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It's the long-awaited episode 168 of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields all of your tube amp and life questions. This week, we kick things off by interviewing one of Skip's clients, Sebastian from Vintage Inspired Pickups! Also: possessed Ampegs, shipping forecasts, and Fender repairs and so much more. Thank our sponsors: Grez Guitars; Emerald City Guitars; and Amplified Parts / Mod Electronics. Some of the topics discussed this week: :00 Special Guest: Sebastian Gruenberg of Vintage Inspired Pickups (link); molecular biology; winding pickups, making potentiometers; cryo-tuning magnets; Emerald City Guitars; Gibsonette input jack ground issues; and more! 30:57 What's on Skip's bench: Magnatones; a Sears 40XL Danelectro; Traynors 34:07 Jonathan Richman, charming singer-songwriter and stone mason 36:17 An early National Dobro amp for sale; where's Larry Chung? 38:51 The Fretboard Summit, August 20-22 in Chicago (register here); this year @vintagetubeamplifiers is bringing out a bunch of old & rare amps along with various other contributors/listeners! 39:50 A kitchen cleaning tip, Dutch ovens, Skip's typewriter repair 44:07 Optocoupler repair in a classic Fender 45:57 The BBC's Shipping Forecast (link: https://www.bbc.com/weather/coast-and-sea/shipping-forecast) 48:54 Rattlesnake Milk's 'Midnight Train', quick Asian rice, and TAVA buzzwords 50:54 Output tubes for Skip's Mega Champ amp build (Champ with Soursound transformers) 54:38 A demonic Ampeg B-18N 59:04 A new caster for my 1966 Fender Pro Reverb, 'The Magnificent Charlie Parker' compilation; homemade gumbo; Mike Watt 1:06:12 What should I do with this Masco A-10 project? using a Hammond 166M12 as a Variac; do old black metal pre-amp tubes like the 6SJ7 have glass inside? 1:12:02 A tie story; how can I slow down the tremolo on my modded Silvertone 1484? 1:17:46 Gourmet dog treats Want to be a part of the show? Join us by sending your voice memo or written questions to podcast@fretboardjournal.com! Include a photo, too. Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal.
Emilie Schario grew up in New Jersey, outside of Newark, and attended college in the state. Currently, she lives in Columbus, Georgia, outside of Atlanta. She mentions she got into technology so she could easily follow her husband's career geographically, and has much success in the industry. Outside of tech, she is married with 3 boys (all 5 and under)... so there is a lot of wrestling in her household. She admits she is often quoted staying she does three things in her life - work, parenting, and if she is lucky, attends CrossFit 3 times a week. In fact, she finds a great sense of community in that world, and brings her kids with her to cheer her on.A year and a half ago, Emilie's current venture was started, to build the open source orchestrator (or "harness") for AI coding agents. Through some shuffle in the early team, Emilie joined and started in building the fastest AI coding app on the market.This is the creation story of Kilo.SponsorsUnblockedTECH DomainsMezmoBraingrid.aiLinkshttps://kilo.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilieschario/Our Sponsors:* Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://cash.app* Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.aiAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
We're running one of our favorite episodes from The Business of You archives. If you missed it the first time, or just want to listen again, check this one out! What makes a truly iconic brand? Few people are better qualified to answer that question than Neil Barrie, the branding expert behind household names like Pinterest, Peloton, and Airbnb. Neil Barrie founded the TwentyFirstCenturyBrand agency in 2018 and works with many of the world's most innovative brands, including Headspace, Bumble, and Depop. From 2021-23, the company grew revenue by 70%. Originally a failed rock star, Neil has led the development and growth of top-tier brands including Disney, The Grammys, and Unilever. Throughout his career, he has used his platform to make the advertising industry better and has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, and The Guardian. Landing Your First Client How did Neil and his co-founder land Pinterest as their very first client? A lot of it had to do with personal branding and the reputation they'd built for themselves in the industry. From the beginning, Neil was intentional about doing things for free for influential people, with the expectation that they would one day recommend TwentyFirstCenturyBrand. He and his co-founder held workshops for venture capitalists and offered to help them with their portfolios. It also helped that they had a clear mission for their company (to build influential 21st-century brands) and a strong point of view on what made an iconic brand: it had to be purpose-led, community-driven, tech-enabled, and narrative-based. Neil and his co-founder came out of the gate with a clear thesis. They published white papers on their four-part framework that helped companies see the value in branding. Their strategy paid off — Pinterest took a chance on the new agency, and TwentyFirstCenturyBrand's client list has only grown since. Ingredients of an Iconic Brand Branding can be broken down into two sides: input and output. Output is your brand reputation or what other people say about you when you're not around. Input is everything you put into the brand: your vision, your purpose, and the experience you create for your audience. When asked about the future of branding, Neil says there are three factors entrepreneurs need to consider: profit, purpose, and people. After the turmoil of the last few years, profitability is more important than ever. Purpose is your vision, and "people" refers to how you rally your community around that vision. To build a truly influential brand, you need to balance all three factors. Enjoy this episode with Neil Barrie… Soundbytes 21:02–21:30 "We had a very clear process that we insisted people go through, which had a certain bit of mythology around it, in terms of some of the rituals that we would do. We would have things like 'discuss the undiscussable,' where we put all of the C-suite into a private room and facilitate a discussion around five undiscussable themes that we'd uncovered from meeting everybody. These are things, not necessarily related to brand, just in your culture that you need to address before you can really achieve your potential." 31:53–32:22 "Culture is a very special thing: The values of a company. The commitment to work with certain types of clients, to the proper balance of growth agenda, purposeful, profitable growth, and so on. The ability to say no to things, to really look after the team in different ways. So, it was clear from a lot of those conversations that a lot of people wanted us, but they wanted to sort of merge us with another of their consulting agencies, and sort of strengthen that and gain access to our client base, and things like that. And it was just clear that it was going to ruin what we built." Quotes "Most tech companies are leaving money on the table because they mistrust branding." "It's tough to get business when you're starting out. From the start, community and doing things for free for influential people with the expectation they would recommend us was a big part of our strategy." "Out of the gate, we acted like we'd been around for 30 years and hoped that sense of confidence and conviction would be infectious." "Vulnerability is required if you're going to build a proper brand." "You need to invest the time in figuring out what you stand for, what you are, how you're going to codify that into your experience and so on." Links mentioned in this episode: From Our Guest Website: https://twentyfirstcenturybrand.com/ Connect with Neil Barrie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-barrie-29488aa/ Book "A Colourful View from the Top": https://www.amazon.com/Colourful-View-Top-Twenty-One-Extraordinary/dp/1408715791 Connect with brandiD Find out how top leaders are increasing their authority, impact, and income online. Listen to our private podcast, The Professional Presence Podcast: https://thebrandid.com/professional-presence-podcast Ready to elevate your digital presence with a powerful brand or website? Contact us here: https://thebrandid.com/contact-form/
Robert and Austin explain the difference between thinking in weekends and thinking in decades. ---
10 KI-Tools, die jedes Business heute kennen muss Künstliche Intelligenz verändert aktuell jede Branche schneller als jede Technologie zuvor. Die Frage ist nicht mehr, ob du KI in deinem Unternehmen einsetzen solltest. Die Frage ist nur noch:
In der neuen Folge sprechen Jakob Steinschaden, Mitgründer von eustella und Trending Topics, und Clemens Wasner, CEO von enliteAI und Vorsitzender von AI Austria, über folgende Themen:Eindrücke von der WeAreDevelopers Conference in Berlin: Aufbruchstimmung unter 10.000+ Developern – KI ist als Arbeitstool angekommen, die Angst vor Ersetzung ist der Erkenntnis gewichen, dass der Output pro Person massiv steigt.Token-Budgets als „virtuelle HR-Budgets": US-Firmen geben Entwicklern bis zu 15.000 $ pro Monat an KI-Token – in Europa sind es eher 500–1.000 €. Statt Token-Maxing zählt Agenten-Orchestrierung; manuelles Coden wird zur Fallback-Lösung.Claude Code, Codex & Co als „Wanderpokal" – und der Aufstieg der Open-Weight-Modelle: Kaum Kundentreue bei Coding-Tools, dafür wachsende Adoption offener Modelle wegen Planbarkeit, Kosten und US-Restriktionen bei Top-Modellen wie Fable 5.Lokale KI statt Cloud: Mit neuen Nvidia-Chips (Vera Rubin), leistungsfähigeren Macs und On-Device-Modellen wandert Inferenz zurück zum User – von lokaler Transkription mit MLX-Whisper bis zur OpenAI-Entwickler-Tastatur mit sieben Tasten.Physical AI und die kommende Robotik-Welle: Edge-Systeme im physischen Raum boomen – von Warehouse-Robotern über Ernte- und Bauroboter bis zu Liquid AIs maßgeschneiderten Edge-Modellen; dazu Thomas Dohmkes neues Startup Entire, das Code, Memories und Prompts gemeinsam versioniert.
Demand for natural gas in Northeast and pipeline capacity out of Appalachia are poised to grow in the coming years, but will production follow suit? Even if market conditions improve, it's not a done deal. Today, we look at which producers are best positioned to grow if conditions warrant.
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Eine Symbiose aus modernem Indie-Pop und klassischer Tradition – so wird mitunter der musikalische Output des Solo-Projektes der polnisch-deutschen Künstlerin Edita Karkoschka bezeichnet, und welchen sie uns heute im radioeins-Studio präsentiert! Die in Berlin und der Bretagne lebende Sängerin, Komponistin und Produzentin war bis Ende 2019 Frontfrau der Band NAUSICA, bevor sie sich ab 2020 vollständig ihrer Solokarriere widmete. Ihr im März 2024 erschienenes Debütalbum "KOSCHKA" verbindet eigene englischsprachige Kompositionen mit Neu-Interpretationen deutscher Lieder aus der Romantik, etwa von Franz Schubert oder Clara Schumann. Diese Mischung schafft eine Atmosphäre, die Koschka Genre-Titel wie "Neo-Romantik" oder "Pop Noir" einbringen und Vergleiche zu Roadmovies und den Werken von Jim Jarmusch aufrufen. Während ihr Debüt größtenteils in ihrem Berliner Homestudio entstanden ist, wurde es von renommierten, Grammy-prämierten Technikern in New York von Emily Lazar und Chris Allgood (u.a. David Bowie) gemastert. Ursprünglich als Performance Duo KOSCHKA & HEIMPROFI mit der bildenden Künstlerin Krista Burger 2012 gestartet, hat sich Edita Karkoschka nach dem gemeinsamen Touren als Live-Cinema Act durch ganz Europa von ihrem neuen Moniker nicht mehr trennen können. Seit 2018 hat sie regelmäßig neue Musik veröffentlicht – zuletzt im Mai ihre Single "Should I Have Told You", um die es unter anderem heute bei ihrem radioeins-Besuch geht.
Eine Symbiose aus modernem Indie-Pop und klassischer Tradition – so wird mitunter der musikalische Output des Solo-Projektes der polnisch-deutschen Künstlerin Edita Karkoschka bezeichnet, und welchen sie uns heute im radioeins-Studio präsentiert! Die in Berlin und der Bretagne lebende Sängerin, Komponistin und Produzentin war bis Ende 2019 Frontfrau der Band NAUSICA, bevor sie sich ab 2020 vollständig ihrer Solokarriere widmete. Ihr im März 2024 erschienenes Debütalbum "KOSCHKA" verbindet eigene englischsprachige Kompositionen mit Neu-Interpretationen deutscher Lieder aus der Romantik, etwa von Franz Schubert oder Clara Schumann. Diese Mischung schafft eine Atmosphäre, die Koschka Genre-Titel wie "Neo-Romantik" oder "Pop Noir" einbringen und Vergleiche zu Roadmovies und den Werken von Jim Jarmusch aufrufen. Während ihr Debüt größtenteils in ihrem Berliner Homestudio entstanden ist, wurde es von renommierten, Grammy-prämierten Technikern in New York von Emily Lazar und Chris Allgood (u.a. David Bowie) gemastert. Ursprünglich als Performance Duo KOSCHKA & HEIMPROFI mit der bildenden Künstlerin Krista Burger 2012 gestartet, hat sich Edita Karkoschka nach dem gemeinsamen Touren als Live-Cinema Act durch ganz Europa von ihrem neuen Moniker nicht mehr trennen können. Seit 2018 hat sie regelmäßig neue Musik veröffentlicht – zuletzt im Mai ihre Single "Should I Have Told You", um die es unter anderem heute bei ihrem radioeins-Besuch geht.
Equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing posted strong growth as China's value-added industrial output rose 5.4 percent in the first six months of the year.
What if your teams became 10x more productive — and your business got nothing out of it?Dr. Mik Kersten has the data to prove it's already happening. After studying more than 8,000 value streams across enterprises, he found that only 8% of end-to-end delivery time is teams actually creating value. The rest disappears into planning, approvals, reviews, and coordination. Which means you can multiply team productivity by 2x or 10x with AI, and deliver nothing faster to your customers.Mik started his career as a research scientist at Xerox PARC, completed his PhD in Computer Science, and founded Tasktop, which he led as CEO until its acquisition by Planview in 2022. He's the creator of the Flow Framework and the bestselling author of Project to Product. His new book, Output to Outcome: An Operating Model for the Age of AI, launches July 14, and it argues that the constraint on knowledge work is gone. What's left is your organizational structure. And for most companies, it's the thing standing in the way.In this episode, Mik joins Jessica Neal and co-host Peter Clarke to break down why AI productivity gains aren't showing up in business results, what happens to companies that spend big on tokens without rewiring how they work, and why the future of leadership means every manager becomes a maker again.You'll learn:- Why only 8% of enterprise delivery time is actual value creation — and where the other 92% goes- Why 10x team productivity means nothing if your organization can't absorb it- The four competing structures inside most companies: org chart, value streams, incentives, and architecture- What Netflix got right about aligning technology, teams, and leadership- The "outcome tree": one unified structure replacing the matrix- Why humans should keep reporting to humans — even as agents join teams- How incentives quietly sabotage transformation (and why Mik wrote half a chapter on them)- Why outputs are easier to measure than outcomes — and why that's now a fatal trap- The dark factory thought experiment: what happens when production cost trends toward the price of electricity- Zero bonuses for engineers: what Mik learned from the experiment- Why planning still matters — but on weekly and monthly cadences, not annual- Managers to makers: why the first-line manager role is changing completely- The middle managers whose roles are gone — and the new role that replaces them- Why companies that get this right are hiring more people, not fewerMik's message to leaders: get hands-on with the latest models now. The only way to make AI work for your teams — instead of the other way around — is to lean in.Output to Outcome: An Operating Model for the Age of AI is available now wherever books are sold.Truth Works is hosted by Jessica Neal, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix.
For years I measured my work ethic by how many hours I put in at my desk. I'd arrive, coffee in hand at 7am, break around Noon for lunch, back at my desk till 6 or 7pm, sometimes later. I thought putting in the time was the thing that would move the needle. It was actually the thing keeping me from doing my best work.In this episode, I share two small, counterintuitive shifts I made to change not only the volume of creative work I get done, but the quality — and in half the time it used to take me.
The most expensive thing you can make in marketing is an assumption. In this episode of Content Amplified, Vanessa Mbonu, Vice President of Marketing at the NAACP, explains what changes when a team stops treating content as output (checking the box on this week's blog post, flyer, or TikTok) and starts treating it as infrastructure: a strategic system the whole organization feeds, from programming to policy to operations. Vanessa shares the leadership moment that sparked the shift ("we focus a lot on output and not enough on outcome"), why audience-first means meeting supporters where they already are (they care about voting rights, and they also watch Love Island and March Madness), and her rule for AI: start with AI or end with AI, but never AI from start to finish. She closes with a tactical playbook: run a skills assessment, use the start-stop-continue framework, automate what a human doesn't need to do, and pick a brand mentor outside your category, whether that's Nike, Beyonce, or Labubu. If your content program feels like throwing things at the wall, this conversation shows you the smarter way.About VanessaVanessa Mbonu is the Vice President of Marketing at the NAACP, the nation's first and largest civil rights organization, and a marketing subject matter expert focused on social impact, civil rights, and social justice. She has worked in and around the nonprofit industry for over 15 years. She also runs her own consultancy, where she helps small businesses, particularly small Black-owned businesses, build content, marketing, and communication strategies that actually drive impact. A self-described yapper who is chronically online, she believes marketers should figure out how AI can make their work better, not how they can make AI better.Show NotesConnect with Vanessa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessambonu/Text us what you think about this episode!
-Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing environmental permits for large data centers (consuming more than 50 megawatts) for up to a year. -Google has struck a deal to purchase a major solar project's entire electrical output to offset its fossil fuel emissions. -The Los Angeles Police Department has suspended its use of controversial surveillance tech from Flock Safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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***"I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default through every system you've ever touched. That's when I started treating all digital infrastructure as inherently recording devices. They're trying to take information and, even if someone doesn't really want or intend to store the information, it's possible that it gets leaked through a hack. And when it comes to money, that reveals all the relationships someone has. And without privacy, there's no way for that to be free. For Bitcoin to kind of live up in my mind to what it was meant to do, be censorship resistant, you need to have privacy." ~ Dan Gould*** We've all heard that Bitcoin needs privacy to function as real money. But most current solutions force you to jump through ridiculous hoops. Dan Gould has been obsessing over this exact problem for years, and he came on the show to explain why we might finally have a viable fix. Dan and I talked through the history of Bitcoin privacy tools. We looked back at the early days of TumbleBit and Wasabi, and got into why past attempts failed to gain significant adoption. But the core of our conversation was about Payjoin V3. If you care about protecting your stack and keeping your identity safe from on-chain surveillance firms, you need to hear this one. Dan breaks down exactly how the new Payjoin protocol strips out the heavy infrastructure and simply hides your transactions in plain sight. It completely shifted my perspective on how we actually achieve basic on-chain privacy. Chapters (00:00:00) - Guest intro (00:04:42) - Fixing base layer anonymity (00:10:29) - The physical risks of public ledgers (00:14:58) - Lessons from early privacy protocols (00:21:44) - FinCEN and the downfall of Stratus (00:26:20) - The technical flaws of synchronous mobile coinjoins (00:30:37) - Developer assumptions versus actual user behavior (00:32:40) - Understanding Payjoin and interactive transaction batching (00:39:19) - Overcoming complex connection barriers in p2p privacy (00:42:07) - Async Payjoin directories (00:49:20) - Output substitution and routing interactive payments (01:00:28) - Achieving non-interactive additions without covenants (01:12:34) - The push for widespread adoption Guest Links Dan on X (Link: https://twitter.com/bitgould) Payjoin's Website (Link: https://payjoin.org) Payjoin's GitHub (Link: https://github.com/payjoin) Edward Snowden's X post (Link: https://x.com/Snowden/status/1391040522433830912?s=20) Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) Host Links Guy on Nostr (Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann) Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann) Guy's Takes on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@GuysTake) Guy Swann on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann) Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible) The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839)
Ray White speaks to Takatso Sello, Senior Manager: Manufacturing at Nedbank Business and Commercial Banking, about the latest manufacturing production figures, which show the sector remains under pressure. Manufacturing output fell 4.3% year-on-year in May, weighed down by declines in food and beverages, metals, machinery, and paper products. In other interviews, Gavin Kelly, CEO of the Road Freight Association about signs of recovery in South Africa’s freight rail network, Transnet’s improving bulk commodity volumes, and why general freight remains a major challenge despite ongoing rail and port reforms. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape. Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 and 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc The Money Show is brought to you by Absa Follow us on social media 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What happens to organizations when the cost of outputs drops to nearly zero? That is the central question Dave West and Dr. Mik Kersten are back to explore in this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast. Mik, the author of the upcoming book Output to Outcome, joins Dave to dig into why so many companies are failing to see meaningful value from their AI investments and why the organization itself has become the bottleneck.They cover the AI productivity paradox, why complexity is growing faster than outcomes in most large organizations, and what leaders need to do differently. Mik introduces the "outcome loop" as a mental model for leadership, explains why modularity and decentralization are the only structures that scale (in nature or in business), and shares why many organizations are quietly reverting to command-and-control patterns at exactly the wrong moment.If you work in or lead a Scrum Team, manage a product organization, or are thinking about how AI is reshaping the way we structure and run teams, this conversation will give you a lot to chew on.Output to Outcome by Dr. Mik Kersten is available for pre-order now, with release on July 14.
Ray White speaks to Takatso Sello, Senior Manager: Manufacturing at Nedbank Business and Commercial Banking, about the latest manufacturing production figures, which show the sector remains under pressure. Manufacturing output fell 4.3% year-on-year in May, weighed down by declines in food and beverages, metals, machinery, and paper products. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape. Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 and 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc The Money Show is brought to you by Absa Follow us on social media 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Slowing down sounds simple. For driven people, it can feel like dying.In this episode of Shed & Shine, Rob and Gino get into why high performers are often terrified to slow down, and what's really underneath that fear. When you stop moving, stuff comes up. Everything your soul has been trying to show you. And for a lot of driven people, that's the scariest part of all.Gino shares a conversation he had with a client who just sold his second company and can't figure out how to shift gears after 40 years of going hard. The advice? Create space. Say no. Sit with the discomfort. Because the next thing worth doing rarely shows up while you're still running at full speed.Your drive isn't the problem. It's about finding the speed where everything opens up. Timestamps00:00 Why Driven People Fear Slowing Down02:30 The Fear of Stopping and Creating Space07:55 The Power of Intuition in Space ABOUT THE 10 DISCIPLINES:The 10 Disciplines, founded by Gino Wickman and Rob Dube, is on a mission to help one million drivel leaders realize it's possible to be driven and have peace while making a bigger impact. We want to help you shed the barriers and layers that prevent you from creating the balance between impact and peace, and your True Self. Are you ready to be fully yourself, without the burnout? This space is for driven leaders ready to stop chasing and start aligning. If you're done hiding behind hustle, achievement, and expectations… and you're ready to reconnect with who you really are, you're in the right place. CONNECT WITH US❤️ https://www.instagram.com/the10disciplines❤️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the10disciplines/ MORE RESOURCES TO HELP YOUR INNER WORLD JOURNEY❤️ https://www.the10disciplines.com/blog❤️ https://www.shedandshinepodcast.com ⭐️ https://www.the10disciplines.com/shine ✨ Find where you are in your True Self Journey: https://www.form.jotform.com/Developer763/true-self-mastermind-quiz
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expects China's humanoid robot output to exceed 100,000 units this year. It says China's evolving AI ecosystem is powering the booming robot industry.
Robert and Austin share four skills they believe every rich person has mastered. ---
Crude prices are stable following last week's drop below pre-Iran war levels, as Opec+ nations agree to increase production. ECB Governing Council Member and Central Bank of Ireland Governor Gabriel Makhlouf tells CNBC fall in prices will not be felt though any relief inflation just yet. Speaking to CNBC at the Rencontres Économiques d'Aix-en-Provence, EU Industry Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné insisted the bloc must defend its strategic interests in the face of growing geo-political threats. EasyJet has reached an ‘agreement in principle' with U.S. investment company Castlelake which is set to acquire the UK budget airline in a deal worth an estimated $5.5bn.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
A handful of OPEC+ countries have agreed to increase their output targets from August, but the cartel is fighting for its survival after the UAE's departure. Also, A French company is using the River Seine to cool down Paris's buildings. Finally, Sky says it's buying ITV's broadcast channels and streaming service for £1.6bn.
As AI-driven systems are integrated into all aspects of science, we need to make sure that they read and write to a shared data and knowledge space.
Ed Cowan is an Australian test cricketer, investor, podcaster and author.He's one of those people whose name I jotted down 6 years ago when I started the show earmarked as a ‘dream guest'.He played in a golden era of Australian cricket and did so at a time when I was obsessed with the sport myself (I had delusions about being a test cricketer) and therefore like the music of your youth those cricketers you grew up with leave a certain impression. I've since been a long time listener of his 'Scaling Up' podcast series and tune in weekly for the ABC Cricket Podcast where he is a co-host.Ed has an occasionally controversial, but always influential voice on the Australian cricketing landscape.It's an absolute pleasure to have recorded this with him.He had 32 test innings for Australia across 18 matches, scored one test hundred and over 1000 runs in total.You'll find a link to both his book and his podcast here. Leave a review on Apple or Spotify (nothing does more to help grow the show)It's an enormous pleasure to have spoken with Ed, we discussed...How Ed always kept a foot in multiple worlds, even though it came at a cost. The transition out of professional sport and why so many athletes struggle with it.His mentor Peter RoebuckMental health in cricket and how the culture has shifted.His Test career: the debut hundred, the weight of expectation, homework-gate, and his illness that coincided with the Ashes and the end of his international career.Ed's views on IPL money, BBL privitisation and governance.The business of cricket: how he'd restructure Cricket Australia, player pay, and bringing patient, evergreen capital into the Big Bash.And, as always, the role serendipity has played in his life, to which, as an opening batsman, he had the perfect answer.Timestamps...00:00 — Realising a cricket career was possible02:17 — Under-19s in Sri Lanka, surrounded by future Test players07:38 — The transition myth: why it's a decade, not twelve months14:08 — Do athletes have too much free time?17:03 — Travel, brooding, and the Matthew Talbot shelter that shifted his perspective27:02 — The Cricinfo depression piece33:31 — NSW's logjam of talent and the fresh start in Tasmania36:30 — Called up to Australia; the left-handed-opener mystery39:36 — Peter Roebuck: discipline, mangoes, and the debut century dedicated to him44:43 — The 18 innings: expectation, emotional regulation, homework-gate50:42 — The Ashes, falling ill, and his final Test54:00 — Resentment, selection, and "perception is reality"55:12 — Death of a Gentleman, the IPL, and cricket's governance crisis1:00:23 — Ambitions in cricket; the ABC podcast as a public service1:08:08 — Privatising the Big Bash and bringing in patient capital1:13:55 — Serendipity, Gideon Haig, and "I was an opening batsman"Some choice snippets from the conversation.On transition out of sport"A lot of sportspeople think transition is your last twelve months of playing and your first twelve months of the real world. That's only a tiny speck of what it actually looks like. You come out of sport and you're at the bottom of the next mountain — you've got the tools to climb it, but that's another journey in and of itself."On identity"One of the thresholds is: do you still think of yourself as a cricketer? It's not part of my identity anymore at all. Some people say, 'You're the guy who used to play cricket.' Yeah, that was me. But that takes a while."On the perspective that pulled him out of a funk (volunteering at the Matthew Talbot shelter)"Here I was brooding over nicking one to second slip the day before. And here are guys who hadn't made any bad choices — they were just out of luck."On the chip on his shoulder"You think I'm not training hard enough? I'll beat you in the beep test. You think I'm not preparing properly? I'll get a hundred on the weekend."On why cricket breeds brooders"The output's objective. There's nothing subjective about getting a twenty-ball duck. And the time lag from error to atonement is long — it can be two days, and you're doing nothing.""The key to good mental health in cricket is celebrating your teammates' success. That's rarer than you'd think."On the fresh start in Tasmania"The joy of a fresh start is you can be whoever you want to be the moment you walk in the door. There's no judgment about what school you went to. You're judged from day one only."On luck (the serendipity close)"Two more centimetres of Morne Morkel's size-fourteen boot behind the line, and I'm out for forty-eight. No one remembers Ed Cowan, Test century.""The harder you work, the luckier you get. Luck can come and find you — but it's up to each individual to make that lucky moment count."On the business of cricket"Our best players probably don't get paid enough, and our worst players get paid too much.""An IPL owner's incentive is not to grow the Big Bash. It's to pillage the Big Bash so the IPL gets stronger."Podcast Starter PacksInvestigative JournalistsOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersLeave a review on Apple or Spotify (nothing does more to help grow the show)
Our countdown to the Beatification of Venerable Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen continues! Fr. Ray Atwood joins us again to discuss Archbishop Sheen's tremendous volume of literary works. Adam reflects on the day's Gospel reading. Download the Covenant Network app today! Pray the Visual Rosary at VisualRosary.org For more information on Covenant Network, visit OurCatholicRadio.org
Chris Camillo joins the Rich Habits Podcast to share the biggest lessons learned from investing into 160 startups over the last 20 years. This conversation took place at the Rich Habits Retreat in Austin, TX! If you enjoyed watching this, consider joining us at our next one. ---
What if optimizing for AI output is actually slowing your company down? When code becomes nearly free to produce, the organizations still measuring productivity by output are solving the wrong problem.In this episode, Mik Kersten, author of “Project to Product” and the forthcoming “Output to Outcome,” shares why the real challenge of the AI era isn't generating more code — it's building organizations that can turn that output into customer and business value. Drawing on Carlota Perez's model of technological revolutions and the theory of constraints, Mik explains how AI has removed the output bottleneck that software organizations were built around, and where the new constraints now live.He introduces three core models from the book — the outcome loop, the product operating model, and the outcome tree — as a framework for adapting how organizations plan, fund, and deliver value. Mik also addresses one of the most pressing decisions leaders face today: whether to cut headcount based on AI productivity gains, and why doing so without outcome visibility is a dangerous bet. The conversation covers how organizational structure, decision-making accountability, and leadership roles all need to shift — not just development practices.Timestamps:(00:00:00) Trailer & Intro(00:02:40) What Makes Output to Outcome Different From Project to Product?(00:05:02) Why Did Mik Write Every Word of This Book Without AI?(00:08:18) How Do the AI Prompts at the End of Each Chapter Work?(00:11:53) What Happens to Organizations When AI Makes Software Output 10 to 100 Times Cheaper?(00:15:03) How Do Past Technological Revolutions Help Us Understand the AI Era?(00:19:25) Is the Traditional Software Developer Role Gone for Good?(00:23:30) Why Do Some Companies Experience an AI Productivity Paradox?(00:27:47) What Does “Outcome” Mean in Outcome Management?(00:31:50) Has the Product Operating Model Finally Become the Industry Norm?(00:34:24) How Do You Apply the Cynefin Framework to Your Organization?(00:37:18) Why Should AI Augment Human Decision Making in Complex Domains?(00:40:52) Why Are AI-Driven Layoffs a Risky Bet Without Outcome Visibility?(00:43:32) How Can Leaders Increase the Feedback Loop for Strategy and Budgeting?(00:46:07) What Is the Optimal Organizational Structure for an Outcome Management Model?(00:49:50) How Can We Apply Architectural Modularity to Organizational Design?(00:53:17) What Are the Seven Shifts in the Output to Outcome Model?(00:55:10) Will AI Make Middle Management Obsolete?(01:00:55) 3 Tech Lead Wisdom_____Mik Kersten's BioDr. Mik Kersten is an independent technology strategist and creator of the Flow Framework, best known for his bestselling book Project to Product. He founded Tasktop and led it as CEO until its acquisition by Planview in 2022.Mik began his career at Xerox PARC, where his team created the first aspect-oriented programming language. He then earned his PhD in Computer Science at UBC, pioneering the integration of software development and collaboration tools — work that laid the foundation for Tasktop and the field of Value Stream Management.Today, he helps leaders shift from output-driven to outcome-driven operating models, enabling organizations to harness AI in a human-centric way.Follow Mik:LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/mikkerstenSubstack – mikkersten.substack.com Preorder Output to Outcome - https://a.co/d/0aPlI2IFBook's Website – outputtooutcome.orgLike this episode?Show notes & transcript: techleadjournal.dev/episodes/262.Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn and Instagram.Buy me a coffee or become a patron.
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Trump promised a manufacturing boom, but the truth thus far has been arguably much messier (at least across the CPG industry). On the one hand, CPG giants like Mars, Chobani, and Coca-Cola announced they'd spend billions on new manufacturing facilities. Although with interest rates staying relatively higher…and construction costs skyrocketing, we've seen a strategic rebalancing. And yes, Tyson Foods, General Mills, and other massive CPG companies are selling factories just to stay lean…but the larger strategic narrative can be defined as "making more with less." So, what's going on? The expected CPG manufacturing boom has been stealthy…with companies not necessarily building bigger but retrofitting existing factories to be smarter. And within a sector that relies heavily on immigrant workers, automation and high-tech robotics are critical to replace the labor they can't find. Output is rising, and efficiency is increasing…yet manufacturing jobs are slightly dipping. This is a complicated story, but likely only the beginning of a new industrial era.
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Ely Ratner, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and now a principal at the Marathon Initiative, joins Jordan, Bryan Clark, and Justin to make sense of the Iran ceasefire and where US-China competition goes next. We discuss: Why the MOU reads as a loss: the blockade comes down first, Iran keeps its missiles and its "nuclear dust," and a younger, harder regime learns it can take American firepower and wield an oil weapon The "bullshit détente" with Beijing and whether reindustrialization can carry a China-competition message without sounding hawkish Output metrics over input metrics, the seven-year force-posture problem, and what Ratner wishes he'd moved into the "break glass" category at the Pentagon RoboCom: the pros and cons of standing up a new combatant command Plus Crassus at Parthia, and why chasing parades is a bad idea unless you're the ny knicks suno song: https://suno.com/s/scu8twGj01AIOYSL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aimé Flemm: Output Owners vs Activators — Two Product Owners Who Defined Aimé's Career Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. In this episode, Aimé reflects on two Product Owners — one who showed him what greatness looks like, and one who taught him the cost of structural malpractice. The contrast is structural as much as personal. The Great Product Owner: The PO As Activator "Our product owner was really able to persuade the larger group of 60 people and activate them." - Aimé Flemm When Aimé's company moved to LeSS, they collapsed seven Product Owners down to four — and effectively one head PO who had to step up. "All of a sudden had this one product owner who needed to step up his game — to become this leader who's visionary, who has some kind of charisma." The structure forced the role to grow. The new PO had to lead 60 people, not five. And he did it. Not by writing more stories or shoving work harder, but by becoming an activator — visionary, charismatic, able to rally people behind a product direction. Aimé's framing: structure created the conditions for greatness. Reduce PO count, increase scope per PO, and the role has to step into real product leadership. "It doesn't happen too often that you get the opportunity to really have THE product owner in the company, and just the one." Self-reflection Question: Does your structure give your PO room to be a leader — or does it force them to be a story-writer for one team? The Bad Product Owner: The Team-Manager-In-Disguise "What this product owner really did was just managing the team. He had the power to hire and fire, to decide on promotions, pay raises." - Aimé Flemm Aimé's second PO ever was the opposite of an activator. He was a team manager in disguise — with full hire/fire authority and control over promotions and pay raises. He showed up about 15 minutes a week. "Just telling them, 'oh yeah, this is good, you should do this and do this,' and then he was gone for the rest of the week." What followed was textbook decay: an avoidant team, no initiative, refusing workshops and improvement work. "It became a collection of individuals, all on their own island. Just fixing their own work, just to make sure that they looked good." Aimé himself couldn't push back — his own job security ran through the same person. As Vasco named it in the conversation: these aren't product owners — they're output owners. Work-shovers. Proxies. The dynamic kills product value over time, because nobody is steering toward the customer. Self-reflection Question: Is your PO an activator who rallies people behind a vision — or a proxy who shoves work from one inbox to another? [The Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast Recommends]
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The core structural shift highlighted in this episode is the commoditization of AI model platforms and concurrent consolidation at the vendor and platform layer, forcing Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to move their value proposition above reselling models to orchestrating, governing, and verifying AI outputs. The discussion references the rising concentration and valuation of platforms such as NinjaOne—a founder-led, profitable RMM platform with a $12.3 billion valuation and 70% year-over-year growth—and Pax8 building business toolkits that draw more operational functions onto their rails. At the same time, major AI developers like OpenAI are entering the channel more directly by launching partner programs aimed at MSPs and consultants. The most consequential development is the confirmed shift from reselling AI models to managing their outputs and risks. Glean surveyed 6,000 digital workers and found that while AI delivers approximately 11 hours of weekly time savings, nearly 6.4 hours are reclaimed by “bot sitting”—the human intervention required to supply context, verify, and correct AI outputs. This hidden labor raises a risk scenario: two-thirds of workers admit to releasing unchecked AI outputs, and Ivanti found that only 42% of IT environments actually have a named owner for each AI agent, despite 85% claiming so—a 43-point gap in accountability. Asana and Deloitte further reinforce the issue, reporting frequent cost overruns and unmanaged autonomous AI deployments among enterprise and SMB environments. Supporting developments underscore this governance and accountability gap. TechCrunch cited that ChatGPT's AI market share has dropped below 50% as the field becomes more interchangeable and less differentiated by underlying model. Vendors such as Anthropic and OpenAI, recognizing model commoditization, are seeking revenue through high-volume partner channels, blurring the lines between vendor and channel competitor. According to Asana, more than 80% of UK IT leaders encountered unplanned AI costs, and over half reported business harm from autonomous AI actions, shifting operational and liability risks squarely onto MSPs and IT service providers. Operationally, these trends compel MSPs to take explicit ownership of the orchestration and governance layer, rather than relying on tool reselling. The transcript advises mapping every AI-driven decision or output that reaches client endpoints and identifying who verifies these outputs before customer exposure. Failing to address these governance blanks does not avoid work but shifts it to unbilled, post-incident cleanup, often with financial, legal, or compliance consequences. Effective MSPs will need to price, document, and regularly review their verification, orchestration, and risk assumption, positioning these as standalone, billable services to manage risk and maintain margin as AI platforms commoditize and vendor dependencies rise. 00:00 Bigger Platforms, Unwatched AI 03:44 The Vendor Walks Into the Channel 05:56 Govern It or Absorb It 08:52 Why Do We Care? Supported by: ScalePad Sign up for the SMB Online Conference: www.smbonlineconference.com
Erik Kratz, former MLB catcher and Foul Territory host, joins Afternoon Drive on The Fan. He talks about how the Guardians can succeed without Jose Ramirez, the standings in the American League, if he believes the White Sox are a real competitor, and more.
This turns off Claude's default "nice guy" mode, so it can ruthlessly tell you what needs to change to make the output better. Here is the link to the companion Substack blog post with all of the copy and paste prompts: https://tinyurl.com/Companion-Ep5-Follow-Up-Prompt My full collection of growth hacks, playbooks, and meta prompts lives on my Substack at: https://ClaudeGenius.com
Robert and Austin talked about three credit myths holding people back: you have to be rich to have great credit, carrying a balance helps your credit score, and closing old credit cards is a smart play. ---
Business owners rarely fail because they're short on tools or tactics, they fail because they blend in. In a world where everyone has access to AI, automation, and endless data, the real danger is that your message, brand, and leadership lose their human edge. Output becomes polished but generic. Teams get buried in analytics while intuition, originality, and genuine connection get pushed aside. Today's guest, Nir Bashan, keynote speaker, creativity consultant, and author of The Solution Mindset: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving, has helped brands like Rolex and Porsche turn creativity into measurable profit by treating it as a practical business tool, not something fluffy or optional. In this episode of Marketer of the Day, Nir shows us why creativity is now the last true competitive advantage in the age of AI. He explains how AI has become the great equalizer: everyone can generate emails, posts, and scripts at scale, but very few know how to separate the “AI fire hose” of output into what's truly valuable, authentic, and on-brand. Nir reveals how to use AI as a starting point while applying a creativity rubric to refine, reshape, and humanize your content so it sounds like you and actually resonates with your audience. https://youtu.be/juP8aaBUPaI?si=b9yJ3lZXJT0Q3s2T This conversation is packed with insights for entrepreneurs, marketers, and leaders who feel overwhelmed by data, distracted by constant digital noise, or frustrated that their AI-assisted content still falls flat. If you've been wondering how to stand out when everyone else has the same tools, Nir's Solution Mindset will show you how to reclaim creativity as a skill, integrate it with your analytics, and turn everyday problems into opportunities for differentiation and growth. Quotes: “Creativity is an actionable tool that we can use to grow businesses, get into new markets, change product, and change how customers relate to what we offer. The problem is that most people don't use it." "AI is now the great equalizer. Everyone has access to it, so the question becomes: what do we do to get to the next level? That shortage, that gap there, is creativity." "Reality doesn't lie strictly in the numbers; it lies in a balancing of the analytics and the creative. That's what I help people do, connect those two things to optimize their business." Contact Details: Visit Nir Bashan's Facebook Page Connect with Nir Bashan on LinkedIn Explore Nir Bashan's Official Website Follow Nir Bashan on Instagram Get a copy of The Solution Mindset: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving on Amazon Dive into the YouTube Channel of Nir Bashan