putting content out that I use a lot is Buffer. I think I mentioned it briefly. It's this social media scheduling tool. I have my Twitter, I have the blog's Twitter, I have LinkedIn and Facebook and all the different social channels that I'm posting every day. But at the same time, I have a full-time job to keep up with, so I'm essentially pre-scheduling all the posts once a week, usually over the weekend. And then what it does is that it randomizes the times where it tweets something or where we post to LinkedIn something, and that helps a lot. Jorge: It sounds like you have built yourself a system that allows two people to really do a lot, right? Fabricio: Yeah. Jorge: What about the writing itself? Are you doing that directly on Medium or does it start somewhere else? Fabricio: That's usually on Medium. Yeah. I haven't found a way to automate that piece. So this is about really blocking some time, usually every Saturday morning for two or three hours. Sitting down with a good cup of coffee in silence and just writing. I usually use Medium for that because I love the interface and how simple it is. I'm usually writing two articles every week. Jorge: I'm tremendously impressed by the system that you have described, and I'm wondering what aspects of it are not working as well as you would like. Can you tell us about a time when the system failed? Fabricio: It fails quite often, but it's never a big fail. There are a couple of instances where maybe Caio and I respond to the same email because we forgot to CC our shared email address. There are little things like that. But it's not a problem because both of us are usually very aligned in terms of our editorial guidelines. So it's usually the same response that we sent to the author. Stepping back a little bit, what I consider a fail in this whole system is when I feel like I'm using too much time to do something that I could be automating more. This whole system is created around giving myself time. I feel like time is our most precious resource. It's not money; it's time. So, every couple of months I have this feeling that “oh my God, I'm spending like one hour every day to manage the blog. That's a lot of time!” You know, I want to use this time to spend with my family, with my friends, or just keeping my brain idle, or play video games, or whatever. So that's why I feel like the system is failing me: when all these tools and mechanisms are starting to take too much time. So then, when I see that's happening, what I usually do is I start to rethink how I'm spending each hour of my day. Take a look at my daily and weekly tasks to see if there's any opportunity to automate some of that work. Take a look at all at all the initiatives and all the commitments that I have running in parallel or the side projects to see if there's anything I need to stop doing. And that's usually when the cost-benefit is not as great as you used to be when I started that project. So I feel like every three to six months that's system starts to fail and then I have to take action to quickly recover from there. Jorge: Thank you so much, Fabricio. I think this is a good place to end it: on time. I am thankful for yours — for having shared your time with us. I'm very impressed and congratulate you on what you and Caio have built. Fabricio: Thank you for inviting me. And congratulations to you as well. I'm impressed with how you're able to keep up with your blog and how you're able to put out at least an article every day. I'm a big fan; a big follower. So here's a suggestion: you should do an episode talking about your own tools as well. Jorge: Interesting. We might do another one where we turn the tables. That will come in the future sometime. So tell the folks where they can find you and read more about your work. Fabricio: It's essentially at the UX Collective; that URL is uxdesign.cc. And our main project right now is our newsletter that we send out every week and you can access that on newsletter.uxdesign.cc. Jorge: Thank you so Fabricio, this has been great.
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Brian Kay is the beverage director for Napoleon's Bistro located in Washington, D.C. To celebrate the cherry blossoms, which is a love-mandate for all Washingtonians and tourists-alike, he created a cocktail called the "Cherry Blossom Sparkle." Napoleon Bistro is located at 1847 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC 20009 Sounds used for this episode are Helcalin - Why Everything So Stoned Helicain - Because We Lost the Radio @grrrreatdane - Miami/New York
Brian Kay is the beverage director for Napoleon's Bistro located in Washington, D.C. To celebrate the cherry blossoms, which is a love-mandate for all Washingtonians and tourists-alike, he created a cocktail called the "Cherry Blossom Sparkle." Napoleon Bistro is located at 1847 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC 20009 Sounds used for this episode are Helcalin - Why Everything So Stoned Helicain - Because We Lost the Radio @grrrreatdane - Miami/New York