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Einstein said the 8th wonder of the world is compounding interest.  

What he is talking about is the consequences of time value. 

If you understand time value, which is simple elementary math, you know all the math you will ever need in life.  The decisions we make today either payout long term in our favor or result in a massive loss to our future self.  

In either case, we earn interest on those decisions, and the good news is we control a lot of the factors of the outcome. Leverage the 8th wonder of the world and build the life you want. 

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You are a trillion-dollar software developer whether or not you like it. I am not talking about writing more Javascript or Python3. What I am talking about is the software that runs in your mind.

Before we can start having impact with others, we need to build a foundation for our own habits.  Stephen Covey talks about this in his 7 Habits book.

You must adopt the mindset of agreeing with this statement:  I am in life right now as a direct result of the summation all decisions I have made up in life up to this point.

We are all team members, either in our family, our marriage, our the projects we collaborate on at work.  Before we can have impact among our team we must have stability in our own independence.

Teams operate on a healthier level when everyone contributing has internalized their role as an independent thinker.  We might not agree with what other people are saying but we get to choose how we respond.   It's empowering to know that we all have that gap between action and reaction which is our choice of response.

this is why it is so important to prioritize yourself before you can be good to others.  When you are practicing independence you are proactive, you are putting energy into planning and focusing on congruency with your daily actions in relation to your goals.  This is called extreme ownership.

Effective, independent people begin with the end in mind by planning for the future.  When you have a team (or a marriage) the planning really benefits from having a materialized form.   This doesn't have to be fancy just get a piece of paper and write them down and review often.

The other piece of being independent is executing on first things first.  It is hard to prioritize the week when there is no end in mind (a mission and vision for the future).

Being independent is going to help in work and in life.  When you are more in tune with your vision it gives meaning to each weeks planning effort.  Often when we feel less productive on a give week, it just mains we our not aligned with our mission.  the good news realignment is something only you control and it starts by just putting in the work, effectively you can fix this as soon as you choose to.

Do you believe you are the only one to blame for your success and failure?  Do your goals exists on paper?  Are you re-visiting your goals often and organizing your calendar to execute on the most important activity that will push you closer to your goals?  If you anything like me that answer changes from week to week but the good news is if we don't like the answer we know who to hunt down to get it fixed.

The homework for this post is to work on becoming more independent by doing the following activities.  What is most important is to do each of these steps now.  You are placing these foundational stones in place, you are not cementing them in yet so they can be adjusted.

Flip that beast mode switch on and lets get to work on the most important things.

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Lets stop labeling ourselves and instead focus on what matters.  We are not beginners or advanced practitioners at anything.  That language is dangerous and is not helping us get what we want.

For example, if I immerse myself in some activity, who am I or you to judge what level I am performing at.  When we have an obsession for something,  our personal growth can be so rapid and our memory can be so terrible that often we do not give ourselves credit for how far we have progressed.

What I am suggesting here is that we be more careful with the language we use and the labels we place on ourselves.

For example, today when we woke up if I chose to integrate something into my life like becoming a mobile application developer and I put in the work to get those skills then today I am a mobile app developer.  I am not a beginner or advanced, I am just growing.  What would prevent me from being a mobile app developer?  The day I put on my lazy pants and stop integrating that role into my regular routine is the day I stop being a mobile app developer.  All the days in between is a choice to play the role of mobile application developer.

Does that make sense?

What is preventing you from taking on a role or being more effective in areas of your life?

Here is some homework, list the roles you choose to  play in your life each week.  Don't  say that you "have to" play a role.  You and only you can put your body in motion so take ownership over that and realize there are some things you choose to do that perhaps you don't like and some other roles that you enjoy.

Identify those areas where you want to become more effective in that role and identify some other roles you want to cut out.  Now that those roles are defined (on paper!) we can now determine what is the one most impactful activity we can focus on this week to enhance or eradicate that role's concentration in our life.  See how easy that was to set a goal, purpose fit to our unique scenario.

For example if you drive to work every day and you don't want to be a driver of cars, there is a few things you could do.  Talk with your employer about the mutual benefits of working at a home office part of the week, find carpool with someone, or even begin the hunt to find a job that is more amicable.  Bottom line is if you drive to work and you don't like doing that you are actually choosing not to talk with your boss, not to find a carpool buddy or not to find a better employment situation.  See how that works, either way you choose to be the captain of your ship.

Determine your roles and set your goals.  I love the clarity in this process.

If you are looking for a framework to operate in consider one like the 100 days of code challenge.  It has a set amount of time, there is accountability and best of all you experience immersion.  Imaging how a daily activity like that would improve your role as a programmer.   Don't worry if you don't code, there is a #100daysof   anything you could imagine.

After the week is done review the roles you chose to play in your life and your results.  Did you prioritize what are the most important things?  Did you detect more roles that you want to improve or remove?

I hope to hear good news from you in the coming weeks.

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I confidently believe we all can have what we want in life. That does not mean we will get it as fast as we want nor does it suggest our actions are aligned with what we are striving to achieve.

If your actions do not align with your vision for abundance you are actually sitting on the sidelines of life watching people.

It is not easy to maintain abundance mindset when things don’t go our way. We need to just remind ourselves when we start to see the bad in a situation remember how much we have to be thankful for. Some people go as far as maintaining a gratitude journal.

If you manage to maintain an abundance mindset there are some major benefits that I think you will find very helpful to your journey.

Lets say you are a entrepreneur looking for a place to start your McDonald's burger shop. If you had an abundance mindset you would probably look for another Burger shop to open your new location next to. Since you have the abundance mindset the competition would inspire you to get a piece of the pie. If your abundance mindset was lacking you would probably not place your shop there and potentially miss out on a lot of business.

Let me tell you a personal story. At one moment in my life after I graduated from college I found major abundance with a new fortune 500 job. 10 months later I got wrapped up in a 2,000 person layoff due to a crash in the oil price. I had a terrible mindset that couldn’t see any abundance. What a roller coaster!

I kicked and screamed about the situation and eventually decided to start a freelancing business from scratch. At one point I even accumulated over 100k revenue through the freelancing business and still I could not find abundance and that is because I chose to wear the crappy sunglasses. How insane is that? If I could have just seen how much abundance there was around me I would have had an even bigger business success and probably a lot faster. Even after choosing to not see abundance I was eventually forced to find it. My hard work paid off, I had a successful business and as a result I even got an amazing full time job offer.

I tell you this story not to brag but to offer you some genuine insight on the impact of your world view and how it carries you through life. Thankfulness was forced upon me and I could not be happier. Now I choose to see abundance.

Look at your niche. Is there a ton of competition? I see the competition as a good thing. That means there is money happening there and a growing opportunity. Our job is to maintain a perception of what is true and the truth is folks abundance is all around us.

In order to find the abundance, our actions need to align with our desires. That is the key to getting what you want.

Ask yourself, do you believe there is more abundance in the world than what you could consume in a lifetime? Do your actions align with your desires to go get that abundance? Answer those questions and if you don’t like the answer make the adjustments in your life to get back on track.

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No one owns your success except for you.

I just received a marketing email that promises python developers a shortcut to six figures in just 4 short months. All you have to do is part with your hard earned cash and learn the profitable shortcuts from a fake guru.

What the expert marketer is not telling you in this situation is how much time and effort went into the experience required to offer someone 100k of value. No one shells out that kind of cash without getting a return of 10x or more return on investment. The kind of people that get paychecks like that have put in major work, there was no shortcut. They made the choice to step into that opportunity by developing their character and skill level over the course of their lifespan.

We all have a powerful and primal urge to compare ourselves with other people especially when it comes to income potential like what was reported by the fake guru in the email. The reason marketing messages highlighting a hand selected student and promising riches from a method we can copy from the same guru speak to us is because we compare ourselves to the story being told.

Any mentor that says their material will lead you to insane results in months is marketing to your primal urge. Will you get those results you seek? The answer is not simple so lets discuss it more.

You are a cumulative summation of the quality of your decisions you made up to this point. This means you own your own success and it also means your background and skill level determine the trajectory you take from here. The bad news is you might not be where you want to be. The good news is, you are the only person that can make this happen. That is the fallacy in the marketing message. The guru can not get you results, only you can get you results and the guru is not the one to blame for good or bad results.

For example, I can’t come to your house and kick your ass into gear each morning to push forward on your side project, only you can put your body into motion.

This brings up the next question. What is our capacity for excellence?

Lets work on setting realistic expectations of yourself right now so we can answer that question.

We are capable of more than we allow ourselves to accomplish. No one can unleash that potential except for you.

Perhaps we need guidance on how to set expectations for our self but this must be done without comparing ourselves to other people. If you don’t follow this rule you actually become apart of someone else’s dream.

A mentor should be your guide and should never take credit for your success. You should seek mentors that know how to push you towards growth which they have experienced firsthand. You don’t want shortcuts, you want this to be hard.

I think of this like family members. If there is one person out there as a member of my family wanting more income by creating software solutions, I would begin by seeking out what we need to focus on to make your goals a reality? We would build a process together that leverages my experience and your current expertise and reverse engineer your path which is fully tailored to your circumstances.

How are you being proactive with your life? Does your mentor own your success? Are you living someone else dream because you compare yourself to the outcomes in their manipulative marketing messages? If so take ownership on your life right now and decide a new way that revolves around 100% ownership of your current and future self.

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On this episode you will meet Vladimir Bok, Machine learning expert and co-author of the new book "GANs in Action".  If you ever wondered how to trick a sensor that detects counterfeits then you must check out GAN technology.  The implications for this technology are vast, prepare your brain for an amazing experience. 

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On this episode you will a techie and entrepreneur who started out in chemistry and landed in the world of AI.  Meet Claire Whittaker.  Claire has a blog full of resources for people trying to upgrade their way in a high tech career so make sure to check out her website if this episode interests you.  She also has the benefit of working at a major tech company so she definitely knows what it takes to stand out.  We hope you enjoy this episode.

Links to things we discussed

http://gendershades.org/index.html - gender shades - data set of faces across all skin tones

https://molecule.one/ - Company using AI in chemical synthesis

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/10/01/teslas-smart-summon-feature-causes-havoc-car-parks-just-days/ - Tesla issues

https://artificiallyintelligentclaire.lpages.co/machine-learning-cheat-sheet/ - ML cheat sheet

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