Shower Thoughts - When People Eat Cows They're Meat Eaters Eating a Vegetarian

 So all these meat eaters take pride in eating an animal that thrives on greens and grass.. Ironic?

AI Advice from google

 Google supplies very good artificial intelligence research and advice from their engineers. This is one of those great examples: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/12/training-machine-learning-models-more.html

New York Times Covers Important Points About Omicron

 The New York Times one of the most well respected newspapers covers Omicron and the Coronovirus in such a disciplined and honest manner. While other news organizations may engage in intense fear mongering to increase their viewership or readership the NY Times strikes me  as an organization that does so unbiasedly.

From their morning newsletter they said the following:

Some evidence even suggests Omicron is less severe. A new study from Hong Kong, for example, found that Omicron replicated itself less efficiently than Delta inside the lungs, which could make it less likely to cause acute symptoms. But many scientists say it is too soon to be confident.

Either way, the crucial question for most people is not whether Omicron is less severe than earlier versions of the virus; the question is whether Omicron is more severe. So far, the answer is no.

If that continues to be true, it will mean that Omicron — like earlier variants — presents only a very small risk of serious illness to most vaccinated people. It is the kind of risk that people accept every day without reordering their lives, not so different from the chances of hospitalization or death from the flu or a car crash.

Unfortunately, there are some vaccinated people for whom any Covid case remains a threat. Those whose health is already vulnerable — like the elderly, people undergoing cancer treatments, people who have received organ transplants and some other groups — can become extremely ill from a Covid case that is mild in a technical sense. Their bodies are weak enough that any infection can cause major problems. It’s the same reason that the seasonal flu kills tens of thousands of Americans annually.

These are the people, in addition to the unvaccinated, who need the most attention now that Omicron has arrived.   So the next month will be telling as to what the future may hold.

We will find a permanent solution to coronviruses

 An enthralling article about coronaviruses and how certain viruses share a large percentage of the same code and thus decoding future ones as we put funding towards fighting bioweapons like we did after 9/11 is going to be something that we need to renew. Whether it was George Bush's Administration or Obamas or Trumps or Bidens that cut the funding is irrelevant now. Whats important is that we move forward with finding permanent solutions.

Richart Ruddie quoting from the article below:

"We know there are numerous viruses in animal reservoirs throughout the entire globe, and we know some of these viruses can potentially spread into humans and cause vast outbreaks. So there is a renewed interest to develop medical countermeasures against these pandemic viruses, and other infectious diseases with pandemic potential,” Richner says. “There was a big push for this after September 11, to create countermeasures against bioterrorism and against any emerging viruses. But a lot of that funding wasn't renewed.”

The question will be whether politicians and a public exhausted by the current pandemic will be willing to take the risk of confronting—or even make the effort of imagining—the next emergent threat."

Courtesy of Wired.com: https://www.wired.com/story/the-race-is-on-to-develop-a-vaccine-against-every-coronavirus/

This Entrepreneur Article Resonates

Some great quotes and lines in this piece:

creativity happens when the constraints get applied

Don't use the word failure. Instead, you should call it “the successful discovery of something that did not work." This will lead to something that does work and figuring out how to fix issues in a time of panic.


Chaos and failure are powerful tools that forced entrepreneurs can keep in their tool belt. They teach us how to pivot and adapt—and those are essential skills for any entrepreneur,

https://qz.com/work/2063563/what-forced-entrepreneurs-teach-us-about-succeeding-in-business

It should be noted here that forced entrepreneurs face a lot of pressure. There’s no plan B, no option to quit; they need their business to succeed. If there was ever a recipe for anxiety, that sounds like it.

When you have no choice but to survive, you get really resourceful.

A friend of mine often says, “creativity happens when the constraints get applied.” To really feel these constraints, you have to act like an owner.

Burn the boats? So what does that mean. It's adapt or die. If you don't survive on your mission you can't go back on the boat and head home because it doesn't exist.


“burn the boats”? The story goes that during the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1519, Spanish commander Hernán Cortés deliberately destroyed his own ships so that his men would have only two options: conquer or die."



Pivot & Adapt to succeed.

Mark Spitznagel Bloomberg Interview

 One of my favorite books is the Dao of Capital by Michigan native and hedge fund genius Mark Spitznagel. Who doesn't predict the market but mitigates risk in a strategy that was developed by Nassim Taleb. He talks about how the markets are meant to shake out the weak hands during a market crash.

Universa provides an insurance like payoff similar to how a certain tennis tournament that was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic received a huge insurance pay off... Optionality and risk mitigation in life. People don't do what is convenient and then they repent he says at the end of the Bloomberg news interview you can watch here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-02-07/picking-market-crashes-is-impossible-spitznagel-says-video

-Richart D. Ruddie

Richart Ruddie's Class Updates Partnership with Stanford University Details

 

The following POLS deliverable will be centered around increasing access to higher education and viable employment in high growth industries and technology sectors for justice involved youth transitioning from juvenile detention centers. As a graduate student, I plan to establish and collaborate with a consortium of colleges, universities, and and technology companies that support the educational and employment prospects of incarcerated youth who are reentering society. Utilizing existing reentry networks, which typically caters to adult populations, will help me access the personnel and resources necessary to begin establishing a youth-focused version of their services.

 

Because of the necessity for this consortium to be holistically supportive, the needs of the population outside of academics and job training will need to be met as well. This will rely on partnerships between non-profit organizations, youth advocacy groups, after school and sports programs, reentry organizations dedicated to youth, technology firms building tools for youthful demographics, employment recruiters and coaches. I plan to use the existing relationships I have with Dream Corps, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, and Cornell’s School of Industrial Labor Relations as an acquisition channel for youth prevention, intervention, and reentry programs. In addition to these community building efforts, I will be collaborating with Professor Mukamal at Stanford’s Law School and extending some of the work she has been doing in the juvenile justice, employment, and reentry space.

 

On a theoretical level, my studies will be oriented around four key areas: adolescent development, the modern higher education system, employment in the technology sector, and juvenile law. This will help me investigate the structural challenges of higher education in relation to non-traditional students, the effects of the law on vulnerable youth populations, and how developmental differences can be analyzed to inform programmatic efforts that are inherently rehabilitative. 

 

Research involved in this project will measure the effectiveness of early intervention and the impact of college attendance and entrepreneurship on youth recidivism. If successful, the impacts of the project will be a gradual unification of community resources and organizations meant to serve younger populations and more support for decarceration efforts; i.e., legislative changes, college as an alternative to incarceration, and increased talent pipelines to the technology industry from non-traditional populations.

 

 

 

 

To date, there has yet to be a technical solution for incarcerated populations to manage these fragmented networks and resources. The fragmentation amongst educational institutions, re-entry organizations, therapeutic services, community providers, and job readiness/entrepreneurial programs is essentially a communication problem. To address this, I plan to build out a pilot program powered by the Class Updates communication tech platform. The pilot program will include a partnership between Class Updates, Stooty Technologies INC., and OLV Human Services that centers around the creation of an Employment Guidance, Training, and Education program for juvenile delinquents, and youth with disabilities or mental health problems. Our programs will be designed to help train and educate youth to guide them into careers in the Creative and Information Technology industries. To facilitate entry into these occupations, the program will offer participants an apprenticeship with companies and professionals in the Creative or Technology industries. The program will provide youth real-world experience, relevant academic/vocational training and guidance counseling to help them make a successful transition from incarceration to an academic program, a supportive community, and viable employment.

 

To ensure that a technical solution is designed and developed with this population in mind along with their unique needs and pain points I will be looking to revamp the Class Updates application in the following manner.

 

1.) A redesigning of the website that is aligned with modern design principles and is reflective of the Class Updates brand principles and guidelines

 

2.) The designing and development of additional product features to service the various stakeholders in the proposal

 

3.) The incorporation of restorative justice principles into the user experience and product development process

 

4.) Recruitment of additional technical personnel from Stanford’s Computer Science Department & Engineering Department to spearhead the coding of the app

    

5.) Repositioning as a solution component to criminal justice reform efforts

 

6.) Advising from the Stanford’s Communication Department and Graduate School of Education Personnel will provide strategic guidance in forming partnerships with relevant organizations in the ed tech space and access to university resources (Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication; Steven Mitchell, Professor of Education and Sociology) 

Ruddie R is in the Dictionary

According to the free dictionary Ruddy is related to ruddier, ruddiest, and gaieties. The last one seems like a stretch compared to the 1st two related keywords but maybe I should Google what Gaieties means before going any further.

Okay so it means entertainment or amusements on one line and the other describes it as "

the state or quality of being lighthearted or cheerful."

So any who Ruddier means to have a healthy redish color or Reddish; rosy with a British slang that you can read below "You ruddy liar" from John Galsworthy.

reference: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ruddier

Richart D. Ruddie

Richart D Ruddie words of wisdom post is now live on my Typepad blog that you can find here:  

 

https://richartruddie.typepad.com/entrepreneur/2021/08/richart-d-ruddie-words-of-wisdom.html

 

It's a brief introduction to talking about effective altruism and how we should all lead lives to where we can help out those in need and make a social impact. Either through our actions and support or via financial donations to causes that can help further their mission with your help and support.

It was also listed on Y Combinator's hacker news. 

- Richart D Ruddie

Please note my name is not spelled richard ruddie

Miami Herald Blooper Puts Flo Rida @ 125 Years Old

 Small blooper down here in the Miami area where a journalist or editor put Florida Rapper Flo Rida at 125 years for his birthday this week. See the blooper below:

So for his 125th Birthday he will be getting a key to the city. Imagine what he will get when he turns 200!!!

Microsoft & Gmail Colors Starting to look alike

 Is it a coincidence that the color scheme from a glance had me thinking I was seeing double vision...

Richard Ruddie Bias Recommendation for Behavior Psychology

Behavior psychology plays such an integral role in our every day lives. There is a website ran by the Initative of the School of Thought,  a 501c3 non profit organization that is a great way to educate in a fun way about different biases you may have or see. The website, poster, and trading card game shares a ton of great lessons and was created by Jesse Richardson and an Australian digital agency called We Are Flip using a creative commons attribution and noncommercial license. 

There are a ton of great lessons and advice that the site provides. I will only share each of the titles and you can visit  https://yourbias.is for the rest of the details. Behavior Psychology is an important part of marketing and how we think. 

Below is a list of common terms:

	the sunk cost fallacy
	the availability heuristic
	the curse of knowledge
	confirmation-bias
	the-dunning-kruger-effect'
	belief bias
	self-serving-bias
	he-backfire-effect
	icon-the-barnum-effect
	groupthink
	negativity-bias
Anchoring
	declinism'
	the framing effect
	fundamental attribution error
	the-halo-effect
	optimism-bias
	pessimism-bias
	just-world-hypothesis
	in-group-bias
	the placebo effect
	the bystander effect
	icon-reactance
	the spotlight effect

What the Future of Death looks like

A quote thats interesting from the Wall Street Journals piece about how the world will be affected when we can reverse aging and accidents become the only cause of death which will also be so nimble by that time. Think of the technology in cars and safety features to prevent road accidents and deaths. Will we eventually have hardware in us that stops cardiac arrest and overdoses from drugs? Heart Attacks no longer become a thing and we don't die of old age, kidney & Liver failures?

It's an interesting topic to think about and what industries benefit and those that suffer. What new jobs are created when we no longer age and what about our brains can we stop deterioration?

Fom the WSJ piece I share this quote from Scott D. Smith from Kentucky:
"If we remain physically young, then accidents become the only real cause of death. Think about a new generation of people who have to get used to the idea of the generation before them NOT dying. We rely upon death and 'aging out' to drive the handoff from one generation to the next. Then there's the huge economic impact on health care as an industry, insurance and government with Social Security and Medicare. Also, consider a kinda, sort of technology where it works but not for everyone. How will our society deal with that perceived 'inequality'?"

Billy Corgan is the Reason Courtney Love Married Kurt Cobain and changed music history

Sounds crazy but Courtney Love was dating her bandmate from Hole Eric but soon they broke up and stayed platonic. During that time in the early 90's Nirvana was getting to be huge but she was dating Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. There was a show in Chicago where Corgan lived and Nirvana was playing and Courtney persuaded two music industry veterants one a Japanese man named Kaz to give her $1,000 each so she could make the trip to see Nirvana. What really happened was that she came to spy on Billy Corgan who had another girl at his home and kicked Courtney out.

What happened next is she ended up at the show and ended up on Kurts lap after the show and they were nearly inseperable ever since. This one night changed music history forever possibly... Had that girl not been at Corgans house would Courtney and Kurt ever fall in love? Would Kurt's addiction to Heroin and death be delayed? So many questions and what if's..

 

Find old Nirvana Interviews and more at this great time capsule of a websire recommended in the Goldberg Book Serving the Servant:

Note for when I want to find old Nirvana history: https://livenirvana.com/

Thrasio capitalizes on Amazon's Growth

 There are a thousand of ways to capitalize on the growth of the fastest growing platforms in the world. Facebook advertisers and developers profited as the social network grew, vendors who supply products to retail at Target benefit as they grow, I've benefited from the growth of Google and search, and now Thrasio is the type of website and business to benefit as Amazon retail grows by buying out merchants and taking over their companies and providing a fair earn out.

This is a story that we will see as online orders for products post pandemic continue to grow.

Thras.io says they are the fastest company to grow to a billion dollars.