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Helping Entrepreneurs Change The World Since 2011
How You Can Look Into The Future To Change The World Today With Byron Reese of Knowingly
BY William Griggs
Coming up with an original business idea is tough. It's far easier to create a variation of something that already exists – but we all know the easiest path isn't the most valuable.
This week, I sit down with Byron Reese of Knowingly. Byron is an an entrepreneur, futurist, and author known for his big ideas. During our discussion, we dive headfirst into what the future will be like and how you can take advantage of it to develop original business ideas.
If you want to come up with innovative business ideas, do yourself a favor and listen to this interview.
Have comments, questions, ideas, or feedback? I want to hear it. Tweet me at william_griggs.
Topics Covered In This Episode
How does being a futurist change how you build companies?
How does it change how you think about business?
What major technological trends do you see having a huge impact on the world in the next 10, 25, and 50 years?
What leads you to believe this?
What areas of are going to be the most impacted?
How should our audience be thinking about these trends/changes?
What's an example?
What piece does passion play in being successful?
How can one find what they are passionate about?
How can we encourage our kids to find what they are passionate about?
If our audience wants to dig into more on the future of the world, what would you recommend?
INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:
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William Griggs:	In this episode I talk with Byron Reese of Knowingly. Byron is an entrepreneur, futurist, and an author, known for his big, innovative ideas about the future. During our discussion, we dive head first into what the future will be like, how you should be thinking about it, and how you the listener can take advantage of it. Without further ado, here's my interview with Byron Reese of Knowingly. Enjoy. All right Byron, thanks for joining us today.
Byron Reese: Oh, I'm so happy to be here. I've been looking forward to this.
William Griggs:	Very cool. Really appreciate your time. So we know, I mean the audience knows from the introduction that you're a futurist, you're a founder, you're an advisor, you're a consultant, you do a lot of different things, and I think that puts you in a powerful and unique position to help our audience. So let's, before we dig in, let's get the audience up to speed with what you're doing, your background, what you're doing currently with Knowingly. Could you give us a little bit of overview?
Byron Reese: Yes. Let's see. I'm CEO of a company called Knowingly right now. It's an Angel backed startup in Austin with, I guess, eight folks right now, and it's really trying to solve, I guess, the hardest problem on the internet, I think, which is you don't really know what to believe, you don't really know when something is good quality or bad quality. I want to be in the quality business. The internet is getting very good at separating high quality stuff from low-quality stuff, and I want to be out there helping people make higher and higher quality content. Before that, I ran innovation for Demand Media. I was chief innovation officer for Demand Media. We were a large scale internet publisher. And before that I had another startup that I sold and, you know, you started off by saying I did all of these things. It could also be interpreted that I can't really hold a job very long. But taking it in the most favorable light, and then on the side, nobody does just one thing in this world. On the side I write, I have a book about the future out, I have an article in this month's National Geographic, or half page. So I write as much as I can, because it's very interesting to me, and I speak a lot. I travel around and talk to different audiences about different topics that – If you're going to be at South Bike, I'm going to talk about the possibility of human immortality, where maybe if you live another 25 years you face the possibility that you'll never die.
I homeschool four children with my wife, and that's a lot of fun. And then – You know, I think, had I been a kid today, they would have medicated me. And I know that maybe sounds like a line, but I actually think so. I can't do just one thing for very long, and so I always wake up and say, "What am I most excited about doing right now?" And I work on that, so I'm always working on something I'm really excited about, and then I move to something else. And it works for me. That isn't, like, advice for everyone, just what works for – Oh, and I also try to start a new non-profit every other year. I have two I'm working on right now. One is a very ambitious one, and one is a very modest one. And so I've got those going. So that's me. That's me.
William Griggs:	Very cool. So I had originally met you with a local startup here in Austin, and then I had actually seen your presentation at TED X here, I believe in Austin, and also checked out the book a little bit. So we want to dig in. Sounds like you have a lot on your plate. You're going, you know, 1,000 miles an hour, but one of the themes, it seems like, is innovation. It's the future, and we want to dig into that in this episode. So if we could, just starting off, how does being a futurist and thinking about the future change how you build companies?
BRL Well, I assume everybody that starts a company is, to some measure, a futurist. I'm a little uncomfortable with that word, because it doesn't have a lot of definition around it, but one has a thought about what the future is going to be like, and then figures out a business way to exploit that. In a sense, the future is kind of a new invention. People always knew there would be a tomorrow. The Romans didn't build rods that lasted 1,000 years because they didn't – But the idea that the future is going to be different is a pretty new idea. It basically came about with the scientific method. And so I think you have to start by asking yourself, is the future knowable? And I think it is. I think there are things you will know about that are knowable. And then you kind of separate those from things that aren't knowable. And for instance, just as an example, we know computers are going to get faster. We know bandwidth is going to get cheaper. We know storage is going to get cheaper. We know ubiquitous sensors are going to be super inexpensive. We know the internet of things; everything will be – You know, it's funny. I'm already, like, I'm already so ready for the internet of, the so-called internet of things.
I just kind of walk around my house annoyed at all the things that aren't online. Like why didn't the cat's food dish text me when it was low on food? Why didn't my sprinkler system tell me the yard is dry? I mean everything, everything is going to be connected, so when you start having a view of the future that stays in these very safe areas, like nothing that I just said is absent the stray comment that could happen before we finish this conversation, absent that stray comment, there's a lot we know about. So then you only have to ask yourself, "Well, what good things can I do?" You know, I've done this a couple of times. Before there was an internet, or before there was a YouTube, I got really interested in online video. I said, "That's going to be big. You know how I know it's going to be big? Because I know that bandwidth is going to get cheap, and everybody's going to have broadband in the future, and we're not going to all have dialup, and people would rather watch things than read them." And I know that because more people watch TV than read the newspaper. And so I started making videos.
I started making 3,000 how-to videos a month. I used these freelance filmmakers. And I just made and made and made videos, before YouTube even existed. Because it was just obvious to me. And my YouTube channel now has, the one that I started now, has over three billion views.
William Griggs:	Oh wow.
Byron Reese:	Yeah, I know. Justin Bieber only has four billion, and he's going to peak at some point. And my stuff – And then I got really interested in mobile video. I got an iPhone. At the same time, I had my fourth child. And an iPhone was one G. It was none of this fancy 3G business. Like, you couldn't stream video on it. And I started thinking, "People are going to want to watch video on this. Like, look at this screen. The only thing that's keep people from watching video is bandwidth, and they're going to solve for bandwidth." And so I started thinking to myself, "What would be a great video, the kinds of video people would want to watch on their cell phone?" And it occurred to me that the ultimate video to watch on your cell phone is how to deliver a baby in the backseat of a taxi cab, because that's when you probably need it. And I made that video using the midwife that delivered our child, and it's had ¾ of a million views. Go to YouTube and look it up. But the funniest thing is two years after I made it, I woke up and there was BBC headline, "Man looks up online how to deliver a baby in the backseat of a taxicab as he's delivering this baby," and there's a screenshot right from my video.
And so it's like that. I think just ask yourself, what are things that you just know are going to be true in the future, that are different about now? And then I don't want to just use the cliché, but then you know, skate to the puck. Go ahead and start building for that tomorrow. And what's interesting is the amount of resources you have speaks to how far into the future you can afford to skate to, right? If you're Google, you can skate to driverless cars. You can skate to Google Glass and all of that. You can have visions of products that you know people are going to need in 10 years. I've never, obviously, had those sorts of resources, so I skate to a more modest puck that's much closer. So I just try to think about, "What's going to be different about next year or the year after that I can start building today?"
William Griggs:	Yeah, does it start with kind of seeing those trends? Like you talked about the microprocessors getting smaller, bandwidth getting cheaper, that good stuff. Thinking about those trends, kind of extrapolating out and thinking, "What the heck would be different if this was 10x cheaper, 10x smaller, 10x faster?"
S2: That is exactly it. And then always factor in, there are some things that will never change. Like, human nature doesn't ever change, and so that's also useful to know. But that's exactly right. I remember, I went to this place. It took me a year to get a permit to go. It's way off in the middle of Greece, it's up in the mountains, it's a monastery, the date is different there because they still use the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar. Time is reckoned different there. They live just like they lived 500 years ago, except some people have a flashlight or a portable radio. That's it. And I got to this place and I noticed this little, everything looks like 500 years ago, and I notice this old bag, and I said, "What's in that bag?" Because I saw somebody drop something. And they said, "Oh, that is, whenever we have a flashlight or a radio and the batteries go dead, you put them in that bag, and then when one of the monks has to twice a year go into the city, they take that and they recycle it." And I thought to myself, "You know, if that idea, green, sustainable living, made it to this place, then it's probably something very permanent, something that's here to say." So I just started thinking, "Hm."
And, you know, other things don't change either. People love beautiful products, you know? People love the way an iPhone looks. You like the way the box looks for goodness sake, right? So that goes back as far as we go back, right? We love beautiful things. So think about, "Can I make this beautiful, that people would want to hold and touch and own?" So I think you do those two things you say. There are things that aren't going to change. I can bank on those. They never change. And then there are things that are going to change that I have an enormously high degree of confidence how they're going to change. I mean, there is virtually no question. And you don't even have to get into more problematic things about the future. You know, you don't have to even – To get business ideas, I don't think you have to travel beyond what you could probably intuit in an afternoon of reflection.
William Griggs:	Right. Yeah, so we talked a little bit about microprocessors and bandwidth and energy and a bunch of different good stuff. What are some of the other major technological trends that people can think about and kind of extrapolate on?
Byron Reese: Well, there's a whole class of – The internet is still a very new thing, right? I mean, it's common to say that, but it actually also has the benefit of being true. And there were a lot of things on the internet that weren't actually surprises. Like, you could have guessed that there would be an EBay, because there were garage sales. You didn't know who would win that, but you knew, "Okay, people are going to be able to sell stuff online." You could guess there was going to be a PayPal because there was Western Union. You could guess there was going to be a Skype. There are all these things that are online corollaries of things in the offline world. So I think you can assume that that's going to continue. And there are still all kinds of things that you can't do online that in theory you can. And then, there are all these things that nobody predicted, right? Like nobody predicted Twitter. It doesn't have an offline corollary. There was no 140 character, maybe a post-it on the refrigerator or something. I don't know. But there was no offline corollary, so that's something completely new. And those can be very interesting. Nobody on the face of the earth, that I know of, predicted the open source movement. Yeah, people are going to code stuff, day and night work really hard on it and they will share it with everyone else for free.
Nobody predicted Creative Commons. Nobody predicted Wikipedia which, by the way, Wikipedia, you don't just not get paid for it, nobody even knows who you are. You toil for free in anonymity, and I think it's really fascinating that you invent something called blogs, and 100 million people log on. You make it easy to register a dot com, 100 million people do. You make YouTube and everybody all of the sudden takes video and uploads it.
You make iTunes, and new bands emerge everywhere. And what it tells us is, you used to think, "Oh," you know, you let people comment on products and all of the sudden, everyone comments on products. They post in forums. And it used to be, you would have thought that most people aren't creative, because 50 years ago, people didn't do those things. You knew you had artists and writers and all of that, but these were these tiny portion of society. And now it turns out everybody wants to create. Everybody wants to leave their mark. What is the stat? More photos are taken every three minutes now than were taken in the 19th century. You know, it turns out we all want to create. And so that's a huge hyper trend. Everybody wants to build. Everybody wants to make, even though they don't necessarily see it in those terms. You can, you know, the cost of collecting data is going to go to zero. I mentioned sensors earlier, but you can think that through, right? Like, why doesn't my skillet remember everything I cooked in it? Why doesn't my fork calculate the nutritional content in every bite I take?
Why isn't there a camera above my front door that every time somebody comes to the door it scans their face and looks it up in a database to see if they're a criminal? So you just have to say, "What if I could record everything? What if I could record all data? What would I do with that? What could I build with that?" We know that all of the sudden social, wow. Facebook, 1.3 billion users. Who would have ever imagined that? Who would have even thought that was possible? And what it tells us is that people have this amazing desire to connect with each other. It's interesting. If you go into the developing world and you go to somebody and, this is a hypothetical somebody, and you give them a platter of technologies and say, "You can pick any one of these. You can have a scooter, you can have an air conditioner, you can have a Gameboy, you can have a video camera, you can have a cell," you can't even say, "Cell phone," before they've grabbed it. Everybody on the earth has a cell phone. There are more people with cell phones than there are people who have ever used a flush toilet in their life. So they are grabbing the cell phone before that. And so what does that tell us? It's like, wow, people have this enormous desire to connect with each other, that hitherto, technology couldn't live up to their expectations.
And now it does. A world of 7 billion people, you have 6 billion cell phone accounts. Wow, what do you do with that? So if you can get through all of that, and nothing I've said is even remotely science fiction, if you can get through all of that and innovate, it's like, we live in a world that changes more in a year. Like just imagine if you were a sewer pipe maker in the 19th century, or you were a farmer in the 19th century or if you were a metal worker, nobody was talking about, "Wow, in three years, we're going to be doing this all differently." You could learn everything you needed in your – That's why we had this whole educational model of, "Yeah, you go to school for 20 years and then you're good for the next 50. You can go work for 50 years. You're cool. You know the basics, so, nothing's really going to change, so go earn," and now of course that would be a laughable thing. Probably the most important skill to have, well one of I would say three, is the ability to self-teach, because that's what we all do, right? Oh my gosh, something new. Sit down, google it, read it, learn about it, click around, and so –
William Griggs:	Well what would the other two be?
Byron Reese:	So, you live in this world of everything changing, everything. Can you imagine? Because of the rate of change, because of the power of Moore's Law, because so many of these technologies are doubling on a predictable basis, it means it took us 4,000 years to get from the abacus to the iPad, and in 20 years, 25 years, you're going to have something as far ahead of the iPad as it is ahead of the abacus. So that's a world of enormous, exciting, earth-shattering, fortune creating opportunity. That's why we're minting billionaires every whatever. I like to say we are minting them, like I'm helping mint these billionaires. But no, billionaires are being minted at this amazing rate. Why? Because all of the sudden you can build something and a billion people use it, and even 10 million people use it. I mean all of the sudden it just spreads like wildfire. It is – My only piece of advice, and I seldom give advice, but my only piece of advice is don't ever take a breather. The minute you check out for three months, you come back and everything will be different. So it's a relentless game to stay current on what's going on in the world.
William Griggs:	Yea, it's very interesting. You hit on a lot of the trends that are on top of people's minds. You talked about the maker movement, you talked about the internet of things, thinking about the digitization of a lot of offline activities to real world activities, the thought process of kind of thinking through the most fundamental elements of being human around connection and education and food, a bunch of different stuff, and then we think overarchingly about this technological trend of data storage being cheaper, sensors being everywhere, microprocessors going down, battery life is going up, bandwidth is getting cheaper, we're hearing stories of Google X and Facebook coming up with these blimps so they can get the whole continent of Africa, or kites or whatever, to get the whole continent of Africa online, and then thinking through how whole countries are skipping a lot of the steps that we've actually taken in America, right? So we started with landlines, we had people that were connecting the phone lines sitting in rooms.
Then we have landlines that automatically connect, and then we started to get some car phones and some really big cell phones, and now we have cell phones that can be as small as you want them. And now countries that are coming online are going straight to that smartphone, kind of leapfrogging and opening up a whole new economy and a whole new set of opportunities, and then it sounds like all of that goes back to how does the education system support that? We used to have the process where we would, like you were saying, create these people that fit into a system to where we needed them to check a certain number of boxes to make the system work, and now with, you shared the first skill of being able to self-teach or teach yourself stuff, seems like even the education system, you see with Coursera, Udacity, and Khan Academy, that's getting flipped on its head. One of the other pieces that I wanted to dive into is you mentioned self-teaching as one of the three elements. Do you have the other two? Would you mind sharing those?
Byron Reese: I think that the ability to communicate is all of the sudden of paramount importance, right? Because hardly any of us work alone. We work in teams, we work with other people, we interact with other people. One of the basic aspects of the network is the number of nodes that are touching each other. So an ability to communicate and express yourself, work with other people, I think that that is something. And I would actually split the difference on the other two. One of them I wouldn't really count because in theory we're teaching it now, but clearly problem solving is the ultimate skill. But what I was going to say for the third one is in a world where you have this enormous – Like, I know all these people that do jobs that didn't exist last week. Or these people who do jobs that they've just invented. They've made it. Like, they figured out a way to add value somewhere. They look at some system and they say, "I'm going to data mine this and make a report and sell it to oil companies," or whatever. So we live in a world where if you grew up 1,000 years ago and you grew up on a farm, you were going to be a farmer, right? You were going to be a farmer.
And, which we grew up in a world where even 100 years ago, most of your life choices were made for you before you were born. They related to your economic circumstances you were born into, they related to your nationality, your gender, your ethnicity, your religion, they, you know, it was all kind of decided for you, and you could decide whether to wear the striped tie or the spotted tie, and that was kind of it. Well now you live in a world where all doors are open. You get to decide who you are. You're not told who you are anymore, you get to decide. You invent yourself. You decide what you're going to do. You invent it, and you create it. You decide who you are and what you're going to be and where you're going to live, right? Used to be you were born, you grew up, and you probably died in the town you grew up in. Now you get to decide where you're going to live. So I think a real skill that people haven't been conscious about is how do you find happiness? How do you find meaning and purpose? How do you find your passion?
I guess that's how I would say it. I mean all the most successful, happiest people I know, are doing something they really love that they're passionate about. How do you figure out what it is you're passionate about? You see, you know, I talked about these non-profits. I used to sit around and think about what does the world need? And I don't think about that anymore, because there's no end to that. Now I think about what makes me excited? Because the one thing I know the world needs is more people excited about solving a problem. And so I think that's really the great skill, which is find your passion and figure out a way to do it. And congratulations. That used to be something that almost nobody could aspire to, and now it's certainly within reach of a third of the planet, and it will be in reach of everyone before I depart this sphere.
William Griggs:	Yeah, it seems like as the world has developed, especially us here in America, as we've developed, it's become less about covering your bases. I mean for a lot of people it is still that food, shelter mentality, but for a lot of people it's getting out of that. And like you said, it seems like a lot of people are focused on that piece that's missing. It's like, "Yeah, I could buy another car. Is that going to make me happier? I could do this. Is that going to make me happier?" Versus trying to really hone in on that passion. Do you have any advice for people on how to find that passion? Is it the common question around, "What did you love to do as a child?" or, "What would you do if you weren't getting paid?" Do you have any thoughts around that?
Byron Reese: Well I do, and of course I think about it because my kids get interested in stuff. And if they – And what I try to do is if somebody comes to me and says, "Wow, I'm really excited about photography," is I give them a camera and maybe find a photographer for them to talk to, and then one day they're not interested in photography, and you go, "That's okay." And so I think, though, the big skill to have is kind of giving yourself permission to do it. I had the really silly thing I do. I mean, I hate to even say this because it's not, again, it's not something I'm suggesting for other people, but maybe if you imagined, like, the proverbial cocktail party. I've never been to a cocktail party. I love that it's always used as the ubiquitous social event, right? So you're at a cocktail party, and somebody comes up to you and says, "What do you do?" What would you dream about answering that question? And not to impress somebody. What would be the most exciting thing in the world for you to do?
Because I don't know if that particular one you could do, but that's how you start. You say, you would love to say, "Oh, I'm a writer." "Oh, I design hot air balloons." "Oh, I build video games." What is it that you want to tell people? Not what do you want to tell people. It's a mental exercise. What is it that you would just love to do? And then start by figuring out a way to do it. Again most people, here's the interested thing. When they catch a baby elephant in the wild, I have heard this, never personally done it, the way they kind of train the elephant, they tie it to a tree. Just not, you know, they put a leash on it and they tie it to a tree. And the baby elephant doesn't really want to be tied to a tree. He pulls and he pulls and he pulls and he pulls, and he can't get away. And what he learns is, "I can't get away from this tree." Then what happens is when the elephant grows up, they put a leash on him or whatever you would call it, and they just tie it to any stick or any piece of fence or that, and the elephant could just pull it away without even hardly an effort.
But they've learned that they can't, and so they never do. And I'm afraid that's kind of what we do. If you are living in the place you were born doing something that you decided to do a long time ago, all of these things, if you – Then maybe, we haven't given ourselves a choice, the kind of permission to say, "No, I'm going to decide who I want to be, and by golly I'm going to go figure out how to be that person. I'm going to live where I want to live and do the thing I want to do, and be the person I want to be." And so I guess making the decision you're willing to do that, that you give yourself permission. And of course, the standard thing is most people are afraid of failing. I fail at almost everything I do, or at least the great majority of it, and I don't say that, there's not a, "But," after that. It's just, that's it. I fail at many more things than I succeed at, and I'm good with that. The trick is make sure you're doing a lot of things, and then some of them work. And so it's like, give yourself permission to do it, no, you're, you know.
William Griggs:	Yeah, it's very interesting. So it seems like we're kind of having the conversation in reverse. It seems like maybe you start with the passion, the cause, what you're excited about, what you want to go after, what you want to tackle, and then bringing back in the innovative solutions, the futuristic extrapolations on trends, to kind of bring both worlds together, right? Because if you just start by saying, "Oh, I see this potential opportunity where I could make," like, for example, your camera above a door that could maybe match up facial recognition patterns for criminals, right? But if that's not something you really give a crap about, right, you're probably not going to, or you're definitely not going to be that successful about it, and if you are successful, you're still not going to be happy about it. Do you feel the same way?
Byron Reese: Yeah, and I don't want to come across as sounding like something like a rah rah motivational speaker. There are a lot of people in the world who don't actually have all the freedom that I just talked about, right? Like there is a pencil factory in town, that's the only employer, I'm grateful to even have a job at the pencil factory. There is a whole lot of people that don't have this kind of freedom, and I mean the freedom, not political freedom, just who don't have those choices. And then there's a lot of people in our country that don't. But if you're listening and you are one of the few people, well relatively large now, who actually do have that kind of opportunity, then by golly, do it. Do it. If you're not, it will come in time. But –
William Griggs:	Yeah, and it seems like as those people do it, they're going to create additional opportunities for the others and additional ways for those other people to get similar opportunities, wouldn't you say?
Byron Reese: I would.
William Griggs:	Yeah. Very interesting. So it seems like that's kind of the approach. It seems like starting with the passion, thinking through the passion, because it's going to lead to more effort. As far as, you know, and if you don't feel comfortable sharing this this is fine, but it'd be interesting to get your perspective. You know, you talked about how you home school your kids. How do you help, if you're willing to share this, how do you help them with this same thought process of finding a passion, being willing to fail, that type of stuff?
Byron Reese: Well, I think people naturally, you know, Sir Ken Robinson gave probably the most famous TED talk of all about education. He made a comment in an article, or maybe in that talk, where he said that if you ask second graders, go into a second grade class and say, "Hey, who here can draw?" Everybody will raise their hand. And you go into a 12th grade class and you say, "Hey, who here can draw?" Two people raise their hand. And so what is it about that audacity of the second grader that they kind of, "Yeah, I can draw, sure." And somehow we kind of beat that out of people, or not beat it, but somehow we lose that. And so I think people are actually born wanting to do something that's very interesting to them, and then they're kind of broken by life to believe they're not allowed to or they can't or they're not good enough or something like that. And so I think the trick is like what I do with my children, like you said, is, they're interested in something. See, the interesting thing about kids is they are capable of learning, absorbing huge amounts of knowledge, if they are motivated to do so. Like, if they get interested in astronomy or dinosaurs or whatever, you can just pile dinosaur books on them and they will become the world's leading authority on dinosaurs. I remember my daughter went through this phase, she was very young, eight or nine, and dinosaurs were her thing.
And you would ask her a question, like, "How long did dinosaurs live?" And she would always say, "We believe," right? Like she was part of the – Right? Like the scientific community, "We believe that they did this." And so I think kids are naturally like that, and the trick is not squashing it but encouraging it. I mean, I remember my daughter got interested in gardening, and I went and rented from home depot the tiller. I tilled up my back yard because I thought, "Why in the world do I have a back yard if I'm not," you know? "Oh, I don't want the grass to be ruined." It's like, "Why do I even have a back yard if I'm not willing to till it up?" So I till a big chunk of the back yard up, and gardening is fun in theory, but weeding is not nearly as – So that kind of went the wayside pretty quickly. And the thing is is you know, you just don't say anything about it. It's like, "Oh well, what's next to try?" And eventually I hit something, or at least the theory goes, my children are young. Maybe I should have put one in regular school like a control kid, you know?
And then I could say, "Yeah, this works in this tested environment."
William Griggs:	Right. Yeah, that's really interesting. It seems like people can kind of tap into that kind of childish feeling and a childish excitement just by giving them – A lot of people talk about this, whether it's James Altucher with Choose Yourself or Seth Goode and lots of people talk about the fact that they can give themselves permission to do that, right? So even if you've been that elephant tied up to the tree you've learned, or you've been burned, right? In the past by doing something, and maybe you got your hand slapped, or maybe you touched the fire and you found out it was hot, right? But it seems like you could give yourself another set of permissions to explore that passion, and you don't have to have – It seems like a lot of people as well that get that kind of analysis paralysis of like, "Oh, is this something I want to do?" Right? And they'll think about it and they won't actually do it, right? So they won't go down that path to figure out, "Is this the right thing for me?" They'll just say, "I'm at this intersection, I'm not sure which direction to go, so I'm not actually going to go anyway." I've definitely worked with lots of entrepreneurs and lots of friends that are kind of in that moment.
And it seems like, at least in my experience, it's been take the path, choose the path, realize that you can do a U-turn if it's a dead end, come back to the intersection, and go down another path.
Byron Reese: Absolutely. Absolutely.
William Griggs:	Very cool. So we covered a lot of good stuff in this interview. We talked a lot about the innovation, the future, how you think through, kind of thinking through the trends, extrapolating on them, and we talked a lot about different types of trends. We talked about even going back in time and thinking through kind of your passion and realizing it's never too late to think about that, and the fact that having that passion is going to propel you a lot further and a lot faster than just doing what you're being told to do and just doing things just to do them, kind of combining that is definitely gasoline on the proverbial fire. Are there any things that were missing? I mean, we've covered a lot, there's a lot to cover. What's maybe one more thing or a couple of more things that we should really drive home for the audience today?
Byron Reese: Well, back to this innovation question, I think it would be really – I talked about what are all the things that are really obvious? I would just love to say, for a couple of minutes, the things that are just a little bit further out. Because I think they are also very noble as well, and I think that they are very exciting, and they might already have gone beyond the short term. You know, I mentioned Moore's Law earlier, and Gordon Moore figured out that computers essentially doubled in power every couple of years, and he said, this was in the '60s, he said, "It's been going on a while. It's going to keep going on a little while." And then Ray Kerswhile comes along and says, "You know, it's actually been going on for a couple of hundred years." Even though computers have gone from mechanical to tubes to transistors to microprocessors, the underlying technology has changed, it's never looked back. Moore's Law has always – And then other people came along and they said, "Wow, it looks like that multi-cellular life itself doubles in complexity every N-100 years." And they go backwards and they say, "Wow, it looks like based on our complexity life began 7 billion years ago. Very fascinating number since the Earth is only 4 billion years old." It has implications. So we don't think exponentially. We don't think about things that double, and we're in this world where all these technologies are doing that.
They're doubling, doubling, doubling, doubling, doubling, and it dwarfs us. We can't even imagine what we're going to be able to do. All technology really does is it multiplies human ability. More people hear you with the bullhorn than if you yell. You can write more with the ball point pen than you can with a quill. You can move more bricks with the forklift than on your back. So what we're about to do is exponentially multiply what we can do, and what does that look like? Well I think what it means is that all technical problems are going to be solved, all technological problems will be solved. Now a lot of things aren't technological problems. There are a lot of those, but there are very real ones that we're going to solve, like disease. That's just a technical problem. So I think you're going to live to see the end of disease much quicker than you might imagine. Hunger is just a technical problem. There's no reason there have to be hungry people. It's just a technical problem. Scarcity. The underlying assumption of all economic theory is, "Hey, there's only so much stuff and there's not enough for everybody." That is just a technical problem. I mean energy, energy is one of the most abundant things in the universe.
How do you harvest it is just a technical problem. And as I alluded to at the beginning, I think mortality itself is probably just a technical problem. There's no reason you have to die, there's no reason you can't repair and replace you as needed. And so I think we're going to live to see a world fundamentally very different than the entire recorded human history. In fact, that's how I started writing about the future, is I read a Gene Rodenberry quote. He started Star Trek, and he said that, "In the future there will be no hunger and there will be no greed and all the children will know how to read." And I really wanted to know if that was true, if that was possible, or if it just kind of rhymed. Like, "Oh, that rhymes. I'll say that." And so I do believe that's the future that is in front of us. So when you see something that seems like a big hurtle, just ask, "Is it at its core, technological?" And if so, just wait. If it took us 10,000 years to get the computing power we have, two years we'll have doubled that. Two years, we'll double it again. Two years, we'll double it again.
It gets out of hand very quickly.
William Griggs:	And as far as the technological angle of it, are you thinking the resolution or the way to solve it, for instance, you know, disease might be, "Hey, we don't know enough about it. We're not capturing enough, we're not able to analyze enough, the computer processing power is not strong enough to figure out all the different patterns or all the different chemical solutions that would arise to cure cancer." Is that how you're thinking of it as a technological challenge?
Byron Reese: Well I think you have to start by saying the worst disease ever, Smallpox, in its last 100 years of existence, it killed 500 million people. It killed more people than had ever died in every war in history put together. We eliminated it. We made a vaccine for it. Again the "we". I take some credit for that. But we made a vaccine for it. In the 1700s, before Louis Pasteur, who created germ theory, was born. The second worst disease ever, Polio, I would say, is now eliminated in the US and is as rare worldwide as getting struck by lightning. You know, he did that, Jonas Salk did that, he didn't have a computer. Well, he sort of. He couldn't sequence a genome. So what can we do now? We can take a pathological foe, we can sequence its genome, we can see how it works, like we can look into its soul and see exactly how it works. We can then model that in a computer, and then we can try 50,000 different cures a minute. And all of the sudden, everything is going to vanish. We're just going to solve for everything. I know it sounds preposterous. I mean, there are a lot of things technology can't do. Technology doesn't make us better people, right? There are all kinds of things it can't do. But give it credit. There was a man who calculated pi to, like, 31 digits in the 1700s, and it took him his whole life. And it's on his gravestone. That 31 digits is on his gravestone. And now, of course, it can compute – Computers can do it to billions of places in, like, the amount of time it takes me to eat a sandwich or something.
And so you say, give machines their due. There's a narrow group of things that they can do, and they do it exceptionally well. And so all of these technical problems, we are about to build machines that will solve them. And we're going to build robots that will take over a lot of the work that humans are doing, and this is a great thing. If there's any job that can be done by a machine, if you make a human do it, it's literally dehumanizing, right? Because the machine can do it. Doesn't require anything about you that makes you human. So we're going to have machines doing all the jobs that machines can do, freeing up people to do the things that only people can do. It's, "Oh brave new world that has such wonders in it."
William Griggs:	Yeah, so it sounds like an exciting time. Tell us a little bit about your book, and then maybe recommend it and a few other TED talks or other books that people could dive into if they want to learn more about the future.
Byron Reese: Well I've written a book called Infinite Progress and it's available in bookstores everywhere, as they say, but most likely at Amazon.com. And it's about this. It's written with a lot of passion and I care deeply about these issues and I hope it's not a dry, technological read. I hope not. And it's funny, I love serendipity. I love – I would probably plug Reddit of all things, because it is a window into the universe. I mean, I never know what I'm going to find there, and I hesitate to recommend it to your listeners because I think workplace productivity will plummet, but –
William Griggs:	Right, any specific sub-Reddits?
Byron Reese: Oh golly, I have to say, I think the most profound one are Shower Thoughts. They're these thoughts that come to you, these kind of earth shattering – They're oftentimes very comical, like, "I'm surprised members of the Mafia don't all use remote starts on their car."
William Griggs:	That's a good one, yeah.
Byron Reese: Yeah, so things like that, but a lot of them are actually very insightful. All kinds of people do Ask Me Anythings. Bill Gates did one yesterday, where he said he's afraid of AI, like Elan Musk and Stephen Hawking, and then of course the chief technologist in Microsoft says, "I wouldn't worry about it." I'm kind of in the don't worry about it camp too, but there are much smarter people than me who have more rights to have an opinion in that. But I don't believe in our robot overlords. I don't think machines will ever become conscious, even if they are able to duplicate by a million the power of our brain, I don't think that makes you conscious. I don't know what consciousness is, but I don't believe my iPhone 2703 will become conscious, will become self-aware. And of course, like I said, most of the big brain people would disagree with me, so who knows, right? It's the great mystery.
William Griggs:	Yeah, there are lots of people on either side of the fence who will live to see what happens.
Byron Reese: Well we'll know for certain if one of them is right, but not the other one.
William Griggs:	Yeah, so we talked about Infinite Progress. I'll link that up in the show notes below the video. Earlier you talked about TED with Kim Robinson. I'll also link that up. You talked about Reddit, Shower Thoughts, I'll link that up. What other – Are there any other resources that I should link up below the interview in the show notes?
Byron Reese: No those are wonderful.
William Griggs:	Perfect. So this has been an awesome time. Definitely learned a lot. Really appreciate your time today. If people want to connect with you, learn more about the book, how can they do that online?
Byron Reese: I'm the easiest person to find. I'm ByronReese at about anything. ByronReese@gmail gets straight to me. And I want to take a moment and just say thank you, thank you, thank you so much. It is such a great honor – Like I said, I've really been looking forward to doing this, and it's a great honor to even be invited, and thank you so much for having me.
William Griggs:	Yeah, glad you could make it. Glad we could fit it in your busy schedule.
Byron Reese: I had kids coming in here and I was having to shush them the whole time, so I think I've got to go play a game of chess or something with somebody.
William Griggs:	Sounds like a plan. Really appreciate your time. Byron, thanks for coming on the show today.
Byron Reese: Thank you.
Byron Reese's Bio
Byron has been building and running Internet and software companies for twenty years. Of the five companies he either started or joined early, two went public, two were sold, and one resulted in a merger. In addition to serving in a wide range of senior management roles, from CEO to VP of Marketing to Chief Innovation Officer, Byron has produced diverse body of patentable work, authored an award-winning book about the future of technology, and given dozens of talks to both technical and non-technical audiences around the world.
Bloomberg Businessweek credits Byron with having "quietly pioneered a new breed of media company." Wired Magazine describes him as "a tall Texan who serves as Demand's chief innovation officer and who created the idea-spawning algorithm that lies at the heart of Demand's process." The Financial Times of London reported that he "is typical of the new wave of internet entrepreneurs out to turn the economics of the media industry on its head." And Business Insider concluded that Byron "seems like a kooky – and awesome guy… We'd love to buy him a beer."
In addition, Byron and his work has been featured in hundreds of news outlets, including New York Times, Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, Reader's Digest, NPR, and the LA Times Magazine. Byron released a book in 2013 called "Infinite Progress: How the Internet and technology will end ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger and war." When he is not busy working, Byron can be found traveling to places like North Korea and Cuba, or off giving speeches or sequestered in a hotel room writing. He and his wife Sharon homeschool their four young children. He can be found at http://www.byronreese.com. He can be found at "byronreese" on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Gmail, and pretty much everywhere else.
Connect With Byron
https://www.linkedin.com/in/byronreese
https://twitter.com/byronreese
http://byronreese.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en
http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts
http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Progress-Internet-Technology-Ignorance/dp/1608324044
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Fantastic Beasts review: the Harry Potter franchise is stuck between adulthood and adolescence
No one behind this film is sure where they want it to land
By Tasha Robinson@TashaRobinson Nov 18, 2016, 1:09pm EST
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When J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book came out in 1997, the main character was a 10-year-old, and his adventures were appropriate to kids that age: he went off to magical wizarding school, made friends, survived bullying, played sports, broke some rules and learned some secrets, and eventually found out that his mom's love protected him from the scariest things in his world. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone had its dark and creepy elements, but it was fundamentally a book about and for children. But over the course of the next 10 years and the next six novels, Harry Potter and his friends grew up, alongside the series fans who first latched on to Rowling's work in grade school. Characters fumbled through teenage romances. Friendships formed and collapsed. Physical and emotional torture and outright murder became fundamental elements of the series. And as Harry himself endured an angry, troubled adolescence, the story's stakes kept rising around him.
The new movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the first full-length Harry Potter franchise story that leaves behind childhood adventure and teen angst, and expressly deals with adult characters living in an adult world. And there has to be some appeal in that for longtime series fans: in theory, it's a sign that the series has continued to mature with them. With the original Potter books, Rowling created a vast and elaborate setting, but then had to bend it all around the narrative needs of one Chosen One stereotype. Harry's fight against the evil wizard Voldemort affected their entire magical world, but putting a teenage magic-school dropout at the forefront of a vast and complicated war often meant reducing the Potterverse to one hero, his friends, and a useless backdrop of frightened bystanders and fumbling, impotent bureaucrats. The effort to keep Rowling's world Harry-sized kept making it seem smaller and dimmer than it should be. Fantastic Beasts, which takes place decades earlier and moves the action from Britain to New York, should be the series' chance to move out of Harry's skinny shadow.
And to some degree, it does. Fantastic Beasts is a cluttered film, for various reasons — one is the wearying effort, so common to current franchise films, to set up a huge ongoing narrative at the expense of the current one. Fantastic Beasts is planned as the first of a five-film series, and it's easy to see all the loose threads being thrown out for later films to pick up. But the movie, scripted by Rowling and directed by Harry Potter film series veteran David Yates, often feels like it's overcrowded because Rowling is celebrating the freedom to expand her setting past the borders of Harry Potter's experience and his immediate story needs.
Eddie Redmayne starts as Newt Scamander, a shy, fumbling, potentially on-the-spectrum Brit visiting 1926 New York City on a mission involving his fascination with magical animals. (The series sprung out of a charity spinoff chapbook Rowling wrote in 2001, as a fictional "magizoology" textbook used by Harry Potter and his classmates. It's a taxonomy of fictional magical critters, several of which crop up here.) Newt wants to attend his magical suitcase full of CGI creatures in peace, but a chance encounter with non-magical wannabe baker Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler, in comedy-relief-witness mode) and anti-magic fanatic Mary Lou Barebone (Samantha Morton, in possibly her most simplistic, thankless role ever) sets some of his charges free, and he has to recapture them all, pokémon-style.
His magical-critter fetch-quest is fairly slapsticky and predictable, mostly an excuse for comic bungling and chase sequences. But it's a relatively minor element in the story, which also brings in disgraced magical investigator Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston, looking perpetually on the edge of tears), her mind-reading flapper sister Queenie (Alison Sudol, molling it up Chicago-style), a shady magical enforcer (Colin Farrell), and a non-magical politician and his family, who would be inconsequential if one of them wasn't played by Jon Voight. Add in Mary Lou Barebone's badly abused orphan horde (including We Need to Talk About Kevin's Ezra Miller, in a hideously embarrassing haircut that constitutes child abuse on its own) and another fumbling, impotent bureaucracy (led with stately gravity by Selma's Carmen Ejogo), and Fantastic Beasts starts feeling exactly like its source material: more an encyclopedia of story elements than an actual story.
And not all of those story elements fit together, conceptually or tonally. This is a movie that centers equally on vicious beatings of affection-starved children, and a sort of cute, gold-hungry magical platypus (called a Niffler) that wants to cram all the world's valuables into its bottomless flesh-pouch. Beasts features a uniquely horrible and personal form of execution, and also Redmayne honking, rolling around, and wiggling his ass at the camera in a mating dance aimed at luring in an escaped glowing rhino-beast. (An Erumpent, for those in the know.) It's not just a serious adventure with comic elements, or vice versa: it's a grab bag of world-building wonder and awkward absurdist humor, with violence and childish giddiness tossed around in equal measure. It reads as though Rowling's version of an adult world is still dependent on the patronage of kids. In other words, it's a standard blockbuster movie, trying to grab adults and children at the same time, and not entirely serving either audience.
But the critical savaging Fantastic Beasts has been getting doesn't give it enough credit for the way it resets the Potterverse's expectations, dialing back the darkness and establishing a new normal that leaves time for the things that were always fun and exciting about this world. Beasts' CGI menagerie tends to look a bit cheap and garish, but at its best — as with a golden, six-winged thunderbird that becomes the movie's most majestic element, or in a show-offy speakeasy sequence that feels like a lost sidebar from Who Framed Roger Rabbit — the film brings back the anything-can-happen fantasy element and the sense of scope and surprise that initially made the Harry Potter stories compelling.
And while Fantastic Beasts' erratic leaps between murderous gravity and childish silliness are distracting, one thing is consistent: the characters here can be silly, broad, naïve, bungling, or just one-dimensional, but a surprising number of them are in some form of pain. There's a broad, performative sort of melancholy running through this movie, and it touches on so many of the characters. Newt just wants to be let alone and protect his beastly friends, and the world won't leave him in peace — and while Redmayne's performance is tic-ridden and goofy, it's also appealingly forlorn. Porpentina is perpetually struggling to do the right thing, even when she's constantly being punished or overlooked for it. Jacob has been admitted into a world of wonders he can't participate in or even hold on to. Mary Lou knows there's evil in the world, but she can't get the world to listen to her. For all the film's childish elements, it showcases a great deal of suffering and injustice, and the feeling that institutions are indifferent and oppressive, and only individual action counts.
These are familiar, simple, black-and-white Rowling tropes, just like the awkward bureaucracy (a trope that even came into her first adult book, The Casual Vacancy) and the obsession with transformation. And the wish-fulfillment simplicity of these ideas seems destined to perpetually leave the Potterverse in an awkward twilight between adolescence and maturity, between an acknowledgment that the world is complicated, and a fantasy that it can be fixed with a little frantic, desperate heroism. For all that Fantastic Beasts finally lets the Potterverse enter an adult world, it still hasn't fully come to grips with adult decision-making and adult challenges. But when it isn't embracing whimsy, merchandising potential, or buffoonery, it edges just a little closer to that goal. If nothing else, it's fun to see that there's a Potterverse outside Harry Potter himself. His world has always been big enough to sustain other stories. Finally, it has a chance to.
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Are Five Years Experience *Really* Required For That Job?
Corporate Recruiter Bonnie Ungaro recently wrote a great article on why it makes sense to hire for potential.
I think this is a great idea. As someone who has written his fair share of job descriptions (and has a good understanding of the work done in many of the jobs I've sourced for) I can say that the requirements listed in job postings are often much higher / stricter than they need to be. In fact, it isn't uncommon for a hiring manager to more or less lift the resume of the previous incumbent in writing a job description.
…So yeah, Ungaro makes a very good point. We (and when I say we I mean corporate America) need to loosen our job requirements just a little.
With that said, I do believe that this touches on a larger issue with college education – that being that college today often doesn't prepare students for working in the real world. There are some definite pluses to attending a four year university (it's where you learn how to learn), but there is also often a huge disconnect between the work corporations do and the work students do in school.
To be fair here, there is an argument to be made that it is not the role of institutions of higher learning to prepare students to work for corporations and / or government. Not everyone will work in these arenas, and smart students will look for internships in the industries they want to work in while in school.
I don't quite buy this take on the role of educational institutions, though. Eighteen year olds don't know anything about anything, really. Yet they're encouraged to take on crippling student loan debt by society to pursue degrees that don't give them the skills they need to get jobs high paying enough to pay down that debt once they graduate. Going forward this is going to have a crippling effect on our economy as students delay first marriage, first children, first homes etc. because of debt they took on before they really understood how they could add value to society.
I don't know how much of this is a corporate America problem (as said we need to lower our hiring standards for job postings) and how much of it is an educational institution problem.
It's definitely a problem, though.
P.S. Madison, Wisconsin, is a really nice college town!
I keep hearing Madison is a wonderful place to live. I live in Wauwatosa (a bit of a drive away) but intend to make my way up to Madison to spend some time eventually.
With that said, I agree with you David. America still offers the best training programs and some of the best opportunities in the world. With that said, we've got to figure out a way to leverage the young people entering our workforce today.
Yes I am surprised on the liberal culture in Madison. With the state capitol building and UW (University of Wisconsin) staring down on state street, it's the best illustration on the gap between students and corporation/government that you have talked about in the post!
Interesting thoughts. I really believe, like most issues, the gap between education and employment could easily be solved. How? Oh yeah…… people need to talk to each other. Fascinating right?
If employers and local colleges & universities partnered to develop curriculums that made sense for practical business knowledge that would help. If employers and teachers spoke about the needs and expectations of each world (ie academic and workforce) that would help. If employers and schools slowed down just for a moment to open the lines of communication, I believe a lot would change.
In my current role our organization has partnered with our local community college on developing programs and more, like our mentorship program for students. It's amazing what communication and sharing knowledge can do!
Thanks or sharing, Bonnie (and thanks for the kind words).
I agree with you here. A hugely effective hiring strategy that I've at my company is to partner with certain universities around curriculum. Students literally learn skills unique to our systems that effectively guarantee them jobs out of school.
Unfortunately, I don't think most companies have tapped into just how able the young people entering the workforce are, and as such we aren't seeing as many of the needed partnerships with universities as we should.


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Always choose a hair-style that suits your face shape and lifestyle. Nicknames are supposed to be a fun and casual thing, so getting worked up about it will make people alienate you. This song is almost too sweet, with the type of narrative that makes you wish, hope, and pray that someone will someday feel even a fraction of the emotions communicated in this song. Short Stuff — Because she always wears short clothes. Your not going to get complex characters and a complex storyline. There are many things to compliment a girl if we are honest, think positive and focus on make funny things. Connor always held grudges against the rich people that didn't seem to have any worries in the world, but he learns after getting to know Farrah well.
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Chardonnay — Because her presence is exclusive. She may just assume you want to meet up as friends. So if you want something light to read, to just rest your mind, this is the book you're looking for. The characters are flat, and it's only because the book is so short. Other variations include ironic adjectives. What skill would you like to become a master at? I feel her relationship with Connor developing, how both of them were shy but decided to make the move, as much as I think Connor is sweet, sometimes I find him to be a jerk because of the comments he made, nevertheless, he proved himself to be an understanding person. It is a question which is very peripheral to my main line of research, but nevertheless I thought I would speculate on it.
She always complains about how ugly she is, but obviously she's actually super incredibly beautiful and everyone knows it but her. Unfortunately, these girls are also very rare, at least in the Western hemisphere. Which do you like more, going out or staying at home? Unfortunately, for Farrah, that lie inspires other lies. Lucky Charm — Does she bring you luck wherever you go? How is your relationship with your mom? People love because it brings hope to singles who wanted to find a great love; people hate, because it did not work as people's expectations and did not get them desired games. After all, you get to be Romeo. Always moisturise and wash your face before applying.
I liked Farrah's relationships with both Jonah and Biff. It fell victim to a lot of annoying tropes. We just want you to sweep us off our feet a little bit, like when Heath Ledger sang to Julia Stiles in front of the whole field in 10 Things I Hate About You relationshipgoals. Baby Bear — If she likes to cuddle, you can call her baby bear. He always eats just enough to keep his strength up no matter where he is. Let us know in the comment section below! Hermanita — A Spanish version of a name for someone who is very close to your heart. The Best Girl by Emma Harrison was originally published by HarperCollins, HarperTeen, in 2008.
The word gorgeous is definitely a lot more powerful than the word beautiful. So, did you find the right nickname for your girlfriend? The story is just so funny and original I couldnt put it down. Blondeau was honored by receiving the award. Clearly, I should've judged the book by the cover. Instead of saying ridiculous stuff like that you should tell her that she is different than other women and that she makes you smile whenever you look at her.


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Георгий Матвеевич Соловьёв (5 мая 1895 года, дер. Максины, Опочецкий уезд, Псковская губерния, ныне Красногородский район, Псковская область — 7 февраля 1981 года, Калинин) — советский военный деятель, генерал-майор (1943 год).

Начальная биография
Георгий Матвеевич Соловьёв родился 5 мая 1895 года в деревне Максины Опочецкого уезда Псковской губернии ныне Красногородского района Псковской области.

Военная служба

Первая мировая и гражданская войны
В мае 1916 года был призван в ряды Русской императорской армии и направлен в 174-й запасной батальон, дислоцировавшийся в городах Нарва и Юрьев, где окончил учебную команду. В ноябре того же года был направлен в чине младшего унтер-офицера во 2-ю пулемётную команду 14-го полка особого назначения (3-я особая дивизия, 21-й армейский корпус, Северо-Западный фронт), после чего принимал участие в боевых действиях в районах городов Штокмансгоф и Венден.

5 ноября 1917 года вступил в ряды Красной гвардии, после чего был назначен на должность помощника начальника Синеникольского партизанского отряда и выбран членом ревкома в Опочецком уезде (Псковская губерния). Отряд нёс службу на демаркационной линии против германских войск, а в апреле 1918 года был включён в состав 2-го сводного отряда, который принимал участие в боевых действиях на Восточном фронте против белочехов в районе Казани, после освобождения которой был включён в состав Псковской дивизии.

С сентября 1918 года служил в составе Брянского советского полка на должностях командира взвода, помощника начальника пешей разведки, комиссара батальона, командира батальона и комиссара полка, находясь на которых, принимал участие в боевых действиях против войск под командованием адмирала А. В. Колчака в районах городов Свияжск, Казань, Челябинск и Минусинск, а с мая 1920 года — во время советско-польской войны в боевых действиях от р. Березина до Варшавы. В сентябре 1920 года был назначен на должность начальника пешей разведки 238-го Брянского стрелкового полка. В ходе боевых действий был трижды ранен.

Межвоенное время
В декабре 1920 года был направлен на учёбу в Высшую стрелковую школу комсостава «Выстрел», после окончания которой в сентябре 1922 года направлен в 105-й стрелковый полк (35-я стрелковая дивизия), где служил на должностях начальника пулемётной команды, инструктора пулеметного дела 1-го разряда, начальника полковой школы, ответственного секретаря полкового бюро ВКП(б) и командира батальона. В декабре 1928 года вновь был направлен на учёбу на Стрелково-тактические курсы «Выстрел», после окончания которых в октябре 1929 года вернулся в полк и принимал участие в боевых действиях на КВЖД в районе станции Далайнор.

В июне 1931 года был назначен на должность командира и комиссара 14-го отдельного территориального стрелкового батальона (5-й отдельный Пензенский полк, Приволжский военный округ), а в январе 1935 года — на аналогичную должность в 11-м отдельном территориальном стрелковом батальоне (Башкирский территориальный стрелковый полк, Уральский военный округ). В феврале 1936 года вновь был направлен на учёбу на Высшие стрелково-тактические курсы «Выстрел», после окончания которых в июне того же года был назначен на должность командира 11-го отдельного стрелкового полка (Уральский военный округ, а с октября — Тихоокеанский флот).

С августа 1938 года Соловьёв находился под следствием органов НКВД, однако 6 сентября 1939 года был освобождён, восстановлен в кадрах РККА и направлен на лечение в сочинский санаторий. После излечения был назначен на должность командира 277-го стрелкового полка (5-я стрелковая бригада, 1-я Отдельная Краснознамённая армия), а в марте 1941 года — на должность помощника начальника по учебно-строевой части и одновременно — на должность начальника учебного отдела Владивостокских курсов усовершенствования командного состава.

Великая Отечественная война
С началом войны находился на прежней должности.

В августе 1941 года был назначен на должность командира 239-го стрелкового полка (239-я стрелковая дивизия, Дальневосточный фронт), который вскоре был переименован в 511-й. В середине октября полк под командованием Соловьёва был передислоцирован на Западный фронт, где принимал участие в оборонительных боевых действиях на тульском направлении, а затем в ходе контрнаступления под Москвой принимал участие в боевых действиях против 2-й танковой армии и наступлении до города Сухиничи, за что Соловьёв был награждён орденом Красной Звезды.

В марте 1942 года был назначен на должность командира 1-й гвардейской стрелковой бригады, которая вела оборонительные боевые действия на гжатском направлении. В июле Соловьёв был ранен и госпитализирован и после выздоровления в январе 1943 года был назначен на должность заместителя командира 3-й гвардейской мотострелковой дивизии, которая принимала участие в боевых действиях в ходе Ржевско-Вяземской наступательной операции. 11 марта того же года был вновь ранен и эвакуирован в госпиталь.

После излечения в июне был направлен на учёбу на ускоренный курс при Высшей военной академии имени К. Е. Ворошилова, после окончания которого 31 марта 1944 года назначен на должность командира 38-й гвардейской стрелковой дивизии, которая принимала участие в боевых действиях в ходе Полесской, Люблин-Брестской и Белорусской наступательных операций, а также отличилась во время освобождения города Камень-Каширский, за что Соловьёв был награждён орденом Красного Знамени.

В октябре был назначен на должность заместителя командира 96-го стрелкового корпуса, который принимал участие в боевых действиях в ходе Восточно-Прусской и Восточно-Померанской наступательных операций. С 7 по 14 декабря 1944 года исполнял должность командира этого же корпуса, который находился в районе города Радзынь-Подляски с целью пополнения личным составом.

20 апреля 1945 года был вновь назначен на должность командира 38-й гвардейской стрелковой дивизии, которая принимала участие в боевых действиях в ходе Берлинской наступательной операции.

Послевоенная карьера
После окончания войны находился на прежней должности. Дивизия под командованием Соловьёва находилась в составе Северной группы войск и в июле 1946 года была преобразована в 19-ю гвардейскую стрелковую бригаду.

В феврале 1951 года был назначен на должность заместителя командира 11-го гвардейского стрелкового корпуса (Московский военный округ).

Генерал-майор Георгий Матвеевич Соловьёв в феврале 1955 года вышел в отставку. Умер 7 февраля 1981 года в Калинине.

Награды
 Орден Ленина;
 Три ордена Красного Знамени (1930, …);
 Орден Суворова 2-й степени;
 Орден Богдана Хмельницкого 2-й степени;
 Орден Отечественной войны 1-й степени;
 Орден Красной Звезды;
 Медали;
 «Легион почёта» степени офицера (США);
 Иностранные медали.

Память

Литература

Примечания

Участники Первой мировой войны (Россия)
Участники Гражданской войны в России
Участники Советско-польской войны (советские республики)
Участники боёв на КВЖД
Командиры полков в Великой Отечественной войне
Командиры бригад в Великой Отечественной войне
Командиры дивизий в Великой Отечественной войне
Командиры корпусов в Великой Отечественной войне
Выпускники курсов «Выстрел»

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I thought my editing was finished until I printed out a hard copy. Hmmm! Essential part of the editing process for me now.
I know, it's hard! But it is crucial. Having immersed myself in my novel for months and months, I became too close to it. I could no longer review my novel with any degree of perspective. By forcing myself to have a break while I worked on something else, this time was not wasted.
When I returned to my novel, I saw it with fresh eyes. Suddenly I was picking up inconsistencies or silly mistakes or awkward sentence structure which I had previously overlooked.
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Baphuthi, people of the duiker, surprisingly associate themselves more to a spider (sekho) than a duiker, an antelope (phuthi). Baphuthi assert that their ancestors descended down from heaven on a spider's web, "baholo-holo ba bona ba theohile leholimong ka tepo ea sekho". For this reason, they venerate the spider.


Let's try with an example: A given day "Sun Hotel" reached a RevPar of 90eur and the compset reached a RevPar of 85eur. To calculate the RGI we then take 90eur / 85eur = 1,0588. Rounded off to 1,06 or 106 (index * 100). An RGI of 106 in this case means that the hotel outperformed the competition with a higher RevPar resulting in an RGI over 100. If the Sun Hotel would have had a lower RevPar than its compset, the index would have resulted in number below 100.
Naturally, many hotels focus on reaching index numbers above 100, as this shows that they have reached a higher occupancy, ADR or RevPar compared to their competition. Generally speaking this is a good target to have. But, for many hotels an index target of 100 doesn't make sense. The reason is that you assume that your hotel should have the same RevPar as your compset, meaning that you are assuming that your hotel and the compset hotels are 100% comparable. Many times however this is not the case.
When defining your compset you want to identify the most comparable hotels and to do so you consider factors such as location, hotel size, type of hotel, star rating, level of service, type of guests, size of meeting facilities etc. In reality, it is almost impossible to find 5 perfect competitors where you all are on the same level of product and service quality. You might find your hotel to offer the best product in the market, and therefore conclude that you should reach a RevPar higher than your compset. Or, you might be the only 3 star hotel in a market full of 5 star competitors, hence it is normal that your RevPar is lower than that of the compset.
Translated into index measurement this means when you are the hotel of superior quality in your compset, you should strive for an RGI above 100, and when at the lower end of the compset you can be satisfied with something below 100. The key to a successful measurement is to define your own RGI target! When you have done so, whether it is 110 or 95, this is the target you should measure yourself against.
Commonly hotels and big chains also measure and set targets based on percentage growths of their index numbers. In essence that is good and you should always strive for growth, but it doesn't mean that an RGI growth of 5%, landing you at a level of 105 RGI when target is 110 is any good. Also if you have negative percentage growth of 5% in a month landing you at an RGI of 115, this is actually still a job well done. A good tip is also to define different index targets per season and day of week.
To conclude, define your own "100 RGI" target. Don't focus solely on percentage growth but rather strive for reaching your set target and make sure to celebrate the success!


The weekly homework expectation is that students are spending 10-20 minutes each night studying vocabulary and spelling words. There will be a test every end of the week of each week. Once we get into a novel study, 6-10 more will be added on; thus making a list of 18-22 vocabulary/spelling words per week.
· Unit 6 Vocabulary Test on the above 18 words.
o I will also be integrating the 8 parts of speech in morning work to help with our writing… these are prepositions, interjections, nouns, conjunctions, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.
***I personally handed out these copies (all people and all vocabulary) to the students on 9/27. We also listed these in their notebooks. I told the students to leave these at home so that they can practice studying. If you misplace them, you will need to look in your book. **Responsibility is a skill and Mrs.
2. The student will write a one page paper about their Saint. This paper should include a background about their Saint, why they are a Saint, and some fun facts. This can be written on the paper attached or the student may type it.
3. The student will fill out the Saint page given out in class today.
· Unit 4 Vocabulary Test on the above 18 words.
o All Saints Day projects will be introduced this week.
· Math: Chapter 3- We will be finishing up this chapter… test will be most likely early next week.
***I personally handed out these copies (all people and all vocabulary) to the students on 9/27. We also listed these in their notebooks. I told the students to leave these at home so that they can practice studying. If you misplace them, you will need to look in your book. **Responsibility is a skill and Mrs. Barron and I said reiterated on Wednesday, other additional copies will be not given out.
o We will be going over the Beatitudes the next couple weeks. The students will need to know and write out the Beatitudes by 4/7- I've given each student a copy of these attached. They are also found on pg. 391 of their religion book.
Here are this week's vocabulary words. There will be a mix of both challenge words and unit 17 words. *We are almost done with our vocabulary workshop book. After we finish, we will be having challenge words only. Please encourage your child to study 10-20 minutes every night as it is very important that they understand the word and definition (and this is their nightly spelling and vocabulary assignment.) There will be 22 words this week. Definitions for the unit words can be found in the vocabulary workshop workbook and definitions for the challenge words are found in the Johnny Tremain workbook.
o We will be going over the Beatitudes the next couple weeks. The students will need to know and write out the Beatitudes by 4/7- I've included a copy of these attached. They are also found on pg. 391 of their religion book.
o Parents are more than welcome to come!
Here are this week's vocabulary words. There will be a mix of both challenge words and unit 16 words. *We are almost done with our vocabulary workshop book. After we finish, we will be having challenge words only. Please encourage your child to study 10-20 minutes every night as it is very important that they understand the word and definition (and this is their nightly spelling and vocabulary assignment.) There will be 20 words this week. I handed out the definitions for the 8 challenge words on 3/16.
Here are this week's vocabulary words. There will be a mix of both challenge words and unit 15 words. *We are almost done with our vocabulary workshop book. After we finish, we will be having challenge words only. Please encourage your child to study 10-20 minutes every night as it is very important that they understand the word and definition (and this is their nightly spelling and vocabulary assignment.) There will be 22 words this week.
Here are this week's vocabulary words. There will be a mix of both challenge words and unit 14 words. *We are almost done with our vocabulary workshop book. After we finish, we will be having challenge words only. Please encourage your child to study 10-20 minutes every night as it is very important that they understand the word and definition (and this is their nightly spelling and vocabulary assignment.) There will be 22 words this week.
Here are this week's vocabulary words. They will all be challenge words since we will see them throughout the novel. There will not be any unit words this week. All of these words and definitions are listed in the Johnny Tremain workbook and students should have already made notecards last week.
Thank you all for all the help and support for the Star of India field trip! The students were so excited and had an absolute blast! Thank you also to all the Safety Officers and all of you for being so flexible with the earlier pick up time. J I hope everyone had a long restful weekend!
Here are this week's vocabulary words. They will all be challenge words since we will see them throughout the novel. There will not be any unit words this week.
Thank you all so much for thinking of me on teacher appreciation! I am so incredibly blessed to get to teach your wonderful kids! :)!! This week we will be starting to prep for our Star of India field trip on 2/16- (woohoo! J) There will not be any spelling words; however, this week's vocabulary words are listed below (27 sailing terms! J) Our final Star of India book test will be 2/9, which will review all concepts covered throughout the novel.
· Reading: We will be doing activities to get ready for the Star of India field trip… our next novel will be "Johnny Tremain" which we will begin on 2/21- the students will need to have their own copy of this book. Please let me know if you cannot get a copy of the book asap.
Because I have paced out these tests, students are responsible for managing their time so that all work is completed. Vocabulary workbook pages are due the day before the test (2/1) so that we can go over all the work in class.
The vocabulary and spelling test on 2/2 will cover the above words.
The weekly homework expectation is that students are spending 10-20 minutes each night studying vocabulary and spelling words.
· Chapters 13-17 Test- ***MODIFICATION: I pushed back the tests this week due to having ¼ of the class out for illness.
Because I have paced out these tests, students are responsible for managing their time so that all work is completed. Vocabulary workbook pages are due the day before the test (1/26) so that we can go over all the work in class.
The vocabulary and spelling test on 1/25 will cover the above words.
Because I have paced out these tests, students are responsible for managing their time so that all work is completed. Vocabulary workbook pages are due the day before the test (1/1) so that we can go over all the work in class.
The vocabulary and spelling test on 1/19 will cover the above words.
Because I have paced out these tests, students are responsible for managing their time so that all work is completed. Vocabulary workbook pages are due the day before the test (1/10) so that we can go over all the work in class.
The vocabulary and spelling test on 1/11 will cover the above words.
Because I have paced out these tests, students are responsible for managing their time so that all work is completed. Vocabulary workbook pages are due the day before the test so that we can go over all the work in class.
· Food bank field trip is on 1/13- next Friday. I do have all the students permission forms filed; however, I will need a couple drivers for this trip. If you are able to go, please let me or our room moms know ASAP- please also include how many seats you have not including the passenger's seat J.
· If you are interested in driving and staying on the 5th grade Star of India field trip, please let our room moms know as soon as possible. (I'll need 4-5 overnight chaperones for this one) on 2/16-2/17… If you want to assist/volunteer in the classroom and/or drive for field trips, please make sure that you complete the necessary forms/have been live scanned.
The vocabulary and spelling test on 12/14 will cover the above challenge words.
***The students will still have a novel study packet with review questions assigned weekly. Because they are reading the book with me in class, I ask that they do NOT work ahead.
· **IF you did not get to drive for this field trip and would like to on the next field trip, we have food bank on 1/13, 3/24, and Star of India (I'll need overnight chaperones for this one) on 2/16-2/17… If you want to assist/volunteer in the classroom and/or drive for field trips, please make sure that you complete the necessary forms/have been live scanned.
This week, we will be a review week.
The vocabulary test on 12/2 will cover the above challenge words, along with words from units 1-9. Since this is a review test, this will cover all the words along with a short reading comprehension passage. Since they have all break, I ask that they review their vocabulary terms in their vocabulary workbook.
The weekly homework expectation is that students are spending 10-20 minutes each night studying vocabulary and spelling words. There will be a test on all review and challenge vocabulary words and a separate spelling test on all 12 of the above challenge words.
· Math RETEST on Chapter 4- Mrs. Hoolko and I will be giving a retest to the class. Because no one received a 100, everyone will be required to take the test. We did have some A's and B's; therefore, we will be averaging the scores of both tests together. If the student scores lower than the first test, we will keep their original grade.
o Chaperones and students will need to bring a sack lunch. Water bottles are fine; however, your child will be responsible for carrying it around if they bring it.
o Chaperones please arrive no later than 8:45am to school. We will depart precisely at 9am so we can get to Legoland when they open at 10am.
***We will not be going into any of the gift shops or food stands; therefore, please do not send your students with any money.
This week (starts 11/17), we will be a review week.
The weekly homework expectation is that students are spending 10-20 minutes each night studying vocabulary and spelling words. There will be a test on all 22 vocabulary words and a separate spelling test on all 22 of the same words on the dates listed below.
· 4th/5th grade field trip to Legoland on Dec. 1st- For drivers, I have Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Fenick, Mrs. Snedden, and Mrs. Balelo. **IF you did not get to drive for this field trip and would like to on the next field trip, we have food bank on 1/13, 3/24, and Star of India (I'll need overnight chaperones for this one) on 2/16-2/17… If you want to assist/volunteer in the classroom and/or drive for field trips, please make sure that you complete the necessary forms/have been live scanned.
The students will still have a novel study packet with review questions assigned weekly.
· Reading: Vocabulary Story: "The Competitive Edge" p. 88-89 in Sadlier vocabulary workbook.
***If you want to assist/volunteer in the classroom and/or drive for field trips, please make sure that you complete the necessary forms.
I hope everyone is had a great weekend and a very happy Halloween! J We will be starting "Blood on the River" by: Eliza Carbone on 11/7. I ask that you get a copy for your child at either the book fair or they can check one out from the library. J If you are unable to get a copy, please let me know as soon as possible!
The weekly homework expectation is that students are spending 10-20 minutes each night studying vocabulary and spelling words. There will be a test on Friday on all 12 vocabulary words and a separate spelling test on all 12 of the same words.
· Reading: Vocabulary Story: "What Happened to Pennsylvania Station?" in Sadlier vocabulary workbook.
- Mass Tuesday for All Saints Day- please wear mass uniform!
The weekly homework expectation is that students are spending 10-20 minutes each night studying vocabulary and spelling words. There will be a test on Friday on all 20 vocabulary words and a separate spelling test on all 20 of the same words.
**We will still incorporate the Sadlier vocabulary workshop book each week.
I hope everyone is had a great weekend!
The weekly homework expectation is that students are spending 10-20 minutes each night studying vocabulary and spelling words. There will be a test on Friday on all 18 vocabulary words and a separate spelling test on all 18 of the same words.
· Reading: REVIEW WEEK. Pages 66-67 in Sadlier vocabulary workbook.
· Reading: Vocabulary Story: "The Surprising Life of Surprising Life of Dickinson" p. 56-57 in Sadlier vocabulary workbook.
o Please fill out the attached field trip forms for our food bank days- I'll keep them filed until the date- if you are interested in driving for one or both of the field trips, please indicate that on the form.
· Reading: Vocabulary Story: "Baucis and Philemon" p. 46-47 in Sadlier vocabulary workbook.
o Progress Reports go home 10/5- please sign and return these. If you want a copy, let me know and I'll send home an extra copy for you. This will also have their STAR reading and math scores included.
· Reading: Vocabulary Story: "Wagon Train Diary" p. 36-37 in Sadlier vocabulary workbook.
I hope everyone is having a great second week back at school. J I have enjoyed teaching and getting to know each of your awesome kids!