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Dr. Laura welcomes Oscar Trimboli, award-winning author, podcast host, and global expert on listening, to the show to talk about listening and how our inability to listen properly is hurting us at work and beyond. Oscar worked extensively in marketing and technology in his career and has a lot of experience in consulting with organizations, all of which give him great insight into the way people listen, or don't listen, to each other and how to change that.Oscar traces his work in listening back to a boardroom in 2008 where he was challenged by the CEO's statement to him: “If you could code how you listen, you could change the world”. He explains that the difference between hearing and listening is action. His new book, How to Listen, addresses research on the subject of listening as well as guidance into listening to what is said and not simply our interpretations of what we hear. Dr. Laura and Oscar discuss different ineffective listening styles that people often fall into and Oscar's tips on how to improve listening. Oscar's insight will resonate with everyone who hears this episode and challenge us to really listen, and not just hear, what he's saying. “So please just be conscious that you can improve your listening simply by asking people one extra question, or simply by knowing that the word listen and the word silent have exactly the same letters. So if you just wanted one tip from our conversation today, that would be it. … Therefore just be silent just a little bit longer and you'll be surprised. That breath they've taken doesn't mean they've finished what they're saying. They're just collecting their thoughts.” Oscar TrimboliAbout Oscar Trimboli:Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace.Through his work with chairs, boards of directors, and executive teams, Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words. He believes that when leadership teams focus their attention and listening, they will build organizations that create powerful legacies for the people they serve – today and, more importantly, for future generations.Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations, including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens. He is the author of how to listen – discover the hidden key to better communication – the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening – Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront AssumptionsOscar loves his afternoon walks with his wife, Jennie, and their dog Kilimanjaro. On the weekends, you will find him playing Lego with his grandchildren.Resources:Website: OscarTrimboli.comOscar Trimboli Podcast: Deep Listening - Impact beyond words“how to listen: discover the hidden key to better communication” by oscar trimboliOscar Trimboli on LinkedIn“The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook” by Niall FergusonLearn more about Dr. Laura on her website: https://drlaura.liveFor more resources, look into Dr. Laura's organizations: Canada Career CounsellingSynthesis Psychology
Alex Wright is the Head of User Experience at Google News. He's also an author, and his most recent book, Informatica, is the second edition of Glut, his deep history of the information age. In this conversation, we discuss the history of information technologies and why learning about it matters to people who work in tech.Show notesAlex WrightAlex Wright (@alexgrantwright) / XAlex Wright - LinkedInInformatica: Mastering Information through the Ages by Alex WrightCataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age by Alex WrightPaul Otlet - WikipediaS. R. Ranganathan - WikipediaCharles Ammi Cutter - WikipediaMelvil Dewey - WikipediaAnthony Panizzi - WikipediaUniversal Decimal Classification - WikipediaVannevar Bush - WikipediaThe Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth Eisenstein bookThe Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall FergusonCarl Linnaeus - WikipediaGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - WikipediaBetamax - WikipediaWalkman - WikipediaApple II - WikipediaThe Futures Cone, use and history – The VoroscopeInstitute for the FutureClaude Shannon - WikipediaShow notes include Amazon affiliate links. We get a small commission for purchases made through these links.If you're enjoying the show, please rate or review us in Apple's podcast directory:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-informed-life/id1450117117?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200
Episode 264: Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Rob Frasca talks about early-stage investing in megatrends from the Internet to Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. Guest Biography Rob Frasca is a serial entrepreneur, investor, visionary online pioneer and frequent speaker on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. A pioneer and product visionary, Rob founded and brought 3 venture-backed startups, to successful exits, and served as CEO of 4 companies. Rob is widely recognized for creating the first Internet fintech company (GALT Technologies), the Internet's first stock quote and portfolio management service- NETworth, which was eventually acquired by Intuit in 1994 and became Quicken Financial Network. His second startup, an early artificial intelligence company, was acquired by Lycos, the second-most-popular internet portal at the time, where he became VP and General Manager. Frasca's third startup, Affinnova, was acquired by Nielsen in 2014. He is a visionary and online pioneer who has brought over 50 products to market, including one with over 100 million users. Frasca graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and received an MBA/M.S.I.A. from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. He is also a decorated U.S. Naval Flight Officer with 18 combat missions. This episode is brought to you by Runnymede Capital Management. Follow me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/andywang888. In this episode, you'll learn: An entrepreneur's views getting paid to create value Why Rob is so excited to invest in early stage companies focused on blockchain, crypto, cyber security, and artificial intelligence Make sure you tune in to the end to learn about the benefits of tokenizing a venture capital fund Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/264 Find more from our guest: LinkedIn Twitter Mentioned in the episode: www.cosimoventures.com www.cosimox.com https://cosimoy.com/ OODA Loop Books: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram Thanks for Listening & Watching! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser.com, or wherever you listen. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
En el episodio de hoy del podcast "Innovación Sin Barreras" tenemos nuevamente como invitado al podcast a Sergio Nouvel, Co-fundador y CEO de Get on Board, la plataforma de reclutamiento especializada en el sector digital que conecta nuevas empresas y empresas tecnológicas con los mejores profesionales de la tecnología en América Latina. En este episodio hemos conversado sobre la situación actual y las tendencias en el mercado laboral en tecnología basándonos en la información que está en Insights, un proyecto gratuito de Get on Board, que informa en vivo y en directo sobre las tendencias del mercado de talento tecnológico en América Latina. Algunas de las cosas más interesantes sobre nuestra conversación fueron las modalidades de trabajo remoto más populares, los beneficios más ofrecidos, los cambios en los sueldos y cuales fueron los procesos que están cerrando más exitosamente.Enlaces de interés
Oscar Trimboli explores the science behind listening–and how you can become great at it. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) The difference between a good listener and a great one 2) How to get into the great listening mindset 3) The one question that will cut your meetings in half Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep808 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT OSCAR — Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace.He is the author of How to Listen - Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication - the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening - Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions. We adapted our previous episode with Oscar into the LinkedIn Learning course called How to Resolve Conflict and Boost Productivity through Deep Listening.Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens.Oscar loves afternoon walks with his wife, Jennie, and their dog Kilimanjaro. On the weekends, you will find him playing Lego with one or all his four grandchildren.• Book: How to Listen: Discover the Hidden Key to Better Communication • Quiz: ListeningQuiz.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Book: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Neil Ferguson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history's lessons of the 1920s and the 1970s...for the 2020s. Niall is a historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and he previously taught at Harvard, NYU and Oxford. He's the managing director of Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm. Niall is also the author of 17 books including “The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook” and “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe”.
Part 2 of 2 What does history have to teach us about the current geopolitical, economic, and investment environment? A great deal according to renowned historian Niall Ferguson. His thesis is that applying the lessons of history to contemporary events can result in better investment outcomes. One of the biggest, most consequential debates among economists, investors, and policymakers is over inflation. Is the recent global surge in prices a temporary blip from economies reopening from pandemic shutdowns, or is it a more lasting development with serious consequences? In this week's program we pick up on that point - I asked Ferguson about the opposite view, that the pandemic shock and burden of record amounts of debt could actually impede growth and be disinflationary. Ferguson shares his views on this, along with his thoughts on China, cryptocurrencies, and the new world of decentralized finance. WEALTHTRACK # 1804 broadcast on July 23, 2021 More Info: https://wealthtrack.com/renowned-historian-niall-ferguson-outlines-the-investment-risks-warranting-protective-strategies/ Bookshelf: Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe - https://amzn.to/2Ujtdw3 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire - https://amzn.to/2VL2HvP The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West - https://amzn.to/3epbI48 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - https://amzn.to/3z8p0u6 The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook - https://amzn.to/3B9jKrH --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wealthtrack/support
If there is one adjective we have heard repeatedly in the last year and a half it is “unprecedented”. It has been applied to describe the amount of monetary and fiscal stimulus that's been poured into the economy. It has been used in relation to the pandemic lockdowns and reopenings, and the record-breaking runs in stock, bonds, real estate, and commodity markets. Is there no historical precedent for these events? Who better to ask than this week's WEALTHTRACK guest, Niall Ferguson? Ferguson has studied booms, busts, the rise and fall of empires, the power of social networks, and catastrophes of all sorts including plagues and pandemics? He is one of the world's leading historians and an influential commentator on contemporary politics and economics. Ferguson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, along with being the author of numerous articles, and a regular columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. His most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, which analyzes how societies have reacted to crises from the Roman response to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius to how various governments have handled Covid-19. According to Ferguson, experience has taught him that understanding history does help make us better investors. In this week's interview, he explains why. WEALTHTRACK #1803 broadcast on 07-16-21 More info: https://wealthtrack.com/using-history-to-predict-the-markets-with-renowned-historian-niall-ferguson/ Bookshelf: Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe - https://amzn.to/2Ujtdw3 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire - https://amzn.to/2VL2HvP The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West - https://amzn.to/3epbI48 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - https://amzn.to/3z8p0u6 The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook - https://amzn.to/3B9jKrH --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wealthtrack/support
To call 2021 a historic year is an understatement. But what's less obvious is how to put the pandemic of 2020 in a historical context. What lessons can be learned about our response to past public health crises? Can these lessons be applied to the one we're living through now, and what may lie ahead, post-Corona?As we transition from this most unusual year, Dan checks in with Niall Ferguson. Niall is a historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and he's the managing director of Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm. Niall is also the author of 15 books including The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. From the earliest days of the pandemic, Niall assembled a slide deck to chronicle everything he was learning about the crisis as it unfolded and provided historical context for his analysis. Almost weekly, he'd update the deck and share it with friends and colleagues, which came to be known as the “Monster Deck” -- now close to a thousand slides. It came to inform a lot of Dan's thinking about Covid 19 and much of it can be found in a book he's been working on during the pandemic, called Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.In today's conversation, we'll look back at 2020, as we look ahead to 2021.
On natural, artificial and strategic intelligence; intellectual hazards; secrets. Subscribe at: paid.retraice.com Details: Russell on knowledge; Retraice; three kinds of intelligence; natural intelligence; artificial intelligence; strategic intelligence; hazards—secrets, minefields, blind spots; tests and reminders; knowledge; evidence; fallacies; secrets—likely and unlikely; the price of information; deception; intelligence in warfare; next. Complete notes and video at: https://www.retraice.com/segments/re1 Air date: Monday, 7th Sep. 2020, 3pm Pacific/US. 00:00 Russell on knowledge; 01:26 Retraice; 02:23 three kinds of intelligence; 04:45 natural intelligence; 07:09 artificial intelligence; 09:49 strategic intelligence; 15:00 hazards—secrets, minefields, blind spots; 17:03 tests and reminders; 17:29 knowledge; 18:09 evidence; 20:15 fallacies; 23:36 secrets—likely and unlikely; 24:09 the price of information; 30:11 deception; 31:49 intelligence in warfare; 32:47 next. References: Ames, R. T. (1993). Sun Tzu: The Art of Warfare. Random House. ISBN: 034536239X. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=034536239X https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+034536239X https://lccn.loc.gov/92052662 Churchland, P., & Churchland, P. (2000). Foreward to the Second Edition of Von Neumann’s ‘The Computer and the Brain’. In von Neumann (1958). Ferguson, N. (2017). The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. Penguin. ISBN: 978-0735222915. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0735222915 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0735222915 https://lccn.loc.gov/2018418429 Grabo, C. M. (2002). Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning. Center for Strategic Intelligence Research. ISBN: 0965619567 https://www.ni-u.edu/ni_press/pdf/Anticipating_Surprise_Analysis.pdf Retrieved 7th Sep. 2020. Hamblin, C. L. (1970). Fallacies. Vale. First published 1970. This Vale Press edition 2004. ISBN: 0916475247. Different edition available at: https://archive.org/details/fallacies0000hamb/page/12/mode/2up. Horwich, P. (1982). Probability and Evidence. Cambridge. First published 1982; first paperback 2011; this Cambridge Philosophy Classics edition 2016. ISBN: 978-1316507018. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-1316507018 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-1316507018 https://lccn.loc.gov/2015049717 Lowenthal, M. M. (2020). Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. CQ Press / SAGE Publications, 8th ed. ISBN: 978-1544358345. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-1544358345 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-1544358345 https://lccn.loc.gov/2019027254 Other editions available at: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Intelligence%3A%20From%20Secrets%20to%20Policy O’Shea, M. (2005). The Brain: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford. ISBN: 978-0192853929. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0192853929 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0192853929 https://lccn.loc.gov/2005027741 Russell, B. (1921). The Analysis of Mind. Macmillan. No ISBN. https://books.google.com/books?id=4dYLAAAAIAAJ Retrieved 6th May. 2019. Russell, B. (1992). Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. Routledge. First published in 1948. This edition 1992. ISBN: 0415083028. Different editions available at: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Human%20Knowledge%3A%20Its%20Scope%20and%20Limits Vallee, J. (1979). Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults. And/Or Press. ISBN: 0915904381. A different edition available at: https://archive.org/details/MessengersOfDeceptionUFOContactsAndCultsJacquesValle1979/mode/2up von Neumann, J. (1958). The Computer and the Brain. Yale, 3rd ed. First published 1958. Third edition 2012. ISBN: 978-0300181111. Searches for this edition: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0300181111 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0300181111 https://lccn.loc.gov/2011943281 Different editions available at: https://archive.org/search.php?query=The%20Computer%20and%20the%20Brain Weston, A. (2000). A Rulebook for Arguments. Hackett, 3rd ed. ISBN: 0872205525. Also available at: https://archive.org/details/rulebookforargum00west_3 Copyright 2020, Retraice, Inc. https://retraice.com
Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the author of numerous books including The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and most recently, the Square and the Tower: Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook, and Michael Casey, chief content officer at CoinDesk and coauthor of two books on crypto, The Age of Cryptocurrency and The Truth Machine, discuss the history of money and the macro environment for Bitcoin. We cover: how they became involved in crypto historically, what has made things money, or how people have decided that something is money the difficulty of managing fiat currency modern monetary theory and the role of the state in the financial system Satoshi’s message in BTC’s genesis block and what that indicates about Satoshi's intentions with Bitcoin whether a more transparent, blockchain-based financial system could eventually lead to a new financial order how Bitcoin behaves like an option on digital gold, and when it will behave like digital gold whether Bitcoin is simply a reversion to previous forms of money that weren’t controlled by the state how crypto/blockchain and fintech innovation from startups and the Chinese government will affect the USD how a hypothetical war between the US and China would affect the dollar's dominance how China's DCEP could disintermediate banks how Bitcoin fits into all of the different macro conditions facing the global economy whether Libra is going to be the initial gateway getting people into our digital currency world how well the recovery from coronavirus will go, and how it will affect the development of the crypto space in the near-term Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.com Tezos: https://tquorum.com/ Episode links: Niall Ferguson: http://www.niallferguson.com The Ascent of Money: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302900/the-ascent-of-money-by-niall-ferguson/ Michael Casey: https://www.michaeljcasey.com Money Reimagined: https://www.coindesk.com/tag/money-reimagined The Age of Cryptocurrency: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250081551 The first episode in the Why Bitcoin Now series: Mike Novogratz and Raoul Pal on 'the Single Greatest Brand' ofo the Last 10 Years: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-bitcoin-now-mike-novogratz-and-raoul-pal-on-the-single-greatest-brand-of-the-last-10-years/ How Niall got into Bitcoin: http://www.niallferguson.com/journalism/finance-economics/bitcoin-may-go-pop-but-its-revolution-will-go-on Niall and Michael at Consensus: https://www.coindesk.com/disruption-money-and-a-world-of-change-feat-niall-ferguson Unchained interview with Chamath Palihapitiya, who believes Bitcoin is a hedge on everything blowing up: https://unchainedpodcast.com/chamath-palihapitiya-why-bitcoin-will-be-the-category-winner/ Carlota Perez at CoinDesk's Consensus: https://www.coindesk.com/video/carlota-perez-on-blockchains-and-technological-revolutions Unchained interview about the DCEP: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-china-aims-to-replace-cash-with-the-digital-yuan/ Unchained interview with Christopher Giancarlo about a digital dollar: https://unchainedpodcast.com/christopher-giancarlo-why-the-us-needs-to-have-a-digital-dollar/ Unconfirmed episode with Michael about Libra: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-it-would-be-good-if-libra-rivaled-the-us-dollar/ Unchained episode with a co-creator of Libra: https://unchainedpodcast.com/a-libra-co-creator-on-how-facebook-will-make-money-from-calibra/
Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the author of numerous books including The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and most recently, the Square and the Tower: Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook, and Michael Casey, chief content officer at CoinDesk and coauthor of two books on crypto, The Age of Cryptocurrency and The Truth Machine, discuss the history of money and the macro environment for Bitcoin. We cover: how they became involved in crypto historically, what has made things money, or how people have decided that something is money the difficulty of managing fiat currency modern monetary theory and the role of the state in the financial system Satoshi's message in BTC's genesis block and what that indicates about Satoshi's intentions with Bitcoin whether a more transparent, blockchain-based financial system could eventually lead to a new financial order how Bitcoin behaves like an option on digital gold, and when it will behave like digital gold whether Bitcoin is simply a reversion to previous forms of money that weren't controlled by the state how crypto/blockchain and fintech innovation from startups and the Chinese government will affect the USD how a hypothetical war between the US and China would affect the dollar's dominance how China's DCEP could disintermediate banks how Bitcoin fits into all of the different macro conditions facing the global economy whether Libra is going to be the initial gateway getting people into our digital currency world how well the recovery from coronavirus will go, and how it will affect the development of the crypto space in the near-term Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.com Tezos: https://tquorum.com/ Episode links: Niall Ferguson: http://www.niallferguson.com The Ascent of Money: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302900/the-ascent-of-money-by-niall-ferguson/ Michael Casey: https://www.michaeljcasey.com Money Reimagined: https://www.coindesk.com/tag/money-reimagined The Age of Cryptocurrency: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250081551 The first episode in the Why Bitcoin Now series: Mike Novogratz and Raoul Pal on 'the Single Greatest Brand' ofo the Last 10 Years: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-bitcoin-now-mike-novogratz-and-raoul-pal-on-the-single-greatest-brand-of-the-last-10-years/ How Niall got into Bitcoin: http://www.niallferguson.com/journalism/finance-economics/bitcoin-may-go-pop-but-its-revolution-will-go-on Niall and Michael at Consensus: https://www.coindesk.com/disruption-money-and-a-world-of-change-feat-niall-ferguson Unchained interview with Chamath Palihapitiya, who believes Bitcoin is a hedge on everything blowing up: https://unchainedpodcast.com/chamath-palihapitiya-why-bitcoin-will-be-the-category-winner/ Carlota Perez at CoinDesk's Consensus: https://www.coindesk.com/video/carlota-perez-on-blockchains-and-technological-revolutions Unchained interview about the DCEP: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-china-aims-to-replace-cash-with-the-digital-yuan/ Unchained interview with Christopher Giancarlo about a digital dollar: https://unchainedpodcast.com/christopher-giancarlo-why-the-us-needs-to-have-a-digital-dollar/ Unconfirmed episode with Michael about Libra: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-it-would-be-good-if-libra-rivaled-the-us-dollar/ Unchained episode with a co-creator of Libra: https://unchainedpodcast.com/a-libra-co-creator-on-how-facebook-will-make-money-from-calibra/
Podcast: Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking Episode: Niall Ferguson: Networks and PowerRelease date: 2018-12-13“This time is different.” Historians: “Ha.” “The Net is net beneficial.” Historian Niall Ferguson: “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?” Ferguson analyzes the structure and prospects of “Cyberia” as yet another round in the endless battle between hierarchy and networks that has wrought spasms of innovation and chaos throughout history. He examines those previous rounds (including all that was set in motion by the printing press) in light of the current paradoxes of radical networking enabled by digital technology being the engine of massive hierarchical companies (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and their equivalents in China) and exploited by populists and authoritarians around the world. He puts the fundamental question this way: “Is our age likely to repeat the experience of the period after 1500, when the printing revolution unleashed wave after wave of revolution? Will the new networks liberate us from the shackles of the administrative state as the revolutionary networks of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries freed our ancestors from the shackles of spiritual and temporal hierarchy? Or will the established hierarchies of our time succeed more quickly than their imperial predecessors in co-opting the networks, and enlist them in their ancient vice of waging war?” Niall Ferguson is currently a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His books include The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018); Civilization: The West and the Rest (2012); and The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2009).
Podcast: Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% )Episode: Niall Ferguson: Networks and PowerRelease date: 2018-12-13“This time is different.” Historians: “Ha.” “The Net is net beneficial.” Historian Niall Ferguson: “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?” Ferguson analyzes the structure and prospects of “Cyberia” as yet another round in the endless battle between hierarchy and networks that has wrought spasms of innovation and chaos throughout history. He examines those previous rounds (including all that was set in motion by the printing press) in light of the current paradoxes of radical networking enabled by digital technology being the engine of massive hierarchical companies (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and their equivalents in China) and exploited by populists and authoritarians around the world. He puts the fundamental question this way: “Is our age likely to repeat the experience of the period after 1500, when the printing revolution unleashed wave after wave of revolution? Will the new networks liberate us from the shackles of the administrative state as the revolutionary networks of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries freed our ancestors from the shackles of spiritual and temporal hierarchy? Or will the established hierarchies of our time succeed more quickly than their imperial predecessors in co-opting the networks, and enlist them in their ancient vice of waging war?” Niall Ferguson is currently a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His books include The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018); Civilization: The West and the Rest (2012); and The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2009).
V dnešnej dávke prinesieme snáď trochu svetla medzi začiatky iluminátov. Pozrieme sa na ich históriu, ciele a zakladateľa, a tak si predstavíme ten reálny základ, od ktorého sa odvíjajú rôzne prehnané tvrdenia o ich dnešnom vplyve.----more----Prečítajte si túto minidávku aj ako článok na SME: https://bit.ly/SME_davka139Použitá a odporúčaná literatúra:Ferguson, The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power.Goldwag, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies.Hernández, ‘Meet the Man Who Started the Illuminati’Knight (ed.), Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia.Súvisiace dávky:PD#120: David Hume, https://bit.ly/davka120 PD#96: Vedecká sekularizácia, https://bit.ly/davka96***Dobré veci potrebujú svoj čas. Pomohla ti táto dávka zamyslieť sa nad niečím zmysluplným? Podpor tvoj obľúbený podcast sumou 1€, 5€ alebo 10€ (trvalý príkaz je topka!) na SK1283605207004206791985. Ďakujeme! Viac info o podpore na pravidelnadavka.sk/#chcem-podporit
In this episode, we have a boundaryless conversation with James Currier one of Silicon Valley's foremost experts in growth and network effects. James is a four-time CEO of VC backed companies and a pioneer of user-generated models, viral marketing, A/B testing, crowdsourcing, and myriad of other growth techniques that have since been adopted by nearly all technology companies. In 2015, James co-founded NFX, a $150M early-stage venture capital firm focused on network effect businesses along with Pete Flint and Gigi Levy Weiss. In this conversation, we explore the real and so far unseen boundaries of the transition towards an economy more heavily based on marketplaces and market-networks, and how this transformation both shapes and is shaped by the major shifts and challenges that are currently emerging in the global society, including environmental, social, political, regulatory. We talk about the need for strong and charismatic leaders to steward these shifts, as well as the need to re-train people to gain the right competencies to deal with an increasingly digital, networked economy and transforming industries. Read more on our Medium story https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/ Here are some important links from the conversation: > Ben Evans' presentation “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” during the World Economic Forum in January 2020, https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations > Simone Cicero: “Why the Next Paradigm Shift may not be Technological”, https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/paradigm-shift-regulation-af48b87a0eeb > Ben Thompson, The End of the Beginning, https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/ > Niall Ferguson (2017), The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35629744-the-square-and-the-tower > Libra cryptocurrency, https://libra.org/en-US/ > Lambda school, https://lambdaschool.com/ > Incredible health, https://www.incrediblehealth.com/ > Hire.com, https://www.peoplefluent.com/ Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at www.platformdesigntoolkit.com/podcast Music by liosound.Recorded on March 18th 2020
In this episode, we have a boundaryless conversation with James Currier one of Silicon Valley’s foremost experts in growth and network effects. James is a four-time CEO of VC backed companies and a pioneer of user-generated models, viral marketing, A/B testing, crowdsourcing, and myriad of other growth techniques that have since been adopted by nearly all technology companies. In 2015, James co-founded NFX, a $150M early-stage venture capital firm focused on network effect businesses along with Pete Flint and Gigi Levy Weiss. In this conversation, we explore the real and so far unseen boundaries of the transition towards an economy more heavily based on marketplaces and market-networks, and how this transformation both shapes and is shaped by the major shifts and challenges that are currently emerging in the global society, including environmental, social, political, regulatory. We talk about the need for strong and charismatic leaders to steward these shifts, as well as the need to re-train people to gain the right competencies to deal with an increasingly digital, networked economy and transforming industries. Read more on our Medium story https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/Here are some important links from the conversation:> Ben Evans’ presentation “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” during the World Economic Forum in January 2020, https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations > Simone Cicero: “Why the Next Paradigm Shift may not be Technological”, https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/paradigm-shift-regulation-af48b87a0eeb > Ben Thompson, The End of the Beginning, https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/> Niall Ferguson (2017), The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35629744-the-square-and-the-tower> Libra cryptocurrency, https://libra.org/en-US/> Lambda school, https://lambdaschool.com/> Incredible health, https://www.incrediblehealth.com/> Hire.com, https://www.peoplefluent.com/ Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at www.platformdesigntoolkit.com/podcast Music by liosound.Recorded on March 18th 2020
Of Niall Ferguson's excellent 2018 "The Square and the Tower," and of low-trust societies and the effects of technology on our political future. Prescient, from the viewpoint of 2020. (The written version of this review was first published January 24, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Where the Wind Blows* for Sunday, 8 March 2020; book review by Brad Keister: *The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook* by Niall Ferguson (2017); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Snow to Sand* (2018); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Now I Become Myself* by May Sarton.
Hey everyone, today’s episode is with Niall Ferguson:Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard.He has written fifteen books, including: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook; The House of Rothschild I and II;The Ascent of Money and, The Great Degeneration.We had a very interesting conversation, we touched on many relevant topics, including his thoughts 3 years into Trump’s presidency, role of institutions in a “Techie” era, hate speech in the framework of the first amendment and his most recent book “The Square and the Tower”.Even though this interview was recorded back in March of this year, the conversation is still very relevant for today and gives a lot to reflect on.Please enjoy this edition of Through Conversations with Niall Ferguson!--------------------------------------His latest book is The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to FacebookThe Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary EditionWebsite: http://www.niallferguson.comTwitter: @nfergusWatch his talk at Ciudad de Las Ideas 2016--------------------------------------HIGHLIGHTS(0:51) Intro(1:37) Thoughts 3 years into Trump’s presidency.(4:35) China and US.(8:28) Role of institutions in a “Techie” era: can we draw a line in the sand between tech and government?(12:51) ...What happens when Facebook shuts down?(17:50) "The Degeneration of institutions" and finding the middle ground between complex regulation and corruption in free markets.(22:40) Hate speech in the framework of the first amendment.(29:00) The migration of a culture born in college campuses to politics.(32:20) Niall’s take on his approach to free speech, Ayaan's courage to speak her mind.(36:00) Conclusion about universities and what needs to be done.(39:20) “The Square and the Tower”(43:49) Closing remarks.--------------------------------------Thanks for tuning in for this edition of Through Conversations Podcast!If you find this episode interesting, consider subscribing to it. Also, you can share it with anyone who comes to your mind.
Renée DiResta: How to Fight the Imminent Disinformation Blitzkrieg (Ep. 175) Renée DiResta joined Joe Miller to discuss the ongoing threat of state-sponsored misinformation campaigns on social media designed to destabilize the U.S. government. Bio Renée DiResta (@noUpside) is the Director of Research at New Knowledge and a Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust. She investigates the spread of malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations, and has studied disinformation and computational propaganda in the context of pseudoscience conspiracies, terrorism, and state-sponsored information warfare. Renée regularly writes and speaks about the role that tech platforms and curatorial algorithms play in the proliferation of disinformation and conspiracy theories. She is an Ideas contributor at Wired. Her tech industry writing, analysis, talks, and data visualizations have been featured or covered by numerous media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Politico, TechCrunch, Wired, Slate, Forbes, Buzzfeed, The Economist, Journal of Commerce, and more. She is a 2019 Truman National Security Project security fellow and a Council on Foreign Relations term member. Renée is the author of The Hardware Startup: Building your Product, Business, and Brand, published by O’Reilly Media. Previously, Renée was part of the founding team and ran marketing and business development at Haven, the transportation management technology platform that’s transforming trade logistics for commodity, CPG, and food shippers. Before that, Renée was a Principal at seed-stage venture capital fund O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where she invested in early technology startups with a focus on hardware, manufacturing, and logistics companies. She spent seven years on Wall Street as an equity derivatives trader and market maker at Jane Street, a top quantitative proprietary trading firm in New York City. Renée has degrees in Computer Science and Political Science from the Honors College at SUNY Stony Brook. She is a 2017 Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Staff Associate at the Columbia University Data Science Institute, a Harvard Berkman-Klein Center affiliate, and is a Founding Advisor to the Center for Humane Technology. She is passionate about STEM education and childhood immunization advocacy, and is one of the co-founders of parent advocacy organization Vaccinate California. For fun, she explores data sets and loves cooking and crafting. Renée and her husband, Justin Hileman, are the parents of two feisty little people. Resources RenéeDiResta.com New Knowledge What We Now Know About Russian Disinformation by Renée DiResta (N.Y. Times, 12/17/18) The Digital Maginot Line by Renée DiResta (RibbonFarm, 11/28/18) She Warned of ‘Peer-to-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened. By Sheera Frenkel (N.Y. Times, 11/12/2017) The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson News Roundup Facebook A new British Parliament report is calling for new regulations against Facebook. Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee concluded an 18-month investigation against the social media giant finding it routinely breaks privacy and competition laws. The Committee report is non-binding but it could pave the way for additional regulations. Back here in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Facebook saying the company reveals sensitive health data in groups. And the FTC is currently in the process of negotiation a multibillion dollar fine with the company. Also, several groups including Common Sense filed an FTC complaint against Facebook for violating children’s privacy laws and pushing kids to make in-app purchases. And the Verge posted an exposé yesterday on Facebook’s treatment of its contractors working for Cognizant. Apparently content screeners paid less than $29,000 a year are the first line of defense in preventing harmful content from being posted to the site. The reviewers are routinely exposed to death, sexual abuse, and other types of content that exacts an extreme mental health toll on these workers. Facebook claims its working to alleviate some of these working conditions. Google YouTube is facing an advertiser boycott after a YouTuber published a report detailing how comments and recommendations on normal products, like bikinis, ultimately nudge users to access inappropriate videos of children. The video aren’t necessarily pornographic per se, but users post comments within the videos that included time stamps that show children in compromising poses and positions. Nestle, Disney and Fortnight are among several advertisers that have pulled or restricted ads from YouTube because their ads appeared alongside the inappropriate content. YouTube reiterated its zero-tolerance policy for such content and deleted millions of the comments in question that directed viewers to the material in question. In other YouTube news, the platform announced that going forward it will prevent anti-vaxxer channels from hosting ads. YouTube cited its policy against dangerous and harmful content. And YouTube’s parent company Alphabet’s Google unit announced that it will end its policy of forced arbitration regarding worker disputes. Microsoft defends military contract Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defended a $479 million military contract with the US Army to supply the company’s augmented reality systems called HoloLens. More than 100 Microsoft employees signed a letter protesting the contract and asking Microsoft to back out. But Nadella said the company won’t withhold technology from what he deems to be “democratic governments” such as the United States. Bipartisan group of Senators ask DoE and Homeland to block Huawei A Bipartisan group of Senators wrote a letter to the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security yesterday urging them to block Huawei technology from accessing U.S. electrical systems and infrastructure. Several weeks ago, Congress blocked Huawei from accessing the nation’s telecommunication’s infrastructure as security officials believe the China-based company is working on behalf of the Chinese government to spy on the U.S.
“This time is different.” Historians: “Ha.” “The Net is net beneficial.” Historian Niall Ferguson: “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?” Ferguson analyzes the structure and prospects of “Cyberia” as yet another round in the endless battle between hierarchy and networks that has wrought spasms of innovation and chaos throughout history. He examines those previous rounds (including all that was set in motion by the printing press) in light of the current paradoxes of radical networking enabled by digital technology being the engine of massive hierarchical companies (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and their equivalents in China) and exploited by populists and authoritarians around the world. He puts the fundamental question this way: “Is our age likely to repeat the experience of the period after 1500, when the printing revolution unleashed wave after wave of revolution? Will the new networks liberate us from the shackles of the administrative state as the revolutionary networks of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries freed our ancestors from the shackles of spiritual and temporal hierarchy? Or will the established hierarchies of our time succeed more quickly than their imperial predecessors in co-opting the networks, and enlist them in their ancient vice of waging war?” Niall Ferguson is currently a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His books include The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018); Civilization: The West and the Rest (2012); and The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2009).
Mark Sanford was elected to Congress in 1994, where he quickly established himself as one of the most conservative members of the chamber. In 2002, he was elected governor of South Carolina. He was, again, one of the most conservative elected officials in the country. Many expected him to be the GOP’s nominee against Obama in 2012. Then it all happened. The disappearance. “Hiking the Appalachian trail.” Sanford left public life. He was done, it seemed. And then he wasn’t. He won a House seat in South Carolina. He overcame the kind of scandal that usually destroys a politician. But he couldn’t overcome Trump. Sanford was a rock-ribbed conservative, a Republican, but he was no Trumpist. He accused the president of fanning the flames of intolerance, of being reckless with the truth. He wrote a New York Times op-ed calling on Trump to release his tax returns. Sanford got a primary opponent for his troubles, Trump endorsed her, and Sanford lost. Weeks after Sanford's defeat, Trump appeared before House Republicans and mocked Sanford in front of his colleagues. The president, unusually, was booed. I sat down with Sanford in his final weeks in Congress to talk about what he’s learned about the Republican Party, about Donald Trump, about America, and about himself. Recommended books: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Panel: AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Joe Eames Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Vitali Zaidman In this episode, the panel talks with programmer, Vitali Zaidman, who is working with Software Solutions Company. He researches technologies and starts new projects all the time, and looks at these new technologies within the market. The panel talks about testing JavaScript in 2018 and Jest. Show Topics: 1:32 – Chuck: Let’s talk about testing JavaScript in 2018. 1:53 – Vitali talks about solving problems in JavaScript. 2:46 – Chuck asks Vitali a question. 3:03 – Vitali’s answer. 3:30 – Why Jest? Why not Mocha or these other programs? 3:49 – Jest is the best interruption of what testing should look like and the best practice nowadays. There are different options, they can be better, but Jest has this great support from their community. There are great new features. 4:31 – Chuck to Joe: What are you using for testing nowadays? 4:43 – Joe: I use Angular, primarily. 6:01 – Like life, it’s sometimes easier to use things that make things very valuable. 7:55 – Aimee: I have heard great things about Cypress, but at work we are using another program. 8:22 – Vitali: Check out my article. 8:51 – Aimee: There are too many problems with the program that we use at work. 9:39 – Panelist to Vitali: I read your article, and I am a fan. Why do you pick Test Café over Cypress, and how familiar are you with Cypress? What about Selenium and other programs? 10:12 – Vitali: “Test Café and Cypress are competing head-to-head.” Listen to Vitali’s suggestions and comments per the panelists’ question at this timestamp. 11:25 – Chuck: I see that you use sign-on... 12:29 – Aimee: Can you talk about Puppeteer? It seems promising. 12:45 – Vitali: Yes, Puppeteer is promising. It’s developed by Google and by Chrome. You don’t want to use all of your tests in Puppeteer, because it will be really hard to do in other browsers. 13:26: Panelist: “...5, 6, 7, years ago it was important of any kind of JavaScript testing you had no idea if it worked in one browser and it not necessarily works in another browser. That was 10 years ago. Is multiple browsers testing as important then as it is now? 14:51: Vitali answers the above question. 15:30 – Aimee: If it is more JavaScript heavy then it could possibly cause more problems. 15:56 – Panelist: I agree with this. 16:02 – Vitali continues this conversation with additional comments. 16:17 – Aimee: “I see that Safari is the new Internet Explorer.” 16:23: Chuck: “Yes, you have to know your audience. Are they using older browsers? What is the compatibility?” 17:01 – Vitali: There are issues with the security. Firefox has a feature of tracking protection; something like that. 17:33 – Question to Vitali by Panelist. 17:55 – Vitali answers the question. 18:30 – Panelist makes additional comments. 18:43 – If you use Safari, you reap what you sow. 18:49 – Chuck: I use Chrome on my iPhone. (Aimee does, too.) Sometimes I wind up in Safari by accident. 19:38 – Panelist makes comments. 19:52 – Vitali tells a funny story that relates to this topic. 20:45 – There are too many standards out there. 21:05 – Aimee makes comments. 21:08 – Brutalist Web Design. Some guy has this site – Brutalist Web Design – where he says use basic stuff and stop being so custom. Stop using the web as some crazy platform, and if your site is a website that can be scrolled through, that’s great. It needs to be just enough for people to see your content. 22:16 – Aimee makes additional comments about this topic of Brutalist Web Design. 22:35 – Panelist: I like it when people go out and say things like that. 22:45 – Here is the point, though. There is a difference between a website and a web application. Really the purpose is to read an article. 23:37 – Vitali chimes in. 24:01 – Back to the topic of content on websites. 25:17 – Panelist: Medium is very minimal. Medium doesn’t feel like an application. 26:10 – Is the website easy enough for the user to scroll through and get the content like they want to? 26:19 – Advertisement. 27:22 – See how far off the topic we got? 27:31 – These are my favorite conversations to have. 27:39 – Vitali: Let’s talk about how my article got so popular. It’s an interesting thing, I started researching “testing” for my company. We wanted to implement one of the testing tools. Instead of creating a presentation, I would write first about it in Medium to get feedback from the community as well. It was a great decision, because I got a lot of comments back. I enjoyed the experience, too. Just write about your problem in Medium to see what people say. 28:48 – Panelist: You put a ton of time and energy in this article. There are tons of links. Did you really go through all of those articles? 29:10 – Yes, what are the most permanent tools? I was just reading through a lot of comments and feedback from people. I tested the tools myself, too! 29:37 – Panelist: You broke down the article, and it’s a 22-minute read. 30:09 – Vitali: I wrote the article for my company, and they ad to read it. 30:24 – Panelist: Spending so much time – you probably felt like it was apart of your job. 30:39 – Vitali: I really like creating and writing. It was rally amazing for me and a great experience. I feel like I am talented in this area because I write well and fast. I wanted to express myself. 31:17 – Did you edit and review? 31:23 – Vitali: I wrote it by myself and some friends read it. There were serious mistakes, and that’s okay I am not afraid of mistakes. This way you get feedback. 32:10 – Chuck: “Some people see testing in JavaScript, and people look at this and say there are so much here. Is there a place where people can start, so that way they don’t’ get too overwhelmed? Is there a way to ease into this and take a bite-size at a time?” 32:52 – Vitali: “Find something that works for them. Read the article and start writing code.” He continues this conversation from here on out. 34:03 – Chuck continues to ask questions and add other comments. 34:16 – Vitali chimes-in. 34:38 – Chuck. 34:46 – Vitali piggybacks off of Chuck’s comments. 36:14 – Panelist: Let’s go back to Jest. There is a very common occurrence where we see lots of turn and we see ideas like this has become the dominant or the standard, a lot of people talk about stuff within this community. Then we get this idea that ‘this is the only thing that is happening.’ Transition to jQuery to React to... With that context do you feel like Jest will be a dominant program? Are we going to see Jest used just as common as Mocha and other popular programs? 38:15 – Vitali comments on the panelist’s question. 38:50 – Panelist: New features. Are the features in Jest (over Jasmine, Mocha, etc.) so important that it will drive people to it by itself? 40:30 – Vitali comments on this great question. 40:58 – Panelist asks questions about features about Jest. 41:29 – Vitali talks about this topic. 42:14 – Let’s go to picks! 42:14 – Advertisement. Links: Vitali Zaidman’s Facebook Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Vitali Zaidman’s GitHub Vitali Zaidman’s NPM Vitali Zaidman’s LinkedIn Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Article JavaScript Brutalist Web Design Jasmine Cypress React jQuery Jest Protractor – end to end testing for Angular Test Café Intern Sinon XKCD Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Cache Fly Picks: AJ O’Neal Continuous from last week’s episode: Crossing the Chasm – New Technologies from Niche to General Adaptation. Go Lang Joe Eames Board Game: Rajas of the Ganges Framework Summit Conference in Utah React Conference Aimee Knight Hacker News – “Does Software Understand Complexity” via Michael Feathers Cream City Code Chuck E-Book: How do I get a job? Express VPN Vitali Book: The Square and The Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson My article!
Panel: AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Joe Eames Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Vitali Zaidman In this episode, the panel talks with programmer, Vitali Zaidman, who is working with Software Solutions Company. He researches technologies and starts new projects all the time, and looks at these new technologies within the market. The panel talks about testing JavaScript in 2018 and Jest. Show Topics: 1:32 – Chuck: Let’s talk about testing JavaScript in 2018. 1:53 – Vitali talks about solving problems in JavaScript. 2:46 – Chuck asks Vitali a question. 3:03 – Vitali’s answer. 3:30 – Why Jest? Why not Mocha or these other programs? 3:49 – Jest is the best interruption of what testing should look like and the best practice nowadays. There are different options, they can be better, but Jest has this great support from their community. There are great new features. 4:31 – Chuck to Joe: What are you using for testing nowadays? 4:43 – Joe: I use Angular, primarily. 6:01 – Like life, it’s sometimes easier to use things that make things very valuable. 7:55 – Aimee: I have heard great things about Cypress, but at work we are using another program. 8:22 – Vitali: Check out my article. 8:51 – Aimee: There are too many problems with the program that we use at work. 9:39 – Panelist to Vitali: I read your article, and I am a fan. Why do you pick Test Café over Cypress, and how familiar are you with Cypress? What about Selenium and other programs? 10:12 – Vitali: “Test Café and Cypress are competing head-to-head.” Listen to Vitali’s suggestions and comments per the panelists’ question at this timestamp. 11:25 – Chuck: I see that you use sign-on... 12:29 – Aimee: Can you talk about Puppeteer? It seems promising. 12:45 – Vitali: Yes, Puppeteer is promising. It’s developed by Google and by Chrome. You don’t want to use all of your tests in Puppeteer, because it will be really hard to do in other browsers. 13:26: Panelist: “...5, 6, 7, years ago it was important of any kind of JavaScript testing you had no idea if it worked in one browser and it not necessarily works in another browser. That was 10 years ago. Is multiple browsers testing as important then as it is now? 14:51: Vitali answers the above question. 15:30 – Aimee: If it is more JavaScript heavy then it could possibly cause more problems. 15:56 – Panelist: I agree with this. 16:02 – Vitali continues this conversation with additional comments. 16:17 – Aimee: “I see that Safari is the new Internet Explorer.” 16:23: Chuck: “Yes, you have to know your audience. Are they using older browsers? What is the compatibility?” 17:01 – Vitali: There are issues with the security. Firefox has a feature of tracking protection; something like that. 17:33 – Question to Vitali by Panelist. 17:55 – Vitali answers the question. 18:30 – Panelist makes additional comments. 18:43 – If you use Safari, you reap what you sow. 18:49 – Chuck: I use Chrome on my iPhone. (Aimee does, too.) Sometimes I wind up in Safari by accident. 19:38 – Panelist makes comments. 19:52 – Vitali tells a funny story that relates to this topic. 20:45 – There are too many standards out there. 21:05 – Aimee makes comments. 21:08 – Brutalist Web Design. Some guy has this site – Brutalist Web Design – where he says use basic stuff and stop being so custom. Stop using the web as some crazy platform, and if your site is a website that can be scrolled through, that’s great. It needs to be just enough for people to see your content. 22:16 – Aimee makes additional comments about this topic of Brutalist Web Design. 22:35 – Panelist: I like it when people go out and say things like that. 22:45 – Here is the point, though. There is a difference between a website and a web application. Really the purpose is to read an article. 23:37 – Vitali chimes in. 24:01 – Back to the topic of content on websites. 25:17 – Panelist: Medium is very minimal. Medium doesn’t feel like an application. 26:10 – Is the website easy enough for the user to scroll through and get the content like they want to? 26:19 – Advertisement. 27:22 – See how far off the topic we got? 27:31 – These are my favorite conversations to have. 27:39 – Vitali: Let’s talk about how my article got so popular. It’s an interesting thing, I started researching “testing” for my company. We wanted to implement one of the testing tools. Instead of creating a presentation, I would write first about it in Medium to get feedback from the community as well. It was a great decision, because I got a lot of comments back. I enjoyed the experience, too. Just write about your problem in Medium to see what people say. 28:48 – Panelist: You put a ton of time and energy in this article. There are tons of links. Did you really go through all of those articles? 29:10 – Yes, what are the most permanent tools? I was just reading through a lot of comments and feedback from people. I tested the tools myself, too! 29:37 – Panelist: You broke down the article, and it’s a 22-minute read. 30:09 – Vitali: I wrote the article for my company, and they ad to read it. 30:24 – Panelist: Spending so much time – you probably felt like it was apart of your job. 30:39 – Vitali: I really like creating and writing. It was rally amazing for me and a great experience. I feel like I am talented in this area because I write well and fast. I wanted to express myself. 31:17 – Did you edit and review? 31:23 – Vitali: I wrote it by myself and some friends read it. There were serious mistakes, and that’s okay I am not afraid of mistakes. This way you get feedback. 32:10 – Chuck: “Some people see testing in JavaScript, and people look at this and say there are so much here. Is there a place where people can start, so that way they don’t’ get too overwhelmed? Is there a way to ease into this and take a bite-size at a time?” 32:52 – Vitali: “Find something that works for them. Read the article and start writing code.” He continues this conversation from here on out. 34:03 – Chuck continues to ask questions and add other comments. 34:16 – Vitali chimes-in. 34:38 – Chuck. 34:46 – Vitali piggybacks off of Chuck’s comments. 36:14 – Panelist: Let’s go back to Jest. There is a very common occurrence where we see lots of turn and we see ideas like this has become the dominant or the standard, a lot of people talk about stuff within this community. Then we get this idea that ‘this is the only thing that is happening.’ Transition to jQuery to React to... With that context do you feel like Jest will be a dominant program? Are we going to see Jest used just as common as Mocha and other popular programs? 38:15 – Vitali comments on the panelist’s question. 38:50 – Panelist: New features. Are the features in Jest (over Jasmine, Mocha, etc.) so important that it will drive people to it by itself? 40:30 – Vitali comments on this great question. 40:58 – Panelist asks questions about features about Jest. 41:29 – Vitali talks about this topic. 42:14 – Let’s go to picks! 42:14 – Advertisement. Links: Vitali Zaidman’s Facebook Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Vitali Zaidman’s GitHub Vitali Zaidman’s NPM Vitali Zaidman’s LinkedIn Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Article JavaScript Brutalist Web Design Jasmine Cypress React jQuery Jest Protractor – end to end testing for Angular Test Café Intern Sinon XKCD Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Cache Fly Picks: AJ O’Neal Continuous from last week’s episode: Crossing the Chasm – New Technologies from Niche to General Adaptation. Go Lang Joe Eames Board Game: Rajas of the Ganges Framework Summit Conference in Utah React Conference Aimee Knight Hacker News – “Does Software Understand Complexity” via Michael Feathers Cream City Code Chuck E-Book: How do I get a job? Express VPN Vitali Book: The Square and The Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson My article!
Panel: AJ O’Neal Aimee Knight Joe Eames Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Vitali Zaidman In this episode, the panel talks with programmer, Vitali Zaidman, who is working with Software Solutions Company. He researches technologies and starts new projects all the time, and looks at these new technologies within the market. The panel talks about testing JavaScript in 2018 and Jest. Show Topics: 1:32 – Chuck: Let’s talk about testing JavaScript in 2018. 1:53 – Vitali talks about solving problems in JavaScript. 2:46 – Chuck asks Vitali a question. 3:03 – Vitali’s answer. 3:30 – Why Jest? Why not Mocha or these other programs? 3:49 – Jest is the best interruption of what testing should look like and the best practice nowadays. There are different options, they can be better, but Jest has this great support from their community. There are great new features. 4:31 – Chuck to Joe: What are you using for testing nowadays? 4:43 – Joe: I use Angular, primarily. 6:01 – Like life, it’s sometimes easier to use things that make things very valuable. 7:55 – Aimee: I have heard great things about Cypress, but at work we are using another program. 8:22 – Vitali: Check out my article. 8:51 – Aimee: There are too many problems with the program that we use at work. 9:39 – Panelist to Vitali: I read your article, and I am a fan. Why do you pick Test Café over Cypress, and how familiar are you with Cypress? What about Selenium and other programs? 10:12 – Vitali: “Test Café and Cypress are competing head-to-head.” Listen to Vitali’s suggestions and comments per the panelists’ question at this timestamp. 11:25 – Chuck: I see that you use sign-on... 12:29 – Aimee: Can you talk about Puppeteer? It seems promising. 12:45 – Vitali: Yes, Puppeteer is promising. It’s developed by Google and by Chrome. You don’t want to use all of your tests in Puppeteer, because it will be really hard to do in other browsers. 13:26: Panelist: “...5, 6, 7, years ago it was important of any kind of JavaScript testing you had no idea if it worked in one browser and it not necessarily works in another browser. That was 10 years ago. Is multiple browsers testing as important then as it is now? 14:51: Vitali answers the above question. 15:30 – Aimee: If it is more JavaScript heavy then it could possibly cause more problems. 15:56 – Panelist: I agree with this. 16:02 – Vitali continues this conversation with additional comments. 16:17 – Aimee: “I see that Safari is the new Internet Explorer.” 16:23: Chuck: “Yes, you have to know your audience. Are they using older browsers? What is the compatibility?” 17:01 – Vitali: There are issues with the security. Firefox has a feature of tracking protection; something like that. 17:33 – Question to Vitali by Panelist. 17:55 – Vitali answers the question. 18:30 – Panelist makes additional comments. 18:43 – If you use Safari, you reap what you sow. 18:49 – Chuck: I use Chrome on my iPhone. (Aimee does, too.) Sometimes I wind up in Safari by accident. 19:38 – Panelist makes comments. 19:52 – Vitali tells a funny story that relates to this topic. 20:45 – There are too many standards out there. 21:05 – Aimee makes comments. 21:08 – Brutalist Web Design. Some guy has this site – Brutalist Web Design – where he says use basic stuff and stop being so custom. Stop using the web as some crazy platform, and if your site is a website that can be scrolled through, that’s great. It needs to be just enough for people to see your content. 22:16 – Aimee makes additional comments about this topic of Brutalist Web Design. 22:35 – Panelist: I like it when people go out and say things like that. 22:45 – Here is the point, though. There is a difference between a website and a web application. Really the purpose is to read an article. 23:37 – Vitali chimes in. 24:01 – Back to the topic of content on websites. 25:17 – Panelist: Medium is very minimal. Medium doesn’t feel like an application. 26:10 – Is the website easy enough for the user to scroll through and get the content like they want to? 26:19 – Advertisement. 27:22 – See how far off the topic we got? 27:31 – These are my favorite conversations to have. 27:39 – Vitali: Let’s talk about how my article got so popular. It’s an interesting thing, I started researching “testing” for my company. We wanted to implement one of the testing tools. Instead of creating a presentation, I would write first about it in Medium to get feedback from the community as well. It was a great decision, because I got a lot of comments back. I enjoyed the experience, too. Just write about your problem in Medium to see what people say. 28:48 – Panelist: You put a ton of time and energy in this article. There are tons of links. Did you really go through all of those articles? 29:10 – Yes, what are the most permanent tools? I was just reading through a lot of comments and feedback from people. I tested the tools myself, too! 29:37 – Panelist: You broke down the article, and it’s a 22-minute read. 30:09 – Vitali: I wrote the article for my company, and they ad to read it. 30:24 – Panelist: Spending so much time – you probably felt like it was apart of your job. 30:39 – Vitali: I really like creating and writing. It was rally amazing for me and a great experience. I feel like I am talented in this area because I write well and fast. I wanted to express myself. 31:17 – Did you edit and review? 31:23 – Vitali: I wrote it by myself and some friends read it. There were serious mistakes, and that’s okay I am not afraid of mistakes. This way you get feedback. 32:10 – Chuck: “Some people see testing in JavaScript, and people look at this and say there are so much here. Is there a place where people can start, so that way they don’t’ get too overwhelmed? Is there a way to ease into this and take a bite-size at a time?” 32:52 – Vitali: “Find something that works for them. Read the article and start writing code.” He continues this conversation from here on out. 34:03 – Chuck continues to ask questions and add other comments. 34:16 – Vitali chimes-in. 34:38 – Chuck. 34:46 – Vitali piggybacks off of Chuck’s comments. 36:14 – Panelist: Let’s go back to Jest. There is a very common occurrence where we see lots of turn and we see ideas like this has become the dominant or the standard, a lot of people talk about stuff within this community. Then we get this idea that ‘this is the only thing that is happening.’ Transition to jQuery to React to... With that context do you feel like Jest will be a dominant program? Are we going to see Jest used just as common as Mocha and other popular programs? 38:15 – Vitali comments on the panelist’s question. 38:50 – Panelist: New features. Are the features in Jest (over Jasmine, Mocha, etc.) so important that it will drive people to it by itself? 40:30 – Vitali comments on this great question. 40:58 – Panelist asks questions about features about Jest. 41:29 – Vitali talks about this topic. 42:14 – Let’s go to picks! 42:14 – Advertisement. Links: Vitali Zaidman’s Facebook Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Vitali Zaidman’s GitHub Vitali Zaidman’s NPM Vitali Zaidman’s LinkedIn Vitali Zaidman’s Medium Article JavaScript Brutalist Web Design Jasmine Cypress React jQuery Jest Protractor – end to end testing for Angular Test Café Intern Sinon XKCD Sponsors: Kendo UI Sentry Digital Ocean Cache Fly Picks: AJ O’Neal Continuous from last week’s episode: Crossing the Chasm – New Technologies from Niche to General Adaptation. Go Lang Joe Eames Board Game: Rajas of the Ganges Framework Summit Conference in Utah React Conference Aimee Knight Hacker News – “Does Software Understand Complexity” via Michael Feathers Cream City Code Chuck E-Book: How do I get a job? Express VPN Vitali Book: The Square and The Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson My article!
‘People do not move because they’ve been convinced intellectually. Unless you move the heart, the rest of you won’t move at all. All storytelling is about moving the heart, and when you’ve moved the heart, the brain will follow.’ If you want to sell voluntary measures to offset carbon emissions, tell a compelling story. Data is less persuasive than the narrative of a village lifted out of poverty. What else is facilitating the cultural shift toward doing the right thing? The market itself. As network-based systems begin to outperform hierarchical ones, companies are realizing the long-term benefit and profit-potential of carbon neutrality. Mark Stevenson is a self-proclaimed ‘reluctant futurist’ and author of the bestsellers An Optimist’s Tour of the Future and We Do Things Differently. One of the world’s most respected thinkers, Mark supports a diverse mix of clients including government agencies, NGOs, corporations and arts organizations in becoming future literate and adapting their cultures and strategy to face questions around climate change and gender inequality, among other issues. Today, Mark joins Ross, Christophe, and Paul to explain how he uses standup comedy to build literacy around important issues. He describes the benefit for companies that invest in reversing climate change, the climate solutions that have the potential to scale rapidly, and the opportunities in proper grazing and regenerative agriculture. They discuss the difference between climate change mitigation and adaption as well as Mark’s decision to calculate and offset his lifetime emissions. Listen in to understand the value of network-based systems like the blockchain and learn how to sell voluntary measures to offset carbon emissions—including the Nori platform! Resources Mark’s Website An Optimist’s Tour of the Futureby Mark Stevenson We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World by Mark Stevenson The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley UN Sustainable Development Goals The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebookby Niall Ferguson World Bank CO2 Emissions Data UN Platform to Offset Emissions The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery Key Takeaways [0:48] How Mark became a ‘reluctant futurist’ Mission to build literacy around climate change, gender equality, human genome, etc. Standup comedy to learn communication, ‘talk to everybody’ Slowly morphed into futurist (research, consultancy, public-facing role) [6:11] Mark’s experience at an underwater cabinet meeting in the Maldives Low-lying island with emissions problem President brought attention with underwater meeting [9:00] Climate change mitigation vs. adaptation Mitigation deals with root cause (i.e.: stop emitting, pull excess CO2out of atmosphere) Adaptation implies dealing with impact of climate change (e.g.: build seawalls) [12:10] The benefit for companies that invest in reversing climate change Climate change is shareholder value risk Climate-competent board attracts best talent Consumers reward brands that align with values Cheaper in long run (reduced water waste, electricity) [15:00] The cultural shift toward doing the right thing Make more money in short-term as ‘bad guy’ but lose in long run Many companies don’t advertise carbon neutrality (e.g.: Microsoft) [19:19] Mark’s insight on climate solutions that can scale rapidly Renewables (solar, wind) continue to outperform growth predictions Liquid fuel taken from different source (renewed daily) [25:41] Mark’s take on the failure of government Not true democracy—must democratize health, wealth, education and opportunity All time low trust in large-scale institutions as only 10% work in system and profit from it [30:00] Mark’s decision to calculate and offset his lifetime emissions Opportunity to practice what preach, establish credibility Used World Bank data for average citizen, added travel plus 20% Paid via United Nations platform [34:20] How to sell voluntary measures to offset emissions Move heart, brain will follow Tell compelling story about truth (i.e.: lift village out of poverty) [40:28] The difference between hierarchies and network-based systems Past systems ran on hierarchies (e.g.: teacher in classroom) Networked systems have started to outperform (i.e.: solar energy) [42:03] How the blockchain functions as a network-based system Trust established via multiple auditing groups vs. single, centralized bank [45:53] How Nori will verify carbon removal activity Depends on methodology Practices verified by performance Start with traditional verification methods IoT likely to drive down cost of verification [48:58] The opportunities in proper grazing and regenerative agriculture 5B acres of badly managed grassland, half of carbon in atmosphere comes from soil Only 60 harvests left at current level of soil erosion, costs US $44B/year Regenerative agriculture can triple yield, put carbon back in soil and increase fertility over time
Renegade Thinkers Unite: #2 Podcast for CMOs & B2B Marketers
Salesforce has built a company that makes the customers a top priority, and it's a big part of the brand's success. Focusing on the customers means a marketing strategy centered on having an authentic voice and encouraging interactions that feel personally relevant to the consumer. On this episode of Renegade Thinkers Unite, Salesforce CMO Simon Mulcahy shares why that trust is so critical, and how companies can put customers first in their business plan. Additionally, Simon discusses the art and science of marketing, the role artificial intelligence can play, and how GDPR and data security concerns are forcing marketers to get better. This conversation is sure to inspire, click here to listen! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts - Stitcher - or Podsearch What You’ll Learn: Don't put a product at the center of your business model Companies often make the mistake of placing their product at the center of their business model. Simon counters this mindset and explains that in the modern era, it's much easier to build an amazing product, but much harder to engage the customer in a relevant, honest way. With that in mind, customer-centered thinking has to be everywhere in your business, starting with the CEO. If you keep your focus squarely on the customer, success in other areas of business will follow. Brand trust takes years to build, but seconds to lose One of the key points Simon emphasized is that business is all about trust. If your company prioritizes generating trust in the community you’re trying to serve, customers will keep coming back to your brand. Conversely, one major negative interaction can destroy months of rapport with a customer, so you should always be conscious of your tone and how it will be received. A voice that inspires trust in your customers will serve your marketing for years to come. Marketing isn't just for the marketing department. Every single touchpoint with the consumer represents the brand. That means that everything from salespeople, to direct communications, to customer service, is marketing, to an extent. Make sure that the brand identity is infused into every element of the company, and that each department is helping deliver a personalized, contextually-relevant experience. Timeline [1:20] Drew introduces his guest for this episode, Simon Mulcahy, CMO of Salesforce [3:15] Simon’s Renegade Rapid Fire segment [13:07] Why the customer is at the center of the Salesforce business model [19:53] The most powerful lesson learned from Salesforce - it’s all about trust [25:26] The importance of having a unified view of your customer [31:10] Simon shares his opinion on the future of customer centric businesses [36:39] How GDPR will impact customer-centric businesses [41:50] Simon’s “two do’s and one don’t” for marketers Connect With Simon Salesforce website Connect with Simon on LinkedIn Follow Simon on Twitter Follow Simon on Facebook Resources & People Mentioned Adidas brand BOOK: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction BOOK: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook INTERVIEW: “Ding Dong, Salesforce Calling: CMO Aspires to Avon-like Army of Evangelists” BOOK: “Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart” Connect with Drew http://renegade.com/ On LinkedIn On Twitter On Facebook On Instagram
Jack Goldsmith interviews Niall Ferguson about Ferguson's latest book, "The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies, and the Struggle for Power."
1. Vote on expulsion of Rep. Steve Lebsock from Colorado House today . 2. Guest: Kevin Granthem, Colorado Senate President - Today's press conference. 3. Playground with gorilla statue gets rid of him after racial complaints. 4. Guest: Niall Ferguson, author of, "The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook."
Sam Harris speaks with Niall Ferguson about his new book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook . They discuss his career as a writer, networks and hierarchies, how history gets written, the similarity between the 16th century and the 21st, the role of social media in the 2016 Presidential election, the influence of advertising on the public sphere, Trump, the Russian investigation, Islamic extremism, counterfactuals, what would have happened if Clinton had won the presidency, immigration in Europe, conspiracy theories, capitalism, globalization, communism, wealth inequality, universal basic income, Henry Kissinger, the prospect of a US war with China, cyberwar, and other topics. Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization, The Great Degeneration, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, and The Square and the Tower. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His many awards include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012), and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). Twitter: @nfergus
Every time he sees a triangle these days, my 10-year-old son points and says “Gasp! the illuminati!” This is a meme he and all his friends absorbed from YouTube. It’s interesting that several centuries after the Illuminati first appeared, as basically a idealistic secret boys’ club, followed by the Freemasons, these kinds of shadowy organizations still exert so much power on our imaginations. That’s because power doesn’t always come in the shape of Queens, Presidents, CEOs or Members of Parliament. Often it exists in the more or less invisible relationships between people. My guest today is renowned historian Niall Ferguson. His new book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Hierarchies, from the Freemasons to Facebook looks at the two ancient power structures that continue to move the world today. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Derek Thompson on why successful people don’t try appealing to everyone’s tastes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s easy to look at our social networks and think that they’re completely unprecedented. After all, it wasn’t like Abraham Lincoln could see how many likes he was getting on Facebook. But according to Niall Ferguson, that’s a narrow view of history. Ferguson, author of the new book, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, explores how networks have altered the course of human events, and tells us what we can learn about our own social networks by examining the networks of the past.
What do Mark Zuckerburg and Martin Luther have in common? Historian and political commentator Niall Ferguson explains in his newest book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. Ferguson stopped by The New York Public Library to speak with Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times, about the power and limitations of networks throughout history, our news feeds and censorship.
Niall Ferguson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, breaks down the intricate concepts in his new book, “The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Those that study history know that not only is it not static, but that it tends to go though seemingly recurring periods. We’ve seen times where freedom flourishes, times when despots seem to be the flavor du jour, times where great bursts of innovation happen and where darkness and stagnation cast a pall. Even in our modern day we see the tension between, “I alone can fix it,” and the power of grassroots and social networks to try and bring people together in a common cause. This idea, the individual vs. the network is, according to esteemed historical Niall Ferguson, one of the most recurring tensions throughout history. He takes us through this remarkable journey in his book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. My conversation with Niall Ferguson:
The very first of Circus Bazaar Magazines "Big Tent" Podcast series. We sat down to talk with Zac Rogers, an Australian Political Scientist to discuss his doctorate on Cyber Insecurity and the politics of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology.Find Zac Rogers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/zcrogers00Zac Rogers Blog https://thefoxandthegrapesblog.wordpress.com/Books discussed in the podcastThe Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson Link: http://a.co/7pNDKUF@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris Link: http://a.co/4SeWtzcLeviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes et al. Link: http://a.co/fk139e3The Virtual Weapon and International Order by Lucas Kello Link: http://a.co/2pfD3QmYou can discover more about Circus Bazaar Group Worldwide by visitingCircus Bazaar Magazinewww.circusbazaar.comCircus Bazaar Productionswww.circusbazaarproductions.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mark Leonard speaks with Wawrzyniec Smoczyński, editor-in-chief of Polityka INSIGHT, about the implications of Poland's government reshuffle and the changes to its constitution. Bookshelf: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson Europe and its discontents: Poland’s collision course with the European Union by Piotr Buras Picture credit: "Visita del Presidente de Polonia, Andrzej Duda", by Presidencia de la República Mexicana, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
As learning and development professionals, should we focus on learning outcomes or business outcomes? In this week's podcast, GoodPractice Business Development Director Chris Keenan argues that some parts of L&D lack basic business skills. He joins Ross G and Owen to share his experiences and chat about what we could do differently. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find Chris on Twitter @Chris_R_Keenan, Owen @OwenFerguson and Ross @RossGarnerGP. You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus. For more from GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com. The graphic Owen referred to, comparing American Airlines and Southwest, can be seen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mitsmr/status/917527621411500032 The audio books he is looking forward to are Niall Ferguson's The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power and Bill Bryson's Appliance of Science. The piece Chris recommended on football academics is available from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/oct/06/football-biggest-issue-boys-rejected-academies And, for more on ambiguity in Blade Runner, see Mark Kermode's documentary On the Edge of Blade Runner, available online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyWHJ5o60L0
Niall Ferguson talks to Philip Dodd about a less hierarchical history. Jane Munro looks at Degas's depictions of the human body. Sarah Lamb describes dancing MacMillan's ballets. The Square and the Tower: Networks, hierarchies and the struggle for global power by Niall Ferguson is out now. Degas - A Passion for Perfection runs at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge until January 14th 2018. Jane Munro has edited a catalogue containing essays to mark the centenary of Degas's death which is published by Yale University Press. Kenneth MacMillan - A National Celebration - featuring 6 ballet companies from across Britain - takes place at the Royal Opera House between October 18th and November 1st. Producer: Robyn Read
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