Your Curated Morning (#133) for Thursday April 4th is Here.
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The Main Thing I am facilitating a cohort of young Economic Development leaders. The topics and themes of the cohort are leadership and charting your course in the profession. In one of our first meetings, we discussed overcoming obstacles to success. However, what is an obstacle? When one thinks of an “obstacle race,” one thinks of a contest where contestants race around a track or course, jumping over barriers, crawling through tunnels or the mud under a matrix of rope or wire, and overcoming these obstacles to win. The winner is the person who overcomes all the obstacles in the race faster than everyone else. From this example, you can see that an obstacle is temporary and not permanent. It slows you down but doesn’t stop you from achieving your goals. All of us have had what we perceived to be obstacles thrown in our path. How did you react? Did you stop, or did you keep going? You can power through those obstacles, which may destroy potentially lucrative relationships, alliances, future connections, and success. Or you can reframe the obstacles to view them from a different angle or light. It may also be true that because of the emotion attached to that obstacle, you can’t see the value of that obstacle or the lesson it is trying to teach you. In this recycled blog post, I talk about how to overcome obstacles and how to view them now and in the future. Wireless charging for electric transit buses: Here’s how it works by Dan Zukowski | SmartCities Dive. Every night, I place my smartphone on a round flat pad. This pad charges my phone. I don't need to plug it into a cord. Many of you probably do the same thing. It's magical. As transit agencies seek to transition to electric buses and vehicles, charging the buses can pose a problem. A hundred buses parked overnight trying to charge off the grid is a big draw on the grid. This technology described in this article solves that problem through inductive charging, just like my phone. Is your local transit agency seeking to reduce their carbon footprint by going to electric buses and vehicles? Some of us can remember the Concorde and how it could whisk people across the oceans in less than half the time it would take a regular airline. A flight between New York and Paris usually takes eight hours, whereas the Concorde could do it in three and a half. British Airways and Air France were the only two carriers providing service. Experiencing a supersonic flight was rare for most people, so Concorde served mostly wealthy clientele at approximately $12,000 a ticket. Since Concorde's retirement in 2003, new companies have recently revived interest in supersonic airplanes. Boom is one of them. Boom has tested its prototype and plans to debut the XB-1 in 2029. With 130 pre-orders from significant air carriers, we could get back into the supersonic game soon. Would you ride in supersonic plane? What is generative AI? | McKinsey and Company We have all seen the quick adoption of AI as a tool for almost everything. Early AI tools like customer service chatbots and text tools like predictive writing are becoming commonplace. But what is AI, machine learning, and generative AI? McKinsey uncovers the basics in this article. It explains how AI works in simple terms. AI will be impactful over the next several years. Companies and organizations are investing vast resources of time and money to make AI work for them and give them an advantage in the marketplace. Read this article to gain a greater understanding of how AI works. Other Articles of Interest this week: Economic Development - Understanding how economic development relates to Garfield County’s growth by Claudia Perez Rivas | Post Independent City/Rural -- A Profit-Sharing Ploy to Prop Up Downtown Commercial Real Estate by Giriad Miller | Opinion/Governing Leadership -- The “Reitoff principle”: Why you should add “nothing” to your work-life schedule by Ali Abdaal | Big Think Green Economy -- Chart: Which states support community-led clean energy the most? By Maria Virginia Olano | Canary Media A Blog Post You Should Read: The Federal Reserve Bank's (the Fed) role in controlling our economy is critical. The Banks’ decision on how and when to reduce or increase the baseline interest rate that the Fed charges those accessing the federal monetary system plays an essential role in how the economy functions. We all know this from our Economics 101 class, right? The Fed will tell you that controlling inflation is the key to managing the economy and ensuring prices don't outstrip incomes. They are constantly looking at the trade-off between interest rates and the unemployment rate. Ask anyone today, and they will tell you that prices for common goods are high and inflation is horrible. They will gladly place blame on the President or whomever they see as controlling the economy, such as “big greedy corporations.” In this blog post by Brookings, the author shows us why Americans dislike inflation so much despite increases in salary and income. Overheard : “The real gauge of friendship is how clean your house needs to be before they can come over.” Ali Abdaal Listen, EAT, Drink, Watch, Read, View The title of this article intrigued me: Is Making Your Own Chinese Sausage Worth It? This thought has never crossed my mind. Why would I wonder about the efficiency and worth of making Chinese Sausage? I didn’t even know that there was such a thing. I have been interested in making Sausage since my father had a recipe for salami that he would require my mother to make occasionally. I remember the meat having a grainy texture, barely replicating the Oscar Meyer Summer Sausage I thoroughly enjoyed as a kid. The key to making a good sausage, whether Chinese, Italian, or American, is controlling the temperature and humidity. Remember, we are working with raw meat. The author describes in humorous detail the best way to make Sausage. Listen, Eat, Drink, Watch, READ (and Go), View I just caught a glimpse of an article reporting that millennials spend more than half of their budget on travel. If I could, I would spend more than half of my personal budget on travel. Maybe this travel will increase our understanding of the world and each other, leading to less strife and conflict. Where are millennials traveling to? Outside Magazine recently published a list of the 23 places people should travel to in 2024. This global list includes exotic locations and others you would not have thought of. The article reminds one that there are usually stunning and wonderful landscapes and places to see at short distances from our homes. Of the twenty-four recommended places, I have been to seven, including Tucson, the Lower Michigan Peninsulas, Colorado, and Maine. How many have you been to on this list? LISTEN, Eat, Drink, WATCH, Read, View In this short video produced by Big Think, Michael Spitzer, a music theorist and musicologist at the University of Liverpool, talks about Music history. In this short video, Spitzer describes the history of music in eight minutes He says that music evolved over the years and is intrinsically tied to the march of human civilization. He describes how our early ancestors, hunter-gatherers, carried small instruments with them, and as we became less mobile, larger instruments appeared, think grand piano. Spitzer says, "Today, music is as accessible as running water. But if you were born in Beethoven's time, you would be lucky to hear two symphonies in your lifetime." Watch this short but very informative video here. Thanks for Reading If you liked this email, pay it forward. Share it with someone you think might benefit. Did someone share with you? Sign up here. For previous editions, click here. Whenever you’re ready, there are several ways I can help you: 1. Economic Development: If you are looking to supercharge your economic development organization, I can help by strategizing and developing a roadmap to success. Set up a time to talk to me here. 2. Culture Change; Is your organization changing? Would you like to create an asset out of your culture? Do you know how to assess team strengths? Let me help you. I'm a certified culture change practitioner. Set up a time to talk to me here. 3. The Green Economy; The world is changing. Some of it is positive, and some of the change is not. 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