(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best business management & leadership books
We found 4,460 Reddit comments discussing the best business management & leadership books. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 1,469 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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22. Practical Lock Picking: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide
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23. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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24. The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
- Shedding new light on your baby's sleep patterns and helping you set realistic goals
- Showing you how to analyze, assess, and improve your baby's sleep patterns using sleep logs
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25. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
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26. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
- Princeton University Press
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27. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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28. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
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29. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Sprint How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
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30. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
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31. Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
- Oxford University Press USA
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32. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- Dey Street Books
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33. The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
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34. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)Fifth Edition
PMBOK 5th Edition
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35. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
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36. Unwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition
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37. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
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38. Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
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39. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
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40. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
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> When you mean fully patched, do you mean fully updated, fully protected, or something else?
Fully patched. For Linux, this means the latest version of the kernel and the latest version of all critical software (e.g. web browsers, FTP, SSH, etc.)
> So DefCon, in laymen's terms, gives you a cert that allows you to protect yourself from people messing with your traffic and eavesdropping (through microphones and cameras?), and lets you use the secured wifi? This sounds super interesting, but I have no clue how any of it works, haha.
The certificate allows you to do two things: 1.) authenticate the network, so you know for sure that you're on the network you think you are, talking to the router/access point you expect. 2.) Exchange a cryptographic key with that endpoint to ensure that all of your communications are free from tampering and eavesdropping. Key exchange mechanisms and certificate validation are huge topics. If you're interested, a good (though heavy) text to start with would be Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". There are also a number of good introduction to crypto courses, most of which will cover key exchange and cert authentication, available on Coursera and other online lecture sites.
> Are clear-body locks commonly sold/available? If so, they sound right up my ally!
Yep. Easily available on Amazon. Here's a set of 6 different styles for <$40: https://www.amazon.com/MICG-Transparent-Practice-Training-Locksmith/dp/B01H1MM1O2/
Here's the most common kind of lock (basic pin-tumbler) in a padlock form-factor on sale for $10 right now: https://www.amazon.com/BESTOPE-Professional-Practice-Beginners-Locksmith/dp/B00UF76C1Y/
> Is it normal to have stuff fall off and start messing with the internals of the locks?
Not as such, but most lockpicking tools are steal or titanium. Very often the internals of the lock are a copper alloy of some kind which is softer. Harder metal scraping on softer metal leads to flaking and pitting. Over time, the pits lead to binding and the flakes stick in the lock body and gum up the works. So things don't just break usually, but it can mess up the lock over time. If this leads to binding while a tool is in there, then it can be a bad time. Your tools can also sometimes bend or break small springs or other internals on certain kinds of locks.
Other good beginner guides: I like Deviant Ollam's "Practical Lockpicking": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897/
The MIT Lockpicking Guide is also pretty good (available free online). Other than that, if you can get old locksmithing manuals or references, they can really help fill in knowledge once you get the basics. New ones are HEINOUSLY expensive (the economics of rare, valuable knowledge get super weird), but sometimes you can find old ones for cheaper on eBay. Some people have also had lock with going-out-of-business sales for locksmiths or even just walking in and asking if they have any they'd like to get rid of. (Also sometimes works for old busted locks to practice on.) But at least in my area the locksmiths tend to sell their manuals online and junk their old locks for scrap, so I haven't personally had much luck there.
Hacking is a huge topic and means different things to different people. It has a huge number of specialties, so it's hard to get a start sometimes. It also helps to learn by doing. Hackers often develop their skills by doing wargames and "CTFs" that pose hacking related problems. A couple of good intro ones are OverTheWire (especially the "Bandit" set of problems) and HackThisSite.
http://overthewire.org/wargames/
https://www.hackthissite.org/
Expect that when you're starting out, you won't know a lot. Google is your friend. Other hackers are your friend. Most of the WarGame sites have IRC channels, so you can ask questions and get help.
There's also some introduction courses, but be wary of any of them that aren't oriented to hands-on doing. Hacking is about messing with things and breaking them in creative ways. Watching a lecture about hacking is a little bit like reading a recipe when you're hungry: a good start, but it won't do you much good unless you act on it.
A lot of the talks from hacker cons are available for free on YouTube. Search for DefCon talks and just watch a few and try and follow along. Google terms or concepts you're not familiar with. Where you can, try stuff out that you see (learn how to set up a virtual machine to play with so that when you break your box (and you will, if you're doing it right) you can just restore and not actually lose anything important.) Over time you'll learn more. If there's a particular area you get interested in, ask other hackers that you know or people you've met how to learn more.
> Before I forget, I want to thank you for all of your help. This is all really informative and great stuff, and I really appreciate taking the time to answer all of my questions!
Happy to help. I got a ton of help from random hackers when I was getting started and I still do even now. Hacking isn't like other disciplines. It's too chaotic and creative and fast-moving, so you really have to find your own way in it. As a result, hackers (the decent ones anyway) tend to be pretty good about helping each other out.
And if/when you fall down the rabbit hole and learn a bunch and someone else is looking for more information and comes to you with questions, then it'll be your turn to help them out.
> Fully patched. For Linux, this means the latest version of the kernel and the latest version of all critical software (e.g. web browsers, FTP, SSH, etc.)
So you make sure to update your device before entering the con? Is that because hackers have found exploitations in previous versions?
> The certificate allows you to do two things: 1.) authenticate the network, so you know for sure that you're on the network you think you are, talking to the router/access point you expect. 2.) Exchange a cryptographic key with that endpoint to ensure that all of your communications are free from tampering and eavesdropping. Key exchange mechanisms and certificate validation are huge topics. If you're interested, a good (though heavy) text to start with would be Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". There are also a number of good introduction to crypto courses, most of which will cover key exchange and cert authentication, available on Coursera and other online lecture sites.
That makes sense! So it's a security blanket for your device to make sure you're not on an unsafe network where who knows what could happen.
I did learn a bit about cryptography and cert/key exchange mechanisms in an AP computer science class, but forgot most of it, haha.
Is Applied Cryptography meant for those who already have a background/knowledge in cryptography?
> If this leads to binding while a tool is in there, then it can be a bad time. Your tools can also sometimes bend or break small springs or other internals on certain kinds of locks.
Gotcha, definitely gonna use clear locks first so I can at least get a feel for when something is mucking up.
> Other good beginner guides: I like Deviant Ollam's "Practical Lockpicking": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897/
> The MIT Lockpicking Guide is also pretty good (available free online).
I'm curious, do these do a good job of both explaining the mechanisms behind the locks, terminology, and how to pick a lock for beginners? I just want to make sure before I start reading them (or at least when I do start reading them).
> Other than that, if you can get old locksmithing manuals or references, they can really help fill in knowledge once you get the basics. New ones are HEINOUSLY expensive (the economics of rare, valuable knowledge get super weird),
I think I have one locksmith nearby me, so I might stop by and see what they have lying around.
Is there a reason new ones are notoriously expensive?
> Hacking is a huge topic and means different things to different people. It has a huge number of specialties, so it's hard to get a start sometimes. It also helps to learn by doing. Hackers often develop their skills by doing wargames and "CTFs" that pose hacking related problems. A couple of good intro ones are OverTheWire (especially the "Bandit" set of problems) and HackThisSite.
So would these websites introduce me to the world of online/computer hacking (apologies if that's the wrong terminology)? I'm somewhat spoiled/misguided by media sources like Mr. Robot, so I don't know what's true and what's fictitious/common in today's world.
> Expect that when you're starting out, you won't know a lot. Google is your friend. Other hackers are your friend. Most of the WarGame sites have IRC channels, so you can ask questions and get help.
If you don't know the answer to this, totally understandable: are most hackers willing to help out new-to-the-scene hackers? I know some communities (not related to hacking, but in general) are very quick to judge and ridicule newcomers to the scene.
> There's also some introduction courses, but be wary of any of them that aren't oriented to hands-on doing. Hacking is about messing with things and breaking them in creative ways. Watching a lecture about hacking is a little bit like reading a recipe when you're hungry: a good start, but it won't do you much good unless you act on it.
Knowing me, watching a lecture wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I'm fine with watching and learning concepts as long as it's interesting, y'know?
> Where you can, try stuff out that you see (learn how to set up a virtual machine to play with so that when you break your box (and you will, if you're doing it right) you can just restore and not actually lose anything important.) Over time you'll learn more. If there's a particular area you get interested in, ask other hackers that you know or people you've met how to learn more.
I do have a Virtual Box set up for both Linux and Windows 7 (I think), so luckily I already have a playpen set up. I just hope that I can find some way of starting out hacking, since it does seem fun.
> It's too chaotic and creative and fast-moving, so you really have to find your own way in it. As a result, hackers (the decent ones anyway) tend to be pretty good about helping each other out.
When you mean chaotic and fast-moving, do you mean that there's always new techniques and ideas coming out? I'm always a little nervous to step into a fast-moving scene in fear of focusing too much on something that has the potential to be outdated by the time I've finished learning it, y'know?
> And if/when you fall down the rabbit hole and learn a bunch and someone else is looking for more information and comes to you with questions, then it'll be your turn to help them out.
That'll be the day; I'd love to help someone in the future who's in my shoes today.
Awesome, thanks for waiting, I appreciate it. First off, I am neither a pastor nor classically trained in any way regarding this stuff, just another guy searching for the truth (although I bet I'm a little older so maybe I have been through some of the questions you have).
Before I jump in, I want to kind of set the stage a bit, if you don't mind. First, what does it mean to be a Christian or to be a follower of Jesus? Does it mean believing in a worldwide flood? Does it mean believing in a Young Earth Creation? Does it mean we can't believe in evolution? I think you will find that Christianity tolerates a wide variety of viewpoints, even though specific denominations and adherents may not. There are some things that are pretty central to Christianity, what we might call Mere Christianity, which falls along the lines of the Apostle's Creed. Whenever you hear critiques of Christianity, it is nice to go back to this foundational belief set and see if the critiques actually chip away at the bedrock (which is expressed in the creed) or just at the periphery. I find that they rarely do.
Second, when we look at stories written in the Bible, I want to state that it is wrong to just pick and choose what to believe but it is right to pick a consistent model of interpretation and apply it. This means that I don't have to take things literally (like the "trees clapping their hands" when alluding leaves brushing together in the wind) but I do have to be consistent. We should also read the Bible with the genre of each book in mind. Obviously the poetry of Songs of Solomon should be treated differently from a letter of Paul or a book of laws like Deuteronomy.
Let me try now and respond to some of your specific problems.
> However many Creationists say that I have to believe in a literal interpretation
As William Lane Craig says, the creation story allows for "all manner of interpretation". Even the great church fathers like St Augustine discussed how the world possessed potencies created by God that would unravel over time. The Catholic Church has explicitly said "Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation". So, I think this is an example of something that is on the periphery. Believing in evolution (or not) isn't central to being a Christian. The only part of evolution that would be unacceptable to the Christian would be that it is wholly unguided which is a metaphysical questions which Science, in principle, could not discern.
> Noah's ark
There are a lot of ways to address this. Are you open to the existence of miracles? Did the writer of Genesis mean the whole world or the known world? Are there far fewer "kinds" of animals (which Genesis refers to) rather than "species"? Is the believer committed to a global flood and not just a flood of the known world? I think answers to these questions invite a number of responses that give Christians a broad spectrum of beliefs.
> Evolution
As I mentioned before, Theistic Evolution is a commonly accepted belief. I happen to think that evolution is both wildly improbable and did happen. I believe it was guided or superintended by God.
> God is omni benevolent, omnipotent and omniscent then how can evil be allowed
This is a really big question to which there are several responses, all of which combined, IMHO, make a pretty strong case that we would actually expect there to be evil. The first and foremost response is the Free Will defense. It wouldn't do justice to the problem for me to try and rehash the arguments here, so I have linked to another place where I have discussed this issue and I am happy to discuss further if you follow up with more questions.
> Why is it that a woman is "unclean" for longer if they have a baby girl than if they have a baby boy? That seems a bit sexist to me.
I don't know, but I generally believe that the law of the OT was created to allow a society to survive. Because of Free Will, mankind had to progress. We learned. We weren't ready for everything all at once. This is one of the areas where I struggle the most (I have 3 daughters). If anything, it pushes my position on Biblical Inerrancy. And even if I had to abandon that doctrine, it wouldn't mean that I couldn't still come to believe in Mere Christianity.
> science and logic seem to be so in favour of atheism
Here is where I am confused. I have found Christian Theism to be eminently more consistent with the data of experience and our logical understanding than atheism and naturalism. On Atheism there is ultimately no foundation, everything is just a giant brute fact. The Universe just exists for no reason at all. IMHO, Atheism and Naturalism are permeated with philosophically undercutting problems.
If you get a chance, I would highly recommend you read two things, one by a Christian philosopher and one by an atheist philosopher. I would be happy to purchase you a copy of the latter's book if you cannot afford it yourself. The first is available in PDF and is Alvin Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism which shows that if Naturalism and Atheism are true, one cannot rationally believe in them, because one must admit that our mental faculties are selected for survivability and not truth. The second is a stunning book by the widely regarded atheist thinker Thomas Nagel called Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Reality is Almost Certainly False. Before you do anything else, I would read these two books, really dig down and spend some time with them, looking up terms and making sure you understand the arguments. I think you will find, like I did, that the atheist, naturalist philosophical stance is only superficially superior, and that there are great, unworked faults that lie at the center of a matter-first model of philosophy.
> when I pray, I feel nothing
I'm right there with you bud. I don't recall ever feeling the direct presence of God when praying. I feel God mostly in his discipline of me. Hebrews 12:16 "because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son."
My belief in God is only loosely supported on what most people could call an experiential event. I believe in God with all my heart, soul, strength and mind. I am just straight up convinced.
Please feel free to ask any more questions you might have!
Hi I'm a graphic designer, UX engineer, and I have worked for a lot with a bunch of different PMs. Some have been great and some treat people really badly. I can share what was most effective for me and the other graphic designers I have worked with.
When it comes to the long hours I would like to ask who is making the estimates for the projects? I really recommend including the designers when you are making your estimates and scoping out the work. This not only will help you get better estimates but it creates buy in from the designers so that they feel more committed to meeting those estimates. I have seen PMs throw work over the wall to people to complete in unrealistic time frames or unrealistic prices. The person doing the estimate didnt know rendering an animation would take 4 days and 100% use of someone's computer etc. All parties end up blaming each other for not having the right talents and in the end its just the project that is put at risk.
As far them asking other resources to be involved. Somewhere they got the notion they could do that, they feel they have no choice, or they are doing some skill swapping and team building between departments. I really recommend looking into why this is happening before bringing down the hammer on anyone, a lot of times there is some other resource issue occurring that needs to be resolved. If you can approach it as a way to help solve their underlying problem people are more likely to be open to change.
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This may seem lame but I totally recommend reading the PMBOK for reference. Don't feel like you have to take the test but I think it covers a lot of the responsibilities of PMs well. PMBOK
Sorry if this is very pro designer but I have seen way way too many PMs just pretend we aren't people. If you can gain peoples respect you have have an awesome job. Hope this helps. Good luck.
>Things are made of behaviors that are made of behaviors
>
>Well this claim is disputable. One might simply reply that science only observes behaviors but has a blind spot on ontological reality. This was a criticism even Russel (and others) raised.
I don't mind making claims that are disputable, as long as they are reasonable. Do you accept that it is possible that there are only behaviors, and that such a description is coherent and useful, if possibly open to being wrong? I am quite pleased that you see that this behaviors-only view is informed by and compatible with science - that was my primary goal.
Yes science only observes behaviors, and it is able to say a great deal about the world with just that. While it is good to keep an eye out for these blind spots, I am still waiting for the god or platonic object of the gaps to rear its head and be relevant. Do you claim to know there is actually something in the blind spot worth caring about?
>It highlights the world in a very different way... which might not fit the narrow mechanistic vision we all try to fit everything now, but there is no reason to think such mechanistic view is true, in fact there are good reasons to think it's not correct. Thomas Nagel (not a religious guy at all) presents a good case in his book Mind and Cosmos 1
Thanks for that source. I have added it to my audible list, but I can tell from the title and and little poking around wikipedia that someone is about to argue for the mind to somehow be special and magical and mystical, as separate from the rest of the cosmos. I have heard the name Nagel thrown around too much to not read this.
>First I think it's pretty clear that the distinction between a table and a tree does exist, since tree grow, but tables are something that are necessarily imposed by humans on a tree.
A tree and a table are different whether that table was made by humans or by natural forces. You can make a table that grows, at least in theory, just as you can have a brain-in-a-vat thought experiment. You could also just grow a tree into a table. If your metaphysics is limited by what humans do, it will have a built-in lack of imagination.
To contradict your point, the difference between the table and tree is just one of arrangement and behavior. A car that is running because it has fuel and spark doesn't have a magical life essence or a quality of moving - its parts are just moving because they are arranged right. A broken car behaves different from working one, as its arrangement is different. I will say it again - Any unique arrangement of matter has unique causal powers. What you are doing is drawing special importance to some arrangements and behaviors over others. To me they are all just arrangements. The difference between living and dead, conscious or not, thermonuclear or not, reactive alkali or not, radioactive or not, these are all important things to notice, but they don't exist in different worlds or different sets of descriptions. They are all behaviors that result from behaviors. You can fill libraries with the very important differences and details here, but you cannot claim that properties or consciousness or qualia are metaphysically special. All that is results from the mechanistic behavior of things. My additional claim beyond garden-variety materialism is that you can eliminate the mech and just say behavior.
>The "field view" seems to reflect what we observe experimentally, but this does not mean necessarily it is ontologically true ... Right about 120 years ago scientists thought their physical view of the world was complete and done
It sounds to me like two completely different topics here. One is accuracy of a model to fit data, either existing data or new data coming out. I just asked you to not confuse the map and the terrain, and here you are doing it. We went from a model that fit the data well under a materialistic paradigm, to a better model that fit better data well still under a materialistic paradigm. What has changed is map, what has not changed is science's continued confidence that the terrain is mechanistic and can be described ever better by only doing better and better models with better and better data. At no point was materialism upended, and it is materialism we are talking about here, not any one scientific model.
What do you mean by ontologically true, anyway? It doesn't sound like it matters how accurate the latest model is to the latest observations of reality. Is a better map more ontologically true to the terrain? Or are you talking about some feature of reality that cannot be described by an infinitely precise model, because it really works by magic? If so, no level of precision or completeness of science will sway you.
I think essentialism is another attempt to add meaningless dualism with another name attached to it. I would check out this "Real Essentialism", but 50 bucks for a paperback is steep.
Books on project management, software development lifecycle, history of computing/programming, and other books on management/theory. It's hard to read about actual programming if you can't practice it.
Some of my favorites:
You can't exactly learn to program without doing, but hopefully these books will give you good ideas on the theories and management to give you the best understanding when you get out. They should give you an approach many here don't have to realize that programming is just a tool to get to the end, and you can really know before you even touch any code how to best organize things.
IF you have access to a computer and the internet, look into taking courses on Udacity, Coursera, and EDX. Don't go to or pay for any for-profit technical school no matter how enticing their marketing may tell you you'll be a CEO out of their program.
Other books that I found really useful, informative, motivating and accessible in high school include Feynman's QED -- a really cool introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics that I read my senior year -- and Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. I think somebody mentioned it already.
Mathematics, the Loss of Certainty is a really good discussion on the history of math. Also quite accessible. I read it my freshman year of college.
More tangential books that I've enjoyed include The Drunkard's Walk and Chances Are. They cover similar ground, though, and I like the latter better.
There's also some pretty good fiction that gives you the flavor of some of the mindbending concepts that can arise from physics. Robert Heinlein's Time for the Stars is a good "juvenile" book that takes a step into the Twin's Paradox. Time dilation pops up in Larry Niven's A World Out of Time as well. For solar system level astrophysics, Niven's The Integral Trees postulates a really cool alternative to planets.
I read most the fiction around the time I was in high school, with the exception of Time for the Stars. Ironically, it's the only one that I can guarantee doesn't have "adult themes." I don't know what sort of restraints your parents put on your reading, though. They're all good books.
The other thing, other than books I mean, you can do is find a mentor or club in your area that could help put you on your way. An astronomy club would be a good idea, but there may also be physics or chemistry styled mentors in your area. They're likely to act out of a local university or research center (I live in Huntsville, Alabama, where Marshall Spaceflight Center is located. I know they have outreach/mentoring programs).
Oh, and I know I'm going on, one last thing that I found really useful and fun was my involvement in summer programs. In my case, the big one was Mississippi Governor's School, a three week summer program. It was an awakening from a social standpoint. (Ten years later, a large proportion of my friends either attended it or I know via some connection to it, still.) And it had an astrophysics class, which was awesome. I know other states have programs like it (assuming you're in the US), and MGS at least is easier to get into than commonly believed. People think a counselor's recommendation is required, but it's not and you get two opportunities to attend, between sophmore and junior and junior and senior years. It's unlikely you're in MS, of course, but other places have similar programs.
Good luck with things and keep us posted. :)
I've gotten a lot of emails that look exactly like this one and I immediately delete them because they're spam. You need to answer two fundamental questions: Why should they trust you? and Why should they pay attention to you? You're not giving them a reason to trust you because you're essentially a nobody with no track record. You're not giving them a reason to pay attention to you because there's nothing personalized or unique to them about this email, you talk way too much about yourself, and you don't talk enough about what you can ultimately do for them.
Here's a breakdown of the current email:
> I'm Joe, a Web Developer from X.
Intro is alright. Before that you might want to say, "Hi $name,".
> Recently I found your website, and, was curious if you would be interested in working towards building a new one?
Why? What's the business case for a new website over their old website? What's the benefit?
> I currently work for a web agency in X, who offer web services for small, medium, and, large businesses, though I'm looking for further work to help businesses in the area.
Is it you or the agency offering services? This is confusing. Help businesses do what exactly? You could say, "At $web_agency I've worked on projects for multi-million dollar businesses such as X, Y, Z but now I'm leveraging my experience to help businesses like yours in $your_market do A, B, C."
> I have worked on hundreds of websites and have been working in the industry for nearly 6 years.
But what results did you get? Did you increase sales by X% for ABC company? What can you do for them? Don't make it about yourself.
> Additionally, I have a strong knowledge in SEO, which can help your website perform better within Google's search results.
What's SEO? Why should they care?
> I am really good at what I can do, and, can offer an agency service with non-agency prices.
Don't tell, show. And don't compete on price, please...
> Let me know if this is something you would be interested in.
> If you would like chat and organise a meeting to discuss this further, feel free to email me back, or call me on X
Why not create an attention-grabbing hook like, "$name, let's set up a quick 5 minute call so we can discuss a few ways your website can be improved to increase appointments/sales/etc by 20% like I've done for my other clients."
I suggest you read Pitch Anything and CA$HVERTISING.
There are probably a lot of ways to answer this question, but here are some insights based on a combination of research and lived experience in a similar scenario.
First off, it's great you're at least thinking about this early. Plenty of people put it off in fear of conflict, due to naivete, or because they're too focused on other issues (which may or may not deserve priority). Having this conversation early is important since the longer you work the more expectations can be built around share size and the harder it is to negotiate a solution everyone is happy with.
Second, be wary of an even split. This might make sense if you both feel that you're both bringing an equal amount to the table, but you should both be sure of this. How you evaluate this is a personal choice. There are plenty of equity calculators out there (Foundrs.com has one that I've found pretty reasonable in some instances). A lot of this depends on how vital both of you feel your skills (and hard work) are to the success of the project. You may also get good feedback from others in this subreddit that have had to do splits in a scenario more similar to yours which may work just as well.
Another topic to think about is vesting. It may be unwise to pay out the shares immediately. Vesting helps make sure people stick around and that if they do leave early it's not as messy to buy back their shares so you can use that equity to bring in another person (if you still want to go forward). You can also tie vesting to things like milestones if you like.
Probably most important is that you split shares in a way both of you are comfortable with. Lots of people will say they're okay with a breakdown of shares to avoid having a hard conversation about money, but this can easily become a problem later on when someone feels unfairly compensated for their efforts. This can kill a company, no matter how awkward it may feel having a conversation (especially with a friend) about how much each of you are 'worth', it needs to happen to protect the future of what you're building together.
If you have time, I'd seriously recommend taking a look at the equity splitting portion of the book The Founder's Dilemmas.
I hope this helps. Best of luck to the both of you!
Wow, 24 hours and no replies?!
Fine, you know what? FUCK IT!
Alright, first off - While you can concentrate on physical, understanding the basics of the digital side of things will make you more valuable, and arguably more effective. I'll take this opportunity to point you at Metasploit and tell you to atleast spend an hour or so each week working to understand it. I'm not saying you have to know it backwards or inside-out, just get a basic understanding.
But you said you want to go down the physical path, so fuck all that bullshit I said before, ignore it if you want, I don't care. It's just a suggestion.
Do you pick locks? Why not? Come on over to /r/Lockpicking and read the stickied post at the top. Buy a lockpick set. You're just starting so you can go a little crazy, or be conservative. Get some locks (Don't pick locks you rely on!) at a store, and learn the basics of how to pick.
Your fingers will get sore. Time to put down the picks and start reading:
That reading list right there gives you over 2000 pages to read. Read. Read More.
Tired of Reading? Have you been listening to the Social-Engineer.org Podcasts? 53 quality podcasts right there. Time to catch up!
Tired of listening? Take a break! And by "Take a break" I mean grab your lockpicks, a lock, and start picking while you relax with a Jayson Street video. He's fun to watch, and will hopefully distract you while you try picking a lock. Also, he highlights how you don't have to be a computer-genius to be good at PenTesting. Go watch more of his videos while you pick locks - It's entertaining at least, and informative/educational at best. Now go watch Deviant Ollam's videos if you're done with Jayson Street.
Sounds like a lot? It's not. You'll spend a bit of money getting started with picks, locks, and books. It's the nature of the game, no good way around it. It's time-consuming. You may have to give up playing your favourite games for a while. But the things you learn and skills you develop will pay more than that game did. By the time you're halfway through any one of those books you'll have a much better idea of what questions you want or need to ask in order to progress further and faster every day.
Go to Security Cons. DerbyCon is awesome, and happens in late September, plenty of time to start saving money and making reservations. Talk to people, ask questions, and make connections. You will learn more in those 4 days than some people learn in months or years and you'll have tons of fun.
If you can swing it, attend Deviant Ollam's "Physical Security Skills for Penetration Testers" class. The things you will learn in that class will make it worth every damned penny, and you'll feel like a bad-ass at the end of it.
Is this what you wanted?
I recently read the (old) book The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, and it provides an interesting lens in which to view this landscape.
First of all, there is a lot of emphasis on being first in a market. Soylent is obviously the perfect example of this. They were first, and in many ways this is more valuable in a business sense than other measures of product quality. Soylent, you could say, has become the "Kleenex" of powdered foods - its name is synonymous with the category. Really, it has done what all new businesses would love to do - invent its own category in which to be first, a category with enormous growth potential and no competition. Soylent is the first powdered food, not the newest alternative to Ensure.
Many would-be competitors have sprung up, attempting to be Soylent, with little differentiating them other than availability outside the US (or even availability inside the US, for that matter!). However, one in particular has distinguished itself as a worthy competitor, in a business sense: Joylent.
Instead of trying to copy Soylent exactly, Joylent does an excellent job of positioning itself as "just like Soylent, but opposite" - with flavors in response to Soylent's monolithic blandness, with irreverence and humor in response to Soylent's sterile, clinical seriousness, but with, at the core, a product that is almost indistinguishable in how it is intended to be used and what it means to provide. This is an excellent strategy for reaching a sustainable second place in response to an overwhelming number one - it is Pepsi's response to the dominance of Coca-Cola, for example. And number two in a growing market with unlimited potential is not a bad place to be. Especially if number one happens to stumble somewhere along the way.
For the rest, and I would argue that means everyone other than Soylent or Joylent, the strategy that remains is for each to grab a unique point of differentiation, each with its own niche that it can be identified and known for. To chase after Soylent and Joylent at this point would be foolish. Instead, we can choose one word or concept to own and excel in. For example, who will own the word ketosis? I would argue that a clear winner has not yet emerged here. Or weight-loss? Or even taste or flavor? (Or, dare I say it, cheap?)
Or for an obvious example, it seems that my own Custom Body Fuel owns the word custom within this reddit community, but to be honest I'm not convinced that it is as valuable a word to own at this point as it may seem from the outside. The subset of people who really need customization is a very small subset of an already small niche market, and the operational infrastructure needed to address this niche at scale is still beyond my grasp.
The holy grail, of course, would be to create yet another new category within and yet beyond "powdered foods" in some sense, in which to be the first and best, like Soylent. I don't know yet what that may be (it may be many things) or whether anyone here will come upon it, but it's worth thinking about.
Can check my previous answers on this topic (just answered one a few comments ago) and I work in the field high and long enough to lead and hire teams.
> What are some of the best jobs in hardware engineering ?
Completely depends on your option on 'best'. But in terms of pay it is military hardware R&D and R&D for a company like Intel, but again it depends on a ton of factors.
> What type of hardware engineers work on processors ?
What part? What is takes to make a modern processor is actually very complicated and has a ton of different engineering to it from material science to computer engineering and computer science.
> What type of hardware engineers work with medical technology?
I actually use to work on medical tech and I also have a Biomedical engineering degree, you don't "need" to if you have a solid other engineering degree but it drastically helps.
> Should I go for my masters in hardware engineering ?
Completely depends on what all you want to do, in engineering a masters isn't nearly as required to make a jump in the field as other majors but if you want to get into the deep R&D field then yes.
> I want to start on the management side of the technology field what degrees would help me get at the top of management after college ?
Define "management" because if you just mean things like 'lead developer' and so on then just your the same major with some years of experience.
> Are there any classes that I could watch for free to get ahead in my courses ?
Code academy and various tech talks are good. CMU, MIT, and a few others put up various resources for their programming and computer science classes online.
> What are important coding languages I must learn ?
OH BOY, people fixate WAY to hard on this and honestly one of the biggest ways to "tank". There are for sure 'useful' programming languages that many companies are hiring for but it is much more important to know HOW and WHY programming languages work because it makes it easier to pick up a ton on the fly.
Beyond that one of the "best" starting programming languages to learn is Python. Once you comfortable with that then work with C/C++ and then brush up on how assembly works.
> Are there any math courses that will prep me for the field?
Discrete mathematics is the foundation of modern computer science and one of the biggest things that differentiate candidates I interview.
> Any books that I could read on a daily basses regarding the field ?
This is my 'default' starting book for those interested in the field but might not fully know enough for higher level topics.
Short answer: DO NOT expect to be instantly jumping in to working with some 'really cool shit'. Heck you shouldn't even be really thinking of actual computers and hardware for awhile and learn just how important and how deep the "True Math" we had was.
Excerpted/summarised from Unwritten Laws of Engineering (worth a read in any case - it's good stuff). Mostly obvious, but enough managers screw some or all of these up that it's always worth reposting...
Pick your favourite 5.
For Engineering Supervisors
Constantly review developments and other activities to make certain that actual benefits are commensurate with costs in money, time and manpower.
What Every Supervisor Owes His Workers
when they are in trouble.
Look at George Friedman's The Next 100 Years.
This is a good starting point on how one should be predicting which countries might become great powers and which will decline. His actual predictions don't really matter here, however; the takeaway is that long-term analysis of geopolitics relies a holistic and multidisciplinary approach and situational awareness of world events rather than simple linear extrapolations. Projections of population and GDP and other metrics are not going to give you anything close to the complete picture, even though they deceptively lead you to believe they do.
Anyway, predictions:
Entrepreneur Reading List
Computer Science Grad School Reading List
Video Game Development Reading List
Just be careful, it's easy to fall down the rabbit hole of 'thinking you're being productive' but working ON things instead of "In" things. (Meta-procrastination is reading a book about getting organized instead of getting organized.) You should strive to have the simplest, most boring system that actually works for you. It's very easy to get caught up in the trap of researching the latest and greatest fad rather than actually doing the hard tasks that need to be done.
The 'classic' is "How to take control of your time and your life" by Lakein. This is the most generic, 1970s version of time management possible, but is helpful to understand as it is kind of 'responded to' by multiple other authors, even if they don't call him out by name.
Another frequently referenced work is "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Covey. This gets mentioned in a lot of places. It is a 'top down' style.
For a completely different perspective, try "Getting Things Done" by Allen. This will lead you to realize how many commitments that you have made. It is more 'bottom up'.
Finally, some of the most interesting stuff in this space that I have read is by Mark Forster. His latest book is here. And his blog is here.
At a high level, it is always useful to think about the utility of what you are doing - that is, making sure you are doing the right things, even if you are doing them slowly (working on your most important tasks), rather than doing low value tasks efficiently (man, I can read email quickly). Peter Drucker, Tim Ferriss (Four Hour Workweek), etc.
Other ideas/Books to research: JIT/Kanban, 80/20 'rule', "Eat that frog" by Brian Tracy. Smarter Faster Better by Duhigg, The Power of Habit also by Duhigg I also very much enjoyed. The Magic of Tidying up by Kondo might also give you some insight into cleaning out your commitments.
Hope this helps. I have read all of these so let me know if you have questions I guess...
You should both sign a PIIA. This ensures that all of the IP you're creating belongs to the Company. I was a solo founder to start and signed one myself, even though the idea was mine. This will protect your Company in the long run. http://www.knowingstartups.com/protecting-a-tech-companys-technology-and-other-employment-terms-proprietary-information-and-invention-assignment-agreement/
I had a similar situation and had the difficult conversation. Get your incorporation docs and then have a discussion about how much equity makes sense based on what you each bring to the table:
You can read about how to have this conversation in a structured way in Founder's Dilemmas
https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304
Get incorporated asap so you can set up your restricted stock agreements and then you'll each start vesting your equity. Recommend the standard 4 year vesting schedule with a 1 year cliff. Communicate each of your expectations regarding roles and responsibilities.
Have your cofounder (and you) sign an offer letter or contractor agreement with your terms of work. Set written OKRs and if they're not meeting them, you can fire them.
My first "cofounder" worked w me part time and I had the structured convo and she agreed to 5% for her was fair based on my rationale. She didn't make it a year but as soon as we raised money I paid her back pay as a contractor.
The second woman who started working with me asked for 10% and also started as a contractor. She didn't join me as a FTE until after I'd raised money. I took 70%.
So to her it was fair bc it was my idea, I had taken on all of the risk, put in my life savings, and raised money etc. but our agreement was she would work 30 hours per week and then once she signed, I started the "clock" on her vesting from her first date as a contractor.
I didn't ask her to step up as a cofounder until after we had worked together for 9 months.
FWIW this all happened in 2015. I am still the CEO and we are now worth $40MM. She's still my cofounder but her role will continue to change in the company as the needs of the company change (she knows this and is on board).
So, while these conversations felt super hard at the time, I'm grateful I had them and that we all agreed what was fair and why from a business side. It's good practice for more difficult conversations you'll have w your cofounder in the future, like if you need to hire over them. Everything you both do must be in the best interest of the company.
I hope you enjoy the book, it really helped me.
Be careful about your equity bc it becomes the most valuable thing you have. Open conversations help to squash resentment. You never know, maybe your cofounder doesn't expect 50% or perhaps they only want to work part time... or start later after you raise. There's no one "right" way to do it.
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Second Influence. Getting Everything You Can is good if you are basic in marketing, I would not recommend it for people who are more advanced.
If you don't know what a "business goal" is, you need to read this:
Have you read Pantley's - No Cry Sleep Sleep Solution? I know gentle parenting is hard when you are frustrated, but she has some good tips, like how to create a bedtime routine and how to stick with something for 10 days.
I work full time, and, although I would love to be home with my daughter, most days I feel like this is a blessing. It gets me out of the house, makes me feel like I can have real adult interactions and gives me a sense of purpose. Plus, its a break. I can come home feeling emotionally and physicially ready to play with my toddler again. I know its not a possibilty for everyone, by maybe working might help? Or even Voulenteering with your daughter, Lots of people love babies, voulenterring to visit old folks or making play dates with other children (although both of these can be stressful) might help.
I know you already know this, but taking care of yourself first is the only way you have enough to give to another person. It takes a village to raise a child.
As you realize becoming great at social skills is just like training any other skill. Realizing you can train it will allow you to build the skill stronger than others who stumble into it. So many will say you can't get better or amazing by reading in a chair. They're right. Read a little, apply a lot, take notes, then review what you did right and what you did wrong, repeat. Get a mentor or training buddy if you can, it accelerates learning, because we can't see ourselves the same as those outside us can. Make a regimen to go out, greet and meet people every day. Or at least three times a week minimum, make it a habit.
I can tell you that I've been in customer service and sales jobs, they taught me nothing because my skills were garbage and sub-par. So I didn't have a paddle for my raft in the world of social interaction. All I got was "people get irritated if I cold approach or try to sell them. Or worse I have to dump mountains of information to make them feel safe." So after studying for the better part of a decade, here's some points that got me to the basics and more advanced subjects. With the basics under your belt, then a job or daily practice will get you understanding and results.
First, learn how to steady yourself mentally, breathing exercise here. Breathing is important as we seem to be learning your heart rate and beat pattern determine more about our emotions than we'd like to admit.
Second, Accept and love yourself, (both those terms may be undefined or wishy-washy to you at the moment, defining them is part of the journey.) Because you can only accept and love others the way you apply it to yourself first.
Third, pick up and read the charisma myth. It has habits/meditations that will be a practice you use every day. I'd say a basic understanding will happen after applying them over three months. Never stop practicing these basics, they are your fundamentals. They determine your body language. The difference between a romantic gaze and a creepy stare is context of the meeting and body language, especially in the eyes.
Sales or cold approach networking will do the same for practice. If you do sales or meeting new people, it is a negotiation. You're trying to trade "value" (safety + an emotion). So if you figure out how to make yourself feel emotion, then inspire emotion in others, mutual agreements happen. Start with Why is a good reference. Here is a summary video. Chris Voss will help you find out that you don't tap into people rationally, you tap people emotionally, big think summary video. Or the full book treatment, Never Split the Difference. The supporting book for Chris Voss' position can be helped by reading Start With No
For training habits and understanding how we execute behaviors, Thinking, Fast and Slow
For dealing with hard arguments and heavy topics both Nonviolent Communication and Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Learning what listening is, instead of "hearing" people. Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone is a good book for that. This is touched on in Never Split the Difference and in the Charisma Myth because true listening, making the person you are speaking with feel "listened to and understood" is most of what makes a charismatic person work.
My advice is to follow 3 tracks.
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These are things that led me to where I am today. Others may have completely different or contradictory advice. But these are my go to methods. And most of my clients in the past 2 years have come to me. I didn't call them, or post an ad. Generally they found me through a recommendation from a friend, LinkedIn, Twitter, slack group, Dribbble, or at a meeting.
Articles from reputable sources are a decent source of knowledge, but some quality business books will get you an infinitely better understanding of concepts. Here is my personal business book list if you want to get a "universal generalist" understanding of business:
I am graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce Honors degree in May and I can easily say that one of these books (average price ~25$) has significantly more content than most individual classes I have taken (~600$). However, keep in mind that business knowledge and business acumen are two entirely different things. Knowledge is easily obtainable through books like these, and acumen is the result of applied experience with decision making. In short, it is one thing to be book smart, but it is another to get out there and actually apply it. No one can give you that in the form of an article or book - you have to do that yourself.
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Everything starts w/ making a good product
Marketing
Don't have a "leaky bucket"
In normal words: make sure ppl who install your game have a good experience right away and come back. Set up analytics so you can track this. If you are failing, work on the game and don't market yet. You should watch all of these free Y Combinator online startup classes, but #6 is most relevant here.
Design the game to be viral
This is where you've got it easier than normal apps, games can be designed to share and engage other users. I recommend reading Hooked for ideas on how to build a habit forming app that ppl will want to share. NOTE: annoying tricks don't work and no one wants that.
Crossing the Chasm is less relevant to a game but an insightful classic on the old "how do I develop a market for a technology product".
All of these strategy require focused and consistent effort to have a chance. I'm in the same boat you are so hopefully we can make something happen :)
BTW I'd be happy to share my notes on all these books if ppl are interested.
Here is some different advice:
Step 1: get excited. Sounds like you have that part under control. :-)
Step 2:
Don’t worry about a once a day weed habit. My wife smokes, and our kids have turned out amazing. I totally get the desire to be your best. But if weed does it for you, then do it. I believe it helps her be a better mom.
She only ever does it after the kids go to sleep. Or i’ll watch the kids for awhile so she can restore.
Step 3:
Getting the baby, you and your wife regular (all thru the night) sleep is so critical. Our pediatrician was so great and coached us to have all our kids sleeping through the night by 2 months old. It makes a massive difference in your wife’s sanity levels. You’ll be a safer, more engaged parent if you have sleep.
Here is a book I found on Amazon. Pick a winner and take control of this for your family. It’s an amazing gift to your team if you can make this happen.
The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071381392/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_7dwdBbKNKE0D3
Please understand, all three are generally speaking fairly senior roles.
A Project Manager (obviously) manages projects.
Most PMs have a background in business or a technology area that they were good at, but discovered and got really good at managing projects.
An IT PM needs to know a little bit about damned near all technology areas - just enough to know when they need to bring in another resource.
An IT PM needs to know when they are being lied to. The business sets due-dates, and the PM needs to organize resources to meet those dates. Some resources don't want to give accurate or realistic estimates on how long their components will take, which has a snowball effect on project components that depend on that component...
Above all else, a PM must have excellent communication & organizational skills.
Formal Project Management is practically a religion, and this is their holy text: PMBOK
More info here: http://www.pmi.org/certifications/types/project-management-pmp
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A Technical Consultant is a specialist with significant experience & expertise in a given technology area. They know how a particular widget works, and how most businesses tend to use and integrate said widget into an organization. The deeper the history of knowledge and longer the track record of successful projects, the more a consultant tends to be paid.
A consultant will usually be brought in as a resource to be managed by a Project Manager.
The consultant has answers to questions and design or implementation recommendations that will be used by the incumbant technology teams to integrate the widget into their company.
Sometimes a company will engage a consultant and pay them to do everything. You are the expert - just make the widget work, and tell us when you are done. This is a clear indication of a terrible company, with piss-poor management. How will you keep the widget working if you don't know how it works, or how it was implemented in the first place?
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A Solution Architect is a Technical Consultant who has expertise in not just a specific widget, but the entire technology area and/or business operation that will use the widget. They can design or modify your business or technology department or infrastructure to best use a new widget.
These are among the most senior of technologists.
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Question for you:
What happened for you when you went to Google and searched for "wiki project manager" or "wiki technical consultant" or "wiki solution architect" ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_manager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_consulting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_architect
The reason I ask the question is that nearly all IT staff members are paid to solve problems of one sort or another.
Learning something new is just another problem to solve.
If you hope to succeed and excel in this career, you really need to improve your ability to answer questions of this level on your own.
As a senior engineer living in Silicon Valley, I get pitched to all the time by people with "an amazing idea" that nobody has thought of that will change the world. Any engineer worth their weight has heard the same thing left and right.
The fundamental problem is that these "idea guys" think a good idea is all that is needed and the only thing getting in their way of a multibillion dollar valuation is some engineer that won't build this one little thing for them.
The problem is this: successful startup are not just about the idea but also the execution. You've probably heard this all the time how idea is worthless, execution is everything. But what I'm talking about is executing on the business and customer development side. Executing on technology is easy, building a successful business is more than just building the app, it's also about building the business side of the company.
If you follow any of the Lean Startup methodologies, the last step of building a startup is building the product. You don't start building anything until you have paying customers. Prior to that, it's all about Minimally Viable Product to prove a concept. A MVP does not need to be an app; there have been very successful startups that started out with paper mocks as MVP and manual processes as MVP. Even Uber's MVP is a fraction of what it ended up being.
So, I won't laugh you out of the room; I am extremely patient with every pitch that I hear. However, if you want me to take you seriously, bring something to the table. Find me 10 customers that have paid or are willing to buy this product that you are going to release. If you cannot find 10 paying customers* to validate your idea, it tells me a number of things:
So, my advice if you want to be taken seriously, bring something to the table:
Honestly, as an engineer, the two groups that are hard to find are good product managers and UX designers. As an engineer, I'm looking for someone to complement my skills. I am looking for someone that can hustle, do customer interviews and market analysis of the target market. Tech is easy, finding the product market fit is hard.
Anyway, I recommend two books if you are serious about building your concept:
You're neglecting it for some reason, but these look a lot like self improvement ideas plus chores, which I know I don't like to process. They require taking action about yourself, which can be hard.
Peter Drucker has a great point about effective decisions - they must include an action, or they are not decisions at all.
Also at 7 things a day, with 100 things until you clear it out - that means you only clear out your inbox every 2 weeks, which sounds like you're not doing the weekly review!
Here are some tips I can give you, based on your example inbox items:
The GTD podcast has a guided weekly review which can be helpful if you're struggling to do them as well.
> Yes being incomprehensible by essence-energies is special pleading.
You're going to have to explain yourself here. Being incomprehensible is not an ability or a property, if anything its a reference our inabilities rather than anything about God at all. No idea how you get this idea of there being any sort of special pleading here.
> I asked if you buy this, you never did answer...
You've asked for evidence and all sorts of other things but I've only been trying to tell you what the Orthodox Christians teach.
> God of the gaps...
Stop following your script. I'm not saying God explains anything at all. Do we have the theory of everything? Have all questions in science have been answered as well as philosophy, we're all done here? Last I checked we're still searching for a theory of everything... You claim way more than you can support. You shouldn't be a naturalist if you acknowledge how little we actually know...
> Doesn't matter if you reject it, you are giving non-natural properties to a god. Special pleading again.
I've given no properties to God. From the beginning I noted that the Orthodox teach God's essence to be ineffable. The Orthodox do not believe we can ascribe anything to God's essence in any language or idea.
> Yep you did, and you did so in the paragraph above. Sorry, calling your point some other label doesn't change it from being such.
Show me a direct quote, prove your accusations. All I've been talking about is the essence-energies distinction.
> Nope, it is not about me, and immaterial to the discussion.
So you're full of it, got it. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" -Christopher Hitchens
> How quaint that you thing Ivy League gives any weight to an argument as well.
Straw man. I never said that at all. I'm not saying credentials makes me right, they're mere indications of the reliability of my sources. Anybody who knows about quality of education knows Ivy League universities are notorious for being the most selective, most endowed (better resources and more access to said resources, all that jazz), and having award winning faculty like Nobel Laureates etc. Come on now, let's stop pretending like Ivy League Universities are nothing when we know they're among the greatest academic institutions in the world.
> Who said bob's university is not accredited? And for somebody who claims to know, you really don't. You do understand there are differences on how different schools inside a university run and how different fields apply scholarship, do you not?
Who said Bob wasn't accredited? I was merely talking about differences between universities and they do matter as you even acknowledge with accreditation... Your mere reaction right here proves I was right all along and you actually agree with me. Certain universities are better to go to than others, its a fact. Some universities are crap and have shoddy professors and don't prepare you for the field etc. Now I'm not saying going to a university automatically makes another smarter or anything, but it's just a fact of life that the guy who has a Ph.D. from Harvard is going to look a little better than the guy who has a Ph.D. from Pheonix University alright. I mean come on dude, let's just be realistic here. Did you get your alleged doctorate from a not so great institution and that's why you're all weird about this topic?
> Except the fat that everything we do know does...
Uh no we don't, exactly why we don't have a theory of everything lol this paradigm clearly has its limits and its becoming more and more apparent. Hence you have guys like Thomas Nagel (Ph.D., Harvard) showing just where the weakness are in his work Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False published on Oxford University Press in 2012.
> You can't ignore this and say because things are still unknown, that it is god. That argument has failed throughout history and is still invalid today. It is the god of the gaps argument again.
I'm not giving this argument at all. Gosh how many times do I have to tell you this? Stop with the script already and just listen for once.
> Except you have you claim to know he is real,
Nope never made that claim ever.
> you claim that you can know him if you believe in him
Never said this either.
> you claim to know how he thinks
Never said this as well.
> you claim a lot of knowledge about an unknowable being.
And I also didn't make this claim. You're just following your script again...
> If he were truly unknowable, everything you have said has to be false, as you don't know. Which is our point, you don't know.
You clearly didn't check out the links I provided earlier regarding the essence-energies distinction.
> There is something to know, but you would not be able to tell us, so what you say is nothing more than made up.
That's just plain ole invalid. Your conclusion doesn't follow here. If there was something I knew that couldn't be communicated it wouldn't imply that's made up. Please check out the material I gave on the essence-energies distinction.
You can get a really basic pick set from a site like SouthOrd.
My first set was their Pagoda set: http://www.southord.com/Lock-Pick-Tools/Lock-Pick-Set-Pagoda-Metal-Handles-BPXS-12.html
What that made me realize was at my skill level I only really use the short hook and S-rake.
Beyond that I was having issues getting my head around the theory of the inner workings, even with the videos available. I tend to learn really well academically so I picked up "Practical Lock Picking": https://smile.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1501560843&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=practical+lock+picking
From there I picked up a few padlocks at garage sales, then ordered some specifically tiered towards the belt ranking setup here, and I've found them very progressive and enjoyable.
I actually reached out to some friends about 3D printing gear so I can do tear downs (I've got my Master 931 picked pretty well, I just need to tear it down for my next rank and don't want to lose everything).
Spend what you're comfortable spending (you wont be pick bound for fun or skill initially, at least I haven't been thus far), and follow the progression theories posted here, they've done really well by me.
Most importantly:
Don't fiddle with locks that aren't yours, even if you start realizing how much of the world is barred merely by a Master No3.
Don't fiddle with locks that you rely on for protection.
If you plan on carrying around gear verify your local laws.
Good luck and have fun, I'm really enjoying it so far.
Your question is very important. Especially for early stage or even first-time founders, who don't have the right support network yet. There are many more resources like Facebook groups, and youtube channels that you can leverage to learn more about entrepreneurship, specific skills, and industries. Let me know if you're looking for something more specific. I'd be more than happy to give you additional pointers.
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Reddit: I was impressed with the quality and depth that you can get by asking meaningful and targeted questions in the right channels such as r/entrepreneur and r/startups.
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All of the podcasts provide a great learning experience through case studies, founder interviews, and startup pitches. Believe me when I say that whatever challenge you're having someone more experience can very likely help you.
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Launch Ticker News: One of the best newsletters out there that captures the latest tech and business news sent to your inbox several times per day.
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Having been through something like this, I can share my perspective on what makes the difference. Apologies if the second person imperative tense is a bit too much, but it feels right.
Since you don't really have any direct control over what other people think, thinking and ruminating about it becomes a hobby that doesn't actually provide any reward or positive value. Recognize that thinking about how identity groups behave isn't particularly helpful or productive at any level whatsoever, and explore other pursuits! Essentially, try to "change the subject" of what's occupying your mindspace and time by deliberate choice.
So, focus on building, creating, exploring, achieving, helping, contributing, imagining. Find good-hearted and interesting people and befriend them. Pursue hobbies, read, self-educate, go on a hike, join a running club, find people who want to learn to play piano with you. Decide on and pursue a career, think strategically, try to figure out how to have your ducks in a row.
I'm mainly talking about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is really the only technique that has demonstrated consistent results. One doesn't even need a therapist to use it; just keep track of what you're thinking about hour to hour, and every time you're drifting into rumination about wasted time, pinch yourself and think about your plans for your future.
I know it's not always easy to do. Some apps might help. But we're neuroplastic and malleable creatures, and we get better at what we practice. So the main goal is to start practicing other things -- be deliberate about "changing the subject" you're devoting mental energy to.
Hope this helps!
This sub is very hostile to opinions and information they disagree with. A general sign of low education/intelligence/strong system 1 control
I know you're kind of joking/light-hearted, which is why I've chosen to respond to you.
Winning a super bowl in your first year as a head coach is obviously a strong indication that you're going to be a good coach. However, there are coaches who have won Super Bowls and then been proven to be less than great coaches in the NFL. Barry Switzer, Don McCafferty, Jon Gruden, Pete Carroll (?), Mike Ditka...All won a single super bowl. None of them have an amazing coaching legacy. Pete Carroll's is still undecided. I guess Gruden's technically is too.
Doug Pederson seems like a really good coach to me. However, there's no way there's enough information on him yet to say that he's a net positive reflection on Andy Reid's coaching tree.
Hi skunk,
Since everyone is remaining quiet I might as well give this a shot. I'm from a technical background but currently studying PM in my spare time in the hope that I can progress in this direction within my industry.
PMP
It seems like the global standard is the PMP with PMI which requires:
> A secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree, or the global equivalent) with at least five years of project management experience, with 7,500 hours leading and directing projects and 35 hours of project management education.
> OR
> A four-year degree (bachelor’s degree or the global equivalent) and at least three years of project management experience, with 4,500 hours leading and directing projects and 35 hours of project management education.
I'm currently studying towards this. I've taken recommendations from this subreddit (and /r/pmp) and bought:
and
In order to obtain the required 35 contact hours, I bought one of several cheap Groupons for $99. I'm not going to link the course because I don't necessarily recommend it - it should be easy enough to find and people have linked to these in previous posts. It doesn't really matter anyway because it's just so I can "tick that box", as I've learnt everything I need to know from the books.
The exam however will have to be sat in person. I have yet to do this so can't give you any pointers.
CAPM
If you don't match the above criteria, you can always opt for the lower qualification of CAPM (also with PMI) and work your way up.
For this I reccommend CAPM/PMP Project Management Certification, Third Edition and the previously mentioned online course.
Please note that you can potentially pitch anything as a project in the right light, even washing the dishes. Aim high and try to get the hours for PMP if possible.
PRINCE2 & SIX SIGMA
What else? Well, if I'm successful with the PMP and still enjoy PM after the blood, sweat and tears, I'm looking at these two qualifications.
I've already added a few books to my Amazon wishlist but have yet to seriously look into these with enough detail to commit.
I know that the exam for the PRINCE2 foundation level (and possibly practitioner level?) can be sat online with a webcam.
Six Sigma I know very little about except that several colleagues have mentioned it and my industry takes it seriously. However, I don't believe you can do these Six Sigma "belts" online.
Sorry for the serious wall of text but I just thought I'd share everything I know about PM accreditation. This isn't a comprehensive list but I'm planning on doing 90% online so I'm in a similar situation to yourself.
I would be grateful for any feedback myself from experienced PMs on my plans going forward.
And I have these in my list on amazon. Would love to get some opinions on them:
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Make $100,000 a Year or More
by Robert Bly
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Words that Sell
by Richard Bayan
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Tested Advertising Methods
by Caples and Hahn
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Writing That Works
by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
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Confessions of an Advertising Man
by David Ogilvy
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
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The Robert Collier Letter Book
by Robert Collier
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Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose
by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
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Letting Go of the Words
by Janice (Ginny) Redish
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Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
by Harold Evans
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Can I Change Your Mind?: The Craft and Art of Persuasive Writing
by Lindsay Camp
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
by Roy Peter Clark
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Read Me: 10 Lessons for Writing Great Copy
by Roger Horberry and Gyles Lingwood
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Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads
by Luke Sullivan
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WRITE IN STEPS: The super simple book writing method
by Ian Stables
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On Writing Well
by William Zinsser
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The Wealthy Freelancer
by Steve Slaunwhite, Pete Savage and Ed Gandia
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Write Everything Right!
by Denny Hatch
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The Secret of Selling Anything
by Harry Browne
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The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
by Chris Murray
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On Writing
by Stephen King
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Writing for the Web
by Lynda Felder
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Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
by Ann Handley
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This book will teach you how to write better
by Neville Medhora
there are a few really great resources that were mentioned already.
I found Tufte books a little bit abstract and more geared toward data visualization philosophy and not as practical as some of the other resources out there in terms of creating interactive, business-focused data visualizations. While I really like them, it may not be the first ones you grab.
I highly recommend books and blogs by these people---all but Stephen Few are active on Twitter (bolding the highest 3 recommendations):
Stephen Few:
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic:
Stephanie Evergreen:
Alberto Cairo:
Can you explain how I'm being divisive?
I really do appreciate solidarity. My biggest take-away of the election. I'm uncomfortable with it, but I recognize how powerful something like a >50% swing in Republican views based on a changed party stance is.
I voted for Hillary and told friends to. Over 90% of Bernie supports did, too, and considering some of that 10% were probably never-Hillary or conservatives dipping left, that's some pretty good solidarity.
I'm not personally upset about stuff like super delegates. We wouldn't have Trump if the Republican's used them, and Bernie isn't a Democrat. I don't think some of the reactions of Hillary supporters to people that felt disenfranchised by their party are helpful, though. And if things like the leaked "pied piper" strategy are real/impactful the DNC fucked up real bad.
You're right, "neoliberal" isn't a great term. It's got a good amount of drift from its usage in other areas/historical (not that we aren't using roughly the opposite meaning of "liberal" as the rest of the world). Unfortunately I don't have time to write anything with more depth. The flawed shorthand would be the intersection of Bill Clinton/Obama policies and protested Bush policies, primarily the pro-war, pro-big business, pro-surveillance state policies at the cost of social programs.
I think FPTP is awful and we need to do something about campaign finance reform that both parties are disincentivized from doing (especially when in majority). I think (per this book) an unfortunate bit of politics is that when evaluating what platform to adjust to it is more effective to disregard people that are going to vote for you anyway, so you court people that skipped the previous election.
Sorry, won't be able to reply. Cheers
Thanks for sharing the link BirdHerder, you don't understand how much I appreciate you taking the time to write & share your opinion. I absolutely agree with you on the challenge of objective rating on such a subjective concept but we're hoping that society & group adoption would help establish the average norm as I'd imagine it would vary for each community.
Are you able to share with me some of those communities or applications that you feed would find a system like this beneficial? I've been reading the book crossing the chasm & the author keeps mentioning focus on market segments like you have mentioned but my background is biased towards in corruption in developing nations. I would love to know where you see such a system play a beneficial role...
There is a ton of info in the sidebar. The wiki is your friend on free materials.
I highly recommend Lockpicking - Detail Overkill. The Author /u/derpserf used to poke his head in this sub a while back. Really in depth shit. (he would want me to use an expletive)
As far as printed media, I am a huge fan of Deviant Ollam. (Disclaimer: I have hung out with him at Defcon and have a bit of a man crush). He is a super nice guy who is very passionate about teaching what he loves to do. His two books (one about [picking and how locks operate(http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Edition/dp/1597499897) and another on impressioning & bypass methods) are awesome.
Hope that helps.
Edit: added links
Many people mistakenly think that just because they're good at social media that they will be good at social media marketing. It's an entirely different beast.
Do you have any experience in branding or marketing basics? You need to be able to create strategic briefs, messaging guides, create and effectively track goals that will solve your client's pain points.
Recommended books:
Ogilvy on Advertising
22 Immutable Laws of Branding
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
After that I would learn more about content marketing. How to create good, compelling stories that not only engages the brand's followers but stores that legitimately helps them as well.
Blogs to subscribe to:
Content Marketing Institute
Hubspot
*CMI also had a podcast called PNR that is a great way to keep up on latest news, trends and predictions. I recommend subscribing to it.
Speaking of blogs, consider including them as part of your content strategy. They make easy fodder for social posts and drive traffic to the client website.
A few final things to note:
That's about all I got for now. Lemme know if you have any questions.
>you don't need to pretend that dreams are 100% scientifically understood
I never said that. I simply stated that there is no evidence that dreams are anything other than brain activity. In fact, there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that it is only brain activity, and doesn't come from any outside force at all.
>a "drunkard walk" is not sufficient for any scientist
Drunkard's Walk is a term used to express a type of statistical theory. It's fine if you didn't know that.
>I do not discount the possibility that there are non-corporeal entities that are undetectable through current scientific means or organic sensation, which can somehow affect our perceptions or otherwise interact with our unconscious brain.
I discount it because there is no evidence to support it. You may as well believe there is a teapot halfway between here and Mars, or a flying spaghetti monster for that matter.
I believe in evidence. I will follow where that evidence leads. The evidence that dreams are some sort of cosmic vision and not just the brain playing out scenarios is incredibly lacking.
You seem to think I'm arrogant for dismissing your idea in favor of one with greater evidence in it's favor. Try to see it from my perspective; you are claiming that you are party to some secret or greater knowledge of a paranormal or supernatural world, and have at best anecdotal evidence to back up your claim. I on the other hand can go to any campus book store and pick up at least one book about neuroscience that is infinitely more verifiable than any of your anecdotal evidence. Can you really blame me for laughing at your idea?
Awesome! I kind of fell into the job. I was initially hired as a web developer, and didn't even know what BI was, and then got recruited by one of the BI managers and fell in love. To me, it is one of the few places in IT where what you create will directly impact the choices a business will make.
Most of what I do is ETL work (taking data from multiple systems, and loading them into a single warehouse), with a few cubes (multidimensional data analaysis) and SSRS report models (logical data model built on top of a relational data store used for ad hoc report creation). I also do a bit of report design, and lots of InfoPath 2010 + SharePoint 2010 custom development.
We use the entire Microsoft BI stack here, so SQL Server Integration (SSIS), Analysis (SSAS), and Reporting Services (SSRS). Microsoft is definitely up and coming in the BI world, but you might want to try to familiarize yourself with Oracle BI, Business Objects, or Cognos. Unfortunately, most of these tools are very expensive and not easy to get up and running. I would suggest you familiarize yourself with the concepts, and then you will be able to use any tool to apply them.
For data warehousing, check out the Kimball books:
Here and here and here
For reporting, get good with data visualizations, anything by Few or Tufte, like:
Here and here
For integration, check these out:
Here and here
Also, if you're interested in Microsoft BI (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) check out this site. It has some awesome videos around SSAS that are easy to follow along with.
Also, check out the MSDN BI Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/
Currently at work, but if you have more questions, feel free to shoot me a message!
> Are atheist borrowing from the Christian worldview?
Yes! And hear's how: theists philosophers since Plato and Aristotle have painstakingly done the hard work to show that logic, morality and even science are justified in a theistic framework. However, most atheists just assume/adopt this same logic, morality and science without going back and painstakingly working out if atheism can justify these same hallmarks of theism.
One reason they are wrong to assume is the much of the greatest philosophers of all time have admitted materialistic atheism cannot justify these things, from Nietzsche to Kant to recently Nagel. (So this is not an isolated admission) Nietzsche even went so far as to confess:
> only if we assume a God who is morally our like can “truth” and the search for truth be at all something meaningful and promising of success. This God left aside, the question is permitted whether being deceived is not one of the conditions of life.
So yes, atheists just adopt while being ignorant of their own worldview's incompatibility with these principles that can be justified by theism. But ignorance is bliss I guess. :)
>Also, it's worth noting that in my home province of B.C, the provincial liberals have really fucked things up. (I know the federal liberals and B.C liberals aren't technically related, but still.)
For a Poli Sci major, you clearly need to study more. The Wikipedia page of the Conservative Party of Canada states:
>there are other small "c" conservative parties which the federal Conservative Party has close ties with, such as the Saskatchewan Party, the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), and the British Columbia Liberal Party (not related to the federal Liberal Party of Canada).
I also explain the influence of the Federal Conservatives, with a quote from Stephen Harper advocating it, here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/gayjb/if_you_want_a_different_government_you_must_vote/c1m97eo
You know what bothers me about the HST? I'm far from pro-business, but I like to think I'm rational, and I admit I don't see why HST is such an issue because it's a policy that makes sense to me despite being completely the opposite of policies I most support; it seems intuitive, and it has credible mechanisms by which it improves efficiency, what's not to like? Pretty much the only part I dislike is that the Provincial Liberals EXPLICITLY STATED they would not implement it.. As I explain in that reddit comment link, if anything, the shitshow they faced from the provincial NDP and Vander Zalm is the fault of the Federal Conservatives.. the BC Liberals as well, but assigning accountability to the Federal Liberals? Utterly ridiculous.
Nice to see a manifestation of Contamination between the levels of government, though. I had to do a presentation on that.. http://cps.sagepub.com/content/32/7/835.abstract
My boys have never been good sleepers. The advice in the No Cry Sleep Solution combined with Weissbluth's sleep 'schedule' helped a lot in the beginning, but at 6 months out, I needed something stronger as my boys still had opposite schedules and were up a lot at night. I read through a ton of baby sleep books and picked bits and pieces from a bunch. The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight is my current favorite because it has detailed breakdowns by month and a plan that's basic and easy to follow. I don't follow her guidelines 100% because I breastfeed on demand rather than schedule, and they still wake each other up overnight, but, with her help, I have my boys taking naps semi-together and nighttime has gotten a lot easier.
The thing about baby sleep is that you need to figure out what works for you and your baby. Some babies are fine being up every hour. Other babies are not. You can often tell how well a baby has slept by how quickly they go to bed after waking up in the morning or by fussiness. Since tweaking my boys' schedule and being more diligent about putting them down to sleep, both boys are less fussy and my night owl no longer spends all morning trying to get back to bed.
Sleeping through the night should come with growth, but some babies need help more than others. Read through the books and try out a plan for a few weeks. Don't be afraid of letting them grouse or cry for a bit if nothing else works. I swore I would never do CIO before I started on this sleep journey. Haven't had to yet, but I do now believe it's a necessity for some kids, perhaps if better sleep habits aren't taught to them earlier.
Step one I think is to stop nursing to sleep, followed by night weaning :)
For the first part, what I did (and I was in a similar situation, nursed to sleep, then from 12-15 months kiddo started waking 5-6 times a night, it was extremely exhausting), was sit down in the rocking chair as normal, and nurse as normal, but just when he was about to fall asleep, I'd delatch. He'd fuss and I'd rock and croon and talk and sing, if he didn't calm down I'd relatch him, but then delatch again just as he was falling asleep and try to calm him by other means. Rinse and repeat, the first three days it was a long bedtime routine and I questioned what I was doing. But it really only took about a week to get him falling asleep without nursing.
The next step was to maneuver to falling asleep in his own space instead of my lap. Again I did it gradually, by the same method - just when he was looking sleepy I'd move him to his bed. If he cried, I'd shush and rub his back and talk and sing for a few minutes to calm him. If it didn't work, I'd pick him up and get him relaxed, and just when he was looking sleepy I'd quietly put him down again. Again, it was hard at first but after about a week he caught on and it became much easier.
Once he was going to sleep in bed and not nursing to sleep, the 5-6 wakeups a night were reduced to one waking, then getting up really early. Eventually I DID do some "cry it out" but since I'd already gotten him most of the way there it was very brief and not stressful.
The trick here is to get them going to sleep in the same conditions under which they will wake in the night. If they can go to sleep on their own, when they wake up on their own, they're much more likely to just relax and go back to sleep. If something changes (like you're nursing them to sleep, then they wake up and you're gone) it's very jarring, like if you fell asleep in your bed then woke up on the front lawn.
If that sounds good to you, I can tell you I read Dr Gordon's night weaning article, The No Cry Sleep Solution, and the Troublesome Tots website (I guess now it's called "precious little sleep"). I kind of put together things from those three sources and it made a huge improvement. It didn't 100% fix things and we still have some sleep issues but it was a HUGE improvement.
It really depends on if she's eating or comfort nursing. Eating can disrupt sleep but comfort nursing doesn't as much and it's fine to continue. I've had two comfort nursers who like to sleep with a nip in the mouth and we've had to set up co-sleeping (safe) set ups to get them through the first year... (well I'm only at 6 months with #2...)
Doctors often assume nursing is just for food and it's only one of the reasons babies wake to nurse (they often just need contact, cuddles and reassurance). You can transition her sleep association from the breast to something else when she wakes but I'd suggest going slowly rather than using a CIO/Ferber method if she's under 1. I've read the No Cry Sleep Solution and Ferber's Solve Your Baby's Sleep Problems books a few times now and there are a lot of different approaches you can take - I highly recommend reading those books and picking a method that works...but only if you decide that you need to cut down on night nursing.
That being said, if she's growing and you're ok with night feeds, then you don't need to make changes (they can backfire and make her wakings WORSE! at least in my experience!) You might want to check in with a different pediatrician, too. You know your baby best and what works for your family. As long as she's growing and developing, then you're doing what's best :)
I strongly recommend High output management by Andy Grove. Theres a reason it's called the Silicon Valley bible and so many tech leaders swear by it. I've read a lot of leadership books on managing people and this is the one I still keep coming back to.
Theres a lot of good stuff from Peter Drucker (pretty much the first guy to write on management as a discipline) that is timeless. Ironically he was good friends with Andy Grove and you can see some concepts borrowed from Drucker in High output management. The effective executive is probably his best work but Essential Drucker is a good compilation of a lot his stuff.
Eliyahu Goldratts Theory of constraints is really good as well as some of hi ls other stuff. He was accused of just copying old concepts from management science that was 40 years old. Thats probably true, but his books are still fantastic
I am currently working in a data warehousing and business intelligence role at a bank. Aside from the basics of ETL, SQL and OLAP, I would recommend having at least a basic understanding of financial accounting. I have also found it useful to read The Data Warehousing Toolkit as well as some other Kimball books.
For entry-level work, there are two recommendations of related skill that have served me quite well to get my foot in the door and show added value: Excel and reporting.
Every institution needs reports developed and it amazes me how rare it is to find well-built reports that clearly communicate their intended information. Being able to follow a few simple guidelines for effective layout and design go a long way. Edward Tufte wrote the definitive work regarding this, but I use Stephen Few's work for more up-to-date examples.
Excel has proven itself very useful for quick ad-hoc analysis and manipulations. Also, it is a mainstay application for most financial services companies and being fluent in functions, pivot charts and VBA is quite useful.
I used to have this issue as well. I was experimenting tree-like structures (file systems), wiki-like structures (like wikipedia), tag-like structures (like evernote). I was experimenting with different formats like text, physical hand written notes in folders, scanned hand written notes, hand written notes using a wacom...
Of course, I was spending so much time on structuring information and finding the optimal solution that I was not getting any studies done.
Really, there is no best way to organize all information. Different kind of files relate to other files in complex ways, tags will always be kind of off. Different information lends itself to different kinds of visualization and representation. So you'll never reach optimality in this quest of yours.
My tip for you is this: let it go. Don't do it. A first approximation is all you need (drop stuff in a folder with course name, for example), further optimization will only lead to over-fitting.
Another way of putting this issue is in the context of a sort/search problem. The problem here is that sorting stuff is computationally expensive, and so if you can, you don't want to do a sort. Only if you need to search for something many times will sorting the data be computationally worth it. And here is the question for you: how much time are you spending on sorting compared to searching? Are you spending enough time on searching that you need to do a sort so that future searches are quicker?
Personally, I use a mix of dropbox, evernote, google keep and workflowy to organize my stuff.
I use google keep as a kind of "post-it" wall; "remember to buy this book", "this music album was pretty good, check it out", etc.
I write all my lecture notes and book notes on physical paper, then I'll scan them and push them to evernote, with the course tag attached. Old exams and the like also go into evernote.
Finally, labs and stuff that is "volatile", that I need to change often, goes into a Dropbox folder. When the lab is complete, it gets zipped up and sent into evernote as well, for future reference.
So this is how I personally do it. I think it works for me, but you know, everyone is different. :) Good luck.
Edit: The search/sort problem, and the problem of overfitting, and it's applicability to real life, is taken from the book "Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. I love this book, definitely a recommendation from me!
Wow, that's a really broad topic and there is so much written on this.
When you say presentations, do you mean specifically like PowerPoint slides or pitching like getting funding for a business idea?
One of the best places to hear great presentations is Ted.com. You may want to check out [Garr Reynolds] (https://www.ted.com/search?q=garr+reynolds) and his books. Another great resource for presentations is [Nancy Duarte] (http://www.ted.com/search?q=nancy+duarte). Also [Seth Godin] (http://www.ted.com/search?q=seth+godin).
For pitching (selling your ideas or getting funding) I would read Oren Klaff's book called [Pitch Anything] (https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Persuading/dp/0071752854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469128594&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=pitch+anything).
Let me know if that was what you were looking for. Hopefully others will have more ideas!
Sure, although it really depends on which geopolitical facets you enjoy the most.
Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard. Heavily influences US foreign policy. http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1462464442&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=zbigniew+brzezinski
George Friedman's The Next 100 Years. This is the guy that started Stratfor and this book is a large part of why they started getting so much attention. I really like Friedman but I do find his actual prose can be pretty droll. http://www.amazon.com/Next-100-Years-Forecast-Century/dp/0767923057/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1462464571&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=george+friedman
Charles Lister's The Syrian Jihad. Good read. http://www.amazon.com/Syrian-Jihad-Al-Qaeda-Evolution-Insurgency/dp/0190462477?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=charles%20lister&amp;qid=1462464907&amp;ref_=sr_1_1&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1
Any of Kissinger's books would probably be worth reading. Even if you don't like the guy, he's not dumb by any stretch, and he's still pretty influential.
If I think of more I'll post 'em.
I can't cite an exact source, but data scientist Seth Stephen-Davidowitz (author of Everybody Lies, one of my favorite books of 2017) has pointed out that the two most common Google searches coupled with "how to buy Bitcoin" are "how to get rich quickly" and "what is Bitcoin?." It seems to me that, while likely more valuable than a fiat currency inflated to serve special interests (rant, sorry), Bitcoin could have value as a market-determined currency like gold or silver, but not now. People are looking to get rich and that will cause it to crash.
I rather like Unwritten Rules of Engineering. Quite short at 70 pages. While written in 1944 and for Engineers largely before CS was a profession the dynamics that happen in workplaces have not changed all that much. The negatives are fairly minor, it tends to advocate a more formal set of interactions which seem less common in some parts of the industry and that the booklet is written using he/him for the Engineer.
Some highlights
communication skills
interactions with your boss
interpersonal interactions
I'm no expert in database certification so I won't comment on them, but they sound expensive. I'm sure you could go a long way in improving your skills by working through some free resources and classic texts.
A nice tutorial on fundamentals is:
http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/
A classic introductory to intermediate text is the following. It can get you amazingly far because even advanced topics are explained well:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/
Don't get thrown off by the publication year. The fundamentals of relational databases have barely changed for decades.
An excellent in-depth look at database theory is presented in:
http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Databases-The-Logical-Level/dp/0201537710
For data warehousing and analytical querying (beyond Ramakrishnan et al) this is a great resource:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
Source: I'm a graduate student in databases.
Sorry to derail your post. It's Thinking Fast and Slow. The author won a noble prize for his discovery on how the mind works and this book summarizes his thought experiments. A fair warning however, I have never seen the world the same way again after that book.
>In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
>Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
Further reading/research: (Not all of which I've gotten to read yet. Some of which may be quite tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand along with the books and sites I mentioned above. Consider this more a list of books pertaining to the history of technology, machining, metrology, some general science and good engineering texts.)
Dan Gelbart's Youtube Channel
Engineerguy's Youtube Channel
Nick Mueller's Youtube Channel
mrpete222/tubalcain's youtube channel
Tom Lipton (oxtools) Youtube Channel
Suburban Tool's Youtube Channel
NYCNC's Youtube Channel
Computer History Museum's Youtube Channel
History of Machine Tools, 1700-1910 by Steeds
Studies in the History of Machine Tools by Woodbury
A History of Machine Tools by Bradley
Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950 by The Science Museum
A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume
Tools and Machines by Barnard
The Testing of Machine Tools by Burley
Modern machine shop tools, their construction, operation and manipulation, including both hand and machine tools: a book of practical instruction by Humphrey & Dervoort
Machine-Shop Tools and Methods by Leonard
A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement by Whitelaw
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications by Yoshizawa
Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Gray
Machine Shop Training Course Vol 1 & 2 by Jones
A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982
Numerical Control: Making a New Technology by Reintjes
History of Strength of Materials by Timoshenko
Rust: The Longest War by Waldman
The Companion Reference Book on Dial and Test Indicators: Based on our popular website www.longislandindicator.com by Meyer
Optical Shop Testing by Malacara
Lost Moon: The Preilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Lovell and Kruger
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Johnson & Smith
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich & Janos
Unwritten Laws of Engineering by King
Advanced Machine Work by Smith
Accurate Tool Work by Goodrich
Optical Tooling, for Precise Manufacture and Alignment by Kissam
The Martian: A Novel by Weir
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Young Budynas & Sadegh
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby
Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer by Shute
Cosmos by Sagan
Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Smith Carol Smith wrote a number of other great books such as Engineer to Win.
Tool & Cutter Sharpening by Hall
Handbook of Machine Tool Analysis by Marinescu, Ispas & Boboc
The Intel Trinity by Malone
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Thompson
A Handbook on Tool Room Grinding
Tolerance Design: A Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications by Creveling
Inspection and Gaging by Kennedy
Precision Engineering by Evans
Procedures in Experimental Physics by Strong
Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes or How They Did it in the 1870's by Dick
Flextures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms by Smith
Precision Engineering by Venkatesh & Izman
Metal Cutting Theory and Practice by Stephenson & Agapiou
American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910 by Cope As mentioned in the above post, Kennth Cope did a series of books on early machine tool builders. This is one of them.
Shop Theory by Henry Ford Trade Shop
Learning the lost Art of Hand Scraping: From Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks A small collection of articles combined in one small book. Lindsay Publications was a smallish company that would collect, reprint or combine public domain source material related to machining and sell them at reasonable prices. They retired a few years ago and sold what rights and materials they had to another company.
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by Bryant & Sangwin
Machining & CNC Technology by Fitzpatrick
CNC Programming Handbook by Smid
Machine Shop Practice Vol 1 & 2 by Moltrecht
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles A fantastic book with tons of free online material, labs, and courses built around it. This book could take a 6th grader interested in learning, and teach them the fundamentals from scratch to design a basic computer processor and programming a simple OS etc.
Bosch Automotive Handbook by Bosch
Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots by Biagiotti & Melchiorri
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals by Zhu, Zienkiewicz and Taylor
Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines by Brown & Sharpe
Grinding Technology by Krar & Oswold
Principles of Precision Engineering by Nakazawa & Takeguchi
Foundations of Ultra-Precision Mechanism Design by Smith
I.C.S. Reference Library, Volume 50: Working Chilled Iron, Planer Work, Shaper and Slotter Work, Drilling and Boring, Milling-Machine Work, Gear Calculations, Gear Cutting
I. C. S. Reference Library, Volume 51: Grinding, Bench, Vise, and Floor Work, Erecting, Shop Hints, Toolmaking, Gauges and Gauge Making, Dies and Die Making, Jigs and Jig Making
and many more ICS books on various engineering, technical and non-technical topics.
American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book of Machine-Shop and Drawing-Room Data, Methods and Definitions, Seventh Edition by Colvin & Stanley
Modern Metal Cutting: A Practical Handbook by Sandvik
Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Dowling
Engineering Design by Dieter and Schmidt
[Creative Design of Products and Systems by Saeed]()
English and American Tool Builders by Roe
Machine Design by Norton
Control Systems by Nise
That doesn't include some random books I've found when traveling and visiting used book stores. :)
It depends on what I'm reading. 20 for the average book is about what I can read. I've had things like What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory that I could only do 5 pages at best and things like Head First Design Patterns where I could do 40 or 50
An interesting side note is that I've also been reading books like Thinking, Fast and Slow that basically say that we have a finite amount of mental will power. We can only focus on a difficult task for so long before we run out of steam. The only way we know to improve focus this is by maintaining decent glucose levels. So you might be able to improve your limit by having a snack or breaking for something to eat.
I've also been reading Seach inside yourself. It's book on meditation written by a programmer at Google. I'm hoping to improve my focus with meditation. It might also let you bump up your number number of pages per-day or at least let you settle in to reading faster
Join us over on /r/Entrepreneur and /r/smallbusiness I own a small product design company, I'm solo with part time helpers right now.
Your question is like a whole book. I would recommend The founder's dilemmas http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304
and E-myth revisted, Founders Dilemmas doesn't tell you what's right but outlines the choices for why founders choose to structure a new company and the pro's and cons.
For an idea like yours I would look to finding a manufacturing partner company that will build on contract, then look to crowdfuning or smoke screening to build up enough pre-orders to become self sufficient. I would always test an idea before I think it's a blast. As with everything in life it's usually driven by marketing and positioning rather than tangible quantitative performance or features.
Best of luck, feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I'm roughly looking for a partner too but my sales don't justify it yet.
Keep in mind that the vast majority of the comments here are from staunch materialists who rely on the evidence of their 5 senses and seek to explain phenomena in terms of natural physical laws Atheism has nothing to say about consciousness but contrary to popular opinion there are many atheists who see consciousness as a property existing independent of what the 5 senses can describe and which must be accounted for in any theory of reality. A great and erudite book on this subject is Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos.
>The physical sciences can describe organisms like ourselves as parts of the objective spatio-temporal order – our structure and behavior in space and time – but they cannot describe the subjective experiences of such organisms or how the world appears to their different particular points of view. There can be a purely physical description of the neurophysiological processes that give rise to an experience, and also of the physical behavior that is typically associated with it, but such a description, however complete, will leave out the subjective essence of the experience – how it is from the point of view of its subject — without which it would not be a conscious experience at all. Even though the theistic outlook, in some versions, is consistent with the available scientific evidence, I don’t believe it, and am drawn instead to a naturalistic, though non-materialist, alternative. Mind, I suspect, is not an inexplicable accident or a divine and anomalous gift but a basic aspect of nature that we will not understand until we transcend the built-in limits of contemporary scientific orthodoxy.
The Trusted Advisor is probably the best that I've read as far as general consulting is concerned. But, to be honest, any popular consulting book that you find is going to be 98% junk (fortunately, they're typically quick, if insipid and boring reads).
If you haven't read any strategy books, I'd start with Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy. There's such a love for Porter that even mentioning him in some circles earns you respect.
I might also recommend Crossing the Chasm, too. It's a book about innovation and market adoption which might not seem important if you're not doing startup strategy. However, whenever you're engaged in any effort to do anything (You're either providing a new product, new service, or making people change) you'll have to consider adoption down the road. This will help you segment your targeted audience and understand how and why they're responding the way they do.
Assuming you're starting from scratch, and without repeating what /u/Laser45 already said, definitely read up on whatever books you can get your hands on, and avoid Gurus. (Very, VERY few classes are worth their cost) This is one of my all time favorites, which you should be able to get as a freebie on an Audible trial:
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
by Gary Keller
https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370
If you have $30k in savings, I would recommend looking into putting that into a high-yield checking account - such as: Kasasa Cash (4% APY, 7.5k cap [1]), LMCU (3% APY, $15k cap [2]), Option1 CU (4% APY, 10k cap [3]). Links below.
Biggerpockets is good... but beware ALOT of it is fluff, and not all of it is accurate. Worse - much of what is presented is shown and appears alot easier to execute and implement than it actually is. Many people lose sight of the fact that - when they wholesale, do subject-tos, drive-for-dollars, etc. - they are essentially building a new business from scratch and applying ALOT of time and elbow grease... with very little protective "moat" that prevents the competition doing the same. Even if you're complete / have done your first deal - does the profit on a $/hr basis make sense, or did it make more sense to better educate yourself at your main line of work (or even get a second job)?
Ultimately, you have to decide if you want to be an "investor" - or - if you want to "buy another job." Always quantify your options, make sure the $/hr figure makes sense - and of course, make sure you feel 100% comfortable with it.
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You'll probably find "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" to be a very good read. It talks about a lot of different real estate concepts that are still very applicable today. I particularly enjoyed his thought process on how to identify a good real estate opportunity and how leverage in real estate can make you wildly successful in real estate investing.
There's also a very good answer that I found on Quora relating to real estate investing that you might find interesting.
Say no more, fam.
You don't need a degree to run a business. Having your own business allows you to experiment with these books first hand instead of taking some professor's word for it. Professor's usually just read what the book says. If they were actually good at running a business they'd probably be doing that.
I co-slept/bed-shared and breastfed, so I slept 9+ hours every night. I have three beautiful, thriving girls to show for it. At 7 weeks, a later bedtime is okay, IMO. It helps to work it down earlier and earlier the older they get because they obviously sleep for longer periods.
Highly, highly recommend this: http://www.amazon.com/No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Gentle-Through/dp/0071381392
Edited to add: I have to agree with some of the replies here about 7 weeks being too young for a sleep schedule. When you start to feel that she has established a a natural eating/sleeping rhythm herself, I think that may be the best time to start training. And the "training" should be more of a gentle nudging sort of thing. Be flexible and be kind to yourself. I personally know so many moms who develop PTSD over their kids' sleeping schedule. I guess when you're sleep deprived, it can become an obsessive thing. I can understand that. Don't let it ever overshadow the wonder of having an infant!
I totally agree with your doctor about not needing a daily bath. You can start bathing her daily when she starts getting dirty daily. Here's a hint: if you have to ask yourself whether she's dirty...chances are, she's not really dirty.
Very interesting as I'll probably be in a similar situation in terms of dealing with equity splits very soon. A few questions, how many other founders are there? How unique is your skill set and could they easily find someone else who can build a similar product? Coming from the marketing/business side, the reality is, products don't sell themselves and the success of a company depends more on it's ability to get customers than how great the product actually is. So the question is who is going to be the biggest contributor to growing the business and if that's you - you should be getting more of the equity. If it's the other founders, then they have more leverage. A good read is The Founder's Dilemmas, might want to check it out... http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1421213581&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=founder+dilemma
>Which reforms?
This one, essentially expanding capital of IMF and increase quote of emerging markets, including China, to align more closely to current GDP shares rather current US and European centric quotas. Similarly WTO Doha round has being stuck for so long, that people have forgotten that it even exists.
> Even when China is found to be in violation of said rules, no sanctions follow.
Not so, all WTO decision carry penalties against companies and industries. The most famous one recently is 78% tariff levied on Chinese solar panels. You can read details here
>Who was hoping for this?
Plenty of people in 90s and into the early 2000s, the idea that the "freer", wealthier and more capitalistic Southern and Coastal China will break away from it conservative, poor and conservative North unless China transition into a democracy and adopt a federal-state government. And it is the most frequent western view I have encountered when I was in China though underground pamphlets and article distributed by pro-democracy activists as well as in Chinese language Voice of America broadcasts. I not sure how widespread this view is actually in the western think tanks at the time, but it is accurately described in senario #3 in this article. However, by the time I really get into this . Hence the use of "in the past" in my previous post. The most recent use this view I know of is Stratfor's George Friedman in his book, The Next 100 Years. While such an event will certainly cause instability around the world, it will however, take care of The Chinese Question once and for all.
>Nixon's opening of China was the first step, and as the US pushed for greater economic liberalization and opened its markets to China, China grew exponentially.
Perhaps you should read Chinese, American history more carefully before entering into this discussion. (Harry Harding's China's Second Revolution and A Fragile Relationship are excelent starts depsite it's age) Not sure where you get this idea from, at the time with US foreign policy under Kissinger and Brzezinski, US-China relationship centered primarily on security and the American establishment was actually surprised at the Rapid demise of Chairman Hua, the scale of Chinese economic reform and the rise of Deng.
>non-existent labour laws
Oh, they exist even in the 1990s see here and here. They are quite generous too, for example 98 days of mandatory Maternity leave, retirement at 60 for males and 50 for females, and no fault termination (layoffs) must carry severance payment of at least 3 month of salary etc. However, not well followed outside of SOEs with foreign contractors often being the biggest violators due to price pressure. If you want to be educated about this issue, read this
>Could you explain this, please?
Well, next year we'll have either Trump, Hillary or Bernie as president. And their all take a much more hawkish stance towards China (in addition to many other things, this election cycle is truly wild). The same year, all member of the Chinese Politburo except Xi and Li will retire, and leadership transition will finally complete. If Hu-Wen to Xi-Li transition is any indication; China will shift more hawkish as well.
Well, this took me two hours to write, and I have a day job. So I guess I'll end it here.
I think, well, are you getting interviews?
Your post, you just seem really down on yourself. Once you get one person to trust in you, to trust in your ability, that's what it takes to establish your career. It'll work for you once you trust in yourself and project confidence. I think one of the things, I got my start with a really small company (10 employees) and the post was on craigslist in a different state and I had no internship since I was a transfer student. I had to be adaptable. I remember after that position, I wasn't even in school and went to a different university's job fair and got an interview with the army corps as a result. If you think your cover letter isn't working, that's a fantastic way to meet recruiters face-to-face. It was kinda just trying anything and having perseverance.
Read that unwritten laws of engineering. I think it's a good thing to read about starting out. Don't think a job is below you. I'm out in the field right now struggling with transportation contractors. But it's been fantastic experience.
I'm not a UX designer, but I have a psych background and have dabbled in UX as a business owner/developer.
As others have mentioned, it can definitely be a good fit. A psych education will help you more intuitively understand the cognitive and emotional processes that users go through when interacting with a product, and it also gives you a leg up on the research side.
A UX designer that I worked with recommended reading up on Google's design methodology. Specifically, he recommended the book Sprint which outlines their framework in detail.
If you like reading btw, here's my top list for teaching yourself marketing:
My favorite marketing book: https://www.amazon.com/Being-Direct-Making-Advertising-Pay/dp/0394540638
Best for creative ad strategy: https://www.amazon.com/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others/dp/1400064287
Two really good ones on branding: https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Branding/dp/0060007737, https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/0071373586/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=SAK252T4836CY0G4XYGD
A classic on inbound marketing (not paid media): https://www.amazon.com/Inbound-Marketing-Found-Google-Social/dp/0470499311
Good guide to Facebook advertising: https://adespresso.com/academy/guides/facebook-ads-beginner/
For most time-series analysis I prefer to build star-schema models and use a real time-dimension.
Your typical time dimension contains about 30-40 attributes, has a granularity of hourly or daily, and rolls up hierarchically to days, weeks, months, quarters, years, etc. This dimension has a single surrogate key that you include with all of your facts to make joins easy. Other non-key attributes might include day of week, weekend/weekday flags, holiday flags, ansi vs iso weeks, etc.
You invest the time once to build a nice model, get performance benefits with large data sets, and and development benefits with whatever technology you're working with: SQL, python, ruby, etc.
EDIT: this technique is common to data warehousing. Any media on this topic should provide a basic overview. A few specific things to check out include:
You should also be able to find some basic source code. I found one project on sourceforge here. No idea if it's any good or not. It isn't hard code to write - just code that nobody should really have to write these days - it's been implemented thousands of times. I can't share my existing solution since it belongs to my employer.
Here's an "Intro to Tableau" Evernote link that has the detail below, but this is what I've put together for our teams when new folks join and want to know more about it.
http://www.evernote.com/l/AKBV30_85-ZEFbF0lNaDxgSMuG9Mq0xpmUM/
What is Tableau?
Where do I get it?
Now that I have it, how do I use it?
How do I become involved?
I want to know more
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer, not a mathematician, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
Early in my grad degree I wanted to master probability and improve my understanding of statistics. The books I used, and loved, are
DeGroot, Probability and Statistics
Rozanov, Probability Theory: A Concise Course
The first is organized very well, with ever increasing difficulty and a good number of solved problems. I also appreciate that as things start to get complicated, he also always bridges everything back to earlier concepts. The books also basically does everything Bayesian and Frequentist side by side, so you get a really good idea of the comparison and arbitraryness.
The second is a good cheap short book basically full of examples. It has just enough math flavor to be mathier, without proofing me to death.
Also, if you're really just jumping into the subject, I would recommend some pop culture math books too, e.g.,
Paulos, Innumeracy
Mlodinow, The Drunkards Walk
Have fun!
On What to Read
Here are some suggestions on books and websites:
The Millionaire Next Door by Stanley and Danko - https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474
If You Can by William Bernstein - http://efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/2books.htm
Free version is here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/5tj8480ji58j00f/If%20You%20Can.pdf?dl=0
The Investor's Manifesto. Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between by William Bernstein - https://www.amazon.com/Investors-Manifesto-Prosperity-Armageddon-Everything/dp/1118073762
The Bogleheads Guide to Investing - https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Larimore/dp/1118921283
The Coffeehouse Investor - https://www.amazon.com/Coffeehouse-Investor-Wealth-Ignore-Street/dp/0976585707
The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning - https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Retirement-Planning/dp/0470455578
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio by William Bernstein - https://www.amazon.com/Four-Pillars-Investing-Building-Portfolio/dp/0071747052/
Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey - https://www.amazon.com/Total-Money-Makeover-Classic-Financial/dp/1595555277
Personal Finance for Dummies by Eric Tyson - https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Finance-Dummies-Eric-Tyson/dp/1118117859
Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson - https://www.amazon.com/Investing-Dummies-Eric-Tyson/dp/1119320690/
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor per red-sfplus’s post (can confirm this is excellent) - https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370/
For all the M.Ds on here and HNW individuals, you might want to check out https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/ and his blog – found it to be very useful.
https://www.irs.gov/ or your government’s tax page. If you’ve been reading, you know that millionaires know more than your average bear about the tax code.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/7vohb3/money/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/3hzcvn/financial_advice_from_a_financier/
https://www.artofmanliness.com/2017/09/22/4-money-tips-4-personal-finance-legends/
Personal Finance Flowchart from their wiki - https://i.imgur.com/lSoUQr2.png
Additional Lists of Books:
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_reviews
https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/books-4/
Subreddits
https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/ - I would highly encourage you to spend a half hour browsing their wiki - https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/index and investing advice - https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/investing
https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityAnalysis/
https://www.reddit.com/r/finance/
https://www.reddit.com/r/portfolios/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/
MRP References
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/40whjy/finally_talked_to_my_wife_about_our_finances_it/
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/67nxdu/finances_with_a_sahm/
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/488pa0/60_dod_week_6_finances/ (original)
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/6a6712/60_dod_week_6_finances/ (year 2)
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/3xw015/how_to_prepare_for_a_talk_about_finances/
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/30z704/taking_back_the_finances/
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/2uzukg/married_redpill_finances_and_money/
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/3637q5/some_thoughts_on_mrp_and_finances/
https://www.reddit.com/r/askMRP/comments/8dwaqt/best_practices_for_finances_within_marriage/
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/588e5o/gain_control_of_the_treasury/
Final Thoughts
There are already a lot of high net worth individuals on these subs (if you don’t believe me, look at the OYS for the past few months). This should be a review for most folks. The key points stay the same – have a plan, get out of the hole you are in, have a budget, do the right moves for wealth accumulation. Lead your family in your finances. Own it.
What are YOU doing to own your finances? Give some examples below.
I am one of the "<1 baby has no wants, just needs" camp, although 1 is pretty arbitrary. I just can't imagine that an infant has the wherewithal to distinguish between the two ... yet.
I am so grateful to have a good sleeper, because I know if I were in your shoes, I would be a sleep-deprived zombie who spent the whole night with her finger in her kid's mouth.
The way I see it, he needs comfort and you need sleep. You've got to do what you can to balance those needs, or you'll go crazy and that's no good for him, either.
I've heard a number of folks say that by 6 months if a baby is at a good weight, there's no nutritional reason he should NEED to eat during the night, so he probably needs some help learning how to self soothe. My doula highly recommended this book over Ferber's CIO, largely because she knows I can't stand the thought--she says CIO totally works, too.
Good luck to you! So sorry you're having such a rough time.
Congrats on your daughter! I have a little guy myself and went through something similar. If she sleeps well through the night in the bed with you, I'd just keep her with you. As long as you are bedsharing safely, it will really facilitate breastfeeding and make both of you get better sleep. I would periodically try to put her down in a crib (The American Academy of Pediatrics' position is that the safest way for babies to sleep is room-sharing without bed-sharing until at least 6 months, so the crib should be in the room with you anyway), and if she's not going down easily, then she's not ready for it. I loved Elizabeth Pantley's the no-cry sleep solution
. I had to transition my son out of bed because I was the all-night snack bar; he was sleeping through feeds but I wasn't, and I had to drive an hour to work at 7am. He was ready to sleep in a crib by himself at around 11.5 months. I began putting him down to sleep in the crib next to our bed 8ish, and then he'd wake up around 11pm. For the first week I'd just take him into bed with us, then I started laying him down every time he stood up to be picked up. It never got to him crying, he was more sleepily confused. It took another week for him to sleep through the night, then we moved him into his own room, and he's been sleeping through the night since then. I tried something similar at 4, 8, and 10 months and he just wasn't ready. There are a lot of cry-it-out folks out there. It works, but at what cost? Stick to your guns-you will find something that works for you. BTW I had some issues and wrote to the email provided at Elizabeth Pantley's webpage, and she wrote back to me personally within the week with sympathetic and detailed suggestions which really helped. Good luck!
Exactly. That is the idea.
Problem Fit => Solution Fit => Product Fit => Market Fit
Each step teaches us very important details and you engage your early-adopters in the process. When you have the actual product you already have customers, and sometimes paying customers.
And there are books around this that EVERYONE SHOULD READ.
"The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" (Eric Reis) - 2011
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898/
"Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works" (Ash Maurya) - 2010
https://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172
"Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days" (Jake Knapp - Google Ventures) - 2016
https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1550802301&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1
Not all of these are in our core training/ required knowledge, or related to our day to day functions as a university A/V department, but They are all available to my team for knowledge building and professional development. Additionally , and our job ladder includes Infocomm certifications, so the library is a little biased towards infocomm resources at the moment.
Books I use are
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Handbook-Acoustics-Alton-Everest/dp/0071603328)
just ordered digital video and hd
based on a recommendation in r/videoengineering
infocomm's audio and visual systems design, essentials of the av industry, av best practices, AV installation hand book
white papers/ online training from extron, JBL, Dalite, surgeX, bluejeanscable, and others. (out of the office and do not have the exact list and links with me
This is a business where you have to do things the hard way, typically. If you decide to become a retail broker, there are a few things I would do:
I would suspect that a broker, in his first five years, probably hates his life. But once you get beyond that initial phase, it can obviously become very lucrative, as lucrative as a more institutional role. Remember that brokers eventually establish relationships with investment bankers and start doing fun little private placements. Some brokers specialize in this stuff (e.g. finding capital for small tech firms). These guys get warrants, the piece of the compensation picture that the retail client often doesn't know about. Warrants are good.
Remember too that we may be entering a long-term bear market. Some good friends of mine got started at one of the world's largest brokerages back in the mid 90s. So they had timing on their side. You may not.
This book might interest you: http://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Persuading/dp/0071752854/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp
It's written by a guy who raises VC capital.
This is a very detailed working out of a kind of stoicism/epicureanism. I appreciate the thought you've put into this. Some books I've enjoyed on stoicism and philosophy of life:
Thought-provoking books that challenge naturalism from a secular perspective:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Baby-Book-Revised-Edition/dp/0316198269
All of the Dr. Sears books are great. They treat you and your baby like people, not projects to schedule or manage.
http://www.amazon.com/Thats-What-Theyre-Definitive-Breastfeeding/dp/159337285X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397570127&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=so+thats+what+they%27re+for
This is kind of old, but a funny way to learn to succeed at breastfeeding.
http://www.amazon.com/The-No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Through/dp/0071381392/ref=pd_sim_b_13?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=0NSBRKTSW2JNFCDDDGK6
This is the gentlest way to deal with sleep issues if you have them. I have never had sleep issues, though, as we coslept. In fact, I have never slept as much as I did when my oldest was a newborn. I slept 12 hours a night.
Check out;
This book really is great and helped me to create a startup in 24 hours. Below is my startup;
It really gets you to think of speed and tests your idea without investing too much into something that might not work.
Ideally, management will be learnt on the way and shouldn't be too much of the focus when starting up a business. You need to focus on getting your product out to the market asap and prove your business model works. From this point, everything else will follow.
I hope this book helps you out and wish you all the best of luck! Let me know if you need any other advise.
"The Drunkards Walk: how randomness rules our lives" by Leonard Mlodinow : http://www.amazon.ca/The-Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules/dp/0375424040 ... Stephen Hawking calls the book "a wonderfully readable guide to how the laws of randomness affect our lives."
Are you going to argue AGAINST Stephen Hawking? Me neither...
From the Amazon review:
"In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in life are often attributed to clear and obvious cases, when in actuality they are more profoundly influenced by chance.
The rise and fall of your favorite movie star of the most reviled CEO--in fact, of all our destinies--reflects as much as planning and innate abilities. Even the legendary Roger Maris, who beat Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, was in all likelihood not great but just lucky. And it might be shocking to realize that you are twice as likely to be killed in a car accident on your way to buying a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery.
How could it have happened that a wine was given five out of five stars, the highest rating, in one journal and in another it was called the worst wine of the decade? Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how wine ratings, school grades, political polls, and many other things in daily life are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of change and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives fresh insight into what is really meaningful and how we can make decisions based on a deeper truth. From the classroom to the courtroom, from financial markets to supermarkets, from the doctor's office to the Oval Office, Mlodinow's insights will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
Offering readers not only a tour of randomness, chance, and probability but also a new way of looking at the world, this original, unexpected journey reminds us that much in our lives is about as predictable as the steps of a stumbling man fresh from a night at the bar."
I would say the BEST book is this one, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)–Fifth Edition.
The reason why, is the PMP/CAMP/Project+ are all based on this book. So not only will it get you Project+, but it will also prepare you for the other two certs from PMI. It's not short, I mean it's 600 pages, but it really is the best for these certs.
Otherwise, I think the Sybex book is your best bet. It's half the size and will only focus on the topics covered in Project+
There's a really good book that delves into this issue, it's called Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. The author talks about how when someone grows up can effect their favorite sports team, and what political party they identify as. People who came of age during Watergate grew up to be more Democratic leaning, while those who came of age under Reagan were more Republican leaning. Basically who was president when you were growing up, and what that president did, will give you either a positive or negative impressive of that president and the party they belong to.
It's a really interesting book, touches on a ton of subjects. Worth reading.
Skunkworks is great. Super good insight into the growth of a career and how an engineer thinks.
https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Engineering-Revised-Updated/dp/0791801624/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=3VPKBNEXYOHHK&amp;keywords=unwritten+rules+of+engineering&amp;qid=1555021569&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=unwritten+r&amp;sr=8-1-fkmrnull
Here's this book. I hear it's good. Haven't read it myself
See, this to me is the wrong way to think about business.
RIM was leader in enterprise systems until late last year and is still second. They have huge market share. They also hold niche markets like secure smart phones and tablets. From a business perspective, they are in an enviable position.
The problem isn't with their position; it is with their trend. If they had been on an upward trend to the position they are currently in, everyone would be screaming about how great they are. In business it is position that matters more than trend. A trend can change, and effort can be put in to change the trend if you understand it. Many companies have done this. Apple is a prime example of a failed company that turned it around and became a market leader. Twelve years ago everyone thought of Apple the way people think of RIM today.
RIM is in a good position right now, and if they make the right moves they can reverse that trend. iPhones/iPads are fine, but they aren't perfect. They became fashionable and trendy and possibly overhyped. Steve Jobs was part of that trendiness. With him gone, and iPhone losing its "newness", it seems to me the time is ripe to move to change those trends.
I don't know what the right moves are. The question is whether RIM can figure it out, or gamble correctly, to change those trends. They definitely have the makings for it with top notch hardware and OS software, key differentiators and niches, and potential (such as Android apps working on PlayBook and soon phones).
The over-reliance of investors (and "trendy" consumers) on trends is fairly well documented. (My favorite book on the subject right now is The Drunkards Walk, though a A Random Walk Down Wall Street is probably the better known classic.) It's what causes bubbles on the upswing, and undervalued stocks on the downswing. It's also why investors who ignore those trends and invest via risk management principles tend to do much better than trend followers.
I'm keeping an eye on RIM to see what they do. I certainly won't write them off yet.
You won't find a great lay book about all of psychology, but there are many good books in specific areas. For instance, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a wonderful book by Nobel prize-winning cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The Person and the Situation is a classic and lay-accessible primer on social psychology. And anything by Oliver Sacks is great for neuropsych / neurology.
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My top three picks would be the No Cry Sleep Solution, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and the Happiest Baby on the Block (I've seen the DVD, didn't read the book).
I also highly recommend the blog Parenting Science. I teach child development, and what the author writes is backed by recent research (citations included) so it isn't just one random person's thoughts but essentially a literature review of what to do for the best outcomes when it comes to infant sleep and behaviour. Oh, and definitely KellyMom if you're breastfeeding. :)
No problem, glad you enjoyed it.
If you are interested in game design, read The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schnell. At least skim it. It's great and gets deep into the emotion and psychology of game design.
For business stuff, I got a lot of input from the classic E-Myth Revisited. I won't say it didn't get boring, but the actual point of it (systematize EVERYTHING) is a really important concept to learn. That changed the way I do things and now we have systems for everything in the company.
Read Crossing the Chasm when you start getting traction. It's a very important book that answered a lot of questions for me.
Right now I'm reading Behind the Cloud by Benioff, and man, this book is also great. I had no clue they used a lot of fairly controversial tactics to get press and traction. It's a good read.
The answer to the first question is yes. I/we are non-monogomous which means I have had many experiences with women other than my wife. Sometimes these experiences are with my wife in the room with us getting in on the fun. ;)
As to the second part of your statement about women being more irrational than men. I don't know how to put this any more plainly than to just say that you are stereotyping. What you said is the definition of stereotyping. I appreciate that you're trying to look out for me but you probably want to get over that idea if you want to be with women who are into non-monogamy. Human beings are irrational all the time regardless of gender. If you're noticing irrationality in women more than you are noticing it in men then it's likely a result of your lack of self awareness. Read up on irrationality and you'll see what I mean. We're meat computers driving a hairless ape-robot that evolved through a haphazard and inefficient process. None of us are capable of being truly rational. That said Juno is a pretty thoughtful person and it's clear to me what her motivations are.
here's a couple of great books on human irrationality to get you started if you're interested in wiping out your biased viewpoint:
Start with You are not so smart
Then move on to Thinking fast and slow
His book looks pretty good too. (I haven't read it, but I've heard from others that it's very helpful, explains things in plain english, and is pretty humorous, which makes sense if you've ever met him or listened to one of his talks):
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Edition/dp/1597499897/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1345646056&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=deviant+ollam
I have always found Malcolm Gladwell's books to be immensely entertaining. He can be a bit repetitive in pounding his major theses home and I wouldn't advocate for treating any of his theories as the gospel but he is a gifted storyteller and many of his stories regard psychological research.
The Psychopath Test Fascinating look at psychopaths by one of my favorite journalists. Well researched as has some scientific depth but is certainly geared towards the layman.
The Invisible Gorilla Very readable tour through some of our cognitive flaws and blind spots by two psychologists.
Thinking, Fast and Slow Very comprehensive account of how people make decisions by the father of behavioral economics.
I'm a scientist and former atheist and thought the theory of evolution was simple unassailable overwhelming science. When I became a Christian I continued to have that belief, but curious about the young earth creationism (YEC) I took a couple short courses on YEC. Both were compete and utter garbage. Then I went on to study down into the science-based and philosophical-basis for intelligent design or rejection of neo Darwinism, in come cases written by atheists such as this one by Nagal. Without an aim to persuade you to accept my religious beliefs, it would be interesting to talk to you about the major problems there are with Neo Darwinism, many of which are now becoming recognized by evolutionary biologists. I don't conclude that Neo Darwinism is utterly false, but I'm convinced it is at least incomplete.
Cheers!
I was actually terrified to cosleep until I did some reading on it. [Dr James McKenna](Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping https://www.amazon.com/dp/1930775342/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_1zNyyb9HW4PR9) is the leader on cosleeping studies in the US. I read this book before I started cosleeping. Cosleeping was necessary for us to get through the night.
Also, Dr Sears has some insight on cosleeping and SIDS
Dr Sears
Finally, when you want to ease your little one into their own bed gently, The No Cry Sleep Solution has some great advice. I used this book like an Manuel during my first year of parenting.
I'm a cosleeper and a big advocate of education of safe cosleeping. That doesn't mean cosleeping is right for you and your family. I just wanted you to have some reading material from people who have actually studied the effects of cosleeping.
PS: My best friend's baby died of SIDS, not cosleeping. So I am very familiar with how awful it is and her situation was so terrifying to me going into motherhood. I spent a great deal of time searching for answers about SIDS, as did my friend. The truth is, there are risk factors, but no known causes.
Good luck to you. I hope you and your family get some rest!
I've talked with more than 100 companies (startups, dev/design shops, and enterprise cos) about how they do user research/testing (even started working on a startup related to it). There are 2 types of companies:
The companies who do it best right now have week long sprints where the last couple of days (or early days the following week) are dedicated to testing with users. Jake Knapp at Google Ventures wrote an awesome how-to (http://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X).
Basically the summary of my research is this: either dedicate a day or two exclusively to talking to users, or its not going to be a part of the process.
ETL is the process of populating a data warehouse with data from operational systems. While both involve transferring/updating data, your issue isn't really about ETL. There might be some lessons about copying/updating data in the ETL field, though.
Kimball's books are great; I'd add this one to your reading list. Probably a better starting point on data warehouses than the ETL one.
IMO your problem is hardly database related, even if data stored in a db are involved. It's a pure SW development/programming task outside of the realm of database administration.
Start off by looking for off-the-shelf solutions, i.e. check with your POS supplier if they already support this.
Failing that, you need to build your own software for pushing updates to the remote locations. A service installed on every POS that periodically polls the central server for pricing info is probably your best bet (perhaps not ideal, but should be a serviceable solution for the short run). I'd send a JSON document with every local SKU and expect one back containing current prices -- or ask for changes since last update if you have a lot of products. Make sure nothing stupid happens when a SKU isn't found or the request fails.
Make sure you understand every relevant piece of the POS db's schema. Will updating the base price do, or do you need to consider discounts, currency, taxes and whatnot? You also need to be sure you're asking the right server for pricing info (proper authentication, e.g. something PKI based), and that you have instrumentation in place to notice if a remote location isn't asking for price data.
I would suggest the book "the millionaire Real Estate investor" here:
https://www.amazon.ca/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Investor/dp/0071446370
Property management is my biggest side hustle, and the most profitable. I fell into it when I paid off my mortgage, and realized a year later, 50% of my net worth was earning less than zero, and creating a huge drag on my plans for early retirement. I now own a condo, and a duplex. (EDIT - sadly, still not retired. Kids are expensive!)
Can it be a full time job? Sure, but I suspect it's a great side hustle instead. Like DSJustice mentions, it's a long process, and not possible to profitably start in Vancouver or Toronto, based on the prices versus rent. Depends on where you are.
I would suggest staying away from the condos though. Yes, the condo fees eat up your profit, but it's the fact that so much is out of your control that is the real risk.
If I could have a do-over, I'd buy duplexes, and triplexes instead. (EDIT two - Ok, I see your from AB. It really depends on the conditions out there... Are you guys close to recession? Maybe wait a while?)
The NoCry Sleep Solution saved my sanity. At 14 months old my dude was only sleeping in 3 hour increments. It's 100% normal for a child at 6 months old to still be waking through the night, but he should be able to sleep on his own for a nap at least. If cosleeping isn't right for you guys, that's a-okay, but y'all definitely didn't cosleep too long. Don't have high expectations that it's only going to take a few nights for a gentle transition. But it definitely is possible!
Edit: spelling
Ahhhh that post is so embarrassing lol. *\^_\^*
It's been a while since I read it, but some of my ideas came from the book The Next 100 Years by George Friedman, who also is involved in Stratfor, if you want more glimpses of how things may turn out in the near future. Stratfor in particular is pretty dense, so maybe you'll enjoy it! He also has two books, called The Next Decade (2011) and Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe (2015) that I want to read (although the former may be a little...well, late, lol). Oh, also, CaspianReport is fantastic. :D (Pretty sure he's INTP!)
ETA: Ohhhhh I also have to recommend The Crash of 2016 by Thom Hartmann! It set its predictions a year or two early but otherwise is spot on imo. You can see a ~1 hour video on the topic of the book with its author here.
Either this or this make a good starter set.
For books, I highly recommend Practical Lockpicking; Deviant Ollam. Read that cover to cover, and you'll have a strong foundation to start on.
If you want a good re-keyable practice lock, I like this one, personally. Get the 6 pin, non-cutaway, Kwik-set version.
> Truth is verifiable claims, I consider anything else fiction along the lines of harry potter
How about that claim itself? Is the idea that truth is only things that are empirically verifiable itself empirically verifiable? That's logical positivism which is empirically non-verifiable.
> I also reject metaphysical and supernatural claims
I can honestly respect that. It bothers me when people think that those who don't believe in God or the existence of supernatural things are somehow just ignorant. They may be (since there are convincing reasons to believe in God), but it's not something to hang someone's intelligence on (since there are reasons not to believe in God). And the same goes for the belief in metaphysics, belief in it does not imply ignorance.
As for metaphysics/supernatural things, I've found a lot of insight on the topic from these resources:
It's a very deep and rich debate with no one side being objectively right. As a moral statement about the world, ultimately one can only stand on the ground of non-objective reasons to justify their theism or atheism.
Hey, don't get down on yourself! Your feelings are perfectly valid and ok to listen to.
There is an awesome (and gentle!) sleep book that I've found super helpful: The No Cry Sleep Solution .
I found the The Brand Gap to be very elementary. If you've been in marketing for a while you should already have a solid foundation on branding that that book covers. It's definitely an easy read and a great source for an introduction to branding.
With that said, I'd recommend:
I would recommend picking Master locks to start - Like this They're ridiculously easy to pick, and you'll be able to get a good handle on manipulating single pins and even basic raking.
ITS Tactical generally has some pretty informative posts on lock picking/locksport from time to time. I would recommend these to get started:
Lastly this book is absolutely worth every penny.
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
The is a highly recommended book for the Data Warehouse industry. Hope you enjoy it and good luck.
One of my favorite not-super-technical books that can give some insights into the thought process and actionability of analytics and machine learning is "Everybody Lies". https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856
It touches on a concept I really like to rely on data for which is revealed vs. stated intent. People tell you they want what they wish they wanted. Data tells you what they actually want and how they actually behave. There are some good intuitive regression models in there as well.
I've been through a number of startups and a number of different founders over the years and some were excellent while others, not so much. I've learned through experience that finding a suitable founding partner is far more complex than it first appears.
This is the book I wish I could have read before my first venture. I highly recommend reading it!
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Probably the best thing you can do is start networking a lot because you'll never find a partner if you're not meeting people. Of course most of this can be done online, at least initially.
You have discovered the explore/exploit dilemma, also known as the multi-armed bandit problem. Should you search for new things you on the chance you will like them, or continue to listen to the things you know you like?
I do the same thing with Spotify. I have a large list of "saved" music on there that I often come back to and shuffle when I need something familiar. But every so often I like to branch out and find something new, either with the weekly discover playlists, or by going to a song I like and playing the rest of that artist's songs or switching to radio mode so it will suggest more. With this method I gradually build up more songs for my list. Also every so often I remember a song I like and search for it, and then I can explore that artist's other songs. But the vast majority of the time I want the sure thing, so I go to my saved songs list and hit shuffle.
Btw, I learned about the multi-armed bandit problem from the book Algorithms to Live By.
Given that social security is constantly threatened, and given that most Americans have less than $500 in savings and are not saving nearly enough for retirement, creating passive income is a great way to both hedge against uncertainties and build actual wealth.
You've really got something to think about here. If you rent your house out, someone else is paying your mortgage for you. And if you're renting it out for twice to three times the note (hell of an investment), that one property can pay for your next property as well. Keep going and in a decade you could have several properties that have paid for themselves. When you are ready to retire, which could be a lot sooner than you currently believe is possible, you could be sitting on ten to twenty properties or more that you own, that you owe nothing for, that are making you thousands of dollars each month. And if you get tired of dealing with it all, you can always sell.
I recommend starting by looking into sources such as bigger pockets and start reading books like [The Millionaire Real Estate Investor] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071446370/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_EPN-zbTQ6ZCNS) by Gary Keller. Those sources will lead to learning about your current options and your future as an investor. And you need to learn about it, because whether you realize it or not, you're already a real estate investor.
Here are a few:
Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garret: What a typical experience design process is made up of.
Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge: Seminal thoughts on Interaction Design, holds up to this day
Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug: One of the first books to gave the issues of IA and UX design a human, customer point of view.
About Face, Alan Cooper: Another take on the whole process, dives a bit deeper into every stage than Garret's book.
Designing For The Digital Age, Kim Goodwin: Human-centered digital products
Sprint, Jake Knapp: A condensed prototyping methodology
100 Things To Know About People, Susan Weinschenk: How people think
There are a few more Product Design related books I recommended in another thread.
IDEO's design thinking methodologies are also a great resource:
Design Kit, A book and toolkit about human centered design
Circular Design, A guide for holistic design, organization friendly.
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I personally like Learning Tableau as a great primer and refresher on understanding how Tableau works: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Tableau-Visualization-Business-Intelligence/dp/1784391166 -- follow along with the book where you can.
If you haven't already walk through the videos here: http://www.tableau.com/learn/training -- and by walk-through I mean use Tableau and follow along.
Visualisation in general I need to do more reading but I like:
Stephen Few : Show me the Numbers http://www.amazon.com/Show-Me-Numbers-Designing-Enlighten/dp/0970601972
Accidental Analyst: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1477432264/
There's a few more books recommended here: http://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2013/7/list-books-about-data-visualisation-24182
edit: and for blogs I currently like http://flowingdata.com/
Neat another good thing ruined by Facebook. First they give me president Biff now they fuck my favorite medium up continuously. I won’t give them my money. Don’t care if revive can let me play it.
Guess if you can’t make the quality product, change the game... wish people had listened to Dr Deming instead of trash 90’s business books. Peoples acceptance of this shit is going to crash an industry.
Have you read this book??
I am reading it at the moment, and it is a fantastic read, with a lot of great real life examples. Someone such as yourself is probably at, or above, this level, but I recommend it for others who are interested in the topic!
Since you're in the Bay Area, go to an SF Made event or schedule a meeting with Janet. SFMade is an organization that gets stuff made in SF. Mostly cut and sew apparel work.
Go in with a plan, not just an idea.
Don't worry about your niche (or niche within a niche) being too small. Smaller is better to start. Tailor your product to a small group and blow their minds. Get a base of raving fans then expand from there or, better yet, figure out what else they will buy and make it.
Don't worry about competition like Outlier. Read Positioning and "own" a phrase in your customers' minds. Maybe it's "dress shirts for Crossfitters."
My company, Tortuga Backpacks makes travel backpacks. Note how our story and target market are reflected in our 'About Us' page, product copy, and every other page on the site. We aren't the only company making backpacks, but we portray a very clear image: 25-39 year old urban travelers who see the value of packing light. I'm a marketer by trade, so I think about this stuff a lot.
> The law of large numbers has literally no implications here.
Then you don't understand it, because it has everything to do with gambling. It's even right there in the Wikipedia article on the Law of Large Numbers:
> For example, while a casino may lose money in a single spin of the roulette wheel, its earnings will tend towards a predictable percentage over a large number of spins. Any winning streak by a player will eventually be overcome by the parameters of the game.
So obviously each spin is independent of the last spin's result, however, when you average out the results (which does include past results, that's where your mistake is), you get a percentage carefully calculated to give a house edge.
Now, what this statistics relies on is that all the money is being gambled with. So this winner, if he's clever, can bank most of the money and only gamble with a small subset of it or, even better, quit entirely.
That's why it makes sense for the casino to be giving him free stuff. The more of it he gambles with, the more likely the casino is to win it back.
If you're still not understanding, I recommend you pick up a book on statistics. It's not very intuitive stuff. The Drunkard's Walk is a nice non-technical book that explores just how bad human brains are at dealing with probabilities; it's one of my favourites.
Rationalizing why a version is better never works, people don't like to be told that they're wrong. This is why graphic design is 50% salesmanship. Selling clients on a concept is half the battle. There are tried and tested ways to present ideas that don't come across as "I know better than you so do it this way...". Even body language can play an important role. I recommend getting some good books on sales psychology and pitches. Pitch Anything and The Challenger Sale are good starts.
It's a book! The newborn one I mentioned is for younger babies, didn't see that your LO was almost 6 months, but she wrote one for older babies too! The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071381392/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_hPE-ybQ6W280M
I’d like to recommend “Unwritten laws of engineering”. Great little book detailing workplace dynamics, accountability, and how to be an integral part of an engineering department. Here’s the amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Engineering-Revised-Updated/dp/0791801624?crid=1MCO22MGNU72H&amp;keywords=unwritten+laws+of+engineering&amp;qid=1536126994&amp;sprefix=unwritten+&amp;sr=8-1&amp;ref=mp_s_a_1_1
Algoriths to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Written for the lay person so very accessible, by a brilliant cognitive scientist at Princeton (though at Berkeley when the book was written).
Vision by David Marr. One of the first and most important books that anyone interested in cognition and computation will ever read. Absolute must if you want to understand why the field began looking at the mind more or less like a computer.
I got started the same way a lot of people start: Work. I was working in Information Security. The saying goes "It doesn't matter how well you secure your servers, if I can walk out of your data center with them."
I bought Deviant Ollam's book Practical Lock Picking, then bought some cheap locks (Home Depot, etc). I bought my initial tools from www.lockpickshop.com. Good prices, fast shipping.
Like I said, I run a chapter of TOOOL US. There are some amazing lockpickers I can always call on if I have questions. I've gotten good at it, but there is always room for growth.
As for the AMA, there are others in the field who have been doing it for longer. Check out /r/lockpicking
I disagree with this thought process. I'm not saying that 50/50 isn't necessarily a bad thing, but rather the thought behind it should have more to it than "so much work to be done" and "so you don't feel slighted".
The Founder's Dilemmas (http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304) does a great job of articulating a lot of different variables that you might consider while working out the how and what of your equity division.
A few folks also will point you to this: http://foundrs.com/ which is fun way of quickly sanity-checking where you might land.
I read a lot of these as a neurophysiologist on my way to transitioning into an ML career! My favorites (which aren’t already listed by others here) are Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths and How to Make a Mind by Ray Kurzweil. While it’s a bit tangential, I also loved The Smarter Screen by Jonah Lehrer and Shlomo Benartzi, which deals with human-computer interaction.
Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Development/dp/0071752854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493931578&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=pitch+anything
I listened to the audio book (Narrated by the author), and it was great as you could get his excitement and passion for the subject
It's not really about that one waver, it's about brand exposure. They are trying to make 'doing my taxes' and 'liberty taxes' connected in peoples minds. Your one part of reinforcing that message. The more reinforcement you have, the stronger the connection. A lot of advertising is like dealing with a child, you have to establish a premise and then reinforce it constantly.
If you wish to know more read this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/0071373586
These books combined with the eBooks / resources in the stickied post will keep you busy for the next 10 years or so.
Suggested read for everyone in this thread: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
it's all about branding and reasons for success vs. failure of a brand name
Very interesting even if you only have a passing interest in marketing and it is well written by some of the best in the industry.
The error comes from focusing on the wrong filters. The "liberal media" is a thing (in two ways, really, but let's focus on the one people generally refer to) when you look at rhetoric. This can be determined through linguistic data analysis, which Seth Stephens-Davidowitz did in his book Everybody Lies. One of the interesting things he shows there is that the rhetorical bias varies not by ownership, for instance, but mostly through the dominant political leaning of the area in which the paper (which was the focus of the study) is sold. That is, a news outlet's rhetorical bias depends on its audience, not its owners.
This analysis is useful, but there is a glaring problem with it: In focusing on rhetoric, it ignores actual policy advocacy and, importantly, publication bias. And that's where the owners have influence. As long as the policy advocated agrees with the owners (and the media's inherent structural biases, re: the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model), how it is presented (the rhetoric) only matters to the extent that it influences revenue. And anything that is counter to these interests, will be ignored.
So, yes, there is a "liberal media" (and they're actually fairly dominant). Problem is, they are liberal in rhetoric only (and sometimes in actual policy, depending on what you mean by 'liberal'). What the media doesn't tell you is usually much more important than what it does.
Me and my wife are using this book to transition our co-sleeper to his crib:
No Cry Sleep Solution
This method is much nicer to your child. It's all about setting expectations by giving them positive sleep associations and forming a solid routine. The book has some specific tips for parents of twins also. I'm a big fan of attachment parenting and this books goes along very well with my philosophy of parenting. It gives lots of good actionable advice for lots of circumstances and attitudes.
I would highly recommend you try this before trying CIO. I see some people here saying that the CIO method worked after 2 days for them, that's great but isn't how it always works. Some children take a lot longer than that on CIO, and if you have twins I'm sure your problems and time till sanity is double.
People react differently to books, but Crossing the Chasm was one of the best books I've ever encountered on business strategy.
After flirting with nihilism and existentialism for a long time I, personally, came to the conclusion that the notion that all of this is here without any sort of explanation or without any direction or purpose runs directly against common human intuition. It seems to me to be a belief on par with properly basic beliefs such as the reality of the past, reality of the external world, etc. Perhaps it's a step up, and not quite that basic, but I digress.
Now, some (see Thomas Nagal's "Mind & Cosmos") argue for natural teleology, in which purpose is inherently embedded in the universe and does not need a transcendent mind such as God to give it purpose. Personally, I agree with a very hefty amount of Nagal's positions, but find his critique of the theistic explanation lacking.
For a theistic perspective on the issue, I highly recommend William Lane Craig's following article and podcast episode that addresses this.
The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Kimball and Ross is a pretty good resource. He goes a bit overboard with the complexity in some of his industry examples, but he's probably used to implementing with large teams of programmers. The concepts and methods are great though and should be in the toolkit of anyone developing reporting systems.
I can’t recommend highly enough 3 books on good visualizations in business (and everywhere else)
Report format for abstract/methods/etc vs PowerPoint for salespeople varies dramatically from company to company, so I don’t have any good recommendations there. But in the “a picture is worth a thousand words” world, visualizations really matter.
The Drunkard's Walk is a great one. Granted you have to enjoy statistics and discussions on probability and randomness.
I think the answer is that we really can't predict much beyond that it will increase, probably substantially. There's a really good book on this topic (well, in a general sense, not specific to computing): The Next 100 Years.
The first chapter of the book points out how 100 years ago, there's no way anyone could have conceived of how things turned out technologically or politically, but that we can try to make some guesses based on current trends.
Specifically regarding computing: most of the advancement in computing power has come from the scaling (i.e. shrinking down) of CMOS technology. CMOS is the flavor of transistor manufacturing that dominates digital design, and is why Moore's law is a thing. As transistors get smaller, they consume less power and operate faster. There are also architectural improvements that help too, but the bulk of advancement is in manufacturing.
The thing is, we're getting close to the limit of how much we can shrink transistors. Eventually things will be 1 atom thin, or require only a few atoms of a certain material in a specific manufacturing step. Can't get smaller than 1 atom... From there we have to move to different types of transistors, but those are years away, so it's really hard to say what will happen.
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
This book is really great for getting a surface level understanding of how big data can be harnessed. It also delves into how big data is being used as a buzz word to scam companies out of money.
I listen to audio books, so this might be a little dry for what you're looking for. The narrator was great. He definitely added to my sense or enjoyment
Any other pointers?
There is a fascinating book called "Sprint" that was written by two of the heads of Google Ventures that talks about this little robot and how they worked with this startup to come up with the cute "yaye" noise. It's a really cool read.
You are wrong, the only books to learn Java foundation is core Java..
Of course, you should read some books about algorithms but not necessarily related to Java,
I recommend
Algorithms to live
Also I don't think the book effective Java should be read at the beginning.. because this book is used to tidying up your knowledge....
The value of studying a CS program is they are not only programming, the more they are doing problem solving by building large project rather than continually doing exercises in books.
The books you have read are quite enough, just start building something..
People are probably going to recommend the usuals but I'm going to try and add some spicy flavor to this topic.
Designers call it using a concept.
Also can anyone recommend a good book on art philosophy/aesthetics?
I think an important point to mention here is that these viewers SAY they would cancel Netflix in this instance. It's easy to say whatever you want to a hypothetical poll.
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This book about Google was an interesting read expanding on how people lie about what they're doing online because we're anonymous on the internet and it's easy:
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia?keywords=everybody+lies&pd_rd_i=0062390856&pd_rd_r=729c95c5-ba9c-4db4-b452-fa8c605a57e5&pd_rd_w=FB0Em&pd_rd_wg=IdYcs&pf_rd_p=f0479f98-a32d-45cd-9c12-7aaced42b1ec&pf_rd_r=5265D5ZMZNAX0FQW8AP5&qid=1557866692&s=gateway
Teaching people that they can't just tell someone's character is not actually easy. I'm fascinated with books like Thinking, Fast and Slow and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me). But getting normal people to entertain these arguments that our intuition isn't really all that great, that we really can't just know someone's character from their demeanor, is difficult as hell.
People are not receptive to the notion that their intuition is biased or can be manipulated, or that they subconsciously favor tall, good-looking people with good hair, or people with certain accents, etc. Our whole culture is one long celebration of intuition and gut feeling. People love to think they can "just tell," and that leaves them open to all kinds of manipulation.
So MS-13 is simply a FedEx of drugs? I doubt that assumption and what is taking place in the whole of Latin America goes beyond drugs. It's a cultural item that is deeply complex and I won't get into.
Being resistant to bribes is true but MS-13 and alike don't care at this point. The can access, move, transport with much ease once on US soil. I agree drawing attention isn't the best avenue but we're not dealing with like-minded people here.
The question is: What is their goal? I don't think it has a business plan on file with the SBA but I would think it is to spread for many base ideals. Continue recruitment and repeat. Unless someone has a solution handy, I don't think this stops until.... as I noted earlier by a few researcher publications. Cited below.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767923057/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455583685/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
In the book Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses Google Trends extensively to research social shifts. It's not a perfect method and it can't paint us a perfect picture, but it's generally a good indicator of how a social trend has progressed.
A search on Google Trends for "jewish jokes" shows a general downward trend since 2004. "jew jokes" went up around 2008-2012 but then fell and is currently at the lowest point recorded by Google. More blatantly anti-semitic searches like "jews in the media","jews control the media","jews did 9/11","jewish elite", and other similar searches are all on a steady downward trend as well.
I'm not an expert at this stuff but it seems to me that anti-semitism is on a general downward trend overall. There are alternative explanations for these trends, like anti-anti-semitism becoming more common and having a chilling effect on peoples' searches, but it seems to me that the simplest answer is the most likely.
I would start with buying Ralph Kimball's book "The Data Warehouse Toolkit".
Beyond that, I have no clue where to tell you to go for resources. Kimballs books teach you concepts and its then about applying those concepts and some interpretation between the verbage of terms like "metrics","measures","dimensions","cubing" and your development tool you are using.
The BI project I'm on now is using SQL Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services and we are using Sharepoint for a frontend. Luckily, setup is well documented and there are lots of tutorials.
You are always welcome to message me with specific questions now or in the future and I'll see if I can point you into the right direction.
The best advice I can give you is to start with this book by Steven Few: http://www.amazon.com/Show-Me-Numbers-Designing-Enlighten/dp/0970601972/ref=la_B001H6IQ5M_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369652567&amp;sr=1-1. Excel CAN make professional looking charts and graphs. It just doesn't always by default. Steven Few is the authority on this.
The two I've purchased so far are the No Cry Sleep Solution and Retro Baby. The former was highly recommended to me by a few new parents but I haven't dived in yet. The latter is a fun read and it made me really excited for all of the development milestones to come.
I feel like what's missing from my library is some A to Z book on newborn health. It would be nice to have a book to consult before scaring myself by Google-ing.
This is mostly what I wanted to explore after reading about him in The Drunkard's Walk. I'm very interested in other cases like his. It fascinates me.
My businesses are not online. They make things!
I decided to work on them once I managed to get a bunch of angel investors interested on the first. That was the matter of getting a decent idea and putting a bunch of talent behind it.
I've got partners, yes. My partners bring skills I don't have, and expertise in domains I don't have. That isn't to say I know nothing, but they know a lot more.
A great book is 'The Founders' Dilemmas.' It goes through many of the problems you might face in starting your own business.
If you want to stay in the SQL Server world (T-SQL/SSIS/SSRS/SSAS), I highly recommend reading T-SQL Fundamentals and The Data Warehouse Toolkit (and other Ralph Kimball books) over and over again. These were invaluable to me in my SQL days, as many SQL interviews tend to be less reliant on puzzle games and more reliant upon pure knowledge of the engine you're dealing with. Knowing the SQL Server engine really well will help you with DBA knowledge, also (which tends to focus on optimization and disaster recovery aspects).
Other than that, what do you want to do, specifically? All interviews are going to be different for different jobs.
I would also recommend this book Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
It talks about how our mind work when comes to decision making and it can actually helps you make a better decision.
If you find people's reactions to the Monty Hall problem fascinating, you should check out The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives.
I'm in the process of reading it now, and the author mentions this very encounter between vos Savant and the PhDs.
It's a fun, freakonomics-type read with some good anecdotes.
I read this book when i was a teenager. He did really good at predicting what was going to happen. I still like to look back at what i read and see how well he did. http://www.amazon.com/The-Next-100-Years-Forecast/dp/0767923057
Not totally in line with what you're asking, but I'm currently reading Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff. Its a very insightful book where he goes into detail about basically being persuasive enough to sell anyone anything. Be it yourself in the form of an interview or your product. Great read so far.
It's been out since 2010. It's like a American nationalist sci-fi novel lol.
https://www.amazon.com/Next-100-Years-Forecast-Century/dp/0767923057
Unless you like dense but vague prose with no obvious application, I can't recommend this one, at least from the beginning in the free kindle sample: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-Conception/dp/0199919755/ref=la_B000AQ6R56_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520986930&amp;sr=1-1
But the first taste is free and YMMV. There are lots of blurbs from prestigious publications so go figure.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a fantastic and (relatively) easy to read book about how the mind learns and makes decisions.
There is a chapter in Algorithms to Live By which claims the effect is beyond silly and annoying.
> If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian--if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate--you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.
p. 148 Algorithms to Live By, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Link to book on Amazon
I think Sia and others decentralized-storage players are at the stage where whoever reach Critical-mass first with network-effect is going to win or take-majority-of-the-market-share. And people like bookchin can make that happen much faster at this critical stage of the Sia project (many people call it "crossing the chasm").
https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-High-Tech-Mainstream/dp/0060517123
Algorithms to Live By.
Anything that involves optimal stopping theory (how many significant others to date/apartments to check out before committing) is automatically fascinating – to me anyway.
While it's not related to real estate, check out Founders' Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman. It's not a page turner, but it definitely addresses a ton of the issues that come up in starting a new business that a founder faces. Noam looked at data from 10,000 startups and compared that to outcomes so it's not just stories (although it has that). One of my favorite take aways is that companies where the founders equally split equity failed at a higher rate than those with unequal splits. I won't spoil the explanation of why, but it's definitely worth a read!
An Essential Reading List For Designers
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Any product will spawn competition. You can either let another company be the competition, or you can provide your own competing product.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing is a fantastic book that covers many ideas like this, and provides insight into much of how we think as humans. Read it and consider, for example, the rise and fall of various open source projects as you do.
Vamos escrever mais uma vez já que o camarada leu e não compreendeu: não há formas de determinar se este desenvolvimento seria superior ou inferior ao atual sem especulação. Você está fazendo exatamente o que tenta criticar ironicamente ao copiar minha frase, especulando à favor de seu posicionamento político, o que é natural, mas não deixa de ser um erro que deve ser reconhecido e corrigido por si mesmo.
Historicamente o ser humano é péssimo em fazer previsões para o futuro baseado em seu pequeno conhecimento de mundo, devido à predisposições e a nossa deficiência de pensar estatisticamente. Goste você ou não isso é um fato, se quiser aprender mais sugiro a leitura Thinking, Fast and Slow do Daniel Kahneman, psicólogo que ganhou um Nobel de economia.
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Aguardando os downvotes da ignorância seletiva.
Unfortunately it's a little late for some of the S's and probably not ready to cry it out.
Might want to check this one out:
The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071381392/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_B0Lavb0673REP
You seem to be suggesting some kind of creative evolution, which, despite its unpopularity, can have some strong arguments for it. If you're up for any reading, and curious about this idea and where the support from it comes from, I'd read Nagel's Mind & Cosmos, Bergson's Creative Evolution, or Scheler's The Human Place in the Cosmos.
While not specifically about atheism, I think The Drunkard's Walk is a good read that most atheists would appreciate.
Investing in real estate really requires that you know a little about a lot of things. These are the books I used when starting up:
General Overview:
Multi-Family Introduction:
Flipping Introduction:
Real Estate Formula Primer:
Landlord Tax Basics:
That is a good intro for books...BiggerPockets is always good too. However, most investors will tell you that there is only so much you can read about real estate. Read some books, get a feel and then go for it. It's the only way you can really learn.
I like these books:
I'm a big believer in learning from peers and from experimentation, rather than book learning - though I think this is something that's very subjective, so I certainly don't mean to dismiss "book learning" as a bad thing. What your clients consider successful, however, definitely isn't something you can learn from books, you need to learn it from them. Speak to your colleagues, make it clear that you want to improve your understanding of that side of the business, and slowly build up by looking at their reports and asking questions.
Books I've found interesting include Crossing the Chasm and The New Rules of Marketing and PR
I've only been to two conferences, after which I decided not to go to any more - at least marketing ones. I'll go to a conference to network (meaning tech. events rather than marketing events), but not to learn anything. Again, your mileage may vary.
I would recommend Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. It's not as technical as some of the other recommendations on this thread but it's very interesting and introduces you to a lot of applications of CS theory in real life.
I would be aware of the data used in this article. There is a "survivor bias" people aren't usually aware of - we only analyze success cases and not failures, and draw conclusions from them.
You can analyze 10 out of 20 successful startups and realize many have solo founders... but you might not be including the 150 out of 200 that had solo founders and also failed.
Professor Noah Wasserman released an excellent book called The Founder's Dilemmas (https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304) where he presents research not very encouraging to startup founders. And his research included 1000 startups, if I'm not mistaken.
Honestly start-up 101: if you ARE NOT marketing to a niche, you are doing it 100% wrong! Read Crossing the Chasm for more info. Still relevant and true.
True about sales - no product ever sold itself and "build it and they will come" has never been a reality.
Selling a brand - well up to a point. Selling a brand without a product is worse than selling a product without brand. The best case: sell both!
Look into the literature on heuristics and biases. There are all kinds of irrational habits we build up without noticing. Kahneman is a great place to start with this kind of thing. If you can get past the cultish atmosphere less wrong is good too.
I am looking to hire a long term writer, offer to pay and incentives based on CTR. [LeadArk] (http://leadark.com) partners with the top 1% of Real Estate Agents to do marketing for their clients, people like you and me who are buying homes. Very captive audience, who will be making a decision in the next 60 days. 13,000 people a day buy homes.
I opened [LeadArk] (http://leadark.com) 6 months ago, signed up 250 users in the last 3 months and already have a 6 figure contract. Working with Oren Klaff the author of [Pitch Anything] (http://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-Persuading/dp/0071752854) to make it sizzle. Are you looking for a long term partnership, or just portfolio work? What's in it for you and how do we get our goals in line?
I'd recommend reading the book Sprint by Jake Knapp. He developed a super cost and time efficient method for startups to see if there is in fact a demand for their product before dumping tons of money into it. Check it out -> Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days https://www.amazon.com/dp/150112174X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_urQAxbAD06ZS6
I highly recommend the book "founders dilemmas" https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484509269&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=founders+dilemma
It has a whole chapter devoted to equity splits and founder arrangements
I found out about this in The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow. The lawyer hedged his bets on statistical probability ...and in 99 other parallel universes he would have come out on top. Just the luck of the draw.
If anyone has a passing interest in probability, or mathematics, or just general weirdness, I can't recommend this book enough.