“Reps who called within five minutes of initial engagement yielded 900% more interest than those who contacted potential customers in 10 minutes.”

LEAD RESPONSE INFOGRAPHIC – HOW MANY TOUCHES TO MAKE A SALE

New Productivity

Everyone is online now. The reason we’re looking at nursing or truck drivers or oil workers is that an entire generation now grew up after the web, and grew up with smartphones, and assumes without question that every part of their life can be done with a smartphone. In 1999 hiring ‘roughnecks’ in a mobile app would have sounded absurd – now it sounds absurd if you’re not. And that means that a lot of tasks will get shifted into software that were never really in software at all before. 

Five Writing Tips

“Never start with a blank page. Start with anything. It could be an outline, it could be starting with quotes or excerpts from what other people have said about your topic or even an adjacent one. It could be “I want to make this point, and here’s why.” It could be “here are three people who I hope get something out of this, and why.” It doesn’t even have to be text: one trick I usepretty often is grabbing screenshots of tweets and throwing them into my Evernote doc. You can get rid of all of this later, although you may decide you want to keep it after all.”

Irish Butter Kerrygold Has Conquered America’s Kitchens

“Unlike in the U.S., where 100% grass-fed production represents only 1% to 2% of dairy farms, in Ireland a grass diet is the norm. Irish cows benefit from the longest grass-growing season in Europe: They graze for as many as 300 days each year. In the winter months, they eat primarily fermented grass known as silage. Public policy plays a role, too. Ireland’s Department of Agriculture closely monitors each farm’s stocking rate, ensuring they don’t raise more cows than they have the grass to feed. With enough pasture available to support the cows, buying grain to feed them would amount to an added cost, without the added benefit.”

Weekly Thoughts: Chenmark Capital

We can all agree that the Dolphins are not having the best start to their season, currently sitting at 0-4 with a historically worst -137 point differential.

That said, there are still some lessons to be learned from the team, especially first-year head coach Brian Flores. The former Defensive Coordinator for the Patriots (we can’t stray too far from the Pats…) is big into mantras and one of the most common among the Dolphins is T.N.T. which stands for ”Takes No Talent”.  T.N.T. highlights how many things do not take any talent at all, just effort, discipline, and focus.  The acronym is prominently displayed on a wall at the Dolphins practice facility, and when a player makes a T.N.T. mistake, they must run and touch the wall.  These days, there are a lot of people running back and forth from the field to the wall.

The green Hatch chile is notorious for having a very smoky and spicy flavor.

Origin of the Hatch Chile

Developed in the late-60’s and early 70’s by Dr. Nakayama, as a result of a breeding program at the New Mexico State University, a chile was being developed with the intent to supply the need for fresh chiles in the canned and processing industry.  But, this unnamed chile was too “beefy.”  There was simply too much chile, which in turn, created more waste than the processing facilities would want to deal with.  Thus, it was left to die …or so they thought.

About a decade later, a man named Jim Lytle would pick up where Dr. Nakayama left off.  Being a true farmer, Jim took this chile under his wings and started to plant and harvest the chile for several years.  Around 1987, the last year of Jim’s life, this chile was approved by the New Mexico Crop Improvement Association and named in honor of the late Jim Lytle.  And the “Big Jim” was born!

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What Kind of Chile is a Hatch Chile?

Authentic Hatch chiles are only grown in the Hatch, New Mexico. Local Farms in the Hatch Valley are irrigated from the Rio Grande by wells pumping groundwater along with surface water irrigation ditches. These divert water from the Rio Grande and two lakes approximately 20 mi north of Hatch named Caballo (Spanish for “horse”) and Elephant Butte Reservoir (named after a rock formation in the middle of the lake that looks similar to an elephant).

Hatch Chile Season

When picked early and then roasted, Hatch green chiles have a very smoky, upfront flavor,” explains Chef Nate Cotanch. “Then as the chiles mature and turn red, they develop a slightly sweeter flavor profile and a more earthy underlying taste.”

Hatch Chile Facts

• One fresh medium-sized green chile pod has as much Vitamin C as six oranges.
• One teaspoon of dried red chile powder has the daily requirements of Vitamin A.
• Hot chile peppers burn calories by triggering a thermodynamic burn in the body, which speeds up the metabolism.
• Teas & lozenges are made with chile peppers for the treatment of a sore throat.
• Capsaicinoids, the chemical that make chile peppers hot, are used in muscle patches for sore and aching muscles.
• Chile peppers are relatives of tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants, all belonging to the nightshade family.
• The color extracted from very red chile pepper pods, oleoresin, is used in everything from lipstick to processed meats.
• There are 26 known species of chile pepper, five of which are domesticated.

What Makes The New Mexico Chilies Special?

Stephanie Walker is an “extension vegetable specialist” at the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University. She’s like the Encyclopedia Brown of facts on hot peppers.

Here are a few of her facts on chilies:

• If you just bite into the tip of a very hot chili pepper and not into the placenta or vein, you won’t get any heat.
• Chili peppers and bell peppers are the exact same genus and species.
• The heat in chili peppers is not detected by birds.
• Chili pepper is used to feed flamingos in zoos to keep them pink.
• Chemicals from the peppers are put in paints to put on boats to keep barnacles from attaching to the sides.

Walker’s job is to study and grow chilies. She says New Mexico peppers get their special flavor from the state’s environment: high altitude, long seasons of heat and sunlight, hot days and — yes — “chilly” nights.

D2C brands uniquely own every step of their production and distribution process — from product design to packaging to marketing to fulfillment.

Source: D2C 2.0: The Rise of Infrastructure – Hacker Noon

One way that the labour market has changed over the last couple generations is that careers are now typically made up of a series of jobs at different organizations, away from the default of sticking with one or two for the long haul. Optionality – in the form of having lots of attractive jobs near you at any given point in time – is even more important today than it used to be. I honestly think this is the single biggest recent driver of why a select few large cities are disproportionally running away with the compounding gains of economic success recently: if you are a professional worker, those select cities aren’t just where the high salaries are, they’re where the highest number of other options of high salaries are. For a skilled professional, high rates of job turnover are a path for accelerated career advancement: it’s much easier to find a new job that will level you up and boost your income, and you already live in the city where they are.

Source: What happens if building more housing doesn’t work? – alexdanco.com