Students will follow a teachers lead for understanding. Sometimes, a teacher gets stuck between enhancing understanding and the desire to be understood.
I am 37 years old and this month marks the first time in my adult life that I had to call up my landlord and tell him I couldn’t pay my rent on time. I’m not telling you this for pity and it isn’t a rags to riches story. I am doing what I love. I am more alive than I’ve ever felt. And though I’m more broke than I’ve ever been, I’m also happier.
Hello, my name is Tara and I am a startup entrepreneur…
Let me tell you…that it takes HERCULIAN levels of strength to hold the faith day after day as you travel down an unclear path.
Imagine this. You are an entrepreneur standing in front of a group of important people, people who hold the power to change your future – venture capitalists, media, potential employees, and YOU – and you pour your heart out to them. You present your vision in the best way you know how to articulate it. Your palms are sweating. Your heart is beating out of your chest. You are so excited and filled with passion and you just know they are going to recognize it. They will understand your vision and want to be part of it. They will want to help you get there.
But then you start noticing them checking their blackberries and looking bored…their furrowed brows…and you know what is coming. They proceed to tell you every way in which your business will fail. It’s been done before, so it will fail. It’s never been done before so it will fail. There are too many competitors, so it will fail. You come into those meetings with your heart on your sleeve and the reach across the table, grab your heart, put it in their teeth and take a big, juicy bite out of it, hand it back to you and say, “good luck with that.”
And you leave those meetings with two things. Number one, a broken, bleeding heart and number two, a burning desire to prove to them just how wrong they are. And you hold onto that second thing, imagining yourself handing them their hats on a silver platter when they come to you to beg to be part of your success some day.
But those meetings are the easy ones. At least you know exactly where you stand when you leave them.
The worst meetings go something like this…once again, you are presenting your vision with passion and this time, the reception is different. You see a sparkle in their eyes. They are nodding their heads. They start to ask you deeper questions about your marketing strategy and technology and you answer these questions like a pro. You know your business. You know your market. They tell you they want to follow up! You leave those meetings in a very different mood. You are giddy. You practically skip back to your office.
You get back to your office all fired up and send that follow up email, “great to meet with you! Here are those things you asked for!” finally! Someone who gets it! You want to celebrate! Your business is going to move forward!
Then a couple of days pass….nothing. Days turn to weeks….still nothing. Your spidey senses start tingling…well…maybe they got busy? Perhaps a family emergency? Maybe an illness?
So you send a follow up email, “hey! Just following up to see if you need anything else from me! If you have any questions, just ask!”
And then comes the reply. It’s vague and flat and sounds nothing like the previous meeting. It goes something like this:
“Tara, thank you for coming in and showing us what you are working on. We really enjoyed meeting the team and though we like your idea, we are just going to pass on it right now. Keep in touch!”
Huh? This is the point that you take a drink. Tequila has become my personal favorite. Take a pass? What? What happened? Where is the love?
It’s as if everyone you meet with is directly or indirectly telling you that you are chasing a pipedream….that you should just give up.
Give up? Never. Isn’t this what a startup is about? Building something with unknown results? It’s never certain. We have a great team, a product that is well on it
I am 37 years old and this month marks the first time in my adult life that I had to call up my landlord and tell him I couldn’t pay my rent on time. I’m not telling you this for pity and it isn’t a rags to riches story. I am doing what I love. I am more alive than I’ve ever felt. And though I’m more broke than I’ve ever been, I’m also happier.
Hello, my name is Tara and I am a startup entrepreneur…
Let me tell you…that it takes HERCULIAN levels of strength to hold the faith day after day as you travel down an unclear path.
Imagine this. You are an entrepreneur standing in front of a group of important people, people who hold the power to change your future – venture capitalists, media, potential employees, and YOU – and you pour your heart out to them. You present your vision in the best way you know how to articulate it. Your palms are sweating. Your heart is beating out of your chest. You are so excited and filled with passion and you just know they are going to recognize it. They will understand your vision and want to be part of it. They will want to help you get there.
But then you start noticing them checking their blackberries and looking bored…their furrowed brows…and you know what is coming. They proceed to tell you every way in which your business will fail. It’s been done before, so it will fail. It’s never been done before so it will fail. There are too many competitors, so it will fail. You come into those meetings with your heart on your sleeve and the reach across the table, grab your heart, put it in their teeth and take a big, juicy bite out of it, hand it back to you and say, “good luck with that.”
And you leave those meetings with two things. Number one, a broken, bleeding heart and number two, a burning desire to prove to them just how wrong they are. And you hold onto that second thing, imagining yourself handing them their hats on a silver platter when they come to you to beg to be part of your success some day.
But those meetings are the easy ones. At least you know exactly where you stand when you leave them.
The worst meetings go something like this…once again, you are presenting your vision with passion and this time, the reception is different. You see a sparkle in their eyes. They are nodding their heads. They start to ask you deeper questions about your marketing strategy and technology and you answer these questions like a pro. You know your business. You know your market. They tell you they want to follow up! You leave those meetings in a very different mood. You are giddy. You practically skip back to your office.
You get back to your office all fired up and send that follow up email, “great to meet with you! Here are those things you asked for!” finally! Someone who gets it! You want to celebrate! Your business is going to move forward!
Then a couple of days pass….nothing. Days turn to weeks….still nothing. Your spidey senses start tingling…well…maybe they got busy? Perhaps a family emergency? Maybe an illness?
So you send a follow up email, “hey! Just following up to see if you need anything else from me! If you have any questions, just ask!”
And then comes the reply. It’s vague and flat and sounds nothing like the previous meeting. It goes something like this:
“Tara, thank you for coming in and showing us what you are working on. We really enjoyed meeting the team and though we like your idea, we are just going to pass on it right now. Keep in touch!”
Huh? This is the point that you take a drink. Tequila has become my personal favorite. Take a pass? What? What happened? Where is the love?
It’s as if everyone you meet with is directly or indirectly telling you that you are chasing a pipedream….that you should just give up.
Give up? Never. Isn’t this what a startup is about? Building something with unknown results? It’s never certain. We have a great team, a product that is well on it
Quick Start guide to Remote and Online LearningAngela Maiers
As schools and organizations make the transition to virtual and remote learning, there is no shortage of resources. This guide is a quick start to navigating those decisions with advice and guidance from educators in the trenches.
Quick Start guide to Remote and Online LearningAngela Maiers
As schools and organizations make the transition to virtual and remote learning, there is no shortage of resources. This guide is a quick start to navigating those decisions with advice and guidance from educators in the trenches.
Practical Creativity: Nurturing and Understanding the Habits and Attitudes o...Angela Maiers
We all have the capacity to be more creative; but do we have the necessary habits and attitudes to become productive and innovative learners, leaders and powerful contributors to our world?
This presentation is designed to inspire, motivate, and provide techniques that both empowering and equip all who wish to be more creative with the habits and attitudes required to build creativity into our learning and lives.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE DISNEY TO CREATE MAGICAL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES: SO BRING...Angela Maiers
Do you want to build a culture that can respond well to the marketplace, touch people, move them, and create loyalty and magical moments?
Then you must focus on :
-Investing time, money, and energy on relationships
-Being the type of brand that is fully present
-Being useful, grateful, and valuable
-Figuring out ways your product/service will help reduce and even alleviate customer pain
-Loving and valuing every customer; especially the ones that don't always deserve it.
All of these are the principles and practices are common sense; but it takes courage and commitment to take these and make them commonplace and common practice; creating magic at every interaction. Let the following framework serve as a reminder of what you know best to do and guide your success moving forward.
Let's Make MAGIC With Our:
M: Memorability
A: Absorbability
G: Giftability
I: Intentionality
C: Carability
A Leader's Guide to Implementing Genius HourAngela Maiers
A presentation based on the book "Liberating Genius." It covers how to create the conditions for genius hour and passion based learning to succeed in every classroom.
YOU are intended to be a world changer. That is an ambitious task for anyone, and that is exactly what this presentation addresses. It starts with you! To become a world changer, you must first embrace and believe in your worth and capacity to impact. YOU MATTER, and your actions count. Today is the day we start!
Mattering IS the Agenda - Presentation at TASSP and TEPSA 2015Angela Maiers
You matter is not a statement of inspiration. It is not a project, or strategy, an event, or an item on the agenda.
It is the agenda.
Mattering is not something that just happens to you. It is something you actively pursue. The game changer for 21st century is the ability to leverage connected genius.
Never underestimate your significance, or the significance of the right words at the right time. It takes a few seconds to transform a culture and changes lives, and it costs nothing.
My presentation at #NSBAConf on how school districts can get social media right - for board members, administrators, teachers, staff, students and parents.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
1. “ It’s the way they’ve always been….” A presentation based on the song, “Flowers Are Red”
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