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Finding Your Life's Purpose
Of course it is. But the bigger question is what is your purpose?
Imagine my delight to stumble across this Ted Talk ... 'How to know your life's purpose in 5 minutes.' Finally!
Adam sets the scene pretty quickly. You just need to ask yourself 5 questions and 'Bob's your Uncle'.
5 Questions To Answer Your Purpose
- who you were
- what do you do
- who do they do it for
- what those people want or need
- what they get out of it - how they changed as a result
Simple. Right?
It's so simple that he takes the entire audience on a journey of him asking - and them answering - those 5 questions, by shouting them out.
The answer to question 1 - after a little prompting - was loud.
Question 2, still pretty good.
After that it all falls apart. By the time you get to the answer to number 5, well it's not that you could hear a pin drop - but you kind of get the feeling that the audience is sorry for him.
Why?
I think it’s because the questions are easy. You've read them so many times before. The answers, not so much.
To be clear, the purpose of this article is not to state the 'bleeding obvious', but rather to highlight that if you are struggling with that definition. It's ok ...
We all are!
The Edge Is Where It's At
As we move computing power to the edge, this talk resonates even more. Two - that's two conversations just yesterday that I had where we talked about bringing the power of computing to your pocket.
Think about it - we glibly talk about the 'supercomputer in our pocket' - and we use it to 'like' Facebook posts, send messages and whatever else it is you do - but hardly supercomputer activity.
Conversation one, no need to explore in detail, but I loved the sentiment of the thinking of the company ...
We want to move analytics to the people not their data to the corporation.
Jim Hewitt
... right up my street. As I have always said ....
I don’t think it will be this year, but Jim will be guesting on the podcast. It's going to be a great conversation.
Conversation two, I can't say too much about, suffice to say that the work being done is moving the power of a Cray (for those that don’t know - the Cray literally is a Supercomputer) into your house! Get your head around that for a minute.
I am reminded of (what I thought was an old bumper sticker, but turns out is a real quote.
What Are We Going To Do About The Rich?
I came across the Pet Shop Boys track 'What Are We Going To Do About The Rich? It seemed to be very People Firsty in nature.
Apart from the recurring refrain "What are we gonna do about the rich?" we do have other words;
They say democracy is simply very bad for business
While deploring student protests in the middle of Hong Kong
They insist that people have to work on zero contracts everywhere
So profit margins grow and shares are very strong
But one group that they never take to task
And one question that they never seem to ask
Is...They're buyin' football clubs today with absolute impunity
And so much of the media to give themselves the power
To destroy the very notion and the feeling of community
While poisoning the public discourse hour by hour
But although it never seems to make it into Hansard
The question at some point must still be answered
Oh...They're avoiding paying taxes
Pet Shop Boys
While the welfare state collapses
Their extravagance and arrogance
Their lack of tact to balance this
Their lawyers and their attitude
The scale of their ingratitude
They only give to charity
For maximum publicity
The Lincoln Project is more famous for it’s advertising … but this is a ‘micro-movie’ that they put out on July 30th.
Click here if you can’t see the embed below
Quite startling.
It’s just tooooooo good - click on this link if you can’t see the embed below.
All of Silverman’s takes have been funny - but in this one she out does herself!
Casper Accused of Misleading Investors in IPO.
Casper - the darling of Daring Fireball.
”That we allow Nuclear Weapons to exist in a world controlled by deranged sociopaths is, in itself, a deranged arrangement."
💬 Roger Waters
Dave Winer
He points out there are
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Master Bedrooms
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Master Degrees
Me adding
- The Masters Tournament
and of course
Why renewables can’t save the planet - Michael Shellenberger - TEDxDanubia … seen it? make sense?
China and India Brawl at 14,000 Feet Along the Border.
China thinks the long game. The US thinks in financial 1/4s and 2 or 4 year election cycles.
Remember this from Back To The Future?
“No wonder this circuit failed. It says “Made in Japan”.
🎵 I forget sometimes that Robert and Toyah are married. This is a fun reminder.
Here’s the video if you can see the embed below.
🎵 Wait What?
Well - yes - sadly true. It has been delayed.
Meanwhile - you too can join in the remix game
You see Cummings, this is how it is meant to be!
[Dutch leader didn’t visit dying mother for weeks to comply with COVID lockdown] (https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/europe/mark-rutte-dying-mother-netherlands-intl/index.html)
🎵 He’s Angry. He’s ALWAYS been Angry. And that’s ok. There’s good reason for it ….
BUNKER-19 - Episode 4
The Letter (YouTube)
Two Minutes and Thirty Eight Seconds of Truth and Honesty
… who can’t relate in these times?