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Let's play phone games like it's 2007, this week on ARG PRESENTS! Join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as we dive HEADFIRST into the world of SYMBIAN PHONE GAMES! First, we'll try to figure out what the heck that means, and then it's GAME TIME!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Amigos Retro GamingTwitch: amigosretrogaming#argpresents #Retrorotation#Retrocomputing

Let's play phone games like it's 2007, this week on ARG PRESENTS! Join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as we dive HEADFIRST into the world of SYMBIAN PHONE GAMES! First, we'll try to figure out what the heck that means, and then it's GAME TIME! Kick back and enjoy our look at Crimson After Dark and Karna Fighter! They're flip-riffic!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Amigos Retro GamingTwitch: amigosretrogaming#argpresents #Retrorotation#Retrocomputing#argpresents #Retrorotation#Retrocomputing

I met Daniel Andrews through someone who has been monitoring Unstoppable Mindset and who told me that Daniel would be an interesting guest. How true it was. Daniel is a South Carolina guy born and bred. He makes his home in Columbia South Carolina. While in college he took a summer job with Cutco Cutlery after his sophomore year. I guess he liked the position because he stayed with Cutco for 15 years in sales positions.   While at Cutco his mentors introduced him to the concept of personal development. As you will see, he is widely read on the subject and he also learned to put his book learning to good use.   In 2013 he made the move to becoming his own boss and developed a true entrepreneurial spirit that still drives him today. He helps clients grow their businesses by seeking real quality contacts. He tells us that his goal is to introduce clients to 72 or 120 clients per year. As Daniel points out, a network of thousands of people is not nearly as effective as a smaller network of persons with whom you develop real credible relationships.   Daniel offers many wonderful and relevant tips on relationship and network building that I believe you will find useful. And, if you want more, Daniel provides his phone number at the end of this episode so you can reach out to him.       About the Guest:   Daniel grew up in Columbia, South Carolina after his dad moved from active duty USAF to reservice duty, in 1976. He attended college in Atlanta Georgia, where he took a summer job with Cutco Cutlery after his sophomore year, in 1988. His mentors, Ray Arrona, Ken Schmidt (RIP), Earl Small, and Don Freda introduced him to the concept of personal development, and his early career (the “summer job” lasted 15 years) was influenced by the writings of Zig Ziglar, Og Mandino, and Dale Carnegie.   He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 2003 with his first wife, and switched careers. In his second career, a mix of B2B and B2C, he was influenced by  the writings of John Addison, Harland Stonecipher, and Jeff Olsen, encouraged by his mentor Frank Aucoin.   After his move to Houston, Texas, in 2013, he decided to become a true entrepreneur, and not just an independent contractor. The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber, Quench Your Own Thirst, by Jim Koch, and Profit First by  Mike Michalowicz were instrumental in making this jump, and he's currently engrossed in Super Connector by Scott Gerber and Give & Take by Adam Grant, as he builds a business based around showing people how to identify, find, meet, and grow relationships with a handful of key referral partners, to make sure there is a steady pipeline of 72-120 warm introductions to ideal client prospects every year.   He's been married to Adina Maynard since July 5th, 2019, after he returned to his hometown in the fall of 2016.     Ways to connect with Daniel:   Other handles: DanielPAndrews@outlook.com Pinterest link: https://www.pinterest.com/danielpandrews/   Daniel Andrews' personal FB link: https://facebook.com/danthemanwiththeplan1967   Daniel Andrews LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niasoutheast/   FB link - business page https://facebook.com/danandrewsnia   My video platform https://events.revnt.io/cutting-edge-business-coaching-llc   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.     Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well and hello everyone. This is Michael Hingson, your host for unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're with us today, and really glad to have the opportunity once again to be with you and talk about all sorts of different sorts different kinds of things, as we do every week. That's why we call it an unstoppable mindset, where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet, because unexpected is much more fun. Keeps us all on our toes. Our guest today is Daniel, and would like to welcome you to unstoppable mindset, and we really appreciate you being here. Yeah,   Daniel Andrews ** 01:58 it's good to be here. Happy to participate. And really, I'm honored by the fact that you invited me to be here. So thank you for that. Well, we   Michael Hingson ** 02:05 made it. It's It's been fun, and we, we got introduced through Noah, who, I guess, does publicity for you.   Daniel Andrews ** 02:19 He and I have talked about that at some point. I'm trying to remember the entire chain that got me to you. You know, the person introduced me to him, to her, to him, to her, to him, to her, to you, right? I need a family tree of an introductory tree on my wall over here. I just keep up with all the connections. Yeah?   Michael Hingson ** 02:38 Keeps you alert and keeps you alert, you know, yeah, for sure. Well, I really am glad that you're here. And Daniel has a, I think, a great story to tell. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, which he's really mostly called home, although he was born elsewhere, but sort of since roughly a fair, well, a fairly short time, he moved to Columbia and has been there. So I won't go into all those details. We don't need to worry about him, unless he wants to tell them, but Columbia has been home most all of his life. He did live a little ways, a little while away from Columbia, and on that, I'm sure we're going to talk about, but nevertheless, Columbia is home. I've been to Columbia and enjoy it, and I miss South Carolina sausage biscuits. So I don't know what to say, but nevertheless, one of these days, I'm sure I'll get back down there, and the people I know will make some more. But meanwhile, meanwhile, here we are. So why don't you start by telling us a little bit about kind of the early Daniel, growing up and, you know, all that, just to give people little flavor for you, sure,   Daniel Andrews ** 03:46 older brother two years older than me, exactly. I mean, within a couple days of two years, we're the only two no other siblings. Dad was an Air Force fighter pilot, and people think that must be pretty cool, and at some level, it is. But to help frame it better and give you a better detail of the experience of being the son of a fighter pilot, I encourage people that I talk to to remember the movie Top Gun. Not the second one where everybody was a good guy, they were older and more mature and, you know, but in the first one where there was the good guy that was a jerk and the bad guy that was a jerk, but they were, they were both jerks. And you know, it's a weird environment to grow up in when the biggest compliment one man can pay another is you don't suck that bad, right? That's literally the biggest compliment they're allowed to pay each other. So I grew up always thinking like I was coming up short, which has got some positive and some negative attributes. My clients love it because I tend to over deliver for what I charge them, but it kills my coach because he thinks I'm not I'm not fairly pricing myself in the marketplace, but I it made me want to be an entrepreneur, because the benchmarks are clear, right? You? In a sales environment, you know whether you're ahead or behind. You know what you got to do to catch the number one guy or gal if you're trying to beat the competition, you know how big your paycheck is going to be if you're working on, you know, commission or base, plus commission and and I really enjoyed the environment of being, I don't want to say competitive, but knowing that, you know, I was competing with myself. So many of my friends are employed by academia or small companies or big corporations, and even when they benchmark really good results, the pay, the compensation, the time off, the rewards, the advancements aren't necessarily there. So I really like the idea of having a very specific set of objectives. If I do this, then that happens. If I work this hard, I get this much money. If I achieve these results, I get, you know, moved up into into more authority and more responsibility, and that really made a world of difference for me, so that that has a lot to do with it. And as a result of that, I've opted for the self employment   Michael Hingson ** 05:54 certainly gives you lots of life experiences, doesn't it?   Daniel Andrews ** 05:58 It does. And I think, I think that people that work for other people is certainly learn, learn a lot as well. Meaning, I've not had to have extended co worker relationships or manage those over time. My first wife was fond of saying that Daniel's good in small doses, right?   Michael Hingson ** 06:15 So here we are, Ayan, so you're, you're telling us a little bit about you and growing up,   Daniel Andrews ** 06:22 sure it just you know, father is fighter pilot, right? And always pushing me to do more, be more. And that led me to choose a route of self employment, usually as a in the early parts of my career, independent contractor for other people. So I still had a structure to work in, but I knew what my objectives were. I knew how much money I would earn if I produced X result. I knew what it meant to get more responsibility, and that worked well for me. And then about eight years ago now, I decided to become a full fledged entrepreneur and really do my own thing and create some fun stuff. And it's been a fun ride in that regard, but I do love the freedom that comes from setting my own objectives on a daily basis. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 07:07 there's a lot to be said for that, and then not everyone can do that, because it does take a lot of discipline to be an entrepreneur, to do the things that you need to do, and know that you need to be structured to do the things that that have to be done at the same time. You do need to be able to take time off when that becomes relevant. But still, it does take a lot of discipline to be an entrepreneur and make it work successfully,   Daniel Andrews ** 07:35 right? And I don't know that I've mastered the discipline for it, but at least I'm working on my objectives and not somebody else's. The only person I'm letting down is me. You know, when I, when I, when I miss a deadline or don't execute, so that feels better to me than having the weight of somebody else's expectations on me   Michael Hingson ** 07:52 counts for something, doesn't it? I think so well. So you, you grew up in Columbia, but then you went off to college. Where'd you go to college?   Daniel Andrews ** 08:02 Down in Atlanta, Georgia, small school there. But I had a choice of three places, and each of them had offered me scholarship funds that equaled the same cost to me. IE, the packages were different, but the net cost to me in each case was going to be about the same. So rather than pick based on the financial aid or the scholarships are being offered, I picked on which city it was in. And I figured being a college kid in Atlanta, Georgia was a good move. And it turned out it was a good move. There was lots to see and do in Atlanta, Georgia, only about four hours from home. And it just it worked out to be pretty good that my other choices were Athens, Georgia, which is strictly a college town. And you know, when the summer rolls around, the place is empty. It goes down, and the other was a school and Farmville, Virginia, excuse me, the closest town is Farmville, Virginia, where the 711 closed at six. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that, yeah, not too sure. I want to be that far out in the sticks right as a 19 year old away from home for the first time, I wanted. I wanted. I wanted to have something to do with my freedom, meaning, if I was free to do what I wanted to do, I wanted to have something to do with that so and not not sit around Farmville, Virginia, wonder what was going to happen next. Yeah. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 09:19 so what did you major in in college?   Daniel Andrews ** 09:23 That question always comes up, and I'm always hesitant to answer that, because people think it has something to do with what I do today, and it does not in any way shape or stretch. I got a BS in psychology, which I tell people was heavy on the BS and light on the psychology, but at   Michael Hingson ** 09:38 the same time. And so my master's degree is in physics, although I ended up not going into physics, although I did a little bit of science work. But do you would you say, though, that even though you got a BS in psychology and you went off and you're clearly doing other things, did you learn stuff, or did that degree benefit you? And do you still. I have skills and things that you learned from that that you use today. I   Daniel Andrews ** 10:04 used to tell people that I had three facts that I used in college, that I learned in college, that I used on a daily basis, and for the longest time, I could recite all three. But nobody asked me what they were for the longest time, and I'm sure I still use all three of them, but I can only recall one, so the answer is, for the most part, no. But I think I went to college for a piece of paper. Someone else was paying for it. In this case, the school, not my parents. It was a scholarship, and I went to school not to learn anything. I went to school to get a piece of paper. I started off as a physics major, by the way, and when I got to the semester where they were trying to teach me that light is both a particle and a wave, I'm like, Yeah, we're going to need a different major, because I did not get my head around that at all. And and the degree that was had the least hurdles to get to switch majors and finish at that moment in time with psychology. So that's the route I took. I was just there for the piece of paper.   Michael Hingson ** 11:05 Physics wasn't what you wanted to do, huh?   Daniel Andrews ** 11:08 I did. But if the textbook had said light has attributes of both a particle and a wave, I might have been able to grasp it a little bit quicker. But it said light is both a particle and a wave, and it was the week of finals, and I was struggling with the intro in chapter one for the textbook, and I'm like, yep, might be time for different major at this point,   Michael Hingson ** 11:29 my master, my master's is in physics, and you mentioned and I enjoyed it, and I and I still have memories and concepts that I learned, that I use today, probably the biggest one is paying attention to detail and physics. It isn't enough to get the numeric right answer, you got to make the units work as well, which is more of a detail issue than just getting the numbers, because you can use a calculator and get numbers, but that doesn't get you the units. And so I found that skill to be extremely important and valuable as I worked through physics and went through and I actually got a master's and also a secondary teaching credential, and I thought I was going to teach, but life did take different directions, and so that's okay.   Daniel Andrews ** 12:18 Well, when you frame it that way, I will say that there is something that I learned that I that I use, maybe not in my work, but in my field of vision, and that's this, you know, lab and experimental methods taught me to ask the question, how did they ask the questions? Right? What was the structure of the test, the experiment, the the data collection right? Because you can do an awful lot of things. For example, they have found that if a doctor says to a patient, we have a chance to do surgery, there's a 10% chance of success, meaning that you'll live, they get a better up to uptake than if they say there's a 90% chance that you'll die. Yeah, it's the same information, but you always have to look at the way the questions are framed. Polls are notorious for this right data collection from my days in Cutco, I read a study and I put quotes around it right? A study that said that wooden cutting boards retain less bacteria than plastic cutting boards or polypropylene polyurethane, which is clearly blatantly wrong if you're treating your cutting boards correctly. And I looked into it, and they simply wiped the surface and then waited a day and measured bacteria count? Well, if you don't put it what you can dishwasher a plastic cutting board and sterilize it, right? Why would you simply wipe the surface? In the case of the wood, the bacteria was no longer at the surface. It had sunk into the woods. So there's not as much on the surface. I'm like, oh, but it's still there. It's just down in the wood. You have to literally look at the way these tests are done. And I guess the wooden cutting board industry paid for that study, because I can't imagine anybody else that would would a care and B make the argument that a wooden cutting board was better than a plastic one for sanitation reasons,   Michael Hingson ** 14:13 because it's clearly all it's all sales. And of course, that brings up the fact that you get that kind of knowledge honestly, because when you were a sophomore, you got a summer job with Cutco.   Daniel Andrews ** 14:24 I did, yeah, and I remember 3030, what is that? 36 years ago, now having to explain what Cutco was, but Cutco has been around for so long in America that most American households have at least some Cutco on them at this point. So I find most people already know and understand, but it was a direct sales job. It was not structured the way an MLM or a network marketing company has, but my job is to literally take, you know, a kit full of samples, right? Some some regular, normal, standard products that we would use and sell, and take them into people's homes and sit at the kitchen table and demonstrate. Right? The usefulness. Go over the guarantee, go over the pricing options, and you know what choices they could pick stuff out, and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Turned out to be more lucrative than most people imagine. I don't want to brag too much about how much reps make doing that, because then customers get upset we're being overpaid, but yeah, that's not true either. But it was a blast to to do that and the learning environment, right? What I learned about setting my own goals, discipline, awareness of the way communication landed on other people. I don't the psychology of communication, being around people, helping them understand what I knew to be true, finding ways to address concerns, issues, objections, without making them feel wrong or awkward. You know, it was a good environment, and that's why I stayed for 15 years. For   Michael Hingson ** 15:52 me, after college, I went to work with an organization that had developed a relationship with Dr Ray Kurzweil, the futurist and who now talks a lot about the singularity. And at that time, he had developed a machine that would read print out loud. Well, it would read print, and he chose, for the first application of that machine to be a machine that would read print out loud so that blind people could read print in books, because his technology didn't care about what type styles or print fonts were on the page anyway. After the job was over, I went to work for Ray, and after about eight or nine months, I was confronted with a situation where I was called into the office of the VP of Marketing, who said, your work is great. We love what you do, but you're not doing anything that produces revenue for us, because I was doing Human Factors work helping to enhance the machine, and so we're going to have to lay you off, he said. And I said, lay me off. And he said, again, your work is great, but we don't have enough revenue producers. We're, like a lot of startup engineering companies, we've hired way too many non revenue producers. So we got to let people go, and that includes you, unless you'll go into sales. And not only go into sales, but not selling the reading machine for the blind, but there's a commercial version that had just come out. So I ended up doing that, and took a Dale Carnegie sales course, a 10 week course, which I enjoyed very much. Learned a lot, and have been selling professionally ever since, of course, my story of being in the World Trade Center and escaping on September 11 after that, I still continue to sell. What I tell people is I love to view my life as now selling life and philosophy. Rather than selling computer hardware and managing a hardware team, it really is about selling life and philosophy and getting people to understand. You can learn to control fear. You can learn to function in environments that you don't expect, and you can go out of your comfort zone. And there's nothing wrong with that, you know. So that's it's been a lot of fun for the last 23 years to do that.   Daniel Andrews ** 18:00 Okay? Now you got me curious. What's the commercial application of a machine that will take a printed book and read it out loud? What I can clearly see why people with various and sundry?   Michael Hingson ** 18:12 Well, for people who are blind and low vision, well, so let's, let's deal with it. The commercial application for that particular machine is that people will buy it and use it. Of course, today it's an app on a smartphone, so it's a whole lot different than it was as a $50,000 machine back in 1978 1979 but the idea behind the machine was that libraries or agencies or organizations could purchase them, have them centrally located, so people who never could read print out loud before could actually go get a book, put it on the machine and read it.   Daniel Andrews ** 18:46 Okay? So this would make sense libraries and institutions of public knowledge, okay. But then, as I could see, where someone would want one in their home if they had need of it. But I was just curious about the commercial application well.   Michael Hingson ** 18:57 But then over time, as the technology advanced. As more were produced, the price went down. And it went from $50,000 down to $20,000 and you started to see some in people's homes. And then, of course, it got less and less and less and eventually, before it became almost a free app on a smartphone today, it used the Symbian operating system and Nokia phones, and the the technology, in total, was about $1,800 and then, of course, it became an app on a smartphone, and a lot of OCR today is free, but the other side of it was the machine I sold was a version that banks would use, lawyers would use, other people would use to be able to take printed documents and get them into computer readable form, because people saw pretty early on that was an important thing to be able to do so they could peruse databases and so on and so the bottom line is that it was very relevant to do. Yeah, and so there was commercial value, but now OCR has gotten to be such a regular mainstay of society. You know, we think of it differently than we did then, very   Daniel Andrews ** 20:10 much. But yeah, we still have one that can read my handwriting   Michael Hingson ** 20:15 that is coming. You know, they're my handwriting. I wanted to be a doctor, and I passed the handwriting course, but that's as far as I got. But, and as I love to tell people, the problem was I didn't have any patients, but, you know, oh boy. But the the bottom line is that there were applications for it, and and it worked, and it was great technology. So it taught me a lot to be able to be involved in taking the Dale Carnegie sales course, and I know he's one of the people that influenced you in various ways. Very much, very important to recognize for me that good sales people are really teachers and advisors and counselors. Absolutely you can. You can probably talk people into buying stuff, which may or may not be a good thing to do, but if we've really got something that they need, they'll figure it out and they'll want to buy   Daniel Andrews ** 21:11 it. Yeah, the way it was summarized to me, and this particularly relates around, you know, the Cutco product or another tangible you know, selling is just a transference of enthusiasm, meaning, if they knew and understood it the way I did, it would make perfect sense. So the question was, how do I find a way to convey my enthusiasm for what I knew about the product? And as simple, I don't wanna say simple, it sounds condescending in as few words as possible, in ways that made it easy for them to digest, right? Because some people are, are tactile, and they want to hold it, look at it. Others are, you know, knowledge oriented. They want to read the testimonials and a guarantee and, you know, things like that. So just, how do you, how do you kind of figure out who's looking for what? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 21:56 and the reality is, everybody is a little bit different in that arena. And as you said, conveying enthusiasm, you'll either be able to do it or you'll find that what you have isn't really what's going to make them enthusiastic, which can be okay too. Yep, the important thing is to know that and to use that information. And when necessary, you move on and you don't worry about it, correct? We have cut CO knives. We're we, we're happy. But anyway, I think the the issue is that we all have to grow, and we all have to learn to to do those things that we find are relevant. And if we we put our minds to it, we can be very productive people. And as you pointed out, it's all about transmitting enthusiasm, and that's the way it really ought to be.   22:54 Yeah, I think so.   Michael Hingson ** 22:55 So you talk about, well, so let's, let's go back. So you went to work for Cutco, and you did that for 15 years. What would you say the most important thing you learned as a as a salesperson, in working at Cutco really came down to,   Daniel Andrews ** 23:16 there's so many fundamental lessons in the direct sales industry, right? It's why, you know, so many people got their start with Encyclopedia Britannica or Southwestern books or Cutco knives, right? There's a, there's a, I mean, in the 90s, CentOS, the uniform people and sprint when cell phones were new and actually had to actively be sold because people had to be talked into it, yeah. You know, they ran whole recruiting ads that said, Did you used to sell knives, entry level work, starting at base, you know, salary plus commission, right? Because it was so foundational. So it's hard to say the most important thing, but I would say the ability to take control of my own schedule, and therefore my own actions, right, was a huge part of it. But then the ability to really know what, understand the people that I was working with as customers. As my time at ketco matured, and even after I left working with them full time, I still had a database of customers that wanted to deal strictly with me and the fact that they were happy to see me right? That when I was again, after I'd moved away, if I came back to town, that my customers would be like, Oh, I heard you're in town when you come to our house and have dinner, right? And just the way, I was able to move from business relationship into one where I really connected with them. And you know that many years, seeing that many customers give me some really cool stories too, which I'm not going to eat up most of this, but I've just got some fun stories of the way people responded to my pleasant persistence, follow through, follow up, knowing that I could run into any one of them anywhere at any moment in time. And not feel that I had oversold them, or I had been pushy, right, that they would be happy and what they bought. And as a matter of fact, I've only ever had one customer tell me that they bought too much Cutco. And she said that to me when I was there sharpening her Cutco and selling her more. And she said she had bought more than she needed for her kitchen. Initially, I'm selling her more for a gift, let me be clear. And I paused, and I said, Do you remember how the this is like five or six years later? I said, you remember how the conversation went? Because I use the story of that demo when I'm talking to other people and to other reps. She said, Oh yeah, no, no. She goes, I will 100% own that I chose to buy more than I needed. She goes, I was not trying to pin that on you. I was just trying to tell you that that's what I did. I said, Oh, okay, because I wanted to be clear, I remember very clearly that I offered you the small set, and you chose the big set. And she goes, that is exactly what happened. I made the choice to over buy, and that's on me, and that level of confidence of knowing I could go through time and space, that I could meet my customers here, you know, when I came back to town, or now that I moved back to town, and I don't have to flinch, right? But I'm not that I did it in a way that left them and me feeling good about the way I sold them. That's pretty it's pretty important,   Michael Hingson ** 26:15 and it is important, and it's, it's vital to do that. You know, a lot of people in sales talk all about networking and so on. You, don't you? You really do talk about what I believe is the most important part about sales, and that's relationship building, correct?   Daniel Andrews ** 26:34 I took, took my theme from The subtitle of a book called Super connector, and the subtitle is, stop networking and start building relationships that matter. And I'm, I'm comfortable using that, by the way, there's another book titled networking isn't working, and it's really hitting the same theme, which is, whatever people are calling networking is, is not really, truly building a network and relationships that make a difference. It's social selling. I call it sometimes. It's being practiced as speed prospecting, right? Or marketing by hand. There's, there's, there's a bunch of ways that I can articulate why it's not literally not networking. It's simply meeting people and treating them very one dimensionally. Will you buy my thing? Or do you know somebody That'll buy my thing right? And those are very short sighted questions that have limited value and keeps people on a treadmill of thinking they need to do more networking or meet the right people. I get this all the time, if I can just find the right people, or if I could just be in the right rooms, right at the right events, and I'm like, or you could just be the person that knows how to build the right relationships, no matter what room you're in. Now, having said that, are there some events, some rooms, some communities, that have a higher likelihood of high value? Sure, I don't want to discourage people from being intentional about where they go, but that's only probably 10 to 20% of the equation. 80 to 90% of the equation is, do you know what to do with the people that you meet when you meet them? Because anybody that's the wrong person, and I simply mean that in the context of they're not a prospect. Knows people that could be a prospect, but you can't just go, Oh, you're not going to buy my thing. Michael Hinkson, do you know, anybody that's going to buy my thing that's no good, because you're not going to put your reputation on the line and refer me somewhere, right until you have some trust in me, whatever that looks like.   Michael Hingson ** 28:30 And that's the real issue, right? It's all about trust right down the line. You know, network is meeting more people, meeting more people. That's great. I love to meet people, but I personally like to establish relationships. I like to get to know people, and have probably longer and more conversations than some of my bosses would have liked. But the result and the success of establishing the relationships can't be ignored   Daniel Andrews ** 29:05 correct. And I think that you kind of threw in a word there that I think some people will internalize, or it will reinforce some of their preconceptions. And I think it's worth addressing. And I'll just give you a quick example. Six, six weeks ago, four weeks ago, I had a conversation with somebody I was introduced to. His name happens to be Michael as well. Michael, Mike Whitmore. He was impressed with the quality of our first well, it went 45 it was scheduled for 25 and I went 45 because we really gelled. And he invited me to come to a cocktail party that was being hosted by a company he was affiliated with three hour event, and we spoke again later to make sure you know everything was in order, because it involved me flying to Salt Lake City for a cocktail party I did. He was there. We spoke briefly. We both mingled with other. People. I had breakfast with him the next day. This is yesterday that I had breakfast with him. And as we're talking, he's like, Okay, I have 80 people that need what you've got. He's, he's basically, after a few conversations, gonna refer about $400,000 for the business to me, right? And I'm like, Okay, and so what people miss is that you can build that relationship quickly if you're intentional about building the relationship. And where I see the mistake most people make. And God bless Dale Carnegie, and Dale's Carnegie sales training course, right? But that that the model, what I call the cocktail party model, or the How to Win Friends and Influence People, model of getting to know somebody you know. How about that ball team? You know? Did your sports club win? Right? How's the weather up there? Did you hear about the you know, how's your mom, right? When's the last time you were camping with the fam? All legitimate questions, but none of them moved the business conversation forward. And so the ability to build a productive business relationship faster by focusing on the mutual shared value that you have between each other and the business aspects, and including the personal as the icing on the cake is a much better way to do it, and that's why I was very particular about the fact that, you know, when I was talking about my experience with ketco, that it was over time that the personal aspects, that the friendship looking aspects, evolved On top of the business relationship, because it is way easier to mix the ingredients, to put the icing or friendship on the cake of business than it is to establish a friendship and then go, by the way, it's time for us to talk business, right? You need to our client, or you need to let me sell what I'm offering that can get become jarring to people, and it can call into question the whole reason you got to know them to start with, right? So I much prefer the other route. And just one other brief example, speaking with a woman in a in what I, you know, a first paired interview, Quick Connect, 25 minutes long, and she's like, understand, you know, relationships, it's the, you know, it's the way to do it, right? It's the long play, but it pays off over time. And you know, as long as you stay at it, and I'm like, Why do you keep saying it's the long play? Well, because relationships take time. And I'm like, You say so. And we started to run long and realized we had more value, so we booked it. Ended up being about four or five weeks later, because my calendar stays pretty full, and she's so we've been in 125 minute phone call. We start the second zoom with her, with Peggy asking me who's your target market again. And I gave her the description for a $25,000 client. And she said, I have three people that I can refer you to in that space that might might want to be clients. And then she started to try and tell me how relationships are the long play? Again, I'm like, thank you. Hold up. We spent 25 minutes together a month ago, and you started this conversation by referring $75,000 worth of revenue to me. What makes you think relationships are the long play? I think you can make them last if you want them to last, but it doesn't take a long time to build those I said I knew what I was doing with those first 25 minutes. That's why, at this stage of the game, you're looking to refer business to me. Yeah, right, yeah. And so I don't think it's a long you're not establishing a marriage relationship, right? You're not deciding who your new best friend is going to be, right? You're trying to establish a mutually beneficial business relationship and see what it takes you right with the right set of questions, it goes so much faster   Michael Hingson ** 33:49 and and that's really a key. And for me, one of the things that I learned in sales, that I really value a lot is never answer or ask close ended questions. I hate yes and no questions, because I learned a long time ago. I don't learn much if I just ask somebody. Oh, so you, you tell me you need a tape library, right? Yes, and you, you ask other questions, but you don't ask the questions like, What do you want to use it for? Why do you really need a tape library today? What? What is it that you you value or that you want to see increased in your world, or whatever the case happens to be, right? But I hate closed ended questions. I love to engage in conversations, and I have lots of stories where my sales teams. When I manage teams, at first, didn't understand that, and they asked the wrong questions. But when I would ask questions, I would get people talking. And I was I went into a room of Solomon brothers one day back in like, 2000 or so, or 2000 early 2001 and I was with. My best sales guy who understood a lot of this, but at the same time, he wanted me to come along, because they wanted to meet a sales manager, and he said, I didn't tell him you were blind, because we're going to really hit him with that. And that was fine. I understood what he what he meant, but also he knew that my style was different and that I liked to get more information. And so when we went in and I started trying to talk to the people, I turned to one guy and I said, tell me what's your name. And it took me three times to get him to say his name, and finally I had to say I heard you as I walked by. You know, I know you're there, what's your name? And then we started talking, and by the time all was said and done. I got everyone in that room talking, which is great, because they understood that I was really interested in knowing what they were all about, which is important,   Daniel Andrews ** 35:53 correct? And I mean part of it right, particularly if you're problem solving, right? If you're there with a solution, a sales environment, open ended questions, predominantly the way to go. There's always going to have to be some closed ended right? What's the budget for this? Who are the decision makers in the process? But, and I certainly think a lot of the same ones apply in decision making. Meaning, it's probably an 8020 split. 80% of the questions should be open ended. 20% you know, you know, you just need some data from the other person, right? Because, as I'm meeting people, I need to decide who to refer them to, right? I know I can think off the top of my head of three different resume coaches, right? People that help people get the resume, their cover letter and their interview skills together. And one charges, you know, four to 5000 for the effort, right, depending on the package, right? One charges between 2030 500 depending on one guy charges, you know, his Deluxe is 1200 bucks, right? And the deliverable is roughly the same. Meaning, I've never looked for a job using these people, because I've been self employed forever, but I would imagine the deliverable is probably not three times as or four times as good at 5k at 1200 Right, right? But I need to know the answer, what you charge, because the rooms I will put people in are going to differentiate, right? I actually said it to the guy that was charging 1200 I said, Where'd you get the number? And he told me. And I said, Do you realize that you're losing business because you're not charging enough, right? And he said, Yes, some prospects have told me that. And I said, I'm sorry. Plural. I said, How many? How many are going to tell you before I before you raise your rates? And I said, here's the thing, there's communities, networks that I can introduce you to at that price point, but the networks that I run in won't take you seriously if you're not quoting 5000 for the job. Yeah? And he just couldn't get his head around it. And I'm like, Okay, well, then you're stuck there until you figure out that you need to triple or quadruple your price to hang out in the rooms I hang out in to be taken seriously.   Michael Hingson ** 37:57 Yeah? And it is tough for a lot of people, by the way, with that Solomon story, by the time I was done, and we had planned on doing a PowerPoint show describing our products, which I did, but even before we did that, I knew our product wasn't going to do what they needed. But went through the presentation, and then I said, and as you can see, what we have won't work. Here's why, but here's what will work. And after it was all said and done, one of the people from near the back of the room came up and he said, we're mad at you. And I said, why? He said, Oh, your presentation was great. You You gave us an interesting presentation. We didn't get bored at all. The problem was, we forgot you were blind, and we didn't dare fall asleep, because you'd see us. And I said, well, well, the bottom line is, my dog was down here taking notes, and we would have got you anyway, but, but, you know, he was he we had a lot of fun with that. Two weeks later, we got a proposal request from them, and they said, just tell us what we're what we're going to have to pay. We got another project, and we're going to do it with you. And that was   Daniel Andrews ** 39:02 it, yeah, and because the credibility that you'd established credibility,   Michael Hingson ** 39:07 and that is a great thing,   Daniel Andrews ** 39:09 that was part of the discussion I have with some of my clients today when I hold a weekly office hours to see what comes up. And I said, it's just important to be able to refer people to resources or vendors, as it is to refer them to a prospect, right? If you don't have the solution, or if your solution isn't the best fit for them, the level of credibility you gain to go, you know what you need to do? You need to go hang out over there. Yeah, right. You need to talk to that guy or gal about what they have to offer. And the credibility goes through the roof. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 39:39 we've been talking about networking, and I think that's everything we've talked about. I think really makes a lot of sense, but at the same time, it doesn't mean that you don't build a network. It's just that networking and building a network are really two different sorts of things. What are some of the most important things that you've learned about building. That   Daniel Andrews ** 40:00 works. Sure, there's several, and some of them come as a bit of a shock to people. And I always say it's okay if it's a shock to you, because it was a shock to me. But I don't take I don't have opinions. I have positions based on data. Right? You know that from your from your days as a scientist, what you think ought to be true absolutely irrelevant in the face of what the data tells us is true. But I think one of the important things is that it's possible to give wrong. Adam Grant says in the first chapter of his book, give and take. That if you look at people's networking styles, and I'll use the common vernacular networking styles, you have givers, people that tend to give more than they, you know, receive takers, people whose objective is to always be on the plus side of the equation. And then matchers, people that practice the degree of reciprocity. And I would even argue that that reciprocity and matching is a bad mentality, just so you know. But if you look at the lifetime of success, a career is worth of success. In the top levels of success, you find more givers than takers and matchers, which makes a lot of sense. In the lowest levels of success, you find more givers than takers and matchers. They're giving wrong. They tend to polarize. They tend to either be high achieving or very low achieving, because they're giving wrong. And so I and Michael, let me use his name. We had breakfast yesterday morning after the happy hour, and I said, Mike, are you open for coaching? And he said, You know I am. He said, I didn't have you flat here in Salt Lake City, because I don't respect you. What do you got for me? I said, Josh kept thanking you yesterday for the things you've done for him in his world lately, you know, over the last several years. And he kept saying, What can I do for you? And you said, Oh, no, I just love giving. I love giving, right? You know, it's not a problem. You know, I'm in a great position. I don't need to have a lot of need of resources. And I said, and you're missing the fact that he was explicitly telling you this relationship feels uneven. I said it takes longer to kill it, but you will kill a relationship just as quickly by consistently over giving as you will by taking too much. And it's a little more subconscious, although in Josh's case, it was very conscious. He was actively trying to get Mike to tell him, what can I do for you so I don't feel like I'm powerless in this relationship. And Mike was like, Oh my gosh, I never thought of that. Said, Look, I said, I don't know how your kids are. He said, well, two of them are married. And I said, my grown daughter argues with me over who's going to buy dinner. But I get it because I used to argue with my dad, who was going to buy dinner. Yeah, dinner together, right? It feels weird for someone, even somebody, that loves you, right? And, of course, the only way I can do it with my daughter is to explain, it's her money anyway. I'm just spending her inheritance on her now, it's the only way she'll let me buy dinner every time we meet, and she still insists that she pays the debt, because over giving will get in the way of what we're trying to accomplish, right? That's fair, yeah. And so people miss that, right? I get this law of reciprocity. If I just give and give and give to the world, it'll all come back to me. No, ma'am. We have 6000 years of recorded history that says that's not   Michael Hingson ** 43:18 how it works. There's there's something to be said forgiving, but there's also receiving. And in a sense, receiving can be a gift too. So you're mentioning Michael and Josh. Josh would have loved, as you're pointing out, Michael to tell him some things that he could do for Michael, and that would have been a great gift. So the reality is, it's how people view giving, which is oftentimes such a problem. I know, for me as a public speaker, I love dealing with organizations that are willing to pay a decent wage to bring a speaker in, because they understand it, and they know they're going to get their money's worth out of it. And I've gone and spoken at some places where they say, well, we can't pay you a lot of money. We're going to have to pay just this little, tiny amount. And invariably, they're the organizations that take the most work, because they're the ones that are demanding the most, even though they're not giving nearly as much in return. And and for me, I will always tell anyone, especially when we're clearly establishing a good relationship, I'm here as your guest. I want to do whatever you need me to do, so please tell me how best I can help you, but I know I'm going to add value, and we explore that together, and it's all about communication.   Daniel Andrews ** 44:48 I think so well. And in the case, you know, just go back to the mike and Josh story real quick, right? There's, there's number one, there's a sense of fairness. And I don't like the word reciprocity or magic, right? I like the word. Mutuality, but there's a sense of fairness. Number one. Number two, it's a little bit belittling to Josh, for Mike to act like Josh doesn't have anything to offer him, right? It's a little bit condescending, or it could be, Mike doesn't mean it that way, right? No, what he means is my relationship with you, Josh is not predicated on us keeping a scoreboard on the wall and that we make sure we come out even at the end of every quarter, right? But, but. And then the third part is, you know, I said, Mike, think of how good you feel when you give. He says, I love it. It's great. That's why I said, so you're robbing Josh of the feeling of giving when you don't give him a chance to give. I said, you're telling him that your joy is more important than his joy, and he's like I never thought of over giving or not asking as robbing people of joy. I said, You need to give the gift to Josh and the people around you to feel the joy that comes from being of use, of being helpful, of having and I said, even if you have to make something up or overstate the value of a of a task that he could do for you, I said, if you literally don't need anything in your world, Mike, find some job Hunter that's looking for work. And say, Josh, as a courtesy to me, would you meet with Billy Bob and see if you can help him find work somehow give Josh the sense that he's contributing to the betterment of your world, even   Michael Hingson ** 46:26 if it may not work out that this person, Billy Bob would would get a job, but it's still you're you're helping to further the relationship between the two of you, correct, right? You're   Daniel Andrews ** 46:38 helping him feel like he's an equal in that relationship. And that's an important part of it. It really is. It's now I do an important part. I do believe we absolutely should tithe. We should give of our time. We should be at the homeless shelter on Thanksgiving. If that's what we're called to do, we should be, you know, you know, aid to the poor, you know, mentoring junior people who don't have a lot to offer us. I absolutely believe that's true. So when I say give strategically or given a sense of mutuality, but we need clear delineations on you know what we're doing, because if we give indiscriminately, then we find out that we're like the people in chapter one of Adam Grant's book that are in the lower quartile of success, even though we're quote, doing all the right things. And the best way to make you know, the example I give on that, and I'll articulate this little bit, I'm holding my hands apart and moving them closer together in stages, just because the visual will help you here too. But I tell people, right? I hold my hands apart and I say, you know, we're going to spend this much time on the planet alive, right? And this much time on the planet awake, right, and this much time on the planet at work. And then I'll pause and go, these are approximations right, because clearly they are right, and this much time on the planet dealing with other people. So if, if it's true that we only have a limited or finite resource of time to spend building a network with other people, then why wouldn't we choose people whose message is worth amplifying and who we're well positioned to amplify and vice versa? And to make that even more clear for people, if you're a real estate agent, you could find a lot of people that would refer business to you, but you could find a few people that would refer a lot   Michael Hingson ** 48:25 of business, a lot of business. Yeah,   Daniel Andrews ** 48:27 you could find a mortgage lender, a divorce attorney, a moving company, a funeral home director, a nursing home director, right? And and if you're going to spend time building relationships with people, why wouldn't you find the people who are positioned to touch more people that you need to touch, particularly if there is some mutuality, meaning, as a real estate agent, I would be just as likely to be able to help a mortgage lender, a moving company, a funeral loan director, etc, etc, etc, right? All those things can come into play. And you know, the John gates, the salary negotiation coach, right? And Amanda Val bear, the resume writing coach, anybody can refer business to Amanda, but John's going to refer a lot more business to Amanda. Anybody can refer business to John, but Amanda's going to refer a lot more business to John. And and, you know, given that we've only got a finite number of conversations we're able to hold in our lifetime, why wouldn't Amanda and John be spending time with each other rather than spending time with me, who might occasionally meet somebody who needs them, but not on a daily basis the way Amanda meets John's clients? John meets Amanda's potential clients.   Michael Hingson ** 49:32 So here's the other way to spin. May not be the right word, but I'll use it. Frame it. Frame it. So you've got somebody who you're not giving a lot of, let's say a real estate agent. You're not giving that person a lot, but you're giving Elmo Schwartz, the real estate agent down the street, a lot more referrals and so on. Then the real estate agent who you're not referring a lot of people to, comes along and says, You. You know, I know you're really working with this other guy, but you know you and I have have had some conversations, and so how come I can't take advantage of the many opportunities that you're that you're offering? And I, for me, I always rejoice when I hear somebody ask that question, because at least they're opening up and they're saying, What do I need to do? At least, that's what I assume they're asking,   Daniel Andrews ** 50:24 yes, yeah, and that's a question that I teach people to ask, under what conditions would you feel comfortable referring business to me, right? Right? And you know, they may go, well, we don't share the same last name, but all my referrals go to, you know, Billy Bob, because he's my brother in law, and Thanksgiving gets weird, right? If he realizes I've been given leads to you, right? You know, it may never happen. Now, in my case, I believe in having multiple referral partners in every industry, right? Yeah, I don't just pick one, because personality plays part of it, right? I mean, and we can go back to real estate just because you say you're a real estate agent, I'm a real estate agent. I mean, we're calling on the same market. Same market at all, right, right? You could be a buyer's agent. I could be a seller's agent. You could be calling on, you know, what's a probate and estate issues? I could be dealing with first time homebuyers and young people, right? And therefore, and a lot of times it's personality, meaning, I personally, is not even the right word approach to business, meaning, there's some people that I would send to Ann Thomason, and there's some people I would send to Kim Lawson, and there's some people I would send to Elaine Gillespie, and some people I'd send to Taco Beals, right? Because I know what each of their strengths are, and I also know what sort of person they want to work with, right? Right? That's 1/3 person would appreciate them.   Michael Hingson ** 51:42 And that's the important part that that when somebody comes along and says, How come such and such, you can answer that, and you can do it in a way that helps them understand where they can truly fit into what you're offering, and that you can find a way to make it work, and that's really important. I've always maintained the best salespeople or teachers, pure and simple, in almost everything, and preachers, but but listening preachers. So it is, it is important to, yeah, well,   Daniel Andrews ** 52:16 and I bring this up in the context because we have a Bible college here in our town. So when I was a manager for Cutco, right? We get the college kids, right? Some of these seminary students, you know, looking for summer work and right? And they're like, you know, how does sales relate to, you know, being in the ministry later, I said, man. I said, Are you kidding? You kidding? I said, it's the purest. I said, you've got the hardest sales down on the roll. You ask people to pay the price now, and the payoff is at the end of their life. That's not sales. I don't know what is. At least, when people give me money, I give them something for it within a couple of days, you know, I said, I said, You better be good at sales if you're going to be your preacher eventually. Because you the, you know, the payment, the cost comes now, and the payoff, the reward comes later. I said, Man, those are the same but teachers the same way, right? You've got to invest the kids, the kids or the student, no matter how you know and what they're learning and why it's going to be relevant down the   Michael Hingson ** 53:06 road, right? Yeah, well, you You clearly have, have accepted all of this. When did you realize that maybe you were doing it wrong and that you re evaluated what you do?   Daniel Andrews ** 53:17 That's a great story, and there was a light bulb moment for me, right? I think the kids these days call it the origin story, right? You know. And and to tell the story correctly, but I have to give labels to the other two people involved, because their names are so similar that when I tell the story, I managed to confuse myself who was who. So I was in St Louis, Missouri, which, for reasons I won't go into for this podcast, is a weird town to be involved in B to B business in. They literally would prefer to do business with somebody they went to high school with. It's just a It's strange, but true. And I can go into the background of why it's true. It just is. It's accepted by people that have sold in towns other than St Louis. It's they know that St Louis is weird. Okay, so I'm having trouble not getting the traction I want. Who's in my industry, he agrees that we're going to partner and we're going to have a revenue share. I don't believe in finder's fees, but if you're going to co create the value with me, that's a different thing altogether, right? Writing a name on a piece of paper, I'm not paying for that. But if you're going to go with me on the appointment and help me get the job done. Yeah. Okay, back to the point. So my wingman, right? My partner, I call him wingman for the version this story, local, been around forever, prospect, business owner, right? We've got a B to B offered that's going to be fairly lucrative, because he's part of a family that owns a family businesses quite, quite a large there in St Louis. And we had met with the CFO because that was the real touch point on the business. As far as the value proposition over lunch, the four of us have been there prospect wingman CFO, of the prospect of myself, and it went reasonably well. Out they wanted to follow up to make the decision, which is not, not atypical. So we're back there standing in the parking lot of the prospects business, and the prospect points at me and says, Who is this guy? And my partner says, he's my guy. And the prospect points at me and goes, but I don't know this guy, and my partner says, but I know this guy, and the prospect points me and says, Well, what happens if something happens to this guy? And my partner says, I'll find another guy. And that was the purest, simplest form of what's truly happening when you're building a network. See, my days at Cutco were predicated on some of the same things. I go to Michael's house. I asked the name of your neighbors, your best friends, your pastor, your doctor, whoever you think, and then I would call them Hey, your buddy Michael insen said you'd help me out. So I'm borrowing a little bit of credibility, but the sale was made in the product, right? I'm only asking for a moment of your time, but I expected to show up, meaning I was only borrowing someone else's credibility to get a moment of your time. But I expected to show up and let the product and my Sterling personalities, I like to think of it, shine through and make the sale. There you go. And I realized, because when the prospect pointed me and said, Who is this guy, I thought my partner would say, he's my guy. Daniel, here's your chance to rise and shine, bring it, do that song and dance that you do, right? And he didn't. He kept the focus on the real point, which was that the prospect had credibility with my partner, and my partner had credibility with me. Yeah, right. And, and, and in that moment where he refused to put the spotlight on me, my partner kept it on himself, and he said, Mr. Prospect, don't worry about him. I'm not asking you to trust him. I'm asking you to trust me. And that was the light bulb where I said, Oh, what we're building is not introductions. We're building endorsements. When I get to the prospects door. I have the all the credibility that came from Bert, who referred me right, whatever credibility my partner, Bert, had with the prospect Butch. I show up on Butch is doorstep with that credibility. And when Butch starts to question it, the prospect starts to question it, my partner goes, What do you question? You're going to question him. We're not talking about him. We're talking about you and me, and we've known each other 30 years. What are you doing here? And I'm like, oh, that's why we're doing this. That's the point. I'm not asking to borrow your Rolodex. I'm asking to borrow your credibility.   Michael Hingson ** 57:38 And the other part of that question that comes to mind is, did the credibility that Bert and Butch have with each other ever get to the point where it transferred to you, at least in part? Oh, yeah,   Daniel Andrews ** 57:55 yeah, we got the sale. Yeah. I mean, that was the conversation where he's like, All right, we're going to do this. I'm like, because it was a big deal. It was a very large deal. And, yeah, but in   Michael Hingson ** 58:04 general, you know, I hear what you're saying, and in general, somewhere along the line, the prospect has to say, has to hopefully recognize this other guy really is part of the process and has value, and so I'm going to like him too, correct,   Daniel Andrews ** 58:23 and you can drop the ball. It's possible to screw it up, but I'm starting at a level 10 in the case of this particular pair of people, and it's mine to lose, as opposed to starting from zero and trying to get up to five or six or eight or whatever it takes to make the sale, and that's the biggest difference, right? It will, it will transfer to me, but then it's up to me to drop the ball and lose it, meaning, if I don't do anything stupid, it's going to stay there. And you know what was great about my partner was he didn't even not that I would have but he didn't give me any room to say anything stupid. He's like, he's like, let's not even talk. Put the spotlight on Daniel. Let's keep the spotlight on the two of us, and the fact that I've never let you down in 30 years. Why would you think this is going to be a bad introduction   Michael Hingson ** 59:09

What a combination, but true for our guest Moustafa Hamwi. Moustafa grew up in the Middle East and then worked for companies such as Nokia as a major force in Marketing and PR.   In the 2010 timeframe Moustafa decided that his life was not being fulfilled with his career and left his job and purchased a one-way ticket to India where he decided to explore what he really wanted to do with his life. He will tell us his story and how he eventually found his calling as a coach, speaker and author.   Moustafa has many words of wisdom he imparts to us during his episode. I think you will find his observations relevant and worth hearing. He also gives us free access to the eBook version of his book The Slingshot.     About the Guest:   Moustafa is a bestselling author, international speaker, and mindset coach.   His background spans diverse disciplines — from executive coaching, hypnotherapy, yoga, and meditation to adventure sports and nature healing.   Moustafa's unique lifestyle as an executive nomad has him traversing the globe, often spending months living out of a campervan, immersing himself in diverse cultures and forging a deep connection with nature.   His quest for self-discovery leads him to learning and meditation centres worldwide, exploring the intricacies of mind, body, and soul. His life journey and extensive research have culminated in unparalleled knowledge and insight. He's globally recognised as a foremost expert and thought leader in reigniting passion within organisations and teams.   Ways to connect with Moustafa:   Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/moustafahamwi/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/moustafahamwi/ Book landing page to collect bonuses https://moustafa.com/slingshot/   The code to use for claiming the bonuses is “Unstoppable” I will explain more about the bonuses for your listeners when we speak     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hello everyone, and welcome to unstoppable mindset from wherever you happen to be. I'm your host, Mike Hingson, and we are glad that you're with us today for another episode of unstoppable mindset today. Our guest is Moustafa Hamwi and Moustafa is, well, he has an interesting thing that he says about himself. He says that he is a unique he has a unique lifestyle. He's an executive Nomad, and he will tell us about that, among other things, but he is a best selling author, a mindset coach, and a number of other kinds of things. So I'm not going to give it all away. It's more fun to let him describe it and and kind of lead our conversation. So Moustafa, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 02:10 Thank you, Michael, for having me. I'm really excited to be on your show.   Michael Hingson ** 02:14 Well, thank you. We really appreciate you being here. And because you are an executive Nomad, where are you nomading From today?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 02:23 In the moment I'm in Melbourne. So I use Melbourne as a satellite base for kind of Asia and Australia, New Zealand. And then I use Dubai as a satellite base for Europe and kind of the Middle East area.   Michael Hingson ** 02:39 So where is home base. If you are at home base ever   Moustafa Hamwi ** 02:42 see last year, I decided to give up everything I own, downsize my life into two bags, one bag that has my formal stuff, one bag that has my casual stuff, and I pretty much gave up everything else that I own, took a camper van and started driving around Australia. So since then, I'm pretty much an executive, no matter just that home is where the heart is. So that's why I have two bases I use just as a central area to move from there. But yeah, depends on the day. What   Michael Hingson ** 03:10 made you do that? What made you decide to down so down size and not only take up that kind of lifestyle, but live in in the way that you do   Moustafa Hamwi ** 03:22 beautiful question. I mean that that has a lot of layers to it. I'd say my journey start of pursuing my own passion in life started at about 2008 when I was in events and nightlife, having an externally very successful life, but feeling empty on the inside. I started reading, researching, yoga, meditation, all of these things. 2012 bought a one way ticket to India. 2013 came back to Dubai, started delivering inspirational talks, and people would say, You changed my life. And this is really when I knew that that's my passion and purpose. However, also I realized from that trip that me, including, yeah, and a lot of other people. We burden ourselves with a lot of belongings. The mind is a hoarder, and we like to hoard stuff. We like to have stuff, but these things were weighing me down and not enabling me to move as much as I wanted to, and to travel and to explore, and especially that the speaking brought me a lot of joy from seeing different parts of the world and different people and different cultures. So I started, I put a mission for myself since about 2000 and probably 14. I said, every year I'm going to give away half of everything I owned unconditionally. The only condition is half has to go. I love it. I it belongs. It has memories. There's always half that doesn't have that criteria. So every year, half and funny enough, it took me about 10 years to get rid of almost everything I have last year due to a lot of reasons, including a lot of stress, a lot of things, I've been procrastinating that dream. Yeah, and obviously, pandemic did not allow a lot of movement, but last year, I literally woke up on them like, you know what time to do it? What's left is not too much anyway now and let me downsize and live light, so that enables me to be anywhere I want in the world. Where   Michael Hingson ** 05:15 did you house yourself during the pandemic?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 05:20 Whoa. Well, pandemic was an interesting period. Very challenging. Yeah, very well. It was very challenging for everybody. For me, however, I found a big challenge brought a lot of opportunities. Which one of them is what we're talking about today is actually my my latest book is slingshot,   Michael Hingson ** 05:40 right? So where did you? Did you move around a lot during the pandemic? Or were you in one place just because it became a little bit of a challenge and an issue to travel?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 05:51 Well, I came out of a divorce looking for a fresh start. Came to Australia, Melbourne, particularly, looking for just the reset. And I arrived here at about 20 Marsh 2020, which is just two days before Melbourne lockdown, and it became the longest lockdown on the planet. So yeah, was an interesting period. There wasn't a lot of movement outside four walls.   Michael Hingson ** 06:20 So with the lockdown, I'm just curious about hearing how it went in other parts of the world. Do you think the lockdown worked and really helped keep the pandemic from spreading worse than it could have?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 06:34 That's a very complicated conversation. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 06:36 I know it's, you know, and I don't know the answer. I'm just sort of curious. But   Moustafa Hamwi ** 06:40 my my personal opinion is No, I totally disagree. I think if anything, it did more damage to people than it then it helped, because the mental health, that pressure that it brought on people, including me, this is one of the experiences I had, is the fact that I thought, if I am a speaker and a coach and an author, and I work on mindset, and I do all of this stuff, and I found it very challenging to handle the pressure that this lockdown brought on me, especially extended period of of lockdown just made life a lot more difficult than it needed to be. So yes, it might have, if you really think at micro level, helped a little bit on reducing spread of a virus, which I think still very difficult because it's an airborne virus. But on the other hand, in the grand scheme of things, it's like trying to shoot a small bird with a bazooka. Yes, you might get the bird, but you've caused so much collateral damage that I don't think it was worth it   Michael Hingson ** 07:37 well, and that's it. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 07:39 And that included, actually, that my father caught covid in Dubai, and he was hospitalized, and I did not get the chance to see him before he passed away, simply because of the lockdown. So really, how they put a price tag on that? Well, my dad caught covid Anyway, even during lockdown, but the extended lockdown meant I couldn't see my father. And the question is, well, what did that benefit me and I eventually, somehow, I ended up catching covid With all the lockdowns and getting sick and all of that. So were   Michael Hingson ** 08:06 there mask mandates or requirements in Melbourne? And yeah,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 08:10 Melbourne, Australia, was one of the most locked down cities in the world. That's that's a topic of discussion by itself. It's quite a it wasn't a pleasant place, and developed a very bad rep of the politicians that were running this place at that time. What about   Michael Hingson ** 08:23 the whole idea, though, of wearing masks? Did you think that that helped slow down or prevent some of the disease spread and or, or at least catching the disease? Blocking down is one thing, but I'm thinking of just wholly, i the whole idea of wearing a mask,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 08:43 again, very debatable. And I can't speak medically, I can tell you, on the level of mental health, pressure that it put on people, you pretty much sure so that made made breathing more difficult for a lot of people, put pressure on a lot of people. And it was through all of these experiences that I feel, if you're talking about a mask, is that put the pressure, lockdown, pressure, masks, all of these things started pushing me further into a place where I needed to find a solution. And this is where the journey of me writing slingshot came from,   Michael Hingson ** 09:14 and we will definitely get to that. I know that when the lockdown happened here, I had just gotten out of New York, where I was delivering a speech before the lockdown happened. In fact, I left early on a day earlier on a day that I was scheduled to leave just because of that, and I'm glad that I did. And for me and my wife, our situation with the lockdown was that she was in a wheelchair her whole life, and she also had rheumatoid arthritis, so she had an autoimmune disease. And so I think the lockdown, or at least, let me rephrase it, us being locked down, was probably a good thing, and we chose. Was to not worry about it a whole lot at the same time, it did affect me as a speaker, also, because I wasn't able to travel and speak, so I did look at other opportunities, which eventually also led to this podcast. I did some things virtually, and some speaking virtually, but now with the fact that my wife passed away in November of 2022 and we actually did a podcast about that in January of 2023 and I had somebody interview me about it. But we with her passing, I'm now starting to ramp up speaking again and working to find engagement. So that's a process, but we'll get there.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 10:42 Condolences, and I know this was a tough period for everybody, and losing somebody loved, a loved person close to us is never easy, and especially when it happened during a lockdown and during a pandemic. So   Michael Hingson ** 10:54 Well, again, it happened in 2022 so supposedly a lot of the pandemic has lifted. But I agree with you, I think that it's a very complicated issue, and I am very concerned that while covid is airborne, and while there are things that we can do that help lower the potential for death, all it takes is another mutation that we don't catch right away For that to all change, and and covid is certainly not something that has gone away yet. I don't buy the conspiracy theorists who talk about the fact that they're just injecting into us, ways of tracking us and things like that. I'm really not sensitive to to a lot of that, but I also recognize that there are all sorts of challenges. And children clearly had a lot of challenges with it, because they couldn't go to school and they didn't do things virtually as well. I think also, parents are needing to help that mindset, but, but that's, that's where we are, and you know, it will all, it will all be something that we'll just deal with as we can. I'm sure. I'm sure, yeah, tell us about the early Moustafa, growing up and all that that eventually led to where we are. But tell us about your maybe a little bit about your childhood and growing up, and what you did and all that before you adopted the lifestyle you have now.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 12:26 Oh, how far do we want to go so?   Michael Hingson ** 12:30 Well, whatever. I'll   Moustafa Hamwi ** 12:31 give you a bit of background. My I'm Syrian by birth. I moved to Saudi when I was two years old, which is where I spent most of my primary school, went back to Syria for a bit, and then studied my first year of uni in Jordan, then finished my uni in Egypt. And uni is University, okay, right, IO in Alexandria and Cairo, and then I went to Dubai to start my career in 2000 so that, and from there, it's been pretty much a long stint of 20 plus years in Dubai.   Michael Hingson ** 13:12 So what was your career initially, when you started after after university.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 13:18 So after I started my uni, my first job was a telesales operator, because it was the only job I could get. Funny, I came out of uni, I'm the guy who didn't have holidays or weekends. I was always studying, doing courses, doing internships, with the promise that one day I'll end up getting jobs and everything. And it was a big disappointment, because I came into the job market with a big CV, and all my friends were like, Mustafa was going to be the first guy who gets a job. I didn't even get a job interview. And it was a friend of mine who got my dream job, which is to be a marketing researcher. And he ended up passing on his his side gig, which was a telesales operator, to me as a favor. So you can imagine how that was. You know, as happy as I am for him, the question to me was like, What did I do wrong? What was wrong with me? And that, funny enough, put a lot of pressure on me to perform and figure out a way around. So I said, in one year from now on, I'm going to be working in a multinational. Took me about 13 months from starting that job to end up working in a multinational ad and advertising and public relations agency handling the PR for Nokia and the Middle   Michael Hingson ** 14:31 East. So you were doing marketing and PR, as opposed to sales for Nokia? Yes.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 14:36 So that was my the start of my proper career. It was in public relations for Nokia Showtime, Cisco and many other multinationals, and that pretty much gave me a lot of exposure to a lot of nightlife and events, because back in the days, I'm guessing yourself and anybody watching the show would be old enough to remember a Nokia phone.   Michael Hingson ** 14:55 Well, that was I was actually going to say that there was a process. It. Are you familiar with Ray Kurzweil?   15:02 Yes, of course. Okay,   Michael Hingson ** 15:04 so Well, the singularity. But long before that, he was the developer of omnifont, optical character recognition. And he developed a a machine that read out loud for blind people. And in the late 2009 2010 well, 2009 by that time, the software technology had evolved and hardware had evolved that he was able to put his reading software on originally, I think it was a Nokia N 82 and then it went to a couple of other Nokia phones as well. So for probably about three or four years, the Nokia phone was the main platform because it had not only enough memory, it had a high enough resolution camera, and you could load the character recognition software as well as a screen reader, so it would verbalize whatever came across the screen. And actually, I was the major distributor for it, and I worked with others and signed them as distributors in the United States. So we sold a lot of the, what we're called KNFB Reader mobiles in the United States, a lot of Nokia phones. Amazing,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 16:20 amazing. Yeah. Well, well, I mean, yeah, you know how big Nokia was at that time. And, yeah, Ray Kurzweil is phenomenal in the tech space, and you're right now that you mentioned, I remember he did have a lot of technology enabling visually impaired people to, you know, to consume data and information from the world around them. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 16:39 he, he did some really good things for blind and low vision people. And then, of course, later, he developed the, probably, I haven't heard anyone disagree with this best music synthesizer, and it still is the most about the most natural sounding one I think I've heard. And then he also was involved in voice recognition, which is cool. So he did a lot of really useful things,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 17:05 yeah, amazing stuff, amazing stuff. And it was more amazing the fact that it was on a Nokia, on a Nokia handheld,   Michael Hingson ** 17:11 yeah, yeah. But then Symbian eventually went away, or the the iPhone came along and was a lot more powerful, and then everything sort of migrated, and Nokia was also, I don't know whether they were making bad decisions, but a lot of things were happening that made it much less popular than than it had been. Yeah, but so, so how long did you work for Nokia and the other companies like that?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 17:36 So I was handling the PR for Nokia in the Middle East for a couple of years, and during that period, I got exposed to all the nightlife and events because they were the sponsor for all these beautiful things, and that made me one of the most popular guys in Dubai, because I had backstage access to every single event that was happening. And that meant that I eventually started partying. More and more, started throwing after parties. And next thing I know, I decided to leave the company I'm working for and open up my own event agency. And that led me, that led me to go growing my business from four people, 45 people, multi million dollar turnover, and my life got crazier and crazier. Daytime, we're doing conferences, seminars, events and nighttime. We're sponsoring concerts and parties and things like that.   Michael Hingson ** 18:27 That must have been quite a challenge and tearing you in so many different directions.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 18:33 Well, it was, it was exciting for a young guy in his 20s to have that, you know, a video clip lifestyle, but Asher, while it did burn me out, and it made me reflect on a lot of things in life, first and foremost was, what am I doing with my life? What, like all of this fine is short term, short lived joys, but they're not fulfilling at all, and they don't make me feel better by the day, if anything, day by day, they start becoming less enjoyable, and they start making me feel emptier and emptier. And this eventually led me to leave everything behind and buy a one way ticket to India on a search, on a soul search journey finding passion and purpose.   Michael Hingson ** 19:17 Yeah. Well, you finally discovered was that all that nightlife stuff and all the other things that you were doing were great, but where was it really getting you? Mustafa,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 19:28 it was, I mean, look, I was making money, I was partying and everything, but it was fulfilling me. It wasn't getting me far. It wasn't getting me far. That's, that's really sometimes, sometimes the biggest challenges in life, side of the biggest blessings in hindsight, and when we're able to go through the experience, we realize that there's something in it for them that makes us ask deeper questions. And that's   Michael Hingson ** 19:50 the issue, and that's what I was getting at, is that in reality, all that other stuff, all that physical stuff and so on, was was fine, but. And as you said, Where does it really get you, and how is it really helping you emotionally and your your your inner self, the inner musafa, and it wasn't really helping that at all   20:11 100%   Michael Hingson ** 20:12 so you went to India. What did you do in India?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 20:17 Well, it was just, I remember what my mom called me. She's like, What are you doing? I said, I quit my job and I'm buying a one way ticket to India. She's like, are you crazy? What are you going to do in India? I said, I don't know. I'm going to go get lost. It was one of those things where I did not know, but I knew I had to go in that direction. It was an intuition to go to India, but I did not know exactly what I was looking for. I was looking for an answer. Obviously, yeah, no answer for what. And along the journey, I met by coincidence or a universal alignment, a guru or Swami, who had been in caves for 13 years. He had been meditating in solitude in caves for 13 years, and he had came out a few years before I met him, and in one of the interactions with him, I'm asking him about life, meaning of things, and so on. And he goes to me, he used to play with his beard. He goes, Hmm, do you know what you are thirsty for? Because if you do not know what you are thirsty for, you cannot quench your thirst. And that was a big aha for me, like I'm searching for an answer, but I never actually focused on what the question is. And a realization since then, till today, especially when I got into coaching, the real value is in the question. The best thing you can do is ask a question, because a well thought, well designed question gives you a valuable answer, and at that time, I did not know what I was looking for throughout my journey. Then a few months later, I end up, coincidentally, walking into a hospital getting myself checked up, and I discover I had a medical condition that was labeled non curable, and that freaked me out, because I had to reflect and ask myself, What if this was a cancer? What if this was something that was going to end my life? You know, what? What meaning that I have in my life? Did my life have any value? And reflecting on that, I realized that the answer to the question of, What am I thirsty for? The answer was, I'm thirsty for impact, to be able to know that I have left a positive impact on this planet. So then I 2013 I ended up buying a ticket back to Dubai, and I started delivering inspirational talks called Cavalli to Manali, which is talking about the journey of going from the Cavalli club nightlife in Dubai into Manali, where I met my Swami, and a few months later, a random person sees me sitting in a cafe in Dubai and just walks up to me, goes, Hey, you're that speaker guy. I said, Yeah. He goes, you did there talk about India? I said, Yeah, he goes, You changed my life. And that was an aha moment for me of ah, the answer to the question is, I am seeking impact in my life, and I know I can have impact by sharing my story, by doing inspirational talks and by doing coaching.   Michael Hingson ** 23:05 Yeah, I absolutely relate to what you're saying. Because as I tell people after September 11 and escaping from the World Trade Center, and people started asking me to come and tell my story, and they wanted to hire me to do it. As I say, I decided that selling life and philosophy was a whole lot more rewarding and a lot more fun than selling computer hardware. Yeah, I have to earn a living at it, and I had a wife who needed me to earn an income as well, and I still need to do that, but the rewards and when people tell you how you've changed their life, those kinds of comments really are what it's all about, as you well know, 100 100%   Moustafa Hamwi ** 23:54 and sometimes we feel we are as inspiring as We think we are, and until we meet the next inspiring person. So the reality is not that I am inspiring in the absolute is just that I've had an inspiring experience. However, since I got on this journey, I realized that there's so many more inspiring people, more than me, and literally, until we spoke last time before the episode and you told me your story, I'm like, Wow, here you go. There's one more. And what I love about this being in this industry is actually the amazing surroundings and people that you hang around and you communicate with. But this is not to say that someone who's not in the industry is not inspiring. I feel I've had so many experiences where I've been inspired by some of the most normal, average day experiences, because they also remind us to that the passion and purpose is a day to day pursuit. It's not just about a mission of changing someone's life, because a mother who's sacrificing and dedicating her life to her children is is as inspiring, if not more inspiring, absolutely   Michael Hingson ** 24:57 and um. You know, I think for me, the the issue is that I love to meet people. I think everyone inspires me to some degree, some more than others, and there are some that I don't need to ever meet, just observing them, if they inspire other people, that's that's fine. But I also think that it's important that as we inspire, as we speak, as we do, the things we do, all of those affect our lives. And so every inspiration, every time we meet someone, it affects us, and I think it helps us. I was going to say, codify, but it helps us more specifically understand what our philosophy is, and it helps clarify it, and helps us move forward. And I think that's very important,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 25:53 100% 100% it is. I there's a there's a saying in Arabic. I'll try to translate to English, but it says the wisdom is the PERS is the Holy Grail, and pursuit of the wise, wherever they might find it, they will grab it. So really, any any experiences that would help, any interactions that would help us as a person and as a human being grow is really the pursuit should be the pursuit of every, everyone,   Michael Hingson ** 26:24 yeah, and, and if we can contribute to that in one way or another, then that's great for For my part, I don't try to quantify how inspiring I am. My goal is to inspire where I can, and I know that not everyone who hears me necessarily goes away and will be as inspired as other people, but they're probably looking for other things. On the other hand, I know that I have contributed to inspiring some people. There was an article, oh well, I delivered a speech in 2014 and last year, somebody wrote an article about that talk and said some very positive and kind and nice things about my talk. And I love to say to people, how many times do you remember a speaker nine years later and decide to write about him so he must be doing something right, and what what I do right is what other people feel I'm doing right, and as long as as they feel that, then I'm going to continue to do what I can do. And certainly my message will evolve over time as your message evolves over time, as we learn more. That's very important in what it's all about,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 27:36 100% 100% and it is a journey, not a not a goal, I think, correct the whole conversation about mindset, you know, and kind of a beautiful segue into talking about mindset. Here is when I was talking to you last time, and then I, you know, was talking about my book and the mindset and everything, and you talked about your experience, you know, leaving the Trade Center during the 911 or escaping more, more than leaving, you know, and I asked you, how challenging was it for you? You actually gave me a huge mindset shift talking about that. Probably that was a more natural environment for you, not not being able to see, compared to someone like me, who's used to to external visual references, to be able to find my way, you probably had better chances and better mindset being able to deal with with everything that was going around you, which was very impressive, and a mindset shift for me just having that conversation with you. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 28:38 I think it's important, though. The the other part about that is, and as I think I explained a little bit, I spent a fair amount of time learning all that I could about the World Trade Center, what to do in an emergency, where all of the exits were, what the process was. And so, whereas sighted people typically want those visual cues. I knew that if I were ever in an emergency in the building, and what started that was that, of course, there was a bombing there in 1993 it wasn't something that caused a lot of damage, but it had happened, right? And so the bottom line is that being in that building now, right, there have now been something that happened, and there could be something else that happens. So I needed to know, and also I was the leader of that office, and so it was important for me to make sure I knew all I could, because it might very well be that we would find ourselves in a situation where there weren't visual cues for people smoke and other things like that, which we didn't really have in the building that day, but still we we could have, and it taught me how to be more observant. So for example, when we got into the stairwell, I began smelling an odor, and it took me about three or four floors to realize I was smelling the fumes from burn. Jet fuel. None of us had any idea what really happened. The airplane hit 18 floors above us on the other side of the building. And as I love to tell people, the last time I checked Superman and X ray vision were fictitious, so none of us knew what happened. And in fact, none of the people on the stairs from all the offices where we were and that we we and with the people we encountered, hundreds of people all the way down. No one knew, because we were all on the other side of the building. And so I smelled this odor, and it took me a while to suddenly realize I'm smelling the fumes from burning jet fuel. And I observed that to other people, and they said, Yeah, we were trying to figure out what that is. We must have been hit by an airplane, but we didn't know why. We didn't know any of the details, but again, it's learning to pay attention to the details, and it's really learning to have all the knowledge that we can possibly have. Visual cues are really lovely as far as they go, but that's visual cues that don't necessarily really point to the level of knowledge that we can have if we focus on maybe learning how to deal with an emergency as a blind person should. And I say it that way because I know of a lot of blind people who don't take the time to do what what I did, and so they might very well be in a fearful situation, but that was my makeup, and that's what I chose to do.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 31:21 Amazing.   Michael Hingson ** 31:23 And, you know, I think it's important, and I think in fact. And so the article talked about some of that, and I've given a number of speeches on emergency preparedness and safety, and talk about the fact that people need to learn about what to do in an emergency. Don't rely on reading science, because that may or may not work for you. And there have been a few situations where after giving a talk like that, people have come up to me like somebody who is involved in running a power company for a state, and he said, you raise a really good point. We're going to figure out, we want your help to figure out a way that the people can evacuate from our generating stations, our electric generating stations, if there's a fire and there's smoke, so that they can't see where the signs are, to tell them where the emergency exits are. And we figured that out.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 32:16 Wow, amazing.   Michael Hingson ** 32:18 It is. It is part of what, what we need to do. So again, I'll contribute where I can. I'm not an expert on electric generator plants, but I know what I did, and if I can help people and and inspire them that way, that's great. But you know, we all have our experiences, and hopefully we can contribute and and help other people. And that's what it's about, of course,   32:44 beautiful.   Michael Hingson ** 32:46 So for you, I want to go back to your Swami said, What are you thirsty for? Did you have an answer for him? Or how did you deal with that at the time?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 32:56 Well, at the time, I did not have an answer what. What ended up happening, obviously, is what I just mentioned earlier, is that my journey of first discovering I had a medical condition, and I had to ask myself, well, if this was a cancer, if it was undiscovered now and could have turned into a cancer, would have I been proud of my life and what that was? And the answer was, Well, what I was thirsty for is to have meaning and to have impact, but I did not know how I'm gonna do it. And eventually, the experience in Dubai of somebody saying, You changed my life made me understand that. The how, so, the what, the what was impact and the How was speaking, coaching and sharing my story. Did   Michael Hingson ** 33:40 you ever get to go back and tell your guru what you discovered?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 33:46 I actually not. I discovered I got to see him again on the same journey while I'm still in India. And actually, that's why I went back to him after I discovered I'm seeking purpose. At that time, I did not discuss that with him, because, remember, I was still dealing with my own medical condition. So my priority was me, because as much as Yes, of course, we want to help, but the reality is, I can't help anybody if I'm dead, so I my priority was healing and dealing with my own stuff and and I spent a lot of time with him, but that was not a, not a conversation I had with him, as much as reflecting deeper and deeper and a lot of other things in life with him. But   Michael Hingson ** 34:24 that question really did change your life in so many ways over time. 100% Yeah, which is, which is, of course, probably what, what he intended, as long as you were willing to think about it, and clearly you were so that was great, yep. So you know a lot of us, I believe that as we go through life, we make choices, and I love to realize that I can trace a lot of where I am. A day, back to choices that I made some time ago and the choices that brought me here, for example, whatever that is. But in dealing with our past and dealing with choices, is that an important thing to do, or do we just forget our past and we just live in the moment? Beautiful   Moustafa Hamwi ** 35:19 question, and what you're asking about is kind of the whole premise and trigger behind my book slingshot. And the analogy of Slingshot is that, yes, we do need to go and take a step back to deal with our past, but only enough to discover what is holding us back, but then we have to let go of that so we can slingshot into the future. So the answer is not an absolute yes or not an absolute no, it is a yes. And how do we move on after we take that step back? Otherwise, we get stuck in the past, which happened to me for a while, while I was stuck in the space of healing, and all the healing space does is dig deeper and deeper. And it's like peeling an onion. You take one layer out and there's another layer and another layer and another layer, and that alone becomes an addiction. So reality is, yes, take a step back, but let go so you can accelerate into the future. So   Michael Hingson ** 36:15 how does the healing process then actually work?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 36:20 One, of the biggest elements of healing and growth in life is actually awareness. So the first step is, is if we're if one is able to step back and face the reality of what happened. And one system I use in slingshot the book is actually we ask people to write their story first. So the way we do it, and I can do it here is with you, is ask, okay, if your life was a movie, what genre would it be? Okay? And then you'd put a name to that movie. So you say, okay, my the genre of my life is, I'll give you an example. The genre of my life was at a period when everything was not going well in my life, and losing my business and so on. The genre was a sad drama, and the title of my movie was dreams broken on the shores of reality. I mean, I say it now and I laugh at it, but at that time, I was very depressed, sitting in and staring into the horizon, at every sunset, going, Oh, my life, everything is not working. And then, and then, the story of my life was, I'm a failure because of my upbringing, because I didn't have a good English education. I didn't have a proper university education. I had a uni, but it wasn't a, you know, something that is inspiring, and all these stories that the outside world fills into our head. And I was looking for an excuse for any failed experience which is not failure in the ultimate and then reframe that story and through the exercises that go through the book. So what happened is, by reframing a lot of those stories, the genre of my movie changed from a sad drama into an adventure, and then the title of my movie was an adventure of a lifetime, a life to die for. So then suddenly that little mental shift and reframing of the story showed me the best side of the life that I'm living and allowed me to capitalize on the opportunities. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 38:15 I hear what you're saying. Well, go ahead,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 38:19 yeah. So I'd say this is a simple exercise we can give to any listeners to really start by asking yourself, if life, my life was a movie, what genre would it be? And be honest with yourself, because the healing element here does not work. So if I was to pretend that I'm in, that I'm positive about my life, I don't believe positivity works. It's a bunch of bollocks, because positivity, if you're not truly inspired from inside, is just putting makeup on something. It doesn't change the reality of what that thing is. We have to face, honor and acknowledge and understand that we are sad, that we are upset, that we are angry, that we are hurt. These are all natural emotions and the challenge is throughout now this industry, unfortunately, the self help industry, people are are feeding people. No, you got to be positive, and you got to be this, and you got to be that. You can only be what you are congruent with. And that has to come from genuineity, from authenticity and from truth. And if your truth and genuineity and authenticity in that moment is sadness, then honor it, because you can only resolve some emotions, or the emotions and emotions you have. You can only resolve them when you go through them, not over them. You know when they say, get over it. You cannot get over it. You have to get through it. And once you get through it, you dissolve it, and then healing can happen. It's like, if you have, if you have something under your skin that's a an infection that is so bad that it's starting to develop pus. The only way to heal it is to actually cut it open, clean it and then stitch it again. If you try to ignore it, it doesn't work. So really, awareness is a big element in any healing journey. Me.   Michael Hingson ** 40:01 For me, I kind of view positivity a little bit different than I think you're describing, and I appreciate what you're saying. I think that positivity is, in a sense, focusing on dealing with the things that are going to help you advance and trying to not focus so much on the negative things that you can leave behind you. Maybe another way to put it is so many of us worry about so many different things, and most of the time we don't have any control over them, if we would just focus on the things that we can control and leave the rest alone, we would be a lot more productive and a lot less stressful in our lives.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 40:48 I totally agree with you, however, I would still want to debate that the positivity conversation, and I'll ask you a simple question and to anybody who's listening, would you consider yourself a glass half empty or glass half full guy,   Michael Hingson ** 41:03 I guess I would probably view myself more as a glass half full guy than a glass half empty guy. Beautiful,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 41:09 and I'll tell you I personally disagree or and I would tell you you're probably not that, and I'll explain why. Okay, I'm I'm a guy who says the glass is half empty half full. And how can I fill the empty this is by that, yeah, so you are the guy who's practical. And practicality versus positivity are two different stories, because what happens sometimes people who are just focusing on the positivity never also understand where they need to develop and they they need to grow, and they become stale, right? And that it's just a labeling conversation that we're having. Of course, yes, it is attitude, and of course, you gotta look at the glass half full. And if you focus, if you focus on the negativity in your life, you'll never get, get get out of that. But also, equally, if you don't acknowledge and understand that these things require growth, then you also never grow there. So it's a, it's not a, it's not a black or white conversation. It's a conversation of totality, of looking at the half full and half empty. Otherwise people get mis eluded, and that's why I keep talking about the self help industry, because it it sells a lot better to talk about positivity. People don't want to hear about the hard work they have to do to fill in half of the glass. Nobody wants to talk about, okay, you talk about positivity, but nobody understands that the level of hard work, as you said, you had to go through to be prepared to deal with situation where you're not getting visual cues, because you had to depend on other things that took work that didn't happen by itself. So what I talk about here is not just the positivity, it's the totality of the approach of being truly realistic and honoring that the struggles in your life do bring their own opportunities, and they allow you to grow only when you own them rather than ignore them. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 42:51 and again, for me, and as I was describing, the whole concept of positivity is really dealing with the negativity that we focus on so much that we don't need to have around us if we choose to deal with it and we can, there are things that go on that are challenges to us, but we have the choice of dealing with those challenges, and I think that's the important thing, as I tell people we had no control over September 11 happening, and I am not convinced that all the communications between all the government agencies would have figured it out in the US having read the September 11 report. But what we all have control over, and all had control over, is how we deal with September 11, and we can choose to deal with it as a horrible thing, and it was a horrible thing, but we could choose to deal with it in a very negative way in our lives, or we can learn and grow from it. And I think that's the issue of making a choice that helps move us forward and get away from the negative stuff. And I met some people who are very negative after September 11, and I could see years later that they were locked in a mindset that wasn't ever going to help them be more productive and help them grow   Moustafa Hamwi ** 44:13 beautifully said. And it's that mindset conversation about how to really not get stuck in your past story. However, I only talk about the mindset mastery as a second stage to the healing. And the healing is what requires us to look at the half empty so we can acknowledge what needs to work and then work on the half full. And in that, we'll have a totality of a full glass that that is always serving us, and never get stuck in diving into negativity layer after layer after layer. So it's always a yin and yang approach. It's a coherent approach. So agree on that point.   Michael Hingson ** 44:50 Yeah, it's, you know, it still becomes an issue of of growth and of choice and and I would never say. You don't pay attention to the negativity part. You've got to know that it's there before you can deal with it. And it's it's more an issue of, again, the choices that we make, and I agree with you, mindset is a part of it. And you can talk about, oh, I got this mindset. Well, do you really, how is that helping you advance, do you really have it? And it's it's so often the case that people talk a good talk, but they're not really walking it, and which is part of the problem,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 45:29 100% and not just that. It's actually having the courage and the humility to acknowledge where we are now and then working towards where we want to be. Otherwise, it's fake. It's just all the Rura hooha motivational Yes, yes, yes. You can do it. You can do it. Yeah. Well, guess what? I do a lot of extreme sports, and one of them is skydiving. Skydiving means opening the airplane door at 13,000 feet and jumping out if I don't acknowledge that. One of the things is, I'm not a bird, and I don't have wings, and for me to do that, I have to have a parachute. So so in a way, it is a it is a weakness, not to have a wings, but then when I acknowledge it and I understand it, then the strength, there's the design and the engineering that goes behind the parachute that I have to make sure it's strapped onto me, that have to make sure it's ready. Allows me now to complete that picture of the glasses half empty, where I'm not a bird, but with the parachute, my glass becomes half full,   Michael Hingson ** 46:27 right? And and the joy of skydiving, I've never done it, that's okay, but the joy of skydiving and the experience and what you see when you're doing it and you land and so on. That fills up a lot of the rest of the glass, for the moment,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 46:46 100% it's a beautiful it's one of those amazing experiences that I'd highly recommend you do. I   Michael Hingson ** 46:51 want to do it someday. I just haven't. I haven't tried it. It is, it is a doable thing. I know some blind people who have done   Moustafa Hamwi ** 46:59 it. I mean, I mean, you do a tandem anyway, the first job. So maybe this is your cue. Somebody will be strapped onto you, and they will, yeah, yeah. And   Michael Hingson ** 47:05 the other blind people who I know did it in tandem, and that's fine. I'm I still get to experience it. And I I've done a number of things like that. I've flown an airplane and and flew it for about an hour. The trick is, as I tell people, you just stay high enough that you don't hit the mountains and you're good,   47:26 amazing, and it works. And   Michael Hingson ** 47:29 I've driven a car and some other things like that, although I had some directions, that's the technology is getting better, not autonomous vehicles, but literally, it is. It is possible. There is technology so that a blind person can drive a car. If you ever want to explore that, there's a website. It's called www dot Blind Driver challenge.org, and you can actually see a car that was developed with the technology so that a person who is blind can get behind the wheel and truly get the information to drive the car. And I, I did the simulator, but I haven't driven the car, but again, a lot of adventures. I've traveled to a number of countries, and I travel alone, and it's part of what I do, and I love doing it and inspiring people. And I've spent a number of days in countries where I don't speak the language, and we had to rely on an interpreter to help with doing a speech. But it, it's so fun and so rewarding when, again, people come up and say, we really appreciate what you say   Moustafa Hamwi ** 48:35 amazing.   Michael Hingson ** 48:37 So it's, it's, it's a lot of fun. Well, tell us a little bit more about slingshot and what makes slingshot and your methodology different than other things.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 48:49 A beautiful question. Michael, it's basically the practicality of it, as as you figured with this conversation about you know, half full or half empty. My my my approach is very pragmatic and practical. So I always like to have things that number one are coherent. So slingshot really offers the healing and the mindset mastery together, the schools of thought out there generally have been kind of, you know, unipolar in a way, where they're either they're either trying to talk about coaching, which is just go, go, go mentality. You can make it. You can do it. It's all in your mind, or other schools that are just healing. And let's dig into the past, and let's be in the feeling. But that is a never ending journey. You don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes. This book offers a coherent approach where you take a step back to heal, and then you release to mindset master. The second thing that makes the approach in the book slingshot special is that it is also results driven, because myself, I've struggled a lot throughout my journey with a lot of you know, self proclaimed goo. Gurus and coaches and things like that, that promise the sun, the moon and the sky, but don't deliver results. So I've always promised myself, whenever I deliver something, it'll be measurable results. So everything in the book is structured. You read on one page, but then the practical it's not just theory. The practice is on the other page. You fill in the blanks, and you yourself will get immediate results in that moment to understand it. And third thing is that it is actually a continuous journey. So the kind of books I offer are not just theory. They're practical, and they entice you to reuse them all the time. So what happens is, okay, you do one exercise at a certain point of time, but that doesn't mean it's not a one time transformation. You get immediate results. But I say in the last chapter of the book, I say, keep brushing your teeth, and that's an analogy of you can go to the doctor to get teeth whitening, but if you don't brush your teeth daily, you don't get the consistent results. And the same thing with the book that I offer, it's a companion that allows people to consistently keep working with the book at any stage of life when they're having challenges. And   Michael Hingson ** 51:01 that makes sense to have a way to keep being able to go back and re examine whatever it is that that is guiding you along the way. And you have to do that. I think that any decent book or any decent kind of instruction that we allow ourselves to do has to be something where we can continue to do it. It isn't just a one time thing, 100% so that that makes a lot of sense. Well, you know, we're always talking about mastering our destiny and and really becoming a whole lot better than than we are. And we've also talked about the mindset. Why is it important to master your mindset on the way to mastering your destiny? If that's a relevant question to ask   Moustafa Hamwi ** 51:48 amazing question, Michael and I'll give you a simple example. What what mindset does is minds. Our mindset impacts our behaviors, and our behaviors impact our actions, and our actions impact the results. And naturally, the results feed our mindset so and that becomes either a positive loop or a negative loop. When our mindset is inspired, using your terminology, positive, I'd like to call it more inspired, determined in a mastery state, then we behave in that way, and our probabilities of taking inspired actions increases, and as the actions increase, probability of success increase. And then the more we succeed, then we start reaffirming ourselves that we are really successful. But the same thing can happen in negative way, because if we're having a negative attitude, we will not do our best, and when we don't do our best, the results probably will not be the best, which then reaffirms that things do not work for us, and it becomes a negative feedback loop. And if you think about the importance of a mindset, it's like a car driver. Imagine a supercar. Okay, what's what's your favorite? Talking about cars, what would be your favorite supercar.   Michael Hingson ** 53:01 Oh, gosh, um, not me much of a driver. Um, oh, I'll just say a Cadillac. What the heck?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 53:11 Okay, let's, let's say a super Cadillac. Yeah, the racing Cadillac has, I think it's a scene.   Michael Hingson ** 53:15 Let's say a Ferrari. Okay, that's more racing. So we'll say a Ferrari. Let's   Moustafa Hamwi ** 53:19 take a Ferrari. Okay, let's take a red Ferrari. Typical, typical image in people's head is a red Ferrari. Yeah, okay, so take a Ferrari. Now imagine that Ferrari being driven by your average taxi driver. How much will he or she be able to get out of the Ferrari like an average taxi driver can get out of a taxi. Now imagine the same Ferrari, same red color, driven by Michael Schumacher, being a professional race driver, he will get 110% out of that car, same car, same color, same everything. Two different drivers, two different results.   Michael Hingson ** 53:55 I would only say if you're comparing it to New York tab drivers, some of those guys are pretty good, but I'm just being silly. Go ahead,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 54:02 yeah. I mean, yes, but still I hear what you're saying. No, I hear what you're saying nowhere near as good. I mean, they're probably get skidding with it and move fast, but they would never be as good as somebody who never seconds. And the reality is, in between those two, the driver is the mindset. So the same you split Mustafa into two, and you put a taxi driver in to drive this as driving a taxi, and you put then a professional Formula One driver, the driver of the Mustafa's, the one that's driving more professional, will get professional results. And that's how life goes on. So that's why it's very important for us, for us to master our mindset in the pursuit of mastering destiny. Now how I discovered that is when I was doing my work with passion, early on in my speaking career. So about 10 years back, with the live passionately book, I would help people discover their passion and. Would know with absolute certainty, this is it. What I want to do. I want to do this. I want to pursue that. It's going to make me fulfilled. But then self doubt kicks in, and anxiety, fear, limiting beliefs, and suddenly they would quit on their dream before they even start, because they're so scared of the outcome, and their mindset is not ready. So suddenly they've got a dream of a Ferrari but a mindset of a rickshaw or a tuk tuk or a small car, and then they're never able to accelerate their life. So without that mindset upgrade, people don't go very far in life, or even if they stay where they are and convince themselves I'm happy. Pandemic has taught us that nobody's immune to challenges in life, because even when everybody thought they're immune, everybody got it tough and during pandemic. So reality life is going to hit hard sooner or later, and the more our mindset is upgraded and prepared, the better for us.   Michael Hingson ** 55:55 And the other part about that, let's go back to the cab driver and Michael Schumacher, the reality is, with a mindset, you can develop and change your mindset and develop a different mindset. So it is certainly possible, depending on the drive of the cab driver and his motivations or her motivations, they might develop the skills to be a professional race car driver, but they have to work at it, 100%   Moustafa Hamwi ** 56:23 100% there's that that funny story of every overnight success takes 10 years. People only see the final outcome, but they don't see how much work it took that person to prepare and train. It's the 10,000 hours that we all have to put in. And people have that dream, have that aspiration, but don't have the mental tenacity to stay at it, day in day out, to reach their goal. And this is where mindset mastery becomes very important.   Michael Hingson ** 56:49 How do people develop this kind of mindset mastery methodology, and how do they develop the ability to master their mindset?   Moustafa Hamwi ** 56:59 Beautiful question, and that part of the second part of slingshot the book, answers with a lot of exercises. However, I will give a couple of exercises that would make it easy for anybody listening to apply a little bit of those. So first question I like to ask people is, actually, what would you regret if you did not pursue your passion. So what is that regret? So if you say, I'm dreaming of becoming a speaker, a coach and an author, because I struggled with that at the beginning, remember I didn't fly out of India to become who I am today. I struggled with that, with that self limiting beliefs. So if you ask yourself, what would I regret by not pursuing that dream or that passion that would   Michael Hingson ** 57:43 I would and my answer would be, I would regret not knowing how far I could take it and what I could do with it. Beautiful,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 57:50 beautiful. And then you keep going. So what you do is, I want a long list. I want at least 10 or 12, a list of 10 or 12 items. So you keep showing going, Okay, I'm not going to discover how far can I go? I I will, I will. I will be, I will be sad. I will lose my self confidence, because then, you know, I've doubted myself, and   Michael Hingson ** 58:09 I'll always wonder, what if, what is, which is that's me, but that's what I would do? Yeah, everybody,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 58:16 not just you, because that's where, that's what happens, is the regret for what we did not do is bigger than the regret, and then we   Michael Hingson ** 58:23 talk ourselves into having taken that position, well, I wouldn't have been able to succeed. How do you know,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 58:28 deep inside, we know this is yes, exactly right. People will when you question yourself, you will lose confidence in yourself, and that's the negative self limiting belief cycle that I talked about. So what happens is you put that list of what, what would I regret if I did not pursue my passion? And then that gives you a motivation away from so you run away from that ugly space of you know, regrets, right? Then I give another exercise, and I say, What's the best that could happen if you pursue that passion and that goal? So that gives you a motivation too. So one regret is I would never know how far I could go. So now if I ask you, what's the best scenario if you pursue that passion, I succeed. You succeed. And then deposit what are the positive outcomes there. People   Michael Hingson ** 59:21 ask me to speak. They tell me that I changed their life, beautiful.   Moustafa Hamwi ** 59:25 So you get to speak, you get to change people's lives. You get to travel. You get to explore the world. And then you put that list. So now you've got a motivation too. So you've got one motivation away from the regret, one motivation towards the aspiration. And typically, there's a blockage there of but what if this does not work? Then I ask people to write a list of what's the worst that could happen if you pursue that goal or passion. So let's say you decided to speak, what's the worst that could happen?   Michael Hingson ** 59:55 I didn't get many speaking engagements. I wasn't able to change. Change lives,   Moustafa Hamwi ** 1:00:00 and I and then I didn't charge as much as I could charge, and I didn't charge as much as I could have charged, right? And then you put that list, and then, then this is a list where I'd say, Well, get over it. What? So what? So what if you didn't get as many speaking gigs, you just keep marketing and promoting. So what if you couldn't charge as much as you want, you just keep working till you can raise your prices over time. So what if you did not inspire the millions that you thought you would? Well, guess what? Inspiring one person is as good as inspiring a million. It's still a life that you have changed. So once we put all of these stories that you know, that we tell ourselves, of why I don't want to do so that away from that, what am I? What would I lose by not pursuing the passion? And then what would I gain by pursuing that passion? And what's the worst that could happen if I pursue that passion or goal? Those three things are the simplest excerpts I could give from slingshot, the book that would help people mindset, master their life.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:53 The other well, going back to the third thing, the other part about that is, and then maybe it's the physicist in me, or the way I look at things, if I don't succeed at it, then I need to also ask myself why, and I need to teach myself by learning what maybe I'm not doing right or or what I'm doing but I could do better and figuring out how to improve. So I'm a firm believer in the fact that people can learn how to overcome challenges like that. I do agree with you, but it is also important then to take it further and say, Well, why am I not succeeding? What is the deal? Go back and learn some more   Moustafa Hamwi ** 1:01:36 100% and that's but that you can only do that when you have developed that level of mindset mastery where you're not looking at limitation, you see the exit. And that's why, if you remember I said, this book is not a one time use. It's a manual that you keep using, because every time you use it, you slowly develop the habit of not paying too much attention to the negative outcomes and focusing more on the positive outcomes, and then building a bridge of what is needed for me to to get there. So one other exercise we use there, which is, you know, follows the methodology that you're talking about, is, is called Use what you have to get what you want. So it's about putting a list of what resources do I have. And I think you are an amazingly walking example of somebody who has done that, because if you were to focus on what you don't have, you're going to go, hold on. But I but I can't see so how am I on Earth going to be able to do podcast interviews? But you did not focus on what you did not have. You focused on what you had, and you capitalized on it. Your ability to ask deep into deep, deep, deep questions, deep, reflective questions, to be passionate about it, to figure out the technology around it, capitalize on your technology background, to be able to find the tech that supports your journey. That's a beautiful example on how you can master your

AI is changing the role of the designer and shifting how product teams succeed. We have a special guest: Scott Jenson, formerly from Apple, Google, and Frog Design.We discuss:* Why designers feel like their entire job will go away* What advice he offers to the teams and individuals he coaches* How AI is over--hyped and where it will have impact* Lessons from working at the forefront of mobile technology* Why Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft are all racing to get there first* Recommendations to build successful products todayThis conversation is more of a coaching session for the designers, researchers, and product teams trying to navigate this time of great change.We try and cut through the hype to distill out key lessons that will help you all in your careers.Scott Jenson has worked in user interface design and strategic planning for over 30 years. The first member of the System Software Human Interface group at Apple in the late 80s, working on System 7, the Apple Human Interface guidelines and the Newton digital assistant. After Apple, was a freelance design consultant, doing work for Netscape, Mayo Clinic, American Express, and several web startups. Then director of product design for Symbian, then managed Mobile UI design at Google for 6 years. Left to become creative director at frog design for 2 years but returned to Google to explore advanced UX concepts for IoT and Android at Google. 35+ patents.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottjenson/Please subscribe to: Design of AI: The podcast for product teams, on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Youtube, substack. We interview leaders and practitioners at the forefront of AI to help product teams navigate where and how to leverage AI.Have questions? Join the conversation in our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/company/designofai/Hosted by:Brittany Hobbs https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/Arpy Dragffy Guerrero https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/This Design of AI episode is brought to you by PH1: A research & strategy consultancy that helps clients build AI products that customers wanthttps://ph1.ca This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit designofai.substack.com

Baldurs Gate 3 ist immer noch sehr beliebt und auch endlich bei aHatofMedia angekommen, bzw. bei Sir Pommes, der seine Magierin Bayonetta auf Reisen geschickt hat, um ein Abenteuer zu erleben. Was er dabei erlebt hat und warum er sich Dung ins Gesicht geschmiert hat, erzählt er uns diesmal. Dengeki Gamer unterdessen hat eine ganz andere Schlacht geschlagen und versucht alte Handyspiele zu emulieren. Teils mit Erfolg. Software, Hindernisse und Frustgrenzen gibt er diesmal zum Besten. Musikalisch geht es diesmal in die 70er Jahre mit Genesis und natürlich darf auch Chucky nicht fehlen, diesmal mit dem letzten Teil der Originalreihe, Cult of Chucky. All das, in dieser Ausgabe der Kontent Knechte. aHatofMedia wünscht wie immer viel Spaß. Timetable: 0:00:00 Begrüßung und Gitarren Zeugs 0:08:08 Die Themen 0:10:58 Genesis (die Band, nicht das Buch) 0:27:51 Schock den Affen 0:28:39 Symbian S60 Emulation aka Handy Spiele 0:44:05 Chuckys Curse 1:07:20 Baldurs Gate 3 (treten oder nicht treten) 1:44:46 Verabschiedung

Carmen gehört zu den Mobile App-Entwicklerinnen der ersten Stunde, die mit Symbian begann und anschließend Apps für iOS entwickelte. Ihren beruflichen Weg in die IT fand sie durch ihre Begeisterung für Computerspiele und das Programmieren mit Turbo Pascal im Informatikunterricht, was schließlich zu einem Informatikstudium führte. Heute ist sie als Senior Consultant bei INNOQ tätig, wo sie vor allem im Bereich der Frontend-Entwicklung arbeitet. In dieser Folge der Podcast-Reihe Women in Tech spricht Carmen mit Stefanie über ihren Berufseinstieg, entscheidende Lernmomente und die Bedeutung von Flexibilität und Anpassungsfähigkeit in einer schnelllebigen Branche.

Első alkalommal készült fotó a teljesen kiépült kínai űrállomásról Rakéta     2023-12-04 06:06:08     Tudomány Kína Világűr Űrállomás A kínai űrügynökség a napokban tette közzé a fotókat, amelyeken már a teljesen kiépült, három modulból álló Tienkung űrállomás látható. Hatvan turista volt az indonéz vulkánon, amikor elkapta őket a 100 km/órával száguldó izzó áradat Telex     2023-12-04 10:55:59     Tudomány Hegymászás Indonézia Vulkán A Marapi vulkán kitörését nem előzték meg figyelmeztető jelek, ezért lehettek odafenn amatőr hegymászók és kirándulók. A Netflixre is megérkezik a Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy InStyle Men     2023-12-04 05:05:49     Mobiltech Netflix GTA Miközben a fél világ már a GTA VI-ot várja, a Netflix mobilappjába megérkeznek a klasszikusok. Jön a .meme domain, beláthatatlan következményekkel PCW     2023-12-04 09:05:02     Infotech Google A kezdeményezést a Google indította, és úgy néz ki, hogy időközben néhol már életbe is lépett. Visszatekintés: a Symbian Belle majdnem utolérte az Androidot, de már túl késő volt Android Portál     2023-12-04 08:37:38     Mobiltech Android iOS Symbian A Belle kiadásával a Symbian nem titkolt célja volt, hogy végre beérje nagy riváliásait, az Androidot és az iOS-t. A Belle fontos változásokat hozott az előző verziókhoz képest, amelyek sokkal kellemesebbé és használhatóbbá tették a Symbian felületét. Kezdjük az alapokkal, és tényleg az “alapokkal”. Először is, a kezdőképernyő hatalmas átalakítást Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max: legfrissebb hírek, pletykák IT Business     2023-12-04 05:03:58     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone Hogyan tud az Apple javítani a készüléken? Minden bizonnyal vannak olyan fejlesztések, amelyeket a vállalat a nagyobb teljesítmény elérésén túl is elvégezhet. Az eddig hallottak alapján valószínű, hogy az iPhone 16 Pro Max jelentős frissítést kaphat: többek között nagyobb képernyőről, plusz gombról és erősebb optikai zoomról is beszélnek. Az Apple- Fúzió: Mire mennének a japánok nélkülünk? Mínuszos     2023-12-04 06:33:36     Tudomány Japán Kamera Ünnepélyes keretek között felavatták az európai és japán összefogásban Nakában épített JT-60SA kísérleti fúziós berendezést, amelyben egy magyar fejlesztésű intelligens kamerarendszer segíti a fúziós folyamatok megértését, ezen keresztül láthatják a kutatók az első plazmát. A berendezés sikeres működése jelentős mérföldkő mind a tudományos közösség Négynapos munkahét: a mesterséges intelligencia lehet a kulcs Igényesférfi.hu     2023-12-04 07:37:12     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Az úttörő technológia széleskörű elterjedése javíthatja a munka és a magánélet egyensúlyát, komoly szabadidő-többlethez juttatva a munkavállalókat. Az IKT-támogatás drága, de nélküle nem fejlődik a biznisz Bitport     2023-12-04 10:12:05     Mobiltech KKV Ez a kkv-k problémája világszerte. A megoldásszállítók pedig rendszer a széttagoltságra, a sok egyedi igényre, és az ebből eredő magas fejlesztési és támogatási költségekre panaszkodnak. Megoldhatták a furcsa sivatagi üveg rejtélyét 24.hu     2023-12-04 10:52:18     Infotech Világűr Meteor Líbia A líbiai sivatagi üveg régóta foglalkoztatja a kutatókat, egy friss tanulmány alapján az anyag egy meteorit becsapódásával jöhetett létre. Elégett egy orosz teherűrhajó, ahogy beért a légtérbe PCW     2023-12-04 10:31:48     Infotech Világűr NASA Űrállomás A NASA asztronautája a Nemzetközi Űrállomáson felvételt is készített az eseményről. Drónokkal és mesterséges intelligenciával készítettek talajnedvesség-térképet a magyar kutatók Magro     2023-12-04 06:37:00     Gazdaság Mezőgazdaság Hajdú-Bihar Debrecen egyetem Mesterséges intelligencia Drón Térkép Debreceni Egyetem Hozam Mesterséges intelligencia bevonásával fejlesztenek módszertant a talaj nedvességtartalmának előrejelzésére a Debreceni Egyetem Természettudományi és Technológiai Karának kutatói. Az újfajta, pilóta nélküli légijárművekre szerelt multispektrális és hőkamerákkal végzett eljárás hatékonyabbá teheti a hozamok optimalizálását és a tervek szerint a gazdá Kihagyhatatlan 4 pontos pénzvédő lista az MI-átverések ellen! IT Business     2023-12-04 07:33:56     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Innováció Átverés Hangfelvétel Az idei évben példátlan sebességű innovációs hullám söpört végig a világon, a zászlóvivője pedig a mesterséges intelligencia volt. Az előrelépések ugyanakkor új dimenziót adtak a kiberbűnözésnek is, mivel a rosszindulatú szereplők egyik legújabb fegyvere nem más, mint a deepfake audio melyet általában hangfelvételek mintáinak felhasználásával állít

Első alkalommal készült fotó a teljesen kiépült kínai űrállomásról Rakéta     2023-12-04 06:06:08     Tudomány Kína Világűr Űrállomás A kínai űrügynökség a napokban tette közzé a fotókat, amelyeken már a teljesen kiépült, három modulból álló Tienkung űrállomás látható. Hatvan turista volt az indonéz vulkánon, amikor elkapta őket a 100 km/órával száguldó izzó áradat Telex     2023-12-04 10:55:59     Tudomány Hegymászás Indonézia Vulkán A Marapi vulkán kitörését nem előzték meg figyelmeztető jelek, ezért lehettek odafenn amatőr hegymászók és kirándulók. A Netflixre is megérkezik a Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy InStyle Men     2023-12-04 05:05:49     Mobiltech Netflix GTA Miközben a fél világ már a GTA VI-ot várja, a Netflix mobilappjába megérkeznek a klasszikusok. Jön a .meme domain, beláthatatlan következményekkel PCW     2023-12-04 09:05:02     Infotech Google A kezdeményezést a Google indította, és úgy néz ki, hogy időközben néhol már életbe is lépett. Visszatekintés: a Symbian Belle majdnem utolérte az Androidot, de már túl késő volt Android Portál     2023-12-04 08:37:38     Mobiltech Android iOS Symbian A Belle kiadásával a Symbian nem titkolt célja volt, hogy végre beérje nagy riváliásait, az Androidot és az iOS-t. A Belle fontos változásokat hozott az előző verziókhoz képest, amelyek sokkal kellemesebbé és használhatóbbá tették a Symbian felületét. Kezdjük az alapokkal, és tényleg az “alapokkal”. Először is, a kezdőképernyő hatalmas átalakítást Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max: legfrissebb hírek, pletykák IT Business     2023-12-04 05:03:58     Mobiltech Apple Okostelefon iPhone Hogyan tud az Apple javítani a készüléken? Minden bizonnyal vannak olyan fejlesztések, amelyeket a vállalat a nagyobb teljesítmény elérésén túl is elvégezhet. Az eddig hallottak alapján valószínű, hogy az iPhone 16 Pro Max jelentős frissítést kaphat: többek között nagyobb képernyőről, plusz gombról és erősebb optikai zoomról is beszélnek. Az Apple- Fúzió: Mire mennének a japánok nélkülünk? Mínuszos     2023-12-04 06:33:36     Tudomány Japán Kamera Ünnepélyes keretek között felavatták az európai és japán összefogásban Nakában épített JT-60SA kísérleti fúziós berendezést, amelyben egy magyar fejlesztésű intelligens kamerarendszer segíti a fúziós folyamatok megértését, ezen keresztül láthatják a kutatók az első plazmát. A berendezés sikeres működése jelentős mérföldkő mind a tudományos közösség Négynapos munkahét: a mesterséges intelligencia lehet a kulcs Igényesférfi.hu     2023-12-04 07:37:12     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Az úttörő technológia széleskörű elterjedése javíthatja a munka és a magánélet egyensúlyát, komoly szabadidő-többlethez juttatva a munkavállalókat. Az IKT-támogatás drága, de nélküle nem fejlődik a biznisz Bitport     2023-12-04 10:12:05     Mobiltech KKV Ez a kkv-k problémája világszerte. A megoldásszállítók pedig rendszer a széttagoltságra, a sok egyedi igényre, és az ebből eredő magas fejlesztési és támogatási költségekre panaszkodnak. Megoldhatták a furcsa sivatagi üveg rejtélyét 24.hu     2023-12-04 10:52:18     Infotech Világűr Meteor Líbia A líbiai sivatagi üveg régóta foglalkoztatja a kutatókat, egy friss tanulmány alapján az anyag egy meteorit becsapódásával jöhetett létre. Elégett egy orosz teherűrhajó, ahogy beért a légtérbe PCW     2023-12-04 10:31:48     Infotech Világűr NASA Űrállomás A NASA asztronautája a Nemzetközi Űrállomáson felvételt is készített az eseményről. Drónokkal és mesterséges intelligenciával készítettek talajnedvesség-térképet a magyar kutatók Magro     2023-12-04 06:37:00     Gazdaság Mezőgazdaság Hajdú-Bihar Debrecen egyetem Mesterséges intelligencia Drón Térkép Debreceni Egyetem Hozam Mesterséges intelligencia bevonásával fejlesztenek módszertant a talaj nedvességtartalmának előrejelzésére a Debreceni Egyetem Természettudományi és Technológiai Karának kutatói. Az újfajta, pilóta nélküli légijárművekre szerelt multispektrális és hőkamerákkal végzett eljárás hatékonyabbá teheti a hozamok optimalizálását és a tervek szerint a gazdá Kihagyhatatlan 4 pontos pénzvédő lista az MI-átverések ellen! IT Business     2023-12-04 07:33:56     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Innováció Átverés Hangfelvétel Az idei évben példátlan sebességű innovációs hullám söpört végig a világon, a zászlóvivője pedig a mesterséges intelligencia volt. Az előrelépések ugyanakkor új dimenziót adtak a kiberbűnözésnek is, mivel a rosszindulatú szereplők egyik legújabb fegyvere nem más, mint a deepfake audio melyet általában hangfelvételek mintáinak felhasználásával állít

Buscando noticias sobre Apple, me encontré con este artículo de nuestros amigos de Applesfera donde comentan una entrevista que le hicieron al creador de Symbian donde revela cómo subestimó a Steve Jobs y sugiere que podrían haber sido mejores que el iPhone. El artículo probablemente explora la perspectiva y las reflexiones del creador de Symbian sobre las decisiones que tomaron en ese momento y cómo eso pudo haber influido en la competencia con el iPhone de Apple. Un punto interesante del artículo que he debatiremos en este episodio. //Enlaces https://www.applesfera.com/curiosidades/podriamos-haber-sido-mejores-que-iphone-creador-symbian-revela-como-subestimo-a-steve-jobs //Donde encontrarnos Canal Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/ApplelianosApplelianos/featured Grupo Telegram (enlace de invitación) https://t.me/+U9If86lsuY00MGU0 Correo electrónico applelianos@gmail.com Canal Telegram Episodios https://t.me/ApplelianosFLAC Mi Shop Amazon https://amzn.to/30sYcbB Twitter https://twitter.com/ApplelianosPod (https://twitter.com/ApplelianosPod )  Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/applelianos-podcast/id993909563 Ivoox https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-applelianos-podcast_sq_f1170563_1.html (https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-applelianos-podcast_sq_f1170563_1.html) Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2P1alAORWd9CaW7Fws2Fyd?si=6Lj9RFMyTlK8VFwr9LgoOw

Ir pierasts pie tā, ka cilvēks lieto vai nu Android vai Apple iOS viedtālruni. Retos gadījumos kādas citas operētājsistēmas ierīci. Taču vēl ne tik senā pagātnē nozares flagmanis bija Nokia, kas kopā ar citiem jomas dūžiem izstrādāja Symbian operētājsistēmu, kas darbināja 500 miljonus tālruņu visā pasaulē. Kā šis veiksmes stāsts sākas un beidzās? Ko Android platformas dibinātāji darīja citādi? Un kādam tirgus diktātam pretojās Apple vadītājs Stīvs Džobss? Par šiem jautājumiem un arīdzan par mākslīgā intelekta attīstību klausies DIENA PĒC tehnoloģiju rubrikā kopā ar Accenture Baltics vadītāju Maksimu Jegorovu. Viņa viesis - David Wood, tehnoloģiju futūrists, Symbian operētājsistēmas līdzdibinātājs. Saite uz Londonas futūristu klubu: https://londonfuturists.com/ Saite uz D. Wood avotu: https://deltawisdom.com/

Hicaps New Terminals Accessible to Blind or Low vision   These are the EFTPOS terminals you find in allied health centres that you use to pay for your service and/or your private health fund.   I've noticed over the last few weeks these accessible terminals popping up at the Chiropractor, physiotherapist, and Optometrist.   I believe this is part of an upgrade to the new Trinity Terminals that are being upgraded to support blind or low vision.   Ask about this next time you visit the Phisio etc.   https://www.hicaps.com.au   Call Annie   A Chatbot for iPhone you can really talk to and she talks to you.   https://apps.apple.com/app/id6447928709C   Be-My-Eyes   I've seen a few conversations on social media about the fact that the virtual assistant for Be-My-Eyes will not be ready for everyone until September. So for the moment, you will be getting Pending.   How to Hopefully Speed up VoiceOver Launch and running time (no terminal required)   I've tried this and the best I can say is that I think it works. Simply, it gives VoiceOver priority over all other running apps on your Mac.   https://applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-apps/how-hopefully-speed-voiceover-launch-time-performance-mac- no-terminal-required   Some of the Main Stream Tech Stuff That Have disappeared over the last 50 years For Me That I used for Work and Play   Manual Type writer.   Tapes and tape recorders.   Record player and records.   Mini Dictaphone.   Dial up 300 baud modem   Dial up BBS.   Audio Pages.   VCR Player and tapes   Walkman.   Mp3 Players.   iPods.   9 dot matrix printer.   Apple IIE   5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks.   4.77mhz, 286, 386, 486 etc IBM compatible PC's.   21 inch CRT monitors.   IBM PS2.   Luggable laptops. Toshiba Laptops for a good 30 years.   MSDOS 3.31.   System 6.07.   Macintosh SE.   Power PC Mac.   Various LC Macs.   IBM OS2.   Windows 3.1.   Brick mobile Phones.   Symbian mobile phones.   First Mac mini running Tiger 10.4.Support this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this conversation I caught up with the second part to my conversation with Scott Jenson to explore how Designer can actively get more involved with the free and open source software movement. We speak more about why this is of such an interest to Scott, and he gives his awesome advice to others on how they can get involved. Listen to Episode 1:  Listen to Scott Jenson 'From Apple, Symbian to Google - Exploring the World of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)'Links from this episode; Open Source Job Postings Job Postings Youtube FOSSBack links #FOSSBack: Scott Jenson - Why is UX so hard to contribute to FOSS 2021 (The problem) #FOSSBack: Scott Jenson – Calling all UX Designers! 2022 (How maintainers can attract UX designers) #FOSSBack: Scott Jenson – Plan Like Einstein 2023 (How to move the culture to include UX) Open source research about using CRDTs (a new experimental file format) to have an alternative to Google Docs Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers. A 1-pager on how to discuss design in a more thoughtful and cooperative way Guidelines for Discussing UX NEW COURSE: Service Design : https://www.thisishcd.com/courses/video-on-demand-introduction-to-human-centered-service-design-using-journey-mapping Become a Patron of This is HCD / Become a Patron Sign up to This is HCD Newsletter / Stay up to date with This is HCD Learn more with This is HCD / Courses on Service Design, Human Centered Design, UX Design, Research Coaching for Change-Makers / Coaching & Mentoring for Innovators & Change-Makers FREE GUIDE - 7 Days of Awesome Journey Map Tips: FREE 7-DAY GUIDE - Killer Journey Mapping Tips Follow Gerry Scullion on Twitter / gerrycircus Follow This is HCD on Twitter / thisishcd Our partner links We recommend Webflow for all web design and development needs.‍ Webflow: Create a custom website | No-code website builder We used Descript to power our podcast ‍Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc Our podcast is edited by the A-Team at CastUp / Enquire with them about editing. ‍Learn more and connect with Castup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this conversation I caught up with the second part to my conversation with Scott Jenson to explore how Designer can actively get more involved with the free and open source software movement. We speak more about why this is of such an interest to Scott, and he gives his awesome advice to others on how they can get involved. Listen to Episode 1:  Listen to Scott Jenson 'From Apple, Symbian to Google - Exploring the World of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)'Links from this episode; Open Source Job Postings Job Postings Youtube FOSSBack links #FOSSBack: Scott Jenson - Why is UX so hard to contribute to FOSS 2021 (The problem) #FOSSBack: Scott Jenson – Calling all UX Designers! 2022 (How maintainers can attract UX designers) #FOSSBack: Scott Jenson – Plan Like Einstein 2023 (How to move the culture to include UX) Open source research about using CRDTs (a new experimental file format) to have an alternative to Google Docs Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers. A 1-pager on how to discuss design in a more thoughtful and cooperative way Guidelines for Discussing UX NEW COURSE: Service Design : https://www.thisishcd.com/courses/video-on-demand-introduction-to-human-centered-service-design-using-journey-mapping Become a Patron of This is HCD / Become a Patron Sign up to This is HCD Newsletter / Stay up to date with This is HCD Learn more with This is HCD / Courses on Service Design, Human Centered Design, UX Design, Research Coaching for Change-Makers / Coaching & Mentoring for Innovators & Change-Makers FREE GUIDE - 7 Days of Awesome Journey Map Tips: FREE 7-DAY GUIDE - Killer Journey Mapping Tips Follow Gerry Scullion on Twitter / gerrycircus Follow This is HCD on Twitter / thisishcd Our partner links We recommend Webflow for all web design and development needs.‍ Webflow: Create a custom website | No-code website builder We used Descript to power our podcast ‍Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc Our podcast is edited by the A-Team at CastUp / Enquire with them about editing. ‍Learn more and connect with Castup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you build a successful IoT solution? Peter Tuszynski and Przemysław Łagód of Intent join Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss building and scaling successful IoT products. They cover what to focus on first when building an IoT solution, how to approach finding market fit, hardware vs software, why some deployments fail, how to future-proof your product, and how to scale.Peter Tuszynski is a seasoned mobile software engineer based in Warsaw, Poland. He currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Intent, a software company building digital products at the intersection of physical and digital worlds. He's been working with mobile apps since the days of Symbian and PalmOS. Nowadays he focuses on iOS and Android with a deep passion for machine learning and voice UIs. He's the founder of a venture backed startup and former entrepreneur-in-residence at a leading VC fund, giving him a unique perspective of both sides of the table.Przemysław Łagód is a highly skilled electronic designer and embedded developer with extensive experience in designing and producing electronic devices from scratch. With a passion for electronics and technology, he has dedicated his career to developing innovative solutions that meet the needs of clients across various industries.Intent has over 10 years of experience conceptualizing, designing, and building apps for connected devices. They act as specialized think partners for products at the intersection of physical and digital - from net-new to products looking to enter a competitive and established niche. Their team has a proven track record of building and deploying groundbreaking digital products allowing them to quickly assemble and scale project teams from their talented pool of developers, engineers, QA specialists, UI/UX designers, and project managers. Some of their clients include Oura, BOSE, and McIntosh audio systems.

看了一篇介绍 Xerox Alto 电脑的怀旧文之后颇感唏嘘，所以久违地尝试了一期考古节目，让我们回到「硅谷」这个词都还没诞生的美国南加州，寻找一下这台算得上 GUI 鼻祖的电脑的足迹，以及他背后那个历史悠久的伟大公司——施乐~准备略显仓促，后期补录了一些「混浊」的声音，请大家见谅~ 另外 Leon 让我务必要在 shownotes 里告诉大家他获奖了，让大家都来恭喜他！# 内容提要04:34 · 施乐公司的历史14:21 · 著名的 PARC 实验室22:35 · 首台搭载了图形用户界面的个人电脑 Alto34:22 · 施乐、Apple 和诺基亚42:27 · Leon 说他要做个广告！# 参考链接本台聊「通用魔术」的那期播客 2:09本期播客的主要资料来源《50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World》 3:14施乐公司（Xerox) 4:04更正：复印件的发明者是 Chester Carlson，JJ 错念成了「卡斯隆」 6:36静电复印技术（Xerography） 7:31以猩猩为主角的施乐复印机器电视广告 12:05Alto 电脑的 UI 截图 13:08藤校——常春藤大学联盟 15:21美国加州城市 Palo Alto（帕洛阿托） 16:54PARC 实验室的早期员工、计算机行业的先驱 Alan Kay 18:53Alan Kay 在 1968 年构想的个人电脑 Dynabook 19:53施乐 Alto 电脑，诞生于 1973 年 22:36Alto 的后续产品：施乐 Star 工作站，诞生于 1981 年 28:13可以透过当年 Alto 的广告来看看实际用起来时候的样子 28:20面向对象的编程这个概念就来自 Alan Kay 28:42曾是内部实验室，如今早已从 HP 独立出来的安捷伦 36:48诺基亚所开发的 Symbian 塞班手机操作系统 39:06路特斯 Eletre 纯电汽车 44:41青年汽车和「莲花」汽车之间的纠葛 46:19Eletre 搭载的车机系统 Hyper OS 获得了 2023 年度的 IF 设计奖 49:01

An airhacks.fm conversation with Аlina Yurenko (@alina_yurenko) about: 2012 MacBook Air, enjoying a Symbian mobile phone, GCP meetups, from firebase to C++, starting as Developer Advocate for GraalVM, GraalVM JIT, GraalVM native, GraalVM Polyglot, doom on GraalVM, JavaScript and python are interpreted at GraalVM, the closed world assumption - the dependencies have to be known at compile time, GraalVM tracing agent provides dependency configuration, GraalVM Reachability Metadata Repository, GraalVM Visual Studio Code extensions, GraalVM and LLVM runtime, GraalVM isolate, the GraalVM native image performance, Github Actions for GraalVM, Alibaba uses Native Image in production, Disney Streaming uses GraalVM to reduce cold starts, article: Disney Streaming using GraalVM on AWS Lambda, Adyen uses GraalVM as safe execution environment for native code, article: GraalVM: running C/C++ application safely in the Java world, Supercharge your Native Image applications in 5 steps Аlina Yurenko on twitter: @alina_yurenko

I caught up Scott Jenson recently - Scott refers to himself as a battle scarred veteran of the software industry.  He has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for over 30 years. He worked at Apple on System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He was UX director of Symbian, VP of product design for Cognima, managed mobile UX for Google and was a creative director at frog design in San Francisco. Scott returned to Google in 2013 to lead the Physical Web project and research future Android UX concepts. In 2021, Scott left Google to explore life outside. In this episode we drill into Scott's focus at the moment, Design within FOSS (free and open source software). We plan on recording two episodes, so this is Part 1. Part 2 will follow in early 2023. Become a Patron of This is HCD / https://www.thisishcd.com/become-a-patron Buy Gerry a Coffee / https://thisishcd.ck.page/products/buy-me-a-coffee Sign up to This is HCD Newsletter / https://www.thisishcd.com/community/stay-up-to-date-with-this-is-hcd Follow Gerry Scullion on Twitter / https://twitter.com/gerrycircus Follow This is HCD on Twitter / https://twitter.com/thisishcd Connect with Scott on LinkedIn / https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottjenson/ Connect with Scott on Mastodon / https://social.coop/@scottjenson Connect with Scott on Twitter / https://twitter.com/scottjenson View Scott's website / https://jenson.org/ Penpot / https://penpot.app/ Open Core / https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/ Elastio / https://elastio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I caught up Scott Jenson recently - Scott refers to himself as a battle scarred veteran of the software industry.  He has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for over 30 years. He worked at Apple on System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He was UX director of Symbian, VP of product design for Cognima, managed mobile UX for Google and was a creative director at frog design in San Francisco. Scott returned to Google in 2013 to lead the Physical Web project and research future Android UX concepts. In 2021, Scott left Google to explore life outside. In this episode we drill into Scott's focus at the moment, Design within FOSS (free and open source software). We plan on recording two episodes, so this is Part 1. Part 2 will follow in early 2023. Become a Patron of This is HCD / https://www.thisishcd.com/become-a-patron Buy Gerry a Coffee / https://thisishcd.ck.page/products/buy-me-a-coffee Sign up to This is HCD Newsletter / https://www.thisishcd.com/community/stay-up-to-date-with-this-is-hcd Follow Gerry Scullion on Twitter / https://twitter.com/gerrycircus Follow This is HCD on Twitter / https://twitter.com/thisishcd Connect with Scott on LinkedIn / https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottjenson/ Connect with Scott on Mastodon / https://social.coop/@scottjenson Connect with Scott on Twitter / https://twitter.com/scottjenson View Scott's website / https://jenson.org/ Penpot / https://penpot.app/ Open Core / https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/ Elastio / https://elastio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest episode of 'This Much I Know,' Carlos is joined by David Singleton, the CTO of Stripe. David shares valuable insights and lessons from his decades-long career at global technology companies such as Symbian, Google, and Stripe. In a vivid conversation, he and Carlos explore: - the essential nature of timing in technological innovation; - the fast-paced changing financial world; - the importance of putting customers first; - the evolution and definition of the CTO role; - Stripe's mission and operating principles; - developer productivity; - attracting and growing talent; - building a learning organization; - and more. Show notes: Carlos Espinal - twitter.com/cee David Singleton - twitter.com/dps Seedcamp - seedcamp.com Stripe - stripe.com Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 440 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicorns Revolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, wefox, Grover, and viz.ai along with fast-growing businesses such as Primer, Peppy and Ezra. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet. Contact their team to learn more: https://bit.ly/39TVMrT

David Wood is chair of London Futurists, author of Vital Foresight, cofounder of Symbian and has over 25 years of experience in the tech industry and as a head of research. His experience alongside his foundation in mathematics and philosophy at University of Cambridge has led him to be the futurist he is today. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/out-of-the-blank-podcast/support

Episode 20: David Wood is chair of London Futurists, author of Vital Foresight, cofounder of Symbian and has over 25 years of experience in the tech industry and as a head of research. His experience alongside his foundation in mathematics and philosophy at Cambridge University has led him to being the futurist he is today. What is a futurist you might ask? Well in this episode David goes through a plethora of questions including plenty regarding what exactly a futurist is and how it is distinguished from transhumanism. David also describes problems with life extension, societal rejection, developments in technology and its co-occurrence in longevity as a field, humanity+ (Humanity Plus), and plenty more.

We hear a lot about digital transformation, and my guest Helena Nimmo thinks this term is outdated and should be replaced with digital acceleration.She argues that Digital Transformation suggests that you have a blank canvas and that is rarely true, she prefers to talk about Digital Acceleration and building on what you already have.Helena knows a lot about this subject as the Chief Information Officer for Endava, a public technology company that is reimagining the relationship between people and technology.Helena joined Endava in 2019 and has been in the technology industry for over 20 years. A native of Finland, she started her career at Finnish technology giant Nokia in the logistics division before joining Symbian software and moving to London in 1999. She also worked in senior roles in publishing with Euro Monitor and Thomson Reuters.Helena thinks that data is what makes technology relevant, and prefers the term “digital acceleration” to that of “digital transformation”.In this episode we discussed:How a CIO needs to manage “Shadow IT” in an organisationHow the pandemic exposed issues of digital breakageThe extra tools a CIO needs to support a distributed workforceWhy boards should be taking cybersecurity more seriously The industries that have more rapidly adopted digital acceleration projectsHelena's views on digital literacyHer key learnings as a manager during the pandemicHow to stay up to date with all the new technologies and platforms that are appearing More on HelenaHelena on LinkedInEndava websiteAngela Marsons Crime WriterYour Host: Actionable Futurist® Andrew GrillFor more on Andrew - what he speaks about and replays of recent talks, please visit ActionableFuturist.comfollow @AndrewGrill on Twitteror @andrew.grill on Instagram.

This week we are joined by David Wood, the co-founder of Symbian. A man with quite the history when it comes to mobile computing, and the heart and soul behind the operating system that found it's way into the hands of over 500 million people across the globe. David takes us on a journey from the early days of Psion through to the heyday of Symbian, and it's eventual demise at the hands of Windows Phone. A truly insightful chat - we are pleased to bring you this conversation on the Nokia Chronicles. Where to find David: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/dw2 David's book on Symbian (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Smartphones-beyond-Lessons-remarkable-Symbian-ebook/dp/B00NAZTCTW Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

This week we are joined by David Wood, the co-founder of Symbian. A man with quite the history when it comes to mobile computing, and the heart and soul behind the operating system that found it's way into the hands of over 500 million people across the globe. David takes us on a journey from the early days of Psion through to the heyday of Symbian, and it's eventual demise at the hands of Windows Phone. A truly insightful chat - we are pleased to bring you this conversation on the Nokia Chronicles. Where to find David: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/dw2 David's book on Symbian (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Smartphones-beyond-Lessons-remarkable-Symbian-ebook/dp/B00NAZTCTW Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

In today's episode, I speak with Scott Jenson. Scott has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for over 30 years. He worked at Apple on System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He was the director of Symbian's DesignLab, manager of mobile UX for Google, and a creative director at frog design in San Francisco. He was a founding member of the biotech company Color. Scott returned to Google working on the Chrome team in 2013 to work on IoT and Android. In 2021 he left to explore the world outside of Google and is now working at Ink & Switch, an industrial research lab. We dive into how to use meditation to create space for curiosity, how to be unattached to the result so you can be a better listener, and how – in order to be understood – you need to first understand yourself and the situation.

Juan Carlos Bagnell of SomeGadgetGuy fame on YouTube, is our guest on a sunny Californian Friday afternoon. We take a trip down memory lane as Juan shares his favourite innovations and hallmarks of Lumia and Symbian devices, and we wax lyrical about the importance of utilising the features of the phone that you paid your hard-earned money for. A highly enjoyable chat with a highly intelligent fellow - all on this week's episode of the Nokia Chronicles. Where to find JCB: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeGadgetGuy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somegadgetguy/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/juanbagnell SGGQA Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CoyEVlB2S8QD1nYZEAOwc Website: https://somegadgetguy.com/ Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

Juan Carlos Bagnell of SomeGadgetGuy fame on YouTube, is our guest on a sunny Californian Friday afternoon. We take a trip down memory lane as Juan shares his favourite innovations and hallmarks of Lumia and Symbian devices, and we wax lyrical about the importance of utilising the features of the phone that you paid your hard-earned money for. A highly enjoyable chat with a highly intelligent fellow - all on this week's episode of the Nokia Chronicles. Where to find JCB: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeGadgetGuy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somegadgetguy/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/juanbagnell SGGQA Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CoyEVlB2S8QD1nYZEAOwc Website: https://somegadgetguy.com/ Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

David Wood joins us to discuss his visions for the future, and how technology is going to impact our daily lives. Interview with David Wood, futurist speaker, analyst, commentator, and writer. Follow him on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3HaooIB or LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3r4hL4W This episode is brought to you by EthicsGrade, an ESG Ratings agency with a particular focus on Technology Governance, especially AI Ethics. You can find more information about EthicsGrade here: https://www.ethicsgrade.io/ You can also follow EthicsGrade on Twitter (@EthicsGrade) and LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2JCiQOg Connect with Us: Join our Slack channel for more conversation about the big ethics issues that rise from AI: https://bit.ly/3jVdNov Follow Are You A Robot? on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: @AreYouARobotPod Follow our LinkedIn page: https://bit.ly/3gqzbSw Check out our website: https://www.areyouarobot.co.uk/ Resources: Towards the 100 millionth | Delta Wisdom - https://bit.ly/3r5lyz1 Smartphones and beyond | Lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian - https://bit.ly/3o6EMT7 The Abolition of Aging | The forthcoming radical extension of healthy human longevity - https://bit.ly/34bkSz6 Vital Foresight - https://amzn.to/3r5vcSg

Season 2 continues this week with Michael Hell, of Symbian-Freak & FoneArena fame. Michael details how he got started in the Nokia space, along with recounting some of his favourite Nokia events around the world. Listen in to also discover the one bad memory he had out of all his time in the Nokia 'sphere, along with the one app he would have if he was stuck on a desert island. Reach out to Michael Hell: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelxHell Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelxhell/ Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

Season 2 continues this week with Michael Hell, of Symbian-Freak & FoneArena fame. Michael details how he got started in the Nokia space, along with recounting some of his favourite Nokia events around the world. Listen in to also discover the one bad memory he had out of all his time in the Nokia 'sphere, along with the one app he would have if he was stuck on a desert island. Reach out to Michael Hell: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelxHell Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelxhell/ Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

Budeme mluvit o skvělém úspěchu českého týmu s Teslou na Nürburgringu Podiskutujeme o tom, jestli je dobře, že Tesla otevírá Superchargery i pro ostatní elektromobily Probereme naše první dojmy z Kie EV6 a Maxusu Euniq 5

Budeme mluvit hlavně o tom, jakou změnu pro evropský trh přinese továrna Tesly u Berlína Dáme si také zajímavý rozstřel a probereme další zajímavá témata Vysíláme od 16 hodin on-line a pokud nás nemůžete sledovat, pokládejte dotazy dopředu pod tímto článkem

Season 1 of the Nokia Chronicles finishes this week with the delightful Rita El-Khoury of Symbian-Guru and Android Police fame. Rita shares her favourite memories of attending Nokia events, making lifelong connections with other Nokia bloggers and employees, and writing from the deep-down passion of her own heart about Nokia. Lots of deep and thought-provoking conversation, interspersed with fond memories (and that slipper) along with many laughs. It's been an absolute pleasure having Rita on, and stay tuned as even though that's a wrap for the Nokia Chronicles for now, we have a lot more coming soon. Photo of that Nokia slipper mentioned in the podcast: https://twitpic.com/2hh21s Reach out to Rita El Khoury: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/khouryrt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khouryrt Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

Season 1 of the Nokia Chronicles finishes this week with the delightful Rita El-Khoury of Symbian-Guru and Android Police fame. Rita shares her favourite memories of attending Nokia events, making lifelong connections with other Nokia bloggers and employees, and writing from the deep-down passion of her own heart about Nokia. Lots of deep and thought-provoking conversation, interspersed with fond memories (and that slipper) along with many laughs. It's been an absolute pleasure having Rita on, and stay tuned as even though that's a wrap for the Nokia Chronicles for now, we have a lot more coming soon. Photo of that Nokia slipper mentioned in the podcast: https://twitpic.com/2hh21s Reach out to Rita El Khoury: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/khouryrt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khouryrt Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

#londonfuturists #davidwood #singularitarian #transhumanist #futurist #artificialgeneralintelligence David Wood is a smartphone industry pioneer, Co-Founder at Symbian, Chair of London Futurists, Principal of Delta Wisdom, Singularitarian and transhumanist, Executive Director of Transpolitica, Background in mathematics and philosophy of science. Author of various books, including Smartphones and Beyond, The Abolition of Aging, Sustainable Superabundance, RAFT 2035, and Transcending Politics. His focus is on potential radical transformations in society and humanity - transformations enabled by accelerating technological disruption and mediated by the social and political reaction. David has also served as CTO (Technology Planning Lead) for Accenture Mobility. In 2009 he was included in T3's list of "100 most influential people in technology". In 2010 he was featured in the world's first Augmented Reality CV: http://arcv.cwjobs.co.uk/augmented_reality_cv https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dw2cco https://twitter.com/dw2?lang=en https://londonfuturists.com/author/dw2cco/ https://deltawisdom.com/

You've found the mythical product-market fit & are scaling fast... now what?! Bill Coughran (Partner @ Sequoia Capital; Former SVP Engineering @ Google) & David Singleton (CTO @ Stripe) cover common mistakes scaling engineering orgs make, signals to help you identify & develop good managers internally AND find great hires externally. Plus how to balance short & long term demands while scaling & more! DAVID SINGLETON, CTO @ STRIPE David joined Stripe from Google, where he was VPE, leading the Android Wear & Google Fit teams. At Google, David led teams that built some of the company's most ambitious products, including its first apps with voice search; publisher products for Google Adsense; Google Offers; and Google Mobile Search Apps. He was also one of the first engineers at Google London and oversaw much of the growth of the London engineering office from inception to the large scale it has today. Prior to Google, David spent 3 years as a senior engineer at Symbian, the pioneering mobile phone operating system, where he developed software for Nokia & Samsung smartphones & worked on both the Bluetooth stack & PC Connect software. BILL COUGHRAN, FOUNDER'S COACH & PARTNER @ SEQUOIA; FORMER SVP ENGINEERING @ GOOGLE Bill Coughran works as a founders' coach and partner at Sequoia Capital to help build spectacular technology-centric companies. Previously, Bill was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google with oversight of Chrome, YouTube, maps, google.com, underlying infrastructure systems, and security. SHOW NOTES What are the most common mistakes scaling organizations make? (2:24) What's the best way to add managers to a technology organization? (4:40) Signals to identify potential engineering managers to develop from inside the organization (7:32) Finding the right external hires while in hyper-growth (signals & warning signs) (8:41) What questions do you ask for hiring references? (11:23) Navigating doing things that don't scale in the short term (16:17) “Second system syndrome” & avoiding the urge to rewrite your system (19:12) How to retain early employees at a hyper-growth startup (21:30) What Bill's most excited about in the tech industry right now (24:18) Tips to help turn ICs into leaders (25:20) Deciding on org structure when you're scaling fast (27:26) Navigating speed & long-term quality building your architecture at an early-stage company (29:43) Final advice from Bill & David (31:37) BROUGHT TO YOU BY... Jellyfish - Jellyfish helps you align engineering work with business priorities and enables you to make better strategic decisions. Learn more at Jellyfish.co/elc Listen to our Bonus Episode w/ Guillermo Fisher, Director of Engineering, Infrastructure @ Handshake on internal mobility, mission-driven decisions, & self-service infrastructure! Listen HERE: https://spoti.fi/3zdNnXn Special thanks to our exclusive accessibility partner Mesmer! Mesmer's AI-bots automate mobile app accessibility testing to ensure your app is always accessible to everybody. To jump-start, your accessibility and inclusion initiative, visit mesmerhq.com/ELC --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/engineeringleadership/message

Ricky Cadden, a name that needs no introduction, is on this week's instalment of the Nokia Chronicles. You may know him from sites back in the day such as Symbian-Guru and MobileBurn. Waxing lyrical about the heady old days of Nokia phones, his origins with blogger relations in the Symbian world, and what finally tipped him over the edge to make the jump over to Android. We also score the exclusive that he live-streamed his wedding with four Nokia N82's. Is Ricky the pioneer of live-streaming? We think so too. Just one of many exciting tidbits shared in tonight's episode. Tune in for more. Where to find Ricky Cadden: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/rcadden/ Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

Ricky Cadden, a name that needs no introduction, is on this week's instalment of the Nokia Chronicles. You may know him from sites back in the day such as Symbian-Guru and MobileBurn. Waxing lyrical about the heady old days of Nokia phones, his origins with blogger relations in the Symbian world, and what finally tipped him over the edge to make the jump over to Android. We also score the exclusive that he live-streamed his wedding with four Nokia N82's. Is Ricky the pioneer of live-streaming? We think so too. Just one of many exciting tidbits shared in tonight's episode. Tune in for more. Where to find Ricky Cadden: ================== Twitter: https://twitter.com/rcadden/ Music Credit: ========= Title: Can't Sleep - ÆSTRAL Music Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral/cant-sleep Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/aestral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestraldepth Support ÆSTRAL here: https://aestral.bandcamp.com/

How many listeners remember Talks? The popular screen reader for Series 60 and other phones running the Symbian operating system. It first came to the market in the early 2000s, and perhaps its most well-known proponent in the UK was Steve Nutt, the man behind Computer Room Services. His expertise when it comes to mobile phones is unparalleled and, unphased by the slow demise of Symbian, he's now just as well-known for his knowledge of Android. There's more to Steve than phones though. His company offers assistive technology training and consultancy; braille transcription; and sells a wide range of products including digital audio recorders, talking gadgets, talking book machines, speech synthesizers and other assistive software and, most notably for this podcast, an assortment of braille products. In addition to flagship displays from VisioBraille and Esys, he also sells the full range of leather cases from Executive Products, including a case for the popular Orbit Reader 20. Call Computer Room Services: 01438 742286 Also In This Episode Sight Village Birmingham: Queen Alexandra College, Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9TG Braille and Beer: The Old House at Home, 193, Lordswood Road, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 8QP Focus 14 Blue 5th gen and Focus 40 Blue 5th gen special offer: call 01604 798070 or order online Vision Through Sound CIC

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จากตอนที่แล้ว เหล่าผู้ผลิตโทรศัพท์มือถือที่มีชื่อเสียง เช่น HTC , Asus , LG ,Samsung ต่างตัดสินใจที่จะมาลุยในตลาด Android เพราะเริ่มหงุดหงิดกับความล่าช้าของ Microsoft และยังขาดความใส่ใจต่อ Windows Mobile ซึ่งกำลังจะถูก Microsoft ลอยแพ เพราะ ยอดขายเริ่มลดลงเรื่อย ๆ และที่สำคัญมันไม่สามารถที่จะมาสู้กับระบบปฏิบัติการใหม่ๆ  อย่าง iOS หรือ Android ได้เลย ซึ่งนั่นได้กลายเป็นจุดจบของ Windows Mobile ไปในที่สุดนั่นเอง และ Elop นี่เอง ได้เป็นจุดเปลี่ยนครั้งสำคัญของ Nokia และ Microsoft กับ Windows Phone อีกครั้ง เพราะทางเลือกตอนนั้นมีไม่มาก Symbian ก็ดูจะไม่รุ่งดูโบราณ เมื่อเทียบกับระบบปฏิบัติการอื่น ส่วนอีกระบบปฏิบัติการที่ Nokia แอบซุ่มพัฒนาอย่าง Meego แต่ก็ดูเหมือนว่า Meego ก็ยังไม่พร้อมจะสู้ศึก จึงยังไม่สามารถเป็นอนาคตของ Nokia ได้ แล้ว จะเกิดอะไรขึ้นต่อกับศึก smartphone ครั้งนี้ ไปรับฟังกันต่อได้เลยครับผม เลือกฟังกันได้เลยนะครับ อย่าลืมกด Follow ติดตาม PodCast ช่อง Geek Forever's Podcast ของผมกันด้วยนะครับ ========================= ร่วมสนับสนุน ด.ดล Blog และ Geek Forever Podcast เพื่อให้เรามีกำลังในการผลิต Content ดี ๆ ให้กับท่าน https://www.tharadhol.com/become-a-supporter/ ——————————————– ติดตาม ด.ดล Blog ผ่าน Line OA เพียงคลิก : http://line.me/ti/p/~@tharadhol ========================= ช่องทางติดตาม ด.ดล Blog เพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Fanpage : www.facebook.com/tharadhol.blog Blockdit : www.blockdit.com/tharadhol.blog Twitter : www.twitter.com/tharadhol Instragram : instragram.com/tharadhol TikTok : tiktok.com/@geek.forever Youtube : www.youtube.com/c/mrtharadhol Linkedin : www.linkedin.com/in/tharadhol Website : www.tharadhol.com

We are absolutely stoked to have Rafe Blandford on the podcast this week. From his early days covering pre-Symbian products to the heady Nokia days, Rafe has been a staple of the tech world, reporting on the latest Nokia mobile news and reviews. In today's episode we cover his blogging origins, his passion and love for what Nokia has done through their devices & services, and his immense love for the community Nokia has fostered. Rafe also shares his thoughts on where mobile technology is heading in the future, and we get an answer to the lingering question: will we ever see Rafe in front of a camera anytime soon? A thoroughly enjoyable episode - do check Rafe and his 361 Degrees podcast out on the socials below: Where to find Rafe: ================ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rafeblandford Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rafeblandford/ 361 Degrees Podcast: https://www.361podcast.com/ & https://twitter.com/361podcast AllAboutMobile: https://allaboutmobile.com/

We are absolutely stoked to have Rafe Blandford on the podcast this week. From his early days covering pre-Symbian products to the heady Nokia days, Rafe has been a staple of the tech world, reporting on the latest Nokia mobile news and reviews. In today's episode we cover his blogging origins, his passion and love for what Nokia has done through their devices & services, and his immense love for the community Nokia has fostered. Rafe also shares his thoughts on where mobile technology is heading in the future, and we get an answer to the lingering question: will we ever see Rafe in front of a camera anytime soon? A thoroughly enjoyable episode - do check Rafe and his 361 Degrees podcast out on the socials below: Where to find Rafe: ================ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rafeblandford Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rafeblandford/ 361 Degrees Podcast: https://www.361podcast.com/ & https://twitter.com/361podcast AllAboutMobile: https://allaboutmobile.com/

Huawei officially launched HarmonyOS this week, its new mobile operating system. The company was forced to build its own in-house OS after the Trump administration banned it from accessing key U.S. technologies including Alphabet's Android. While Harmony is widely derided, even ridiculed among the U.S. and European tech press (described as the "fake it till you make it" OS), there may be a market for it in Global South countries. First, it'll allow Huawei to get back in the mobile phone market in developing countries where it's lost a lot of ground. This means Huawei's going to sell phones for cheap. Very cheap. Secondly, Huawei is promoting HarmonyOS less as an Android replacement and more as a platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) which could allow the Chinese tech giant to leverage its already sizable network infrastructure presence in Africa to develop new connectivity initiatives.Henry Tugendhat, a senior China policy analyst at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., acknowledges that it's going to be tough going for HarmonyOS to gain traction in the market (remember PalmOS, Symbian, and Windows Mobile?) but he also thinks it would be unwise to write it off entirely. Henry joins Eric & Cobus to discuss the geopolitical dimensions of Huawei's new operating system and why he thinks it's important.JOIN THE DISCUSSION:CAP on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProjectTwitter: @eolander | @stadenesque | @hentugSUBSCRIBE TO THE CHINA AFRICA PROJECTYour subscription supports independent journalism. Subscribers get the following:1. The world's only curated China-Africa News Feed with thousands of articles archive2. Exclusive analysis of the day's top stories about China in Africa and the Global South3. A copy of the popular China-Africa Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox by 6am Washington time M-FTry it free for 30-days and see if you like it. Subscriptions start at just $7 a month for students and teachers and $15 a month for everyone else. Subscribe here: www.chinaafricaproject.com/subscribe

Spawn #301 Review: Capes and Lunatics Special Phil and Lilith review Spawn #301, the issue that sets the record for longest consecutively published creator owned comic. Show notes: Spawn #301 Review: Capes and Lunatics Special Find all of our Social Media here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nightwingpdp Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich Spawn #301 Review: Capes and Lunatics Special 00:00:10 - 00:06:11 In a lifetime warranty or you can get there through the link on our website Southgate Media Group DOT COM hey do you this episode of Capes and lunatics brought to you by tweaked audio get awesome headphones tweaked audio dot com and use the coupon code southgate get thirty percent off free shipping it had written here on the front cover with Arlen the longest running John Breaks the record we as an im phil and again hiding in a turtle darkness so yes so this is our most prefer getting ripped him yeah I think we're talking about this with three hundred but just like it was twenty seven years to get here it says you know spawn number one came out his daughter was an infant some spawn three zero one comes out he's like here's his here's an we got we got to come up with something you know we're going to draw detailed blueprints and Charlie largest show Put Her through medical school that with that spawn and Spiderman money that's right I know well if they was paying attention he promised this last month after three hundred today we thought spawn for you three hundred was like a ten dollar book and then since three one breaks the record this was like an exercise book but like I said it's only like what like a buck more or something that's you just buy a bunch of covers the first time I've actually Lakewood Can hang them up yeah probably she going forward because every issue is going to be setting the record don't vote now we're GONNA club I wouldn't I wouldn't put a pass image they do need her rebuts win new record through three new records right now we're done the game we're playing here war because I mean okay spoilers going forward it's like yes spawned gets Kinda like he he gets his power levels cut but he's done that before and yeah eventually you know Kinda gets US later on Comic Book So yes I felt like we gotta get started on our stick your mania the main to Pula also ordered they have just the Covered pat at that expert it comfortable here on darkness my old friend are after we die look to continue stick figure mania that's right grandchildren let's like the back of the cover. I mean did you see that uncovers though is it printed on this same card stuff now I've not reacting ten bucks for the one that I got the full charged again here although he's really sentenced stuff back to like trying to get the Spahn family going big urged cover the big collectors items but as charge extra forever noise care were macron mentors but anyhow I mean he got like two bites of the apple what was that Assim beate but it's still there but like its power to like it goes back to its previous version that we got the first couple years and he's using sore yeah I'm one of those I'm a hitch the reef discussed but it's like kind of like we blows but I mean I mean the kill Bojan issue one hundred he's still her now for how now a doctor what grant I don't know but he just has his he just had his daughter on the go so fancy one maybe maybe 'cause it's like a leaner issue they didn't have as much room the lake anymore so experts yeah right. 00:06:12 - 00:20:31 I know I mean like kindergarten like flow new papa each month for the rest of the Lake noted the story to do with no right now however why was the whole thing with the powering him and he's like he's basically keeping words and stuff because he yeah his power level is low I really enjoyed the partners learn a lot more than the last station here promoting spawn family or whatever it's going to be called Yes yes farner our telephone besides going I felt like I think he feels like he wants to do like a Super Super House oh namely of their Batman's vitamin that's what it feels like this move that he did yeah green energy levels will smith but no maybe it's just the art on this page on like I was thinking cress Williams black lightning true true true Ikeda you know one headed Hydra three-year you know hit wonder he was on TV but he's keeping a secret that it's like a Symbian and stuff is like a spa tried to play like more Superhero e Oh yes he is cranking up for superhero lower offsets like exactly exactly her now everything is a big for now but still I just wonder if he's going to be like regards golden gross area so I know the movies coming up and Cheney Fox is gonNA play Spawn you were there were multiple on here but yeah for the most yeah it's all I felt a little more everything for the little more cohesive was our strong and all that stuff you know what I mean like yeah I guess what I was thinking but I was like I didn't know if he wanted to go like full like I'm GonNa make dislike the next Batman you can't really valley definitely trying to really be in reside ice than my Cap'n everybody knows phonics red lesser disciplined the Nah I'm super excited with this means going forward but I also have a sneaking I just wanted to Alex Ross therion proper by the way for their front battle recorded is where the when you have connected to hell at all anymore now I think we still athletes have that connection right I guess but I just he wants to do you want to do that and he went spawn on under ruse and stuff since faunas I guess superhero are rate he hit really do our own stunts right forty five not tom cruise resulting sold. I don't know do our reading this all right I mean it appears he he kills clown but uh yourselves and now a hard pass it just don't WanNa do green lantern we talking to I mean he blamed over I mean at least listeners Tar sky bound great oh I mean every time I read it because he mentioned it at least and it's like there's a certain charm severe a no knock terrible murder you the actual At you know what I mean yeah were about that connects I think that's just kind of you know oh I love you got like ghost rider in you know mark that recovery we've literally each though thirty no greg thank you know especially in Hollywood are you know memorial wet and short-lived I mean what liberals thinking Oh they offered a marvel movie he jumping Keana quick in and out but make your money kind of thing me maybe is weird I don't know where we're going to do with this league there are I mean like this you know starring you know kind of person that rakes Navy like push it for you know the toys and the kids and all that kind of a little more friendly I am nervous for anything better than originally ever did it was he shouting out somebody here when he was breaking into the in those but I really like the first two names if they're like Oh yeah we need a black guy need action star it's it's either will Smith on the book yet but I think it will smith everything I mean girls who out here three do equalizer to use a couple of US do action but it's GonNa be like thunder well I don't know if it's like a is it a Jabar's it's just like hey I love your work Kirkman hundred position that it's probably going to reveal that the ear factor mentions here are well. I mean he's done this before career intimated or whatever thought they're working on something Indiana you're all excited Gordon sidekicks scroll down route like episode like fourteen or fifteen you know run we're on episode in writing or register I may be three or four years no yeah that's why I was just wondering if like after the explosion cow I still powers sixty-some now it's going to be a bill intended she's like Oh yeah we're doing it in for Oh we need like action is like is like will smith like the first name in like Black Hollywood no I easy you could okay we just WanNa see you inside Greeson affect everyone would show up that's what everybody showed dot thank you again that's I can't shake this feeling that he's like he wants his own Batman the bill and Ted late when I saw that on my favorite years I mean we're talking about invincible on a comic capers the European gas but it's like I mean was he went an empire me and he has the comic toys here report kid through medical school ah good coming on point because I have baggage uncovered a really terrible years late options NC Howard access does and then wicked with a girl I room inside just want to say I wonder how long McFarland's go spawners visa's GonNa keep going until he drops over jobs are talk about your acting are fabric amy I'm sure he I mean you know him I'm sure he's he gave creative control of spawn on his death governor so clear about her so Kirkman took walking dead to what was it to ninety three one ninety three the three times I was like Oh skype down and carry our the frigging retaliation we can offer value that's the digging and also when are we getting in visible you know maybe his daughter or somebody some some you know either the white away for daughter somebody or there's a little bragging we'll sneak this guy cannot reminds them now I love listening it's not as an actor a rapper revenue person is my job nobody wants their own bat that's true that's true how could you not but it's like you know don't like completely whitewash but got you here for the last three how do you describe this is a case alert especial what about a special trump costumes ear oh yeah well after the after two thousand when the the comics they started wearing even the movie I thought we all learned our lesson for again anyway not bad I'm just very possibly you know assists can sell spell sells spawn somebody he's actually he probably has are probably has something rare or hundred and one issues nobody's GonNa come down to that eventually become bigger like he had that kind of dollars now you can retire she can take care of you right there of a parent I'd a had across but you know some of the covers I will get revealing spoilers they actually happen McCurry how dare you remember the good old neighbor Bayton switch in the Green Nikola issue five hundred eighty I spit it out recre- starch cheap easy then evenly passes away I wonder if the family John Kerry carried big guns and grenades and stuff and I mean hey man people or you know coma he doesn't want his man who wants his dead cool or you know what may may is he may be doing this not to whitewash the character but to bring him closer to whatever their big to and even you know these guys it's like if you got a movie there's they wanna try to make it as close to the movie as possible so people can just jump in and be changing yeah checking acquaint where you don't have there's no bad you said there's nothing to talk about how you know everything's e-e-e-e-no sanitized there's a lot of Indie comically adaptations coming in got boys we got ciruit common stuff like that interesting statement or not you know what I mean d think he'd be powered on Tuesday can do he can go back to the nineties again and worse are you by show that the last page if that gets they WANNA claim false advertising for kind of I showed him he's struggle of black lightning dot org by focusing on his daughters they were like oh we should have an old avenue I mean I'll be dead and gone basically Al Simmons has his face back the black leather forgive never forgets I can't believe that once point as a top hat seriously you got a fancy man he's back Charlie answer well I think this is hello Mr Greg to Pulau hockey fans on a couple of plays are for up they eventually killed Wanda last tug never forget woman in refrigerator but at least he waited at least not for such as it's like really I mean Mambo sometimes her father Boyle's dancing but again I don't think he was even using the character that much winning kilger off so one of the it was important for the Nick I mean it wasn't like no other options they can I do to drum up some drama it and stuff and I'll now right did you notice did you notice what his belt buckle looks like right there fifty so it was like how long are they gonNA drag this out and they said who knows like poop or get off the pot and I guess a to like the power thing and stuff and again he might be trying to do this for a movie or something but I mean stop does happen because like you know just like his daughter the science in this call basically get the like the the the the end of that battle where we got at the end of the last issue then basically setting up new status hello and hunting you know showing him hunting down having an house is like you know what screw it indy rookie fries again they did I think it'd be right now but again I think that movie though definitely Jimmie Foxx it will it can be that bad kazaks like Colorado president it's just like you know he's just like oh heaven in Heller hello okay I I don't know the again like I said I don't think she had been used that much for several years before that's it it's like they bury her bear hunting on further are I just wonder who the new art didn't do our team is going to be a because the only thing they advertise cover by got to pick a fight and I was just trying to figure out if he was like making fun of Pe Lake characters or people like that one guy he fought with the big corned helmet very bub-bubba like you're rooting for them it's like it's GonNa work out I might you know which product breath yeah I know so like I was saying yeah at least he wasn't like actually Conan's like a like a president or anyone specific it was just like Oh heaven and Hell Quingdao Marlboro Bite me I don't care so as a woman of color is spun on and then again to it's like if hogging to try it out 'cause I swear he only he killed her in like two hundred weather after like two hundred eighty ish or are knows after it was after thorough it's weird I don't I don't know I don't know anybody and it's really willing to jump into a book at three hundred ooh Yeah I get it but I mean got got interview I was just like yeah but I mean at least it's not like two on uh-huh Yeah Oh movie coming soon Greek jumping on point because I jack says that there's an ad in the back how hunt part one next next issue bring our infiltrated the government you know I kinda wish not I think about it the thrill one came on February says you know choose but a lot of them are but again it's like you know they'll do you know the company will give you whatever you want as long as the sales are there about this set out to not break a record so could so could he put something over there like you know the world's the world's most successful most popular that's like the most well received this popular black superhero right right now it's probably bad cancer thanks model true true but I'd be wow that that's kind of bleak what you think wait a minute all this diversity but not really I mean there's plenty cares I think definitely I know a lot of records that look fun definitely sounds besides spawned Black Panther who else has thrown on doing superhero needs a strong partner behind in automating yeah but that's the thing it's like he really wasn't interacting with that my teams like stick into the shadows like oh she remained chomping is three. 00:20:31 - 00:22:31 Oh to have a big banner on jumping on point movie humming stone that's probably with real to me black superhero. 00:22:31 - 00:22:33 I don't know if he's allowed to do that. 00:22:33 - 00:25:24 I don't know like down for that kind of thing but I'll be the one of those Burkino Jimmie Foxx loubier eight accepted our overcome Chris revealing the cavs but I just wonder if that's the truth to why he's resentenced stuff to Tyco hey look character like a touchstone basically and so when you eat rediscovering forever it's just like I don't know nobody really made a big deal about it they're definitely point if it's going to sell books I can try anything they're not the not late that I w sure public growly against like government it's like he's Canadian but he lives in America Litter well that's the other thing you see two people were like well why is it up to be Carol Danvers we already had a female captain marvel way before her in Raffarin purse caller any ray our air but just as long as he keeps the some some form of the Symbian doesn't like run around naked anymore now right now right heart little black writing technically vs Batman now matters fair is a team book but it's only his own can you can't do the record now because it's like now I know more maybe they'll do something special for that hit place it out better so you know so I've seen it before focusing on Other things right now like not tax take a lot of people are hashtag bitter about that. 00:25:24 - 00:30:42 Monica Rambo Century Surely Esser among them yeah but today one again do they want someone like wonder woman who's like physically powerful also maybe some of the new readers were like oh earn winner that's kind of rigor important thing. 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Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because by understanding the past, we're able to be prepared for the innovations of the future! Today we're going to look at the emergence of Google's Android operating system. Before we look at Android, let's look at what led to it. Frank Canova who built a device he showed off as “Angler” at COMDEX in 1992. This would be released as the Simon Personal Communicator by BellSouth and manufactured as the IBM Simon by Mitsubishi. The Palm, Newton, Symbian, and Pocket PC, or Windows CE would come out shortly thereafter and rise in popularity over the next few years. CDMA would slowly come down in cost over the next decade. Now let's jump to 2003. At the time, you had Microsoft Windows CE, the Palm Treo was maturing and supported dual-band GSM, Handspring merged into the Palm hardware division, Symbian could be licensed but I never met a phone of theirs I liked. Like the Nokia phones looked about the same as many printer menu screens. One other device that is more relevant because of the humans behind it was the T-Mobile sidekick, which actually had a cool flippy motion to open the keyboard! Keep that Sidekick in mind for a moment. Oh and let's not forget a fantastic name. The mobile operating systems were limited. Each was proprietary. Most were menu driven and reminded us more of an iPod, released in 2001. I was a consultant at the time and remember thinking it was insane that people would pay hundreds of dollars for a phone. At the time, flip phones were all the rage. A cottage industry of applications sprung up, like Notify, that made use of app frameworks on these devices to connect my customers to their Exchange accounts so their calendars could sync wirelessly. The browsing experience wasn't great. The messaging experience wasn't great. The phones were big and clunky. And while you could write apps for the Symbian in Qt Creator or Flash Lite or Python for S60, few bothered. That's when Andy Rubin left Danger, the company the cofounded that made the Sidekick and joined up with Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White in 2003 to found a little company called Android Inc. They wanted to make better mobile devices than were currently on the market. They founded Android Inc and set out to write an operating system based on Linux that could rival anything on the market. Rubin was no noob when cofounding Danger. He had been a robotics engineer in the 80s, a manufacturing engineer at Apple for a few years and then got on his first mobility engineering gig when he bounced to General Magic to work on Magic Cap, a spinoff from Apple FROM 92 TO 95. He then helped build WebTV from 95-99. Many in business academia have noted that Android existed before Google and that's why it's as successful as it is today. But Google bought Android in 2005, years before the actual release of Android. Apple had long been rumor milling a phone, which would mean a mobile operating system as well. Android was sprinting towards a release that was somewhat Blackberry-like, focused on competing with similar devices on the market at the time, like the Blackberries that were all the rage. Obama and Hillary Clinton was all about theirs. As a consultant, I was stoked to become a Blackberry Enterprise Server reseller and used that to deploy all the things. The first iPhone was released in 2007. I think we sometimes think that along came the iPhone and Blackberries started to disappear. It took years. But the fall was fast. While the iPhone was also impactful, the Android-based devices were probably more-so. That release of the iPhone kicked Andy Rubin in the keister and he pivoted over from the Blackberry-styled keyboard to a touch screen, which changed… everything. Suddenly this weird innovation wasn't yet another frivolous expensive Apple extravagance. The logo helped grow the popularity as well, I think. Internally at Google Dan Morrill started creating what were known as Dandroids. But the bugdroid as it's known was designed by Irina Blok on the Android launch team. It was eventually licensed under Creative Commons, which resulted in lots of different variations of the logo; a sharp contrast to the control Apple puts around the usage of their own logo. The first version of the shipping Android code came along in 2008 and the first phone that really shipped with it wasn't until the HTC Dream in 2009. This device had a keyboard you could press but also had a touch screen, although we hadn't gotten a virtual keyboard yet. It shipped with an ARM11, 192MB of RAM, and 256MB of storage. But you could expand it up to 16 gigs with a microSD card. Oh, and it had a trackball. It bad 802.11b and g, Bluetooth, and shipped with Android 1.0. But it could be upgraded up to 1.6, Donut. The hacker in me just… couldn't help but mod the thing much as I couldn't help but jailbreak the iPhone back before I got too lazy not to. Of course, the Dev Phone 1 shipped soon after that didn't require you to hack it, something Apple waited until 2019 to copy. The screen was smaller than that of an iPhone. The keyboard felt kinda' junky. The app catalog was lacking. It didn't really work well in an office setting. But it was open source. It was a solid operating system and it showed promise as to the future of not-Apple in a post-Blackberry world. Note: Any time a politician uses a technology it's about 5 minutes past being dead tech. Of Blackberry, iOS, and Android, Android was last in devices sold using those platforms in 2009, although the G1 as the Dream was also known as, took 9% market share quickly. But then came Eclair. Unlike sophomore efforts from bands, there's something about a 2.0 release of software. By the end of 2010 there were more Androids than iOS devices. 2011 showed the peak year of Blackberry sales, with over 50 million being sold, but those were the lagerts spinning out of the buying tornado and buying the pivot the R&D for the fruitless next few Blackberry releases. Blackberry marketshare would zero out in just 6 short years. iPhone continued a nice climb over the past 8 years. But Android sales are now in the billions per year. Ultimately the blackberry, to quote Time a “failure to keep up with Apple and Google was a consequence of errors in its strategy and vision.” If you had to net-net that, touch vs menus was a substantial part of that. By 2017 the Android and iOS marketshare was a combined 99.6%. In 2013, now Google CEO, Sundar Pichai took on Android when Andy Rubin was embroiled in sexual harassment charges and now acts as CEO of Playground Global, an incubator for hardware startups. The open source nature of Android and it being ready to fit into a device from manufacturers like HTC led to advancements that inspired and were inspired by the iPhone leading us to the state we're in today. Let's look at the released per year and per innovation: * 1.0, API 1, 2008: Include early Google apps like Gmail, Maps, Calendar, of course a web browser, a media player, and YouTube * 1.1 came in February the next year and was code named Petit Four * 1.5 Cupcake, 2009: Gave us on an-screen keyboard and third-party widgets then apps on the Android Market, now known as the Google Play Store. Thus came the HTC Dream. Open source everything. * 1.6 Donut, 2009: Customizeable screen sizes and resolution, CDMA support. And the short-lived Dell Streak! Because of this resolution we got the joy of learning all about the tablet. Oh, and Universal Search and more emphasis on battery usage! * 2.0 Eclair, 2009: The advent of the Motorola Droid, turn by turn navigation, real time traffic, live wallpapers, speech to text. But the pinch to zoom from iOS sparked a war with Apple.We also got the ability to limit accounts. Oh, new camera modes that would have impressed even George Eastman, and Bluetooth 2.1 support. * 2.2 Froyo, four months later in 2010 came Froyo, with under-the-hood tuning, voice actions, Flash support, something Apple has never had. And here came the HTC Incredible S as well as one of the most mobile devices ever built: The Samsung Galaxy S2. This was also the first hotspot option and we got 3G and better LCDs. That whole tethering, it took a year for iPhone to copy that. * 2.3 Gingerbread: With 2010 came Gingerbread. The green from the robot came into the Gingerbread with the black and green motif moving front and center. More sensors, NFC, a new download manager, copy and paste got better, * 3.0 Honeycomb, 2011. The most important thing was when Matias Duarte showed up and reinvented the Android UI. The holographic design traded out the green and blue and gave you more screen space. This kicked off a permanet overhaul and brought a card-UI for recent apps. Enter the Galaxy S9 and the Huawei Mate 2. * 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, later in 2011 - Duarte's designs started really taking hold. For starters, let's get rid of buttons. THat's important and has been a critical change for other devices as well. We Reunited tablets and phones with a single vision. On screen buttons, brought the card-like appearance into app switching. Smarter swiping, added swiping to dismiss, which changed everything for how we handle email and texts with gestures. You can thank this design for Tinder. * 4.1 to 4.3 Jelly Bean, 2012: Added some sweet sweet fine tuning to the foundational elements from Ice Cream Sandwich. Google Now that was supposed to give us predictive intelligence, interactive notifications, expanded voice search, advanced search, sill with the card-based everything now for results. We also got multiuser support for tablets. And the Android Quick Settings pane. We also got widgets on the lock screen - but those are a privacy nightmare and didn't last for long. Automatic widget resizing, wireless display projection support, restrict profiles on multiple user accounts, making it a great parent device. Enter the Nexus 10. AND TWO FINGER DOWN SWIPES. * 4.4 KitKat, in 2013 ended the era of a dark screen, lighter screens and neutral highlights moved in. I mean, Matrix was way before that after all. OK, Google showed up. Furthering the competition with Apple and Siri. Hands-free activation. A panel on the home screen, and a stand-alone launcher. AND EMOJIS ON THE KEYBOARD. Increased NFC security. * 5. Lollipop came in 2014 bringing 64 bit, Bluetooth Low Energy, flatter interface, But more importantly, we got annual releases like iOS. * 6: Marshmallow, 2015 gave us doze mode, sticking it to iPhone by even more battery saving features. App security and prompts to grant apps access to resources like the camera and phone were . The Nexus 5x and 6P ports brought fingerprint scanners and USB-C. * 7: Nougat in 2016 gave us quick app switching, a different lock screen and home screen wallpaper, split-screen multitasking, and gender/race-centric emojis. * 8: Oreo in 2017 gave us floating video windows, which got kinda' cool once app makers started adding support in their apps for it. We also got a new file browser, which came to iOS in 2019. And more battery enhancements with prettied up battery menus. Oh, and notification dots on app icons, borrowed from Apple. * 9: Pie in 2018 brought notch support, navigations that were similar to those from the iPhone X adopting to a soon-to-be bezel-free world. And of course, the battery continues to improve. This brings us into the world of the Pixel 3. * 10, Likely some timed in 2019 While the initial release of Android shipped with the Linux 2.1 kernel, that has been updated as appropriate over the years with, 3 in Ice Cream Sandwich, and version 4 in Nougat. Every release of android tends to have an increment in the Linux kernel. Now, Android is open source. So how does Google make money? Let's start with what Google does best. Advertising. Google makes a few cents every time you click on an ad in an advertisement in messages or web pages or any other little spot they've managed to drop an ad in there. Then there's the Google Play Store. Apple makes 70% more revenue from apps than Android, despite the fact that Android apps have twice the number of installs. The old adage is if you don't pay for a product, you are the product. I don't tend to think Google goes overboard with all that, though. And Google is probably keeping Caterpillar in business just to buy big enough equipment to move their gold bars from one building to the next on campus. Any time someone's making money, lots of other people wanna taste. Like Oracle, who owns a lot of open source components used in Android. And the competition between iOS and Android makes both products better for consumers! Now look out for Android Auto, Android Things, Android TV, Chrome OS, the Google Assistant and others - given that other types of vendors can make use of Google's open source offerings to cut R&D costs and get to market faster! But more importantly, Android has contributed substantially to the rise of ubiquitious computing despite how much money you have. I like to think the long-term impact of such a democratization of Mobility and the Internet will make the world a little less idiocracy and a little more wikipedia. Thank you so very much for tuning into another episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We're lucky to have you. Have a great day!

This episode was recorded 16 May 2013 live and in person at Omni's lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle. (Check out the OmniFocus 2 public beta!) You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) John Chaffee is a co-founder of BusyMac which makes the awesome BusyCal. John talks about being a Mac developer in the '90s, what it was like at Now Software, and how he got tired of mobile and came back to the Mac. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Easily create beautiful websites via drag-and-drop. Get help any time from their 24/7 technical support. Create responsive websites — ready for phones and tablets — without any extra effort: Squarespace's designers have already handled it for you. Get 10% off by going to http://squarespace.com/therecord. And, if you want to get under the hood, check out their APIs at developers.squarespace.com. This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. If you've been to the website already, you've seen the tutorials where you input code into a browser window. And that's an easy way to get started. But don't be fooled: Mobile Services is deep. You can write in JavaScript in your favorite text editor and deploy via Git. Good stuff. Things we mention, in order of appearance (roughly): BusyMac BusyCal Now Software Extensis Farallon SplashData PhoneNet connectors AppleTalk Berkeley Mac Users Group (BMUG) Berkeley, CA QA A/UX Desktop publishing Mac iici SCSI Santa Barbara Mac Store Pagemaker Mac 512 VIP Technologies Atari ST Apple IIgs Lotus 1-2-3 Taxes Mac SE/30 Portland Bay Area San Jose System 7 1991 Now Utilities Dave Riggle Claris MacWrite Filemaker Pro Bento 1990 Macworld Expo Floppy disks iCal Now Up-to-Date Macworld Expo Boston Compuserve Windows Altura Mac2Win Qualcomm Osborne Effect Dotcom Bubble Aldus Fetch Quark MacMall OnOne Software 1999 Adobe InDesign OpenDoc Mac OS X Carbon AppKit NetNewsWire Office Space Getty Images PhotoDisx 2001 Palm PDA Handspring Visor PalmGear Handango SplashPhoto SplashMoney SplashID SplashShopper SplashWallet Windows Mobile Symbian Android SplashBlog Instagram 2006 SixApart Movable Type 2007 Mac App Store BusyCal, LLC Google WWDC RSS Safari/RSS Google (Partly) Shuts Down CalDAV MobileMe SyncServices iCloud Sandboxing JCPenney's Apple Pulls out of Macworld Twitter AirPlay Apple TV Type A Personality Domain Name System BusySync HotSync iCloud Core Data Syncing iCloud Key/Value Storage ActiveSync ExchangeWebService Blackberry

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