Two-part podcast I loved
Jocko Willink recently interviewed Jason Wilson, an author and a martial arts instructor. I want to share thoughts about this man but watch this video first.
Hardships in life can break a person and make them hardened and unbearable, or a weak pushover. It’s the rarest of them all when someone emerges from those hardships with the understanding that they possess the ability to guide others who face similar hardships through this turning point. That’s Jason Wilson. He leads with love, sometimes tough love but it’s all rooted in true love.
The stories from his life are both inspiring and sobering. He has been through it. In these two episodes, hear about Jason’s life, his transformation through Christ, his book and what he’s doing to help young men prepare to be leaders in this world:
477: “There’s No Freedom In The Facade. With Martial Artist and Mentor, Jason Wilson
478: Be The Comprehensive Human The Moment Demands. Jason Wilson Pt.2
This week in automation
This week, I brought in my developer to do some work on one of my client accounts. The developer needed to log in to the client’s account, which required a code for log in. The code was automatically sent to the client, who passed it to me, whereupon I passed it on to my masterful developer who then used it to finish logging in.
It was automation in its finest form.
That’s a joke. There’s nothing automated about that but it highlights the golden rule of automation: only automate if it’s going to save you time. Involving three people to get one tiny piece of data where it needs to go is an incredulous waste of human effort, a big old data inefficiency. But. In the case of the example above, I don’t do these pass code hand-offs often enough to merit building out an automation to handle this. So we do it the old-fashioned way.
Courage, the brother of fear
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the brother of fear. Without fear, courage cannot exist. Courage is being fearful and afraid yet acting in spite of it.
Clickbait: Ship becomes reef
Bon Voyage SS United States, the largest American-made passenger ship, nearly 1,000 feet long, that serviced 800 trips across the Atlantic ocean.
This famous ship was taken out of service in 1969, and will come to rest on the bottom of the Gulf of America, off the coast of Florida, where it will become a reef and a refuge for a multitude of marine life. Using retired ships and material to make artificial reefs is a longstanding practice that requires the vessel to be stripped of any harmful materials, such as fuel.
You can learn about the history of the SS United States, and take a video tour of the ship.
Source: 1440 Newsletter (2/21/25)
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