“Firms that tried to contact potential customers within an hour of receiving a query were nearly seven times as likely to qualify the lead (which we defined as having a meaningful conversation with a key decision-maker) as those that tried to contact the customer even an hour later—and more than 60 times as likely as companies that waited 24 hours or longer.” The Short Life of Online Sales Leads
“Reps who called within five minutes of initial engagement yielded 900% more interest than those who contacted potential customers in 10 minutes.”
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.
“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.”
“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.”
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!
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.”
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.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Thessalonians 5:22
22 Abstain from every form of evil.
Professor R. Laird Harris:
All the wine [of Bible times] was light wine, i.e., not fortified with extra alcohol. Concentrated alcohol was only known in the Middle Ages when the Arabs invented distillation (“alcohol” is an Arabic word) so what is now called liquor or strong drink (i.e., whiskey, gin, etc.) and the twenty per cent fortified wines were unknown in Bible times. Beer was brewed by various methods, but its alcoholic content was light. The strength of natural wines is limited by two factors. The percentage of alcohol will be half of the percentage of the sugar in the juice. And if the alcoholic content is much above 10 or 11 percent, the yeast cells are killed and fermentation ceases. Probably ancient wines were 7-10 per cent . . . . To avoid the sin of drunkenness, mingling of wine with water was practiced. This dilution was specified by the Rabbis in NT times for the wine customary at Passover (1980, 376).
If both grape juice and wine are available, grape juice, one would think, would be the wiser choice. It would avoid the appearance of evil, perhaps be less offensive (an occasion of stumbling), and not be an avenue to temptation in some (who might have a weakness for strong drink).
It might be mentioned also that in some regions where grape juice is not readily accessible, wine could be used, but boiled first, so as to destroy any alcoholic content.
In the final analysis, this issue is not one that should be pressed as a matter of doctrine and fellowship.
1 Timothy 5:23 Paul instructed Timothy:
23 (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)
Timothy had a stomach ache from the water in Asia Minor (it was known to be dangerous to drink the water there in that time).
Timothy was reluctant to drink wine with his water? Why would he be reluctant to? It would be a good assumption to assume that He knew it was wrong to drink it, and he was afraid of harming his christian influence if he was seen drinking fermented wine.
Finally, the fact that the ruler of the feast could still distinguish the quality of the latter beverage from the former, suggests that his senses were not dull as a result of previous guzzling! [Note: For further study see “John 2:1ff – The Wine that Jesus Made”.]
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
Thus “wine,” because it was a common beverage, may be a specific illustration for moderation in general — without any allusion as to whether or not it involved fermentation.
Can’t go to something where drinking will be the primary activity, like a cocktail party:
1 Peter 4:3
3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
Ephesians 5:18
Isaiah 65:8
Thus says the Lord:
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants’ sake,
and not destroy them all.
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Warnings against excess can’t be used as approval. Not approval for practicing anger before sundown, jaja
1 Peter 4:3-4 (riot in moderation?)
Galatians 5:21
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Socrates once stated that “We should follow the argument wherever it leads.” When we look at the most profound question of life “Does God exist?” we should certainly follow his advice. When we do, we’ll find evidences that show us God is real. Let’s look at six proofs that show God exists.
The universe must have a cause
The most fundamental law of science is the Law of Cause and Effect and it says that “For every material effect we see, there is a cause that came before it, or was simultaneous to it, and that is greater than it.” The universe is a material effect, so what caused the universe? If you don’t believe in a Creator, then you have to suggest something like a singularity. That’s what is popular today. That there was some type of singularity that exploded in something called the Big Bang. But then when you try to get down to the bottom of “What’s a singularity?”, well, what we hear from the scientific community that suggests to us– the cosmologists–they say, “Well, a singularity was something that popped into existence from literally nothing.” In fact, Lawrence Krauss wrote a book titled “A Universe From Nothing” and in that book, he said that “[This] singularity that exploded popped into existence from nothing.” Do you know that if there ever were a time when there was nothing, that’s exactly what we would have now? The idea that something popped into existence from nothing is simply not a scientific idea. You see, they’re suggesting that that singularity is somehow natural but it behaves supernaturally. They say that that singularity wouldn’t have followed the laws of nature. Well then, so what are we left with? We’re left with the fact that the universe had a beginning and it was not a natural cause. It was something above nature. It was something supernature. It was something supernatural. And so, when we see the material effect of the universe, we can know that there was a supernatural Creator that caused the universe.
Design demands a designer
It is a truism that everybody recognizes that this universe looks designed. In fact, when we see the various different aspects of nature and we see birds and squirrels and trees and we see all of the things that they do so well, many times we as humans we try to copy and mimic that design. But often we don’t do nearly as well as the design that we see in nature. We look at the design of the human body and the human hand and the arm and the leg and the brain and we see that those are some of the most advanced technologically savvy pieces of equipment ever put together and we try to mimic them and copy them and we can’t do it as well. Why? Because this universe exhibits design, from the starry sky at night to the fingertips on your hand. The design is overwhelming. It’s everywhere. Where does the design originate? What you and I both know is that when you see things that function and they’re complex, that design comes from an intelligent designer. Big explosions just simply don’t bring about order. They don’t cause things that are functional and complex to come into existence. The design we see in the universe demands a supernatural, intelligent designer.
Life demands a supernatural life-giver
In the material world, we have come to understand that there is a law of biology called the Law of Biogenesis. The Law of Biogenesis simply says this: That in this material, the natural world, life comes from previously existing life of its own kind. Now when we look at how people used to think about life, they said, “No, life can arise spontaneously from non-living chemicals.” And yet every single biological experiment has shown us that that simply is biologically impossible. Life doesn’t arise from non-living chemicals. From where did life arise? Where did life originate if it doesn’t arise from non-living chemicals? The idea that there’s no God suggests to us that there had to be some singularity without a cause that exploded and that explosion brought about design, which we’ve never ever seen happen. And then, ultimately somewhere the non-living chemicals gave rise to life, but that’s biologically impossible. Life demands a supernatural Creator.
Moral law demands a moral lawgiver
If some things are objectively morally right and other things are objectively morally wrong, then there must be a God. If we evolved from primordial slime over multiplied millions of years, at what point did objective moral values arise? We don’t look at a dog and say that that dog objectively morally violated some rule when he steals a bone from another dog. We don’t say, “Hey! He violated an objective moral value!” We just don’t say that. We do say that humans can perpetrate things that are objectively morally wrong; that humans can be involved in things that are morally right. If that’s true, there must be a God.
Free will exists
The atheistic idea that there is no God is founded on the idea of materialism– the idea that this material world is all that there is, all that there was, and all that there ever will be. Because of that, atheism has to suggest that you as a person don’t really have free will, that there is no being inside of your body or brain that is supermatter. That really what’s going on in your brain is just electrons bouncing around and you’re the product of those bounces and you don’t really make decisions on your own. It’s just the physical laws and properties going on in your brain. If you are watching this video of your own volition, then the fact of the matter is there has to be a God that can account for that free will that you as a person have. There has to be a God if there is free will.
Human reasoning
We reason on a regular basis. We understand abstract ideas. If we were products of blind chance–random processes over multiplied millions of years– reasoning and the laws of reasoning simply would have no explanation. And yet we’ve reasoned together on a regular basis. From where does reason arise? It’s got no naturalistic, atheistic explanation. Antony Flew, the atheist who wrote “Theology and Falsification” the most popular atheistic paper for the last hundred years, the last century. In 2006, he co-wrote a book titled “There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Became a Believer.” He stated that his rule of life had always been to follow the evidence where it leads. And he said he followed that evidence and it led him to the conclusion that there is a supernatural intelligent God. Let’s let the evidence lead us to that same conclusion.
Education – teach the wife who can share in teaching kids
By example ( for kids and the wife)
Environment – secure. Comfortable. Safe. Open. Special. As a team.
A husband should be able to say, Listen that’s not OK you don’t see me speaking like that
Servant leadership
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7, ESV)
The man needs to make sure that every day in his house the word of God is read. To keep bad spiritual influences out. To pray every day. Sing
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.
I don’t think most people think about their finances from a portfolio construction perspective. I think most people fixate on saving money first and then *maybe* they buy a house or invest in index funds. Most people never think about investing in high-risk / high-reward asset classes. And these are the investments that are life changing and make people really wealthy. Just to be clear, when I say “these”, I’m talking about high-risk / high-return assets, not necessarily angel investing, and there are all kinds of high-risk / high-return assets.
If you don’t have an investment mindset, change it — regardless of what profession you are in. Your salary doesn’t make you wealthy.
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein
Wisdom does not come from school
Try Different Approaches – Ecc 11:6
People don’t become experts overnight. People become experts at God’s business by prayer, intense study of God’s word, and paying attention to what other people have done before, good and bad and learning from their mistakes
