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I'm 65 years old today.
In the olden days, you retired at this age.
Not me. I'm just starting! (-;
Every day on my birthday, I have my first swim of the year - a 30-year tradition. Some years, it's been in snow or ice; in other years, it's been sunny and warm.
And this morning at 525AM, it was dark and rainy but glorious. I've arrived here in pretty good shape!

I'm 65 years old today.
In the olden days, you retired at this age.
Not me. I'm just starting! (-;
Every day on my birthday, I have my first swim of the year - a 30-year tradition. Some years, it's been in snow or ice; in other years, it's been sunny and warm.
And this morning at 525AM, it was dark and rainy but glorious. I've arrived here in pretty good shape!

Daily Inspiration: "Disruptors value defiance over blind obedience!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Be like Chuck House.
In a world in which you are surrounded by yes-men, be the person who is willing to say no since sometimes following the lead is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Years ago, the book The Intrapreneurs, by Clifford Pinchoot III, defined The Intrapreneur’s Ten Commandments. Numbers 8, 9, and 10 are notable.
8. Come to work each day willing to be fired.<…

Daily Inspiration: "When the future becomes a culture war, watch the trends. Not the noise" - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's a weird time to be a futurist - have you noticed that the future has become a culture war?
While you deal with the realities of science, technologies, trends, and tomorrow, large groups of people seek to inflame and chase their agenda by pursuing falsehoods. It seems that all of a sudden, electric cars have become doomed to fail; protein-based alte…

Daily Inspiration: Leadership & Trends – “When the future becomes a culture war, watch the trends. Not the noise”

it’s “funny” how, when you say that something is unbelievably stupid (and fascist) the fascists want to learn more https://lobste.rs/s/ijafx5/sequel_structured_english_query#c_ykysws

Als Kind war ich oft im Theater der Freundschaft. Jetzt weiß ich, wer es geleitet hat. Das war Hans Rodenberg. Ein Jude, der nach Moskau emigriert war und nach seiner Rückkehr im Kulturbereich gearbeitet hat. Er war Dekan an der Filmhochsuchle Babelsberg. Er war stellvertretender Kulturminister (1960–1963), Mitglied des Staatsrats, der Volkskammer und des Zentralkomitees der SED.
Von 1969 bis 1974 war Rodenberg Vizepräsident der Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Ost).
#Antisemitismus kann man wohl nicht schließen.
Einen Unterschied zwischen Ost- und West-Emigrant*innen gab es aber sehr wohl.

Am 12. März 1974 startete die Barbarella-#Rakete von der Hubinsel Barbara in der #Ostsee nahe #Eckernförde - ein Meilenstein in der

working out

Daily Inspiration: "Today? It's business as unusual!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Today's photo is from an event I did a few years ago for a group called Havi International - which represents a massive number of companies that are suppliers of products to McDonald's. The theme of their event was, if it is not obvious, "Partnering for Growth" - the key idea being that an organization can best move forward when a group of companies can move together as one with…

working out

#JerryGarcia contributed to a handful of soundtracks for the late #RogerCorman, via fillmore east friend allan arkush, including "big bad mama" (1974) & "deathsport" (1978).

Daily Inspiration: "Today? It's business as unusual!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Today's photo is from an event I did a few years ago for a group called Havi International - which represents a massive number of companies that are suppliers of products to McDonald's. The theme of their event was, if it is not obvious, "Partnering for Growth" - the key idea being that an organization can best move forward when a group of companies can move together as one with…

IRCB S73-7 Satellite Found After Going Untracked For 25 Years
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-8068bff6-368cffc897e12cf2
IRCB S73-7 Satellite Found After Going Untracked For 25 Years When the United States launched the KH-9 Hexagon spy satelli…

The First Civil War in Gombe 1974-1978 -
a poem by Katarzyna Zechenter
#humans

The First Civil War in Gombe 1974-1978 - The Bangalore Review
the only observer of this war, a woman, she would recall, for years the haunting images of drinking blood from the enemies’ wounds a bestial attack on the body, long dead, of one of the defenders

Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
from the album "Let Me In Your Life" (1974)
Side A Track 5
( 音楽 / 音樂 / 音乐 / 음악 / music )
https://youtu.be/Nbokg0KM-n8

Assembling the trigger crossbar board over lunch.
Not thrilled with the paste print quality, very inconsistent. the top left corner was way too thick as the board flexed during printing, the middle BGA skipped some pads, and the WLCSP in the bottom right was near perfect.
These big boards bend too much in my paste fixture, I need to find a way to prevent that before I do any more boards of this scale.

Vote for Sweden 1974 sending a telegram to Malmö’s post office #esc

Heute vor 49 Jahren: Am 14. Mai 1975 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Tybo". Die Operation Bedrock war eine Serie von 27 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1974/75 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Daily Inspiration: "Your ability to spot the opportunity will define your ability to counter the threat!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Of all the dumb things said about AI in the last few years, this has perhaps ranked as the dumbest:
International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years. "Hiring in back-office functions —…

Daily Inspiration: "Your ability to spot the opportunity will define your ability to counter the threat!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Of all the dumb things said about AI in the last few years, this has perhaps ranked as the dumbest:
International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years. "Hiring in back-office functions —…

Vor 50 Jahren: Abba gewinnt mit "Waterloo" den ESC - Am 6. März 1974 überzeugte die schwedische Popband Abba im englischen Seebad Brighton beim 19. Eurovision Song Contest und legte damit den Grundstein für ihre Weltkarriere - #DeutscheWelle
Ich oute mich: MIt 10 Jahren ich da auch #Abba

Vor 50 Jahren: Abba gewinnt mit "Waterloo" den ESC
Am 6. März 1974 überzeugte die schwedische Popband Abba im englischen Seebad Brighton beim 19. Eurovision Song Contest und legte damit den Grundstein für ihre Weltkarriere.

Listening to my #Vinyl #Collection - Album 198
#SteveMillerBand – Greatest Hits 1974-78 (1978)
A greatest hits compilation that only covers 2 albums and 1 single?!?! 🤔

Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
from the album "Let Me In Your Life" (1974)
Side A Track 5
( 音楽 / 音樂 / 音乐 / 음악 / music )
https://youtu.be/Nbokg0KM-n8

So this is interesting and annoying.
I've been having intermittent breaker trips on circuit #18 in my lab. The receptacles in this circuit are mostly behind cabinets, the only one in use powers an LED strip in my components cabinet. The last time the breaker popped I unplugged the LED strip (leaving the circuit, in theory, completely unloaded) and a few days later when I checked the panel again it had tripped.
Today I had a bit of downtime and decided to investigate. With the…

"It's the reality that matters (not the hype!)" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I have a good friend from my ski club who has been reading my Daily Inspiration post (what you are reading right now) for many, many years. He told me a few months back that he always finds them to be interesting and helpful - but also observed that sometimes they get a little promotional.
I suppose so.
But often, I find that I'm sharing in these posts some motivational insight that com…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08770 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Percolation as a confinement order parameter in $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theories
Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) were introduced in 1974 by Wilson to study quark confinement. These models have been shown to exhibit (de-)confined phases, yet it remains challenging to define experimentally accessible order parameters. Here we propose percolation-inspired order parameters (POPs) to probe confinement of dynamical matter in $\mathbb{Z}_2$ LGTs using electric field basis snapshots accessible to quantum simulators. We apply the POPs to study a classical $\mathbb{Z}_2$ LGT and find a…

Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
from the album "Let Me In Your Life" (1974)
Side A Track 5
( 音楽 / 音樂 / 音乐 / 음악 / music )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbokg0KM-n8&feature=youtu.be

The excitement of seeing your new MacBook fly over your house early in the morning on a big ol' MD-11.

"It's the reality that matters (not the hype!)" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I have a good friend from my ski club who has been reading my Daily Inspiration post (what you are reading right now) for many, many years. He told me a few months back that he always finds them to be interesting and helpful - but also observed that sometimes they get a little promotional.
I suppose so.
But often, I find that I'm sharing in these posts some motivational insight that com…

John Vorster, Prime Minister of #SouthAfrica from 1966-1978 (and detained during WWII for #Nazi sympathies):
"We stand for Christian Nationalism... you can call the anti-democratic principle #dictatorship if y…

The excitement of seeing your new MacBook fly over your house early in the morning on a big ol' MD-11.

D233,171 - issued to Polaroid in 1974 for a design for a "photographic camera or similar article." #DesignPatents

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14737 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Helmholtz FEM solutions are locally quasi-optimal modulo low frequencies
For $h$-FEM discretisations of the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k$, we obtain $k$-explicit analogues of the classic local FEM error bounds of [Nitsche, Schatz 1974], [Wahlbin 1991], [Demlow, Guzmán, Schatz 2011], showing that these bounds hold with constants independent of $k$, provided one works in Sobolev norms weighted with $k$ in the natural way. We prove two main results: (i) a bound on the local $H^1$ error by the best approximation error plus the $L^2$ error, both on a slightly…

The cursed 74 series chips made in 1974 when the date code may be the type.
#electronics #retrocomputing

💾 Running CP/M on the C128
#cpm #retrocomputing

Does anyone else read "VC" as "Viet Cong" rather than "venture capital" by default?
It's so much funnier to imagine techbros having secret meetings with Communist guerrillas than a bunch of investors.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music:
#TheHueyShow
- Ol' Burger Beats '74
Ol' Burger Beats does it 1974 style.
#RelistenNow on #BBCSounds 👇
#Spotify #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7FFGelr4yQzjv41R7C8bPe

50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley. tape: https://www.

Daily Inspiration: "Successful companies get rid of all the bull excrement" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Let's be real about it. Successful companies get rid of all the bull shit.
Successful companies have learned a lot about the future - and the fact that it isn't as complicated to get there as they once thought it would be. In doing so, the old barriers that were in the way have been obliterated!
Decision-making paralysis? GONE
Committees and group thin…

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Leadership – “Successful companies got rid of all the bull excrement”

The 1974 "JourneyTTCOTE" is a masterpiece. The 2024 version, without a symphony orchestra, without a full choir, without David Hemmings' narration, but with the trimmed bits (because vinyl only held ~38 minutes) added back with some Gilmour-esque twiddles and noodles, is not a masterpiece.

Take the vocals - on the 1974 version, they're laid back, almost talkative. The 2024 version has full-on torch song "belting" vocals. Completely wrong.

6/10 (b…

"Happy" Anniversary to THE NIGHT PORTER aka "Il portiere di notte" porter, which premiered in France on this day 50 years ago in 1974.
This is probably the weirdest and unsettling movie I have ever seen. Its an italian sexploitation flic with a twist:
1/2

#FilmAnniversary

Jackson Five in Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jackson-five-africa/
“Jackson Five in Africa” est un documentaire (50 mn environ), qui montre le premier voyage des Jackson Five (ou 5 ?), dont Michael, alors agé de 16 ans, en Afrique, et leur arrivée Š Dakar au Sén…

Jackson Five in Africa - African Music Forum
Jackson Five in Africa - Le premier voyage des frères Jackson, dont Michael, alors agé de 16 ans, en Afrique, pendant 3 jours à Dakar en 1974

Doctor Who, 1970s.
What year?
The iconic image in the window resembles, but is not, a January 1972 cover of Radio Times.
The presence of noble Aggedor makes me think, 1974 or later.
Bottom right, to my sister's right: Alpha Centauri. Famed for giving me the glad eye and elocution lessons, I was its star pupil.
Who's that, by my side, to my sister's left? I do like the glittery off-the-shoulder arrangement.
I vaguely recall a family trip to L…

„Die Ölscheichs werden jeden Preis zahlen, damit das Solex¹ nicht auf den Markt kommt“ spricht James Bond 007 bereits 1974 in »Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt«.
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¹eine effiziente Solaranlage

The correspondent Francis Hope was on a Turkish Airlines DC-10 that crashed near Paris in 1974, killing all on board.
A new movie describes his wife’s ‘Erin Brockovich’ type battle against the aircraft’s manufacturer
During a life cut short by tragedy, Francis Hope was a respected journalist, one of the best and brightest of his generation, writing for the Observer as European correspondent and a book reviewer, as well as for the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.…

Oh, ich wusste gar nicht, dass ich 18 Tage älter bin als der Golf.
https://ard.social/@NDR/112185650605031609

NDR (@NDR@ard.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild 🚗 Anfang der 1970er-Jahre steckte VW in der Krise. Mit dem Golf gelang die Wende. Am 29. März 1974 rollte der Wagen erstmals vom Band - und wurde zum Erfolg. Mehr als 37 Millionen Stück wurden bis heute verkauft. 📝https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/VW-Golf-wird-50-Jahre-Hintergruende-und-Kurioses-zum-Kultauto,golf642.html #NDR #VW #Golf

La playlist della mattina di Pasquetta. Neanche un disco sprecato, quindi la piazzo qui:
- The Who – Odds & Sods [l'edizione del 1998, più ricca e interessante di quella del 1974]: https://piped.kavin.rocks/playlist?list=PL4cFJtUcmjZne_9FUsdZfy0b…

Piped
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

Idaho halts Thomas Creech execution after botching lethal injection | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/idaho-execution-thomas-creech-death-row-b2504208.html

Idaho halts Thomas Creech execution after botching lethal injection
Creech has been on death row since 1974

"During this decade, 439 miles of new highways were built, and not one mile of new railroad or subway. In 1974, people using subways and railroads in and around New York were still riding on tracks laid between 1904 and 1933 - the last year before #RobertMoses came to power in the city. Not a single mile had been built since."

Grateful Dead Live at Winterland Arena on 1974-02-23
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

"Yesterday’s ideas won’t work for you tomorrow!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Someone asked me yesterday about my comment that Chinese automotive companies will likely own the automotive industry of the future.
Sadly, I think that it is true - the reason for that being that most auto manufacturers seem to continue to be busy fighting the battles of the last century, using product designs, ideas, and concepts involving the vehicle architecture of that era. The other automotive…

As if pillage and genocide aren’t serious work. That shit’s HARD. https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/112165451408898157

I only #torrent stuff that is stupid hard to find in store. Otherwise I pay for it. I have no problem paying the creators for good stuff.
James Cavell's #Shōgun on #Kobo. Two parts, each is $11 (Cdn). I know its 130…

Soul to Soul (1971)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/soul-to-soul-ghana-1971/
Je pensais vous avoir déjŠ parlé de ce fameux concert Soul to Soul, mais en fait je l’ai omis pour l’instant… Quelques années plus tard, il y eut le fameux “Soul Power” Š Kinshasa en 1974. C…

Soul to Soul (1971) - African Music Forum
Soul to Soul (1971) - un concert organisé à Accra au Ghana le 6 mars 1971, avec la fine fleur des musiciens (afro-)américains de l'époque

Daily Inspiration: "Erratic leadership will always bring erratic results, but distracted leadership is guaranteed to bring even worse" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Jim Balsillie wanted to buy himself an NHL hockey team and wasted away precious time with his company RIM - the home of the Blackberry - while Apple was busy redefining the future with the iPhone. Elon Musk went and bought a once-popular social network so that he could feed his ego and pursue some grandiose ideas about f…

"Dirty Books": "1974. A church minister's wife in West Virginia learns of a brand new curriculum being introduced into her children's school. So she decides to read all 325 new textbooks herself. What she discovers horrifies her so much she instigates a State-wide insurrection. But were some of her concerns based on a misunderstanding?"
– "Things Fell Apart" #podcast

CVXSADes: a stochastic algorithm for constructing optimal exact regression designs with single or multiple objectives
Chi-Kuang Yeh, Julie Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02983

CVXSADes: a stochastic algorithm for constructing optimal exact regression designs with single or multiple objectives
We propose an algorithm to construct optimal exact designs (EDs). Most of the work in the optimal regression design literature focuses on the approximate design (AD) paradigm due to its desired properties, including the optimality verification conditions derived by Kiefer (1959, 1974). ADs may have unbalanced weights, and practitioners may have difficulty implementing them with a designated run size $n$. Some EDs are constructed using rounding methods to get an integer number of runs at each su…

“The paper estimates that in the 50 years since 1974, vaccines prevented 154 million deaths.

“Of that 154 million, 146 million lives saved were among children under 5, including 101 million infants. Because the averted deaths were so concentrated among young people, who on average would go on to live for 66 years, vaccines gave their beneficiaries an astounding 9 billion additional years of life.”
From: @…

Oheinen jo useamman tuotantokauden Podcast-sarja ( vai pitäisikö sanoa audiosyöte, viite Aristoteleen kantapää) on suosikkejani eli lämmin suositus 🎶
"Kirk digs into the work of master composer Antônio Carlos Jobim via his timeless 1974 duet with Elis Regina on his song "Águas de Marçco," known Stateside as "The Waters of March."
#musiikki

Today, March 18 at noon (EST)!
Dimitrios Machlouta (McGill University – EHESS), "'Underground' Montréal? Micro- and meso-level approaches on the connections between 'Québec Libre' and 'Grèce Libre,' 1967-1974."
Part of the Muffins and Methodology seminar series organized by the Montreal History Group / Groupe d'histoire de Montréal. @histodons
Registration:

The future is fascinating.
Politicians and wannabe big thinkers want to fight a battle against EVs and prop up Detroit and jobs.
That's not the big issue - and besides, it won't work.
And they are forgetting this simple fact - it's pretty obvious that China is about to own the 21st-century automotive industry, and car companies need to pick up the pace to have a fighting chance.
Meanwhile, the one guy who was doing all the right things to reinvent the auto…

50 years ago tonight, the #gratefuldead begin their 1974, opening 3 nights at winterland in #SanFrancisco. the 1st bay area appearance of the almost-done-but-it’s-never-done wall of sound. the crew has been at winterland for a few days getting ready. now a “dave’s picks” bonus disc but full tape…

Here's my summary of the various cases of US v. Donald J. Trump
Justice: words words words words words
DJ Lawyers: words words words delay delay delay
Justice: words words words words words
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Justice: words words words words words
DJ Lawyers: words words words delay delay delay
Justice: words words words words words
DJ Lawyers: words words words delay delay delay
Justice: words words words…

D232,115 - issued in 1974 for a design for a "humpty dumpty sheriff toy." #DesignPatents

#Hamburg Geschichte:
Wusstet ihr, dass es 1974 einen Kaiju-Angriff auf Hamburg gab?
Betroffen war vor allem der Hafen, aber von dort gelangten die Tiere auch in die Alster.
Die heutigen Landungsbrücken wurden damals neu gebaut, da die alten Anlagen komplett zerstört wurden.
Auch die gerade neu gebaute Köhlbrandbrücke musste aufwendig saniert werden.

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 8. Mai 1974 führten die #USA in #Nevada den #Atomtest "Jib", Teil der "Operation Arbor", durch. Bei dieser Operation wurden 1973/74 20 Atomtests unterirdisch durc…

50 years ago tonight, the #gratefuldead begin their 1974, opening 3 nights at winterland in #SanFrancisco. the 1st bay area appearance of the almost-done-but-it’s-never-done wall of sound. the crew has been at winterland for a few days getting ready. now a “dave’s picks” bonus disc but full tape…

🔌 The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
http://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomputer-transfluxor.html
#computers

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
What would you say is the first microcomputer? 1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973...

I only #torrent stuff that is stupid hard to find in store. Otherwise I pay for it. I have no problem paying the creators for good stuff.
James Cavell's #Shōgun on #Kobo. Two parts, each is $11 (Cdn). I know its 130…

Grateful Dead Live at Winterland Arena on 1974-02-22
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Daily Inspiration: "Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
"Are you a motivational speaker?"
Hell yes! But not really.
That's the question I always get when meeting new people and the topic comes around to what each of us do for a living. The question quite possibly could drive me nuts, because  I think "motivational speakers" like Tony Robbins and others who encourage people to walk across the fire t…

Daily Inspiration – Future Initiative – “Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!”

“The paper estimates that in the 50 years since 1974, vaccines prevented 154 million deaths.

“Of that 154 million, 146 million lives saved were among children under 5, including 101 million infants. Because the averted deaths were so concentrated among young people, who on average would go on to live for 66 years, vaccines gave their beneficiaries an astounding 9 billion additional years of life.”
From: @…

Daily Inspiration: "Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
"Are you a motivational speaker?"
Hell yes! But not really.
That's the question I always get when meeting new people and the topic comes around to what each of us do for a living. The question quite possibly could drive me nuts, because  I think "motivational speakers" like Tony Robbins and others who encourage people to walk across the fire t…

Daily Inspiration – Future Initiative – “Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!”

Daily Inspiration: "It's better to construct an understanding instead of manufacturing fear!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
The long version is this: "It's better to construct an understanding of what tomorrow might bring instead of manufacturing fear about what it might take away!"
I've got a steady stream of keynotes on the books going well into the fall. One of them, in October, will be for the Chicago-based Great Lakes Construction Association. This i…

Daily Inspiration: Personal Development & Innovation – “You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely.

Daily Inspiration: "It's better to construct an understanding instead of manufacturing fear!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
The long version is this: "It's better to construct an understanding of what tomorrow might bring instead of manufacturing fear about what it might take away!"
I've got a steady stream of keynotes on the books going well into the fall. One of them, in October, will be for the Chicago-based Great Lakes Construction Association. This i…

Daily Inspiration: Personal Development & Innovation – “You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely.

Petelo Vicka et son Nzazi – Sungu Lubuka
https://amf.didiermary.fr/petelo-vicka-et-son-nzazi-sungu-lubuka/
En septembre 1974, le festival “Zaïre 74” avait fait monter la pression sur toute une génération de musiciens locaux, en les poussant Š inj…

Petelo Vicka et son Nzazi - Sungu Lubuka - African Music Forum
Petelo Vicka et son Nzazi - Sungu Lubuka - From Congo Funk! - Sound Madness From The Shores Of The Mighty Congo River (1969​-​1982)

Daily inspiration: "You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely." - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's all about a series of choices.
You can choose to be a barrier, or you can choose to be a gateway. Someone forging a path for going forward, or on a road looking back, towards a destination called tomorrow instead of getting back to yesterday. A mindset that chooses to be part of the change process to get there or one that chooses to get …

Daily Inspiration: Personal Development & Innovation – “You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely.

Daily inspiration: "You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely." - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's all about a series of choices.
You can choose to be a barrier, or you can choose to be a gateway. Someone forging a path for going forward, or on a road looking back, towards a destination called tomorrow instead of getting back to yesterday. A mindset that chooses to be part of the change process to get there or one that chooses to get …

Daily Inspiration: Personal Development & Innovation – “You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely.

Daily inspiration: "One day soon, we’ll recognize that at this very moment in time, we were on the edge of the arrival of the end of reality - and didn’t have a plan to deal with it" - Futurist Jim Carroll
So this happened.
You can scan to about 0:28 on the timeline for the actual incident - with the whole thing being captured automatically on 4 of the cameras on the car when it happened back on February 4. A Tesla Model 3 actually has 8 cameras though - and so I filled…

Daily Inspiration: AI & Risk – “One day soon, we’ll recognize that at this very moment in time, we were on the edge of the arrival of the end of reality – and didn’t have a plan to deal with it”

Daily inspiration: "One day soon, we’ll recognize that at this very moment in time, we were on the edge of the arrival of the end of reality - and didn’t have a plan to deal with it" - Futurist Jim Carroll
So this happened.
You can scan to about 0:28 on the timeline for the actual incident - with the whole thing being captured automatically on 4 of the cameras on the car when it happened back on February 4. A Tesla Model 3 actually has 8 cameras though - and so I filled…

Daily Inspiration: AI & Risk – “One day soon, we’ll recognize that at this very moment in time, we were on the edge of the arrival of the end of reality – and didn’t have a plan to deal with it”

#NowPlaying - sunday evening in dub with king tubby. playing around with a few riddim databases. none i've found quite live up to the wild potential of the data in terms of mapping producers/versions/artists/sources or even being able to easily look up a given #dub & figure out the original riddim,…

This is big!
And my self-hosted Ghost site is over at https://daily.jimcarroll.com
https://activitypub.ghost.org/?re…

Daily Inspiration: "To be a part of tomorrow, you need to be a part of the journey!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
An organization will never successfully get to where it needs to go if it doesn't have the full support and understanding of its team - and in some cases, my role is to help build that support and understanding.
Here's a photo from when I was doing a stage check on Friday in Birmingham, England, before my keynote Saturday for service managers of KwikFit, an…

This is big!
And my self-hosted Ghost site is over at https://daily.jimcarroll.com
https://activitypub.ghost.org/?re…

Daily Inspiration: "To be a part of tomorrow, you need to be a part of the journey!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
An organization will never successfully get to where it needs to go if it doesn't have the full support and understanding of its team - and in some cases, my role is to help build that support and understanding.
Here's a photo from when I was doing a stage check on Friday in Birmingham, England, before my keynote Saturday for service managers of KwikFit, an…

So, today, I'll have an AI create a musical tune right on stage during my keynote for KwikFit managers.
Something like this.

So, today, I'll have an AI create a musical tune right on stage during my keynote for KwikFit managers.
Something like this.

"Yesterday's knowledge won't cut it in tomorrow's world" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I asked an AI to draw a picture of a car from 'the olden days,' and this is what it imagined. It might be more complex than vehicles actually used to be!
But let's talk about cars. By the time you are reading this, I'll be making my way over to Birmingham, England, where on Saturday I'll speak to several hundred managers of KwikFit automotive service locations…

"Yesterday's knowledge won't cut it in tomorrow's world" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I asked an AI to draw a picture of a car from 'the olden days,' and this is what it imagined. It might be more complex than vehicles actually used to be!
But let's talk about cars. By the time you are reading this, I'll be making my way over to Birmingham, England, where on Saturday I'll speak to several hundred managers of KwikFit automotive service locations…

Daily Inspiration: "Never hesitate to take on the tough stuff!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
In some situations, people are eager to take on the message of change; in other cases, not so much.
That doesn't mean you should try to avoid the latter.
There are a. number of keynotes coming up from now through the fall of 2024, and each and every one is somewhere in my mind. I'm always thinking about them, the issues that will be on the table, and the challenge that t…

Daily Inspiration: "Never hesitate to take on the tough stuff!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
In some situations, people are eager to take on the message of change; in other cases, not so much.
That doesn't mean you should try to avoid the latter.
There are a. number of keynotes coming up from now through the fall of 2024, and each and every one is somewhere in my mind. I'm always thinking about them, the issues that will be on the table, and the challenge that t…

Daily Inspiration: "Excitement should be your destination, and innovation your mode of transport!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Some of the events at which I speak feature a 'graphic recorder' - an individual who creates a digital image-based overview of the key points in my keynote, doing this in real-time while standing next to my stage, This is the one that was created while I spoke at CattleCon 2024 in Orlando.
Moments before I took the stage, the graphic recorder…

Daily Inspiration: "Excitement should be your destination, and innovation your mode of transport!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Some of the events at which I speak feature a 'graphic recorder' - an individual who creates a digital image-based overview of the key points in my keynote, doing this in real-time while standing next to my stage, This is the one that was created while I spoke at CattleCon 2024 in Orlando.
Moments before I took the stage, the graphic recorder…

Daily Inspiration - "Don’t just show up. Show up with ideas!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
There are a lot of people who go through the motions. Put in the minimums. Barely get involved. Never contribute. The fact is, it never ends up working well for them.
Are you one of those people? Consider how this puts you out of touch with the rest of those around you:
No one likes the person who only tears ideas down rather than offering up their own
No one remembers the p…

Daily Inspiration - "Don’t just show up. Show up with ideas!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
There are a lot of people who go through the motions. Put in the minimums. Barely get involved. Never contribute. The fact is, it never ends up working well for them.
Are you one of those people? Consider how this puts you out of touch with the rest of those around you:
No one likes the person who only tears ideas down rather than offering up their own
No one remembers the p…

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Daily Inspiration: "Retirement? It's no longer a number, it's a phase!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Years ago - many years ago, it seems - I wrote this into an article:
"Are you ready for a world in which the concept of "retirement' has come to an end? If not, you'd better be, as this is likely to rapidly emerge as the most significant issue for every organization through the next ten years. That's because right now, we have a "perfect stor…

Hey @… - you there?

Daily Inspiration: "Retirement? It's no longer a number, it's a phase!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Years ago - many years ago, it seems - I wrote this into an article:
"Are you ready for a world in which the concept of "retirement' has come to an end? If not, you'd better be, as this is likely to rapidly emerge as the most significant issue for every organization through the next ten years. That's because right now, we have a "perfect stor…