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Commodore buys Amiga Jack Tramiel declares war on  competition Nintendo announces US NES launch plans These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM! This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in August 1984.  As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost.  Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile device: Android:  https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS:      https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on Mastodon @videogamenewsroomtimemachine@oldbytes.space Or twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Links: If you don't see all the links, find them here:     https://www.patreon.com/posts/121143199 7 Minutes in Heaven: Sabrewulf Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121098237     https://www.mobygames.com/game/14732/sabre-wulf/ Corrections: July 1984 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/july-1994-116535754 Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Pong     https://gamehistory.org/atari-2600-tarzan/     https://www.giantbomb.com/photon-the-ultimate-game-on-planet-earth/3030-39589/     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Electron     https://archive.org/details/book_video_games/page/n77/mode/2up      1974:         Atari sells Japanese manufacturing to Namco     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-08-24.pdf   pg. 49 Basketball a hit     Cashbox august 3 1974       https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-08-04.pdf  pg. 43 Clean Sweep 1 player     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-08-10.pdf  pg. 50 Track 10 adds oil slick     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-08-17.pdf  pg. 46           https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/2351 Gene Lipken joins Atari     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-08-24.pdf   pg. 49 Medal Games are spreading     Game Machine August 10, 1974 pg. 7      Cali SC rules in favor of pinball     Cashbox Aug 10 1974     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-08-10.pdf  pg. 48 Coinop on the Price is Right     Cashbox august 3 1974       https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-08-04.pdf  pg. 43     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_Is_Right 13 year olds simulate life on computer     Two Youths Turn Computers on to 'Life', Hardford Courant, 11 Aug 1974, Page 3     http://www.rearden.com/people.php 1984: Silicon Valley proves resilient     Gloom in the Valley . . . But a Silver Lining, Too, U.S. News & World Report, August 20, 1984, Section: Pg. 38, Byline: By JOANNE DAVIDSON Warner second quarter losses are massive     Warner Communications reports huge loss, United Press International, August 2, 1984, Thursday, BC cycle Jack slashes prices     Atari's Tramiel Gets Tough With Price Cuts, ADWEEK, August 13, 1984, Eastern Edition,Byline: By Gail Belsky     Computer Entertainer Vol. 3 Number 5 pg. 1      https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-5/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater Commodore to buy Amiga     Commodore Deal With Amiga Set,The New York Times, August 17, 1984, Friday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 3, Column 6; Financial Desk Atari sues Amiga     ATARI HEAD SUES ALLY THAT DEFECTED TO RIVAL, The New York Times, August 21, 1984, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 1, Column 1; Financial Desk, Byline: By DAVID E. SANGER         https://www.tech-insider.org/personal-computers/research/1984/0822.html      Atari to introduce 16 and 32 bit systems     Atari To Sell More-Powerful Computers, The Associated Press, August 27, 1984, Monday, AM cycle, Section: Business News, Byline: By STEVE WILSTEIN, Jack declares war on competition         Computer Entertainer Vol. 3 Number 5 pg. 1        https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-5/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater      Jack can't collect     Tramiel Reported Seeking $50 Million in Lieu of Atari Debts, The Associated Press, August 31, 1984, Friday, PM cycle, Section: Business News Imagine Megagames up for auction         https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_034_1984-08_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n23/mode/2up Coleco unveils new marketing ploy     Coleco will offer scholarships to some computer purchasers, United Press International, August 22, 1984, Wednesday, BC cycle, Section: Financial            Advertising;At Coleco, The Adam Is Reborn, The New York Times, August 13, 1984, Monday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 8, Column 3; Financial Desk, Byline: By Pamela G. Hollie         https://youtu.be/tklBAzg_cgw?si=rDW-RNgtAqd_7QHl VCRs and Action Figures muscle video games out of retail     The Video Revolution, Newsweek, August 6, 1984 UNITED STATES EDITION, Section: BUSINESS; Pg. 50          Media Room, The Associated Press, August 12, 1984, Sunday, BC cycle Video killed the Video Game Star     FROM PAC-MAN TO GI JOE, Forbes, August 13, 1984, Section: MONEY AND INVESTMENTS; The Columnists; Psychology & Investing; Pg. 138, Byline: By Srully Blotnick;     Toys sales boom, United Press International, August 21, 1984, Tuesday, BC cycle, Section: Financial     Playthings, August 1984. Video Game tie-ins come of age     Allan Carr keeps bubbling to the top in a heady world, The San Diego Union-Tribune,August 12, 1984 Sunday, Section: ENTERTAINMENT; Pg. E-2, Byline: David Elliott, Movie Critic         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak_%26_Dagger_%28video_game%29        https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2     https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088395/?ref_=nm_flmg_knf_t_4     ACTIVISION; To develop and market software based on Ghostbusters motion picture, Business Wire, August 28, 1984, Tuesday     Gregory Fischbach Part 1 - Activision - Acclaim - https://www.patreon.com/posts/46578120     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-09/mode/1up?view=theater        https://www.mobygames.com/company/6665/dktronics/     https://archive.org/details/OnlineTodayV03N08/page/n9/mode/2up        https://www.mobygames.com/game/40828/paul-mccartneys-give-my-regards-to-broad-street/     Jay Balakrishnan - HESWare, Radical, Dynamics, Solid State Software - https://www.patreon.com/posts/jay-balakrishnan-103071267 Nintendo sees coinop sales plummet     Nintendo anticipates greater sales, profit, The Japan Economic Journal, August 28, 1984, Section: SECURITIES; Pg. 16 Atari sells distributorship     Replay, August 1984, pg. 3      Coin-op computers a bust     Campus coin-op computers crash; Good product ahead of its time, United Press International, August 29, 1984, Wednesday, BC cycle, Section: Financial, Byline: By J.B. BLOSSER 3rd parties scrap releases     Computer Entertainer Vol. 3 Number 5 pg. 11 IBM tries to save the PCJr     I.B.M. RAISES DIVIDEND, OFFERS A FREE KEYBOARD, The New York Times, August 1, 1984, Wednesday, Late City , Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 1, Column 1; Financial Desk, Byline: By STUART DIAMOND      https://www.ebay.com/itm/335702730148         https://archive.org/details/pcjr-magazine-1984-volume-1/PCjr%20Magazine%20-%20198410%20-%20Volume%201%20Number%209/page/58/mode/2up?view=theater&q=512     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-5/page/n14/mode/1up?view=theater     https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue59/review_lotus_123.php         MICROPRO; Greets enhanced PCjr with WordStar, Business Wire, August 13, 1984, Monday IBM announces AT     I.B.M.'S. NEW POWERHOUSE A T ;TWICE AS FAST AS OLD PC'S, The New York Times, August 15, 1984, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 1, Column 3; Financial Desk, Byline: By DAVID E. SANGER     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n9/mode/2up        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_M24     SHORTAGE OF SEMICONDUCTORS EASES, The New York Times, August 27, 1984, Monday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 1, Column 3; Financial Desk, Byline: By DAVID E. SANGER     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n11/mode/2up IBM and EC reach agreement     WEEK IN BUSINESS;BEST WEEK EVER ON WALL STREET, The New York Times, August 5, 1984, Sunday, Late City , Final Edition, Section: Section 3; Page 14, Column 3; Financial Desk, Byline: By Nathaniel C. Nash IBM announces new business strategy for Europe     I.B.M.'S NEW ROLE IN EUROPE, The New York Times, August 13, 1984, Monday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 1, Column 4; Financial Desk, Byline: By DAVID E. SANGER      MSX to miss XMAS     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-02/mode/1up?view=theater        https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-02/page/n2/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-09/page/n3/mode/1up?view=theater Amstrad pricing very competitive     https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-034/page/n125/mode/1up?view=theater         https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-034/page/n119/mode/1up?view=theater Sinclair launches Speccy bundle     https://archive.org/details/home-computer-weekly-magazine-new/HomeComputerWeekly-074/     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-02/mode/1up?view=theater     https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/20540/ZX-Spectrum/Spectrum_Six_Pack_ZX-Spectrum_48K_version      Sinclair plans stock flotation     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-09/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater Sinclair wants to get into chip manufacturing     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-16/page/n3/mode/2up        https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-23/page/n2/mode/1up?view=theater    Sinclair earnings miss expectations         https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-23/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater Dragon goes to Espana!     Spanish take over failed Dragon computer maker, Financial Times (London,England), August 15, 1984, Wednesday, Section: SECTION I; Pg. 12, Byline: BY CHARLES BATCHELOR IN LONDON     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64#Product_history     https://www.amazon.es/Cinco-Duros-HISTORIA-VIDEOJUEGO-ESPA%C3%91A/dp/8410031469     https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/episode-755-the-phone-at-the-end-of-the-world Macintosh software still scarce     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n243/mode/2up     Michael Dornbrook Part 1 - Infocom - https://www.patreon.com/posts/44335732 MIDI comes to micros     https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-034/page/n125/mode/1up?view=theater         https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-16/mode/2up Pioneer launchees interactive laser disc     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-5/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater        https://archive.org/details/Creative_Computing_1984-08/page/n11/mode/2up Byte profiles 6502 successor     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-08/page/n129/mode/2up      Great space race budget breaks records     https://archive.org/details/home-computer-weekly-magazine-new/HomeComputerWeekly-077/     https://www.mobygames.com/game/190868/the-great-space-race/ Lord British given credit for Questron     https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_4.4/page/n30/mode/1up?view=theater     Joel Billings - SSI - https://www.patreon.com/posts/36827469 US games flood UK     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-23/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Gold Virgin goes for quality     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-30/mode/1up?view=theater Domark launches with big contest     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-30/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-30/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater Sexy Games get activists in a tissy     https://archive.org/details/home-computer-weekly-magazine-new/HomeComputerWeekly-076/mode/2up Computer adoption in schools still slow     Stumbling into the computer age, Forbes, August 13, 1984, Section: INDUSTRIES; Pg. 35, Byline: By Kathleen R. Wiegner Computers find their purpose     Road Warrior' rides again, Computerworld, August 13, 1984, Section: EDITORIAL; LECHT ON SCIENCE; Pg. 47, Byline: By Charles P. Lecht      NABU gets software subsidiary     "Sets Up Software Subsidiary; WHEELER SAYS HE MISSES 'BULLY PULPIT' BUT ENJOYS PRIVATE INDUSTRY, Communications Daily, August 20, 1984, Monday, Section: Vol. 4, No. 162; Pg. 5" Tech support goes online     Telephone hot lines for software problems, Financial Times (London,England), August 29, 1984, Wednesday, Section: SECTION I; Technology; Professional Personal Computing; Pg. 5, Byline: PHILIP MANCHESTER WH Smith profits surge on computer sales     RESULTS DUE NEXT WEEK, Financial Times (London,England), August 18, 1984, Saturday, Section: SECTION I; UK Companies; Pg. 17 Radio Shack loses ground     TANDY'S SHIFTING SALES STRATEGY, The New York Times, August 19, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section 3; Page 1, Column 3; Financial Desk, Length: 2350 words, Byline: By PETER W. BARNES Drug Store Chain sues Mattel     Drug Chain Sues Mattel For Alleged Discrimination Against Retailer, The Associated Press, August 3, 1984, Friday, BC cycle,        No Headline In Original, United Press International, August 3, 1984, Friday, BC cycle, Section: Financial, Length: 188 words, Dateline: SYRACUSE, N.Y. Data Age sues Mr. T     HE PITIES THE FOOL, United Press International, August 20, 1984, Monday, BC cycle, Section: Domestic News, Byline: By FRANK SANELLO, United Press International Pirates go pro     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-08-30/mode/1up?view=theater         https://www.olx.pt/d/anuncio/jogos-spectrum-verso-portuguesa-de-coleccionador-da-microbaite-etc-IDICESX.html      TVs adapt to the new media landscape     HOME VIDEO; TV SETS: NEW FUNCTIONS, NEW FORMS, The New York Times, August 12, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section 2; Page 24, Column 1; Arts and Leisure Desk, Byline: By HANS FANTEL Executives get high-tech     The all-electronic Executive, Financial Times (London,England), August 4, 1984, Saturday, Section: SECTION I; The Information Revolution; Pg. 12, Byline: By Alan Cane Touch screen system used for tourists     Touch computer for tourists boon to advertisers, promoters, United Press International, August 19, 1984, Sunday, BC cycle, Section: Financial, Byline: By JOHN J. SANKO Army introduces joystick controlled rocket     Technology Today: Fiber-optic guided missiles -- ultimate video game, United Press International, August 20, 1984, Monday, BC cycle, Section: Domestic News, Byline: By WILLIAM HARWOOD, Gaming Jesus shall bare the mark     No Headline In Original, United Press International, August 9, 1984, Thursday, AM cycle, Section: Domestic News Compu-Cruise to set sail     https://archive.org/details/HomeComputerMagazine_Vol4_03_1984_Aug/page/n25/mode/2up Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play. Copyright Karl Kuras  

TCW Podcast Episode 226 - Ray Kassar   Ray Kassar rose from humble beginnings to become a talented, savvy, and personable executive. He began his career in the textile industry at Burlington Industries, where he eventually became president of its most profitable division. However, after the unexpected passing of Burlington's head, Kassar faced ageism and cronyism, which stifled his advancement. Despite climbing the corporate ladder again, he was passed over for a more tenured executive. Leaving Burlington, Kassar founded a company importing Egyptian cotton for the U.S., where he planned to work until retirement. However, Manny Gerard of Warner Communications recruited him to stabilize Atari after its recent acquisition. Kassar's leadership introduced a robust marketing strategy, reduced manufacturing defects, and turned Atari into a massive profit center. Though his rapid adaptation to the gaming industry sparked some resentment and controversy, Kassar's impact on Atari was undeniable. His story is one of nuance and twists, as Atari would not have achieved its success without his visionary leadership.   TCW 046 - Atari, Ray Kassar, and Warner: https://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/atari-ray-kassar-and-warner/ TCW 104 - A Holistic View of ET: https://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/a-holistic-view-of-et/ TCW 186 - Atari's Distribution Nightmare: https://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/atari-s-distribution-nightmare/ TCW 187  -  Atari's Sinking Ship: https://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/atari-s-sinking-ship/ Once Upon Atari - How I made history by killing an industry: (Affiliate link): https://amzn.to/4fUDNx6   New episodes are on the 1st and 15th of every month!   TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com  Twitter: @tcwpodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com Alex's book, published Dec 2019, is available at CRC Press and at major on-line retailers: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1     Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode  Outro Music: RoleMusic - Bacterial Love: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love    Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jessica Whidt is the Managing Director at Warner Communications, a leading agency that supports clients across multiple complex industries such as supply chain, logistics, transportation, renewable energy, and technology. Here, she talks about the importance of having a crisis management strategy and how the AI boom is affecting logistics. Key Takeaways:- How to create a PR crisis preparedness plan- Logistics PR in the post-COVID era- AI's role in logisticsEpisode Timeline:1:30 Which state has the best food? 3:30 The importance of a reputation management communication plan5:30 What does crisis preplanning look like?7:30 Crisis preplanning is like disaster preparedness8:15 How did Jessica weather the logistics storm over the last few years?9:00 The public is better educated about the supply chain than ever before11:30 What's the hardest thing to communicate about logistics?13:15 New developments in logistics15:00 Exciting developments in AI17:20 Generative AI for content creation19:00 Google doesn't like AI-generated contentThis episode's guest:• Jessica Whidt• Warner Communications on LinkedInSubscribe and leave a 5-star review: https://pod.link/1496390646Contact Us!• Join the conversation by leaving a comment!• Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn!Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I have the immense pleasure of welcoming Dr. Srikumar Rao to the show today. Dr. Rao is a distinguished coach, speaker, and author who collaborates with top entrepreneurs, professionals, and senior executives, guiding them on their spiritual and professional journeys. His pioneering course, Creativity and Personal Mastery, has been a highlight at prestigious institutions like Columbia Business School. Dr. Rao's work has reached millions through his TED Talk, Plug into Your Hard-Wired Happiness, and his acclaimed books, including Are You Ready to Succeed? and Happiness at Work. His latest book, Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots, continues to inspire those seeking unstoppable success. With a PhD from Columbia Business School and extensive media coverage, Dr. Rao is renowned for transforming ancient wisdom into practical exercises for today's intelligent professionals. I'm thrilled to have him share his insights with us today.  [04:20] We learn how Dr. Rao created the Creativity and Personal Mastery course. He was getting his PhD at Columbia Business School.  [04:49] He worked at Warner Communications and his career took off like a rocket. He worked on the advertising campaign for the movie The Exorcist.  [06:26] He became head of communications at Warner Communications.  [07:36] He had been doing a lot of reading and wanted to take the work of the world's great thinkers and put them into a course that would be acceptable to intelligent people in a post-industrial society. [08:15] He needed the course for himself. He created it and it did well. He moved the course to Columbia Business School, and it exploded. [09:33] He eventually began teaching the course privately and became a coach by accident. [10:01] Life is a spiritual journey. Addiction uses a dysfunctional mental model or idea of how the world works. The problem is we don't know we have mental models. Instead, we think this is the way the world works. [11:05] It's not the way the world works, it's our model of how it works. [12:01] We don't live in the real world. We live in a matrix. We experience the world the way we create it. [14:24] Think about your awareness like a flashlight. It illuminates whatever you shine it on. [16:01] We often shine our flashlight of awareness on the things that are wrong in life. [16:51] Consciously shine your flashlight of awareness on the many ways that you are truly blessed and fortunate. [19:57] Celebrate that the Universe is aware of you and working for you. A miracle doesn't have to bend the law of physics. All that's necessary is for you to have the conviction that the Universe interceded on your behalf. [21:29] Extreme resilience is when you bounce back extremely fast. [24:27] Asking yourself if there's a positive will move you to a different emotion. Is there something I can proactively do to make this a good thing? [29:36] Mindfulness and mental chatter. Having mental chatter isn't the problem, it's identifying with mental chatter. [34:51] Principles of personal mastery in a recovery journey. If you can reserve your mental chatter instead of becoming it, you'll have power you never had before. [36:01] When you become aware that you aren't your addiction, instead you're an observer of your addiction, eventually you'll have mastery and the addiction will drop. [37:57] Advice when struggling with relapse. Don't beat yourself up. Simply accept what happened and begin again. [41:44] The reason we feel overwhelmed is because there's a lot of mental chatter going on. Learn to focus on exactly what you're doing at that instant. [43:45] Don't label anything that happens to you as bad. Whenever a disaster happens, instead of thinking it's terrible, think about what you can do about it. [44:18] Focus on what is within your control, and you'll stop obsessing about what's not in your control. [44:57] Hardwired happiness. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. You accept the universe exactly as it is. [46:53] The if then model. If this happens, then I'll be happy. [47:26] Instead of realizing the model is flawed, we think we have the wrong thing on the side of the equation. When we recognize that the model is flawed, we begin recognizing peace and joy. [50:53] Whatever happens is fine.  [52:10] Dr. Rao explains his coaching process and how it has two levels. [52:55] A transmitted presence elevates your level of consciousness.  [53:44] You can decide after the first session if you are on a higher level or not. [01:00:39] You can learn more about Dr. Rao and his programs at his website. [01:02:22] You can also join Dr Rao's Community. Links mentioned in this episode: Camelback Recovery I Love Being Sober YouTube The Rao Institute Dr. Rao's TED Talk Creativity and Personal Mastery Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and  Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success More Books by Dr. Rao

History of Gaming Consoles From Atari to Nintendo to Playstation  -       AZ TRT S05 EP18 (233) 5-5-2024    What We Learned This Week: Odyssey by Magnavox, first home gaming system Atari created both Home Pong & then Atari 2600 Nintendo Game Systems - NES, Wii, Switch + Super Mario Bros & Legend of Zelda games Sega Genesis & Sonic game, Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox   Guest: Ben B     Notes:   Main Consoles – Name, Distributer, release Year & some sales #'s   1st Gen Odyssey from Magnavox 1972 Homepong from Atari 1975 Atari 2600 1977     2nd Gen Intellivision 1980 Colecovision 1980 Atari 5200   *Crash of 1983   3rd Gen Famicon – Nintendo in Japan 1983 NES Nintendo 1985 61 mil Sega master System 1986 Atari 7800     4th Gen Gameboy Nintendo 1989 115 mil   Sega Genesis 1989 35 mil Atari Lynx Super famicon 1990 Super Nintendo 1991     5th Gen Sony Playstation - 1994 100 mil PS 2 2000 158 mil   6th Gen Nintendo 64 1996 Sega Dreamcast Microsoft Xbox 2001   Gameboy Advance 2001 Ganecube 2001   7th Gen Playstation Portable PSP 2004 Nintendo DS Nintendo Wii 2006 100 mil + Xbox 360 2005 80 mil PS 3 2006 80 mil   8th Gen RDS 2011 PS 4 2013 Xbox 2013   9th Gen Nintendo Switch 2017 Microsoft Xbox X & S 2020 Sony Playstation 5 2020       Failures – Comodore CDTV 25k Atari Jaguar 100k Nintendo Virtual Boy 1995 770k Sega Saturn 1999 9 mil ? Wii U 2012 13 mil     More Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600     Sources: The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History from Atari to Xbox by Evan Amos https://www.amazon.com/Game-Console-2-0-Photographic-History/ https://nostarch.com/game-console-20 Revised and updated since the first edition's celebrated 2018 release, The Game Console 2.0 is an even bigger archival collection of vividly detailed photos of more than 100 video-game consoles. This ultimate archive of gaming history spans five decades and nine distinct generations, chronologically covering everything from market leaders to outright failures, and tracing the gaming industry's rise, fall, and monumental resurgence. The book's 2nd edition features more classic game consoles and computers, a section on retro gaming in the modern era, and dozens of new entries — including super-rare finds, such the Unisonic Champion 2711, and the latest ninth-generation consoles. You'll find coverage of legendary systems like the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari 2600, NES, and the Commodore 64; systems from the ‘90s and 2000s; modern consoles like the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5; and consoles you never knew existed. Get a unique peek at the hardware powering the world's most iconic video-game systems with The Game Console 2.0 — the perfect gift for geeks of all stripes and every gamer's must-have coffee-table book. Author Bio  Evan Amos is a video game photographer and historian, whose contributions to the public domain comprise the ultimate visual reference for every generation of consoles. His work has appeared in hundreds of articles, YouTube videos, and popular media outlets like Kotaku. He is also the creator and curator of the Vanamo Online Game Museum, home to the most accessible, widely used digital preservation archive in the video game realm.   Toys That Built America https://www.history.com/shows/the-toys-that-built-america   How Super Mario Helped Nintendo Conquer the Video Game World Originally a second banana character in 'Donkey Kong' in 1981, Mario went on to conquer the video game world.   https://www.history.com/news/super-mario-history-nintendo-donkey-kong-facts excerpt: "Donkey Kong" was a huge success, but the company did not take their hands off the joystick and celebrate their win. They quickly developed and released a sequel named "Donkey Kong Jr.," which featured the son of Donkey Kong attempting to rescue his father from the evil clutches of the character formerly known as Jumpman, but now named Mario. Despite Mario being the “bad guy” (for the first and only time in his career), the game was another huge success for Nintendo.  In 1983, Mario finally got a chance to be the star, when he and his brother Luigi (now billed as plumbers from New York) were tasked with defeating numerous creatures attempting to rise from the sewers of their beloved city in the successful arcade game "Mario Bros." On July 15, 1983, Nintendo (and Mario) leaped out of the arcade and into millions of living rooms for the first time, with the release of the home console Family Computer (Famicom for short) in Japan. Sales soared domestically, and after a year of market testing in select U.S. locations, the Nintendo Entertainment System—renamed and redesigned for the American market—was released nationwide in September of 1986. The system launched with 17 available games, including a new game featuring everyone's favorite plumber: "Super Mario Bros." By 1988, Nintendo had a stranglehold on the American console market, and thanks to the automatic inclusion of "Super Mario Bros" with later versions of the NES, the connection between character and company was reinforced.   More: 5 of the Most Influential Early Video Games 'Pong,' 'Space Invaders' and 'Pac-Man' helped spawn a juggernaut industry.   https://www.history.com/news/top-early-home-video-games-pong-pacman excerpt: “Pong” may not have been the first home video game, but it was the first major video game hit—one that launched the Atari home console dynasty and, arguably, an entire industry. Atari founder and “Pong” creator Nolan Bushnell and his partner Ted Dabney had had a surprise juggernaut in 1972 with the arcade version of the game, which had improved on the basic “Table Tennis” concept by adding sound, scoring and spin. Magnavox sued for copyright infringement; Atari settled by paying an exclusive licensing fee. They then adapted it for home play. First sold exclusively in Sears as a limited edition Sears-branded console, Atari's home “Pong” became one of the retail giant's best-selling items of the 1975 holiday season. Atari soon released its own branded version of “Pong,” helping to popularize its 2600 gaming console (launched in 1977), which became the most popular home game machine of its era, selling some 30 million units before being discontinued in 1992. Bushnell sold Atari to Warner Communications for $28 million and went on to found more than 20 companies, including Chuck E. Cheese.     Tech Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Tech-Startup-VC-Cybersecurity-Energy-Science   Best of Tech: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=best+of+tech     Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Investing-Stocks-Bonds-Retirement     ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT     Thanks for Listening. 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Welcome back to Race Central with long time motor sports insider Kurt Hansen. Kurt opens the second hour regaling us with a fun story about Jim Harbaugh going all the way back to his playing days. He is joined by Elon Warner from Warner Communications to talk about the leaderboards and the outta nowhere racers as they preview 2024. Kurt has compaby in the new year as he is joined by Big West Racing's Joe Starr to hear what's going on in local motorsports in Denver. Joe stays on for the final segment to tell us some stories from the Chilly Bowl.   

Learn how what we're really doing as we go through life is work on ourselves. What makes an inspiring leader? According to my guest today, Dr. Srikumar Rao, it is to be personally inspired by a vision which brings a greater good to a greater community. As a leader, you are in the business of helping everyone you run across improve their position in life and raise their level of consciousness, because this is your path in life. Isn't that a great message to live by? My dear friend Pat Shea, with whom I did a podcast back in 2020, told me that I just had to have Dr. Rao on our podcast and boy was she right! Listen in, this could very well change your life. Watch and listen to our conversation here Dr. Rao's pearls of wisdom that you can take and apply to your own life The only thing you ever do in life is work on yourself. Everything you're given by the universe—your partner, your children, your job, your career, your business—they're tools. You use those tools as skillfully as you can. But in the process of doing that, what you're really doing is, you're working on yourself. Life is a short journey, let's make sure we have joy and it feels purposeful and takes us to another place. Your awareness is like a flashlight. What does a flashlight do? A flashlight illuminates whatever you shine it on. What do we typically do with the flashlight of our awareness? We shine it on the two, three, or four things that we think are problems in our lives and we DON'T shine it on the 40, 50, 200 things that are good about our lives. So shine the flashlight of your awareness on the many ways in which you're fortunate and blessed. Do it the last thing at night before you go to bed. Do it first thing in the morning. Call to mind the many ways in which you are truly fortunate. When you're in a state of mind of appreciation, of gratitude, you're not nervous, you're not anxious, you're not fearful. The two cannot coexist. Become aware of mental chatter, that internal monologue that you have going on in your head all the time. Don't beat yourself up over mistakes you've made (the second arrow). Learn how to rise above it and see the world the way it should be. To contact Dr. Srikumar Rao You can reach out to Dr. Rao on LinkedIn, Twitter or his website, The Rao Institute. For more on how self-awareness and gratitude can help you be a better leader, start with these: Blog: Time to Add Gratitude to Your Life—And Your Company's Culture! Podcast: Richard Sheridan—How To Lead With Joy And Purpose! Podcast: Danielle Grant—Authentic, Ethical, Caring And More Effective Leadership Additional resources for you My two award-winning books: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business and On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink with Andi Simon. Hi, I'm Andi Simon, and I'm your host and your guide. My job is to get you off the brink. We've done this for four years now, and as we approach our 400th session, I'm still in awe of how many wonderful people there are to share with you so you can see, feel, and think in new ways. Remember, we decide with the heart and the eyes and then the head comes into play. So, how can I introduce you to this wonderful man, Dr. Srikumar Rao? Pat Shea, dear friend, said I must have him on our podcast. Now this is important. So let me give you a little bit of background so you know why his perspective is so important for you as our listener to better understand. Dr. Srikumar Rao is a speaker, former business school professor and head of the RAO Institute. You should look it up. It's a great website based out of New York. He's also an executive coach to senior business executives whom he helps find deeper meaning and engagement in their work. This is a theme, a recurring theme. Now, it isn't work that gives you purpose; it's finding deeper meaning in your work. Dr. Rao's programs have helped thousands of executives, professionals and entrepreneurs all over the world achieve quantum leaps in effectiveness, resilience and overall happiness. Like, you know, there's a whole body here. Graduates of his workshops have become more creative and more inspiring leaders in some of the world's most successful companies. He helps leaders around the globe transform their lives so that they can experience abundant joy no matter what comes their way. He is a Ted speaker, an author and creator of the pioneering course, Creativity and Personal Mastery. Dr. Srikumar Rao, please tell the audience better than I can your absolutely wonderful story for the audience. There are two stories that are going to come together today. One is Dr. Rao's own personal journey, and it is a wonderful role model for you yourself, and then what he developed to tell others through their journey so that they don't get stuck or stalled on the brink. Remember, today people are on the brink, and they get off it because they have an aha moment, an epiphany. They begin to see things through a fresh lens. And that's why I want to share with you, Dr. Srikumar Rao. Please, who are you? What is your journey? Dr. Srikumar Rao: Thank you, Andi. My pleasure. Let me share the brief or the briefer version of my journey. I grew up in India. We were a middle class family. I was a physics major and then I came to the US. I came to Columbia to do my PhD. I had no interest whatsoever in doing a PhD, but I had a huge interest in coming to the United States of America. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you want to come to America, it's a very good idea to come on somebody else's nickel if you can manage it. And here were all these great universities saying, Mr. Rao, come do a PhD. We will give you a fellowship. That means money. So I said, Yes, I'll do a PhD. So I came to Columbia because it was in New York, which seemed good. I did my PhD in marketing because at that time, Columbia was the world's best business school for marketing. So that's how my life went. I was drifting. I got a job with Warner Communications and there were a series of lucky breaks as a result of which I rose spectacularly fast. I got a big project, which normally would not have been given to me, but my boss had a personal emergency. His boss had to go to Europe on a long scheduled trip. So I got to do it. So I advised on the marketing strategy for a book, which went on to be a movie, which went on to become an all-time blockbuster. In fact, even today, after more than 50 years, it's on the list of 50 top grossing movies of all time. This was the original Exorcist. Ah, so that was my career. And I rose rapidly up the ranks. And at the ripe age of 22, I was head of corporate research for Warner Communications, reporting directly to the president. I got burnt out by corporate politics. So I thought I'd go to the academia where everyone was imbued with a quest for pure knowledge and politics did not exist. I was sadly mistaken. So then I got stuck in a university environment while my colleagues who remained in corporate now moved on to great financial success and hierarchical positions of authority. And I was stuck plodding along. And I thought I had such great education, such a wonderful early start, and I blew it all. I wasted my life. I'm done. You know, it's over. I blew it. So I was not depressed, but pretty down on my life. I'd been doing a lot of reading, spiritual biography, mysticism, a lot of biography which took me to a wonderful place. And I came back to the real world and it sucked. And I remember thinking, if all of this is useful only if you're sitting quietly thinking peaceful thoughts, but not when you came to the hurly burly, then it's useless. Somehow I knew that wasn't true. I knew that this was very valuable. Maybe even the only thing that was valuable. I just hadn't figured out how to make use of it. So one day, I got my bright idea, which is, why don't I take the teachings of the world's great masters, strip them of religious, cultural and other connotations and adapt them so that they're acceptable to intelligent people in a post-industrial society. And the thought of doing that made me come alive.My process up to then, I was a marketing guy. So every time I got a bright idea, I'd ask, will others be interested? Is there a market for it? And if I thought there was, I'd develop that idea, otherwise I'd drop it. This is the first time I didn't ask the question. My initial thoughts were, I teach MBAs. We all know what motivates MBAs. Nobody is going to end up enrolling for the course, but that is okay if they did register, God bless them. If they didn't, God bless them. Anyway, I was going to create the course because I needed it for me. So I did, it did well. I moved it to Columbia Business School in 1999 and it exploded. It was the only course at Columbia Business School, which is a university-wide draw. I had students from law school, from business school, from the School of International Public Affairs, from journalism, teachers college, all over the place. And Columbia is a big international school. So people from other business schools came to Columbia on exchange and they took it and they went back and said, Hey, you gotta take this course. It's great. So it traveled. I taught it at Columbia, obviously. I taught it at London Business School, at Kellogg, at Berkeley, at Imperial College. And then I spun it out and started teaching it privately. And it got a tremendous amount of publicity. You know, it was in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes Business. Andi Simon: You have fallen onto a diamond. Yes. And you're polishing. So where did that take you? Dr. Srikumar Rao: So that's how it all started. And in the meantime, I became an executive coach because people viewed my videos. They watched my TED talks and said, I want to work with you. So I became an executive coach with a global clientele by default. I have a unique niche in coaching, Andi. And my niche is I coach successful people who really want to have an outsized impact on the world, but they also have a spiritual bent, and they want to infuse that into every part of their life. That's my coaching sandbox. Andi Simon: When you think of this as a podcast or a video podcast, the audience is saying, how does one do that? Is that something you can share with them? How can they begin to, it's the same words that you are using to see, feel and think in new ways about themselves because you said something important. These are executives who don't just want to make a living, they want to transform others in the world in what they're doing. They have purpose and meaning. How does one do that? Dr. Srikumar Rao: Well, the answer to that, Andi, is very simple. You begin that process of transformation inside. In other words, you have to undergo personal transformation before you can become effective at helping others on the journey. If someone tells me, I want to be an inspiring leader, I tell them, you're pretty well advanced on the wrong path. Because when you say, I want to be an inspiring leader, it's all about you. I want to. And what you're really saying, if you examine it, is, I want people to do what I would like them to do which perhaps they don't want to do. So I got to figure out how to get people to do what I want them to do. And they don't want to do what I want them to do because I got to learn how to manipulate them. I'm being deliberately provocative, but there's more than a grain of truth in what I've just shared with you. So the way to become an inspiring leader is to be personally inspired by a vision, which is a grand one, which brings a greater good to a greater community. And you have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. But if you find something which draws you so strongly that you're willing to devote, if not your whole life, at least a big chunk of your life to it, and it brings a greater good to a greater community, and you learn how to communicate that vision, then whoever comes in touch with you will become inspired. You'll become an inspiring leader by default. You know, when Ghandi set out on his journey, he never said, “I want to be an inspiring leader. I want tens of thousands, millions of people to follow me now.” He said, “The passport laws are unjust and I will not let them stand.” And he was a British-trained attorney. He had verbal skills and he used whatever talents he had to mobilize support for the passport laws. “Laws are unjust and I will not let them stand.” And later on when he led the war against colonial rule in India, and in the process of doing that, he did in fact become an inspiring leader who, and even 80 years after his death, there are millions of people worldwide who were influenced by his ideas. That's how you become an inspiring leader. The journey of transformation always begins between your ears. Andi Simon: This is so both brilliant and appropriate. I have three leadership academies. The word “leading” requires us to have followers and followers who hear you, understand what you're asking of them, but hear it in a way which takes them and inspires them. Not just to be tactical and practical, but to have a bigger reason for doing something. Dr. Srikumar Rao: Exactly correct. Andi Simon: In the words. Purpose and meaning have become trivialized in today's world. Dr. Srikumar Rao: That's true. Andi Simon: In “the great breakup,” people are saying to corporate: “Unless I have meaning in work, I don't need to work there.” But I'm not sure they know how to find that purpose and meaning, and what those words actually mean. I know you have some courses and you have a book in the process. Is this a collective experience, a personal one? How do people begin to discover themselves? Dr. Srikumar Rao: It's both. See, what happens is, in the very syllabus of my course, I state, “This is a program which will profoundly change your life. And if it doesn't, we have both failed.” What do you mean, it'll change my life? But it really does. Consider where I've drawn my material: from the words of hte great masters. So what happens is, as you undergo this journey, you change, and as you change, you recognize that you're not in the business of creating followers. You are in the business of helping everyone you run across, improve their position in life. More precisely, raise their level of consciousness. And the reason you raise their level of consciousness is because that's your path in life. In the process of helping them raise their level of consciousness, you're really working on yourself in raising your level of consciousness. Because in my book, Andi, the only thing you ever do in life is, you work on yourself, and everything you're given by the universe—your partner, your children, your job, your career, your business—they're tools. You use those tools as skillfully as you can. But in the process of doing that, what you're really doing is, you're working on yourself. And that's the only thing you ever do in life. You work on yourself. Andi Simon: You came about this by struggling through other avenues. You knew you really didn't want to go into marketing, but you did really well in it. You left and joined a university and you did well, but not financially well. And then all of a sudden you had an epiphany. Those master courses opened your mind to a whole other way of thinking. Do people have to go through a similar kind of journey? Is there a pathway that starts earlier that can help them? Or do we have to experience life first? Dr. Srikumar Rao: It's a combination, Andi. There is no must. Each person has a unique path in life. I've had people who've taken my program say, “Your course completely changed my life.” And they didn't have any dramatic reversals or breakthrough switch catapult. They just examined what I said, and it made sense to them and they adopted it. And others have to have their head beaten by life before they start recognizing the way I've been doing it is all wrong. So there is no one size fits all. It's a uniquely individual journey. Andi Simon: It's interesting as I'm listening to you, because my third book has just gotten published, it comes out in September. It's a good book. It's called Women Mean Business. It's a great book. I think all my books are great books. But in the process, I'm now at a phase saying, what's next? Business is very good. We picked up a great client. We're going to study the meaning of life for older adults and what is quality. I mean, it's really cool work, but there is another piece, and I share that with the listeners and yourself about what matters as you reach a particular stage in our lives. I'm not growing younger and the past has been a delicious one for me. I've had a great life, great family. But you're raising that question of what's that larger purpose, meaning something beyond tactical and practical, something that can really lift up and lift up others. While people have said that to me, I'm not quite sure what that meant. And I'm not sure I can touch it and feel it, but you are saying something which is, maybe I should come and wander through your course with you and begin to understand it and begin to see it in a bigger picture. You're smiling at me. Dr. Srikumar Rao: I would be delighted. Andi Simon: It's funny because Pat and I were talking about this just a week or so ago, and Pat is very interested in having me deliver my course in Nashville. And she is a dynamo, as you know. And she wants it so strongly, and I'm not opposed to it, that we might very well conduct a live program in Nashville. We are still working out dates and details and so on, but it very well could happen. Dr. Srikumar Rao: But aren't you in New York? Andi Simon: I am in New York. Dr. Srikumar Rao: So am I in New York? So maybe there's a New York version that we can do, because I can't. Andi Simon: That's also possible. I've conducted the course in New York. Yes. So a big advantage of doing it in Nashville is that Pat is a strong supporter and an anchor. But I also think Pat is seeing it as a bigger thing. If she has, I don't know, 25, 30, 40 people who she touches, how can she elevate all of them to a higher level? Dr. Srikumar Rao: That's the whole point. Exactly. Correct. Andi Simon: She wants to spread your pixie dust so that those folks have more joy in life. I think you say on your website, life is a short journey, let's make sure we have joy and it feels purposeful and takes us to another place. I'm curious, I'm an explorer. People said I'm a futurist, which I didn't know, but I'm always looking forward to see how fast change is going to affect us and what's strong about it and what's weak about it. What do you see coming next, both from a philosophical perspective? Life is changing and quickly, and as a result of what is happening outside, I'm finding that there are many people who are recognizing that the real journey is between our ears, as you say, not outside. Now, I'm not in a position to say whether this is a trend in the product population. Certainly the persons who seek me out are persons who have already started that inner journey, otherwise they wouldn't have sought me out in the first place. So there are more of them than ever before. But are there more of them because I'm getting better known and there are more videos of mine floating around? Or is this a trend that's something I cannot comment on? Well, but either way, you're serving your need. Remember, it's not about I, it's about what they need and how you begin to open up a doorway into a different view of their lives at a time where we're all doing it. When I'm working with our folks about preparing for the future, you know, humble perspectives, humans need to see the future. If they're going to live today, what you do is give them a way of being excited about that future. The past has passed. So what's coming next and how do we capitalize on it? How do we enjoy it? Because it's coming. I've become a big fan of ChatGPT. And I just did a podcast with someone who said, “Oh, I haven't even touched it or tried it.” I said, “So before you criticize it, go explore it, be an explorer because it is here and it's going to be transformative.” It is here and it's going to change how we get things done. Is that bad? I don't know. And that's not the only, whether blockchain is here to shrink stuff or, you know, 3D printing. If you put 'em all together, the world is in a very transformative moment. It will not be the same as yesterday, but I don't know what it's going to be tomorrow. So go ahead. Dr. Srikumar Rao: Think back 20 years ago, you hardly had the internet then. And I can remember if you went from place A to place B, you actually had to have a map. And think how things have changed in just the last 20 years. Andi Simon: And it is accelerating. Yes. I think that's actually exciting for my grandchildren who will see the world in a very different way. One of the things that came through the pandemic is a good deal of research on the distinction between virtual and real. And, this is a profound philosophical question. About what is virtual and what are you and I'm not real, because we're doing this virtually. Are video games for people, adults, not part of their reality. Kids talk about avatars and do-overs. It's because they've been well trained by their video games. That's a perfectly normal response to something. Dr. Srikumar Rao: Completely. I agree. Andi Simon: You've just hit upon a very important issue. You know, what is real? You can have some interesting discussions on that. And, without a perspective of your purpose and your own life here, it's very easy to get into the anger over the changes. Humans don't like change, you know that. As opposed to the joy of the new and the unfamiliar. I do think that we are all going to be changed, whether we like it or not. Who are now writing books and perspectives besides yourself? I'm beginning to identify the transformation in a way that they'll be a part of our masters in 10 years. Dr. Srikumar Rao: Here is the funny thing, Andi. What the great masters said is as relevant today as the time that they said what they did. And this goes all the way from Buddha and Jesus to modern Michael Singer, Ram Hershey, Anthony de Mello, just to name a few. They are every bit as relevant. The essential message does not change because human beings do not change. No true circumstances do change. And there are all kinds of gizmos and toys to distract us. But who we are fundamentally has not changed and will not change. Andi Simon: How true that is. And we are good people, humans who have thrived and survived because of our ability to tell beautiful stories and share extraordinary lives. A couple of things you want the listeners not to forget as you've been thinking about this? We always remember that they remember the ending better than even the beginning. And I'll always remember you coming to Columbia because it was a cheap way to get to the Americas, but apart from that, what don't you want them to forget? Dr. Srikumar Rao: Okay. Let me share some things that I would like every person watching or listening to this to take away. The first thing I would like them to be aware of is that your awareness is like a flashlight. This is very important. What does a flashlight do? A flashlight illuminates whatever you shine it on. Take the flashlight of your awareness and shine it on the chair in which you're sitting. The moment I ask you to do that, you become aware of the pressure of your buttocks on the seat. You feel the fabric or the leather against the back of your thigh. Correct? 30 seconds ago, you were not aware of any of this, but now you are. That's true. Why? Because you've shone the flashlight of your awareness on it. What do we typically do with the flashlight of our awareness? We shine it on the two, three or four things that are problems in our lives. More precisely, we shine it on the two, three or four things that we think are problems in our lives and we've defined them as problems in our life and the 40, 50, 200 things that are pretty damn good about our lives, we never shine the flashlight of our awareness on it. So this slips by in the background unnoticed. You and I are incredibly privileged. We've had books published. We don't have to worry about whether we are going to eat tomorrow. We have a bed to sleep in, a roof over our head. We have competent people who can give us medical attention, should we need it. Any of this is a big deal in a huge chunk of the world outside. But we never shine the flashlight of our awareness on it. So it slips by. So what I advise everyone, my coaching clients, people who take my call: shine the flashlight of your awareness on the many ways in which you're fortunate and blessed. Do it the last thing at night before you go to bed. Do it first thing in the morning. Don't go to the space of there's too much to do and I don't have enough time to do it all. Call to mind the many ways in which you are truly fortunate. Bathe in it, marinate in it, value in it, soak in it. It is my hope that everybody listening to this will be in the default emotional domain of appreciation, gratitude. Because when you are there, you're not nervous, you're not anxious, you're not fearful. The two cannot coexist. Andi Simon: That's a very important lesson to learn. You have the flashlight of your awareness, shine it wisely. Dr. Srikumar Rao: The second thing is for them to become aware of something called mental chatter, which is an internal monologue that you have going on in your head all the time. It begins right up when you get up in the morning. It is with you throughout the day and is with you when you go to bed. And sometimes it's so loud that it prevents you from going to sleep. The kind of thing that says, what time is it? Do I have to get up? I don't want to get up. Let me hit the snooze button. I can get another 10 minutes of sleep. All of that is mental chatter. It's always been there. It's like an unwelcome relative who's shown up in your house and you can't kick him out. So we ignore it, suppress it. We work around it. We do our level best to live a life despite our mental shadow. Huge mistake. And it's a mistake because we construct our lives with our mental shadow. We think we live in a real world. We don't. We live in a construct. And we built that construct. We made it out of our mental chatter. Let me illustrate. One of the more powerful teachings of the Buddha is the parable of the second arrow. The Buddha asks his disciple, If an arrow would've hit you in the arm, would it not be very painful? Yes, Lord. Very painful. And if a second arrow would've hit you exactly where the first arrow hit you, would it not be even more painful? Yes, Lord, it'll be even more painful. And then the Buddha asks a surprising question. Why then do you shoot the second arrow? So that needs some explanation. So let me tell you a story. There was this woman, which is a good mother of a son who grew up to be 16. And he got his provisional driver's license. And one day he wanted to show off that he had his license. So he went to his mom and said, Hey, I'm going to go out with some friends and can I take the car? And she said, of course not. You know, you just got your driver's license. Where do you have to go out from? No, no, no, mom, you don't understand. I've got to take the car. She said, okay, I'll drop you. No, no, no. You don't understand. I've got to take the car and you have to not be there. I was okay if I can't be there, that's fine. There's Uber. No, no, no. You don't understand. I have to take the car. Didn't you hear me? I have to take the car and you have to not be there. And the mother says no, but you know how children are. He begged, he pleaded. And bit by bit, she felt herself giving way. She took promises, you're not going to drink. No, no, I'm not going to drink. You're going to call. Yes. You'll be back by 10 o'clock. Yes. So reluctantly she gives him the car keys. And of course once he gets the keys, he forgets all about his promises, he doesn't call, breaks curfew and has too many beers. On the way back, he has an accident and his mother is with him in the hospital while he is being operated on. And then when he is wheeled to the recovery room, she dashes home to have a quick shower and change so she can go back to the hospital. And at that time a friend calls and says, how could you possibly have given him the car? You are not a mother, you are a murderer. Now, are you shocked that a friend would say something like that at this juncture? Probably. Would you be less shocked if I said, that's not what a friend said, it's what she told herself. That is the second arrow. It's bad enough having a son who's recovering from an accident, and you don't know what the after effects are. Does it make matters better to tell yourself that you are a poor mother and in fact, maybe a murderer? Of course not. No. But we do it all the time. That is the second arrow. And the second arrow is always delivered by means of mental shadow. Let me repeat that. The second arrow is always delivered by means of mental shadow. No matter what situation you're facing, Andi, your mental chatter about that situation is making it at least in order of magnitude worse. For most of my clients, if I can get them to stop at the second arrow, they'd be way ahead of the game. By the time they recognize what they're doing to themselves, they're on their fifth, sixth, 253rd arrow. Andi Simon: Oh, I know. My daughter is a special ed teacher, and she sometimes tells me, If only I could work with the parents, the kids could turn out far better than the parents working with the kids. And as I'm listening to you, that mother-son story is a very appropriate one to think about. Where and how do we create the right action, values and self-care so that we can deal with the situations that come, in a very positive fashion with control over it. And that friend who said, You're a murderer, was right in some ways, but that was less important than that it was the mother. Dr. Srikumar Rao: So those are the things I'd like to leave your listeners with. Andi Simon: If they want to reach you, your book is on Amazon? Dr. Srikumar Rao: Yes, it is. So the book is called Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success. It is virtual and we'll be starting up live courses again, but all those details are being worked out. They can go to my website, which is www.theraoinstitute.com and sign up for it. And then they will be signed up to get information about that. And then they'll be on my list. They'll get my weekly blog, and they'll also get information about my courses and programs. Andi Simon: I love it. This has been a very heartfelt conversation. I want to  thank Pat Shea for insisting that I have Srikumar on for my listeners, I know you are sitting there saying, This is really important. I can already imagine some of my listeners, I know who they are, saying, Hmm, am I shooting myself with the second arrow or am I able to rise above it and see the world the way it should be? Dr. Srikumar Rao: Yes. It's hard, but it's important. Andi Simon: Let me thank you. And I think I'm going to sign up and get your blogs, maybe even take your course. Dr. Srikumar Rao: Thank you, Andi, it'll be a pleasure having you. And if Pat is your friend, you can be sure she'll reach out to you. Andi Simon: To our listenerers, thank you again for making us among the top 5% of global podcasts. But most of all, thank you for coming, sharing, and enjoying. Our job is to get you off the brink. And today you can really hear why we are both anxious for you to see, feel and think in new ways so you don't get stuck or stalled. And I urge you, listen to Dr. Srikumar Rao's podcast, share it, give it to others. The transcript will be up on the blog that we post. I think there's some deep thoughts here that are well worth remembering, thinking about, reflecting on, and maybe taking to the next step. Dr. Srikumar Rao: Yeah. And they can watch my TED talk, Andi. Andi Simon: Yes. I will make sure that's on there as well. Thank you. You've been such fun. Thank you all. Thank you all for coming. Have a wonderful healthy day. Please see the world as a gift every day as a gift to you.

Being blessed with three amazing sisters is literally the gift that never stops giving. I am lucky to not only have each of them in my life, but also thankful to be exposed to some of the great things in each of their lives.Since today's guest is something of an introvert, I was surprised when she agreed to join me for for Episode #55, and thrilled at how fun our conversation turned out to be.She's a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a great friend, an impressive-seeming professional, a fantastic person with whom to sit down and visit, and my middle sister Megan's homegirl, Leah Twibell.Leah tabbed Green Day's Dookie (1994), Weezer's The Blue Album (1994), and Crash by Dave Matthews Band (1996) as three of her favorite records, and this proved to be a trio that did not disappoint.My chat with Leah was a blast. Thank you for checking it out.copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the intro/outro video. They are samples from a song called, "Horn" by Phish, and the tune comes from their 1993 record, Rift (c/o Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications, Inc.). And in case you were curious, this album is the trailhead to the path of badass records. Ya' heard?

I Worked Remote Before It Was Cool - Carin Warner; Co-Founder, Notably | The Riderflex Podcast A passionate entrepreneur, Carin Co-founded Notably after 20+ years as founder of Warner Communications, a world-class, boutique agency dedicated to helping clients build their businesses. She has spearheaded brand positioning for a blue-chip roster of clients, and concentrates her expertise on brand image development, national corporate and product publicity, CSR and crisis communications. Notably is a modern PR agency for high-growth companies that want to scale quickly, raise serious capital, be acquired or go public. Learn more about Notably: https://notablypr.com/ Watch the Full Interview: https://youtu.be/-JG4_rSj_9o We wrote a book! Get your copy of "The Riderflex Guide: Inspiring & Hiring". It contains 30+ years of experience in entrepreneurship and executive leadership. Managers don't always have all the answers. This guide can help with some of the most basic, but sought after answers. Get The Book: https://amzn.to/3TtfnQH Podcast sponsor: Marketing 360 is the #1 platform for small business and it's everything you need to grow your business. marketing360.com/riderflex #CarinWarner #Notably #DigitalMarketing #theriderflexguide #theriderflexpodcast #podcast #interview #entrepreneur #BestColoradoRecruitingFirm #BestExecutiveRecruitingFirm #headhunter #staffingfirm #Denver #Colorado #National --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/riderflex/support

It wouldn't be a Christmas Bank Holiday without a Bond Movie would it?Yes, it's time for this month's Tailoring Talk Bondathon episode and it's another full house as Phil, Jon, Alex and I review the 10th 007 James Bond movie: yes it's time for The  Spy Who Loved Me!We are also thrilled to be joined by Tailoring Talk Superfan, Kevin Foster!WARNING: This episode contains a vast  amount of spoilers so if you haven't seen The Spy Who Loved Me and don't want to know what happens, go watch the movie and come back to the episode straight after!This start to finish run through of Roger Moore's third 007 outing includes the boys discussing the outfits, gadgets, villains and Bond girls plus all the key plot points... and going off on all the usual tangents of course!Enjoy!Get in touch! Got a particular Bond film you love? Would you like to be on the show to review and discuss it with Roberto and our co-hosts? Then what are you waiting for, get in touch!  Email Roberto at  tailoringtalkpodcast@gmail.com or get in touch via the show's  Instagram page @tailoringtalkpodcast ! Links:Roberto on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/robertorevillalondonTailoring Talk on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/tailoringtalkpodcastConnect with Philip Rahman on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-rahman-276b871/The Play Pause Turn Podcast https://playpauseturn.showPlay Pause Turn on Twitter https://twitter.com/playpauseturnJon Evans https://twitter.com/jonprevans Alex Hansford https://twitter.com/alexhansfordCredits:Tailoring Talk intro and outro music by Wataboy on PixabayProduced & Edited by Roberto RevillaThe Spy Who Loved Me is an EON ProductionThe Theme Song “Nobody Does It Better” was composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, the song was produced by Richard Perry and performed by Carly Simon. Published by United Artists Music Co and Released by Elektra Records, a division of Warner Communications.Support the show

ATTENTION:  This is a re-upped version of the episode with corrected audio.  We apologize for the previous entry. On December 8th, 1982, Warner Communications, parent company of Atari, announced that their guidance to investors concerning their profit outlook would be dramatically lower than it had expected. While many in the video game space had felt unease at the meteoric rise of the industry over the previous 12 months, the news about Atari missing its targets would be the spark that would ultimately crash the North American console market and almost wipe the industry out completely. How could it come to this? What mistakes were made that caused this new medium to be so fragile? Hello, and welcome to a very special episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine. This first part of our look back at the Video Game Crash focuses on Atari, its role in creating the console industry, the business decisions that laid the foundation of its demise and its fall. I'm your host Karl and we have gathered three luminaries in the area of video game history and friends of the show to break down this most formative event in the history of video games. Regular listeners will be familiar with our resident Warden of the Department of Corrections and author of the History of How We Play blog, Ethan Johnson. Dale Geddes, the world renowned FCC regulation specialist.And the master historian, and the man behind the They Create Worlds podcast and book, now available from fine retailers everywhere, Alex Smith. Recorded November 2022 The full video version of this conversation can be found on our patreon page here: Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on Mastodon @videogamenewsroomtimemachine@oldbytes.space Or twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@play_history/featured Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/ Copyright Karl Kuras

  This week I'm talking with Pam Lewis of PLA Media in Nashville. PLA is a Public Relations company that gets their clients in front of audiences and consumers through public appearances on tv and in print.  Pam has an amazing history of being one of the people who launched MTV in the early 80s and also helped launch the careers of Garth Brooks and Tricia Yearwood. We are discussing the abilities you need to have to work for a PR firm as well as what it takes to start your own PR company.  Sponsors: Edenbrooke Productions - We offer consulting services and are offering listeners a 1-hour introductory special. To request more info on consulting services, email Marty at contact@johnmartinkeith.com.  In this episode we discuss: *A publicist (Public Relations) is the glue that holds it all together. *Helping launch MTV. *A publicist's job is to listen to the artist, hear your dreams and take them to the next level and make you a household name. *Publicists do press releases, promote concerts, booking events, finding endorsements, etc. *Publicists have to go through more levels of bureaucracy with major label artists. *Helping launch Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood's careers. *Starting an independent PR company called PLA Media.
*A good publicist helps connect the dots. *Looking for unique opportunities for clients, not the obvious ones. *Be Tenacious. *First thing to ask a publication is if they're on deadline. If they are don't bother them. *Find common ground with whoever is on the phone with you. *Our job is to create a buzz. *Rates to hire PLA Media start at $2000-2500 a month and go up from there. *It's best to do at least 3 months with PR to do as much as possible. *What it takes to start your own PR company. *Can you provide a valuable service to clients? *You have to have boundaries. *Learn how to work a room. *Be a good listener. *Learn how to talk on the phone. *www.plamedia.com   BIO: Pamela Lewis, a native of upstate New York, is an entrepreneur, preservationist, philanthropist and author. A graduate of Wells College with a B.A. in Economics/Marketing and a minor in French and Communications. Lewis spent a year in Paris studying at COUP (Center of Overseas Undergraduate Program) affiliated with The Sorbonne University. In New York City, she did additional graduate course work at Fordham University, The New York School for Social Research, The Publicity Club of New York and Scarritt Bennett. Lewis is also a graduate of University of Tennessee's Institute of Public Service Local Government Leadership Program (third level), of the Belmont University College of Business Administration's Scarlett Leadership Institute Mini Executive MBA program, of Leadership Music, of the Citizen's Police Academy and of the Leadership Middle Tennessee 2020 program. From 1980 to 1984, Lewis was part of the original publicity/marketing team of WASEC (Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company), a joint venture of Warner Communications and American Express, that launched MTV to the world. She also worked with MTV's sister cable channels Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, and the Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E). Lewis was relocated to Nashville from New York City to accept the position of National Media Director at RCA Records helping to shape the careers of top country stars such as Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, The Judds, and Alabama. In 1985, Lewis opened her own PR firm, Pam Lewis and Associates (which later became PLA Media). In 1987, she formed award-winning Doyle/Lewis Management with partner Bob Doyle. The first client Lewis agreed to represent was an unknown Oklahoma crooner named Garth Brooks, who she worked with until 1994. Lewis also managed Trisha Yearwood‘s early career, landing her a record deal at MCA Records. Under Lewis' guidance, Yearwood released her debut self-titled album in 1991, becoming the first female country musician to sell one million records off her first single “She's In Love With The Boy.” The album went on to be certified double platinum, and Yearwood went on to win the Academy of Country Music award for Top Female Vocalist later that year. The two enjoyed a successful partnership which broke new ground in music winning all of the following: Performance Magazine's “Country Music Managers of the Year” two consecutive years '92 and '93, Pollstar Award “Personal Manager of the Year '92, Country Music Association's “Artist Manager of the Year”, SRO Award '01 (The first female executive to win this award), Nashville Business Journal's 40 Under 40 listing in '95 & '96, Who's Who in Executives, International Society of Poets Distinguished Member, Franklin Police Department Order of Excellence '15 & Tennessee Association of Museums Award in recognition of superlative achievement for publications PR kit. Eventually, Doyle and Lewis parted ways, and Pam turned her focus solely to PLA Media. In 2003, Lewis made her first foray into the world of politics running for office of alderman-at-large in Franklin, Tennessee. She won a four-year term, and was the only female on the board for two years. She also served as Vice Mayor for one year, and was elected to the Franklin Planning Commission and Historic Zoning Commission. In 2016, she was voted as a one of the top Female Entrepreneur by Your Williamson Magazine, and was invited to be part of the 2017-2018 class of Leadership Franklin. Lewis has served on or chaired multiple committees, including: The Tennessee State Museum, Tennessee First Lady Andrea Conte's You Have The Power, BRIDGES Domestic Violence Center, Sister Cities of Franklin, Battlefield Commission, mayor-appointed Franklin Housing Commission, Nashville Historic Commission, Historic Cemetery Commission, ARC Board and the Tennessee Preservation Trust. Her other community outreach efforts include historic preservation and green space causes, women and children's advocacy, educational scholarships, fair housing and environmental and animal rights protection. Since its inception, the Pam Lewis Foundation has given away a million dollars to numerous charities. She has been recognized for her business success/entrepreneurship, community outreach and preservation efforts by the Metro Nashville Historic Commission, Franklin Tennessee Heritage Foundation, African American Heritage Foundation, Tennessee State Museum and Tennessee Preservation Trust. In 2017, she produced a documentary of African American remembrances and contributions and was honored to give the commencement address at her alma mater Wells College, Aurora, New York in May 2017. She is a 2020 graduate of Leadership Middle Tennessee.

50 years ago today, Atari was born! So I am celebrating with a REPLAY of Series 2 episode with the legendary Atari founder  Nolan Bushnell – serial entrepreneur and a pioneer of the video games industry.After an early interest in engineering, Nolan went on to study Electrical Engineering before setting up Atari with Ted Dabney and Al Alcorn (I interviewed in Series 1, EP 8 - listen here). Atari experienced huge success with Pong which was one of the first computer games ever created but whilst it was hugely popular, Atari was born at a time when venture capital didn't really exist, IP could not be protected and so the journey to keeping the company going was much tougher than it is today and by the time Warner Communications made an offer for the company, Nolan was ready to sell.In this interview, we look back at gaming history, Nolan talks me through the highs and lows of building Atari, the traits he looks for when hiring, and why one of his biggest regrets was turning down an offer from Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to own a third of Apple.Enjoy!NB This episode was recorded January 2021.------Let us know what you think of this episode and please rate, review and share - it means the world to me and helps others to find it too.------Danielle on Twitter @daniellenewnham and  Instagram @daniellenewnhamNolan Bushnell on Twitter @nolanbushnell-----This episode was hosted by me - Danielle Newnham, a recovering founder, author and writer who has been interviewing tech founders and innovators for ten years - and produced by Jolin Cheng. 

Don't watch it, play it! In the late 1970s, Atari ushered in the gaming era! But throughout their history, the company had more turbulence than a game of Combat. This week we revisit their history and which games were the most influential on us. Live Pong and prosper!   What do Atari and Chuck E Cheese have to do with each other? What was the first standup Atari game, and why did it look like it belonged in The Sleeper house? These questions and more are answered as we look at the history of Atari.    News Stranger Things season 4 is coming, but we will see an end to the series after season 5 Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County comic strip will be coming to Fox for an animated series Make sure to check out Shua on the Saturday Matinee Podcast this week What we're Enjoying Jay revisited a 1955 Spencer Tracy mystery movie called Bad Day at Black Rock. This intriguing tale of a one-armed stranger appearing in a small town with a secret is sure to give you a retro story to talk about. Shua has been trying to view all the best picture Oscar nominees before the broadcast of the awards on March 27.    Enjoy Games! In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney adapted a computer game called Spacewar, created in 1962 by Steve Russell. The new game, called Computer Space, may not have been the gigantic success that the men had hoped for, but it laid the groundwork for their new business, dubbed Atari.    Computer Space led to Pong, which found it's way across the country with eight to ten thousand machines sprinkled throughout bars and restaurants.    Bushnell then took over the country and used their success to grow the company quickly (yet, with questionable business practices). One of his successes was the home console, which started appearing on shelves in the late 70s.    Plus, Bushnell expanded his business ideas by purchasing Pizza Time Theater and began putting his arcade cabinets in Chuck E Cheeses across the country. It was a crazy idea that worked for quite a while.   Bushnell, now just Chairman of the Board after selling Atari to Warner Communications for $28 million, hired an interesting (and not very well liked) character named Steve Jobs. Jobs had some innovative ideas, but had some of them developed by his friend Steve Wozniak in some pretty underhanded scenarios.    By the 1980s Atari had become the fastest-growing company in the history of our country. But the writing was on the wall; the video game industry, and especially Atari, was getting ready for a crash. In 1983, shortly after their disastrous release of the failed ET video game, Atari was posting huge losses and other companies quickly filled the void in the market.    Jay and Shua have some good memories of Atari games though, both at home and in arcades. And collectors still try to acquire a wide variety of their creations. Despite their shortcomings, Atari helped to create classics and inspire future generations in programming, designing, artwork, technology, and more! Did you have an Atari? What were some games that stood out to you? Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to podcast@enjoystuff.com

TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests too!In this episode Dave and Evan discuss trends and possibilities of conversational AI platforms with Dan Miller of Opus research. Dan Miller founded Opus Research in 1986 and helped define Conversational Commerce.Dan held management positions at Atari, Warner Communications and Pacific Telesis Group (now part of AT&T). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of The Kelsey Report, where he also oversaw the launch of advisory services on local online commerce, voice & wireless commerce and global directories.Dan received his BA from Hampshire College and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

10 tháng 1 là ngày gì? Hôm nay là ngày mất của Coco Chanel, nhà thiết kế thời trang người Pháp SỰ KIỆN 1226 – Vua Trần Thái Tông lên ngôi, trở thành vua đầu tiên của triều Trần. 1776 – Thomas Paine phát hành cuốn sách nhỏ Lẽ Thông Thường, truyền thêm cảm hứng cho Mười ba thuộc địa đấu tranh giành độc lập từ Đế quốc Anh. 1984 – Hoa Kỳ và Tòa Thánh (Thành Vatican) tái lập quan hệ ngoại giao đầy đủ sau gần 117 năm. 1990 – Tập đoàn truyền thông giải trí Hoa Kỳ Time Warner được hình thành từ việc hợp nhất Time Inc. và Warner Communications. 1863 – London Underground, đường sắt ngầm cổ nhất thế giới, khai thông đoạn giữa gia London Paddington và ga Farringdon. 1920 – Hiệp ước Versailles có hiệu lực, chính thức kết thúc Thế chiến thứ I. Sinh 1209 – Mông Kha, đại hãn của Đế quốc Mông Cổ, tức 3 tháng 12 năm Mậu Thìn (m. 1259) Mất 1971 – Coco Chanel, nhà thiết kế thời trang người Pháp, thành lập Chanel (s. 1883) 1862 - Samuel Colt , kỹ sư và doanh nhân người Mỹ, thành lập Công ty Sản xuất Colt (sinh năm 1814) 1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme , họa sĩ và nhà điêu khắc người Pháp (1824) 2016 - David Bowie , ca sĩ kiêm nhạc sĩ, nhà sản xuất và diễn viên người Anh. Là một nhân vật hàng đầu trong ngành công nghiệp âm nhạc, Bowie được coi là một trong những nhạc sĩ có ảnh hưởng nhất của thế kỷ 20. Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweektv - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J - Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../h%C3%B4m-nay.../id1586073418 #aweektv #10thang1 #CocoChanel #SamuelColt #DavidBowie #Versailles #TimeWarner Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc (adwell.vn), mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

Today I'm joined by Notably, a modern PR agency that's on a mission to help leaders take their companies to the next level. Notably is a PR agency for high-growth companies that want to scale quickly, raise serious capital, be acquired or go public. Combining traditional public relations with digital marketing and creative services, Notably's senior-level team takes pride in taking both B2C and B2B brands from unknown to notable. Today Carin Warner, co-founder at Notably, joins me to chat all about the company: what they do and the different ways they can help your brand; as well as her longstanding career in PR, what's changed over the years and what the future might bring when it comes to making your business stand out from the crowd.   IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: [05.32] Carin's career in PR, and the journey that led her to co-found Notably. “I love to think about how to help companies succeed – and that really was the vision behind Notably.” [08.17] What Notably do and how they help their customers “We get under the skin of the company we're working with, understand their pain points… and tell a story that will help them break through the clutter.” [13.07] Why notably provides, not just a full range of traditional PR services, but also digital advertising and additional creative services. “We think as entrepreneurs… and I think about if I was running my clients company, what would I need? I want to have the whole arsenal of marketing tools available.” [16.32] What makes Notably different. [18.17] The entrepreneurial spirit of Notably's co-founders and how that translates throughout the business. [21.06] Carin's reflections on how PR and communications have changed since she founded her first company, Warner Communications, back in 1997 - and how it informs her approach with Notably. “There's no end to the news cycle now. It's fast and it's furious, and if you don't jump in on it, you're gone.” [23.22] Why it's so important for B2B and supply chain brands to work with a company like Notably. [25.42] Why Notably's ideal client needs to have a growth mindset and not shy away from taking a risk. [27.55] Carin's experience and thoughts on crisis management. [32.45] How PR and marketing are going to continue to evolve. “There will be more and more supply chain companies looking for stories in higher level media... that will tell who they are in a broader and more impactful way.” [35.32] The future for Notably.   RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED: Head over to Notably's website now to find out more and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Notably and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, or you can connect with Carin on LinkedIn. Check out our other podcasts HERE.

IBM launches the PC The morality police have video games in their sights Venture Capital wants a piece of the software market These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in August of 1981. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Peter is on vacation so we have the pleasure of Mads from the Retro Asylum to join us. http://retroasylum.com and https://playthroughpod.com/ Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Time Codes: 7 Minutes in Heaven: 5:00 Corrections: 11:10 Time Jump: 28:20 Links: 7 Minutes in Heaven: Video version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/55259489 https://www.mobygames.com/game/robot-war Ed Zaron Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/30697517 Corrections: July 1981 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54043323 They Create Worlds Nuttings Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/dave-nutting-50562473?l=de https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Fury https://warnerbros.fandom.com/wiki/Warner_Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_(Nintendo) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game) 1951: Brigadeer General Leighton Davis builds Dynamic Air War Game Omaha Evening World Herald August 24, 1951, pg. 29 http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,815346,00.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_I._Davis https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107302/lieutenant-general-leighton-i-davis/ https://patents.justia.com/patent/4239227 1961: Plato is telling on truants Electronic 'Teacher' Tattles on Students Who Skip Tasks The Times-Picatune, New Oreleans, LA, August 24, 1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) 1971: ENIAC turns 25 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/01/archives/the-electronic-computers-inventors-mauchly-and-eckert-to-mark.html?searchResultPosition=5 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/09/archives/the-computer-at-age-25.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/04/archives/critics-mark-25th-year-of-the-computer-industry-focuses-on-problems.html?searchResultPosition=8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC September 1970 jump (First computer with semiconductor RAM) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42700691 1981: Summer CES breaks records Playthings, August 1981, pg. 36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show#1981 Video game bans sweep the USA RePlay August 1981, pg. 25 UK anti-video game law defeated Play Meter August 15 1981, pg. 34 Atari gets injunction against General Computer Corporation RePlay August 1981, pg. 99 Vending Times, August 1981, pg. 46 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Computer_Corporation Bally gets into the pizza biz https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/25/business/bally-acquires-pizza-chain.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/05/business/show-time-at-pizza-chain.html http://www.greatadventurehistory.com/Forums/index.php?/topic/4528-ballys-tom-foolery/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShowBiz_Pizza_Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Manufacturing Drop in electronics sales begins to affect corporate bottom lines Playthings August 1981 pg. 13 Michael Katz Interview Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/35169258 Greg Fischbach Interview Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/46578120 Greg Fischbach Interview Part 2 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/47720122 IBM launches the PC https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/13/business/big-ibm-s-little-computer.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/16/business/the-week-in-business-producer-prices-continued-easing-of-inflation.html?searchResultPosition=1 https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/business/next-a-computer-on-every-desk.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 Xerox launches the 820 https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n8/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing198108/page/n11/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_820 TI dumps the TI99/4 for the 99/4A https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n8/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A#99/4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV0t4QIINLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9VU1aJvTI Acorn advertises the BBC Micro https://archive.org/details/YourComputer_198108 pg. 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro Commodore prepping UK launch of the Vic https://archive.org/details/YourComputer_198108 pg. 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL WH Smith to sell microcomputers https://archive.org/details/YourComputer_198108 pg. 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHSmith Venture Capital is investing in microcomputer software https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/31/business/venture-capitalists-new-role.html?searchResultPosition=9 July 1981 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54043323 Ed Zaron Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/30697517 Ken Williams Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42700706 Michael Katz Interview Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/35169258 Creative Computing celebrates the 20th anniversary of SpaceWar! https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n59/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar! Frank Herbert gives computer advice https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n222/mode/1up https://books.google.de/books/about/Without_Me_You_re_Nothing.html?id=izcLAQAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-meeting-of-spacewar/ Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.

Today’s guest is the legendary Nolan Bushnell – serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Atari and a pioneer of the video games industry.After an early interest in Engineering, Nolan went on to study Electrical Engineering before setting up Atari with Ted Dabney and Al Alcorn (I interviewed in Series 1, EP 8 - listen here). Atari experienced huge success with Pong which was one of the first computer games ever created but whilst it was hugely popular, Atari was born at a time when venture capital didn’t really exist, IP could not be protected and so the journey to keeping the company going was much tougher than it is today and by the time Warner Communications made an offer for the company, Nolan was ready to sell.In this interview, where we look back at gaming history, Nolan talks me through the highs and lows of building Atari, the traits he looks for when hiring, and why one of his biggest regrets was turning down an offer from Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to own a third of Apple.Enjoy!-----Let us know what you think of this episode and please rate, review and share - it means the world to me and helps others to find it too.------Danielle on Twitter @daniellenewnham and  Instagram @daniellenewnhamNolan Bushnell on Twitter @nolanbushnell-----This episode was hosted by me - Danielle Newnham, a recovering founder, author and writer who has been interviewing tech founders and innovators for ten years - and produced by Jolin Cheng.  

Nolan Bushnell is the founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, two iconic companies that have truly changed the world. He’s known as the “Father of Electronic Gaming” and the video game industry as we know it, and his story is just incredible.We talked about everything from Nolan’s early days and upbringing, how he built Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, the story of hiring Steve Jobs and why he decided not to invest in Apple early on, the projects he’s working on right now, and his thoughts on Silicon Valley, the future of video gaming, what he’s generally most excited to see in the next 5-10 years, and much more.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

[A re-release of fan favorite episode from January 2020!] Prolific rock/R&B drummer/musician Steve Ferrone (Average White Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) joins to delve into the backstory of helping write/craft the official theme song for the New York Cosmos – the latest chapter in our irregular series devoted to Tim’s longstanding fascination with the North American Soccer League’s most famous franchise. Pop music aficionados know Ferrone as part of the “classic” mid-70s lineup of AWB (along with Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie, “Onnie” McIntyre, Roger Ball, and “Molly” Duncan); as a two-decade+ member of the Heartbreakers (1994-2017); and from a prodigious body of studio session work with a literal who’s-who of pop music’s biggest talent (Chaka Khan, Rick James, Eric Clapton, Stevie Nicks, and the Bee Gees, just to name a few).  But long-time Cosmos soccer fans may also remember Ferrone’s semi-invisible hand in the creation and performance of the club’s rhythmic anthem that blared from the Giants Stadium PA system after goals and anchored the team’s WOR-TV telecasts – recorded under the AWB nom de plume of the “Cosmic Highlanders” via Warner Communications corporate sister Atlantic Records. Besides the circumstances of the song’s origins, Ferrone regales Tim with stories of: how he stepped into the Average White Band during a critical time in the group’s then-young life; the musical magic of Atlantic and its founder-brothers Ahmet & Nesuhi Ertegun; how the “Cosmos Clap” came about; and the original song idea Cosmos management had in mind for the club’s official theme!

In the early 1980s Atari owned 80% of the video game market and accounted for 70% of the profits of its parent company Warner Communications. By 1983, they had racked up over half a billion dollars ($536 million) in losses, and by the end of 1984 Warner had sold the company. To answer the question of what happened, I spoke to John Hagel who served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari and was there right at this pivotal moment when they peaked and quickly went out of business.In addition to his time at Atari, John has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley and has experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and author.He has worked at Deloitte, McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group. And is also the founder of two Silicon Valley startups.He is the author of 7 books, including The Power of Pull, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box and The Only Sustainable Edge. He has won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and professional service firms.John and I discuss:What happened that led to the quick demise of AtariJohn's theory on why success breeds failureWhat he has learned about creating change in an org in his 40 years of practice How to create a learning culture in your organizationThanks for listening and be sure to find me online to tell me what you thought of the episode!@DianaKander on Instagram and Twitter Professional AF Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/943925015810362/Diana online: www.DianaKander.comJohn Hagel online: www.JohnHagel.com

Label: Rolling Stones 19100Year: 1971Condition: MLast Price: $18.00. Not currently available for sale.This is one of the greatest of the Stones two-sided monster hits. Well, the B side didn't actually chart, but it's so great it really should have. Presumably, radio just wasn't ready to play a song called "Bitch" yet... though they were prepared by 1975 when Elton John hit the Top 10 with "The Bitch Is Back." OK, trivia time again... "Brown Sugar" was one of eight #1 U.S. singles by the Stones. The group also had eight chart-toppers in their native England, though over there they garnered all of those hits during the 1960s. Here is the list of the Stones' #1 U.S. singles: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965) Get Off My Cloud (1965) Paint It, Black (1966) Ruby Tuesday (1967) Honky Tonk Women (1969) Brown Sugar (1971) Angie (1973), and Miss You (1978) For comparison's sake, here are their #1 U.K. hits. You'll notice that the group gained monster popularity about a year earlier than they did in the U.S., same as the Beatles. It's All Over Now (1964) Little Red Rooster (1964) The Last Time (1964) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965) Get Off My Cloud (1965) Paint It, Black (1966) Jumpin' Jack Flash (1968) Honky Tonk Women (1969) Note: This beautiful copy has Mint labels and pristine sound. This is a second pressing with "Warner Communications" in the perimeter print.

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Prolific rock/R&B drummer/musician Steve Ferrone (Average White Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) joins to delve into the backstory of helping write/craft the official theme song for the New York Cosmos – the latest chapter in our irregular series devoted to Tim’s longstanding fascination with the North American Soccer League’s most famous franchise. Pop music aficionados know Ferrone as part of the “classic” mid-70s lineup of AWB (along with Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie, “Onnie” McIntyre, Roger Ball, and “Molly” Duncan); as a two-decade+ member of the Heartbreakers (1994-2017); and from a prodigious body of studio session work with a literal who’s-who of pop music’s biggest talent (Chaka Khan, Rick James, Eric Clapton, Stevie Nicks, and the Bee Gees, just to name a few).  But long-time Cosmos soccer fans may also remember Ferrone’s semi-invisible hand in the creation and performance of the club’s rhythmic anthem that blared from the Giants Stadium PA system after goals and anchored the team’s WOR-TV telecasts – recorded under the AWB nom de plume of the “Cosmic Highlanders” via Warner Communications corporate sister Atlantic Records. Besides the circumstances of the song’s origins, Ferrone regales Tim with stories of: how he stepped into the Average White Band during a critical time in the group’s then-young life; the musical magic of Atlantic and its founder-brothers Ahmet & Nesuhi Ertegun; how the “Cosmos Clap” came about; and the original song idea Cosmos management had in mind for the club’s official theme! Support for this week’s episode comes from the VisitArizona.com and ExpressVPN.

Our guest for this week is Dr. Srikumar Rao, a keynote speaker, author, executive coach and the creator of the renowned ‘Creativity and Personal Mastery’, a course designed to effect personal transformation. About Dr. RaoDr. Rao has obtained his Ph.D. in the field of Marketing from the Columbia Business School. Prior to that, he was an executive at Warner Communications and the head of the Marketing Research Department at Data Resources.Later, he went over to academia and in 1994 he created his famous course called ‘Creativity and Personal Mastery’ (CPM). Since, he has taught CPM at some of the world’s leading business schools such as Columbia, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, London Business School, and Haas School of Management at the University of California at Berkeley. The course was created with a goal of empowering students to discover their unique purpose, creativity, and happiness, through teamwork and considerations of the philosophical perspective. In 2013, he founded The Rao Institute. Dr. Rao has coached thousands of executives on how to be better leaders by helping them discover a deeper meaning to their career and life. He has helped them achieve “quantum leaps in effectiveness”.He is also an author of several books on the subjects of personal mastery, purpose, and success. In 2010, he released a book titled “Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What”. In it, Dr. Rao aims to teach you the vital wisdom essential for achieving a joyful life, successful per your own standards, by helping you become more resilient and develop a stronger inner core.Connect with Dr. Rao:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikumarsrao/Twitter: https://twitter.com/srikumarsraoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/theraoinstituteYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRaoInstituteWebsite: https://theraoinstitute.com/Dr. Rao’s Story of Inspired EvolutionDuring his student days, Dr. Rao was on the path of becoming a successful physicist. Yet, the twist occurred some years later when he decided to visit America and acquire a doctoral scholarship. In 1980, he got his Ph.D. from the Columbia Business School in the field of Marketing.But he was already very successful in the field since Dr. Rao had worked as an executive at Warner Communications several years prior. His big break came when he worked on an advertising strategy for a blockbuster movie which is to this day on the list of top 50 grossing movies of all time. The movie in question was the world-wide phenomenon, ‘The Exorcist’ released in 1973.His career was skyrocketing but he felt restrained and put down by corporate politics. He decided to shift towards academia and teaching. But some time after joining the University of New York, Dr. Rao started questioning his decision.“Basically, I stagnated. And there was a time when I woke up feeling very sorry for myself and I had this great corporate career and I threw it away.” - Dr. Srikumar RaoDr. Rao relied heavily on reading about spiritual subjects in order to find his inspiration but he was always confused by the fact that these teachings weren’t working for him in the real world. He knew these insights were valuable but he just needed to figure out a way of how to apply and make use of them.“One day I had my bright idea which was ‘Why don’t I take the teachings of the worlds, great masters, strip them of religious, cultural and other connotations, and adapt them into exercises acceptable to the diligent people in the post-industrial society.’ And the thought of doing that made me come alive!” - Dr. Srikumar RaoHis desire to create a course wasn’t driven by the needs of the market. He prepared the course because he felt he needed to do it for himself. After some adjustments and a couple of iterations, Dr. Rao created what we know today as ‘Creativity and Personal Mastery’ course.In This Conversation We Canvas:The Pursuit of HappinessDr. Rao postulates that our principal desire is to be happy in some shape or form. We go over the dynamics that create the underlying anxiety, depression and overall unhappiness in today’s society. Dr. Rao realizes that the model which we use to conceptualize happiness is broken and suggests a perception change.“We are unhappy because we’ve spent our entire life learning to be unhappy. And the way we learn to be unhappy is by buying into the “if-then” model and the model is broken.” - Dr. Srikumar RaoThe ‘Sense of Control’ ParadoxDr. Rao reflects on our need to control the world around us and points out the paradoxical nature of our attempts to attain it. He also describes how we can use this paradox to our advantage.“The more you accept that you don’t have control and you let go of your need to have control, paradoxically, that’s when you find that you have the greatest control.” - Dr. Srikumar RaoShould Mental Models be True or Useful?We use different models to understand the world around us. But rather than focusing on whether or not a model is true or if it rightfully depicts our reality, Dr. Rao suggests we should be asking ourselves if the model is useful. Taking this as the main standard for assessing our models, we can then use this perspective in order to deal with issues and challenges we face in both our personal and professional lives.“Look at the situations in your life that you find unpleasant. And every time you find a situation in your life that you find unpleasant and it persists, you’re using one or more mental models that are not serving you well.” - Dr. Srikumar RaoLiving a Life of ServiceHaving a sense of purpose is one of the main aspects of Dr. Rao’s teachings. Feeling that we’re connected to a cause greater than ourselves is one of the preconditions to living a happier life. The great thing is that “serving the greater good” is a very flexible idea meaning that we can all define it for ourselves and create a path that’s just right for us.“You need to have a cause which is bigger than yourself and which brings a greater good to a greater community. And you get to decide what the greater good is and what the greater community is. You have tremendous flexibility!” - Dr. Srikumar RaoThe Importance of Intent for Personal GrowthDr. Rao recognizes the importance of the things that we are doing but also proposes that what we are being while we’re doing those things is way more important. He believes having the right intent is an essential component of our attempts to become better versions of ourselves.“Whatever you do, the intent with which you do that is what really counts. That is what makes a difference in your growth and development and in many cases that is also what makes a difference to the other person.” - Dr. Srikumar RaoDr. Rao’s Message of Inspired EvolutionThe message in the teachings of Dr. Rao is one of hope for a better tomorrow. His courses and books have inspired an evolution in the minds of many and he sees that this approach is not only a solution for improving the wonderful world we are living in further, but it is also our duty. “It is, fundamentally, a wonderful world. And it is your job to recognize it, anchor yourself on it and continue to make it better for yourself and for everybody else.” - Dr. Srikumar Rao See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Srikumar Rao is a Happiness teacher and an advisor to senior business executives. He used to be an executive at Warner Communications and McGraw-Hill, but then created his popular MBA course: Creativity and Personal Mastery (CPM). It was a course designed to help people find their purpose and creativity, and was taught by Srikumar at some of the world's leading business schools, including the Columbia Business School in New York and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He offers his courses and advice on his Rao Institute website, and has written a number of books that have reached and helped people all over the world.

John Skruch, Atarisoft   John Skruch worked at Atari from 1982, under Warner Communications, all through the Tramiel era, until 1998 when the company was owned by JTS.   During that time, he was operations manager for Atarisoft, the arm of Atari that produced software for competing computer systems; software product manager for the 8-bit computer line; and director of licensing. He was involved wth the design and development of the XM301 modem, and the Atari Lynx game system.   This interview took place on March 18, 2017.   "Atari was bleeding. We used to kid that there was a guy who would go up on the roof every day at noon and toss a million dollars off the roof, and come back inside."

TCW Podcast Episode 045 - Atari, Ventures and Acquisitions   In our second of four episodes detailing the rise and fall of the core Atari company we go over the rapid expansion of the company, and its ever increasing need for capital.  Atari had to court venture capital, and got the patronage of Don Valentine.  Later on to secure the funding needed for the VCS launch they had to be acquired by a larger company; that company was Warner Communications.  This acquisition as we start to explore was a blessing and a curse.  It ultimately led to the ouster of Nolen Bushnell, and Joe Keenan from Atari.  Now it would start a new era under the leadership of Ray Kassar.   Atari Arcade Tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OsBUzYBJgU   Atari Home Pong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqBlrULrbsg   Atari VCS Hardware Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7n5o5Wq3q4   New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!   TCW Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com  Twitter: @tcwpodcast Alex's Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com   Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode  Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love  Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

TCW Podcast Episode 032 - History of the Atari Brand   We go over the history of the Atari brand.  We go from its inception all the way to modern times with the only Atari name being owned by a company in France.  The brand changes many hands throughout the years.  The initial name split occurring under Warner Communications.  The Atari name has a bit of an allure and curse.  Many companies see the value in the properties, but almost every company that buys the properties enters into financial troubles.   The Atari History Timeline by Michael Current: http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/   Atari Jaguar Infomercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-NBFaNSDYs   New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!   TCW Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com  Twitter: @tcwpodcast Alex's Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com   Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode  Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love  Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Alan Henricks, Controller Alan Henricks was Controller at Atari during the Warner Communications era. He was there from 1978 through 1983. This interview took place on November 17, 2015. Teaser quotes: "Had the next generation of technology - the personal computer - succeeded, Atari would be where Apple is today." "The first thing he said to me, looking me in the eyes ... he said, 'I speak to you on fear of my life.' My response was, 'I so don't want to be here.'"

Marty Payson, Warner, Office of the President   Hi, everyone, and welcome to another in the long-standing series of interviews being published for Antic, the Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast.  I’m Randy Kindig and this interview is a follow-up to the recent interview that we published with Manny Gerard of Warner Communications, the company that bought Atari in 1976.  This time the interview is with Marty Payson, also of Warner Communications.  Marty began with Warner in 1970, became executive vice president and general counsel in 1982, and in 1987 became a member of the Office of the President for Warner.  He was with Warner during the Atari days, up to 1984 when it was sold to the Tramiels, and was still involved with Atari for some time after that, as you will hear.  Marty was not as intimately involved with Atari as was Manny Gerard, but nonetheless I hope you find his perspective from the Warner side interesting.   This interview was conducted on August 17, 2015.   Teaser Quotes   “The problem with it was, it was uncontrolled growth.  And, I’m not pointing a finger at either Atari or Warner.  I think it was a combination of both.”   “It began a point that Warner was going to have to take control of Atari.  It was out of control.”   Links   1987 Los Angeles Times Article on the Appointment of Marty to the Warner Office of the President   1992 Los Angeles Times Article on the Resignation of Marty