tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72786568210167321722024-03-06T15:29:56.856-08:00The Master Attractor BlogMandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-20942179161607146592024-03-06T15:29:00.000-08:002024-03-06T15:29:55.728-08:00PATHWAYS IN FINANCIAL SERENDIPITY<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Miriam
Adelson</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> was born in
Israel. She attended the Hebrew Reali School for 12 years in Haifa. She served
mandatory army service as a medical officer at Ness Ziona. After earning a
Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Genetics from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, she earned a medical degree from Tel Aviv University School of
Medicine.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adelson
became a physician and eventually the chief internist in an emergency room at
Tel Aviv's Rokach (Hadassah) Hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After divorcing her first husband, she joined Rockefeller University in
1986 as an associate physician specializing in drug addiction. While there she
went on a <b>blind date</b> with a businessman -Sheldon Adelson. They later
married in 1991. Her Husband passed in 2021 and Miriam inherited his businesses
and estate. Miriam Adelson is today the majority owner of Las Vegas Sands
casino and in the process of acquiring the Dallas Mavericks franchise from Mark
Cuban. Forbes estimates her as the 42<sup>nd</sup> richest person in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The point is - it all
started with a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>blind date</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Looking for another interesting
romantic story? Here we go.<br />
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Koch"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Candara",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Julia Flesher Koch</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Candara",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
met David Koch on a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blind date</b> in
January 1991. In 1998, Koch told The New York Times that she didn't immediately
hit it off with him; but that she was glad she met him because she knew she
wouldn't want to go out with him again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
the two met again at a party later that year and started dating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Julia Flesher Koch's fortune comes from
inheriting her late husband's 42% stake in Koch Industries, a closely held
industrial conglomerate. As of April 2023, Forbes ranked her second among the
richest women in the world with a fortune of $59 billion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not bad for a reluctant <b>blind date</b>.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dude! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Financial serendipity is real! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You gotta be willing to
go out and meet the unknown. Nothing is promised to us in life. Nothing is
promised to them who stay home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FINANCIAL SERENDIPITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Financial Serendipity</span></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">
refers to the occurrence of unexpected beneficial events that lead to financial
gain or improved financial well-being. These are basically random appearing
"<i>happy accidents"</i> in the financial world that benefit us. The element
of surprise and lack of intentional planning are key aspects of financial
serendipity. The fortunate encounters are recognizable through personal sagacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">So. You have to use your individually endowed sagacity in order to
encounter a serendipitous fortune.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br />
</span><a href="https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jerry Selbee of Evart MI</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> had
an undergraduate degree in Math and an MBA. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerry owned a convenience store - the Corner
Store in Evart. Among other merchandise sold in the store were Michigan lottery
tickets. Some tickets were “winners” - winning tickets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Years later Jerry explained: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“People have been conditioned to think it is luck. They don’t look at
the structure of games”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In 2003 Jerry Selbee saw a brochure of a new Michigan
lottery game. He read the T&C and realized that statistically a $1 lottery
ticket was worth more than $1 on a certain week (known as “roll-down week”). He
decided that if he buys a sufficient number of tickets to play, the law of
probability will work favorably for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It wasn’t the first time he purchased a ticket. Odds are odds. Odds are
not a guarantee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jerry relied on his knowledge and wisdom – that was his
sagacity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Before the next lottery cycle he purchased 3,400 Winfall
tickets for $3,400.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After counting the winnings
his tickets grossed $6,300.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a 46%
profit margin. Next cycle he bought lottery tickets for $8,000 and grossed
$15,700. (49% profit margin).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Is that
good? Yes? Or yes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The rest is history. The full story was written up and then
scripted and made into the movie </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jerry & Marge Go Large</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">,
released by Paramount, 2022. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerry and
Marge and their off-springs became millionaires. My point is – Jerry had the
sagacity – knowledge in math and stats. With this knowledge he played the odds
– purchased enough tickets (enough winning tickets to win, lol) – and overcame
the lottery odds. In other words was there “luck”? No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not coincidence. It was Engineered
Serendipity! That’s what I call it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOoTL4FTTJA9E5umNQIP-6sDEcKbK3NCvButYof_dTxRbt2NnqXYBAJ1PFmc2mCDnDEZ2dVBmjb1zZggcBt1CaFGLFeYCFD4jA0pSuhSoltZvm6nW21G3vJiQmBNhhK_NS5TOITk9ikiyru-zrdQv-65Vp8DDNJRuCJtAfHIL5Ipz8T0capXtqX3B8ns/s384/Jerry%20&%20Marge%20Go%20Large%20the%20movie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="259" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOoTL4FTTJA9E5umNQIP-6sDEcKbK3NCvButYof_dTxRbt2NnqXYBAJ1PFmc2mCDnDEZ2dVBmjb1zZggcBt1CaFGLFeYCFD4jA0pSuhSoltZvm6nW21G3vJiQmBNhhK_NS5TOITk9ikiyru-zrdQv-65Vp8DDNJRuCJtAfHIL5Ipz8T0capXtqX3B8ns/s320/Jerry%20&%20Marge%20Go%20Large%20the%20movie.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Photo</span></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> of Jerry and Marge on their truck’s tail gate. Courtesy of Paramount.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Engineered Serendipity</span></i></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is the intentional design of environments or
systems to </i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">escalate the likelihood
of serendipitous encounters</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. It involves creating
the conditions that foster unexpected connections and exploration. Brainstorming
sessions are most used for serendipity encounters.</span></i></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Hold it. I must read this last para again. To live by it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Good Luck? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What good
luck?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/business/consulting/experts/christian-busch"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Christian Bush</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> says in his book, <i>The
Serendipity Mindset</i>: “<i>Good luck isn’t just chance – it can be learned
and leveraged, and the serendipity mindset explains how you can use serendipity
to make your life better at work and at home - everywhere.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Invoking serendipity requires sagacity. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sagacity</i></b>
is the ability to think and act while using prior acquired knowledge and
experience, there is hardly no serendipity without some sagacity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There’s Engineered Serendipity in any Financial
Serendipity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">SERENDIPITY
IS SMART<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Zuckerman"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Ethan Zuckerman</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">, a director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, defines
engineered serendipity as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>idea</u></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…that
we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better
than random rate. And in some ways, it’s based on trying to reassess this
notion of serendipitous as lucky — to think of serendipitous as smart.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">FINANCIAL
SERENDIPITY BY THE LAW OF THE LAND<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold SemiConden",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">THE MAKING OF THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">At its height, in 1911, Standard Oil Co. was the largest
petroleum company in the world, and its success made its co-founder and
chairman - </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John D. Rockefeller</span></i></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></i></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">- among the wealthiest Americans of all time. Rockefeller
ran the company as chairman, until his retirement in 1897. Then he remained the
major shareholder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">On May 15, 1911, the US Supreme Court upheld the lower
court judgment and declared the Standard Oil group to be an
"unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act, Section II.
It ordered Standard Oil to break up into 34 independent companies with
different boards of directors. The biggest two of the companies were Standard
Oil of New Jersey (which became Exxon) and Standard Oil of New York (which
became Mobil).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Standard's president, John D. Rockefeller, owned a quarter
of the shares of the resultant companies, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">those shares’ values soon doubled in value.</i> Standard Oil, before
its breakup due to anti-monopolistic legal reasons was worth at least $1
trillion. Rockefeller emerged from the dissolution <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as the richest man in the world</i></b>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dissolution of Standard had
propelled Rockefeller's personal wealth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">By the time of his death in 1937, Rockefeller's remaining
fortune, largely tied up in permanent family trusts, - was estimated at $1.4
billion, while the total national GDP was $92 billion (1.5% of GDP). According
to some methods of wealth calculation, Rockefeller's net worth over the last
decades of his life would easily place him as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_richest_Americans_in_history"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">wealthiest known person in recent history</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. As a percentage of the United States' GDP, no other
American fortune—including those of Bill Gates or Elon Musk —would even come
close.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Get this – Rockefeller
was serendipitously enriched in 1911, by political and legal actions outside
himself, outside of his company, and against his choice.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Before I leave Rockefeller, answer this question: is
Financial Serendipity the reason that causes the rich to get richer? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There are many other, unrelated historical examples that
illustrate different ways financial serendipity played out:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Windfalls and Discoveries:</span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">The California Gold
Rush (1848-1855):</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Marshall"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">James Marshall</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">’s accidental
discovery of gold while building a sawmill sparked a massive migration and
economic boom in California.</span><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">James Wilson Marshall (1810 – 1885) was an American carpenter and a sawmill
operator, who on January 24, 1848, reported the finding of gold at Coloma,
California, a small settlement on the American River, about 36 miles
northeast of Sacramento. His discovery was the impetus for the California
Gold Rush. The mill property was owned by John Sutter who employed
Marshall to build his mill. The wave of gold seekers turned everyone's
attention away from the mill which eventually fell into disrepair and was
never used as intended. Neither Marshall nor Sutter ever profited from the
gold find.</span></li></ul><span style="color: #1f1f1f;">This discovery
sparked the California Gold Rush, transforming the state's economy and creating
immense wealth for miners, merchants, and even those who sold shovels and
picks.</span><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Unforeseen Market Shifts:</span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">The Dot-com Bubble
(1995-2001):</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> While many businesses during the
dot-com boom went bust, early investors in internet companies like Google
and Amazon reaped immense returns on their initial investments due to the
unexpected and rapid growth of the internet.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">The COVID-19 Pandemic
(2020-2023):</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> While the pandemic caused
widespread economic hardship, some industries like the big pharma
industry, the online streaming services, e-commerce as Amazon, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>software companies like Zoom experienced
unexpected growth due to changes in consumer behavior during lockdowns.
Early investors in these sectors benefited financially.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> #<span> <span> </span>#<span> <span> </span>#</span></span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">A Saga in Omaha</span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Warren Buffett's</span></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;"> "Mistake" (1962). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warren
Buffett is known as the “Sage of Omaha”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Buffett's purchase of
Berkshire Hathaway (BH), initially intended to acquire an another undervalued company.
It turned out to be one of his most successful investments as Berkshire
diversified and grew beyond expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Imagine buying a beat-up old car, thinking you could flip
it for a quick buck. Turns out, the engine's busted, and the whole thing's
barely hanging on. That's kinda what happened to Warren Buffett with Berkshire
Hathaway back in the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">But here's the twist:
instead of ditching the junker, the ever-sagacious Buffett saw potential. He
realized the car (or in this case, the BH company) had a cool frame and some
decent parts. So, instead of selling it off, he started tinkering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">First, he ditched the
busted engine (the failing textile business). Then, he used the car's frame (BH)
to build something new and awesome. He added all sorts of shiny upgrades:
insurance companies, railroads, even candy companies!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Buffett figured out a
neat trick with the insurance business. It basically generates a steady stream
of cash, like having a built-in gas station for the car. This freed him up to
focus on finding even more cool parts (businesses) to add to his collection.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">By surrounding himself
with smart people and letting them handle the day-to-day stuff, Buffett could
focus on the big picture. He held onto his "upgraded" car for
decades, letting it grow and compound like crazy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In short, while buying
Berkshire Hathaway was a bit of a stumble at first, Buffett's willingness to
adapt, his sagacious mind and eye saw an opportunity and turned HB into the
ultimate investment success story. Who knew a "mistake" could become
such a legendary ride?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Generational Shifts and Trends:</span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">The Rise of Social Media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The explosive growth of social media platforms
like Facebook and Twitter created new avenues for advertising and marketing,
spawning entire industries and generating considerable wealth for individuals
involved in their early development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">We need to differentiate
between expected yet random financial events and completely unexpected - Black
Swan occurrences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Financial Serendipity
Requires Sagacity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Remember Warren Buffett
the Sage of Omaha?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">What is this sagacity? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Think of sagacity as being
like your mental superpower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's that
combo of sharp thinking, seeing things clearly, and making solid choices. You
know, like the friend who always gives the best advice or the chess player who
can predict your next move (but way cooler).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Serendipity Begets Serendipity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Sagacity is about
understanding stuff on a deeper level, not just the surface. You can sniff out
good ideas from bad ones and spot trouble coming from a mile away, all while
keeping your head cool and making smart decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Basically, sagacity is
what makes you a wise owl, not just a hoot. Carefully planned investments,
sound financial management, and risk mitigation are crucial for long-term
financial success. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key skill is to
recognize the role of unexpected events and being prepared for them can
sometimes help us take advantage of opportunities when they arise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Bond.
James Bond. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& The Broccolis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Forget martinis for a sec
drink, let’s talk about how the Broccolis got their hands on James Bond! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn't just about throwing money around; it
was a tale of smarts, guts, and a serious case of Bond-mania.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Picture this: 1959, Albert
Cubby Broccoli <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stumbles upon</i></b> Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale" and
thinks, "Whoa, this would be one heck of a movie!" He convinces his
buddy Harry Saltzman to team up, but studios weren't exactly lining up to fund
a secret agent flick.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here's where the
Broccolis get clever: They offer Saltzman a half-share of the film rights in
exchange for scoring a studio deal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Talk about a win-win! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They land Sean Connery to
play Bond, seal a million-dollar deal with United Artists, and Baam – "Dr.
No" is born, paving the way for future 007 adventures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fast forward to today:
The Broccolis (no relation to the veggie, by the way) are still very much in
the Bond business, with Cubby's daughter Barbara and stepson Michael G. Wilson
keeping the franchise going strong. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And let's talk moolah:
the Bond films have raked in an estimated revenue of over <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">$7 BILLION worldwide!</i></b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not bad for a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gamble</i> on a secret agent with a taste for fast cars and shaken, not
stirred, martinis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3QBCN3VHtZ6hzR0hyphenhyphenZqvse2AaeM6FgalnrZUuQ5CDhZztezEz_FrMwYPXQn7DdrDL4BPY9vkWS-XhGRppMggrnRHCZAiE9AOe9FMEOpuhMZfdlJpWIOihbKbJ7k0YB5OvPJYw2t5qwUsDD02XhLdHQpnVZu9fgNr1zO0iyH0bqz65AVkrkH6iTsrNCE/s1241/James%20Bond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1241" data-original-width="930" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3QBCN3VHtZ6hzR0hyphenhyphenZqvse2AaeM6FgalnrZUuQ5CDhZztezEz_FrMwYPXQn7DdrDL4BPY9vkWS-XhGRppMggrnRHCZAiE9AOe9FMEOpuhMZfdlJpWIOihbKbJ7k0YB5OvPJYw2t5qwUsDD02XhLdHQpnVZu9fgNr1zO0iyH0bqz65AVkrkH6iTsrNCE/w215-h287/James%20Bond.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So, there you have it!
The Broccolis didn't just buy the Bond rights. Cubby Broccoli <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stumbled</i></b>
unexpectedly upon the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Casino Royale</i>.
Some will call this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stumble - coincidence</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> or
luck</i> but you and I know better that there is a reason behind the stumble.
Broccoli was interested in Ian Fleming’s novels.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Century",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cubby
Broccoli <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gambled</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Century",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometime in life you’ve got to gamble.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Century",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you
don’t gamble you can’t win. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, if you'll excuse me,
I have a sudden urge to re-watch "Goldfinger"...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Photo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Financial Serendipity: A Black Swan Spawns
Financial Opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Financial Serendipity
refers to the occurrence of unexpected positive events that significantly
impact one's financial situation. It's the happy accident of the financial
world, where a “random” stroke of “luck” leads to windfalls, opportunities, or
breakthroughs. While not a dependable strategy, it's a fascinating concept with
real-life examples throughout history.<br />
Dr. Morton Meyers wrote the book that reviewed serendipity in medical
innovations up to 2011. </span><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781559708197"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Happy Accidents</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.
Viagra was developed during experiments on medications designed to treat
angina. Meyers has dozens of stories like this, in the areas of antibiotics,
cancer treatments, cardiovascular therapy and antidepressants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So what’s a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Black Swan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The black swan theory or
theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as
a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after
the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on an ancient saying
that presumed black swans did not exist, until they were discovered in
Australia in 1697, and it then became reinterpreted to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mean an unforeseen and
consequential event.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The year 2020 was the </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Black
Swan</i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> year of a sweeping global pandemic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">#<span> <span> </span>#<span> <span> </span>#</span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pfizer and Moderna – Post-Modern Example
of Financial Serendipity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The COVID-19 pandemic has
had a significant impact on the financial performance of big pharma, Pfizer and
Moderna. Both companies have seen their stock prices rise significantly since
the beginning of the pandemic, and they have generated billions of dollars in
revenue from the sale of their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are a number of
factors that have contributed to the financial success of Pfizer and Moderna
during the pandemic. One important factor is the high demand for COVID-19
vaccines. Governments around the world were willing to pay high prices for
vaccines in order to protect their populations, and this has led to significant
revenue for Pfizer and Moderna.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Another factor is the
fact that Pfizer and Moderna were able to develop and manufacture their
vaccines relatively quickly. This was due in part to the fact that they were
able to leverage existing research on mRNA technology. As a result, they were
able to get their vaccines to market ahead of many of their competitors, which
gave them a first-mover advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The government helps
again. Just like in the case of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pfizer
and Moderna have been able to benefit from generous government funding for
vaccine development and manufacturing. This funding has helped to reduce their
costs and has also helped to mitigate the risks associated with developing new
vaccines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Overall, the COVID-19
pandemic has had a major impact on the financial performance of Pfizer and
Moderna. Both companies have seen their stock prices rise significantly because
of the generated billions of dollars in revenue from the sales of their
COVID-19 vaccines. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pfizer alone generated $35
billion net profits on its COVID-19 related products during 2021 and 2022.
BioNTech and Moderna made $20 billion each, while Sinovac pocketed $15 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bourla"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dr. Albert Bourla</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">,
the CEO of Pfizer net worth went up by $24 million in 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, Albert Bourla is a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
sagacious </i></b>man.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The financial success of
Pfizer and Moderna during the pandemic has also been controversial, with many
people arguing that the companies have been charging too much for their
vaccines and have not done enough to make them available to people in low- and
middle-income countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Invention of Post-it
Notes (1968). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A classic story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spencer Silver, a chemist at 3M Company,
developed a weak adhesive that wouldn't damage paper. Despite its initial lack
of commercial success, Arthur Fry, a colleague, discovered its usefulness for
marking pages in his hymnal. This "happy accident" led to the
creation of Post-it Notes, a multi-billion-dollar product that continues to
bring revenue to 3M.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Rise of Google (1998).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
searching for information on the web, Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a
new algorithm that ranked websites based on their relevance. This algorithm,
originally called BackRub, became the foundation for Google search engine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It transformed the way we access information
and is still generating immense wealth for its founders and early sagacious
investors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The GameStop Short
Squeeze (2021).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A group of retail investors on Reddit, spurred
by online discussions, bought shares of GameStop, a struggling video game
retailer, heavily shorted by hedge funds. This unexpected buying pressure
caused the stock price to skyrocket, leading to massive losses for hedge funds
and windfalls for some retail investors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was another case of gambling – financial gambling – some won,
others lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are more examples
of how unexpected events can have a profound impact on the financial world.
While financial serendipity can be a powerful force, it's important to remember
that it's not a reliable strategy for everyone. Building wealth through sound financial
planning, hard work, and sagacious investment decisions is the most sustainable
path to success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">JAMES
MICHENER – THE SERENDIPITOUS AUTHOR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Financial Serendipity
involves a combination of education, “chance” recognition, preparation, and sagacious
appreciation when stumbling upon opportunity. Let’s look for a change in how
wealth was made in the realms of authorship, book publishing, Broadway musicals
and Hollywood production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">James Michener was an
American author and historian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wrote
more than 40 books, many of which were long, fictional family sagas covering
the lives of many generations, set geographic locales and incorporating
detailed history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener was born in 1907
in Pennsylvania. He later wrote that he did not know who his biological parents
were, or exactly when or where he was born. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was raised as a Quaker by an adoptive
mother, Mabel Michener.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener graduated from
Doylestown High School. He attended <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Swarthmore
College</i>, where he played basketball and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity. After graduating in 1929, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English
and history, he traveled and studied at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">University
of St Andrews</i> in the medieval town of St. Andrews, Scotland, on the coast
of the North Sea, for two years. He traveled in Italy, Spain, Belgium, France,
and Holland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the back dust
cover of his first book !947 edition), For the first time he held papers as an
able-bodied seaman in the British merchant navy and sailed in the Mediterranean
touching the North Coast of Africa, Sicily and the Balearic Islands. He has lived
in sixteen of the forty-eight States and traveled all the forty-nine States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener talked about
hoboing (riding freight trains for free) during the Great Depression, (mentioned
in the 1998 Great Depression documentary on the History Channel).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener became a high
school English teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, he
attended the University of Northern Colorado, where he earned a Master of Arts
degree in education. After graduation, he taught at the university.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener accepted a Guest
Lecturer position at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harvard University</i>,
during 1939 to 1940. He left Harvard to work for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Macmillan Company Publishers</i> as their social studies education
editor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener enlisted in the
United States Navy during World War II. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was fortunate to have opportunities travelling throughout the South Pacific
Ocean on various Navy assignments which he gained because his base commanders
mistakenly thought his father was an Admiral (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marc Mitscher</i> – an odd phonetic similarity in names).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His experiences during these travels inspired
the stories published in his breakout work Tales of the South Pacific. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let’s recap. Michener
acquired a wide education. As a world traveler and hobo in America and Europe he
sure gained unusual life experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
made his way to Harvard (not as a student). Michener began his writing career
during WW II, when as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy he was assigned to the
South Pacific as a naval historian. By the end of WW II, he thoroughly lived
and saw the South Pacific and its innumerable islands, the peoples, and their cultures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He later turned his notes
and impressions into </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tales-South-Pacific-James-Michener/dp/B000PM024W/ref=sr_1_6?crid=377BGETIE5VV0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sfK0xfwpIKun0TCe4-FaItCxCS2XPXCY6Ca-f5E_4seKZoYZCLNBxyLn3ODT1Zxs8r5oaS064vqLymJxGaikQpYsjB0SxcdkWzthKw4Bg-id6zx-ef5WBK0KAArBezb5bCZm_JWz05sszjw2RANc8in_ELiNi-oGutsKSUQg5gzbeZwNLq2TeQRSraw3XbfLlVLDBgFwlD7zorpesACnaRk_ZocPQ73pbNkafS9iyCM.Wv-fKkuxiDT4eAw9my7niHigbeI1T8VA8PzV9rinvC0&dib_tag=se&keywords=tales+of+the+south+pacific+by+james+a.+michener&qid=1708895702&s=books&sprefix=tales+of+%2Cstripbooks%2C264&sr=1-6"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tales
of the South Pacific</span></i></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> (1947).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwsw0riLsckzX_4nBW6VHqcmwfgcZRqJRWGGqCbtUbkP9-dIGl8YRnWhjdo-PGQ_ra1uxcshejKVFyTffmo3zZ_at8L6YIUC81QUzU0vY8jy2XgecAcK0mdcjKxlnTTUWOFbryfknMFLvJrOXTV3hkqzfKbgTS_qNyXWLbEH4H2hGbpNRyyMRANTrnIo/s1176/Tales%20of%20the%20South%20Pacific.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="843" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwsw0riLsckzX_4nBW6VHqcmwfgcZRqJRWGGqCbtUbkP9-dIGl8YRnWhjdo-PGQ_ra1uxcshejKVFyTffmo3zZ_at8L6YIUC81QUzU0vY8jy2XgecAcK0mdcjKxlnTTUWOFbryfknMFLvJrOXTV3hkqzfKbgTS_qNyXWLbEH4H2hGbpNRyyMRANTrnIo/w217-h303/Tales%20of%20the%20South%20Pacific.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cover photo of first
edition 1947, owned by author.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The “Tales” was his first
book, published when he was age 40. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rodgers and Hammerstein
adapted the Pulitzer winning book into the hit musical South Pacific, which
premiered on Broadway, in New York City, in 1949. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The musical was next adapted into a feature
films in 1958 and 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Get this – Michener led a
life of consecutive events of imaginative inspiring serendipitous encounters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He was curious to acquire
an education. In between and subsequently his life was a series of adventures!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of his later books was titled </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/World-My-Home-Memoir/dp/0812978137/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UX709J2ZY2QD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ZuTEAS2Khq0Ra6N_xK16gAN5RdqY_kFWFtqiqo2qut0zjXNcOnX7n3HxakBZg1rSwEfaZCDgLdnn3hyMMN3-jZ9NDBuwdqyBJUCa5Ch89dyZGKXrGHmOBoEv1-qvxtIFpHau0aQc4m8BOLBhz7oXAReLLAfkjLotCDJEzT1tNI0bkI9dWo7bkCX0PWwJle1yMbMlB96xNntb7Ph4YNh0rrgHJv32a-hZ4xuQI7AzNzo.ohqXRZPRlcRnMYtw6Rbp8D2s_YoGh8emRo10uXfForc&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+world+is+my+home&qid=1708896331&s=books&sprefix=The+World+Is+My+home%2Cstripbooks%2C336&sr=1-1"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The World is My Home</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He was a Sagacious man
par excellence, all along. He seized life opportunities! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brilliant enough to be invited to teach at
Harvard. Brilliant enough to ditch Harvard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder that he saw in the Publishing House
of McMillan Co a better opportunity than Harvard… So, when he wrote his
fictional, a bit romantic, yet historical WW II memoir he had an established
publisher in waiting. <br />
Dude. When you have a ready powerful publisher, you end up awarded a Pulitzer
Prize and get movie contracts from Hollywood studios.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Serendipity
Begets Serendipity!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Not sure yet? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">James Michener was riding
the post-war wave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fresh out of the
Navy, Michener penned "Tales" while his memories were still vivid.
This timeliness captured a realness that hooked readers. Think of it like
catching a story wave just as it's about to crest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Right publisher, right
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like finding the perfect board for
the wave, Michener had the publisher who was hungry for war stories. Macmillan
pushed the book hard, and Michener actively promoted it, making sure everyone
knew about his ride.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From a book to Broadway. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Tales" wasn't just a bestseller; it
became a smash musical and movie. This wasn't just catching a wave, it was like
riding it all the way to Hawaii and back, first class! The success brought
Michener even more recognition and moolah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Formula for fortune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michener learned from his first success. He
went on to research diverse locations, wove history and fiction together, and
kept the quality high. This consistency kept his readers hooked and the money
flowing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener created a new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">genre</i> of sound history combined with storytelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a writing machine, churning out
quality novels that often got adapted for the screens. He wrote 40 novels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them are almost a thousand pages
long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">While specific events
like the war and the musical were big boosts, his success was like a perfect
storm: talent, hard work, smart choices, and a dash of serendipity. He wasn't
just catching waves; he was creating them! Sure, James Michener struck gold,
but it wasn't all blind luck. Imagine Michener as a surfer, catching the
perfect wave of opportunity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The serendipitous key
moments that got him the ride all the way to the financial shore:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Joining the Navy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not exactly winning the lottery, but this
wasn't random event in a life of a young man. Michener already craved
adventure, and the Pacific during WWII gave him a front-row seat to unique
cultures and experiences. This became the source of raw material for his first
hit, like "Tales of the South Pacific."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is reported that
Michener had a noteworthy net-worth of $80 to 120 million. Depends on the
sources I looked at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Michener passed in 1997 and is
remembered as a great philanthropist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The New York Times Book
Review described him as: “Literary legend James A. Michener was a Renaissance
man, adventurous, inquisitive, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic
mind and a generous heart”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a man
is that towering, then his net worth is towering too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Glauco L Ortolano was born in Americana, Brazil (1959).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a poet, a philosopher, and author in
Portuguese an English. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He taught in
several universities in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He considers himself an
explorer of the human soul, and travels to seek understanding and enlightenment
from other cultures. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Ortolano’s most famous quote is: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Humaniqueness-Gift-Your-Inner-God/dp/1435750063?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jqaPuPhcX5aY1RbI4X4xC6xECAYj3VflckjU_Mok3RZ5C873AMjS0By7giGfr2lxLqE6NQlrADx4YGGz14WpA4iQnr3qkIF2HGcmvBRt5p4.3RIgm02jExaTVJ-JDjx48fACdT-4PbYrIOHLuQ-GC7A&dib_tag=AUTHOR"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">"Serendipity is the faculty of finding things we did not know we
were looking for."</span></i></b></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says that when we die, we will eventually
understand the true meaning of this quote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Financial Serendipity refers to the occurrence of
unexpected profitable financial events or outcomes, often through unforeseen
circumstances. It's the so-called lucky break in the world of finance - the
windfall that catches our sail and propels us forward. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Here are other historical examples, showcasing the diverse
ways serendipity can play out:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Market Crashes Trigger Unexpected Fortunes:</span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">The 1929 Stock Market
Crash:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> While devastating for many, the
crash also presented opportunities. Bernard Baruch, a prominent financier,
famously advised, "It's time to start buying." He used the panic
to acquire undervalued stocks, laying the foundation for his immense wealth.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">The 2008 Financial
Crisis:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> The crisis triggered a wave of
bankruptcies, but also birthed companies like Uber and Airbnb, and pushed
up Walmart, Home Depot and Amazon, which filled gaps left by struggling
incumbents. Their founders, seizing the moment of disruption, built
empires on the ashes of the financial meltdown.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Unexpected Discoveries and Innovation:</span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #1f1f1f; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Edwin Drake's Oil
Strike:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> In 1859, Drake was not searching
for oil, he was searching for salt! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His unsuccessful well, however, struck a
much more valuable treasure – the first commercially viable oil well in
the United States, sparking a boom and transforming industries.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;"><o:p> #<span> <span> </span>#<span> <span> </span>#</span></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Accidental Investments in Technology and Unexpected Windfalls.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">NVIDIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Imagine NVIDIA back in the 90s, just trying to sell fancy
graphics cards for your game playing pc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fast forward three decades later, and
everyone's going crazy about this new tech called Artificial Intelligence.
Turns out, those fancy graphics cards were perfect for crunching the symbols
and numbers most useful for this AI stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is thanks to their special way of parallel processing - handling
multiple tasks at once.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">NVIDIA was founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris
Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, with a vision to bring 3D graphics to the gaming
and multimedia markets.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The guys at NVIDIA saw an opportunity and said, "hold
my beer" while they started making GPUs specifically designed for AI. They
even created tools to make it easier for programmers to use these powerful
cards for their AI projects. Partnering with big tech companies and researchers
just boosted and scaled their success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">So, how'd this play out for NVIDIA financially?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Let's just say their sales and stock price went up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In simple terms, </span><a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-third-quarter-fiscal-2024"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">NVIDIA has been on a major roll</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Since going public in 1999, the company value has
skyrocketed from just over half a billion dollars to a whopping $1.97 trillion
as of today, February 26th, 2024. That's a mind-blowing growth of over
345,000%!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Think about it this way: if you invested $1,000 in NVIDIA
back in 1999, it would be worth roughly $3.5 million today. Now, that's past
performance, and future results are never guaranteed, but it sure gives you a
sense of their journey.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">They became the big name in the AI game, with their GPUs
powering everything from self-driving cars to chatbots.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now that we understand
how NVIDIA is about to become the largest market capitalized company in America,
let’s look at the potential of its contributions to AI and AI’s contributions
to engineered financial serendipity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">
Imagine finding a hidden gem of a stock or stumbling upon the perfect
investment opportunity – that's the kind of financial serendipity we're talking
about. And guess what? AI is like our secret financial wingman, helping us discover
these happy surprises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0.25in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">#<span> <span> </span>#<span> <span> </span>#</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Here's how AI gives our
finances a serendipity boost:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Spotting hidden
connections in the financial markets</span></i></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AI is
a data whiz, crunching processing through mountains of information to find
hidden links between things. This means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI
can unearth unexpected connections between financial products, market trends,
and our own situation</i>. Based on this, it can recommend personalized options
we might have missed, opening doors to serendipitous finds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">AI may nudge us in the
right direction</span></i></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think
of AI as a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">friendly financial advisor</i>,
learning our habits and goals. It can then give us personalized nudges,
suggesting things we might have overlooked that could lead to happy financial
surprises. Recommending financial moves we may consider. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">AI can keep us safe from
pitfalls</span></i></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AI acts like a watchful eye on your finances,
analyzing data in real-time to sniff out potential risks. By avoiding bad
decisions, AI indirectly creates space for unexpected financial opportunities
to blossom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">AI gives us market hints</span></i></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it’s not a flat-out
fortune teller… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AI can analyze past data
to predict future trends, giving insights that might lead to serendipitous
investment decisions or uncovering hidden gems in the market.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In short</span></b><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">, AI
is a tool, and its effectiveness depends on the data it has and how it's used.
But one thing's for sure, AI is now shaking things up in the financial world,
making it more fertile ground for those happy financial surprises we all wish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Financial Serendipity is
a concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s no way a guaranteed strategy.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It highlights the importance of staying
open to the avalanche of ever incoming new opportunities towards us. Being open-minded
and adaptable is a must.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Accepting with
open arms the random occurrences play a role in our financial journey down Wall
Street.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Financial Serendipity is
a catalyst, it still</span> <span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">crucially requires having
a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">solid
financial foundation, making informed decisions</i></b>, and managing risks
wisely. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chance encounters are useful for the prepared mind to capitalize on
unexpected opportunities when they are encountered.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Engineered Guerrilla Financial
Serendipity is a ubiquitous opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because serendipity begets serendipity. Because serendipity is in the perceptive
mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Notes and Books:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Why do burglars rob the
bank? Because that’s where the money is. A case of Main Street sagacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">I know. I repeated many positions and statements more than once. That’s because you’re are reading my
personal notes as I like them and you didn’t pay me royalties…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;">A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Random Walk Down Wall Street</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Deloitte</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Touche is a world-renowned
audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and legal services
with approximately 457,000 employees globally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">At Deloitte, John Hagel
III was the founder and chairman of the Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center
for the Edge, focusing on identifying emerging business opportunities that are
not yet on the CEO’s agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The book </span><a href="file:///G:/DOCUMENTS/SERENDIPITY/John%20Hagel%20III,%20et%20al.%20%20Basic%20Books;%201st%20Trade%20Paper%20edition%202012"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Power of Pull</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> shows how to apply its
principles to unlock the hidden potential of individuals and organizations, and
how to use it as a force for innovative social change and the development of
creative talent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John Hagel et al.
explore how to use the power of “Pull” to enhance productivity of attention and
thus enhance serendipity encounters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Access
new sources of information; attract likeminded individuals from around the world;
shape serendipity to increase the likelihood of positive chance encounters and
form creative environments to drive you and your colleagues to new heights of achievement.
Transforming our organizations to adapt to the incoming flow of knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Serendipity-Mindset-Science-Creating-Good/dp/0593086023/ref=sr_1_1?crid=O1W6MP7H1LXE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.UoyA-NaNZlO-Rt2w_eKCWw.lc7dzURX9V_GhKNHHQhTqNfLLCrUjQjEEh8oHXWK5jE&dib_tag=se&keywords=christian+Bush+The+serendipity+mindset&qid=1709255522&s=books&sprefix=christian+bush+the+serendipity+mindset%2Cstripbooks%2C76&sr=1-1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Serendipity Mindset by Christian Bush</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Accidents-Serendipity-Breakthroughs-Twentieth/dp/1611451620/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1Z3EI112TMDED&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.rCBfvkj0gwkvI2QUdHW2BqbRMQ3iNJ0vRChqcTg7uNL-a-wHmGendelf35eYAs-U.nKlJe6mQSVknIS43OWXGjUCrCBlF9hAUOGSQVtW69Wk&dib_tag=se&keywords=happy+accidents+morton+meyers&qid=1708380888&sprefix=Happy+Accidents+meyers%2Caps%2C489&sr=8-2"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Happy Accidents</span></a><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">. Serendipity in Modern
Medical Breakthroughs. Morton A. Meyers M.D. Arcade Publishing, N.Y. 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><a href="https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jason Fagone: Jerry and Marge Go Large. Huffington Post. March 18, 2018</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Inventology-Pagan-Kennedy/dp/0544811925/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NVAX5CDD9L8W&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.l_tBzm4huVKskEMDixtApdVla5cqpLEOOcIfC2deSxHGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.0oZSYV-vxCpjq5BM1HWkBBcV7OIUgxule9hqjtwvB60&dib_tag=se&keywords=Pagan+Kennedy+Inventology&qid=1709256700&s=books&sprefix=pagan+kennedy+inventology%2Cstripbooks%2C81&sr=1-1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Inventology. How We Dream up Things That Change the World</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> by Pagan Kennedy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><a href="https://www.simmons.edu/people/sanda-erdelez"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Sanda Erdelz</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> researched and wrote about information explorations using the internet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Mandy Lender and </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minna_Rozen"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Minna Rozen</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> own the rights to </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lender-Combinations-Baruch-Chess-Problems/dp/965338029X"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Lender Combinations: Baruch Lender and His Chess Problems</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">. <br />
Before I leave, here is an autographed photo dedicated to me, by the actor </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kiel"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Richard Kiel</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> (Jaws) as he was struggling and fighting 007 - Roger Moore. I met
Richard Kiel serendipitously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Richard Kiel serendipitously.</span></p>
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2024.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-48556459040426268972024-03-05T12:27:00.000-08:002024-03-05T12:27:24.224-08:00LAO TSU AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL SERENDIPITY<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here is a quote attributed to Lao Tsu:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This sagacious advice by the wise <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi">Lao Tsu</a> aligns with the concept
of Transcendental Serendipity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Transcendental Serendipity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is this high state of perception? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This refers to a state of being where happy
coincidences and fortunate discoveries become commonplace. It's not just luck.
It’s about <i>being open to possibilities</i> and aligned with the flow of the
universe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here's how the Lao Tsu wisdom aligns with transcendental
serendipity:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lack and Desire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lao Tsu, in his <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching">Tao Te Ching</a></i>,
emphasizes the concept of "<i>wu wei</i>" (- non-action) and living
in harmony with the Tao (- the natural order). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When a person feels a lack, it creates desire, which
disrupts this harmony. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here's how Lao Tsu's quote fits in:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
Realize That There's No Lack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When I recognized that I already have everything I
truly need, the craving for external things diminished. This doesn't mean
material possessions are worthless to me, but rather that true fulfillment
comes from my inner self - within.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Whole World Belongs to Me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In this state of contentment, I became open to the
world's possibilities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not grasping
for things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I appreciate the beauty and the
prosperous opportunities around me. This openness allows for serendipitous
experiences to unfold for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Transcendental Serendipity is not about getting “lucky”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Elevated Serendipity is about being
receptive to abundance.</i></b> When we are not consumed by lack, we're free to
notice the various synchronicities, the unexpected connections, and the helpful
people that appear on your path.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here's my true to life li’l analogy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine my cluttered room with many books and
journals. It's often hard for me to find anything, and new things just add to
the mess. Now, imagine a clean and organized dwelling house (in <i>Feng Shui</i>
state as they say). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be easy to
find what I need, and there's room for new things to come in and be
appreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By letting go of the feeling of lack, I created space
in my life for serendipity to expand. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The exact quote might not be directly from the
Tao Te Ching. But, the core message, aligns with Lao Tsu's teachings on
contentment and living in accordance with the Tao.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes you. Have
a nice day as I do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Tao Te Ching<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tags: #LaoTsu #transcendentalserendipity #fengshui
#TaoTeChing</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-260918473882938822024-02-22T14:04:00.000-08:002024-02-22T14:04:07.364-08:00WALKING THE SERENDIPITY LANE<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16pt;">UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERED GUERRILLA SERENDIPITY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg33s8DQVioWQjnBXThKn16DiEJqt9LR4pIVZlIHorGgHdmGXepRt3epWelR_QraLrg-y5wRwuQPWOP0GlTsOFjpe_-G3UeI8uQnw132lr5Jp6NY3EdwyKc6IYsaNMIehawTvMra5CmlkA-o0vGRT8OVNOeLZi-qPagX97eYaZYts7fqwvO9t8mDBrUVLA/s4608/P1000938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg33s8DQVioWQjnBXThKn16DiEJqt9LR4pIVZlIHorGgHdmGXepRt3epWelR_QraLrg-y5wRwuQPWOP0GlTsOFjpe_-G3UeI8uQnw132lr5Jp6NY3EdwyKc6IYsaNMIehawTvMra5CmlkA-o0vGRT8OVNOeLZi-qPagX97eYaZYts7fqwvO9t8mDBrUVLA/s320/P1000938.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is a glimpse into some thoughts I’ve been walking
through lately – almost every day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s my deep dive into Engineered Guerrilla
Serendipity by Unleashing the Power of Chance Encounters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
refers to the phenomenon of stumbling upon fortunate discoveries while not
actively seeking them. It's the wonderful surprise of finding something
valuable or pleasurable when you least expect it. (It’s real - I once found a
$10 bill on the sidewalk. I took it straight to the supermarket and bought groceries).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Classic Examples<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scientific breakthroughs: The discovery of
penicillin by Alexander Fleming, the invention of the Post-it Note, or the
development of X-rays all these resulted from serendipitous events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Personal connections: Finding a lifelong friend at a
random social gathering or meeting a business partner through a chance
encounter at the chamber of commerce.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Creative insights: Experiencing a sudden burst of
inspiration for a new project or solution while engaged in an unrelated
activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Engineered
Serendipity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is the intentional design of
environments or systems to increase the likelihood of sagacious serendipitous
encounters. It involves creating the conditions that foster unexpected
connections and exploration. Brain storming sessions are most commonly used.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla
Serendipity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> means serendipitous encounters evoked
through mundane daily activities that don’t cost money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>G=ABC (Guerrilla=Anything But Cash). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">E</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ngineered
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G</b>uerrilla <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">S</b>erendipity (EGS) isn't just a fancy term for stumbling upon a
twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk. It's a deliberate dance with chance: a
calculated nudge towards unexpected connections and fortunate collisions of
ideas. While the concept holds huge potential, navigating its intricacies
requires both strategic finesse and playful spontaneity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There's no map with a "you are here" dot
leading straight to Serendipity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Encountering serendipity is like a winding path, one
that unfolds as you explore, embrace detours, and savor the surprise
turns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Realistically we don't
manufacture happy accidents; but we can certainly nudge ourselves in the right
direction. We can attract happy accidents. (Sadly we attract some of our
unhappiness too).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let's delve into EGS, exploring its strengths,
potential pitfalls, and how to maximize its serendipitous spark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Strengths Rekindled With a Fresh Perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is some of what I’m talking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First step is – acquiring the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mindset that serendipity is real.
</i></b>Serendipity<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>is a common daily experience that can be engineered
consciously to manifest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipitor</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
is the person who makes serendipitous encounters happen. They have an
irrevocable and irrepressible spirit of optimism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Innovation Playground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EGS
throws open the doors to unconventional networking arenas. Forget stuffy
conferences and expensive seminars. Think rather of impromptu book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">clubs</i> hosted in quirky <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cafes</i>, flash <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mobs</i> erupting in bustling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plazas</i>,
or thematic scavenger <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hunts</i> (<a href="http://www.geocashing.com/">Geocache</a>), weaving through vibrant
cityscapes. These playful maneuvers not only spark connections but also unleash
a torrent of creative energy, fostering collaborations among folks that might
never have met in sterile, traditional settings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Embraced Openness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Step outside the predictable routines of
daily life and injecting a dose of EGS, we crack open the gates to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chance encounters</i>. This isn't about
blind hope; it's about strategically placing ourselves in fertile grounds for
serendipity in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blind dates</i>. Joining a
pottery <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">class</i> not just to learn how
to mold clay, but also to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">connect</i>
with fellow artists, swap <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">creative ideas</i>,
and perhaps stumble upon an unexpected artistic collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Democratizing the Unexpected. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EGS
levels the playing field, tossing aside the velvet ropes surrounding traditional
networking circles. Financial constraints no longer act as insurmountable
barriers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need is a dash of wit, a
sprinkle of resourcefulness, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">willingness to step outside your comfort
zone</i></b>. Suddenly, the shy introverted student can find their voice amidst
a lively book club discussion, and the cash-strapped artist can connect with
potential patrons at a street art exhibition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes. Stepping out of our comfort zone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity
thrives on a foundation of intentionality</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Identify the
types of connections you seek, the unique skills you can to share, and
knowledge you wish to acquire. Then, craft your EGS maneuvers with these goals
in mind. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Join</i> a coding club if you
seek tech-savvy collaborators, or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">volunteer</i>
at a local animal shelter or zoo if you long for a furry friend and a
supportive community. Join an on-line <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">virtual
serendipity club</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is none, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">create</i> one on Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Authenticity</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
is the Guiding Star. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The line between playful nudges and
manipulative ploys can be blurry. Always remember, EGS thrives on frank genuine
connections and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mutual value exchange</i>
with friends. I approach my encounters with an open heart and a willingness to
give as much as you receive. I share my knowledge, or offer my time, and
celebrate the successes of others. In this spirit of authenticity, serendipity
flourishes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scaling the Serendipity Summit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EGS is a personal dance with chance, but its
potential impact can ripple outwards. Document your EGS exploits, share your
stories, and inspire others to embrace the unexpected. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Create online communities or host face to face
gatherings where serendipity seekers can connect and share their fortuitous
encounters. By scaling EGS beyond individual endeavors, we can cultivate a
culture of open-mindedness and chance encounters, one unexpected connection at
a time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The serendipitors’ spirit conquers any shade of
pessimism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Engineered Guerrilla Serendipity is a way of life.
It’s a playful rebellion against the predictable routine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a potent tool for forging meaningful
connections and igniting unexpected possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bahnschrift Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE ENLIGHTENED SERENDIPITOR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why EGS Rocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Playground for Innovation. Ditch the boring routines
and explore the world of unexpected connections. Imagine brainstorming with
fellow artists at a community knitting class. How about a public speaking
club?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a member of one for 12
years. You won’t believe the number of friends I made there. Worldwide friends.
EGS throws open the doors to creativity and collaboration, all without breaking
the bank.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chance Encounters, Mastered. EGS isn't about
aimlessly waiting for lady luck to smile. It's about strategically walking in
the serendipity path. Love books? Join a quirky book club and swap stories with
fellow bibliophiles. Passionate about sustainability? Volunteer at a local
community garden and meet eco-warriors like yourself. The possibilities are
endless!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Say that again - The enlightened Serendipitor is Member
of the Social Serendipity Club<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">EGS is open to All, Cash Is Not Required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EGS is the ultimate equalizer. No fancy suits,
no hefty price tags required. Just bring your wit, your touch of
resourcefulness, and a willingness to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">embrace
the unexpected</i>. Suddenly, the shy bookworm can find their voice in a lively
discussion, and the broke artist can connect with potential patrons at a free
art exhibition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wait. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's
More We Can Do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Don't Just Throw Spaghetti at the Wall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prepare yourself by thinking about what you
hope to gain from these encounters. Craving tech connections? Hit up that computers
hardware builders club. Volunteer at the local volunteer clinic. (I do). Intentionality
is the key to making EGS work its magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Go to your local library. Pull out the first book on the top shelf next
to the window…. What does it tell you? Write and post a book review on Good
Reads.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You got your blog. You publish. Your name is indexed
on Google. Now launch a second blog. I syndicate six different blogs on six
different platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Be Real, Not Phony. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EGS thrives on genuine connections. Ditch the
forced networking smiles and let your inner weirdo show. Share your knowledge,
offer your time, and celebrate the wins of others. When we're real, serendipity
follows us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Still not convinced? Go on a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blind date</i></b>.<br />
Still not convinced? Miriam Farbstein was a divorced mother of three. She went
on a blind date in NY. The man she dated happened to own a casino house in Las
Vegas. What a serendipitous encounter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Today she ranks the 42<sup>th</sup> richest woman in the world. Her name
is now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson">Miriam Adelson</a>.
There are more like her. Read about them in my other blog post titled Financial
Serendipity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Koch">Julia Koch</a>. She went on a
blind date on January 1991. Today her net worth is estimated at $59 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity
is Magnanimous</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s Generous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Share the gospel of serendipity. Spread it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't hoard your EGS stories like a squirrel
with acorns! Share your adventures, document your encounters, post them on your
blogs and inspire others to embrace the unexpected. Create online communities,
host offline gatherings, and let the serendipity wave roll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember, the most extraordinary and fortunate encounters
often happen when you least expect them. Now go forth and embrace the guerrilla
serendipity within!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read that last sentence again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Share your stories. Here is one of my adventurous
flights with a bush pilot running (almost) into the frozen granite wall of
Mount McKinley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUPHsLA7DUiR8DYnuq9ciFsea_Hdylb3bWmY_fqJggAPJJnXsWYTbKKyPC7gTtFAPrkNLOfTymJ3SZnsO28IPqHKgVgvGIVuEXA7lM1kDfFTjR46-9bI38QkprTaUTg0Biz2VVfhuhaAJ1mgNNXra8rtJwNczcefeZlJ4UfCaRh58be7b0tK3fvgb0hg/s3264/DSCI0231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUPHsLA7DUiR8DYnuq9ciFsea_Hdylb3bWmY_fqJggAPJJnXsWYTbKKyPC7gTtFAPrkNLOfTymJ3SZnsO28IPqHKgVgvGIVuEXA7lM1kDfFTjR46-9bI38QkprTaUTg0Biz2VVfhuhaAJ1mgNNXra8rtJwNczcefeZlJ4UfCaRh58be7b0tK3fvgb0hg/s320/DSCI0231.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The frozen granite wall view from a bush pilot passenger seat.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- It's like finding a hidden gem in a thrift store
or bumping into your bestie at a random cafe—those happy surprises that make
life feel like a movie montage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- Imagine this: you're strolling through a park,
minding your own business, and BAM! You spot a four-leaf clover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's serendipity, baby! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- It's the universe winking at you, saying,
"Hey, I've got your back." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><img alt="*" height="24" src="file:///C:/Users/admin/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" width="24" /><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Engineered
Serendipity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Zuckerman">Ethan Zuckerman</a>, a
director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, defines engineered serendipity
as the idea “…that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful
connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways, it’s based on
trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky — to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">think
of serendipitous as smart</i></b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- This is when you get kinda sneaky and generate
opportunities for the magical encounters to happen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- Set up a party for your friends with the goal of
sparking unexpected connections and conversations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- Design a playground for chance encounters, where
the unexpected is always welcome and appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- Never, Never eat alone. Always share your bread.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- Attend public square demonstrations, political
rallies, charitable fund raising events,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- The best of romance – Whahoo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of those dating apps – harmony, match,
tinder, grindr<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all of them match you
based on your love of hiking, poetry, romance, pizza, tacos, sex and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those co-working spaces that bring together
entrepreneurs and artists under one roof. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Become a lifelong
Student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every day is an opportunity
to discover something new. Read widely, delve into podcasts on diverse topics, and
attend lectures or workshops that pique your interest.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">CURIOSITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Curiosity</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> is the fuel</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
that propels you towards uncharted territories, where serendipity thrives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ask "why" and
"how" relentlessly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't
settle for surface-level understanding. Question everything, from everyday
occurrences to complex ideas. This childlike inquisitiveness can unlock hidden
connections and lead you down fascinating rabbit holes, often revealing
unexpected treasures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Collect experiences
like souvenirs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seek out unique adventures, whether it's
attending a local festival, taking a solo trip, or trying a new hobby. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Travel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each experience, even if seemingly unrelated,
adds a brushstroke to the canvas of your life, creating the potential for serendipitous
intersections down the line.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I imagine curiosity as my
personal serendipity magnet. The more curious I’m the stronger it gets, pulling
unexpected opportunities and connections your way. Here's how:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m a knowledge
sponge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dive into anything that sparks
my interest, whether it's a weird science documentary, an AI class, or chatting
up a stranger with a cool hat. You never know where hidden gems are waiting to
be discovered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I try to be a social
butterfly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curiosity makes me more approachable, like a
human "talk to me" sign. I strike up conversations with strangers,
explore online communities, and attend events. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Bridge-Your-Dreams-Destiny/dp/164293495X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27A9GS2KT63IL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2UrFE6G9HOdT9dDRj3BFHgwaS7-6rgy8TNQLO79lHc9NAD1NM7eKpVbK8Xh6NrYgaKC2iK1VEY57RseTx75-DVcJn5JiBLAzHl5aD8Y1ci0ureBg2Vq80Ue6uD_TerVkbUQh1hZPC0PFHZfwE0KxJ8UOscLeXj4BuiMjQwMNlo_Ref7ZRZ4oREg0xsCkcarb8kwbGK68Eye07kp9wo2WSvRGYVF2N_1qlIqufzrObHw.TfUEo57YPHXN0ZEFk5g8wNkZRBRYKLe6LcJB4dkXYzM&dib_tag=se&keywords=ask+mark+victor+hansen&qid=1708565630&sprefix=Ask+mark+Victor+Hansen%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1">Mark
Victor Hansen published - Ask</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that
book is, as usual for him - a bestseller….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curiosity is basically a million
unanswered questions. Ask them all! You'll see things from new angles, spot
hidden connections, and uncover possibilities you never even thought of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't ignore the
"hmm...”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life throws curveballs, sometimes disguised as
coincidences. When something catches your eye, even if it seems random, pay
attention! It might lead to an amazing discovery or a life-changing connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I trust my gut feeling.
Sometimes curiosity whispers things that seem illogical. But hey, who needs
logic when you can have awesome adventures? Follow your hunches and see where
they take you – you might surprise yourself!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Remember, serendipity
is all about being open to the unexpected. So crank up your curiosity, put on
your explorer hat, and get ready for some amazing surprises!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Serendipity shows up in
all places and all amounts, at all times. Earlier last month I was waiting to
board a flight to ORD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The regional jet
was oversold and overweight. The captain required two volunteers to give up
their seats. Do that in return for compensation from United.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I volunteered cause I’d sometime to spare. I
bought this ticket by using my frequent flyer miles (gratuity by JP Morgan
Chase credit card). The bottom line; the next day I arrived to Chicago on a
free ride and was paid for it $1000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can use it for a first class free flight to LVNV. If I want… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
Know and I Practice the Power of Connections<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I recommend that you be
connector, not just a collector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Actively build bridges
between people you know. Introduce colleagues with shared interests, connect
friends from different social circles, or simply spark conversations between
strangers. You never know what connections might blossom, leading to unforeseen
collaborations, opportunities, or even friendships.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Practice the art of
"weak ties". <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't
underestimate the power of casual acquaintances. Sometimes, serendipity strikes
through unexpected encounters with people you might not consider close friends.
Be open to conversations with the barista, the person next to you on the bus,
or the vendor at the market. You might be surprised by the insights and
connections that emerge from these seemingly fleeting interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Never-Eat-Alone-Expanded-Updated/dp/0385346654/ref=sr_1_1?crid=R7LIWNHKH62F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qsoh0kF1_vC_bWCLO7v6eimkaEkkmkL8cojjjp70fkt_Qjgbe0SO_AtpqPToueN--96KpBvs3jwTjP3F1oBSMgCBc-eTFeZPrnFAQf8nFFfSGFedAhlXpbSCeI7P2tkyubgfcer5YHkzs-Oms6c-EQIwmAQVBElIv_TNAVaLymUlJaA8ov9LyKXI-lVEMZ_JcpegELd95Di0MNvq-7d_sbSPN5MxyusSuDIG73pq9LY.G_TnHclBEBea3yJ6J7-waDAyjnyF-xJPcAtKovZHa2U&dib_tag=se&keywords=never+eat+alone+keith+ferrazzi&qid=1708479516&s=books&sprefix=never+eat+alone%2Cstripbooks%2C134&sr=1-1">Never
Eat Alone</a>. Never. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always offer to share
your bread with another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Join communities that
ignite you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Surround yourself with folks</i></b>
who share and augment your passions, whether it's a book club, a volunteer
organization, or an online forum. These communities act as fertile ground for
cross-pollination of ideas, fostering serendipitous collaborations and
discoveries that wouldn't have happened in isolation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Cultivate
the Serendipity Mindset<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Befriend chance
encounters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Never. Never dismiss social
coincidences as mere luck. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Figure out
this question: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does the random encounter
mean something to you? What does it mean?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pay attention to
recurring themes, seemingly unplanned meetings; or unusual incidents. They
might be nudges from the universe, pointing you towards unexplored paths or
hidden opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Celebrate imperfection</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let go
of the need for rigid planning and control. Embrace the messiness of life, the
unexpected detours, and the unplanned moments. Often, the most serendipitous
discoveries happen when we surrender to the flow and allow ourselves to be
surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Keep a Serendipity Journal.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> Huh? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jot down interesting
encounters, ideas, or observations throughout your day. Reviewing these entries
later can reveal hidden patterns, connections, or serendipitous threads you might
have missed initially. It's like creating a treasure map of your own unique
journey, highlighting the unexpected gems that life throws your way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Serendipity is an
ongoing adventure, not a destination.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Get used to that! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As you cultivate
curiosity, embrace human connections, and adopt a serendipity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mindset, you'll find that the map unfolds
itself, revealing delightful surprises and guiding you towards a life filled
with wonder and unexpected joy. So, put on your explorer's hat, embrace the
unknown, and get ready to be surprised by the magic of serendipity!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Common Denominator of
everything said from the top down to this line – We sell ourselves wherever we
are. We are always on sale to the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bottom One Liners to Take Home<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Hug the unexpected moments, because they lead to things amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
It’s cool to create little chaos in your life and watch what happens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
After all, life's a lot more fun when you make room for surprises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-
Serendipity is an ongoing adventure, not a destination.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you know what are
the <a href="http://www.lendercombinations.com/">Lender Combinations</a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Join me next time for
Serendipity Adventures on one of my six blogs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read my book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Master-Attractor-Attraction-Bible-Beyond/dp/1614485259/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZXPON4FPZ5GZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GNJLPyy0UqP_TcF8tMB5P_5iv59sd0t0cM_NfNeuQLWtt1tUCu6WKmKf2jKrLncJF85h1WnBC5fu1UMGrnmvSMj7woNJayCbv9b8Fc6s4iir_bZFSBxKhRnX-ib93g5e2RHs0BXUoNStwbGjP8i5BWViUYXHLF6_eW_rHEDsIl14kEq-QygaRz5d4MV_mhlb3D7EoWO1i_K2SDXhqQ91OoCzIhRRh6X3U1VdhxGV0zE.h2Me5GUvi-lGMl1wKRM4i_6QdInlr46rDXuNCFyMmWw&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+Master+attractor&qid=1708522622&sprefix=the+master+attractor%2Caps%2C215&sr=8-1">The
Master Attractor</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mandylender.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.mandylender.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.mandylender.net/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.mandylender.net</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.attractome.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.attractome.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.visionofhabakkuk.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.visionofhabakkuk.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.lendercombinations.com/">www.lendercombinations.com</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tags: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#engineeredguerrillaserendipity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#serendipitylane<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#enlightenedserendipitor <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#guerrillaserendipity</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#lendercombinations </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-43983210969214004192024-02-10T15:55:00.000-08:002024-02-10T15:57:03.793-08:00The Power of Self-Expression<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><h1><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_n7aowmjcnroh"></a><span lang="EN">The Power of Self-Expression:</span></span></h1><h1><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN">A
Path to Healing and Creative Flourishment<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Author: Claudia Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> I</span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">n a world that often demands conformity,
finding avenues to express oneself authentically can be not just liberating,
but also profoundly healing. Self-expression, the act of conveying one's
thoughts, feelings, and identities, serves as a vital bridge between the inner
self and the external world. Its benefits are manifold, ranging from reducing
stress and anxiety to fostering creativity and enhancing self-confidence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This article hosted by <a href="https://www.mandylender.net/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Dr. Mandy
Lender</span></a> delves into the transformative power of self-expression,
illuminating how it can boost healing, elevate mood, and catalyze the creative
process. Additionally, it explores the burgeoning realm of digital creativity
as a modern conduit for self-expression, spotlighting the role of videos,
photography, and blogging in the digital landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_b8a5qbdlvm34"></a><span lang="EN">Reducing Stress and Anxiety<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At its core, self-expression provides a
cathartic release, allowing individuals to externalize emotions that, if
bottled up, could lead to increased stress and anxiety. <a href="https://weteachme.com/blog/articles/642-12-easy-art-activities-for-stress-relief"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Engaging in creative activities</span></a> like painting,
writing, or playing music offers a therapeutic outlet, enabling one to process
and make sense of their emotions. This form of expression can act as a stress
reliever, offering a sense of peace and tranquility in the midst of life's
tumult.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_9293f0u2pplb"></a><span lang="EN">Building Self-confidence<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Self-expression is inherently linked to
self-discovery. As individuals explore different modes of expression, they
often encounter aspects of themselves previously unexplored or unacknowledged.
This journey of discovery fosters a deeper self-awareness and, consequently, <a href="https://www.betterup.com/blog/how-to-build-confidence"><span style="color: #1155cc;">better self-confidence</span></a>. The act of sharing
one's creations with the world, despite fear of judgment, reinforces a sense of
self-worth and resilience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_hby3a2qq99aq"></a><span lang="EN">A Mood-Booster<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The act of creating something, be it a piece
of art, a piece of music, or a written work, can be immensely satisfying. The
sense of accomplishment that comes from bringing something new into existence
can elevate one's mood and instill a sense of joy and pride. Moreover, engaging
in creative endeavors that one is passionate about can lead to a state of flow,
where time seems to stand still, and one's worries fade away, further enhancing
emotional well-being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_51vzaf90p1g2"></a><span lang="EN">Enhancing Problem-solving Skills<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Exploring self-expression encourages lateral
thinking and the ability to view problems from multiple perspectives. Whether
it's crafting a narrative, composing a song, or designing a piece of art, the
creative process necessitates problem-solving. This practice of creative
thinking spills over into other areas of life, enhancing one's ability to
navigate challenges with innovative solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_1u1m6vhp3lz5"></a><span lang="EN">Encouraging Mindfulness<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Self-expression demands presence, drawing
one's attention to the here and now. Whether it's through painting, writing, or
performing, the act of expressing oneself fully engages the mind and body, <a href="https://www.heysigmund.com/different-ways-to-practice-mindfulness/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">encouraging a state of mindfulness</span></a>. This
present-centered awareness fosters a deeper connection with oneself and one's
surroundings, promoting a sense of peace and contentment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_fxk7b3hyaev4"></a><span lang="EN">Fostering the Creative Process<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At its heart, self-expression is the <a href="https://maniology.com/blogs/maniology-blog/self-expression-activities-for-adults"><span style="color: #1155cc;">fuel of the creative process</span></a>. It allows for
the exploration of ideas, emotions, and visions that can be transformed into
creative works. This exploration is not confined to traditional arts; it
encompasses a wide range of activities that reflect individual uniqueness and
innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_1igwlioxwe17"></a><span lang="EN">The Rise of Digital Creativity<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the digital age, self-expression has
embraced the innovation and versatility of platforms like Adobe Express,
transforming the way we engage with digital creativity. Adobe Express, a beacon
for digital creators, offers a suite of tools and features that make it simpler
and more accessible than ever to express one's creative side. With Adobe
Express, creating engaging videos, capturing stunning photographs, and crafting
compelling blog posts become seamless endeavors. Below are a few creative ways
to enhance your self-expression with the help of Adobe Express:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_czctgbbimyds"></a><span lang="EN">Videos<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Creating videos, whether they are vlogs,
tutorials, or artistic films, becomes an even more dynamic way to convey
stories, share knowledge, and express emotions with <a href="https://www.adobe.com/express/create/video"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Adobe
Express Video Maker</span></a>. This tool simplifies the video creation
process, allowing users to combine visual and auditory elements effortlessly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_7s7vexoxxalm"></a><span lang="EN">Photography<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Photography's ability to capture moments,
emotions, and perspectives is enhanced with <a href="https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/editor"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Adobe Express Photo Editor</span></a>. This tool allows
for a deeper visual exploration of one's environment, offering advanced editing
features to refine and enhance images.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name="_2bwk106ctj9c"></a><span lang="EN">Blogging<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Writing compelling blog posts is made more
engaging with <a href="https://www.adobe.com/express/create/post/blog"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Adobe Express Blog Creator</span></a>. This tool offers a
sophisticated platform for articulating thoughts, sharing experiences, and
connecting with like-minded individuals. It enriches the blogging experience by
providing <a href="https://www.adobe.com/express/templates/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">beautiful design templates</span></a> and interactive
features, fostering a space for reflection, discussion, and the exchange of
ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The journey of self-expression is a deeply
personal and universally relevant endeavor. It is a pathway to healing, a
catalyst for creativity, and a means of connecting with others. In the digital
age, the opportunities for self-expression are boundless, offering new mediums
and platforms for sharing our unique voices. Embracing self-expression, in all
its forms, promises not only personal growth and healing but also the
enrichment of the collective human experience.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Caludia Cruz</b> is a writer, content creator and digital graphic designer.</span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tags: #Claudia Cruz #AdobeExpress #creativeprocess #self-expression #blogging #mindfulness #self-confidence </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.mandylender.com" target="_blank">www.mandylender.com</a> <a href="http://www.mandylender.net" target="_blank">www.mandylender.net</a> <a href="http://www.attractome.com" target="_blank">www.attractome.com</a> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-81445565527284994482023-12-02T08:10:00.000-08:002023-12-02T08:10:10.628-08:00RICHARD COOKE IS TIRED OF WINNING<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Richard
Cooke is Tired of Winning <br />- Book Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the blessings of my life is having librarian
research assistant. He’s a result-getter. He digs up books on loan from
libraries in places that are not on Rand McNally maps. But his real knack is
having gotten used to sense what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">may</i>
interest me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In short Chuck knows what piques my interest. So, I
returned after twelve days away and there I find, on my credenza the title <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Tired
of Winning”</i></b> by Richard Cooke. Serendipity? Maybe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Published by Black Inc. Books., (Melbourne,
Australia. 2019) written <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the Australian
author Richard Cooke, who is considered an expert on American culture and
politics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cooke is an Aussie journo who's been in the game for
over two decades. He's penned articles for some of the country's biggest
newspapers and regularly pops up on the telly. Cooke's got a knack for breaking
down Aussie and American politics, and his writing is as clear as a sunny day.
He's a big believer in independent journalism and has scooped up a stack of
awards for his work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before I was about
to hand the book back I looked inside to see who is it that is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tired of winning</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One essay – titled Energy Exchange, Cooke describes the
summer of 1968 in Chicago. He quotes an array of journalistic print reports of
what has happened. Sometimes in details… Second hand, maybe, third hand… Most
reporters or all passed by now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The gist – if you’re interested – is followed here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Things got pretty intense in Chicago in the summer of
1968. Thousands of anti-war protesters showed up during the Democratic National
Convention to make their voices heard against the Vietnam War. Things took a
bad turn when the protests turned violent, and police clashed with the
demonstrators. The whole thing was caught on TV, and it really shook up the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The violence hurt the Democratic Party, and it's
thought to have played a role in Richard Nixon winning the 1968 presidential
election. When I arrived in Chicago in 1976 no one remembered the summer of
1968. After the winter of 1977 a new mayor (Michael Bilandic) was in office and
four years later Jane Byrne was elected becoming the first woman mayor in
Chicago. She cleared the way to the next woman mayor – Carol Mosley Browne - a
trail blazer - who went on later to be the first Black woman U.S. Senator from
Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Richard
Cooke is not interested in gender studies or minority studies in America.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Having done with Richard Nixon, the villain
Republican, Cooke brings us to a real time villain – Donald Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017 to date is a never-ending gift that keeps
giving to political journalists and the publishing houses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The journos write, the publishers print,
hard-bound books produced, and there they sell. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Never mind that Trump’s presidency was marked by four
years of peace on earth. No inflation in the US. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A vaccine was produced in warped speed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Putin didn’t dare invade Ukraine again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet the White House theatrics season was on, and
still provides nutritious manna from heaven to political journos. Bob Woodward
and Simon & Schuster and them-else keep on releasing political journalism
fiction books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here Cooke re-litigates the Russian Collusion by
Trump & sons. (“A Conspiracy”). Never mind that the Mueller Report
evaporated into a black hole in a parallel universe. Mueller who?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, it’s evident that Cooke is a visiting Trump
hater.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Michiko Kakutani was The New York Times famed book
reviewer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A 2017 article by The New
York Times titled "38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani
Reader" stated that she "wrote more than 4,000 book reviews"
during her tenure at the newspaper. Another source - "Michiko Kakutani:
The Power of Criticism" by Jennifer Schuessler, suggests that she penned
"an estimated 10,000" reviews.<br />
Richard Cooke has something against Kakutani in this essay - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Truth Kicks the Bucket”.<br />
You see, journalists make a living from minding other peoples’ business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they stop reporting facts and report their
opinions about other peoples’ behaviors and beliefs, they’re gossipers for
hire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Classic example The Guardian - is a Marxist leaning
British paper - described Carlos Lozada’s from the Washington Post book as,
“…analyses 150 often trashy books about someone who is not known to have read a
single book and hired stooges to write the 20 self-puffing volumes published in
his name.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tired of Winning is one more volume in my <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Trumpian
Bibliotheca”</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MAGA - Richard Cooke - regardless of your splendid
cognitive convolutions in print – is still America the great! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I remain grateful to Chuck Gillen III. He who provides
me with reads and write fare of esoteric books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now the Tired of Winning book goes back to the public library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf5Vv6VgBGhgsd1nONuDWKWceImZf8CwPv9xtHPqgULLR9MeXHkOz2Ff-6im7AFPN-IQNYMcZ9dp8KpV0bfxUBXELm99sVNysdBiVwmBi3pK-QtkOhX5x4g4zpESZzlGYG0gpl6holxtlc_Lpo80KRNa6KANBOU6jxKyctz1RwnbqPN2u-F15OC65P5o0/s1087/4ce89059-cdb7-4a1f-b3f0-240a1622284b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1087" data-original-width="896" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf5Vv6VgBGhgsd1nONuDWKWceImZf8CwPv9xtHPqgULLR9MeXHkOz2Ff-6im7AFPN-IQNYMcZ9dp8KpV0bfxUBXELm99sVNysdBiVwmBi3pK-QtkOhX5x4g4zpESZzlGYG0gpl6holxtlc_Lpo80KRNa6KANBOU6jxKyctz1RwnbqPN2u-F15OC65P5o0/w186-h225/4ce89059-cdb7-4a1f-b3f0-240a1622284b.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Mandy Lender during summer time</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></div><p></p>
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#DonaldTrump #CarlosLozada #ChuckGillen #MichikoKakutani #TheNewYorkTimes #CarlosLozada
#MichaelBilandic #JaneByrne #CarolMosleyBrowne #MuellerReport #ChuckGillenIII #TheGuardian
#TrumpianBibliotheca #RussianCollusion #RichardNixon <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-57080557641550519102023-07-04T06:18:00.000-07:002023-07-04T06:18:22.738-07:00MICHAEL CRICHTON CURATED SCHOLARLY MUSINGS<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Michael
Crichton was an author and filmmaker known for his science fiction,
techno-thriller, and medical fiction novels.
</span><span style="background: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He attended Harvard University, where he
studied anthropology, zoology and medicine.
He was a gifted writer who combined scientific accuracy with suspenseful
storytelling. Crichton’s intellectual powers left a scholarly legacy for intelligent
people. Below are some of his curated musings articulated originally by others.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>What really interests me is whether God has
any choice in the creation of the world.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>~ Albert Einstein<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in
structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior
seems precluded. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>~ Stuart Kaufman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>~ Ian Malcolm (Crichton)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>The more the universe seems comprehensible,
the more it also seems pointless.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>~ Steve
Weinberg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>The word “cause” is an altar to an unknown
god.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>~ William James<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>What is not possible is not to choose.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>~ Jean Paul Sartre<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span> </p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-92034922097393051012023-06-27T13:39:00.000-07:002023-06-27T13:39:19.416-07:00GUERRILLA Vs ENGINEERED SERENDIPITY - <p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">GUERRILLA Vs ENGINEERED SERENDIPITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Showing the fine line between Guerrilla
and Engineered serendipity mindsets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity is a rally of independent events which
have come together seemingly by chance to bring a surprisingly good or
wonderful outcome. We should live in the mindset that serendipity is always
with us, here and now. We can plan for serendipity and we can be prepared for
serendipity when it comes our way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Engineered
Serendipity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is the intentional creation of
opportunities for people to meet and interact in unplanned ways. The goal is to
spark new ideas, launch collaborations, and create innovations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The idea of engineered serendipity is based on the observation
that chance encounters can be a powerful source of creativity and innovation.
When people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives come
together, they spark new ideas and solutions that would not have been possible
otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is evidence to support this claim. For example,
a study by the Harvard Business School found that scientists who attended the
same conference were more likely to learn from each other and collaborate
effectively when they had common interests. However, the study also found that
scientists who were from the same field were less likely to cite each other's
work. This suggests that there is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sweet
spot</i> for engineered serendipity, where people have enough in common to be
able to connect and collaborate and create, but not so much in common that they
become competitive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are numerous known ways to engineer
serendipity. Some common methods include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Designing spaces that encourage random encounters.
This involves creating open and inviting spaces with plenty of seating, or configuring
furniture that encourages people to interact.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Organizing events and social activities that bring
people together from different backgrounds and disciplines. Such as conferences,
workshops, or social meetups or public rallies or explicit brain storming
sessions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Using technology to connect people who might not
otherwise meet. This involve using social media, online forums, virtual
meetings, or matchmaking services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The key to engineered serendipity is to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">create opportunities for people to connect </i>with
each other in unexpected ways. Social diversity is a catalytic element. When
people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives come
together, they often spark new ideas and create innovations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are past examples of how engineered serendipity
was used to achieve productive outcomes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Google's “20%” time policy encourages employees to
spend 20% of their work time on projects that are not directly related to their
job duties. This policy has led to the development of many new products and
services, including Gmail, Google Maps, and AdSense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Google engineers were encouraged to take
"walkabouts" around the company's campus. This gives them the chance
to meet people they might not otherwise meet and to discuss new ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* The XPrize is a competition that offers large
rewards for solving difficult problems. The XPrize has helped to accelerate the
development of new technologies, such as the SpaceShipOne suborbital spacecraft
and the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle race.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* The TED Conference is an annual event that brings
together speakers from diverse fields to share their ideas. TED Conferences have
helped to spread new ideas and innovations around the world. This has led to
many unexpected collaborations and innovations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* The website “meetup.com” allow people to find and
join groups based on their interests. This has helped to connect people who
might not otherwise have met and to spark new ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Engineered serendipity was well described by the
work of John Hagel et al. from Delloite Touche (2010) - how small moves, smartly
made can set big things in motion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Engineered
serendipity is a powerful tool that is used to achieve productive outcomes. By
creating opportunities for people to connect with each other in unexpected
ways, we can spark new ideas, collaborations, and innovations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Wingdings 2"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla
Serendipity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is a term used to describe the
unexpected and delightful encounters that happen when people at large go around
and about in their open communities. The term "guerrilla" is used to accentuate
the spontaneous, random and no cost nature of these encounters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The term "guerrilla" refers to the use of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unconventional tactics</i> to achieve a
goal. In the context of guerrilla serendipity, these tactics include the use of
social media, crowdsourcing, and other forms of social communication to spread
information and ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla Serendipity refers also to the unexpected
discovery of new knowledge or insights that challenge the status quo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The point is that where and when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">guerrilla</i> is deployed there is no involvement
of money. <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla=ABC</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">.
Guerrilla is <b>A</b>nything <b>B</b>ut <b>C</b>ash.</span></div>
<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla Serendipity has the potential to have an impact
on the way we think about knowledge and acquisition of power. By challenging
the traditional social gatekeepers, guerrilla serendipity helps to create a more
open and democratic society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla Serendipity was term was coined by Claudio
Paolucci to describe the use of new technologies that spread alternative and
non-institutionally certified interpretations of reality. It is a form of
"semiological guerrilla warfare" that challenges the traditional
relationship between knowledge and power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are examples of practical benefits of guerrilla
serendipity:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* The use of social media to spread information
about protests and demonstrations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* The use of crowdsourcing, (OPM) to fund and
produce independent media enterprises. Examples are Medium and Substack. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* The build free social networks to share
information and ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* The use of free or almost free community resources
such as computer labs, public libraries, volunteers, NGOs, public schools, disposed
recyclable materials, public bulletin boards, civic clubs (low cost membership),
Internet cafes, your cellphones, participating talk shows on TV and radio,
writing letters to editors, book reviews, advertising on public service radio
and TV.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla Serendipity is not without its risks. It
can be used to spread misinformation and disinformation. It can also be used to
target individuals or groups with harassment or abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, the potential benefits of guerrilla
serendipity outweigh the risks. By challenging the traditional relationship
between knowledge and power, guerrilla serendipity helps to create a more open
and democratic society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla serendipity is productive in the social
life as well as in the liberal arts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Using free social media to connect with people who
have different interests and perspectives. This can help you discover new
information and ideas that you would not have otherwise found.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Following hashtags for keywords (#), address (@) and
acronyms on social media to stay up-to-date on trending topics. This tool helps
finding new and interesting content that you might not have otherwise seen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Using online tools such as chat-generative AI to produce
random recommendations, helps finding new services, new music, movies, books,
and other content that you might enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Experimenting with various ways of using digital
technologies in the liberal arts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
musician who uses social media to connect with fans and other musicians, and
who then collaborates with them on new contents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
writer who uses online tools to generate random prompts, and then writes short
stories based on those prompts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
photographer who experiments with different ways of using their camera, and who
then takes unexpected and beautiful photos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All of the examples above help users to find new and
unexpected ways to interact with the world around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guerrilla Serendipity is a powerful mind set and skills
set for learning, for evoking creativity, and stimulating personal growth. By intentionally
creating opportunities for serendipity, you open yourself up to new experiences
and possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In finality, Guerrilla Serendipity is creative, playful
and low to no cost manifold resources. It can help you to find new friends,
useful information, life experiences, recommendations, and connections that you
would not have otherwise found. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you are looking for new ways to learn and grow – assume
the mindset of and go experiment with the guerrilla serendipity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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IS TRULY A BREAKTHROUGH, IT'S A CRAZY IDEA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>~ PETER H. DIAMANDIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mandy Lender’s books are sold on Amazon, Barnes
& Noble, eBay, <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-54397001566372357092023-05-02T04:49:00.011-07:002023-05-02T05:09:01.921-07:00<p> <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: center;">SERENDIPITY – QUICK REVISIT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipitous
opportunities happen to anyone, at any time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are some examples of serendipitous
opportunities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Meeting a soul-mate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Finding a dream job<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Traveling to an exotic destination<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Winning the lottery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Getting a promotion at work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Starting a new business<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Writing and publishing a book<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Making a humanitarian difference in the world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These are just a few examples, and there are many
other serendipitous possibilities out there. The important thing is to keep an
open mindset and be open to them and be willing to take risks. If you keep your
eyes open and your heart open, you never know what might happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipitous encounters come as an avalanche. They hit
everyone, at any time. Be prepared for them and to be willing to take advantage
of them when they come your way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are some skillset tips for encountering
serendipitous events:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Be open to new experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Search to meet new people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Travel to new places.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Try new things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Be willing to take risks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Be patient.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Believe in yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipitous lead-ins occur to everyone, at any
time and everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Be prepared for them and to be willing to take
advantage of them when they come your way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Serendipity can lead to
personal growth by providing unexpected and positive opportunities for learning
and development. Serendipitous events can help individuals to discover new
interests, passions, and talents that they may not have otherwise explored. For
example, a chance encounter with a stranger could lead to a new job opportunity
or a new friendship that opens up new possibilities for personal growth.
Serendipity can also help individuals to develop their creativity and
problem-solving skills by presenting them with unexpected challenges and opportunities.
By embracing serendipity and being open to new experiences, individuals can
expand their horizons and develop new skills and perspectives that can lead to
personal growth and fulfillment. In summary, serendipity can lead to personal
growth by providing unexpected and positive opportunities for learning, development,
and self-discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">#<br />
Serendipity is a term used to describe the occurrence of fortunate events or
happy accidents that lead to unexpected discoveries, insights or opportunities.
The word was first coined by writer and politician Horace Walpole in 1754,
after the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip," whose
heroes were always making discoveries by accident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Serendipitous events
can happen in various aspects of life, from scientific discovery and artistic
inspiration to personal relationships and career advancement. They often occur
when one is open-minded, curious and willing to take risks, as well as when one
has knowledge and experience in a particular field. Some famous examples
include Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin through observing mold
growth, or the creation of Post-It Notes by scientists trying to develop a
strong adhesive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In modern times,
technology has played an increasing role in facilitating serendipity through
algorithms designed to recommend content based on user preferences or location,
which can lead to surprising connections and discoveries online. However, some
argue that relying too heavily on algorithms and data-driven decision-making may
reduce opportunities for serendipity and creative problem-solving.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9tsRtVYzRgS0rE8GE9_E0DOPzw0wvHPJHHIw7UrL9xRfQqS24Ed23lZ7tqAsrxtFveSb1HzMrj59yFKogOPVFwrBuIn7t7uQEfg_ana6Aobw1ZL26yMRRJwj06XbmH0mPIqY99ARMAfuPJ2uHcmndse43nNveR0kvEGjgPqF3Vg5rywj3lGoNW6SO/s899/Princes%20of%20Serendip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9tsRtVYzRgS0rE8GE9_E0DOPzw0wvHPJHHIw7UrL9xRfQqS24Ed23lZ7tqAsrxtFveSb1HzMrj59yFKogOPVFwrBuIn7t7uQEfg_ana6Aobw1ZL26yMRRJwj06XbmH0mPIqY99ARMAfuPJ2uHcmndse43nNveR0kvEGjgPqF3Vg5rywj3lGoNW6SO/s320/Princes%20of%20Serendip.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Three Princes of Serendip</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.mandylender.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">www.mandylender.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.mandylender.net/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">www.mandylender.net</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.lendercombinations.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">www.lendercombinations.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.attractome.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">www.attractome.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tags: #serendipity #encounters #opportunities
#personalgrowth <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-54986914539156995952023-01-25T12:09:00.002-08:002023-01-25T12:14:33.258-08:00BING SEARCH BEATS GOOGLE<p> <span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;">BING SEARCH BEATS GOOGLE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Bing Search knows Chess. Google knows bank tellers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">With the ongoing struggle for perfection where
Microsoft released to the public its new query AI, aka, </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>chatGPT</i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">, it occurred to
me to compare Bing search engine to Google search engine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I used an esoteric question taken out from the world
of Chess and Chess problems, known only to exclusive group of chess problems experts.
<br />
I presented to each search engine the same question:<br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“What
is Lender Combinations?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.95pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I <u>started with
Google</u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.
The answer was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A combination loan is two separate mortgage loans
granted by the same lender to the same borrower. Combination loans can fund
the construction of a new home or purchase an existing property. Choosing a
combination loan may allow borrowers to avoid paying private mortgage insurance
(PMI).</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/combination_loan.asp#:~:text=A%20combination%20loan%20is%20two,private%20mortgage%20insurance%20(PMI)."><span style="color: #1a0dab; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #1a0dab; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/combination_loan.asp#:~:text=A%20combination%20loan%20is%20two,private%20mortgage%20insurance%20(PMI)."><span style="color: #1a0dab; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Combination Loan
Definition - Investopedia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #202124; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.95pt;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Next I asked
Microsoft Bing same question</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. And the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>correct answer was</u></b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.95pt;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The novelty was introduced by the now famous
Israeli chess composer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baruch Lender</b>,
(1913-1994). It was published in 1979 as a two-mover showing, for the first
time, a combination of exchanged key and threat with mates in both passes.
According to the definition this is actually the combination of themes:<b> Reversal
and le Grand</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2; vertical-align: bottom;"><a href="https://www.lendercombinations.com/#:~:text=The%20novelty%20was%20introduced%20by%20the%20now%20famous,the%20combination%20of%20themes%3A%20Reversal%20and%20le%20Grand."><span style="color: #4007a2; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">LENDER<b> </b>COMBINATIONS</span></a><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"><span style="color: #006621; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.lendercombinations.com/</span><span style="color: #767676; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">correct
answer</b> came from Bing - drawn directly from the source domain name. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lender
Combinations</i></b> is a brand name. It is an explicitly registered domain
name. Google failed mentioning it even though it is indexed through Google’s
Blogger and the domain name is registered through Google/domains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My guess is that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Microsoft Bing</b> already has embedded some enhancing algorithmic elements
that are based on GPT3. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.lendercombinations.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.lendercombinations.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><a href="http://www.mandylender.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.mandylender.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><a href="http://www.mandylender.net/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.mandylender.net</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><a href="http://www.minnarozen.co.il/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.minnarozen.co.il</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-PrNUAwJdkAD_O02TF1qt-Z6srUFoanOrzugXXIeVn4_0XjVDiYItm-kOEUQdPAkpOASA-vOMvtqV0B3f_PbEEbIh7UrxWDWBsHVW3cOfGjYTlQD-ekHn0pJUZ8fR_q_VIFiChhwxUejOlgQ6JomaZEZ-8f7ux5giTEDTRLibKiC17it43piEc95x/s2864/baruch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2864" data-original-width="2138" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-PrNUAwJdkAD_O02TF1qt-Z6srUFoanOrzugXXIeVn4_0XjVDiYItm-kOEUQdPAkpOASA-vOMvtqV0B3f_PbEEbIh7UrxWDWBsHVW3cOfGjYTlQD-ekHn0pJUZ8fR_q_VIFiChhwxUejOlgQ6JomaZEZ-8f7ux5giTEDTRLibKiC17it43piEc95x/w155-h181/baruch2.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOe4hKySlp6zDDD8sEZ0fde8YIpr11oDcImb-_rMjpJlKBcYvsjguWq-3-sFnH1YMbF0uiKd0-Fggrq3AlNo2tspW_BdU9Cybr6hPqf9opx-_IKehmHOGy8-tM5jlofkPuV8xakLIzBniYUHzWzNzI78dX023_3oWPw6J7A38nASpS7wd5g6gVHW8/s258/Original%20Lender%20Combination.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="258" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOe4hKySlp6zDDD8sEZ0fde8YIpr11oDcImb-_rMjpJlKBcYvsjguWq-3-sFnH1YMbF0uiKd0-Fggrq3AlNo2tspW_BdU9Cybr6hPqf9opx-_IKehmHOGy8-tM5jlofkPuV8xakLIzBniYUHzWzNzI78dX023_3oWPw6J7A38nASpS7wd5g6gVHW8/w156-h156/Original%20Lender%20Combination.png" width="156" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tags:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> #LenderCombinations #BaruchLender #MandyLender
#MinnaRozen #ChessProblems #MandyLender <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-17027036934046520442023-01-15T16:42:00.003-08:002023-01-15T16:42:39.561-08:00CHANGALANG SERENDIPITY<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CHANGALANG
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SERENDIPITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity is the realization of a fortunate event
through sagacious observation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity is the personal mirror by which we see
ourselves. When we consider ourselves lucky we mean to say that we encountered
serendipity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Intelligent Serendipiters are folks attentive to
their surroundings. They use their perceptive abilities and interact with their
environment as soon as they recognize its distinctive novel characteristics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How do they do it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Intelligent Serendipiter knows that serendipity
is not a goal. It is not an aim, nor is serendipity a tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">talent</i>.
It is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">awareness</i> - a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">faculty</i>. You can’t exercise serendipity
and you can’t run out of serendipity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Be at all times aware of serendipity and it will be
there with you. Serendipity can’t be earned and can’t be purchased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Serendipity is the milieu. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next, they who are aware of serendipity - recognize
their wishes and desires. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity is intelligence that exists in the
sagacious human. With awareness and intelligence the perceptive person sees
through the haze of life their interests, desires and wishes. <br />
The Intelligent Serendipiter connects all the scattered dots that they see into
a meaningful image. The Intelligent Serendipiter sees a bridge where others see
gaping hole. Charles Darwin connected thousands of dots that he collected
during his travels into an evolution theory. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity by awareness implies that a solution
exists in the realm of certainty. Certainty is - the proof of the solution. The
solution is there waiting for the problem that it is predestined to solve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How to? Be exposed to the environment surrounding
you. The solution is right there, waiting to be accepted for what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity is the epitome of the passion for
discovery. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ask Galileo Galilei. The four moons of Jupiter were
waiting for Galileo to notice them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ask Elon Musk - who perceives necessities waiting to
be fulfilled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Serendipity is not luck. It is character – talent and
aptitude.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El tiempo de serendipia.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Changalang is a town in India. Serendip is the old
name of Sri Lanka.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tags: #serendipity #serendipiter
#IntelligentSerendipiter #GalileoGalilei #sagacious #sagacity #changalang #SriLanka
#Jupitermoons #caveofthe treasure <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-39757103150235514072022-06-23T15:39:00.000-07:002022-06-23T15:39:30.632-07:00ROLLING ELECTRIC POWER BLACK OUTS<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Due to high demand on the electricity supply grid there are power failures
during summer days. Wait until a million electric vehicle charging stations added
to the faltering grid.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">#electricpowerfailures #EV #vehiclechargingstations
#rollingblackouts #indexnow #Reddit #LinkedIn #DOE #DOT #cruelsummer <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-63048525482243141942022-06-20T08:07:00.000-07:002022-06-20T08:07:16.809-07:00THE JUST and THE JERK<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE JUST and THE JERK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Just shall live by his faith<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Jerk lives by his folly</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Just
shall live by his faith goes back 2700 years ago to Habakkuk 2:4, then repeated
twice by St. Paul: Romans 1:17 & Galatians 3:11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Just man is a “righteousness” man, (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tzedekah)</i> and “justice” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mishpat</i>). He is attuned to the right
thing and actually does it. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tzedaka</i>”
is charity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence the Just man is a
righteous charitable man.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who is the Jerk? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In America it is an annoying, stupid or
foolish person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A person can only be a Just or a Jerk.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTxTQMyX4z4z07vc_pLQMgvJ0sqd8HvpKkHl7ZWzV7QYMlFEiF_iKLJvYh3ekPKVTiSAbAfd6ENr-ywXMouEuQOX9IdB5iZayrIXeXoWagBRiqkVGKYzIH0HWz3zeKuCMsKgS1VnjoNBiiISxYoL5xZURYTjbQLSG-IYhfvu_UDnZrm0kWTf14q9Ku/s1203/0a34db21-333d-4663-a692-9b98df7dd543.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="902" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTxTQMyX4z4z07vc_pLQMgvJ0sqd8HvpKkHl7ZWzV7QYMlFEiF_iKLJvYh3ekPKVTiSAbAfd6ENr-ywXMouEuQOX9IdB5iZayrIXeXoWagBRiqkVGKYzIH0HWz3zeKuCMsKgS1VnjoNBiiISxYoL5xZURYTjbQLSG-IYhfvu_UDnZrm0kWTf14q9Ku/w105-h140/0a34db21-333d-4663-a692-9b98df7dd543.jpg" width="105" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">#aJust <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#aJerk #faith #folly #tzedaka #charity #ethics
#AmericanJerk <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-82926752477228500232022-06-18T15:19:00.000-07:002022-06-18T15:19:25.725-07:00USEFUL IDIOTS ARE TRAPPED<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">USEFUL IDIOTS ARE TRAPPED</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A useful idiot is a term for a person that
propagandizes for a cause without comprehending the cause’s goals, and is
cynically used by the cause's leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Useful idiots don’t use their mind to exercise
critical thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Useful idiots are not aware that they are useful
idiot.<br />
Or else, if a useful idiot would know that they are used as a useful idiot they
would break out from their useful idiot status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5vq6g4t4Cz8vLz1oZwK8ngsMcfYpq6Bs9hO09zydD5ArnuDaPKUw1wskQri_JLOpJAN8Yx0HYLvq7w4nLLtrkEBfW02o55kftV_OHK3ASvdKoK_pwyQVK50N1x5TXwzZoBuPCsybrpjNiHMnZSIwKtjL5mqmW0awNj6bF74_JbU9GfLqGaAmCeVu/s1024/7c6a6c9d-b849-4bbb-9bb5-dc8d2eff2b9a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5vq6g4t4Cz8vLz1oZwK8ngsMcfYpq6Bs9hO09zydD5ArnuDaPKUw1wskQri_JLOpJAN8Yx0HYLvq7w4nLLtrkEBfW02o55kftV_OHK3ASvdKoK_pwyQVK50N1x5TXwzZoBuPCsybrpjNiHMnZSIwKtjL5mqmW0awNj6bF74_JbU9GfLqGaAmCeVu/w179-h213/7c6a6c9d-b849-4bbb-9bb5-dc8d2eff2b9a.jpg" width="179" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">#usefulidiot #idiocy #criticalthinking <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-41368247448967391432022-03-27T05:54:00.000-07:002022-03-27T05:54:00.776-07:00THE MYSTIC OF LENDER COMBINATIONS<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">THE MYSTIC OF LENDER COMBINATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mysticism in Chess Created by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baruch Lender:</b> The Single Idea That Changed Chess Composition
Forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a blog about the great mind behind the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lender Combinations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the most interesting combinations in chess composition
is the one with reversed key.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
idea of reversing a key is simple: instead of moving a piece to attack or to
cover a square, we can move it away from the square.</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The novelty was introduced by the now famous Israeli
chess composer Baruch Lender, (1913-1994). It was published in1979 as a
two-mover showing, for the first time, a combination of exchanged key and
threat with mates in both passes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the definition this is actually <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
combination of themes: Reversal and le Grand</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite the originality of thematic paradox, his
composition was not adequately rewarded in tourney, and therefore this new
combination remained unnoticed for a while. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The only consolation for the inventor is if the
invention becomes recognizable by his or her name as was the case with the “Reversal+le
Grand” blend which is nowadays known as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lender Combinations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The recognition and the glory came many years later
by many other chess problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Discussion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The question posited: is it a Combination or a
Paradox? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One answer was: Reverser Grand Contradiction. This
blog points to - around the rare but amusing and fascinating series of moves
that surprisingly looks like they shouldn't work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is the idea of exchanging the key in chess a combination
or a paradox? In my opinion, it is an innovative combination. How did I reach
this conclusion? A key's objective of duties is to defend a specific square.
The key moves with the intent to attack and/or defend a receiver of threat from
an enemy piece positioned on a particular square. If we move the key away from
that original square leaving an exposed square, thus creating a threatening
mate if we don’t<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the a publication (On the Threshold of a New Era
in Chess Composition), we discovered that there are only 9 key-definitions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have shown that by combining these keys with
different threats, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it is possible to
build many new types of combinations.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, all of the chess combination themes are based on this idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In future blogs we will explain this point by
showing how a specific key-definition may be combined with a threat to create
new types of combinations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will show
that only one or two themes are needed to create all other types of
combinations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Original Lender Combination<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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LENDER COMBINATIONS Book<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">#BaruchLender #LenderCombinations #themereversalandlegrand
#ChessProblems #ChessTournyes #IndexNow #Yousearchengine #GoogleSearch
#BingSearch #YahooSearch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-75746582123194481872022-01-16T11:21:00.001-08:002022-01-16T11:23:25.848-08:00BIBLIOTECA TRUMPIANA<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">BIBLIOTECA
TRUMPIANA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Intellectual School of Thought on Trump Books About Books
on Trump<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first volume in this nascent school of intellectual
studies was published in 2020. <br />On July 17, 2002, Donald J. Trump said: <br /><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Many books have been written about me,
some good, some bad. Both happily and sadly, there will be more to come!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE TRUMP BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over 4,500 books, so far, were published about
former president Donald Trump, according to the British Guardian newspaper.
Maybe…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 45th president of the U. S. has taken authorship
according to the New Statesman magazine, on 17 published books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Better yet, in 2020 the journalist <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carlos Lozada</i> published a book in which
he reviewed some of the book writing and book publishing industry - contents
and business – over the personality, the life and doings of Donald Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The book is titled, “What Were We Thinking: A Brief
Intellectual History of the Trump Era.”*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Guardian - is a Marxist leaning British paper - described
Lozada’s book as, “…analyses 150 often trashy books about someone who is not
known to have read a single book and hired stooges to write the 20 self-puffing
volumes published in his name.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is after having been one term president.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Obviously The Guardian being what it is - dedicated
to its ethos of downgrading Donald Trump - will be studied and discussed long
after the retirement of the Guardians present and future Publishers and Editors-in-Chief.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are no known plans for a Trump Presidential
Library but it’s going to be a YUGE, BIG library building. It all depends on
the future number of his presidential terms we will witness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">_______<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Lozada, Carlos (2020). What were we thinking: a
brief intellectual history of the Trump era. New York: Simon & Schuster.
ISBN 978-1-9821-4562-0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Carlos
Lozada</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is a Pulitzer Prize winner, a book critic for the
Washington Post and adjuct Professor of political journalism at the University of
Notre Dame.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">More to come.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYKlkVHyQY2Cv0tyLXEh4rlkkjksBgru3nAL_QHuJj-Aiej0JieTyBl6RbYeynvB4VOzfv6YpM2ax8UkR34hR_QQfDB7erZISam8uDorHgXt1R7PCi9yaQWx23qcLqFk_WRjvEAfXq14vR6HQuRgamKUZLEAWk9ASXCP5AUO8e8fsoRIyo-VeH-LcL=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1419" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYKlkVHyQY2Cv0tyLXEh4rlkkjksBgru3nAL_QHuJj-Aiej0JieTyBl6RbYeynvB4VOzfv6YpM2ax8UkR34hR_QQfDB7erZISam8uDorHgXt1R7PCi9yaQWx23qcLqFk_WRjvEAfXq14vR6HQuRgamKUZLEAWk9ASXCP5AUO8e8fsoRIyo-VeH-LcL=s320" width="222" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiLight Condensed","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Biblioteca Trumpiana</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">™
is our own trade mark.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">#BibliotecaTrumpiana #DonaldJTrump #CarlosLozada #Simon&Schuster
#WashingtonPost #BooksonTrump #UniversityofNotredame</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-33433919279256320432021-12-14T06:49:00.000-08:002021-12-14T06:49:03.115-08:00THE AGE OF AI - Book Review<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">THE
AGE OF AI - Book Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
New Kissinger Doctrine Is a Game Changer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The book The Age of AI
and Our Human Future is a graduate school level text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Age of AI is the future, and it’s coming
way too fast. The human race has never been more challenged. We are all about
to make some huge decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is almost a
magisterium for human life in the Fourth Industrial Revolution age. It is
written by thought leaders of the highest-level, each in their respective
fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The first author is
Henry Kissinger the former Secretary of State and NSC advisor to two US
presidents, a philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. At age 98 he has seen
it all and done it, and remains an international counselor to politicians and
business magnates. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The second author, Eric
Schmidt consolidated Google into the cutting edge technology giant that it is
today. In this role he is a sought out counselor and business mogul. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The third author is
Daniel Huttenlocher – the inaugural Dean of the MIT College of Computing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the place where AI is reinvented and
recreated on self-teaching algorithm development and data aggregation from the
global network platforms and the internet that occur 24/7 at a neck breaking
pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This compendium though
incomplete, has more authors, contributors and editors. Schuyler Schouten, a
former White House legal counsel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meredith Potter is a contributor who augments Kissinger’s intellectual
pursuits she drafted, edited the texts and made the chapters flowing clearly
and seamless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These and other editors
made this textbook intellectually rich, informative, and easy to read.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Age of AI
introduces the reader to the occurring changes we experienced in our society
today. You are about to encounter many topics that involve the future in its continuing
evolution. Every high school student is adapting to the new classroom
intellectual reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here are two points to
consider. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">First, the technology
that this text discusses is not available in your community college courses or
on other educational websites. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Second, whenever you
visit this field knowledge and course material for writing assignments—you may
need more than just 15-20 pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
form of the internet search and browsing is different than an online social group
activity. The internet has changed what it means to be educated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanity is continuously learning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This kind of mindset
change is concerning to us and the future winning generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The age of artificial
intelligence is here. The book was not written only for geeks and software
engineers. It’s a good core class for every MBA program. It introduces aspects
from the humanities in every chapter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
has biblical flair to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It stitches
history and augurs the future, all interwoven in every chapter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The idea that current
programming code automates some jobs, such as translation, give best travel
directions or loan prediction, has been proven by computer scientists. We
embrace intelligent algorithms to open new opportunities for people with
disabilities. Assistive programs will evolve and eventually replace us as we
know it. Additionally, we will encounter many scenarios where we may not be
sure of what is exactly happening on the other side of the screen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As the digital world
evolves, so it elevates the level of human intelligence. You feel that I like
this book about Artificial Intelligence and our future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So let’s get started
with the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Age of AI book has
seven chapters. I studied this book thoroughly while writing the book
review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I review and comment on each
chapter, but not always in their published order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book is readable even if it’s read in any
chapter order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest I studied
the book chapters at my own order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Note: To act properly -
whenever I quoted from the book’s text I used quotation marks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The contents of the
first and second chapters are historical and philosophical in nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The second chapter is
titled How We Got Here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">History is an
instructive realm. Particularly fascinating is the evolution of human thought –
who we are and how we got here. The Dark Ages were just that - dark. When the
printing press was invented in the mid-15th century, knowledge, education and
understanding of the world, launched the periods of Enlightenment and the Age
of Reason. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At the 15 to 17th
centuries knowledge became more available and started to circulate in languages
other than Latin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Christian church
lost the monopoly on understanding the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People started to understand Divinity on their own terms. It became a
known fact that there people and large nations in Asia – China, India, and
Americas that think differently. Geography, sea-faring navigation, chemistry
and physics were developed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The philosophy of the
Age of Enlightenment required freedom of thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is real and what is reasonable were
subject of intellectual, philosophical debates. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When knowledge
accumulated and committed to printed books, the first <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Encyclopediae</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was assembled
by Denis Diderot during the years 1751-1772.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It had 75,000 entries.
So much knowledge. Neither the State nor the Church liked it. They lost control
over the body of knowledge territorial colonies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The radical ideas of
personal freedom gave birth to the French Revolution. The Prussian King adopted
the armed reason as a cause of war and started the Seven Years War in Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Conclusion - free
knowledge and encyclopedias have unintended consequences – such as – personal
freedom and sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At the beginning of the
20<sup>th</sup> century Einstein revolutionized physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At about the same period Niels Bohr came up
with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quantum Theory</i> and Werner
Heisenberg with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncertainty
Principles</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is that human
knowledge kept evolving in a faster pace. The World Wars did not stop the
evolution of ideas and knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">During WWII it became
certain that - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">knowledge is real power!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowledge is also - physical – It is either
constructive, or destructive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By end of WWII, atomic
weapons were developed and deployed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
weaponizing of nuclear energy was followed by peaceful use of nuclear energy
for generating - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">clean energy</i>… We all
love clean energy… All of us need electricity to power your computers… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The amount of
accumulating knowledge required the perpetual development of powerful and
faster computers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The computers were
mechanical to begin with, and then data was digitized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All manual tasks from half a century ago are
now digitized. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“As
information is contextualized it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels
convictions it becomes wisdom… As online information has exploded we have
turned to software to help us sort it out, refine it, make assessments based on
patterns and guide us.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is where AI enters
our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Third Chapter
titled “From Turing to Today” gets geeky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Any reader who got this far will understand it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1950 Alan Turing
proposed that in order to measure intelligence we have to assess the external
behavior – the output of the computers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“...If
a machine operated proficiently that observers could not distinguish its
behavior from human’s, the machine should be labeled intelligent.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is known as the
Turing Test.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In May 2020 an AI
platform was released. It was named <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GPT-3</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This name is an acronym for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">g</b>enerative <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">p</b>re-trained <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">t</b>ransformer,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3</b><sup>rd</sup> generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It can in response to a
prompt generate a human readable, sensible text. How so?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Using texts on the
internet, GPT-3 is trained to generate realistic human text. GPT-3 has been used
to create articles, poetry, stories, news reports and dialogue using just a
small amount of input text that can be used to produce large amounts of quality
copy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Given a partial phrase
it can produce possible completions. Given a topic it can produce a paragraph,
and given a question it produces possible answers.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And more. It can draft
an essay… It can write poetry…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All this is done
provided that there is information about the subject matter on the
internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So GPT-3 is an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">information gatherer</i> and a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">language model</i>. Better yet, GPT-3 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trains itself</i> and becomes more efficient
with increasing iterations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Preceding this
development in 2017, Google’s research team developed an AI chess playing
program branded as Alpha Zero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
program was given the rules of chess and the chess board game learned to play
chess <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">competing against itself</i>. It
played against itself and while doing so it trained itself to play chess more
skillfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chess playing AI
developed strategies unknown to human chess players heretofore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yes, we are dealing now
with Machine Learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The machine
trains itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At the heart of the AI
capability to learn are specific <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">algorithms</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Machine Learning, the algorithm is a set
of steps and rules given to an AI program to help it learn on its own how to
improve imprecise results. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The algorithm requires
vast amount of data which it gathers from the internet or from its past
experience. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, unless it plays
chess against itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that case it
performs millions of chess games and chess maneuvers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Machine Learning
algorithms technologies are making progress in research labs out there, right
now - as I type and as you read my words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Better yet, and this is
significant - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The modern AI algorithms
measure the quality of outcomes and provide means for improving those outcomes
enabling them to be more proficiently learned rather than directly specified”</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The AI process has two
phases: first phase is the training. Next phase is the AI quality measurement
and improvement - algorithms evaluate and amend its model to obtain quality
results. The AI reaches conclusions by the model it develops and in response to
reward function that human programmers specified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is mind boggling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The concept and
construct of these algorithms were inspired by the anatomy and physiology of
the human brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most significant progress was made when AI
facilitated transcription and translation of texts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meaningful interlingual translation was
enabled by mimicking deep neural networks. The generative algorithms became
transformers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And transformers can read
the text from left to right (as in English), or from right to left (as in
Hebrew). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Are you still with
me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">OK. So what really is a
transformer?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">transformer</i></b> is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deep learning</i> model (algorithm) that
adopts the mechanism of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">self-attention</i></b>, differentially <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">weighting the significance</i> of each part
of the input data. It is used primarily in the field of natural language
processing (NLP) and in computer vision (CV) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Transformers do not
necessarily process the data in order. Rather, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the attention mechanism provides context for any position in the input
sequence. For example, if the input data is a natural language sentence, the
transformer does not need to process the beginning of the sentence before the
end!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Attention mechanisms
let a model draw from the state at any preceding point along the text. The
attention layer access previous states and weights them according to a learned
measure of relevancy, providing relevant information about far-away items<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">OK. Let’s parse it in
spoken English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G</b>enerator that is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">P</b>re-trained to create language has this clever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>ransformer that reads from the start to end, or from the end (of
the sentence) to the beginning and assign weight to the content context of the
sentence in its context.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here is what happens.
Buckle your seat belt…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The generator can
create text, or images</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Give it an outline and key words and it will write a story.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If a generator can
create a story it can also create a false story – deep fake stories -that can’t
be distinguished from reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that
case you need an algorithm that will distinguish and discriminate which ideas
are realistic or fake. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now we have a struggle
between <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Generative Adversarial Networks
(GAN)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I call this scenario - </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Wars of The AIs</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This Machine Learning
is now yesterday’s news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of it already
happened in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI is used for more
than games and story tales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google’s
Deep Mind project built an AI that temperate the energy by 40% greater
efficiency in Google’s data centers. There the AI performs better than humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it takes a human to train the AI to meet
its whims and wishes…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a danger in
this clever AI model. Personalizing the output can bias it towards certain
sources and away from other sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
plain English we call it censorship… Censorship by AI…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A user does not know how
the AI reached its conclusion and selected its offerings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the programmer loses control on the over
the end-results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes. AI may make
mistakes but its owners-designers have no idea why.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The AI does not reflect
on its results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It processes the data
that was handed to it and in line with the instructions it received.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI has no common sense.
AI has no feelings, has no regrets and no grudges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The continuous
evolution of AI depends on three constraints. Those are the human talents that
write (engineer) the parameters of the AI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Second are the objectives - of what it is to optimize. And third, AI
processes only what it designed to recognize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In other words AI does not write its own code as of yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Example</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since this book went to print DeepMind, the
subsidiary of Alphabet/Google reported the existence of a new and improved
artificial intelligence algorithm that can perform a wide range of language
tasks—from reading comprehension to answering questions on a broad range of
subjects—better than any existing similar software. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">DeepMind’s language
model, which is called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gopher</b>, is
significantly more accurate than these existing ultra-large language models on
many tasks, particularly answering questions about specialized subjects like
science and the humanities, and equal or nearly equal to them in others, such
as logical reasoning and mathematics, according to the data DeepMind published.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Gopher is smaller than
other ultra-large language software. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gopher
has some 280 billion different parameters</i>, or variables that it can tune.
That makes it larger than OpenAI’s GPT-3, which has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">175</b> billion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI research,
development, and commercialization happens mostly in the US and China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, one of this book’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">short-comings</i> is assessing and scoring
AI in China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A report in the Hong
Kong daily paper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">South China Morning Post</i>,
on November 20, 2021 describes advances in a powerful <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exascale supercomputer</i></b> in
China that has made a massive increase in its Artificial Intelligence performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Aided by a breakthrough
in memory management technology, the New Generation Sunway supercomputer
recorded a 75,839-fold boost in handling data for machine learning. The overall
performance of the computer increased 88 times when processing some of the most
challenging AI-related tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The authors of this
book concede that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“the state-funded
Beijing Academy of Sciences has developed a generative language model with 10
times as many weights as GPT-3.”</i> This is still 104 times fewer than the
estimated of the human brain synapses. (There are estimated 125 trillion
synapses in human brain).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A just published
report, from the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy concludes that in AI,
China is already a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">full-spectrum peer
competitor”</i> of the US, according to the Harvard report, citing a quote from
former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. It indicated that China is laying
the intellectual groundwork for a generational advantage in AI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The report indicated
that in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deep learning – AI’s hottest subfield</i></b> – China has six times
more patent publications than the US. It cited an assessment of the Allen
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which forecast the US to fall to second
place in the top 1 per cent of most-cited AI papers by 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fact:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
In 2019, Chinese universities produced 49,498 PhDs in STEM fields, while U.S.
universities produced 33,759. Based on current enrollment patterns, the report
projects that by 2025 China's yearly STEM PhD graduates (77,179) will nearly
double those in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That’s the end of
geek-speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From here on we’ll talk Tik
Tok stuff…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Chapter 4 in the book
deals with Global Network Platforms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Those are the likes of
Google, Meta (Facebook), Amazon (Web Services) and the thousands of Social
Media platforms that utilize AI and algorithms to read our thoughts and sell us
their “stuff” and rake a profit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bet
that this chapter was authored by Eric Schmidt – the former CEO of Google.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Google, Facebook Amazon
and their likes, won’t be today who they are, without AI and their notorious
algorithms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Social Media is all
around us – web searches, streaming videos, dating online, ride-sharing, job
hunting, car navigating, political advertising, fund raising, and…
shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All make use of AI and
algorithms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The SM network platforms
deliver valuable daily services and products that provide services to their
users by aggregating the users in large numbers on national and global scale.
The network’s platform utility value grows as its attractiveness grows when
additional users join it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All these global
networks rely on AI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the major
global networks are now geopolitically significant. Commercial competition
between global networks affects geopolitical and diplomatic considerations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Materials in a global network may be considered
disinformation in some certain country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Freedom of expression in one country is defamation in another country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The common example is
Facebook with its billions of users.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because of these billions of users and many billions of viewers
“community standards” were created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
who are the humans that can monitor those community standards?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Here comes the AI to
help. AI does the analysis to determine which content is within the community
standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From my user experience; can
human supervisors always explain why certain experience was removed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI has
a mind of its own.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On another front in
2015 Google incorporated AI to the search process with improvement of the
quality and usability of the search results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That accomplished but at the same time the developers can’t always
explain why a particular page ranks higher than another page… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI has a mind of its own.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One well-guarded,
secretive global network platform is Amazon that turned into Amazon Web
Services. Amazon is influential to its customers because of its clever
algorithms that analyzed my shopping needs and anticipates what I, the shopper,
want to buy, and keeps remind me what else I want to buy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazon is not shy to state that” based on my
previous purchases I may be interested in” buying today this other widget or
book… No wonder that Amazon turned also to be a provider of digital web
services such as cloud computing and hosting smaller platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One thing of note.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazon is not mentioned in this book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazon is not listed in the index at the back
of this book. Wonder why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So this book is not a
perfect compendium….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The author of Chapter
Four on Global Network Platforms proposes a simple explanation of the naked
truth that we are all aware of, as users of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon,
Netflix, Tik Tok and the other popular SM platforms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is known as the
positive network effect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Positive
network effect occurs for information-exchange activities in which the value
rises in this manner, success tends to produce further success and a greater
likelihood of eventual predominance. People naturally gravitate toward existing
gatherings which lead to larger aggregations of users. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
network platform relatively unconstrained by borders, this dynamic leads to a
broader, often transnational geographic scope with correspondingly few major
competing services.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This quote deserves to
be studied, internalize and learned from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My guess is that this chapter was written by, or mostly written by Eric
Schmidt who led Google for 10 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
walked the talk. Traders in international stock exchanges know it best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On global network
platforms we watch the operation of nonhuman intelligence at global scale. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Presently at the end of
2021, after two years of pandemic caused social distancing AI was placed in
certain networks in a critical and essential resource substitute maintaining
the social glue of society, political governance, and maintenance of business
continuity in terms of remote office work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am referring to the rise of Zoom. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet the users of Zoom
and similar platforms have no idea where and when AI is managing the video
conferencing processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Zoom owners and
operators gained access to the users’ personal information and faces and the
interiors of their kitchens, studios or bedrooms. Same holds for Facebook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Facebook probably holds the facial images of
a billion people on planet Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the global network platforms
possess and exercise social and political influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They bear political influence that affects
the most democratic elections. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The fact is that they
muted and banned a sitting US president. The global networks decide what it is
the “community standard”, unless their algorithm decides it faster and ahead of
its human managers. Nonetheless, the global network platforms are social glue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following quote is ominously significant,
being a confession by the book chapter author that wrote it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“AI
operates according to its own processes…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI
develops its own approaches for fulfilling whatever objective functions were
specified. It produces outcomes and answers that are not characteristically
human and that are largely independent of national or corporate cultures.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The effects are that
information or recommendations are put out to the info-verse while the
operators and users don’t know nor understand what is occurring in real time.
The common end result is that the owners-operators are frequently embarrassed
by the outcomes and legislatives bodies go after them with reprimands and
occasional legal consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When we talk about
production and distribution of disinformation there is more unsettling
news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The language-generation AI GPT-3
can create synthetic meanings, fake personalities. Those fake users can produce
any fake and any hate contents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whille writing this
last sentence I’m reminded of the billion dollars phenomenon known as Harry
Potter series and the question- doubt who wrote all that Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just ponder the
possibilities…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This book chapter
describes in a disappointingly short and fleeting form the growing Tik Tok
phenomenon of vulgarization in social media. Actually TiK Tok is emblematic of
all the potential concerns about AI that I listed above. And more are yet to
come. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tik Tok was released
for Android and iOS phones in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was downloaded over 2 billion times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
has over 130 million users in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
carries every negative feature that modern day global AI platform can provide.
It offers whimsical, stupid, sometimes salacious short video clips aimed at
youth aged 13 and over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It records and
saves the biometrics – face print and voice print - of its users. It carried
disinformation of any kind and sort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Governments, both autocratic and democratic, objected to it. Blocked it,
sued it. It is considered a spying agent by proxy of the Chinese
authorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tik Tok is all over the
planet and it is not known for sure who controls it, if any.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>India and America tried to restrict Tik Tok,
Good luck to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Global Network
Platforms can change, and do change the norms of societies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The increase consumption, enabled education
through novel modalities, enabled remote work place, changing fashion trends
and electing politician to positions of power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Global Network
Platforms require a huge amount of original talents. The affluent countries –
rich in resources and rich in talent can afford their own Global Network
Platforms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most countries can’t afford
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time “public figures”
are able to use the global platforms to their advantage, their enhanced
visibility and economic exploitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Chapter Five deals with
country and state security and warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Going back to Proverb
24:6:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“With cunning you shall wage war.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sun Tzu said: “All
warfare is based on deception.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Carl von Clausewitz,
the military theorist, said in1832: “Force to counter opposing force, equips
itself with the inventions of art and science.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Every army has a Corp
of Engineers. The nuclear weapons technology was developed and deployed to win
an end to WWII. Next it was used for civilian purposes and still used in
nuclear powered submarines. Biologic warfare is always forbidden but always
developed in the dark back labs…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Satellites can be
deployed for reconnaissance and military uses. So are rocket sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI is now integrated in
all these physical armaments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI is used to
disseminate disinformation as part of psychological warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI has the potential to
convert military conflicts beyond restraint. Civilian airplanes already fly and
land with little or no pilot intervention. So can fighter jet during on-air
dogfights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is that the race
for AI advantage is already taking place between the U.S., China and Russia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What really happens
behind the scenes of military R&D remains unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Analysis of the Chinese
Communist Party’s five-year plan by the cyber threat intelligence company
SecAlliance reveals that China is increasingly confident and, no doubt, hostile
in its cyber behavior. This will have implications on the future cyber landscape
and potentially a detrimental effect on industrialized democracies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Earlier this year,
(2021) the UK Ministry of Defense’s “Digital Strategy for Defense” paper
outlined how the armed forces will access data via a secure, singular, modern
digital backbone. The backbone and a strategy itself are multi-layered. One of
the main aims is to create the ability to exploit vast amounts of data in a
simple way to dominate the battle-space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On December 17, 2020,
the US Air Force announced the successful flight of an AI algorithm controlled,
known as ARTUµ, (with the pilot) on a U-2 Dragon Lady high-altitude
reconnaissance aircraft. The Secretary said that “Putting AI safely in command
of a US military system for the first-time ushers in a new age of human-machine
teaming and algorithmic competition. Failing to realize AI’s full potential
will mean ceding decision advantage to our adversaries.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Who are the adversaries
was not specified… We can count on them - the adversaries – that they are also
doing their R&D in due diligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For example, The head
of defense contractor manufacturer, Raytheon, Gregory Hays, has said this last
October, that the US is years behind China in its pursuit of hypersonic weapons
which can bob and weave through the atmosphere at more than five times the
speed of sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">His comments followed
reports that China conducted two hypersonic weapons tests over the summer of
2021, including one of a so-called hypersonic glide vehicle. Launched from a
missile or rocket, the craft separates and zips toward a target while
maneuvering through the atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Such weapons can reach
speeds of 22,000 miles per hour, he said. “We have to have automated systems to
defend the homeland, and we are focused on that.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A missile of this
capability flies at 6 miles per second. Let’s be clear, an AI piloting an
aircraft, is scanning for targets - it follows its own logic - proceeding
faster than the speed of human thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Another example, the
Chinese military could be spending as much or even more than the United States
on artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The analysis, by the
Centre for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University in
Washington, also found just 22 of the 273 companies known to supply the
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with AI equipment were not subject to US
Commerce Department restrictions – meaning they may be able to access US
technology and pass it on to the PLA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Given the secrecy
surrounding the issue, it is difficult to calculate exactly how much each side
spends on AI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Researchers looked at more
than 18,300 publicly available contracts awarded by the PLA and state-owned
defense companies last year. They estimated that Chinese military spending on
AI-related technologies amounted to between US$1.6 billion and $2.7 billion
each year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Artificial intelligence
can outperform humans in designing futuristic weapons, according to a team of
Chinese naval researchers who say they have developed the world’s smallest yet
most powerful coil-gun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The prototype weapon
developed by Professor Zhang Xiao and her team at the Naval University of
Engineering in Wuhan has a 12cm (4.5-inch) barrel, about the size of a pistol,
which contains three battery-powered coils that generate an electromagnetic
field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI can start with an
imperfect design and make continuous improvements by learning from previous
mistakes, according to Zhang.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The AI gave the human
designers a huge set of optimized data points that nearly doubled the weapon’s
efficiency compared with the US rifle by maximizing the joint performance of
many different components, she said. This resulted in a massive reduction in
the weapon’s size and increased its output energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The point here is well
made that AI assisted research and development is used to improve military
armament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“An
algorithm knows only its instructions and objectives, not morale or doubt… When
two AI weapons systems are deployed against each other, neither side is likely
to have a precise understanding of the results of their interaction will
generate or their collateral effects.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What clear is, that no
democratic system accountability or verifiable international equilibrium exists
today. There are no known defined AI strategy doctrines. Therefore no
international comparisons are possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Before we leave this
subject we must keep in mind that AI generated false content can be used in
psychological warfare. It can generate fake but plausible images of leadership,
photos and videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can generate false
speeches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI can generate to
produce false images of a country or industry. Both adversarial sides can
employ this process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One may assume that the
big international powers have each what I call military “Cyber Command.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I don’t expect these command units
existence to be confirmed in public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This book does not name
specific countries with such capabilities, like China, North Korea, Iran, UK or
Israel. And there are others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Fifth Chapter that
deals with National Security and World Order and includes a sub-chapter
discussing the question on how to manage A.I.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The concern stems from
the recognition that most capable countries are now engaged in an AI armament
race. It is recognized that the world faces cyber weapons. AI is weaponized.
Whatever I have quoted here about American and Chinese AI capabilities is
convincing evidence available in the public square. Those capabilities can fall
in the hands of rogue nations and terrorists. Small nations that are not rich
in human, economic, and technological resources can find, recruit and retain
the needed intellectual talent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
resources to create AI systems to fit their national needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is suspected that
lethal autonomous weapon system capabilities that once activated will continue
to act without human intervention or control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Potential AI managed
weapons systems are like R&D in the field of virology that experimented in
“gain of function”. When virus products escape the lab they incite a global
pandemic. Same applies to cyber weapons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no sure way to supervise or control national AI weapons
development. The best example is use of stock market trading algorithms that
create flash crashes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the U.S. the
government does not control AI R&D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is done by entrepreneurs, inventors, and universities’ research labs.
It’s dynamic and unrestricted. It is recognized that there are AI-enabled
weapons and AI weapons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The later make
aggressive decisions without human input or human supervision. The challenge
before humanity is to develop and agree upon non-use of AI weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">International treaties
regarding control of AI weapons will require international discussions and
negotiations. The AI weapons possessing powers will have to make disclosures of
their current capabilities, will have to outline doctrines of
“within-boundaries-AI R&D”, and preclude attacks on existing nuclear AI
inspection capabilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Controlling or
abating AI nuclear weapons related capabilities have to occur before
hostilities break.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI) is the hypothetical ability of an intelligent agent to
understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can perform.
Stated otherwise, AGI is the representation of generalized human cognitive
abilities in software so that, faced with an unfamiliar task, the AI system
could find a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However we are not
there yet. But the concept is be important when we review .Chapter Six<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Chapter Six in this
book pivots to the realm of Heideggerian philosophy and social<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as its title says it all:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AI and the Human Identity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The central question
posed in this chapter is: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“How
will we come to see ourselves and our role in the world? How will we reconcile
AI with concepts like human autonomy and dignity?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Human societies
traditionally saw themselves as central to their reality. Those are represented
by the traditional or revolutionary leaders, prophets, martyrs, explorers,
inventors, artistic creators, and business moguls. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thinking used to be
about faith and reason. Human self-understanding is now gradually changing. The
boundaries of reason are stretched and expanded. AI makes better predictions.
AI makes improved products and processes. GPT-3 showed that it can create
better texts and write improved codes for algorithms. Recall the definition of
the upcoming AGI – it is the hypothetical ability of an intelligent agent to
understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can perform. This
is not science fiction. Human identity is in a state of transformation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For people who create,
operate and adapt to live with AI, it is going to be an empowering experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For people who lack
technical prowess - the passive consumers of AI - it will pose challenges of
understanding why things happen the way they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The algorithm does not explain why it
happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those consumers will lose their
sense of autonomy, sense of fulfillment and sense of identity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI generator based
GPT-3 can today write poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will this
poetry be awarded a Nobel Prize in literature?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There will be societal
dislocations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Every technological
revolution brings with it social dislocations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When a non-human
intelligence, reasonable, yet inexplicable to humans, makes decisions that
affect humans, then who are the deciding supervisors over the utilization, the
benefits, and the revenue from these AI platforms?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Example</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.
The AlphaFold platform is barely 4 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AlphaFold is an
artificial intelligence program developed by Google's DeepMind project which
performs predictions of protein structure? The program is designed as a deep
learning system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DeepMind is known to
have trained the program on over 170,000 proteins from a public repository of
protein sequences and structures. The program uses a form of attention network,
a deep learning technique, that focuses on having the AI algorithm identify
critical parts of a larger problem, and then piece it together to obtain the
overall solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the protein’s
3-D structure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Creating molecules of
proteins became critical to production of mRNA. The beneficiaries of the mRNA
vaccine are billions of people living on Earth today. Yet Pfizer’s and
Moderna’s vaccine brings a bounty of riches transferred from the American tax
payers to the big pharma shareholders. I call it wealth transfer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Education and lifelong learning receive now a
changed meaning. A new generation of “AI Natives” is growing up with AI
assistants. It started with Alexa and Google Home and it keeps developing into
more complex AI agents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the
children talk to Siri they don’t know that twenty years ago a cell phone had no
voice assistants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are anticipated
question about the social adaptation of children who grow up with AI controlled
gadgets. Somewhere else on the globe other children have no 5G phones, no voice
assistants and no AI based educational devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a growing
chasm around the world between people who are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI literate</i> and other folks who haven’t heard of - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI oblivious</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI
literate</i> folks will have much greater earning power than the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI ignorant</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Civilian occupational fields such as
financial derivative, legal information, library services, meteorology, air
traffic control, car repair, travel guidance, airplane pilots and more have AI
integrated into their working devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A new social order will
emerge. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI-haves</i> already wield
greater earning power than the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI-have-not</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The future will see a
different human identity. Humans will have to strike a partnership with their
AI-integrated machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The survival of
Democracy depends on retention of human qualities, maintenance of personal
communication and equal level of reason. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The EU community is
seeking to regulate AI. In China AI is used for surveillance and control the
population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In America AI is
largely left, so far, to non-governmental organizations. But that will change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The U.S. department of Defense is having its
closely guarded R&D programs. A National AI Initiative Office was
established in accordance with the recently passed National Artificial
Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020. It will be integral to the Federal
Government’s efforts to maintain AI leadership position for many years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ethics
in the Age of AI</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is Chapter 7 - the last chapter is actually titled: “AI and the
Future.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But who knows what is going to
be the future? Do you know the future?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From the forgoing
chapters’ reviews and discussions it may safely be expected that human ethics
as we know now will also change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Technology will
transform knowledge, discovery, healthcare, communication, and individual
thought. Artificial Intelligence is not human. It does not hope, pray or feel.
Nor does it have awareness or reflective capabilities.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The boundaries of
knowledge are expanding. More data and faster analysis processes will open
panoramic landscapes unknown heretofore. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Consequently humanity
will have three choices: to Confine AI, or to partner with AI, or to let AI
loose and defer to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Would AI unveil more
than one truth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We are gradually
entering the phase of the AGI. At this phase AGI will learn and execute a broad
range of tasks. Much like, but more efficiently than humans can perform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who will control all of that? AI may compel
some of those decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">AI is in some instances
was shown to be unpredictable. If that is the case, who will bear
responsibility for the outcomes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Example.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
AI is gradually integrated into nuclear weapons arsenals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The trigger to the
nuclear weapon is thus carried in a thumb drive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Read this last sentence
again and let it sink in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What do you propose to
do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reviewer’s Conclusion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Age of AI is a
scholarly document authored by distinguished architects that formed the reality
in which live. Each is an intellectual visionary in his field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The book serves readers
from the two ends of the rainbow. At one end are the STEM scholars who get a
refresher view in the history and future of the humanities in the Western
civilization. On the other end are the scholars in the humanities and social
studies who get introduced to the cutting edge technology explained in easy to
understand language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is a recommended
text to be required in any college major tracks for students in their senior
year. Be they in philosophy, political science, law, art and design,
engineering, computer sciences, mathematics or accounting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Humanity as we know it,
is already being divided into two classes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those are the AI literate and the AI ignorant classes. The outcome
results in a difference in economic status and standard of living. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The book has its
limitations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of its technical
contents have already fallen behind since it went to press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Certain influential
players in the field of AI are not mentioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, Amazon Web Services and Apple products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>China is a major player in AI R&D and
advances but is barely mentioned. China’ AI accomplishments today, have
possibly exceeded the U.S. in AI technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Last
words</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> – study this book - be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AI Literate</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Personal
disclosure:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I enlisted the help of
a GPT-3 based AI copy-writer for a few ideas prompts while writing the review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I purchased on Amazon
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#GPT-3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-32564385505696820972021-10-06T14:07:00.000-07:002021-10-06T14:07:11.449-07:00BOOK REVIEW: BOOK PROPOSALS THAT SELL <p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">BOOK REVIEW: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">BOOK PROPOSALS THAT $ELL</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Book Proposals That $ell”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Terry Whalin</b> is a practical guide
and handbook for authors who plan on writing a book or already hold a
manuscript of their book and want to get published by a large publishing
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re writing your first
book, but don't know where to start, “Book Proposals That $ell,” is for you.
With step-by-step instructions, this guide will teach you how to write a
winning book proposal--and get your book published.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Terry Whalin</b>, an author and book
editor, released a new revised edition of his “Book Proposals That $ell”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He guides aspiring authors through the maze
of national Publishing Houses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Successful selling of a well drafted manuscript ensures the author
future royalties and a well-crafted product to be proud of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What will the author
get from the book publishing industry? <br />(1) Sales and royalty of the book. (2) An
official document called an ISBN number which is a number that unifies the
production of a book and its legitimacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(3) Portability of the ISBN number to other publishers for an easy
publishing and printing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(4) A book
produced and printed in a high class format since it is done through
professional book layout and design procedure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(5) The books is stored in the Library of Congress using the ISBN
number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(6) Have the book released and sold
in major book stores.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the Age of Amazon
anyone can self-publish a book. But a self-published book mostly languishes in
obscurity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whalin takes the reader
of this guide book through the concept that a published book is a profitable
business venture for the Publishing House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A proposed or written manuscript
has to be pitched to, and evaluated by, a professional literary agent or an
acquisition book editor with a track record in the publishing business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, an acquisition editor needs to be sold
upon, to advocate the manuscript before the Business Board of the reputable
Publishing House. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Business Board
consists of publishing executives, senior editors who are known for their
exceptional expertise in the publishing field, (who may be editors of
prestigious magazines or editors of different books); book marketing and
book-selling experts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In order to convince
the board of the publishing house to offer a contract, the author must
demonstrate understanding and willingness to be a partner in marketing and show
a potential of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a wide public readership
audience who will buy the book. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whalin’s guide book for
successful book proposals includes every detail - all information on how to
find a literary agent, or where to meet and how to pitch to a publisher’s
acquisition editor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It includes his 21
secrets for successful book proposal based on his own many years of experience
as an author and book acquisition editor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whalin’s book is a
how-to guide that shows you what to do and explains why you should do it. It’s
your personal roadmap to getting published by a large publishing house like
Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Morgan James, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This guide includes an
actual sample of a winning book proposal contributed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Michael Hyatt</b>, the former CEO of <i>Thomas Nelson Publishers</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just studying the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>instructions chapter by Mr. Hyatt is well
worth studying Whalin’s present 2021 complete revised hand book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I studied Whalin’s new
book and expanded my writing and publishing world understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
If you want to get your book published by a large publishing house, this is the
guide for you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-31503568549694985882021-09-25T14:18:00.000-07:002021-09-25T14:18:35.872-07:00BETWEEN BOOK WRITING AND PUBLISHING<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">BETWEEN WRITING TO PUBLISHING A BOOK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You’re a talented writer. <br />
You are the author of the promising great American novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you have a best-selling book manuscript as
a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">show and tell</i> non-fiction lessons
learned from your previous company. Or the U.S Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You need now two things in order to break out on the
literary stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First you want your novel or non-fiction to be
counted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes you want your brain child
to be indexed by the U.S. Library of Congress. Said otherwise your book needs
an ISBN number. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Second you want your future best-selling book, on
the display shelves of every bookstore in the America.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Where do you go? <br />
You go to a well-established well known book publishing house that has the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>production tools, business relations with printers,
wholesale nation-wide books distributors, and experienced networks of book
marketing, and book selling working relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
The first thing – to be counted – you can do yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But It’s costly in time and money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second thing you must get a publishing
house accept your opus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or else, privately
published book copies will stack up in your garage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It happened to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You need a publishing house to accept your
manuscript under contract and take care of myriad expensive details that involve
book production, marketing, and sales<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
can’t go it alone if you aspire to sell your book in private bookstores or
national chain bookstores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want your
book sold on the Barnes & Noble shelves and on Costco, Sam’s Club and
Walmart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proudly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The preliminary step is to connect with a literary
agent or a book-acquisition editor who will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pay
attention to your manuscript</i>.<br />
You need to have a “</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Book Proposal</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">”.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to sell your book proposal onto
one of those professionals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
part of the publishing industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Fortunately a new guide book is now released to guide you through this maze. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Terry
Whalin</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, an experienced acquisition editor in established
publishing houses has an updated guide-book that leads you through the business
labyrinth of publishing houses.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read and study this guide book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will save you aggravation in cost and
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can find it on Amazon and
Barnes & Noble.<br />
Here is what to look for. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish I read and studied this book before I went to
publish my first book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ask me any question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-63959394470536841162019-11-06T06:52:00.000-08:002019-11-06T07:29:38.837-08:00MANAGE YOUR BEING AWARENESS<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MANAGE YOUR BEING AWARENESS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How do you manifest? By being that which you want to
manifest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By being aware, that you are
aware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is your awareness of being that manifests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your awareness manifests all things that you
are aware of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Life always gives a person that which the person is
aware of himself or herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your awareness of your being delivers to you the
quality or attribute that you claim for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Very few people ask, 'What is it, about me, that
knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of
my experience?'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All people have the experience of being aware, but
relatively few people are aware that they are aware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Awareness knows of its own being in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our self-awareness is our fundamental and
most intimate experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So how is that being aware manifests itself?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First a mental state of general amnesty towards
other people is very important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
to release others from all condemnation so that we will be free to rise to any
higher level that is necessary in order to be fully aware of our being. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Life always gives us – human beings – that which we
- each person- give him or herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the requirement of manifestation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Every
person’s conception of their own self is being their reward.</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The consciousness of any human being is his
Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is no latent awareness. There is no
subconscious or unconscious awareness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are aware of our thoughts, feelings, sensations,
and perceptions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Man is the measure of all things:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Humans see their own Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Humans gauge their own time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Note to the wise:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your advice on "Time Management" is a
fallacy:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Time has it's own pace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We mismanage our priorities and blame lack of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Get rid of the "To Do List"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead, have a primal being aware list and manage
your personal "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To Be Aware List</i></b>".</span></div>
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Here is my eye-witness story how the Chalcolithic period treasure trove was discovered in a cave in Nahal Mishmar on the Judean Desert. March 21, 1961.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE
IRON PRINCIPLE OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AND
WHY IT WORKS</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hold your vision front and center. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Watch it manifest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do not mess up the process. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Zen has its own time line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~ Mandy Lender, MD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Zen of Attraction & Manifestation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Why it works?<br />
You cannot talk about anything for very long before it starts to replicate
itself in your life experience. It is what makes you develop your pattern of
truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"At first I wasn't sure and then I pondered it
for a while. And once I gave it my attention, I began seeing evidence of it.
And now that I believe - it manifests in my experience". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>~ Esther
Hicks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Mandy Lenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085051723299240224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278656821016732172.post-51568495051707976622019-07-22T08:48:00.000-07:002019-07-22T08:48:02.128-07:00THE ATTRACTOME<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">THE ATTRACTOME<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa";">CONSTITUTIVE ATTRIBUTES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">BY
DR. MANDY LENDER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Law of Attraction
is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mindset</i> that bridges the
transition from the realm of thought design to empiric reality - manifestation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To bring manifestation to completion, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">skillset</i> is required to facilitate the
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
mindset and a skill-set.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This essay discusses
the constitutive attributes of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mindset</i>
of the Law of Attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">skillset</i> is described in my book “The
Master Attractors”, (Morgan James Publishing, New York, 2013), under the
chapter titled The Tool Box of the Master Attractors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Before attempting the intellectual
analysis and discussion let me posit this question: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you believe that the
sun will rise tomorrow? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whatever your answer
is, pause to ponder: What makes you believe that you got the right answer? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We shall get back to
the possible answers, later on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">first</b> attribute of the Attractome is
that - the Law of Attraction is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">involuntarily</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">incessantly creating</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It creates all the time in the human
mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We humans always think;
one way or another, good or bad thoughts, consciously or unconsciously, while
we are awake or during our sleep while in the brain is in neuronal default mode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We make ceaseless mental selections that
manifest in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Value judgments for
good or for bad do not play a role in the process of manifesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">second</b> attribute is that the Law of
Attraction is mentally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">compelling and obsessive</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is because we always think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you doubt that, try not to think for a
moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Law of Attraction is always
co-creating and ceaselessly manifesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Law of Attraction
is compelling people to act externally in alignment with their thoughts, their intentions
or fantasies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless the person holds an
opposing or a diversionary thought, they will end up (slowly or quickly)
manifesting the thought in the reality of their life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The process of manifestation is obsessive and
compels the person into taking conducive actions to manifest their new
reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aligning actions are a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">skillset</i> that accelerates the
manifestation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new reality
materializes even if they may not like what they conjured up in their mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In previous writings we
explained why the Law of Attraction is self-serving and self-preserving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
order to manifest that which is self-serving the Law of Attraction shifts into
an “obsessive gear” and compels the thinker to perform in a fashion that is
conducive to manifesting the obsessive intention or objective.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A minority of folks who
harbor self-destructive thoughts – damage themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are also sometimes suicidal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let us now explain the
mechanism that accounts for the phenomenon of the Law of Attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The essence of the
process is that a thought once sparked in the human mind, starts <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thinking about itself</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In due course, that thought spawns <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">collateral thoughts</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We often call them associated thoughts,
referred to commonly as “associations”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next, the new collateral <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">associated
thoughts</i> spread throughout the mind as a ripple around the original
thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
ripples of thoughts in the mind expand our consciousness to include the target
idea that we wish to manifest in our external reality.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We become consciously aware of opportunities,
resources, people, investments and circumstances that are conducive to the
manifestation of the original intent or objective. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We meet the lovers; find the money, get the
job, benefit from the right master-mind alliances, or acquire the desired piece
of real-state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Compare this mindset
process to your use of an internet search engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are interested in an item and you enter
the name of the item into the search engine and press Enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">voila</i>,
the search engine returns to you thousands or millions of related pieces of
information in a split moment, while you still type the item.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not matter to the search engine what
you entered - an object’s name or a fantasy thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both are energy signals to the search
engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The search engine is
neutral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not care and does not
pass judgment on the item you asked for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Better yet, the search engine does not care if what you search is “true”
or “false”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you did not get what you
want – you modify your search terms and try again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When you get what you
asked from the search engine, you receive it in the form of links leading you
to your desired objective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the
links to the information you can now assemble and manifest your objective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You literally get a map with turn by turn
directions to reach your destination, if that is a place that you asked
for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you didn’t get want you want,
you modify again your search term – you then keep searching – obsessively –
until you get what you want. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By doing this we become
co-creators of our new reality and the new reality starts to manifest and take
shape around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that we think about
“it”, (whatever “it” may be), we start to see and perceive evidence for it all
around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we perceive the factual conscious
evidence for “it”, we start to believe that “it” is “truly” our empiric
reality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Law of Attraction is a neurophysiologic mental phenomenon that matches our
target seeking thoughts with the corresponding components of empiric reality -
the reality that matches our original thought.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mindset</i> of the Law of Attraction is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a higher state of awareness</i>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If the thinker holds
contradictory doubts about the desired outcome (this ‘new reality’), or changes
the description of the objective in mid—process, their central nervous system
enters a state of confusion and will not deliver the desired outcome until the
objective is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">clearly defined</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clarity of thoughts facilitates
manifestation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thus, repeated thinking
and vivid imagination of a desired (or undesired) situation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eventually compels and inevitably manifests in
the external surrounding reality of the thinker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">#<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>#<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">third</b> attribute to consider is: The Law
of Attraction is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">selfish</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You cannot stay neutral
facing this last statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to
agree or disagree at your own peril.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Law of Attraction is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">selfish</b> in that it acts in the manner
it acts in order to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">preserve itself</b></i>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For example, we employ
the Law of Attraction to fulfill our basic needs – food and shelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Law
of Attraction supports our survival needs</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You must maintain an
open mind to internalize the statements above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let me emphasize again that
the Law of Attraction is selfish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See, whatever
the products of the Law of Attraction are – the preponderance of the results is
almost always in favor of the original expected manifestation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the manifestation is delayed, it was
delayed because the thinker harbored a doubt, or was confused, or lacked
clarity while conceiving the desired outcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hence – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Law of Attraction is always right on the
target it was given</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since the preponderance
of outcomes are in favor of the Law of Attraction by manifesting what was asked
of it, then the Law of Attraction ends up as the winning party of a pair of binary
choices - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">manifest</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">null</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the long run folks who think and act in alignment with the Law of
Attraction score more “wins” (manifesting their objective) than nulls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">People, who serially manifested
material objects, are th<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">e</b>n materially
wealthier th<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a</b>n other average people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Alternately, for people
whose manifested objective was an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">intangible</i>
notion then are greater in wisdom, or rich in psychic income.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When peoples’ goal is
health and longevity, they learn and find ways and methods to attract health and
cure and live a longer life span than other average people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The self-preserving
bias of the Law of Attraction is discernible as the manifesting people live
longer, invent, co-create more, add value and propagate the intelligence of the
Law of Attraction as a by-product during their successful lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Compelling evidence is
demonstrated in the lives of the teachers of the Law of Attraction, most of
whom made great fortunes by propagating the ultimate awareness and skills of
the Law of Attraction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This self-preserving
nature of the Law of Attraction explains why it was already noted by early
generations three millennia ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Once you are in
agreement with, and internalized the explanation above you also realize how the
Law of Attraction is selfish and self-preserving by favoring those folks who understand
and live in alignment with its framework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Importantly, the Law of
Attraction provides <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">evolutionary
advantage</i> to those persons who innately understand how to benefit from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fourth</b> attribute is - the Law of Attraction
creates and manifests into our reality with minimal or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">without time delay</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If there seems to be a
time lapse from mental conception to empiric manifestation, it is caused by our
mental doubts and disbelief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Quoting William
Shakespeare: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Our doubts are traitors
that make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Measure for Measure</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Note that the personal feeling of “delay” is due to the relativity of our
perception of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a result of the
constrained human capacity to sense time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Universe is always on time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is no “delay” in the Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A “delay”
of 100 years is a tiny blip in the chronology of our green and blue planet
Earth, or in the chronology of the Universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fifth</b> attribute - the process of
creation and manifestation is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">effortless</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Indeed and in theory - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">manifestation is effortless</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
If manifestation comes about with difficulties and requires efforts, it is
because we harbor mixed feeling, antagonistic thoughts, doubts towards the goal
or the desired outcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doubts and
mixed feelings exert the slowing brakes on the process of assembling of the
components that are required for manifestation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We use sometimes the
term “faith-based” in connection with the Law of Attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason is that the Law of Attraction
operates flawlessly and seamlessly when the thinker has complete confidence in
the processes and therefore does <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not
interfere</i> with the process of manifestation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Going back to the
initial question – do you believe that the sun will rise tomorrow? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you sure it will rise tomorrow?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are sure then you can count with
certainty on the Law of Attraction to deliver. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In other words – for
best results – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do not second guess the
Law of Attraction</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just trust it to
do what it does best – it manifests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mindset</i> of the Law of Attraction has
five attributes to keep in mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
five require open-mindedness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All five
require mental clarity and willingness to think different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All five attributes are constitutive of the
framework of the Law of Attraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Below is the <b style="color: black;">Prayer of Jabez</b> in a facsimile of the <b style="color: black;">Gutenberg Bible</b> (1455).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />In the Gutenberg Bible the Prayer of Jabez is printed under the book titled in Latin: Paralipomenon I . The Facsimile was published by Brussel & Brussel, New York, 1968. There are 4 original copies of the Gutenberg Bibles preserved in New York: one is at the New York Public Library (incomplete copy) and the second site is in the Morgan Library and Museum in New York (one complete and two incomplete copies).<br />In common Biblical English editions the reference to the Prayer of Jabez is:<br />I Chronicles 2:9-10. Verse 9 starts as the top line right word <i style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: none; color: inherit;">fuit</i> . The last word of verse 10 ends at line 10 in the middle with the word <i style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: none; color: inherit;">est</i> . The photograph below is made from a facsimile owned by me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The significance</b> of the story is that Jabez attracted - enlarged his real estate holdings </span><em style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: none; color: inherit;">(dilataveris terminos) </em><span style="font-size: x-small;">- by prayer only. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">He did not buy it nor pay for it.</span></div>
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Read more on the Biblical framework of the Law of Attraction you can find it in the book: <i>The Master Attractor. The Law of Attraction in the Holy Bible. </i></div>
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