mi Meet the new Trump administration staffers who will shape key US policies By www.businessinsider.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:21:19 +0000 Trump has started filling key White House roles, starting with Susie Wiles as his chief of staff. Full Article Politics donald-trump white-house election-2024 cabinet chief-of-staff
mi It's official: Trump hands Musk efficiency role in new administration By www.businessinsider.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:33:52 +0000 Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, under Donald Trump's administration, Trump said. Full Article Politics elon-musk donald-trump
mi Ford is slashing hours for some German factory employees amid lower EV demand By www.businessinsider.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:10:20 +0000 The carmaker has more than 4,000 employees at its Cologne plant. It also has another plant in Saarlouis, in southwestern Germany. Full Article Transportation ford ev germany
mi China's renaming of its regional jet is another clear sign its homegrown planemaker is coming for Boeing and Airbus By www.businessinsider.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:15:46 +0000 The ARJ21 is now to be known as the C909. The renaming plays into COMAC's ambition to enter the global market. Full Article Transportation International china airbus boeing comac c919 c909 aviation
mi “Spring Is Coming” to the Avangate Affiliate Network By blog.avangate.com Published On :: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 It’s time to hang your winter jacket in the closet and change your wardrobe to warmer clothes, because “Spring Is Coming” to the Avangate Affiliate Network. Our spring contest will make your sales bloom and may even fulfill your Amazon wishlist. (Feel free to think “beyond the wall” with creative promotions!) Full Article
mi News24 | Maputo is almost under siege, says SA High Commissioner, as post-election unrest escalates By www.news24.com Published On :: Friday Nov 08 2024 05:28:16 Amid calls for ongoing protests after violent clashes on Thursday, South Africa's High Commissioner to Mozambique Siphiwe Nyanda has declared "Maputo is almost under siege". Full Article
mi News24 | Somalia insists Ethiopia will not be part of new AU mission By www.news24.com Published On :: Saturday Nov 09 2024 17:41:54 Somalia insisted Saturday that Ethiopia will not be part of a new African Union peacekeeping mission, as the two nations remain locked in a dispute that has sent shivers through the Horn of Africa. Full Article
mi News24 | UPDATE 1-Mauritius holds election with cost of living on everyone's minds By www.news24.com Published On :: Monday Jan 01 0001 00:00:00 PORT LOUIS, Nov 10 - Mauritius was holding a parliamentary election on Sunday with Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and his main rivals all promising to tackle a cost of living crisis in the Indian Ocean archipelago. Full Article
mi News24 | Mauritius' prime minister concedes election defeat By www.news24.com Published On :: Monday Nov 11 2024 20:37:07 Mauritius' incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Monday his political alliance was headed for a major defeat to a rival coalition led by a three-time former premier following Sunday's parliamentary election. Full Article
mi Getting Your First Grader Off to a Good Start: Tips for Families By www.readingrockets.org Published On :: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:36:22 EDT First grade can bring a lot of changes! Even if your child had a great kindergarten year, there can be lots of new routines and expectations for first graders that can feel really different for students (and families). Here’s what you need to know. Full Article
mi Current State of the Evidence: Examining the Effects of Orton-Gillingham Reading Interventions for Students With or at Risk for Word-Level Reading Disabilities By www.readingrockets.org Published On :: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:40:37 EDT Over the past decade, parent advocacy groups led a grassroots movement resulting in most states adopting dyslexia-specific legislation, with many states mandating the use of the Orton-Gillingham (OG) approach to reading instruction. Orton-Gillingham is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive approach to reading for students with or at risk for word-level reading disabilities (WLRD). Evidence from a prior synthesis and What Works Clearinghouse reports yielded findings lacking support for the effectiveness of OG interventions. Full Article
mi Add a WordPress Admin User Account via PHP By www.tipsandtricks-hq.com Published On :: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 06:09:52 +0000 Sometimes our WordPress plugin users need to create an Admin user account for their sites. In this tutorial I will share a small PHP code with you that can be used to create a WordPress Administrator user to your site. Alternatively, you can also create a WordPress admin user via MySQL. You will need to […] The post Add a WordPress Admin User Account via PHP appeared first on Tips and Tricks HQ. Full Article Web Development Wordpress creating WordPress plugin Site admin tips Tech Tips Troubleshooting
mi Best mods for Farming Simulator 2025 By readwrite.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:49:12 +0000 The latest and greatest iteration of the best farming game out there – Farming Simulator 25 – has just launched… Continue reading Best mods for Farming Simulator 2025 The post Best mods for Farming Simulator 2025 appeared first on ReadWrite. Full Article Gaming Farming Simulator
mi Apple is about to eliminate the stress of losing a suitcase By readwrite.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:59:40 +0000 Apple is about to make losing your luggage far less of a hassle. The Cupertino tech giant is readying the… Continue reading Apple is about to eliminate the stress of losing a suitcase The post Apple is about to eliminate the stress of losing a suitcase appeared first on ReadWrite. Full Article Big Tech Apple
mi Google DeepMind opens AlphaFold 3 up to researchers worldwide By readwrite.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:08:53 +0000 Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 is available to access by researchers around the world via open-source. Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s… Continue reading Google DeepMind opens AlphaFold 3 up to researchers worldwide The post Google DeepMind opens AlphaFold 3 up to researchers worldwide appeared first on ReadWrite. Full Article AI Google Google DeepMind
mi Meta and the EU butt heads again amid changes to ads By readwrite.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:38:51 +0000 Meta is taking the European Union a little more seriously, as the EU has requested the US-based company to put… Continue reading Meta and the EU butt heads again amid changes to ads The post Meta and the EU butt heads again amid changes to ads appeared first on ReadWrite. Full Article Big Tech meta
mi Dogecoin at the Edge of a Major Breakout – Could $2 Be Possible with Bitcoin Dominance Holding Strong? By readwrite.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:38:36 +0000 Dogecoin has experienced a significant surge in value since last month, with impressive price gains continuing today as it trades… Continue reading Dogecoin at the Edge of a Major Breakout – Could $2 Be Possible with Bitcoin Dominance Holding Strong? The post Dogecoin at the Edge of a Major Breakout – Could $2 Be Possible with Bitcoin Dominance Holding Strong? appeared first on ReadWrite. Full Article Cryptocurrency
mi Meme Coins Are Soaring as Pepe Unchained Layer 2 ICO Raises $27.5 Million By readwrite.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:42:22 +0000 November has turned into a remarkable month for cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin and meme coins like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Pepe… Continue reading Meme Coins Are Soaring as Pepe Unchained Layer 2 ICO Raises $27.5 Million The post Meme Coins Are Soaring as Pepe Unchained Layer 2 ICO Raises $27.5 Million appeared first on ReadWrite. Full Article Cryptocurrency
mi News24 Business | Encrypted 'Ghost' app used by criminals across the world: What we know By www.news24.com Published On :: Saturday Sep 21 2024 14:19:21 Police revealed Tuesday they had infiltrated and taken down an encrypted chat app called Ghost used by criminals across the world. Full Article
mi News24 Business | Microsoft beefs-up its AI assistant with voice, vision By www.news24.com Published On :: Thursday Oct 03 2024 12:31:25 Microsoft on Tuesday doubled down on deploying artificial intelligence to consumers, releasing an updated version of its Copilot chatbot that can hold voice conversations and interpret images. Full Article
mi News24 Business | Investment update | Cybersecurity is a goldmine - top picks for investors By www.news24.com Published On :: Tuesday Oct 22 2024 07:16:20 The latest investment insights and market developments. Full Article
mi News24 | Lottoland wins Google battle, Mogale City sewage disaster: Today's top 7 stories in 7 minutes By www.news24.com Published On :: Tuesday Nov 12 2024 18:32:16 News24 brings you the top stories of the day, summarised into neat little packages. Read through quickly or listen to the articles via our customised text-to-speech feature. Full Article
mi News24 | 'We already miss him': Brackenfell family looking for missing teen last seen visiting a friend By www.news24.com Published On :: Tuesday Nov 12 2024 19:38:05 A family in Brackenfell, Cape Town, is looking for their missing teenage son, whom they last saw on Saturday morning heading to visit a friend in the area. Full Article
mi News24 | WASTE LAND | Mogale City sewage disaster sees faeces-laden river water testing 100 times above legal limit By www.news24.com Published On :: Tuesday Nov 12 2024 04:45:19 Scientific tests confirm rivers and dams have been poisoned by the raw sewage dumped by the municipality in the Bloubankspruit and Crocodile Rivers, killing aquatic life and destroying businesses and livelihoods. Full Article
mi News24 | Higher education minister clashes with NSFAS head over 'unexplained' suspension of 2 officials By www.news24.com Published On :: Wednesday Nov 13 2024 06:16:50 A formal disciplinary process, or lack thereof, around the suspensions of two high-ranking officials at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has pitted Higher Education and Training Minister Nobuhle Pamela Nkabane against NSFAS administrator Freeman Nomvalo. Full Article
mi Beyond Imitation By www.oreilly.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:57:13 +0000 The first AI image generation model I got to play around with was Midjourney v2 in summer 2022. A month earlier, OpenAI had launched DALL-E 2 in beta, and the results looked unbelievably magical. You could generate images in any art style simply by prompting an AI with the name of an artist. I didn’t […] Full Article AI & ML Artificial Intelligence Research
mi Rainforest Café fans: don't miss this Empire State Building pop-up By boingboing.net Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:45:00 +0000 Earlier this year on April Fools' Day, the Empire State Building announced that they would be opening at a Rainforest Café on the iconic building's 86th floor observatory. If you got your hopes up just to find out it was all an April Fools' joke, rejoice, because now the joke is about to become reality. — Read the rest The post Rainforest Café fans: don't miss this Empire State Building pop-up appeared first on Boing Boing. Full Article Post all of your jungle-themed restaurant dreams are coming true April Fools Day joke turns into reality Empire State Building pop-ups Rainforest Cafe
mi The new TOXIC AVENGER comic book is great By boingboing.net Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:18:00 +0000 It's been just over a year since director Macon Blair premiered his new reboot of The Toxic Avenger at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. The new film stars Peter Dinklage as the eponymous hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength, along with Elijah Wood, Kevin Bacon, and more—but has unfortunately struggled to find support for a wider distribution, according to The Hollywood Reporter. — Read the rest The post The new TOXIC AVENGER comic book is great appeared first on Boing Boing. Full Article Post Comic Books hideously deformed creatures of superhuman size and strength matt bors mr gotcha peter dinklage toxic avenger troma
mi Your hand is cramping up! Use this ergonomic mouse instead By boingboing.net Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0000 TL;DR: If you still don't have a mouse for your WFH setup, get this ergonomic Logitech MX mouse for $89.99 (reg. $99)! You know what part of you body seriously takes a beating after a long day or week of work? No, it's not your neck—though you need a more supportive office chair. — Read the rest The post Your hand is cramping up! Use this ergonomic mouse instead appeared first on Boing Boing. Full Article Post Boing Boing Shop shop
mi The science of vinegar: what happens to bacteria under a microscope By boingboing.net Published On :: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:15:00 +0000 I recently switched over to using a vinegar-based spray cleaner (just vinegar, water, and rubbing alcohol), to clean my kitchen. It works wonderfully for me, and I love that by using it I'm saving money and reducing my exposure to harsh chemicals. — Read the rest The post The science of vinegar: what happens to bacteria under a microscope appeared first on Boing Boing. Full Article Post bacteria microscope vinegar
mi Another emulation project disappears amid Nintendo crackdown By boingboing.net Published On :: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:53:28 +0000 Nintendo is cracking down on emulators of its hardware and media depicting their use. First Yuzu was taken down with a lawsuit, and now departs Ryujinx, a similar project that had sought to avoid the legal landmines Yuzu stepped on. — Read the rest The post Another emulation project disappears amid Nintendo crackdown appeared first on Boing Boing. Full Article Post copyright gadgets lawsuits retrogaming tech
mi Enterprise Video Fulfilling Its Promise By communicationtransformation.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:15:00 +0000 Video is beginning to fulfill its promise as a transformational technology. Beyond merely cutting communications costs, video is starting to change the way companies do business, and is rapidly being accepted as a "need to have" rather than a "nice to have."Cisco CEO John Chambers predicts video traffic on the internet will increase six fold by 2012. Here is a link to Cisco's August 5 earnings call where he makes that prediction.A classic example of the power of video is that of electronics manufacturer NEC. They have a network of nearly 500 dealers across the United States that sell their products. They saved more than $250,000 annually in training costs by delivering product training with video webcasting rather than sending trainers to the dealers or bringing the dealers to the trainers.They also dramatically reduced the time it takes to train the entire network on new products. Click here to watch a video case study.A newer example shows how video can literally transform the way a company does business. A major sneaker company manufacturers its products in China. Each time they re-tooled to manufacture a new sneaker, executives would have to fly to China to ensure the tooling was correct and the sneakers were meeting specifications before they began mass production.They began to use high definition cameras at the plant in China to webcast video of the sneakers to allow executives to make their inspection virtually. Sure, they save money on travel to China. But more importantly, there was a practical limit to the amount of people who could go to China to see the actual design come off the assembly line. The video process allows them to solicit input from a much broader segment of the company, and even get input from retailers while there is still time to respond to suggestions.The end result is that they can bring their products to market faster than their competition, which creates a significant competitive advantage. Click here to see the video discussion.I am particularly pleased to see clear evidence of unmistakable, game-changing ROI. Full Article
mi IVT Raises $5.5 Million for Webcasting Software By communicationtransformation.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:34:00 +0000 As the article appeared in TechCrunch...IVT, a company that produces enterprise-friendly webcasting software, has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding from Syncom Venture Partners with Barshop Ventures, Monitor Ventures and Tudor Ventures participating in the investment round. IVT raised $3 million in Series A funding in 2006.IVT’s SaaS offering not only helps power webcasts, but also converts multimedia files, such as slideshows, into viewable videos for the web. IVT also offers a YouTube-like hosting and social media site for companies to disseminate videos and webcasts. And the startup has a number of prominent companies that use its webcasting software including Oracle, Dow Chemical, IBM and NEC. Full Article
mi Amazon Enables MediaPlatform Migration to the Cloud By communicationtransformation.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:58:00 +0000 Here is a link to the case study Amazon prepared about MediaPlatform's use of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Solution (S3). http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/mediaplatform/ MediaPlatform is the only streaming software solution that allows clients to access the obvious benefits of cloud computing while retaining the ability to maintain security, achieve integrations with Active Directory/LDAP, control remote encoders, etc. Combined with its groundbreaking approaches to multicasting Flash and leveraging the native caching abilities of WAN acceleration devices to stream HTTP, MediaPlatform's cloud offering represents the most innovative approach to enterprise webcasting available on the market today. Full Article
mi Interactive Media Strategies believes Microsoft could win big with Skype By communicationtransformation.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 13 May 2011 22:01:00 +0000 Interactive Media Strategies (IMS) is a market research firm that follows streaming media. They discuss the news of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, and the prospects for Skype to emerge as a viable platform for business video communications. Their research compares usage levels for a range of social media and communications applications, including Skype, YouTube and Facebook. Here is a link to the video. They report that personal use of Facebook and YouTube is relatively high but that has not yet translated into comparable levels of corporate use. They believe this raises the question of whether YouTube and Facebook will be able to outgrow their focus on the consumer side of the business to compete in the enterprise market. Usage levels for Skype are significantly lower overall, but Skype’s penetration in business communications is higher than they see for other communications apps online among young users most likely to experiment with emerging technologies. IMS puts forth the opinion that if Microsoft could make it easier for technology laggards to embrace Skype - i.e. integrate Skype with the Microsoft Office suite - then Skype could achieve significant enterprise adoption. Full Article
mi "Silver Tsunami:" Using Video for Knowledge Transfer By communicationtransformation.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 20 May 2011 22:48:00 +0000 When the Baby Boomers retire they are going to be taking their substantial knowledge with them. The younger generation to whom that knowledge should be transferred likes to consume video. This has some very interesting implications for organizations that want to capture that knowledge, organize it, and make it easy for employees to find it and benefit from it. Here is a link to a webcast on June 1 where Dan Rasmus, a technology strategist and author of Listening to the Future , will discuss the potential for video to serve as an all important medium for knowledge transfer and organizational learning. Topics to be Covered: • Knowledge Acquisition via Video • Video as a Tool for Knowledge Management • Use of Video or Operational Efficiency • Practical Applications of Video for Learning in the Enterprise Click here to register for the webcast Full Article
mi Economic Turmoil Affects Investment in Video By communicationtransformation.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:17:00 +0000 Interactive Media Strategies released a quite timely study conducted in Q1 2011 that measured corporate executives' financial outlook and how their relative positivity or negativity affected their plans for spending on video. As one might imagine, only 6% of those with a negative outlook projected increased spending on video against 64% projecting less money spent on video. 39% of executives surveyed who were expecting their finances to improve projected increased spend on video, versus 29% who projected a decrease. Unfortunately, the study did not provide the percentage of respondents who were expecting finances to decline versus the percentage of respondents expecting finances to improve. The above results not all that unexpected, but they lay the foundation for this very interesting data: the study measured different types of executives and how their positions within the company influenced their outlook about whether macro-economic factors would impact spend on video. 46% of those in Accounting and Finance, 43% of those in Training, and 42% of Top Executives responded that macro-economic factors had "No Impact" in their decision to purchase video technology. Overall, 40% of non-IT personnel responded that the economic climate would have no impact. However, only 29% of IT executives responded that the economy would have no impact. I attribute this disparity to senior executives and heavy video users (like training executives) being more focused on the ROI and cost reductions that video brings to the enterprise, while IT executives are more focused on the cost of maintaining video delivery infrastructure and the impact on their budgets. I believe the path to bridging this gap is to leverage the cost savings of the cloud to free up IT resources and still deliver the benefits of video to the business users. For example, MediaPlatform's PrimeTime application for video asset management leverages public or private clouds to host our application and store all of the video assets. For example: for clients that have Riverbed, we use a cloud instance of the Riverbed Steelhead to reduce bandwidth usage between the cloud and the network by 80%. Full Article
mi What Is "Demure and Mindful" to Real Estate? Let's Look at First-time Buyers By www.nar.realtor Published On :: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:01:01 +0000 What Is "Demure and Mindful" to Real Estate? First-time buyers have to be "demure and mindful" in many ways: finances, prior living situation, buyer offers, and working with a real... By: Jessica Lautz First-Time Homebuyers Full Article
mi GOP Rep. Luna Says ‘Criminal Prosecutions Necessary’ For Anti-Trump Lawfare Schemers In Government (Video) By conservativefiringline.com Published On :: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:15:48 +0000 The following article, GOP Rep. Luna Says ‘Criminal Prosecutions Necessary’ For Anti-Trump Lawfare Schemers In Government (Video), was first published on Conservative Firing Line. As President Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House after his landslide victory in Tuesday’s election, a U.S. congresswoman says “criminal prosecutions” are “necessary” for the government officials who have been promoting the massive lawfare campaign against the president-elect. On “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel, host Maria Bartiromo asked U.S. Rep. … Continue reading GOP Rep. Luna Says ‘Criminal Prosecutions Necessary’ For Anti-Trump Lawfare Schemers In Government (Video) ... Full Article Politics criminal Justice lawfare Luna prosecutions schemers Trump
mi Will These Deranged Celebrities Who Promised To End Their Lives Or Flee The Country If Trump Wins Actually Follow Through? By conservativefiringline.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:15:19 +0000 The following article, Will These Deranged Celebrities Who Promised To End Their Lives Or Flee The Country If Trump Wins Actually Follow Through?, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. (Natural News) Similar to what happened in 2016, a host of celebrities and influencers made wild claims that they would leave the country or even end their lives if Donald Trump won another term in the White House. Will any of them actually follow through? Take Rob Reiner, for instance. He promised to “set himself on … Continue reading Will These Deranged Celebrities Who Promised To End Their Lives Or Flee The Country If Trump Wins Actually Follow Through? ... Full Article Politics Bono celebrities Drano kill leave meltdown Midler suicide
mi Tom Homan – Trump’s Nominee for the Border By conservativefiringline.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 01:15:02 +0000 The following article, Tom Homan – Trump’s Nominee for the Border, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Former Director of ICE Tom Homan is the Trump Nominee for “Border Czar.” But he isn’t the only nominee being named on this Veteran’s Day. Homan is one tough cookie- he will be charged with overseeing the deportations of criminal migrants, as well as the Northern border, aviation security, and maritime security. It’s a tall … Continue reading Tom Homan – Trump’s Nominee for the Border ... Full Article Opinion Politics border czar ICE Tom Homan
mi Lunatic Democrat Murders Wife and Kids, Commits Suicide Over His Hate for Donald Trump By conservativefiringline.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:15:34 +0000 The following article, Lunatic Democrat Murders Wife and Kids, Commits Suicide Over His Hate for Donald Trump, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. This is how mentally deranged liberals are… a Democrat in Minnesota was so filled with rage that Donald Trump won the election last week that he murdered his own wife and kids and then committed suicide to prevent them all from having to live during the next Trump presidency. Notice how you never heard any … Continue reading Lunatic Democrat Murders Wife and Kids, Commits Suicide Over His Hate for Donald Trump ... Full Article Crime Politics Anthony Nephew Biden children garbage kill mental illness partner Trump wife
mi Resolved: Stop Blaming the Pancake By www.43folders.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:22:44 +0000 In a classic bit from an early Seinfeld, Jerry and Elaine are at the airport, trying to pick up the rental car that Jerry had reserved. As usual, things go poorly and get awkward fast: Seinfeld - "Reservations" JERRY: I don't understand...I made a reservation. Do you have my reservation? AGENT: Yes, we do. Unfortunately, we ran out of cars. JERRY: But, the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation. AGENT: I know why we have reservations. JERRY: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation--you just don't know how to hold the reservation. And, that's really the most important part of the reservation...the holding. Anybody can just TAKE them. [grabs chaotically at air] And, how weirdly similar is that to our conflicted relationship with New Year's resolutions? In Seinfeldspeak? See, you know how to make the resolution, you just don't know how to keep the resolution. And, that's really the most important part of the resolution...the keeping. Anybody can just MAKE them! Oversimplified? Probably. But, ask yourself. Why this? And, why now? Or, why again? Welcome to Resolvers Anonymous: I'm 'Merlin M.' A few years ago, I shared a handful of stories on the failures that have led to my own cynicism about the usefulness of life-inverting resolutions. Because, yeah, I've historically been a big resolver. Here's what I said when I first suggested favoring "Fresh Starts and Modest Changes" over reinventions: Download MP3 of "Fresh Starts & Modest Changes" Five years on, I think I probably feel even more strongly about this. Partly because I've watched and read and heard the cyclical lamentations of folks who decided to use superficial totems (like new calendars) as an ad hoc coach and prime mover. And, partly because, in my capacity as a makebelieve productivity expert, I continue to see how self-defeating it is to pretend that past can ever be less than prologue--that we can each ignore yesterday's weather if we really wish hard enough for a sun-drenched day at the beach. It simply doesn't work. Companies that think they'll be Google for buying bagels. Writers who think they'll get published if they order a new pen. Obese people who think they'll become marathon runners if they pick up some new running shoes. And, regular old people with good hearts who continue to confuse new lives with new clothes. Has this worked before? Can you look back on a proud legacy of successful New Year's resolutions that would suggest you're making serious progress by repeatedly making a list about fundamental life changes while slamming prosecco and wearing a pointy paper hat? My bet is that most people who are seeing the kind of change and growth and improvement that sticks tend to avoid these sorts of dramatic, geometric attempts to leap blindly toward the mountain of perfection. I'll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and resolve is actually a terrific marker that you're not really ready to change anything in a grownup and sustainable way. You probably just want another magic wand. Otherwise you'd already be doing the things you've resolved to do. You'd already be living those changes. And, you'd already be seeing actual improvements rather than repeatedly making lists of all the ways you hope your annual hajj to the self-improvement genie will fix you. Then, of course, we make things way worse by blaming everything on our pancakes. Regarding "The First Pancake Problem" Anyone who's ever made America's favorite round and flat breakfast food is familiar with the phenomenon of The First Pancake. No matter how good a cook you are, and no matter how hard you try, the first pancake of the batch always sucks. It comes out burnt or undercooked or weirdly shaped or just oddly inedible and aesthetically displeasing. Just ask your kids. At least compared to your normal pancake--and definitely compared to the far superior second and subsequent pancakes that make the cut and get promoted to the pile destined for the breakfast table--the first one's always a disaster. I'll leave it to the physicists and foodies in the gallery to develop a unified field theory on exactly why our pancake problem crops up with such unerring dependability. But I will share an orthogonal theory: you will be a way happier and more successful cook if you just accept that your first pancake is and always will be a universally flukey mess. But, that shouldn't mean you never make another pancake. So Loud. Then, So Quiet. I offer all of this because today is January 7th, gang. And, for the past week, all over the web, legions of well-intentioned and seemingly strong-willed humans have been declaring their resolved intention to make this a year of more and better metaphorical pancakes. And, like clockwork--usually around today or maybe tomorrow--a huge cohort of those cooks will begin to abandon their resolve and go back to thinking all their pancakes have to suck. Just because that first one failed. And, as is the case every year, online and off, there won't be nearly as many breathless updates to properly bookend how poorly our annual ritual of aspirational change has fared. Which is instructive. Not because new year's resolutions are a universally bad idea. And, not because Change is Bad. And, not because we should be embarrassed about occasionally falling short of our own (frequently unreasonable) aspirations. I suspect we tout the resolution, but whisper the failure because we blame the cook. Or, worse, fingers point toward the pancake. Instead of just admitting that the resolution itself was simply unrealistic or fundamentally foreign. And, that's a shame. Remember, there's no "I" in "unreasonable" Granted, I'm merely re-repeating a point I've struggled to make (to both others and myself) for years now. But, it will bear repeating every January in perpetuity. Resist the urge to pin the fate of things you really care about to anything that's not truly yourself. The "yourself" who has a real life with complicated demands. The "yourself" who's going to face a hard slog trying to fold a new life out of a fresh calendar. Calendars are just paper and staples. They can't make you care. And they can't help you spin around like Diana Prince, and instantly turn into Wonder Woman. Especially, if you're not already a hot and magical Amazon princess. First, be reasonable. Don't set yourself up for failure by demanding things that you've never come close to achieving before. I realize this is antithetical to most self-improvement bullshit, but that's exactly the point. If you were already a viking, you wouldn't need to build a big boat. Start with where you are right now. Not with where you wish you'd been. Also, accept that the first pancake will always suck. Hell, if you've never picked up a spatula before, be cool with the fact that your first hundred pancakes might suck. This is, as I've said, huge. Failure is the sound of beginning to suck a little less. And, finally, also be clear about the sanity of the motivations underlying your expectations--step back to observe what's truly broken, derive a picture of incremental success that seems do-able, and really resolve to do whatever you can realistically do to actually get better. Rather than "something something I suddenly become all different." At this point, you have logistical options for both execution and troubleshooting: Make a modest plan that you can envision actually doing without upending your real life; Build more sturdy scaffolding for sticking with whatever plan you've chosen; Make a practice of learning to not mind the duds--including those messed-up first pancakes; Or--seriously?--just accept that you never really cared that much about making breakfast in the first place. Care is not optional. Otherwise, really, you'd never need to resolve to do anything. You'd already just be cooking a lot. Instead of being all mad and depressed about not cooking. But, please. All I really ask of you. Don't blame the pancake. It's not really the pancake's fault. Like me, the pancake just wants you to be happy. This and every other new year. ”Resolved: Stop Blaming the Pancake” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on January 07, 2011. 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mi No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome By www.43folders.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:10:32 +0000 Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be. Because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. […] Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. None of us should ever have to face death to accept the inflexible and, too-often, novel sense of scarcity that it introduces. In fact, it'd be great if we could each skip needing outside permission to be awesome by not waiting until the universe starts tapping its watch. A simple start would involve each of us learning to care just a little more about a handful of things that simply aren't allowed to leave with us--whether today, tomorrow, or whenever. Because, I really believe a lot of nice things would start to happen if we also stopped waiting to care. A whole lot of nice things. If that sounds like fancy incense for hippies and children, perhaps in a way that seems frankly un-doable for someone as practical and important and immortal as yourself, then go face death. Go get cancer. Or, go get crushed by a horse Or, go get hit by a van. Or, go get separated from everything you ever loved forever. Then, wonder no longer whether caring about the modest bit of time you have here is only for fancy people and the terminally-ill. Because, the sooner you care, the better you'll make. The better you'll do. And the better you'll live. Please don't wait. The universe won't. ”No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on January 17, 2011. Except as noted, it's ©2010 Merlin Mann and licensed for reuse under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. "Why a footer?" Full Article caring hacer Steve Jobs
mi "Back to Work" - Merlin's New Thing with Dan Benjamin at 5by5.tv By www.43folders.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:15:15 +0000 [update 2011-01-18 @ 16:07:40: We're up!] 5by5 Live Before Christ was a corporal, Dan Benjamin was already a bit of a hero to me. Since the early aughts–long before his insanely great 5by5.tv podcast network–Dan’s Hivelogic Enkoder was saving us millions of spam messages. His thoughtful tutorials on OS X (including unmissable advice on doing sane installs of MySQL and Rails, among others) are among the best on the web. His CSS has been widely stolen and reused without acknowledgment by thieves as diverse as other people and me. And his polymath posts on everything from Buddhism to The Paleo Diet to how to record a “Double-ender” have shown a charming combination of curiosity and empathy that, amongst numerous other reasons, clearly makes Dan a better human than me. A propos of nothing, Dan’s also the guy who conducted one of (mp3) the three best interviews with me in which it’s been my good fortune to participate.1 Today, I’m honored to say that Dan and I are starting a thing together. If it suits you, drop by 5by5.tv/live in about 35 minutes–at Noon Eastern/9am Pacific–to find out what we’re up to. I think it might be good. I’ll just say I’m as excited about this as I’ve been about any new project I’ve started in the past year or so. Anyway. You can judge for yourself. Whether you can tolerate me or otherwise, definitely do not miss the work Dan’s doing at 5by5. Because it really is outstanding and very polished stuff. As for our thing? My own goal, to paraphrase a bit from that interview with Dan, is to help you get excited, get better–and then?–Back to Work. More soon. Thanks. Favorite interviews. Just for the sake of completion, my all-time favorite interview was conducted by Colin Marshall for The Marketplace of Ideas (mp3); Dan’s “The Pipeline” eppy with me was a close second; and David and Katie’s recent nerderrific interview on my Mac workflow (mp3) on Mac Power Users has turned out to be a lot of peoples’ favorite thing I’ve done in years (love LOVE David’s stuff). ↩ And...we're up Back to Work | Ep.#1: Alligator in the Bathroom Download MP3 of "'Back to Work,' Ep. 1" In the inaugural episode of Back to Work, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss why they’re doing this show, getting back to work instead of buying berets, the lizard brain, and compare the Shadow of the Mouse to San Francisco, and eventually get to some practical tips for removing friction. It's a start. Sexy Audio RSS Feed Sexy Subscription via iTunes Episode Links Welcome to BrettTerpstra.com, home of Brett Terpstra and his nerdery carlhuda/janus – GitHub practically efficient — technology, workflows, life MacSparky – Blog The Brooks Review And now it’s all this Dan Rodney’s List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes 43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann’s Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folders waffle software · ThisService One Thing Well html2text: THE ASCIINATOR (aka html2txt) The Conversation #27: Missionless Statements – 5by5 ”"Back to Work" - Merlin's New Thing with Dan Benjamin at 5by5.tv” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on January 18, 2011. Except as noted, it's ©2010 Merlin Mann and licensed for reuse under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. "Why a footer?" Full Article hacer pimping Podcasts
mi Former BLM Chapter Co-Founder Switches To Trump In ’24 … What Changed His Mind? By clashdaily.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:10:35 +0000 Mark Fisher was co-founder of the Rhode Island chapter of BLM. He voted for Joe Biden in 2020. Does he have buyers remorse? Yeah, you could say so. His viral video is causing a stir... but there's more to that story. The post Former BLM Chapter Co-Founder Switches To Trump In ’24 … What Changed His Mind? appeared first on Clash Daily. Full Article Videos
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