Jillian Michaels has a good answer for people who start going away from their goals - If you have a flat tire, you dont go puncture another good tire.
If you start about rebuilding, then you know its better to cut down your losses which starts with helping yourself.
Have your vitamins. If thats not it, Weed out activities that sap energy. Maintain a journal that tracks your energy. Maintain an energy journal to see which activities make you feel in flow.
When you start getting an idea of what kind of people and activities gel with your energy, start planning your life vision.
Net dollar retention instead of churn as metric for Saas companies.
I 100% agree with this and don't focus on MAU/MRR/MoM growth for investments.
— Jeff Chang (@JeffChang30) January 28, 2020
Doesn't matter to me if you have 100 MAU or 1K MAU, 1K MRR or 10K MRR.
Since I look for *potential* for growth, I look for things like strong cohort {user, net dollar} retention. https://t.co/CVk1NCHl99
This is @FrontApp 's monthly net dollar cohort retention from their series A deck.
— Jeff Chang (@JeffChang30) February 15, 2020
Most successful SaaS companies have dollar retention charts that look like this.
If you are a SaaS founder, you should watch this chart often.
Gold standard: every cell > 100% pic.twitter.com/IwwuG7kMpK
Jenny Uglow on “the sense of wonder that British artists felt when faced with Rembrandt’s work,” and how they responded in their own https://t.co/MoSbCrFclN pic.twitter.com/l8CEBKsmze
— The New York Review of Books (@nybooks) November 9, 2018
Hands loosely clasped makes you stop and think of tightly clasped pictures. Its funny how sometimes the brain retrieves the opposite to understand something or further away from the system. If we didnt have memory would art appreciation work?
The power of patience. Just like space exploration, increasing your grasp of the art work by looking at it continuously for a long time.
Wonder, appreciation, and the value of art
What Is Art Good For? The Socio-Epistemic Value of Art
Neuroaesthetics
Revealing Rembrandt is full circle to the article.
This is so hilarious and true: pic.twitter.com/tZ9izeeecV
— Nicholas Weaver (@ncweaver) December 21, 2021
This is in first person view point. Is it easy to change to omnipresent third? Are there not going to be many people? Is he going to be reliable narrator?
alright twitter, wife and i were playing "codenames duet" with the board shown in the picture. i gave the clue "fruit" to match on two words. which two was i thinking of? pic.twitter.com/7fgVPC9GeX
— M Shah (@shahlock) January 2, 2022
Higher rent fewer babies housing costs and fertility decline
News that the U.S. population barely grew in 2021, together with ever-falling birthrates and the decline in immigration, raises the possibility the nation will be shrinking in the not-so-distant future.
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) December 31, 2021
That won't necessarily make housing more affordable https://t.co/SFlqWWJbqW
NASA has selected Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman to receive funding for the design and development of commercial space stations as part of its plan to phase out the International Space Station. 🛰️ https://t.co/Cp7HJiIgzW pic.twitter.com/Wh1934uPcv
— IGN (@IGN) December 24, 2021
Starlab, the first station for this save
— Caramel (@Cara2_) December 27, 2021
Most recent addition is a cryostatis research module to gain experience for deep space missions pic.twitter.com/NhPdEN3kBJ
This seems more practical than the Shkadov thruster, relatively speaking. https://t.co/XYR16z9sD3
— James Pitt (@Sahelanth) January 3, 2020
point 21 on which technologies progress
More time and space to detect more.
Snow lying in the ditches shows how much snow there is.
Why April?
Schoolmaster alternate title gives something away.
By becoming a part of a routine, we become timeless and the knowledge about the surroundings seeps into us.
"she knew every stone, every tree on the road from the town to her school" sounds cliche but also the clicheness that can only come from immersion, what you know something as the back of the hand
Is the unanswering brother to show that she wouldnt be the one to end relations?
Why the horseman?
To bring in the news from the tavern and the happenings. What if we just got to that? This will show the role of the schoolmistress.
smelt (nose) - smelted iron
pupils - both eyes and students
Like the no solution as one of the answers to a customer facing a problem, not reading the story is an option for the reader, they can go back to what they were doing, before and after doing. The story needs to keep the reader in the story. Till the end.
George Saunders calls a story a set of expectations and their resolutions.
After page one:
Summary
A lady very situated in the school life, as if she began as a school teacher even losing track of her childhood and family. No references to her life as a school child or comparisons with how school is different now.
What are you curious about?
Why does she not enjoy the ride?
Where do you think the story is headed?
Maybe she will not get her pay?
The company has to work with the expectation set or exploit them. When the infinite possibilities keep narrowing, the company has been derisked like The Power law.
Juggler with pins in the air. Blind Juggling.
Climax is the last five folds in the 45 folds to the moon.
Change the mindset to getting healthy
to having more energy
to get fitter.
Then all your activities will fall into place.
Doing smaller things with even 1% improvement each day will get you to 37% better. A concept made famous by James Clear of Atomic Habits.
When I read good writing, I always want to know about the writer's process.
Many references to George Saunders lessons on writing, this is a good confluence of tech and writing that I love being at. If you look at the beginning of my blog, it was very creative writing oriented. Then it moved towards nonfiction reading mainly on business which led me to MBA. After that I am back to writing with reading short story a day for the year.
George Saunders principles of writing fiction:
Story is a system for transfer of energy
The reader is sitting in the sidecar of a motorcycle the writer is driving.
The artist takes responsibility for art
The need to complete the last mile to turn vaccines into vaccinations. This includes having the necessary supplies to actually make it happen.
— Dr. Syra Madad (@syramadad) December 28, 2021
“Nepal halts Covid vaccinations in children because of a lack of syringes.”https://t.co/5HG23cSeCD
the relative value of growth framework
The rise of rundle a new trend for subscription based services
Compelling vision = access to cheap capital = vision becomes reality faster than peers is competence (storytelling) that built @amazon and @netflix . @Lemonade_Inc does a good job. (Disclosure: shareholder)https://t.co/cd6sztlxJL
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) July 12, 2020
Oversold & Underused
When demand is more and the asset exists somewhere
Office Without Overhead
Malls being repurposed for offices, class, labs. Andco and Industriousoffice democratize office space for meeting purpose and pay per usage or need. This is unbundling of the office space as storage, place to meet, place to bond. While earlier offsite was one way to bond, now the tables are reversed.
Now anyone can open an office without much overhead.
Many functions are being chopped and repurposed into different verticals.
For example, in Toastmasters, I had to go fundraising for an event talking to Costco and other bagel and coffee places asking for breakfast donation. I have to do that for printing for model kits for children to be engaged with science. Earlier I would have probably done this as part of Girl Scouts, but now it becomes a stand alone thing and based on the family's conviction of doing such events consistently. The unbundling of clubs caused by covid.
Zepto is a funny riff on what you can already get from the corner store, but I guess with the choice you want on an "infinite shelf" like Amazon calls it. Professor Galloway's the last last mile is a webvan-coming-back-full-circle for customers for real. An MVP of this is corner store, assuming your basic needs were met there.
All this usage of whats already built and being underused, sounds like anything new to be built now has a big barrier. It might be that new construction will only happen for repair or when existing things cant be repurposed to meet the need. Modula vertical modules, squeeze the space out of warehouses.
Dronamics says, "We’re looking for underserved airports, using time slots where there is no passenger traffic. In the United States there are 17,000 airports, but only about 400 are commercially used. The rest don’t have regular service at all." Deccan Odyssey too started with underused runways. Democratising airjourney for army personnel.
Honda is making hybrid evtol. Currently Dronamics is powered by internal combustion engines, maybe they will be the next ones to join the hybrid bandwagon.
I came across Photosynth in ISS simulation.
Its maker.
It is now revived in Pix app
Google's NeRF in the Wild (Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections) is called Photosynth amped.
Animate your drawings with Meta
Only you can know what problem you will find fascinating enough to solve.
Kids loved the engineering stories about nature, art, sport in that order.
They loved these nature lessons
'VEXcode VR Learn Computer Science at home without a robot.
Brain Ventures from Univ of Michigan
Young Makers Build Telescopes and Space Stations.
"You made a 3D model out of a paper" exclaimed my kids. The Hubble telescope model grew out of my fascination of another astronomer's model which I saw in Christian Ready's video. NASA website has the models for these giant instruments. As I was making these models, following instructions, I realised I could interact better with the constituent parts and understand how all the components got there to make these very useful telescopes.New legal profession starting in Arizona
If you want to take the examination for Family Law, things to study:
A) Core Examination
(i) Arizona Code of Judicial Administration Section 7-210 (including sections of § 7-201 incorporated by reference)
(ii) Arizona Rules of Professional Conduct
(iii) Arizona Rules of Evidence
(iv) Arizona State Constitution
(v) United States Constitution
B) Family Law Examination
(i) Arizona Code of Judicial Administration § 7-210
(ii) Arizona Revised Statutes Title 8 (Chapter 4: Department of Child Safety)
(iii) Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13 (Orders of Protection)
(iv) Arizona Revised Statutes Title 25 (sections relevant to the scope of practice defined in § 7-210(F)(2)(a))
(v) Rules of Civil Procedure for the Superior Courts of Arizona
(vi) Arizona Rules of Family Law Procedure
(vii) Arizona Rules of Protective Order Procedure
Your 2021 reflection plan in one graphic: pic.twitter.com/AO4iWBNFoR
— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) December 25, 2021
This morning I was making semiya upma like many others days, but was getting behind the fast pacing childrens hunger.
In an effort to speeden up, I asked for help in various steps of it. Immediately the question came as to why I dont do mis-en-place when my kid needs to that when she is cooking. I have answered previous calls of help, similar to mine with mis-en-place's need and place in avoiding such a situation.
My jun-bi was being questioned but then I understood the circumstances. I would usually do the same cooking way back, without anyone's help. When my daughter does the cooking, usually she starts early, so there is no hurry. Today the stomachs were already hungry and I wanted to add more veggies, which was going to delay the start. Coming to mis-en-place, my sister follows that style and not me. All parenting is about guiding towards a known better way, not necessarily the parents.
Cooking without mis-en-place is doing heroic running around the kitchen, to save the curry. In dire situations, you get the others to run around for you. Maybe I am not showing the best way of cooking, but I am showing how to mange the worst of it. Building things in hurry with team work.
Curiosity
Go with a program, that you are not entirely sure of how the end result might be, but you like the promise of it. You can go into it with consistency as your input.
Challenge
May be you are upto the intensity of the program or not at the beginning. Halfway, you might find strength gains. May be that plank walk is not churning your stomach like it used to. You have crossed the hill.
Being open
May be this is not the best program but there is no way to know without taking the first step. May be this program wont work like you wanted to. Eh? Switch to another with Curiosity or Challenge.
