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24 August 2020 Song/Poem of the Day — Stuck For So Long
By: Suzanne Mondoux
Tags: Music, Songs, Lyrics, Poetry, Love

Photo source: guitar-806255_1920pixa bay

Stuck For So Long

Hmm, ya, what’s going on

Stuck for so long in this place called love

She won’t have me but I can’t stop thinking of her

They say move on but my heart is stuck on her

I play my guitar and sing her my love song

Oh ya, stuck for so long

She won’t even look at me

How do I win her heart

Stuck on her for so long I’m blind to all others

My best friend said did you tell her you’re sweet on her

Did you let her know you exist

Does she know you’re name

You’re stuck for so long in the story you created of her

I could not argue with my friend

I went to the supermarket where she worked

When I got to her check out I looked up at her and smiled

Each day I returned

On the seventh day I told her my name

It was the end of her shift and I waited for her outside the store

She smiled at me and asked me how was I doing today

I played this game for a while

She continued to smile at me until she said I had to walk her home

Stuck for so long in me

Stuck for so long in the creation of her

The next summer we were married

It’s been fifty years and I’m still stuck on her

For so long I played my guitar and sang her my long

Every morning she smiles at me

Every night I kiss her goodnight

Suzanne Mondoux

24 August 2020

Year 2020 collection Song/Poem of the Day captured on my website (https://suzannemondoux.com/blog/). Thank you to all my readers and followers. Very much appreciated. List of my novels also available https://suzannemondoux.com/
23 August 2020 Song/Poem of the Day — How Can This Be
By: Suzanne Mondoux
Tags: Music, Songs, Lyrics, Poetry, Life

Photo source: dandelion-445228_1920 pixabay

How Can This Be

I was born in the land of plenty

I saw many come and go

The whole world at our fingertips

How can this be to be so free

Live light

Live in ecstasy

Jumping through hoops ceased

Taking orders gone

Giving orders vanished

How can this be to breeze through life

Windows of opportunities everywhere you see

No bumps in the road

No hunger pains of desires

You’re wish is my command

What you ask is what you get

How can this be to see such a world

To want for nothing

To take from no one

Dismantling the seven deadly sins

Lust abolished

Gluttony extinguished

Greed denied

Sloth forbidden

Wrath unwarranted

Envy no more

Pride subsided

How can this be in a world of human beings

How can this be a world of no wonder

Can we marvel at the expected

Is there sensation in the knowing

Is there curiosity in only goodness

Would there be spectacular in such a life

How could this be amazed admiration for wanting to live

To know where to find the surprise

To know everything that will be

How could this be

Suzanne Mondoux

23 August 2020

Year 2020 collection Song/Poem of the Day captured on my website (https://suzannemondoux.com/blog/). Thank you to all my readers and followers. Very much appreciated. List of my novels also available https://suzannemondoux.com/
IMAGINARY SONG
By: Roxana Anton
Tags: Poem, Kiss, Lyrics, Poetry, Love

IMAGINARY SONG

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

Not made for power

Not made for lust

Not made for money

Not made for trust

Don’t want any big talks

Don’t know how to cook

How to decorate my house

Improve the way I look

Bridge: But I was made for love

The only thing I really want

Only thing I really know how to

Is loving you

With all my heart.
A Simple Phrase
By: Ulf Wolf
Tags: Poem, Song, Love Song, Song Poem, Lyric

a Lyric



Somewhere in your life

I’m sure you know the feeling

of wishing there was someone

to tell of all your dreams



Me, I searched

for more than just one lifetime

for this precious understanding

for this precious queen of mine



But I, for one

never knew the meaning

of these simple little phrases

like, I love you



’Cause my eyes were closed

I never knew the feeling

but now that they are opened

I’ve never felt more real



Soft as the rain

clean as the snow

I found her in a garden

that only lovers know



And the light that she gives

is gentle understanding

of these simple little phrases

like I love you





Ulf Wolf

March 1978

Copyright © 2019 by Wolfstuff
22 August 2020 Song/Poem of the Day — Without You
By: Suzanne Mondoux
Tags: Illness, Lyrics, Poetry, Love, Life

Photo source: roses-142876_1920 pixabay

Without You

It’s just a matter of fact that without you I’m lost

I’m lost in space with no compass to point me in any direction

It’s just a matter of truth that you light up my day

Without you I’m just a drop of water in the vast sea

It’s all but a blur when you’re not with me

I look for you in everything I see

I feel your warmth when you sat in this chair

I feel your touch when you slept in our bed

Without you a fog lingers all around me

I follow your voice in the mist

The smell of your perfume lets me know you’re there

I’ve come to you when you called

I’m here to continue this journey with you

Wake up my darling I know you can hear me

I know you can feel my touch

Stay here with me

Without you there’s no where to go

You can make it my darling, just follow the sound of my voice

Follow me this time

Take my hand for without you I can’t make it on my own

Wake up my darling, it’s not your time

I know because the way you’re holding my hand

I know you can hear my voice

There’s something to be said for a love such as ours

Without you our history of love is forgotten

You’re smile tells me you’ve decided to return to me

I’ll be here when you wake up my darling

For without you love will cease to be

Suzanne Mondoux

22 August 2020

Year 2020 collection Song/Poem of the Day captured on my website (https://suzannemondoux.com/blog/). Thank you to all my readers and followers. Very much appreciated. List of my novels also available https://suzannemondoux.com/
Why are people not proud of you?
Tags: Self, Parents, Life Lessons, Self-awareness, Lyrics

“Been through some situations, and so many problems.Them different altercations, I still think ‘bout the bottom.On the road to greatness, I wonder how come I got frowns from people I wanted smiles from Just be proud of me.I just want you to be proud of me, yeah.How come you don’t look so proud of me? I just want you to be proud of me, yeah.” Rod wave lyrics

Message

As all humans we all lie and deny that we do not care about external praise from friends, family or strangers which makes us proud that others see our accomplishments or effort.

Example

An example a homeless person may want money besides other possessions they also yearn for someone to love them or point something about them that makes them proud knowing someone is proud of them. Another example is in life every adult or child all want to feel proud or make their parents be proud of them. Even if you are already proud of yourself your parents being proud is a little bit different even though it should not be that way.

(Just a life observation)
Like Me Babe
Tags: Music, Songs, Lyrics, Original Compositions, Cheating

Saying that you always like me, babe

Don’t need no words, just action

Come on tease me straight

Take me to your room

And kiss me like

Come on, make it sexual

She ain’t here I’ll be the one

Hoping for that love

I’m stuck yeah it’s natural

How do I make you see me the way that you see her

You boy are my type

I want you by my side

You like when I’m testing

Your naughty behaviour

I’m lost boyy

I’m done

She wins

But you both lost

Good luck boy

Have fun

Cause I’m not the only one

I’m not the only one
21 August 2020 Song/Poem of the Day — See The World
By: Suzanne Mondoux
Tags: Song, Lyrics, Poetry, Life, Travel

Photo source: gleise-1555348_1920 pixa bay

See The World

Gonna ride a train and see the world

I’m gonna find the magic at every stop

I’m gonna see the world

Smell every flower and shake every hand

And give away every smile

I’m gonna see the world with eyes wide open

With heart bursting wide

And listen for the trail of laughter

Follow the sunrise to sunset

And keep rolling on that train to see the world

I’ll be as good as I can

I’ll play and laugh as I see all the world

When I hear that whistle blower I’ll jump on the next train

I’ll see the world in all its glory

In style with a smile

And if there’s any unexpected stops I’ll jump

I’ll live all the way and listen for that whistle

No blues along the way

Just tap dance along the rail with a smile on my face

I’m seeing the world in style

I travel with pride to see this world of ours

I’m making all my memories, even the ones that make me cry

I’m gonna see the world with eyes wide open

I may lose a sweetheart here and there but one will stick along the way

I’m gonna see all the world

Creating my sweetest memories

All dreams are in my hands

I’m seeing the world for the first time

No misery on this ride

I’m seeing the world in style

I hear the whistle blowing

Time to go see the world

Suzanne Mondoux

21 August 2020

Year 2020 collection Song/Poem of the Day captured on my website (https://suzannemondoux.com/blog/). Thank you to all my readers and followers. Very much appreciated. List of my novels also available https://suzannemondoux.com/
What Is Your Favourite Colour
By: Morten Jensen
Tags: Choices, Equality, LGBTQ, Lyrics, Freedom

What Is Your Favourite Colour

Boys are born into the colour blue

When they grow up this might not be true

Just imagine if it was you

The things that people say and do

We don’t get to choose our favourite colour

But boys and girls might fit better in another

We shouldn’t really mix them with each other

Apparently you can’t be my brother

Girls are born into a world of pink

But they do not know what to think

When presented with the ink

There might be another link

We don’t get to choose our favourite colour

But boys and girls might fit better in another

We shouldn’t really mix them with each other

Apparently you can’t be my brother

Babies born into dissonance

Thrown aside without a chance

Unable to take a stance

All they want to do is dance

We don’t get to choose our favourite colour

But boys and girls might fit better in another

We shouldn’t really mix them with each other

Apparently you can’t be my brother

I don’t see your colour

but I’m not colour blind

I don’t speak your tongue

but I hear you all the same

I can see the borders

but I still feel your pain

I didn’t choose a gender

but you call me a boy
Service Accounts in Kubernetes
By: Ishan Liyanage
Tags: API, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Api, Serviceaccount, Best Practices

The concept of service account is linked to other security related concepts in Kubernetes such as authentication, authorization, RBAC (role-based access controls).

Therea are two types of accounts in Kubernetes,

User account Service account

The user account is used by humans and service account is used by machines. An user account could be an admin accessing the cluster to perform admin relate task or may be developer accessing cluster to deploy an application.

A service account could be an account used by an application to interact with the Kubernetes cluster such a monitoring application like Prometheus is used as a service account to pull the Kubernetes API for performance metrics. Also automated tools like Jenkins uses service account to deploy applications.

Lets talk about an example. You are building a dashboard do display information about list of pods on a K8s cluster.

You need to send a request to the K8s API to retrieve data and display it on the web page. You need to be authenticated to obtain information from the K8s cluster.

3rd party application uses service account to access K8s API

This is where service account comes in to place. You can use below command to create a service account.

kubectl create serviceaccount dashboard-user

You can use below command to view service accounts.

kubectl get serviceaccount

You can use below command to obtain details about the service account.

kubectl describe serviceaccount dashboard-user

When you create the service account, it will create a token. This token we can use to from external application to authenticate and gain access to K8s API. The token is stored inside the Secret object. You can describe the secret object to view the token.

kubectl describe secret <<token secret name>>

You can use this token in your API (REST) call as bearer token in your HTTP Authorization header.

Also note that you can configure RBAC (role based access control) to configure what this service account can access.

The default service account

If you go back and look at the list of service accounts, you will see that there is a default one. The service account name ‘default’ is created under each namespace in K8s. Whenever the POD is created, the default service account and its token are automatically mounted to that POD.

So each POD in the cluster has restricted access to K8s API using that mounted default service account.

If you would like to use different service account with different set of permissions, you can include the service account name inside the POD definition file (inside the spec section).

serviceAccount: dashboard-user

Also you may choose not to mount service account automatically (e.g you might not need default one), you can do so by specifying it.
The Blank canvas
Tags: Hàbits, Writing Tips, Creativity, Writing, Creative Process

Filling this empty space constitutes my identity. — Twyla Tharp

Photo by ASHLEY EDWARDS on Unsplash

IT’s another day, the air is more humid than usual, it looks like it might snow, you take out your sheet of paper/your blank screen/blank canvas you sit there for a while, the blank canvas/screen stares back at you, it is asking you to fill it, you don't know what you are about to Paint or what you are about to write, it scares you to death, you wanna run away from it as you know you have to take this nothingness and create something beautiful.

Fear of this nothingness affects everyone in the creative field. Where there was nothing, there will be something that has come from within you. if you ask me That’s terrifying, some see it as painful others can't deal with it but what I have seen throughout my time in this field is, that nothingness will always respond to you, you will always find something within you to fill it up but what separates some from the rest is that most people let that fear control them, they prefer to run away, take a stroll outside while others start first, they make that first stroke of the paint hit the canvas, they write that first letter and let the rest figure itself out, they know that it is just a process of trusting.

and this trust doesn't come out of anywhere, it comes with practice as Seth Godin says “creativity is a choice”, you go there every morning, you face that emptiness, write down something, draw something and I can't promise you that the fear will disappear but your faith in your hands and in that nothingness will be fed and someday it will prevail, it is just a matter of who you feed.

There’s nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks. — Twyla Tharp

and rather than asking what if the results are awful, what if I don't like it, what if everybody hates it, you ask what if it works, what if this is my best piece and even if it doesn't work, at the end of the day what really matters is that you tried, you sat down, you let your faith win and you get the work done.
New Features of Scikit-Learn
By: Ankit Gupta
Tags: Programming, Python, Machine Learning, Scikit Learn, Data Science

Photo by Tamanna Rumee on Unsplash

3) Successive Halving Estimators

Two new estimators for hyperparameter tuning are introduced namely HalvingGridSearchCV and HalvingRandomSearchCV. They can respectively serve as alternatives for GridSearchCV and RandomizedSearchCV, the in-built hyperparameter tuning methods so far in scikit-learn.

The basic idea is that the search for the best hyperparameter starts on a few samples with a large set of parameters. In the next iteration, the number of samples increase (by a factor n), but the number of parameters is halved/reduced (halved does not only mean a factor of 1/2 (n=2) but can also be 1/3 (n=3), 1/4 (n=4), and so on). This halving procedure continues till the final iteration. Finally, the best subset of parameters is the one that has the highest score in the last iteration.

Similar to the existing two methods, the “successive halving” can either be performed randomly (HavingRandomSearchCV) or exhaustively (HavingGridSearchCV). The following example demonstrates the use case of HavingRandomSearchCV (you can similarly use HavingGridSearchCV). For a comprehensive explanation of how to choose the best parameters, refer here.
Cash Is a Lazy Investment
By: Nathan Young
Tags: Saving, Business, Investing, Money, Income

People are always saying things like, “save your money!”.

Old people still purchase CD’s that earn less than 1%.

In today’s world, cash is no longer a great asset. It under performs and continues losing value as time progresses. A dollar today if worth more than a dollar tomorrow.

Put your money in a CD? Still going to lose money. One word…inflation.

So with all this going on, how do you keep your dollar strong? Simple. Keep moving it.

Stagnation with your money is a zero sum game. Sure, it’s important to have some saved, but only enough to cover a rainy day. A rainy day is 3 to 6 months worth of living expenses.

After that, put your money to work. How you may ask? Great question and here’s what you need to know.

How you move your money isn’t as important, so long as it’s moving. Let me elaborate.

If you have $100 in your account earning 0.10%, you can certainly do better. Instead of leaving that $100 in your account, take that $100 and put it to work.

You can flip items on the Internet. Exploit undervalued assets. For example, you find a DVD player at Goodwill for $5. You look online and it sells for $30 used. After you make the purchase and sell, odds are you’ll profit around $15-$20 dollars.

So instead of saving your money, you moved it through a system. The end result? $20 growth on your $100, or a 20% appreciation of your dollars.

Flipping isn’t your thing? No worries. Take that $100 and throw it into a solid dividend paying stock. This will take time to grow into something material, but will earn you more than doing nothing. If you make 5% annually in dividends, that’s $5 annually. Not to mention asset appreciation (hopefully).

The list goes on but you get the idea. Moving money keeps it growing.

Until interest rates return to a respectable level, you have to keep money moving. If you truly have a desire to hold assets, look into gold or silver. That’ll at least help hedge against inflation.

The USD is always losing value as time progresses, and it’s up to you to prevent the loss of your hard earned money.
Nostalgia for a time that never was: Re-watching Back to the Future
By: Roger Rabbit
Tags: Movie Review, Review, Film Reviews, Back To The Future, Movies

Photo: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

I did not grow up in the 80s. The 50s are as alien to me as they are to Marty McFly. I did not grow up in America, so many of the Pop culture references in the movie just fly by me. But yet, in a way, I look at the zany, colourful world that Director Robert Zemeckis and co-writer Bob Gale have created, bound to two different eras, and I strangely feel nostalgic.

Hill Valley, the fictional town that Marty McFly lives in, is just another small town. The town and its people have existed in the past, exist now and exist in the future: all in different forms. Enter a DeLorean time machine and now, the possibilities are infinite. Marty meets his parents when they were high-schoolers, and surprise, surprise: they lied quite a bit about who they were when they were young. Marty is stuck there in the 50s, but his friend Doc, is conveniently a constant rather than a variable: he instantly figures out a way to help Marty.

The humour is derived from contrasts: an 80s kid in a 50s setting and it is really fun. But when I first watched the movie, I wondered why the creators limited themselves to Hill Valley & the McFly family. After all, they had an infinite canvas: a device that lets them go to any point in the future or the past. But I realise now, production limitations and costs aside, that there is a certain appeal in telling the stories of a small group of people, across different points in time, from a small town, whether that be Hill Valley, California or Winden, Germany.

Therein lies the answer to my nostalgia. I don’t pine for the world that exists in Back to the Future, I pine for the world I lived in when I watched it for the first time. That world is dramatically diffrent from the 80s or 50s Hollywood interpretation of America, but the magic of movies like this is that it binds all these worlds together and creates something that endures in the minds of the viewer, even 35 years after it was released.
A Look at the Future of the Hemp Industry
By: Brian Wallace
Tags: Cannabis, Cbd Oils, Cbd, Hemp, Infographics

Move over, THC, there’s a new three-lettered term hitting the shelves and it goes C-B-D. Like its popular cousin, CBD is a chemical that comes from the cannabis sativa plant but produces benefits without the swirly, psychoactive effects to the mind. More than 1 in 4 Americans have tried CBD to relieve pain, stress, and anxiety. As it continues to affect different industries and making a name for itself especially in health and wellness, the CBD industry is projected to hit $20 billion by 2024.

Within the past two years, use of hemp CBD has spread across the generations. The wide variety of the hemp market is one way to make sure that there’s something for everyone, having uses in personal care, industrial applications, food, textiles, and supplements. Scientists still are unable to identify every single benefit that CBD targets in the body, but the possible medicinal benefits have still prompted many to incorporate the hemp oil into their healthcare. Some people use both their over-the-counter medicine and CBD products concurrently in their health routine, with 22% replacing their medicine completely. But without consistent regulations, proving the quality of hemp products can be a unique challenge.

The hemp industry is exploding due to the popularity of CBD. Learn more about the future of hemp business from the infographic below.
Changing the Generational Perspective on Financial Success - Bryce Thompson
Tags: Investor, Bryce Thompson, Signitt, Business Entrepreneur, Influencer

I was featured on an episode of In Focus TV’s Power Moves discussing the generational ideas of success and what leads to success, and how I intend to change the narrative.

“The generational perspective is that you have to go the traditional route to become successful.

“In my family, I can probably name the people who have graduated college on one hand, but you know I always say: you’re either passing it on or starting it off. I say this because most people do not have a millionaire in their family, so you have to do something different than what’s been done before you to start it off. Or, you may have a millionaire in your family and then it’s your job to continue that legacy for generations to come. So everybody plays a part in carrying on their last name; whether they are starting it off or carrying it on.

“I never had a millionaire in my family before I became one so for now I’m positioning my little brother and all the younger people that are in my family to know about investing, to know about things that are the future of success. I do this so that we can completely break the perspective of ‘hey you have to go to college and then get a job, you have to work for somebody in order to become successful’, that’s not what I did. Even my little brother now has had his basketball dreams diminished but he knows that he does not have be an athlete or artist to become successful because he is watching me.

“Everybody can play a part in either starting it off or carrying it on. Don’t focus so much on the money, but more so focus on the impact you can make.

“We need to teach people about financial literacy and investing. A lot of young people my age, once they make a certain amount of money they don’t know what to do with it. People know how to make money, save money and they for sure know how to spend it, but people don’t know how to multiply money. Once somebody comes into money, if they don’t know what to do with it, it is easy to lose it. The one thing worse than not having money is getting the taste of having it and losing it.

“We need to really push out to the Black community specifically and communities in general the importance of how they can make money but also how they can keep it money. We don’t want to be successful for a year or for two years and blow all of our money, we want to be successful for generations to come.”

About Bryce: Bryce Thompson is a young millionaire and millennial business mentor. He is passionate about helping others to achieve their dreams through financial literacy. He founded the IAMS foundation, an organization giving back to the community through collegiate scholarships. Bryce also leads the IM Mastery Academy, an educational resource for those looking to accelerate financial growth.
Speaking at Everest Hack, Kathmandu
By: Santosh Viswanatham
Tags: Mozilla, Speakers, Open Source, Webvr, Hackathons

With the Everest Hack Team

I’m just back from a wonderful Hackathon in a couple of weeks ago and I finally found some time to share my experience with you all.

Two months back, I was being invited to speak at Everest Hack — 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal. I was interested in this Hackathon for two reasons, Hackathons have always been my thing, mentoring and seeing developers build their idea to an MVP is exciting. Secondly, the city is not so far away from home and this would be my first neighboring country I’m going to speak at.

I spoke about WebXR: VR/AR on the web. Though how many times I speak about WebVR, people still want to hear about the same exciting thing all over again. The talk was different this time, I included more demos and live coding in the session, tried to clarify their questions with code, Showing them the code of every demo I made as this is a hackathon and I thought people would love to see it in action rather than me telling a story. And all this should happen in 30 mins.

Talking about WebXR: VR/AR/MR on the Web

But, I learned something new at the end of this session. After half through my talk, which is more of a conceptual story I asked the participants if they want to see some code or want me to continue with the story but to my surprise, about 80% of the participants choose the story and rest choose story + code. I was always under the wrong perception that participants at Conference want to see more code, more demos, more action and less of a story but perhaps I was wrong all the time. It might also depend on the audience but still, I never thought of this was an option. and I was later asked to be a Judge at the Hackathon as well.

Final round of Judging

Most of the participants were students and Everyone was curious about getting into open source and contributing to the real-world problems. I had many interesting conversations with many of them. I made many friends along the way, had a lot of fun during and after the Hackathon. Being an introvert, it was difficult for me on the first day to get into conversations but like always I was able to cope up the next day.

With a group of volunteers

Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of temples, stupas and scenic beauties. You will feel spiritual vibes all around the valley if you are from a busy/crowded city like Hyderabad. It is also less expensive than in my home country. Most of the restaurants/vendors accept Indian currency so it was pretty easy for me to manage the currency. Fact: Nepal uses a different calendar which is 56 years and 8 months ahead of our Indian calendar. I went blank understanding what date it is when I got a bill for a cab service for the first time.

Overall, It was an amazing Hackathon and the guys did it very well in spite of their first time.

Hope to be back again next time. Signing off.
Job Interview: Flutter Developer
By: Vivek Yadav
Tags: Interview, Questions, Advanced, Flutter, Dart

Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash

Let’s see what it looks like to interview as a flutter dev.

Q 1. What’s your experience in Flutter?

This is because flutter is a young tech in the market and people have less experience in this. And they want to know if you have some knowledge of Flutter.

Remember to leave a good impression on this question. You can add a few things to this answer.

How you came across Flutter? When did you start working with Flutter? How many applications did you make in Flutter? What topics you have covered [ Animations, State Management, APIs,…]? Courses, Bootcamp, Preparations.

Q 2. Do you have experience in Android/iOS native?

This comes under the most asked question to flutter developers. Since we do not have packages/plugins for everything, we have to use native code to build plugins for ourselves. This is why we should have some sort of native experience.

Q 3. Why did you choose flutter instead of React Native or other cross-platform technology?

I asked this question to everyone I interview. This is because the motivation behind choosing a technology will speak a lot of things, like his interest to learn and gain more knowledge for the tech.

Now let’s divide questions based on the job position. We can have job positions for interns, fresher, intermediate, senior, lead developers, and managers. Yes, at these many positions you can get questions on flutter.
My First Time
By: Pamela Oma
Tags: Questions, Questions Worth Asking, Friendship Breakup, Confusion

My First Time

I was left in a state of utter confusion, disbelief & a thousand other emotions I cannot express, even up until this point.

For the first time ever I got to experience what it felt like to question your place with someone you let close to your heart. For the first time, I experienced the same with multiple people at the same time.

It felt like my world stopped all of a sudden; It felt like I was in the middle of an empty room with questions scattered all around & there’s me trying to understand each question while rotating in confusion.

These questions are a representation of my emotions, the good, the bad and the ones I can’t understand. “How did I get here?”. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined a life without these people.

Being my first time, I don’t know how to handle the situation. Do I revoke full access or pretend like nothing happened? As the days go by, I naturally feel a drift but is that how I really want things to end? Do I want it to end? or is it better off vice versa?

For the first time, i’ve never hoped as much as this to find clarity, to find peace, to find the answers. Now I wait, with less disappointment in my heart but with more hope that what is to come would leave me at peace.
One Way To Become Rich
By: Brian Dickens Barrabee
Tags: Budget, Money, Lists, Advice, Wealth

I know you can spend a lifetime researching lists written by those who purport to be rich and how they achieved their net worth, a million, a billion. Tell you what. Take those lists, rip ’em up and throw ‘em away. There’s one simple way everyone can achieve wealth.

Photo by Alef Vinicius on Unsplash

As Lucy said to Linus in the classic comic Peanuts on the subject of hitting STOP signs with thrown rocks: “The secret, Linus, is to throw not just one rock but a handful. One is bound to hit it.”

This is how I feel when I come across the countless lists created by self made millionaires, billionaires. When I listen to well-meaning investment counselors. You know. those folks on commission who are always searching for answers to wealth creation and maintenance for their clients.

The myriad of clever ideas may be helpful to some but likely more confusing than useful to most.

There’s only one way to do it.

No matter how creative the list, almost all of them seem to center around the old catalogue of one.

As a wealth manager in New York City a number of years ago, I came across a prospect. Interestingly, he worked for an investment firm Nuveen & Co. ( now a subsidiary of the financial giant TIAA).

We were discussing his speciality, municipal bonds, in re: conservative investment opportunities for my retired clients.

Our conversation wended its way to personal income and investments.

Turns out for my municipal bond friend — his former was as substantial as the latter was sparse (non existent).

He confided in me that he made close to $1.5 in income per year— this was in the 1970’s when $1.5 was worth something!

And:

that he had no savings or investments. That’s right NO, as in none — nada.

If this story was told to me by someone else, I wouldn’t have believe it.

The wealth manager in me compelled my respectful suggestion he invest $200 a month in a good quality growth mutual fund. I reckoned, maybe he couldn’t see the financial forest for the trees.

His answer astounded me.

“I can’t afford it!” he said.

Here was a prime example of someone who knew investments. He made a living by advising municipalities on how to raise money. Yet personally, he had no net worth. My friend had earned this plateau in his financial affairs by his mid 40's.

PAY YOURSELF FIRST!

The one tried and proven rule on my list of building wealth and power.

This doesn’t mean to ignore basic family necessities and debt.

PAY YOURSELF FIRST!

After paying yourself, structure the rest of your financial requirements around the remaining income.

Your goal is to make sure there’s enough income saved to invest — before discretionary purchases are made.

Interestingly, if you keep track of everything you spend for a month, I mean EVERY expenditure down to the last penny, you’ll find dollars for which you can’t account.

Try it, I’ve never seen it fail.

It’s a financial truth!

“Do not save what is left after spending but spend what is left after saving,” — Warren Buffett
Best tools for Sentiment Analysis — 2021
By: Rachit Singh
Tags: Analytics, Text, Analysis, Lists, Sentiment Analysis

1. BytesView

BytesView sentiment analyzer is a powerful tool for evaluating user sentiments by analyzing complex structured and unstructured text data. It is simple to train it to support and analyze 30+ languages; all you need to do is gain access to the BytesView API and integrate it with your system.

You can easily gather text data from multiple sources (reviews, suggestions, opinions, social posts, opinions, support queries) and convert it into actionable insights to help make data-driven decisions with their sentiment analysis tool.

If you are a data analyst, this product is a must for you as you can easily analyze public sentiments, conduct market research, gauge brand reputation, and evaluate user experiences.

2. Talkwalker

Another excellent tool for sentiment analysis is Talkwalker. It claims to have the best sentiment analysis technology available, allowing it to distinguish sarcasm and other ambiguous forms of negative mentions. This tool is best used in conjunction with your social media channels because it can tell you exactly how people perceive your company’s social media accounts.

3. Clarabridge

Clarabridge is a multifaceted platform that includes customer experience management. Sentiment analysis is a component of this solution. The sentiment analysis in the tool is extremely detailed, taking into account parsing, framework, industry, and source.

4. Brandwatch

When it comes to sentiment analysis, Brandwatch is also one of my go-to analytics tools. It analyses brand sentiment, displays trends, and includes a cool feature called “image insights.” In the same way that topics can be linked with your brand’s name, the feature recognises images associated with your brand’s logo.

5. Lexalytics

Lexalytics is a business intelligence solution that analyses various types of text. Lexalytics works with social media comments, surveys, reviews, and any other type of text document. In addition to sentiment analysis, the tool performs classification, theme extraction, and intention detection, which can help users see the full context.

6. Rosette

Rosette’s sentiment analysis tool is simple to use for beginners because it uses an API to perform sentiment analysis on social media data as well as a more fine-grained analysis. Customers’ feelings, for example, when they mention a specific product, company, or person.

You can train Rosette’s sentiment analysis tool to identify up to 30 languages if you have global data.

7. Mention

Mention is a well-established social media monitoring app. Mention tracks brand mentions on major social networks, news websites, blogs, forums, and the internet. Mention sentiment analysis is included in all plans..
New features on aiRight Marketplace
Tags: Nft, Marketplaces, Colors, Airight

We’re proud to show the world aiRight’s latest NFT discovery and search features: Masonry layout for NFTs and Grouping by Colors. As we continuously improve the user’s experience, we have developed these features to help aiRight’s art collectors find NFTs that best match with search targets.

Masonry Layout

Masonry layout will allow collectors to easily view and explore all NFTs on the Marketplace without any limitation in size. By choosing this layout, NFT artworks will no longer be cut to fit in a square frame, but respect dimensions of original work allowing for a better environment to display.

With this kind of view, other information related to the NFTs such as owner, name and price will not be hidden but they will appear when you hover over the NFT.

Users can freely choose which layout they prefer with a click to switch “List/Masonry” mode. The Marketplace Interface will change to the normal layout if you choose “List” mode.

In addition to this update, we will be introducing light mode soon. By featuring artwork against a white background, we will bring a more traditional gallery feel to the aiRight Marketplace and a better environment to allow the artwork to speak for itself.

Grouping NFTs by colors

If you tend to find some NFTs that fit your collections’ color style easily, the search by color option on aiRight can help. Using this search tool, you can easily find trendsetting imagery that matches your aesthetics with 7 main color options. Our AI can automatically detect the color of all NFT compositions on aiRight, suggesting NFTs to fit the palette of your choosing. This is a creative solution that will assist you in discovering more cohesive artwork.

To try it:

👉🏻 Visit https://airight.io/marketplace

👉🏻 Opt “Search by Color” on the search bar

👉🏻 Discover & get your desire NFTs

Also, don’t forget about other search options: search by tags, NFT name, or ID to find your desired NFTs.

About aiRight

aiRight is the world’s first complete system for AI x NFT x DeFi. Users can generate AI NFTs, protect origin with copyright issuance, trade and tokenize unique artworks, taking advantage of our complete royalty mechanism for contributors on-chain.

Oraichain is proud to be the ecosystem provider of aiRight: securing AI functionalities via AI Oracle, accessing Marketplace, organizing Galleries for DeFi, and cross-chain bridging for NFTs.

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When life gives you a challenge, believe in your creative process
By: Doodle Kit Project
Tags: Challenge, Party, Doodle, Art, Colors

2. Remember your journey, be transparent to the environment

The place has a hip vibe, people are dancing to mostly electronic and trance tunes. The night sky from the roof is looking down with Mr. Moon being full and in the mood. The music, environment and the sheer dynamics of the energy inside me and emitted by the people around allowed me to absorb the entire experience and make creative decisions that were based on my work but with a different medium: paint. I love black, that achromatic color is goals! But this time I can’t use it. The canvas is black. But, I can use it to define what I’m going to do. A little bit of the shining paint on me and there it goes.

3. Let the environment and the challenge mix together and begin

Remembering and really using the effort you put into your daily creativity is a much bigger power than a transient change in the day. The paintbrush is a pen now and the paint is ink. I just started painting and one creation led to another, the picture became clear and the excitement built exponentially. Then within a moment, the paintbrush became a wand and the paint a source of light in the dark surroundings.

Understanding and talking to the shining neon paint (in my mind, of course) on the dark canvas on a full moon night in a place playing trance music evoked the feelings of authentic indigenous and earthy experience. I knew what I was feeling and the brush moved, putting my thoughts into abstract figures, forms, and shapes. “They will come together”, I anticipated.

4. Feel

Perceiving the environment and bonding with it through the forces of creativity and your sheer will to do it will help you uncover your hidden gems one at a time. It was almost like I was dancing with the people, playing with the music, working out with the environment and ambiance and putting it all together, learning from it and finally putting my creative understanding of all of the movements into a piece that came together. The randomness of thoughts manifested into a glowing canvas complementing the mechanical energy of the dance floor.

5. Reflect

Talk to the challenge and the tools, remember your creative journey until the challenge occurred, let yourself become transparent to the environment, club the challenge and the environment, just start doing, keep feeling what you’re creating and build upon that. The end may surprise you. Don’t forget to keep mental notes of the creative process you chose to tackle the challenge. Reflect on them in future challenges.

You see a piece of paper

Could be a little greater

For more media on the neon doodle. Here’s the link

fin.

Written By: Rahul Sharma

©2019 DoodkeKitProject
TIPS ON TYPOGRAPHY IN INTERFACE DESIGN BY CHIBUZOR NWANKWO
Tags: Design Thinking, Programming, Univelcity, Code School, Colors

TIPS ON TYPOGRAPHY IN INTERFACE DESIGN

When I hear design, the first thing that comes to my mind is a combination of colors, texts, and drawings. Nothing less, nothing more.

If you have this same mindset, it is time for us to come out of ignorance and embrace the knowledge of what true design is.

To create a professional design, I have learned the importance of a lot of things. I want to share some of them with you. Let’s roll on!.

TYPOGRAPHY

Today’s article covers some basic points in typography you should apply to your design.

Typography is an essential part of an effective design every designer should master. Design is more than just picking a font type and size from the drop-down menu on your computer. Using the right font type communicates the right intent and message of your design to your users.

One thing to always remember as a designer is that typography has a vital effect on your users. Good typography makes the act of reading effortless, while poor typography turns users off.

Some tips to consider before selecting fonts for your design interface

Minimize the number of fonts used.

Too many fonts is not a good thing and it could ruin a good design. It is advisable to stick to one font for mobile design and a maximum of two fonts for web application design. If you find yourself using 3 more fonts, you should think hard and evaluate if you need that many fonts on your design.

- Typography hierarchy

The typography hierarchy helps organize your content in a structured way. Typography elements like font size, typeface, alignment, and color are used to show hierarchy contrast in your content.

When designing for the web, you would have a different typeface for heading and body to create slight contrast in your design. Use can Serif and Sans-Serif or the vise versa for the heading and body respectively but do not use the same typeface for both heading and body.

- White spacing (Enough breathing space)

There are so many other aspects to your font that affect how your readers interpret your content. White spacing, also known as negative spacing, is one of them. This is the gap between elements in your design and must be managed to prevent uneven gaps or characters appearing to run into each other. Inadequate white space makes your content difficult to read.

- Alignment

Justify longer text characters to the left. This is important if you have more than 50–60 characters in a line. Turn on hyphenation to allow text breaking to the next line.

You might ask, Why do we designers care so much about typography and its importance in design? Some of it has to do with styling and a good look but more importantly, it is about readability.

Thank you for reading!

BY CHIBUZOR NWANKWO
Challenged by Choosing The Color of Your Kanken Backpack? I Want to Help
By: Yulin Liu
Tags: Shopping, Colors, Decision Making, Kanken

With all that seemingly unrelated (and overwhelming) information, I wanted to be able to at least incorporate my understanding of how this simultaneous presentation could help people make decisions, to some degree.

Currently, on Kanken’s website (like many other e-commerce sites), you see a list of colors for the same item.

However, you could only click on one of the colors one by one to see how it’d look like (on the left). To me, this is like a sequential lineup. Each time I see a backpack in a given color, I have to ask myself: Do I like this color? Instead of its current presentation, what if I could help multiple backpacks in different colors present at the same time to compare and make decisions?

From a study on people choosing food, more than 100 participants were asked to choose between three different foods that changed over multiple rounds. Evidence suggested that people did not distribute their attention equally, but “increasingly focused on the two options that they found most promising,” which led to faster decision-making. I decided to create a tool that’d help my boyfriend pick out a color — by comparing two backpacks at a time and ultimately, the path could take him to one backpack. Like how a tennis game picks out the best player — the elimination system.

Here is how the logic of this tool looks like. Let’s suppose that there are 5 backpacks in total. Since not all backpacks could be put in pairs with this odd number, one of the colors could directly enter round two. Another way to do this is to always compare the winner of the preceding pair with the next color in line.