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How Negative Experiences Can Be a Catalyst for Growth
By: Amy Cubbon
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Self, Personal Development, Growth

I think 2020 is a year where we can all say we’ve experienced something negative. But the key is that it doesn’t have to be a negatively defining moment for us. As cliché as it sounds, we can turn it into a positive.

Life is always about what we make it — we just don’t always want to see it that way.

Look for the message

Whenever something negative happens to us, one of our first thoughts might be ‘why me?’ or ‘why is this happening?’ We fail to slow down and take stock of the situation, and we’re filled with negative emotions.

In order to grow through the experience, we need to value it. Think instead, ‘what can this experience teach me?’ or ‘how can this experience shape me?’ Negative experiences are a chance for us to get better.

From distress comes drive

When we’re filled with sadness, all we want to do is feel some form of happiness again. We want to make things better for ourselves — and for other people. Yes, we may feel discomfort, but times of negativity can spark creativity and new ideas.

So instead of wallowing in self-pity and giving in, use your hardships to fuel your personal and professional goals.

With change comes opportunity

No matter how uncomfortable, there is always something valuable that can be derived out of difficulty, adversity, or change. If things remained the same, how would we learn? How would we grow? The answer to those questions is we wouldn’t.

If we’re not learning, we’re just standing still in life watching opportunities pass us by on a daily basis. The coronavirus pandemic has caused us all to step outside of our comfort zones and beyond. But if we switch our focus on the opportunities of a new path rather than the comfort of a worn trail, that’s where we’ll see the magic start to happen.
Programmable Money
By: Rafe Furst
Tags: Money, New Economic Space, Collaborative Economy, Digital Currency, Community

Programmable Money

Money is the tokenization of value. Money is a process constructed from basic operations like Issuance and Backing. As such, money is programmable…

Here is the basic instruction set for programming money:

Issuance: Who is allowed to put new money into circulation, when, and under what circumstances. Also, when and how is it taken out of circulation.

Who is allowed to put new money into circulation, when, and under what circumstances. Also, when and how is it taken out of circulation. Backing : What is the mutually agreed upon basis for the underlying value of the money.

: What is the mutually agreed upon basis for the underlying value of the money. Redeemability : When and how can holders of money exchange it for the backing.

: When and how can holders of money exchange it for the backing. Governance: The procedure and rules related to transactions, enforcement and reprogramming.

For instance, banks issue a form of money called “secured credit.” One type of secured credit is your home mortgage. It’s issued once the bank approves your application, it’s backed by your house, redeemable once you pay off the principal plus interest, and is governed by a legal contract you sign with the bank.

Airlines issue a form of money called frequent flier miles. They are issued by the airline automatically when you fly with them, in the amount equal to the number of miles you fly (possibly with a bonus if they are running a special). Frequent flier miles are backed by future flights, which you can redeem your miles for based on a redemption table published by the airline. The airline governs their frequent flier miles as they see fit to maximize your loyalty and their profits.

And of course, the U.S. government issues money in the form of dollars, backed by the the “full faith and credit” of the government. It’s programming is described here.

The Economic Space Agency is creating a platform which allows communities to program new forms of money. One such example is COMMON Cents, a form of money designed to the needs and specification of the COMMON community.

If you were to design your own money, what would you use it for, and how would it work?
Maximize your crypto gains by using these Trading Strategies
By: Bitfex Exchange
Tags: Trading, Strategy, ICO, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Within the idap.io community, we received positive feedback on our last post, Types of orders and how to use them in crypto trading and thus we want put out more introductory articles touching upon many topics relevant to beginners in crypto trading.

In this post, we will provide a gentle foray into Trading Strategies and how newcomers can benefit from choosing the right one. Our Desktop Trading Interface has been designed to encourage and pursue a strategic style of trading, and thus we hope to inspire a new generation of retail investors who learn and trade with our platform when its comes to crypto trading.

To begin at the beginning, a trading strategy comprises objective rules set to dictate your entry into a trade and the exit from said trade. Simply put, with a trading strategy, you minimize the guesswork involved in selling and buying your coin or its derivative instrument by planning ahead and sticking to this plan. A trading strategy specifies when you enter a particular trade, what factors trigger this entry, what conditions need to occur for you to exit this trade, how funds are managed to achieve the trade, the kind of time frame you will follow, what relevant order types will be involved and so forth.

As stressed many a times, trading is an art form and like with any art form, there is a requirement for individuality; there is no one-rule-for-all type of strategy. Each new trader needs to identify what kind of trading suits them most and then develop a strategy in line with this style. To give an overview, there are several styles of traders present in the market, though it is noteworthy that this is in no way a hard and fast categorization:
Ichiro Suzuki’s Most Powerful Hit
By: Tom Wang
Tags: Love, Japanese Culture, Sports, Family

Credit: Keith Allison [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Ichiro Suzuki, the Japanese baseball sensation playing for Seattle Mariners, announced his retirement. Looking back on his 28-year career in professional baseball, Ichiro said in his farewell press conference, “My wife worked harder than me.”

Ichiro revealed that his wife made Japanese-style rice balls for him to eat before every game. “She has made about 2,800 rice balls. I had 3,089 hits in America. I wish I could have played long enough so she could have hit 3,000 as well.”

The rice balls, or onigiri in Japanese, are made from kneading cooked white or brown rice into oval or triangular shapes. Wrapped in seaweed and filled with grilled salmon, roe, or pickled plum, they are the most popular day-to-day food of Japan.

Japanese mothers prefer to make rice balls by hand. Hand-made rice balls taste better and convey care and affection. I guess that’s what really powered Ichiro’s 3,089 hits (Ichiro had another 1,278 hits when he played in Japan).

According to Yanagita Kunio, a Japanese folklore studies scholar, the triangular shape of rice balls symbolizes heart. The native tribes in Japan made triangular rice balls as an offering to gods as if they were giving away their souls.

Rice balls play a crucial part in a Japanese fairy tale. An old logger went to the mountain to cut wood every morning. His lunch was the rice balls his wife made. One day, he dropped a rice ball, which rolled into a mouse hole. In appreciation of the rice ball, the mice gave the logger a magic hammer, which produced gold for the logger.

Jealous of his friend’s newfound fortune, another old man dropped a rice ball into the same mouse hole. In a fit of greed, he tried to get rid of the mice and keep all the gold, only to find himself trapped inside the mouse hole.

Pretty much like the first man in the story, Ichiro saw those rice balls accompany him to great fame and fortune. His bat is indeed a “magic hammer.”

But he never lost his perspective along the way. Talking about life after professional baseball, Ichiro said he wished his wife, after taking care of him throughout his career, to relax and enjoy life. That thought is tender, just like a fresh rice ball, and it hits me harder than any of Ichiro’s powerful swings.
AWS rival Dfinity announces $35M token airdrop
By: Monica Sacroug
Tags: News, Crypto, Bitcoin, Dfinity, Blockchain

AWS rival Dfinity announces $35M token airdrop

Amazon Web Services rival Dfinity has announced it will distribute approximately $US35 million worth of tokens for its cloud based Blockchain platform.

Image via Getty Images

Dfinity president and chief scientist Dominic Williams said the airdrop would increase the distribution of tokens before the network launched.

“To widen distribution of our network tokens, we will conduct an airdrop of dfinities worth up to 25 million Swiss francs to select community members, with preference given to those who have been supporting the project for some time.” said Williams.

An additional $10 million worth of tokens will be distributed to new community members bringing the total number of tokens available in the airdrop to amount to $US35 million.

The blockchain platform plans to create a ‘Cloud 3.0’ that will serve as an Internet computer and deliver an open network to users for cloud-based solutions.

“We strongly believe that all decentralised projects, including the Internet computer, should only value themselves in terms of the real world utility they provide and how their features fit with their intended audience,” said Williams.

Dfinity is decentralised cloud computing platform that operates using Blockchain technology to store and manage data.

Due to regulatory restrictions, the airdrop will only be made available to residents outside of the US.
Why I Plan On Watching ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Dumb
By: Rod T. Faulkner
Tags: Science Fiction, Star Wars, Movies

“We’re not in the information age anymore, we are in the information management age.” — Chris Hardwick

There are two major pros and cons to living in the information age:

Pro

Access and exposure to mountains of constant information.

Con

Access and exposure to mountains of constant information.

This is especially evident when it comes to the deluge of spoilers published online regarding forthcoming Hollywood movies.

Movies like the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Despite director J.J. Abram’s shroud of secrecy covering the production, speculation has been at a feverish pitch concerning every minute detail of the film.

Disney and Lucasfilm recently added kerosene to this raging inferno by unleashing their powerful marketing machine to heighten the already frenzied demand for Star Wars merchandise.

While it is exciting to discover more about a film you are are eagerly awaiting, the unfortunate trade-off is there are very little surprises left to experience during a movie’s initial theatrical exhibition.

For me, a huge part of the appeal of watching a movie for the first time theatrically is the sense of discovery. The feeling of embarking on an unknown journey when those opening credits blaze across the screen.

Sadly, I feel this dynamic, communal component of the cinematic experience is going the way of the dodo bird.

This is why I decided to go on a media blackout when it comes to all things related to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

I’ve made Herculean efforts to skip movie spoilers posted online. I’ve avoided toy aisles in department stores and at big box retailers like the plague.

When conversations about the movie turn to in-depth details, I politely excuse myself, because I want to go see the movie being as ignorant as I possibly can be about its plot.

Despite my efforts, I’ve still gotten some information about specific details because I run a sci-fi web site, and have a social media presence that makes complete spoiler avoidance all but impossible.

Fortunately, I have managed to avoid most major film details, spoilers, and plot leaks. This pleases me, because I want to turn back the clock when I attend my first The Force Awakens screening, and hear the stirring opening notes to John Williams’ transcendent score.

I want to travel back in time to when I saw the original trilogy in theaters as a teenager— a time before smartphones, the internet, and social media.

A time when I initially learned Darth Vader’s true identity while sitting in the theater watching The Empire Strikes Back. I’ll never forget the audience’s gasps of shock and surprise.

I think mine might have been among the loudest.

Yes, the temptation to consume all the information about upcoming films— especially ones we are most excited for — is almost irresistible.

But if we can show some restraint, allow ourselves to limit how much we are spoiled about movies like The Force Awakens, I believe we can enjoy richer, more satisfying cinematic experiences.

Let’s turn back that clock.
Rays of Light
By: Lisa Bolin
Tags: Poetry Prompt, Poetry, Nature, Haiku, Hope

As we head into a new year, hope for the future is something that is certainly on everyone’s mind. The future, something none of us can predict, turned into some crazy nightmare this year, full of uncertainty and fear. Many of us have focused on trying to keep positive, taking one day at a time, trying not to think of the future. Yet hoping.

Heading into 2021, I am choosing hope. Choosing to be hopeful. I hope people get well, stay safe, think of each other, treat each other with kindness. I hope to see my family who all live so very far away. I hope others are reunited with those they love and care for.

So, despite not having seen the sun since the middle of November, I step forward into the ‘sun’, into hope, into a new year.

Thanks to Deborah Christensen for the prompt ‘future’ as she heads into a new future without holding the reigns of this wonderful publication ❤

~thanks for reading!~
Traditional Polish Babka Recipe
By: Lana Kiossovski
Tags: Pastry, Cooking, Bread, Recipe, European

Babka is a sweet bread that originated in Poland and Ukraine’s Jewish communities. The Eastern European babka draws its name from its tall, stout, fluted sides formed in a traditional pan and reminiscent of a grandma’s skirt. Baba or its diminutive babka means grandmother in Polish. Although typically served at Easter, this Polish babka recipe is festive enough for any holiday table.

Ingredients

Babka

1/2 cup milk, lukewarm

Three large eggs, at room temperature

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 cup granulated sugar

4 tbsp butter softened

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp instant yeast

1/4 cup golden raisins

1/4 cup candied or mixed dried fruit, diced

Rum Syrup

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup water

2 tbsp rum

Icing (optional)

1 cup confectioners’ sugar

Pinch of salt

2 tbsp rum

Method

Babka

Place all ingredients except the fruit in a mixing bowl, and beat at medium speed until cohesive. Beat on high speed for an additional 2 minutes.

Add the fruit and beat gently until well combined.

Cover the bowl, and let the dough rise/rest for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Spoon the batter into a greased bundt pan. Cover the pan, and let the dough rise/rest for another 30 minutes.

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the center’s internal temperature reaches 190°F.

Rum Syrup

Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, bringing the mixture to a boil. Stir the liquid in the pan until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat.

Gently poke babka all over with a fork, and slowly pour the syrup over the entire surface of the babka.

Allow the syrup to absorb fully (approximately 20 minutes), loosen the babka’s edges, gently remove from the pan, and place on a wire cooling rack.

Dust babka with confectioners’ sugar or drizzle with icing if desired.

Icing (optional)

Prepare icing by mixing all of the ingredients, stirring until smooth. Drizzle over utterly cool babka.
Sign up for the Toilet Paper Caper
By: Terrye Turpin
Tags: Mystery, Stark Mystery, Fiction, Toilet Paper Caper, Humor

Sign up for the Toilet Paper Caper

The World Needs a Hero

Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash

These are trying times for sure. We need to band together with our collective, humorous unconsciousness and unleash a new Stark mystery on the world. Want to contribute to the insanity in order to keep ourselves sane? Sign up for a chapter in the comments below and I’ll add you to the line up.

The rules are simple — keep it first person, Stark’s perspective. Around a 3 to 5 minute read is a great length. Tag your story “Toilet Paper Caper” so it lands on the correct page.

New writers comment below if you’d like to take a stab at a chapter and we’ll add you as a writer to the publication before you submit a chapter.

If you’ve got an idea for a longer story please sign up for two chapters. Other than that, go wild. Can Stark time travel? Jump through space? Meet up with characters from past stories? Yes, yes, yes please. Brush up on your 1970s trivia and let’s go to the West Coast with Stark.

Chapter 1: Terrye Turpin

Chapter 2: Dan Leicht

Chapter 3: P.G. Barnett

Chapter 4: Mark Starlin

Chapter 5: John K. Adams

Chapter 6: Glenda Thompson

Chapter 7: Lon Shapiro

Chapter 8: Michael Stang

Chapter 9: Terrye Turpin

Chapter 10: Mark Starlin

Chapter 11: Elle Fredine

Chapter 12: Laura Johnson

Chapter 13: Dan Leicht

Chapter 14: Glenda Thompson

Chapter 15: Lon Shapiro

Chapter 16: Tommy Paley

Chapter 17: Terrye Turpin

Chapter 18: Tommy Paley

Chapter 19: Elle Fredine

Chapter 20: Terrye Turpin (The Ending)

I’m tagging anyone who wrote a chapter for other stories and feel free to tag folks in the comments if you think they’d be interested.

As we cruise through the first chapters, let us know if you’re up to a second round of writing. Thanks to everyone who contributed so far!

Mark Starlin, Lon Shapiro, Dan Leicht, John K Adams, Glenda Thompson, Michael Stang, Tommy Paley, Kirk Nelson, P.G. Barnett, Indira Reddy, A Maguire, Jeff Suwak, Karen Fayeth
Weekly update #11
By: Live Stars
Tags: Apps

Another week has passed and it is time to share the results with our community.

While our existing developer team is working on the platform beta 2.0., management of our project is busy hiring and interviewing developers to help us out.

We have received quite a few questions regarding listing on new exchanges. We will be looking into it after Beta 2.0. release, as most exchanges require a working utility application in order for the token to be accepted.

We also are receiving many requests on joining Live Stars referral program or joining Live Stars as a model. Both those programs are being developed and will be open after our Beta 2.0. is up and running.
Alias
By: Abo. Akoto
Tags: Empathy, Disclaimer, Poetry, Identity, Self

I’m not the apostrophe between I and m

Nor am I always the I in my every poem

“I” is an alias I adopt

To infiltrate the darkness

And expose its secrets to the light.

Yet “I” is not my only cover:

I sometimes strut in She’s shoes too

When my too-tight ones hurt my feet.

I tend to also ally with We

To keep myself company

On this lonely page

And occasionally become You

To call myself out

Or find me

In you.

But unless I explicitly

Unmask myself as I,

Assume I’m the other

“I” talking

Because “I” is a voice

I speak through for those

Muted by circumstance;

The surface of a mirror

I hold before you to show you

The darkest recesses of your soul;

A wound I slice into my flesh

To bleed from another’s pain;

A rope I climb down

To follow our demons to hell

And you are my tether

To emerge unscathed;

A beggar’s bowl I pass around

To solicit sympathy for

Another’s tragedy.

So next time I bemoan

My insignificant existence

Or reference my junkie parents

Who sold my Yorkie

To buy more blow,

Feel sorry for “I”;

Not me.
Welcome To The Reflectionist
By: Larry G. Maguire
Tags: Creativity, Society, Culture, Reflections, Thoughts

Welcome To The Reflectionist

Daily reflections on life & work and the pursuit of happiness.

The Reflectionist publication is a specific place I have made, where I can share my ideas and thoughts about society, culture, the meaning of life & work and the nature of happiness to the public record for posterity.

Every article, no matter how long or short, intimate and heartfelt or opinionated and abrasive, will be published here daily for Medium members, and on my personal website.

I, of course, welcome your own thoughts and ideas on the things I write.

It’s also true that I want to keep a record for my kids, and their kids, so that they can see who I am and the things that occupied my mind while I was here.

Topics

Every morning I’ll be here with a brand new article, or a slant on an old one, not previously published anywhere else.

Subjects are likely to include the following;

Books I’m reading

The nature of work

Psychology

Philosophy

Religion

Society

Family

The nature of reality

The self

Stuff I’m working on

Creativity

Writing

The Articles

Articles might be short, like a paragraph or two, or they could be quite long, perhaps a couple of thousand words.

No Editing

I’ll be letting my head do the talking and resist the urge to edit what comes out. I’ll make sure it flows, but there’ll be no heavy edits.

Weekend Summary

Articles will run Monday to Saturday and if you miss an article, don’t sweat it, I’ll send you a summary called Sunday Letters each weekend.

Other Writers

Right now I have no plans to open the publication to other writers- sorry folks. I don’t have the patience to edit other people’s work.

My Other Work

I work a job that pays the bills.

At this time of writing, I am 46 and I’ve been doing that work for 30 years now. It’s fine, I enjoy it now that I have only me to concern myself with. I have no supervisory responsibilities any longer and that means I can focus on doing the best job I can.

My daily work has become a creative outlet.

I’m self-employed and when I’m not working I write and record new material.

My Personal Site Since 2015

On Larry G. Maguire, my personal site, I write regularly on the same subjects you’ll find here. They are the originals, and when you subscribe there, you’ll get my best stuff first.

Check out the archive.
The Ugly Truth About Self Improvement
By: Harshal Murkute
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Life, Self, Personal Development

And it’s used almost like a widely prescribed antidote to a crappy life. You feeling down in the dumps, try self-improvement. Oh damn! Your dog died, there is this self-improvement book that is really good. You should go pick it up and read it. And that’s either a good thing or a bad thing. I don’t think you can bash the sentiment. Because improving yourself is a noble and worthwhile aim.

Like what else are you gonna do? Will you get worse?

But one thing that I do think is destructive is that these internet self-improvement communities seem to intentionally or unintentionally sell this idea of self-improvement being the answer to everything.

They sell this idea of being able to improve yourself to a point where you don’t have to deal with life struggles. You can eventually improve yourself to a point where everybody loves you because you’re charismatic. You have such a rocking body, everyone is just impressed with the biceps. You’ll eventually make so much money that, you can buy anything you want.

And all this stuff sounds great, who wouldn’t want all of that stuff. But as soon as you say it aloud, it becomes pretty clear that this type of thinking almost stems from a place of insecurity, of conditional happiness. It comes from a certain dissatisfaction with where you are now.

Self-improvement, therefore, becomes a vehicle that will take you towards a fantasy, this perfect life that you always dreamed of. But if you look at some of the successful people on planet earth, I can guarantee you they didn’t get to where they were by just being into self-improvement. Usually, they get there by being good at something. Bill Gates was obsessed with coding. Elon Musk, what’s he not into?

If you look up to these types of people and you want to be like them, you have to realize that they’re not obsessing over their perfect morning routines and figuring out how to stack certain vitamins so that they can see through walls and unlock some third eye of truth.

That stuff is useful, but only if you’re only doing something. One example that of self-improvement being super counterproductive or unhelpful is people who read a lot about social interaction. It seems like common sense that the best way to get better at socializing is to socialize. To go out on a night instead of spending your time playing video games.

It’s like the perfect example of obsessive self-improvement not doing anything to help me improve. The very thing trying to improve. It’s not the case that books are not helpful. The books are only helpful if the vast majority of time is spent out there, in the real world, just living.

If all you watch is self-improvement videos, every book you read is a self-improvement book and self-improvement is your main hobby, it’s almost as if you’re a soldier preparing for a war most of the time, sharpening your skills and equipment, meanwhile, there is a war raging outside and it needs your help but you’re sitting not doing anything.
5 Great Men in History Who Had Most Bizarre Sexual Fetishes
Tags: Sex, Sexuality, History, Fetish, Bizarre

1. Mahatma Gandhi — India’s Founding Father

Photo Credits: BBC

It’s not a secret that Mahatma Gandhi, one of the founding fathers of India, was involved sexually with his grandnieces. He used them as a replacement for his walking stick in the morning and then slept with them naked at night. Gandhi thought that it was necessary to conduct this “so-called experiment in celibacy” in order to achieve higher levels of spirituality.

After getting accused of being immoral, Gandhi wrote a letter to Vallabhai Patel and said,

“For me, Manu sleeping with me is a matter of dharma (moral duty),”

Despite the “involuntary discharges” of semen, Gandhi kept insisting that these acts were important for him to get an idea about his strengths and weaknesses. He further wrote,

“If I don’t let Manu sleep with me, though I regard it as essential that she should … wouldn’t that be a sign of weakness in me?”

In her diary, Manu (Gandhi’s grandniece) highlighted a very disturbing and manipulative side of the “father of the nation.” She wrote,

“Tonight, when Bapu (Gandhi), Sushilaben, and I were sleeping on the same cot, he embraced me and patted me. He put me to sleep with great love. He embraced me after a very long time. Then Bapu praised me for remaining innocent (of sexual urges) despite sleeping with him. But this isn’t the case with the other girls. Veena, Kanchan, and Lilavati told me that they won’t be able to sleep with him.”

On another account, she wrote,
Conversation with My Wife (182)
By: Jack Herlocker
Tags: Retirement, Hiking The Trail, Walks By Drainage Ditches, Fun During Trump Pandemic, You Died Of Dysentery

Conversation with My Wife (182)

So there’s this creek, see, and it goes where it wants to go…

We have found we like to go wandering along local trails in our retirement.

The county trail in Lancaster County runs along the Susquehanna River, thanks to the remains of the 19th Century canal and later railroad rights of way. While York County (on the other side of the river) has a hiking trail (The Heritage Rail Trail County Park), the group who established it lacked suitable available land next to the river, so their trail follows the Codorus Creek. Which is lovely, in many places. But eventually the creek wanders through the middle of the City of York.

A nice section of the city part of the trail. Probably delightful in the spring or autumn. All photos by author.

DEB: Canada geese ahead.

ME: Sure. They like the creek.

DEB: Yeah, but they also like the beautiful park and athletic fields on the side of the trail opposite the creek.

ME: So they cross the trail. Yup, I see it! Oh, sh—

DEB: Yup!
Popular JavaScript Array Methods
By: Ariel Jakubowski
Tags: JavaScript, Javascript Tips, Arrays, Programming, Coding

Popular JavaScript Array Methods

The greatest hits, all in one place

Before diving into the array methods, there are two terms that must be clarified:

A destructive method alters original arrays.

Non-destructive methods do not alter original arrays — they create a copy of the original array.

It’s also important to note that there are many more array methods in JavaScript. These are just some of the most common.
5 Best Arduino, IoT, and Raspberry PI Courses to learn Internet of Things in 2021
Tags: IoT, Internet of Things, Programming, Python, Coding

5 Best Arduino, IoT, and Raspberry PI Courses to learn Internet of Things in 2021 javinpaul Follow Sep 3, 2020 · 7 min read

image_credit — Edureka IoT training certification

Hi there, You might have heard about IoT or Internet of things as its slowly changing the word. But if you are not sure what does IoT means and why you should learn this skill in 2021 then let me give you a brief overview.

The Internet of Things or IoT is any material or machine that has an internet connection other than a general computer that you are using in your daily life or phones and it must have some computational power and some intelligence to be considered as an IoT device such as the cameras and the intelligent refrigerator.



The technologies in our world grow faster than before so the demand for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices has grown tremendously in the last couple of years.

The demand for the internet of thing engineers is growing too much and the average annual salary in the USA reaches more than $100k and in some companies more than double of that.



We will see some classes that will deep dive you into more about the internet of things and how you can code and build one for yourself utilizing many programming languages such as Python, C/C++ by using Arduino and the raspberry pi devices to make your own projects.

5 Best Online Courses to learn Internet of Things (IoT) in 2021

Without wasting any more of your time, here is the list of best online courses to learn the Internet of Things or (IoT). You can join these courses online from the comfort of your office or home and learn on your schedule and convenience.

This is one of the best Udemy course to learn IoT or the Internet of Things. The course as the name says is a comprehensive program that will take you from a beginner to an advanced level on how to use Arduino to build your own IoT device and how to code it using the C/C++programming language and an Arduino IDE.



You will learn in this course:

Learn how to code an Arduino program.

Learn some IoT hardware and what they do.

Build some interesting projects.

You will learn the different hardware that IoT devices use such as sensors, relays, Arduino to name a few. You will build many projects throughout the course like smart light (home automation), a motion detector with email notification, and a panic alarm.

Here is the link to join this course — Complete Guide to Build IoT
A school revolution is on its way
By: Mads Leif
Tags: Future, Education, Learning, Society, Self-awareness

I am 28 years old and do not have children, but not long ago, I was one myself. I grew up in Denmark and I was one of few who never fitted into school. I, unsuccessfully, tried to get help, but both my teachers and parents demanded, in their good faith, that I continued school. As a teenager, I was so exhausted that I could not wake up from my own alarm clock, why my father had to wake me up every morning by pouring cold water in my face. Later I got a medical certificate that defended my physical and mental absence and cut me some slack. I was helpless and completed high school with sleeping problems, discipline notices, useless grades and a deep sense of inadequacy.

I was 19 and didn’t know what to do with my life. I had used the past 14 years in a learning environment that did not stimulate me, and my defeats at school had made me insecure and afraid to stand out. I was so far away from my intuition, that I doubted its existence. My only visible options in life were higher education, but I had no energy or desire to follow my schoolmates in the school system, so I stopped and waited for a miracle.

Fortunately, my parents supported me after high school, so I could live without pressure and expectations for a while. I travelled, worked as a phoner and travelled again. I found spaciousness and inspiration in new friends and cultures, and after two years without expectations to live up to, the miracle happened. Spontaneously I started a small business and shortly after, I joined a learning environment with teachers and mentors who supported me in my self-development. I picked the subject, the grades were replaced with useful feedback, and I controlled the pace. In this free and unconditional process, I slowly rebuilt my self-esteem and dug free my joy of life.

Now I follow my intuition, as I did in my early childhood, and four months ago it took me to Africa to write and reflect. I thought a lot about schooling, education and self-awareness, and I came to understand why I was mentally broken in school. There were three simple reasons:

I had to perform in subjects I did not chose. I was judged and compared with others in everything I produced. I had to follow a predetermined and monotonous pace of development.

When I realized that these learning principles had been limiting me for the majority of my life, I started to investigate if my intuitive understanding of the school’s learning environment was supported by science. I quickly discovered that the school’s learning principles have not changed for 200 years, that the number of unadapted children is steadily increasing, and that EU has concluded that control free and creative learning is supported by both science and teacher associations.
Poly Tribalism
By: Fabian Pfortmüller
Tags: Community Building, Community Engagement, Group Dynamics, Network, Community

At a recent community gathering, Kate Beecroft expressed a fascinating idea. She talked about “poly tribalism”: many of us are part not just of one community, but of a bunch of communities. Yes, there are some communities where we are mostly passive observers on the periphery. But many of us still actively engage with several communities at the same time. We genuinely love them, they all play a role in our lives, but often for different reasons.

And yet being an active part of different communities comes with challenges: how do I split my energy, time and attention between the groups? Should I feel guilty if I go back and forth between different groups? Why does switching between communities sometimes feel like cheating? What about sharing the same information across different groups?

While in the past, maybe some of us had one dominant tribe (our village, our church), I sense that poly tribalism is a reality that will only become stronger in the future: different communities will cater to different parts of our identity.

As someone trying to nurture meaningful communities, there is part of me that finds poly tribalism scary: will my community ever be good enough? Will members just leave to another group when something isn’t quite working out for them? Will people become less and less committed? Is there even a point for my group? Or are all of my members’ needs already met somewhere else?

These are fair questions to ask. Yet I don’t think that the answer is for a community to demand “exclusivity” from it’s members. That’s neither realistic nor productive. Rather I see poly tribalism as an opportunity: it forces us as community to be extra clear about what we stand for (and be explicit about what not), about what the value is that we want to create, and — most importantly — to set clear boundaries of what the commitment is of members to be part of the group.

As always, grateful to hear your thoughts and perspectives!
Master Yourself
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Mindfulness, Spirituality, Poetry, Mastery, Spiritual Secrets

Every

new day

brings

new thoughts

new feelings

and new

opportunities

to master

yourself
Let’s Hear It For The Young
By: Marla Bishop
Tags: Thrifty Words Challenge, Microfiction, The Bad Influence, 50 Words, Youth

Is youth really wasted on the young, as Oscar Wilde famously espoused, or are the experiences we have — whatever they are — ours to learn and grow from?

My thoughts about the lessons of youth are prompted this week by the young people who share my home. Two more different teenagers you couldn’t find under one roof; one focused and living her passion, the other, energies scattered and breaking every rule she can.

What is it about youth? As humans, we are old(er) far longer than we are young. Yet to look at media representation — cinema, television, music — you’d be hard put to find any concept more glamourized than youth.

Magazines using fourteen-year-olds to advertise anti-aging creams, box sets featuring characters who look more airbrushed each unfolding episode, and let’s not get started on the music videos accompanying songs as disparate pop, hip-hop, and rap.

What do you remember about your youth? Or perhaps you are still young (25 or under) — what’s important to you right now? This week I challenge you to write fifty words on youth. Let’s hear it for the young times — but keep it brief.

What are you waiting for?

Fifty words on YOUTH— GO!
That Album at the Gas Station
By: Deniz Çam
Tags: Short Story, Relationships, Life, Music, Feminism

Photo Credit: Deno’s dad

When my dad pulled off at a gas station on our way to my grandparents’ summerhouse on the Mediterranean, he grabbed multiple bottles of water, looked at me to see what I wanted — (some cheese crackers?) of course, I wanted a Magnum ice cream with almonds — and then reached out for an album that did not make sense in 2002.

A young woman singer in her early 30s had just placed her albums on the shelves — shelves from gas stations to the most prominent music stores. Her songs were drenched in an unapologetic and conspicuous feminist cry. The songs somehow translated to a 10-year-old Deno jamming to the lyrics:

“Mother, I have to run. I don’t want to make rice pilaf. You need grandchildren, but I don’t want to take care of children.”

Fifteen years later, I find myself listening to the same songs on my balcony, overlooking downtown Manhattan. Biting into my freezing Magnum as my dad drove towards the summer, I had no idea that a decade later, I would be driving towards a future thousands of miles away, on my own. Every few hours, I asked my dad to stop at another gas station as I hegemonized the radio stations to my liking in between. FM 97.2, 99.7, 100.0, and 101.0 were all my favorite stations — and only one was in Turkish: FM 99.7. Now and then, I search for Turkish channels on Spotify for a bit of home.

My dad loved letting me pick even though our trip was more than eight hours. He’s always let me pick; it’s been 25 years. “You know best, Deniz,” he still says. Upon graduating from graduate school, he simply handed me a pink envelope. Inside was a cartoon woman, holding a cartoon world: “Just go,” he wrote inside. “Believe in yourself, and just go.”

Making a foreign place your own is one of the biggest challenges one can ever undertake. No matter how much place you can take, it somehow never feels enough. I still count in Turkish, sometimes I dream in Turkish. Even as one of the most secular Muslims you can ever find (Yes, I grew up in a family that got drunk during holidays thanks to the cherry liquor the matriarchs made over the summer), if you approach me discreetly and boo me, I will “Allah!” you. I, once in a while, take a deep breath and let out a long “offff.” I complain in gibberish and shout “get out the way” in Turkish while trying to get on the 1 train. But I also get so excited and full of love that I blurt something out in my mother tongue, something I otherwise would not have said in English.

A multilingual person has multiple personalities, studies say, but I know it’s not that simple. We’re all torn inside, waiting to find a way to bring the pieces together, hoping to make sense in a world far away from what feels comfortable.
Considering Three Pounds of Flax
By: Ren Powell
Tags: Buddhism, Journaling Benefits, Empathy, Meditation, Discernment

And Paying Attention to the Truth in Every Cliché

Photo: Ren Powell

I have an ambivalent relationship with aphorisms. Whether a quote is merely a platitude or a significant expression of a deeply contemplated experience, all depends on the reader and their current frame of mind.

I have noticed that when I’m scrolling through Instagram or Facebook, and register “platitude after platitude” it’s time for me to take a break from everything electronic — and breathe.

Of course, there are plenty of people out there posting motivational quotes because they have something to sell, but it is too easy to dismiss the quotes that are being shared by individuals with nothing to sell, but who have been touched and want to share the thought. The problem is — without the context of that person’s experience, it’s easy for me to skim the surface: “platitude”. In my hurry, I’m inconsiderate and refuse every earnest attempt at connection. And worse is that I find myself judging those people as shallow.

One part of my daily morning meditation involves water: calming the waves until the surface is reflective… and having the courage to recognize that what I see is a reflection of myself -

here in the shallows.

Slap a famous writer’s name on the end of a quote and you have a context. But often that sense of belonging “in the club” is the only context: I recognize my education. Ego. Smugness. After all, who has time to consider all the potentially earnest missives send via a quote?

I am guessing now that this is where discernment comes in. Another part of my morning meditation. Maybe there is a point in making my world smaller so that there is more time for consideration.

Every fragment of the universe — when contemplated — is a koan.

I think I knew that still at five. Before I thought I had to appear to know everything.

(And too often it is possible to fake it until you believe it yourself.)

Maybe there is a point in returning to daily journaling and giving up the need to be anything but earnest — to be five again in that regard.

I’d quite like that.
Playing in the Sand: Why Having Fun at Work Matters
By: Mawulom Nenonene
Tags: Building Teams, Productivity, Work Life Balance, Teamwork, Leadership

When we are at play, or as we adults would like to call it — having fun, we also are open. Receptive. Engaged and willing. We are in the present moment. But this doesn’t just happen in sandboxes, it happens everywhere. In our family life, with our children, our marriages, and even at work.

Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher, in their book The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up, make a strong case for the benefits of making work fun. From their findings, and past experience from brilliant trailblazers who lead with levity, they’ve seen radically positive benefits:

“If people are having fun, they’re going to work harder, stay longer, maintain their composure in a crisis and take better care of the organization.”

In a recent study conducted on the effects of having fun at work, the results follow Gostick’s and Christopher’s findings. Within the 700-person experiment on the relationship between fun and productivity, their findings reflect a clear relationship between the level of productivity and fun. Simply put, when people were laughing and having fun, productivity jumped.

So if you’re currently in a very stale, serious and formal environment, how do you turn the tables to incorporate levity and laughter?

Play On Common Ground

If your team isn’t performing, morale becomes low. Fortunately, most problems on technical teams aren’t technical. They are people problems. When people don’t get along, they don’t collaborate. They’re hesitant to share ideas, opinions, or insights and because they aren’t fond of each other, they start working less as teams, and more as individuals. If you see this now in your workplace or suspect morale is dropping, put some effort into team-bonding. It’s a small price to pay to create a cohesive team.

You can do this by investing in your team’s happiness.

Set time aside, or even a day if you can, to relax, play and bond, as a good break from locking horns while in work-mode.

Rather than ask your team to take away from obligations and personal lives, do it during work time.

I had a boss once that every few months, would take everyone out for the day to catch up, bond and laugh together. Sometimes it was lunch and a movie, or a sporting event. Other times, we went hiking or got our dogs and headed over to the park and had a picnic. Just our team. I have to say, it was much easier to put out fires and go to bat for everyone after we had strengthened our bonds a bit.

Sometimes you can enter a pattern or negativity or hostility, especially when times are stressful at work. That time spent letting your guard down and connecting often got us to remember that we all have something in common, and while we may not see eye-to-eye as co-workers all the time, it made working together much easier to do especially when stress was running high. If you have some camaraderie in place, your team’s morale will be better able to weather storms together.
O que projetar para idosos me ensinou
By: João Traini
Tags: Ux Translations, UX, Acessibilidade, UI, Design De Produto

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All about leading in business
By: Robert Drury
Tags: Book Review, Startup, Product Management, Product Manager, Leadership

All about leading in business

6 books all about how to lead from leaders and experts

The words and advice from people who are experts in their field will help you develop confidence and mental fortitude. You’re able to build the mindset you need to lead people through critical times, having learned from the experiences of the best in the business.

Here are six books that give real insight into how to lead an organization, and you can find more in the Business Leaders section on the Getting Started in Product bookstore.