Join Christopher Penn as he reviews Adobe’s Project Shasta, a new AI-powered tool for cleaning up audio. In this episode, Christopher puts the software to the test by recording in various challenging environments, including a moving car with high road noise and in a parked car while wearing a p100 mask. Tune in to see how well Project Shasta performs and how it uses artificial intelligence to improve audio quality.
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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, we’re going to do a bit of a bake off and review of Adobe Podcast.
If you’re not familiar, Adobe rolled out this product, which has been in beta for a while.
It’s called Project Shasta, and now it’s in production and people can try it out.
I imagine eventually it will find its way into Adobe Audition or something similar.
In a nutshell, it’s a pretty cool product.
It uses artificial intelligence to clean up sound, and we’ll talk about the type of AI it uses, because it’s not what most people think.
But first, let’s talk about the audio clips we’ll be listening to.
The audio clips in this episode are going to be audio only, because a number of them were recorded in a moving vehicle.
For safety reasons, there’s no video because I was operating the vehicle.
The four samples we’ll be looking at were recorded in a parked car, just on a phone; in a moving vehicle with the ventilation system on high; in a moving vehicle with high road noise; and in a parked car while wearing a P100 mask.
This last scenario is not ideal for having conversations, as the mask is great for stopping bad things in the air from getting in your lungs, but not for having clear conversations.
Let’s listen to each of the samples and then discuss what the software does.
[Audio samples played]
Okay, it’s pretty clear that Adobe Podcast does an incredible job with some really terrible audio.
All four samples were very short because they were difficult to listen to.
We did hear some distortion, of course, because the recording scenarios were poor.
But the really interesting thing is that last sample with the P100 mask.
It did a very credible job of trying to reconstruct my voice.
That’s an important part of the product – it’s not just doing the usual leveling tools you find in audio software, it’s actually reconstructing the voice.
It has a trained library of known voices, so it can compare the distorted audio to the known voices in its library and try to reconstruct the original audio as closely as possible.
Overall, I’m really impressed with Adobe Podcast.
It’s not perfect, but it does a fantastic job given the terrible audio it’s working with.
If you’re interested in checking it out, you can try it out now that it’s in production.
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A lot of folks like to crap on best practices. Quotes like âbest practices copy yesterdayâ and âbest practices are dead endsâ and âbest practices usually arenâtâ. But letâs think about this for a moment. What is a best practice? Itâs a methodology, a process, a practice thatâs been proven to work for generating a desired outcome.
Strip away the jargon and the lingo for a moment and what does a best practice really resemble?
Itâs a recipe, isnât it?
A best practice is a proven way to get an outcome. A recipe is a proven way to get an outcome, too. Is it innovative? No. Is it new? No. Is it revolutionary? Probably not. Will it get food on the table? Yes, yes it will.
Have you ever stood around in your kitchen wondering what to make for dinner? You just sort of⊠stare. Maybe something will leap out, but usually you end up making mac & cheese or toast or pasta because you literally canât think of anything else. If youâre in a relationship with someone, youâve probably had the endless circular conversation âwhat do you want for dinnerâ at least once, right?
And a recipe solves that quandary. You pull out your recipe for baked tilapia or homemade burgers or quiche, and suddenly instead of standing around paralyzed by inaction, youâre cooking. If you follow the recipe, you generally get the outcome.
Have you ever given a recipe to a friend? Maybe youâve put up a photo of a dish you cooked on your Instagram or Snapchat or TikTok and youâve had friends say âOMG I want that!â, and ask you for the recipe. Do you just sort of mutter glittering generalities about the food, or do you hand them a recipe of ingredients and directions? Chances are you do the latter.
Thatâs the power of a recipe, the ability to convey knowledge to someone else in a compact form that helps them to succeed.
And thatâs the power of a best practice. Properly written out – like a recipe – it lets you communicate all the necessary steps to succeed at something.
So, why the hatred for best practices? Well, itâs true that a commonly known recipe doesnât offer any kind of competitive advantage. If everyoneâs clear on how to make spaghetti and meatballs, then your Italian restaurant probably isnât going to succeed on innovative fare if your feature dish is spaghetti and meatballs, right? But I suspect more that people who spend a lot of time criticizing best practices are either trying to sell you something or are deeply insecure and trying to protect their own recipes from becoming commonplace.
And thatâs a silly point of view, because recipes evolve. Recipes vary. Maybe you have a gluten intolerance, but you still love the taste of a certain pasta sauce. So you change the recipe to a gluten-free pasta. You still get the outcome, just in a different way. Maybe you had a winning Twitter strategy but in the recent management change, all your influencers left for Mastodon. Can you adapt your recipe to follow? Probably.
Thatâs what separates the competent from the excellent, from the experienced. First you learn the recipe and practice it faithfully. Then you adapt the recipe to your circumstances. And at the peak of expertise, sometimes you throw the recipe away entirely because you know it by heart. Gordon Ramsay doesnât have to look up a recipe for scrambled eggs. Heâs done it so many times that he just knows it.
The same is true for best practices. In the beginning of your journey, you learn the best practices and practice them faithfully. You donât vary, because you donât know enough to know what variations make sense. Then as you gain experience and proficiency, you make changes to the practice as needed. Maybe you have a social media strategy that worked well on Instagram, and youâre looking at TikTok. Is TikTok the same as Instagram? No. But are there human beings on the other side of the device looking to be entertained, educated, or engaged? Yes. So you take what works from the recipes you know and vary them, make them work for the same humans on the other end.
And towards the end of your marketing career, after youâve had a few decades in the office, perhaps you donât need the recipes at all. A new social network pops up, and you just know what makes people engage, so you figure out the specifics of how the new platform works, but you engage people where they are, as they are, with the same level of success.
The most successful folks? They write their recipes down. They have their own cookbooks, whether or not theyâre published. They have a compendium of tools, tactics, and techniques that they know inside and out, and that cookbook is their codex of awesome. That way, they can train successors so that their excellence can scale.
Whatâs in your best practice cookbook? At this point in my career, mine is about 230 pages long. Itâs a compendium of ideas, frameworks, and practices that I keep – privately – that I know work, stuff Iâve used over and over again. Whatâs in your cookbook? And if you donât have one, why not? What processes, what recipes do you know that generate results?
Hereâs an example, a recipe for growing a following on a social media platform.
Make sure your profile is optimized for topical relevance. Have keywords, images, decor, etc. That immediately communicates what youâre about.
Identify a hashtag or other search method for people interested in your key topic of relevance.
Follow those people.
Thatâs it. Thatâs the recipe. What happens, without fail on every public social media platform, is that anywhere from 10-50% of people will follow you at least for a little while to see what youâre about.
Now, thereâs a more advanced version of that recipe. Step 2 instead says using the coding platform of your choice, extract the nodes and edges of conversations about that topic and derive a network graph of the people you care about according to the centrality measure that matters most to your goals, then create a weighted index of key measures to come up with a list of people to follow.
But the recipe at its heart is still the same.
One last thing about best practices and recipes⊠for those folks using systems and software like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, etc. You know those prompts you give the machines?
What do you think those are?
The best prompts are recipes for what you want the machines to do. Donât believe me? Try this prompt in ChatGPT, one of my recipes:
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The more clear you are in your recipes, the better results you get, whether youâre doing the cooking, someone else with the recipe is doing the cooking, or even a machine is doing the cooking.
Recipes – best practices – are the building blocks for success. Dismiss them at your peril.
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In today’s episode, we talked about being more efficient and ruthlessly efficient with your time. We discussed setting time boundaries and enforcing them, making use of small time slices throughout the day, and reducing the time spent on activities that don’t help you reach your goals. Lastly, we recommended being assertive with those who waste your time by setting clear boundaries and sticking to them.
Mind Readings: Be Ruthlessly Efficient With Your Time
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In today’s episode, let’s talk about being more efficient, being ruthlessly efficient with your time. Before the holidays, I was in a meeting and set very clear boundaries; it was a 25 minute meeting. And the folks I was having the meeting with started off with a lot of fluff, some small talk, and then said, âOkay, now letâs do some introductions.â And I was sitting there going, âWe have 25 minutes and youâre going to have nine people introduce themselves, youâre going to chew up at least five minutes of this call.â And sure enough, after all the fluff, by the time we actually got down to business, there were 15 minutes left in a 25 minute call. And so the folks who were on this call did not accomplish what they set out to do with the call, they ran out of time. And I know they were disappointed; you could see it on their faces, because this was a Zoom call. And it got me thinking about the things that you can do to make the most of the time that you have, not just in a meeting, but in general, and ways to implement that.
So, number one, set time boundaries and enforce them. I love calendar appointments for meetings, and I will let people know at the top of the call that I have a hard stop at a certain time. And I stick to it; stick to it and say, âOkay, weâre out of time; I’ll let’s let’s reconvene again if we need to have another meeting, we can.â But after the first couple of calls, where somebody gets cut off in the middle of the call because they’re rambling, they get the message pretty quickly: âOh, I need to tighten up if I want to get done what I want to get done.â So be really isn’t not unforgiving, but very assertive with your time boundaries; your time is valuable. No amount of money could ever buy time.
Second, have a to-do list for tasks that take relatively little time; five to fifteen minutes. And throughout your day, when you have little time slices, allow that list and knock stuff off of that list. I used to have this one coworker who drove me up a wall. They were who would have like 25 minutes between meetings, I would just throw their hands up and say, âOh, I canât get anything done. I donât have enough time.â Like, Iâm 25 minutes, you can get a lot done in 25 minutes, as long as youâre prepared, as long as you know what is on your plate that you could get done and get it done. Thereâs always stuff to be done. And not all of it takes deep work. Some things absolutely take deep work, which is when you spend an hour, two hours, three hours, block off that time so that I’m not doing anything else, but focusing in on this sort of thing.
The third thing and this is one that comes from people asking the question, âHow do you do as much as you do? How do you create as much as you create?â is you reduce time usage for stuff that doesnât move your goals ahead. Itâs not to say that you just stop being unproductive, right? You absolutely should have downtime, rest time, time to just watch silly reruns whatever, because that mental breaks are important and necessary for your mental health, your productivity, it needs that. But it has to be taken in belts, it has to be budgeted, kind of like anything. Time is a limited resource and you budget it like a limited resource just like money. It is astonishing to me how many people and organizations will will budget down to the penny for for every little thing and they wonât budget their time at all. They will not budget time, even a little bit. Theyâll say, âOh yeah, weâve got to do some of this marketing stuff. Youâve got to do some email marketing and stuff.â And then theyâll obsess about their pay-per-click budget. Itâs like, âWell, you probably should budget your time more rigorously.â And youâll find that youâll have more time to do more stuff and you may not necessarily need to then spend as much money as you do on your pay-per-click budget because youâve recovered that productivity and time.
So, I would summarize this by saying you need to be efficient with your time in some cases ruthlessly efficient. Though the people who are going to waste your time, box them in; either there are certain people you have to deal with them. Maybe itâs a boss or a colleague, or a family member or a client or whoever. And you know that dealing with them is not the best use of your time. Box them in, say, âHey, love to talk, have 25 minutes.â And then at the end when theyâre still going on say, âIâve got another thing. Itâs been great talking to you; bye.â As with everything else, people learn pretty quickly, subconsciously or consciously people learn pretty quickly when you stand up for your boundaries and say that you have 25 minutes, and thereâs a hard stop at the end.
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It is difficult to tell if a piece of content is generated by a human or a machine. To know if a piece of content is generated by a human, look for markers within the text itself, like typos, and grammatical oddities. Machines generate text that is usually mechanically perfect and lacks the imperfections of human-generated text. You can also look at the format of the content to determine if a human was involved, as humans are necessary for multimedia formats. If you want to communicate that a piece of content is human-generated, have a human involved in the delivery of the content.
Mind Readings: How Do We Know Content Is Made By A Human?
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In today’s episode, let’s talk about how do we know if a piece of content is generated by a human. It’s really difficult with large language models like the GPT-3, which is the underlying model that powers things like chat GPT, and so many other similar models that are being used in all sorts of content-based AI tools. One of the questions that you legitimately want an answer to sometimes is did a person actually make this? Or is this machine generated? Now for very low stakes stuff? You know, maybe it doesn’t matter. But certainly, if you’re a marketer, maybe you’re paying a writer to write blog content for you, you might want to know, am I paying for a human to write this or am I paying for a machine to write this? And there’s no good way right now to just look at a piece of text and go, “Okay, that came from a human or that came from a machine just on the text alone.” But what you should be looking for are little markers within the text itself, that can give you a hint as to its provenance. Machine-generated text, generally speaking, obeys the general rules of grammar and spelling pretty well actually. And in that respect, content is a lot like diamonds. When you have synthetic diamonds, the way that you determine that a diamond is synthetic is by looking at it through a variety of instruments and looking at the crystal and structure. What you will notice about a synthetic diamond that is different than a natural diamond is that synthetic diamonds are perfect. When you look at them, they are perfect; their crystal and structure is perfect. It’s flawless. When you look at real diamonds, there are flaws. Sometimes the flaws are big, like the diamond is the wrong color. Sometimes the flaws are small, like certain molecules in certain carbon molecules and atoms didn’t line up just right. And so there’s tiny little imperfections throughout it. But it tells you, “Yeah, this was naturally grown. This is not laboratory grown, not assembled quickly.” Content is the same way. When you look at the output of a lot of these large language models, they’re creating mechanically perfect content, good grammar, good spelling, no strange misuses, no weird turns of phrase. And so you can tell in text, “Yeah, this was probably generated by a human” when you spot those unusual constructs; for example, spelling errors, typos. Generally speaking, machines don’t produce typos in generated text, grammatical oddities. For example, you might say, “I got that,” right? Somebody asked, “Hey, what about the set headphones?” I got that. Grammatically, it’d be more correct to say, “I have that. I have that model. I got that model. I have that model” is the grammatically correct way to do it. And so those little quirks of grammar that are unique to you differentiate your text from machine-generated text.
I’ve been doing a whole bunch of writing for my book, Beyond the Velvet Rope, and I what I’ve been doing is I’ve been doing a lot of voice recording and then taking the ugly transcripts and washing them through one of the API’s to clean up the language. And what it spits out is mechanically correct, kind of bland text; it loses a little bit of flavor. And so when I take those summaries, I then blow them back out and and retype an awful lot of them and reintroduce the unique quirks, the imperfections that are my personal voice, the way I speak, the way I write, the way that I use language is unique to me. And unless you are someone who can personally train and fine tune AI models, chances are you’re probably not going to be doing that with one of these large language models to make it sound exactly like you said, you’ll just kind of use the mechanically generated texts. That’s how you know a piece of text is human.
The other thing that you could look for is format, right? Multimedia formats. This piece right here that we’re talking about: is this machine generated? Well, no, clearly not. I’m sitting here talking to you. Right. Do you hear the sound of my voice? You can see me on the screen. Even if I read it off of a script, but I’m not. There’s still a human involved, right? You can still tell, like, this is me. This is I. Am not yet computer generated, maybe someday. But for right now, that’s not the case. That’s the easiest and most prominent indicator that you know a piece of text is human is there’s a human involved right here: I am.
If your customers, if your employees, whoever, if people want that authenticity, they want that certified organic, human generated content, the easiest way to prove it to people is have a human in the mix, right? Have a human delivering the content, even if a machine wrote it. So that okay, well, yeah, there’s, there’s a real person there. Because in a lot of ways, the concern that people are expressing is just a fear, in some ways, that we have been replaced. So if you can show yourself or someone who works at your company, you show a real person behind that. It communicates consciously and unconsciously to somebody else, “Oh, yeah, there’s a person in there. There’s still people behind the wheel somehow within the content that you’re delivering.”
So as you start evolving your content offerings to use artificial intelligence to use generative AI, you may want to deliver that in as human a way as possible. And that means turning on the camera, turning on the microphone, and having a human being be part of the delivery.
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Chat GPT is popular because it is an easy-to-use interface for the GPT-3 language model. It allows people to easily interact with the model, ask it questions, and give it tasks. It has opened people’s eyes to the capabilities of large language models, as it can generate coherent, high-quality text. People are using it for a variety of tasks such as writing term papers and assignments, generating blog content, and more.
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In today’s episode, Donna asks, “Why is Chat GPT all the rage now?” If you’re unfamiliar, OpenAI Corporation released a new interface to its GPT-3 model. GPT stands for “General Pre-Trained Transformer”, and it’s a large language model that has been accessible to people for small fees for a few years. Last year, they released a chat interface to it, so that people who had no technical skills whatsoever could chat with it and discover what the GPT-3 family of models was capable of.
So why is it all the rage now? It’s because it’s easy. The previous version, “Playground”, is very easy to use, and provides a writing space as well as controls to tune the performance of the model a little bit. But for a lot of people, that blank box, along with the buttons and knobs that have words that they don’t necessarily understand in the context of a generative AI, is still intimidating. A chat interface, something that looks like a chatbot or a text message, is something that people understand and can use right away. People started to talk to this thing, asking it questions, giving it different tasks, and as expected, because it was the same model underneath, it did a great job. People were able to have it generate tweets, rewrite lyrics as parodies, write horoscopes, and more.
It really opened people’s eyes to the capabilities of what large language models can do today. In the last four years, they have evolved very quickly and can now produce coherent, high-quality text. People started using it for every possible use case, like writing term papers and assignments, generating blog content, and more. And because it’s a less intimidating interface, it has taken off in a way that the previous version didn’t.
So that’s why Chat GPT is all the rage now. It’s easy to use, and it removes a lot of obstacles for people. It’s interesting to watch the reaction to Chat GPT, as you’re now seeing a lot of other vendors building chat interfaces into their AI products. It’s a no-brainer when you see how people respond to it.
The next step for a lot of folks should be to use it with bigger or complicated prompts, or more detailed prompts that take advantage of what the model is really good at. For example, you can feed it a transcript of a meeting, and it can generate meeting notes and action items. This is a huge time saver, and it’s a great way to extract value from recorded calls and to miss fewer details.
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One of my favorite exercises that Iâve performed every year since he first introduced it is Chris Broganâs Three Words. Rather than create resolutions which are difficult to keep, the three words exercise puts together three words that form your mantra for the coming year. My twist on it is to restrict it to just verbs, because verbs are actions to take. I like the three words as an easy way to remind myself of what Iâm supposed to be doing, if I find that my mind and focus have wandered.
For example, in 2022, my three words were invest, research, and cultivate. By making them verbs, I could ask myself for any given decision if what I was choosing would accelerate my progress towards a goal, encourage me to create something, or help me experience something more deeply.
That said, that’s unique to me only, and that restriction doesn’t apply to anyone else. You could choose, for example, end state goals as your words, like wealth or opportunity or friendship. Do whatever will help you move forward on your big goals.
How did I do in 2022 with these words?
Invest. This one went well. I invested, and not just financially. I invested time into things that mattered, relationships that moved ahead my personal life and professional life.
Research. This went exceedingly well. 2022 was a bounty of a year when it came to learning new things, researching stuff, exploring new frontiers. From generative AI to new parts of the R programming language to conducting 50+ weeks of original data and research, 2022 was bursting at the seams in research.
Cultivate. This was all about habits, cultivating habits to sustain efforts over the long term. I ran over 300 kilometers in 2022 (which is not bad for someone who hadnât been a runner before the pandemic), my longest annual distance yet.
Compared to 2021, 2022 was personally a great year (even if the macro pictures was a big bucket of WTF).
So, with that retrospective, what are my three words for 2023?
Release. Thereâs a ton of stuff thatâs just laying around, personally and professionally. Resources that I havenât done anything with, stuff Iâve made, things Iâve accumulated. This year, itâs all about releasing it in one way or another. For some things, that means pushing them out of the nest, shipping stuff; for other things, itâs about giving them away or just letting them go, knowing that their time has come.
Revoke. There are people, concepts, ideas, and things in my head, in my life that donât need to be there. Part of this year is revoking their access, cutting ties, removing permission for them to be there. It’s not just passively letting them go, but actively revoking their privileges. The block button? It’s going to get a lot of use. One of my favorite singers, Jewel, has this great line from “A Life Uncommon”: no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. That’s the motto of Revoke.
Renew. This year, so much is going to change. So much has to change. Professionally, the world of marketing data and analytics will go through conniptions with major, enforced changes like Google Analytics 4. Personally, the efforts Iâve made the last 3 years for my health need to continue, to accelerate, so I will renew those efforts (already clocked my first 5K for the year on day 1!). Friendships, relationships, habits – many things that went well in 2022 need to keep going, need to get renewed. Many old things from years past need to be refreshed, given new life again because they work and it’s time to upcycle them to something new.
Remember, the three words, should you choose to do this exercise, are guideposts, not iron-clad rules. Things happen – like global pandemics. Even small scale things, on the order of us as individuals, can make the best-laid plans go totally off the rails. So if and when life throws you a curveball, don’t hesitate to change your focus either.
Whatever and however you choose to celebrate the turning of a page in time, I hope your 2023 is an improvement over 2022.
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In today’s episode, we talked about the misconception that cheap lighting equals cheap content. While it may be true that there is a certain minimum level of quality that indicates you have invested at least a little something, it’s not much when it comes to lighting. With a few thrift store lamps and some experimentation, you can achieve a professional and expensive look with inexpensive lighting. A photon is a photon, as long as the light is safe, and techniques are more important than price.
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In today’s episode, let’s talk about a misconception. I saw an ad on Instagram not too long ago from a company that makes very expensive lights, and it was positioned at us as marketers and content creators. The ad copy said “cheap lighting equals cheap content.” Let me just say, as a person who did lighting and sound design in theater, I can confidently say this is mostly false. Yes, there’s a certain minimum level of quality that indicates that you have invested at least a little something, but it’s not much when it comes to lighting. It really isn’t. Theaters, even the most professional ones – like the Ed Sullivan Theater – are held together largely with gaffer’s tape. Everything is MacGyvered together in ways that probably violate multiple safety regulations, such as OSHA regulations, fire codes, and a variety of other rules. When you look at some of the lighting setups that have happened in theaters, on movie sets, on TV sets, and any other entertainment production, and you see how everything is sort of taped together, you would not think “wow, that’s really expensive gear they’ve got there.” You would think “wow, that’s really taped together.” And yet, from the audience’s perspective, you’d never know, as long as we did our jobs right. Got a broken red fresnel? Cool, get out the roll of red plastic wrap, slap it over that for now. And the days before LED lighting, you had to hope that the light wasn’t on for too long because the filament could melt. You had to get the scene lit and done, and then take the smoking plastic wrap off the light. Got a broken lightbox? Tape it back together with some shims and gaffer’s tape and cardboard.
I’m not saying that your desk or your home office lighting should be dangerous or unsafe, but I am 100% saying that you don’t need to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on all these fancy lights to do basic videography. What you need to learn is how to do lighting properly. You can watch YouTube videos, read tutorials online, and you can light a home office video with a professional and expensive look with a couple of lamps from the thrift store and look like a pro, as long as you position the lights correctly. In my office here, I’ve got a major light here, which is a thing I picked up off the street. It’s got a single bulb in it. I’ve got a fill light here in the ceiling, and it does the job. That cost me nothing – the bulb was like 5. Now, that bulb is built into this, and it was like5. I could maybe install a sidelight here, but I actually like the way this looks. You don’t need a ton of stuff, you certainly don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars to get a good look. You just need that overhead key light at about a 45-degree angle in your head – so this is shining at a 45-degree angle. And a dimmer backlight to backlight the scene and make it look good. If you got some shadows that are unflattering, get the third light – may be a fill light or something, you know, even something as simple as this little ring light here. I put this far enough away to take away some of the shadows. Turn it down a little bit, and there’s a nice little fill, right? This is like a $2 widget, and you can see the difference in the shadows and things. So it’s just a question of experimentation with inexpensive lights.
What most people do wrong with lighting is they have a key light right in their face. They do this with a ring light – “wow, that’s really bright.” But this doesn’t look good – this is like that hostage video look. So they have that, or they have just crazy amounts of light gels, washing everything out. And if I put this here, you can see it doesn’t do a great job. If you’ve got just lights everywhere coming in from every direction, it doesn’t look good. Get a couple of handheld lights or a lamp and just move stuff around and see how you look best.
But understand that we’re not spending hundreds of dollars – that ad is just almost offensively misleading. Almost everything is more about what you do with the tools, not how expensive they are. Once you’ve got above broken or dangerous levels of quality, it’s all about the technique and not the price. So if you’re thinking about doing more video, if you’re going to do more video, learn how to do lighting with good technique and save your dollars for something where the quality really matters. A photon is a photon – as long as the light is safe, you can do a lot with it.
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In this episode, I talked about how I sent a power bank to a friend in Kyiv, Ukraine, over the holidays. I used Nova Poshta to get the package to her and we used Amazon Deutschland as the ecommerce system. The point of this story is twofold: logistically, it is possible to send packages to people in Ukraine, even in war zones; and the broader lesson is that you can’t help everybody, but you can help somebody, and that effort can make the world a better place.
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In this episode, let’s talk about doing something a little bit different. Shipping a package to a war zone, though, over the holidays, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, a friend of mine, a data scientist in Kyiv, Ukraine, was talking about how she didn’t have electricity a good amount of the time. Now, there’s not a whole lot that we individually can do for everyone. But in this instance, there was something I could do for one personâpower banks, power generation stations, like the Ecoflo, Jackery, Anker, and Power Station. These are all large batteries, essentially, that you can take, charge them up, and then use them. And if you were to send one of these to somebody who didn’t have reliable access to electricity, but had access to it in some fashion, it would be a pretty big help. So what we coordinated on was, “What if I were to try and send one of these things?” Knowing that my colleague could use this to essentially let her do her job, right, because, as with all of our technology, we all require electricity, and someone who’s doing machine learning and AI and data science kind of needs a working laptop with electricity.
So it turns out that Ukraine’s Postal Service, Nova Poshta, has drops in most major nations. You go to their website, NPShopping.com, and if you can navigate itâwhich is entirely in Ukrainianâif you can navigate it, you can sign up for a mailbox. And what they will do is, their shipping depots, you can send stuffâmail stuffâto their shipping depot in whatever country you’re in with the nearest country. And then, with enough time and logistics, they will manage to get your package to the intended recipient somewhere in Ukraine. There are obviously places within Ukraine itself where you’re not shipping anything, like Crimea, for example. You’re probably not shipping stuff there right now. But in the major cities that are not under direct siege, yeah, you can send stuff there.
So I coordinated with my friend and went to Amazonâbut not Amazon US because Amazon US, even though Nova Poshta has shipping depots in the United States, all of our equipment in the USA is on USA electrical standards, which doesn’t do you a bit of good outside of North America, essentially. The voltages are different. The plugs are different, like have you ever seen a travel adapter that says “EU?” It’s a two-prong thing and, you know, the US has sort of a three-prong thing going on. So we went to Amazon Deutschland, Amazon Germany, and found the same station there, and shipped it from the Amazon Germany warehouse to the Nova Porsche depot in GermanyâI forget where in Germany it is. And then they said that, from there on to Ukraine, it worked. You know, I was watching it very carefully. One of my neighbors here in the USA is from Cherkasy, so she’s Ukrainian and can help translate and tell me what was going on. But it worked. We got a 260-watt-hour, essentially battery system to my colleague in Kyiv. And now she posted on Instagram that she can get her job done and she can get her work done, which obviously provides income and all those things.
The point of this story is twofold. One, it is possible to do these things right. If you know people who are in Ukraineâor this process can be applied to many different countriesâbut in particular for Ukraine, if you know people in Ukraine and you want to send them stuff, it turns out you canâyou just have to set up an account with Nova Costa and then buy the thing on the nearest ecommerce system and then ship it to the drop point. So logistically, that’s a takeaway, if you are looking to help. This is one avenue if you know somebody to send it to; if you don’t know who to send it to, then look to the major charities. Go to United 24âit’s United24.gov.uaâand just donate money there. It’s probably a much better use of your resources. But if you know somebody who needs something and it can be shipped from an ecommerce system like Amazon or eBay or whatever, this is a way to do it. It works.
The second, and broader, lesson is you can’t help everybody. You can’t save the world, right? Even the richest people can’t save the world. But you absolutely can help somebody. And that’s a lesson that I think we all need to take to heart. You can’t help everybody, but you can help somebody. So if it is within your power to help one person, just that effort makes the world a better place. It is. If you had billions of dollars, you would still be struggling to fix the problem entirely. But you absolutely could help a person, a family, or a village, depending on the level of resources you have available to you. So let that be something that you can take to heart and that you can apply in your life. Find somebody to help and see what the world looks like when you’re done. And again, it doesn’t have to be in a far-off nation. It could be somebody in your town, your neighborhood, your city. There are no shortage of people who need help, and you can help one person. And if you do that, we all do that, we make the world a better place.
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Years and years ago, I received permission from one of my teachers, Stephen K. Hayes, to perform a specific meditation ritual around the new year to help set goals and achieve them. For years, I did this at my house, inviting a select group of friends to participate, and I was looking back at some of the feedback recently from ceremonies past. Many folks said it made a difference, so I figured it might be time to share it a little more broadly.
This year, we all know the world is going to be more contentious, more challenging, more adverse in many ways. Yet as with everything, there are also more opportunities, more chances, more fleeting moments we could seize towards our goals. To make the most of what opportunities we have, we need to be prepared, mentally ready to act when itâs our shot.
We tend to succeed when weâre clear about our goals and weâve got a plan for tackling those goals that we can execute on every day, every week, every month, every year. We tend to be less successful when we donât have those things. This fire ceremony, a tradition in the martial art I practice, is one technique for helping you achieve those goals.
Disclosures and Disclaimers
This version of the fire ceremony is intentionally scaled down for you and me as individuals or maybe just a few close friends. If you want the full, traditional experience, you need to seek out one of the teachers in my martial arts tradition; I learned this from Stephen K. Hayes, and heâs the person Iâd reach out to if you want to experience the whole ceremony in all its detail.
If you plan to do this with others, be very selective about who you participate with. Invite people who have positive intentions and have been and are generally committed to your success without reservations or conditions. For the purposes of the ceremony itself, avoid inviting people who are nervous talkers, who cannot abide a few moments of silence without filling the air. Distraction is the enemy of focus, and this is something you want to be focused for.
Follow Along
The audio and video for this ceremony are linked above. Feel free to play them as you do this so that you can pause at each step as needed.
Choosing a Goal
A few things before we begin. First, you have to DO this. You have to participate. You canât just watch this video or read this newsletter and expect results, any more than you can watch a video about working out and achieve your fitness goals, or read a recipe and have food to eat. You have to do the work, follow along, and perform the exercises.
Second, your goal should not come at someone elseâs expense. Itâs fine to want a goal like having a million bucks. Itâs not fine to have a goal of taking a million bucks from X person. Call it what you want, divine intervention, karma, the universal scales of justice – a goal at someone elseâs expense tends not to work out.
Third, your goal should be clear and specific. Make a million bucks is good, make a million bucks without sacrificing your health or family relationships is better. Lose weight is good, lose 10 kilograms is better, lose 10 kilograms while maintaining a food budget of X euros is very specific and good. Clarity and specificity make achieving goals easier.
You can have more than one goal, but for the purposes of this exercise, start with one goal. You can always do it again with a different goal.
If youâre performing this with others, it tends to work better if you do NOT share your goal during the ceremony. There will be ample time in the days and weeks ahead to collaborate with others and build shared accountability.
The Setup
Letâs talk about the setup next. To perform this version of the fire ceremony, you should be in a safe space or place where you can literally light things on fire. This can be outside in a fire pit, in a gas grill, or even in the smoking area of wherever you live, where there are ashtrays and things that arenât flammable nearby. Unless youâve got access to a fireplace, you probably shouldnât do this indoors.
Youâll need a source of fire that can be sustained for a few minutes. A candle will do, as will a grill, a fireplace, etc. Iâd say to start, a candle is just fine, but feel free to use whatever works best for your circumstances.
Youâll need some scissors and a few sheets of plain paper, as well as something to write on.
Youâll want to have fire resistant gloves, tongs, chopsticks, or anything that can hold a piece of paper on fire safely if youâre using a candle. If youâre using a fireplace, fire pit, or grill, then you just need the ability to safely place pieces of paper in a fire.
For safetyâs sake, please have some kind of fire extinguishing equipment handy. Again, make sure youâre doing this in a safe space!
Preparing the Materials
Before you start lighting things on fire, take the sheets of paper and cut them into four sets of shapes.
One long rectangle
Five circles
Five squares
Ten octagons or leaves, your choice depending on how good you are at cutting shapes out of paper
They should be big enough to write at least a complete sentence on. I find that shapes about 2-3 inches/5-7 cm work best.
Youâll also need one regular sheet of paper to take some notes on.
The Ceremony Process
Letâs get started.
Clear the space and get ready. Take care of any biological needs so you can give your full focus to the ceremony. Tradition suggests removing anything metal that youâre wearing; thatâs still good advice. For sure, remove anything that will distract you like your phone, smart watch, etc. And put them all in silent mode.
On the long rectangle piece of paper, write down your goal. We put our goal in writing so that weâre absolutely clear about what we want to bring about in the world. A major reason we donât accomplish our goals in life is weâre never clear about them. By writing it down, we give ourselves clarity. Be sure to note this on the note-taking sheet of paper as well.
Write your name and the year. If youâre doing this at the beginning of a year, putting the year ahead works great. If you want to do this on a more personal occasion like a birthday or anniversary, put that date instead. We put our name on our goal as a tangible reminder of whoâs responsible for our goal. We might or might not get help from others in achieving our goal, but the responsibility is ours alone. We put a date of some kind on our goal as a reminder that a goal without a deadline is just a wish.
On a few of the stop signs, write down 3-5 external factors or conditions that could get in the way of achieving your goal. What external things could work to prevent you from succeeding? After you jot these down, put them into the flame so that the world knows what youâre looking out for.
On a few of the circles, write down 3-5 external factors you will need to succeed. What people or situations will you have to change, move, or work with to make your goal a reality? After you jot these down, put them into the flame so that the world knows what you might be asking of it.
On the remaining stop signs, write down 3-5 internal factors or conditions that could get in the way of achieving your goal. What are the specific internal tendencies, habits, and inhibitors that could work to prevent you from succeeding at your goal? After you jot these down, put them into the flame so that the world knows what youâre committed to overcoming.
On a few of the squares, write down 3-5 internal factors you will need to succeed. What ideas, feelings, beliefs, or habits will you have to develop, face up to, or give up to create the internal conditions you need to achieve your goal? After you jot these down, put them into the flame so that the world knows what youâre committed to becoming.
Make brief notes of the things youâve just put into the flame – the external factors that would inhibit your goal, the external factors that would advance your goal, the internal factors that would inhibit your goal, and the internal factors that would advance your goal.
Finally, take the rectangle with your name, date, and goal on it and put it into the flame. As you do this, as you watch the fire spring to life, realize you are telling the world that your goal is real, that youâre bringing it to life, and that youâre announcing your commitment to take immediate action towards your goal. Ask the world to remind you to take action towards your goal every single day, steps of any size that move you closer to your goal. Remember that an average plan vigorously executed beats a beautiful plan you never take action on. Let the fire and flame be a signal to everyone that this goal is happening.
Once the paper has burned up, carefully snuff out the fire and clean up. Some people prefer to gather the ashes and save them in a little container, or smudge themselves with the ashes as a tangible reminder of what theyâve committed to. Whatever you do, take your note-taking sheet of paper as the start of your plan, your blueprint to succeeding at your goal, get started, and keep going. The dividing line between success and failure often isnât resources or intelligence, but perseverance.
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Data At Scale: Unlocking The Power Of Big Data With TrustInsights.Ai
– I’m here with Christopher Penn, the co founder and chief data scientist at TrustInsights.ai
– This program is about data at scale, looking at how to handle large sets of data efficiently
– Christopher shared that TrustInsights helps marketers make their data work better for them
– They focus on the 6 C’s of Data: cleanliness, completeness, correctness, comprehensiveness, chosen well, calculable/usable by both machines & humans
– They use various tools and technology to blend heterogeneous data sources into a normalized format so it can be used for reporting or machine learning tasks
– To provide an example Christopher noted that they have looked at digging deeper on popularity metrics such as TikTok videos
From TikTok To AI: Harnessing The Power Of Data With The Right Tools
– Stakeholders often ask what the impact of a TikTok video is on sales, and there are tools such as Segment I/O or Google Data Flow that allow us to bring data sources together.
– We use open source technology to build our product, including BigQuery and the AMP stack. The language we typically use is R but more kids these days prefer Python.
– Chaos Search uses cloud object storage models like GCS (Google Cloud Storage) and S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service). They also offer an ElasticSearch API for querying events and logs, with JDBC connections soon to come too.
– For AI integration, they follow a consumer experience model you push a button in an analytics tool and expect an answer right away. However, at times machine learning requires compute time before providing a response; this can take anywhere from minutes up to hours depending on the data set size.
Unlock The Potential Of Data With Google Data Studio
– The way data is presented to customers varies based on their expertise with the software they are using.
– Google Data Studio Software encourages less manual labor and fewer human errors in data entry.
– Visuals can communicate thousands of words quickly and easily, so utilizing free tools like Google’s free Data Studio Software is encouraged.
– Marketing data comes from unifying conceptual ideas rather than just unified data; descriptive analytics tends to be the focus of most software available today, making it difficult to do diagnostic analytics with it.
Data Privacy: Keeping Real Data Safe With Synthetic Solutions
– I recently learned about California’s new data privacy act that takes effect on January 1st, 2021 and the implications it has for companies used to sharing customer data.
– Customers must consent to having their data sold under this legislation or else companies are unable to share it.
– To comply with this law without violating user privacy, many businesses have begun creating synthetic marketing data by building models of their original datasets which then fill in dummy information instead of using personal information.
– This requires more sophisticated skills than what is typically found in marketing professions today and vendors may need to provide assistance with processing such complex algorithms and transformations.
Quilting Together Compliance: Understanding Privacy Laws For Your Business
– There is a patchwork quilt of privacy laws that marketers need to understand and abide by in order to keep their business compliant.
– One example is the Chinese Intellectual Property Protection Law which has similarities to GDPR but with much stricter penalties, including imprisonment if found violating it while in China.
– It is important for businesses to not only know what data they have on hand, but also how they are using it.
– Tools like Chaos Search can help businesses classify and analyze data within their organization in order maintain compliance with applicable regulations.
– Additionally, companies should be mindful of preventing misuse of their platform as individuals may use protected classes without consent or authorization.
Data Governance: Stopping Inferred Class And Synthetic Variable Misuse
– I’m learning about inferred class issues and synthetic variables, which have the potential to be used in ways that are disallowed or unethical.
– SAS vendors need to come up with tooling to help prevent these types of issues from being an issue.
– IBM is leading the forefront on this issue, creating solutions that provide good governance over data and privacy concerns.
– Chaos Search strives to be a good citizen when it comes to using data ethically, staying in compliance with laws regarding data privacy and providing plumbing for customers where needed.
– Dual use technologies related to AI and data itself can lead toward misuse if not monitored properly.
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