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Join Us! 2022/23
Carnegie Cricket Club welcomes cricket players of all ages and skill levels! Please contact the following people for more information:
Senior Men's: Stuart Easton 0413 551 255
Senior Women's: Aimee White 0449 959 173
Juniors (Aged 9-17): Keat Yong 0404 470 720
Junior Blasters (Aged 5-7 years): Registration for this season is OPEN.
Master Blasters (Aged 7-9 years): Registration for this season is OPEN.
To Register for the 2022/23 Season, please >CLICK HERE<
Vale Ted McAuliffe
Members, supporters and past players of Carnegie Cricket Club are deeply saddened by the passing of former
president and premiership player, Ted McAuliffe.
Ted was a stalwart of our club, a friend and mentor to many, and greatly respected for a contribution that spanned
four decades.
He started his playing career with Carnegie in the 1960s, was a member of the 1971/72 1 st XI premiership team and
was a significant part of the club's renaissance.
A fierce competitor on the field, Ted continued to play well into the 1980s. His service off the field was invaluable,
holding down numerous administrative roles, including ten years as president.
We offer our deepest condolences to Ted and Jan's (dec) children, Simon, Lisa and Ben and extended families.
Carnegie CC 2022/23 Preseason Dates
Senior preseason begins on Saturday the 30th of July, 2022.
Juniors wanting to participate in Seniors this year, welcome to join!!
New Players are welcome!! Contact Stuart Easton on 0413 551 255 for more info.
Preseason Training Dates:
Saturday 30/7 | 10am-12pm | Junction Oval
Tuesday 2/8 | 7pm-9pm | Junction Oval
Saturday 6/8 | 10am-12pm | Junction Oval
Tuesday 16/8 | 7pm-9pm | Junction Oval
Tuesday 6/9 | 6pm-8pm | Koornang Park
Vale Stephen Yeats
It's with a heavy heart that we regret to inform our members and supporters that life member and club legend, Steve Yeats, has unfortunately passed away yesterday Tuesday 12/7/22 in the morning.
Steve has suffered a series of strokes recently and after some scans, had revealed a stage 4 tumour growing on his brain. Steve had just been relocated to care in Geelong for rehabilitation and to be closer with his family before sadly passing away.
Steve was a long time serving member and committee member with over 40years service to Carnegie and over 50 years service to cricket, which was recognised by Cricket Australia. Steve was like a father figure to many at the club who always gave advice to those in need of life guidance and cricket thirst, and when Steve spoke, people listened and took in everything he preached.
Over his years at Carnegie, Steve played many years in the 1st XI and played a perfect all rounder role with both bat and ball. Like everyone, he aged and found his way moving down the grades and while doing so, adding a huge amount of depth and experience to every side he played in. Steve not only contributed on the field but also served on the committee and had the honour of being President in 1992/93. He was a long time serving general committee member and chairman of selectors for many years. Throughout his playing career he was a 2 time club champion winning our prestigious Merv Sutherland award in 89/90 and again in 99/00.
Steve captained many sides across all grades and had a very big impact on the 3rd XI throughout the 2000s. Many of the aspiring juniors were mentored by Steve and made their way into the 1st XI in the years to come, where they became core members who excelled with their cricket.
Steve was greatly respected in the not just the Carnegie circle but also the whole cricket community after building friendships with so many opposition players, as a player and also later when he decided to retire from playing and become an official umpire. No doubt the cricket community is mourning and are extending their condolences to Steve's 2 daughters Rachael and Katie who he leaves behind.
Carnegie CC Annual General Meeting
To All Carnegie CC Members and Supporters,
The Carnegie Cricket Club 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 6th July at 7.30PM at the Koornang Park Pavilion.
Please find attached the Agenda and Proxy form.
We welcome new members to join the committee and volunteer for roles required.
For any queries please email president@carnegiecc.com
Luke Meyer on behalf of the Carnegie Cricket Club Committee
Awards Presentation
Past Players Day & Official Opening of Koornang Park Pavilion
On Saturday, 26th of February 2022, Carnegie Cricket Club took a formal opportunity to officially open the newly renovated Koornang Park Pavilion in person with special guests from City of Glen Eira Mayor Cr J Magee, councillors M Esakoff, A Cade, MLA Steve Dimopoulos and MHR Katie Allen to cut the ribbon and declare the rooms open. Carnegie Cricket Club saw the milestone effort in conjunction with the generous funding from the Victorian State Government, with MLA Steve Dimopoulos assisting greatly with funding for the Koornang Park renovation and funding for the new Lord Reserve Pavilion. The City of Glen Eira funded the substantial balance. Steve Dimopoulos also assisted Carnegie Cricket Club with funding the electronic scoreboard at Koornang Park with the Caulfield Bears Junior Football Club and Caulfield Bears Football Netball Club. There was also substantial funding for the previous upgrade of the change rooms to make the bathroom facilities female friendly.
With the assistance of a grant by the Australian Federal Government, then local federal MHR for Higgins, Kelly O'Dwyer, solar panels were fitted to the roof in 2018. Most recently, local federal MHR Katie Allen assisted with grants to enable the City of Glen Eira to increase and improve the training nets facilities.
During the day was our past players day, which has been 2 years since we have been able to hold the event due to covid. Former Club President, Pat O'Shannessy, was a driving force behind making the day and night a big success. It was a big turnout from players and supporters, past and present, and we were able to unveil our new club honour boards thanks to the generous bequest of the late club legend, Ron Cusack. Our new honour boards include our Women's champion player award. Special mention goes to Ron's son, Ross, and grandson, Andrew, who attended the day and were able to capture the moment along with players from Ron's premiership teams. We would also like to thank Louise Nelson, who attended the opening on behalf of the Caulfield Bears Junior Football Club. The highlight of the evening was guest speaker, Ros Batson, who is past player of the inaugural CSBW Carnegie Women's team, current Cricket Southern Bayside Board Member and Chair of the All Girls Cricket Competition. Ros also coaches the combined Washington Park/Carnegie 17 & Under girls team who play finals this week. Thank you to all who support Carnegie Cricket Club.
Thank you to all who support Carnegie Cricket Club.
Carnegie CC Past Player's Day
Join us for Carnegie Cricket Club's Past Player's day!!
See all the history, watch the 2nd XI play, Official Opening of Renovated Carnegie CC Rooms and gather with some old friends over dinner.
3:30pm – Rooms open for inspection of Memorabilia
7:00pm – Official Opening
7:30pm – Dinner and Guest Speakers
$25 per head for Adults
$10 per head for Juniors
Please RSVP through Facebook Event Page or email secretary@carnegiecc.com
View Official Invitation here
Funeral notice for Timothy John Dodgson
Funeral Prayers for Timothy John (Tim) Dodgson will be offered at St Peter's Church 844 Centre Road East Bentleigh on Friday 11 February commencing at 11:30am.
The Prayer Service for Timothy will also be Webcast live with a service commencing at 11.30am AEST
For Carnegie CC Members who are unable to attend Tim Dodgson's Funeral, it will be livestreamed via the link below.
The live stream will also be running at the Carnegie CC Rooms for members and supporters; rooms will be open from 11.15am.
https://tobinbrothers.com.au/tribute/details/23469/Timothy-Dodgson/obituary.html?fbclid=IwAR1u2_R807-vhP15mYmTs9eyFtKKjoUgP4kXW4o9jd7asPcfKMwBrRxEQsc#tribute-start
Vale Tim Dodgson
Carnegie Cricket Club is deeply saddened with the passing of Former Head Senior Coach, 2nd XI Premiership player, 3rd XI Captain, Committee Member, Chairman of Selectors, Head of Recruitment and Team Mate – Tim Dodgson.
Tim came to our club in 2012/13 Season as a Head Senior Coach. It didn't take long before he stood on people's toes, told things how they were, and ruffled a few feathers. But Tim immediately infiltrated our hearts and became a close friend to many here, and continued to do so over the years. His personality and character was one of a kind, he drew people together and introduced groups of friendships. Cricket was a huge part of his life, and we were blessed that Tim chose to return Carnegie Cricket Club when he shifted to Murrumbeena. His input into our Junior Development Team will no doubt pave the way for current and future Carnegie Cricket Club Juniors to move forward in their cricketing careers for years to come.
We are all going to miss taking the field in the future without standing next to him in the slips or watching him playing cut shots to every type of delivery. All Carnegie Cricket Club Teams will move heaven and earth together to take home the Premierships in Tim's Honour.
Off field Tim was larger than life and he was always around to offer advice or have a drink and a laugh at the bar.
Tim has been taken far too soon, everybody will miss Tim. The whole Cricket Club is still devastated with the news of his passing. Tim will forever be in the hearts of Carnegie Cricket Club.
Our thoughts are also with Danni, Molly, Zac and Lily. The club will be there for all of you.
Rest In Peace, Tim Dodgson, You will be sadly missed.
SEASON 2021/22 SENIOR TRAINING
CRICKET IS BACK!! 🏏
The 2021/22 Season is soon to be underway for our first Senior Men and Women!!
First training session
⏱ Saturday 23rd October, 11.00am to 1:00pm
Juniors considering playing Senior Turf this season are welcome to participate in Senior Preseason Training.
What Covid-19 Protocols are required? Similar to season 2020/21:
Ensuring that is anyone has COVID-19 like symptoms, stay away and get tested ASAP – only attending after they receive a negative test
Ensuring that all attendees check in via the Services Victoria QR code system every time and the club shall have ample signages and will have ample hand sanitisers
Keep 1.5m distance from other at all times
Wear a mask when not actively batting, bowling, fielding.
Any questions, please contact club members
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The term "post-internet" is a slippery one. Depending on where you turn, you'll find that it's been variously justified, adopted, embraced, vilified and laughed at. It's a term that can be very useful when talking about a body of work and artistic practice, but it's also somehow opaque and its meaning certainly isn't immediately obvious.
A lot of people argue that there's no single definition of "post-internet art", and that's definitely true to an extent. But art terms are never meant to be cut-and-dried, and post-internet practices vary in their manifestation and mindset just as post-modernist practices do, for example.
What does become clear, however, when you spend some time looking at post-internet art in depth, is that part of the reason that the meaning of the term is unfixed is that, like any art movement, it has evolved and changed over the years. This evolution is relatively easy to trace through the writing and practice of various artists, critics and curators.
This article doesn't set out to define post-internet art, but to examine the nature of post-internet. It's a movement that's confusing because it's moving so quickly, along with the technology that drives it. Part of the nature of the internet is that it changes very quickly; new developments are made constantly, websites are updated and old web pages disappear. Consequently, art that relates to the internet has evolved at a similarly fast pace, as has the conversation surrounding it. It's important to note initially that although the movement is called "post-internet", that is not to say that anyone thinks the internet is over. On the contrary, it looks like the internet is only just beginning.
The internet as we know it was invented in the 1960s as a way of connecting computers at separate universities in the US. Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989 and it was made available to the public in 1991, offering a browser-based interface which allowed people to engage with the internet without having to be tech experts. The internet and internet-based companies grew exponentially during the 90s, before the dot com crash of 2000. It was also during the 90s that the first pieces of internet art, or net.art, were produced.
The term "post-internet" was first used by Marisa Olson in 2008, which, although not long ago on an art historical scale, is ancient history in terms of the evolution of the internet. In retrospect, she was speaking when Web 2.0 was only in its incipient stages. If you don't know, Web 2.0 is a name for a major turning point for the internet, which introduced interactive websites, where users could be active participants as well as passive viewers.
Olson later expanded on her definition of the term in 2011 in her essay "Postinternet: Art After the Internet". She explained that what she had meant was in some ways quite literal: she would surf the internet, and then afterwards make art inspired by what she had seen. She also suggested that "both my offline and online work was after the internet in the sense that 'after' can mean both 'in the style of' and 'following.'" In other words, her definition of post-internet referred to "art after the internet" in both a temporal and inspirational sense.
A very early work by Olson which could be considered post-internet is her 2006 project, Abe and Mo sing the blogs. In this work she collaborated with artist Abe Linkoln, and the pair of them produced an album of songs they composed, taking the lyrics from their favourite blogs. The songs are available to download as Mp3s on their website, which also provides links to the original blogs.
What separates this work from some of the net art being made at this time is the fact that Olson and Linkoln aren't simply using the internet as a medium for their work. They are deliberately referencing internet-based means of production and distribution, and both parodying and celebrating them in their own work. Abe and Mo sing the blogs offers a complex comment on the inherently performative nature of blogs and the creation of identity on the internet, whilst simultaneously engaging with those aspects of the internet in the creation of their own blog-based work.
This idea of making reference to the internet and internet culture in and of itself, rather than treating the internet merely as a medium, is key to Olson's definition of post-internet art and was also fundamental to the wider understanding of the post-internet art movement as it grew.
One of the interesting things about the term post-internet is that it was invented, defined and written about extensively by artists, rather than art historians. In fact, in post-internet practices, there's often a very blurred line between making art and publishing written criticism on the internet.
For example, between December 2009 and September 2010, Gene McHugh wrote a blog entitled "Post-internet". It was both an extensive piece of art criticism and a performative artwork in its own right. He would often post several times a day, pondering the term post-internet and post-internet practices; through this, the definition of the term evolved.
McHugh particularly built upon ideas of the performativity of art on the internet and art after the internet, as well as on the idea that post-internet art created a dialogue with what he describes as "art world art" by entering the gallery system and commenting on the tropes of the art world and of the internet, thus drawing the two closer together. Traditionally, the art world doesn't like the internet, although that is beginning to change.
The internet has changed, and so has the discourse surrounding it. Marisa Olson's original definition of "art after the internet" sees a distinction between "online" and "offline". However, there is increasingly very little distinction between those states.
Many post-internet artists today are interested in making the internet visible again, by exposing those places where the internet has infiltrated our use of language (with words such as "buffering", "tweet" and the use of "friend" as a verb becoming common parlance), our social interaction, and our new-found ability to field hundreds of conflicting images and pieces of information at a time.
Curators Robin Peckham and Karen Archey referred in 2014 to an updated understanding of post-internet that "refers not to a time "after" the internet, but rather to an internet state of mind – to think in the fashion of the network." This is very useful for thinking about post-internet artwork today; it is work that is embedded in, but also self-consciously aware of, the networked culture in which we live our lives in an internet-saturated world.
Much like the definition of the term itself, the field of post-internet art has opened up considerably since Marisa Olson's first use of the term in 2008. In the 2000s, Olson was working as part of a network of artists, who discussed their art and collaborated online, often without ever actually meeting. However, since then this network has expanded to include many different artists working in a range of formats, who connect with each other by following each others' work online through websites and social media.
One of the key characteristics of much post-internet art is its use of appropriation. Appropriation has a long art historical tradition, from Duchamp's found objects to Richard Prince's Cowboy series. In the age of the internet, however, there is a ubiquitous culture of appropriation. So much of the internet is focussed on sharing, from images, words and memes to videos and music. Often this also includes changing the original content in some way, with Instagram filters, the addition of a sarcastic comment, or with Photoshop.
Artist and critic Artie Vierkant's 2010 PDF essay "The Image Object Post-Internet" talks of "the infinite reproducibility and mutability of digital materials." He points to how post-internet practices are aware of the reception and reproduction of physical art-objects on the internet. In other words, the life of a post-internet artwork doesn't stop when it reaches the gallery. Instead, in a culture where everyone is both a consumer and a producer, viewers will appropriate images of artworks for themselves, edit them and publish them online, creating an unprecedented cyclical dialogue between artist and viewer.
Oliver Laric is one artist interested in this online culture of appropriation. For several years, he has been working on an extended series of works entitled Versions. One example is based around an image released by Iran of four nuclear missiles being launched in 2008. The photograph circulated major news outlets before it was pointed out that it was actually an edited photo of one missile launch made to look like there were several missiles. The internet community quickly responded, creating their own humorous versions of the missile launch. Laric re-appropriated these appropriations, and had the images carefully airbrushed onto aluminium panels.
By bringing these online images into a gallery setting, Laric points to the ubiquity of appropriation and asks questions about what changes when other people's work is appropriated for artistic reasons. By creating physical objects, he also implies that online actions can have real-world consequences, or, more specifically, that online actions and real-world consequences are inextricably linked in contemporary networked culture.
Richard Prince has been using appropriation in his artistic practice since the 1970s. He has recently started working with online appropriation. For example, in his series New Portraits, he took screenshots of photos uploaded to Instagram by other users (often young men and women trying to make it in the art, film or modelling worlds). His only transformation is adding enigmatic comments filled with emojis. These screenshots were then printed at a large scale onto canvas and sold for $100,000 each. This inevitably caused controversy amongst the people whose photographs he had used.
Art made using Instagram is probably one of the most likely forms of post-internet art to attract that "is it really art" question. Certainly, when working with social media, the line between the artist's life and the artist's art can become blurred to the point of dissolving. The new complaint is not "my five year old could have done that", but "my fifteen year old could have done that".
Amalia Ulman's work Excellences and Perfections is a case in point. In this Instagram performance, Ulman created an identity and set about crafting a narrative told through Instagram posts, where a hopeful young actress moves to LA and takes the decision to have plastic surgery. Ulman's work is a comment on how we construct the self in contemporary society, and how the self can be validated by "likes" and comments on social media platforms.
Here, life and art run closely together. Most of Ulman's photographs are selfies, often posed wearing the artist's own clothes and in places where the artist happened to be. While Ulman didn't really undergo cosmetic surgery, she did really take the pole-dancing classes she documents. The character constructed for Instagram is only partly different from Ulman herself, much in the same way that our social media accounts present a version of ourself that is not the same as our in-person self, but can't necessarily be fully separated from it.
The "post-internet" takes many forms, uses many media, and has also evolved significantly over the last decade. The widely-used trope of appropriation makes a particularly useful example for looking at how the issues which affect post-internet art can be manifested and considered.
Widely speaking, of course, based on these theories, much of the art work produced today could be considered post-internet: no artist works in a vacuum and none could fail to be aware of, and affected by, the existence of the internet. Nevertheless, there are a group of artists who either self-define or have been defined by others as "post-internet"; time will tell whether this "movement" will achieve longevity.


Singapore is indeed the one of the most enjoyable cities in Southeast Asia where you can be sure that your whole family will have fun. The city boasts of one the world's best airports, dozens of beautiful city parks, beaches & the sleek skyscrapers. It is always an excellent idea to take an escorted half day (or full day) tour of Singapore city.
Singaporean food is well known for its variety of seafood with an array of enormous Asian, Chinese, Malay & Thai dishes. However, there is a lot more to do in Singapore other than shopping & eating. One can enjoy the experience of visiting the Jurong Bird Park, Botanic Gardens, and Chinese Gardens.
Nightlife in Singapore is fascinating with an upbeat crowd & live bands playing in most of the clubs & you are drinking and dancing until dawn in the city's pubs and clubs. Singapore has been experiencing the Spa boom in the recent years with a variety of massages, so if you're looking for a beach holiday with Spa retreat Singapore is the place to go. Since, Singapore, is an island surrounded by ocean, people enjoy many water activities such as sailing, kayaking & water skiing. Pulau Hantu is a prominent diving spot which is known for it coral reefs. You'll find lots of things to occupy your kids and yourself, too.
The combination of Western and Eastern mix makes Singapore such a vibrant & accessible slice of Asia.


The March 10th, 2001 meeting of the CMC will be held at the home of Gordon Jackson. The time is from 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM. This will be a workshop and not a general meeting.
The workshop will involve several club members who will demonstrate Dopping, Faceting, Mineral Preparation, and Basic Mineral Identification. As this is a workshop and a social event, members are urged to bring their spouses, and friends. Also members are urged to bring items and ideas to share with the other members . We are hoping that we can make this an annual event with the aim of giving members ideas and processes that they can use in the pursuit of their hobbies.
The club would like to thank January's guest speaker, Professor Jo Laird, from UNH, who gave a very informative presentation on the geology of northern Vermont, mainly Eden Mills and Mt. Belvedere.
Sharing the clubs interest in Eden Mills and Professor Laird's knowledge of the area was April Abate, Editor of "The BMC News." We are always glad to welcome members from other clubs to our meetings.
Scott Higgins won February's door prize, Hemimorphite from Mapimi, Mexico.


Company Description Indoma Industries, New Delhi, was incorporated in 1997. The core philosophy of the company is to do something different. We have revolutionized the desert cooler industry by introducing a technological marvel 'The Littelpump' and now we have a PAN India brand with every desert cooler manufacturer knowing us. Since then, we have introduced several head-turning products such as a mini-portable air cooler, a submersible immersion rod, world's slimmest geysers. We are now venturing into the field of mobile apps to make a change in the society that we live in. Needless to say, as we are just starting up, there is plenty to learn, implement, and do.


"The best stylist can extract the unique charm of any design and enable the wearer to feel magic in their clothes."
Kimi is one of Nikki's closest friends in Miraland. The future leader of the Apple Federal is closely involved with the nation's dealings with other countries, and is Nikki's first introduction to the Miraland political elite. She currently travels with Mr. Joe through Apple Federal, conducting business on behalf of her father.
Kimi immediately recognizes Nikki's natural talents as a stylist when they first meet at the Designer's Tea Party. It is she who motivates Nikki to hone her abilities as a stylist by traveling the Seven Nations. Kimi becomes a strong supporter of Nikki's success, even practicing together before Nikki's Designer's Tea Party contests.
As the daughter of the Apple Federal Apparel Group president, Kimi has borne a deep sense of responsibility since an early age. She has worked hard to earn her right as a stylist and a business leader, without relying her father's influence. Her reputation as the pride of the Apple Federal Apparel Group is well-known within the upper echelons of Miraland society.


Rockford residents and the families of the three victims who were killed on a private charter bus in Rockford over the weekend can sleep a little bit better tonight; according to Eyewitness News, 22-year-old Raheem King has turned himself in.
He wasn't alone, either. His girlfriend, Lakeacia Kizart, is also in custody.
This comes after video, giving us our first look inside the party bus before the tragedy took place, came to light yesterday.
Currently a motive is unclear, but once I found out that King was the one who organized the party, one could speculate that maybe this was a set up, or something went horribly wrong that night. You have to ask yourself, who hides an assault rifle under the seats of a private party bus?
Both King and Kizart are held in the Winnebago County Jail.


With the likes of The Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Spider-Man, and dozens of other minor heroes coming together to fight a massive threat (quite literally), it's quite cool to see how it all played out.
They aren't necessarily the best games, or the most impressive, but they're the games that I have the most fond memories of, and will likely stick with me over the years.
Legends has polished every aspect of the previous games, and added some new mechanics that make it the best game in the rebooted series to date. If you enjoy platformers in any shape or form, play this game!
While it's not the greatest game I played this year, or even in the top 5, it had some moments that I'll likely remember for some time, and overall I enjoyed playing through the campaign.
There are several things that make Brothers a unique and worthwhile experience, despite its length. And I hope that by publishing a review of my experience, others will give it a shot or a second look, if they've already passed it by.
With the next generation of video game consoles on the horizon, I decided to side with one of them at launch. Before I looked forward, I had to take some time to look back, and also evaluate the current state of things.
Sony made it clear that they've been listening, that they care, and that they're going to deliver the experience that we, the gaming community want.
The visual style and the concept of a city in the clouds, combined with what was sure to be a solid story, had me yearning for this game for quite literally, years.
This is not only a great Tomb Raider game, it's an excellent action adventure game, and one that will likely be on many "top games of 2013" lists come December.
It's technically impressive, delivers an entertaining and engaging story, and is simply a hell of a lot of fun to play!


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Q: Powershell - iterating through json file my json file looks like this:
[
    {
        "OU":  "ABC",
        "OUDN":  "OU=x,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x"
    },
    {
        "OU":  "XYZ",
        "OUDN":  "OU=x,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x"
]

"OU" is the name of an AD Organizational Unit
"OUDN" is the associated DistinguishedName of the AD Organizational Unit
I want to get the description (AD-Attribute) of every Organizational Unit in the json File:
Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity "DistinguishedName of the OU"|FT description

How can I do that? How can I iterate through my json file?
My approach:
$OU = (Get-Content -path "C:\file.json"|ConvertFrom-JSON).OU
$OUDN = (Get-Content -path "C:\file.json"|ConvertFrom-JSON).OUDN

foreach ($item in $OU) {
Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity ????? }

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

A: You're very close, you can iterate over the elements of the Json object with the foreach loop as you're already doing it:
$json = Get-Content 'C:\file.json' | ConvertFrom-Json

$ous = foreach($item in $json) {
    Get-ADOrganizationalUnit $item.OUDN -Properties Description
}

$ous | Select-Object Name, Description

Note that you don't need to Get-Content two times for each property, each object of your Json holds the values of the two properties (OU and OUDN):
PS /> $json[0]

OU  OUDN
--  ----
ABC OU=x,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x

PS /> $json[0].OUDN

OU=x,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x

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Typical Politician
I recently met an atypical politician, or at least that's what she claimed. She was pleased that she was introduced, not as a local politician, but rather as 'our elected representative.' She claims that she and her government want to do things a little differently.
Bardish Chagger PC MP is a Canadian politician who is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Waterloo. She is the current Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and the former Minister of Small Business and Tourism.
While she may want to change things, it was evident early that she has many of the earmarks of the 'Typical Politician.' She attended a recent brunch meeting of the local Free Thinkers group. She was to talk to them about the separation of Church and State.
She was born here in Ontario. I have heard her disparaged as a (Muslim) Paki. I thought that she was a (Hindu) Indian, until she showed up with a male Sikh aide. A member videotaped the meeting for posterity. Used to many media scrums, she quickly clipped on the mic-pack herself.
When she arrived, she went around two large tables, shaking hands and speaking to about 25 members individually. Before beginning her talk, she slyly mentioned that she would take any questions and answer any concerns that anyone had. An hour and a half later, we'd talked about everything except Church and State. The moderator had to butt in, and present her with two specific concerns, and let her get back to him about them later.
While not a 'prepared speech,' she probably had a good mental picture of what she wished to present. She's quite intelligent, and well-spoken, with no hesitations in speech, or 'ums' or 'ahs'. She and her aide made a good team. She stood up front, and dealt with the crowd, and their concerns. He hovered, almost unnoticed in the background with his Smart phone, making sure he noted each question, and getting people's names, and contact information, and assuring that they had hers.
She told us that young Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau was trying to decentralize the office. She said that no-one entered his chamber, only to be told, "This is the way we're going to do it." Rather, she said, he was grooming people like her to be assistant PMs or perhaps the next Prime Minister. She was encouraged to approach him with a proposed plan of action. I gave her a line that a company President once gave me, "Don't come to me with a problem. Come to me with a solution." She said that she liked the sentiment, would use it herself, and probably pass it on the Prime Minister.
Before she began her little speech at 10:30 AM, she told us that an aunt had died, and she would have to leave by 11:30 – 11:40 at the latest – to pay her respects. At 12:10, she was still going back around the tables, shaking hands and currying favor like a typical politician. She had a dead body to deal with, but she was still glad-handing her way out of this room full of intelligent, knowledgeable, influential voters.
The problem with wanting to do things differently, is that there are some jobs that just have to be done 'that way'. If you promise people that you will walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls, it is quicker, easier and safer to get in a car, and drive across the bridge. You have to change people's expectations.
The makeup of Trudeau's cabinet is 50% female, a figure which he is proud of. I was amazed that so many women would be fool enough to want to play, what is still, essentially, an Old (White) Boys game. I can only hope that the inclusion of women and minorities in Government can make Canada a kinder, gentler, fairer place to live, and we can send all our fence-builders down to the States, to work for Trump, but I cynically wait for proof. 😳
Shortly after I composed this, she put her shapely foot in her mouth. A member of the Opposition ambushed her as she left the Chamber, and demanded to know what she and her Government were doing about the spate of opioid deaths. His riding had had 38 such fatalities in the last year.
Apparently without thinking, she said, "Oh, that's not bad." Now, any deaths are to be mourned or prevented. What she meant was that, the average per riding is between 60 and 70. The Waterloo Region riding had 73 in that same period, but she had to backpedal quickly, as the political-points game was played.
Canada also has a too big to fail transportation company which does considerable sales overseas. Canada has laws against bribes and kickbacks, but this company operates in places where that's the expected way to do business.
Our handsome young, trust-fund Prime Minister's female Attorney General caught wind of these nefarious dealings, and started an investigation. He, and several of his senior staff, urged her to quietly sweep it under the rug, but she persisted. The PM had her removed from her post, and slapped with a non-disclosure writ, but it reached the media,
Rats immediately began deserting the sinking ship. Another woman resigned her post as Finance Minister in a fit of ethics, further damaging the PM's vaunted 50% female Cabinet makeup. The PM's senior secretary, supposedly the brains behind the throne, has also resigned. It appears that he, like the women, wants to be out of the range of shrapnel, when this thing explodes.
It seems that, the more they promise to do new things, in new ways, the more we get stuck with the same old post turtles. Typical! 😯
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Until the system they run changes, politicians will always be politicians. I believe some get into public service with good intentions but the system beats them down and forces them to play the game to get anything done. But what do I know? I live in the states where Fox News set policy and truth isn't truth.
My head hurts.
This is why Donald Trump, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are so hated. They refuse to play the old games, and proceed to change things, ruffling many feathers, and causing much rancor.
The problem is that, while many of the things that they change are for the betterment of the people, some of the things they ram through are not. Be careful what you ask for. We're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. 😯
rulesoflogic says:
Politicians are simply responding to incentives. They must learn to excel at getting elected and re-elected, but incumbents are almost never held accountable for failure to govern.
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This explains Trudeau's broken promise to change 'first past the post' elections into percentage representative voting. They got elected to total power with the old system, and would not have that advantage with the other, so why change??! 👿
I say, old chap, I hadn't before encountered the word "reading" in this context, so I looked it up. Curiosity aroused, I pursued the subject of British slang and ended up on a Wikipedia page on it. Now my brain is noticing more such words in news articles. For example, "Boffins discover new dust clouds in the solar system . . . " Another I noted several years ago, the use of "one-off." I wonder, are our linguistic cultures merging? Maybe we'll all eventually end up talking like Rupert Murdock?
Jim, I'm confused (more than usual). I can't seem to find any reference to "reading, in that context." Was it possibly in someone else's post?? If so, please send me a link. I watch(ed) considerable imported British 'telly,' and I'm always fascinated by the similarities and differences.
I (finally) recently obtained an accurate definition of "rumpy-pump" sex.
I doubt that the two language versions will ever merge. With the physical separation, as soon as we adopt some of their usages, and they, ours, we each generate new terms with old words that continue to confuzzle the other. 😯
Sorry, I meant "riding", not "reading". As in,
Bardish Chagger PC MP is a Canadian politician who is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Waterloo.
I need to proof-read meself more. 😦
Ah, perhaps I should have twigged to that. Riding is definitely a British term that we Canadians accept without thinking about.
Did you find the basis of it in your studies? Apparently it originally described a voting district of size and shape, that a man who was eligible to vote, could reach the polling station within a day's horse-ride in any direction.
Now I have a vision of Eskimos racing 100miles across ice and snow on snowmobiles. 😯
Aha, no I didn't, but it makes sense!

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A supernatural legacy
On one such general visit to Imphal (Princely state Manipur's capital), during the 1930s, he was informed that the queen of Manipur was quite sick, and the King - Maharaja Churachand's staff were looking for a healer. My grandfather was roped in, only to find himself cornered with a conundrum : if his queen healed, the Maharaja would reward my grandfather; if she did not, he would be beheaded.
The Business Giant Of Karachi and Bombay
In Karachi, the Marathe family lived in the prominent locality of Bandar road (now Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road). The Maharashtrian community with approximately 50,000 people enjoyed tremendous social currency and power and they demonstrated the vibrant culture of the community in Karachi, where people from all religions and ethnicities celebrated their diversities, and lived in harmony. Appasaheb's daughter, my grand-aunt Vimal, was born in Karachi and she still remembers that they owned a convertible car and that Karachi is where she experienced the finest days of her life. Both of Appasaheb's children, Vimal and my grandfather Suresh attended a Marathi medium school in Karachi called Narayan Jagannath High School.
Six generations of a British Family in India.
(Left) My Great Great Grandparents Edwin Ebenezer Scott (1850-1931) & Emily Good Andre (1862-1946), Bangalore, 1915. (Right) My Great grandparents, Algernon Edwin Scott & Desiree Leferve with my Grandfather, Bert Scott as a two or three year old boy. Cannanore, Karnataka. 1919
(Left) My Great Great Grandparents Edwin Ebenezer Scott (1850-1931) & Emily Good Andre (1862-1946), Bangalore, 1915. (Right) My Great grandparents, Algernon Edwin Scott & Desiree Leferve with my Grandfather, Bert Scott as a two or three year old boy. Cannanore, Karnataka. 1919 Image and Narrative contributed by Jason Scott Tilley, Birmingham UK These are two photographs from my grandfather Bert Scott's family photographic archive. The photograph on the left, of my Great Great Grandparents Edwin and Emily Scott was taken on Christmas day in 1925 at 3, Campbell road, Richmond Town, Bangalore, our family's house which was one of the old British Bungalows and has sadly like many of the rest, been demolished. On the old ground now stands St Philomenas hospital, right in the very heart of Bangalore. On the right, are my great grandparents Algernon Edwin Scott and Desiree Leferve with my Grandfather, Bert Scott as a two or three year old boy, the image was taken in 1919 in Cannanore, Karnataka. (now Kannur and in the state of Kerala) My family came to India in 1798 when James Scott Savory joined the East India Company as a writer of the Records of state. He was the second assistant under the Collector of Krisnagearry (Krishnagiri). Edwin Ebenezer (left image) is his great great grandson. From the church death records at St. Marks Cathedral in Bangalore it states that Edwin Ebenezer was the Assistant commisioner of Salt in South India. Bert Scott, (little boy on the right) was my Grandfather, and he was born in Bangalore in 1915. He went to Bishop Cottons school before he joined the Times of India in 1936 as a press photographer. Son of Algernon Edwin Scott and…


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As for being self-actualized, Brandon is the epitome of living one's best life. As a paid troll he lives a rewarding and worthwhile life trying to convince Twitter that he's a scary bad guy. Though what Brandon's actually done is convince the courts that his self-actualization will never involve full custody of a child.


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CD80 y CD86 son cúmulos de diferenciación (en Inglés: cluster of differentation; CD). También se les conoce como proteínas B7.1 y B7.2 respectivamente. Son glucoproteínas de estructura francamente similar de la familia de las inmunoglobulinas que actúan como receptores presentes sobre la membrana de células presentadoras de antígeno. Su acción consiste en la mediación en la adhesión de las células T con las células presentadoras de antígenos foráneos. Esta y otras moléculas son co-estimuladoras y su interacción con sus receptores o ligandos determinará si el linfocito T responderá frente a los antígenos presentados por las células presentadoras del antígeno. Su receptor sobre las células T se denomina CD28. La proteína CD80 tiene una masa de 33.05 kDa y una longitud de 288 aminoácidos.

Función
Las moléculas CD80 y CD86 son expresadas por múltiples tipos de células, incluyendo células B, macrófagos, CD y células T.

La interacción de la célula presentadora de antígeno con la Célula T unida al MHC respectivo, la unión del CD28 con sus ligandos CD80 y CD86 estimula a la APC a producir interleucinas, en especial interleucina-2 (IL-2) e interleucina-6 (IL-6).

Referencias

 Luque, I, Reyburn, H, Strominger, JL. (2000)"Expression of the CD80 and CD86 molecules enhances cytotoxicity by human natural killer cells".Hum Immunol 61:8, 721-728

Antígenos CD

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Working on multiple things, and working with partners
A lot of folks in the WordPress economy, whether employed with a side hustle or self-employed, manage multiple things. Also, many of us work with partners, or are interested in partnerships.
Cory has long worked with partners, and we're now running Post Status as partners. Also, we are both working on several projects.
In this episode of Draft, we talk about how to balance multiple things, how we try and structure our weeks, and some things to consider when working with partners.
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Brian Krogsgard 0:05
This episode of Post Status Draft is brought to you by Pagely's best in class WordPress managed hosting. They help big brands scale. And it's really the place you want to be. If your website is a mission-critical site, they have an extremely flexible tech stack to help you accomplish your goals with your website. And they have the three things that they really like to focus on: Number one, flexibility. Number two, scalability. And number three, reliability. What I think occasionally in the years that I've hosted my main website PostStatus.com on Pagely, that's what I keep in mind myself — I know I can do the things I want to do. It's not overly opinionated. It's highly scalable, and it's reliable. I never worry about my WordPress going down because it's on Pagely. Go to pagely.com to check it out. Thanks so much to Pagely for being a Post Status partner, and welcome to Post Status Draft. My name is Brian Krogsgard. I'm here with my partner for Post Status, Cory Miller. Hey, Cory.
Cory Miller 1:07
Hey, Brian.
Alright, official podcast.
It's our second podcast. Every, every trend starts with two, right? Yep. So we have a couple of topics that are highly relevant to us that we want to discuss today. And number one is juggling multiple things. We're both doing so so we're going to talk about the process of it and some of the things we've tried to instill in our own habits and otherwise. And then the second thing is the process of working with a partner because when juggling several things, often the choice would be to have a partner in crime as you do. So obviously, this is highly relative to our, our own situations, with post status and then each of us are, you know, Post Status as our common plate but we each have other plates that were spinning So that's what we want to discuss and iron out today. You know, I'm thinking of who's our listener who's, who's listening to this and thinking, I'm interested. And you know, one type of person sticks out to me in particular, which is a, like a plugin or product developer, someone that's got a WordPress product and maybe it's not their full-time gig yet or maybe they're balancing the product side with doing some freelance work. Why don't we jump back to the first time you had to start balancing something and go from there so like, what have you learned since you you know since you started doing full-time WordPress back in 2008 or so? Was I themes paying the bills right out of the gate, or how did that work?
Yeah, I think it was paying the bills right out the gate, but I've kind of notorious mine. People that have worked with me to be a plate spinner anyway, I kind of relish In the place multiple things keep me engaged. And so, but I woke up you know, couple weeks ago post that this is one of five projects I've got going right now and back into being a plate spinner again but and iThemes Yeah, I spend a lot of plates in the first year, of course, we had full time, you know, I had money to be able to kind of get started and then we try to get revenue in the first month as best we could and be self-sustainable. But uh, for that year, I tried to only spend one plate and that was just I themes, but on the project plate for products, it was just trying to iterate on themes and stuff, but the year, a year or two prior, I was doing the same thing we're doing now which is balancing a full-time gig with stuff on the side, in my freelance business just happened to be, you know, it worked out but I was also I don't know, 13-14 years younger and I can power through until midnight or one now it's like I'm going to bed at night.
Yeah, definitely makes a difference I've said on this podcast and elsewhere many times that my I used to call it my tended to time. So 10 pm to 2 am was my window where typically my wife was in bed before I had kids. And I was a night owl, so I would get stuff done. And that was how I maintained my side hustles while I had full-time jobs, and I can't do that anymore, like just physically, my I can't do that now. And, you know, if I have to get some stuff done late at night, I might be able to put in an hour or so. But I run out of steam like if I'm going to do something else. It has to be something replenishing or balancing my work efforts, like reading a book or something that's not by, you know, fingers to keyboard type of activity.
I know a lot I know most probably of our community can relate to all this as burning the midnight oil, so to speak. And then now as I've gotten older it's like, it's just not going to work. And you and I both have young kids. So when I get home, it's hard to like, I can't pull up my computer one, I've got a kid sitting in my lap. And, you know, wanting to know what I'm dead. I'm like, I'm trying to get something done.
If I'm, if my two-year-old is here, he will literally just make every effort to just slam the spacebar. He's like, that's the biggest thing that's on that board that you, you know, put your fingers on and he's just like, I gotta get on that, you know. I can't, I can't really work with them awake. What that means for us is that we're juggling things and we're not like inventing new hours in the day where we're figuring out how do we juggle within our standard, our standard day. So how do you physically process this and terms of playing And execution?
Gosh, you know, I put the five projects like in December, I thought I have four, this is all one and then something happened and I was like, okay, there's a fifth can't turn down. And I realized real quickly like, okay, I don't want to get into old bad ruts. I knew I had to get organized new posters is a priority for me, for us, for our family, too. And I've got a lot of other projects kind of spinning, but I had to get really organized and go, okay, you know, I'm going to need help at some point. So I actually hired a virtual assistant. A couple of weeks ago, I don't even know if I told you that run. But yeah, you mentioned to me Yeah. How to virtual assistant because I had a longtime executive assistant at it. Named Patty color, Painkiller, excuse kill. And I was like, I've got to find figure that out. So I hired a virtual assistant and starting to delegate trying to delegate things to her to help me chase down some things but there's so much like, she can't go to the bank and sign, you know, a bank account for me. So I'm trying to be strategic about it. And then now you know you and I both said we're in a different stage now. So we got young kids, work, work-life balance, if that's even a thing work-life alignment is a thing for me. But I don't know if I want to be working. After six o'clock, I need to devote that time to my kiddos, and I know you do too. So I've got to really prioritize I think Jason freed said it best is in one of his books or podcasts or something a long time ago that constraints particularly time constraints are such a good thing. I'm like, Yes, absolutely. You know, when I saw those names and people, you know, have their opinions about where they think my financial future is. But honestly, when everything is an option, everything sucks. And I think constraints. I can't believe I'm saying this, but constraints are good. In certain situations, everything is an option. And I've kind of taken the mindset from Jason freed that, you know, having kids is good because it gives me some boundaries, or at least that need to be setting boundaries to not repeat bad habits that I did over 10 years. And I think,
yeah, so you're saying constraints in terms of what you choose to work on. And that's interesting. For me, I kind of know what I'm working on now. Like, I made those decisions. And, you know, I'm contracting a significant chunk of my week with sky verge, working the majority of the rest of that with post status, and then I have this one thing, and this is where I really had to make my biggest decision, which is on the like, crypto side of things where I had huge community following and stuff. I had to say, I'm going to establish scope on what's achievable within that project, and really limit myself self to, to what I know I can do well and efficiently. So for that, it really meant narrowing it all the way down to just like a podcast. So I do a podcast in that space. And now I know like, I'm not going to spend more than, you know, x hours in the week on that because I've established scope for that project. And then it's deciding, okay, well, where, where's the differentiator between, you know, being productive with my time and relying on teammates, like in our scenario, that was one of the big things selling half a post at us. It's not just Oh, great. There's a little bit of money now that I get to bring in which I'm obviously thankful for. But it's also to say, Okay, if I treat this as part-time and you treat this as part-time, we have two part-time contractors, will you put all four of us together we're combining multiple people's skills, and the end result is better than me as a full time or upon myself could have ever done in the first place. So I feel like That's a really effective use of part-time efforts and allows me to juggle multiple things and in my opinion, put out a better product on the thing that I was trying to do alone. So that was a big part of it for me is defining the scope and identifying how can I make something better while spending less time on it?
Cory Miller 10:22
Yeah, I think what has been for me is prioritization of like, I can't, I can't goof off. I've been here in my little office from, you know, 830 to five roughly and it's straight through and it's good. It's engaging senior wanted to level off at some point. But there is a focusing power, like I've got to be very good about prioritizing what my time is, particularly with juggling some projects like you do. I'm thankful that our partnership we're in the same time zone and roughly on the same hours, work hours. So that's really good. My partner, Rebecca Gill, another project. She's in Eastern Time Zone. I always have to kind of convert a little bit on that. So,
Brian Krogsgard 11:04
and then really hard for our friends who have partners or whatnot that are six hours or 10 hours apart, that the offset that you create in your communication cycle forces your projects to go slower.
We were very deliberate about when we took on our Portugal team and iThemes and because they were six hours ahead of us, and knowing there's going to be a lag and man that just slows things down when you're trying to ship product. So it's, it's, you know, I'm definitely thankful we're in the same time zone and even Rebecca and I are just an hour apart, but still, it's like she's already started her day, you know, I might get an email at 630 in the morning, and I'm just kind of getting around and it's like, oh, man, her days getting going now.
Yeah, she's full force. I'm ready.
Yeah. So but again, I think it is the constraint is the prioritization. Like today I just thought, Okay, well, you know, one thing I've done is have specific For the first time, probably in my career in about 12 years, I am blocking time out of my, my calendar for recurring meetings to that never done before, but I have to do it and I have to get better at time prioritization to and so even getting the newsletter out today, for instance, I was like, Okay, I got to think about this better because I need to block it out a time, reverse engineer, whatever, we're going to get the newsletter out, and then block out time when you guys aren't waiting on me for something. So we make sure you get out a good product.
Yeah. Discipline it. Yeah, it certainly is. And the first person that I saw doing this really effectively They showed me their calendar, they talked to me about how they balance was actually cited baki and, you know, a lot of our listeners will know through awesome motive. He's got his hands in five different products at any given time, and incredible amounts of other businesses as well like he does it to an extremely He's a robot. He's a yes. But he is a time blocking master like I, he showed me his calendar and it's colour-coordinated, it's day by day. And it's broken into, you know, a two hour or four-hour block, 30-minute block. And he's got every day of every week assigned to a thing. And it's like, here's a half-day that goes towards working with Jared on WP forums or a half-day working towards OptinMonster. You know, it may change depending on week by week but he knows before he starts this week, essentially where he's spending the every like work hour of that week, he's designed his workouts and he's designed his, you know, it's like, if there's family time or travel during the normal workweek like it's built-in there too. And I was inspired by that I could not mimic it like I tried it for a little bit and it was too structured for my discipline like his discipline level is just beyond mine. Yeah. But it did give me a framework for saying, Okay, well I have my focus, like Mondays we have a lot of meetings with sky verge. And that's like, basically a sky verge only day aside, aside from, if something that really needs urgency from post status comes along. And then it just allows me to structure my days and say, This is my big thing today. It's my big thing this other day, this is where I want the majority of my time in my hour spent and I've actually started tracking my hours. And I've been evolving that I've always hated time tracking any job where they like, you know, focused on that. I was always like, Look, I don't want to this, you know, like, negotiated my way out of it. And now, I'm embracing it, but it's more for my personal accountability than anything else because I want to know, like, Okay, well, it was I actually spending these hours of these days. On the things that I planned, of course, it helps me like for, you know, for a contract job that helps if you're paid hourly. But even for something like what we're doing, I had a partnership line item on my time tracker. And I was tracking generally, like, if we got sidetracked, you know, or like, we had a meeting, I would track it. And then if we had, you know, something, especially where it was in a zone that was supposed to be geared towards something else, I wanted to know, like, how far off of my routine Am I getting? And it's this intro week, accountability process. So you kind of have an idea of like, oh, man, I've spent more hours over here and I need to be over there. And it's been really good accountability for me to better audit my time so that I can then more effectively move forward and be knowledgeable about the way I'm approaching it. And I'm not succeeding, like if I say, Okay, well, I want to spend 25 hours over here. 15 over here and two over there like it doesn't always work that way. But it allows me to have a target and audit my effectiveness against that target and you really learn a lot when you start doing that.
Yeah, I go back to the side comment and I'm joking when I say robot kit but his worth it work ethic i is unparalleled and never seen anything like it maybe my dad who's now should be retired for the second time and working 60 hours a week-long gas industry but said is a maniac. But he's also I think it the thought about that was like it's how we're all kind of wired, like, I've had so many people over the years they know I juggle things, spin plates and go Why would you do that? Like tell them wired I mean, and I used to go Why do you only have one project that sounds boring. And so we had this telephone realize to each his own like wired in different ways and have a lot to do that, having said that, you said the word discipline, it's some it's a word I've been trying to kind of reintroduce into my life. Consistency is another big word. So I've gotten more organized and, and want to line things up where I'm not dropping balls for sure. And I'm mixing metaphors here. But, you know, I play doesn't drop. But they're all important to me. They're engaging and I think that makes me me, you know, if we were all carbon copy of each other, it'd be a bland world and, and all that. So I think to each his own for sure. But I think you're talking about something we're talking about something that a lot of people go through, they want to strike out on the entrepreneurial adventure, and but they're balancing a day job and then I can potentially family. I have a couple of business friends here in Oklahoma City that their entrepreneur story started with. I started my business when my child was six months old. Like, I can't imagine that you know, I kind of say, I think it was in kindergarten when we had our first kids had our kids so like, it was to the point where that one that little baby had kind of graduated and was under adult supervision. And then I could kind of turn my time. Now on this season to toe, it's just very drastically different. And so, man, I just admire the stories of people that juggle so much, particularly with family while starting this crazy job. This crazy gig we have come entrepreneurship. I, you know, if entrepreneurship was easy, by the way, everybody would do it. Because think about the freedom, the lifestyle you're having to live as an entrepreneur, but it comes with a heavy cost. Just talking to a dear friend of mine that I've known for a long time entrepreneur and comparing stories and him saying he's had a rough couple of years and going in my part was to say to encourage to go I'm going to be in your seat at some point. Mukherjee that like this thing, this thing we do called entrepreneurship is just not meant for everybody. And it's just a tough thing, but it's really thrilling for me to come would say, join you in something that's already started, by the way. So that makes this project. They're all exciting to me. But this is different in that I can help take something really, really good and make it even better. Where starting new projects. Oh, that's that's a ton of work, man.
There's a different kind of grind. And they're like, what did two years of post as before the club, you know? Yeah, well, that grind of getting the thing off the ground like business takes time.
One of the things that I think plays into this idea of structure and being able to juggle different things, a lot of it does come down to personality. And for me, you know, I've always achieved a lot So it's not it's there's a difference to me between what I'm about to describe and like if it's laziness or something for me, it's not laziness. I have no threat of saying, Oh, I work from home or I don't have a, you know, nine to five job. So I'm going to sit on the couch at my house. That's never my personality. But I do procrastinate in my own way, and wait, but why.com is a great website that it's called, has a long series from 2013 called how procrastinators procrastinate, and it's like the brain of a procrastinator. And what he really breaks it down to is this intimidation of long tasks that makes a procrastinator put that off, and how you can kind of beat that and how to beat procrastination or the way he describes it is he says effective planning turns a daunting item, say like writing a book or launching a website or something big and turning it into a series of small clear, manageable tasks. When you do that, you're making something that sounds big he calls he says a remarkable glorious achievement is just what a long series of unremarkable and glorious tasks looks like from far away. So if you break things down, if you have this type of mentality where you can see the short, short term finish line, and turn it into a to-do list or you know a task, then that's no big deal. It's like, okay, boom, knock out that test, boom, knocked down that task. And then all of a sudden, you've done lots of things that add up to be this really big, more glorious thing of accomplishing your goal. And I've found that I have got to structure my day to day that way. And I've really embraced note-taking but it's kind of a hybrid between notetaking and to-do list stuff, where I take notes of like, okay, what's my, what's my main jam, like what I have to capture today? Sometimes it's an idea and some times it's deliverable, and then turning it into these to-do lists that I accomplish inside that week. And then you add that in weekend and week out and hitting those to-do items. That's when the real changes and effects start to take place for me.
Yeah, well, no, I completed my master's degree. When I was in my late 20s. I went back to school, and the staff there at that college in the adult program said, How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. And, you know, I've used that a lot with teams, helping coach teams that I've led, and others is this big task that you have breaking it up into small parts. And then I think there's something to be said of, I think it's James clear. The author, prolific blogger that talks about, you know, consistency, like if you're going to write a best selling book, it's, you know, break it down if it's 50,000 words is 500 words a day. For X amount of months kind of thing. Now, I don't know what to believe I have that discipline in me to show up every day and just write 500 words a day. And but I believe that if you do that you will show up, you know, an X amount of months with something. And this is the harder pill for me to swallow sometimes, just again, how I'm wired. I'm not trying to make excuses, but just saying it's, it's not an easy task. Some people make it look easy, but the reality is, you're probably wired in a different way.
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One of the things you had me do when we were just trying to figure out would we make good partners was an assessment through Colby, calm kayo LP calm, and that was stuck with me. You had me do a couple of them which I thought was fun across the board. And just the fact that you wanted me to do that told me a lot about the type of partner you could be you know, like the way your mind works first. is mine. The Colby one I thought was interesting because it gave me an understanding of how I work. You have an understanding of how you work based on your assessment profile. And then it tells you Okay, well because you have this and you have this, you YouTube may have conflict in this way. Or you may have a really nice jelling in this way, and why you talk about how that kind of fits into this. So if I'm talking about my, I need these, you know, big pictures fine. But then if you just say, take the big picture, go write a book, I'm in trouble. But if you say take the big picture and go write some like thousand-word articles on like, okay, I can accomplish this. So, take this assessment, how you blend that and turn it into an effective partnership.
So my belief is whether it's a team or a partner is to leverage your their unique strengths and experiences that I probably don't have or if we overlap, there's unique this in there and so it's Specifically with our partnership, and we did these discovery tools, and I think was two years strengthsfinder from Gallup was the one, we can put these in the show notes. It gives you your top five strengths. And then so let me unpack that. So Strengths Finder is one that I had to do because I kind of wanted to see verify probably what I already thought about what your unique strengths were and what you believe that they are. And real quickly with that, I can go there's overlap, but there are differences. And that's why I like one of yours, I think is analytical. And that shines brightly, everything post at us. Like I told you years ago, what I always found value was your insight and analysis of everything that was breaking. Like I wanted. I might not agree with you every single time but I was like, No, I want a different perspective. And that's something I knew ahead of time, but it helped me just kind of really identify that. So the street corner does that with teams with partnerships, whatever. And by the way, that joke was I thought you're gonna say this But when my wife and I first met I had to do these two and she was like what the heck you're you have to take a test today you to see if I'm, you know, married. Now she's a big fan. But Colby is really interesting because it's how you instinctively take action. And we started with Strengths Finder and then we evolved into Colby because I wanted to see how you instinctively took action. So this four modes factfinder, which is, you know, a high fat fighter which you happen to be is very I mean, it lends to everything you've done, which is analytical research, I mean, dive deep into an area of a middle road factor under which is I want the essential truth. And the three other areas are quickstart. Most entrepreneurs, many entrepreneurs, I should say are quickstarts Hi, quickstarts. I'm a high quickstart The other one is the blue one, which is follow through and it's not like you can't ever fall through but it's step by step. mode of action. If you have a problem, I'm going to figure out step one, step two, step three, step four, the yellow is implementation. People behind that are the ones like mad Danner who are amazing with their hands and like woodworking and different things or whatever, like very high implementers, are. And then we also want to focus found from you is that we had, we had compatible things where I knew we could work really well together, but I knew there was also willing sounds like you're a medium quickstart which you and I could ideate all day and not get anything done. So that was the thing we talked about, you already recognized it. factfinder is great because we're kind of in that mode, where we're not in what Colby calls conflict, but we're low in the blue, which is step-by-step plan. We're kind of find the shortcuts, bandaid it together, put it together and do that. So we talked about that actively. You already recognize that but I helped us talk through, okay, our similarities can also be our weaknesses. We need someone to kind of help us. And I know David and Dan really help us with some of those things that we might go, man, let us we'll do it at the last minute.
And just being cognizant of that, as we go about our day to day in partnership, you know, it allows me to say, Okay, I need to think I need to be sure and know, like, here's our plan, we came up with our plan, we've got these ideas and the follow-through component or the, you know, the take it to execution side of things. It's like, I have to make sure that we both understand what to do, where to go and bring people along to help us accomplish that. And so far, I think that's been effective. And sometimes that's tooling you know like it's one thing if we have our all our conversations and slack and we have these pages of notes, in our note keeping apps and we, you know, collect our thoughts, but then it's another to say, Okay, well, let's put it on a schedule and let's set a date for When we're going to launch this thing, and let's have our plan of action for, you know, who's responsible for what, and put deadlines on that across the way. And to me that tooling side of things, which could be as simple as base camp or whatever, is my way of introducing accountability to an area where we both identified kind of on the same side of the spectrum, which is, in that in that particular instance, it's kind of the kind where it's like, ours has its own benefits, like the way we sit. But you really need that person that's like, the big long spreadsheet, project manager, very type a type of person to help rein us in, when we could end up down a whole bunch of different rabbit holes. You know, Id aiding the next two years of what post status is going to be and it's like, well, someone's got to do what we're going to do in the next two weeks or the next two months and yeah, so that gives us that accountability there.
Well, we're supposed to record this podcast six hours. ago, I think. And we had, you know, part of that was we had thought we still were so new in our partnership and trying to get some things done at post that is that we need to have the time. But we had deliberately two weeks ago, set this date to record and then now we're six hours later recording it. But I know we'll get to those types of things. But it's that, you know, we could wear that. I think you and I are kind of wired to be the squirrel. You know, movie idea. Okay, let's face it. We've talked about that. And we both have, I think helped each other rein it in on that, like, hold on. This is first that second, this third, right? Yep, yep. Yep. Let's go back to that because it's really fun to dream. It's really fun to ideate and think about cool stuff, especially as quickstarts and the Colby kind of mantra. So, but there needs to be somebody that also says, Okay, let's stop dreaming now. Let's go do
Yeah, and I think been proud of how we've so far been able to do that. And we realize it's important. And I think maybe one of the things that has allowed us to do it is, when we first started the partnership, we, and you really helped me outline this. And it's like, what are our goals? For the business for the partnership, where we want to be a year, two years and three years? And therefore we say, Okay, if this thing is effective in January next January, what have we accomplished? And we said, okay, we want you know, certain things, it's a number of subscribers or it's a number of page views or a number of members or a degree of like member satisfaction, like things that you want to strike and then it's how do you plan to accomplish that and keep that as your goal, how many dollars you need to make a day if your dollar goal for the year is this? And that was really helpful for me to put all that in context.
So one other thing I did, I think I told you this either as I've had a coach for a year and a half now a personal coach. Fantastic. name is Kelly. We came into this and she was like, Okay, got five projects, what do you need for me? And I was like, here's what I think I need me to go weekly. And what I don't want to do, my virtual assistant helps me take certain tasks that I need to just create my time, you know, to do other things. My coach is okay, here's the deal. I'm highly invested in my time, my money, my energy and all these projects, and they've got to make progress. I've got to move the needle. That is the most impactful things. So what we do now is each week we do a 30-minute laser call. And I talked to the big issues, I think through the projects, and I go, can we post those this week? We need this. And what and she helps me get clarity on that before by the way. I have my partner calls like with you. We knew our calls on Friday to do my call with Rebecca on Wednesday. My partner Jeff on Monday. So I'm like, man, there's too much stuff going on, I've got to have that kind of clarity. And she's helped me rehearse and get ready for because like, for instance, I try hard not to ping you. Because I know there's a bucket of time, there's a bucket of energy that probably is owned mostly by Erica and your two kiddos. And I want to be really careful what I withdraw from that. So. So she's helped me go in, I looked over the last 30 days. So every week is a 30-minute call to kind of get ready and make sure I'm on task for all the projects. The last meeting, which I just had this week, is a one hour kind of look back over the last 30 days, and then they look forward to next Thursday. So make sure I'm keeping progress with all the critical projects going on. And that's just another level of optimizing for. There's a lot on the line for me. There's a lot of love for you and my other partners and so I want to make sure we're focused and making the most progress, we can For all of these so that we can say, high five and go, this is this, these were the best times. What resonated with me for you, Brian is you said for years, you know, Kevin did it by yourself, I Exodus ran into your burnout that post like it was the first sentence burned out. And I was like me and I can resonate with that. And one of the compelling things that he said to me as I said, I don't want to do this alone. Again, I could, I could sell this, I could do this and just leave. But I just really don't want to do it alone. And that I told you then resonates with a lot of social entrepreneurs. It's tough doing it by yourself. I had aside amazing psychic command, enter and I think to help me not do it alone. And then a group of us were friends, WordPress, none of WordPress helped me over the years. But man, that's something that you can mention too, is how a partner or a team or somebody that can come alongside you is so powerful.
Yeah, there's two things there applies to both of these. I guess. A lot of people, you know, they dream when they're in a normal nine to five job. They're like, Okay, well, I have so much more upside potential or so much more opportunity for freedom and all these things if I go out on my, on my own, and work on this thing and turn my hobby into my business or turn my side gig into a full-time gig, and I think it takes several years potentially, of doing that before you oftentimes for and maybe it's for certain personality types that then they say, Okay, this has some real benefits, but there are some real drawdowns to that I need to consider and for me, okay, I love the freedom. I love the upside potential. But at the same time, I liked working with people and I liked bouncing things off teammates, and that was an important thing for me to figure out how can I recapture and I think a lot of people that might be listening to this talking about juggling multiple things, working with a partner, maybe they've all kind of landed on that. So now, there's this kind of fundamental balance there, where when you're juggling multiple things, none of them is necessarily such a security blanket or a safety that is the same as a full-time job. So this balance is how do you spend time in the places where you can make money, yet none of them are probably sufficient relative to what you could make it a full-time job. Like, say, if you were making $100,000 and a full-time job while your main side hustle, it, maybe it's making $50,000 and your other side hustles making, you know, another $50,000? Well, you're making $100,000 total, but it requires this balance between the two of them. In our situation, you have partners so like my needs from the business, do they align well with your needs from the business from a revenue standpoint, there's so much balance and inertia. So you have to balance like, okay, I want to work with people. I want to have this freedom. But there's all this balance. that's required there and I would be curious if you have any kind of final tips to find the sweet spot while you're doing that.
Yeah, so you know for years I said it's a sidekick it's it's the Matt Danner, it's someone that just is doesn't have as has compatible strings to you. And but you're not strong in the same area where you can kind of divide and conquer. And so I've honestly thought about it as a work spouse, you know, to Bandy that. That phrase around a little bit, but I mean, there's an element to that work spouse, like having someone you can confide in. And I bet you there are entrepreneurs and founders solopreneurs listening to this today. That is like, in the spot you were and by the way, when I struck out, it's been a year ago this week, I'm back on my own. I didn't want to do it alone. I wanted to do with other people, and I found some great people. One of them being you and Do it together and collaborate. So, but I think, you know, somebody goes, why don't we give away equity I get that then finally struggle psychic, a workout spouse that feels ownership that you could give some rewards if they need it. But find that person that is the end to your Yang. We missed that. And then secondarily, I'll tell you, I know the work psychic work spouse type thing is hard. And the partnership conversation is hard. But I'll tell you and this is something you're not been talking about. Small groups of like-minded people on the same path with the same values have been life-saving and changing for me. So I've been in one group for nine years now. 10 years almost. I've helped start to more. We're talking about trying to get that kind of group. people in the room to rub elbows that get it they understand the story. So I always get the joke. Most of us don't know. Your parents don't know what they we do. Living Dead still thinks I just upgrade the computer somehow. But you know, having a group of people that just get you, know you, not talk you've got some dear friends you lean on, you meet with weekly even as the same can be those kinds of compatriots that like, you can let your guard down and, and share like today sucks. And I've tried to be that for people and also clean to those that are like vulnerable and genuine and authentic and are willing to let the guard down the shields down, take the mask off all that kind of stuff and go Hey, not everything is rosy. So, you know the two things is one is finding someone in the business that can work with it, that just gets it. That's a hard one I know. Second is to find a group of people that are on the same path as you then share life and go deep and it doesn't always have to be personal or a business. It can be personal, some of the most endearing moments I've had with my friends. That I count as brothers and sisters. I mean, like they are family to me. If something were to happen to me, they'd be the first people at my house scene if Lindsay and the kids were okay. But finding that group of people and you and I've been talking about this, how do we do that through post tennis community to pull in our amazing community of founders, entrepreneurs, and give that type of like, being in the room together and sharing that stuff that it's the high fives, and it's the hugs that you need when things are just bad. So that'd be my two takeaways.
How about yourself? That's really good on and I think that's, I'll leave it there from a partner perspective. I'll jump back to the juggling things and just get my final. My final comparison maybe so I'm thinking, Okay, well for you know, somebody that's somewhat technical or works in the web industry at minimum. All right. So if I gave you the challenge to say, hey, this website's slow, we need to speed it up. Well, if the first thing you would want to know is, where is it slow? Why's that slow and cut audit that process. And I think that that was the biggest thing that I had to come to the terms with, which was if I'm going to juggle multiple things I need to know, where's my time going? I don't know how many times I had these weeks where the week goes by much less the day and it's like, okay, I had stuff I wanted to accomplish. I know I didn't accomplish everything on my list. But when I look back, I felt busy. But the results weren't there. What happened? And that is dangerous. Because you're not auditing. You're not knowing where your energy actually went. So that you can iterate and improve. It doesn't mean you have to be perfect. It doesn't mean you have to have like every hour tracked. But I think if you're going to make your website faster and more efficient, the first thing to do is to identify what are the processes that are slowing it down right now what is like what are the pivot points The what are the bottlenecks? Where's my time being consumed? And where, when I look at that, if I say I'm spending 10 hours a week on phone calls, or if I'm spending 10 hours a week, you know, in support, okay, what's the value of the time that I'm spending there? And the best thing to do in juggling those multiple things is to try to find the difference makers in that time and spend more time on the difference makers and find out how to bring someone else in a contract or the or offload it to your partner if they're really good at it, and getting them to do those things. You've told me I don't even know how many times since, you know, we started talking about talks about you know, managing support, which is pretty light with post status, but you were like, I don't want you in support, like get out of there. And I'm like, okay, that's okay, that makes sense. But we still need to take care of support, but it starts by identifying how much time am I spending in that type of communication and Therefore, how can I effectively bring someone else on to take that task or put it in a certain bucket like I'm going to do support every Monday and every Thursday or something like that. And that way, it's not kind of floating along with me the whole time. And that's what I found most effective in terms of auditing, and improving my personal processes to be able to juggle multiple things, which is an ongoing battle and ongoing struggle, but one that I've certainly seen progress on, especially since I started self-auditing where I was spending my time
Yeah, that's really good. In my calendar if it's on my calendar, so I can get done. I don't do the time blocking like said this, but for mostly, but man I live by that calendar and I've had to start trying to bracket time for certain things. But I think the audit is so good. Always be optimizing. You know, because again, We, you know, in this project have very limited time and energy. And so we put our best into it, but I want to prioritize that time and then optimize for bugs like, Okay, are we spend too much time here too. We, you know, and I think that kind of review helps us make good decisions to and going, Okay, this is the new here. This is the morning side, like the dashboard says, overheat or something, you know, we can go in and go Okay, well, how do we collaboratively figure this out?
Yeah. Well, let's optimize this podcast a bit and leave it there. Thanks, everybody, for joining us. Thanks, Corey, for chatting with me. This was obviously relevant for us and these are always self-reflective, we'll be able to think back on what we said here and how we can do better from here. I hope that it helps you as well. I hope everybody has a great week and we go to post that comm slash club and sign up if you haven't already. Corey and I spent the majority of our time figuring out how to make the club better and more appealing to people that are already members and would consider being members. So if you're not opposed to as club member, you're going to miss out. So go to PostStatus.com/Club and sign up and we'll talk to you soon. Bye-bye.
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