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Wisdom From The Top
"schulman" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"Sometimes determination was felt throughout PayPal, but probably most acutely by our black colleagues. And I spent, you know, at least two weeks talking to black leaders inside PayPal, black leaders, across the country, listening, trying to learn, trying to understand, and basically where we came out, guy was that it was not enough for us to condemn racism. But that as a company, we needed to be antiracist. And as I explained on all employee video conference, which is the way of our world these days, basically I said, what it means to be antiracist is it means that we are part of the fight. That we are willing to do the work to address systemic racism and really what is distinctively something PayPal can do is to try to address some of the racial wealth gap that has existed in our country and has not been closed whatsoever since the last civil rights movement in the 1960s. And we have a distinct way to go and do that. So we made a $530 million commitment to help start the ability for black owned businesses for black and minority communities to start to have capital available to them. So that black businesses that have typically received less loans and equity infusions than other businesses across the country that we would give right now today, $10 million, not of loans, but of grants. To black owned businesses that have been hit two times as hard as other owned businesses in COVID-19 who just need cash to survive. And the other thing guy that we do is our products and services themselves should be able to help here. You know, we are most people don't know this. We are one of the top 5 providers of working capital to small businesses in the United States. We've done some 15 $1 billion of loans over the last several years. Interestingly, 70 percent of our loans go to the 10% of counties where ten or more banks have close branches. And banks close branches where the medium income of a neighborhood is below the national average. Why? Because they need a certain amount of deposits for those branches to be profitable. And so if they can't get those branches aren't profitable. But we can go in there and use technology to basically very disproportionately lend into those lower income neighborhoods and therefore disproportionately help minority owned businesses women owned businesses. So it's not just about the $530 million, but it's also about what do we do day in and day out to help the most vulnerable segments of our population who most need our help. When you look back at this period in 5 or ten years, where most of your workforce presumably right now is working remotely, when you think of all the challenges facing many companies, including PayPal right now, what do you want to say that I took from this period and made my company better? Made me a better leader. I think all of us who lead companies can take away from this is it's actually possible to do what was practically impossible to imagine in a short period of time when you have no choice. For instance, if I had told my team a year ago, I want a 100% of our workforce to work from home. First of all, they would have kind of said like, well, that's not a great idea or a productivity will go down. We're all about collaboration as part of our culture. You know, there's security things we need to think about. It'll take us two to three years to do this. And by the way, had I told them I want it done in two to three weeks. They would have thought I was crazy. But that's what happened, you know, and two to three weeks we were able to do something that was massive and we would have thought was impossible to do a year ago. You know, I've been surprised by the enhancements and productivity that I'm seeing, you know, we're probably doing 15 to 20% more software releases than we did when we were at the office. And we just need to think about what doesn't office look like and we're spending a lot of time thinking about that. What are the benefits? But clearly there is a large part of our workforce that will want to take advantage of work from home for the foreseeable future. Can you imagine a future where you don't have to live in the Bay Area? You don't have to come to headquarters where you can live in some rural part of California and driving into Palo Alto every day. Yes, I can. I also think it's going to open up our ability to recruit the very best talent from around the world. If somebody is in West Virginia or in Tennessee or Mississippi or California, let's recruit the best out because now we understand that actually coming into headquarters may not be as important as we used to think it was. I remember many, many years ago being first to the office and last to leave was a way that people measured after dedicated you were. You know, and I think there's times of fundamentally changed. When you think about how you approach leadership, right? And I have evolved and changed over time since the first kind of responsibility were handed at AT&T to where you are today at PayPal, which by the way, how many employees do you ever see at PayPal? About 25,000. Wow. This is enormous workforce.
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"To wisdom from the top. I'm guy Roz. So you get to American Express and I guess your title was president of enterprise growth and one of the I guess one of the early projects you ended up working on was something called it was called Bluebird, which was a prepaid car that American Express unveiled. And the idea behind it was that it would be available to lower income people who had a hard time getting credit cards. Yes, and it was really kind of a joint venture between Walmart and American Express and to really try and figure out how could we create a value proposition that would be attractive to what we call the underserved population, the 70 million adults in the U.S. that live outside of the financial system. And before Bluebird, there were large monthly fees transaction fees associated with every transaction. I mean, there were fees, both visible and invisible, almost everywhere in the prepaid industry. And we tried to create a card that was really a customer champion card really leveraging off the virgin mobile experience and we did that. We redefined the prepaid industry. And the prepaid industry was never the same. We took out a lot of the profitability of the industry, but we made the card something that was a durable and over the long term was profitable, but didn't have all the churn that was associated with these cards that, frankly, were less than great for that underserved population. That was really, I think, for both the Walmart and the American Express team, really one of the prouder moments that we had. You were there for, I think, about four years before you were brought into become the CEO of PayPal. I think you got there in September of 2014. At that time, PayPal was in the process of splitting from eBay, like from what I understand everything was integrated like the HR systems and everything. The computer systems and your job was to take over, take it over and basically spin it out. Tell me about what you faced when you got to PayPal in 2014. Your point is exactly right. There couldn't have been two divisions of a company more intimately connected. I mean, every single part of our companies were connected from deep into data centers and deep into the infrastructure software infrastructure of the business to websites that were fully integrated together, where PayPal and eBay were just as linked as could be. We literally had a clock on the wall that would say how many days and how many hours till separation we had a full action plan, both on the eBay side and the PayPal side. And it wasn't just, you know, separating. It was like, what does the agreement look like going forward? What is the operating agreement that we're going to have as two independent companies that will govern our way of working together? So it was very, very complex, very, very difficult. But it was clearly the right thing to do. And if you look, obviously, at the combined market cap of the two companies which today is somewhere around 232 $140 billion, I think the combined market cap of the company at that time was maybe 50 or 60 billion. It clearly unleashed a tremendous amount of value and allowed each company to focus and create the right mission and vision and values to propel each of our companies forward. And we were rapidly becoming two very distinct and separate entities inside of eBay. I guess one of the first real challenges that you had to face was with credit card companies. Because from what I understand, right? The way it worked when you got there to eBay was if somebody purchased something and they used their credit card, PayPal would have to pay all these fees to the credit card company. So it was designed to really discourage people from using credit cards and rather to use money from their banks. Which really pissed off some of the big credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard. And there's kind of a kind of a war that was brewing. When you arrived there, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think this was probably the single biggest and most important decision that I had to make with my team and our board. The credit card companies had viewed PayPal as a, what they would call a frenemy, we obviously generated a lot of revenues because we were a good digital distribution solution for them. But at the same time, you know, our default or encouraging customers to use other financial instruments besides their credit card because we made a larger margin. And the decision was not so much about the credit card companies. It was about what we were talking about before guy was about what does it mean to be a consumer champion? And as being a consumer champion meaning, giving customers the choice of paying how they want to pay, not how we want them to pay, but how they want to pay. The issue was like, well, what was that going to do to our business model? Understand that this defaulting to the payment mechanism that was best for PayPal was also causing a ton of customer confusion, like we were taking from banks and consumers, you know, were like, wait, I thought I was paying with my credit card, there might have been some bank overdrafts we had millions upon millions of customers who signed up for PayPal, gave us their credit card information. And we said, wait, you can't start transacting until you give us your bank account information and they would churn off right away without making a transaction. And so what we decided to do was what we call full consumer choice. And that, by the way, the networks were like, that's fine with us. We're willing to compete on our value proposition. We just don't want you defaulting. So the day I announced that PayPal stock dropped by 9%. Wow. The day you announced that you would stop doing that, you'd stop. Yep, that we would be customer champions, and we provide choice. And the market just felt like, okay, well, that's just going to destroy their margins. And I remember this is so interesting where like literally an hour later, a headline came out that says market questions schulman's strategy as PayPal stock drops 9%. And I thought to myself, isn't it horrible that, you know, people are talking about strategy and measuring it in within an hour of us announcing it. Like, can't you give me a week or at least 24 hours? And I think really the rest was history on that. Obviously, giving consumers choice unleashed partnerships with networks and financial institutions. Reduced confusion by customers are new ads, you know, new customers coming on skyrocketed. And had you not made that decision, the big credit card companies could have decided to put all of their resources into a business to compete against you
Wisdom From The Top
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"Courage to leave AT&T. So you leave and you join this company priceline. And what was it like? I mean, this was like, you got there right before, I guess, right? Probably right before or right around the dot com crash. Right before the dot com boom and crash. Right. So priceline at its peak, I think it was valued somewhere around 30 or 40 billion and at its lows valued at just a couple of $1 billion. But I would say I probably got a master's degree education at priceline that has helped me for the rest of my career. First of all, I got to meet Richard Branson because we had been servicing virgin and he's the one that convinced me to go and start virgin mobile with him. But second, I also learned that even in the depth of all of the things that can go wrong, there are ways of thinking about businesses of fixing them of always realizing that you need to wait for the cool light of the new dawn before you make decisions because there may not be a solution to everything, but if you think about it thoughtfully and you have good people around you, there's typically a way around different challenges. And you know, at the end of the day, when Richard said, hey, look, you've done so many things at priceline. You've taken out the costs. You've got it on a good foundation. Would you join virgin mobile? Which was a raw startup, by the way. And I leaped at that opportunity. I want to kind of dig in a little bit about version for moment. Because you were, I mean, it seems from the outset that it was successful. You were signing up millions of users and you had these prepaid model, but it never became profitable as far as understand. Why? What explains it? No, it was profitable. We listed a struggle to become profitable. I should say. Yeah, no, it was many years before we became profitable. But the reason for that guy is basically the way that the wireless business model works is that you need to acquire customers and you pay to acquire that that's your cost per net add coming in. And the faster you're growing, the more your costs are because you're acquiring lots of customers and you're paying for those customers and then the service revenues associated with those customers come in over time. And so ironically, the slower you grow, the quicker you become profitable. The faster you grow, the longer it takes you to become profitable. But over time, the bigger you are, the more successful and the more profitable, and then I remember one time where we had to buy handsets to go into retail. We had struck all these deals and I needed to buy like 40,000 handsets. And that's before you have any revenues. And that was going to cost us, call it 20 $30 million, and we didn't have and I went to Richard, and I said, look, Richard, we probably need to shut down the business. Because, you know, we don't have 20 or $30 million. I've never met a wireless company that ever existed without having handsets out there. People need to have a phone. And he said, nope, I am going to sell my favorite hotel property in the world to fund you. Wow. And I said, Richard, don't do that. I said, like, this business is really uncertain. We're just a startup. I mean, our chances of success, it's hard to measure. And I'll never forget what he said. He goes, no, I'm not, I'm betting on you. And because I believe in you, and I said, don't do that. Yeah, I mean, responsibility that puts on my shoulder, but he knew exactly what to say and what to do. And there was no way that I was going to let him down after that. And I remember when we eventually sold the business to sprint for just under a $1 billion, being able to give him something like a $250 million check from his original investment and it wasn't with it without its ups and downs. But at the end of the day, it really paid off for all of us. So after that sale, were you kind of looking around for the next project or because you would go on to American Express or was that did they kind of come to you and say, hey, I know that, you know, this thing's wrapping up. Do you want to come work with us? So the head of human resources for American Express was on the board of virgin mobile. Right. So he always joked around with him that it was like a four year interview process that he saw me in action in both difficult times and really good times. But I had no intention of going on to Wall Street. Most people would consider me the opposite of Wall Street. I mean, I constantly dress in jeans and a sweater, never aspired to move into financial services. This individual who is on our board said you should meet Ken chennault, who was running American Express, who I know you have to show you. And Ken was trying to set up a new division inside American Express to actually think about all the ways that technology were going to revolutionize the financial services. And he wanted to bring somebody new into American Express and it took maybe 6 or 9 months of courtship, but it wasn't a straight path from a virgin mobile to American Express. Stay with us. We're going to take a quick break. I'm guy Roz and you're listening to wisdom from the top. This message comes from NPR sponsor Avila, having a business means having a lot to worry about, but when you use avalara to automate sales tax, you don't have to worry about things like calculating tax rates changing tax laws, managing exemption certificates or filing sales tax returns. 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"schulman" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"Of 2020, after massive demonstrations against racial injustice, PayPal committed $530 million in grants and funding towards black owned businesses. And in the meantime, none of these decisions have hurt PayPal's bottom line. To the contrary, the company is doing better than ever. Dan says a lot of his philosophy and approach comes from his childhood. His parents were both civil rights activists and from an early age, activism was part of his identity. My mom pushed me around in a baby carriage at civil rights marches in Washington, D.C., my dad was worried that I was going to be the youngest person ever to have their own FBI file. And my dad was also a very courageous activist. This is the environment that I grew up in, obviously your parents make a huge difference in the way you think about the world. And my parents were always about civil rights and social justice. Dan played varsity football in high school, but he admits he barely got into college and didn't know what he wanted to do after. I saw this advertisement for, at the time, it was in New Jersey bell. It wasn't even AT&T yet that said, you know, we are looking for account executives, salespeople, and a salesperson is like the quarterback of the sales team. And I thought to myself, well, you know, I've been successful quarterback, maybe I can do this job. I mean, you say you said quarterback, but you were starting at an entry level job doing sales and marketing. Yeah. An assistant account executive, which is about as low as you can be. Right. At the bell system, it's the lowest level of management. And I was earning, I think at the time about $14,000 a year, which was a little disappointing to me because I wanted 16,000, but I think what really made my career take off at AT&T was unfortunately kind of a tragedy that happened inside my family where my sister died of an aneurysm, very unexpectedly, and it was one of these events that, you know, fundamentally rewires your brain. And it is a very, very, very difficult time before then. I had been very much oriented around my own personal success and it was a lot about me, and then afterwards, I guess I had to take some time off and it was pretty devastating. I came back and my team had really rallied without me and had done some incredible things and I remember having to present to senior management at AT&T, what my project goals had been, how we had done. And I went in there and said, look, we've had incredible success, but none of it is due to me. I wasn't even here. And somehow that whole idea of recognizing how important your team is and giving them actually all of the credit, I don't know if it was coincidental or it was because that's actually how I felt about things going forward, but my career took off at that point. Well, my credit, you know, I wish my sister never died, but I credit her. And what she taught me through that with so much of what's happened in my career, at least afterwards. Well, I actually spent 18 years moving from first New Jersey bell and then to AT&T at the divestiture of the bell system. And I had an amazing career there. Yeah. You know, eventually I was managing the consumer division for AT&T, some 40,000 people in it. About $20 billion of revenues. And so, and I was doing all of that. I think I was 39 years old or something like that. Which is crazy to imagine now that AT&T's consumer long distance service was a multi-billion multi-billion dollar business. I mean, sort of like how travelers checks for a big part of American Express's business at one point, which just seems nuts. That long distance calls were a huge part of the way telecom companies made money. Oh yeah, but you know, it's so interesting to me that I probably that $22 billion revenue stream is probably in the single digit billions now. I mean, that's how much long distance has disappeared. I mean, think about it, not that many people even have a landline in their home anymore. It's all about mobile. But that's what's happening in technology right now. That's what makes the world we live in so interesting. But also challenging because it's moving so quickly. I mean, whether it be, say, ten years from now, the explosion of quantum computing, which is going to fundamentally redefine what processing is all about. I mean, just such a discontinuous manner that it's hard to imagine. And then you've got the explosion of machine learning and artificial intelligence and the explosion in data. And this is why, so many companies struggle to keep up with it. I think the average age of a Fortune 500 company today is like 8 years. And if you went back 75 years ago, it was something like 50 years. It's just that it's hard to keep up with it all. And so in some ways, it's amazing to me that that revenue stream is practically disappeared, but another way is that is that's part of the world that we live in today. In 2000, almost 20 years, with AT&T for almost 20 years, you left. You decided to leave. And go on to priceline. Was your decision to leave? I mean, it seems to make sense. Did you sort of see the writing on the wall that telecommunications companies were going to become dinosaurs and this Internet thing was the exciting shining new thing to be part of? Or was there a different reason behind your decision to go? Well, it was a big debate in my family. You know, priceline was a tiny little business at the time. Maybe ten, $20 million of revenues, obviously growing very quickly, but from a very small base, and when I told my dad that I was contemplating leaving, he thought I was crazy to go do that. Absolutely crazy. And what I basically told him is that I didn't want on my tombstone to be written, he presided in elegant retreat over the death of long distance. You know, because the best you could do was do an elegant retreat. There was no way that long distance wasn't going to shrink. It was going to be replaced by other forms of communication. And, you know, looking back, I sure am glad that I did, but it was not with some amount of
Wisdom From The Top
"schulman" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"When Dan schulman arrived to PayPal back in 2014, the company was in a simmering conflict with the big credit card companies. A conflict that was on the verge of becoming a scorched earth war. The credit card companies were angry because PayPal was discouraging customers from using credit cards and its platform. PayPal was angry because of the fees they had to pay to the credit card companies. On the day he arrived as CEO of PayPal, it's fair to say Dan schulman had his work cut out for him. He eventually worked on the plan to create partnerships, which we'll hear about a bit later. But the other thing Dan schulman did was to ditch the standard corporate playbook when it comes to issues of social justice. He didn't play it safe. When hate groups started using PayPal, he threw him out. He even banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from the platform and several others who've spread misinformation. When North Carolina passed a law that many saw as anti transgender, Dan ordered PayPal to scrap plans to build an operations center there. In June of 2020, after massive demonstrations against racial injustice, PayPal committed $530 million in grants and funding towards black owned businesses. And in the meantime, none of these decisions have hurt PayPal's bottom line. To the contrary, the company is doing better than ever. Dan says a lot of his philosophy and approach comes from his childhood. His parents were both civil rights activists and from an early age, activism was part of his identity. My mom pushed me around in a baby carriage at civil rights marches in Washington, D.C., my dad was worried that I was going to be the youngest person ever to have their own FBI file. And my dad was also a very courageous activist. This is the environment that I grew up in, obviously your parents make a huge difference in the way you think about the world. And my parents were always about civil rights and social justice. Dan played varsity football in high school, but he admits he barely got into college and didn't know what he wanted to do after. I saw this advertisement for, at the time, it was in New Jersey bell. It wasn't even AT&T yet that said, you know, we are looking for account executives, salespeople, and a salesperson is like the quarterback of the sales team. And I thought to myself, well, you know, I've been successful quarterback, maybe I can do this job. I mean, you say you said quarterback, but you were starting at an entry level job doing sales and marketing. Yeah. An assistant account executive, which is about as low as you can be. Right. At the bell system, it's the lowest level of management. And I was earning, I think at the time about $14,000 a year, which was a little disappointing to me because I wanted 16,000, but I think what really made my career take off at AT&T was unfortunately kind of a tragedy that happened inside my family where my sister died of an aneurysm, very unexpectedly, and it was one of these events that, you know, fundamentally rewires your brain. And it is a very, very, very difficult time before then. I had been very much oriented around my own personal success and it was a lot about me, and then afterwards, I guess I had to take some time off and it was pretty devastating. I came back and my team had really rallied without me and had done some incredible things and I remember having to present to senior management at AT&T, what my project goals had been, how we had done. And I went in there and said, look, we've had incredible success, but none of it is due to me. I wasn't even here. And somehow that whole idea of recognizing how important your team is and giving them actually all of the credit, I don't know if it was coincidental or it was because that's actually how I felt about things going forward, but my career took off at that point. Well, my credit, you know, I wish my sister never died, but I credit her. And what she taught me through that with so much of what's happened in my career, at least afterwards. Well, I actually spent 18 years moving from first New Jersey bell and then to AT&T at the divestiture of the bell system. And I had an amazing career there. Yeah. You know, eventually I was managing the consumer division for AT&T, some 40,000 people in it. About $20 billion of revenues. And so, and I was doing all of that. I think I was 39 years old or something like that. Which is crazy to imagine now that AT&T's consumer long distance service was a multi-billion multi-billion dollar business. I mean, sort of like how travelers checks for a big part of American Express's business at one point, which just seems nuts. That long distance calls were a huge part of the way telecom companies made money. Oh yeah, but you know, it's so interesting to me that I probably that $22 billion revenue stream is probably in the single digit billions now. I mean, that's how much long distance has disappeared. I mean, think about it, not that many people even have a landline in their home anymore. It's all about mobile. But that's what's happening in technology right now. That's what makes the world we live in so interesting. But also challenging because it's moving so quickly. I mean, whether it be, say, ten years from now, the explosion of quantum computing, which is going to fundamentally redefine what processing is all about. I mean, just such a discontinuous manner that it's hard to imagine. And then you've got the explosion of machine learning and artificial intelligence and the explosion in data. And this is why, so many companies struggle to keep up with it. I think the average age of a Fortune 500 company today is like 8 years. And if you went back 75 years ago, it was something like 50 years. It's just that it's hard to keep up with it all. And so in some ways, it's amazing to me that that revenue stream is practically disappeared, but another way is that is that's part of the world
Wisdom From The Top
"schulman" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"On the plan to create partnerships, which we'll hear about a bit later. But the other thing Dan schulman did was to ditch the standard corporate playbook when it comes to issues of social justice. He didn't play it safe. When hate groups started using PayPal, he threw him out. He even banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from the platform and several others who've spread misinformation. When North Carolina passed a law that many saw as anti transgender, Dan ordered PayPal to scrap plans to build an operations center there. In June of 2020, after massive demonstrations against racial injustice, PayPal committed $530 million in grants and funding towards black owned businesses. And in the meantime, none of these decisions have hurt PayPal's bottom line. To the contrary, the company is doing better than ever. Dan says a lot of his philosophy and approach comes from his childhood. His parents were both civil rights activists and from an early age, activism was part of his identity. My mom pushed me around in a baby carriage at civil rights marches in Washington, D.C., my dad was worried that I was going to be the youngest person ever to have their own FBI file. And my dad was also a very courageous activist. This is the environment that I grew up in, obviously your parents make a huge difference in the way you think about the world. And my parents were always about civil rights and social justice. Dan played varsity football in high school, but he admits he barely got into college and didn't know what he wanted to do after. I saw this advertisement for, at the time, it was in New Jersey bell. It wasn't even AT&T yet that said, you know, we are looking for account executives, salespeople, and a salesperson is like the quarterback of the sales team. And I thought to myself, well, you know, I've been successful quarterback, maybe I can do this job. I mean, you say you said quarterback, but you were starting at an entry level job doing sales and marketing. Yeah. An assistant account executive, which is about as low as you can be. Right. At the bell system, it's the lowest level of management. And I was earning, I think at the time about $14,000 a year, which was a little disappointing to me because I wanted 16,000, but I think what really made my career take off at AT&T was unfortunately kind of a tragedy that happened inside my family where my sister died of an aneurysm, very unexpectedly, and it was one of these events that, you know, fundamentally rewires your brain. And it is a very, very, very difficult time before then. I had been very much oriented around my own personal success and it was a lot about me, and then afterwards, I guess I had to take some time off and it was pretty devastating. I came back and my team had really rallied without me and had done some incredible things and I remember having to present to senior management at AT&T, what my project goals had been, how we had done. And I went in there and said, look, we've had incredible success, but none of it is due to me. I wasn't even here. And somehow that whole idea of recognizing how important your team is and giving them actually all of the credit, I don't know if it was coincidental or it was because that's actually how I felt about things going forward, but my career took off at that point. Well, my credit, you know, I wish my sister never died, but I credit her. And what she taught me through that with so much of what's happened in my career, at least afterwards. Well, I actually spent 18 years moving from first New Jersey bell and then to AT&T at the divestiture of the bell system. And I had an amazing career there. Yeah. You know, eventually I was managing the consumer division for AT&T, some 40,000 people in it. About $20 billion of revenues. And so, and I was doing all of that. I think I was 39 years old or something like that. Which is crazy to imagine now that AT&T's consumer long distance service was a multi-billion multi-billion dollar business. I mean, sort of like how travelers checks for a big part of American Express's business at one point, which just seems nuts. That long distance calls were a huge part of the way telecom companies made money. Oh yeah, but you know, it's so interesting to me that I probably that $22 billion revenue stream is probably in the single digit billions now. I mean, that's how much long distance has disappeared. I mean, think about it, not that many people even have a landline in their home anymore. It's all about mobile. But that's what's happening in technology right now. That's what makes the world we live in so interesting. But also challenging because it's moving so quickly. I mean, whether it be, say, ten years from now, the explosion of quantum computing, which is going to fundamentally redefine what processing is all about. I mean, just such a discontinuous manner that it's hard to imagine. And then you've got the explosion of machine learning and artificial intelligence and the explosion in data. And this is why, so many companies struggle to keep up with it. I think the average age of a Fortune 500 company today is like 8 years. And if you went back 75 years ago, it was something like 50 years. It's just that it's hard to keep up with it all. And so in some ways, it's amazing to me that that revenue stream is practically disappeared, but another way is that is that's part of the world
The Grid
"schulman" Discussed on The Grid
"We are back on the grid with one Nick schulman, a world tour champion, and three time World Series of poker bracelet winner with over $13 million in live cash is Nick is a widely acclaimed poker commentator known for his soothing voice, incisive poker analysis and vast vocabulary. He plays high stakes mixed games in Vegas, but today, Nick is bringing us in the limit hold them hand from a cash game in Nick's hometown New York City. He also offered to help me click off one of the very toughest hands, a hand that most of us really aren't getting too involved with at all. A Nick, thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me on, John. That was very kind introduction. Happy to be here. Great to have you on. Can you tell us a little bit about where and when
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: When Will Orlando & Tampa Bay Airports Open?
"One of the big questions for travelers is when will the airports open? I know they closed Orlando. They close Tampa, day before yesterday at 5 p.m., roger, I gotta get home. I can't spend one more hour in New York City. Please get me out of here and tell me that the airport is going to be open tomorrow. I'm sorry you have to take the train. I'm well, I am willing, or maybe somebody will fly me private. Maybe I've got a rich listener who wants to give me a quick lift from New York to Florida because I got to get where do you land? Maybe I can land in your backyard, roger. There is a little airport near my backyard. We can talk about that, but I talked to Jose Cruz here on our staff, has just checked the air traffic and nothing is flying into this area of Florida at all, even Orlando, but I did talk to the airport administration at TIA on your behalf. Thank you. And I said, you need it open and they said they're working on it. It won't be today, maybe tomorrow, and we should have an answer before noon. Good. Tell them Gallagher's on his way. Gallagher needs to come home. So thank you for opening the airport for me, roger. I'm going to go out there and pull some weeds and stuff out of the way. And I think I'll have it open for you to buy tomorrow.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: Lee County Sheriff Doesn't Have Reason to Lie
"Roger, that's peculiar that the league county sheriff would make that statement today and it sounds like governor desantis was a little bit more cautious about the assertion that hundreds of people have been killed. Yeah, it was interesting. He also made that comment to the hillsborough county sheriff in a phone call last night on a satellite phone while he was standing on top of the roof of a bearcat vehicle trying to do some rescuing. It looks pretty bad down there and he has no reason to inflate things. I think we are going to have some pretty gruesome discoveries there. And hopefully he is wrong. But I don't think he is inflating a carbon arsinoe is a pretty level headed guy. That seems like a vision. That seems like, but governor desantis seems to suggest that might have been based on the 9-1-1 calls, but nonetheless. That's hundreds of people. There's a big difference between one to two confirmed fatalities as of this moment and hundreds. Well, we're going to find out soon. They are going in as we speak to check on these people through the water and we'll know more probably in the next few hours.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: Hurricane Ian Is Much Worse Than Hurricane Charley
"Well, and let's talk about Fort Myers sanibel. You talk about all these areas that are now directly in this path. It bears repeating. You talk about Charlie, but I've seen a number of reports that say that Ian is exponentially worse than Charlie. It is because Charlie was a fast moving storm. It came, it went. There's going to be a lot more flooding and storm surge problems with this one because of its slow motion forward. That's it got a lot of our forecasters here concerned because we're going to get rain dumped on us in huge amounts. We've already had too much rain in August and September and that means the trees. Excuse me, the tree roots are very loose. So we're going to lose a lot of trees and we're going to have electrical. We're going to have electrical problems too with lines down. Now they do have 27,000 linesman ready to help from all over the southeast to jump in once this is over, but it is going to be pretty devastating for a while. Okay,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: Should Tampa Bay Worry About Storm Surges?
"It's been explained to me that now with the shift to the south of Tampa Bay, that means that the waters of Tampa Bay won't necessarily surge as feared. It could actually have the opposite effect. Can you explain that to me, roger? When the storm is rotating in its counterclockwise direction, it will suck out water on the other side, it'll push in water. So it actually did suck out Tampa Bay and people were walking in the middle of it during the last hurricane because we were on that side. If you're on the other side, it will fill up the water and cause the storm surge. And people ask about storm surge, if you have a basketball hoop in your backyard, that's about as high as some of this water is going to be in the immediate areas of Fort Myers, sanibel. That area. And that is devastating. Imagine that high water at your house and in your house and covering your car.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: It's Too Late to Evacuate
"I was talking, we were asking, I was asking you about evacuation, I know governor desantis said it's essentially too late now to evacuate. Why is that? Is it just because of the rapidly deteriorating conditions? That's exactly it. If somebody gets stuck, there's no way to safely rescue them. The flooding can be bad. They've shut down the skyway bridge, which is the main bridge between the Tampa Bay Area and Sarasota manatee, which means people can't get over that. The winds are much higher now and around noon we're expecting this thing to actually hit with the very high winds. So if somebody gets out there, gets stuck, they're going to be in the middle of it, so better to stay where they are as dangerous as it is to be outside in the elements themselves.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: Hurricane Ian Inches Toward Category 5
"We knew it was going to be bad. I don't know that we anticipated this thing knocking on category 5 status, which is as one person explained to me a few minutes ago, almost like a miles long tornado. It is. It's getting up to, well, I did see hurricane Charlie, which did hit Port Charlotte and ponta gorda as a category 5. It did look like a tornado. Right. Everything was gone. A trailer parks were gone that had been there an hour before. Nothing left, but concrete slabs. Huge power poles were destroyed and the hurricane hardened police and fire headquarters, the doors were all rolled up like confetti. So it is very dangerous. As a matter of fact, it's just got some figures, winds are a 155 mph. It is a category four now at 157 mph becomes a category 5, 2 mph difference. So it's going to be devastating when it does hit around
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: What Is a Storm Surge?
"Storm surge is what is so peculiar to me because people think about heavy winds, people think about torrential downpours, but explain what a storm surge means. The emergency managers say that's what will kill you because it will come. It'll be a wall of water that will just come and devastate. It suddenly you will have 8 feet of water, ten feet of water in your house. Humans are at a maximum of about 6, maybe 6 and a half feet tall. Think about it. If you are sitting in your chair in front of your television, you would have 5 feet of water above your head with this storm surge, it is a major incursion of water pushed by a hurricane and it kills people. It's very, very dangerous. You
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: It Will Not Be a Sunny Day Tomorrow
"Mandatory evacuations have still been ordered in a lot of areas of hillsborough and pinellas county. And governor desantis this morning urging people to heed those evacuations, roger. Absolutely. We are not going to have a bright sunny day tomorrow. This is not going to be a pleasant experience for us, no matter where that hits within 50 miles down there. It is definitely about 70 miles south of the immediate Tampa Bay Area, but hurricanes are wide events. It's not like a pencil thin tornado. This is a very wide area of very disturbed, high intensity weather. So we are not out of the Woods yet in the immediate Tampa Bay Area. And those evacuations are still in effect, the airports are still closing, schools are still closing. It is a modification. It is a glimmer of hope for us, but it is certainly not happy days again.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"schulman" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Roger. I know that the national hurricane center just released its latest expectations, bring us up to date on what they're predicting in terms of landfall. Well, they've turned the hurricane a little bit away from the immediate Tampa Bay Area to Venice, Florida, which is south of Sarasota, sort of between Sarasota and Fort Myers. It's a town of about 23,000 known for its shark teeth, which are frequently found on its beach and its lovely architecture. Like Venice, and it's just a beautiful little city. And that's where they think it's going to be hit by 125 mph winds, at least a category three storm in about 35 hours. So that is ground zero now. However, we are not out of the Woods in the Tampa Bay Area. This could change and we are still going to feel the effects much of Florida is going to feel the effects of this no matter where it hits. But this Venice is the dominion. This is somewhat, you know, I'm guardedly optimistic because this is a little bit of better news, obviously than a direct hit for Tampa and saint Pete. Now again, as I keep getting reminded from people by people who've lived through these hurricanes in Florida, things could change, but this is a little bit of good news for Tampa Bay in saint Pete, right? This is modified good news. It is not bad news, but it is not great news because we are still north of this and it is going to be moving through the state to the north and to the east. If it stays on its current path. So we are not out of the Woods by any stretch of the imagination.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"schulman" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"National hurricane center just released its latest expectations, bring us up to date on what they're predicting in terms of landfall. Well, they've turned the hurricane a little bit away from the immediate Tampa Bay Area to Venice, Florida, which is south of Sarasota, sort of between Sarasota and Fort Myers. It's a town of about 23,000 known for its shark teeth, which are frequently found on its beach and its lovely architecture. Like Venice, and it's just a beautiful little city. And that's where they think it's going to be hit by 125 mph winds, at least a category three storm in about 35 hours. So that is ground zero now. However, we are not out of the Woods in the Tampa Bay Area. This could change and we are still going to feel the effects much of Florida is going to feel the effects of this no matter where it hits. But this Venice is the dominion. This is somewhat, you know, I'm guardedly optimistic because this is a little bit of better news, obviously than a direct hit for Tampa and saint Pete. Now again, as I keep getting reminded from people by people who've lived through these hurricanes in Florida, things could change, but this is a little bit of good news for Tampa Bay in saint Pete, right? This is modified good news. It is not bad news, but it is not great news because we are still north of this and it is going to be moving through the state to the north and to the east. If it stays on its current path. So we are not out of the Woods by any stretch of the imagination.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: Updates to the Projected Path of Hurricane Ian
"Roger. I know that the national hurricane center just released its latest expectations, bring us up to date on what they're predicting in terms of landfall. Well, they've turned the hurricane a little bit away from the immediate Tampa Bay Area to Venice, Florida, which is south of Sarasota, sort of between Sarasota and Fort Myers. It's a town of about 23,000 known for its shark teeth, which are frequently found on its beach and its lovely architecture. Like Venice, and it's just a beautiful little city. And that's where they think it's going to be hit by 125 mph winds, at least a category three storm in about 35 hours. So that is ground zero now. However, we are not out of the Woods in the Tampa Bay Area. This could change and we are still going to feel the effects much of Florida is going to feel the effects of this no matter where it hits. But this Venice is the dominion. This is somewhat, you know, I'm guardedly optimistic because this is a little bit of better news, obviously than a direct hit for Tampa and saint Pete. Now again, as I keep getting reminded from people by people who've lived through these hurricanes in Florida, things could change, but this is a little bit of good news for Tampa Bay in saint Pete, right? This is modified good news. It is not bad news, but it is not great news because we are still north of this and it is going to be moving through the state to the north and to the east. If it stays on its current path. So we are not out of the Woods by any stretch of the imagination.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: Why Would Victor Vazquez Run From the Scene?
"I know, as a newsman, you don't want to speculate, we have to be careful here, but of course what everybody's talking about in the area as the hunt is on for this guy, why would he run and the fact is there's a lot of construction companies, these private construction companies that employ illegal immigrants and I think that's correct. That's accurate, right? I mean, and again, we don't know yet. There's no confirmation of this guy's immigration status, but a lot of people are making that assumption probably for good reason. Yeah, this is not normal behavior. Normally a person has an accident and they stop. This is very strange, and we got hundreds of people searching for them. Canines, helicopters, big search going on right now.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Roger Schulman: Pinellas Deputy Killed in Hit and Run
"Roger P shulman, who is the legendary newsman, not only here on AMH 60, the answer, but he's been hurt in the market for decades and decades, and I know roger you have a personal affinity for law enforcement as do I and this is a shocking heartbreaking story. Bring us the details of the manhunt that is currently underway here in Tampa Bay. Well, deputy and we do support law enforcement here and love our law enforcement and this deputy is only the second deputy to lose his life in the 110 year history of the pinellas county sheriff's office in the saint Pete Tampa area. His name is Michael hartwick, a 19 year veteran of the sheriff's office 51 years old, has a couple of kids, his mother's still alive. They've been notified. He was working a construction site this morning, guarding it when a vehicle came along, driven by Victor Vasquez, they think that's his name, a 35 year old man and killed him. Sheriff bob galtieri explains exactly what happened. He was standing on the shoulder of the road facing northbound. One of the construction crews that was going to pick up the concrete barriers to block off more permanent lane markings on the interstate was traveling northbound and it was a big, huge construction front loader with a big forklifts on it. To move these thousand pound concrete barriers. It's definitely hartwick was facing to the north, the loader driven by a Hispanic male by the name of Victor Vasquez struck deputy hartwick and killed him instantly and he died at the scene.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Judge Bruce Reinhart Rejects Keeping the Affidavit Sealed
"This Mar-a-Lago raid is insane. And so now we've got to judge this U.S. magistrate, Bruce Reinhart, who's an Obama donor who is being asked to rule on things like the contents of the affidavit in the Trump raid. Well, moments ago, he made a ruling. Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher show. He has made a decision on whether or not the Justice Department has to reveal the contents of the affidavit. Let's go to the Salem news channel and legendary Tampa Bay newsman, roger P schulman, who's going to bring us up to date on the judge's decision. Hello, roger. Well, good day, Mike. And it's quite a decision. The Justice Department's argument to keep the entire affidavit that led to the search warrant for the FBI's unprecedented raid on former president Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. The decision to keep it under seal, he has rejected that. Judge Bruce Reinhart rejected it, he said, given the intense public and historical interest, he filed a report Monday morning saying he rejects the government's argument that the present record justifies keeping the entire affidavit seal. He said he's given the Justice Department an opportunity to promote his proposed redactions if necessary, but he has rejected this whole thing.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"schulman" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"The standard of care whatever that was As opposed to something that was totally useless You're listening to it's been a minute from NPR I'm Sam Sanders Speaking with activist Sarah schulman We are discussing the work of the activist group act up during the aids crisis in the late 80s You know all of these different groups coming together and act up You could easily have written this as a story of kumbaya but it's not that You talk about how now there were still these classes and Strata within the group and there was racism and classism in sexism still there but that marginalized people that wanted to be active and active They kind of just worked around it How were they doing that And what was that What did that look like Well everyone was fighting against the clock right So people did not stop the action to have consciousness raising on racism and sexism That never happened And also you know you could spend your whole life trying to change one person and fail Instead groups that were advocating for Latinos or for women with HIV would use the resources of act up whether it was people power or actual money to help their constituencies Yeah yeah There's a line in that you have in the book talking about using resources and power You wrote that women and or POC members did not stop the drive toward action to correct or control language or call out bias Instead like you said they were trying to get those resources and help actual projects And when I read that I said I am not sure if activists today from marginalized communities would be okay with that tactic There seems to be an extreme concern about language about bias about microaggression before the action can happen I don't know one do you see that to be the case And which is the right approach Well I think that's a generalization but I think that that does occur in places where people don't feel that they must have changed immediately When people need change right away they become much more effective And let me lay out a little bit how active was effective Yeah So the first thing is you become the expert on your issue So you design the solution Instead of being in an infantilized relationship to power we are saying to the government or to your school or whoever please please fix it You figure out how the policy works how the institution is structured and you show them how it should be By creating a reasonable winnable and doable concrete solution And act up did that they became experts in policy They became experts in needle exchange and housing in drug creation And they created solutions Then you present your solution to the powers that be And if they oppose you you do what doctor king called self purification or would act up called nonviolence civil disobedience training And you create theatrical and creative nonviolent direct actions that attract the media so that you can communicate through the media to the public that you have a solution to this problem and these institutions are not listening And that's how you pressure institutions Yeah yeah One of the things that really blew my mind in the book were just the ways that you detailed how fragmented act up was from the start and how that was the point You talk about several affinity groups coming together but also working on individual actions separately And on top of that there was this insight outside approach working outside of systems and also within How diffuse if you could describe for folks was this movement Oh it's incredible the range of work that people were doing I mean on one hand you have people sitting down with pharmaceutical companies in their offices over a catered lunch negotiating Then you have people Asian Pacific Islander caucus going to Asian gay bars and wrapping condoms in lucky Chinese New Year paper and bringing safe sex information to communities that have been completely ignored Then you have youth groups organizing in public schools to have condom distribution Then you have people interrupting mass at Saint Patrick's cathedral when cardinal O'Connor tried to stop that condom distribution Then you have people trying to fight for housing for homeless people with aids And then you have people going to the lower east side and illegally exchanging needles and defiance of the law Getting arrested and having a trial and winning and making needle exchange legal in New York City You have all these different actions at the same time And what allowed that to happen was that people in act up were not forced to agree with each other Well this is the thing that was so profound No one would ever really say you can't do that They would just say okay do what you're going to do That just blew my mind There was a bottom line There was one line statement of unity direct action to end the aids crisis If you were doing direct action to any aids crisis you could do it And if I didn't like what you were doing I would fight with you because act up we fought a lot and conflict was good and fighting was okay But in the end I would not try to stop you from doing what you felt was right I just wouldn't do it And then I would find my like minded people and we would organize what we wanted.
Longform Podcast
"schulman" Discussed on Longform Podcast
"Like you're describing that it did with Jeremy. Sometimes sometimes not. I mean, yeah, I don't know, it depends. At some point, I'll figure out what it is. And again, not use it million times. Just like I'll use it, but you know, maybe once. Maybe twice. But it helps me. It helps you find the person in it. Yeah. It helps to tell the story of a human who another human who's the reader might be a fellow traveler on the story of this person's life. That is such a pretentious way of putting it. I realize, but I think of these people as the protagonist of a story. And so I have to figure out what's driving them on that story. That's a fantastic tip. What a helpful way to think about it. Feel free to steal it. Anyone listening? It's not patented. You have to call it the schulman. My impression of your experience of your work, both from talking to you today, but also in general, is that it's really fun for you. Oh yeah, yeah, I pretty much got into journalism for fun. I did not enter this field to make the world a better place. Many people do. And that's fantastic. But I really came to journalism in a very circuitous way. You know, I never studied it. I was a theater kid. I did theater directing at Yale and I was sort of thought that was maybe what I was going to do. I had this professor in college named Deborah Golan, who she had come up through the feminist downtown performance art scene in New York City in the 80s. So the whole point of her class was to get people who didn't consider themselves to be writers to start writing. And then after graduation I came back to New York and I had these, I did a about a year of just kind of odd jobs. I assistant directed a children's magic show and I worked for this guy who bought and sold Civil War memorabilia, so I spent a couple months like reading letters from Civil War soldiers and writing descriptions of them for an auction catalog. It was so weird. And I had this vague sort of Hannah horvath idea that I would write essays about these weird jobs, of course I never wrote about any of them, but then I about a year out of college I got this job at The New Yorker in the special events department that put on The New Yorker festival. So I was really like a production assistant. And it had nothing to do with writing. I mean, I got that job because I had done theater stuff, like I knew about putting on live events and things. But once I was there, I had this feeling that I really wanted to write for the talk of the town section, which is a very, very specific form of writing and to me. It doesn't have a lot to do with a newspaper news story. It's really like a one act play. And the writers that I loved growing up were these kind of absurdist playwrights like Christopher Duran and Tom Stoppard and John guerre, and I directed their place in college and I felt like that was almost the training that I used to try to write a talk of the town piece because they're very dialog heavy. They're sort of embraced the absurdity of people. They're like, you know, they're like an absurdist want to act that is 100% nonfiction. So you have to find the things in life that are like that. I got two more questions and then I'll let you go. Thinking about that tip you have about having a word, a theme, a north star for these profiles. Is there a word for that? For you? Is there a thing? Is it interesting? Is it fun? Is there a driving thing? I think the word would be fun. I'm a pleasure seeker. I like having fun with what I do. I don't know if that necessarily means the subjects have to be fun people, although they often are. But I think that I do enjoy spreading a sense of fun and play. Is any part of this hard for you? Yeah, it's a hard job. There's a lot that's hard. I mean, absolutely. But it's a wonderful job. I mean, to get to meet these incredibly talented people, Jeremy's strong first and foremost among them. I mean, he's just an incredibly gifted actor and to hear him talk with such depth about how he does that. I was riveted. I was absolutely riveted. I've never met anyone like him. And I mean, that's just an incredible privilege to be able to see someone on a TV show who's performance you love and then spend days talking to them about it. That's an incredibly fun job. You know, it's work, but it's fun. Well, it's been a it's been a real privilege to talk to you about it for so long. Thanks for answering all my questions about one profile. Thank you, max. Thanks for having me..
Longform Podcast
"schulman" Discussed on Longform Podcast
"I'm max and skim here with my co hosts, Aaron lammer, Evan ratliff, gentlemen, hello. Good day. Good day. Hello, max. What have you got for us on the show this week? You guys have got a fun one. This week on the show is Michael schulman who has worked at The New Yorker for years and has an interesting route to The New Yorker, but the reason that we had him on right now is because in the end of December, he published that profile, which I'm sure you both read of Jeremy strong, who plays kendal Roy on Succession. I'm not sure there's a magazine story that has lit at least my particular corner of the Internet on fire in the way that that piece did in many, many years. And we talked all about how that piece came together. What his experience of the virality of it was, what his experience of having Hollywood luminaries attack him personally in the wake of it was like it was a great one. It was really, really fun to talk to him about that article and also how he thinks about profiles in general. I look forward to this. We are brought to you, of course, in partnership with vox who help us make this show. Thanks to vox media. One more thing that I should add is we really do spend a lot of time talking about this particular profile of Jeremy strong and Succession. So if you have not read it, who hasn't read it. But if you haven't read it, you should go read it. And also, if you are somehow midway on Succession, have not gotten to the end. There are some spoilers in this episode. So if you've not gotten to the last episode of Succession, this one might not be for you. So you're telling the listeners three seasons of Succession, read the profile, then listen to the podcast. I am betting on the Venn diagram overlap of the long form podcast audience and the audience for that show being pretty significant, but yes, I'm trying to tell the people who do not sit in the middle of that Venn diagram be warned. I'm not saying that that's a bad idea. That would be a great use of your next weekend, spend the whole weekend bingeing, prepping, fire up the podcast on Monday. No one loses. Agreed. And with that, here is max lenski with Michael schulman. Michael.
Scientific Sense
"schulman" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"And you you you sort of electrically speaking to you listen to what on that wire and the neons communicate typically descend these little pulses they attend all high and they are thousands of millions of of a second. Why so many second. And that's the we knew on communicate by sending one more pulses. They also called action potential spikes to each other. And so we know about that. You know for one hundred fifty years. We can recall that one hundred years but typically we put one or two electrodes into brain and listen to one or two neons our billions but now with modern silicon technology. We can listen to. From one of these pieces of highly machine silicon we can listen to hundreds of nuance which is still a small fraction of all of all the neons in the brain but its more and so if we do that very dramatic day in day out on a highly standardized condition we can then begin to east up on the activity of the brain that after all give rise to the mind the mind is sort of everything the brain does in particular everything the neons to and the way they they are active and so we can begin to understand at the at the atomic level because he the basic unit apologies to sell the basic atoms perception of consciousness of memory ourselves. And so we need to be able to listen into individual cells. And you can't do that from the outside doing you know. Eg electrodes brain scanning because while wonderful these techniques they only look at bulk tissue tidbits taking my iphone and putting a volt meter on top of my iphone and kind of understand how eiffel works to according through the voltage on top of my phone. And you appreciate. What was that may be useful. You can poke them pick up the clock. You can't really code anything from that cooed signal. And so that's a problem. When you're the outside you think brain scan so you have to go inside the brain that of course typically don't you cannot do in schulman's you have to accept doing surgery. You have to do an animal. Which is why we use the most popular animal. Which is the mouth because the mouth although it's so much smaller than us it's plain is really remarkable similar and if i give you a little bit you know little grain little keno grain of mouse tissue or human tissue a monkey tissue or dog tissue. Only experts can tell the different. The basic stuff is very. The basic hardware is not the same. But it's very similar. We are only children in this experiment. You are picking up big from various regions simultaneously. Read so so. The goal here is really understand these coordinated ultimately will like to read the mind of the mouse you know so if we could we would. We would like to recall the entire brain in the mouth. Roughly fourteen of the outermost layer of the brain so call cortex. It's a layups proctor. And it's like pizza crappy the size of a fourteen in schizo. It's the thickness of the pizza. Pizza is highly cut off. And then you go to those sheets instead. Make up your left your brain in the mouth. It's more like a like the top of a sugar cube it's much smaller but the basic stuff again. It's the same in principle. We like to call from all the neon. So i can perfectly well decode. What the animal is is seeing or deciding or thinking. But i can't do that. I can only record some teams leave palm about a thousand neurons in different areas and so we can begin to well. What do all these different areas doing. Yeah you talk about a spike cross correlation analysis..
Slate's Culture Gabfest
"schulman" Discussed on Slate's Culture Gabfest
"Useful with a proud for that. It reminded me so much of our conversation with sarah schulman and her book about act up in the ways in which people with a little bit of knowledge or to relieve ten generally related knowledge could apply it to solve a larger social problem. Which as you said is something. That happened was frequently the case happening in the nineteen eighties when the government wasn't really paying attention or didn't really care kind of extraordinary especially because i can't do anything so like when i hear people with that kind of.
NPR Politics Podcast
How ACT up Changed America
"There was a new activist group in new york city called at up and they held weekly meetings on monday evenings at this place called the center an lgbt community nonprofit in the west village at the time it was a crumbling old school paint was peeling off the walls and it had never been rehabbed. That is sarah schulman. She's a writer activist and she joined. Act up in nineteen eighty-seven and you know. Even that building was raggedy those meetings. They were really something else was hanging around to center on monday and there was a lot of noise coming from room. One no one. Because i saw so many people there i knew you know something really big guy. Not the feeling of act up in its heyday when the room is packed. And the weather's nice and meeting spills out into the courtyard and there's all kinds of cruising going on in eye-catching in chatty nece says that vibe was the key to the group's impact. I think any political movement for to be successful has to be a place that makes the participants lives better. If you're just joining a political movement out of some kind of sense of responsibility in burden it's not gonna work and that's why emma goldman famously said if i can't dance it's not my revolution so active was a dance. You know it was a place that was life-affirming. It was sex positive. It was all about being effective and it was filled with very young people who are very energetic and desperate for change.
People of the Pod
High Stakes: What's Next for U.S. Policy on Iran?
"Have european israeli. And american policymakers learned anything since signing the two thousand fifteen joint comprehensive plan of action otherwise known as the iran. Nuclear agreement seffi sat down earlier this week with ajc jerusalem director vitale liebich ajc transatlantic institute director. Daniel schulman paul and ajc chief policy and political affairs officer. Jason isaacson to analyze. What the next few months could bring during a special live recording. Here's a portion of that conversation. We have a critical topic today and a lot of ground to cover with our agency experts. So let's jump right in jason. I'm turning to you to set the table for us please. In two thousand fifteen after a long process. Ajc ultimately decided to come out against the joint comprehensive plan of action iran deal or the jcp la in two thousand eighteen when president trump pulled the us out of the nuclear deal. We expressed our disappointment there as well. Can you start off by pulling back. The curtain a bit on a what went into our initial two thousand fifteen opposition and be. Why we didn't believe withdrawing from the deal was the right move. Either i keep your question Very much looking forward to our conversation today. We were very concerned about the two thousand fifteen joint comprehensive plan of action for a number of reasons. Spur session say we. We spent some time examining by closely with then secretary of state. John kerry with the tooth negotiator. That's when sherman whom came to jaycees officers in new york. You discussed this with our board. Our feeling was that the deal fell short of what had been expected what had been promised by the administration it did not cover a range of other threats to your on those. In addition to in their program on the coromandel then stop near on song alternately. Being able to develop nuclear weapons capability yet slowed the process down. Absolutely it removed. Uranium enriched uranium that iran had stockpiled force them to make certain adjustments to their centrifuges that they'd had but down the road and not very far down the road in ten years or fifteen years or on mobile to climb right back into that program quite
LGBTQ&A
Sarah Schulman: The Political History of ACT UP
"In reading the book the thing that struck me over and over was what a massive and highly organized operation it was. You know there was different subcommittees working simultaneously in arranging meetings and planning actions. I think it's hard to convey. Just how complex organization was. Do you find that as a common misunderstanding. Well the history of act up has been very narrowed and in fact the whole history of aids aids activism has been narrowed and whitewashed down to a handful of individuals so there this is the first really accurate history. One of the great successes of the movement is that it was so flexible. It didn't work on consensus. There was simultaneity of respondent. What it really is. As little silos of groups of like minded people working together on things that really matter to them in an effective way and those different groups standing side by side and trading in and out and supporting each other's projects and that was the open structure the radical democracy of act up. And i just want to make sure everyone knows like the size we're talking about. You say that act up had five hundred to eight hundred people in a meeting in that The biggest action which was stop. The church drew about seven thousand people. Yes but that's actually quite small because mass movements are very effective movements. Do you think of a sad thing. Hundreds of thousands of people but this was really like a vanguard movement. I mean it's funny that you call it small because to me. I'm thinking about five hundred eight hundred people in a room and i don't understand how you could get. Anything accomplished well. Most of what was accomplished was not accomplished in the meeting itself it was accomplished in these small groups called affinity groups that were like ten to twenty people who would meet separately from the monday night meeting and would plan actions or committees of the larger organization that would work on a particular action or a particular campaign so the monday night meeting was just a gathering of all of these different functional entities. That were doing their own projects at the same time.
The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"schulman" Discussed on The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"And ryan. It was my high school senior daughter. Basically in short form saying how. I have been an inspiration to her and i had no idea. She felt that way and she was talking about my journey. And my story all the stuff we've talked about with the tariffs and premium. All of in. i was balling. I'm like i looked at her and just lost it and she came and sat in my lap and we had a good cry and You know. I've shared it many times on podcasts. Of because i'm i'm asked because they hear about the story and they want me to share it on like you know what a i think as parents we all hope that we're doing an okay job. We all hope that we're bringing good human beings in this world. We all hope that you know they'll be able to fly and do their thing. And and lord willing take care of us when we win you know who we are and you know it was such a kosh just really proud to be a daddy and always emmy like i. You know my monkeys. I love monkeys more than anything. Family's everything to me. And i adore them with all my heart. And you know it's it's you're talking about your your your nineteen year old you know and and my twenty year old kids. I'm not terribly far off in age and and just kind of seeing them grow and like looking at it and going. How do we have kids this age. When but yes but you know you look. You never know who. You're impacting never know who's paying attention. You never know who's listening. You never know who you're inspiring and that is such an example You know i. It's it's amazing. I i just i want. I want everyone to remember the. It's really easy to get caught up in. The number is when you think about things like social media millions of followers and you know whatever followers like even that is like really come on you know and i don't ever ever discount the impact of one human being affecting the life of another like that is such a gift i had people reach out to me in this pandemic literally saying i have been like. Dm's i've been out talk about this a lot but every now and then i bring it up because i think it's important to realize that this stuff happens whether you're talking about it happening or not. People are affected by that. I've been depressed. You know. I've almost taken my life and because of your content you have lifted me up. You've kept me going. And i just didn't know how i was going to get through it. You know and and like wow you know. I mean i think everyone is talking about businesses finding moments to try and make there impact right. I mean look at what zoom is done runs zoom right now technologically. Couldn't be in a better business. Right there booming. They are literally prime to get acquired. They have they have their revenue streams or ridiculous because because people silver lining realized. Oh wait there's a way to get to get. Oh this has been here all we can use this..
The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"schulman" Discussed on The Exsellence Mindset Podcast
"First time in my life that i ever felt fully knee accepting me not thinking about weird different in me as a bad thing but as a good thing as a superpower for lack of a better way of putting it because i realized for the first time that i had a voice and that i had a story and then i mattered in that i was inspiring people by sharing that. Not talking about me but by sharing it because it was affecting another human being's life in a positive way they didn't have to have to read didn't have to have gone through what i went through. They're going through their own stuff and feeling that in consuming that going. Hey yeah. I'm weird too and that's good and i'm okay with that and and i have a story and i have a voice and and if i share that that will help other people too. Because i just didn't look at it that way you know. I didn't look at my life and go all these failures and falling and struggling adversity bullying and all of it and go. Yeah that's what i want to talk about. You know no i just. It was life like. I just kept getting backup. Why because that's all. I knew like you know and i had i had support. You know my mom. They're helping me along the way to let me know. Hey i love you. You're an incredible human being. Do you ryden accepting that fully. Mean letting that out was liberating in ways. That does not enough words or time to explain. But like i will tell you. It's over a thousand videos later if you look at. I'm almost a thousand linked videos in but if you combine that with my live shows which are like three hundred. Plus in now since lincoln live launched. You know you're talking about eleven or twelve hundred videos because it's all video And the number of times. I've ever talked about business counting on probably two sets of hands shows you the impact right..
Glenn Beck
'Dancing with the Stars' crowns Season 29 winners
"Alum Caitlin Bristowe and pro dancer Artem check that said, are the winners of season 29 of dancing with the stars. In last night's finale, Bristowe and her fellow three finalists Nellie, Justina Machado and Knave Schulman competed on the ballroom floor for the Mirror ball trophy. Bristol's win comes a year after Bachelorette star Hannah Brown was crowned the season 28 champion. That's entertainment. Nick, a mogul Hiss and B C news radio.
Marketing School
5 Reasons Why Your YouTube Ads Arent Converting
"Committed to your success online. We've worked with them to a special offer just remarking school listeners. All you have to do is go to dream host dot com slash marking school to learn more and get your website online today. Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Zoo and I'm Neil Patel and today we're GonNa talk about five reasons why your youtube ads are not converting. So I guess I can start I but we should talk about the potential of Youtube ads i. a lot of people are using facebook right now and in my mind facebook ads are simpler to get started youtube ads are harder to get started but they are in essence more scalable because you could turn it off and on. And you can jack up the budget quickly facebook you can't just say I, WanNa ten X, my budget the next day. So Youtube has a lot of potential. It is the second largest search engine in the world. The first thing I'll say is when people are making their youtube ads, they're not thinking about their hook. So the hook is to pattern interrupt. Imagine someone's trying to watch a video right now but if you get interrupt them and stop them from what they're doing, you've got. something. Great. Right. So you've gotta constantly think about how can you create a great hook and will stop them and then you can jump into whatever it is that you're offering and then get them to click and take the next action. So the hook is the first thing I'll say the other thing to keep in mind when you're running youtube ads and this is a really easy way to get out to convert better most people look at cold chopping and trying to drive him through. Wanting to attest how is remark, your traffic everyone who visits checkout page by page but doesn't by Schulman video of what it's like to be a customer use the opposite pitch. If you're pitching your website was logical use emotional pitch in the video emotional on your website use a logical pitch within the video you're doing the opposite and in general, you'll see a lot of sales from that out of all the ad types that I've tested on Youtube that tends to produce the most Roi. All right number three is kind of similar to what else saying with the hook. That's not just because you create one good hook it might go away in two weeks. Three weeks you have to keep going on the hooks. So you have to keep experimenting if you open facebook Ad Library and on talking about facebook right now. But if you look what we're also Brunson's doing or you can use a tool like beat to see how people are running on Google display or youtube, you can actually see he's cranking out so much new creative all the time. The creative is huge so just because you're done. With one, you have to continue to have a process to experiment more otherwise people get blindness to get sick of your ads quickly, and you have to constantly innovate on that the greatest most important thing, and obviously we're taught to Badger No. So keep experimenting with crafts and then number four on my an. If you'RE GONNA running youtube ads, you'll also find a lot of industries you won't be able to run ads to what I would recommend doing is collect emails from Youtube. It's a really effective approach. I'm not talking about the Webinar stuff I'm talking about straight up, you can collect emails within your youtube. It's high converting, and then from there, you can sell them over email or webinars. All right. Last one from my side is check out the book breakthrough advertising. You can actually buy it for about one hundred, twenty, five dollars online right now someone has the rights to that I was talking to Craig clements the other day and he was like, yeah, some about. The rights that so get that book breakthrough advertising. There's a framework within that book. When you think about the customer journey, there are five things that happen people are unaware initially, and then they become problem aware and then they become aware of your solution and then they become aware of the deal you house. So Unaware Promo where solution where your solution aware and. Then the deal and we actually got this from a digital marketer use that
Daily Tech News Show
Uber, Lyft may shut down temporarily in California
"And lived were ordered to convert their California drivers from independent contractors to employees with benefits. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman agreed with California Attorney General Hobby Sarah that Uber and lyft violating assembly bill five but pause the injunction for ten days. So the companies can appeal the preliminary injunction which both companies said they'll do uber CEO Derek does Russia he and lift President John. Zimmer. Both said the companies may have to suspend service in California if forced to reclassify drivers.