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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Possible changes to EA, a big upvoted list, published by Nathan Young on January 18, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We should put all possible changes/reforms in a big list, that everyone can upvote/downvote, agree disagree. EA is governed but a set of core EAs, so if you want change, I suggest that giving them less to read and a strong signal of community consensus is good.The top-level comments should be a short clear explanation of a possible change. If you want to comment on a change, do it as a reply to the top level comment This other post gives a set of reforms, but they are a in a big long list at the bottom. Instead we can have a list that changes by our opinions! Note that I do not agree with all comments I post here. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Another FTX post: suggestions for change, published by SaraAzubuike on November 11, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I suggested that we would have trouble with FTX and funding around 4 months ago. SBF has been giving lots of money to EA. He admits it's a massively speculative bubble. Crypto crash hurts the most vulnerable, because poor uneducated people put lots of money into it (Krugman). Crypto is currently small, but should be regulated and has potential contagion effects (BIS). EA as a whole is getting loose with it's money due to large crypto flows (MacAskill). An inevitable crypto crash leads to either a) bad optics leading to less interest in EA or b) lots of dead projects. It was quite obvious that this would happen--although the specific details with Alameda were not obvious. Stuart Buck and Blonergan (and a few others) were the only one who took me seriously at the time. Below are some suggestions for change. 1. The new button of "support" is great, but I think EA forum should have a way to sort by controversiality. And, have the EA forum algorithm occasionally (some ϵ% of the time), punt controversial posts back upwards to the front page. If you're like me, you read the forum sorted by Magic (New and Upvoted). But this promotes herd mentality. The red-teaming and self-criticism is excellent, but if the only way we aggregate how "good" is is by up-votes, that is flawed. Perhaps the best way to know that criticism has touched a nerve is to compute a fraction: how many members of the community disagree vs how many agree. (or, even better, if you are in an organization, use a weighted fraction, where you put lower weight on the people in the organization that are in positions of power (obviously difficult to implement in practice)) 2. More of you should consider anonymous posts. This is EA forum. I cannot believe that some of you delete your posts simply because it ends up being downvoted. Especially if you're working higher up in an EA org, you ought to be actively voicing your dissent and helping to monitor EA. For example, this is not good: "Members of the mutinous cohort told me that the movement's leaders were not to be taken at their word—that they would say anything in public to maximize impact. Some of the paranoia—rumor-mill references to secret Google docs and ruthless clandestine councils—seemed overstated, but there was a core cadre that exercised control over public messaging; its members debated, for example, how to formulate their position that climate change was probably not as important as runaway A.I. without sounding like denialists or jerks." (New Yorker) What makes EA, EA, what makes EA antifragile, is its ruthless transparency. If we are self-censoring because we have already concluded something is super effective, then there is no point in EA. Go do your own thing with your own money. Become Bill Gates. But don't associate with EA. 3. Finances should be partially anonymized. If an EA org receives some money above a certain threshold from an individual contribution, we should be transparent in saying that we will reject said money if it is not donated anonymously. You may protest that this would decrease the number of donations by rich billionaires. But take it this way: if they donate to EA, it's because they believe that EA can spend it better. Thus, they should be willing to donate anonymously, to not affect how EA spends money. If they don't donate to EA, then they can establish a different philanthropic organization and hire EA-adjacent staff, making for more competition. [Edit--see comments/revision] Revision: Blonergan took my previous post very seriously--apologies. Anonymizing finances may not be the best option. I am clearly naive about the legal implications. Perhaps other members of the community have suggestions about h...

This is part 3 of a 2 hour special which includes the very best and most upvoted entitled parents posts and stories from July 2022!Listen to all my r/entitledparents episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOPqFwP6dJFa_iiZ5bImfN6mWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

These are the best revenge stories from July 2022! This is part 3 of a comprehensive, 2 hour special of the most upvoted posts from r/prorevenge, r/nuclearrevenge, and more!Listen to all my revenge episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOO4lTqgARkHPC7y9f7lbpjfWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enjoy part 3 of the best AITA stories of the month!Listen to all my r/amithea**hole episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOPUJpUxn0njY_UuTklxN5anWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is part 2 of a 2 hour special which includes the very best and most upvoted entitled parents posts and stories from July 2022!Listen to all my r/entitledparents episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOPqFwP6dJFa_iiZ5bImfN6mWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

These are the best revenge stories from July 2022! This is part 2 of a comprehensive, 2 hour special of the most upvoted posts from r/prorevenge, r/nuclearrevenge, and more!Listen to all my revenge episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOO4lTqgARkHPC7y9f7lbpjfWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enjoy part 2 of the best AITA stories of the month!Listen to all my r/amithea**hole episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOPUJpUxn0njY_UuTklxN5anWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is part 1 of a 2 hour special which includes the very best and most upvoted entitled parents posts and stories from July 2022!Listen to all my r/entitledparents episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOPqFwP6dJFa_iiZ5bImfN6mWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

These are the best revenge stories from July 2022! This is part 1 of a comprehensive, 2 hour special of the most upvoted posts from r/prorevenge, r/nuclearrevenge, and more! Listen to all my revenge episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOO4lTqgARkHPC7y9f7lbpjfWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enjoy part 1 of the best AITA stories of the month!Listen to all my r/amithea**hole episodes in the background in this easy playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wX8l9EBnOPUJpUxn0njY_UuTklxN5anWatch my videos in full on my YouTube channel (you even get to see my face!): https://www.youtube.com/Redditor This is the Redditor podcast! Here you will find all of Redditor's best Reddit stories from his YouTube channel. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Sort forum posts by: Occlumency (Old & Upvoted), published by Emrik on May 15, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. 32/50 of the highest upvoted posts on the forum are less than a year old. The top 3 posts are within a month old. Forum activity seems to have grown a lot lately, and there could be reasons to expect it to climb even higher. Make no mistake, this could be really good news! Maybe more people have become interested in figuring out how to do good. I'm going to add it to my bag of reasons to be optimistic about the future. But it does mean we should reflect on what it could mean for us and how we should adapt to it. 1) It means that posts from this year are much more likely to have more upvotes compared to older posts of similar quality. 2) It also means that older posts are more valuable to promote on the forum, because we have more fresh eyes here who haven't already read them. 3) And finally it means that it's slightly harder to find some of the historically best posts on the forum, since sorting by total upvotes will heavily bias it towards this year. For these reasons, maybe someone should introduce another sorting category where instead of sorting by Magic (New & Upvoted), we can have a Occlumency (Old & Upvoted). Weight votes by monthly forum activity to approximate conversion rate of readers->votes Idk if the data's available, but if you can break down a post's votes by month and you have data on how many users voted on anything that month, you can weight votes based on total voters going around that month. If two posts have the same number of readers, but the latter post has double the upvotes, that is some evidence that speaks to how likely it is to be usefwl to you. Let's call the efficiency with which a post converts readers to voters its conversion rate. Unfortunately, you can't directly weight a post's vote count by the reader count since people can game that. So you want to weight by a hard-to-game proxy for how many potential voters read it. This could be the number of votes going around, or the number of voters going around, I don't have strong arguments either way. It doesn't need to be super precise. Some bias in favour of more recent posts could be good if information and wisdom has increased over time. But if voter demographics has proportionately shifted towards people who haven't spent as much time thinking about the many nuances of having positive impact, some bias towards older votes could be good. I'd be wary of relying on weak heuristics like these when you have some control over people's information diets, though, so I would just recommend straight-up weighting by monthly vote counts. This is the central point of this post, and the rest of it is more speculative and less actionable. So you don't need to read the rest of it in order to upvote this post, hehe. Information cascades The expected number of marginal votes a post will get within a slice of time depends on A) the expected number of potential voters reading it, and B) the expected number of votes they will give it given that they read it. But A further depends on the vote balance it already has, since upvoted posts are more visible. And B also depends on vote balance because 1) voter-brains may partially infer quality from popularity and may insufficiently adjust downwards, and 2) we read things largely because we want to stay "in the loop" and we use vote balance to infer what the loop actually is. This situation has all the prerequisites for rampant information cascades that depend on slight variations in initial conditions. An information cascade occurs when people signal that they have information about something, but actually based their judgment on other people's signals, resulting in a self-reinforcing community opinion that does not necessarily reflect reality. T...

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Why do good employees quit in almost every job?Kyle Cooper, Semiconductor Service Company Chief @kylecoop.comUpdated 3h ago · Upvoted by David Gutzman, Employee engagement survey designer and researcher. Founder…Underperforming employees have something to lose.Employment.Income.Position.(tear jerker image source: Stunning free images)An employee that grows expertise and knowledge increases his or her value.That is a threat to the levels immediately above (future) and a threat to the same level (compete for the same bonus and salary increase).A big company is accumulating bad and underperforming employees by nature.(source: viral posts on Linkedin with some blablabla and some other blabla but still I wish I posted the image)Today, your knowledge is your value. If you believed in yourself that you could graduate from college and you did, it means commitment. Most people's lives end there. Biologically they live on.If you believe in yourself, that you can acquire more knowledge and skills.If you believe you can become an expert in various fields.If you believe in yourself like you believed in yourself starting in college.Then you know it doesn't end at graduation.Don't put your faith in a company that uses shady tax evasion strategies, tries to cover up problems, lies about career opportunities and performance based pay, fires employees because the profit was the same as the last quarter and the CEO's stock value drops because the analysts of Wall Street expected more. Employees are so expensive but still they pay the consultants double of what you make. Does that really make sense to you? Does this match fair pay in your book?Put your faith in yourself.You can select employment by solely focussing on important skills you need.Change jobs even companies if you cannot learn more.So much better than leaving your faith and that of your family in the hands of an overweight and way too rich CEO.Any employee with more than one braincell walks away from fixed employment.The only protection against unemployment is expertise.And if you are playing above your capabilities, you stay, no matter what. If you become more valuable, you are losing by staying. Simple as that.Oh, and don't listen to recruiters. Very important. They have a financial intrest in keeping up appearances. I don't.

Why do good employees quit in almost every job? Kyle Cooper, Semiconductor Service Company Chief @kylecoop.com Updated 3h ago · Upvoted by David Gutzman , Employee engagement survey designer and researcher. Founder… Underperforming employees have something to lose. Employment. Income. Position. (tear jerker image source: Stunning free images) An employee that grows expertise and knowledge increases his or her value. That is a threat to the levels immediately above (future) and a threat to the same level (compete for the same bonus and salary increase). A big company is accumulating bad and underperforming employees by nature. (source: viral posts on Linkedin with some blablabla and some other blabla but still I wish I posted the image) Today, your knowledge is your ...

What is a trend that is happening in the United States job sector that I can take advantage of right now?Christopher Ordway, works at Rite Aid PharmacyAnswered Jan 27 · Upvoted by Isabella Newman, Female President at The United States of America (2017-pres…I'll just tell you what I'm noticing as someone living in California.Millennials want to go to college, pay a ton of money and get a degree, and get a cushy office job. If you try to compete with this kind of job, you might be ok, but you better be on your game and ready to compete. There are a lot of Asians coming in and are very competitive in this scenario. Over the next several decades it is estimated there will be a lot more Asians (more than any other demographic increase) and any professional/office job that looks attractive to you is probably going to look attractive to the 2 billion Asians in India/China/wherever that would like to come to the US. This might sound anti Asian or whatever, I'm just going by the facts and using common sense here.On top of the increased Asian immigration over the coming decades, technology will make it easier all the time to outsource white collar work. If you can have someone work on a computer, why not have someone in India do it from their computer? Why not have your engineering team in Japan engineer it? It's only been recently that the internet has been fast enough to offer telecommuting so we'll see where this ends up when we have things like virtual reality enabling even more global interconnectedness over the coming decades.The next thing to note is that we've had many technological revolutions in the last 100 years and most of them have begun in the US. The first telephone, alternating current leading to the electrification of the home, toilets, flight at Kittyhawk, Henry Ford's assembly line and the ubiquitization of automobiles, the television, the interstate road system, personal computers, cell phones, the internet, etc. In fact there have been many innovations that improved productivity that people don't even recognize for being as impactful as they are. Ok but what's the next big thing? I have a theory that we're pretty much out of low hanging fruit to create wealth. Will there be innovations that make people rich? Sure. But as far as innovations that make EVERYBODY richer? It's not clear what that'll be, or when. Apple seems to not have any more “one more things “as Steve Jobs would say. Maybe some super improvement in battery technology or fusion that enables a green revolution but I'll believe it when I see it. 3D printing? Useful but it hasn't seemed to live up to the hype so far. Moore's Law is ending soon or already over depending on who you ask.So how do you take advantage of this? Well I would steer clear of white collar jobs that are easily offshoreable, stay clear of jobs that require a lot of money to get into and might not be around in 5 or 10 years.In the last couple of months I've paid $1,200 to fix something on my roof, $3000 to do some electrical wiring and piping in my kitchen, $550 to yank out old cabinets, $2,000 to lay down some tile. Some of these people are just doing it as a side job under the table tax free. They didn't have to go to school or go into a lot of debt to learn to do these trades and they're making good money. There's no way to offshore these jobs and the more white collar people there are that don't know how to do these themselves, the more they'll be worth. If you ever want to get out of it, you can hire people to work for you and run a business doing it.

What is a trend that is happening in the United States job sector that I can take advantage of right now? Christopher Ordway, works at Rite Aid Pharmacy Answered Jan 27 · Upvoted by Isabella Newman , Female President at The United States of America (2017-pres… I’ll just tell you what I’m noticing as someone living in California. Millennials want to go to college, pay a ton of money and get a degree, and get a cushy office job. If you try to compete with this kind of job, you might be ok, but you better be on your game and ready to compete. There are a lot of Asians coming in and are very competitive in this scenario. Over the next several decades it is estimated there will be a lot more Asians (more than any other demographic increase) and any professional/office job that looks attractive to you is probably going to look attractive to the 2 billion Asians in India/China/wherever that w...

Why does Netflix pursue such an aggressive wage policy by paying its computer programmers almost twice as much as Google or Facebook?https://blog.salaryproject.com/netflix-software-engineers-earn-a-salary-of-more-than-300000/Linchuan Zhang, Software Engineer at Google (2018-present)Answered Jan 13 · Upvoted by Marc Bodnick, Former institutional investor in Facebook and Jeremy Miles, Data Scientist at Google (2015-present)Continue ReadingNetflix only hires Senior Software Engineers. As far as I could tell, this isn't title inflation [1], but descriptively accurate. That is, engineers at Netflix are usually at skill levels comparable to Senior Software Engineers at other top tier tech companies.At that level, the difference in pay is much less than a factor of 2. Netflix allegedly pays ~400K for senior software engineers. Keep in mind that Netflix has relatively few benefits, and basically no monetary compensation other than base salary. I can't find reliable and public total compensation numbers for Senior Software Engineers at Google/Facebook, but rest assured that it's considerably higher than 200K. Still on average less than 400K, probably.As for why Netflix probably pays more, here are the possible reasons:Because they can. My impression is that just as ads at Facebook/Google makes money fall from the sky, Netflix subscriptions basically print money, aka it's a highly scalable way to make lots of money with high gross margins. Unlike Facebook or especially Google however, which hires a lot of people on ancillary projects in the hopes of funding the next moonshot, Netflix seems laser-focused on their core product. So they both make a lot of money and don't need to hire a lot of people. If tech is the center of your business and you're only planning to hire a few engineers, why not pay a lot to hire the best?Work at Netflix is more stressful. I don't know how true this is, but the reputation in the Valley is definitely that Netflix is much more stressful than Facebook which is more stressful than Google.Netflix has a reputation of firing people early and often. Sid Reddy's answer to Does the Netflix work culture create a culture of fear amongst its employees?If this is true (and arguably even if it isn't, as long as enough people believe it), then Netflix has to pay more to compensate.(more speculative) Poorer hiring/training pipeline. Google, Facebook, and basically every other large tech company hire generally smart people and then train them at every stage in their careers, usually from college internships onwards. The career trajectory is usually something like college intern -> junior engineer/graduate intern -> mid-level engineer -> senior engineer -> staff+ (most people never reach this level). This process engenders a surprising amount of both name recognition and company loyalty for engineers. Netflix tries to skip past all of that, and only start hiring at the senior engineer level [2]. If they only poach senior people from other companies and don't have a native hiring bench, is it any surprise that they have to pay more to compensate?[1] Unlike at, say, LinkedIn.[2] If you look for “internship jobs” at Work at Netflix, there's only a single hiring team, and they only look for graduate students with very specific academic experience.

Why does Netflix pursue such an aggressive wage policy by paying its computer programmers almost twice as much as Google or Facebook? https://blog.salaryproject.com/netflix-software-engineers-earn-a-salary-of-more-than-300000/ Linchuan Zhang, Software Engineer at Google (2018-present) Answered Jan 13 · Upvoted by Marc Bodnick, Former institutional investor in Facebook and Jeremy Miles, Data Scientist at Google (2015-present) Continue Reading Netflix only hires Senior Software Engineers. As far as I could tell, this isn’t ...

On this episode of "Hey, Have You Heard About," we discuss 39 individuals who took their own lives for the sake of their beliefs and what led them to do it. Hey, have you heard about...Heaven's Gate. Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/hhyhapodcast/ Maddie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mads_elise/ Willow's Twitter: https://twitter.com/lechuga_willow/ Music: "Ripples" by Jennings Duncan. Find more of his music on Spotify and iTunes! Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JenningsDuncan/ Cover art by Brianne Powers. Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hbpowerss/ SOURCES Link to Heaven’s Gate website: http://www.heavensgate.com/index.html#keys Link to Vimeo Playlist:  http://vimeo.com/heavensgate Abaddon’s Pit. “Inside Heaven’s Gate Cult Documentary.” YouTube, 1 July 2018. https://youtu.be/2MksI64DrJI Chang, Vickie. “An Interview With the Heaven's Gate Webmaster: Meet Telah, 61.” Upvoted, Upvoted, 3 Oct. 2015. CNN. “CNN: Heaven’s Gate suicides remembered.” YouTube, 25 March 2011. https://youtu.be/IzWpfq103q4 Corbley, McKinley. "Unnamed Good Samaritan Pays for Hotel Rooms to House 70 Homeless People During Polar Vortex." Good News Network, GNN, LLC, 31 Jan 2019. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/unnamed-hero-pays-to-house-70-homeless-people-amidst-polar-vortex/ Hafford, Michael. “Heaven’s Gate 20 Years Later: 10 Things You Didn’t Know.” Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 24 March 2017. Harper, Jim. “The Heaven’s Gate Cult.” Historic Mysteries, Historic Mysteries, 11 January 2010. History TV. “Heaven’s Gate Cult Documentary - History TV.” YouTube, 26 June 2016. https://youtu.be/ca2LhJdlK3U Melton, J. Gordon. “Heaven’s Gate: Religious Group.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica. Nexpo. “Heaven’s Gate: What You Didn’t Know.” YouTube, 16 December 2017. https://youtu.be/pEUcdefk5_E TED-Ed. “Why do people join cults? - Janja Lalich.” YouTube, 12 June 2017. https://youtu.be/kB-dJaCXAxA Washington, Glynn, narrator. Heaven’s Gate. Stitcher/Pineapple Street Media/Glenn Washington, 2017.

What do teachers know that would scare their students? Natalie Ayambem, Math Faculty (2014-present) Answered Nov 27 · Upvoted by Daniel Kaplan, Veteran high school English teacher Continue Reading What do teachers know that the average US college student would be scared to know? Dear student, please pull up a chair as I would actually love for you to know: That even though you ask for that extension on a missed test, you’re more than likely still not going to do well. Okay, let’s be frank…you made up a ...

What do teachers know that would scare their students?Natalie Ayambem, Math Faculty (2014-present)Answered Nov 27 · Upvoted by Daniel Kaplan, Veteran high school English teacherContinue ReadingWhat do teachers know that the average US college student would be scared to know?Dear student, please pull up a chair as I would actually love for you to know:That even though you ask for that extension on a missed test, you're more than likely still not going to do well. Okay, let's be frank…you made up a great excuse for missing the test, but you're still going to fail for not having prepared. The “extra” week or even two only delays the inevitable, and now you're even more behind because the class still progressed after the test date.Even though you never miss class and are soothed to believe “I attended class therefore I'll be ok” is incredibly misleading: your sitting in class playing on your phone, watching videos on your laptop or just doing nothing equates with being absent. Seriously, students— either participate and engage or save yourself the time and expense of a class.That study guide or practice test that you adore and ask for every class and every test—is useless if you don't understand the material. Really. I kid you not - but neither a study guide nor a practice test will ever replace the engaged hours required in class in addition to the work that's assigned outside of class to practice and master the skill taught to successfully pass the test.Oh there's more (like, really, we can tell even without seeing you cheat during the exam when we grade it that you actually cheated…it's not rocket science)…suffice it to say:Students, please (1) show up-always, (2) be ready to learn and (3) do what's asked of you. It's just that simple.

Why do so many young entrepreneurs think their ideas are worth billions? Syed Farhan Raza, The Inbound Marketing Guy Updated Sep 23 · Upvoted by Roopesh Shenoy, Founder and CEO, makkajai Syed Farhan Raza , The Inbound Marketing Guy Updated Sep 23 · Upvoted by Roopesh Shenoy, Founder and CEO, makkajai In Silicon Valley, there is a funny phrase called “Chinese Math,” a derogatory term for clueless first-time entrepreneurs who estimate their market size by using examples like this: I’m going to sell custom handbags to women in China. There are about 1 billion people in China, so 500 million women. Let’s say 250 million adult women. If I can sell to just 1% of them, that’s 2,500,000. And if I can make $30 per bag, that’s $75 million. I’m going to be rich! Yeah…it doesn’t work that way.

What is the smartest comment that you have heard a child make? Ana Maria Piza, Freelance Simultaneous Interpreter (1996-present) Answered Jun 24 · Upvoted by Michelle Callard-Stone, PhD Behavioral Psychologist One day I was walking through the mall with my 8 year old daughter, and for some reason I was trying to explain that people do not like our current president very much and that he is not the best we’ve had (we are from Costa Rica… but apply as needed). She kept walking quietly for a minute and then said: “Mom, Presidents should start as presidents of small towns and ask the people how are they doing their work so they can learn and make changes. Then slowly become presidents of bigger towns until they are ready to be in charge of a whole country”. My relatives think SHE should run for president. Me… I am still in awe.

How should I talk to people when I have nothing to say? People think I am an introvert and that’s why I stay quiet and withdrawn. However, I think I just have nothing to talk about. It’s like I don’t find anything to talk about. I am like that all the time and sometimes I am really embarrassed about that. I need to know how should I have conversation? Melissa Jeswald, studied at Montserrat College of Art Updated Jun 29 · Upvoted by Michael E. Silverman, Dual Trained Cognitive and Behavioral Psychologist in NYC. Here’s a simple formula you can memorize: FORD. It’s an acronym for: Family Occupation Recreation Dreams When you meet someone for the first time, ask about their family; people love to talk about that. If you come to a dead end with regard to family, ask what they do for work or school. Then, ask what their favorite pas...

What are your biggest time wasters in your startup or business? Josh Fechter, Founder of Badass Marketers & Founders | Advisor | Mentor Answered May 11 · Upvoted by Pat Ahern, worked with/advised over 50 startups 1. Meetings based on ego. Let’s have a meeting with the entire marketing team so I can spend an hour telling you guys what I’ve been working on. 2. Metric meetings Boss: “Hey did we increase how many leads we’ve received this week?” Employee: “I didn’t have time because this is our fourth meeting this week on whether these numbers have increased.” Can’t he just shoot me an email or Slack message? 3. The sales gong When the sales team has a win, they’ll hit a gong. For a minute everyone must clap and applaud the sales team. Imagine one sales rep closing a big deal, then forty employees wasting a minute to applaud them, then another ten...

If an athlete can run 100 meters in 10 seconds, why would it be mathematically wrong to say that he ran 10 meters in 1 second? That is impossible. Well, I mean running 10 meters in 1 second sounds like a superhero feat and hypothetical, but factually isn’t it correct?! What laws of physics can deny or prove it? James Swingland, MSci Physics, MRes Bioimaging, PhD Computational biology, 2 years Data Science Answered Apr 24 · Upvoted by Mike Richmond, MA Physics & Philosophy, University of Oxford and Andy Buckley, PhD in particle physics, visiting researcher at CERN, lecturer in physics If an athlete can run 100 meters in 10 seconds, why would it be mathematically wrong to say that he ran 10 meters in 1 second? That is impossible. Well, I mean running 10 meters in 1 second sounds like a superhero feat and hypothetical, but factually isn’t it correct?! What laws of physics can deny or prove it...

What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack? Or, to put it another way: what should a self-taught programmer study to get up to speed with his/her formally-educated peers? Andrew Wu, Staff Engineer at Zenefits (2015-present) Answered May 31 · Upvoted by Gideon Shavit, Professional Software Engineer for 25 years I got an Amazon offer after 3 months of self-studying, going from not knowing anything about big O analysis to solving complex algorithmic puzzles. Shortly after I started, I found myself struggling with basic concepts like build system, unix commands, database schema, etc. It was quite intimidating when most of my peers were already fluent with the concepts. Instead of trying to figure out what a self-taught programmer should study, the key is to be curious and deep dive into unfamiliar concepts whenever you face them. Eventually you will realize that self-taught and formally-educated programmers will al...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-financial-advice-someone-has-ever-given-you/answer/Asim-Qureshi-17?srid=4qnf Asim Qureshi, CEO LaunchPad, 5 $1m+ startups (asim@launchpadstartups.com) Updated May 16 ¡¤ Upvoted by Nimesh Jivani, PGDM Finance, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (2018) The wealthiest person I know well, who is possibly a billionaire, gave me some advice about a decade ago. He said, ¡°Asim beta [which means son in Urdu], it doesn¡¯t matter what you do, you just have to do it very well.¡± A decade on, I couldn¡¯t agree with him more. Whether you are in a job, go into a startup, develop properties, sing, you just have to do it damn well, and the money will come.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-financial-advice-someone-has-ever-given-you/answer/Asim-Qureshi-17?srid=4qnfAsim Qureshi, CEO LaunchPad, 5 $1m+ startups (asim@launchpadstartups.com)Updated May 16 ¡¤ Upvoted by Nimesh Jivani, PGDM Finance, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (2018)The wealthiest person I know well, who is possibly a billionaire, gave me some advice about a decade ago.He said, ¡°Asim beta [which means son in Urdu], it doesn¡¯t matter what you do, you just have to do it very well.¡±A decade on, I couldn¡¯t agree with him more. Whether you are in a job, go into a startup, develop properties, sing, you just have to do it damn well, and the money will come.

How did Snapchat handle server costs before it got funded? Chris Koerner, CEO/Founder at LCDcycle (2012-present) Updated Apr 20 · Upvoted by Vijay Nadadur, Co-Founder & CEO, Stride.AI (A Techstars Company) Coming from wealth really helps. Evan Spiegel’s parents were both Ivy League educated and he lived in a mansion close to the ocean in Southern California. Snapchat didn't take off as quickly as Instagram did - 25k downloads on it’s first day. But when it did start getting traction it ramped up quickly. Evan ultimately borrowed cash from his grandparents to pay the server bills, and then his partner put in a few grand. When Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Partners noticed that his daughter used Snapchat nonstop, they decided to invest. TLDR: When you come from money, you know even more people with even more money. Server bills are relatively s...

What is a depressing fact you've realized after/during your PhD? Rishabh Jain, MIT PhD Written Apr 8 · Upvoted by Jessica Su, CS PhD student at Stanford and Steve Johnston, MBA Degree from Wharton I met my old advisor last year at an alumni event for the department I got my PhD in. We spoke for several minutes about how people in the lab were doing, how some new work was getting published in hot journals, and about the alumni who are now faculty. What was somewhat sad to me was that there was no conversation about the non-faculty alumni… really says something about the strong bias for staying in academia faculty will often have.

What's something that you should never say to an I.T. person? Neil Plotnick, Computer Science Teacher Written Mar 31 · Upvoted by Victor Rutledge, Computer technician from 1984 until retirement. Worked at Dell, Compaq, and others and Alexandru Rosianu, M.Eng. Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Southampton I spent 15 years in IT and here are a sample of my favorites: 1: “My keyboard is not working, can you give me a new one?” I replace the keyboard with a new one and as I carry the old one under my arm, I get doused with the leftover cup of coffee that had been dumped into the “broken” keyboard. 2: “Something is wrong with the file on my floppy disk. Can you check it?” When I get to the user’s desk, she gets me the bad disk that is being h...

What are some clever uses of the placebo effect? Toby Benoit Written Mar 15 · Upvoted by Geoff Verschoor, MA Psychology and 40+ years experience in organizational behaviour Oh, I love this one… Worked in a shoe store for several years (yeah yeah, Al Bundy). The store manager was very fun, but a tiny bit “used car salesman”. Customer bought some shoes that were too small. We insisted they were too small, but since they were the last pair at clearance, he was sure they’d fit. Comes back in day later, surprise, shoes are too tight. Duh. We put them on the shoe stretcher (hand crank device that fits inside a shoe, works great if issue is width). Tries them in store, say great, takes them and leaves. Comes back next day, same story. Manager sprays some water (ok, pours wat...

What are the top failed startups in 2016? Aaron Kazah, Developed a web app that tracks failed startups Updated Feb 22 · Upvoted by Levi Koenig, Founded AllBox.Com & CleaningPros.Ca and Stanislaus Tandelilin, Co-founder of Sale Stock - leading fashion e-commerce in Indonesia Here's a few startups that closed in 2016. Skully - Skully developed augmented reality motorcycle helmets : raised over $10m. They had some issues with money management, for example some employees say the founders spent money on strippers. Learn why Skully failed Karhoo - Transparent marketplace for ground transportation: raised approximately $40m. They mainly failed because they had a poor product. Learn why Karhoo failed Peppertap - Pe...

How can I improve my look, feel better and fresh and be healthier within just 10 days ? I want to improve my look, feeling and health within 10 days. I am open to every idea or hack you can give me. Is there a way to transform myself in that short period by eating certain food, habits, activities, etc.? Peter T Mayer, Cofounder at Startups Updated Mar 22 · Upvoted by Stefano Picco, M.S Psychology & Sociology, University of Aberdeen (2020)

Why is China so much isolated? We all get to know about what the Chinese “government” is doing, but we are never informed of what really is happening in China. Robin Daverman, World traveler Written Feb 20 · Upvoted by Xinchun Li, lives in China Why is China so much isolated? LOL! Maybe because China exists in a parallel universe, and operating on a different wavelength? Seriously, if you open any newspaper in the US or Europe, the front line news must be about Trump. What do you think the Chinese newspapers are talking about? The top news on People Daily, the flagship newspaper in China, on February 19, 2017, is: “Small investi...

Is it good to be somewhat selfish? People dedicate their 30s and 40s (and 20s in some cases)to make their kids’ future perfect and their kids do the same thing for their kids.I mean, we only live once and no one is enjoying his/her own life. Okay, it makes our karma good. But are you gonna do with your karma when you cease to exist? Phillip Michael Mpalabule Updated Jan 6 · Upvoted by Hali Aquino, M.A. from Human Behavior This is Wayne Rooney. He plays for Manchester United Football Club. You may or may not know him. His natural position is the No. 9 role. This position is for the goal scorer/striker. At 18, he was so good and showed ...

What is it like to undergo depression? How did you feel when you were going through that phase? How did you deal with it? How important is it to be patient when dealing with depression? Ryan Wilhelm Written Jan 2, 2014 · Upvoted by Kate Simmons, myofascial pain specialist Originally Answered: How does it feel to be depressed? This is the most accurate description I've ever read: Adventures in Depression Depression Part Two

Have you ever witnessed a tragedy at a wedding? Jay Gairson, Immigration and National Security Attorney Updated Mar 21 · Upvoted by Laurie Parks, Several years of working as a bridal stylist, consultant, and wedding planner. “The groom may kiss the bride.”A gigantic smooch followed. The couple turned to the audience in the chapel and announced, “Everyone, we would like to give you a hug before you leave. Please wait in your seats so we can hug everyone in your aisle.” Everyone in the last row groaned, because the service had been well over 90 minutes and everyone had to go to the bathroom. The little kids started complaining, but we all patiently waited. Row one was done, two, three, four, five . . . at abou...

For a person with an IQ of 140, is speaking to normal people (IQ 100) comparable to how normal people feel when speaking to someone w/ an IQ of 60? Stephanie Vardavas, my mother always wanted me to join Mensa Written Sep 28 · Upvoted by John Stanton, Suffering from Quora fever! I need to begin by stating how much I hate all the IQ questions on Quora, and I very seldom touch them, because I don’t really believe that the IQ test measures anything relevant, and also I hate all the implicit snobbery that I find in the questions. But this one hits a nerve with me. I am not going to tell you how high my IQ was measured as a child. I will tell you that the number more than qualifies me to answer this question. AND THIS QUESTION IS BULLSHIT. Talking to a human being is talking to a human being. Unless you are talking to someone who is severely impaire...

As a teacher, what is the most shocking thing you've heard a student say? Ordale Allen, I've been alive over 30 years. I'm practically an expert on my life. Written Feb 8 · Upvoted by Tara Thiesmeyer, M.Ed. U.C.L.A., B.A. U.C. Berkeley, teacher and tutor since 2000. I kid you not. I overheard this conversation between some of my high school students. Student 1: Did you just hear what he said? Student 2: No, what? Student 1: He said he’s going to Hawaii this summer. Student 2: Okay? Student 1: This SUMMER! Student 2: I don’t get it. Student 1: You can’t fly to Hawaii in the summer. The sun is too hot. The plane will blow up. Student 2: I didn’t even think about that. Maybe they’re going to drive. Student 1: What are you talking about? You can’t drive to Hawaii. Do you know how far Hawaii is? It would take fo...

How will my life change if I do 200 push-ups every day? Jonathan Orr-Stav, After half a century, beginning to get the hang of it... Updated Jan 2 · Upvoted by Rehan Khan, Form...

How will my life change if I do 200 push-ups every day? Jonathan Orr-Stav, After half a century, beginning to get the hang of it... Updated Jan 2 · Upvoted by Rehan Khan, Form...

Tony Rush, Reader. Tea drinker. Rationalist. Best looking guy in my house over 40. Written Apr 22, 2015 · Upvoted by Vladimir Novakovski, Silicon Valley CTO and Advisor Thi...

Richard Guy, Resident of London since 1994 - no longer answers qs about property prices! Written Nov 10 · Upvoted by John Gordon, I was born in London and lived there (apart from my uni years) till age 23. and Zeibura S. Kathau, born and...

In this episode number 101, Joe and Robert discuss whether content marketing can save advertising.  Does it have to be either/or?  Actually, we think not.  Mitch Joel contends that it may be the end of blogging as we know it, and Pepsi's CMO thinks that digital agencies are destroying themselves.  Rants and raves include some sketchy content marketing stats and a native advertisement from LexCorp.  This week's #ThisOldMarketing example: Westinghouse. This week's articles: Can Content Save Advertisinghttp://adage.com/article/news/content-save-advertising/300842/ Is this The End Of Blogging?http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/the-end-of-blogging/ PepsiCo Executive Says Agency Model Is Going To Breakhttp://www.wsj.com/articles/pepsico-executive-says-agency-model-is-going-to-break-1444926957?mod=djemCMOToday   SPONSOR: BrandPointHUB - http://bit.ly/brandpointhub2 on the 10 considerations to selecting a content marketing platform   RANTS/RAVES   Robert http://fortune.com/contentfrom/2015/10/05/lex-luthor-jr/ntv_a/3dsBA58oDAfxgFAhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151015005333/en/Aberdeen-Group-Report-Reveals-Marketers-Utilize-Data#.ViAkZZ1Viko   Joehttp://www.redditblog.com/2015/10/introducing-upvoted-redditorial.html http://adage.com/article/digital/content-budgets-rise-measurement-advances/300836/   This Old Marketing: Westinghouse http://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-history-of-the-radio-industry-in-the-united-states-to-1940/ http://www.personal.psu.edu/jtk187/art2/radio.htm

It's audio only at the moment folks. Jennifer and the team are all about creating new videos for some online courses so no time to edit the podcast too. We're inviting you to join us on our new Facebook Group: Team TwoBees Learning Hive https://www.facebook.com/groups/1441434116150390/ It's all about creating a space for you to ask questions and get access to resources and support for digital media. It's a closed group so click and request to join. This podcast is inspired by Reddit's Episodes 20/21 (links below). Net neutrality is a cause Jennifer is passionate about and wants you to know more. Links mentioned: Quora http://quora.com/ Upvoted by Reddit (Net Neutrality Part 1) https://www.reddit.com/r/Upvoted/comments/37lnre/episode_20_a_neutral_net_part_1/ Upvoted by Reddit (Net Neutrality Part 2) http://www.reddit.com/r/Upvoted/comments/38j1e4/episode_21_a_neutral_net_part_2/ Wired UK http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-03/06/europe-reverses-on-net-neutrality Internet.org https://internet.org/ Janies School http://janiesschool.org/ Kirsty Marrins new Travel Blog http://whatkirstydidnext.com/

It's episode 24 of Season 4. We have five tales for you this week, featuring tales about nasty neighbors, musical madness, and sentimental psychosis. The full episode features the following stories. The free version features only the first three tales.  Trigger Warnings "A Shortcut Home" written by Julie McGinn and read by Jessica McEvoy, Corinne Sanders, David Cummings. (Story starts at 00:05:35) "Birdseed" written by E. Blackburn and read by Peter Lewis. (Story starts at 00:24:20) "Why You Can't Talk to the Dead" written by T.E. Parker and read by Nichole Goodnight & Nikolle Doolin. (Story starts at 00:38:40) "Martellato" written by Catriona Richards and read by David Ault & L. Bentley. (Story starts at 00:47:20) "The Lovers" written by Michael Marks and read by David Cummings & Nikolle Doolin & Mike DelGaudio. (Story starts at 01:19:30) Click here to discover the Reddit podcast, "Upvoted". Click here to learn more about Julie McGinn Click here to learn more about Nikolle Doolin Click here to learn more about Mike DelGaudio Podcast produced by: David Cummings Music & Sound Design by: David Cummings & Brandon Boone "Why You Can't Talk to the Dead" illustration courtesy of Lukasz Godlewski The NoSleep Podcast uses the PSE Hybrid Library exclusively for its sound design. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons License 2014.

News Redit's new podcast, “Upvoted” https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/upvoted/id954162809?mt=2 Another story about podcasting becoming popular http://depauliaonline.com/artslife/2015/01/11/podcast-popularity/ 8 Rules for podcasting in 2015 http://podcasternews.com/2015/01/05/8-rules-podcasting-2015/ ------------------------------ Question from Dan Kramer from the Miskatonic University Podcast http://www.mu-podcast.com/ Q: Hi Mike. I was wondering how you've like using the Auphonic desktop program you got at the end of the year. I've been considering purchasing it myself, but the hefty price tag and the no returns policy keep stopping me. I've had the same issue as yourself with upload times to use the online version. Thanks for your show. I look forward to seeing new episodes of the Help Desk show up in my podcatcher. A: Love it. Yes it's a bit expensive ($89US 69euro) but it works great and not having to upload 1gb files is great! I found out that Auphonic uses the lame MP3 encoder which (as you know) is LAME! :) So I just use Wav and then convert to mp3 using Fraunhofer MP3 encoder (found in iTunes or Adobe Audition) --------------------- IS BROADcasting dead? (or Dying) (Editorial) All Music Radio sounds the same All Talk radio stations/shows sound the same. All Sports radio sounds the same Local TV is only good in local news (sometimes) Local Radio is good for news and live sports (thats about it) Cable / Satellite TV / XM/Sirius is sucking people dry with their “bundling” --------------------- Blubrry Tip of the week Category Podcasting with Powerpress Category podcasting is NOT the best way to do multiple podcasts from one wordpress site using powerpress. There are several reasons for this. IF you are using blubrry stats, there is no way to separate the stats from each other. All “shows” will use the same redirect code. (not ideal) Categories are easy to mess up. If you already have a podcast using the default feed, your new category podcast episodes will go out on the feed also. More complicated URLS to the feed. I would (and do) use podcast channels. You can still break up the posts on your site by category using channels. See http://mikedell.com/blog/category/hamradio/ this is a second feed on my main MikeDell.com site for the Ham Radio podclass. I posted the posts to a category, but the podcast is in it's own channel. Much easier to keep separate when posting.. ------------------ Microphone and Mixer give-away. I'm giving away a http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/XM8500.aspx Behringer XM8500 dynamic Mic (brand new) and a slightly used Behringer UB502 Mixer (plus mic cable and computer hookup cable)http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UB502.aspx to a lucky listener. (US/Canadian Listeners only) I will also throw in an Hour of Consulting (via Go-to-Meeting) to help you get started. The ways to enter are simple. 1. Sign up for the newsletter mailing list (no spam) found on the sidebar of PodcastHelpDesk.com 2. Send in a voicemail comment either by dialing 231-421-4490 (either a question or comment for use on the show) or use the send voicemail tab on the site or email (either audio or text) to podcasthelpdesk@gmail.com with a question for the show. 3. Send me an email telling me about your show and a little about yourself You will get 1 entry for each thing you do above (limit 3 entries per person) I will use a randomizer site to pick the winner on January 19th 2015. Deadline to enter is January 19th 2015. --------------------- Use the promo code "nobs" for a free month of podcast hosting at any level at blubrry.com The promo code also works for blubrry premium statistics 1 month free by using the promo code nobs.