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Jeremy Au breaks down why most startups fail and why it's rarely just one thing. Backed by funnel data and battle-tested case studies, he reveals six patterns that repeatedly kill ventures, no matter how visionary the founders are. From premature scaling to bad macro timing, this talk shows how failure is often structural, not personal. 00:05 Startup Funnel Reality: Out of 1,100 seed-funded U.S. startups, only 12 reached unicorn status. Failure happens at seed, Series A, Series B and beyond. 01:26 Case Study: Jibo's $73M Fall: The world's first social robot died from engineering overruns, leadership disruption, and Amazon's cheaper, voice-only Echo. 03:53 Defining Failure: A startup fails when early investors don't get their money back regardless of user love, media buzz, or product quality. 08:00 Six Killer Patterns: Startups fail from co-founder misalignment, building without validation, misreading early traction, scaling too fast, bad timing, or relying on too many risky bets—all seen in cases like Quincy Apparel, Triangulate, Baroo, Fab.com, and Iridium. 22:40 Rebound & Revenge: Failed founders often bounce back—some become professors, others launch billion-dollar revenge startups like Rippling and Anduril. Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/anatomy-of-startup-failure Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.bravesea.com WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VakR55X6BIElUEvkN02e TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea English: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Bahasa Indonesia: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Chinese: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Vietnamese: Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts

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#triangulationseries #narcissisticmanipulation #narcissisticparent Is your mother placing herself between you and your father? Does she speak ill of your father to you? Does she tell lies to your father about you to ruin your relationship? There are 2 directions in which a narcissistic mother can triangulate between you and your father. In this episode we cover both and also what to do in each case.

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#triangulation #narcissisticmanipulation #narcissisticparent #preparingforholidayseason Have you come to dread the approaching holidays season because of your narcissistic mother? Does you her toxic behaviour reach new levels every year at this time? What we can expect with a narcissistic mother and with narcissistic families in general is an intensifying of all toxic behaviours and manipulation tactics at key moments such as the upcoming holiday season. And triangulation is not exception! In this episode I'm going through all the main ways you can expect your narcissistic mother to triangulate during holiday season and 5 things you can do to protect yourself from this toxic behaviour.

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  A narcissist parent(s) do not care about their child or children. They WILL however, join ranks with a Narcissist sibling(s) in order to Triangulate the target... Their own flesh, and blood. Their goal? To destroy, Annihilate and make sure they achieve their carefully planned attacks. To make sure that the family member targeted, ends up losing everything and EVERYONE. They will reach out and contact anyone associated... connected friends, current or prior relationships, neighbors, coworkers, employers, law enforcement and anyone else connected to the target that they can find, by using the same narcissistic tactics. Sit back, and observe very carefully!. There is a repetitive pattern in all narcissists. They ALL eventually, get caught up in their own web of destructive games. Crazy lies. When they do? They will further their ABUSE towards the family target. #Narcissistic Personality Disorder  #Narcissistic Psychopath Behavior *** *** Free Yourself...My Journey freeyourselfmyjourney@yahoo.com  

Rerun: The Ordnance Survey - a government-funded agency created to aid the military in the event of invasion from France - took receipt of a theodolite on 21st June 1791, and so began the epic task of accurately mapping Britain.  It took them twenty years to do the county of Kent. And another twenty years to do the South Coast. If you wanted a fragment of one of their hand-drawn maps on your wall, it would set you back two weeks' wages. In this episode, Olly, Arion and Rebecca pore through their OS Map collection to discover which county has the most commercial greenhouses, the exact location of ‘Britain's highest pub', and reveal the OFFICIAL answer to the much-pondered question, ‘Where is the centre of Britain?'...  Further Reading: • ‘The Quirky History of Ordnance Survey And The UK'S Maps', from Much Better Adventures magazine (2020):  https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/ordnance-survey/ • ‘A Short History of the Ordnance Survey' from The Charles Close Society: https://www.charlesclosesociety.org/files/HistoryOSGB.pdf • ‘Attacking Scotland: Five centuries of maps by our enemies' A lecture by Chris Fleet, Maps Curator of the the National Library of Scotland (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLxGLaJG_s&t=5s ‘Why am I hearing a rerun?' Each Thursday and Friday we repeat stories from our archive of 800+ episodes, so we can maintain the quality of our independent podcast and bring you fresh, free content every Monday-Wednesday…  … But

Android's enhanced Find My Device network was rolled out yesterday. What can it do and what do you need to use it? Plus we share the big news from Google's Next conference in Las Vegas today.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ron Richards, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes.

Android's enhanced Find My Device network was rolled out yesterday. What can it do and what do you need to use it? Plus we share the big news from Google's Next conference in Las Vegas today. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Ron Richards, Roger Chang, Joe. To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!

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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.On this week's show, I'm thrilled to be joined by Sunil Nagaraj, Founder of Ubiquity Ventures. Sunil started Ubiquity in 2017 to focus on backing technical founders at the pre-seed and seed stages around a thesis he calls “nerdy and early.” Before starting Ubiquity, Sunil spent just over 6 years at Bessemer Venture Partners, and began his career as a founder of a startup. With so many solo-GP firms emerging, Sunil took us through us his lens of a solo-GP, and how he has built and grown ubiquity over the last 7 years.This was a very insightful conversation and I hope you'll enjoy it. About Sunil Nagaraj:Sunil Nagaraj is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ubiquity Ventures, a seed-stage institutional venture capital firm with over $150 million under management and a focus on "software beyond the screen"® startups. This includes B2B technology companies that utilize smart hardware or machine learning to solve business problems outside the reach of computers and smartphones.Prior to founding Ubiquity Ventures, Sunil spent the better part of a decade with Bessemer Venture Partners where his work included leading the seed rounds of Auth0 (acquired by Okta for $6.5 billion) and Zapier as well as investments in Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB), Spire (NASDAQ: SPIR), Velo3D (NYSE: VLD), Tile (acquired by Life360), and Twitch (acquired by Amazon for $1 billion). Before investing, Sunil was Founder and CEO of Triangulate, a VC-backed online dating startup using machine learning and behavioral data to improve matching accuracy. He has also worked at Bain & Company, Cisco, and Microsoft.Sunil holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.In this episode we discuss:(01:45) Sunil's journey into tech and investing(04:33) The decision to become a solo GP after spending his career in partnerships and team(09:56) How the first raise for Ubiquity went(13:23) LP segments(19:28) The types of founders that Sunil likes to back(22:25) Biggest lessons learned during his time in VC(24:54) Lessons from his anti-portfolio(28:37) Sizing your fund to be both small and nimble and large enough to write meaningful checks(31:33) The potential for AI(36:25) Navigating the hype cycles in VC(38:43) When to make exceptions in terms of ownership or check size(41:20) What the current VC market is like and how it might evolve(44:28) The advice he would give himself at the start of his careerI'd love to know what you took away from this conversation with Sunil. Follow me @SamirKaji and give me your insights and questions with the hashtag #ventureunlocked. If you'd like to be considered as a guest or have someone you'd like to hear from (GP or LP), drop me a direct message on Twitter.Podcast Production support provided by Agent Bee This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ventureunlocked.substack.com

Consider a scenario where you're seeking entry into a specific business, pursuing a particular job, or attempting to secure a gig in your industry. You might desire access to a certain individual or an exclusive group that doesn't readily accept newcomers. While the front door may not be accessible to everyone, there are always alternative routes to achieve your objectives. So, how else can we gain entry into spaces that don't readily accommodate us through the basic or conventional means? This is the question we will address today. This topic is relevant to all of us, especially those involved in sales, marketing, or self-promotion in any capacity. Finding alternative approaches when the initial ideas or traditional methods fall short is essential. Now, let's explore the strategies and possibilities together. Show notes: [14:04]#1 Triangulate. [19:56]#2 Think like a chess player. [26:55]#3 Connect with somebody who's already on the inside. [37:16]Recap All Episodes + FULL Work On Your Game Podcast archive at: http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com Sponsor: AG1 by Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/WorkOnYourGame http://drinkAG1.com/WORKONYOURGAME Sponsor: GoPuff - $15 Off Your First 3 Orders http://www.WorkOnYourGame.com/gopuff Sponsor: AquaTru - $100 Any Purifying Filter Http://www.WorkOnYourGame.com/at Next Steps: #DailyMotivation Text: Text Dre at 1.305.384.6894 (or go to http://DreAllDay.com/Text) Work On Your Game University (Coaching & Courses): http://www.WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com Work On Your Game LIVE: http://WorkOnYourGame.LIVE Training - 6 Figure Earners Who Want To Reach 7 Figures: http://www.WorkOnYourGame.net Facebook Business Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6figuresandgrowing/ Get Dre's Emails: Http://WorkOnMyGame.com Free Audiobooks: The Third Day: http://www.ThirdDayBook.com/audible The Mirror Of Motivation: http://www.MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible Get The Free Books: The Third Day: http://ThirdDayBook.com The Mirror Of Motivation: http://MirrorOfMotivation.com The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: http://BallOverseas.com Basketball: How To Play As Well As You Practice: http://HoopHandbook.com/Free Donate: CashApp: http://Cash.app/$DreBaldwin PayPal: http://PayPal.me/DreAllDay Be sure to Subscribe to have each new episode sent directly to you daily! If you're enjoying Work On Your Game, please Review the show and let us know! Dre on social media: Instagram [http://instagram.com/DreBaldwin] Twitter [http://Twitter.com/DreAllDay] YouTube [http://youtube.com/dreupt]

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Kyle Cease AKA "Kid Comedy" is a former comedian turned motivational speaker with a long history dealing with Pod Awful. Last time he got heckled, Kyle nearly got the Pod Awful Youtube channel terminated, but Jesse was saved last second by the kahunavirus. Now, out of nowhere, years later, Kyle has come hitting the Henchmen who reuploaded his METOO APOLOGY VIDEO with copyright takedown notices. The henchmen TRIANGULATE in on Kyle Cease as he tries to rewrite the narrative on abusing the women who go to his events. It's Cult versus Cult, and Kyle claims he actually somehow STARTED THE WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC! Get the full, unedited stream on the PIzza Fund: http://podawful.pizza Edit By Angie. https://podawful.pizza/posts/2341 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/n4ioabPdvLg PIZZA FUND: http://podawful.pizza RSS FEED: http://podawful.com/rss  YOUTUBE: http://awful.tube  DISCORD CULT: http://podawful.com/discord    TWITTER: http://podawful.com/twitter    INSTAGRAM: http://podawful.com/instagram    DLIVE: http://podawful.com/dlive  ODYSEE: http://podawful.com/odysee  FACEBOOK: http://podawful.com/facebook   MERCH: http://podawful.shop    http://podawful.com  #podawful #KyleCease #MeToo Pod Awful Is an anti-podcast hosted by Jesse P-S

Kyle Cease AKA "Kid Comedy" is a former comedian turned motivational speaker with a long history dealing with Pod Awful. Last time he got heckled, Kyle nearly got the Pod Awful Youtube channel terminated, but Jesse was saved last second by the kahunavirus. Now, out of nowhere, years later, Kyle has come hitting the Henchmen who reuploaded his METOO APOLOGY VIDEO with copyright takedown notices. The henchmen TRIANGULATE in on Kyle Cease as he tries to rewrite the narrative on abusing the women who go to his events. It's Cult versus Cult, and Kyle claims he actually somehow STARTED THE WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC! Get the full, unedited stream on the PIzza Fund: http://podawful.pizza Edit By Angie. https://podawful.pizza/posts/2341 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/n4ioabPdvLg PIZZA FUND: http://podawful.pizza RSS FEED: http://podawful.com/rss  YOUTUBE: http://awful.tube  DISCORD CULT: http://podawful.com/discord    TWITTER: http://podawful.com/twitter    INSTAGRAM: http://podawful.com/instagram    DLIVE: http://podawful.com/dlive  ODYSEE: http://podawful.com/odysee  FACEBOOK: http://podawful.com/facebook   MERCH: http://podawful.shop    http://podawful.com  #podawful #KyleCease #MeToo Pod Awful Is an anti-podcast hosted by Jesse P-S

    On #TheBIGShowTV today, Dr Geraldine Tan from The Therapy Room Singapore, shares with us what Triangulation is,  how it looks at home, work and during therapy, who are the type of people who tend to Triangulate and what we can do.   NEXT, Nian Tjoe, Senior Transport Correspondent of The Straits Times, shares his tips when you are preparing for a road trip to Malaysia this school holidays!   #TheBIGShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    On #TheBIGShowTV today, Dr Geraldine Tan from The Therapy Room Singapore, shares with us what Triangulation is,  how it looks at home, work and during therapy, who are the type of people who tend to Triangulate and what we can do.   NEXT, Nian Tjoe, Senior Transport Correspondent of The Straits Times, shares his tips when you are preparing for a road trip to Malaysia this school holidays!   #TheBIGShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey, Survivor! In today's show, I talk about what to do when narcissists triangulate.  I describe what this dynamic looks like, how it feels, and how to handle it. Anyone who triangulates should not be in your circle.  So, don't edify the narcissist by participating in this ego-boosting game. Whether you're being tried with triangulation, or you know someone else who is, this episode is a must.  It provides ideas and examples of ways to overcome this toxic threesome. Know who you're dealing with.  Know who you are.

Manipulation Tactics of A Covert Narcissist part 4 covers Triangulation. We look at the different stages of triangulation in the intimate relationship in particular and the motivation for the NPD to use this technique.Coaching Enquiries - narcscon@gmail.comFirst Aired on Utube May 2022https://youtu.be/TcCergaM6uASupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/narcon/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This Podcast looks at a favorite manipulation technique of the covert narcissist in relation to a new source of narcissistic supply. This manipulation is highly efficient and effective in stimulating the maximum energy/supply from two source simultaneously with minimal effort on the narcissistic persons part.Coaching Enquiries - narcscon@gmail.comFirst Aired on Utube October 2020https://youtu.be/SGODKQw1-FYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/narcon/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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IS PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY GAY? A SATANIST? NO! HERE IS THE PROOF [EPISODE 214] The Russian-Ukraine war has raged for  more than 7 weeks now. I wrote a book on President Zelenskyy because I found him to be an intriguing leader.  You can find it here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Need-Ammunition-Not-Ride-Volodymyr-ebook/dp/B09VVW3NSV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6YHOEVZ983NQ&keywords=i+need+ammunition%2C+not+a+ride&qid=1647625321&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C4098&sr=1-1 Since I wrote the book, I now get emails and DMs that ask, “Don't you know Zelenskyy is a Nazi?” or “Is Zelensky a Soros plant?”  Or my personal favorite, “I saw this video where he was dancing in drag. He is a gay Satanist.” I will address each of these in turn. In the last episode I debunked the Nazi question. In today's episode, I will address the gay and Satanist questions. Here are the links I talked about in this episode: Laura Logan calling Zelensky a puppet linked to the Nazis and occult: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lara-logan-claims-e2-80-98puppet-e2-80-99-zelensky-was-e2-80-98selected-e2-80-99-in-unhinged-rant-linking-ukraine-to-the-nazis-and-the-occult/ar-AAV5QEz?ocid=uxbndlbing Russia Retweeting Laura Logan for their propaganda: https://twitter.com/CoE_Russia/status/1505529137607417856 Los Angeles Blade Article explaining that Zelensky was mocking Russia: https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/03/08/ukrainian-presidents-queer-parody-riles-american-evangelicals/ Reddit Meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/t9tik2/zelensky_is_satan/ Compare for yourself. Are you parroting Russian propaganda? Where did you get your information? Don't be a useful idiot. Triangulate on the truth and rely on verifiable sources. Here is RT (Official Russian news in English). https://www.rt.com/on-air/ By the way, you should know that the Russians passed a law penalizing the intentional spread of “fake news” with up to 15 years in prison. The law was designed to, “prevent the discrediting of the armed forces of the Russian Federation during their operations to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, maintaining international peace and security.” The law made it illegal “to make calls against the use of Russian troops to protect the interests of Russia.” Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fake-news-military-invasion-independent-media/31735798.html Moreover, more than 15,000 Russians have been jailed for protesting the war in Ukraine over the last two months. Some were even jailed for holding up blank signs. Source: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protests-police-arrest-activists-holding-blank-signs-paper-1687603?fbclid=IwAR0L_eDsj52OrCvqMt_C48lZhdVpGgKWGtXQoIpRfqucWk3Sna4jnTtdTZc They banned Twitter, Facebook, and Google so Putin can control the narrative. Think about that before spreading Russian talking points. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and tell others who might benefit from this podcast. I would like to hear from you. You can leave a comment below.  I would like to hear if this was useful. Contact me on Twitter or Gettr @daringerdes or leave a video message: https://flipgrid.com/leadersmith  Join our FACEBOOK COMMUNITY and continue the discussion there: https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnleadership/ or Join our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13966891/ WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR? Reach out with a comment or question: https://forms.gle/fJP6ym4LDxJrKX2c8 #zelenskyy #gayzelensky #zelenskygay #Zelenskysatanist #Ukraine #russianinvasion #glorytoukraine #Zelensky #zelenskyy

The Russian-Ukraine war has raged for 6 weeks now. I wrote a book on President Zelenskyy because I found him to be an intriguing leader.  You can find it here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Need-Ammunition-Not-Ride-Volodymyr-ebook/dp/B09VVW3NSV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6YHOEVZ983NQ&keywords=i+need+ammunition%2C+not+a+ride&qid=1647625321&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C4098&sr=1-1   Since I wrote the book, I now get emails and DMs that ask, “Don't you know Zelenskyy is a Nazi?” or “Is Zelensky a Soros plant?”  Or my personal favorite, “I saw this video where he was dancing in drag. He is a gay Satanist.” I will address each of these in turn. In today's episode, I will address the Nazi accusation. I will address it on two levels: Personally and governmental. Here are the links I talked about in this episode: Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenskyy-nazi-iron-cross/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/25/facebook-posts/zelenskys-shirt-bears-emblem-ukraine-armed-forces-/ Anti-Defamation League: https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/iron-cross FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/ Victoria Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross US Distinguished Flying Cross: https://archive.ph/kkQmy English Language Russian News: https://www.rt.com/on-air/ English Language Ukrainian News: https://uatv.ua/en/projects/11473-en-2/   Historian's statement: https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/345515/statement-on-the-war-in-ukraine-by-scholars-of-genocide-nazism-and-world-war-ii/   Compare for yourself. Are you parroting Russian propaganda? Where did you get your information? Don't be a useful idiot. Triangulate on the truth and rely on verifiable sources.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and tell others who might benefit from this podcast. I would like to hear from you. You can leave a comment below.  I would like to hear if this was useful. Contact me on Twitter or Gettr @daringerdes or leave a video message: https://flipgrid.com/leadersmith  Join our FACEBOOK COMMUNITY and continue the discussion there: https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnleadership/ or Join our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13966891/ WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR? Reach out with a comment or question: https://forms.gle/fJP6ym4LDxJrKX2c8  

The Demon Beelzebud returns to pester sisters Rena and Matilda. [sequel to Force Majeure]  Cast List Beelzebud - Anthony D.P. Mann (Horror Etc. Podcast) Rena - Julie Hoverson Matilda - Kate Waterous Jesse - Big Anklevitch (Dunesteef Audio Magazine) Infernique - Julia Carter Willial - Mark Olson Benedict - Reynaud LeBoeuf Mrs. Closky - Florida Possum Fat guy - Dave Fontenot Manager - Scott Spaulding Cameo appearance from Super Haunted Stories! Music by  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Editing and Sound:   Julie Hoverson Cover Design:  Julie Hoverson Cover art includes:  clear crystal / red crystal "What kind of a place is it? Why it's a modern family home, can't you tell?" ********************************************** Caveat Emptor Cast: Beelzebud Rena Matilda Jesse Infernique Willial Benedict Mrs. Closky Fat guy Manager OLIVIA     Did you have any trouble finding it?  What do you mean, what kind of a place is it?  Why, it's a family home, can't you tell?  MUSIC SOUND     ALARM CLOCK GOES OFF, IS SLAPPED DOWN JESSE    [waking up]  maaaargh.  SOUND    PATTING BED JESSE    Huh?  [thick]  Babe? [clears throat] Babe?  [considering noise] Hmmm. SOUND    BLANKET FLAPS JESSE    What the hell time...?  What?  [yelling petulantly] Cassie?  Who reset the alarm? SOUND    STUMBLES INTO OTHER ROOM JESSE    Cassie?  Where's the laptop?  Shit!  We've been robbed!  SOUND    RUSHING AROUND SOUND    DOORBELL JESSE    Where's the phone?  Gotta call police. SOUND    DOORBELL JESSE    Who the hell? SOUND    DOOR OPENS ON CHAIN JESSE    This is not a good time. BUD    It's the only time you got, pal.  JESSE    I just got robbed. BUD    No, you just got dumped.  Read the note on the fridge. JESSE    What? SOUND    DOOR SLAMS, OUTSIDE WITH BUD BUD    [WHISTLES SOMETHING] SOUND    DOOR JERKS OPEN AGAIN JESSE    [freaking out] Are you a friend of Cassie's?  Do you know where she went? BUD    Not my area.  I just dropped by to give you a bit of a head's up. JESSE    Uh-what? BUD    I know you're feeling pretty low.  Wife walked out, took the kid, and you don't know why-- JESSE    We have a good life! BUD    Yeah, it's got nothing to do with you moping around the house all day-- JESSE    I got laid off. BUD    Leaving all the housework for the little woman, so that when she gets home from her full day-- JESSE    I have to spend my time looking for work-- BUD    A lot of work in World of Warcraft, is there?  Or are you considering a career in porn? JESSE    None of your business! Besides...they're the only things that make me less depressed-- BUD    Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all.  So today is your lucky day - kinda. JESSE    Kinda? BUD    [dragged out, savoring] Ye-a-aah.  MUSIC MATILDA    It's $200.  That's like three tanks of gas. RENA    [disgusted sigh]  I hate this work. MATILDA    One hour plus drive time.  Just think of it as gathering intel. RENA    I'll think of it as whine tasting. SOUND    PICKS UP KEYS, DOOR OPENS MATILDA    Have fun! MUSIC SOUND    DOORBELL, DOOR OPENS ON CHAIN RENA    You called? JESSE    Oh, yeah, this guy - he gave me your card. RENA    And? JESSE    And? RENA    I didn't come all this way to stand on your porch, unpaid. MATILDA    [mic] Confirmed. JESSE    Oh, ah.  Come in. SOUND    UNCHAINS, OPENS DOOR JESSE    Yeah, um, it's kind of a mess.  You want a beer or something? RENA    57 minutes. JESSE    What? RENA    Of your hour.  We confirmed your paypal transaction. JESSE      Oh, right.  My wife – she left me. RENA    When? JESSE    Oh, just this morning. RENA    [disbelieving] Hmph. JESSE    She's not much of a housekeeper. RENA    I can smell that. JESSE    That doesn't mean I don't want her back! SOUND    POUNDING ON THE DOOR JESSE    [angry sigh] Just a sec. RENA    Take your time. MATILDA    [mic] Cut the poor guy some slack. SOUND    OPENS DOOR MRS. CLOSKY    How dare you! JESSE    How dare I, what? MRS. CLOSKY    Bring a hooker into your house while your wife's away? MATILDA    [mic] [laughing hysterically] RENA    [low] Not funny. MATILDA    [mic] I told you the black leather was wrong for the neighborhood! RENA    Tough is tough. JESSE    She's not-- MRS. CLOSKY    I know just what kind of woman has the bleached blonde hair and the motorcycle. JESSE    But Cassie-- MRS. CLOSKY    That poor woman gave you two beautiful children, so any weight she's gained, well that's just as much your fault, isn't it? MATILDA    [mic] [fresh peals of laughter] RENA    I'm gonna turn you off. JESSE    But Mrs. Closky! MRS. CLOSKY    You're just like my sonofabitch husband, and I just wish I had had someone like me to speak up on my behalf back when he-- SOUND    DOOR SHUTS, cutting her off JESSE    [sigh] Shit. RENA    Sum up quick.  I'm already bored. JESSE    My wife left me this morning.  I want to find out where she went. RENA    Did you call her parents? JESSE    Her mother won't answer. RENA    Did you call her friends? JESSE    They're all on her side. RENA    Did you check her emails? JESSE    I didn't think of that. RENA    What have you done? JESSE    I ... called you. RENA    You understand that first $200 is only for this hour, the one we're currently wasting.  JESSE    Not for the entire job? RENA    Not unless I find her in the next 47 minutes. JESSE    [hopeful] Do you think you can? RENA    What's her email address? MUSIC SOUND    OUTSIDE, WALKING, LEATHER CREAKING MATILDA    [mic] She already emailed back.  Says he's been a shit since he got laid off.  Says she told him she was going to do this, weeks ago, and he didn't even pay attention. RENA    Hmph.  Makes me want to run out and find one of my own. MATILDA    [mic] [laughs] WILLY    Uh, hello? RENA    Not in a million years. WILLY    I was just looking for a - ah!  There's the address. SOUND    HE HUSTLES OFF RENA    Must be a friend of his-- MRS. CLOSKY    [off, calling]  You! RENA    Oh hell. MRS. CLOSKY    You, woman! MATILDA    [mic] Uh-oh.  RENA    [sigh] What? MRS. CLOSKY    How much do you charge? MATILDA    [mic] Tell her you don't do lemon parties. RENA    I don't-- [starts over] I am a bounty hunter. MRS. CLOSKY    Oh!  Well, that's a disappointment. RENA    That I'm not a prostitute? MRS. CLOSKY    I have a nephew.  Unmarried.  He could use a little cheering up.  And his birthday's coming! MATILDA    [mic] [teasing] We are a bit short on cash. RENA    I - I have to go.  Now. SOUND    MOTORCYCLE REVS MUSIC AMB    MATILDA'S DEN SOUND    DOOR SHUTS (OFF) SOUND    RENA ENTERS MATILDA    [calling] So, how was the nephew? RENA    [muffled] Funny. SOUND    KNOCK ON DOOR RENA    There wasn't any - oh. MATILDA    What? RENA    Who pops up out of nowhere on a regular basis? SOUND    OPENS DOOR BUD    Hiya doll!  [louder] Dolls! RENA    [to M] You okay with having him in? MATILDA    Yeah, I guess. BUD    Make a guy feel wanted, why dontcha? MATILDA    We forgot to vacuum! RENA    We're antisocial. BUD    And here I thought it was just me. RENA    You forgot to vacuum too? MATILDA    Get over here, where I can see you! SOUND    WALKING RENA    Matilda.  Bud.  SOUND    SHE FLOPS INTO CHAIR MATILDA    You do look like Steve Buscemi. BUD    I'm gonna take that as a compliment.  You don't got no more places to sit? RENA    One butt, one chair.  Part of the recluse mystique.  MATILDA    There's a stool around somewhere... BUD    eh.  I can stand.  Don't plan to be here that long.  See, I gotta problem. MATILDA    Another one? RENA    We get $200 for the first hour. BUD    Here. SOUND    SLAPS DOWN MONEY BUD    You know, I never woulda mistaken you for a prostitute. RENA    Good to know. BUD    Dominatrix, maybe. RENA    [losing it] It's motorcycle gear!  Not some kind of leather teddy and thigh high boots-- MATILDA    [taunting] With stiletto heels? RENA    Not helping!  And those things'll break your ankles.  [breath, recomposed]  Clock starts now.  What's your problem? BUD    You girls are a hoot.  You should take it on the road. MATILDA    No thanks. RENA    Tick...tock. BUD    Fine.  [sigh]  You'd think the life of a demon like me would be a piece of cake. MATILDA    From what you've said, you seem to have it all down to a system. BUD    Yeah, well any well oiled machine can go Pfft - if you stick in the wrong cog. RENA    What have you been sticking in your cogs? BUD    [snicker] It's Infernique.  MATILDA    Sounds like a perfume. BUD    The demon chick you fixed me up with. RENA    Nuh-uh.  No fixing.  Just tricked her into giving in and going out with you.  Once.  Whatever happened after - not my fault. MATILDA    Well, maybe just a little. BUD    She's convinced she gotta class me up. RENA    Class?  You? BUD    You don't need to make it sounds like such a joke, babe. MATILDA    I wondered about the suit.  Seemed awfully-- RENA    Tasteful? MATILDA    Restrained.  I mean, the descriptions - you have such ... flair!  [undertone] help me out here. RENA    No. BUD    Yeah, yeah, so I like the classics.  This sharkskin still got its own kind of flash, but she's killing me with the pastels.  [confidential]  You know they come from the pit of despair? MATILDA    Pastels? BUD    Yeah.  Not a pretty story.  [up a bit] Anyway, I'm not so good at saying "no" to her, and she's been trying to get me to trade up.  Better department.  Better class of victim. MATILDA    What will the comedians do without you? BUD    Yeah, that's what I say, but there's always someone willing to take most any place, but my place is one of those ain't no one gonna fight over, see? RENA    Nope. BUD    This guy, Jesse - I gave him your card this morning - ring a bell? RENA    The douche who didn't realize his wife was about to walk? BUD    Yeah, well - that's what Infernique wants me for my new clientele. MATILDA    The recently abandoned?  The thoughtless husbands? RENA    The douches?  Plenty of them.  You can have 'em. BUD    Yeah, but she's got me sneaking around behind the back of Willy, the guy whose job it is now, undermining his numbers.  Trying to make him look bad.  Getting the douches to not sign. MATILDA    All's fair in love and hell? BUD    I dunno - I ain't liking this. RENA    Talking people out of selling their souls?  How abominable. BUD    Nah, it's the backstabbing.  Willy's - well not "good people" maybe, but he ain't a bad guy.  Kind of a plodder.  No inspiration.  But he's got a sweet berth and he's ...competent.  MATILDA    You'll really miss the comedians, won't you? BUD    [sighing admission] Yeah. RENA    Easy.  Tell her you don't want to change. BUD    Why don't you just point me at a good doctor, then, for when she rips me a new asshole. RENA    Guess you're screwed. MATILDA    Waitaminute.  Look.  the way I see it, you have two choices here.  You can go ahead and be perfect, toe the line, do what she wants and be with her until she finds someone more ambitious-- RENA    Won't be hard. MATILDA    Shush.  Or you find a way to slack off and subtly let her know that you aren't going to turn into a silk purse any time soon, and let her dump you. RENA    Talk to that guy from this morning.  I'm sure he can give you some pointers. MATILDA    The big question is, is she worth it? BUD    You know... You said a mouthful right there.  I think some deep pondering is in order.  Thanx! RENA    You still have a few minutes left. BUD    Ehh - Keep it!  All us classy types tip! MUSIC RENA    [snoring] SOUND    PHONE RINGS, ANSWERED RENA    [groggy] Hello?  [a bit better] Hello? SOUND    STRANGE BUZZ ON THE LINE RENA    Shit. SOUND    HANGS UP SOUND    GRABBING CLOTHES, GUN SOUND    EASES OPEN DOOR RENA    [deliberately calms her breathing to listen] SOUND    MUSIC PLAYS SOFTLY FROM MATILDA'S ROOM RENA    [whispered] Shit. SOUND    QUICK DASH SHUTS MAT's DOOR, MUSIC'S MUFFLED RENA    [calming her breathing again] SOUND    CREAK, ACROSS ROOM RENA    [catch in her breathing, then careful] SOUND    ANOTHER CREAK, ACROSS THE ROOM SOUND    RENA CAREFULLY TAKES THE REMOTE SOUND    CLICK, TV COMES ON, ACROSS ROOM BENEDICT    [gasp] SOUND    QUICK SCUFFLE OF MOVEMENT RENA    [now behind him] You're gonna want to drop that. SOUND    CLICK OF HER GUN CoCKED BENEDICT    You don't know what you're doing. SOUND    CLICK - TV OFF RENA    I'm the one with the gun.  And the remote.  Whatever you got in your hand, drop it. SOUND    SOMETHING CLATTERS TO THE FLOOR. SOUND    MAT'S DOOR FLUNG OPEN MATILDA    Hold it right there! RENA    [up] Got 'im.  [to him] Hands behind your back. BENEDICT    [annoyed] Really? RENA    Really.  MATILDA    Sorry I took so long.  Couldn't find the night vision goggles. BENEDICT    [sigh] Fine. SOUND    HANDCUFFS ON BENEDICT    IS this really necessary? RENA    You're the one who broke in. MATILDA    I'll get the lights. RENA    Goggles off. MATILDA    I know! SOUND    GOGGLES OFF, LIGHT SWITCH MATILDA    Ooh!  He's smoking hot!  Can we keep him? BENEDICT    Let me explain. RENA    Not much chance of that.  Mat, 9-1-1, okay? MATILDA    [playing it up]  New where did I leave the phone? BENEDICT    [blurted out] Where are you keeping the demon? RENA    [surprised snort] MATILDA    [giggles]  Wow, dramatic much? RENA    There's a doghouse out back… MATILDA    [fresh peal of laughter] BENEDICT    This is no joke, lady.  Harboring a demonic fugitive is very serious. RENA    [growling now] “A” – harboring?  Not a chance.  “B” - fugitive?  BENEDICT    Beelzebud, lower echelon romalpa class signatory demon.  He stands accused of contractual misconduct. RENA    Let me guess – that's bad. BENEDICT    It's a termination-class penalty. MATILDA    Oh, shit! RENA    Tell us more. BENEDICT    No. MATILDA    Oh, come on.  You hunt demons.  Do you make a good living at that? BENEDICT    [bursts out laughing] RENA    Guess that's a no. BENEDICT    It's a calling, not a job.  RENA    So... you're a demon too. BENEDICT    I'm not telling you anything. RENA    You broke into our house.  Convince us that we shouldn't call the real-life police. BENEDICT    I wasn't going to do anything to you - just put this crystal somewhere-- RENA    This thing? BENEDICT    Yeah.  It's a--[shuts up]   MATILDA    Might as well finish the sentence.  [beat]  How about strip guesses? BENEDICT    What? RENA    If she guesses and she's wrong, you lose a piece of clothing. BENEDICT    Are you insane? RENA    We don't get a lot of hot male visitors. MATILDA    And you woke us up in the middle of the damn night.  Is it a tracking device? BENEDICT    No. MATILDA    Camo coat. BENEDICT    Can't take it off over the handcuffs. MATILDA    Oh, bummer.  Pants, then. BENEDICT    [panicking a little] It's a simple listening device - like a mystic "bug"  Ok? RENA    Guess he wins.  Sorry Mat. MUSIC AMB    COMEDY CLUB [HEARD FROM BACKSTAGE] FAT GUY    [punchline to a joke] Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom. SOUND    SCATTERED LAUGHTER, NOT MUCH FAT GUY    and... Good night! SOUND    RUNS IN MANAGER    That could have been better. FAT GUY    [grumpy] Open mike, read it and weep. BUD    Psst. FAT GUY    What do you want? BUD    I like what you did up there. FAT GUY    [knowing] I know who you are. BUD    You... do? FAT GUY    Yeah, I was warned there's a guy going around with bogus contracts.  Screw off. BUD    I don't know nothing from bogus. I'm as legit as they come-- FAT GUY    [squealing]  You want me to call the cops?  Jeez! SOUND    STOMPS OFF BUD    [muttering, furious] Bogus contracts, eh?  SOUND    HE GOES OUT INTO ALLEY.  DOOR SHUTS BUD    [furious - cussing in latin] Mater tua caligas gerit! RENA    You kiss someone's mother with that mouth? BUD    [affable again] You know latin, doll? RENA    [shrug] I know cussing. BUD    [chuckles] RENA    Matilda wanted me to warn you.  Someone's on your tail. SOUND    MOTORCYCLE REVS, OFF RENA    And... He probably followed me here. BUD    [not real disturbed] Yikes. RENA    I thought I left you in handcuffs. BENEDICT    Your sister took pity on me. MATILDA    [mic] He's not such a bad guy. BUD    All right occifier.  I'm not as think as you drunk I am. RENA    Don't joke. BENEDICT    You might step out of the way, ma'am. RENA    [to Bud] You need some help? BUD    Why? RENA    I don't know.  I just thought I'd ask. BUD    I'm touched.  Oddly.  [beat] Nope.  It ain't gonna be pleasant, but ain't nothing to be done about that.  See you soon, doll. SOUND    COUPLE OF FOOTSTEPS, WEIRD WHOOSHING NOISE MATILDA    [mic] Well... I'll miss him. RENA    Yeah.  [sigh, beat]  Donuts? SOUND    SHE WALKS BACK TO MOTORCYCLE SOUND    PHONE RINGS RENA    Hmm?  SOUND    BEEP RENA    [wondering] Who the hell? SOUND    TURNS ON RENA    What? JESSE    [phone] Are you doing anything at all? MATILDA    [mic] Who's that? RENA    Found her. Job done. JESSE    [phone] She's not back! RENA    Yeah.  Sucks.  She's still pissed off. MATILDA    [mic] Oh, him.  What does he expect, that you'll ride in with his wife over your shoulder, kicking and screaming? RENA    I'm not draggin her home by her hair. JESSE    [phone] Then what are you doing? RENA    I told her to email you a list of demands.  Have you checked your email? JESSE    [phone] I can't!  The bitch cut off my internet! RENA    [sotto voce] Boo-hoo. [up] Hold on.  I'm transferring him to you, Matilda.  I am not playing phone relay for— SOUND    HUGE SPOOOKY WHOOOSHY SOUND SOUND    BODY FLUNG INTO WALL RENA    Ungh! SOUND    PHONE SKITTERS AWAY SOUND    THINGS GO WEIRD AND HOLLOW MATILDA    [mic] [fading into odd tunnel]  Rena?  Rena!!!!   Rena!!!! MUSIC AMB    MATILDA'S LAIR MATILDA    [panicking] Rena?  [deep shaky breath]  Don't freak out.  Don't freak out.  Maybe it's the cell tower.  Maybe it's--  Maybe its demons.  Oh shit. INFERNIQUE    Shit is right! MATILDA    [almost a scream] Who the fuck are you? INFERNIQUE    Where is my BUD?  [spooky] What have you done with him? MATILDA    [trying hard to stay calm, but kind of losing]  Bud?  I don't know!  We-we didn't do anything!  [almost a scream] Where's my sister? INFERNIQUE    That's what I want to know!  When I tried to triangulate on her, I got NOTHING.  MATILDA    Triangulate? INFERNIQUE    Anyone who deals with us has a sort of trace on them ...evermore.  Until they pass beyond.  Is she dead? MATILDA    [whine]   Nooo? INFERNIQUE    If she isn't then she's passed out of this realm.  She never said she could DO that! MATILDA    I'm just going to faint now.  I hope you don't mind... RENA    [on speaker, weak]  Mat? MATILDA    [gasp]  INFERNIQUE    What? MATILDA    [thinking hard] I-I can't find a good place to fall down.  INFERNIQUE    She's on your headset? MATILDA    She was, just for a moment. INFERNIQUE    [satisfied]  hah.  There.  Yes.  She must be in the outer fringe.  Guess we won't be seeing her again. MATILDA    [sobbing gasp] MUSIC AMB    ECHOEY DUNGEON BUD    Babe? RENA    [waking] What?  Oh, crap.  Am I dead?  Cuz having to listen to you forever is kind of like my vision of hell. BUD    Yeah, she's okay. RENA    [weak] Matilda? BUD    Back home where she belongs. RENA    [sigh of relief]  Not hell, then. SOUND    CHAINS RENA    What's with the— SOUND    CHAINS RENA    Shit. BUD    Yeah, that.  I guess I-uh kinda underestimated Willy-boy. RENA    Is that that demon hunter? BUD    [snort of laughter]  Oh, him.  Nah.  That was all part of Willy's plan to get me off his case. RENA    oh.  The demon you were undermining. BUD    Bingo!  I love a bright dame. RENA    And now he's got us both chained up in a dungeon?  Great. WILLY    [demonic sounding]  Just what I was thinking!  Muhahahahahahaha [evil laugh] RENA    [undertone, to herself] Be vewwy vewwy quiet.  [up] Wow.  This is a swell party.  WILLY    You're only here because I'm curious what would make a mortal... collaborate with such a filthy maggot as Beelzebud. RENA    You make it sound a lot more fun than it is. BUD    Hey, hey!  Willy, old boy-- WILLY    [demon] You will call me Willial [will-LIE-ul]!  [back normal]  Don't think I don't know what you've been up to, behind my back, Beelzebud! BUD    ahhh.  A few short circuits.  It's all in fun.  Plus you got me back, but good - setting a popper on me. RENA    [half a snort] Popper? BUD     The hunter - [offhand] you know, you led him to me. RENA    Yeah.  Sorry bout that. WILLY    I'm surprised to see you still up and around, Bud. BUD    Believe it or not, I'm clean.  RENA    It's not like he just up and decided he wanted your crappy job, Willy. BUD    [quiet] I really prefer my own crappy job. WILLY    You should have kept your hands off my beeswax, then! RENA    Oy vay.  [quiet, to Bud]  Can this guy actually do anything?  To me, I mean? BUD    [evasive] Not legitimately.  RENA    [up] Then maybe you'll back the fuck out of my face, elmer fudd, and let me go. BUD    On the other hand he's already more or less kidmapped you, so who knows what else he's willing to do. RENA    Shit. BUD    Yeah, like anything a stupid mortal chick says is going to piss Willial off more than I already have.  Hah! WILLY    [suspicious] You're up to something. RENA    Nah, just mouthing off.  [whisper]  Keep him talking. BUD    So, Willy - Ooh!  [snide] You kidnapped a human, what's the next step?  Custodial interference?  Stealing candy from a baby? WILLY    I-I'm not sure.  I mean, I haven't decided yet what all to do with you.  For now, I'll let you stew. SOUND    DOOR SLAMS RENA    [sigh]  Nice try. BUD    [not quite lying] Try? RENA    Yeah, whatever. BUD    [beat]  If we had cards, I play a mean Canasta. RENA    Takes two decks. SOUND    TAPPING FINGERS, WAITING SOUND    DISTANT COMMOTION BUD    Finally.  Beez.  Thought they'd never get here. RENA    [surprised] You were expecting someone? BUD    Waitaminute, you were?  Oh, boy - this could be a serious case of overkill.... SOUND    DOOR SLAMS OPEN RENA    You ain't just whistling dixie. BENEDICT    [breathing hard from exertion]  Ok, this is not what I was expecting. RENA    You got something for chains? BUD    Uh, we might wanna wait-- RENA    [suspicious] Why? INFERNIQUE    [distant demony scream]  Beelzebud! BUD    Yeah.  That. RENA    Demon hunter - you, guy. BENDICT    Benedict.  RENA    Right, like Shakespeare.  I'm bad with names.  BENDICT    Let me get those chains-- RENA    Quick!  What's the penalty for illegal imprisonment of a human? INFERNIQUE    [a little closer]  Where is he? BUD    It ain't much. He didn't hurt you or nothing. RENA    Well? BENEDICT    Something like a hundred years of hemorrhoids.  I don't actually sentence-- RENA    Wanna stick him with something worse? BUD    [speculative] I like where this is going. BENEDICT    I ...don't. MUSIC INFERNIQUE    [roaring up]  What did you do with him? WILLY    You are in my domain, succubus! INFERNIQUE    Insults?  How dare you! BUD    [off, pathetic]  Ohhhhhh.... INFERNIQUE    Out of my way! WILLY    [surprised] What the hell? BUD    [off, weak]  Is that you, baby snakes? SOUND    DOOR SLAMS OPEN WILLY    [bewildred] But I didn't-- INFERNIQUE    [incensed] Chained? BUD    Oh, babe.  I'm so glad to see you.  Willy there whupped my fanny, but good. WILLY    I-I-- RENA    I think the popper is concussed. INFERNIQUE    [amazed] Popper? WILLY    [an octave higher] Popper? BUD    You're gonna get us out of these, aren't you sweetie? RENA    Wake up, dude! SOUND    GENTLE SLAPPING TO TRY AND ROUSE HIM INFERNIQUE    [speculative] You... chained a popper? WILLY    I-I-  He-- they-- INFERNIQUE    Just nod your head, handsome. RENA    [quiet] I'm hunting wabbits. BENEDICT    [smothered snort of laughter] BUD    Come on babe, leave Willy alone.  Get me out of here. INFERNIQUE    That's Willial, you little weasel.  [laughs contemptuously]  I think it's about time to trade up. WILLY    I- uh- I- uh-- INFERNIQUE    [very hot]  There's nothing sexier than a tongue-tied demon. RENA    [trying to sound upset but not getting it] After all Bud has done for you! BUD    [grovelling]  You can't just leave us here!  INFERNIQUE    Willy will let you go when he's good and ready, won't you? WILLY    [frantic] Uh, Beelzebud? BUD    Fine!  Keep your job!  Take my woman!  You have everything!  [big mock sob] SOUND    DOOR SLAMS SHUT MUSIC SOUND    MATILDA'S DEN SOUND    WHOOSH OF ARRIVAL BENEDICT    I honestly don't know which of you was worse, back there. RENA    Emoting is not in my skill set. BUD    Tell me about it.  MATILDA    You're back! RENA    Yeah, it's all okay. MATILDA    I thought-- RENA    [strangely gentle] You know I always promised if I die I'd come right back and haunt you. MATILDA    [sob of relief] BENEDICT    Can we--? RENA    Fuck off, will you guys? BUD    I got this.  SOUND    WHOOSH MATILDA    I was [hiccupy sob] I was so-- RENA    I'm here.  You're not alone.  Maybe I should get that Benedict guy back - he owes us a pair of pants. MATILDA    [laughs and cries] SOUND    PHONE RINGS RENA    Voice mail? MATILDA    [much calmer] Voice mail.  Yeah. JESSE    [on voice mail]  What did you do to my wife?  All of a sudden she's laying down the law and saying she won't put up with me unless I toe the line!  Man!  She's even talking about us writing up some kind of contract!  Are you even listening? SOUND    BEEP END  

The Russian-Ukraine war has raged for 6 weeks now. I wrote a book on President Zelenskyy because I found him to be an intriguing leader.  You can find it here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Need-Ammunition-Not-Ride-Volodymyr-ebook/dp/B09VVW3NSV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6YHOEVZ983NQ&keywords=i+need+ammunition%2C+not+a+ride&qid=1647625321&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C4098&sr=1-1 Since I wrote the book, I now get emails and DMs that ask, “Don't you know Zelenskyy is a Nazi?” or “Is Zelensky a Soros plant?”  Or my personal favorite, “I saw this video where he was dancing in drag. He is a gay Satanist.” I will address each of these in turn. In today's episode, I will address the Nazi accusation. I will address it on two levels: Personally and governmental. Here are the links I talked about in this episode: Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenskyy-nazi-iron-cross/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/25/facebook-posts/zelenskys-shirt-bears-emblem-ukraine-armed-forces-/ Anti-Defamation League: https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/iron-cross FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/ Victoria Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross US Distinguished Flying Cross: https://archive.ph/kkQmy English Language Russian News: https://www.rt.com/on-air/ English Language Ukrainian News: https://uatv.ua/en/projects/11473-en-2/   Historian's statement: https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/345515/statement-on-the-war-in-ukraine-by-scholars-of-genocide-nazism-and-world-war-ii/   Compare for yourself. Are you parroting Russian propaganda? Where did you get your information? Don't be a useful idiot. Triangulate on the truth and rely on verifiable sources.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and tell others who might benefit from this podcast. I would like to hear from you. You can leave a comment below.  I would like to hear if this was useful. Contact me on Twitter or Gettr @daringerdes or leave a video message: https://flipgrid.com/leadersmith  Join our FACEBOOK COMMUNITY and continue the discussion there: https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnleadership/ or Join our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13966891/ WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR? Reach out with a comment or question: https://forms.gle/fJP6ym4LDxJrKX2c8

Imagination is the first stage of any value generation journey — starting a development project, enhancing the customer experience, embarking on innovation, or building a business for the next year or the next decade. Imagination might sound like a fuzzy concept, but it's a robust business tool, the engine of the entrepreneurial design process. Mark Packard joins the E4B podcast to put imagination into a business context and describe the possibilities it opens up. Key Takeaways and Actionable Insights Imagination is central to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and to innovation and advance in all aspects of business. We see business through mental models, as a kind of a movie our minds play for us. In this movie, we remember result and experiences from the past (which requires imagination) and we create images of what might have been, or, in the future, what might be. We know these images are not real, but they play through our mental model of business reality. They inform our plans and projects. We imagine cause-and-effect relationships between imagined concepts and ideas, and between actions and outcomes. From new product development to efficient administrative processes, every aspect of business involves — and requires — imagination. We can use imagination in simulating possible results. Not only do we employ imagination in our regular business activity, we also use it for advanced complex modeling. We add new inputs to what we have constructed in our imagination — in the form of “what if” queries - to create a new mental model that's different from the current one: a prospective reality that we can plan for and try to achieve. As we try to achieve that prospective reality, we receive feedback in various forms, which we use adaptively to further adjust and improve the mental model we hold in our imagination. Imagination is dynamic, always changing. Customers are also imagining, and entrepreneurs must imagine what they are imagining. We've highlighted in earlier episodes, the Value Learning Cycle that customers complete in the process of learning what to want and what to value (see Mises.org/E4E_44). The cycle begins with predictive valuation — consumers predicting to themselves how much value they'll experience from the product or service a business is pitching to them. That's imagination at work. If they buy and consume, value is an experience that results — and experience is a mental representation that includes imagination. Then in their post-experience valuation, customers adjust their mental model based on their new value knowledge. Future predictive valuations will be imagined with this updated knowledge. Imagination is central to customer expectations of value and to customers' decision-making. Businesses use three kinds of imagination to make a value proposition. Businesses develop value propositions for customers, utilizing 3 kinds of imagination: creative imagination (imagining the design of a future product or service that will deliver a valued customer experience); empathic imagination (imagining how the customer will feel as a result of the experience); and predictive simulation (imagining what the world will be like after pursuing the contemplated action). Creative imagination is a combination of needs knowledge (what customers want) and technical knowledge (what can be produced with available resources). In both cases, more knowledge is an aid to the imaginative process. Similarly, empathic imagination can benefit from more knowledge about the customer's mental model, developed through relationships and conversations. Predictive simulation is aided by rapid learning from testing and prototyping and developing design artifacts (like landing pages and A/B tests) that enable interim simulations of customer responses. Imagination can't be shared but visions can. When we work on a team or in a firm, it's productive to be aligned on the imagined future at which the group is aiming and is working towards. Strictly speaking, we can't share imagination. Everyone's imagination is subjective and individual. You can't imagine what I'm imagining. What can be shared is a vision, because it can be described in words developed from a shared language. Of course, every individual may interpret the meaning of the words differently, but with repetition, explanation and persuasive presentation, the group can get closer and closer to shared meaning. The vision becomes a cultural artifact — how we think in this firm, what we aim for in this firm, how we see the future in (and of) this firm. Similarly, in selling value propositions to customers, businesses are trying to get those customers to share a vision. We persuade them with storytelling, whether it's in the form of advertising, or PR or social media or the words printed on a package. Rhetorical skills — being able to communicate in a way that enable other people to see and share a vision, and to adapt it to their own vision — are key to successful entrepreneurship. Some people are better at imagination than others — but you can work on the skill set. Many business icons are or have been symbols of great imagination at work, such as Steve Jobs in the past and Elon Musk today. They're better at seeing the future than others. But everyone who understands imagination at the foundational level, as Mark Packard explained it in the podcast, can get better at it, and train others to get better at it, too. Imagination is a simulation run through our mental model based on knowledge we possess. One important step is to improve the knowledge set available for the simulation — better quality knowledge, more accurate knowledge, more detailed or intimate knowledge. More needs knowledge and more technical knowledge will improve creative imagination. Keep up with new technologies and with consumer trends and marketplace developments. More customer knowledge will enhance empathic imagination. Spend more time with customers. Use qualitative research (such as the E4B contextual in-depth interview: Mises.org/E4B_151_PDF) to understand their mental model better, so that the empathic simulations you run through that mental model will improve. Predictive simulation is an act of imagination that improves with learning about what works and what doesn't. Run more tests and new kinds of explorations. Explore, explore, and explore more. Don't take your own predictions too seriously; rather, expect to be wrong in ways you never imagined. Be humble, be adaptive, be agile, and recognize that you do have to predict in order to act. Triangulate with what others are doing because they're imagining too, and they may have more and better knowledge than you. Try to reconstruct their mental models and assess whether they'd be helpful for you. Additional Resources Elon Musk's Imagination (Video): Mises.org/E4B_151_Video "Subjective Value in Entrepreneurship" by Mark Packard and Per Bylund (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_151_Paper "Empathy for Entrepreneurs: How to Understand and Identify Customer Needs and Wants from Their Perspective" (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_151_PDF "Mark Packard on The Value Learning Process" (Episode): Mises.org/E4E_44

Imagination is the first stage of any value generation journey — starting a development project, enhancing the customer experience, embarking on innovation, or building a business for the next year or the next decade. Imagination might sound like a fuzzy concept, but it's a robust business tool, the engine of the entrepreneurial design process. Mark Packard joins the E4B podcast to put imagination into a business context and describe the possibilities it opens up. Key Takeaways and Actionable Insights Imagination is central to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and to innovation and advance in all aspects of business. We see business through mental models, as a kind of a movie our minds play for us. In this movie, we remember result and experiences from the past (which requires imagination) and we create images of what might have been, or, in the future, what might be. We know these images are not real, but they play through our mental model of business reality. They inform our plans and projects. We imagine cause-and-effect relationships between imagined concepts and ideas, and between actions and outcomes. From new product development to efficient administrative processes, every aspect of business involves — and requires — imagination. We can use imagination in simulating possible results. Not only do we employ imagination in our regular business activity, we also use it for advanced complex modeling. We add new inputs to what we have constructed in our imagination — in the form of “what if” queries - to create a new mental model that's different from the current one: a prospective reality that we can plan for and try to achieve. As we try to achieve that prospective reality, we receive feedback in various forms, which we use adaptively to further adjust and improve the mental model we hold in our imagination. Imagination is dynamic, always changing. Customers are also imagining, and entrepreneurs must imagine what they are imagining. We've highlighted in earlier episodes, the Value Learning Cycle that customers complete in the process of learning what to want and what to value (see Mises.org/E4E_44). The cycle begins with predictive valuation — consumers predicting to themselves how much value they'll experience from the product or service a business is pitching to them. That's imagination at work. If they buy and consume, value is an experience that results — and experience is a mental representation that includes imagination. Then in their post-experience valuation, customers adjust their mental model based on their new value knowledge. Future predictive valuations will be imagined with this updated knowledge. Imagination is central to customer expectations of value and to customers' decision-making. Businesses use three kinds of imagination to make a value proposition. Businesses develop value propositions for customers, utilizing 3 kinds of imagination: creative imagination (imagining the design of a future product or service that will deliver a valued customer experience); empathic imagination (imagining how the customer will feel as a result of the experience); and predictive simulation (imagining what the world will be like after pursuing the contemplated action). Creative imagination is a combination of needs knowledge (what customers want) and technical knowledge (what can be produced with available resources). In both cases, more knowledge is an aid to the imaginative process. Similarly, empathic imagination can benefit from more knowledge about the customer's mental model, developed through relationships and conversations. Predictive simulation is aided by rapid learning from testing and prototyping and developing design artifacts (like landing pages and A/B tests) that enable interim simulations of customer responses. Imagination can't be shared but visions can. When we work on a team or in a firm, it's productive to be aligned on the imagined future at which the group is aiming and is working towards. Strictly speaking, we can't share imagination. Everyone's imagination is subjective and individual. You can't imagine what I'm imagining. What can be shared is a vision, because it can be described in words developed from a shared language. Of course, every individual may interpret the meaning of the words differently, but with repetition, explanation and persuasive presentation, the group can get closer and closer to shared meaning. The vision becomes a cultural artifact — how we think in this firm, what we aim for in this firm, how we see the future in (and of) this firm. Similarly, in selling value propositions to customers, businesses are trying to get those customers to share a vision. We persuade them with storytelling, whether it's in the form of advertising, or PR or social media or the words printed on a package. Rhetorical skills — being able to communicate in a way that enable other people to see and share a vision, and to adapt it to their own vision — are key to successful entrepreneurship. Some people are better at imagination than others — but you can work on the skill set. Many business icons are or have been symbols of great imagination at work, such as Steve Jobs in the past and Elon Musk today. They're better at seeing the future than others. But everyone who understands imagination at the foundational level, as Mark Packard explained it in the podcast, can get better at it, and train others to get better at it, too. Imagination is a simulation run through our mental model based on knowledge we possess. One important step is to improve the knowledge set available for the simulation — better quality knowledge, more accurate knowledge, more detailed or intimate knowledge. More needs knowledge and more technical knowledge will improve creative imagination. Keep up with new technologies and with consumer trends and marketplace developments. More customer knowledge will enhance empathic imagination. Spend more time with customers. Use qualitative research (such as the E4B contextual in-depth interview: Mises.org/E4B_151_PDF) to understand their mental model better, so that the empathic simulations you run through that mental model will improve. Predictive simulation is an act of imagination that improves with learning about what works and what doesn't. Run more tests and new kinds of explorations. Explore, explore, and explore more. Don't take your own predictions too seriously; rather, expect to be wrong in ways you never imagined. Be humble, be adaptive, be agile, and recognize that you do have to predict in order to act. Triangulate with what others are doing because they're imagining too, and they may have more and better knowledge than you. Try to reconstruct their mental models and assess whether they'd be helpful for you. Additional Resources Elon Musk's Imagination (Video): Mises.org/E4B_151_Video "Subjective Value in Entrepreneurship" by Mark Packard and Per Bylund (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_151_Paper "Empathy for Entrepreneurs: How to Understand and Identify Customer Needs and Wants from Their Perspective" (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_151_PDF "Mark Packard on The Value Learning Process" (Episode): Mises.org/E4E_44

Imagination is the first stage of any value generation journey — starting a development project, enhancing the customer experience, embarking on innovation, or building a business for the next year or the next decade. Imagination might sound like a fuzzy concept, but it's a robust business tool, the engine of the entrepreneurial design process. Mark Packard joins the E4B podcast to put imagination into a business context and describe the possibilities it opens up. Key Takeaways and Actionable Insights Imagination is central to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and to innovation and advance in all aspects of business. We see business through mental models, as a kind of a movie our minds play for us. In this movie, we remember result and experiences from the past (which requires imagination) and we create images of what might have been, or, in the future, what might be. We know these images are not real, but they play through our mental model of business reality. They inform our plans and projects. We imagine cause-and-effect relationships between imagined concepts and ideas, and between actions and outcomes. From new product development to efficient administrative processes, every aspect of business involves — and requires — imagination. We can use imagination in simulating possible results. Not only do we employ imagination in our regular business activity, we also use it for advanced complex modeling. We add new inputs to what we have constructed in our imagination — in the form of “what if” queries - to create a new mental model that's different from the current one: a prospective reality that we can plan for and try to achieve. As we try to achieve that prospective reality, we receive feedback in various forms, which we use adaptively to further adjust and improve the mental model we hold in our imagination. Imagination is dynamic, always changing. Customers are also imagining, and entrepreneurs must imagine what they are imagining. We've highlighted in earlier episodes, the Value Learning Cycle that customers complete in the process of learning what to want and what to value (see Mises.org/E4E_44). The cycle begins with predictive valuation — consumers predicting to themselves how much value they'll experience from the product or service a business is pitching to them. That's imagination at work. If they buy and consume, value is an experience that results — and experience is a mental representation that includes imagination. Then in their post-experience valuation, customers adjust their mental model based on their new value knowledge. Future predictive valuations will be imagined with this updated knowledge. Imagination is central to customer expectations of value and to customers' decision-making. Businesses use three kinds of imagination to make a value proposition. Businesses develop value propositions for customers, utilizing 3 kinds of imagination: creative imagination (imagining the design of a future product or service that will deliver a valued customer experience); empathic imagination (imagining how the customer will feel as a result of the experience); and predictive simulation (imagining what the world will be like after pursuing the contemplated action). Creative imagination is a combination of needs knowledge (what customers want) and technical knowledge (what can be produced with available resources). In both cases, more knowledge is an aid to the imaginative process. Similarly, empathic imagination can benefit from more knowledge about the customer's mental model, developed through relationships and conversations. Predictive simulation is aided by rapid learning from testing and prototyping and developing design artifacts (like landing pages and A/B tests) that enable interim simulations of customer responses. Imagination can't be shared but visions can. When we work on a team or in a firm, it's productive to be aligned on the imagined future at which the group is aiming and is working towards. Strictly speaking, we can't share imagination. Everyone's imagination is subjective and individual. You can't imagine what I'm imagining. What can be shared is a vision, because it can be described in words developed from a shared language. Of course, every individual may interpret the meaning of the words differently, but with repetition, explanation and persuasive presentation, the group can get closer and closer to shared meaning. The vision becomes a cultural artifact — how we think in this firm, what we aim for in this firm, how we see the future in (and of) this firm. Similarly, in selling value propositions to customers, businesses are trying to get those customers to share a vision. We persuade them with storytelling, whether it's in the form of advertising, or PR or social media or the words printed on a package. Rhetorical skills — being able to communicate in a way that enable other people to see and share a vision, and to adapt it to their own vision — are key to successful entrepreneurship. Some people are better at imagination than others — but you can work on the skill set. Many business icons are or have been symbols of great imagination at work, such as Steve Jobs in the past and Elon Musk today. They're better at seeing the future than others. But everyone who understands imagination at the foundational level, as Mark Packard explained it in the podcast, can get better at it, and train others to get better at it, too. Imagination is a simulation run through our mental model based on knowledge we possess. One important step is to improve the knowledge set available for the simulation — better quality knowledge, more accurate knowledge, more detailed or intimate knowledge. More needs knowledge and more technical knowledge will improve creative imagination. Keep up with new technologies and with consumer trends and marketplace developments. More customer knowledge will enhance empathic imagination. Spend more time with customers. Use qualitative research (such as the E4B contextual in-depth interview: Mises.org/E4B_151_PDF) to understand their mental model better, so that the empathic simulations you run through that mental model will improve. Predictive simulation is an act of imagination that improves with learning about what works and what doesn't. Run more tests and new kinds of explorations. Explore, explore, and explore more. Don't take your own predictions too seriously; rather, expect to be wrong in ways you never imagined. Be humble, be adaptive, be agile, and recognize that you do have to predict in order to act. Triangulate with what others are doing because they're imagining too, and they may have more and better knowledge than you. Try to reconstruct their mental models and assess whether they'd be helpful for you. Additional Resources Elon Musk's Imagination (Video): Mises.org/E4B_151_Video "Subjective Value in Entrepreneurship" by Mark Packard and Per Bylund (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_151_Paper "Empathy for Entrepreneurs: How to Understand and Identify Customer Needs and Wants from Their Perspective" (PDF): Mises.org/E4B_151_PDF "Mark Packard on The Value Learning Process" (Episode): Mises.org/E4E_44

Triangulation is another form of abuse from the narcissist. Don't feed into it. Keep your power by educating yourself with what you're dealing with. That way, you'll avoid the drama! Which is what the narcissist wants from you. You got this! You Ain't Crazy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rachel-real/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rachel-real/support

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The Ordnance Survey - a government-funded agency created to aid the military in the event of invasion from France - took receipt of a theodolite on 21st June 1791, and so began the epic task of accurately mapping Britain. It took them twenty years to do the county of Kent. And another twenty years to do the South Coast. If you wanted a fragment of one of their hand-drawn maps on your wall, it would set you back two weeks' wages.In this episode, Olly, Arion and Rebecca pore through their OS Map collection to discover which county has the most commercial greenhouses, the exact location of ‘Britain's highest pub', and reveal the OFFICIAL answer to the much-pondered question, ‘Where is the centre of Britain?'... Further Reading:• ‘The Quirky History of Ordnance Survey And The UK'S Maps', from Much Better Adventures magazine (2020): https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/ordnance-survey/• ‘A Short History of the Ordnance Survey' from The Charles Close Society: https://www.charlesclosesociety.org/files/HistoryOSGB.pdf• ‘Attacking Scotland: Five centuries of maps by our enemies' A lecture by Chris Fleet, Maps Curator of the the National Library of Scotland (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLxGLaJG_s&t=5sFor bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/RetrospectorsWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/RetrospectorsThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2021. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, I discuss triangulation when doing qualitative research. Newsletter: How to Triangulate Data Sources - Benjamin L. Stewart (substack.com)  Attribution: Intro/Outro music: Benjamin Tissot (also known as Bensound) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/benjamin-l-stewart/message

AHOY! Sea persons and those on land, join us in a united front for another episode of the DredgeLand Podcast Spectacular. We’ve had a number of letters and / or … Continue reading "The DredgeLand This Weeks Grievance and or Letters From the Future Spectacular"

AHOY! Sea persons and those on land, join us in a united front for another episode of the DredgeLand Podcast Spectacular. We’ve had a number of letters and / or grievances this week in the post bag including three from the future and of course / or past. Not only that but a legal letter … Continue reading "The DredgeLand This Weeks Grievance and or Letters From the Future Spectacular"

OFFLINE is a little different word for most of us. OFFLINE in regular terms might mean to shut off a computer and hit the hay. OFFLINE in a real sense is super powerful and even by the foregoing definition is a redirection of power and a TRIANGULATION that creates new possibilities. You see even when a switch is switched off on your computer the power is actually diverted back to the grid and becomes available for a light or mixer to be used. When we “hit the hay” we are actually redirecting our body and functions to rest and rejuvenate ourselves which makes that power available for use not only to heal during our sleep it makes it available for use the next day. OFFLINING is powerful! In self-defense when an attacker comes straight in for a strike, push, grab or kick smart defenders step OFFLINE so the energy is not absorbed directly and is redirected into a throw or take down. However, there is another perspective that immediately becomes available through TRIANGULATION. As we OFFLINE we not only get out of the way of an oncoming force we gain an advantage in position to the attacker as they step by and expose their vulnerable vital points. What fractions of a second ago were fists, yells and feet are now kidneys, spine and neck all exposed. These are superior targets and have powerful consequences when made available to the defender. In Life Defense the same is true both in OFFLINING forceful energy that comes rushing toward us and TRIANGULATING after the vital points are exposed. In both self-defense and Life Defense getting offline preserves a weaker, smaller defender from the raging bull style attack, it also exposes vital points that can be exploited into victory and another day of living. What will you OFFLINE today? Allen Hughes Life Defense #lifedefense #allenhughes #offline --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allen-hughes/message

On this episode of Thought Talk I am joined by Helen Lee Bouygues the Founder of the Reboot Foundation an organization that funds and publishes research on improving critical thinking.   Helen is joining us from Paris where she lives  for a conversation on the importance of critical thinking in a world where search algorithms and social media are designed to feed us more of the same of what we already believe to be true.    Tune in for a fascinating discussion on why critical thinking has become one of the top three traits employers look for as well as how you can practice and hone this important tool for success and how scenario planning can and will make you a better leader for the future.   Tips to improve your critical thinking Overcoming online misinformation — these are tips to make sure your information and opinions are well-researched: Keep your sources varied, combat the algorithms. Triangulate your information by finding it at multiple sources. Verify who the authors are and what institution the information originates from so you are aware of the interests they serve.   Follow the S.H.A.R.P. scenario planning method — be more aware and better prepared for the future. S — slow down, give yourself time to think. H — hone and practice your critical thinking skills. A — accumulate information. R — reason and cross-check. P — ‘perspectivise’, try to see things through to their logical conclusions.   Tips to improve critical thinking in your children   Critical thinking can become second nature when we start it young — find the critical thinking guide for parents on the Reboot Foundation website. Foster free expression and open-mindedness. Encourage children to think out loud. Ask why — a lot — probe their thoughts. Teach emotional management — the part of the brain responsible for emotional management is the same as that for critical thinking, give it room. Teach your kids the right way to do internet searches. About Karen Tiber Leland   Karen Tiber Leland is the founder of Sterling Marketing Group, a branding, marketing, and color strategy and implementation firm helping CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs develop stronger personal, business, and team brands. Her clients include Cisco, American Express, Marriott Hotels, Apple Computer, LinkedIn, and Twitter.   She is also the best-selling author of nine traditionally-published business books that have sold over 400,000 copies and been translated into 10 languages. Her most recent book is The Brand Mapping Strategy: Design, Build and Accelerate Your Brand. She regularly writes for Inc.com and Entrepreneur.com and has had articles published in Self, The Los Angeles Times, American Way, The Boston Globe, and many others.   Karen has spoken for Harvard, The AMA, Direct Marketing Association, and Stanford, among others. She has been interviewed on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, and Oprah.   Get in touch with Karen on Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook   About Our Guest   Helen Lee Bouygues is one of the most successful women in business transformation. She has served as interim CEO, CFO, or COO for more than a dozen companies. She is the founder of the Reboot Foundation, a columnist at Forbes, and working on a book on critical thinking.   A former partner at McKinsey & Company, Bouygues has helped transform more than 25 firms. Over the course of a twenty-year career, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in capital, renegotiated billions of dollars in debt, and brought dozens of companies into the black.   Bouygues has lectured around the world. She sits on multiple boards, including those of companies in the retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, renewable energy, and automotive-parts sectors. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.   You can learn more about Helen Lee Bouygues on her Twitter|Website   Mentioned Reboot Foundation The Social Dilemma   Resources   My 10th book — No Nonsense: Time Management: 50 Tips to Hack Your Time and Get Everything Done — will be out on December 31st through Career Press.   This book contains the results of decades of studies I’ve done on time management and applies it to today’s environment: working from home, video conferencing, and time, productivity, and energy management.   Pre-order a copy on Amazon right now.

Our Source Code may Emerge Combinatorics of Automata Orthogenically Evolving to Recursive Godheads, Eternally Exploring Infinity — best visualized with the Mandelbrot Infinite Fractal Zoom ► https://bit.ly/MathsTownFractal A Never Ending Becoming may be the Only Being. Triangulate on Truth through not only Obsession, but also from several research methods like science, spirituality, math, oneness, diversity, consciousness, metaphysics — combined into a meta-pattern of Source Code Gnosis. Love for 'Other' like Love for 'Source Code' A Perforated Heart encompassing all of Source Exploring Infinity. Welcome ✌

Joining A&G for his weekly appearance, The Hoover Institution's Lanhee Chen talked politics with Jack, including his response to an earlier comment made by Newt Gingrich, as well as his thoughts on the blurring definitions of each or our dueling political parties. Plus, Lanhee speculates on the direction and texture of a Trump "second term". Hold on tight, folks!

Narcissists Triangulate You (By Putting You in the Middle of Their Arguments) - Narcissist Triangulation Tactics - Triangulation is what we call it when the narcissist communicates as a third party between two people but prevents the two from communicating directly through either manipulating or controlling at least one of them. What does this mean exactly? Well, that's exacty what we're talking about today at QueenBeeing dot com - how to identify and deal with triangulation in a toxic relationship - how and why narcissists put you in the middle of their arguments and conflicts with others, and how you can end that, fast. Being stuck between two people in an argument, conflict or general disagreement is really difficult on an emotional and psychological level, especially for those of us who are or have been codependent with a toxic person. And while you may be tempted to take sides or offer advice to one or more of the parties involved, it's best to steer clear and remain neutral when a narcissist is involved. I'll explain how and why in this video! Discover. Understand. Overcome. It's how smart people change their lives! Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AuthorAngelaAtkinson?sub_confirmation=1 **NEW!! Become a member of my channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnyC5I55W__RBj1PMybF5g/join *****Never miss a live session! Just text "AngieLive" (no spaces) to 33222 and I'll send you a text each time I get ready to go live! Schedule a coaching appointment with me at http://narcissisticabuserecovery.online Start your healing at https://queenbeeing.com. Take your life to the next level at https://shine.buzz Get my books at http://booksangiewrote.com, schedule a coaching appointment and/or pick up your free 7-day fear-busting email course (specially designed for narcissistic relationship survivors) at http://narcissismsupportcoach.com. Join SPAN (Support for People Affected by Narcissists in toxic relationships) - AKA "The SPANily" - at http://queenbeeing.com/group-support. Let's Also Connect On: Facebook at https://facebook.com/coachangieatkinson. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachangieatkinson/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/angyatkinson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/angieatkinsonSubscribe to Narcissistic Abuse Recovery with Angie Atkinson on Soundwise

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This is part 1 of a 2 part episode series on Love Triangles in Movies, TV Shows, Books, Comics, Cartoons and Anime that we think would have been better served by Consensual Non-Monogamy or Polyamory. The links to the articles we mention in BOTH episodes are in our detailed show notes but we do not speak directly to them. Special thanks to Kevin Patterson & Alana Phelan for helping to inspire this topic through their IG Live where they talked about their For Hire series as well as THIS tweet about fanfiction taking care of polyam better than shitty canon love triangles. As always, we love it when you convince your friends to rate, review and subscribe to us everywhere you get your podcasts. Special shout out as usual to Anchor for hosting our pod and to Wordpress for hosting our detailed show notes page. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram. **Jhen watches way more shit than Sham as usual** --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/monogamishpod/message

Have you been bullied? Scapegoated? Ostracized? Manipulated? Lied about? Denigrated? All by a sibling?! You may be the victim of a Scary Sib! You could be experiencing narcissist abuse, which is far more common than you may think! Tune in for quick eye opener and possible relief in knowing that you are not alone and help IS out there.

Have you been bullied? Scapegoated? Ostracized? Manipulated? Lied about? Denigrated? All by a sibling?! You may be the victim of a Scary Sib! You could be experiencing narcissist abuse, which is far more common than you may think! Tune in for quick eye opener and possible relief in knowing that you are not alone and help IS out there.

Triangulate the position of this mind-blowing musician in space and on Space Couch! Wizard of synthesis and font of knowledge, Eric of Null Device and the DAC-topping KLACK serenades the stellar sofa on Feb. 2! Keep it in your line of sight!

In this health care podcast, I talk with Karl Bilimoria, MD. Dr. Bilimoria is a surgical oncologist and a VP of quality over at Northwestern Medicine. Plus, he is also a John B. Murphy professor of surgery. The second I heard that Dr. Bilimoria and his colleagues had worked on an initiative to “rate the raters” of hospital and physician quality, I reached out to get him on the show. I had just had about four conversations with various people about the difficulties of judging quality. And I had also had a confounding personal experience visiting a patient at a hospital judged a top hospital by a well-known national rating scale. And this “top” hospital had some readily apparent issues, and I am no expert. That got me wondering about the validity of some of these quality raters. Given the importance and the need for health care quality transparency, Dr. Bilimoria and his colleagues set out to fill this gap by undertaking a (as mentioned) Rating the Raters process to evaluate and compare probably the major publicly reported hospital quality rating systems in the United States. These include the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) Hospital Compare Overall Star Ratings, Healthgrades Top Hospitals, Leapfrog Safety Grade and Top Hospitals, and the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals.  Interestingly, that “top” hospital I was in was scored a top hospital by one of the lowest-rated raters. You can learn more at the New England Journal of Medicine Web site, thesecondtrial.org, and the NEJM Catalyst Web site.  Karl Bilimoria, MD, is a surgical oncologist and a health services, quality improvement, and health policy researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the vice president for quality for the Northwestern Medicine system. He is also the vice chair for quality in the Department of Surgery and the John B. Murphy professor of surgery. His clinical practice is focused on melanoma and sarcoma. Dr. Bilimoria is the director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center of Northwestern University (SOQIC), a center of 50 faculty and staff focused on national, regional, and local quality improvement research and practical initiatives. He is also the director of the 56-hospital Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC). Dr. Bilimoria has published more than 350 scientific articles, including numerous publications in JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Care Services Corporation, and numerous others. He was recently listed by Becker’s as one of the “Top 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety” in the United States. 02:06 The impetus for Dr. Bilimoria deciding to rate the raters. 03:38 How high the stakes are when considering these ratings. 05:01 Breadth vs depth when choosing how and what to measure among the rating systems. 05:38 What rating systems the Rate the Raters looked at and why. 06:11 Who got the best scores as a rating system and who got the worst? 06:58 Dr. Bilimoria and the Rate the Raters’ qualifications on rating these rating systems. 07:35 The methodology and criteria that the Rate the Raters came up with to evaluate these rating systems. 08:01 The six criteria that the Rate the Raters system uses to evaluate rating systems. 08:39 “At every step, we included the rating systems.” 09:14 The intent behind Rate the Raters. 09:55 Why having grades is a positive for the health care consumer. 10:41 What conflicts of interest might be of concern among these rating systems? 12:22 “Notable notes” for these rating systems, and what each rating system incorporates or doesn’t incorporate, and how these things affected their rating. 18:22 Creating a gold standard and finding ways to move the field forward. 22:05 Getting to better data in the short term and the long term by doing meaningful audits. 24:09 Individual ratings vs institutional ratings and where these intersect. 26:27 Dr. Bilimoria’s advice to employers and how to pick a rating system. 27:45 “These rating systems should be interpreted very cautiously, even the best of them.” 28:03 “Triangulate the data.” 30:07 What Dr. Bilimoria and Rate the Raters are currently working on. You can learn more at the New England Journal of Medicine Web site, thesecondtrial.org, and the NEJM Catalyst Web site.  Check out our newest #healthcarepodcast with @kbilimoria. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata What started #RatetheRaters? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata When considering #healthratings, how high are the stakes? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata Breadth vs depth in #healthrating systems. @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata What #healthrating systems did #RatetheRaters look at and why? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata How did each #healthrating system score with #RatetheRaters? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata What are the #RatetheRaters qualifications in assessing these #healthrating systems? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata What evaluating criteria do #RatetheRaters use? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata The six criteria to evaluating #healthrating systems. @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata “At every step, we included the rating systems.” @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata What’s the intent behind #RatetheRaters? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata Are grades a positive for #healthconsumers? @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata Creating a gold standard. @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata Individual ratings vs institutional ratings. @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata “These rating systems should be interpreted very cautiously, even the best of them.” @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata “Triangulate the data.” @kbilimoria discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthoutcomes #healthcarequality #qualitymetrics #healthdata

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In this episode, Ken Courtright reintroduces you to an age-old concept that is not taught much these days – triangulate growth. He breaks down this concept and shares the two fundamental questions that you need for it. If you have a product or service that you’re proud of, then why not grow through a third party? Find out how and why it could help you. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

In this episode, Ken Courtright reintroduces you to an age-old concept that is not taught much these days – triangulate growth. He breaks down this concept and shares the two fundamental questions that you need for it. If you have a product or service that you’re proud of, then why not grow through a third […]

Tyler (Fantastic Mr. Fox Minute) and Dustin (Random Audio Network) return this Friday to discuss the odd phone book, movie divorces, and the lack of great music in this movie by any of our big three. Plus, Inaccuracies with a printer cable and electric string!   Twitter: @id4minute Facebook: Independence Day Minute Listener's Squadron

Sunil Nagaraj, who'd studied computer science as an undergrad at UNC Chapel Hill, landed two pretty nice gigs after deciding to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. First, he founded a venture-backed company called Triangulate — though he recognized when it was time to shut it down two years later. He then wound up working as a principal for Bessemer Venture Partners, a top-tier venture firm with locations around the world.

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EDITORS NOTE – This Mort Report Extra is a basic guide for keeping track of the world. It is long. Headlines are only headlines; news summaries and snippets are not enough for seeing detailed distant reality. We can read Sophocles in crib notes, but that risks missing the part about Oedipus poking out his own eyes. PARIS – The noble ostrich is impressive to watch loping along an African savannah at 50 miles an hour, but its survival strategy needs work. With head in the sand and tail in the air, it risks ending up skinned for some rich guy’s cowboy boots or maybe a Mar-a-Lago golf bag. My recent piece about the White House jihad on truth prompted one reader to remark that Donald Trump’s slurs resonate because “the msm (mainstream media) is no longer trustworthy or helpful.” Big news companies make up a single collective to be dismissed out of hand. Here’s a parallel: The smc (supermarket chains) no longer provide nutritious food. Of course, they do. Choice is up to each shopper. Those who load up their carts with only Twinkies and canned spaghetti can hardly blame the store. The “mainstream” is shot full of failings, but its broad reach provides essential basic coverage. That’s a start. Countless other sources add detail, verify or dispute facts, fill in context and sketch human backdrops. Anyone who fails to grasp global realities isn’t trying hard enough. This is a primer to help make sense of an unruly world. With threats of nuclear High Noon, climatic catastrophes, conflict on five continents, desperate millions on the move and fierce competition for dwindling resources, nothing matters more. In 2004, when far less was at stake, British editor Andrew Marr noted in his book, “My Trade,” that many people he knew ignored newspapers and dismissed broadcast news as mindless nonsense. They focus instead on their families, busy daily lives and local charity. “This is not good enough,” Marr wrote. “We are either players in open, democratic societies, all playing a part in their ultimate direction, or we are deserters.” Back then, A.J. Liebling’s quip was still true: freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. Anyone can play now, and that is a mixed blessing. “Journalist” is now as meaningless a word as “media.” We need to know who is telling us what – and why. The Web is a delivery system, not a source. People would be leery if some stranger on the street in a clown suit and floppy shoes bloviated about places he couldn’t pronounce. But clueless self-appointed experts on TV or computer screens receive far less scrutiny. Early on, Google claimed to offer news from 5,000 providers. But if, say, hostilities broke out in Kashmir, that meant 4,998 “outlets” riffed on the same dispatches from the AP and Reuters stringers in Srinagar. These days, such secondhand sourcing is beyond measure. Too many people now think news, unlike food, comes at no cost. And too many purveyors oblige with generic “content” packed in paid pitches and political cant. With a free lunch, it is hard to complain about quality. Much solid reporting comes at no charge, but we need to scale a few paywalls. We also have to budget our time. Nearly every substantive story comes with time-consuming kibitzing that also passes for journalism. Reveal, an arm of the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting, spent months documenting hidden safety issues at Tesla. The gold-standard CIR, founded in 1977 as the first U.S. investigative journalism nonprofit, relies on reporters and editors of proven credibility. Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla, fired off a series of tweets calling journalists corrupt and cowardly. The CIR, he said, was “just some rich kids in Berkeley who took their political science prof too seriously.” (It’s in Emeryville.) Jack Shafer, a kibitzer for Politico, fired back. He called Musk is a media assassin, not a critic, an example of nouveau-billionaires who think reporters should be fawning PR flacks. True enough. But he wrote, “Journalists love nothing more than to be slapped around (and) Musk’s sustained caning…has brought nothing but sunshine and smiles to newsrooms all over America.” Shafer speaks only for himself. Kathy Gannon, for one, does not love being slapped around. After 18 years in Afghanistan, she knows what “shoot the messenger” can mean. An Afghan cop shot up her car in 2014, killing her friend, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, and wounding her badly. After long, painful rehabilitation, she hurried back to Kabul. Gannon undermines another generality. Associated Press has axed experienced reporters to save money. It slashes travel expenses and often relies on untested stringers. Yet she is among top-quality AP pros who stay at their jobs. AP – like the “msm” – is neither all bad nor all good. AP illustrates how the global mediascape has evolved. During my 38 years of employ until 2005, we jokingly called it the A&P, a major grocery chain. It was a supermarket of news, cooperatively owned by newspapers and broadcasters that shared costs. Along with big stories, it kept track of small ones percolating under the surface before they erupted into “breaking news.” As its members saw profits decline, AP shifted focus to big projects with bragging rights and various “profit centers,” leaving too many world-changing trends and events uncovered. It can be excellent. And not. Newspapers also reinvented themselves, mostly cutting staff and shifting to “hyperlocal” coverage. A new breed of owners broke up family-founded chains forged by hard-earned public trust. Hedge fund hogs plundered. Shady magnates bought papers to push their own interests. A few dailies are now better than ever. Some try hard with what they’ve got. Many are a disgrace. Television news has changed beyond recognition. Once three U.S. networks kept large bureaus abroad. Walter Cronkite at CBS was the most trusted man in America. Today, CBS’s website lists only lone correspondents in Rome, Istanbul and Beijing. Four work from the London hub, where stories from elsewhere are often narrated from the studio, with purchased footage not from CBS crews.  (ABC and NBC staff reporters also cluster in London. It’s “foreign.”) Cronkite likely prolonged the Vietnam War at first by believing the Washington line rather than correspondents on the ground. But, a real journalist, he went to see for himself. He found a stalemate, and national sentiment shifted. Cronkite’s trademark tagline at the end of his newscasts, “And that’s the way it is,” defined the times. America had to take him and others at their word. Big media set the agenda, with a smattering of smaller papers, radio networks and freelancers as a counterbalance. Logically, countless interactive multimedia sources that speed words and images from everywhere would reflect a clear picture of the world. In fact, it allows people to form whatever picture comforts their beliefs. And with tools to measure what resonates, media executives try to give people what they want. Late in May, a Harvard study said Hurricane Maria killed 4,645 people in Puerto Rico, 70 times more than the official count. Beyond the human cost, it defies belief that a government so outrageously masks the toll of its feeble response. Yet CNN devoted 12 minutes to that story and nearly five hours to Roseanne Barr getting cancelled. MSNBC was not much better. Pandering to have-it-your-way news is a boon to despots. Anything that thwarts their narrative is labeled fake, feeding distrust of all “media.”  Trump’s campaign resonates with hardline tyrants and wannabe demagogues everywhere – particularly in Russia. David Ignatius, who spent decades as a foreign correspondent and then edited the International Herald Tribune before analyzing world affairs for the Washington Post, summed it up in a column about Arkady Babchenko, who miraculously returned from death: “When a prominent Russian journalist fakes news about his own murder to try to expose the Kremlin’s misdeeds, you know something has gone dangerously wrong in what we like to call the free marketplace of ideas. These days, it has become a battle space where anything goes.” Babchenko falsified his death with help from Ukrainian agents to elude Russian thugs. It worked. But reporters have enough trouble remaining credible, and alive, without an activist-journalist whose ploy, in effect, helps Vladimir Putin dismiss actual murders as hoaxes. Here are some thoughts on shaping a reality-based worldview, a framework that fits together odd shaped pieces into a quickly changing kaleidoscope: –Triangulate the way reporters do. When a new story breaks, check it against another version and add a third. As it develops, look for informed analysis that probes its broader meaning. Beyond who, what and where, look for why and what next. –Consider wider implications. A lifeless child on a beach in Turkey is only one dramatic symptom of diplomatic failure, needless conflict, economic imbalances, corruption, xenophobia. and, increasingly, a changing climate has been ignored for too long. –Subscribe to The New York Times. You need it, and it needs you. There is much to criticize. It makes mistakes, some serious, but it does not willfully distort or fabricate. It provides unmatched global coverage, with online graphics, visuals and data sets. Its archives give historical context. “The failing New York Times” is a Trump whopper. He has made it boom. It is publicly traded but still controlled by a newspaper family faithful to old principles. –Add The Washington Post for the cost of a few drinks in a fancy bar. It hounds Trump because that is a newspaper’s role. Its fact checkers found he made 3,251 false or misleading claims in 497 days, some clear-cut grounds for impeachment. I’m troubled by a publisher who also dominates a global empire of cheap books and canned beans. But Marty Baron is as good as editors get, and Jeff Bezos stays out of his way. Times’ editor Dean Baquet jokes that the new Post motto, Democracy Dies In Darkness, is a little grim. Maybe, but it’s true. The two editors cooperate as much as they compete. –No list can begin to be comprehensive, but I’ve got a few favorites. The New Yorker is worth whatever it costs. Look abroad. Britain’s The Guardian, free if you choose not to contribute, is a vital outsider’s eye on America and the wider world. Talk to friends and poke around. Try Germany’s Spiegel Online for probing analysis, interviews and hard-reporting at length. India’s The Hindu, with a circulation of 1.2 million, focuses on human factors behind the news, with a staff of savvy correspondents. –TV is tough to characterize. For me, BBC is best, with reporters and anchors whose faces often reflect a hard life on the road. Funded by a TV tax, it avoids disguising paid messages as editorial product and obnoxious chest-thumping. Which brings up CNN. Its focus on Trump’s campaign boosted ratings – and likely swayed the election. CNN can be excellent. Some of its correspondents are rock solid. Christiane Amanpour, who earned her chops in scary places, gets to the heart of what matters. Fareed Zakaria’s analyses are good enough to make you forget he backed the Iraq invasion. (“Any stirring of the pot is good.”) But keep a remote handy in case Richard Quest pops up. –Non-profit groups dig into specific subjects, with deeply reported investigations.  ProPublica, the Center of Public Integrity and Reveal are among some good ones based in America. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which produced the Panama Papers and much else, relies on a network of others across the world. These groups collaborate with NPR and PBS. Independents such as Amy Goodman add to the mix. –Read books for a broad view of the world to help you tune out peripheral noise. Today’s biggest story “broke” five centuries ago when Leonardo da Vinci nailed it. By tracing the flow of water and winds, he saw that humans live in sync with a single ecosystem. If that balance tips, no one will survive. Then, as now, deluded leaders fail to get this. We need reliable eyes and ears beyond every horizon. Real journalists are driven by curiosity, commitment, ethics, and a deeply ingrained horror of getting things wrong. Some young reporters seize this immediately. Some old ones never do. The trick for readers is to determine which is which. For more on Mort log on to https://www.mortreport.org/about/  

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The beauty of smart hardware lies in its agility. With a recurrent feedback loop and regular software updates, products can be improved over time. Ubiquity Ventures is focused on funding startups that pursue this continuous refinement, investing in a feature trajectory rather than physical product. Sunil Nagaraj is the managing partner of Ubiquity, a seed-stage venture capital firm interested in smart hardware and machine intelligence. Prior to starting his own fund in 2017, Sunil spent six years as VP with Bessemer Venture Partners, where his focus involved IoT, developer tools, space and security companies. Sunil sits down with us today to share his background as an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He explains the idea behind his startup, Triangulate, discussing the challenges he faced in A/B testing and why he ultimately decided to shut the company down. We discuss the benefits of smart hardware and its ability to ‘increase the velocity of the scientific method.' Listen in for Sunil's insight on understanding the world through the lens of a coder and his meaningful definition of success. Connect with Sunil Sunil's Website http://www.sunilnagaraj.com/ Sunil on Twitter https://twitter.com/sunilnagaraj Sunil on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nagarajs/ Ubiquity on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/ubiquityvc/ Connect with Boost VC Boost VC Website https://www.boost.vc/ Boost VC on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/boostvc/ Boost VC on Twitter https://twitter.com/BoostVC

In this Triangulate! episode, we listen in as Cora Glass asks questions of Michael McCord on how to mobilize support for campus ministries and other ministries with young adults.More on Michael's work at: http://www.umcommission.orgMore on Cora's ministry location at: http://wmu.miwesley.orgMore on Adrian College's abolitionist work at: http://adrian.edu/campus-life/church-chaplain/not-for-saleMusic courtesy of Aaron Hale. More at http://aaronhale.bandcamp.comInterstitials by Tim Jayco

Ps. Eric shares how the Bible uses shadows to help us triangulate our position with God and our fellow believer. Discover how to find the shadow (shade) from God's presence. What kind of shadow is your life casting?

Ps. Eric shares how the Bible uses shadows to help us triangulate our position with God and our fellow believer. Discover how to find the shadow (shade) from God's presence. What kind of shadow is your life casting?

Ps. Eric shares how the Bible uses shadows to help us triangulate our position with God and our fellow believer. Discover how to find the shadow (shade) from God's presence. What kind of shadow is your life casting?

Ps. Eric shares how the Bible uses shadows to help us triangulate our position with God and our fellow believer. Discover how to find the shadow (shade) from God's presence. What kind of shadow is your life casting?

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