In our previous episode we talked about the challenges of modern education especially the online schooling. As COVID-19 quickly transformed all education to online college education didn’t do much well in this extreme challenge. Problems with college education hasn’t started with COBD-19 for sure but this pandemic uncovered a lot of issues in this field. Parents are having a close look for the first time to what their kids are learning and they’re definitely not happy.
For the past couple of years, we’re seeing a lot of frustration with college education by both parents and students. Stuck in a very old cycle of curricula, educational methods and lack of understanding of the new market’s career requirements, college education is becoming very expensive and mostly inefficient. College students are becoming so frustrated that they are committing suicide in hundreds out of frustration. They are paying much money for an education that does not prepare them for the modern work environment, they are drowned in dept and have no decent income to pay for it.
What happened to college education that it became that expensive and inefficient? How does the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the problems with college education? What will happen to most colleges post COVID-19 now that parents are very unhappy with their kids’ advancement? All these and more question are the topics of this episode.
Telemaketer Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) want to succeed in life badly and find the way to do it!
He becomes a telemarketer and rise through the ranks to the Power Calling team and that is where thing go sideways and this dark comedy takes you on wild ride of craziness to another leve!
By the time you get to the over the top crazy ending you will have a new appreciation for telemarketer (I think!)
7 out of 10 stars
About film:
Telemarketer Cassius Green discovers an alluring method towards
success. However, owing to his greed, he ends up fading away from his
family and friends.
Mads Mikkelsen performance is simply spectacular as he face the elements and goes on a journey of surviving. Then just when he thinks he is rescued disaster strikes again and he has a life he want to save!
The next journey begin as he plots a course of has its twist and turn and by the time you get to the climate end you will be saying " Will he make it to civilization?"
10 out of 10 stars!
About film:
A man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash must decide
whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to
embark on a deadly trek through the unknown in hopes of making it out
alive.
When I watch Jordan Peele's Get out (2018) I was freaked out! Then I watched Us and more of same twisted horror as family is chased by their own selves!
The story keeps you engaged with some amazing performances by the entire cast Elizabeth Moss (Handmaids Tale & Mad Men) has some great screen time and does the best with it
As you get to the climatic end you won't see coming the twist and turns this movie takes. Jordan Peele does Horror movie mastery
Highly recommend watch the post credit how the movie was made credits and the interview Jordan Peele gives is amazing!
9 out of 10 stars
About film;
Accompanied by her husband, son and daughter, Adelaide Wilson
returns to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a
traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly
concerned that something bad is going to happen. Her worst fears soon
become a reality when four masked strangers descend
upon the house, forcing the Wilsons into a fight for survival. When the
masks come off, the family is horrified to learn that each attacker
takes the appearance of one of them.
Grey (Logan Marshall-Green) is set up to fail and then goes on rampage after the criminals who killed his wife. By the time you get to the climatic end you will have seen horrific gore, laugh alot and wondered not bad for an Updgrade.
Similar films to watch Venom (2018) Tom Hardy
9 out of 10 stars
Movie Plot:
Grey, a technophobe, suffers paralysis and loses his wife during
an attack. But when a billionaire hands him a chip in his body that
restores his mobility, he sets out to get vengeance Watch trailer
Truly an amazing book that Angela Mondou shares insights on her journey on her success and failures and the lessons learned along the way. Will be rereading this again for sure!
10 of 10 stars
About book:
What do you get when you combine war-zones, humanitarian projects,
fighter aircraft missions, The Oprah Winfrey show or the NFL? An
entirely new and unique view on Leadership one that goes way beyond the
boardroom! The unique design and content of this book strikes new ground
in leadership development and provides leaders, entrepreneurs and
people aspiring to live life to the fullest with tools, tips and action
plans to seize their leadership potential. Learn more and buy book
Thin and poweful book with strategies tips and stories on how success is about ME but about WE
7 out of 10 stars
About book:
Wikinomics and The Wisdom of Crowds
identified the phenomena of emerging social networks, but they do not
confront how businesses can profit from the wisdom of crowds. We Are Smarter Than Me
is the first book to show anyone in business how to profit from the
wisdom of crowds. Drawing on their own research and the insights from an
enormous community of more than 4,000 people, Barry Libert and Jon
Spector have written a book that reveals what works and what doesn't
when you are building community into your decision-making and business
processes.
In We Are Smarter Than Me, you will discover exactly
how to use social networking and community in your business, driving
better decision-making and greater profitability. The authors share
powerful insights and new case studies from product development,
manufacturing, marketing, customer service, finance, management, and
beyond. You'll learn which business functions can best be accomplished
or supported by communities; how to provide effective moderation;
balance structure with independence; manage risk; define success;
implement effective metrics; and much more. From tools and processes to
culture and leadership, We Are Smarter Than Me will help you transform the promise of social networking into a profitable reality. Learn more and buy book
Collision from Home was done online this year due to the Covid19 crisis that hit the entire world
Below are some of the highlights of interviews that I found of interest in the three days
Additionally I participated in discussion
Title: How do you regulate misinformation in the time of coronavirus?
Hosted by: Charlotte Jee, MIT
Amazing discussion on misinformation and how social media has amplified everyones voices the good, bad and ugly!
I also participated in a online mingle on Thursday at 5pm. Huge thanks to Brian Curran for it :)
In less than 1 hr I spoke to 20 people from all over the world and had some brief and yet interesting discussions. Excited about all the new connections I made in 3 days.
Look forward to Collision 2021 in Toronto.
June 23rd Day 1
My favorite talks.
Ethics of Sales
There’s nothing quite like a global emergency to throw the ethics of sales into disarray. The chief product officer of one of the biggest ecommerce platforms on the planet talks mark ups, morality and the bottom line.
Speakers
Pete Thompson
CPO at eBay
Don Clark
Freelance Contributor at The New York Times
Shaquille O’Neal: Changing the game for workers
In 2020, work is evolving on a daily basis, and Steady is helping people navigate this new normal. Company CEO Adam Roseman is joined by NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal (an investor in and advocate of the platform) to discuss how the app can help to ease the crisis facing millions of gig and hourly workers.
Speakers
Shaquille O’Neal
Investor at Steady
Adam Roseman
CEO at Steady
Jemele Hill
Staff Writer at The Atlantic
Leading through Covid-19 and beyond
Under Armour CEO Patrik Frisk and co:collective co-founder and CEO Ty Montague will discuss what it’s like to be the CEO who chooses a different path — one that meets the needs of consumers, not only today, but tomorrow.
Speakers
Patrik Frisk
CEO at Under Armour
Ty Montague
Co-founder & CEO at co:collective
Day 2
June 24th
My favorite talks
Life in the Paris lane
Content creationRetail and trade
Social media
Investor, reality star and heiress Paris Hilton talks about her life, career and plans for the future.
Speakers
Paris Hilton
Entrepreneur & DJ
Zack O’Malley Greenburg
Senior Music & Entertainment Editor at Forbes
The future of Lime
Cars and mobilityLeadership
Smart cities
Lime operates globally in more than 30 countries, yet manages to be a hyper-local company on the ground in each city. Looking at the tech behind the wheels, CTO Li Fan brings us through life with Lime.
Speakers
Li Fan
CTO at Lime
Leisha Chi-Santorelli
Senior Journalist & Business Reporter at BBC
The Super Bowl champion fighting Covid-19
EducationHealth
Sport
On February 2, 2020, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif helped the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl. Fast forward to today, and he’s facing a far more difficult challenge: Covid-19. The NFL’s only qualified doctor is currently working at a long-term care centre. He’ll tell us what life is like on the frontlines, and the challenges of restarting sports without a vaccine.
Speakers
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Super Bowl Winner at Kansas City Chiefs
Sheinelle Jones
Co-anchor of Weekend Today & Co-host of 3rd Hour of Today at NBC News
Day 3
June 25th
Love and dating during lockdown
AI and machine learningHealth
Society
Will people feel comfortable even shaking hands post-lockdown, let alone diving into romance with their former enthusiasm? These matchmakers shed light on how Covid-19 transformed the world of dating, looking at which changes will be lasting and which will fade away with the memories.
Speakers
Hesam Hosseini
CEO at Match
Malgosia Green
CEO at Plenty of Fish
Laurie Segall
Founder & CEO at Dot Dot Dot Media
The big picture: What’s next for Canada
InvestmentSmart cities
Society
KPMG Canada’s Armughan Ahmad and one of our Toronto-based co-hosts of Collision from Home, Sunil Sharma, discuss the big picture for Canada in the year ahead.
Speakers
Armughan Ahmad
President & Canadian Managing Partner, Digital at KPMG
Sunil Sharma
Managing Director at Techstars
Canada post-pandemic
Fintech and paymentsLeadership
Retail and trade
We ask two of Canada’s biggest businesses what lies ahead for the country’s economy, employment and recovery.
Speakers
Dave McKay
CEO & President at RBC
Joe Natale
CEO & President at Rogers
Goldy Hyder
CEO & President at The Business Council of Canada
From Olympic hopeful to high-stakes poker
Content creation Leadership
Marketing
Former Olympic hopeful Molly Bloom tells the incredible story of her life, which was adapted into Academy Award-nominated film Molly’s Game by Aaron Sorkin. Molly will take us behind the curtain of running nosebleed-stakes games for some of the most famous people in the world.
Awesome films with amazing performances by everyone!
9 out of 10 stars
About film:
Columbus, a college student, joins forces with three eccentric
strangers to survive the zombie apocalypse and travel through
southwestern USA to a safe haven.
In a world that is changing by the speed of light, everything around us is changing how we live, commute, communicate and live. Yet, somethings are still moving very slow like education. A lot of people (students or parents) are feeling that education nowadays doesn’t match the real needs of this era nor it is sufficient to help with a future career or sufficient knowledge. In this two-episode topic we’re going to tackle the tough issue of modern education and the challenges it faces in the age of the internet and fast telecommunication.
In this episode we’re concentrating on schooling, especially the online schooling that became a great challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. From what we saw, heard and experienced, we wanted to start this conversation from our point of view in light of the rising challenges of school education in this era of history. Watch
Quick and powerful reference to learn HTML and CSS
10 out of 10 stars
About book:
Using the Smarter Way to Learn method, you actually learn HTML/CSS, you don’t just read about it.
Research
shows that you learn four times as effectively when you practice after
you read. So each chapter is paired with free, interactive
exercises--more than 1,000 of them in all. You know you're learning
because you can prove it to yourself.
Testing shows that books and courses load up the learner with too much information at once. Smarter Way chapters are divided into bite-size chunks so you're not overwhelmed.
Reader friendly. No jargon. Everything is explained in plain, non-technical English.
Written for beginners, but experienced developers will find it valuable for brushing up their skills.
Exercises are free and interactive, online.
Lots of coding examples and illustrations.
Re-do an exercise as many times as you need to until you get it right and know you got it right.
Each group of exercises builds on previous chapters so learning is reinforced all along the way.
Automated Exercise Manager corrects your mistakes and points you in the right direction when you stumble.
The Smarter Way to Learn
series is the most-praised collection of programming books on Amazon.
These books have earned more than a thousand 5-star reviews from Amazon
readers.
Read the reviews that call The Smarter Way
of learning fun, involving, frustration-free, and confidence-building.
Then, if you want to go beyond reading about HTML & CSS and actually
learn the skills, do it the smarter way.Learn and buy book
Thick and powerfull book that share insights on how to be better prepared and to execute closing with confidence
8 out of 10 stars
About book:
The #1 bestseller on the art of closing sales is now fully updated to
meet the challenges of today’s competitive new sales environment—with 53
case studies drawn from real life.
The sixth edition features
the newest selling tactics and strategies, the latest products, and the
new salesperson/customer relations. Among the newer methods covered are
critical path selling, group selling and teleconferencing, strategic
selling, consultative selling, conceptual selling, empathic selling, and
key account selling. Plus, you’ll also discover, step-by-step, the
secrets of how to: • Analyze the customer’s psyche to determine your selling strategy • Cash in on the callbacks and follow-up visits • Make more effective use of the telephone • Get great leads from satisfied clients • Profit from telemarketing • Make sure a closed sale stays closed
Highlighted by actual real-world examples that demonstrate these successful strategies and techniques in action, Secrets of Closing Sales gives you the tested tools you need to double or even triple your current income.
“The appeal of this . . . is in the stories and closing lines collected
from master salespeople. You’ll be struck by how simple and effective
many techniques are.”—Executive Book Summaries Learn and buy book
Stellar cast in the plot for inmates to escape through the water pipes. Drama, action and spectacular personal performances by Brian Cox, Dominic Cooper and Joseph Fiennes
7 out of 10 stars
About film:
Fourteen years into a life sentence, convict Frank Perry (Brian
Cox) plans to escape from prison after learning his daughter nearly
overdosed from heroin. With the help of fellow prisoners, Frank begins
digging tunnels that will lead to the outside world. As Frank and his
friends dig, he fends off Rizza (Damian Lewis), a
fearsome gangster who runs the inside of the prison, and his brother,
Tony (Steven Mackintosh), a junkie with designs on Frank's cellmate,
Lacey (Dominic Cooper).
Thick book with insightful and extremely detailed sales analysis tools
7 out of 10 stars
About book:
The Book That Sparked A Selling Revolution In 1985 one book changed
sales and marketing forever. Rejecting manipulative tactics and
emphasizing "process," Strategic Selling presented the idea of selling
as a joint venture and introduced the decade's most influential concept,
Win-Win.
The response to Win-Win was immediate and helped turn the
small company that created Strategic Selling, Miller Heiman, into a
global leader in sales development with the most prestigious client list
in the industry. The New Strategic Selling This modern edition of the
business classic confronts the rapidly evolving world of
business-to-business sales with new real-world examples, new strategies
for confronting competition, and a special section featuring the most
commonly asked questions from the Miller Heiman workshops
. Learn: * How
to identify the four real decision makers in every corporate labyrinth
*
How to prevent sabotage by an internal deal-killer
* How to make a
senior executive eager to see you
* How to avoid closing business that
you'll later regret
* How to manage a territory to provide steady, not
"boom and bust," revenue
* How to avoid the single most common error
when dealing with the competition
As the curve is being flattened in many parts of Canada and the world, we see countries, states and provinces are reopening the economy. Some believe to be totally ready and some to be believed it’s too soon for such an action. Provinces around Canada are gradually and carefully reopening, countries and even some states in USA are also doing so.
How is it going to look like once we reopen the economy?
What shall we expect and what shall we do to guarantee a safe reopening for everyone?
When are we expected to go back to normalcy?
How are we going to deal with an expected second wave probably in the fall especially if there was no vaccine or at least some remedy medicine available?
How Show we change our behavior during the reopening and even after the whole pandemic goes away?
All these questions and more are the core discussion in this episode of the Quantumly Leaping Podcast.
Episode Topics:
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13:18 How life will look like during the reopening and the responsibility of individuals and businesses in keeping things under control in this new norm life style.
https://youtu.be/bLU9j_1fZSQ?t=13m18s
34:07 The situation in our neighboring country, the USA. What went wrong and is it too soon to reopen the borders and restore normal travel between the two countries.
https://youtu.be/bLU9j_1fZSQ?t=34m7s
"Fantastic read that will motivate and inspire you and as you read through it you will feel empowered to be the 10x extreme YOU can be!
9 out of 10 stars
About book:
Extreme success, by definition,
lies beyond the realm of normal action. If you want to achieve extreme
success, you can’t operate like everybody else and settle for
mediocrity. You need to remove luck and chance from your business
equation, and lock in massive success. The 10X Rule shows you
how! Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility, and this audio
book gives you step-by-step guidance on how to achieve phenomenal
success for yourself!
With The 10X Rule , you’ll learn to establish the amount of
effort needed to guarantee success and ensure that you can continue
operating at this level throughout your life. Most people desire success
and have great ideas but they come up short on the amount of action
required to get their lives to the exceptional levels they deserve. Four
degrees of action exist, and in order to achieve your dreams, you must
learn to operate at the fourth degree of action: Massive Action. The 10X Rule
will dissolve fear, increase your belief in yourself, eliminate
procrastination, and provide you with an overwhelming sense of purpose. The 10X Rule
compels you to separate yourself from everyone else in the market—and
you do that by doing what others refuse to do. Stop thinking in terms of
basic needs, and start aiming for abundance—in all areas of your life. The 10X Rule
guides you toward the frame of mind that all successful people share.
Aim ten times higher than you are right now—and if you come up short,
you’ll still find yourself further along than if you had maintained your
life’s current status quo. The 10X Rule teaches you how to:
Reach goals that you previously thought were impossible
Correctly set goals and guarantee their achievement
Create unprecedented levels of happiness and satisfaction in every area of your life
Use fear as fuel to move you into action
Get everything you want and never have to settle
Dominate your competition and become a role model for success Buy Book
Interesting insights that have been already be reported from media and newspapers sources
The inner working of the White House are extremely scary and worrisome to say the least.
I hope American make a smarter choice in November 2020
5 out of 10 stars
About book:
On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell
essay and took the rare step of granting its writer anonymity. Described
only as "a senior official in the Trump administration," the author
provided eyewitness insight into White House chaos, administration
instability, and the people working to keep Donald Trump's reckless
impulses in check.
With the 2020 election on the horizon,
Anonymous is speaking out once again. In this book, the original author
pulls back the curtain even further, offering a first-of-its-kind look
at the president and his record -- a must-read before Election Day. It
will surprise and challenge both Democrats and Republicans, motivate
them to consider how we judge our nation's leaders, and illuminate the
consequences of re-electing a commander in chief unfit for the role.
This
book is a sobering assessment of the man in the Oval Office and a
warning about something even more important -- who we are as a people.
Spectacular performance by Nicole Kidman in this gripping film.
6 out of 10 stars
About movie:
As a young cop, Erin Bell went under cover to infiltrate a gang in
the California desert -- with tragic results. Bell continues to work as
a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, but feelings of
anger and remorse leave her worn-down and consumed by guilt. When the
leader of that gang suddenly re-emerges, Erin
embarks on an obsessive quest to find his former associates, bring him
to justice and make peace with her tortured past.
I can't believe waiting this long to read this book. Amazing book that shares strategies, insights and stories on become a smart networker!
About book:
Best-selling author Harvey Mackay
reveals his techniques for the most essential tool in business -
networking, the indispensable art of building contacts.
Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last
word on how to get what you want from the world through networking. For
everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the
entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away.
This shrewdly practical book distills Mackay's wisdom gleaned from years of "swimming with sharks", including:
What kinds of networks exist
How to start a network and how to wring the most from it
The smart way to downsize your list - who to keep, who to dump
How to keep track of favors done and favors owed - is it my lunch or yours?
What you can do if you are not good at small talk
Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is a must for anyone who wants to get ahead by reaching out.
According
to the Pew research center 62% of adults in the United States get their
news from social media platforms. And, while most major media outlets
have presence on social media, much more news outlets that are not legit
or even regulated are their most of which spread lies, misinformation
and conspiracy theories. The numbers of people who believe and share
this news from those sources are staggering and rising every day.
Currently social media platforms are protected under the US law as being
a provider (platform) not as a publisher which means they can decide
for themselves what content should stay on their own platforms. While
the pressure is getting higher and higher for those platforms to
moderate the content and many of them are trying hard to make that
happen, we hear politicians threatening of suing them or even shutting
them down when they moderate their content. How content moderation
affects the spread of misinformation? How these companies will balance
content moderation and still profit from content? And how politics plays
a huge part in that? All of these questions are in the core of this
episode’s topics.
The
rise of extremes in politics, religious beliefs, nationalism… etc. and
how being on social platforms helped them spread and expand. https://youtu.be/Me4mkbHkqto?t=15m59s25:48
The
effort that, finally, most platforms are putting to moderate the
content and fight the spread of misinformation while pressured from
politicians are rising when their content or their supporters’ content
is being moderated. https://youtu.be/Me4mkbHkqto?t=37m25s28:24
