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Listen to ASCO's JCO Oncology Practice, Art of Oncology Practice article, "An Oncologist's Guide to Ensuring Your First Medical Grand Rounds Will Be Your Last” by Dr. David Johnson, who is a clinical oncologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. The article is followed by an interview with Johnson and host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres. Through humor and irony, Johnson critiques how overspecialization and poor presentation practices have eroded what was once internal medicine's premier educational forum. Transcript Narrator: An Oncologist's Guide to Ensuring Your First Medical Grand Rounds Will Be Your Last, by David H. Johnson, MD, MACP, FASCO   Over the past five decades, I have attended hundreds of medical conferences—some insightful and illuminating, others tedious and forgettable. Among these countless gatherings, Medical Grand Rounds (MGRs) has always held a special place. Originally conceived as a forum for discussing complex clinical cases, emerging research, and best practices in patient care, MGRs served as a unifying platform for clinicians across all specialties, along with medical students, residents, and other health care professionals. Expert speakers—whether esteemed faculty or distinguished guests—would discuss challenging cases, using them as a springboard to explore the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment. During my early years as a medical student, resident, and junior faculty member, Grand Rounds consistently attracted large, engaged audiences. However, as medicine became increasingly subspecialized, attendance began to wane. Lectures grew more technically intricate, often straying from broad clinical relevance. The patient-centered discussions that once brought together diverse medical professionals gradually gave way to hyperspecialized presentations. Subspecialists, once eager to share their insights with the wider medical community, increasingly withdrew to their own specialty-specific conferences, further fragmenting the exchange of knowledge across disciplines. As a former Chair of Internal Medicine and a veteran of numerous MGRs, I observed firsthand how these sessions shifted from dynamic educational exchanges to highly specialized, often impenetrable discussions. One of the most striking trends in recent years has been the decline in presentation quality at MGR—even among local and visiting world-renowned experts. While these speakers are often brilliant clinicians and investigators, they can also be remarkably poor lecturers, delivering some of the most uninspiring talks I have encountered. Their presentations are so consistently lackluster that one might suspect an underlying strategy at play—an unspoken method to ensure that they are never invited back. Having observed this pattern repeatedly, I am convinced that these speakers must be adhering to a set of unwritten rules to avoid future MGR presentations. To assist those unfamiliar with this apparent strategy, I have distilled the key principles that, when followed correctly, all but guarantee that a presenter will not be asked to give another MGR lecture—thus sparing them the burden of preparing one in the future. Drawing on my experience as an oncologist, I illustrate these principles using an oncology-based example although I suspect similar rules apply across other subspecialties. It will be up to my colleagues in cardiology, endocrinology, rheumatology, and beyond to identify and document their own versions—tasks for which I claim no expertise. What follows are the seven “Rules for Presenting a Bad Medical Oncology Medical Grand Rounds.” 1.  Microscopic Mayhem: Always begin with an excruciatingly detailed breakdown of the tumor's histology and molecular markers, emphasizing how these have evolved over the years (eg, PAP v prostate-specific antigen)—except, of course, when they have not (eg, estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, etc). These nuances, while of limited relevance to general internists or most subspecialists (aside from oncologists), are guaranteed to induce eye-glazing boredom and quiet despair among your audience. 2. TNM Torture: Next, cover every nuance of the newest staging system … this is always a real crowd pleaser. For illustrative purposes, show a TNM chart in the smallest possible font. It is particularly helpful if you provide a lengthy review of previous versions of the staging system and painstakingly cover each and every change in the system. Importantly, this activity will allow you to disavow the relevance of all previous literature studies to which you will subsequently refer during the course of your presentation … to wit—“these data are based on the OLD staging system and therefore may not pertain …” This phrase is pure gold—use it often if you can. NB: You will know you have “captured” your audience if you observe audience members “shifting in their seats” … it occurs almost every time … but if you have failed to “move” the audience … by all means, continue reading … there is more! 3. Mechanism of Action Meltdown: Discuss in detail every drug ever used to treat the cancer under discussion; this works best if you also give a detailed description of each drug's mechanism of action (MOA). General internists and subspecialists just LOVE hearing a detailed discussion of the drug's MOA … especially if it is not at all relevant to the objectives of your talk. At this point, if you observe a wave of slack-jawed faces slowly slumping toward their desktops, you will know you are on your way to successfully crushing your audience's collective spirit. Keep going—you are almost there. 4. Dosage Deadlock: One must discuss “dose response” … there is absolutely nothing like a dose response presentation to a group of internists to induce cries of anguish. A wonderful example of how one might weave this into a lecture to generalists or a mixed audience of subspecialists is to discuss details that ONLY an oncologist would care about—such as the need to dose escalate imatinib in GIST patients with exon 9 mutations as compared with those with exon 11 mutations. This is a definite winner! 5. Criteria Catatonia: Do not forget to discuss the newest computed tomography or positron emission tomography criteria for determining response … especially if you plan to discuss an obscure malignancy that even oncologists rarely encounter (eg, esthesioneuroblastoma). Should you plan to discuss a common disease you can ensure ennui only if you will spend extra time discussing RECIST criteria. Now if you do this well, some audience members may begin fashioning their breakfast burritos into projectiles—each one aimed squarely at YOU. Be brave … soldier on! 6. Kaplan-Meier Killer: Make sure to discuss the arcane details of multiple negative phase II and III trials pertaining to the cancer under discussion. It is best to show several inconsequential and hard-to-read Kaplan-Meier plots. To make sure that you do a bad job, divide this portion of your presentation into two sections … one focused on adjuvant treatment; the second part should consist of a long boring soliloquy on the management of metastatic disease. Provide detailed information of little interest even to the most ardent fan of the disease you are discussing. This alone will almost certainly ensure that you will never, ever be asked to give Medicine Grand Rounds again. 7. Lymph Node Lobotomy: For the coup de grâce, be sure to include an exhaustive discussion of the latest surgical techniques, down to the precise number of lymph nodes required for an “adequate dissection.” To be fair, such details can be invaluable in specialized settings like a tumor board, where they send subspecialists into rapturous delight. But in the context of MGR—where the audience spans multiple disciplines—it will almost certainly induce a stultifying torpor. If dullness were an art, this would be its masterpiece—capable of lulling even the most caffeinated minds into a stupor. If you have carefully followed the above set of rules, at this point, some members of the audience should be banging their heads against the nearest hard surface. If you then hear a loud THUD … and you're still standing … you will know you have succeeded in giving the world's worst Medical Grand Rounds!   Final Thoughts I hope that these rules shed light on what makes for a truly dreadful oncology MGR presentation—which, by inverse reasoning, might just serve as a blueprint for an excellent one. At its best, an outstanding lecture defies expectations. One of the most memorable MGRs I have attended, for instance, was on prostaglandin function—not a subject typically associated with edge-of-your-seat suspense. Given by a biochemist and physician from another subspecialty, it could have easily devolved into a labyrinth of enzymatic pathways and chemical structures. Instead, the speaker took a different approach: rather than focusing on biochemical minutiae, he illustrated how prostaglandins influence nearly every major physiologic system—modulating inflammation, regulating cardiovascular function, protecting the gut, aiding reproduction, supporting renal function, and even influencing the nervous system—without a single slide depicting the prostaglandin structure. The result? A room full of clinicians—not biochemists—walked away with a far richer understanding of how prostaglandins affect their daily practice. What is even more remarkable is that the talk's clarity did not just inform—it sparked new collaborations that shaped years of NIH-funded research. Now that was an MGR masterpiece. At its core, effective scientific communication boils down to three deceptively simple principles: understanding your audience, focusing on relevance, and making complex information accessible.2 The best MGRs do not drown the audience in details, but rather illuminate why those details matter. A great lecture is not about showing how much you know, but about ensuring your audience leaves knowing something they didn't before. For those who prefer the structured wisdom of a written guide over the ramblings of a curmudgeon, an excellent review of these principles—complete with a handy checklist—is available.2 But fair warning: if you follow these principles, you may find yourself invited back to present another stellar MGRs. Perish the thought! Dr. Mikkael SekeresHello and welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, which features essays and personal reflections from authors exploring their experience in the oncology field. I'm your host, Mikkael Sekeres. I'm Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Hematology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami.  What a pleasure it is today to be joined by Dr. David Johnson, clinical oncologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. In this episode, we will be discussing his Art of Oncology Practice article, "An Oncologist's Guide to Ensuring Your First Medical Grand Rounds Will Be Your Last."  Our guest's disclosures will be linked in the transcript.  David, welcome to our podcast and thanks so much for joining us. Dr. David JohnsonGreat to be here, Mikkael. Thanks for inviting me. Dr. Mikkael SekeresI was wondering if we could start with just- give us a sense about you. Can you tell us about yourself? Where are you from? And walk us through your career. Dr. David JohnsonSure. I grew up in a small rural community in Northwest Georgia about 30 miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the Appalachian Mountains. I met my wife in kindergarten. Dr. Mikkael SekeresOh my. Dr. David JohnsonThere are laws in Georgia. We didn't get married till the third grade. But we dated in high school and got married after college. And so we've literally been with one another my entire life, our entire lives. Dr. Mikkael SekeresMy word. Dr. David JohnsonI went to medical school in Georgia. I did my training in multiple sites, including my oncology training at Vanderbilt, where I completed my training. I spent the next 30 years there, where I had a wonderful career. Got an opportunity to be a Division Chief and a Deputy Director of, and the founder of, a cancer center there. And in 2010, I was recruited to UT Southwestern as the Chairman of Medicine. Not a position I had particularly aspired to, but I was interested in taking on that challenge, and it proved to be quite a challenge for me. I had to relearn internal medicine, and really all the subspecialties of medicine really became quite challenging to me. So my career has spanned sort of the entire spectrum, I suppose, as a clinical investigator, as an administrator, and now as a near end-of-my-career guy who writes ridiculous articles about grand rounds. Dr. Mikkael SekeresNot ridiculous at all. It was terrific. What was that like, having to retool? And this is a theme you cover a little bit in your essay, also, from something that's super specialized. I mean, you have had this storied career with the focus on lung cancer, and then having to expand not only to all of hematology oncology, but all of medicine. Dr. David JohnsonIt was a challenge, but it was also incredibly fun. My first few days in the chair's office, I met with a number of individuals, but perhaps the most important individuals I met with were the incoming chief residents who were, and are, brilliant men and women. And we made a pact. I promised to teach them as much as I could about oncology if they would teach me as much as they could about internal medicine. And so I spent that first year literally trying to relearn medicine. And I had great teachers. Several of those chiefs are now on the faculty here or elsewhere. And that continued on for the next several years. Every group of chief residents imparted their wisdom to me, and I gave them what little bit I could provide back to them in the oncology world. It was a lot of fun. And I have to say, I don't necessarily recommend everybody go into administration. It's not necessarily the most fun thing in the world to do. But the opportunity to deal one-on-one closely with really brilliant men and women like the chief residents was probably the highlight of my time as Chair of Medicine. Dr. Mikkael SekeresThat sounds incredible. I can imagine, just reflecting over the two decades that I've been in hematology oncology and thinking about the changes in how we diagnose and care for people over that time period, I can only imagine what the changes had been in internal medicine since I was last immersed in that, which would be my residency. Dr. David JohnsonWell, I trained in the 70s in internal medicine, and what transpired in the 70s was kind of ‘monkey see, monkey do'. We didn't really have a lot of understanding of pathophysiology except at the most basic level. Things have changed enormously, as you well know, certainly in the field of oncology and hematology, but in all the other fields as well. And so I came in with what I thought was a pretty good foundation of knowledge, and I realized it was completely worthless, what I had learned as an intern and resident. And when I say I had to relearn medicine, I mean, I had to relearn medicine. It was like being an intern. Actually, it was like being a medical student all over again. Dr. Mikkael SekeresOh, wow. Dr. David JohnsonSo it's quite challenging.  Dr. Mikkael SekeresWell, and it's just so interesting. You're so deliberate in your writing and thinking through something like grand rounds. It's not a surprise, David, that you were also deliberate in how you were going to approach relearning medicine. So I wonder if we could pivot to talking about grand rounds, because part of being a Chair of Medicine, of course, is having Department of Medicine grand rounds. And whether those are in a cancer center or a department of medicine, it's an honor to be invited to give a grand rounds talk. How do you think grand rounds have changed over the past few decades? Can you give an example of what grand rounds looked like in the 1990s compared to what they look like now? Dr. David JohnsonWell, I should all go back to the 70s and and talk about grand rounds in the 70s. And I referenced an article in my essay written by Dr. Ingelfinger, who many people remember Dr. Ingelfinger as the Ingelfinger Rule, which the New England Journal used to apply. You couldn't publish in the New England Journal if you had published or publicly presented your data prior to its presentation in the New England Journal. Anyway, Dr. Ingelfinger wrote an article which, as I say, I referenced in my essay, about the graying of grand rounds, when he talked about what grand rounds used to be like. It was a very almost sacred event where patients were presented, and then experts in the field would discuss the case and impart to the audience their wisdom and knowledge garnered over years of caring for patients with that particular problem, might- a disease like AML, or lung cancer, or adrenal insufficiency, and talk about it not just from a pathophysiologic standpoint, but from a clinician standpoint. How do these patients present? What do you do? How do you go about diagnosing and what can you do to take care of those kinds of patients? It was very patient-centric. And often times the patient, him or herself, was presented at the grand rounds. And then experts sitting in the front row would often query the speaker and put him or her under a lot of stress to answer very specific questions about the case or about the disease itself.  Over time, that evolved, and some would say devolved, but evolved into more specialized and nuanced presentations, generally without a patient present, or maybe even not even referred to, but very specifically about the molecular biology of disease, which is marvelous and wonderful to talk about, but not necessarily in a grand round setting where you've got cardiologists sitting next to endocrinologists, seated next to nephrologists, seated next to primary care physicians and, you know, an MS1 and an MS2 and et cetera. So it was very evident to me that what I had witnessed in my early years in medicine had really become more and more subspecialized. As a result, grand rounds, which used to be packed and standing room only, became echo chambers. It was like a C-SPAN presentation, you know, where local representative got up and gave a talk and the chambers were completely empty. And so we had to go to do things like force people to attend grand rounds like a Soviet Union-style rally or something, you know. You have to pay them to go. But it was really that observation that got me to thinking about it.  And by the way, I love oncology and I'm, I think there's so much exciting progress that's being made that I want the presentations to be exciting to everybody, not just to the oncologist or the hematologist, for example. And what I was witnessing was kind of a formula that, almost like a pancake formula, that everybody followed the same rules. You know, “This disease is the third most common cancer and it presents in this way and that way.” And it was very, very formulaic. It wasn't energizing and exciting as it had been when we were discussing individual patients. So, you know, it just is what it is. I mean, progress is progress and you can't stop it. And I'm not trying to make America great again, you know, by going back to the 70s, but I do think sometimes we overthink what medical grand rounds ought to be as compared to a presentation at ASH or ASCO where you're talking to subspecialists who understand the nuances and you don't have to explain the abbreviations, you know, that type of thing. Dr. Mikkael SekeresSo I wonder, you talk about the echo chamber of the grand rounds nowadays, right? It's not as well attended. It used to be a packed event, and it used to be almost a who's who of, of who's in the department. You'd see some very famous people who would attend every grand rounds and some up-and-comers, and it was a chance for the chief residents to shine as well. How do you think COVID and the use of Zoom has changed the personality and energy of grand rounds? Is it better because, frankly, more people attend—they just attend virtually. Last time I attended, I mean, I attend our Department of Medicine grand rounds weekly, and I'll often see 150, 200 people on the Zoom. Or is it worse because the interaction's limited? Dr. David JohnsonYeah, I don't want to be one of those old curmudgeons that says, you know, the way it used to be is always better. But there's no question that the convenience of Zoom or similar media, virtual events, is remarkable. I do like being able to sit in my office where I am right now and watch a conference across campus that I don't have to walk 30 minutes to get to. I like that, although I need the exercise. But at the same time, I think one of the most important aspects of coming together is lost with virtual meetings, and that's the casual conversation that takes place. I mentioned in my essay an example of the grand rounds that I attended given by someone in a different specialty who was both a physician and a PhD in biochemistry, and he was talking about prostaglandin metabolism. And talk about a yawner of a title; you almost have to prop your eyelids open with toothpicks. But it turned out to be one of the most fascinating, engaging conversations I've ever encountered. And moreover, it completely opened my eyes to an area of research that I had not been exposed to at all. And it became immediately obvious to me that it was relevant to the area of my interest, which was lung cancer. This individual happened to be just studying colon cancer. He's not an oncologist, but he was studying colon cancer. But it was really interesting what he was talking about. And he made it very relevant to every subspecialist and generalist in the audience because he talked about how prostaglandin has made a difference in various aspects of human physiology.  The other grand rounds which always sticks in my mind was presented by a long standing program director at my former institution of Vanderbilt. He's passed away many years ago, but he gave a fascinating grand rounds where he presented the case of a homeless person. I can't remember the title of his grand rounds exactly, but I think it was “Care of the Homeless” or something like that. So again, not something that necessarily had people rushing to the audience. What he did is he presented this case as a mysterious case, you know, “what is it?” And he slowly built up the presentation of this individual who repeatedly came to the emergency department for various and sundry complaints. And to make a long story short, he presented a case that turned out to be lead poisoning. Everybody was on the edge of their seat trying to figure out what it was. And he was challenging members of the audience and senior members of the audience, including the Cair, and saying, “What do you think?” And it turned out that the patient became intoxicated not by eating paint chips or drinking lead infused liquids. He was burning car batteries to stay alive and inhaling lead fumes, which itself was fascinating, you know, so it was a fabulous grand rounds. And I mean, everybody learned something about the disease that they might otherwise have ignored, you know, if it'd been a title “Lead Poisoning”, I'm not sure a lot of people would have shown up. Dr. Mikkael Sekeres That story, David, reminds me of Tracy Kidder, who's a master of the nonfiction narrative, will choose a subject and kind of just go into great depth about it, and that subject could be a person. And he wrote a book called Rough Sleepers about Jim O'Connell - and Jim O'Connell was one of my attendings when I did my residency at Mass General - and about his life and what he learned about the homeless. And it's this same kind of engaging, “Wow, I never thought about that.” And it takes you in a different direction.  And you know, in your essay, you make a really interesting comment. You reflect that subspecialists, once eager to share their insight with the wider medical community, increasingly withdraw to their own specialty specific conferences, further fragmenting the exchange of knowledge across disciplines. How do you think this affects their ability to gain new insights into their research when they hear from a broader audience and get questions that they usually don't face, as opposed to being sucked into the groupthink of other subspecialists who are similarly isolated? Dr. David Johnson That's one of the reasons I chose to illustrate that prostaglandin presentation, because again, that was not something that I specifically knew much about. And as I said, I went to the grand rounds more out of a sense of obligation than a sense of engagement. Moreover, our Chair at that institution forced us to go, so I was there, not by choice, but I'm so glad I was, because like you say, I got insight into an area that I had not really thought about and that cross pollination and fertilization is really a critical aspect. I think that you can gain at a broad conference like Medical Grand Rounds as opposed to a niche conference where you're talking about APL. You know, everybody's an APL expert, but they never thought about diabetes and how that might impact on their research. So it's not like there's an ‘aha' moment at every Grand Rounds, but I do think that those kinds of broad based audiences can sometimes bring a different perspective that even the speaker, him or herself had not thought of. Dr. Mikkael SekeresI think that's a great place to end and to thank David Johnson, who's a clinical oncologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and just penned the essay in JCO Art of Oncology Practice entitled "An Oncologist's Guide to Ensuring Your First Medical Grand Rounds Will Be Your Last."  Until next time, thank you for listening to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology. Don't forget to give us a rating or review, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. You can find all of ASCO's shows at asco.org/podcasts.  David, once again, I want to thank you for joining me today. Dr. David JohnsonThank you very much for having me. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.    Show notes: Like, share and subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a rating or review.  Guest Bio: Dr David Johnson is a clinical oncologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

Guest Thomas Karagianes | Jonathan Romano Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard Littauer discusses the journey and impact of Eterna with developers Jonathan Romano and Thomas Karagianes. The conversation revolves around Eterna's role in RNA research through user-contributed puzzle solutions, emphasizing community engagement and educational outreach. Topics include the integration of hybrid intelligence, where human intuition complements AI in scientific discovery, and the significance of explainable AI in motivating player participation. The episode also touches on the ethical considerations in collaborating with for-profit entities, the development of accessible COVID vaccines, and low-cost tuberculosis diagnostics. Hit download now to hear more! [00:01:24] Jonathan describes Eterna, a platform where players solve puzzles to contribute to RNA research. [00:02:12] Thomas explains that Eterna focuses on RNA complexity and its importance in modern science, like mRNA vaccines and how Eterna engages players in folding RNA sequences and testing them in labs. [00:04:36] Richard asks if the project is open source and Jonathan says its partially open source and explains the technical limitations that prevent full openness. [00:05:26] We learn about Eterna's community with around 100,000 total players, and a core group of about 30-40 who regularly engage in scientific challenges. [00:07:31] Thomas discusses ongoing efforts to make the game more accessible and increase community engagement through educational outreach and simplifying the tutorial system, and Eterna is used in classrooms as a teaching tool. [00:09:47] Jonathan explains how some Eterna players become code contributors, staff members, and even lead authors on academic papers. [00:13:32] We hear about the funding of the community. [00:15:56] Thomas discusses how Eterna integrates AI to assist players but stresses the importance of human intuition in tackling unique challenges and Jonathan explains how Eterna uses hybrid intelligence, combining AI and human input for better research outcomes. He highlights how Eterna's community has contributed to important research, including COVID-19 vaccine development and tuberculosis diagnostics. [00:22:29] Thomas shares that Eterna attracts players who enjoy breaking the model or exploring boundaries, making the game engaging and motivating for them. [00:27:48] Jonathan and Thomas discuss the ethical considerations of partnerships, especially with for-profit companies, and the need to engage the community in decision-making processes. [00:31:41] Jonathan shares how you can contribute to Eterna and how to join the developer community on GitHub. Quotes [00:10:10] “Minimally, whenever there is a scientific publication that comes out of Eterna from players contributions, there is a consortium author on the paper. That will include everyone who has submitted a solution.” [00:14:21] “There's definitely this pattern - and you can even see it in the code- where open source code passes from grad student to grad student.” [00:19:14] “Hybrid intelligence is an underused buzzword.” Spotlight [00:33:16] Richard's spotlight is The Internet Archive. [00:34:23] Jonathan's spotlight is txircd, a modular IRC daemon written in Python. [00:35:32] Thomas's spotlight is Bioconda. 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Last Sunday evening Shira and I were in Lakewood, New Jersey for a wedding.  Lakewood is the capital of the charedi, or ultra-Orthodox, world in America.  Lakewood boasts a world-famous charedi yeshiva called Beth Medrash Govoha which is the second largest yeshiva in the world, second only to the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.  The wedding was charedi.  Men and women sat separately during the wedding.  Men and women danced separately after the wedding. There was a thick wall separating the men and women dancing.  And a strong majority of the men wore black hats.  It was the first black hat wedding we had ever attended. Being at this wedding called to mind, for me, a famous story about Dr. Paul Farmer in Tracy Kidder's biography called Mountains Beyond Mountains.   Paul Farmer would go to impoverished third world nations and provide modern health care to people who otherwise did not have access to modern medicine.  One day Paul Farmer is in Haiti where there had been a tuberculosis outbreak.  Many locals believed that tuberculosis is caused by sorcery, by an enemy casting a spell upon them, the response to which was to ask a Voodoo priest to cast a curse upon your enemy in retaliation for causing your illness.  Paul Farmer tries to make the case that tuberculosis is a disease caused by germs, not an illness caused by curses; and that the most helpful response is antibiotics, not mobilizing a Voodoo priest to cast a counter curse.  Paul Farmer meets a woman afflicted by tuberculosis who is persuaded to take medication.  She recovers.  Afterwards she tells Paul Farmer, “I know TB is caused by germs.”  And she also says I know which enemy cursed me so I asked my Voodoo priest to get revenge.  Paul Farmer responded,  if you believe it was an enemy that cast a curse upon you, why then did you take the antibiotics?  To which this Haitian woman responded: “Honey, are you incapable of complexity?"

Antidepressants changed my life. I have OCD and antidepressants did what nearly a decade of therapy, meditation, and supplements couldn't: they allowed me to live my life without being in a 24/7 spiral. (Bonus: they actually made therapy and meditation far more helpful once they started to work.) I think antidepressants are seriously misunderstood. Yes, they blunt negative emotions. But they also operate on personality and sense of self: they can make you bolder, less sensitive to failure, and less risk-averse. In short: they are a technology that changes how we see ourselves and the world. That's why I invited Dr. Peter D. Kramer on my show. Dr. Kramer is a psychiatrist and the author of eight books, including Listening to Prozac, which is an international bestseller. He has practiced psychiatry and taught psychotherapy at Brown University for nearly four decades. Listening To Prozac is one of my favorite books, and it documents Dr. Kramer's experiences as a psychiatrist seeing how antidepressants like Prozac changed his patients' sense of self and personality. Now, you might be wondering why have him on a show about ChatGPT? Well, technology can change who we are even if it comes as a software product rather than a pill. It's undoubtedly true that as generations of humans learn to live with AI, it will change what it means to be human—and how we see ourselves and the world. I think that can be a good thing, but it could also be scary. I wanted to talk to Dr. Kramer about his book, and see if we could apply some of his insights in Prozac to ChatGPT. It was an incredible conversation, and I was honored to talk to him. Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT. It's usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe  Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper  To learn more about the topics in this episode: Listening to Prozac by Peter D. Kramer ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind by Dan Shipper SSRIs by Scott Alexander Timestamps: Introduction: 00:50 How technology changes the way we see ourselves and the world: 08:24 Antidepressants and their impact on our personality and sense of self: 21:25 How the availability of a technological solution prompts us to see the problem everywhere: 26:35 Technology alters the categories we have divided the world into: 34:06 How I use ChatGPT in my writing process: 40:05 Experimenting with ChatGPT to get relationship advice: 45:41 Prompting ChatGPT to be more specific: 51:16 Clearly indicate the tone you want ChatGPT to take: 55:11 Dr. Peter D. Kramer's final thoughts on ChatGPT as a therapist: 1:02:27 Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Dr. Peter D. Kramer: https://twitter.com/PeterDKramer  ChatGPT and the Future of the Human  Mind by Dan Shipper: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/chatgpt-and-the-future-of-the-human-mind  Listening to Prozac  by Dr. Kramer: https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Prozac-Landmark-Antidepressants-Remaking/dp/0140266712  Should You Leave? by Dr. Kramer: https://www.amazon.com/Should-You-Leave-Psychiatrist-Autonomy/dp/0140272798  Against Depression by Dr. Kramer: https://www.amazon.com/Against-Depression-Peter-D-Kramer/dp/0143036963  Ordinarily Well by Dr. Kramer: https://www.amazon.com/Ordinarily-Well-Antidepressants-Peter-Kramer/dp/0374536961  Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges: https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl10/Pierre-Menard.pdf  The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977  Making Hay by Verlyn Klinkenborg: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Hay-Verlyn-Klinkenborg/dp/0941130185  Oranges by John McPhee: https://www.amazon.com/Oranges-John-McPhee/dp/0374512973 

Rich mentions:Benjamin Creme: https://share-international.org/for-news-media/who-was-benjamin-creme/the Masters of Wisdom: https://share-international.org/for-news-media/who-are-the-masters-of-wisdom/Maitreya in Nairobi: https://share-international.org/in-depth/signs/maitreya-in-nairobi/Galileo's 400th anniversary: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/aug/25/galileos-telescope-400-years-anniversaryMaitreya's Star sign: https://share-international.org/in-depth/signs/maitreyas-star/Maitreya's Messages: https://share-international.org/resources/books/messages-from-maitreya/Project Homeless Connect: https://www.projecthomelessconnect.org/The Seven Rays: https://www.lucistrust.org/arcane_school/talks_and_articles/the_science_the_seven_raysStory in S.F. Chronicle about the farmer, selling corn for ethanol: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/ETHANOL-AS-ECONOMIC-ELIXIR-Fuel-alternative-2495064.phpPaul Farmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_FarmerMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder: https://www.tracykidder.com/mountains-beyond-mountains.htmlMaximo Gaia's photography: https://500px.com/photo/127253/generals-of-south-central-by-maximus-gaia

Rev. Dr. Pamela (Pam) King hosts With & For, a podcast that explores the depths of psychological science and spiritual wisdom. The podcast offers practical guidance toward spiritual health, wholeness, and thriving. She is also the Executive Director of the Thrive Center and the Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Dr. King co-authored The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective and Thriving with Stone Age Minds and is co-editor of The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence. In this episode, Nada sits down with Dr. King to discuss her work at the THRIVE Center, where the science of psychology and the practice of spirituality collide. Pam desires to catalyze a movement of human thriving through research and resource development. To help us get there, she explains the three pillars of thriving and how they get reassessed in mid-life. Be sure to tune in to With and For, Pam's new podcast. You can also learn more about her work at the Thrive Center. Pam is reading Open and Unafraid by David Taylor and The Strength That Remains by Tracy Kidder. She says the SBLA facial and eye wands are her skincare must-haves. Follow on Instagram: @DrPamKing, @pamebstynekingPlease follow us at @thisislibertyroad on Instagram; we want to share and connect with you and hear your thoughts and comments. Please rate and review this podcast. It helps to know if these conversations inspire and equip you to consider your possibilities and lean into your future with intention. If you are interested in learning even more from the experts on this podcast, please consider joining us in After School, Liberty Road's new membership community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[REBROADCAST FROM FEBRUARY 7, 2023] Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder joins us to discuss his latest book, Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People. The book tells the story of Dr. O'Connell and his work bringing healthcare to the homeless population of Boston. Dr. O'Connell will join us as well.

Simon Garfield discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Simon Garfield was born in London in 1960. He is the author of an appealingly diverse and unpredictable canon of non-fiction, including the bestsellers Mauve, Just My Type and On The Map. He is a trustee of Mass Observation, and is the editor of several books of diaries from the archive, including Our Hidden Lives and A Notable Woman. His recent books include Timekeepers, In Miniature, and All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia. The Interrogatory Mood by Padget Powell https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/07/padgett-powell-interrogative-mood-review The complete works of Tracy Kidder https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1981/10/08/modern-times/ The Albertus typeface https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/simon-garfield/albertus/9781399609258/ Backlisted podcast https://www.backlisted.fm/ Yallah Coffee bar in St Ives https://yallahcoffee.co.uk New Wave - Elvis Costello's collaboration with the Slovenian Eurovision entrants Joker Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKcxldNZYQA This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week I wanted to share some of my favorite books that I think EVERYONE should read. As a dentist who offers house calls, I believe reading general nonfiction is incredibly important for personal growth and empathy. The first book is Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. It tells the story of Dr.Paul Farmer, a physician who dedicated his career to treating patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Haiti. His dedication to justice is truly inspiring and reminds us that all lives matter. The next book is When Breath Becomes Air, a memoir written by a neurosurgeon who reflects on what matters in life as he faces his own mortality. It's a touching read that reminds us of the importance of cherishing time with loved ones. Finally, James Clear's Atomic Habits is a bestseller that offers advice on how to establish good habits. It's a great read for anyone looking to make positive changes in their life. I hope these recommendations inspire you to pick up a book and start reading! And if you're interested in reading together in a community, consider becoming an official member of the ResiDENTAL Movement where every month we will be discussing a new book and share how the ideas and philosophies contained in the book apply to our practices and everyday lives. Thank you for your time and happy reading!   Sign Up to Become An Official Member of the ResiDENTAL Movement   Visit me at: ResiDENTAL Movement Website Vist: AccommoDental Visit: Home Smile Care Foundation   Let's Get Social: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn   Produced by: Social Chameleon

Welcome to the first ever episode of the Liquid Weekly Podcast! A podcast all about Shopify Development. In this episode, Karl and Taylor introduce themselves and talk about how they got started in coding and eventually Shopify. Karl also shares more about the vision for Liquid Weekly and the purpose of the podcast. Taylor explains how he went from being a social worker to a self-taught full-time freelancer and Shopify Expert customizing Shopify themes. Talking about a failed dropshipping store and freelancing "diaper money" to full-time work and building up a business. Karl talks about how he started with computers from a very young age and being inspired by the web and what all could be done. This led to starting his education in computer programming but Karl jumped into the freelancing and web development world quickly while still getting his education. Karl went on to work through various freelancing and full-time engineering positions before moving into consulting and specializing in Shopify. Both Karl and Taylor talk about the benefit of niching down and how focusing on Shopify has helped their careers. // Resources and Links // *some links are affiliate links and it's possible that by purchasing through the link we may earn a small commission Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid by Ivan Djordjevic (book): https://www.amazon.com/Shopify-Theme-Customization-Liquid-state/dp/1801813965 (affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3Oc6aeo) Shopify Dev Changelog Scheduled: https://shopify.dev/changelog/scheduled Changes to Asset URLs: https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/changes-to-asset-urls Shopify Dev Changelog, merchant asset URLs: https://shopify.dev/changelog/changes-to-merchant-asset-urls Shopify Liquid File URL Filter: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/file_url The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (book): https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977 (affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3YhUqMi)

Writers on a New England Stage with Tracy Kidder, recorded live at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH in 2009. This archive program may still contain broadcast elements from the time it aired.

Can you name a millionaire tech mogul with bipolar disorder? Well, you can now. Today's guest is Paul English, the tech mogul best known as the founder of travel website Kayak.  As more and more celebrities in the arts publicly share their bipolar disorder diagnoses many people in the business world still choose to conceal their illness due to stigma and discrimination.  Join us as Paul tells us his story of living with bipolar disorder, including some of the stigma he has faced in the workplace. To learn more - or read the transcript -- please visit the show's official episode page. Guest Paul English is the founder of Boston Venture Studio. Paul has previously co-founded and successfully sold six startups — Kayak, Lola, Moonbeam, GetHuman, Boston Light and Intermute. Paul is also the founder of four nonprofits — Summits Education in Haiti, Embrace Boston, The Winter Walk for Homelessness, and the Bipolar Social Club. Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder's book, “A Truck Full of Money.” You can hear an interview with Paul on “How I Built This” with Guy Raz, and you can see his video from TEDxBoston in 2022. Host Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the author of the popular book, "Mental Illness is an Asshole and other Observations," available from Amazon; signed copies are also available directly from the author. Gabe makes his home in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. He lives with his supportive wife, Kendall, and a Miniature Schnauzer dog that he never wanted, but now can't imagine life without. To book Gabe for your next event or learn more about him, please visit gabehoward.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracy Kidder is the author of eleven books, including The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains. His latest is Rough Sleepers. “I do think it's an interesting challenge to try to write about virtue, with all that's always mixed with it. Some writers have said it's virtually impossible … but it's not impossible. … People who are really trying, struggling against the odds, I think they're worth writing about.” Show notes: tracykidder.com Kidder on Longform Kidder's Atlantic archive 01:00 “‘You Have to Learn to Listen': How a Doctor Cares for Boston's Homeless” (The New York Times • Jan 2023) 06:00 “The Good Doctor” (New Yorker • July 2000) 06:00 Mountains Beyond Mountains (Random House • 2009) 19:00 Good Prose (Kidder and Richard Todd • Random House • 2013) 21:00 House (Houghton Mifflin • 1985) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quote - “The spirit of Afropolitan, and why I'm so excited about thecommunity that's being built, is to connect one of the most powerfulforces in the world, which is human communities, to the fastestgrowing place in the world, which is the African continent.”The Afropolitan Podcast highlights Afropolitans who embrace theunknown and walk with purpose. Through this podcast, we aim to empowerAfricans in the Diaspora to maximize their potential and contribute tothe development of a vibrant and progressive black community.In this episode, we chat with Daniel Yu, Founder & CEO of Wasoko, atechnology company that is transforming the $600 billion market foressential goods sold through mom-and-pop stores in Africa. Wasokoprovides on-demand ordering, delivery, and financing services to thesesmall retailers. Wasoko's platform enables shop owners to place ordersat any time via SMS or a mobile app, and offers free same-day deliveryof goods directly to their stores. Additionally, Wasoko provides "PayLater" financing options to support the growth of these shops. Thecompany operates in several African countries, including Kenya,Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal, and collaborateswith major companies such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble. Wasoko hasraised over $145 million in equity financing from investors like TigerGlobal and Avenir Growth Capital, making it one of the largest techcompanies in Africa.Daniel Yu is an entrepreneur and software developer with extensiveexperience working and traveling in over 65 countries, primarily inemerging economies such as Africa, the Middle East, Central America,Brazil, Southeast Asia, and China. He is skilled at exploring marketsand building networks to effectively launch technology-drivenbusinesses. Daniel is conversational or fluent in eight languages:English (native), Mandarin, Swahili, Arabic, Spanish, Cantonese,Portuguese, and French.Daniel is passionate about leveraging technology and innovation totransform the retail landscape in emerging economies, empowering smallbusinesses, and making a positive social impact across Africa. Join usas Daniel discusses his journey with Wasoko and the importance ofdigital technology and services to solve Africa's supply chainproblems.Daniel's Reading List:1. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others,Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back byWilliam MacAskill - https://amzn.to/41EnFJj2. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight - https://amzn.to/3IkPMq23. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder - https://amzn.to/455COGnShow Notes2:00 Daniel breaks down his background and what led him to Africa asan entrepreneur3:27 Daniel, as the founder and CEO of Wasako, has been working totransform commerce in Africa and tells us the problem it aims to solve4:49 Daniel details the monetization model of Wasoko5:16 Daniel talks about some of the assumptions he had of thiscommerce model and what challenges he faced going to market6:54 Daniel talks about the importance of startups to verticalintegrate in Africa to ensure successful delivery of their chosenofferings and how the process of building in Africa differs from beingin California, where certain aspects are already taken care of, andthe focus is primarily on software development8:20 Daniel explains why he started in certain African countriescompared to others and the cultural differences experienced in eachcountry10:09 Daniel paints the customer onboarding process early on11:16 Daniel details the early stages of a startup and the strugglesyou have to go through12:37 Daniel talks about his educational background and how Itinformed the work he does today13:22 Daniel explains how he learnt to be a programmer withoutcompleting formal education14:01 Daniel gives his view on the future of commerce and supplychains evolving in Africa and the role Wasoko will play in the future16:11 Daniel clarifies the customer acquisition of Wasoko16:40 Daniel talks about his approach to risk taking and decisionmaking especially in uncertain or rapidly changing environments andthe most important qualities or skills that an entrepreneur shouldpossess in order to succeed in today's competitive business landscape,especially in Africa17:50 Books that have profoundly impacted Daniel's life20:17 Daniel gives advice to entrepreneurs hiring talent, especiallyin markets like Africa where talent may not be highly skilled asplaces like California and how he addressed these challenges23:08 Daniel has worked in different industries, including finance,healthcare and technology and breaks down his approach to the processof identifying new opportunities and deciding which ventures toproceed or invest in24:28 Hypothetical title of a book about Daniel's life25:35 Daniel's perspective on what it means to be AfropolitanThe Afropolitan Podcast is hosted by Eche Emole, co-founder of Afropolitan.Listen and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Jamit, orwherever you get your podcasts.Connect with Afropolitan:Twitter - https://twitter.com/afropolitanWebsite - https://www.afropolitan.io/

Episode 136: Street Med 2.      Future Dr. Bedi presents the history and purpose of street medicine and shares why she became interested in this topic. Dr. Saito tells his personal experience and shares the particular challenges of unhoused patients.Written by Indudeep Bedi, OMS III, MSIII, Western University of Health Sciences. Comments by Steven Saito, MD. You are listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast, your weekly dose of knowledge brought to you by the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency Program from Bakersfield, California, a UCLA-affiliated program sponsored by Clinica Sierra Vista, Let Us Be Your Healthcare Home. This podcast was created for educational purposes only. Visit your primary care provider for additional medical advice.Indu: I want to talk about street medicine in some general terms, as well as Tracy Kidder's article published in the NYT this year, called "You have to learn to listen," which is based on Kidder's book Rough Sleepers, on Dr. Jim O'Connell's work with the Boston homeless community.  Dr. Saito: Let's start by talking about street medicine in general. What exactly is street medicine? Street medicine was a term coined by Dr. Jim Withers, from Pittsburgh, who has been practicing the art since the 90s. He founded the Street Medicine Institute (SMI) in 2009, which strives to connect providers worldwide to address homelessness. Providers practice healthcare, of course, but first and foremost, it is about building relationships and demonstrating you are one of them instead of the power differential that usually exists in our system. It requires a paradigm shift, and it's a shift in thinking. Dr. Jim Withers himself, for example, began to wear ragged clothes and put dirt in his hair to show these vulnerable individuals that he was accepting of who they were and respected them for it. In return, they respected him. Dr. Saito: Do you know of other programs which exist? There are a bunch of programs now that have spurred up, such as Doctors without Walls, San Francisco's community health center, of course, are very own CSV, and the Boston Pine Street shelter, which I will talk about more. The SMI publishes an annual report, and there are about 50 independent street medicine programs nationwide. Many global programs have sprung up, too. An international street medicine symposium was founded in 2005. In general, this is an excellent community of providers who can share best practices regarding this unique population. Even a student coalition at the SMI helps get student-run programs off the ground. Dr. Saito: What is one of the homeless community's biggest problems? That is a tricky question because of the complexity surrounding this issue. I will tackle this by answering that housing is one of the most considerable problems. The housing may be either transitional or permanent. Transitional operates to get the individual immediately off the street. In contrast, permanent housing takes longer to find, but many charities have bought real estate to create permanent housing. Permanent housing also includes the individual being vetted, in a lot of cases, to make sure that they will do okay if they have a place of their own. Are they able to be independent? Can they pay rent? Do they have a job? In 2009, however, a new program was implemented known as Housing First. This social program provided "a no-strings-attached" housing to the homeless population with substance use and mental health problems. What was great about this program is it was found that the relapse rate was much lower in this population when compared with other programs. In 2018, however, due to gentrification and rent increases, there was a very steep rise in homelessness in cities on the west coast, such as Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. To combat this, many state-wide programs were established that work with healthcare providers to provide these individuals with the help they need. Dr. Saito: What is the article "You have to learn to listen" about?I would first like to read a short excerpt from the article: "In American cities, visions of the miseries that accompany homelessness confront us every day — bodies lying in doorways, women standing on corners with their imploring cardboard signs dissolving in the rain. And yet, through a curious sleight of mind, we step over the bodies, drive past the mendicants, return to our own problems. O'Connell had spent decades returning, over and over, to the places that the rest of us rush by." Dr. O'Connell completed his IM residency at Mass General in Boston and was about to move on to an oncology fellowship when he was approached by some colleagues with a request to take a position as a physician for one year in a grant-funded program from the city of Boston to address homelessness in the 1980s. The program operated outside of Pine Street Inn homeless shelter. One of the initial experiences that Kidder describes Dr. O'Connell having was his first day of being there, being surrounded by stern-faced nurses who obviously knew more than he did about this niche population. He really had to prove himself to them and the individuals who were homeless. Soon after he joined, Dr. O'Connell met a nurse by the name of Barbara McInnis, who told him, "I really think we want doctors, but you've been trained all wrong. If you come in with your doctor questions, you won't learn anything. You have to learn to listen to these patients." Nurse McInnis also taught Dr. O'Connell a common practice at their shelter, which was to soak patients' feet by filling a tub and pouring in betadine, as a lot of the population did not have footwear. This reflection of "placing the doctor at the feet of the people he was trying to serve" is beautiful. That is precisely what street medicine is about. Dr. O'Connell has been managing the street medicine program at Pine Street since then, and that oncology fellowship remains forgotten. The program he is a part of now has 19 other shelters in order to tackle Boston's growing homelessness problem. However, it was apparent to Dr. O'Connell a few years in that these shelters were not really making a difference in terms of curbing the amount of homelessness. That problem was still continuing to grow. In addition, many other systemic issues were leading to the rise in homelessness, such as the AIDS epidemic around the time, lack of welfare programs, gentrifications, etc. But the difference was being made in the sense that these individuals who had been pushed to the margins, who were overlooked, and who were in essence burned by the healthcare system in one way or another and highly suspicious of providers for that reason, were now able to be coaxed into receiving and accepting the help they needed. This was done by, as said previously, placing the physician at the feet of the people he was trying to serve.Over the years, the program continues to grow and even created a new clinic with beds, offering housing vouchers, but it also faces other problems, such as funding and efficiency. A significant focus for the homeless community is housing options. And most people will do really well after being housed, while for others, finding housing brings more troubles with it when they need to be continuously moved from home to home to avoid eviction. I think a lot of it has to do with the lack of resources that come with housing. Homelessness is so complex that finding a home is simply not enough, and these individuals can again fall through the cracks if those other issues are not addressed. While street medicine does a lot of good, it is a harsh reality that individuals have a low life expectancy and will die of this homelessness because of the other issues that remain a constant in their lives, such as substance use, HIV, AIDS, and mental health issues. Dr. Saito: How did you come to be interested in this topic?I have been interested in street medicine for a while now. I volunteered in some projects that exposed me to the perils facing the population, especially for addiction. For example, I had an excellent opportunity to work with an organization that would put up tents to test the communities for HIV and connect them with resources if needed. We would specifically go to the areas where people who were homeless or of low SES tended to congregate. I really started to think about it more recently when I encountered a patient on the Infectious Disease service who was incredibly complex in an immunocompromised state due to AIDS, with multiple hospitalizations and pretty much every infection under the sun. He was what we commonly refer to as non-compliant because of substance use, and whenever we found placement for him upon discharge, he would run away from that home. I think, as providers, we are very quick to judge and label patients as non-compliant without pausing to understand the nuances of their condition. He would later continually return to the hospital in an acute exacerbation of his illness. With each hospitalization, his baseline continues to worsen. And I was deeply saddened to come across such a patient and also recognized within myself this frustration with the system in which we operate. I am a bit despondent about his outlook, and the work of the CSV team is critical to these rough sleepers. ____________________Conclusion: Now we conclude episode number 136, “Street Med 2.” Future Dr. Bide recounted the experience of Dr. O' Connell and some of the challenges faced by our unhoused patients. Dr. Saito added his personal experience and reminded us that compliance with medications may be difficult in unhoused patients. Here in Clinica Sierra Vista, we are proud of our street medicine program, and we hope many more volunteers would join us in our mission to bring “health for all.”This week we thank Indudeep Bedi, Steven Saito, and Hector Arreaza. Audio editing by Adrianne Silva.Even without trying, every night you go to bed a little wiser. Thanks for listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast. We want to hear from you, send us an email at RioBravoqWeek@clinicasierravista.org, or visit our website riobravofmrp.org/qweek. See you next week! _____________________References:Meyers, T. (2022) Understanding the practice of Street Medicine, Direct Relief. Direct Relief. Available at: https://www.directrelief.org/2022/02/understanding-the-practice-of-street-medicine/.Balasuriya, L. and Dixon, L.B. (2021) Homelessness and mental health: Part 2. The impact of housing interventions. Psychiatry Online. Available at: https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.72504.Atherton, I. and Nicholls, C.M.N. (2012) Housing first as a means of addressing multiple needs and homelessness. European Journal of Homelessness. European Observatory on Homelessness. Available at: https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/9035#.ZCRWKBXMKdY.Kidder, T. 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Author Tracy Kidder has been described as a “master of narrative nonfiction.” Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his 1981 book, “The Soul of a New Machine,” about the development of cutting edge computers. He is the author of more than a dozen books including the acclaimed 2003 New York Times bestseller, “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” about the late global health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health. The book is often assigned as required reading in colleges.The Washington Post says that Kidder writes about “the moral value of small victories in a world of big problems.”Homelessness is the focus of Kidder's latest bestselling book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People.” Kidder spent five years following Dr. O'Connell as he worked the streets of Boston. Kidder was moved by the people he met who were experiencing homelessness in Boston and wanted to tell their stories. “If you get to know them, to really look at them — and a lot of people never do — you realize that they're every bit as human as you and I, and that old adage, There but for the grace of God go I.”“The engine of every good story is human character,” said Kidder. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, and the New York Times but he insisted, “I'm a storyteller more than I am a journalist.”“I stopped thinking of myself as a journalist around the time of the Iraq War. I didn't want to be associated,” he explained. “Because there were so many lies told and so much bad reporting… it starts to taint the term. And then you have Fox News. …It's a wonderful profession, journalism. I believe in it utterly. But I want to see it practiced better.”Kidder says of his craft that “the techniques of storytelling don't belong exclusively to fiction.” Good writing should “be like a pane of glass. The writing itself should be interesting but it doesn't have to be flashy. I believe in immersion in the story that I've discovered.”

This week we will learn about Lola, a new dating app launching in Boston and New York this summer. Today's guest is Paul English the founder of six startups and co-founder of Kayak, a travel industry giant he sold to Priceline for 1.8 billion dollars. Paul is passionate about finding a better way and uses his creativity to solve problems. Years ago, when online dating himself - Paul could identify issues and became compelled to solve the frustrations many faced with existing dating apps. It was a match on Bumble with Rachel Cohen, who became his girlfriend, and now the couple is taking on a new challenge with the upcoming launch of their dating app, Lola. Through Lola, Paul and Rachel plan on creating a new way to connect. Paul shares the vision and inspiration behind Lola, and learn about the exciting possibilities that lie ahead for this new dating app. Paul English is the founder of Boston Venture Studio and he's also an entrepreneur, and philanthropist who has previously co-founded and successfully sold six startups – Kayak, Lola, Moonbeam, GetHuman, Boston Light, and Intermute. Paul is also the founder of four nonprofits – Summits Education in Haiti, Embrace Boston, The Winter Walk for Homelessness, and The Bipolar Social Club. Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder's book "A Truck Full of Money" and you can hear an interview with Paul on "How I Built This" with Guy Raz and view his video from TEDxBoston in 2022. I've watched and listened to it all and I can't tell you how special this man is!Kerry Brett and Paul English discuss the common struggles many have with online dating and how Paul plans on changing the online dating culture and improve and simplify the over dating experience.How Lola will filter out terrible daters.How Lola will use A1 to give the users better matches.Lola will be very safe for women.Lola will have a component built into the app that will find a place in the middle for you to meet.How Lola will use machine learning to help find you a better date.Lola will cut down catfishing.Lola will filter out people who don't practice good behavior.

Acclaimed author Tracy Kidder has tackled another major public health story. This time he looks at Dr. Jim O'Connell's “urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people” in Boston in the new book “Rough Sleepers.” Dr. O'Connell discusses the challenges running the nonprofit, hurdles to providing housing and the Biden Administration's plans for reducing homelessness. This conversation with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter is available now as we all seek to find ways to understand this growing public health issue. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Acclaimed author Tracy Kidder has tackled another major public health story. This time he looks at Dr. Jim O'Connell's “urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people” in Boston in the new book “Rough Sleepers.” Dr. O'Connell discusses the challenges running the nonprofit, hurdles to providing housing and the Biden Administration's plans for reducing homelessness. This conversation with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter is available now as we all seek to find ways to understand this growing public health issue.

Acclaimed author Tracy Kidder has tackled another major public health story. This time he looks at Dr. Jim O'Connell's “urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people” in Boston in the new book “Rough Sleepers.”Dr. O'Connell discusses the challenges running the nonprofit, hurdles to providing housing and the Biden Administration's plans for reducing homelessness.This conversation with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter is available now as we all seek to find ways to understand this growing public health issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Acclaimed author Tracy Kidder has tackled another major public health story. This time he looks at Dr. Jim O'Connell's “urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people” in Boston in the new book “Rough Sleepers.” Dr. O'Connell discusses the challenges running the nonprofit, hurdles to providing housing and the Biden Administration's plans for reducing homelessness. This conversation with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter is available now as we all seek to find ways to understand this growing public health... Read More Read More The post Healing to Homeless People: A Doctor's NYT Best-Selling Story appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.

Today on Boston Public Radio: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tracy Kidder and Dr. Jim O'Connell of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless program joined to discuss Kidder's new book “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People.” We opened the lines to get listener reactions on the mass shooting at Michigan State University. Juliette Kayyem discusses what we know about the Michigan State University shooting, recent swatting at multiple school districts in Mass, and her latest column in the Atlantic about the unidentified flying objects. Kayyem is former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, and the faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Jared Bowen discusses the American Heritage Museum's Hanoi Hilton exhibit, August Wilson's Seven Guitars by the Actor's Shakespeare Project, and the Last Dance of Magic Mike. Bowen is GBH's Executive Arts Editor and host of Open Studio. Sy Montgomery discusses new research that finds orca mothers are so drained after raising one male calf that it drastically reduces their chances of having another one. Montgomery is a journalist, naturalist and a BPR contributor. We ended the show by talking to listeners about the toll parenting has.

Tracy Kidders new book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People” shines a spotlight on Jim O'Connell, a Harvard-trained doctor who has spent 40 years caring for unhoused individuals in Boston, the “Rough Sleepers.” We talk with both Tracy Kidder and Dr. Jim O'Connell on this week's Book Show.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder joins us to discuss his latest book, Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People. The book tells the story of Dr. O'Connell and his work bringing healthcare to the homeless population of Boston. Dr. O'Connell will join us as well.

Tracy Kidders new book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People,” tells the story of Dr. Jim O'Connell – a man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city's unhoused population – the “rough sleepers.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder, author of "Rough Sleepers," talks about Harvard educated doctor Jim O'Connell and his work with the homeless population of Boston over the past 40 years. Tracy Kidder followed Dr. O'Connell and his colleagues from the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program for five years to get an understanding of their work and an insight into the homelessness crisis in America.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, among other literary prizes. His books include Mountains Beyond Mountains, Strength in What Remains, The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Hometown, and A Truck Full of Money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Robin Whitten discuss Tracy Kidder's newest audiobook exploring the complex problems of homelessness, and how one person can make a difference. Kidder's light, somewhat raspy voice unfolds the story of Dr. Jim O'Connell and his clinic partners, who have devoted themselves to bringing comprehensive and compassionate healthcare to those living on the streets of Boston. The focus, however, is firmly placed on those using Dr. O'Connell's services, and Kidder provides a riveting, intimate glimpse of the lives of rough sleepers that is both inspiring and heartbreaking. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Random House Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Behind the Mic is supported by Brilliance Publishing who recently released The Survivalists, a sharp, funny novel by Kashana Cauley. An ambitious Black lawyer has dreams of making partner, until she falls for a coffee entrepreneur and moves into his Brooklyn brownstone with his doomsday-prepping roommates. Packed with tension, curiosity and optimized soy protein bars, The Survivalists is a darkly funny novel by Kashana Cauley, a former writer for The Daily Show and Pod Save America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Episode 174, we share LISTENER TOP 10s of 2022. Thanks to the 70+ listeners who contributed their top 10 lists. Out of 427 books, Emily shares not only what the combined top 10 titles are (actually, 11 titles because there was a tie) but also who the most frequently listed authors are. We also talk about our READING INTENTIONS & GOALS for 2023. Listeners shared their plans and intentions on a Goodreads thread (https://bit.ly/2023_Reading_Intentions_and_Goals). The discussion is ongoing and inspiring. Reminder: PARNASSUS ON WHEELS by Christopher Morley is our first quarter readalong. If you'd like to join our live Zoom conversation on February 26th at 7 PM (ET), send us an email (bookcougars at gmail dot com). Here's the Goodreads discussion link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/22401319-parnassus-on-wheels-by-christopher-morley In our JUST READ segment, we talk about: ROUGH SLEEPERS: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People by Tracy Kidder HOW THE WORD IS PASSED: A Reckoning with Slavery Across America by Clint Smith A HEART THAT WORKS by Rob Delaney THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT by John Steinbeck And in BIBLOADVENTURES, we recap our day in Boston, where we visited three bookstores: Brattle Books, Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, and Commonwealth Books. We had a blast! Emily had a solo biblioadventure, also in Massachusetts, where she saw Tracy Kidder in conversation with Dr. O'Connell discussing his new book ROUGH SLEEPERS. Books that we have talked about on earlier episodes and are OUT NOW: Small World by Laura Zigman Decent People by De'shawn Charles Winslow Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story by Kate Clayborn Exiles by Jane Harper Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT! We are so excited to introduce you to debut novelist JENNA MILLER! We talk with Jenna about her first novel, OUT OF CHARACTER, making friends online, her writing practice, and the growing controversy of butter boards. Happy Listening! Emily & Chris

The book is called "Rough Sleepers," an old British term for people who live on the streets. O'Connell is known for bringing a listening ear and compassionate health care to people no matter where they are.

In this episode, meet health psychologist Dr. Elissa Epel, professor of psychology Dacher Keltner, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder. Listen in to learn about the science behind awe, how we can embrace stress, and the real-life story about a small group of people changing lives. The Stress Prescription by Elissa Epel, PhD https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671990/the-stress-prescription/ Awe by Dacher Keltner https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622175/awe/ Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/594500/rough-sleepers/

It's the most wonderful time of the year! And Matt and Rich can think of no finer way to celebrate it than by hosting a great big podcast party featuring 24 of this year's fabulous guest hosts. Actually, this episode is more like four mini-parties in which subsets of those guests discuss security and cloud computing trends from 2022, managed services trends in 2022, and predictions for 2023. ChannelPro Managing Editor Colleen Frye is back as well to host a meeting of the ChannelPro Book Club. Grab some eggnog, put on your favorite holiday sweater, and join in the fun! ChannelPro Weekly is taking next week off but will be back first week of January with an all new episode in an all new year. Subscribe to ChannelPro Weekly! iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/channelpro-weekly-podcast/id1095568582?mt=2 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaGFubmVscHJvd2Vla2x5LmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq-N3UvNHyAhVWPs0KHYdTDmkQ9sEGegQIARAF Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7hWuOWbrIcwtrK6UJLSHvU Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a1d93194-a5f3-46d8-b625-abdc0ba032f1/ChannelPro-Weekly-Podcast More here: https://www.channelpronetwork.com/download/podcast/channelpro-weekly-2022-holiday-special Guest hosts featured on this episode: Luis Alvarez, President and CEO, Alvarez Technology Group Scott Beck, CEO, BeckTek Esteban Blanco, Chief Geek Officer, Blanco I.T. Bob Coppedge, CEO, Simplex-IT Ed Correia, President and CEO, Sagacent Technologies Lawrence Cruciana, President, Corporate Information Technologies Michael Goldstein, President and CEO, LAN Infotech Lori Hardtke, President, ByteWize Paco Lebron, CEO. ProdigyTeks Eric Long, President, TeraCloud Stanley Louissaint, Principal, Fluid Designs Peter Melby, CEO, Greystone Technology Paul Nebb, President, Titan Technologies Barb Paluszkiewicz, CEO, CDN Technologies Ronnie Parisella, IT Professional and Managed Services Consultant Ben Pearce, President, ACP Technologies Angel Rojas, CEO, DataCorps Technology Solutions Andrew Sampson, President, Sampson and Associates Dave Seibert, CIO of IT Innovators, CEO of SMB TechFest, and CEO of ProTier Peer Groups Lisa Shorr, Co-Owner, Secure Future Tech Solutions and Owner, Shorr Success Erick Simpson, Chief Strategist, ErickSimpson.com Rick Smith, CEO, Renactus Technology Dave Sobel, host of the Business of Tech Podcast Vince Tinnirello, CEO, Anchor Network Solutions ChannelPro Book Club Recommendations: From Paco Lebron: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, by Gene Kim From Luis Alvarez: Upgrade, by Blake Crouch From Voince Tinnirello: Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather, By Mark Seal From Barb Paluszkiewicz, Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur From Andrew Sampson: The One Minute Manager, by Kenneth Blanchard From Andrew Sampson: Level Up: The Ultimate MSP Roadmap For Security, Operations And Profitability, by Bruce McCully From Lori Hardtke: Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases, Dean and Anne Ornish From Angel Rojas: The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team, by Patrick Lencioni From Ed Correia: Literally: The Book on Customer Success for MSPs, by Marnie Stockman From Ed Correia: The MSP Owner's Handbook, by Marnie Stockman and Juan Fernandez From Colleen Frye: A Truck Full of Money, by Tracy Kidder  

This bonus episode is an interview with Josephine Wolff and Dan Schwarcz, who along with Daniel Woods have written an article with the same title as this post. Their thesis is that breach lawyers have lost perspective in their no-holds-barred pursuit of attorney-client privilege to protect the confidentiality of forensic reports that diagnose the breach. Remarkably for a law review article, it contains actual field research. The authors interviewed all the players in breach response, from the company information security teams, the breach lawyers, the forensics investigators, the insurers and insurance brokers, and more. I remind them of Tracy Kidder's astute observation that, in building a house, there are three main players—owner, architect, and builder—and that if you get any two of them in the room alone, they will spend all their time bad-mouthing the third. Wolff, Schwarcz, and Woods seem to have done that with the breach response players, and the bad-mouthing falls hardest on the lawyers.  The main problem is that using attorney-client privilege to keep a breach forensics process confidential is a reach. So, the courts have been unsympathetic. Which forces lawyers to impose more and more restrictions on the forensic investigator and its communications in the hope of maintaining confidentiality. The upshot is that no forensics report at all is written for many breaches (up to 95 percent, Josephine estimates). How does the breached company find out what it did wrong and what it should do to avoid the next breach? Simple. Their lawyer translates the forensic firm's advice into a PowerPoint and briefs management. Really, what could go wrong? In closing, Dan and Josephine offer some ideas for how to get out of this dysfunctional mess. I push back. All in all, it's the most fun I've ever had talking about insurance law.

This bonus episode is an interview with Josephine Wolff and Dan Schwarcz, who along with Daniel Woods have written an article with the same title as this post. Their thesis is that breach lawyers have lost perspective in their no-holds-barred pursuit of attorney-client privilege to protect the confidentiality of forensic reports that diagnose the breach. Remarkably for a law review article, it contains actual field research. The authors interviewed all the players in breach response, from the company information security teams, the breach lawyers, the forensics investigators, the insurers and insurance brokers, and more. I remind them of Tracy Kidder's astute observation that, in building a house, there are three main players—owner, architect, and builder—and that if you get any two of them in the room alone, they will spend all their time bad-mouthing the third. Wolff, Schwarcz, and Woods seem to have done that with the breach response players, and the bad-mouthing falls hardest on the lawyers.  The main problem is that using attorney-client privilege to keep a breach forensics process confidential is a reach. So, the courts have been unsympathetic. Which forces lawyers to impose more and more restrictions on the forensic investigator and its communications in the hope of maintaining confidentiality. The upshot is that no forensics report at all is written for many breaches (up to 95 percent, Josephine estimates). How does the breached company find out what it did wrong and what it should do to avoid the next breach? Simple. Their lawyer translates the forensic firm's advice into a PowerPoint and briefs management. Really, what could go wrong? In closing, Dan and Josephine offer some ideas for how to get out of this dysfunctional mess. I push back. All in all, it's the most fun I've ever had talking about insurance law.

Hannah and Sam are both back from conferences — Hannah hit the New England Independent Booksellers Association Fall Conference (NEIBA!), Sam was talking cannabis. Hear what the booksellers are buzzing about (succession planning! Kelly Link!), how we really nailed the Morgan Talty book (Episode 18!), and how Maine and Massachusetts are really different cultures but seem to work together a lot. Oh, and Hannah saw Tracy Kidder at NEIBA, too. Plus, Sam's reading more Afrofuturism (Rivers Solomon!), and Hannah is reading old '60s-era fiction ("The Bloater"! Rosemary Tonks died in 2014) where people get angry about soup. Then we move into "Blurb Your Enthusiasm," a book about writing book jacket copy, which we mostly don't trust anymore, but which we spend a lot of time talking about. Finally, a murder mystery in a cannabis shop. Which is cozy. 

In the second of this two-part conversation Drs. Patrick Loehrer and David Johnson sit down with Dr. Deborah Schrag, the current Chair of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to continue the discussion of her roles as a leader, researcher, oncologist, public health expert, and more. If you liked this episode, please subscribe. Learn more at https://education.asco.org, or email us at education@asco.org.     TRANSCRIPT Dr. Dave Johnson: Hi everyone, welcome back to Oncology, Etc. an ASCO educational podcast. My name is Dave Johnson. I'm at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. And I'm here with my good friend Dr. Pat Loehrer who serves as a director of Global Oncology and Health Equities at Indiana University. In the second half of our conversation with Dr. Deborah Schrag, the current chair of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In part one, we heard about Dr. Schrag's early life and background, as well as the importance of affordable cancer care and much more. Let's jump back into the conversation and hear about her current goals and initiatives at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I have a question for you. Jumping ahead a little bit. But I mean, you're such a role model for all of us. But you're now in a very powerful position as head of medicine at the preeminent cancer center in the world. So, I'd be interested in knowing what are your top initiatives? What did you come to this role wanting to do short-term and long-term? I'd be curious to hear from you about that. Dr. Deborah Schrag: Yeah. So, I have lots of specific initiatives, all the things that are probably very similar across medical cancer centers. We have to figure out the role of immuno-oncology. We have to figure out the role of CAR T-cell Therapy. There are lots of specific things, but let me tell you about three sort of overarching principles and things that I think we need to think about. So, one of the reasons why I decided to leave my job where I really focused on training researchers and building a research program to lead a department of medicine that has a mix of clinicians, educators, and investigators is that there's really a profound sense of exhaustion and disconnection. I'll use the word even burnout or people get the sense of losing the joy in the practice of medicine. And as corny as it sounds, and I know I'm going a little corny here, Dave. But I really want to help bring back and connect people to the joy in the practice of medicine. It's the joy that we experience when we crack a tough case, when we help a patient, when our patients make us laugh, when our patients and their families make us cry, when they drive us bananas, when they cook us food that is inedible, just reconnecting us to the joy, to the stories. I really wanted to try to be a different kind of leader because I felt that I could make a contribution to the field of academic medicine in general and oncology in particular, by working with faculty to set them up to tap into that joy, because I know they all started with it. I know they all went into medicine because they care about those human stories, because they do want to make a difference. This past week, a fellow intern of mine who you may know, passed away. His name was Paul Farmer. He was the head of Partners in Health and he was an infectious disease physician. There's a book about him by Tracy Kidder that's really moving. There's also a documentary about him called, Bending the Arc, which I would highly recommend. Paul was an incredible inspiration, just incredible, but he brought so much joy to the practice of medicine. I remember when Paul was going to some of the poorest places on the planet, specifically Cange, Haiti. He got an idea that he needed to bring chemotherapy because there were large cancers that were untreated. And he wanted to get leftover chemotherapy from the Dana-Farber. So, in the 1990s, when I was a fellow, he would ask me whether I could get him any leftover Taxol. I was like, ‘Paul, I can't do that. It's not safe. You can't take leftover Taxol to Cange'. And he said, ‘Deb, just wait, the drugs will be oral soon, and then I'll get it'. But guess what? Paul came back to me in 1999, and capecitabine had been approved. The oral equivalent of 5-FU. He held my feet to the fire. He said, ‘Every time you have a dead patient, if there's any leftover capecitabine, I want you to get it for me'. Inspirational leadership, connecting people to the joy in the practice of medicine. I would say that's number one. There's no one simple formula or way to do that. It's hard work. It requires a team I think a lot more teamwork into the practice of medicine. I think we're coming out of a hard two years where we've been confined to Zoom boxes. But it's a lot easier when we can sit together in a room and have a pizza and a beer on a Friday afternoon. But we have to figure this out, and we will, step by step. The other big thematic area, I think, has to do with the patient experience. Dave, I mean, when I started out as a fellow, patients with advanced lung cancer were living for 10 months, 10-12 months, that was a pretty good run with advanced metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. Well, these days, it's 2-3 years, and there's even quite a tale of patients who were living 4-5 years. And that is a long journey. It's no longer the 800-meter sprint, it's a half marathon, turning into a marathon and even an ultra-marathon. So, the way we deliver care needs to change. So, we're really rethinking here, how we deliver care. So, as an example of some, if you go back to the 80s and 90s, cancer chemotherapy was something that happened in the hospital. And in the last quarter century, we've transitioned that to an outpatient practice. I think in the next quarter century, we won't transition all of it, but we will transition a lot of it to home. As an example, I'm struck by when patients undergo IVF, they get handed some Lupron and are taught how to self-administer Lupron every day, so they can undergo a fertility cycle. But when those same women get breast cancer, they have to come into the clinic and sit and wait and take half a day off of work to get the same Lupron. The same is true for men with prostate cancer. Why is that? It's because of policies, and it's not safety, it's not patient-centered. So, I think we have an opportunity to change the patient experience. I think we'll be able to give immunotherapy at home, and HER-2 agents at home. We have to do the trials and make sure that it's safe, but we have to make cancer care more patient-centric and improve the experience. And that's just essential when it's a marathon that we're asking our patients to run, not these 12-month sprints. Families need this also. So, those are a few of the challenges that I want to take on. Joy in medicine, patient experience, and of course, the physician-scientist pathway needs to be strengthened. Dr. Pat Loehrer: I love it. You can imagine between Dave and me, I think that resonates so much about having joy in medicine. I've not heard other people talk about that, but I really think that's an important vocation. But I'm going to ask you something else too because, in the efforts of being joyful and being a role model for that, there's the other side of it, where you can't actually let your hair down, and really be depressed, if you will, or down because you can't let the other side see that. And so, who do you lean on if you will, your confessor that you can talk to when you're feeling down when you're trying to fight the anti-joy part of your job? Dr. Deborah Schrag: I have lots of friends outside of medicine. And I've always found that that's really helpful to make time for friends outside of medicine. They help connect me to humor and other things. I'm coming up on a big high school reunion. My high school classmates and I still meet for picnics in Central Park. And there are about 120 in our graduating class. And I think we'll have about 110 of us getting together. We still have picnics with 40-50 people attending. So, there's nothing like old friends from childhood who now do all kinds of different things. So, that's really helpful. But I've also found that my mentors and colleagues who trained me and who know me really well, are a great source of advice. So, leaders in academic medicine, and I've always found that I've been able to get advice from people who were senior and leaders, people such as Dr. Mayer, Dr. Benz, Dr. Jim Griffin, and also junior colleagues. I now increasingly as I get old, I rely more and more on my trainees and my mentees. So, some of the folks I know best are people who I trained. So, I'll just give you one example. Many of you may know Ethan Basch. We worked together when we were both just coming up. I was an assistant professor. He was a couple of years behind me. I mentored him. Well, he's now chief of the Division of Oncology at UNC. He and I have written lots of grants together. We're really partners now. But it's been a lifelong professional friendship. Sometimes when I just need to let my hair down, I get on the phone with Ethan, and yeah, there's a little bit of commiserating. But I'll give you an example that runs through Dave. Some really valuable experiences had to do with being asked to serve on committees. I think it's great. I just want to give a shout-out to ASCO. Some of my earliest professional relationships were with superstars that I met through ASCO. So, people like Joe Simone, reading his Simone's Maxims everyone needs to read Simone's Maxims if you haven't. There was a guy by the name of Christopher Desh, who sadly passed on. But he was an ASCO member who practiced at the Virginia Commonwealth University back in the late 1990s. Boy, did that guy understand the joy in medicine, some of the early folks who started QOPI. Being introduced to those individuals who practiced in different parts of the country and who had different kinds of challenges - having that sort of rich network has been incredible. At some point, I think through such a connection, maybe it was through Dr. Mayer, I was referred to Dr. Johnson, who was then running the American Board of Internal Medicine committee that wrote the oncology exam. I participated in that for a few years that was led by Dr. Johnson. And I met incredible people on that committee, including Dr. Johnson, just Dr. Johnson's stories could inspire anyone and get them back on track just in terms of the humor and the joy and the love, and really the pride in the profession. But I met Jamie Von Roenn that way, who's now leading educational efforts at ASCO, she was on that committee. Lynn Schuchter became a good friend of mine as a result of that. So, I would just say, sometimes you need to get out of your own space. And sometimes I need to get out of Dodge, as they say, I need to get out of New York, get out of Boston, and being connected to colleagues across the country has been so rewarding. I have a network of friends at other institutions who I rely on. Serving on external advisory boards is a great place to meet people. Study section, if anyone has the opportunity to be on study section. That's a fabulous opportunity. So, I think participating in peer review, showing up at meetings, serving on ASCO committees, or ASH or AACR. These are really important experiences. And I will say in my leadership role, I'm really trying to make it clear to faculty that I encourage them to take time to participate in these activities and attend these events and even travel because the traveling is important, too. I could not have gotten the same dose of Dave Johnson, if I had not actually gone to the meeting, spent all day writing board review questions, and then having a nice meal afterward. That was part of the experience. I don't know what you would say, Dave, but that was my view. Dr. Dave Johnson: So, one of the things that Osler talked about was the fellowship of the profession, and how important it is to have those relationships. Even if one can't physically be with that individual, developing that spiritual relationship is really critically important. I'm so glad you brought this up and expanded on it in the way you did because I think it's absolutely critical to retain the joy of medicine. It's our colleagues, as well as our patients that make it such a marvelous, majestic profession, in my view. Dr. Pat Loehrer: I was going to just add something if I could. So, Deb, replace me on the ABIM, just to let you know, because we had certain slots on there. One of the not sure if it was the rules or guidelines that were mandated is that everyone needed to take the oncology boards, even though we wrote the questions, we had to take the test. And you knew that and you had such unbridled enthusiasm for this. I still remember this deeply, and that not only did you recertify for the oncology board, but you also studied to take the medicine boards too. Your love of medicine is so contagious. And I'm sure everyone at Memorial benefits from this. Dr. Deborah Schrag: Thank you. That's very nice to say. I do, I love the stories. I've been rounding with the house staff on the inpatient service. I think both of you know, inpatient oncology, as we're able to do more and more in the outpatient setting, our inpatients are very, very sick. And we often get a front-row seat to what I would call the social determinants of health challenges. In other words, if you've got relatives and resources, you may be able to be at home. But if you have severe pain or symptoms, and you lack the relatives, or you live on a fifth floor, walk-up, or just don't have the resources to get the home care that you need, you're more likely to be in our hospital. But as I round with the house staff, I find myself asking them to tell me more about the patient stories. Because when I round and they tell me that it's a 74-year-old with peritoneal carcinomatosis, jaundice, and abdominal pain. I'm so old that I've seen so many hundreds of those patients and the management hasn't changed very much. But what's really the privilege is to understand the journeys that got people where they are, and to learn a little bit about who these people are. I try to do that when I round with house staff and I find that it makes the experience better for them. I have to say that I do worry about how we train young physicians in oncology because what they see on the inpatient side is really the hardest of the hard, that's obviously less true in a leukemia service, where they're delivering lots of curative therapy or a stem cell transplant service. But in solid tumor oncology, it's really hard. I think it's something we have to have to tackle. We have to rethink education and medical oncology. I'm hoping that we're going to do that. That's also on the bucket list, by the way. I think we have to do that as a profession. And I know both of you are passionate champions and advocates for education, as is ASCO. But I think it's really imperative that we do that if we are to keep attracting talent. And then I just want to make one more point, which is that New York City is one of the most diverse places in the United States. I don't know about the planet, because I don't know the whole planet. But in the United States, we are incredibly diverse. But the oncology workforce does not yet look like that. So, we have a lot of work to do to train a much more diverse workforce. We're doing well with respect to gender, very well. We're literally about 50/50, we may even have a little bit higher proportion of women on the faculty here at MSK. And I think that's true nationally as well. But with respect to Blacks and Hispanics, and other underrepresented communities, Native Americans, we've got a long way to go. And we have a pipeline problem. And that's going to be hard. But it's hard work that we have to do, and I know you guys are working on that in your own centers as well. Dr. Dave Johnson: Let me follow up on that. What attributes are you looking for in trainees and newly hired faculty? Whether they be junior or senior faculty? What are the characteristics or attributes you seek that you think predict, or certainly you want your individuals to possess? Dr. Deborah Schrag: We all want people who have everything, but I would say creativity, the willingness to take risks, and the ability to ask a question. I say this to the trainees, frankly, I say it to my own children as well. ‘It's okay, take a harder course. Yes, you may get a B minus by trying something new and different, that doesn't play to your strengths. But try something new. Take risks. Yes, the trial may fail. Yes, you may not get that grant.' But I think a willingness to take risks, a willingness to put yourself out there, a willingness to stretch. I'm also looking for people who can work in teams because there is no aspect of medical care that happens in MSK, I suspect that it's also true that maybe medicine in Antarctica, but even medicine in Antarctica is probably a team sport. Medicine has become a very complicated team sport. It's a very complicated dance with pharmacists, nurses, and APPs. It takes a village to give a course of immunotherapy. It is very complicated. And so, when people like to control things and like to do everything themselves, they're going to have a hard time. And that's true I find for teaching, laboratory investigation, wet lab, dry lab, most good, impactful, important science in oncology these days, clinical trials, wet, dry, all of it gets done in teams. Teams that have people with different levels of training, different skill sets, early stage, late stage, people who are quantitative, people who can write, people who can program, people who can do lab experiments, and people who know what an organoid is. People who know how to program an in R. All different kinds of skill sets but they have to be able to work in teams. People who can't do that are going to struggle to achieve maximum impact. I'm not saying that there isn't room at the end for the occasional genius person who likes to work solo. But that's not really what we need to move the needle. So, I need team players. I think there is a big emphasis on collegiality. Of course, we want smart and we want brilliance. But sometimes a drop less brilliance and a drop more collegiality and being able to work together in a team, it goes a long way and it's the difference between doing something impactful and not. That's what I look for. I also think that it takes all different kinds of people. And no one has to excel at everything, but it's great for people to be able to excel at something. So, passion, drive, and ability to ask questions, and not being afraid to occasionally fail and having some tolerance for that and trying to make sure that leaders are able to tolerate that, too. We have to be able to. Dr. Dave Johnson: Yeah, I think those are great suggestions. We're getting near the end of our time today, and we have a lot more questions to ask. But what's your biggest fear, as the head of the Department of Medicine, looking to the future, what causes you to lose sleep at night? Dr. Deborah Schrag: I think the business of medicine. If medicine turns into something that feels just like [inaudible] work, and losing physicians, if we don't respect physicians' need to take care of themselves, to take care of their families, and yeah, to find that joy, then we will not attract the top talents. I think we need great minds and great hearts and people from all walks of life to enter the profession, because that's the talent that we need, to quote my friend, Paul Farmer, ‘Bend the arc'. And you know, we need to bend Kaplan-Meier curves in the right direction. And we need the talent to come into the profession, and if they see that we are not happy and not thriving, the next generation is going to go elsewhere. I don't want to begrudge my wonderful endocrinology colleagues. We need people to tackle diabetes, and we need great surgeons and great anesthesiologists, too. So, it's not just oncology. In medicine, I'm responsible for all kinds of discipline. And boy, we need a lot of cardio-oncologists because we've created all kinds of new challenges. So, it's all of the sub-disciplines of medicine, but I think physician well-being and attracting talent to the field is really essential and making sure that the business side of medicine doesn't take over and destroy the core promise and premise of academic medicine. It is a spectacular profession and calling, and it has led to so many advances that have really changed the world. And we have to, I think, preserve the good in that. My fear is that that gets further eroded. Dr. Pat Loehrer: Just one last question from me. Thank you for all your wonderful comments. But I think I have to ask this because it's such an unusual thing as they brought up at the beginning that you're the first female Head of Medicine at Memorial and Lisa DeAngelis is the first Physician in Chief. And so, although there is gender equity in medicine, there is not gender equity and leadership around the academic world. And this is a very unique situation there. Can you reflect a little bit about the significance of this and perhaps, lessons learned, particularly if you're speaking to a younger version of yourself or a young woman who's thinking about a career? What are the lessons between you and Dr. DeAngelis mean? Dr. Deborah Schrag: I'm not sure I've been at it long enough to have lessons. I'm just so grateful. So, I'm not in the generation that was a trailblazer. I'm a beneficiary. So, I've had the privilege of being trained by Dr. Jane Weeks, by Dr. Judy Garber. I, myself, had so many great mentors who were women. I would say to women, that you can have it all. You just may not be able to have it all at once. Women and men have to make choices. Can you have a lab and be a laboratory investigator? Yes. Can you do that and have a family? Yes. I think running a high-power lab and having a gigantic clinical practice and running clinical trials, I think the three-legged stool and the so-called triple threat is really, really hard. But I think it's hard for women and men. What I would also say to women is you don't have to be the boys - be yourself. I think the best advice I can give to leaders is to be authentic. Because everyone, men, women, people smell a phony and no one likes to phony. So, I think if you know how to partner, you understand that it's a team sport. I think women do that really well. So, I think being authentic, and I think women need to hear that, you don't have to emulate male role models. You have to be yourself. I would love to emulate the two of you. I have to thank both of you because the Indiana Miracle and Dave from his Vanderbilt days, Vandy, as Dave likes to call it, from his Vanderbilt days to his Texas days, like, the two of you are such incredible thought leaders and inspirational leaders in oncology, but I can't be you. The best we can be is sort of the best version of ourselves but we can be inspired by the great qualities that we see in other leaders and carry a little bit of that with us. So, I think that goes for women and for men. Dr. Pat Loehrer: Thank you! Well said, and I appreciate the thoughts. We've kind of gone through this and we're going to have to wrap it up. One of the questions that we often times ask our visitors is if there's a book that they're reading, a documentary that they're watching, a movie they're seeing, or anything you'd recommend? Dr. Deborah Schrag: That's a good question. So, yes, actually. One of the ways that I learn about leadership that I find, actually a fun way that's both relaxing and educational, is to read a biography. I love reading biographies. I'm going to name two. And these are popular books - for scholars these may not be. First really fun book is ‘The Splendid and the Vile', by Erik Larson. It's a book about Winston Churchill in 1940, and how he has to try to persuade the United States to enter World War Two, but it's really about a particular year in history and Winston Churchill. Dr. Dave Johnson: It's a great book. Dr. Deborah Schrag: It's called, The Splendid and the Vile. I just learned so much about leadership from that book and the decisions that Winston Churchill makes in his bathtub. So, just read that book and think about what Winston Churchill does in his bathtub. I can't lead from my bathtub, I live in a New York City apartment, but that's one. Then more recently, I guess there's a little German theme happening here, is, The Chancellor. It's about the life of Angela Merkel. It's long, I haven't finished it yet. But it's incredible. What a story, East Germany, her leadership style, how she studies chemistry, how she rises. It's a fantastic book. It's called, The Chancellor. So, I will recommend that one. Then the last one, my beloved nephew who's like a son to me. He's about 36 years old, and he has ALS. And he's completely paralyzed. He is on a vent and he has two little kids. But he released a documentary that actually won at the Tribeca Film Festival called, Not Going Quietly, which is about a cross-country trip that he made. He's a pretty inspirational character, despite the fact that my nephew was completely locked in, he communicates only with his eyes. He is living a remarkable life. I think that documentay, I know this is a shameless plug for my nephew, but he's a pretty inspirational character. I don't necessarily agree with 100% of his policy prescriptions and recommendations. But there are lots of ways to make meaning in the world. So, that's another documentary. Dr. Pat Loehrer: That's incredible. Thank you so much for sharing that. I'm going to look it up. People think cancer is the worst thing you can get but there are worse diseases to have. Dr. Deborah Schrag: Yeah, I think this one might change your idea. And then I would also say Paul Farmer's Bending the Arc. I think for young physicians who haven't seen that movie, I would recommend Bending the Arc. Dr. Pat Loehrer: Thank you. Dr. Deborah Schrag: Thank you! It's been great to chat with you. Dr. Pat Loehrer: It's great. So, that's all the time we have for today. And I really want to thank you, Deb, for joining us and for all your insight. It's been wonderful. I also want to thank all our listeners for tuning in to Oncology, Etc. This is an ASCO Education podcast where we'll talk about just about anything and everything, if you've heard. If you have an idea for a topic or guest you'd like to see on the show or a host that you would like not to see on the show, just email us at education@asco.org. Thanks again. And Dave, I just have a riddle for you here. How do you make an octopus laugh? Dr. Dave Johnson: Show him your picture. Dr. Pat Loehrer: Ten-tickles. That's all we have for today. You guys have a good evening. Take care.   Thank you for listening to the ASCO Education podcast. To stay up to date with the latest episodes, please click subscribe. Let us know what you think by leaving a review. For more information, visit the comprehensive education center at education.asco.org.   The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.

Sí, es cierto, las minicomputadoras no caben en tu bolsillo, pero en su momento representaron un avance importante porque redujeron el espacio que necesitaban sus antecesoras, las mainframes, que ocupaban habitaciones enteras. Además, abrieron la posibilidad de que las computadoras personales cupieran en una bolsa y de que, posteriormente, se convirtieran en el teléfono que traes en tu bolsillo. Las computadoras de 16 bits cambiaron el mundo de la tecnología de la información en los años 70. Gracias a ellas, las empresas tuvieron la posibilidad de darle a cada ingeniero su propia máquina. Pero los avances aún no eran suficientes; todavía faltaba que llegaran las versiones de 32 bits. Carl Alsing y Jim Guyer nos hablan del trabajo que realizaron en Data General para crear una nueva y revolucionaria máquina de 32 bits. Y aunque ahora esos esfuerzos son toda una leyenda, en su momento se realizaron en secreto. “Eagle” era el nombre clave de la computadora que diseñaron, cuyo primer propósito era competir con otra máquina que estaba desarrollando otro equipo de la misma empresa. Los ingenieros nos hablan de las políticas corporativas y nos explican todas las tramas necesarias para que el proyecto pudiera seguir su curso, e incluso nos dicen cómo lograron que las restricciones jugaran a su favor. Neal Firth nos cuenta cómo vivió un proyecto muy emocionante pero exigente, en que nuestros héroes trabajaron juntos por pura voluntad, sin ninguna expectativa de fama ni fortuna. Y los tres nos mencionan que la historia quedó inmortalizada en el libro clásico de ingeniería de Tracy Kidder, El alma de una nueva máquina, que se basa en hechos reales.

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss the mysterious illness known as Havana Syndrome affecting U.S. diplomats around the world. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:  Over 200 members of the U.S. Foreign Service and intelligence community have reported strange symptoms, including headaches, nausea, and memory loss, that many believe have been caused by a deliberate attack. The symptoms were first reported in 2016 by American diplomats in Cuba, leading to it being named Havana Syndrome, but since then they have been reported throughout the world. A recent report concluded that most of these cases could be attributed to undiagnosed illnesses or other benign causes, but they did not rule out that some cases could have been caused by an “external energy source.” We mentioned a 2018 New Yorker investigation of the syndrome, and discussed the history of the Soviet Union using microwaves against American diplomats.   In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia discussed her recent piece for Global Sports Matter, “Building a Better Movement Culture Will Require Inclusion and Creativity.” Neil commented on the life and legacy of Dr. Paul Farmer and shared Tracy Kidder's New York Times remembrance, “He Wanted to Make the Whole World His Patient.” Niki shared the Jefferson Scholars Foundation's webinar, “Crisis in Ukraine: The Origins of the Next War in Europe.”

In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have a remarkable guest, Paul English who shares insights on his journey to building a huge life, creating maximum productivity, the key to balance life, time management, how to formulate investment decisions, health hacks that work, and achieving a life with minimal stress while giving an impact on the world! Paul English is a Boston-based serial entrepreneur and activist, a former lecturer to different schools, and Co-founder of Lola, Kayak, Xiangqi.com, Moonbeam, GetHuman, Boston Light, and Intermute. He is also a nonprofit co-founder of King Boston, Summits and the Winter Walk. Paul also serves on the boards of  Partners In Health, Flying Kites, Village Health Works, and Humanity Rises. Paul co-founded Kayak in 2004. It is a travel company that was sold for $2 billion. As he makes some pretty good money at that time, he never forgets to share it with his team. In fact, over half of his employees became a millionaire. But prior to Kayak, Paul had already created five (5) successful companies that have a loving culture. He makes sure his team is the priority before the customer and the profit. How did that happen? The customers get surprised at something that they couldn't get anywhere else; accordingly, all the finance will fall into place. Moreover, Paul has always been transparent and honest about what things are going well and whatnot, and treats employees the same way. He creates a working environment that values people, and appreciates every single employee to work with the same side of things. Thus, makes them invigorated, and excited about their job. Presently, being passionate about helping people, Paul wanted to make money as much as he can so he can give more impact to his 3 non-profits companies, and to the world as well! Some Questions I Ask: How long have you been living kind of this business, life, and balance in your world? (01:35) When you sold the Kayak company for $2 billion, what was that feeling like?  (02:53) As you guys went into creating Kayak, was that the vision of where you thought you guys would end up? (04:59) How would you say your company culture was? (06:18) What do you think it is about you based on some of the reflections you've had that you've done really well as a leader or gaps that you need to attack? (09:19) How do you keep and create that balance when you're in the trenches to get some traction and momentum behind it? (10:48) In terms of your morning or evening routines, which one do you like better, do you feel like is a ‘must-have” and staple that everyone should be incorporating in to serve at such a high level? (13:55) How have you shown up to get a little bit more sleep? (15:52) What has that kind of journey to enlighten or awareness look like for you? (19:14) Are there any other characteristics that you see in others successfully that you've worked with or that have really worked well for you? (22:12) What was your motivation for becoming an entrepreneur? (25:14) Why do you go and continue down this grind and this path? Where's that leading you to what's your focus on today? (29:25) How did you analyze whether or not it made sense to go after some of these businesses from a financial aspect? (30:56) In This Episode, You Will Learn: 3 priorities that Paul working every day (05:25) The Fifteen Commitments of Conscious Leadership book (08:20) How Paul mitigate his weaknesses (09:55) The Secret to Minimizing Stress (12:10) Paul health hacks (17:16) How Paul formulate his investment decisions (27:11) Quotes: “Team first, customer second, and profit third.” “If you cling to the past you just creating stress for yourself.” “Work is all about ideation and how do you invent and solve problems.”  Connect with Paul English on: Lola Moonbeam Kayak LinkedIn A Truck Full of Money book by Tracy Kidder

Today I spoke to Alex all about her work in public health. Make sure to subscribe so you know when our next episode drops and rate and review if you like what we are doing. Socials Find Alex through My Cabbages on Twitter. Find Sam's Socials on this link: https://linktr.ee/samuelobrien Find the Podcast's Socials on this link: http://linktr.ee/contentncapable Plugs and Mentions Plug: Sam plugged covidlive.com.au. Alex plugged Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Check out the other shows on the Movie Night Crew Network!

Follow up on the author Tracy Kidder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder author of 11 books, his second book, Soul of a New Machine won the Pulitzer Prize. Today is NATIONAL LED LIGHT DAY https://dailyevent24.com/national-led-light-day/ How illuminating. Born on this day in 1885 Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen Denmark. https://www.onthisday.com/people/niels-bohr What was something that wound up being totally different than you imagined it to be?

Today is National Do Something Nice Day AND National Be Nice Day https://nationaltoday.com/national-something-nice-day/ https://nationaltoday.com/national-be-nice-day/ Born on this day in 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of The United States of 'Merica https://www.onthisday.com/ Today's word is eschew https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eschew

#021 - Join Jennie for part two of the “life is what we make it” episode where she discusses the different types of multipotentialites and their corresponding working styles. Determine whether you're "sequential" or "cyclical" (part one is all about the latter). Next, discover whether you're a Sequential Specialist, a Sequential Master, a Passion-seeker, a Sampler or a Mover & a Shaker and get action steps, tools and job suggestions tailored to each personality type.Episode #019 - Lifestyle Design for Everything Enthusiasts, Pt.1Episode #020 - Jorge Giraldo on Overwhelm (or Striving for Lopsided Balance)An article about Daniel Day-Lewis's acting process during the shooting of Lincoln.The movie: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which is also a short story. Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams, by Barbara Sher. The Soul of a New Machine, House and Among Schoolchildren, all by Tracy Kidder. Episode #004 – Scanner PlannersEpisode #013 - How to be a FinisherTaskrabbitThe efficiency-expert scene with Lucy Liu from Charlie's Angels.Want the cheat sheet with all the action steps, tips and job recommendations in one tidy place? You can get that here: JennieOConnor.com/LifeDesign2Follow me: Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest @YourCreativeFairyGodmotherI'll leave you with this, from George Bernard Shaw: "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."Thanks so much for listening. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss next week when I sit down with a nutrition magician and EMT to talk about why you should dance your face off at every opportunity! Learn how to increase your energy and your vibration big time.✨✨If you think this content is deserving of a tip, I'd be ever so grateful if you'd leave one here. I plan to use all proceeds for magick supplies and I promise to use my powers for good.

Paul is the Founder and CTO of Lola.com, the easiest way for businesses to manage their employee travel. Previously, Paul was CTO of KAYAK, a travel company he co-founded in 2004, took public in 2012, and sold to Priceline in 2013. Paul is also the founder of GetHuman, a service created to give consumers excellent customer service at any company, Intermute, a security software company, and Boston Light, a small business ecommerce startup he sold to Intuit.Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book A Truck Full of Money, published by Random House in September 2016.You can read more about Paul at: paulenglish.com.Check out Paul's upcoming Podcast app at moonbeam.fm.We have a brand new podcast coming soon! To learn more about the upcoming show, sign up for the newsletter at smartpeoplepodcast.com/new.Become a Patron!Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcastSponsors:LinkedIn Jobs - When your business is ready to make that next hire, find the right person with LinkedIn Jobs. Your first job post is free. Just visit https://linkedin.com/smart.FundRise - See for yourself how one hundred thirty thousand investors have built a better portfolio with private real estate. Go to fundrise.com/smart.Audible - New members can try Audible free for 30 days by going to audible.com/smart or texting smart to 500-500.Donate:Donate here to support the show!

What would be the top piece of advice from a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has been involved in the development and transfer of hands of billion-dollar companies? Aside from being exceptionally successful, our guest has focused on an usually-overlooked aspect of business: the human talent. As a co-founder of several successful companies, including Lola.com, Kayak and many others, our guest shared why he considers choosing the right people as the most important business strategy. This is my conversation with the one and only, Paul English. Paul is the Founder and CTO of Lola.com, the easiest way for a business to manage their employee travel. Previously, Paul was CTO of KAYAK, a travel company he co-founded in 2004, took public in 2012, and sold to Priceline in 2013. Paul is also the founder of GetHuman, a service created to give consumers excellent customer service at any company. Paul grew up in Boston (as did his parents), his father was a pipefitter at Boston Gas Company, Paul’s first job was delivering the Boston Globe, and he went to Boston public schools until he studied music and computer science at UMASS Boston. Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book “A Truck Full of Money”, published by Random House in September 2016. You can connect with Paul here: Websites: https://www.moonbeam.fm/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paulenglishboston Twitter: https://twitter.com/englishpaulm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/englishpaulm Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/englishpaulm/ The Passion Accomplished podcast with Alberto Sardiñas is available on www.PassionPodcast.com.

In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have a remarkable guest, Paul English who shares insights on his journey to building a huge life, creating maximum productivity, the key to balance life, time management, how to formulate investment decisions, health hacks that work, and achieving a life with minimal stress while giving an impact on the world! Paul English is a Boston-based serial entrepreneur and activist, a former lecturer to different schools, and Co-founder of Lola, Kayak, Xiangqi.com, Moonbeam, GetHuman, Boston Light, and Intermute. He is also a nonprofit co-founder of King Boston, Summits and the Winter Walk. Paul also serves on the boards of  Partners In Health, Flying Kites, Village Health Works, and Humanity Rises. Paul co-founded Kayak in 2004. It is a travel company that was sold for $2 billion. As he makes some pretty good money at that time, he never forgets to share it with his team. In fact, over half of his employees became a millionaire. But prior to Kayak, Paul had already created five (5) successful companies that have a loving culture. He makes sure his team is the priority before the customer and the profit. How did that happen? The customers get surprised at something that they couldn’t get anywhere else; accordingly, all the finance will fall into place. Moreover, Paul has always been transparent and honest about what things are going well and whatnot, and treats employees the same way. He creates a working environment that values people, and appreciates every single employee to work with the same side of things. Thus, makes them invigorated, and excited about their job. Presently, being passionate about helping people, Paul wanted to make money as much as he can so he can give more impact to his 3 non-profits companies, and to the world as well! Some Questions I Ask: How long have you been living kind of this business, life, and balance in your world? (01:35) When you sold the Kayak company for $2 billion, what was that feeling like?  (02:53) As you guys went into creating Kayak, was that the vision of where you thought you guys would end up? (04:59) How would you say your company culture was? (06:18) What do you think it is about you based on some of the reflections you’ve had that you’ve done really well as a leader or gaps that you need to attack? (09:19) How do you keep and create that balance when you’re in the trenches to get some traction and momentum behind it? (10:48) In terms of your morning or evening routines, which one do you like better, do you feel like is a ‘must-have” and staple that everyone should be incorporating in to serve at such a high level? (13:55) How have you shown up to get a little bit more sleep? (15:52) What has that kind of journey to enlighten or awareness look like for you? (19:14) Are there any other characteristics that you see in others successfully that you’ve worked with or that have really worked well for you? (22:12) What was your motivation for becoming an entrepreneur? (25:14) Why do you go and continue down this grind and this path? Where’s that leading you to what’s your focus on today? (29:25) How did you analyze whether or not it made sense to go after some of these businesses from a financial aspect? (30:56) In This Episode, You Will Learn: 3 priorities that Paul working every day (05:25) The Fifteen Commitments of Conscious Leadership book (08:20) How Paul mitigate his weaknesses (09:55) The Secret to Minimizing Stress (12:10) Paul health hacks (17:16) How Paul formulate his investment decisions (27:11) Quotes: “Team first, customer second, and profit third.” “If you cling to the past you just creating stress for yourself.” “Work is all about ideation and how do you invent and solve problems.”  Connect with Paul English on: Lola Moonbeam Kayak LinkedIn A Truck Full of Money book by Tracy Kidder

Paul Farmer is a doctor, anthropologist, and “world-class Robin Hood” who has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world’s poorest people. Since 1987, he and Partners in Health, the nonprofit organization he co-founded, have been revolutionizing the field of international health care, pioneering novel community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality care in resource-poor settings. In 2010, when an earthquake demolished Haiti, Farmer was there. In 2014, when the Ebola virus erupted in Sierra Leone, Farmer was there, too. Whereas others might understandably flee such crises, Farmer runs toward them. Referring to the pathology of power structures, Farmer once confessed, “I can’t sleep. There’s always somebody not getting treatment. I can’t stand that.” Known as “the man who would cure the world, his life story was captured by Tracy Kidder in the New York Times bestselling book, Mountains Beyond Mountains. As the second of six children to a free-spirited father, Farmer became aware of the bigger world and its inequalities from his family’s frequent moves, from Massachusetts to Alabama to Florida. Farmer’s father, a salesman-turned-teacher with unconventional inspirations, converted an old school bus into a mobile home in which the eight of them lived for several years. There was no running water, and their power supply was erratic. At times, the family lived out of tents; a boat, too. His mother was a cashier at the Winn-Dixie supermarket. For what they lacked in stability and material security, Farmer’s parents read Shakespeare and other great literature to their children. They recognized Farmer’s “huge brain,” and supported his academic endeavors. After graduating from high school as both valedictorian and senior class president, Farmer attended Duke University on a full scholarship. He went on to Harvard, where he earned both a PhD in medical anthropology and an MD. It was during college that Farmer took his first trip to Haiti, igniting in him a passion and an anger to be an agent for change. The poor had little to no access to basic medical care, and training opportunities for local doctors and nurses were gravely lacking. With the help of a Haitian priest, Father Lafontant, and a young English woman, Ophelia Dahl, who had come to Haiti as a medical volunteer, he founded a community-based health clinic, Zanmi Lasante, which would grow into a first-rate hospital that served about a million people. Shortly after that seminal visit, HIV/AIDS began to spread in the Haitian urban slums, and the suffering pressed Farmer to do more. Two years later, in 1987, Farmer and Dahl collaborated with Todd McCormack, a former Duke classmate, to found Partners in Health in Boston. Farmer’s innovative methods and tenacious spirit led to cost-effective ways for treating infectious diseases. For the next few decades, Farmer would teach medical students for four months every year in the hospitals of Harvard University—where he is one of only 25 University Professors, and is also Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School—as well as treat patients in Haiti, Rwanda, and other “medical deserts.” He lived on a plane almost as much as being on the ground—an adventurer’s spirit reminiscent of his roving childhood. In addition to direct patient care and international healthcare delivery, Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality with hard-hitting titles like To Repair the World and Pathologies of Power. His writings cover the epidemics that plague our times—from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to racism, inequality, and poverty. Most recently, his book Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History examines the Ebola epidemic through his bifocal lens of medicine and anthropology. Farmer is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Outstanding International Physician Award from the American Medical Association, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, all $220,000 of which he donated to start a research program at Partners in Health. He serves as the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With the current Covid-19 pandemic, Farmer’s experience at the forefront of multiple epidemics has made him a voice of caution, reason, and compassion. As with Ebola, he urges “expert mercy.” Responses to the global coronavirus pandemic, he says, must combine interventions to save the sick, and slow the spread of disease with humane care across cultural and societal settings. The Ebola outbreak revealed, for example, that social distancing is almost impossible in settings of food insecurity or crowded slums. Farmer has routinely talked about the need for “staff, stuff, spaces, and systems” to respond well. Covid-19 is no different. And communities of color are once again the most vulnerable.    “The idea that some lives matter less,” Farmer asserts, “is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” Join Pavi Mehta and Cynthia Li in conversation with this remarkable humanitarian.

In this week's episode, Chris undertakes long-running background jobs that are performing duplicate work and adding significant load on the database. Steph shares her initial take of the book "Soul of a New Machine", a non-fiction account that chronicles the development of a mini-computer in the 1980s. They also dive into the question "how can teams turn a slow, hard to maintain test suite from a liability into an asset?" and touch on how to identify highly-functioning teams. This episode is brought to you by: ScoutAPM (https://scoutapm.com/bikeshed) - Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy. HelloFresh (https://HelloFresh.com/bikeshed80) - Visit HelloFresh and use code bikeshed80 to get $80 off including free shipping. ExpressVPN (https://www.expressvpn.com/bikeshed) - Click through to can get an extra 3 months free on a one-year package. Sidekiq (https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq) The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (https://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.html) Bike Shed Episode 236 - Featuring "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll (https://www.bikeshed.fm/236) Hackers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)) WarGames (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames) Labyrinth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_(1986_film)) Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen (https://youtu.be/KA9i5IGS-oU) Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) Drive by Daniel Pink (https://www.danpink.com/drive./) Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of The Bike Shed!

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A young man arrives in the Big City with two hundred dollars in his pocket, no English at all, and memories of horror so fresh that he sometimes confuses past and present. When Deo first told me about his beginnings in New York, I had a simple thought: “I would not have survived.” And then, two years later, he enrolls in an Ivy League university.  This is one of the many reflections that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder gives in his bestselling book, Strength in What Remains, about his subject—and our next guest—Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza. This glimpse into Deo's life seems more myth than reality. And yet, there’s more to his journey. Much more.  As a young schoolboy in his native Burundi of East Central Africa, Deo witnessed classmates, as well as parents of his classmates, dying by the dozens each year. These were largely treatable conditions, but Burundi had little in the way of doctors, nurses or any healthcare system at all. He always found himself worrying, Who will care for us when we get sick, and am I next?  Deo studied hard and made his way to medical school in Burundi. But midway through his studies, political chaos and violence erupted in Burundi and its neighbor, Rwanda. He found himself on the run until a classmate gave him an unexpected gift: a one-way airplane ticket to New York City. With only a couple of hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts, Deo found himself sleeping on a mat in Central Park for months.  Following homelessness, illness, and low-paying work delivering groceries, he somehow learned English, made his way to Columbia University where he studied biochemistry and philosophy, and dedicated his life to healing. After Columbia, he attended the Harvard School of Public Health, where he met Dr. Paul Farmer, and began working at Farmer's nonprofit organization, Partners In Health, which planted the seeds for his life's work. Midway through his studies at Dartmouth Medical School, Deo felt an unwavering call to return to Burundi to help heal his homeland. Today, the nonprofit organization that Deo founded and leads, Village Health Works, has established a world-class medical clinic in Burundi and, as an entirely community-driven health and development organization, also a culture of renewal. When Deo first proposed this idea to the villagers, they responded at once by bringing their machetes, pickaxes, and other tools to break ground. “So the tools that had been used by some to kill,” Deo explains, “were now being used to build an infrastructure that would be for their own community.” Though he has been honored by awards including People to People International’s Eisenhower Medallion, and Unsung Heroes of Compassion, presented by the Dalai Lama, such honors interest him only inasmuch as they generate interest in his clinic and in Burundi. What keeps Deo going? "Where there is health, there is hope."  Please join us in conversation, along with Dr. Andrew Kim and Dr. Cynthia Li, with this extraordinary change-maker and healer. We will be talking about Burundi in specific, and also honoring the silence of sensitive topics. But wherever we are in the world today, we can resonate with the challenges of a country, or of an individual, split by polarizing forces.

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Stuart and Eamonn are joined by comedian and author Janey Godley to discuss the growth of online communities and activities, media reactions to the fallout from the trial of Alex Salmond, and tactics for dealing with online trolls. Stuart, Eamonn and Janey also share their personal media recommendations.Stuart's recommendations:Online streaming service, 'Means TV' https://means.tvIrish arts and literature magazine, ‘The Moth’ www.themothmagazine.comEamonn:BBC documentary series 'Great Train Journeys', Lisa St Aubin de Terán episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03rdrdm/great-railway-journeys-series-2-5-lisa-st-aubin-de-teran-santos-to-santa-cruz'Mozambique Mysteries' book by Lisa St Aubin de Terán www.goodreads.com/book/show/2163834.Mozambique_Mysteries'Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World' by Tracy Kidder www.goodreads.com/book/show/10235.Mountains_Beyond_MountainsJaney: BBC Scotland programme, ‘Up for It’ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00037wrBFI on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/BFIfilmsLive comedy by 'The Stand' https://www.thestand.co.uk/saturday-night-live-at-the-stand/Support the podcast and gain access to bonus content: www.patreon.com/talkmediaKeep up to date with the show on Twitter: @TBLTalkMediaFor more information, visit: www.thebiglight.com/talkmedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   What does a robot, Jedi and Wi-Fi have to do with the Ebola crisis? In 2015 I spoke with Wilson Wang a medical doctor by training, who was a Senior Clinical director at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) at the time. We spoke about his work with IRC on the 2014 Ebola outbreak and his career in medicine and public health.     As we deal with the coronavirus here in New York City, I thought with this would be a good time to share this episode. Stay tuned for the next episode of Talking Taiwan. I’ll be bringing back Dr. Wang to speak about how his Ebola work led him to establish Waking Doctors and his current work on COVID-19, the coronavirus in New York City.     Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   The origin, mission and work of International Rescue Committee Wilson’s career in medicine and public health leading up to his work with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) How Wilson balances the practice of medicine with health management How IRC was asked to create an Ebola treatment unit (i.e. a hospital) for Ebola patients How more people died in the 2014 Ebola epidemic than in all of the Ebola epidemics of the past 35 years How for nearly 40 years there hadn’t been reliable medical record keeping about the treatment of Ebola patients What the JEDI app acronym stands for The robot created by Vecna to be used in Liberia U.S. reaction to the Ebola outbreak What’s guided Dr. Wang in his particular career path   Related Links:   Dr. Wilson Wang’s website where he writes about his work: http://wilson-wang.squarespace.com/   Articles about Dr. Wang’s work with IRC on the Ebola epidemic:   http://time.com/3615990/ebola-electronic-health-records/   ihttp://www.fastcolabs.com/3039512/fighting-ebola-with-a-robot-and-an-app-called-jedi   Partners in Health: https://www.pih.org/   Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder: https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Beyond-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0812973011   An article about the controversy over Dr. Craig Spencer, a volunteer Doctors Without Borders physician who returned to New York with Ebola: https://time.com/3535902/craig-spencer-ebowla-jokes-lack-empathy/

They don’t fit in your pocket. But in their day, minicomputers were an order of magnitude smaller than the room-sized mainframes that preceded them. And they paved the way for the personal computers that could fit in a bag and, eventually, the phones in your pocket.16-bit minicomputers changed the world of IT in the 1970s. They gave companies the opportunity for each engineer to have their own machines. But it wasn’t quite enough, not until the arrival of 32-bit versions.Carl Alsing and Jim Guyer recount their work at Data General to create a revolutionary new 32-bit machine. But their now legendary work was done in secret. Codenamed “Eagle,” their machine was designed to compete with one being built by another team in their own company. These engineers recall the corporate politics and intrigue required to keep the project going—and how they turned restrictions into advantages. Neal Firth discusses life on an exciting-but-demanding project. One where the heroes worked together because they wanted to, without expectations of awards or fame. And all three discuss how this story was immortalized in the non-fiction engineering classic, The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. If you want to read up on some of our research on minicomputers, you can check out all our bonus material over at redhat.com/commandlineheroes. You’ll find extra content for every episode. Follow along with the episode transcript.

The things we love often impact and shape our identity. What would it look like if instead of asking what would Jesus do, we started asking what did Jesus love? Join Rick and Becky for a series exploring the human side of Jesus and the practical ways we can incorporate this into our lives. Diving into John 2-5, we’ll explore the things Jesus loved the most when he walked the earth. Have you joined the Pigs? We’re a group of friends ready to go all-in with Jesus—to live a life that’s “free indeed” because we’re wholly dependent on him. Join us for exclusive behind-the-scenes insights, opportunities to make your voice matter, prayer support, and connections to other Pigs inside our private Facebook group. Join Here: www.mylifetree.com/pratj-member-sign-up/ Related Resources: The Jesus-Centered Bible: www.mylifetree.com/jesus-centered-bible-shop-page/ The Jesus-Centered Journal: https://www.mylifetree.com/?s=jesus-centered+journal&post_type=product&tags=1&limit=20&ixwps=1 Spiritual Grit: A Journey Into Endurance. Character. Confidence. Hope.  www.mylifetree.com/shop/spiritual-grit/ Growing Spiritual Grit: 52 Personal Devotions  https://www.mylifetree.com/shop/growing-spiritual-grit-52-personal-devotions/ Growing Spiritual Grit for Teenagers: 40 Devotions  https://www.mylifetree.com/shop/growing-spiritual-grit-for-teenagers-40-devotions/ The Jesus-Centered Life: The Life You Didn’t Think Was Possible, With the Jesus You Never Knew by Rick Lawrence www.mylifetree.com/shop/the-jesus-centered-life/ Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111108 Youth Ministry Local Training Events https://www.group.com/category/training-and-events/training/youth-ministry-local-training.do Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Beyond-Farmer-Random-Readers/dp/0812980557/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mountains+beyond+mountains&qid=1557263937&s=books&sr=1-1 Group U Courses https://www.group.com/category/training-and-events/online.do Who Is This Man? The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus by John Ortberg https://www.amazon.com/Who-This-Man-Unpredictable-Inescapable/dp/0310275946 Becky’s Podcast Consulting: https://podcastrecipe.com/

Strategic thinking to keep FreeBSD relevant, reflecting on the soul of a new machine, 10GbE Benchmarks On Nine Linux Distros and FreeBSD, NetBSD integrating LLVM sanitizers in base, FreeNAS 11.2 distrowatch review, and more. ##Headlines ###Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant Since I participate in the FreeBSD project there are from time to time some voices which say FreeBSD is dead, Linux is the way to go. Most of the time those voices are trolls, or people which do not really know what FreeBSD has to offer. Sometimes those voices wear blinders, they only see their own little world (were Linux just works fine) and do not see the big picture (like e.g. competition stimulates business, …) or even dare to look what FreeBSD has to offer. Sometimes those voices raise a valid concern, and it is up to the FreeBSD project to filter out what would be beneficial. Recently there were some mails on the FreeBSD lists in the sense of “What about going into direction X?”. Some people just had the opinion that we should stay where we are. In my opinion this is similarly bad to blindly saying FreeBSD is dead and following the masses. It would mean stagnation. We should not hold people back in exploring new / different directions. Someone wants to write a kernel module in (a subset of) C++ or in Rust… well, go ahead, give it a try, we can put it into the Ports Collection and let people get experience with it. This discussion on the mailinglists also triggered some kind of “where do we see us in the next years” / strategic thinking reflection. What I present here, is my very own opinion about things we in the FreeBSD project should look at, to stay relevant in the long term. To be able to put that into scope, I need to clarify what “relevant” means in this case. FreeBSD is currently used by companies like Netflix, NetApp, Cisco, Juniper, and many others as a base for products or services. It is also used by end‐users as a work‐horse (e.g. mailservers, webservers, …). Staying relevant means in this context, to provide something which the user base is interested in to use and which makes it more easy / fast for the user base to deliver whatever they want or need to deliver than with another kind of system. And this in terms of time to market of a solution (time to deliver a service like a web‐/mail‐/whatever‐server or product), and in terms of performance (which not only means speed, but also security and reliability and …) of the solution. I have categorized the list of items I think are important into (new) code/features, docs, polishing and project infrastructure. Links in the following usually point to documentation/HOWTOs/experiences for/with FreeBSD, and not to the canonical entry points of the projects or technologies. In a few cases the links point to an explanation in the wikipedia or to the website of the topic in question. ###Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine Long ago as an undergraduate, I found myself back home on a break from school, bored and with eyes wandering idly across a family bookshelf. At school, I had started to find a calling in computing systems, and now in the den, an old book suddenly caught my eye: Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine. Taking it off the shelf, the book grabbed me from its first descriptions of Tom West, captivating me with the epic tale of the development of the Eagle at Data General. I — like so many before and after me — found the book to be life changing: by telling the stories of the people behind the machine, the book showed the creative passion among engineers that might otherwise appear anodyne, inspiring me to chart a course that might one day allow me to make a similar mark. Since reading it over two decades ago, I have recommended The Soul of a Machine at essentially every opportunity, believing that it is a part of computing’s literary foundation — that it should be considered our Odyssey. Recently, I suggested it as beach reading to Jess Frazelle, and apparently with perfect timing: when I saw the book at the top of her vacation pile, I knew a fuse had been lit. I was delighted (though not at all surprised) to see Jess livetweet her admiration of the book, starting with the compelling prose, the lucid technical explanations and the visceral anecdotes — but then moving on to the deeper technical inspiration she found in the book. And as she reached the book’s crescendo, Jess felt its full power, causing her to reflect on the nature of engineering motivation. Excited to see the effect of the book on Jess, I experienced a kind of reflected recommendation: I was inspired to (re-)read my own recommendation! Shortly after I started reading, I began to realize that (contrary to what I had been telling myself over the years!) I had not re-read the book in full since that first reading so many years ago. Rather, over the years I had merely revisited those sections that I remembered fondly. On the one hand, these sections are singular: the saga of engineers debugging a nasty I-cache data corruption issue; the young engineer who implements the simulator in an impossibly short amount of time because no one wanted to tell him that he was being impossibly ambitious; the engineer who, frustrated with a nanosecond-scale timing problem in the ALU that he designed, moved to a commune in Vermont, claiming a desire to deal with “no unit of time shorter than a season”. But by limiting myself to these passages, I was succumbing to the selection bias of my much younger self; re-reading the book now from start to finish has given new parts depth and meaning. Aspects that were more abstract to me as an undergraduate — from the organizational rivalries and absurdities of the industry to the complexities of West’s character and the tribulations of the team down the stretch — are now deeply evocative of concrete episodes of my own career. See Article for rest… ##News Roundup ###Out-Of-The-Box 10GbE Network Benchmarks On Nine Linux Distributions Plus FreeBSD 12 Last week I started running some fresh 10GbE Linux networking performance benchmarks across a few different Linux distributions. That testing has now been extended to cover nine Linux distributions plus FreeBSD 12.0 to compare the out-of-the-box networking performance. Tested this round alongside FreeBSD 12.0 was Antergos 19.1, CentOS 7, Clear Linux, Debian 9.6, Fedora Server 29, openSUSE Leap 15.0, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.10. All of the tests were done with a Tyan S7106 1U server featuring two Intel Xeon Gold 6138 CPUs, 96GB of DDR4 system memory, and Samsung 970 EVO SSD. For the 10GbE connectivity on this server was an add-in HP NC523SFP PCIe adapter providing two 10Gb SPF+ ports using a QLogic 8214 controller. Originally the plan as well was to include Windows Server 2016/2019. Unfortunately the QLogic driver download site was malfunctioning since Cavium’s acquisition of the company and the other Windows Server 2016 driver options not panning out and there not being a Windows Server 2019 option. So sadly that Windows testing was thwarted so I since started testing over with a Mellanox Connectx-2 10GbE NIC, which is well supported on Windows Server and so that testing is ongoing for the next article of Windows vs. Linux 10 Gigabit network performance plus some “tuned” Linux networking results too. ###Integration of the LLVM sanitizers with the NetBSD base system Over the past month I’ve merged the LLVM compiler-rt sanitizers (LLVM svn r350590) with the base system. I’ve also managed to get a functional set of Makefile rules to build all of them, namely: ASan, UBSan, TSan, MSan, libFuzzer, SafeStack, XRay. In all supported variations and modes that are supported by the original LLVM compiler-rt package. ###Distrowatch FreeNAS 11.2 review The project’s latest release is FreeNAS 11.2 and, at first, I nearly overlooked the new version because it appeared to be a minor point release. However, a lot of work went into the new version and 11.2 offers a lot of changes when compared next to 11.1, “including a major revamp of the web interface, support for self-encrypting drives, and new, backwards-compatible REST and WebSocket APIs. This update also introduces iocage for improved plugins and jails management and simplified plugin development.” ##Beastie Bits Instructions for installing rEFInd to dual boot a computer with FreeBSD and windows (and possibly other OSes as well). NetBSD desktop pt.6: “vi(1) editor, tmux and unicode $TERM” Unix flowers FreeBSD upgrade procedure using GPT Pull-based Backups using OpenBSD base* Developing WireGuard for NetBSD OpenZFS User Conference, April 18-19, Norwalk CT KnoxBug Feb 25th ##Feedback/Questions Jake - C Programming Farhan - Explanation of rtadvd Nelson - Bug Bounties on Open-Source Software Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

Back in Episode 37, Quinn & Brian asked: Why does Congress need a female Air Force Officer / Engineer / Chemistry Teacher / Mom among its ranks? We found out – and now our guest Chrissy Houlahan is the new congresswoman from Pennsylvania District 6! So we’re playing that episode again to celebrate. We dig into the very personal reasons she ran, what’s so special about Pennsylvania, and the first thing she’s going to do when she gets elected. Plus, how did she collect such an impressive list of bona fides? Chrissy was one of our featured conversations in partnership with 314 Action, an organization working hard to put STEM candidates in office. You can learn more about the organization in our interview with the founder, Shaughnessy Naughton, back in episode 35 and support them at 314action.org. Want to send us feedback? Tweet us, email us, or leave us a voice message! Trump’s Book Club: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3 Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HoulahanForPa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HoulahanForPA Support more candidates endorsed by 314: http://www.314action.org/endorsed-candidates-1/ Connect with us: Subscribe to our newsletter at ImportantNotImportant.com! Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Follow Quinn: twitter.com/quinnemmett Follow Brian: twitter.com/briancolbertken Like and share us on Facebook: facebook.com/ImportantNotImportant Check us on Instagram: instagram.com/ImportantNotImportant Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Pin us on Pinterest: pinterest.com/ImportantNotImportant Tumble us or whatever the hell you do on Tumblr: importantnotimportant.tumblr.com Important, Not Important is produced by Podcast Masters Support this podcast

Paul is the CTO of Lola.com, the easiest way for a business to manage their employee travel. Previously, Paul was CTO of KAYAK, a travel company he co-founded in 2004, took public in 2012, and sold to Priceline in 2013. Paul is also the founder of GetHuman, a service created to give consumers excellent customer service at any company.Paul grew up in Boston (as did his parents), his father was a pipefitter at Boston Gas Company, Paul's first job was delivering the Boston Globe, and he went to Boston public schools until he studied music and computer science at UMASS Boston. (As you can guess, Paul is a Boston Red Sox fan, and his accent gets worse in bahs.)Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder's book “A Truck Full of Money”, published by Random House in September 2016. Which tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim's journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Relating to the Internet as if it's an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming “a Pied Piper” of geeks. His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. Early on, one colleague observes: “Someday this boy's going to get hit by a truck full of money, and I'm going to be standing beside him.” Yet when English does indeed make a fortune, when the travel website Kayak is sold for almost two billion dollars—the first thing he thinks about is how to give the money away: “What else would you do with it?” The second thing he thinks is, What's next?Nonprofit WorkPaul is cofounder of Summits Education, an organization that is building education systems in rural Haiti. Summits operates a network of 41 schools in Haiti's Central Plateau, employing over 350 educators, and serving 10,000 students. Paul first went to Haiti in 2003. (Paul wè bote ak espwa.)Paul is a Director of Partners In Health and of Village Health Works, both organizations providing quality healthcare to populations of extreme poverty. Paul is also very interested in problems of homelessness in Boston.Paul's latest project is to bring an MLK Memorial to Boston.Ancient HistoryPaul was previously President of Boston Light Software, an ecommerce company sold to Intuit, where Paul then served as VP Technology. Paul was a cofounder/Director (with his brother Ed) of Intermute, a security software company sold to Trend Micro. Paul was briefly an entrepreneur in-residence at Greylock, the founder of the World Xiangqi League, VP of Engineering at NetCentric, SVP of Engineering and Product Management at Interleaf. He also did contract programming for the US Air Force, operations research programming for Data General, programming for a medical device company, and even some video game software and sound-effect development.Paul received a BS and MS in computer science from University of Massachusetts. Paul was named Chief Technology Officer of the year by Mass Technology Leadership Council in 2009. - http://paulenglish.com/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Paul is the CTO of Lola.com, the easiest way for a business to manage their employee travel. Previously, Paul was CTO of KAYAK, a travel company he co-founded in 2004, took public in 2012, and sold to Priceline in 2013. Paul is also the founder of GetHuman, a service created to give consumers excellent customer service at any company.Paul grew up in Boston (as did his parents), his father was a pipefitter at Boston Gas Company, Paul’s first job was delivering the Boston Globe, and he went to Boston public schools until he studied music and computer science at UMASS Boston. (As you can guess, Paul is a Boston Red Sox fan, and his accent gets worse in bahs.)Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book “A Truck Full of Money”, published by Random House in September 2016. Which tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim’s journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Relating to the Internet as if it’s an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming “a Pied Piper” of geeks. His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. Early on, one colleague observes: “Someday this boy’s going to get hit by a truck full of money, and I’m going to be standing beside him.” Yet when English does indeed make a fortune, when the travel website Kayak is sold for almost two billion dollars—the first thing he thinks about is how to give the money away: “What else would you do with it?” The second thing he thinks is, What’s next?Nonprofit WorkPaul is cofounder of Summits Education, an organization that is building education systems in rural Haiti. Summits operates a network of 41 schools in Haiti's Central Plateau, employing over 350 educators, and serving 10,000 students. Paul first went to Haiti in 2003. (Paul wè bote ak espwa.)Paul is a Director of Partners In Health and of Village Health Works, both organizations providing quality healthcare to populations of extreme poverty. Paul is also very interested in problems of homelessness in Boston.Paul’s latest project is to bring an MLK Memorial to Boston.Ancient HistoryPaul was previously President of Boston Light Software, an ecommerce company sold to Intuit, where Paul then served as VP Technology. Paul was a cofounder/Director (with his brother Ed) of Intermute, a security software company sold to Trend Micro. Paul was briefly an entrepreneur in-residence at Greylock, the founder of the World Xiangqi League, VP of Engineering at NetCentric, SVP of Engineering and Product Management at Interleaf. He also did contract programming for the US Air Force, operations research programming for Data General, programming for a medical device company, and even some video game software and sound-effect development.Paul received a BS and MS in computer science from University of Massachusetts. Paul was named Chief Technology Officer of the year by Mass Technology Leadership Council in 2009. - http://paulenglish.com/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

"The possibilities of doing something similar [to fiction] in nonfiction really did appeal to me," says Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Are you riffin' kiddin' me!? By virtue of today's guest I'm assuming there might be a new CNFer or two to our little marauding gang of turbulent souls in this corner of the Internet. Welcome. We play heavy metal music, we kick maximum ass, and we will, we will rock you. This is the Creative Nonfiction Podcast, the show where I speak to bad ass tellers of true stories about where they came from, what and who inspires them, and how they approach the work, so that you can apply those tools of mastery to your own work. I'm your mutha-riffin' host Brendan O'Meara, hey, hey. Today's guest is none other than Pulitzer Prize—winning author Tracy Kidder, author of take a deep breath Brendan… Soul of a New Machine, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Home Town, My Detachment, Good Prose, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Strength in What Remains, A Truck Full of Money, and House. That, CNFers, is a body of work. And who tells them better than Tracy Kidder, friends? He's been a literary hero of mine every since I got into this mess. If you're as big a headcase as I am, I'd go ahead and read Good Prose, the book he wrote with his long time editor and former mentor of mine Dick Todd. It lets you know that you're not alone and these increasingly digital times, it's easier and easier to feel, what's the word??? Shitty... Tracy's an apex CNFer in a long line of them that have appeared on this show. Please enjoy this conversation with the one, the only, Tracy Kidder. Cross that one off the Bucket List...How'd you like it? I hope you dug it. I tried my bestest for y'all. Thanks very much to this show's sponsors Goucher College's MFA program in nonfiction and Creative Nonfiction Magazine. You can visit Tracy Kidder.com for more information about Tracy and his work and events and the like. I believe he has an author Facebook page. While I've got your attention, I'd ask that if you dig the show, share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave an honest review over on Apple Podcasts. They're a big, big help and I'm deeply appreciative of whatever you can do to help out the show. Visit brendanomeara.com to sign up for my monthly reading list newsletter. Great books and great podcasts. Once a month. No spam. Can't beat that. I think that's a wrap. Remember, if you can't do interview! See ya! Thanks to Goucher College's MFA in Creative Nonfiction and Creative Nonfiction Magazine for sponsoring this podcast.

In this podcast ep, I talk with Jessamyn about going camping, driving a stick-shift VW camper van, getting a cold, having a cold, and also a great deal of MetaFilter stuff. It's a bit late and there's no music bumpers because I was camping and then I had a cold! But here it is. It's about 80 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - Jessamyn's been makin' envelopes - human clock - that other Tracy Kidder book - tfw when ur parachuting beaver post is a double - hey it's ba! - Knuth's up arrow notation is totally cheating Jobs - One-off Graphic Design Project for Button/Sticker by Miko - Typist needed by crookedneighbor - 3d model my hypothetical kitchen by novalis_dt - Senior Mobile Developer by adrianhon Projects - Destination: Mars by dng - Tangara fastuosa by dame - Context in courtship: how do singing mice decide when to sing? by sciatrix (MeFi Post) - CommonsTime by Vesihiisi - Airships: Conquer the Skies by Zarkonnen - anti-social by motty MetaFilter - Stan Brock: "anything that he can possibly give to others, he does." by jessamyn - void void let there be void void by CrystalDave - what... what happened in Alberta by Etrigan - Bathtime logistics by rewil - wait by griphus - Long suspected, now proven by atlantica - a comment by jenfullmoon - New Kids on the Block by JoeZydeco - We call that "spank the frog", ribbit by cortex - interesting skate video by mullacc - a comment by cortex - Does The Dog Die? by Faintdreams - MOOOOOOO! by nerdfish - How do you tell a thirsty elephant not to take a drink? by gudrun Ask MeFi - What are the definitive music videos of the last 10-ish years? by cult_url_bias - What are some great comedy music videos? by storybored - Can I somehow see the math behind a web game in the page source? by If only I had a penguin... - Scrabble dictionary woes by rebent - How to convey the largest possible number with conventional symbols? by the phlegmatic king - Oldest entity still referred primarily to as "New [type of entity]"? by grouse - Am I supposed to bag my own groceries? by bleep - I don't want to sign up for any newsletter by danceswithlight - A ticking time bomb by cashman - Is there a documentary about fairs? I NEED IT by masquesoporfavor Other Stuff - I was camping - Then I had a cold - So there really isn't any of the other stuff - Sorry about all this

Paul English is the Co-Founder of both Lola and Kayak. Starting on Lola, the company brings joy to business travelers by finding the best flights for busy schedules and perfect hotels that suit personal preferences. To date, Paul has raised over $44m with Lola from the likes of CRV, Accel, General Catalyst and GV just to name a few. Prior to Lola, Paul co-founded Kayak, the incredible success story that helps millions of travelers make confident travel decisions. Prior to their IPO, Paul raised over $229m in VC funding from Sequoia, Accel, IVP and General Catalyst before their reported $1.8Bn acquisition by Priceline. Paul is also a prolific philanthropist and due to his success has had much press attention including the Tracy Kidder book, A Truck Full of Money. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Paul made his way into the world of startups from having his first taste of entrepreneurship buying and refurbishing air conditioning units? 2.) Paul is behind many groundbreaking ideas of the last decade, so what does the idea generation process look like for Paul? How does Paul determine between a good and a great idea? How has this process changed over time? How does Paul pull other individuals into validating ideas or not? 3.) Paul's VCs stated "Paul is the best founder in the world for hiring", how does Paul approach team building? What does Paul think is required to attract truly world calls talent? Can this skill be taught? Where does Paul believe so many founders go wrong in recruitment? What does Paul mean when he says you want to see "arrogant humility" 4.) Having raised from Sequoia, GV, General Catalyst and more, what has Paul found to really encapsulate the truly special VCs? What are Paul's lessons on raising the highest quality capital possible? When is the right time to optimize for valuation and when is it not? What made Mike Moritz and Joel Cutler so special to work with on Kayak? 5.) How does Paul approach the aspect of board management? How has this changed over time for him? What relationship should founders desire with their VCs and then between the VCs themselves? How does one look to optimise for efficiency in board conversations? How does Paul look to handle board disputes? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Paul’s Fave Book: The Trumpet of Conscience As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Paul on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Highfive makes meetings better for thousands of organizations with insanely simple video conferencing designed for meeting rooms. It’s the easiest-to-use solution, with all-in-one hardware and intuitive cloud software. Plus, it’s a high-quality experience with industry-leading audio powered by Dolby Voice. It’s so easy to use, that there’s no pin codes or app downloads. Just click a link in your browser, and you’re in the meeting. With customers in over 100 countries, Highfive is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment and you can learn more by simply heading over to highfive.com. Culture Amp is the platform that makes it easy to collect, understand and act on employee feedback. From onboarding surveys to company-wide engagement, individual effectiveness and more, the platform manages multiple sources of feedback and connects the dots for you and that is why companies like Slack, Nike, Oracle and Lyft all trust CultureAmp. So put your people and culture first and find out more on cultureamp.com.

  Jason Lunden comes onto the show to discuss rehabilitation and education when working with runners and cyclists. Jason discusses the most common running and biking injuries, top clinical pearls regarding running and cycling rehab, how Jason evaluates runners and cyclists, running shoe considerations, relevant running and cycling research, best resources for the clinician looking to learn more about runners/cyclists, best tips on teaching runners/cyclists, how running/cycling should be integrated into DPT programs, and much more! Biography: Jason specializes in the rehabilitation and prevention of sports-related injuries, with a particular interest in the biomechanics of sporting activities  including running, cycling, skiing, snowboarding and overhead athletics. He has published on the topic of shoulder biomechanics and the rehabilitation of knee injuries and has a strong commitment to educating others. Jason serves as a physical therapist for the US Snowboarding and US Freeskiing teams and is a frequent, well-received local and national presenter on the topics of sports rehabilitation and injury prevention. He is a recent recipient of the New Horizon Award from the American Physical Therapy Association. Jason received his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Minnesota, where he was the recipient of the Gary L. Soderberg DPT Visionary Award, the Mary A. McEvoy Award for Public Engagement and Leadership, the MN APTA Outstanding Physical Therapy Student Award, and the President's Student Leadership and Service Award. He received a Masters of Arts in Cell and Molecular Biology from St. Cloud State University and Bachelors of Arts from St. Olaf College. Jason also received specialized training through the Minnesota Sports Medicine Sports Physical Therapy Residency, and received his board certification as a Sports Physical Therapy Clinical Specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association. He has also served as a faculty member for the Fairview Sports Physical Therapy Residency Program. He teaches the Rehabilitation of the Injured Runner and the Professional Bike Fitting courses through the Institute of Clinical Excellence. He practices at Excel Physical Therapy in Bozeman, Montana. Jason is an avid snowboarder, cyclist, runner, and Nordic skier, and he enjoys spending his time outdoors with his family.   Institute of Clinical Excellence Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/educatePT/  Institute of Clinical Excellence Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/icephysio/  Institute of Clinical Excellence Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/icephysio  Jason's Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/am_institute_of_sports_rehab/  Excel Physical Therapy Website: http://excelptmt.com/  Jason's Bike Fitting Course: http://ptonice.com/professional-bike-fitting   Jason's Rehabilitation of the Injured Runner Course: http://ptonice.com/rehabilitation-injured-runner Anatomy for Runners by Jay DiCharry- https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Runners-Unlocking-Potential-Prevention/dp/1620871599/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527916011&sr=8-1&keywords=anatomy+for+runners+by+jay+dicharry  Andy Pruitt's Complete Medical Guide for Cyclists: https://www.amazon.com/Pruitts-Complete-Medical-Guide-Cyclists/dp/1931382808/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527916414&sr=8-1&keywords=andy+pruitt%27s+complete+medical+guide+for+cyclists  Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder: https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Beyond-Farmer-Random-Readers/dp/0812980557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527917762&sr=8-1&keywords=mountains+beyond+mountains+the+quest+of+dr.+paul+farmer  Steve Hogg's Bike Fitting Website: https://www.stevehoggbikefitting.com/  Fast Twitch Performance Website: http://fasttwitchperformance.com/ 

Chris Zajac’s story epitomizes the mundane heroics of school teaching. The author Tracy Kidder spent a year following Zajac in the late 1980s, when she was a fifth-grade teacher in an economically depressed section of Holyoke, Massachusetts, known as The Flats. The result was the bestselling Among Schoolchildren, a book that documented in intimate detail the struggles of a teacher who would not give up on her most challenging students. Those included Clarence, a sweet-faced preteen who wreaked havoc in her classroom on a daily basis: flipping over chairs, interrupting lessons, bullying other students. No amount of scolding and cajoling seemed to make a difference. (Kidder changed the children’s names in the book to protect their identities, so Clarence is not the student’s real name.) The school year came to a dramatic climax when a team of education specialists had to decide whether to keep Clarence in Zajac’s classroom or send him to an alternative program for troubled students. Zajac had deeply conflicted feelings about what would be best for Clarence—and for the other 24 students in her class. But the experience taught her lessons, both pragmatic and philosophical, that she carried with her throughout the rest of her long career. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/the-student-who-got-away/532791/

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder reveals his reporting strengths as he describes how he earned the trust of the people he has featured in books such as "Mountains Beyond Mountains," "House," "A Truck Full of Money," "Old Friends," and "Strength in What Remains." Kidder shares the joys and doubts of a career in writing with veteran journalist and host Dean Nelson, founder and director of the Writer's Symposium By The Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31161]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder reveals his reporting strengths as he describes how he earned the trust of the people he has featured in books such as "Mountains Beyond Mountains," "House," "A Truck Full of Money," "Old Friends," and "Strength in What Remains." Kidder shares the joys and doubts of a career in writing with veteran journalist and host Dean Nelson, founder and director of the Writer's Symposium By The Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31161]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder reveals his reporting strengths as he describes how he earned the trust of the people he has featured in books such as "Mountains Beyond Mountains," "House," "A Truck Full of Money," "Old Friends," and "Strength in What Remains." Kidder shares the joys and doubts of a career in writing with veteran journalist and host Dean Nelson, founder and director of the Writer's Symposium By The Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31161]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder reveals his reporting strengths as he describes how he earned the trust of the people he has featured in books such as "Mountains Beyond Mountains," "House," "A Truck Full of Money," "Old Friends," and "Strength in What Remains." Kidder shares the joys and doubts of a career in writing with veteran journalist and host Dean Nelson, founder and director of the Writer's Symposium By The Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31161]

Tracy Kidder and Paul English, the author and subject of "A Truck Full of Money: One Man's Quest to Recover From Great Success," talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about English's dual life as a tech entrepreneur and philanthropist. English co-founded Kayak and, after selling it to Priceline, started another travel company called Lola. For Kidder, "Truck" is a return to tech several decades after his seminal book "The Soul of a New Machine." They discuss the challenges faced by entrepreneurs, the future of technologies like artificial intelligence and whether some forms of mental illness can be good for a tech CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Leeman (@geo_leeman) spoke with us about geophysics and associated technology. John is one of the hosts of the Don't Panic GeoCast (@dontpanicgeo, iTunes). Some episodes you may like: What if you calibrated your candles differently? Out of the Country (Brad Jolive on moon rocks) "Rock Drills and Beer" Undersampled Radio John is teaching a course at Penn State called Techniques of Geoscientific Experimentation. The information and textbook is online! It uses the SparkFun Inventor's Kit. John has a website with a blog. He has some Cheerson CX-10 tiny drone posts (my favorite, also Alvaro's repo and my posts). John also has a consulting company: Leeman GeoPhysical. Python! Lots of Python was discussed.  Jupyter notebooks (here is a good tutorial) Example of reproducing a figure from a paper John's friction model (repo and talk he gave about it at SciPy2016) Neat SciPy talk about open textbooks SciPy is a Python conference in Austin, TX in July Finally, in lieu of rock puns, here is a neat animation showing many different waves from earthquakes. Contest! Contest ends October 1st and now there are more books! In addition to the ones Bob Apthorpe is sponsoring, John's consulting company will sponsor: Earthquake Storms: An Unauthorized Biography of the San Andreas Fault by John Dvorak and The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder. 

LIFE LESSON SERIES: The Story Of Dr. Paul Farmer Today’s story is about a man named Dr. Paul Farmer. This man is inspiring. Paul Farmer is UN's Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard. He is also Professor of Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, chief of Social Medicine and Inequalities at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, and founding director of Partners In Health. Among Dr. Farmer's numerous awards and honors is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's "genius award." In his book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and his mission to conquer diseases among the world's poor. “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.” - Dr. Paul Farmer CHECK OUT: 1.) The Interview Girl FOUNDATION: http://InterviewGirl.org/ 2.) Interview Girl On YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/MsToriStory 3.) Victoria's New BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/Because-Medicine-Ran-Out-InterviewGirl-com/dp/0692297138/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438041469&sr=1-1&keywords=because+the+medicine+ran+out 4.) DOCUMENTARY Film About WWII Coming Soon: http://chasingtime.us/ The Interview Girl Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving others and making a difference in this world by eliminating miseries that others experience. Stories, advice, interviews, and content are shared for the purpose of helping others (eliminating misery). Every project completed helps a different cause. People throughout the world experience various miseries and each product produced at the Interview Girl Foundation aids someone who is experiencing misery. The Interview Girl Foundation is a DO-GOOD organization that uses STORIES to achieve SOCIAL GOOD. http://InterviewGirl.org/ JOIN THE 7-DAY STORY CHALLENGE TODAY!: http://interviewgirl.org/stories/

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Under God's Rainbow: The Church as Noah's Ark* for Sunday, 25 May 2014; book review: *Good Prose: The Art of Non-Fiction* by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd (2013); film review: *The Act of Killing* (2012); poem review: *Candlemas* by Denise Levertov.

Author of "Strength in What Remains"

"I always have a reader in mind, and that's Dick Todd."

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Author of "Strength in What Remains"

The Avid Reader talks to Tracy Kidder, prolific author of literary non-fiction, about his books Strength in What Remains and Mountains Beyond Mountains.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"A Child in a Foul Stable / Where the Beasts Feed and Foam"* for Sunday, 12 December 2010; book review: *Strength in What Remains* by Tracy Kidder (2009); film review: *Inside North Korea* (2006); poem review: *Annunciation* by John Donne.

In the aftermath of the Port-Au-Prince earthquake, the medical organization Partners in Health has played a key role bringing emergency aid to Haiti. On this edition of the 7th Avenue Project, Robert's 2003 interview with writer Tracy Kidder, discussing Partners in Health, its work in Haiti and its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer. Farmer was the subject of Kidder's best-selling book "Mountains Beyond Mountains."

Two interviews from the archives: Tracy Kidder discusses his 2006 memoir, "My Detachment," about the year he spent as a young army lieutenant in Vietnam. Novelist Andrew Sean Greer from 2008, on his most recent work: "The Story of A Marriage."

How people cope with calamity. Pulitzer prizewinner Tracy Kidder discusses his new book, "Strength in What Remains," about an African refugee fleeing ethnic violence. And social critic Rebecca Solnit talks about the response of ordinary people to the Loma Prieta earthquake, hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters.

SAJA presents a conversation with one of the most popular South Asian writers in America. Dr. Abraham Verghese, author of "My Own Country" and "The Tennis Partner" has a brand-new novel, "Cutting for Stone." A testimonial: “Abraham Verghese has always written with grace, precision and feeling [but] he’s topped himself with Cutting for Stone. A vastly entertaining and enlightening book.” — Tracy Kidder

A special evening with Dr. Paul Farmer, founding NESRI Board Member, Co-Founder of Partners In Health, MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner, human rights activist, and subject of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains. You will hear from Dr. Farmer and our staff about how we are working with our partners and networks to shape their agendas and hopes in the face of a new administration.

Tracy Kidder discusses his book Mountains Beyond Mountains, the common reading for the class of 2010.

A roundtable discussion featuring the three authors of this year's required summer reading for freshmen and transfer students: Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner; Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains; and Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater.

Among Schoolchildren