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The Cost of…
By: Joshua Gold
Tags: Thoughts And Ideas, Insights, Clarity, Decision Making, Coaching

Over the next few days or weeks, I will be writing about “The Cost of…” The cost of doing something, the cost of not doing something. The cost of starting, the cost of not starting…, and so on. But today we start with just “the cost of…”

We don’t automatically think that there is a cost of doing something. We just do it and that’s it. It’s part of our job, our life, our relationships. We just take action each and every day. What would happen, what might change if we first thought of the cost of doing that something?

The Cost of…getting up 30 minutes earlier each morning

The Cost of…having a morning routine

The Cost of…taking out the garbage

The Cost of…having a glass of water in the morning

The Cost of…journaling

The Cost of…being tolerant of others

The Cost of…listening without judgment

The Cost of…gossiping

The Cost of…procrastination

The Cost of…being impatient with anyone

The Cost of…running a red light

The Cost of…texting while driving

The Cost of…exercising

The Cost of…isolation

The Cost of…Solitude

The Cost of…kindness

The Cost of…watching the sunrise in the morning

The Cost of…watching children play in the sand

The Cost of…hate

The Cost of…being a bully

The Cost of…vanity

The Cost of…doing well in school

The Cost of…CHANGE

The Cost of…Staying the same

The Cost of…bad habits

The Cost of…poverty

The Cost of…wealth

The Cost of…helping others

The Cost of…being a good friend

The Cost of…having toxic people in your life

The Cost of…Not asking for help

The Cost of…putting your head in the sand

The Cost of…spending foolishly

The Cost of…giving gifts

The Cost of…homelessness

The Cost of…hunger

The Cost of…waste

The Cost of…war

The Cost of…peace

The Cost of…denial

The Cost of…EGO

The Cost of…

…Continue the list…

Joshua
4 Things a Year of Tarot Reading Has Taught Me
Tags: Tarot Reading, Tarot Tips, Tarot, Tips And Tricks, Insights

4 Things a Year of Tarot Reading Has Taught Me

Back in October of 2019, I hung out with a friend who had a huge deck of cards with pictures on it. I knew these cards to be tarot cards that i have seen in movies and TV shows, yet I have never came across them in real life until then. And boy, did it change my life.

It’s now the end of December 2020, and I read my own tarot cards for more than a year. I’ve had some magical readings and some that were mundane. Here is what a year has taught me:

1. Take a step back to really reflect

Life is all fun and games until the Tower hits your deck.

Tarot reading for me started out as a cool thing to share with my friends, but as the year progressed it came out to be a tool of great introspection.

No matter what card comes up in the reading, my mind tied a meaning. This made tarot reading an important part of self-improvement and honesty to myself. My decks have told me things I didn’t want to hear, but had to. For instance, breaking up with a person because I knew the connection wasn’t there, but I was blind to the companionship.

2. Use multiple resources

Reading for yourself is difficult at points because each person/site/book has their own meaning towards each card.

I personally have three different Tarot books and a website I use to aid my readings. Each source has its own insight and translation of the cards. It depends on the day in which source I go to, but because there are different alleys I can travel down to get word on a card, it makes it fun to learn and make my own meaning based on each place I go to.

3. Remember to use your own insight

It is easy to get lost in the sources and books that you have in front of you to help read tarot, but it is imperative to use your own thoughts and impressions of the cards to help you on your journey.

Often times when I do a reading I ask myself “what does the card mean to me right now?” This gets my brain and heart wondering why this card was picked and what does message is it giving me at this moment. The same card can be picked a different day, but it would have a different view of insight then.

It takes time to build this skill, and to some it will just come naturally. After a year of learning by books and other sources, I could almost look at a card a feel it’s energy.

4. Keep a Tarot Journal

I love this one because it is simple. I kept a tarot journal for this whole year and it became a tool to help me learn about the cards, a place to reminisce my past readings, and a source of my own insight.

I even color coded the cards with certain pen colors in my book. This makes it an experience looking back and seeing all the major and minor cards that came about your readings.

Keeping a journal just allows you to keep the memories within each reading.
Conze
By: Ulf Wolf
Tags: Edward Conze, Zen, Buddhism, Meditation, Insight

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StartUp Health Insights: Oscar Brings in Another $140M & Files to Go Public
By: Startup Health
Tags: Health Insurance, Innovation, Insights, Digital Health, Funding

We saw nearly $320M in health innovation funding this week, led by Oscar, a direct-to-consumer health insurance company. The $140M round was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from includes Dragoneer, Baillie Gifford, Coatue, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Lakestar, and Reinvent. The company has also announced that it has filed to go public. <source>

Other recent deals included:

H1, a New York, NY-based doctor database, raised $58M co-led by IVP and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital, Transformation Capital, Lead Edge Capital, Novartis dRx, and Y Combinator. <source>

Provide (fka Lendeavor), a San Francisco, CA-based finance company for healthcare practices, raised $34M led by QED Investors, with participation from Fifth Third Bank, Montage Ventures, and Clocktower Technology Ventures. <source>

Curai Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based startup offering chat-based primary care, raised $27.5M led by Morningside Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures. <source>

Ovation.io, a Boston, MA-based clinical informatics startup, raised $21.5M led by SignalFire, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Borealis Ventures, StageDotO Ventures, and David Shaw. <source>

Diameter Health, a Farmington, CT-based startup focused on health data interoperability, raised $18M led by Centene Corporation, with participation from Optum Ventures, LRVHealth, Connecticut Innovations, and Activate Venture Partners. <source>

Carlsmed, a San Diego, CA-based medical device company, raised $10M led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with participation from The Vertical Group, Cove Fund, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, and others. <source>

LifeRaft, an Oakland, CA-based startup that offers supplementary health insurance, raised $3.5M co-led by Costanoa Ventures and XYZ Venture Capital. <source>

ReturnSafe, an Austin, TX-based platform for infectious disease management to maximize workplace health and safety, raised $3.25M led by Fifty Years and Active Capital, with participation from Necessary Ventures. <source>

SnapNurse, an Atlanta, GA-based nurse staffing platform, raised $2M from Pivotal Group. <source>

Lantern, a New York, NY-based end-of-life planning platform, raised $1.4M led by Draper Associates, with participation from Amplify, XFactor Ventures, F7 Ventures, Jarl Mohn, Nikita Miller, and Joshua Goldman. <source>
9 Tricks for Smarter Decision-Making
By: Amy Swift
Tags: Life Lessons, Inspiration, Insights, Dating, Advice

Use the Eisenhower Decision Matrix

It’s also referred to as Urgent-Important Matrix, helps you decide on and prioritize tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent and important tasks which you should either delegate or not do at all.

2. Focus on getting to 90%

Particularly in meetings, the last ten percent of a decision is what puts you far over the time limit. Once you hit ninety percent, you can often make the right decision and table the minutia for follow up. — Sam Saxton

3. Chart the decision on a graph

Put cost of the decision (time or money) on the x-axis, and put impact on your business of the decision on the y-axis. Chart the outcome. If its low cost/high impact, then it’s a no-brainer. If high impact/high cost, then plan the appropriate resources to make it happen. If it’s low impact, then chuck it away.

4. Take control of your emotions

It is therefore, important that you recognize what you are feeling, and deal with your emotions. Fear or uncertainty can lead you to avoid risk, and this can also affect other areas. If you are an excitable person, you may be entirely too optimistic about your prospects. You might take big risks — no matter how small the chances of success.

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5. Go somewhere dark

If you cannot control your emotions, try putting yourself in a dark room. This will help make you less emotional — and consequently, improve your decision-making ability.

6. Access your decisions

Analyzing and evaluating past decisions can help you make better ones in the future. When you examine your decisions, you will be able to identify which ones went well, which ones did not — and most importantly — why. This will help you when you consider your next decision.

7. Trust your gut — but use your head

Imagine you’re hiring a sales rep. First, you’d look at all the candidates from an analytical standpoint. That includes hard metrics like how many years of experience each has, how often they met or exceeded their quota, and so on. Then, ask yourself who feels like they’d be the best hire.

Once you combine your analytical and intuitive answers, you’ll be much closer to the right choice.

8. Have a backup plan

Sometimes, a lack of time or information may force you to make hasty or uninformed decisions.Having said that, you probably consider a number of options when making a decision. So, if your decision doesn’t work out as you hoped, you may have the chance to “do it over” and try out another option, or just start the decision-making process anew.

9. Avoid typical pitfalls

The way you think and choose can negatively affect the quality of your decisions. Don’t Make a decision just because you’re comfortable with it. Yet a decision that takes you out of your comfort zone and represents a new direction is usually the best.

We cannot control everything that happens to us; but we can still make decisions.
Why Perspective Matters?
By: Gorphy Sanon
Tags: Mindset, Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Learning, Perspective

Don’t judge a book by its cover!

We live in a world in which people get judged based off of their nationality, race, gender, or other factors which could be out their control. Being able to see beyond the circumstances of someone can help us better understand what someone could be going through and what they actually want in life.

Being able to gain perspective on issues we may not be familiar with but have a clue as to how someone may be viewing a topic can help us not criticize them. There is such a thing as constructive criticism to help get an individual in the right direction, but belittling them for their mistakes or something they shouldn’t have done is a way to erode a personally internally. Belittling someone can get them to fear talking to you because they’ll think that you only want to hurt them. There’s nothing wrong with pointing out an individual’s mistakes, but doing it in a way that’ll encourage them to learn from them will go a long way to getting them to improve as a human being.

Perspective helps us gain insight into various issues such as health, finances, relationships, cultures, and being truthful. Criticism when done improperly could make the situation worse as some people may lie about their problems to not get scolded or belittled for their mistakes and continue making the same mistakes.

A lack of perspective runs rampant around the world with things such as racism still being an issue. There’s examples of a lack of perspective such as companies not caring about feedback from their customers and continuing to provide services or products in a way that is obviously displeasing to their consumers. There’s employees being unmotivated to work their hardest knowing that no one cares about what they’re doing. People being close-minded as to how someone may think and only accepting their way of thinking can be a reason why some people don’t have thriving relationships, companies lose profits or half their customers, or could end up being called a narcissist.

Even if you have a point to get across, understanding how someone may be feeling at a particular moment could be what gets them to ignore you or willingly talk to you later on. People want to feel understood; not misunderstood or belittled. You’ll be of more help to someone if you listen to what they have to say first without judging them since you’ll gain insight as to what the person could be going through and be able to use that information to provide them with the help they need based off of their circumstance.

It’s inevitable that the person you want to help out, may not want to help themselves despite doing all you can to make sure they felt like they were being listened to. Not everyone may want your help and that’s fine. You can’t help those that don’t want it or need it, but you’ll come out of the situation gaining insight as to how you can apply that experience to someone else in a similar situation as the person you tried to help, but may have or want a better attitude towards life.
Insights In Google Apps
By: Ayush Ashatkar
Tags: Data Visualization, Google Play Store, Insights

Introduction

In today’s era everyone is binding with the technology and in every steps technology amuses us. One of the important role plays by google apps. The google apps has numerous protentional to increase the efficiency of humans in this data driven world. That is why I leveraged my data science skills to answer a number of questions which may help to get insights about the apps like the following:

What is the most rated category in google play store which can help us to understand the most favorite apps worldwide? What category of apps provide the services free or charge to their customers? Reviews about the apps are best way to understand the audience and improvise the functionality of an app so most reviews are for which categories?

Let’s figure out!

The most rated category given the people world wide:

As you can see the most rated apps are from the Events Category means the apps from the events which helps us to give the information about the events happening around us or to describe about the great events like (Olympics, Sunburn Fest, etc.) with average 4.4/5 rating. Sliding to next most rated category is Education with 4.39/5.00 rating. In this pandemic period education is of the sector which got affected the most but through the online classes using apps like google meet , google classroom etc. students are getting education in virtual mode. Third most rated apps are from Arts And design with rating of 4.35/5.

Apps which charges for there services or none:

Apps who charge for there services to provide more services in hand to the target audience and the FINANCE apps charges the most around $3000 to give best to the services. Next is LIFESTYLE Apps with $2300 cost to give most options to the people for there dressing. Third category MEDICAL apps to provide help in every possible situation with $1400.

Review matters!

Review chart for Apps

As you can see people give reviews about the communication and social media apps most around 200K+ for both category which implies the personal and professional life is bind with technology. Apps like Zoom, Google meet, Facebook etc. are the examples could be consider as example. Next is Gaming section with 120K+ reviews which always help the developer to improve their gaming apps.
eCommerce in 2020: Key Insights
By: Jane Vishnova
Tags: Covid, Userexperience, Progress, Insights, Ecommerce

Recently RetailX conducted a survey to wrap-up this year and define how global pandemic has impacted the eCommerce business in 2020. Here is a brief overview of their instructive report on the top 1000 best online retailers’ progress made in such a tough time.

How has Covid-19 influenced eCommerce?

Obviously, these unprecedented circumstances have set the stage to progress of digitization. Many people, who were not fans of online shopping before, had to make purchases through the Internet. According to a RetailX report, starting from early spring 2020 up to 2 million customers have made an online purchase for the first time. This number includes a major part of elderly people.

It contributed to an increased demand for omnichannel businesses. To be competitive, there was no way out for retailing companies except going eCommerce and expanding channels of cooperation with clients.

Thus, omnichannel has become a question of survival. Zara can serve as a prime example of a prompt reaction to consequences of these uncertain times. The company made it possible for clients to search for items on their website and check its availability in a selected store. Lately this pick up option has been implemented to various retailing companies. Inditex plans to invest nearly 1,7 billion euro in this idea.

Improving customer experience

Ease of use is one the most important aspects that has a positive impact on customer retention. Fashion and jewelry sectors run websites with the most convenient navigation. Food and gardening industries are the worst. Speaking about geolocation, Ireland, Great Britain, Austria and Italy succeed in this approach the most. And the worst performers are Estonia and Cyprus.

One more crucial factor for customer well-being is a location of the Internet domain. Websites that offer multiple languages and currency are highly appreciated. Nearly 45% of sellers have a website that enables customers to select their country.

What else matters is an exact product description and product presentation. The more complex a type of product is, the more detailed description it requires. Czech Republic performs the best in this manner. And Great Britain still didn’t accomplish this task.

To sum up, the tendency to switch into digital activity is evident. But it’s rather a pleasure than a challenge, as the digital world is full of opportunities.

Thinking how to make your client satisfied? Consider the PWA First approach, as it can definitely facilitate your omnichannel plans. Follow the link for more information.
Phenomena
By: David Rudder
Tags: Nature, Emotions, Phenomenal, Insights, Poetry

Phenomena

Photo by Tim B Motivv on Unsplash

Some may call it phantasmagorical

an apparition too hard to ascribe

it may be fantastic implausible and eccentric

or far too phenomenal to describe.

When the mist washes over the ocean

and rises then melts in the sun

and the red cliffs display their curtains

when the night times’ over and done.

The sunlight peeps ‘tween native bushes

and dew glistens on eucalypts leaf’s

the Bay sparkles like millions of diamonds

and the sea slides o’er the shore and the reefs.

Small birds dart in between branches

the birdsong mingles with waves on the shore

the magical rhythm and beams from the prism

bounce and echo and come to the fore.

Far away and beyond the horizon

night time still whispers her lonely song

not seen by my eyes or heard through the cries

of the day as it moves swiftly along.

I search in my soul for some sanctity

a spirit to weather the storm

a place of refuge to keep out of the cold

near the hearth to keep my hands warm.

It may be termed a rare phenomenon

an occurrence marvel or sensation

the sun the moon wind and rain

experiences of association.

For me the phenomena are a different world

where nature merges and enters my senses

and after the storm in the quiet of the dawn

I submit and drop all of my defences.

©

David Rudder

22nd December 2020

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Paths
By: Ulf Wolf
Tags: Zazen, Sitting, Paths, Buddhism, Insight

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Insights
Tags: Business, Insights, Saudi Arabia, Ksa, Advisory

At Insights, we have multi-disciplinary skills to address a range of services that our clients require in dealing with composite matters in the areas of Financial and Risk Advisory, Tax Advisory, Corporate Finance, and Deal Advisory, Real Estate Advisory, Management Consultancy, Customized Research Services, and Other Specialized Services.

We work with our clients to provide advice and assistance in developing and implementing the most suitable business strategies sufficing their particular needs.

At Insights, we bring much-needed capabilities and extraordinary local expertise to address your needs, your stakeholder’s expectations, and to cater to your regulatory obligations.

We serve our clients at every level of their organization, whether as a trusted advisor to top management or as a hands-on coach for front line employees.

Our exclusive performance methodologies and analytical tools enable our clients to run their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
How To Win Investments for 2021
Tags: Investing, Invest, Insights, Startup, Web Summit 2020

Recently we have taken part in the startup stage of Web Summit 2020. A startup stage is not only a closed community of the best startups from all over the world, sessions with mentors, exchange of best practices, but also an opportunity for self-development.

We cannot but emphasize the high level of the conference and recommend buying tickets for the next year now. So, let’s start talking about what we’ve learned there.

At Web Summit one of the popular reports was about winning investments in Portugal. But we decided not to limit ourselves only to one country as, let’s not forget, that all boundaries are just in our heads. For sure, COVID-19 prevents us from traveling, but we’re truly global now more than ever before.

Inspiring it, the team of Overgear decided to share their insights and experience of raising funding with TechRound.

This year became a true rollercoaster for everyone. Startups aren’t an exception. As we approach the end of the year, it’s the right time to assess what has been achieved and plan new breakthroughs or maybe a complete pivot for the next year.

In general, you need an excellent team and a unique strategy. If you’re at the early stage and lack hard metrics, you should make investors believe in the potential of your startup.
AirTree’s Summer Reading List 2020 Edition📚
By: James Cameron
Tags: Insights, Holiday, Books, Resources, Venture Capital

Anyone who’s ever been round to our offices knows that book are a big part of our lives at AirTree. Our little office bookcase is constantly growing and changing as founders, friends and family all drop by and borrow a book or two, recommend a few more or lend us something of their own.

The AirTree HQ bookshelf — come hang out and grab a book from us!

We all love totally different things — but at the end of each year we’ve always held a vote to find the book that we loved the most — and we give it as a Christmas gift to our founders.

So if you are looking for some inspiration for a summer read — I’ve collected some recos from the AirTree team below.

With 2020 being such a dumpster fire — I don’t think we’ve ever collectively needed a summer to chill out and read a good book as badly as we do right now. If you have other book recommendations, please leave them in the comments section — we’re always hunting for some new suggestions for the office bookcase.

Enjoy — and have a great break!

James Cameron — Investment Team

Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin

This was the clear winner of our holiday season gift this year. Robert Plomin is a Professor of Behavioural Genetics at King’s College London, and in this book he explores the latest state of the art in behavioural genetics. The research he explores suggests that DNA has a much larger impact on physiological traits than was previously thought, and most of what we usually think of as ‘nurture’ has, on average, much less impact than we thought. The implications can be pretty profound — and this book led to more interesting debates in the AirTree office than any book I can remember. Especially interesting given four of the AirTree team all had brand new babies this year! And if you haven’t got time for the book — his podcast with Sam Harris is well worth a go.

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan has an incredibly engaging and accessible style and in this book he takes you though an illuminating history of hallucinogenic drugs. In aide of his ‘research’, he tries LSD, psilocybin and the crystallized venom of a Sonoran Desert toad (thankfully not all at the same time). As vivid as his description of these experiences are — the most interesting parts of the book are his discussion of the modern clinical benefits that psychedelics offer to the treatment of mental health issues (and the incredible progress that loads of startups are having in this area). It’s hard to read this and not feel gutted that this field of research that has the potential to save millions of lives was effectively shut down for almost 40 years by the moral panic that cropped up around LSD use in the 60’s.
7 Practical Steps for Generating Creative Ideas Daily
By: Tom Beck
Tags: Creativity, Self, Insights, Inspiration, Self Improvement

In the 21st century, creativity is the number one skill. We’re riding on a wave of new products, new technologies, new ways of doing things — and it’s not slowing down; in fact, it’s only getting started. Those who can creatively take advantage of these opportunities will be the ones who succeed.

Creativity, though, is a hard thing to capture. It’s like lightning. You have two problems: how to capture it and use it effectively; and how to produce it consistently.

For both, we need to understand what creativity is — and what it isn’t. In its simplest definition, creativity is a novel insight. It’s adding something that wasn’t there before. But wait — doesn’t that violate the laws of the universe? Matter cannot be created or destroyed. Yes, that’s right. You can’t really create something from nothing. So, what exactly, then, is a “novel insight?”

Simple: new combinations. New matter and energy aren’t created, but they interconvert.

Creativity is seeing one thing in another thing. But the two things have to be related. And they have to be connected in a specific way. If they’re too related, the insight isn’t novel; it’s obvious. If they’re too far apart, it’s not an insight at all. You can think of it as a Venn diagram. Creativity comes from the little slice of overlapping circles.

Image created by the author using Canva

The easiest way to generate creative ideas is to take two ideas, put them next to each other, and see what overlaps. It can’t be a shallow observation, though. Remember the Venn diagram — too much overlap isn’t valuable or creative. To use this effectively, you need to study different disciplines to see where they line up.

Elon Musk has a great metaphor for building knowledge. He likens it to a tree, but you have to start at the base. You can’t just look at the branches of a tree. You have to find out where the branches connect; you have to look at the tree trunks. The trunks are the significant branches of knowledge that connect all the different branches. You can go even further and see that all trees are rooted in the earth. They all emerge from first principles. Learn those principles, and you can apply insights from one field to another.

Creativity is a lifelong journey. It requires deep learning, patience, and trial-and-error. Most creative ideas are duds — and the most creative people in history had a high tolerance for failure. You have to be willing to tinker, try new things, fail, and iterate.

But there are a few things you can do to help your process. Below are seven practical steps you can take every day to help foster your creativity.
No Return
By: David Rudder
Tags: Illumination, Life, The Sea, Insights, Poetry

No Return

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

Another day disappears

I didn’t see it go

will I save the best for last

and stem the tidal flow.

I know there’s no return

yesterday’s a long time ago

the rain is falling now

hiding footsteps in the snow.

I can’t walk into yesterday

time has come and gone

will I watch today happen

do I know what’s going on?

Living in the moment

much easier said than done

I watch outside the window

at clouds upon the run.

Outside the rain is falling

teardrops from the sky

one day I’m here alive

which day will I die?

The weather’s a reminder

of moods and indices

the wind taps on my window

and flutters through the trees.

There is no place to go to

nowhere I can hide

will I step into the moment

and go on for the ride.

Another day disappears

I didn’t see it go

will I save the best for last

and stem the tidal flow.

I paddle past the undertow

then spin the board around

and slip and slide down the wave

onto solid ground.

©

David Rudder

21st December 2020

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Admitting Weaknesses
By: Terry Trueman
Tags: Short Form, Writing, Poetry, Perspective, Insight

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Homework:Advantages and Disadvantages
By: Divyendra Rajawat
Tags: Disadvantages, Insights, Advantages, Homework

Homework:Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages

Children develop time management:-

Homework sets children up to manage their time and plan out for study schedule, which are very useful skills to have we enter the senior high school.

Students can engage with their studies

Even with the whole day spent at school, allocated class time is not always sufficient when it comes to engaging students with their school work. Setting homework allows students to revise content learnt during the day with a fresh set of eyes and a clear head, away from their friends and other schoolyard distractions.

Teachers can keep a track of students learning

Homework allows the the teachers to get a track of the students’ progress, meaning that they can spot when the students is struggling for the content or falling behind rest of the class.
Zenith
By: David Rudder
Tags: Now, Sun, Insights, Poetry, Climate Change

Zenith

Photo by Darya Kraplak on Unsplash

The crown has slipped and fallen

and no longer reigns aloft

the sun hangs in the heavens

‘tween the zenith and the croft.

All birdsong has melted

zephyrs have lost their drift

eagles hover suspended

‘tween the zenith and the rift.

The mouth gapes open limply

gasps have up and left

the volcano in extinction

‘tween the zenith and the cleft.

The celestial sphere is dripping

swinging on the raft

lost out in the ocean

‘tween the zenith and the craft.

Above up in the heavens

a million dreams are lost

burnt by silver sunbeams

‘tween the zenith now embossed.

With memories lost forever

tomorrows gone too fast

the convoluted notions

‘tween the zenith never last.

The burning sun at midday

the hammering of the fist

drives feeble dement

‘tween the zenith never kissed.

The peak and apex sliding

downhill and past the crest

it’s time to save our planet

‘tween the zenith is the test.

©

David Rudder

20th December 2020

Thanks for reading.
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Tags: Advertising, Adblock, Insights, Content, Publishers

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Subtle Changes
By: David Rudder
Tags: Blue Insights, Morning, Insights, Poetry, Spirituality

Subtle Changes

Photo by ruedi häberli on Unsplash

They may be imperceptible

and float on past my eyes

changes in the weather

or teardrops in your eyes.

The subtlety of changes

pale as the morning sky

afore the sun has risen

with no words of reply.

Full of subtle changes

my life seems magnetised

drawn to the experience

often mesmerized.

Everything is changing

nothing stays the same

seek and find the difference

life is so arcane.

I walk through fields of my mind

patience by my side

holding hands with perception

joining me on the ride.

I cast my eyes up ahead

beyond the lush green fields

and watch the golden bushels

part of the farmer’s yields.

Up above black cockatoos

remind me where I’ve been

the multiplicity of happenings

my weary eyes have seen.

In subtle ways I soar the hills

and float out to the west

and drop in evening with the stars

to a place where I can rest.

Subtle changes happen

then faintly fade away

then reappear in a new disguise

on another day.

© David Rudder

19th February 2020

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CLASSUM vs Piazza
Tags: Classum, Distance Learning, Insights, Lms, Edtech

CLASSUM is an interactive learning platform focused on enhancing student engagement. We believe that quality education must go beyond the “sit and learn” approach and focus on the overall learning experience.

1. Friendly User Experience & Interface

Looking at Piazza feels like going back to Windows 97. Piazza’s traditional forum/wiki-style interface is outdated and not intuitive. Buttons look the same, too much information on a single page, and everything is too small.

In CLASSUM, we got rid of all the noise and created a modern and intuitive interface so that students and professors could focus on what really matters.

Icons, texts, color schemes, positioning, features, all details were carefully researched and designed to enhance the learning experience.
Vanishing Point
By: David Rudder
Tags: Vanishing Point, Dreams, Insights, Poetry, Spirituality

Vanishing Point

Photo by Chilli Charlie on Unsplash

Where do you go to in the night time

do you disappear into your dreams

where everything is different

and nothing is quite as it seems.

When you wake has something vanished

or been vanquished and lost in the night

do your dreams affect how you are thinking

has some part of your mind lost sight.

Now, when I look deep into your eyes

I see reflections of another time

situated in another place

in a different rhythm and rhyme.

Memories circle around in my mind

some latent others unrealised

delivered on wings of the night bird

some real others idealised.

And then there’s the bridge o’er the river

that leads to the vanishing point

where some things are tangible others false

and life fits like a dovetail joint.

Myriads of memories cross the street

highways and byways of my mind

some spirits fly off into the mist

and others are left far behind.

I saw you in the sky last evening

as you floated away past the moon

then in the mist of the early morning

I watched you glide by on the glass lagoon.

©

David Rudder

17th December 2020

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Recently read “The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck” By Mark Manson
Tags: Takeaways, Mark Manson, Insights, Lovethestruggle, Reading

I need to read more, I really do. I don’t think I ever read a book that made me cry until I finished Mark’s masterpiece this past weekend. Nothing against self-help books, but for the most part I’m genuinely a pretty happy person and usually steer clear. However, something about the title of Mark’s book caught my eye and I decided to give it a read. My biggest takeaway? Mark should’ve named the book “How To Give The Right Fucks”.

All jokes aside, I genuinely feel so much better after reading this book. One thing that stuck with me pretty well is the backward law which basically states the more you seek highs the lower you’ll feel while the more comfortable you get being uncomfortable the happier you will be. I get why it’s called the backward law, but when you really think about it the logic makes perfect sense. Chasing highs has diminishing returns. The more you seek them the less “high” you’ll feel. On the other hand, think about the first time you ran. You were probably mad uncomfortable and ready to puke after half a mile if you are anything like me. Now think about your 100th run in the year if you stuck with it. You’re probably a lot more comfortable being uncomfortable which in turn makes you feel a lot better. This is just an example, but I believe this principle can be applied to most things in life. It takes time to learn anything and if you don’t spend the thousands of hours required to become good at something then you will constantly be annoyed and uncomfortable. So moral of the story get used to being uncomfortable if you want to live a happier life. :)

12/15/20

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Propaganda Inquiries
By: Frankie Watson
Tags: Leap 3, 2020, Propaganda, Insights, Memes

I was excited to take this class, as the changing world of propaganda is something I have always wanted to explore, and most classes that have touched upon it in the class were history classes. I learned so much critically analyzing propaganda in our world as it was happening and was particularly interested in how the world of comedy and meme culture have become political tools for propaganda. It often feels like we are in a state of turmoil lately, and social media has had a huge influence on our pandemic country and world as people spend time at home. Memes have influenced the election, activism movements, and pop culture. I have enjoyed exploring the powers of propaganda through social media. Creators and distributors of memes are often anonymous so there is no author to dispute the message with. Influencers and political controllers have had a major effect on the weaponization of memes. In my essay, I explore the dangers of propaganda in our modern world including conspiracy theories as well as the importance of intention in propaganda creation and explore the impacts on our current world and changing regulations. My career goals involve filmmaking and media entertainment, so I explored topics that felt close to my career interests. I have learned so much through this class not only about how to look at propaganda, but about myself as a creator and the type of content and people I want to align myself with. I hope you enjoy my paper.

You can read my essay here.
#經驗【給行銷人的新創客戶參考指南】｜RULES CREATIVE
By: Rules Creative
Tags: Strategy, Business, Insights, Creative Writing, Business Strategy

Rules Creative is an independent creative agency located in Taiwan, our concept is “Imagination Rules The World.”
Tranquility
By: David Rudder
Tags: Nature, Tranquility, Insights, Poetry, Spirituality

Tranquility

Photo by Zac Durant on Unsplash

In the noise of the rush and rattle

the chatter and cacophony of sound

I seek freedom from the disturbance

in a place where peace and tranquility abound.

A trip to the quiet of the country

an oasis of soft rolling hills

in touch with the breeze and birdsong

pure nature without the frills.

The placidity of deep green pastures

linked in with the natural environs

in composure calmness and serenity

far removed from car horns and sirens.

The spiritual meaning of quietness

in the body thoughts and consciousness

a path on the road to enlightenment

new heights of repose and cognizance.

Engaged with the natural surroundings

I gaze up into the night sky

clusters of stars and the Milky Way

tranquillised in the blink of an eye.

Transported away on a moonbeam

to a peaceful place of compatibility

over the oceans across the Gulf Stream

to the peace and repose of true tranquility.

Magic can happen in a moment

I surrender my heart and my soul

to the magnificence of nature

and once again feel whole.

©

David Rudder

14th December 2020

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Growing an insight
By: Pranprakash Sharma
Tags: Perspective, Insights, Discuss

Discussion

Growing an insight

Once upon a time, I was sitting with my boss in a Job. I had been setting a design according to the boss, many times he had left me free to design it. Having completed a design, the boss was seeing it very seriously and given a compliment and comments also. During these designing job, knowing in myself, once I had left some points to set in a design but boss caught that and said to me why have you left that, I replied — No need sir, we can manage this design without these things. He asked me, it’s an important thing, to do set in design. I argue, why sir, only a short point to set in design is important in your eyes. Then, he told me about an experience in his life. He told me that when he was sitting in Bollywood in a director or film editing studio, he was seeing the film editor. A scene was of a song for editing with candlelight dinner, the film editor on & off one or two candles again and again. Boss asked him, let it be, why are you engage in one or two candles, go ahead. Now the film editor said to my boss — No, we cannot remain it, because the impression of the scene would be light according to song voice. You cannot catch that, but the impression will not be able to give an impact on the audience. You are right we can leave it, but every candle is important to a strong impression. If you want to 100% outcome of a song, it is important.

So, no one point can be left. Every single point to be set in design. We cannot understand the impression of our eyesight, but the result would be light in comparison of 100%.

After that, I understand this point in my life and my perspective had been changed to seeing all things. Every one minute has importance, every small step is as important as a big step. Every percentage of percentage whether it would have in its role in minus or points (minute to minute), has a big role. So, every unit of anything is important. Now, my success is stand on all small steps. I am happy, it’s a big result of small things. In my view this is the principle of “The God of Small Things” and it can make a big success.
This World is full of nice People
By: Nosh Komen
Tags: Blue Insights, Life, People, Insights, Poetry

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To be Wise be Willing to Look Foolish — Chuck B Philosophy
By: Charles Black M.D.
Tags: Knowledge, Wisdom, Insights, Advice, Philosophy

If you go to a rock concert and the band plays all the songs on their album, just like they sound on the album, you think it was a great concert. But things are not so easy for a comedian or a philosopher.

I once heard a comedian lament that it’s much harder to do comedy than music. The audience expects fresh material and new jokes at every humorous show. Unlike the rock concert where people buy tickets to hear their favorite songs, the comedian’s fans feel cheated if the comic retells jokes.

Being a philosopher has its challenges. When the philosopher says something profound, it immediately rings true to the listener. The audience thinks. “Oh, ya. That makes sense.”So the listeners then assume they knew it all along or could have figured it out on their own. The audience then accuses the philosopher of being a fool for telling them something so obvious.

The philosopher’s job is to point out to people things people should already know, or wisdom the audience could arrive at on their own if they thought about it. But the listeners likely would not have thought about it on their own if the philosopher had not pointed the idea out to them in the first place.

To be wise is to be willing to appear to be foolish. As the Greek slave turned philosopher, Epictetus, warned, “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” For it is the fool who tricks himself into believing that he knew the answer all along, while the wise man is like Socrates who said, “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

I’ll leave you with one final thought on the issues from the martial arts master and philosopher, Bruce Lee,
What If You’re Not Broken?
By: Joyce Strong
Tags: Coach, Mentor, Insights, Perspective, Coaching

What if all you need to catapult you to the next level is a fresh new look?

I don’t mean a makeover.

I mean a change in the way you think.

A change in the way you think makes all the difference.

I call it the Three P’s: Perspective. Perspective. Perspective.

That’s what I’m good at… helping people see things from another perspective.

A perspective shift opens the wormhole to insight.

Insight solves problems. All problems.

Perspective beats10,000 hours any decade, no matter what planet you come from.

Do you want to see things you couldn’t see before?

Ready to play?

I’ll be happy to mess with your thinking.
Observation
By: America Zed
Tags: Life, Poetry On Medium, Wisdom, Insights, Poetry

Sometimes the cold

gets out of hand,

As no sun is felt or seen,

Then I wait to understand,

Why I fall asleep.

Then hope

returns in her own time

Because I rise again for life,

To fly with courage high above,

Fill time and space

with love.
It Will Teach…
By: Karl Durrant
Tags: Lessons, Being Human, Lockdown, Juxtapose, Insights

The “busy” to slow down,

The “lazy” to step up,

The “dirty” to wash,

The “content” to share,

The “connected” to reach out,

The “greedy” kindness,

The “poor” to find riches.

The “inside” to be out,

The “outside” to be in,

The “young” to be old,

The “old” to stand tall,

The “world” to find community.
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Tags: Instagram, Yoga, Business, Instagram Marketing, Insights

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