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William and Catherine invited a friendly postman, a trusted shopkeeper and his wife, the loyal landlord of the Middletons local Bucklebury village pub and their lovely butcher to share their special wedding day. This is what they said about The Prince and Princess of Wales 🤵🏼👰🏻‍♀️ Pub landlord John Haley of the Old Boot Inn spoke of his astonishment at receiving an invitation, even though at that point he has known the Middleton family for over 14 years. “William and Kate have been to my pub about ten times in the past year. They come in, sit quietly at the table, drink wine and are a lovely couple. They’ve been in to dine and talk to the regulars naturally. They come in and relax; they mingle with other customers, not at arm's length or anything; they're just a normal couple. When [William came into the pub], it was a bit, 'Wow, it's Prince William.' But he soon put everyone at ease, and now he's been in several times. It's a great honour. I've known the family for a long time. They are a lovely, normal family, and I'm very happy for Kate.” Mr Shingadia, who runs the local shop, said: ‘We’re over the moon, absolutely thrilled. I have known Catherine for six years. “She comes in regularly. She has brought William in on about three or four occasions. The first time, having a Prince in my store was mind-blowing. He likes Viennetta ice cream, and he buys that a lot. I’ve got to know him better each time. What’s lovely about him is even though he meets many people, he still remembers my daughter’s name. Meera is only 11, but he also asks how she gets on at school. He did that genuinely, showing he cares and thinks about the people he meets. William came in a short while back when they went to a friend’s wedding in Gloucester. He asked how I was getting on and about my family, and asked how his grandma was doing The first time she brought him in, it was a total shock; we didn't recognise him immediately, but when they did the shop, she introduced him. I shook his hand, and he spoke to us for a while. You could see there was chemistry between them, and the way they looked at each other, you could see a lot of love between them. "She is charming and very approachable. She's got a natural radiance about her. A sort of presence. She's always smiling and very polite. Calm and collected. "Feeling very nervous, my wife and I get quite anxious as the time gets nearer. At the moment, there are butterflies in our stomachs." Another guest is postman Ryan Naylor, whose bag has been getting heavier by the day because of Kate’s huge fan mail. Mr Shingadia said: “Ryan came in at the beginning of the week, even though he is not our postman. He was so excited he wanted to tell us he had also been invited.” When The Mail on Sunday approached Mr Naylor on his round in the village, he declined to comment, saying only: “I deliver to the Middleton family. Kate’s a friendly, natural, lovely girl.” Local butcher said; “We're over the moon! I've got my morning suit; my wife's got her outfit; we feel it's a great privilege to be asked to attend the royal wedding. She's such a bubbly, natural, stunning girl. Together, she and William are just one piece; let's face it: they were made for each other. I'm not surprised [about locals being invited]. This is where she was born, brought up, and educated. We're a tightly-knit community; everybody knows everybody and looks out for each other. She's not forgotten where her roots are (Catherine’s roots run deep and have stayed true to herself) 🥺🥰 Anybody is brave marrying into the royal family; it's a tough job. Kate's got the will, the mind, and the strength to go alongside William, and they'll carry this through." ✨ Prince William and Catherine are authentic, grounded, and kind-hearted individuals with a strong, loving bond, surrounded by a supportive family and tight-knit community. ❤️ #PrinceWilliam #PrincessCatherine
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William and Catherine invited a friendly postman, a trusted shopkeeper and his wife, the loyal landlord of the Middletons local Bucklebury village pub and their lovely butcher to share their special wedding day. This is what they said about The Prince and Princess of Wales 🤵🏼👰🏻‍♀️ Pub landlord John Haley of the Old Boot Inn spoke of his astonishment at receiving an invitation, even though at that point he has known the Middleton family for over 14 years. “William and Kate have been to my pub about ten times in the past year. They come in, sit quietly at the table, drink wine and are a lovely couple. They’ve been in to dine and talk to the regulars naturally. They come in and relax; they mingle with other customers, not at arm's length or anything; they're just a normal couple. When [William came into the pub], it was a bit, 'Wow, it's Prince William.' But he soon put everyone at ease, and now he's been in several times. It's a great honour. I've known the family for a long time. They are a lovely, normal family, and I'm very happy for Kate.” Mr Shingadia, who runs the local shop, said: ‘We’re over the moon, absolutely thrilled. I have known Catherine for six years. “She comes in regularly. She has brought William in on about three or four occasions. The first time, having a Prince in my store was mind-blowing. He likes Viennetta ice cream, and he buys that a lot. I’ve got to know him better each time. What’s lovely about him is even though he meets many people, he still remembers my daughter’s name. Meera is only 11, but he also asks how she gets on at school. He did that genuinely, showing he cares and thinks about the people he meets. William came in a short while back when they went to a friend’s wedding in Gloucester. He asked how I was getting on and about my family, and asked how his grandma was doing The first time she brought him in, it was a total shock; we didn't recognise him immediately, but when they did the shop, she introduced him. I shook his hand, and he spoke to us for a while. You could see there was chemistry between them, and the way they looked at each other, you could see a lot of love between them. "She is charming and very approachable. She's got a natural radiance about her. A sort of presence. She's always smiling and very polite. Calm and collected. "Feeling very nervous, my wife and I get quite anxious as the time gets nearer. At the moment, there are butterflies in our stomachs." Another guest is postman Ryan Naylor, whose bag has been getting heavier by the day because of Kate’s huge fan mail. Mr Shingadia said: “Ryan came in at the beginning of the week, even though he is not our postman. He was so excited he wanted to tell us he had also been invited.” When The Mail on Sunday approached Mr Naylor on his round in the village, he declined to comment, saying only: “I deliver to the Middleton family. Kate’s a friendly, natural, lovely girl.” Local butcher said; “We're over the moon! I've got my morning suit; my wife's got her outfit; we feel it's a great privilege to be asked to attend the royal wedding. She's such a bubbly, natural, stunning girl. Together, she and William are just one piece; let's face it: they were made for each other. I'm not surprised [about locals being invited]. This is where she was born, brought up, and educated. We're a tightly-knit community; everybody knows everybody and looks out for each other. She's not forgotten where her roots are (Catherine’s roots run deep and have stayed true to herself) 🥺🥰 Anybody is brave marrying into the royal family; it's a tough job. Kate's got the will, the mind, and the strength to go alongside William, and they'll carry this through." ✨ Prince William and Catherine are authentic, grounded, and kind-hearted individuals with a strong, loving bond, surrounded by a supportive family and tight-knit community. ❤️ #PrinceWilliam #PrincessCatherine

The British Prince

52,110 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

THE LAST TIME - Led Zeppelin performing “Kashmir” at the O2 arena in 2007 for what would be one of the most anticipated reunions in rock and roll history. Over 20 million people entered a worldwide lottery for the chance at being one of the lucky 18,000 fans in attendance. This concert was done as a tribute to the great Ahmet Ertegun, who was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. Fans waited 27 years for a reunion like this following the passing of drummer John Bonham, and as evidence in this clip, it did not disappoint. For such a long hiatus, Zeppelin was firing on all cylinders throughout the 2.5 hour performance on this evening. Furthermore, the emotion of the night was intensified due to Zeppelin tapping into Bonhams son, Jason Bonham, to fill the big shoes his father had left behind. Robert Plant was as lively as ever, showing his skills as the ultimate frontman, while Jimmy Page’s guitar playing was beyond impressive. John Paul Jones was a true wildcard, adding his thunderous bass and seriously underrated synth skills to the evening. and Jason Bonham did his father proud, perhaps stealing the show with his note-perfect playing on the drum kit. Recorded in 1974 at Headley Grange, this masterpiece found its home on the iconic double album, ‘Physical Graffiti.’ This song was a defining milestone for the band, all four members have agreed that it was one of their greatest musical achievements. Jimmy was asked by The Edge how this riff came to be during the film “It Might Get Loud”, and he explained that it was born out of him experimenting with the DADGAD tuning, which is similar to a sitar tuning. The ending riff to that song was the descending section we hear on “Kashmir” and Jimmy flipped it over on itself to create the riff we know today - truly a hypnotic riff that intoxicates you every time you listen. Enjoy! #LedZeppelin
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THE LAST TIME - Led Zeppelin performing “Kashmir” at the O2 arena in 2007 for what would be one of the most anticipated reunions in rock and roll history. Over 20 million people entered a worldwide lottery for the chance at being one of the lucky 18,000 fans in attendance. This concert was done as a tribute to the great Ahmet Ertegun, who was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. Fans waited 27 years for a reunion like this following the passing of drummer John Bonham, and as evidence in this clip, it did not disappoint. For such a long hiatus, Zeppelin was firing on all cylinders throughout the 2.5 hour performance on this evening. Furthermore, the emotion of the night was intensified due to Zeppelin tapping into Bonhams son, Jason Bonham, to fill the big shoes his father had left behind. Robert Plant was as lively as ever, showing his skills as the ultimate frontman, while Jimmy Page’s guitar playing was beyond impressive. John Paul Jones was a true wildcard, adding his thunderous bass and seriously underrated synth skills to the evening. and Jason Bonham did his father proud, perhaps stealing the show with his note-perfect playing on the drum kit. Recorded in 1974 at Headley Grange, this masterpiece found its home on the iconic double album, ‘Physical Graffiti.’ This song was a defining milestone for the band, all four members have agreed that it was one of their greatest musical achievements. Jimmy was asked by The Edge how this riff came to be during the film “It Might Get Loud”, and he explained that it was born out of him experimenting with the DADGAD tuning, which is similar to a sitar tuning. The ending riff to that song was the descending section we hear on “Kashmir” and Jimmy flipped it over on itself to create the riff we know today - truly a hypnotic riff that intoxicates you every time you listen. Enjoy! #LedZeppelin

🎸 Rock History 🎸

643,911 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Founder and CEO of Cassator Corp, Dmytro Ivanov, addressed the community and shared the latest news about the Sl8 project. For your convenience, a text version of the video message has also been added below. © Hi everyone! I finally had a chance to record a few video messages for you, especially for those who are upset about the price drop or feel that nothing is happening with the project. I want to explain what is happening now and what we are planning to do next. Once again, greetings from Austin, Texas! Let me start with the most obvious point: the price has indeed fallen, and quite significantly. I do not know who is selling tokens at such a price, but I have also occasionally had to sell some of my own tokens when I needed money for various expenses. So I understand why people do it, although, of course, I now regret my own sales. Now let me tell you what we continue to work on and what comes next. First, we are preparing our company to attract traditional investment from angel investors and venture capital firms. Over the past few months, we have significantly updated our website and prepared a professional pitch deck. We are now finalizing a detailed financial model, projections, and other materials required for due diligence and for having meaningful discussions with potential investors in a language they understand. I also want to tell you why I feel that I have been very lucky lately. I live in a skyscraper where several concierges work. I became good friends with one of them. I told him about my company and what we are working on. I also helped him send money to his relatives who live far away through Binance without spending a large amount on fees. That is how we started talking more and became friends. A few months ago, I was picking up some packages from him when he suddenly asked me, “Listen, there are some investor events taking place here. Would you be interested in meeting the people who attend them?” I replied, “Of course I’m interested. Tell me more.” He then sent me the contact details of the person who organizes these events. I reached out to him, and we arranged a meeting. During our conversation, it turned out that we not only lived in the same building, but also on the same floor, just a couple of doors apart. We immediately found common ground and got along very well. I told him what we were working on and why our project was interesting. He was very impressed because our startup is truly unusual and stands out from the other local projects. In terms of scale, we are dozens of times larger than many of them. We met several more times, and eventually invited him to join our team. He is now our Head of Fundraising. He helps us prepare all the necessary documents and build the entire investor relations process: how we will organize meetings, present the company, and position the project to potential investors in Texas and beyond. That is the latest news. I believe we were genuinely very lucky because he is extremely proactive and has direct, personal connections with real investors rather than just remote contacts. His network includes millionaires and even several billionaires. One of them has a net worth of around four billion dollars, and he knows these people personally. I have already attended one of these events. We are now in discussions with several potential investors and have already made some promising progress that could bring us strong results. So we continue moving forward in this direction. We already have potential candidates to launch on our human tokenization platform. These could be truly large and significant launches, but bringing them to life will require a substantial budget. After the launch of my token, we understand that every new project must be prepared and executed at the highest possible level. We cannot allow a situation where something goes wrong or the launch fails to gain proper momentum. That is why every new launch must be thoroughly prepared and have the strongest possible chance of success. So we already have promising candidates to launch, and now we are preparing to raise funding. The last time we raised money from traditional investors in exchange for equity, rather than through crypto, was more than four years ago, almost five. Wish us luck. I believe we will have great news very soon, and it will be important for you as well.
6:27

Founder and CEO of Cassator Corp, Dmytro Ivanov, addressed the community and shared the latest news about the Sl8 project. For your convenience, a text version of the video message has also been added below. © Hi everyone! I finally had a chance to record a few video messages for you, especially for those who are upset about the price drop or feel that nothing is happening with the project. I want to explain what is happening now and what we are planning to do next. Once again, greetings from Austin, Texas! Let me start with the most obvious point: the price has indeed fallen, and quite significantly. I do not know who is selling tokens at such a price, but I have also occasionally had to sell some of my own tokens when I needed money for various expenses. So I understand why people do it, although, of course, I now regret my own sales. Now let me tell you what we continue to work on and what comes next. First, we are preparing our company to attract traditional investment from angel investors and venture capital firms. Over the past few months, we have significantly updated our website and prepared a professional pitch deck. We are now finalizing a detailed financial model, projections, and other materials required for due diligence and for having meaningful discussions with potential investors in a language they understand. I also want to tell you why I feel that I have been very lucky lately. I live in a skyscraper where several concierges work. I became good friends with one of them. I told him about my company and what we are working on. I also helped him send money to his relatives who live far away through Binance without spending a large amount on fees. That is how we started talking more and became friends. A few months ago, I was picking up some packages from him when he suddenly asked me, “Listen, there are some investor events taking place here. Would you be interested in meeting the people who attend them?” I replied, “Of course I’m interested. Tell me more.” He then sent me the contact details of the person who organizes these events. I reached out to him, and we arranged a meeting. During our conversation, it turned out that we not only lived in the same building, but also on the same floor, just a couple of doors apart. We immediately found common ground and got along very well. I told him what we were working on and why our project was interesting. He was very impressed because our startup is truly unusual and stands out from the other local projects. In terms of scale, we are dozens of times larger than many of them. We met several more times, and eventually invited him to join our team. He is now our Head of Fundraising. He helps us prepare all the necessary documents and build the entire investor relations process: how we will organize meetings, present the company, and position the project to potential investors in Texas and beyond. That is the latest news. I believe we were genuinely very lucky because he is extremely proactive and has direct, personal connections with real investors rather than just remote contacts. His network includes millionaires and even several billionaires. One of them has a net worth of around four billion dollars, and he knows these people personally. I have already attended one of these events. We are now in discussions with several potential investors and have already made some promising progress that could bring us strong results. So we continue moving forward in this direction. We already have potential candidates to launch on our human tokenization platform. These could be truly large and significant launches, but bringing them to life will require a substantial budget. After the launch of my token, we understand that every new project must be prepared and executed at the highest possible level. We cannot allow a situation where something goes wrong or the launch fails to gain proper momentum. That is why every new launch must be thoroughly prepared and have the strongest possible chance of success. So we already have promising candidates to launch, and now we are preparing to raise funding. The last time we raised money from traditional investors in exchange for equity, rather than through crypto, was more than four years ago, almost five. Wish us luck. I believe we will have great news very soon, and it will be important for you as well.

Cassator Corp.

20,578 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

This is a real US Army Air Corps recruiting film, the kind shown in movie theaters during World War II. Young men watched it between features, and on the way out, they were told to stop at the box office and sign up. And thousands of them did, knowing exactly how dangerous it was. This is the story of the generation that answered.. A Night at the Movies Picture the moment. A young man sits in a darkened theater in 1943, somewhere in small-town America. Between the newsreel and the feature, this film flickers onto the screen. Sleek fighters rolling through the clouds. Great bombers thundering into the sky. Men with silver wings on their chests. For a generation of boys who had grown up watching aircraft pass overhead and dreaming of flight, it was everything. The chance to fly, to serve, to be part of the greatest fight of their lives. At the end came the invitation. Stop by the box office on your way out for complete information. One famous recruiting film of the era led more than 150,000 young men to sign up to fly. All across the country, ordinary young men walked out of a movie theater and toward a recruiting desk. Farm boys, factory workers, students, clerks. Most had never flown in their lives. Many had never left their home state. They were about to enter the most dangerous skies on Earth. They Knew the Risks They did not go in blind. By 1943, the young men signing up had a fair idea of what they were choosing. They had read the casualty lists in their local papers. They knew boys from their own towns who had gone up and not come back. Word traveled. Everyone understood that flying in combat was among the most dangerous things a person could do in the entire war. The numbers behind that feeling were staggering. The Eighth Air Force, flying from England, would lose more than 26,000 men killed. That is more fatal casualties than the entire United States Marine Corps suffered in all of World War Two. For the men in the bombers, the air crews, the death rate climbed higher than in almost any other branch of the service. In the darkest stretch of 1943, only about one in four Eighth Air Force bomber crewmen completed a full tour of missions. They knew. And they signed up anyway. The Most Dangerous Skies on Earth What waited for them was a kind of combat no generation had ever faced before. The bomber crews flew in daylight, deep into enemy territory, often before long-range fighter escorts could protect the whole way. They climbed to 25,000 feet, where the air was so thin they needed oxygen to breathe and so cold, around forty below, that exposed skin could freeze in moments. And then the enemy came. German fighters slashing through their formations. Anti-aircraft shells, called flak, bursting all around them, filling the sky with jagged steel. One airman described it as being trapped in a game of Russian roulette. You were going to be hit, he said. It was only a question of where, and when. The fighter pilots faced their own trials, dueling enemy aces, nursing shot-up aircraft home over the sea, taking off again and again knowing the odds caught up with almost everyone eventually. These were boys, many of them still teenagers, doing all of this miles above the earth. They Kept Going Up And here is the thing that should stay with us. They kept going up. A bomber crew might watch the plane beside them explode, see friends fall from the sky, land with their aircraft torn to pieces, and then be told they were flying again the next morning. And they went. Not because they were fearless, but because they had a job to finish and men beside them who were counting on them. They wrote calm letters home so their mothers would not worry. They gave their aircraft cheerful names and painted them on the nose. They found ways to laugh between missions that might kill them. And when the call came, they climbed back into the cockpit. That quiet, stubborn courage, repeated by hundreds of thousands of young men, is what won the war in the air. The Generation That Answered When you watch that old recruiting film now, it is easy to see only the polished images and the confident narrator. But remember what it really was. An invitation, offered to a generation of ordinary young Americans, to step out of a movie theater and into history. And remember that they took it, freely, knowing the price might be everything. Many of them never came home. They are buried under white crosses in England, in France, in Italy, and beneath the seas they flew over. The boys who did come home rarely bragged about it. They went back to their farms and factories and families and quietly built the country we live in now. They were not born heroes. They were just young men in a movie theater, who stood up when their country asked, and answered. This was the story of the generation that answered. I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.
1:07

This is a real US Army Air Corps recruiting film, the kind shown in movie theaters during World War II. Young men watched it between features, and on the way out, they were told to stop at the box office and sign up. And thousands of them did, knowing exactly how dangerous it was. This is the story of the generation that answered.. A Night at the Movies Picture the moment. A young man sits in a darkened theater in 1943, somewhere in small-town America. Between the newsreel and the feature, this film flickers onto the screen. Sleek fighters rolling through the clouds. Great bombers thundering into the sky. Men with silver wings on their chests. For a generation of boys who had grown up watching aircraft pass overhead and dreaming of flight, it was everything. The chance to fly, to serve, to be part of the greatest fight of their lives. At the end came the invitation. Stop by the box office on your way out for complete information. One famous recruiting film of the era led more than 150,000 young men to sign up to fly. All across the country, ordinary young men walked out of a movie theater and toward a recruiting desk. Farm boys, factory workers, students, clerks. Most had never flown in their lives. Many had never left their home state. They were about to enter the most dangerous skies on Earth. They Knew the Risks They did not go in blind. By 1943, the young men signing up had a fair idea of what they were choosing. They had read the casualty lists in their local papers. They knew boys from their own towns who had gone up and not come back. Word traveled. Everyone understood that flying in combat was among the most dangerous things a person could do in the entire war. The numbers behind that feeling were staggering. The Eighth Air Force, flying from England, would lose more than 26,000 men killed. That is more fatal casualties than the entire United States Marine Corps suffered in all of World War Two. For the men in the bombers, the air crews, the death rate climbed higher than in almost any other branch of the service. In the darkest stretch of 1943, only about one in four Eighth Air Force bomber crewmen completed a full tour of missions. They knew. And they signed up anyway. The Most Dangerous Skies on Earth What waited for them was a kind of combat no generation had ever faced before. The bomber crews flew in daylight, deep into enemy territory, often before long-range fighter escorts could protect the whole way. They climbed to 25,000 feet, where the air was so thin they needed oxygen to breathe and so cold, around forty below, that exposed skin could freeze in moments. And then the enemy came. German fighters slashing through their formations. Anti-aircraft shells, called flak, bursting all around them, filling the sky with jagged steel. One airman described it as being trapped in a game of Russian roulette. You were going to be hit, he said. It was only a question of where, and when. The fighter pilots faced their own trials, dueling enemy aces, nursing shot-up aircraft home over the sea, taking off again and again knowing the odds caught up with almost everyone eventually. These were boys, many of them still teenagers, doing all of this miles above the earth. They Kept Going Up And here is the thing that should stay with us. They kept going up. A bomber crew might watch the plane beside them explode, see friends fall from the sky, land with their aircraft torn to pieces, and then be told they were flying again the next morning. And they went. Not because they were fearless, but because they had a job to finish and men beside them who were counting on them. They wrote calm letters home so their mothers would not worry. They gave their aircraft cheerful names and painted them on the nose. They found ways to laugh between missions that might kill them. And when the call came, they climbed back into the cockpit. That quiet, stubborn courage, repeated by hundreds of thousands of young men, is what won the war in the air. The Generation That Answered When you watch that old recruiting film now, it is easy to see only the polished images and the confident narrator. But remember what it really was. An invitation, offered to a generation of ordinary young Americans, to step out of a movie theater and into history. And remember that they took it, freely, knowing the price might be everything. Many of them never came home. They are buried under white crosses in England, in France, in Italy, and beneath the seas they flew over. The boys who did come home rarely bragged about it. They went back to their farms and factories and families and quietly built the country we live in now. They were not born heroes. They were just young men in a movie theater, who stood up when their country asked, and answered. This was the story of the generation that answered. I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.

Untold War Stories

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Cate Blanchett on how she prepared for the role of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's "Aviator" (2004): "Interviewer: How do you deal with the problem of portraying someone like Katharine Hepburn who is so well known? Blanchett: I tried not to look at it like a problem. I tried to look at it as a challenge. But it was more than daunting, it was completely and utterly terrifying. I don’t know that I knew what I had agreed to do. When Martin Scorsese calls you just go into this reverie…I’m such a fan…and so when he asked of course I said yes. Then I realised the consequences but I had agreed to do it. You just have to get on. I find the technical work fascinating. You have to find a balance between paying a homage to her as an actress and being irreverent and serving the script and unlocking the private human being. She was enormously private. Interviewer: There must have been tons of material…books, films, TV interviews…for your homework? Blanchett: There is not a lot of newsreel footage actually. It’s not like now where there’s a lot of interviews with film actors outside the domain of the sound stage. The interview I found most helpful was one she gave in 1973 to Dick Cavett. I had read about that in a biography – and this is the great thing about working with Martin Scorsese, he is so into research and his research team found that TV interview for me. And that became my bible. It was listening to the woman herself, even though her voice had calcified, I think, as had her personality, as she approached or was in her seventies. But watching her be uncomfortable, it was like a gambler looking at another gambler – you could see where the ‘tell’ is. After watching that interview I went back and watched her films and tried to compare the awkward gestures with the gestures that she had as a young actress before she had really crystallised into Hepburn as we know her. Interviewer: What about getting to grips with her distinctive almost iconic voice? Blanchett: It’s a bit like a language lab, if you want to get a feeling for an accent you have to immerse yourself in it. Someone said you can tell if someone has the feeling for an accent because they’ll be able to hesitate in the language. That became very important to me. You learn it technically and then you have to get fluid with it and forget the preparation." ("The Aviator (2004) – Q&A interview with Cate Blanchett", Phase9 Editorial, 2004) P.S: Happy 57th birthday, Cate Blanchett!
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Cate Blanchett on how she prepared for the role of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's "Aviator" (2004): "Interviewer: How do you deal with the problem of portraying someone like Katharine Hepburn who is so well known? Blanchett: I tried not to look at it like a problem. I tried to look at it as a challenge. But it was more than daunting, it was completely and utterly terrifying. I don’t know that I knew what I had agreed to do. When Martin Scorsese calls you just go into this reverie…I’m such a fan…and so when he asked of course I said yes. Then I realised the consequences but I had agreed to do it. You just have to get on. I find the technical work fascinating. You have to find a balance between paying a homage to her as an actress and being irreverent and serving the script and unlocking the private human being. She was enormously private. Interviewer: There must have been tons of material…books, films, TV interviews…for your homework? Blanchett: There is not a lot of newsreel footage actually. It’s not like now where there’s a lot of interviews with film actors outside the domain of the sound stage. The interview I found most helpful was one she gave in 1973 to Dick Cavett. I had read about that in a biography – and this is the great thing about working with Martin Scorsese, he is so into research and his research team found that TV interview for me. And that became my bible. It was listening to the woman herself, even though her voice had calcified, I think, as had her personality, as she approached or was in her seventies. But watching her be uncomfortable, it was like a gambler looking at another gambler – you could see where the ‘tell’ is. After watching that interview I went back and watched her films and tried to compare the awkward gestures with the gestures that she had as a young actress before she had really crystallised into Hepburn as we know her. Interviewer: What about getting to grips with her distinctive almost iconic voice? Blanchett: It’s a bit like a language lab, if you want to get a feeling for an accent you have to immerse yourself in it. Someone said you can tell if someone has the feeling for an accent because they’ll be able to hesitate in the language. That became very important to me. You learn it technically and then you have to get fluid with it and forget the preparation." ("The Aviator (2004) – Q&A interview with Cate Blanchett", Phase9 Editorial, 2004) P.S: Happy 57th birthday, Cate Blanchett!

DepressedBergman

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Just found this write up on Liverpools Boys Pen from 1/2 So the boys who attended Liverpool’s home matches finally had a place they could call home. But it was far from a welcoming home and the kids who supported visiting teams knew better than to go in there. Robbie Ashcroft, who spent many a match watching his team from this vantage points recalls: “The kids who went on the Boys’ Pen were hard. You had to be a survivor even to queue up. You could not show fear. Fear would be pounced on. There were no away fans but the number of scraps before, during and after the match was scary. The Kop was warm and friendly - the Boys’ Pen was angry, aggressive and mean.” Neal Dunkin, author of “Anfield of Dreams” which recounted his life as a Liverpool supporter as both boy and man, described it as a “nest of vipers”. Musician and big LFC fan Peter Hooton remembers that while “The Kop was an all-welcoming society, The Pen – a caged jungle - was a holding ground for frustrated juveniles and sometimes a lonely place for newcomers”. The Pen was also once described as “a horrible place and the inspiration for ‘Lord of the Flies’”. Robbie Ashcroft describes the Pen as “a transit camp to Heaven” and “a rite of passage for any Liverpool kid in the 60s”. He also recalls that “The tradition in the Boys’ Pen was to get in early, try to get to the front and then, if you were hard enough, try to escape. All that effort to get in and all we wanted was to make an escape bid. The Kop was our freedom. . As the Kop filled up the boys in the Pen got braver and braver. One by one kids would make a dash for freedom. Some would climb the railings to the point where they almost met the rafters. They would sway on the top risking broken limbs or being impaled on rusty metal – just because you had to. Sometimes an official would pull the child’s leg to stop him jumping – that always seemed the more dangerous option. The Kop would cheer and chant, a fireman’s blanket of fans would gather to catch the kid and it was all over in seconds. The urchin would leap, the Kop would catch, and the kid would fall to the ground and, like a rat up a sewer, would disappear from view in the blink of an eye. The Kop would let out a mighty roar, the Boys’ Pen would let out a mighty squeal and the next escapee would line up, as the next decoy scrap would begin.” So, these were the little Kopites of the future, the kids who dreamed of the day when they would be old enough, big enough and strong enough to join the adults on the other side of the barbed wire that kept them in their own little corner. Robbie Ashcroft didn’t realise until he had claimed his own ‘spec’ on the Kop that the boys in the Pen were “producing an ear-splitting cacophony of screeching that was painful”. Another supporter with many years’ experience of watching Liverpool at Anfield, Christopher Wood, recalls a momentous occasion when that screeching was not just tolerable but effective. It happened at the home derby with defending champions Everton on 21 November 1970, shortly after the visitors had taken a two-goal lead. Chris was standing in the Paddock in front of The Main Stand: “I was alerted by a sound coming from somewhere to my right. Treble voices from the Boys’ Pen started to chant “No Surrender”, faintly at first and then louder with each repetition as others joined in. Within seconds adult voices from the main terrace were chanting too, drowning out the rallying cry that those lads in the Pen had started. It boomed out in defiance from twenty thousand plus throats young and old. People remember the comeback of November 1970; they remember the goals. But how many remember, as I do, how a bunch of kids refused to allow their blind faith to waver in the face of adversity and began a call to arms that resulted in a famous and emotional victory. The players won the match, but the comeback began in the Boys’ Pen and created a wall of sound that has rarely been matched or bettered.
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Just found this write up on Liverpools Boys Pen from 1/2 So the boys who attended Liverpool’s home matches finally had a place they could call home. But it was far from a welcoming home and the kids who supported visiting teams knew better than to go in there. Robbie Ashcroft, who spent many a match watching his team from this vantage points recalls: “The kids who went on the Boys’ Pen were hard. You had to be a survivor even to queue up. You could not show fear. Fear would be pounced on. There were no away fans but the number of scraps before, during and after the match was scary. The Kop was warm and friendly - the Boys’ Pen was angry, aggressive and mean.” Neal Dunkin, author of “Anfield of Dreams” which recounted his life as a Liverpool supporter as both boy and man, described it as a “nest of vipers”. Musician and big LFC fan Peter Hooton remembers that while “The Kop was an all-welcoming society, The Pen – a caged jungle - was a holding ground for frustrated juveniles and sometimes a lonely place for newcomers”. The Pen was also once described as “a horrible place and the inspiration for ‘Lord of the Flies’”. Robbie Ashcroft describes the Pen as “a transit camp to Heaven” and “a rite of passage for any Liverpool kid in the 60s”. He also recalls that “The tradition in the Boys’ Pen was to get in early, try to get to the front and then, if you were hard enough, try to escape. All that effort to get in and all we wanted was to make an escape bid. The Kop was our freedom. . As the Kop filled up the boys in the Pen got braver and braver. One by one kids would make a dash for freedom. Some would climb the railings to the point where they almost met the rafters. They would sway on the top risking broken limbs or being impaled on rusty metal – just because you had to. Sometimes an official would pull the child’s leg to stop him jumping – that always seemed the more dangerous option. The Kop would cheer and chant, a fireman’s blanket of fans would gather to catch the kid and it was all over in seconds. The urchin would leap, the Kop would catch, and the kid would fall to the ground and, like a rat up a sewer, would disappear from view in the blink of an eye. The Kop would let out a mighty roar, the Boys’ Pen would let out a mighty squeal and the next escapee would line up, as the next decoy scrap would begin.” So, these were the little Kopites of the future, the kids who dreamed of the day when they would be old enough, big enough and strong enough to join the adults on the other side of the barbed wire that kept them in their own little corner. Robbie Ashcroft didn’t realise until he had claimed his own ‘spec’ on the Kop that the boys in the Pen were “producing an ear-splitting cacophony of screeching that was painful”. Another supporter with many years’ experience of watching Liverpool at Anfield, Christopher Wood, recalls a momentous occasion when that screeching was not just tolerable but effective. It happened at the home derby with defending champions Everton on 21 November 1970, shortly after the visitors had taken a two-goal lead. Chris was standing in the Paddock in front of The Main Stand: “I was alerted by a sound coming from somewhere to my right. Treble voices from the Boys’ Pen started to chant “No Surrender”, faintly at first and then louder with each repetition as others joined in. Within seconds adult voices from the main terrace were chanting too, drowning out the rallying cry that those lads in the Pen had started. It boomed out in defiance from twenty thousand plus throats young and old. People remember the comeback of November 1970; they remember the goals. But how many remember, as I do, how a bunch of kids refused to allow their blind faith to waver in the face of adversity and began a call to arms that resulted in a famous and emotional victory. The players won the match, but the comeback began in the Boys’ Pen and created a wall of sound that has rarely been matched or bettered.

Transalpino(official)

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THE LAST TIME - Led Zeppelin performing “Kashmir” at the O2 arena in 2007 for what would be one of the most anticipated reunions in rock and roll history. Over 20 million people entered a worldwide lottery for the chance at being one of the lucky 18,000 fans in attendance. This concert was done as a tribute to the great Ahmet Ertegun, who was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. Fans waited 27 years for a reunion like this following the passing of drummer John Bonham, and as evidence in this clip, it did not disappoint. For such a long hiatus, Zeppelin was firing on all cylinders throughout the 2.5 hour performance on this evening. Furthermore, the emotion of the night was intensified due to Zeppelin tapping into Bonhams son, Jason Bonham, to fill the big shoes his father had left behind. Robert Plant was as lively as ever, showing his skills as the ultimate frontman, while Jimmy Page’s guitar playing was beyond impressive. John Paul Jones was a true wildcard, adding his thunderous bass and seriously underrated synth skills to the evening. and Jason Bonham did his father proud, perhaps stealing the show with his note-perfect playing on the drum kit. Recorded in 1974 at Headley Grange, this masterpiece found its home on the iconic double album, ‘Physical Graffiti.’ This song was a defining milestone for the band, all four members have agreed that it was one of their greatest musical achievements. Jimmy was asked by The Edge how this riff came to be during the film “It Might Get Loud”, and he explained that it was born out of him experimenting with the DADGAD tuning, which is similar to a sitar tuning. Furthermore, he explains he had this song, “Swan Song”, which he had been working on that had a lot of intricate guitar sections on it. The ending riff to that song was the descending section we hear on “Kashmir” and Jimmy flipped it over on itself to create the riff we know today - truly a hypnotic riff that intoxicates you every time you listen. Enjoy!
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THE LAST TIME - Led Zeppelin performing “Kashmir” at the O2 arena in 2007 for what would be one of the most anticipated reunions in rock and roll history. Over 20 million people entered a worldwide lottery for the chance at being one of the lucky 18,000 fans in attendance. This concert was done as a tribute to the great Ahmet Ertegun, who was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. Fans waited 27 years for a reunion like this following the passing of drummer John Bonham, and as evidence in this clip, it did not disappoint. For such a long hiatus, Zeppelin was firing on all cylinders throughout the 2.5 hour performance on this evening. Furthermore, the emotion of the night was intensified due to Zeppelin tapping into Bonhams son, Jason Bonham, to fill the big shoes his father had left behind. Robert Plant was as lively as ever, showing his skills as the ultimate frontman, while Jimmy Page’s guitar playing was beyond impressive. John Paul Jones was a true wildcard, adding his thunderous bass and seriously underrated synth skills to the evening. and Jason Bonham did his father proud, perhaps stealing the show with his note-perfect playing on the drum kit. Recorded in 1974 at Headley Grange, this masterpiece found its home on the iconic double album, ‘Physical Graffiti.’ This song was a defining milestone for the band, all four members have agreed that it was one of their greatest musical achievements. Jimmy was asked by The Edge how this riff came to be during the film “It Might Get Loud”, and he explained that it was born out of him experimenting with the DADGAD tuning, which is similar to a sitar tuning. Furthermore, he explains he had this song, “Swan Song”, which he had been working on that had a lot of intricate guitar sections on it. The ending riff to that song was the descending section we hear on “Kashmir” and Jimmy flipped it over on itself to create the riff we know today - truly a hypnotic riff that intoxicates you every time you listen. Enjoy!

🎸 Rock History 🎸

780,707 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Elon Musk literally sat down for a 45-minute talk with Y Combinator that explains how to build world-changing companies better than any business school on earth. This is the advice he gave a room full of young founders: 1. Don't try to build something great. Try to build something useful. Everyone obsesses over greatness. Musk says that's the wrong target. "I didn't originally think I would build something great. I wanted to try to build something useful. I didn't think I would build anything particularly great. Seemed unlikely, but I wanted to at least try." Aim for useful first. Greatness, if it comes, is a byproduct. 2. When you can't get in the front door, build your own door. Before Musk started his first company, he tried to get a job at Netscape. "I sent my resume into Netscape and nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I'm like, this is ridiculous, I'll just write software myself." He didn't set out to be a founder. He became one because no one would hire him. 3. He slept in the office and showered at the YMCA. The origin of his first company was not glamorous. "We couldn't even afford a place to stay. The office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and showered at the YMCA." He couldn't afford proper internet either, so he drilled a hole through the office floor and ran a cable to the internet provider downstairs. That was the founder of the future richest man on earth. 4. Keep the chips on the table. When Musk sold his first company, he received a $20 million cheque. His bank balance went from $10,000 to $20 million overnight. Most people would have stopped. He put almost all of it straight back into his next company. "I kept the chips on the table." He did the same thing decades later, over and over. He hates money sitting idle. Money is fuel for the next mission. 5. Start with the mission, then work backwards to make it a business. Musk didn't start SpaceX to make money. He went on the NASA website to find out when humans were going to Mars, and there was no plan. So he decided to build one. "There had been no prior example of a rocket startup succeeding. A small chance of success is better than no chance of success." The mission came first. The business model came later. 6. He started SpaceX expecting to fail. He is brutally honest about the odds. "SpaceX started in mid-2002 expecting to fail. Probably 90% chance of failing. When recruiting people, I said, we're probably going to die, but small chance we might not die." The first three launches failed. The fourth one worked with no money left. "If the fourth launch hadn't worked, it would have been curtains. We made it by the skin of our teeth." 7. Break every problem down to physics. This is the core of how Musk thinks. "First principles means break things down to the fundamental elements that are most likely to be true, then reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy." His example is rockets. Everyone priced them based on what old rockets cost. Musk asked what a rocket is actually made of, priced the raw metals, and found the materials were only 1-2% of the historical price. The rest was inefficiency he could attack. 8. When told something takes 24 months, break it down and do it in six. Last year xAI needed a giant computer to train its AI. Suppliers said it would take 18 to 24 months. "It's like, well, we need to get that done in six months or we won't be competitive." So he broke it into parts. Needed a building, so he found an old factory. Needed power, so he rented generators. Needed cooling, so he rented a quarter of America's mobile cooling capacity. He slept in the data centre and ran cabling himself. It got done. 9. Watch your ego-to-ability ratio. Musk's single sharpest piece of advice for young founders is about staying honest with yourself. "A major failure mode is when your ego-to-ability ratio gets too high. Then you break the feedback loop to reality." Keep the ego small, internalise responsibility for everything, and stay ruthlessly connected to what's actually true. "You want to close the loop on reality hard. That's a super big deal." 10. Chase work, not glory. His closing philosophy ties it all together. "It's so hard to be useful. The area under the curve of total utility is how useful you've been to your fellow human beings times how many people. If you aspire to do true work, your probability of success is much higher. Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work." He was ridiculed for years. The press called him "internet guy attempting to build a rocket company." He agreed it sounded absurd. He did it anyway, because a small chance of doing something useful beat no chance at all. Here's the thing though.... Musk became the most followed founder alive because everything he does happens in public. The launches, the failures, the talks like this one. The companies made him powerful. The personal brand made his every word travel around the world before he finishes saying it. We build massive distribution and grow personal brands on X and beyond without our clients lifting a finger. If you're a founder or VC looking for that kind of exposure, book a call below. We average 1.5M views a week.
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Elon Musk literally sat down for a 45-minute talk with Y Combinator that explains how to build world-changing companies better than any business school on earth. This is the advice he gave a room full of young founders: 1. Don't try to build something great. Try to build something useful. Everyone obsesses over greatness. Musk says that's the wrong target. "I didn't originally think I would build something great. I wanted to try to build something useful. I didn't think I would build anything particularly great. Seemed unlikely, but I wanted to at least try." Aim for useful first. Greatness, if it comes, is a byproduct. 2. When you can't get in the front door, build your own door. Before Musk started his first company, he tried to get a job at Netscape. "I sent my resume into Netscape and nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I'm like, this is ridiculous, I'll just write software myself." He didn't set out to be a founder. He became one because no one would hire him. 3. He slept in the office and showered at the YMCA. The origin of his first company was not glamorous. "We couldn't even afford a place to stay. The office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and showered at the YMCA." He couldn't afford proper internet either, so he drilled a hole through the office floor and ran a cable to the internet provider downstairs. That was the founder of the future richest man on earth. 4. Keep the chips on the table. When Musk sold his first company, he received a $20 million cheque. His bank balance went from $10,000 to $20 million overnight. Most people would have stopped. He put almost all of it straight back into his next company. "I kept the chips on the table." He did the same thing decades later, over and over. He hates money sitting idle. Money is fuel for the next mission. 5. Start with the mission, then work backwards to make it a business. Musk didn't start SpaceX to make money. He went on the NASA website to find out when humans were going to Mars, and there was no plan. So he decided to build one. "There had been no prior example of a rocket startup succeeding. A small chance of success is better than no chance of success." The mission came first. The business model came later. 6. He started SpaceX expecting to fail. He is brutally honest about the odds. "SpaceX started in mid-2002 expecting to fail. Probably 90% chance of failing. When recruiting people, I said, we're probably going to die, but small chance we might not die." The first three launches failed. The fourth one worked with no money left. "If the fourth launch hadn't worked, it would have been curtains. We made it by the skin of our teeth." 7. Break every problem down to physics. This is the core of how Musk thinks. "First principles means break things down to the fundamental elements that are most likely to be true, then reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy." His example is rockets. Everyone priced them based on what old rockets cost. Musk asked what a rocket is actually made of, priced the raw metals, and found the materials were only 1-2% of the historical price. The rest was inefficiency he could attack. 8. When told something takes 24 months, break it down and do it in six. Last year xAI needed a giant computer to train its AI. Suppliers said it would take 18 to 24 months. "It's like, well, we need to get that done in six months or we won't be competitive." So he broke it into parts. Needed a building, so he found an old factory. Needed power, so he rented generators. Needed cooling, so he rented a quarter of America's mobile cooling capacity. He slept in the data centre and ran cabling himself. It got done. 9. Watch your ego-to-ability ratio. Musk's single sharpest piece of advice for young founders is about staying honest with yourself. "A major failure mode is when your ego-to-ability ratio gets too high. Then you break the feedback loop to reality." Keep the ego small, internalise responsibility for everything, and stay ruthlessly connected to what's actually true. "You want to close the loop on reality hard. That's a super big deal." 10. Chase work, not glory. His closing philosophy ties it all together. "It's so hard to be useful. The area under the curve of total utility is how useful you've been to your fellow human beings times how many people. If you aspire to do true work, your probability of success is much higher. Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work." He was ridiculed for years. The press called him "internet guy attempting to build a rocket company." He agreed it sounded absurd. He did it anyway, because a small chance of doing something useful beat no chance at all. Here's the thing though.... Musk became the most followed founder alive because everything he does happens in public. The launches, the failures, the talks like this one. The companies made him powerful. The personal brand made his every word travel around the world before he finishes saying it. We build massive distribution and grow personal brands on X and beyond without our clients lifting a finger. If you're a founder or VC looking for that kind of exposure, book a call below. We average 1.5M views a week.

Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

665,646 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

The Panacea for All Hindu-Muslim, India-Pakistan Problems: Ban Islamic Invitation or “Deen Ki Dawat” according to Bhupendra Yadav B/G of the video: This video from about 5-6 years back when a Quranic expert Javed Ahmad Ghamidi was asked a question by Rehan Allahwala about how “Deen ki Dawat” was force-fed to me by Muslims/Pakistanis when I began interacting more with them B/G of the post: On a space hosted by Saira Wasim / One&Only (@QaziFa2000) where these honourable ladies originally from Pakistan but living overseas got inspired to launch a dialogue to promote “building bridges and not walls”, when asked to speak on the topic, I first contended that we must agree that “indeed there was hate” between Hindus-Muslims and Indians-Pakistanis, contrary to what I believe is a hollow/lazy left-liberal inspired argument/presumption that Hindus-Muslims actually love each other & instead “hate” has been created & proliferated by politicians on both sides. I could notice, expectedly so, it raised a few eyebrows even as I was finishing my point. Well, truth can be a bitter pill but since when did medicines start tasting great Upon being asked to offer solutions for the distrust and resolving the centuries-old conflict, based on my past experiences, I suggested that “Islamic Invitation” or #DeenKiDawat be outlawed & made a punishable offence As soon as I made this point, while the hosts heard me out, all hell broke loose among other speakers & a few celebrity X handles going around X spaces as (drum rolls) Ex-Muslims/Atheists began falling off their chairs The reaction did not surprise me personally as I had experienced constant bombarding of Deen Ki Dawat perhaps as it was so central to Islam. However, it led me to strengthen my resolve to fight the subtle/subtler forms of Pan-Islamism even more staunchly & got me entrenched in my faith as a Hindu and in Hindutva. It was this that led me to the likes of the late Tarek Fatah (Tarek Fatah), perhaps the only good that could come out of it. But not everyone is like me. I therefore appeal to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to ban #DeenKiDawat in India it as young Indians with mobile phones/instagram accounts will not only be vulnerable but unprepared to this sort of attack from Pakistanis By the way, I am not the only one who has experienced this nightmare; in another case this man who worked on #TheKashmirFiles (Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri), a super hit Indian movie shot in Kashmir came to my space and mentioned that a female actress of Hindu background was told during the shoot of the film that she should offer a namaz by another lady on the sets in Kashmir. When told that she was not a Hindu, the other lady shot back saying “Namaaz could be read by anyone” and that it would only bring positive change The Proof: In countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, where “Deen ki Dawat” is allowed and legal, look at what has happened to the minorities who have to bear the brunt of Islamic preachers like Mian Mithoo and Peer Sirhindi who legitimise forceful abduction / rape of Hindu and other minority girls only eventually to whitewash the whole episode as a wilful / self-driven desire to convert to Islam (Rinkle Kumari became Faryal Shah) / take a #Muslim husband subsequently. In India, where Deen ki Dawat is not banned yet, the Muslim manipulation of such matters haven’t worked well thanks to BJP’s rule at the Center but in states where Muslims enjoy either a majority or political patronage by the Congress or one of the regional parties, the chaos between the communities shoots up where the victims are mostly Hindus Conclusion: For lasting peace and harmony between Pakistanis-Indians, Hindus-Muslims, ban Deen ki Dawat, instantly 70-80% of problems will be resolved I, Bhupendra Yadav, humbly suggest the Hindus stay Hindus and Muslims stay Muslims until Qayamat. Baad ki baad mein dekhi jayegi #PMModi #BanDeenKiDawat #HinduMuslimKeJhagday #HinduMuslimKeMaslay #IndiaPakistankeMaslay
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The Panacea for All Hindu-Muslim, India-Pakistan Problems: Ban Islamic Invitation or “Deen Ki Dawat” according to Bhupendra Yadav B/G of the video: This video from about 5-6 years back when a Quranic expert Javed Ahmad Ghamidi was asked a question by Rehan Allahwala about how “Deen ki Dawat” was force-fed to me by Muslims/Pakistanis when I began interacting more with them B/G of the post: On a space hosted by Saira Wasim / One&Only (@QaziFa2000) where these honourable ladies originally from Pakistan but living overseas got inspired to launch a dialogue to promote “building bridges and not walls”, when asked to speak on the topic, I first contended that we must agree that “indeed there was hate” between Hindus-Muslims and Indians-Pakistanis, contrary to what I believe is a hollow/lazy left-liberal inspired argument/presumption that Hindus-Muslims actually love each other & instead “hate” has been created & proliferated by politicians on both sides. I could notice, expectedly so, it raised a few eyebrows even as I was finishing my point. Well, truth can be a bitter pill but since when did medicines start tasting great Upon being asked to offer solutions for the distrust and resolving the centuries-old conflict, based on my past experiences, I suggested that “Islamic Invitation” or #DeenKiDawat be outlawed & made a punishable offence As soon as I made this point, while the hosts heard me out, all hell broke loose among other speakers & a few celebrity X handles going around X spaces as (drum rolls) Ex-Muslims/Atheists began falling off their chairs The reaction did not surprise me personally as I had experienced constant bombarding of Deen Ki Dawat perhaps as it was so central to Islam. However, it led me to strengthen my resolve to fight the subtle/subtler forms of Pan-Islamism even more staunchly & got me entrenched in my faith as a Hindu and in Hindutva. It was this that led me to the likes of the late Tarek Fatah (Tarek Fatah), perhaps the only good that could come out of it. But not everyone is like me. I therefore appeal to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to ban #DeenKiDawat in India it as young Indians with mobile phones/instagram accounts will not only be vulnerable but unprepared to this sort of attack from Pakistanis By the way, I am not the only one who has experienced this nightmare; in another case this man who worked on #TheKashmirFiles (Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri), a super hit Indian movie shot in Kashmir came to my space and mentioned that a female actress of Hindu background was told during the shoot of the film that she should offer a namaz by another lady on the sets in Kashmir. When told that she was not a Hindu, the other lady shot back saying “Namaaz could be read by anyone” and that it would only bring positive change The Proof: In countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, where “Deen ki Dawat” is allowed and legal, look at what has happened to the minorities who have to bear the brunt of Islamic preachers like Mian Mithoo and Peer Sirhindi who legitimise forceful abduction / rape of Hindu and other minority girls only eventually to whitewash the whole episode as a wilful / self-driven desire to convert to Islam (Rinkle Kumari became Faryal Shah) / take a #Muslim husband subsequently. In India, where Deen ki Dawat is not banned yet, the Muslim manipulation of such matters haven’t worked well thanks to BJP’s rule at the Center but in states where Muslims enjoy either a majority or political patronage by the Congress or one of the regional parties, the chaos between the communities shoots up where the victims are mostly Hindus Conclusion: For lasting peace and harmony between Pakistanis-Indians, Hindus-Muslims, ban Deen ki Dawat, instantly 70-80% of problems will be resolved I, Bhupendra Yadav, humbly suggest the Hindus stay Hindus and Muslims stay Muslims until Qayamat. Baad ki baad mein dekhi jayegi #PMModi #BanDeenKiDawat #HinduMuslimKeJhagday #HinduMuslimKeMaslay #IndiaPakistankeMaslay

🇮🇱 Bhupender Yadav

335,417 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

The most epic 13 minute AI rant I've heard in 2026 PS: My parent's heard this when I was playing it in the car and thought Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin went OFF like Stephen A Smith does on first take PPS: Full transcript below [17:00] Harry Stebbings: I I just wanted to ask Jason, if the people that we want are fundamentally different, the developers that we used to hire, we don't because AI writes the code for us. The marketers we don't want, the sales people we don't want—who who do we want genuinely? Like what is the attractive profile? Because your Anthropic’s and your OpenAIs are hiring, so so what are the people that we want in the companies of the future? [17:18] Jason Lemkin: Look, I know it sounds trite, but but the answer is simple. It's just the expression each year changes. We want folks that are genuinely AI fluent. It's pretty simple. Now you know, maybe last year we called them prompt engineers, right? That used to be a job. I don't know if you remember that actually used to be the hottest job on planet earth. Now no one needs a prompt engineer because it's pretty easy to prompt all these tools. That job died. Okay. Um and now we need go-to-market engineers. Um I think that job's going to die. We need—everyone needs so many forward deployed engineers. Like you can't hire enough forward deployed engineers. But uh you know um but Palantir just announced in whatever their their big their big event—they've gotten their deployment times down over 90% with forward deployed engineers. So that may become—so the this wave of disruption for the titles and the specificity, it's also exhaustingly accelerating. But it's really simple. You meet anyone for any role—sales, marketing, engineering, product, QA—they're they're either they're either they can't keep all of the ways they use AI to accelerate their job from spewing out of their mouth, or they're staring at you. It's there's nowhere in the middle. Like, and the person that comes in and says—it's it's it sounds Captain Obvious—but like, you know, you just had the whatever from Lovable, the the marketing head that was super popular on the show, right? She's just spewing AI-native insights into Lovable, right? It's not that complicated. You hire her, Elena, or whatever it is. You just hire her. It doesn't matter whether she's still in college or a junior or a senior or a middler, a left or right. And honestly, if you interview people, I would say of all even of the best startups I've invested in, maybe 30% of the management team meets this standard at best. 30%. Maybe less. And of the interviews I do in general, it's single-digit percents. It's just and in in that sense, it's the same as ever. Like you either lower the bar in hiring or you hire someone that's actually great. And someone that's actually great is so far ahead of you in how to apply to to employ the efficiencies of AI in their role, your jaw falls on the table. The difference is we used to need warm bodies. That's what's changing. We used to need warm bodies to answer the call, to do QA, to do code review, to to get the blue pixel to go from the upper left to the lower right. You laugh, but you need you literally needed to brute force this with humans. With AI, every day that goes by, the AI—you do not need brute force human beings on your team. And that's another reason they're shrinking. Why are all these new companies so efficient? They're just not brute forcing things with humans. They're just not. They're choosing not to. And so these team—all the brute forcers out there—everyone talks about how bloated teams got in 2021. I don't agree with that. I think they got as big as they needed to be when growth was high and you needed humans to do everything. All you look at these teams that that doubled—well if growth continued at 60% like the rate in early 2021 for 5 years or can help me do the math and every single thing a software company did required a human. You were understaffed by your 2021 headcount. You'd be sitting here in 2026. You every office in SoMa would be triple packed and you there wouldn't be enough humans to staff your company. It's just the world changed. [20:33] Harry Stebbings: Jason, you live on the bleeding edge. I think me and Rory see that and I think the world sees that when they hear you every week in terms of how you run SaaS. For all of the CEOs and execs who listen to the show, what would you advise them in terms of determining whether someone is AI fluent when they meet them for jobs, for talent? [20:51] Jason Lemkin: Here's I realized I was just asked this. I just did a review with a super fast startup growing just crossing 100 million and I was asked this question. And one of my favorite executives, I thought his answer was pretty dated and because he gave me an answer that was about 6 months old. The answer 6 months old is: "I look for folks in my team, I look for you know at what tools they play with." Okay, that was a great answer in like summer of 2025. Okay, I tried Lovable last week. Okay, the answer in 2026 is: "What commercial AI tool have you brought into your organization this month?" That's the test. Anyone that is on the bleeding edge that you would want to hire—now there are so many great products in the market. Okay, there is no excuse in any role to have not brought one tool a month into your organization. Okay, there—now there's going to be better and better tools and better and better products as the year goes on. What's the one you did? And you will see folks with their deer in the headlights to this question. What what sales tool? What marketing tool? What product tool? What engineering tool? What did you bring in? Why did you pick it? How does it working? Because if you're at remotely at the cutting edge, you're all over this. You're looking for the next agentic tools that will radically improve how you do business. This is—you think everyone thinks SaaS is at the bleeding edge, right? You know, you know, all we do is we're just looking for the tools and trying them. Okay? Okay, we're one year ahead of everybody else because we did the simplest thing in the world. Like we tried the tools early and we trained them. We trained them for a month. Okay, I'll give you—want hear a horrible example from this week? Super hot AI company valued at 6 billion. Okay, I'm not going to name it. Um, this week yesterday told us we had to quadruple what we spent on their product. Okay, their agent told us, right? And why did this happen? Okay. Well, at this $6 billion company, no one had trained the agent on its pricing properly. No one had tested it. They said, "Well, well, we've been in beta." And we said, "Well, when did the beta launch? A year ago." Okay, these are people asleep at at the wheel. You want somebody who the instant this comes up, they exactly know what the issue is. And "Hey, when I was at Lovable Replit, we trained the agent. This is how we did it. I brought in this tool. I brought in this tool that that Rory invested in last week. It solved all these issues." That's what you want to hear. And if they haven't brought in a tool in the last 30 days, at least deeply evaluated it. I don't really care whether they bought it, but gone so far down the funnel they can tell you—pick whatever tool: Fixie, Regie, GC, AIGC—I don't care how you went through it, you looked at it, you can tell me the eight ways it would improve the productivity of your business and three you didn't. Just don't hire that person because they're going to run your company to the ground. This is the job today. The job today is not to screw around on ChatGPT and to be a prompt engineer. The job today is to bring the best AI and agentic products into your organization and leverage all the hard work that the engineers have done building those products. That's your job. You don't have to screw around. You don't have to be a prompt engineer anymore. You have to be an agent deployment expert. A—this is the new job we're making up today. An Agentic Deployment Expert. That's your job from C-level to junior. Agentic Deployment Expert. Don't hire anybody else. You're going to regret it. They're going to stare at the camera. He's good. Stare at the camera. He's honorable. We could probably just I could slip away, get a coffee, and come back. No. And I I sound exasperated, Rory. And I—but the reason I am is I can just see I can see my best companies doing it. And I can see some companies I've invested in not doing it. And I want to cry. I just want to cry when they have no ADs on their team. I just—like you're flushing your years of your life down the toilet by not approaching your how you're building this company this way. [24:33] Rory: Yes. And at the risk of being positive, it's worth pointing out two things he didn't say. Well, something implicit why he said—Jason didn't do the only hire, you know, he didn't commit the um employment law, I think it's a civil penalty of saying only employ people below X who get the new new thing because he implicitly said anyone can do it provided you're willing to learn. And I think that's the big aha that's one of the positive statements to make here right? Look and I think it applies—I'm always wary of being "Hey, coming across, hey this this is the things that you all have to do." I think it applies to everyone including investors right? I mean I will say I have found that unless you're willing to invest the time learning these tools you actually shouldn't be investing in them. One of my partners Andy had this expression: "You know, if you decide you want to stop learning new things you probably should retire within 6 to 12 months and never write another check again." Maybe that's down to 3 to 6 months at this stage, right? And I think, you know, it's— [25:27] Harry Stebbings: Yeah, I actually I actually had a meeting with mine and Jason's biggest investor the other day and I—pretend he's not here—I said I think he's the most equipped investor for this generation of investing because I don't think anyone quite sits at the bleeding edge like he does on the investor side. [25:42] Harry Stebbings: Why in terms of using the equip stuff? Yeah. Yeah. In terms of using the stuff, understanding understanding bottlenecks, constraints. For sure. [25:51] Jason Lemkin: But can I just add one point? We can just cuz it's so important if it helps people. Okay, we are—and thank you Harry. We're going through these phases. Okay, and when AI started to blow up for real for us, uh call it early 2024, right? Maybe late '23, I wasn't equipped. It was too technical. I wasn't going to go in and figure out—I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to deal with a massively hallucinating LLM API and turn that and turn that into something magical. Kudos to investors and others that that got it in early '23, '22. I mean I remember I—I guess it was maybe SaaStr Annual '23. I was with David Sacks and I did a Q&A and I said, "How you thinking about AI at Craft?" He's like, "Well we're all in. We want 80% of '23 of investments to be AI." I'm like, "Great but like show me the show me the great ones in market." He's like, "They're all prototypes. We're all they're all they're all proof of concepts but we're all in anyway." That's where you kind of had to be in '23 if you weren't investing at like the LLM level. Okay, I wasn't smart enough. Then we went through this weird-ass prompt engineer era where like you you could torture these products to do something good, right? But you had to torture them. You had to like craft these crazy things that made no sense. Now we are in the era where mere ordinarily smart generalists can make these tools do magical things. And literally I go to these meetings and people be like, "I don't know how to like this is so scary. I don't know how to do this." And we show them our backends. Do you know how to do a workflow generator? Do you know how to do a a decision tree? Like we've been building these since software in the '90s. Okay, if you—I can show you all of our agents. The how they work is novel. They do have to be trained. You can't be lazy and have these agents work. But honestly, the the UI, the UX, the way we interact with them, it's just software. And so my point is: Pick yourself off the ground. This is your time now. If you felt lost in AI era, if you felt like you're behind, you don't understand what all these people are saying on X and Twitter and their Claude and and their and talking about all the 4.6 point Nano point and it's over—like you just it's not your world. This is your time. This is your time for the generalist that knows how to use software tools really really well. And I—this is my last point but it's so important. If ever in your recent life—and this is why you could be all you need to be is young at heart to Rory's point—if in the last three to five years you have successfully deployed a piece of enterprise software of any sort you yourself, not some agency you hired, but if you have deployed it, you can deploy any agentic tool. Any. And you can become the hero in your company and you can become the hero in your functional area. But I watch folks—I'm literally helping a company now that they're adding hundreds of sales folks this year with a new pre-IPO COO—he's not hasn't brought in a single tool, totally scared of it. Okay, it's not that hard. Did you use SalesLoft? Did you use Outreach? Did you use HubSpot? Do you know these tools? If you can deploy these tools, you can deploy a world-changing AI agent. And so this is the time for people like the folks that that were shut out of the AI revolution right now. The generalist folks that are not that know how to deploy software that don't even know how to build software. Like vibe coding for me was folks who knew how to build software, but you didn't have to be an engineer. Now, you just need to know how to deploy software to win with AI agents. That's all you need to know. So many people have these skills and they're petrified of AI. "How did you do that? How did you deploy an AI BDR?" Well, we bought a piece of software, we figured out how it worked for a day, we set it up in an afternoon, and then and then we did spend 30 months training it, which you didn't do with this old software because in the old days, we just had to manually upload all the data, right? And there was no training. The the only non-intuitive part is training these things. And it's it's it's just work. So that's why when I see folks on the management team not doing this, there's no excuse. You do not need to be technical to win with AI agents in Q2 of '26. You do not need to be even 1% technical. Not at all. So it's your time. Or you're going to get laid off. Or you're going to get laid off because you're not going to matter.
13:04

The most epic 13 minute AI rant I've heard in 2026 PS: My parent's heard this when I was playing it in the car and thought Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin went OFF like Stephen A Smith does on first take PPS: Full transcript below [17:00] Harry Stebbings: I I just wanted to ask Jason, if the people that we want are fundamentally different, the developers that we used to hire, we don't because AI writes the code for us. The marketers we don't want, the sales people we don't want—who who do we want genuinely? Like what is the attractive profile? Because your Anthropic’s and your OpenAIs are hiring, so so what are the people that we want in the companies of the future? [17:18] Jason Lemkin: Look, I know it sounds trite, but but the answer is simple. It's just the expression each year changes. We want folks that are genuinely AI fluent. It's pretty simple. Now you know, maybe last year we called them prompt engineers, right? That used to be a job. I don't know if you remember that actually used to be the hottest job on planet earth. Now no one needs a prompt engineer because it's pretty easy to prompt all these tools. That job died. Okay. Um and now we need go-to-market engineers. Um I think that job's going to die. We need—everyone needs so many forward deployed engineers. Like you can't hire enough forward deployed engineers. But uh you know um but Palantir just announced in whatever their their big their big event—they've gotten their deployment times down over 90% with forward deployed engineers. So that may become—so the this wave of disruption for the titles and the specificity, it's also exhaustingly accelerating. But it's really simple. You meet anyone for any role—sales, marketing, engineering, product, QA—they're they're either they're either they can't keep all of the ways they use AI to accelerate their job from spewing out of their mouth, or they're staring at you. It's there's nowhere in the middle. Like, and the person that comes in and says—it's it's it sounds Captain Obvious—but like, you know, you just had the whatever from Lovable, the the marketing head that was super popular on the show, right? She's just spewing AI-native insights into Lovable, right? It's not that complicated. You hire her, Elena, or whatever it is. You just hire her. It doesn't matter whether she's still in college or a junior or a senior or a middler, a left or right. And honestly, if you interview people, I would say of all even of the best startups I've invested in, maybe 30% of the management team meets this standard at best. 30%. Maybe less. And of the interviews I do in general, it's single-digit percents. It's just and in in that sense, it's the same as ever. Like you either lower the bar in hiring or you hire someone that's actually great. And someone that's actually great is so far ahead of you in how to apply to to employ the efficiencies of AI in their role, your jaw falls on the table. The difference is we used to need warm bodies. That's what's changing. We used to need warm bodies to answer the call, to do QA, to do code review, to to get the blue pixel to go from the upper left to the lower right. You laugh, but you need you literally needed to brute force this with humans. With AI, every day that goes by, the AI—you do not need brute force human beings on your team. And that's another reason they're shrinking. Why are all these new companies so efficient? They're just not brute forcing things with humans. They're just not. They're choosing not to. And so these team—all the brute forcers out there—everyone talks about how bloated teams got in 2021. I don't agree with that. I think they got as big as they needed to be when growth was high and you needed humans to do everything. All you look at these teams that that doubled—well if growth continued at 60% like the rate in early 2021 for 5 years or can help me do the math and every single thing a software company did required a human. You were understaffed by your 2021 headcount. You'd be sitting here in 2026. You every office in SoMa would be triple packed and you there wouldn't be enough humans to staff your company. It's just the world changed. [20:33] Harry Stebbings: Jason, you live on the bleeding edge. I think me and Rory see that and I think the world sees that when they hear you every week in terms of how you run SaaS. For all of the CEOs and execs who listen to the show, what would you advise them in terms of determining whether someone is AI fluent when they meet them for jobs, for talent? [20:51] Jason Lemkin: Here's I realized I was just asked this. I just did a review with a super fast startup growing just crossing 100 million and I was asked this question. And one of my favorite executives, I thought his answer was pretty dated and because he gave me an answer that was about 6 months old. The answer 6 months old is: "I look for folks in my team, I look for you know at what tools they play with." Okay, that was a great answer in like summer of 2025. Okay, I tried Lovable last week. Okay, the answer in 2026 is: "What commercial AI tool have you brought into your organization this month?" That's the test. Anyone that is on the bleeding edge that you would want to hire—now there are so many great products in the market. Okay, there is no excuse in any role to have not brought one tool a month into your organization. Okay, there—now there's going to be better and better tools and better and better products as the year goes on. What's the one you did? And you will see folks with their deer in the headlights to this question. What what sales tool? What marketing tool? What product tool? What engineering tool? What did you bring in? Why did you pick it? How does it working? Because if you're at remotely at the cutting edge, you're all over this. You're looking for the next agentic tools that will radically improve how you do business. This is—you think everyone thinks SaaS is at the bleeding edge, right? You know, you know, all we do is we're just looking for the tools and trying them. Okay? Okay, we're one year ahead of everybody else because we did the simplest thing in the world. Like we tried the tools early and we trained them. We trained them for a month. Okay, I'll give you—want hear a horrible example from this week? Super hot AI company valued at 6 billion. Okay, I'm not going to name it. Um, this week yesterday told us we had to quadruple what we spent on their product. Okay, their agent told us, right? And why did this happen? Okay. Well, at this $6 billion company, no one had trained the agent on its pricing properly. No one had tested it. They said, "Well, well, we've been in beta." And we said, "Well, when did the beta launch? A year ago." Okay, these are people asleep at at the wheel. You want somebody who the instant this comes up, they exactly know what the issue is. And "Hey, when I was at Lovable Replit, we trained the agent. This is how we did it. I brought in this tool. I brought in this tool that that Rory invested in last week. It solved all these issues." That's what you want to hear. And if they haven't brought in a tool in the last 30 days, at least deeply evaluated it. I don't really care whether they bought it, but gone so far down the funnel they can tell you—pick whatever tool: Fixie, Regie, GC, AIGC—I don't care how you went through it, you looked at it, you can tell me the eight ways it would improve the productivity of your business and three you didn't. Just don't hire that person because they're going to run your company to the ground. This is the job today. The job today is not to screw around on ChatGPT and to be a prompt engineer. The job today is to bring the best AI and agentic products into your organization and leverage all the hard work that the engineers have done building those products. That's your job. You don't have to screw around. You don't have to be a prompt engineer anymore. You have to be an agent deployment expert. A—this is the new job we're making up today. An Agentic Deployment Expert. That's your job from C-level to junior. Agentic Deployment Expert. Don't hire anybody else. You're going to regret it. They're going to stare at the camera. He's good. Stare at the camera. He's honorable. We could probably just I could slip away, get a coffee, and come back. No. And I I sound exasperated, Rory. And I—but the reason I am is I can just see I can see my best companies doing it. And I can see some companies I've invested in not doing it. And I want to cry. I just want to cry when they have no ADs on their team. I just—like you're flushing your years of your life down the toilet by not approaching your how you're building this company this way. [24:33] Rory: Yes. And at the risk of being positive, it's worth pointing out two things he didn't say. Well, something implicit why he said—Jason didn't do the only hire, you know, he didn't commit the um employment law, I think it's a civil penalty of saying only employ people below X who get the new new thing because he implicitly said anyone can do it provided you're willing to learn. And I think that's the big aha that's one of the positive statements to make here right? Look and I think it applies—I'm always wary of being "Hey, coming across, hey this this is the things that you all have to do." I think it applies to everyone including investors right? I mean I will say I have found that unless you're willing to invest the time learning these tools you actually shouldn't be investing in them. One of my partners Andy had this expression: "You know, if you decide you want to stop learning new things you probably should retire within 6 to 12 months and never write another check again." Maybe that's down to 3 to 6 months at this stage, right? And I think, you know, it's— [25:27] Harry Stebbings: Yeah, I actually I actually had a meeting with mine and Jason's biggest investor the other day and I—pretend he's not here—I said I think he's the most equipped investor for this generation of investing because I don't think anyone quite sits at the bleeding edge like he does on the investor side. [25:42] Harry Stebbings: Why in terms of using the equip stuff? Yeah. Yeah. In terms of using the stuff, understanding understanding bottlenecks, constraints. For sure. [25:51] Jason Lemkin: But can I just add one point? We can just cuz it's so important if it helps people. Okay, we are—and thank you Harry. We're going through these phases. Okay, and when AI started to blow up for real for us, uh call it early 2024, right? Maybe late '23, I wasn't equipped. It was too technical. I wasn't going to go in and figure out—I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to deal with a massively hallucinating LLM API and turn that and turn that into something magical. Kudos to investors and others that that got it in early '23, '22. I mean I remember I—I guess it was maybe SaaStr Annual '23. I was with David Sacks and I did a Q&A and I said, "How you thinking about AI at Craft?" He's like, "Well we're all in. We want 80% of '23 of investments to be AI." I'm like, "Great but like show me the show me the great ones in market." He's like, "They're all prototypes. We're all they're all they're all proof of concepts but we're all in anyway." That's where you kind of had to be in '23 if you weren't investing at like the LLM level. Okay, I wasn't smart enough. Then we went through this weird-ass prompt engineer era where like you you could torture these products to do something good, right? But you had to torture them. You had to like craft these crazy things that made no sense. Now we are in the era where mere ordinarily smart generalists can make these tools do magical things. And literally I go to these meetings and people be like, "I don't know how to like this is so scary. I don't know how to do this." And we show them our backends. Do you know how to do a workflow generator? Do you know how to do a a decision tree? Like we've been building these since software in the '90s. Okay, if you—I can show you all of our agents. The how they work is novel. They do have to be trained. You can't be lazy and have these agents work. But honestly, the the UI, the UX, the way we interact with them, it's just software. And so my point is: Pick yourself off the ground. This is your time now. If you felt lost in AI era, if you felt like you're behind, you don't understand what all these people are saying on X and Twitter and their Claude and and their and talking about all the 4.6 point Nano point and it's over—like you just it's not your world. This is your time. This is your time for the generalist that knows how to use software tools really really well. And I—this is my last point but it's so important. If ever in your recent life—and this is why you could be all you need to be is young at heart to Rory's point—if in the last three to five years you have successfully deployed a piece of enterprise software of any sort you yourself, not some agency you hired, but if you have deployed it, you can deploy any agentic tool. Any. And you can become the hero in your company and you can become the hero in your functional area. But I watch folks—I'm literally helping a company now that they're adding hundreds of sales folks this year with a new pre-IPO COO—he's not hasn't brought in a single tool, totally scared of it. Okay, it's not that hard. Did you use SalesLoft? Did you use Outreach? Did you use HubSpot? Do you know these tools? If you can deploy these tools, you can deploy a world-changing AI agent. And so this is the time for people like the folks that that were shut out of the AI revolution right now. The generalist folks that are not that know how to deploy software that don't even know how to build software. Like vibe coding for me was folks who knew how to build software, but you didn't have to be an engineer. Now, you just need to know how to deploy software to win with AI agents. That's all you need to know. So many people have these skills and they're petrified of AI. "How did you do that? How did you deploy an AI BDR?" Well, we bought a piece of software, we figured out how it worked for a day, we set it up in an afternoon, and then and then we did spend 30 months training it, which you didn't do with this old software because in the old days, we just had to manually upload all the data, right? And there was no training. The the only non-intuitive part is training these things. And it's it's it's just work. So that's why when I see folks on the management team not doing this, there's no excuse. You do not need to be technical to win with AI agents in Q2 of '26. You do not need to be even 1% technical. Not at all. So it's your time. Or you're going to get laid off. Or you're going to get laid off because you're not going to matter.

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