What marriage is like in poor countries | Judith Bruce

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A mental hack for surviving bad bosses | Beth Comstock

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Beth Comstock: Yes, so “‘no’ equals ‘not yet’” is one of my kind of favorite mantras and a mental hack that was very helpful to me. I think early in my career I—like many people—worked for a classic “gatekeeper” boss and he “had all the answers,” and the team got quite frustrated. We thought we had a different way, different ideas to keep us contemporary and move forward, and he said no. I ended up leaving that job because I thought the gatekeeper was standing in my way. And what I came to realize is that gatekeepers exist everywhere. They’re probably even in our own head sometimes, where we just say we can’t do it. And so out of that experience I realized there were a lot of ways I could have kept going back and trying a different approach with the gatekeeper. And I learned that with other gatekeepers and that “no” is “not yet”. So just because you hear no the first time, it doesn’t mean no is final. And I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen in the course of my career – I’m talking people just starting out which may be a little bit more understandable because you don’t know yet—all the way up to CEOs. When they hear no from whatever person they’re pitching an idea to they leave and you never see them again with that idea. And you think well, you had all this passion. You had all this insight. Someone told you no and you just let it dissipate? It’s gone? So to me I had to learn like “no” perhaps is an invitation. An invitation to come back again to try it. I had a three time rule that I would often use with different bosses I had where I felt like I needed at least three times to go back with the idea. What I learned is two things. One is I’m testing the idea myself: I’m trying to like put the right words together. Sometimes it’s just the words are wrong; The story is not there; I’m not being clear. And I think if it’s the manager or someone is coming to you, you’re testing their passion for it. You’re testing how good an idea they think it is, because if somebody’s pitching you an idea but they’re not that excited about it you’re counting on them to go forward. So I think this idea of “no is not yet” is a resiliency test. It’s a way to say “how much do you care about that idea, how much do you want it to happen?” And it’s a sign of commitment to the idea. Disappointment is an inevitable part of making change, of pushing for innovation and I think we have this fantasy that we buy in that you just pitch a brilliant idea, you’re just so fantastic, fantastically suited for it. You just go forth and the idea gets green-lit and off you go. The reality is just because you’re well liked, your boss likes you, your team likes you, you’ve had a good track record doesn’t mean people are going to give you blind trust that the next idea is good. People want to know: what are you prepared to do to work for it? And I’ve found certainly in myself and in people I’ve worked with that often it’s those “try again” moments where you didn’t quite get off the right foot in pitching the idea or maybe you did a test of it and it didn’t work. And it’s when you come back and say, “I tried this and it didn’t work. Here, I’m disappointed. Here’s what I propose to do about it.” So I think a lot of this kind of resiliency building is a test of how do you deal with the disappointment? And I think disappointment is something you have to accept as part of the change-making process. I have a little belief for myself that there’s a time to be disappointed. “I’m really sad that that idea didn’t get bought. In a sense I couldn’t sell it. People didn’t like, they didn’t understand what I was saying. Am I crazy? Do I not communicate? And I’m upset. I’m upset.” And so I think you have to give yourself a little bit of time to kind of suck your thumb and say, “Ugh, I didn’t do as well as I wanted.” But then go, “Do I still believe in it? Is it still a good idea? How do I take that feedback? And now, I’ll go back and address some of those issues if they’re relevant.” And use that disappointment as a bit again of that kind of push, a kick in the butt to get out there. So just because you have a good track record doesn’t mean you’re going to be successful the next time. And use that disappointment to be a bit of rocket fuel for yourself. Learn from it, but also say “Hey, do I still want to do this?” So that’s how I think about disappointment and kind of using it as resiliency.

Apna Kharcha, Khud Uthana Seekho | Qasim Ali Shah

In this video, Qasim Ali Shah talking about on the topic "Apna Kharcha Uthana. He is also sharing his experience, wisdom and knowledge that will be helpful for all of those who want to know about this topic. Hamesha wo log jaldi kamiyab hote hain jo jald az jald apna kharcha khud uthatay hain . aur log zimadar bhi kehlatay hain . ===== ABOUT Qasim Ali Shah ===== Qasim Ali Shah is a Public Speaker- Teacher- Writer- Corporate Trainer & Leader for every age group- Businessmen- Corporate executives- Employees- Students- Housewives- Networkers- Sportsmen and for all who wish everlasting Success- Happiness- Peace and Personal Growth. He helps people to change their belief & thought pattern- experience less stress and more success in their lives through better communication- positive thinking and spiritual knowledge. ===== FOLLOW ME ON THE SOCIALS ===== - Qasim Ali Shah: https://goo.gl/6BKcxu - Google+: https://goo.gl/uPyGvT - Twitter: https://goo.gl/78MVoA - Website : https://goo.gl/Tgjy6u ===== Team Member: Waqas Nasir =====

Carl Sagan's most important lesson about science | NASA's Michelle Thaller

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Michelle Thaller: So when I was growing up as a young girl—in Wisconsin actually—I was ten years old when Carl Sagan’s show Cosmos came on public broadcasting. And as a ten year old kind of living in rural Wisconsin I had never really met an astronomer. That’s not someone you routinely meet. Whenever people tell me, you know, you don’t really seem like an astronomer. The wonderful next thing to ask is, “How many astronomers do you know?” So my vision of what an astronomer was was this man on this television show, on public television, Carl Sagan. And the thing that Carl did better than anybody else I’d ever seen was this emotional connection to the science. He loved to tell stories. He would tell stories about the history but also it was from him that I learned where all of the atoms in my body come from. The fact that they were all formed in stars. And when Carl talks about that on the show I mean we sort of made a joke that there are these things called “Carl moments” where Carl sort of gazes dramatically off into space and the camera sort of close up, you know, close up on his face. And you can see him sort of emoting at how wonderful this is. And these days, you know, decades later those scenes seem a little bit silly and a little bit contrived. But as a child I was taken along for this incredible emotional journey. Carl was a real rock star. He had this charisma and people would just listen to what he was saying and they would love to follow along with his stories. And that became to me the image of what a scientist was, what an astronomer was, was somebody that could tell the stories of the universe. So I never ended up meeting Carl. I always wanted to. He unfortunately died very young, he died in his early 60s and I was a graduate student at the time. I always figured I would see him at some astronomy conference, I’d somehow, you know, wander past him at one of these scientific meetings and tell him how much that his show had meant to me. But I never got that chance. I never left though that idea, that what a scientist really does is tell stories. It’s about the narrative and it’s about the emotions. And Carl did that better than anyone I’ve ever seen.

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What causes income inequality and tribal politics | Bill Drayton

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Bill Drayton: Maybe a good way to get into this is to ask: why are income distributions everywhere getting worse and worse, regardless of the nature of the economy, regardless of ideology? That’s just a fact. And the second question: why do we have “us versus them” politics (and all the pain and disruption that causes) spreading and spreading across the world? So that’s another fact. So this is not based on a personality or some economic peculiarity. There’s a deeper force at work. From 1700 to now, the rate of change and the degree of interconnection have both been going up each feeding the other exponentially. And the demand for repetition has been going down in a mirror curve. These curves have been going for 300 years, and we’re now at a point that much of the world is already functioning as an everything changing world where you must be a “change-maker” to be able to play and scale. And those are skills that are almost exactly the opposite of the skills that were appropriate in a world organized around efficiency and repetition. The old model was: you learned a skill – barber, banking, it doesn’t matter. And then you repeat it for life in workplaces with walls – assembly lines, law firms. And that world is basically gone, except a lot of people don’t know it yet. And in the world that is all around us, the successful parts of the world, you have to have very different skills. You’ve got to be able to live in a kaleidoscope of contacts that are all changing and are interconnected. And you have to be able to see new patterns and come together in new teams and work with teams of teams. This is very complex and it requires very specific skills. And the world is now increasingly divided by the new inequality between those that have the skills and are in the new game of change and those who don’t have the skills. And this is very bitter. The people who are in the game are helping one another get better as it speeds up because that’s what you do with teammates. You need your teammates to be really good. So that part of the world is getting better and better at a game that the other part doesn’t see, doesn’t have the skills, and is being pushed out. And we’re telling those people, “Go away. We don’t need you. It’s your fault. And by the way your kids don’t have much of a future.” So why do we have income distribution getting worse? Because there’s a bidding war for the people who are change-makers, who are in the change game, and there’s going-away demand for people who don’t have those skills. Economics 101. Why do we have us-versus-them politics? Because if you treat anyone—let alone large parts of humanity—in this really terrible way, “You can’t be a part of society; You can’t contribute; You are powerless”—This is terrible! This is what makes people profoundly unhappy. And of course you have opioids. And so we have to tear down the new inequality and therefore the income and equality and this outrageous way of treating a large part of the population. And the key is we have to help every single human being have the skills so they can contribute, so they can be powerful, so they are change-makers. That’s the heart of it.

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College education is failing us all. Can we design something better?

* This video was originally published on Saturday, August 25 2018 but had to be re-uploaded because of a spelling error in the video itself; apologies for any confusion or inconvenience! * Read more at BigThink.com: https://ift.tt/2wiBHnN Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Dan Rosensweig: Fifty percent of high school students don’t go on to higher education. Of the 50 percent that do, 43 percent of them don’t graduate. Of those that do graduate the average graduation time is six years. The average age of a current college student today is about 25. And I think 25 percent of college students today actually have a child. So if you ask me those statistics suggest two things. The current system is not producing what it was designed to produce for the types of people that go, the number of people that go and what they need. And it has not kept up with the modern world in terms of how it makes itself available and what it charges students to be able to get what they need. So it’s a combination of availability; It doesn’t seem to work for the majority of students, because the number one reason that students don’t go on to further education or drop out of college, it’s a combination of two things which essentially means the same thing: It’s too expensive, or they can’t get the classes at the time of day they’re available. And that’s because: of the 70 percent of kids that go to state schools, 40 percent of them work 30 hours a week or more. All of this is to say that schools are no longer programmed at the right time. They take too long. They’re too expensive, and what they program is incomplete. It’s not necessarily bad. our view is the education system needs to evolve to the way we do everything. Everything we do today comes to us (rather than us go to them). An example, today we would never wait out in the rain for a car and hope that we can get a cab. We’ll just hail Uber and it comes and it takes us exactly where we want to go. Today we wouldn’t go rush home to watch a TV show at eight o’clock on a Thursday night. We watch it on the device we want to watch it, when we want to watch it, when it’s convenient for us. Only education continues to require you to come to it, pay a fortune to do it, and have it be a choice between eating or reading or learning and earning. And so what Chegg is trying to do is reverse it, is try to say let’s use what the internet does best. Let’s make it online, on demand. Let’s make it personalized. You do it the way you want to do it, not the way it’s taught singularly to everybody. Adaptive which means when we watch what you do and we learn about you, let’s actually adjust how we teach you or what we teach you, what we give you more of and what we give you less of based on your actual abilities. And then let’s make it exceptionally affordable. And if we do that you’d be amazed how many students need to learn, want to learn, are willing to learn. So we think that the modern university system has become too expensive; incomplete programming, inconvenient locations, inconvenient time of day for the modern workforce which doesn’t have the time to do both. So even if you look at for-profit colleges they were a mess because they became a scam for a lot of people. But if you realize 3.6 million people at one time were actually taking it, you realize the demand was there to be able to learn in your own environment in your own way. Why? Because the average person was a 30-year-old woman who could not leave her family or her workforce, or in some cases both. So I just think that the modern education system needs to acknowledge who the modern student is, what the demands on that modern student are—there’s more of them, they’re more broke, they have more diverse needs. They enter the system with different education, different backgrounds, different financial situations, and no “one size fits all” is going to work anymore.

Artificial general intelligence: What it really takes to program the future | Ben Goertzel

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Ben Goertzel: There’s aspects, yes. AGI has aspects of computer science, mathematics, engineering, philosophy of mind, linguistics, neuroscience. It’s quite cross disciplinary, and the education system isn’t really that way. It’s more that way in the U.S. than anywhere else on the planet actually. That’s a strength the U.S. has. Here as an undergraduate you can at least take courses in every department. And in many countries that’s not true. But even in the U.S. the education system is not nearly as cross disciplinary as it should be for grappling with a problem like AGI or with say quantum computing or nanotechnology or a lot of other cutting edge things. So what that means is if someone wants to really work in one of these cutting edge topics that has the highest probability of transforming the world, if they want to work on these things in the core capacity, they have to take their own time to study a bunch of other fields that they didn’t learn in school. And that also takes time. You can’t do that by reading a blog post. I mean you’ve got to, you know, take out a neuroscience textbook and go through it step by step. And not everyone has the patience for that. But again some people do, and I’d say Coursera, Udacity and MIT, the many universities that have put their courseware online have been a huge, huge asset in this process because those help lead people through the process of learning information from all the different disciplines that they need to attack something like AGI. We found these online courses incredibly useful in what we’ve been doing in Ethiopia. So in 2013 I cofounded with two others Ethiopia’s first AI and robotics development company. So we do some original R&D, some projects aimed at helping the African situation. Then a bunch of software and robotics outsourcing. The company is called iCog Labs based in Addis Ababa. And we have an internship program which we use for recruiting. So we take dozens of undergrad students each year and what we do is we give them some hands-on lessons in OpenCog and various other AI tools. We also have each of them take like seven Coursera courses. And they go through them very quickly and they teach them neuroscience, computational linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, a bunch of topics that are not offered in the university there. And this works much better than giving them a bunch of textbooks to read because it gives them a process and a community to enter into. It not only teaches them information but it weeds out people who don’t have the persistence to slog through stuff from a bunch of different disciplines and really stretch their brain in a deeper cross disciplinary way. So yeah, I’d say, as with everything else there’s pluses and minuses all tangled up, right? I mean the modern way of doing things in some ways eliminates people’s attention span because nobody has to think for themselves. They immediately look up the answer on the internet or download something instead of trying to solve a problem themselves. On the other hand there’s so much high quality educational material out there together with supportive communities for people who do want to plunge in deeper and get a more foundational understanding. But what we do in OpenCog is we’ve worked out a system where each of the cognitive processes can help the other one out when it gets stuck in some combinatorial explosion problem. So if a deep neural network trying to perceive things gets confused because it’s dark or it’s looking at something it never saw before, well maybe the reasoning engine can come in and do some inference to cut through that confusion. If logical reasoning is getting confused and doesn’t know what step to take next because there’s just so many possibilities out there and not much information about them, well, maybe you fish into your sensory motor memory and you use deep learning to visualize something you saw before, and that gives you a clue of how to pare through the may possibilities that the logic engine is seeing. Now you can model this kind of cognitive synergy mathematically using a branch of mathematics called category theory, which is something I’ve been working on lately. But what’s really interesting more so is to build a system that manifests this and achieves general intelligence as a result, and that’s what we’re doing in the OpenCog project.

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The science of music: Why your brain gets hooked on hit songs | Derek Thompson

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College education is failing us all. Can we design something better?

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Dan Rosenweig: Fifty percent of high school students don’t go on to higher education. Of the 50 percent that do, 43 percent of them don’t graduate. Of those that do graduate the average graduation time is six years. The average age of a current college student today is about 25. And I think 25 percent of college students today actually have a child. So if you ask me those statistics suggest two things. The current system is not producing what it was designed to produce for the types of people that go, the number of people that go and what they need. And it has not kept up with the modern world in terms of how it makes itself available and what it charges students to be able to get what they need. So it’s a combination of availability; It doesn’t seem to work for the majority of students, because the number one reason that students don’t go on to further education or drop out of college, it’s a combination of two things which essentially means the same thing: It’s too expensive, or they can’t get the classes at the time of day they’re available. And that’s because: of the 70 percent of kids that go to state schools, 40 percent of them work 30 hours a week or more. All of this is to say that schools are no longer programmed at the right time. They take too long. They’re too expensive, and what they program is incomplete. It’s not necessarily bad. our view is the education system needs to evolve to the way we do everything. Everything we do today comes to us (rather than us go to them). An example, today we would never wait out in the rain for a car and hope that we can get a cab. We’ll just hail Uber and it comes and it takes us exactly where we want to go. Today we wouldn’t go rush home to watch a TV show at eight o’clock on a Thursday night. We watch it on the device we want to watch it, when we want to watch it, when it’s convenient for us. Only education continues to require you to come to it, pay a fortune to do it, and have it be a choice between eating or reading or learning and earning. And so what Chegg is trying to do is reverse it, is try to say let’s use what the internet does best. Let’s make it online, on demand. Let’s make it personalized. You do it the way you want to do it, not the way it’s taught singularly to everybody. Adaptive which means when we watch what you do and we learn about you, let’s actually adjust how we teach you or what we teach you, what we give you more of and what we give you less of based on your actual abilities. And then let’s make it exceptionally affordable. And if we do that you’d be amazed how many students need to learn, want to learn, are willing to learn. So we think that the modern university system has become too expensive; incomplete programming, inconvenient locations, inconvenient time of day for the modern workforce which doesn’t have the time to do both. So even if you look at for-profit colleges they were a mess because they became a scam for a lot of people. But if you realize 3.6 million people at one time were actually taking it, you realize the demand was there to be able to learn in your own environment in your own way. Why? Because the average person was a 30-year-old woman who could not leave her family or her workforce, or in some cases both. So I just think that the modern education system needs to acknowledge who the modern student is, what the demands on that modern student are—there’s more of them, they’re more broke, they have more diverse needs. They enter the system with different education, different backgrounds, different financial situations, and no “one size fits all” is going to work anymore.

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How to learn from failure and quit the blame game | Alisa Cohn

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Alisa Cohn: The thing about building a company is that inevitably things go wrong, and bad things happen. You don’t want that to happen, you don’t anticipate when that happens, but it is inevitable in the lifecycle of any company. When that happens the best way to react to that is to use it as a learning lab. Use it as an opportunity to call everybody together and really have a laboratory, have a workshop, have an understanding of: how do we unpack what happened and why it all happened with no blame but with understanding of the systems that got us here, and then how do we think about how do you respond right now together, and then how do you move forward from there, both in terms of establishing maybe new procedures, establishing some new policies, some even new ways of thinking, some new operational tactics, but then also this is equally important, how does the company and the CEO and the team around him or her successfully move on emotionally, kind of create a new point of view recognizing that that was in the past and there’s the future to look too? You can’t change the past, you can only change the future. So the best way to debrief any bad thing that happened, any problem is just to go down the tiers of “Why.” And so you start with—so let’s assume that the project that you’re working on is late, let’s assume it’s a product release, and that it is now definitely not going to make its deadline, and it’s probably three or six months late. First of all it’s important just to create an environment where people can talk freely and not feel blamed, because we’re just debriefing to understand what happened. So it’s about understanding the structure of it not looking to finger point. But the first question is, why? So why was the release late? Well, engineering, for example, didn’t deliver the code on time. Why didn’t engineering deliver the code on time? Because they weren’t given the specs early enough. Why weren’t they given the specs early enough? Because product didn’t get them to them early enough. Why didn’t product to get them to them early enough Because product didn’t understand from marketing the requirements early enough. So if you keep going down those and you understand why did marketing not get them early enough, it’s because they didn’t have a good plan to get the customer data they needed to, then you can take a look at what went wrong here. Is it about we need to tighten up our process (which is very often true, especially with startups)? Is it that we need to have a better timeframe for deliverables (which is often very true when you’re working on complicated multi-domain projects)? Or do we just forecast incorrectly? Did we not take into account all the multiple steps that leads to the product release, and that’s often very true as well? And maybe why didn’t we take into account the multiple steps? Because there wasn’t one person in charge. Great. So going forward we know that we need to all take into account the multiple steps, and declare one person the owner of the project overall, and let’s try those two interventions, those two changes, and that’s going to help us have more excellence in operations.

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Why venture capital can be a trap for entrepreneurs | Nathalie Molina Niño

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Nathalie Molina Niño: So women entrepreneurs currently are getting about 2.5 percent of all venture capital. It’s not the only source of funding, but it’s a really great indicator on how we fare in the space. And that’s a fairly commonly understood statistic. But the statistic that I like to feature—which is the one that nobody ever talks about—is what percentage of funding is actually going to Women of color, and that’s a much more dismal number. That’s actually—depending on what city you look at it’s between 0.1 percent or 0.2 percent, which is to say that women of color and companies founded by women of color aren’t really even statistically relevant as well. The fact that women of color and companies founded by women of color don’t really even play in the space is particularly jarring if you think about the fact that most companies in this country are actually founded by women of color. So it’s bad that we’re not getting funding, but it’s particularly bad given that we seem to be the source of innovation and probably the most entrepreneurial community of all. So venture capital is I often call it like the house flipping version of investments, right. Like house flipping shows, it has become the most popular and the most visible and the most sort of prolific version of investing that’s out there, or even of capital sources. But there’s way more to the world of investing and securing capital than just venture capital, right? There’s long view investments, there’s debt, there’s crowdfunding. There are many different options when it comes to getting funding, but the one that dominates the headlines is venture capital. You get to be on the cover of things when you’ve secured a big series A. You don’t really get a whole lot of press when you secure a line of credit or a loan; it’s just not perceived as sexy. And yet companies need debt in order to be successful. Companies that are women-led tend to be more successful at getting crowdfunding dollars than they are at getting venture capital dollars. So in these areas, funding that don’t get a lot of publicity are actually really critical because they are doing a better job of servicing women who own businesses. And so the thing that I always tell founders is that VC might be for you, it might not be. But let’s not romanticize what it is and how it works. Please do not take venture capital from any investor, no matter what terms they’re giving you, unless you’re willing to be fired from your own company—which is what happens to a lot of people who end up taking venture capital. The bottom line for me is that there are many different sources of capital. It’s not a one size fits all regime, and we get fed one single product. And the reality is is a smart founder has to look around to see what their other options are. And I would say that this is not just a “nice to have,” this is a critical, critical thing. And part of the reason that I worry about that, there’s a hack in my book that comes from an amazing investor called Don Rayvon, and he talks in the book about how he knows “how this movie is going to end,” which is this idea that we don’t have enough women and people of color getting debt, for example. And what I’m worried about, and what he’s worried about, is that in ten years we’re going to look back at the statistics and we’re going to see that we had too many women and people of color accepting—blindly—horrible terms and horrible venture capital packages. And in ten years when we look back what’s that going to produce? It’s going to produce a whole series and maybe even a whole generation of entrepreneurs that were disproportionately more likely to fail. And I worry that in ten years when we look back at a statistic like that, people aren’t going to blame an unbalanced capital stack. They’re not going to blame the fact that people should have taken debt and they didn’t. They’re going to look at stats that simply say that women and people of color fail at a greater rate than anyone else. And I want that not to be the end of our movie. Some of my favorite alternatives in terms of getting funding are things like loans, are things like lines of credit. But there are some that are even less [negatively] impactful to your business.

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The death of America’s middle class: Sky-high rent, second jobs, and 1% TV | Alissa Quart

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Tiny humans, big universe: How to balance anxiety and wonder in astrophysics | Michelle Thaller

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Michelle Thaller: One of the big challenges of my life has been to kind of breakdown this barrier as scientists being somehow The Other. You know, “Being a scientist isn’t really a normal way to be a human being.” And somehow there are all these judgments about—that “you must be very logical” or “you must be very smart,” whatever that means. And no one ever seems to really understand that when you learn where the atoms in your body came from, you know, when you learn the scale of the universe, when you learn the stories that you’re involved in, there has to be some emotional response to that, you know? That just doesn’t roll off you and never affect you. And I don’t really have a great way to deal with everything that I’ve learned being an astrophysicist, you know. If I ever give people the impression that all this is “just okay” with me, that’s entirely wrong. There are days when, you know, I understand that I am a collection of atoms that came from the hearts of stars, that briefly comes together and forms planets and people and everything that’s in our world. And then, you know, I was observing one night at Mount Palomar, where we were observing supernovae. And supernovae are the explosions of an entire solar system. A whole solar system is destroyed. A star and all of its planets. And our telescopes are so good now that at a typical night at Mount Palomar you see about 20 of those a night. You know, you see 20 entire solar systems ripped apart—every night! So we’re here very briefly, you know. We’re little collections of atoms that come together and scatter and then form other things and, you know, travel on through the universe. And sometimes that’s incredibly inspiring, and sometimes you think about the story that you’re a part of. The water in my body has hydrogen from the Big Bang, from the very start of the universe. Then the oxygen came from stars that had to die, you know? You hold your arms around yourself and you have a story that’s billions of years and trillions of miles across, just in your own self. And then you think about how brief we are and how, you know, we are this little collection that comes together and disperses. And sometimes I hide under the bed and it’s given me anxiety attacks, and you cling to the people that you love and you have sex with all the wrong people, and you try to find some way to just kind of work out this energy that you don’t know what to do with. So there’s a balance between nihilism and inspiration, and I have to say that while that balance is sometimes painful because you’re a human being and you don’t know how to deal with this scale of things. It is an absolutely wonderful place to walk. That balance between being part of everything, and being so brief, or almost nothing. And you have to hold those two things in your hands at the same time. And everybody you meet and everything you do in life—and when you’re out grocery shopping and when you’re driving on the highway—these thoughts just don’t really ever leave. So it’s not the easiest place to be. There’s no great answer there. There’s no great comfort. But the inspiring part is you’re part of a story that is mind-blowingly dramatic and beautiful, even if you’re a brief part. And so to me the balance tips towards inspiration. Some days it’s more towards the nihilism, but you take that little bit of truth and you wrap it up and you carry it with you. It never really leaves.

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Poker skills: Playing against the odds is a rational way to win | Maria Konnikova

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Making cancer as harmless as the common cold | Michio Kaku

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Michio Kaku: I think we’re entering the fourth wave of scientific innovation and wealth creation. The first era was steam power, when we physicists worked out the laws of thermodynamics we could calculate how much energy you get from a lump of coal to energize a locomotive or a steam engine or a factory. That was the first big breakthrough. The second wave of innovation and wealth generation was electricity and magnetism. When we physicists worked out the laws of electromagnetism that gave us the light bulb, it gave us television, radio, it gave us the electric age. The third revolution took place when we physicists worked out the transistor and the laser, opening up the world of high technology. The fourth wave is at the molecular level, and that is artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and biotechnology. In fact I think the synergy between biotechnology and artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize everything around us. First of all the job market is going to explode in that area because baby boomers are aging, and baby boomers have disposable income; they want answers now to their problems not next year, and so there’s going to be plenty of money involved with people who want to find cures for horrible diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s. At the present time we have no cure for these, but a tremendous amount of effort is now being redirected toward illnesses of old age. Also, take a look at cancer research. We’re going to have a magic bullet against cancer using nano medicine, that is, individual molecules in cells that can target individual cancer cells using nanotechnology. And the next big thing is when your toilet becomes intelligence. In the future your toilet will be your first line of defense against cancer because your bodily fluids—blood and your bodily fluids contain signatures of cancer colonies of maybe a few hundred cancer cells in your body maybe years before a tumor forms. Think about it for a moment. There are people watching this program right now, right now who have cancer growing in their body. Maybe a few hundred cancer cells in a colony, but they won’t know it for perhaps ten years, when you have ten billion cancer cells growing in your body forming a tumor. We will have what is called liquid biopsies, DNA chips that allow us to search for the signatures of cancer colonies of a hundred cells, cancer genes, cancer enzymes, cancer protein circulating in our blood and bodily fluids. So in other words one day your toilet will tell you that “You have cancer. Do something. You have ten years to do it.” So another words ladies and gentlemen what I’m trying to tell you is in the future the word tumor will “disappear” from the English language. We will have years of warning that there’s a colony of cancer cells growing in our body. And our descendants will wonder, how could we fear cancer so much? Cancer is going to become like the common cold, that is we live with the common cold, it doesn’t really kill anybody except maybe if you have pneumonia, but for the most part we tolerate the common cold because it’s too difficult to cure 300 different varieties of rhinoviruses. In the future we may see cancer the same way. There are probably thousands of different varieties of cancer, we can’t cure every single one, but we’ll live with it, we’ll tolerate it, and we’ll eradicate it in the same way that we live with the common cold.

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How one company got $1 billion through secrecy, hacking, and fraud | John Carreyrou

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink John Carreyrou: I don’t think it’s just about greed. I don’t think the Theranos scandal was just about greed, and I don’t think Elizabeth Holmes’ only motive was greed. I think, more than riches, what she was after was fame. She wanted to be in the pantheon of these billionaire tech founders and her idol, as I detail in the book, was Steve Jobs. I mean she absolutely idolized him and Apple. So I mean in Silicon Valley—and really in American society at large—there’s this reverence for the entrepreneur and for the successful entrepreneur. And this reverence has morphed into almost like a cult of these young bright-eyed tech founders dropping out of (usually) Stanford and going on to found their businesses and getting a lot of funding and then becoming billionaires. And she was on that same track. The problem is that on the way there she cut a lot of corners and crossed some bright red lines. The biggest one was that in the fall of 2013 she went live with her blood tests in Walgreens stores, first in Palo Alto and then in the Phoenix area. And very few of the tests on the menu were done with actual Theranos technology. Most of them, the vast majority, in fact, were done with third party analyzers bought from other companies. But then they also hacked those machines to “adapt” them to the small finger stick samples, because they wanted to maintain the illusion that they did have this innovative technology that could test, do the full range of tests from just a drop or two of blood pricked from a finger. And in hacking these commercial machines they made the testing less accurate and less reliable. And so essentially they put lives at risk. That’s one big piece of it, and that’s part of the wrongdoing here. But another part of it is that by going commercial and then soliciting funding from investors Elizabeth Holmes used the fact that her services were in Walgreen’s stores to get investors on board, because it was like the validation that “Yes, this product was for real. How could it not be? They’ve gone live with it. It’s commercial!” But I would say that there were two stages of Theranos. There was a stage when she had just dropped out with this vision, and people like Tim Draper and Don Lucas and Larry Ellison gave her money and funded her. And that was your typical early startup where chances are it’s not going to work out, because nine out of ten of these companies fail, and one succeeds, and maybe it becomes a great success. And those are the odds, and the investors who invested in the first few rounds in 2005 and 2006 knew what those odds were, and they knew that they were taking a flyer and a young kid who seemed smart and dynamic and seemed to have a great vision. Where Theranos became a fraud is much later, when in 2013 she launched the blood tests in Walgreens stores and then went back to investors to solicit more money. And that’s actually when Theranos raised the lion’s share of the nearly billion dollars that it raised over its 15 year history. More than $700 million of that billion dollars was raised after 2013, and it was based on the premise that Theranos had a groundbreaking product, and the “proof” was that the product was commercialized—it was in Walgreens stores. So on the one hand you have putting patients in harm’s way with inaccurate blood tests, and on the other you have defrauding investors, essentially securities fraud. And in this cult of the startup founder that we have (and of entrepreneurialism) we tend to forget that there’s also something called business ethics, and that these people, even if they have great ambitions and great visions they still need to play by the same rules that we all play by—by society’s rules. And this cult of the startup founder and this reverence we have for entrepreneurialism shouldn’t excuse wrongdoing. It shouldn’t excuse committing white collar crimes. You’re always going to have people who can find ways to get around rules and laws. And so I hope that the Theranos scandal remains a lesson in people’s minds, in VCs’ minds, and entrepreneurs’ minds in Silicon Valley—that cutting too many corners and not obeying regulations in healthcare is not okay.

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How VR is changing the game of cinema

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Danfung Dennis: Yes, it’s actually too early to really have any hard and fast rules of VR. I think it’s maybe like the internet in 1998 where you could see that it was coming but it’s pretty hacked together. Everything from the cameras, the stitching pipeline, to the headsets themselves—they’ve been at this prototype phase, literally taking GoPros and sticking them together to make a 360 degree camera—to manually aligning images so they stitch correctly, and popping phones into plastic holders. I mean all of that is going away and is being replaced with the real tools. We’re getting real VR cameras, we’ve built an automated stitching pipeline, and we’re going to have headsets that are affordable and easily accessible. And so I think we’re really learning from just the difficulty of the technical challenges of creating VR, and some of those challenges are melting away. The “language” of it is actually much harder. How do we use this effectively? We’re finding things that do work. We’re finding a lot of things that don’t work. But we know that these experiences need to be longer. They’ve been pretty short, under ten minutes. We’re finding that the longer you spend in VR – and it has to be comfortable – the more immersion and feeling that you are in that world, the more your mind starts to accept it. And so we’re creating potentially 40 minutes of content, up to 60 minutes where you can go in, have these long durations and come out and have these profound experiences within that timeframe. We know that the visual fidelity needs to get much better. Right now we’re at 4K by 2K, and when stretched out 360 degrees it looks low-res. We need resolutions of 8K by 4K and frame rates of 60 frames per second. We need perfect synchronization between all of these cameras, and ambisonic audio where an audio source sounds like it’s actually coming from this position. When all of these factors start combining we’re going to have these high-fidelity experiences where the fluidity of emotion that can transfer in these worlds is going to be unparalleled. And so I think we’re just beginning on this curve of VR where the technology, the storytelling are starting to come together where we’re passing the prototype phase and we could actually use it to create these profound experiences — people come out after even ten minutes, come out of a headset and they will say, “I was so moved by that.” And a year later will come back and say, “that experience changed my life.” And I haven’t heard that before in films and images, that a short experience can have such a profound and lasting impact. And so I think there is this real potential that we’re just starting to crack. Right now it’s a little bit of radio on the television; It’s an entirely new medium, so a lot of the cinematic language from traditional documentary and cinema, it has to be rethought in this new medium of VR. From the basics of composition – there is no frame.You’re working in a 360 degree environment. Cuts can be very abrupt and kind of take time for the viewer to reorient themselves in a new scene. So even some of these real basics change. So we’re still learning what this language looks like, but we know it’s very spatial. You are feeling like you’re actually there, this sense of presence, it can be very strong. You are trying to interpret, your brain is interpreting these scenes as real and your body is reacting to them as they’re real as well. So you can have these very intense or meditative experiences in VR depending on how you use it. We first thought that the whole crew had to disappear from a shot, and so we would set it up on a tripod and everybody would leave, and we’d get what we’d get. But then that was very limiting to shoot everything on tripod. We really wanted to move the camera and move with our subjects. So we decided to leave our camera operator in the shot carrying our camera which we really streamlined in weight so that we could put it on a stabilized gimbal. This allowed us to move the camera through space which hadn’t really been done before in VR, but in a really comfortable way. It’s moving in a straightforward, in a level manner. It’s comfortable for the viewer and the headset. But it also really heightens this sense of space when you’ve got this much more information passing by you, you really start to feel the environment.

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Why Trump's anti-trade policies win him support

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink So I think we should understand that a system of free trade is clearly the best system for the global economy. There is nothing else that will work as well. It drives more growth; It makes your products cheaper; It is vastly more efficient than anything else we’ve ever found. So if we move away from free trade the American economy will grow less, the global economy will grow less. I support free trade. But I fully understand that there are very legitimate reasons why lots of Americans do not, because despite all the growth of the U.S. and global economy and despite the share prices of corporations being through the roof—many at record levels—they, the average Americans, have not benefitted from free trade in the way that they said, that the leaders have said they were going to. Yes, prices of good have gone down, but if you lose your job because it went to another country and if no one is investing in your kid’s school system or in your health system or in your infrastructure locally, if you’re in a rural area or a blighted second- or third-tier urban area, there’s no reason for you to say “Oh, I’ll continue to support free trade agreements,” because you’ve been lied to from presidents and CEOs and the mainstream media and political leaders from both parties for decades now! They haven’t cared about you. So when Trump comes along and says the system is rigged—EVEN IF he’s not the answer, EVEN IF he’s not going to make it better for you—you kind of feel like yeah, the system is rigged against me! All these people have lied, and I’ll tell you, you know, my brother voted for Trump. If my mother were alive she would have voted for Trump. She read the National Enquirer every week and it felt more “real” to her than the Boston Globe did or even the Boston Herald, because the National Enquirer was all about telling people that the system is rigged against them. And so I think this has been coming for a long time. I think that one of the reasons why Trump has maintained the very consistent and strong support from his Republican base that he has is because he has been quite consistent in trying to implement many if not almost all of his campaign promises, no matter how well or badly that would work out for him. So, for example, he wants to build a wall. I think most people that understand policy understand that’s a waste of money, it would be a stupid idea, and it’s only going to symbolically serve to get people to not want to come to the U.S. —that we might want to attract, i.e. the people that really have choices. But he promised a wall and he is actually trying really hard to build a wall. He said “the Chinese are taking us to the cleaners. They’re ripping us off.” That “the Europeans are ripping us off.” His pushback against the Europeans, the Chinese and others, both in terms of trade directly and with our allies in terms of “you better spend more money on defense or else” has been much harder than we’ve seen from previous presidents. So I’m not suggesting that these policies are actually going to work; So far I would say the jury is very much out and initial results are extremely mixed. But I do believe that if you’re thinking about voting for someone because they are a different style of politician, that everyone lies to you—and we know that Trump is a very damaged individual and you don’t want your kids to grow up to be like Trump; He doesn’t lead by example—But you wanted someone who would at least shake things up and maybe break things, that wasn’t like every other politician. Well Trump’s promise of shaking things up and breaking things, back when he was running for president, does appear to actually be authentic in that desire.

When business goals backfire: How to adjust to unintended consequences

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Michael Schrage: There are several questions, essential questions that leaders and managers should ask themselves when they look at how they want KPIs to have an impact and influence on their organizations. The most important one is obvious: What’s most important to the organization? Where is value really created? Where is value really created for us internally and for our clients, for our customers, for our users, whether they be business or consumers? How do we want to measure that? What kind of performance leads to those kinds of outcomes? The big challenge, the difficult challenge, the challenge that my colleagues and I and my clients and I and my students and I debate and argue the most is: when are KPIs means, and when are KPIs ends? Sometimes we want to have key performance because that’s what excellent means. We’re always greeting customers with a smile. We’re always trying to provide the easiest most convenient, the best possible user experience. There are other times when the outcome is really what matters the most which is we get a profit on this. We get a sale for this. What are means and ends? Sometimes the KPIs link. Here’s how: “We’ve dramatically increased our sales.” That’s fantastic. Sales, sales KPI. “We’ve outperformed our sales KPI and expectation.” Oh, “three weeks later, three months later, the returns for what we’ve sold are larger than ever before; The customer satisfaction scores or the net promoter scores have dropped precipitously!” Oh my gosh, we have to manage tradeoffs between KPIs? The leadership challenge, the management challenge is not just “how do we do a better job of identifying, cultivating, deploying KPIs,” it’s “how do we identify and manage the tensions and sometimes conflicts between them?” Again, that’s why this is such a fun subject, because sometimes there can be changes where the KPIs converge or a new KPI emerges from your observation of means and ends. So there are many stories and anecdotes that can be told about KPIs that really positively and constructively transform how an organization behaves. And there are also sadly (but obviously) examples of what one might call pathological KPIs, KPIs that make sense in the moment but when you review their ultimate impact internally and externally – bad, bad. A classic example from 10-15 years ago, back when we had call centers instead of contact centers, was “time spent on calls.” That many call centers were compensated. The key performance indicator was “how do we keep the call down to two minutes, three minutes, five minutes?” And so throughput calls per hour, calls per day were a dominant KPI because that’s what productivity was going to be. What did you end up with? High throughput, very unhappy customers, even oftentimes if their situation was resolved because the feedback was “I felt rushed. I felt they were interrupting a lot. It was a bad UX. It was a bad customer experience.” There was also emerging at that time the notion of “first touch,” first call resolution. How can we get things resolved at that time, at the first call without making the person call back or without your calling them back? Interestingly if I may digress, you know what really transformed that KPI was chat programs. Because what people could do was they could do a chat and say “hey, I’m having this kind of problem. What should I do with this person?” And they were able to use their colleagues or a database or a Wiki to get an answer to do first call resolution. So this ties into the notion of not just a dominant KPI but how do we get a productive tension between KPIs? One is “time spent on call.” The second is “effective resolution” and the third is “customer satisfied.” You’re never going to get them all right but there’s going to be a sweet spot there. And in this case triangulating those KPIs to create a sweet spot was transformative for a lot of call centers that subsequently became contact centers. So remember, if you pick the wrong dominant KPI you may end up with perverse outcomes because you are incentivizing perverse behaviors. If you’ll forgive me for making a bad acronymic pun, one of the ways you shock people into this recognition is that you say “KPI doesn’t just stand for ‘key performance indicator,’ it stands for ‘key performance incentive’.” So make sure you’re recognizing and rewarding the right things, not things that can lead to perverse or counterproductive outcomes.