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Today we're keeping it real and wondering why are we doing this topic. After excessive hypotheticals, cake stands and keg stands, we (of course) bring up Singles (yet again) and flip the lid and squirt. We discuss Cold War metaphors and Winona Ryder before ultimately deciding to plug it up. Planet Money: Episode 253: Gold Standard, R.I.P.Spiced Pineapple Upside-Down Cake The Butter Battle BookMolly's Now but Wow! - Real Americans, by Rachel Khong Support Spilled Milk Podcast!Molly's SubstackMatthew's Bands: Early to the Airport and Twilight DinersProducer Abby's WebsiteListen to our spinoff show Dire DesiresJoin our reddit

Overview: Today, we discuss the opportunity for Agriculture technology to make a difference in Africa. We'll start with some context of African Agriculture, discuss AgriTech in developed and emerging markets, analyze Agritech players across Africa & end with our overall outlook. This episode was recorded on Apr 4, 2021. Companies discussed: Twiga Foods, Pula, SunCulture, Releaf, FarmCrowdy, DeHaat, Arya, WeFarm, Aerobiotics, Gro Intelligence, SwiftVee, Agroop, Pure Harvest, Naspers & Agrocenta Business concepts discussed: Agriculture technology (AgTech, AgriTech or AgroTech), Agribusiness marketplaces, farming financing, Farmer market access opportunities & Agriculture insurance strategy Conversation highlights: (00:30) - Why we’re talking about AgriTech (05:20) - AgriTech in developed markets (08:50) - AgriTech in emerging markets countries - India (11:30) - AgriTech startups in India - DeHaat, Arya (15:30) - AgriTech in China (16:50) - African Agriculture - background, challenges (26:50) - AgriTech in Africa (28:06) - AgriTech startups in East Africa (40:40) - AgriTech startups in Southern Africa (45:55) - AgriTech startups in Northern Africa (48:44) - AgriTech startups in West Africa (58:20) - Bankole’s overall thoughts and outlook (1:07:55) - Olumide’s overall thoughts and outlook (1:14:35) - Recommendations and small wins Olumide’s recommendations, small wins & open questions: Recommendations: Skip the Line (James Altucher) & Green Book (2018) Small win: Day off work to re-energize Other content: Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (World Bank) & US Agricultural workers data in 1900 (11M out of 76M population) Bankole’s recommendations, small wins & open questions: Recommendation: Readwise.io Small win: Set up wiretamers for my WFH space. The Art of the Desk Setup Other content: Planet Money Episode 454: The Lollipop War & Blues Wireless We’d love to hear from you. Please email info@afrobility.com to share feedback or propose topics you’d like to hear. Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes at Afrobility.com

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! In this episode of Elixir Mix the panelists talk with David Bernheisel about the power in Ecto. Coming from ActiveRecord, Ecto and Changesets were a wonderful alternative! They cover David’s blog post where he shares some tips and tricks for working with Changesets. They also cover, Multi, how to compose Changesets, using “embedded” schemas, and much more! Panelists Josh Adams Sophie DeBenedetto Mark Ericksen Guest David Bernheisel Sponsors CacheFly ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links EMx 068: Contributing to the Elixir Community with David Bernheisel & Cory Schmitt David Bernheisel Blog GitHub neoclide/coc.nvim InfoQ Are We There Yet? Ecto.Changeset Ecto.Multi EMx 024: “Sagas” with Andrew Dryga from Hammer Corporation Picks Josh Adams: Common Sense by Thomas Paine Rook Sophie DeBenedetto: How to Compose Queries in Ecto Elixir School Birds of Prey Mark Ericksen: Planet Money Episode 967: Escheat Show David Bernheisel: Whimsical Team Accounts DigialOcean ElixirConf US 2018 - Breaking Down the User Monolith - Zach Porter

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! In this episode of Elixir Mix the panelists talk with David Bernheisel about the power in Ecto. Coming from ActiveRecord, Ecto and Changesets were a wonderful alternative! They cover David’s blog post where he shares some tips and tricks for working with Changesets. They also cover, Multi, how to compose Changesets, using “embedded” schemas, and much more! Panelists Josh Adams Sophie DeBenedetto Mark Ericksen Guest David Bernheisel Sponsors CacheFly ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links EMx 068: Contributing to the Elixir Community with David Bernheisel & Cory Schmitt David Bernheisel Blog GitHub neoclide/coc.nvim InfoQ Are We There Yet? Ecto.Changeset Ecto.Multi EMx 024: “Sagas” with Andrew Dryga from Hammer Corporation Picks Josh Adams: Common Sense by Thomas Paine Rook Sophie DeBenedetto: How to Compose Queries in Ecto Elixir School Birds of Prey Mark Ericksen: Planet Money Episode 967: Escheat Show David Bernheisel: Whimsical Team Accounts DigialOcean ElixirConf US 2018 - Breaking Down the User Monolith - Zach Porter

Can a protein be contagious? Jason Bartz discusses his work on prion proteins, which cause spongiform encephalopathy and can be transmitted by ingestion or inhalation among some animals. He further discusses how prions can exist as different strains, and what techniques may help improve diagnosis of subclinical infections. Links for this Episode: Jason Bartz Creighton University website Holec SAM, Yuan Q, and Bartz JC. Alteration of Prion Strain Emergence by Nonhost Factors. mSphere. 2019. Yuan Q et al. Dehydration of Prions on Environmentally Relevant Surfaces Protects Them from Inactivation by Freezing and Thawing. Journal of Virology. 2018. Bartz JC. Prion Strain Diversity. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 2016.  Bartz JC. From Slow Viruses to Prions PLoS Pathogens. 2016. Deleault NR, Harris BT, Rees JR, Supattapone S. Formation of native prions from minimal components in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2007. Planet Money Episode 952: Sperm Banks  

We discuss an episode of Planet Money that discusses the Magnitsky Act, how it relates to Trump, and we discuss why that doesn't matter. Links from this episode: - Planet Money: Episode 784: Meeting The Russians - Freakonomics: When Helping Hurts - Freakonomics:Oil #1: We Buy Oil - Supporters of the Magnitsky Act Claim They've Been Targets of Russian Assassination and Kidnapping Bids - Byron York: Harvard study: CNN, NBC Trump coverage 93 percent negative - Scott Adams Blog: Good Example of Our Two-Movie Reality - Trump shaking hands with Putin - Pew Research Center: The Modern News Consumer - Pew Research Center: News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016 - Social media 'outstrips TV' as news source for young people - Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed *

To get us in the Halloween spirit, we look at two horror films starring Bollywood’s reigning scream queen Bipasha Basu. Show Notes: We are now available on Indian iTunes Thanks to Tilottama Biswas for the review Horror as a niche genre Planet Money Episode 650: The Scariest Thing in Hollywood Scream Queens Bipasha Basu Should we review Bollywood workout videos? Creature 3D Imran Abbas as a fake Booker Prize winning writer Don’t be the guy that brings the guitar to the party The creature is a Brahmaraksha, we have no idea if this is a real legend or not (the Wendigo is!) The creature’s design and roar Kathy Gibson’s review INTERVAL (”Katra Katra” from Alone) Alone Karan Singh Grover as Bips’ on-screen (and off-screen) husband Bipasha Basu’s skin is flawless How to film a exorcism without objectifying the possessed woman Bollywood Bloodbath and “He Meet Me In The Guest House” Conjoined twins; real life is a lot more frightening than this film NEXT TIME: We welcome Shah Shahid of Blank Page Beatdown and the Split Screen Podcast to discuss Randeep Hooda Find us on iTunes! and Stitcher! and audioBoom! Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook! #screamqueen #bipashabasu #creature3d #imranabbas #mukuldev #vikrambhatt #karansinghgrover #alone #bollywood #bollywoodpodcast #bollywoodisforlovers

The machines are coming! The machines are coming! Artifiicial Intelligence is here. But what is it, and how long will we have to wait for the technology to completely take over all analysis work? Dennis Mortensen -- founder of x.ai -- joins us on this episode for a deep dive into the topic. You will be surprised by how pragmatic and real AI seems as Dennis describes how he approaches it. And...then his last call will completely blow up the nice, cozy layer of downy comfort that you've settled into during the discussion. So it goes. Artificial intelligences and things referenced in this episode include: x.ai, Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Planet Money Episode #626, Wait But Why on The Fermi Paradox, and Rick and Morty.

All Remote Conferences   02:01 - Lauren Voswinkel Introduction Twitter GitHub New Relic 02:39 - May 1st: International Workers’ Day Lauren Voswinkel: #talkpay and the Importance of Collective Action Taft–Hartley Act (The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947) 06:11 - #talkpay Information Asymmetry 10:22 - Fair Trade of Value; Companies and Salaries Kelley Blue Book 19:37 - Salary Maximization and Negotiations 22:40 - Executive Salaries Planet Money: Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded 25:58 - Hashtag Effectiveness Glassdoor 29:05 - Implications of Salary Reveals 32:08 - The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Cont’d) Salary Sharing Between Employees 35:41 - Sharing Salary Information Publicly and Impostor Syndrome Crab Mentality 37:38 - Job Elimination 42:40 - Is/has #talkpay been successful?   More Information Ex-Apple, Google, Intel geeks in line for $415m over wage-fix pacts Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts Highlights of women’s earnings in 2014   Picks The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Sam) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Coraline) Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Series (Chuck) Bose QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones (Chuck) Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (Lauren) Brené Brown: Listening to shame (Lauren)

All Remote Conferences   02:01 - Lauren Voswinkel Introduction Twitter GitHub New Relic 02:39 - May 1st: International Workers’ Day Lauren Voswinkel: #talkpay and the Importance of Collective Action Taft–Hartley Act (The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947) 06:11 - #talkpay Information Asymmetry 10:22 - Fair Trade of Value; Companies and Salaries Kelley Blue Book 19:37 - Salary Maximization and Negotiations 22:40 - Executive Salaries Planet Money: Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded 25:58 - Hashtag Effectiveness Glassdoor 29:05 - Implications of Salary Reveals 32:08 - The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Cont’d) Salary Sharing Between Employees 35:41 - Sharing Salary Information Publicly and Impostor Syndrome Crab Mentality 37:38 - Job Elimination 42:40 - Is/has #talkpay been successful?   More Information Ex-Apple, Google, Intel geeks in line for $415m over wage-fix pacts Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts Highlights of women’s earnings in 2014   Picks The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Sam) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Coraline) Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Series (Chuck) Bose QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones (Chuck) Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (Lauren) Brené Brown: Listening to shame (Lauren)

All Remote Conferences   02:01 - Lauren Voswinkel Introduction Twitter GitHub New Relic 02:39 - May 1st: International Workers’ Day Lauren Voswinkel: #talkpay and the Importance of Collective Action Taft–Hartley Act (The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947) 06:11 - #talkpay Information Asymmetry 10:22 - Fair Trade of Value; Companies and Salaries Kelley Blue Book 19:37 - Salary Maximization and Negotiations 22:40 - Executive Salaries Planet Money: Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded 25:58 - Hashtag Effectiveness Glassdoor 29:05 - Implications of Salary Reveals 32:08 - The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Cont’d) Salary Sharing Between Employees 35:41 - Sharing Salary Information Publicly and Impostor Syndrome Crab Mentality 37:38 - Job Elimination 42:40 - Is/has #talkpay been successful?   More Information Ex-Apple, Google, Intel geeks in line for $415m over wage-fix pacts Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts Highlights of women’s earnings in 2014   Picks The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Sam) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Coraline) Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Series (Chuck) Bose QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones (Chuck) Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (Lauren) Brené Brown: Listening to shame (Lauren)

02:25 - Kyle Simpson Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog “Getify” You-Dont-Know-JS [Pluralsight] Advanced JavaScript by Kyle Simpson 04:43 - Development => Teaching Front End Masters 16:20 - Inheritance and Delegation 29:40 - Evolving a Language 36:23 - Cohersion Weak Typing, Dynamic Typing The Politics of JavaScript by Angus Croll 50:37 - Performance The Width Keyword 54:33 - Developer Education Programs and The Skill of Teaching   Picks Adam Tornhill: Code, Crime, Complexity: Analyzing software with forensic psychology @ TEDxTrondheim (Aimee) Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs by Adam Tornhill (Aimee) Planet Money Episode 704: Open Office (Jamison) Zooko's Triangle (Jamison) The Barkley Marathons (Jamison) React Rally (Jamison) X-Men: Apocalypse (Joe) America's Got Talent (Joe) Overwatch (Joe) Stack (Kyle) Jeremy Keith: A web for everyone (Kyle) Jeremy Keith: Regressive Web Apps (Kyle)

02:25 - Kyle Simpson Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog “Getify” You-Dont-Know-JS [Pluralsight] Advanced JavaScript by Kyle Simpson 04:43 - Development => Teaching Front End Masters 16:20 - Inheritance and Delegation 29:40 - Evolving a Language 36:23 - Cohersion Weak Typing, Dynamic Typing The Politics of JavaScript by Angus Croll 50:37 - Performance The Width Keyword 54:33 - Developer Education Programs and The Skill of Teaching   Picks Adam Tornhill: Code, Crime, Complexity: Analyzing software with forensic psychology @ TEDxTrondheim (Aimee) Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs by Adam Tornhill (Aimee) Planet Money Episode 704: Open Office (Jamison) Zooko's Triangle (Jamison) The Barkley Marathons (Jamison) React Rally (Jamison) X-Men: Apocalypse (Joe) America's Got Talent (Joe) Overwatch (Joe) Stack (Kyle) Jeremy Keith: A web for everyone (Kyle) Jeremy Keith: Regressive Web Apps (Kyle)

02:25 - Kyle Simpson Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog “Getify” You-Dont-Know-JS [Pluralsight] Advanced JavaScript by Kyle Simpson 04:43 - Development => Teaching Front End Masters 16:20 - Inheritance and Delegation 29:40 - Evolving a Language 36:23 - Cohersion Weak Typing, Dynamic Typing The Politics of JavaScript by Angus Croll 50:37 - Performance The Width Keyword 54:33 - Developer Education Programs and The Skill of Teaching   Picks Adam Tornhill: Code, Crime, Complexity: Analyzing software with forensic psychology @ TEDxTrondheim (Aimee) Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs by Adam Tornhill (Aimee) Planet Money Episode 704: Open Office (Jamison) Zooko's Triangle (Jamison) The Barkley Marathons (Jamison) React Rally (Jamison) X-Men: Apocalypse (Joe) America's Got Talent (Joe) Overwatch (Joe) Stack (Kyle) Jeremy Keith: A web for everyone (Kyle) Jeremy Keith: Regressive Web Apps (Kyle)

Check out Freelance Remote Conf!   03:25 - Getting Into the Corporate Training Gig Arena 13:31 - Where do I get my content? 18:17 - Marketing Your Courses Webinars Dabbling vs Taking the Plunge 27:52 - Going Solo vs Joining a Training Company 36:40 - Remote Training vs In-person 41:21 - Preparation; Composing New Material 47:33 - Surveys 53:22 - Charging for Training Per Day Per Person 58:12 - Trainee Preparation 01:03:30 - Don’t just educate: Entertain   Check out React Native Radio Contribute to the show in The Freelancers’ Show GitHub repository! For more information on this topic, go to lerner.co.il/coaching.   Picks Frontend Masters Courses (Jonathan) Reuven's Webinar about technical training: Pedagogy, logistics, and business (Reuven) Planet Money Episode #672: Bagging a Birkin (Reuven) Fathead (Chuck)

Check out Freelance Remote Conf!   03:25 - Getting Into the Corporate Training Gig Arena 13:31 - Where do I get my content? 18:17 - Marketing Your Courses Webinars Dabbling vs Taking the Plunge 27:52 - Going Solo vs Joining a Training Company 36:40 - Remote Training vs In-person 41:21 - Preparation; Composing New Material 47:33 - Surveys 53:22 - Charging for Training Per Day Per Person 58:12 - Trainee Preparation 01:03:30 - Don’t just educate: Entertain   Check out React Native Radio Contribute to the show in The Freelancers’ Show GitHub repository! For more information on this topic, go to lerner.co.il/coaching.   Picks Frontend Masters Courses (Jonathan) Reuven's Webinar about technical training: Pedagogy, logistics, and business (Reuven) Planet Money Episode #672: Bagging a Birkin (Reuven) Fathead (Chuck)

00:51 - Jeremy Green Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Remarq @remarqio 01:10 - “Good-looking Documents” 07:13 - Use Cases The Positioning Manual For Technical Firms by Philip Morgan 08:07 - Typography, Branding, and Spacing 13:00 - Audience & Users 14:20 - Images, Charts, and Graphs 15:30 - Markdown Softcover 19:35 - Formatting For Books vs Reports 20:42 - Fonts 21:47 - Image Enhancement 22:36 - Modifying Style Standards 24:14 - Horizontal Rules 25:50 - Decoration 26:38 - White Space and Bulleted Lists 27:53 - Breaking Up Content / Page Breaks 28:59 - How Remarq Works Pandoc LaTeX 30:24 - The Business Side 31:50 - Upcoming Features Dropbox Integration Zapier Integration 32:55 - Marketing   Friends of The Freelancers’ Show: Get 25% off Remarq with this special discount code!   Picks Planet Money: Episode 650: The Scariest Thing In Hollywood (Reuven) Planet Money: Episode 651: The Salmon Taboo (Reuven) Planet Money: Episode 653: The Anti-Store (Reuven) Stripe (Chuck) Crowdcast (Chuck) Calendly (Jeremy) The Traffic Manuel by Kai Davis (Jeremy)

00:51 - Jeremy Green Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Remarq @remarqio 01:10 - “Good-looking Documents” 07:13 - Use Cases The Positioning Manual For Technical Firms by Philip Morgan 08:07 - Typography, Branding, and Spacing 13:00 - Audience & Users 14:20 - Images, Charts, and Graphs 15:30 - Markdown Softcover 19:35 - Formatting For Books vs Reports 20:42 - Fonts 21:47 - Image Enhancement 22:36 - Modifying Style Standards 24:14 - Horizontal Rules 25:50 - Decoration 26:38 - White Space and Bulleted Lists 27:53 - Breaking Up Content / Page Breaks 28:59 - How Remarq Works Pandoc LaTeX 30:24 - The Business Side 31:50 - Upcoming Features Dropbox Integration Zapier Integration 32:55 - Marketing   Friends of The Freelancers’ Show: Get 25% off Remarq with this special discount code!   Picks Planet Money: Episode 650: The Scariest Thing In Hollywood (Reuven) Planet Money: Episode 651: The Salmon Taboo (Reuven) Planet Money: Episode 653: The Anti-Store (Reuven) Stripe (Chuck) Crowdcast (Chuck) Calendly (Jeremy) The Traffic Manuel by Kai Davis (Jeremy)