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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 20:17:55 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Never hide your hidden talents!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   I find innovation and creativity stories everywhere I look! (And I'm playing with my creativity - today's image was generated on MidJourney, and is used in my newest book, just released!)

   Consider the piano intro for Free Bird, the anthemic song by the rock band Lynrd Skynrd.

   I recently watched the documentary Muscle Shoals - it's the story about a small little community in Alabama that hosted two of the world's most iconic music studios, where a group of remarkable session musicians provided the foundation for a huge number of hit songs, and where a good swathe of rock royalty recorded their work. If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend it.

   At one moment, it's telling the story of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the recording of the famous song - it seems as with all things, the band was struggling with piecing the song together. And yet, when they returned from lunch one day, they found one of their roadies noodling away on the studio piano, playing the part that would become the iconic opening to the song.

   Their roadie!

   The documentary goes on to note that few people realized that while he was responsible for moving crates and carrying equipment, he also had a hidden skill. "He was a concert pianist, and nobody knew about it," noted one of the members of the band. Watch this short clip - and in particular, at 1:31, where they tell the story of the discovery.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg3fGhxytVk

   Billy went on to become a full member of the band, touring with them for many years, and playing with them even beyond the plane crash that saw the loss of key members in the early years.

   That got my creativity juices thinking: how many people around us have skills of which we are not aware? What hidden talents exist on our team that could bring us magic - that we have no clue about? What capabilities already exist in our orbit while we are busy searching for those very same skills?

   Not only that: how many of us hold back from telling others of some of the unique skills that we might possess? What hidden talents are we holding back? We might not think they are important - but they could be revolutionary!

   This got me thinking - many people might hold back from sharing their full range of skills. They might be able to do something unique that can help our team move forward, but they might be too shy, don't think the skills are relevant, or simply never think to tell us. The result is missed opportunities and discoveries.

   For me, unique skills and talents are often the hidden key to innovation.

   How often do we not learn about them until we discover that the next wave of innovation comes from unexpected sources?

   The future belongs to those who dare to reveal their hidden capabilities.

   **#Talent** **#Innovation** **#Discovery** **#Creativity** **#Skills** **#Potential** **#Growth** **#Opportunity** **#Success** **#Unique**

   https://jimcarroll.com/2025/02/daily-inspiration-creativity-and-skills-never-hide-your-hidden-talents/

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 20:26:31 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Your biggest opportunity right now is to keep moving forward while others are going backward!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   There's a pretty big divide between forward thinkers vs. backward movers.

   The fact is, the divide is very pronounced right now, and those who were always moving forward are feeling pretty dispirited about things. What do you do about that?

   Like I said months ago - follow the science. Keep the long-term trends in mind. Focus on growth. Chase your opportunities.

   Above all, don't give up - because your greatest opportunity right now is to continue going forward while others are going backward!.

   We've got a fundamental divide that goes far beyond traditional political boundaries. It's a divide between those embracing the future and those desperately trying to turn back the clock to an idealized past that never really existed.

   This isn't about left or right – it's about forward or backward!

   When change accelerates (and it's accelerating faster than ever), forward thinkers see opportunity in our increasingly diverse, interconnected world. They understand that innovation knows no borders and that talent flows freely across artificial boundaries. Meanwhile, backward movers are building walls – not just physical ones, but walls of ideology and resistance in a vain attempt to block tomorrow and preserve the past. That usually never goes well.

   I've dealt with this issue from the stage for decades. As a futurist, I speak about the realistic trends that define tomorrow. Some folks get inspired by what I share on the stage - and I've learned that others hate me and what I represent. There's not a lot I can do about that, except work harder to reach and inspire the former, particularly when times are tough.

   The question isn't whether change will come – it's already here.

   The real question is: Which side of history will you be on?

   Will you join those who fearfully retreat into nationalist nostalgia, or will you help build a future of sustainable innovation and shared prosperity?

   The future belongs to those who embrace it, not those who fear it.

   At times the path might be a challenge, but that doesn't mean it's the wrong path.

   Futurist Jim Carroll has long believed there is a lot of powerful leadership insight to be found in children’s stories. Just ask Oblio.

   **#Forward** **#Progress** **#Change** **#Innovation** **#Growth** **#Future** **#Resilience** **#Vision** **#Opportunity** **#Leadership**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/01/daily-inspiration-trends-tomorrow-your-biggest-opportunity-right-now-is-to-keep-moving-forward-while-others-are-going-backward/

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   Phil Landmeier (shuttersparks@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:09:35 JST Phil Landmeier

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   @rastinza @RickiTarr Sorry for the delay. Work interferes with social media. Hahaha.

   True, I gave a brief series of comments, knowing that most people in my circle already know about these things. I wasn't writing a tutorial.

   I would hope that most people these days understand the basic concepts of human sexuality. It's not simple, it's extremely complex. Science is still a long way from understanding all the complexities. It will be a long time yet, if ever, that we understand all of it.

   At the fundamental level there's male and female, and one might assume the two are automatically attracted to one another. But this is not the case. We know this from observation for thousands of years. Then there's intersex, which I'll ignore here.

   There's genetics. Female and male are XX and XY, right? But no, there are many other variations in chromosomes.

   Then there are complexities of brain development that we don't understand. The chemistry in the womb affects the fetus in ways we don't understand that result in effects after birth.

   One of my grandkids is trans. She's an adult now. She was born with female hardware between her legs but from age 3 or before she knew she was male. Her brain is masculine but her hardware is female and this created all kinds of problems because her siblings, all male, didn't understand.

   Here's a concise article that touches on the important parts: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gender-science/201701/three-gender-myths-almost-everyone-believes-shouldn-t

   When it comes to answering the question of "why", the shortest answer is "because it works". As living creatures, our most important function is reproduction -- passing our genes on to the next generation for further adaptation. From Nature's point of view, this is our ONLY function. All the other stuff, like our big brains, is decoration and came about because it enables us to reproduce better.

   Nature / evolution / adaptation is very effective at keeping what works and eliminating what doesn't work. You can depend on this. Nature has had 150 million years to tinker with mammals and find what works and what doesn't. We are mammals, lions are mammals. So, while 2 sexes plus intersex, and 56 identified genders may seem very odd, it works. It works so well that billions of humans are infesting the planet to the point of destruction.

   This is all you need to know about why. Science will be investigating the chemistry of why for decades if not much longer, but that won't change what is.

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   Mu-An (muan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:22:10 JST Mu-An

   I started doing accessibility at GitHub when it had a flat structure (2013) and no one was telling me what to do. In my free time I will just browse the issue backlog and find things I could do. Eventually, I found that there are tons of accessibility issues that are just stale, and a lot of them were just like: this icon button isn’t labeled. I looked at them and thought oh that’s easy. I will fix it.

   At one point I added so many aria-labels that AT users got mad that they’re getting misused.

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   Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 13:54:55 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

   Looking at archived #multicast projects from the 1990s. I feel a little sad.

   All these projects with different distributed use cases for multicast.

   It's not just for streaming.

   https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034926/http://www.infres.enst.fr/~dax/guides/multicast/mdownload.html

   I wish some of the folks who worked on these projects were on the fediverse.

   #librecast wants to bring back multicast. We want to do more with it.

   At it's heart multicast is networking with consent. From the very fact it is pub/sub

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   Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 20:06:58 JST Erik Uden 🍑

   in reply to

   Hidden Meme

   Everything for this day, from this point on, unless otherwise specified, was written two days later!

   My Side-Effects from the Event

   12:30-13:10 Panic Attack
   12:30-15:30 Severe Disorientation
   12:30-15:30 Nausea
   12:30-15:30 Sense of Time being weird
   12:30-15:30 Hyperfocus
   12:30-15:30 Hypersensibility
   12:30-15:30 Constantly Distracted / not focused
   12:30-14:30 Not able to speak / finish sentences
   12:30-15:30 Less impulse control
   12:30-15:30 Long thinking breaks
   13:15-14:00 Felt like a Hamster
   
   After the mentioned ending times of each side effect (except for the panic attack), the effect continued, but decreased throughout the day. At 17:30, it felt 80% as strong as 12:30 when everything started. By the next morning (of 009) I didn't feel hungover, I felt the effects 30% as strong as when it started.
   

   Content Warning: Mentions of Needles, and mentions of drug related medical stuff (hospitals, panic attacks, etc.)My Notes for the Event

   First of all, yes, the “I am currently having a panic attack” post was made during a panic attack. My initial response after calming down a small amount, lying on my bed, surrounded by doctors going all around, was look at my phone to “calm down”, however I got the sudden urge to post to Mastodon about this. It was a (working) distraction.

   I don't quite understand what my goal of the “Gigachad” meme was, or why I put it there. I just suddenly thought of that image in my head and couldn't stop laughing, as if it was the best joke I've ever heard. I don't even know what this is supposed to mean, it's “based” to have a panic attack? “but I'm posting on Mastodon despite all this” mindset? Where was the joke here? I guess it was the juxtaposition of something so serious paired with an image giving off more meme vibes.

   Regardless, that same day, when things calmed down, the physician (often presented as the highest authority on the study) asked me to E-Mail him an exact description of my experience. Whilst still high and recovering from it, I've written the following text for over an hour! I have titled some segments to make it easier to read through...

   How and When Everything Happened

   At around 11:00 AM, when I was sitting in the study room, I noticed larger side effects than usual (higher dizziness, more nausea). I just finished a work meeting (which started 10:00 AM), with zero side effects or weird feelings.

   The dizziness slowly came and got stronger, but I ignored it or didn't care to notice it, because I've had softer versions of these side effects the days before and it was never a big deal. After day one of the compound, the side effects completely vanished for me, which is in a stark contrast to my colleagues who have experienced quite strong symptoms of “being high” just the day prior. I would make a few more slip ups during my work because of this feeling, but I didn't think much of it.

   At exactly 12:30, my mother had sent a picture of our cats into the family group chat. This was the moment where a large wave of this effect hit me. I looked at the picture of cats and was both concentrated and distracted from the image, that I didn't even feel anything around me disappearing. If it wasn't in my immediate vision, it was simply not part of my reality. Some impulse driving me to continue working got ahold of me, so wanted to turn back to my laptop.

   To be continued