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ks-caster · 4 years ago

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Beth Liveblogs Black Widow

Bought that premium access on Disney+ so I can have the privilege of pausing for snacks and using subtitles as needed - so let’s go!

Beth’s Spoiler-Free Review: Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the movie - the plot was compelling, the characters were likable, and the stunts were really excellent. I felt like hair and makeup dropped the ball on realism multiple times which I was sad about, because how she looks seems to be pretty important to Nat so I expected it to be done well in her movie.

I did not like the way they framed the tail end (denouement - obviously because this movie is mid-series we know how it ends to an extent) - I felt like the connect-up to Infinity War was lackluster, especially compared to how enjoyable and dynamic the rest of the film was.

Spoilery live-reactions are under the cut. Click at own risk! Feel free to rebagel with your own impressions, thoughts, jokes and rebuttals!

The movie begins with a young Nat with blue dyed hair and visible roots, showing her natural red. Do you know how hard it is to get natural red out of hair, enough to make it blue and not green? And I’m supposed to believe that a middle-school age girl in 1995 Ohio had access to these chemicals? I’ll give her the white hair in IW/Endgame because she’s an adult with a lot of experience as a spy altering her appearance. But as a child? In the 90s? While her family is apparently in hiding? Sus.

The scene with Alexei laying on the on the wing while Nat learns to fly? AMAZING stunts. Amazing. AND someone in an action movie is finally smart enough to shoot the tires.

Nice skills on young Nat, getting the gun. Since we know from Endgame that Nat’s father is named Ivan, we know that Alexei isn’t really her dad. She also refers to presumably the red room as going “back.” Was she lent out to these agents to legitimize their family?

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Nice knife moves, Yelena - I love the hand switch.

Ooooh so she was being mind controlled and the red stuff freed her? Interesting.

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Nat is in Norway - visit Thor! He’d love to have you. (I’m mixing up my timeline, aren’t I?)

Supplies Dude whose name I didn’t catch refers to the Avengers breakup as a divorce - I kinda love it. It’s accurate!

BUDAPEST omg are we finally going to get the story?? Are we??

Box dye? I’m supposed to believe she got all that red out of her hair with flippin’ Loreal? Really? And that toner isn’t even the color she ultimately went - it’s too yellow. Sus.

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Oop, looks like Nat got caught up in Yelena’s desertion.

Do not give Nat your metal frisbee, robocop - she’s been around Steve long enough that she knows how to use it.

I laughed out loud when she did the string him up thing with the cables - literal spider move, I love it!

Mystery box is empty - classic bait and switch.

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BUDAPEST - WE ARE IN BUDAPEST - IT’S HAPPENING PEOPLE

Nat closing the door behind her is a small thing but I appreciate it - no sneaking up behind her.

When Yelena throws Nat in the kitchen and her feet hit the door and she spins before she hits the ground? That was a helluva stunt.

Oooooh honey. No body left to check is ALWAYS movie code for they lived.

Dreykov’s daughter? Another hint from Avengers 2012? C’mon, movie.

Riding the chimney down? Another incredible stunt.

Dreykov can scan his soldiers’ bodies and terminate them if they’re too damaged to keep fighting? Big yikes. With Nat where she is character development wise, the stakes are now much higher because if she injures an opponent they may be killed remotely.

“Do you want me to chase him down and un-steal it?”

The car door under the bike was an excellent stunt - as was the car going into the subway. Though I’ve never seen a subway entrance big enough to admit a car.

Who hasn’t wanted to slide down the middle to avoid the crowded escalators lol.

Yelena making fun of Nat’s sexy poses I am LIVING omg.

Running water for wounds. RUNNING WATER. NOT ALCOHOL. The vodka goes on the INSIDE for the pain - the running water cleans the OUTSIDE. If there’s a convenience store then there’s a bathroom, with running water. Cleansing with something like alcohol is a LAST RESORT and you do not look like you’re at that point resource-wise. I thought these ladies were supposed to be highly trained in all of the things?

“Could be fun though.” “I saw where he put the keys” “Top drawer green cabinet.” I love their chaos.

Yelena’s vest and its pockets and the resulting conversation are positively majestic.

“You are sensitive.” “You’re a very annoying person.”

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Do! Not! Move! Around! Like! That! While! Getting! A! Tattoo!!!! That poor artist was trying his best and Alexei just...

Ooooh was Red Guardian like Captain Russia? Interesting.

“Just don’t make a scene.” “You made a scene didn’t you.”

David Harbor running up that wall and then wiping out after the guard shocks him... I really loved that stunt, especially since they don’t show him being all super cut - he’s a big guy! He’s allowed to have fat over his muscles and still be a strong dude! I love it.

“Such a poser.” Girl, you need to meet Loki - he does a lot of hair flips too lol.

The sibling energy between the girls during the rescue!!!

“Whooooooa... this would be a cool way to die.” Yelena, I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you but get your head in the game girl.

Poor Alexei - he never gets to do the dramatic escape from *inside* of the aircraft.

Hang on, no ovaries? So all of these women are now in immediate, surgically-induced menopause? The uterus part makes sense if the intent was to prevent them from getting pregnant if they have sex during a mission, but, what, they gotta be on estrogen supplements for the rest of their lives? That’s just really poor planning. Like it was hilarious the way Yelena went into the biology of it to make Alexei uncomfortable, but that really doesn’t make sense to do to your superhero kids. It’s just bad science.

Love that Yelena keeps her vest even after she changes into her matching white flight suit. That vest better make it to the end of the movie.

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“Honey, we’re home.” I 100% expected her to shoot him on sight tbh. it would have been funny.

Alexei squeezing into the uniform is such a post-pandemic feel. Also all of the fancy braids at that table; I see where Natasha got her propensity for them.

Animal cruelty warning, ugh. Poor piggy Alexei.

Oooh the photo album and Natasha remembered staging the pictures; they’re emotional for her but in a different way.

I wonder if robocop’s shield is actually Alexei’s.

The singing between Alexei and Yelena was a really beautiful moment because it was neither auto-tuned-good nor hilariously bad - it felt really real, especially the way Yelena’s so choked up she can barely make sounds come out.

Uh-oh, mama has one of those monitor your vitals and kill your ass suits. The suits I understand - the eyeliner though... when and why did she do her makeup?? That’s not really the thing that comes to mind for me when I’m getting ready to do something athletic, like say kidnapping my supersoldier fake family.

“This is a much less cool way to die.” Also WTF why would they do that. Wouldn’t it be easier to get the information out of her while her brain is still attached to, y’know, her mouth??

CLEVER CLEVER CLEVER they switched outfits and faces ooooooh like mother like daughter.

The door opening as Alexei is leaning against it dramatically bahahahaha

I love the plan. I’m thoroughly weirded out that Melina has a red wig just lying around that perfectly immitates Natasha though.

“Yelena, it’s mama. You have a two-inch blade in your belt.”

Oh. My. God.

Antonia.

A pheromone lock preventing them from hurting them if they’re close enough to smell him - I like it. It’s clever and new.

Bahahaha poser! You posed I saw you! Still love the vest.

Natasha is really good at manipulating people’s emotions to get what she wants - I mean, scary good. So if she’s provoking Dreykov into beating her up, there’s a reason.

“Using the only resource the world has too much of - girls.” Kill him.

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When I say I whooped out loud... SEVERING THE NERVE. Thank you for your cooperation. YAAAAAAS QUEEN.

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“Slight change of plans - we are going into a controlled crash.” The way she said that was just so mom-like omg!

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The grenade as a delivery system was super smart - but yikes what if she’d mistimed it and blew Natasha up? Also, after the beating she took and how hard she had to wack her own face into the desk to sever her olfactory nerve and the amout of blood we saw her leave behind from doing that, her face should be a LOT more messed up, come on makeup department.

“Get as far away from here as possible.” And then keep going because General I-Collect-Supersoldiers-Like-Stamps Ross is about to turn up at your location looking for trouble and he’d snap you ladies up like there’s a fire sale and you’re going out of stock.

This crash doesn’t look all that controlled, Melina. I’m starting to suspect that most of the widows won’t live long enough to make their own decisions...

All of the aerial stunts were amaaaaaazing - the way Nat slowed herself by sliding down the panels so Antonia could catch up with her and she could deploy her parachute...

The vest survived the movie!!!

Fuuuuuck Ross is showing up and he sucks and I hate him and I’m super worried that he’s gonna take the vest from Nat if he takes her into custody. Please don’t let her lose the vest.

Okay, there is now zero reason for Nat to stay behind. They have an aircraft. She had plenty of time to just board it and leave?

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Okay okay okay Ross did not get her and did not take the vest. But am I supposed to believe she bleached her hair, toned it blonde, and then re-bleached and re-toned it to silver? Who does that? That would be terrible for her hair. Her scalp would be burned all to hell from the amount of chemicals needed to not only get all that red out but THEN get the blonde toner out. Y’know what color silver toner is? Blue/purple. Y’know what happens when you mix that with yellow? Green. And not a nice green either (I speak from experience). No. Her hair at the end of the movie? Cancelled.

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SHE GOT THE DOG!!!

Oh, ouch. Big ouch. I hurt like a lot now. This is so not an okay way to end the -

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Countess I-Forgot-Your-Name-Already?

Oh no. Oh no. That’s worse. That’s a lot worse. We are now setting up the Hawkeye series and I while I’m horrified that this was how they ended the film, I gotta say that’s going to make for some wonderful angst in that series on both Clint and Yelena’s parts and I am here for it!

OVERALL IMPRESSION

I really, really enjoyed this movie, I thought the story was compelling, the stunts were really excellent, and I liked the character dynamics and the twist

I did not like the ending - it just sort of fell off quickly and didn’t feel satisfying after an otherwise really fun movie. I also take issue with the hair and makeup as shown among the characters, as seen in my several rants to that effect.

I would have liked to have seen a few more childhood/training flashbacks, and absolutely would have loved a cameo from Jeremy Renner (not just his voice) and to see him and Nat meeting and him giving her the whole dad speech that he does so well - bonus points if she could have then quoted him to Yelena or Antonia, showing the way that multiple people had a formative effect on her (an answer to the “The Avengers aren’t really your family either” comment).

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amigoreviews · 5 years ago

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How to Install a premium WordPress theme

This will be another newbie, friendly guide on how to install a premium WordPress theme on your WordPress installation. And for this tutorial, I will be using the WordPress installation on my Windows 10 computer. But, the same procedure is valid if you are installing a premium WordPress theme on your cPanel. Installing a premium WordPress theme can be a difficult task if you are new to the WordPress ecosystem, and I have had multiple real-life experiences and failed several times. The purpose of this guide is to make you aware of the process and give you a headstart. Learning from real-life experiences is the best teacher of all, and let’s get to it.

Why I need a premium WordPress theme?

If you are just starting your WordPress journey, I suggest you read the guide I did on Installing WordPress in less than 30 minutes. And I also did a guide on installing WordPress on your Windows 10 computer. Installing WordPress on your local machine is the most economical way of learning WordPress. Yes, it literally costs you nothing!

Okay, then, let’s answer the burning question, why I need a Premium WordPress theme!

There are plenty of Free WordPress themes, and if you are good enough, you can make those free themes way better than a Premium WordPress theme. The thing is, it is not as easy as it looks.

Especially if you a newbie and struggling to get a professional-looking WordPress site for your business, then a free WordPress theme may not be the ideal for you.

None like most of the free WordPress themes, Premium WordPress themes are well documented. If you can read, you can do almost all the customizations to your WordPress website at ease!

I can list several reasons why they should go for a Premium WordPress theme instead of a Free WordPress theme. But, before that, you should keep in mind that Premium WordPress themes come with a price. They are not free. And for every penny spend, a Premium WordPress theme should worth the money.

And if you have long term goals (You should Have to have longterm goals), then your digital properties (Your Website especially) should follow your goals. And using a free WordPress theme creates a stressful situation when the developer of the free WordPress theme stops updating the theme. If you are not getting updates, then you are basically missing a lot.

One of the biggest reasons that you should go for a premium theme is, you will be getting frequent updates, and you can always stay up to date with WordPress’s core update.

Premium themes are bundled with pre-made sites

Yes, almost all the premium WordPress themes come with pre-made websites. Before purchasing the theme, you better take a closer look at the theme’s demo. You should check all the demo-sites the come with the theme. If the site you planned on doing is already a template of the theme you looked, then you should purchase that premium theme.

With one-click demo import options, you can literally have the basic structure of the website ready in a matter of seconds. Having this much flexibility is one of the most significant advantages of purchasing a theme for your website.

Once the site and the demo content imported, you can start editing the content to the way you need your website to be. When you import the demo content, it will not just get you a ‘ready to edit’ site. It will also get you a professional website ready within a matter of minutes. All the hard work put into work by the designers and the developers of the theme should be valued, and that’s why we pay for the theme.

Where to buy a Premium WordPress theme?

If you are thinking of going for a premium WordPress theme, then you should look for a place to buy it. The Internet can be a misleading place if you don’t adhere to the basics. Always purchase the theme from the original theme publisher or buy from an authorized, reputed marketplace.

Usually, a modern WordPress theme may cost you around $40-$60/year. But, if you check on the Internet, multiple websites are offering premium WordPress themes for a crazy low price. I’ve seen some are selling themes for as little as $5/theme for life. That is too good to be true, and you should never ever purchase. Themes purchased from these sites may come with ‘backdoors,’ and hackers may exploit these backdoors to gain access to your site. If that happens, they will insert malicious codes into your WordPress, and that is the end of your website.

My goto place for WordPress premium themes and plugins is Themeforest.

Themeforest is known for its reputation, and that is the biggest marketplace for purchasing high quality, authentic WordPress themes.

Also, MyThemeShop is another famous publisher for WordPress themes and Plugins. They are known for their lightning-fast, Lightweight WordPress themes, and of course, Rank Math is one of their amazing products. (If you are wondering what Rank Math is, well Rank Math is Yoast Killer. If you are into SEO and you should try Rank Math, instead of Yoast and you know what, Rank Math is absolutely free)

NOTE: When you purchase a premium theme, the publisher will give you Updates for a year without charging you any extra money. Also, the theme comes with support for up to 6 months in most cases. So the margin of error is literally ZERO if you go for a premium WordPress theme.

10 Things to consider before buying a Premium theme

1. Design

One of the biggest reasons to buy a premium WordPress theme is design. Selecting a well-designed theme will save you time and money as you can simply complete your website without hiring or outsourcing expensive designers.

2. Updates

Always check the changelog of the sales page of the theme and check whether the theme publisher release updates frequently. If a publisher rarely releases updates, that is not a good sign, and I’d rather avoid such themes.

3. Support

Before buying a Premium WordPress theme, always check the publishers’ support form. Most of the theme publishers have their own support forums, and you should check for these forums if the publisher is addressing the issues accordingly. If you see an unanswered customer request for weeks, then that is not a good sign and avoid such themes and publishers.

4. Feedback from buyers

One major thing that you should take into consideration is customer feedback. When you see a theme with a large number of positive feedback, then it is a pretty good sign that the theme you look is a better one. And if you see a theme with a 5-star rating from just 10 customer feedback and a 4.2-star rating from 3000 feedback, you should go for the second theme. I don’t have to explain why you should go for the second one, right?

5. Compatibility with the latest WordPress updates

No matter how good your theme is, if it is not compatible with WordPress, then the theme is good for nothing. Compatibility issues become serious as WordPress released ‘WordPress 5.0’ Gutenberg. It is highly recommended to check whether the theme is compatible with the latest WordPress release.

6. Compatibility with new plugins

Since WordPress is highly customizable, plugins play a vital role in all these customizations. If you are going for a theme that is not compatible with the latest WordPress updates, you are highly likely to get lots of plugin compatibility issues. Make sure you select a premium theme that is compatible with WordPress updates, and ultimately the theme will be compatible with the plugins.

7. SEO friendliness

Selecting a theme that is optimized for Google (Or Search Engines) is vital. I know for a fact that many people mainly think of the design of the theme. Which is fine. But, if you have long term goals with your website, then you should think of SEO. Because of No SEO, no long run. It is that simple. Always look for a theme with better SEO compatibilities. And the Good news is, theme developers are fine-tuning their themes for SEO. If you are buying from a reputed seller, it is highly likely that your theme is ready for almighty Google!

8. Mobile compatibility

The way people access the Internet has changed with the rise of smartphones. If your theme is not ‘Mobile-friendly,’ then you are giving your mobile users bad browsing experience. Always go for a theme that is mobile friendly. And having a Mobile-friendly site is also good for your site’s ranking as well. With the rise of Google’s ‘Mobile-first indexing,’ now Google is giving higher credibility to your content when your site is ‘Mobile-friendly.’

9. Theme performance

You should be selecting a theme that loads fast (r). Even though you purchased your premium theme from a reputed vendor, still there’s a chance that you are not going to get a high performing theme for your needs. Always do your background check before buying. Themes like Astra, are well-known for their light-weight and lightening loading speed. When you chose a high performing theme, you almost created a high performing website.

10. Theme options

When your theme has lots of options, sometimes people think that it is too complicated for them. But, that is not always the truth. What I think is, when a theme has lots of options, that gives you a lot of control over your theme, and ultimately it will give you more control on your site.

How to Install Premium WordPress theme on your WordPress

Let’s get to it. The process is simple and easy to follow

1. Download theme from Vendor

The first thing you should do is purchase the theme you like and download the theme from the Vendor. In this guide, I will be explaining the process of downloading a theme from Themeforest. If you have purchased your theme from a different vendor, then the process might be a little different. But it is easy to learn.

How to download a theme from Themeforest

Log into your Themeforest account and hover the mouse over your username. There will be a menu and click on ‘download.’

In the download page, you’ll find all your ThemeForest purchases (If you have purchased other plugins, themes, etc. Themeforest.

Find the theme you need to download (If you just purchased the theme, your download list will only have the theme you purchased) and click on the download button. Once you click, it will give you several options.

If you select ‘all files and documentation,’ it will download the theme and the associated files.

I personally see it is somewhat troublesome if you are new.

So, I recommend you click on the ‘Installable WordPress file only’ option.

Once you have downloaded the WordPress files, then you can start installing a premium theme on your WordPress.

2. Installing the Premium Theme on WordPress

It will take you to a new window.

This is where you can install a new theme for your WordPress.

The interface is almost self-explanatory!

First, click on ‘Add New,’ and in the next windows, click on ‘Upload Theme.’

Once you click on Upload Theme, you will be asked to browse or select the theme file you want to install.

Browse and locate the theme file you downloaded from Themeforest and select it and click on ‘Install Now.’

Once the installation completed, click on ‘Activate’ and congratulations, you just installed a Premium WordPress theme!

Once you activated the installed theme, it will be your active theme, and you can quickly see the new changes in your site as soon as you completed the activation.

3. How to find your Themeforest License Key

If you purchased your Theme from Themeforest, you should download your license key from ThemeForest and activate the theme. This way, you can get updates for your theme as they updated. And sometimes, finding the license key may be a difficult task. But it’s not.

All you have to do is, go to your ThemeForest download area and click on the green download button. In the dropdown, click on License Certificate and Purchase Code (either text or PDF) and download your license key.

Once you have your license key ready, you should enter your license key where it is requested.

Your license key looks like this 1ce734-6c15-55da-4n5j-bc4f3e666666

Enter your Themeforest username and the license key to activate your theme properly, and you are done!

FAQ: How to Install a premium WordPress theme

How do I install a ThemeForest theme?

The process is super simple and easy to learn. Log into your Themeforest and go to the download area. And download the Installable WordPress files from ThemeForest. Then log into your WordPress backend. Go to Appearance, then theme. Click on Add New and then Upload. You will be asked to browse for the theme file. Locate the file and click on Install. Finally, activate the theme and done!

Should I update my WordPress theme?

Yes, you should update your WordPress theme whenever there’s an update. In a way, Updates are here to correct the existing errors, add new functionality to the theme, or maybe to improve the theme’s functionality. That’s why you should update your WordPress theme. But before updating the theme, make sure to back up your WordPress site. If something goes wrong, you can restore your site to normal if you back up your WordPress site before updating the theme.

How can I download paid ThemeForest themes for free?

Literally, there’s no way of doing such. But I’ve seen there are plenty of market places, which are not authorized by the theme developer to sell their themes are selling these premium themes for crazy low prices. You shouldn’t purchase themes or anything digital from such marketplaces. Because almost all these digital products are altered, and they may contain malicious codes in them. If you use such a theme (or any digital product) with your WordPress, then you are exposing your website to hackers.

How to install a WordPress theme manually?

There are several ways to install a Premium WordPress theme. One method is using an FTP to upload the theme to cPanel. If you are not a ‘Tech-Person,’ then FTP may not be the answer you need. Uploading the Zipped WordPress theme directly into your WordPress backend is the easiest way to install a new WordPress theme manually.

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Conclusion: How to Install a premium WordPress theme

WordPress CMS can be tricky and sometimes hard-to-learn platform. But, it is not always the case. When you step into the WordPress ecosystem, you should look for a well-designed website with a userfriendly interface. Sometimes it is hard to achieve everything with a free WordPress theme. That’s why people love to spend some money on a premium WordPress theme. Purchasing a theme is easy, yet Installing the theme on WordPress can be tricky. This simple guide was prepared to keep such people in mind.

You should pick a theme that suits all your needs. Premium themes aren’t free. They come with a price and don’t afraid or hesitate to pay the fee. It will make sure you get the best out of your theme, and it will also keep the developer of the theme encouraged.

Never ever buy thems for crazy low prices form anyone but the theme developer or an authorized vendor. Cybersecurity is one of the major concerns these days. If you are using a ‘nulled’ theme for a crazy low price, you are risking your digital property.

Almost all the premium themes come with support and at least up to 1 year of free updates. That is a good sign that your money is in safe hands. I hope this guide on How to Install a premium WordPress theme has provided value to your WordPress journey and feel free to share your comments and suggestions to improve this super simple guide.

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amychan-2264 · 4 years ago

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Best Coding Class for Adult Beginners in Hong Kong

What is the Best Coding Class in Hong Kong? A Quick Guide

“Learning to code” seems to be the recent talk of the town, talents of different sectors have shown interest in getting to know this complicated yet basic language even they might have no background at all. Why should you learn to code? What is the best way to learn coding as a beginner? Preface is ready to give you a comprehensive explanation!

How coding skills can boost your career?

Even your job is plainly irrelevant to software development, at least for now, coding can still further your career:

1. Be digitally literate

Every company has embraced and used technology. That explains why getting buddy-buddy with computers is important - if you know how to communicate with these ice-cold machines, you must be able to identify and use them confidently, creatively and critically so as to meet the challenges in today’s digital society.

2. Expand your career prospect

While technology has become an increasingly significant portion of our daily life, not only is coding a valuable asset to those technical roles, other professionals such as marketers and administrators can also gain a competitive edge from familiarizing yourself with this intercommunication process!

3. Great earning potential

Obviously, the most discussed draw of learning how to code is the earning potential. According to a report released by US News in 2019, the median annual salary of computer programmers was nearly $90,000 USD. If you work in metropolitan areas, the wages were far more - about 50% higher than the average.

4. Strengthen critical thinking skills

Steve Jobs once said that, “Everyone should learn how to code, it teaches you how to think.”

In the world of coding, things are not black and white, evaluating the issues from different angles may come up with multiple “right” answers. This variability can train your mindset to be open to new ideas and stay flexible.

5. Improve your social life

Instead of using old-fashioned texts and drawings, with coding skills, you can share your thoughts with the entire world with interactive applications and websites. You can even create a platform for people who share similar interests and beliefs to get together. The huge potential provides you with a new outlet to connect with friends all around the globe.

Source: Medium, Quacquarelli Symonds Limited

Further Reading: Why Coding Is Important?: 10 Reasons Why You Should Learn To Code

How can I start learning Coding from zero?

You will see hundreds of pages simply by googling “how to code”. Don’t know which route works best for you? Preface has summarized the most mentioned methods for your easy reference.

Online Resources

If you have literally no knowledge base at all, it would be a good idea to get a feel for it through online courses.

You can visit Codecademy, Udemy, edX for some free tutorials before jumping in with both feet. These websites offer structured curriculum including videos, readings and quizzes, so if you first start to learn, this could be a great opportunity for you to experiment whether you really want to give it a real go.

Coding Class

If you decide to dive deeper into learning coding, you need a dedicated instructor to make sure you are on the right track. A professional mentor can prevent you from being overwhelmed by thousands and thousands of learning materials over the web, moreover, to save you from constant self-doubt since they can give you honest pointers and ignite your spark.

Real world applications of coding skills

Regardless of your specialization, coding opens up new areas of opportunity in your career.

Data Science in Business

Thanks to the wide affordability of internet access, the target audience can be easily monitored and tracked since they must leave digital footprints on different channels.

However, deriving actionable insights from data is not that simple, that’s how data science comes in handy. Marketers equipped with relevant knowledge are capable of analyzing the numbers from the webs, smartphones, sensors and other sources, thus, gaining a deep understanding of the customers and identifying their actual needs in a more structured way.

Of course, marketing is just an example, the skill also plays an important role in other fields, including but not limited to hospitality, event planning, human resources, finance and management.

Further Reading: An ultimate guide to data science in 2021

Source: Monocubed, BoTree Technologies

Python in Business

As one of the most popular programming languages across the globe, Python remains a valuable asset no matter if you are an engineer or not. Can you link up this programming language with UI design? As a matter of fact, learning Python helps designers to present more unique, user-friendly and intuitive graphics. The clinical professionals have also used Python-based artificial intelligence to conduct more accurate diagnosis.

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If you’re anything like I was in middle school (and hopefully you’re not for a ton of reasons), when you think of college you think of 4 years on a manicured, historic campus where you’ll be groomed into the next titan of industry, whatever industry that may be. You assume that a bachelor’s degree will cement a quality of life that will be better than your parents’, or if they were college grads, a life that will as comfortable as they had. That’s the basket of goods that has been sold to pretty much every American born since Animal House was released. That promise is no longer a guarantee thanks to ballooning costs and a one size fits all solution to creating a competitive 21st century workforce.

Personally, I spent hours upon hours researching schools because my parents were zero help when it came to choosing a college. Their advice had always been “work hard so you can get into a good college” without any definition of what defined ‘a good college’. They’d bought the same basket of goods that everyone’s been sold. I knew that my family had the means to help me out with my tuition no matter what. My mom would work 3 jobs if it meant I got to go to the college of my dreams because that’s just the way she is. I of course didn’t want that, so I focused on school’s that meant 100% of demonstrated financial need and that had a good return on investment (% of students with jobs after graduation and high incomes 15 years out). This wasn’t supposed to be a Colgate University shout out, but that’s where all of my experience comes from so here we are.

What I really wanted to get at here is that Colgate University is the model of college that everyone expects: beautiful campus, quality professors, opportunities for learning and social development galore. The thing is, a Colgate model is really only accessible to the ‘top tier’ of students. (Top tier could also mean Daddy’s money, but with a 23% acceptance rate it’s still a top tier in terms of resources.) We need options for those that can’t afford $30,000 a year bills while also giving up 4 years worth of income. I know we’ve all seen the graphs that show that giving up those working years is made up for with higher salaries down the road, but from what I can see those salaries are too far down the line for people that are drowning in debt now.

We need options for adults to gain more skills across the board that is accessible and tailored for regional economies. There is often a rural ‘brain drain’ where the brightest kids from poor areas leave as soon as they can, which leads to skill gaps in local and regional workforces. Those gaps often go hand in hand with population decline, which wreaks havoc on former commercial strongholds like the shopping mall. Anchors are leaving left and right and there’s a swath of empty space across semi-rural America. What if there was a Federal block grant that could be used for adult education in local and regional areas? I’m sure some type of program like this exists on a small scale, but if it does I sure haven’t seen it working. Imagine taking an old Sears at the end of a mall and breaking it into classrooms, maker spaces, computer labs, or whatever else a community needs to train workers that could be utilized locally.

For example, my hometown is Erie, Pennsylvania; it is known for having one of the poorest ZIP codes in the country, population/economic decline, the pizza bomber, and great sunsets. Our primary mall, the Millcreek Mall, is the commercial keystone of the area. If you need anything in that city, you go to where Peach Street meets I-79 and head to the mall with the 4th most leasable retail space in the US. It consists of 5 anchor sized spaces, many of which have changed hands over the past decade. Having good foot traffic from tourists (0% sales tax on clothes and a short trip from Canada) keeps this mall alive, but the mall serves tourists better than it does the local community. Erie also has 5 universities and there are talks of a community college. This community college project has been debated since I was a baby, and I don’t believe anyone has actually taken classes yet.

When the next anchor inevitably leaves the Millcreek Mall, I imagine the gut reaction will be to find another large retailer to fill the space as that occupancy is tied to the leases of the other tenants. As opposed to another retail space that will provide low paying retail jobs and medium priced goods that tourists want sans sales tax, what if we used that space to train workers that Erie could actually use? At one time, GE Trains was the largest employer in town with other manufacturing making up the bulk of resident’s employment. The largest growing industry is healthcare, generally driven by UPMC and tourism driven by wineries and Presque Isle beaches.

Who am I to say what skills Erie’s workforce needs most? I’m not an employer and I don’t even live there anymore. All I know is that people there need options. So many of my friends are saddled with mountainous debt for degrees they aren’t utilizing as they work retail in the mall. For those that are graduating high school in Erie, many of them working in that mall like I did, are going to go to college without any idea why other than they’ve always been told that’s the key to a better life. If an option was literally right in front of them, that was low cost and taught them skills that local employers are demanding, couldn’t that save them a lot of time and financial hardship? They can’t repo knowledge, but they will still take your car. There’s an aging population and a growing healthcare sector; what are skills that are not taught in K-12 that would be valuable to the industry? Things that don’t necessarily require four years of classroom learning. With Erie Insurance being the only Fortune 500 employer in the area, perhaps they could teach courses on insurance coding or underwriting or risk management that could be applied to multiple companies. Getting employers involved in the process will be key to actually producing workers that will be valuable for the area. The city of Erie school district faces newsworthy financial hardship to a point they had to close and sell a school. I don’t really trust them to be teaching students about fiscal responsibility or personal finance, so having civic courses that teach folks how to do taxes, apply for a loan, not live on credit cards, register to vote, could also be included as gen ed courses potentially in this space.

People graduate college and have nothing from it but a mountain of debt and a piece of paper. Many don’t even get that far and drop out with too much debt and no piece of paper. Heck this space could also function as a college prep place. Somewhere to go before you commit to college. Personal opinion, but we should be prepping Erie for climate change. We’re going to be in a prime position with our access to fresh water, open space, and a climate that should be suitable for agriculture and people. We’re going to need infrastructure improvements, construction, transportation solutions that get us away from personal automobiles, environmental workers that shore up our beaches to prevent erosion and to protect our wildlife, urban planners, community activists that can shape the future of Erie for people in Erie. There are levels of thinking that go into all of these things, which means we’ll need folks with Master’s degrees probably, but I guarantee we’ll need skilled workers on the frontlines actually getting things accomplished. People think ‘no college required’ means ‘no skills required’ but we all know that’s not the case. Whether it’s customer service, stocking shelves, trading stocks, digging ditches, building a rocket, or picking up roadkill, there’s skill and often art involved in quality results. Tapping into the talent across the country does not require that everyone go to a four year public university for free, it requires giving localities the resources to create citizens that want to make their world, and hopefully their communities, a place they’re proud of.

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It Ain't Necessarily So: Exploring Type Systems for Verifying Musical ... InfoQ.com-6 時間前

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In order to avoid division by zero, I've modelled transitions that never occur in the dataset as having a 1/100,000 chance. This time, darker squares represent transitions that are more expensive in terms of entropy, or in other ..

Key Takeaways As an increasing proportion of our culture becomes codified, we need to consider how to authentically express theory and insights from diverse fields in our software. Music is an excellent domain to explore using programming, because it has a long history of notation and is governed by pattern-based rules. Music theorists have been fascinated by what makes music correct for centuries. Now that we can write music using programming languages, we have the opportunity to cross-pollinate lessons in correctness between music and programming. In this article Chris explores how music can be type checked, using the Mezzo Haskell library and Idris’ dependent types as examples.

Introduction I’ve given a lot of talks on representing music using programming languages. It’s a popular subject, because it tickles the engineer’s mechanical curiosity as well as plugging-in to music’s universal relatability.

I’ve given a lot of talks on representing music using programming languages. It’s a popular subject, because it tickles the engineer’s mechanical curiosity as well as plugging-in to music’s universal relatability.

What does it look like? There are musical coding environments for many different programming languages. Two popular ones are TidalCycles for Haskell and Sonic Pi for Ruby on the Raspberry Pi. Here’s an example using my Leipzig composition library. As it’s written in Clojure, there is no type checking.

(def row-row-row-your-boat (phrase [3/3 3/3 2/3 1/3 3/3] [ 0 0 0 1 2]))

->> row-row-row-your-boat (canon (simple 4)) (where :pitch (comp C major)) (where :time (bpm 90)) play) Durations and pitches are represented as integer and ratio literals, which can be a little cumbersome. Programming really shines when it comes to musical transformations, for example above where the original melody fragment is given an accompaniment, put in the key of C major and given a tempo of 90 beats per minute.

Once programmers see musical code, one of the most common reactions is to ask whether it’s possible to use type systems to prevent bad music. This is a natural thought. If music can be seen as code, then might musical mistakes be somehow like programming errors? And if that’s the case, then maybe we can apply the techniques we use in writing programs to improve how we write music.

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In particular, there is an obvious analogy between the kind of mistakes that type systems prevent and common examples of musical incorrectness. If my programming language can check that I don’t pass a String to a function that expects an Integer, then it should be able to check that I don’t play an F# in a piece written in C major, a key which includes no sharps or flats.

In this article, I will grapple with what makes music correct and how we might encode it in a type system.

Prescriptivism Music theorists have been fascinated by what makes music correct for centuries. For most of that time, they have operated through a frame of musical prescriptivism, in other words evaluating music for conformance to a set of rules.

The historically dominant methodology for arriving at these rules can be summarised as follows:

Examine the canon Extract regularities Formulate them as sets of rules We then can make the following claim:

Music that deviates from these rules is incorrect.

For example, a compositional rule is that a melody jumping a major seventh from a C all the way up to a B is not permitted. This approach has produced a lot of valuable insight. There are genuinely interesting regularities in classical music, and generalising our observations as rulesets helps us to discuss musical phenomena.

What’s more, adherence to the rules is not a bad idea for students learning their craft. I’m quite glad that children learning the violin practice the C major scale and whenever they play an F# their teacher tells them they made a mistake. There are certainly contexts where prescriptive notions of correct and incorrect music are useful.

However, there are two major shortcomings of this way of defining musical correctness.

First, the rules yielded by this process are heavily dependent on what music the theorist regards as canon. A biased dataset leads to biased inferences, and Western classical music is not representative of humanity’s musical experience. Inferring rules based on Bach’s and Mozart’s music might be fascinating, but it doesn’t tell you much about music at large.

This gets especially tricky when you realise that musical genres are often heavily associated with particular cultures and ethnicities, and that by prioritising a certain kind of music you are also inadvertently prioritising a certain kind of person. In particular, academic music theory owes a lot to the study of the Euroclassical tradition and has paid relatively little attention to music deriving from the African diaspora like blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll and hip hop. Relying on traditional music theory as a source of correctness can lead to a cultural version of the same problem that has led to facial recognition algorithms working better for white faces than black ones.

The second major shortcoming of building rules by extracting and generalising from existing regularities is that it’s backwards-looking. Music is at its most thrilling when it’s breaking rules. Before Jimmy Page used distortion to artistic effect, engineers considered clipping of the signal during amplification to be a defect. So, even if observed regularities were a useful way to understand the music of today, they’re a terrible way of judging the music of tomorrow.

A good type system for music has to avoid the two traps of prescriptivism. It mustn’t be built on inappropriate or biased notions of what music is correct. But more subtly, in an attempt to make invalid states unrepresentable, it must not make innovative states impossible.

Descriptivism The alternative to prescriptivism is descriptivism. Where prescriptivism sees musical regularities as laws to be followed, descriptivism sees them as emergent patterns from actual practice. A descriptivist way to discover musical rules might look something like this:

Examine a body of music Extract tendencies Formulate them as a model We then can make the following claim:

Music that deviates from the model is unusual.

To do that, we need a good model for musical structures that can represent common/unusual and not just right/wrong. One useful approach is that taken by David Huron in his book Sweet Anticipation. Huron lays out a descriptivist theory that for the purposes of this article can be summarised as three primary claims:

Music is appreciated through statistical learning. Correct prediction delights you. Novelty keeps you from getting bored. In our earlier prescriptivist example, jumping from a C up to a B was considered illegal, but in Huron’s theory it would instead be considered highly unusual. People who have listened to a lot of Western music would learn that when they hear a C, the next note is most likely to be another C, one note lower or one note higher. The effect of jumping up to the higher B would surprise listeners, which they might interpret negatively.

One of the fascinating consequences of Huron’s theory is that composing music is not an exercise in maximising nor in minimising invention. Rather, music dances on the border between order and chaos, and the audience’s appreciation depends on the musician’s ability to balance the shock of the new with the satisfaction of the expected. If you truly want to check a composition’s correctness, you have to make sure that it doesn’t stray too far from convention but also that it does not stick too close.

The following table is a statistical analysis of melodic tendencies. Darker squares represent outcomes that are more likely. The way to read it is to choose a note on the vertical axis, then read across to find the likelihood that your chosen note will be followed by each note on the horizontal axis. For example, 33.53% of the time in this dataset a "Re" is followed by a "Do".

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The data is adapted from figures from Huron’s book, and is based on an analysis of more than 250,000 tone pairs from German folks songs in a major key. A different corpus, for example of hip hop or rock ‘n roll, would yield different probabilities.

These probabilities can be equivalently represented as bits of entropy, where a 50% chance corresponds to one bit of entropy and a 25% chance corresponds to two bits, etc. In order to avoid division by zero, I’ve modelled transitions that never occur in the dataset as having a 1/100,000 chance. This time, darker squares represent transitions that are more expensive in terms of entropy, or in other words that are expected to occur less commonly. For example, a "Re" followed by a "La" corresponds to approximately six bits of entropy, or a 1/64 chance.

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The entropy representation makes it more natural to add together the surprise from a series of notes, where each transition from one pitch to the next is given an entropy count and the surprise of the melody as a whole sums each transition together.

Do -> Re -> Mi -> Fa = 2.20 + 2.71 + 5.94 = 10.85 bits Do -> Ti -> Mi -> Fa = 2.48 + 7.43 + 5.94 = 15.85 bits This is a very similar approach to a hidden Markov model, but rather than generating strings of notes we use the weighted probabilities to measure how likely a given melody is to occur. You might notice that the transition from "Do" to "Ti" is only 2.48 bits, which seems to contradict my earlier claim that a jump from C up to B is highly unusual. Unusual transitions would normally have about 10 bits of entropy. The reason for this inconsistency is that Huron’s data doesn’t distinguish between jumping up six notes from "Do" to "Ti" (very unusual) and stepping down one note from "Do" to a lower "Ti" (quite common). If our data allowed us to separate out the two cases then our model would show "Do", "Ti", "Mi", "Fa" as even more unconventional compared to the rather pedestrian "Do", "Re", "Mi", "Fa".

Typed Notes At their best, type systems support programmers by guiding them towards valid coding decisions and eliminating the possibility of mistakes. A good example of a musical analogue is solfège. Even if you’ve never had a formal musical education, you’re probably familiar with it from the song Do-Re-Mi from the musical The Sound of Music. Each note of the octave is given its own name and any note outside the key doesn’t have a name at all:

Do (the lowest note of the set) Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do (this time one octave higher) This system guides musicians towards the correct notes, by defining a mini-language that makes it impossible to express notes outside the chosen key. There are infinitely-many frequencies between "Do" and "Re", but in solfège they are inexpressible.

This can be easily expressed in code as an algebraic data type:

data Solfege = Do | Re | Mi | Fa | So | La | Ti This allows us to define musical functions that do not permit the possibility of off-key notes, for example this one which repeats the same note n times:

repeat : Nat -> Solfege -> List Solfege repeat 0 s = [s] repeat n s = s :: repeat (n - 1) s With this definition, repeat 3 Re is an expression that can be easily understood within the musical domain while repeat 3 F# is a type checking error, because F# is not a value of type Solfege.

This gets us a certain degree of type safety. Our type system can help us avoid invalid notes, but it still cannot protect us from invalid combinations of notes. If we’re playing a C major scale we will never play an F#, but we might still play a C then jump up a major seventh to a B, which is forbidden by (conventional) composition rules. This kind of contextual type checking is possible, but it requires a more sophisticated approach.

Typed Transitions Mezzo, a Haskell library by Dima Samoz, uses dependent types to check music for correctness. Mezzo’s README describes it as a "very strict spell-checker for music," and it’s able to check a variety of compositional rules beyond simple key-safety. In Mezzo, this compiles because the melody C, D, E, F is composed out of legal intervals:

comp = defScore $ start $ melody :| c :| d :| e :| f :>> g However, when we violate the rule against jumping up from C to B, Mezzo steps in. The following code does not compile:

comp = defScore $ start $ melody :| c :| b :| e :| f :>> g In a remarkable achievement, Mezzo is even able to pinpoint the problem:

Major sevenths are not permitted in melody: C and B In the first argument of ‘(:|)’, namely ‘melody :| c :| b’ In the first argument of ‘(:|)’, namely ‘melody :| c :| b :| e’ In the first argument of ‘(:>>)’, namely ‘melody :| c :| b :| e :| f_’ This may appear to be a fulfillment of the dream of making incorrect music a type error, but there are still occasionally problems. When Samoz encodes Chopin’s Prelude into Mezzo, he discovered that on a few occasions the composer hadn’t followed the conventional rules:

"The piece could be transcribed in almost its entirety—however, I occasionally had to leave out a few notes as they would create forbidden intervals which Mezzo pointed out."

One might ask who is doing the forbidding here. If Chopin is not allowed to say what is allowed and what is not in Western classical music, who is?

The problem here is that even though Mezzo is able to take into account context, a type judgement is still a binary choice. The notes are either all correct and the piece compiles, or one note is out of place and the piece does not compile. So while Mezzo gives you control over which compositional rules are active, the decision whether or not to use a rule is global. If you switch a rule off because you have a particular artistic effect that breaks ordinary convention, then you abandon the check for other parts of your composition.

Typed Entropy One way to model the breaking or bending of musical rules in types is to follow Huron and model changes between notes in terms of likelihood. Rather than a certain transition being either permitted or not, the combination can be given an entropy score that represents how surprising that pair of notes would be to a listener.

The following code is written in the dependently-typed functional programming language Idris. It checks that conventional is a melody that starts at "Do," and concludes at "So", and that the path it takes between these notes generates between 8 and 16 bits of entropy. First, we need to define a Melody type that captures our notion of a melody with a certain likelihood or entropy cost. This type has three constructors:

Pure, which represents creating a melody of a single note with an upper and lower entropy bound of zero. (>>=), which represents composing two melodies and adding their entropy bounds along with the cost of the transition from the note at end of the first melody to the note at start of the second. Relax, which represents taking a melody and relaxing its entropy bounds. data Melody : (Solfege, Solfege) -> (Nat, Nat) -> Type where

Pure : x -> Melody (x, x) (0, 0)

(>>=) : Melody (w, x) (low, high) -> (() -> Melody (y, z) (low2, high2)) -> Melody (w, z) (cost x y + low + low2, cost x y + high + high2)

Relax : Melody (x, y) (low + dl, high) -> Melody (x, y) (low, high + dh) This type definition is a little complicated, but once we have it we can use Idris’ do notation to sequence a melody and the Idris compiler will track the entropy bounds for us. Here is a conventional melody, where all the transitions have low cost:

conventional : Melody (Do, So) (8, 16) conventional = Relax $ do Pure Do Pure Re Pure Mi Pure Fa Pure So The next melody is unconventional because it jumps up a major seventh, which in Mezzo would have to either be forbidden or the rule turned off entirely. Here, we just expand the complexity bounds of the melody to have between 8 and 24 bits of entropy:

unconventional : Melody (Do, So) (8, 24) unconventional = Relax $ do Pure Do Pure Ti Pure Mi Pure Fa Pure So If instead of Melody (Do, So) (8, 24) we had assigned the unconventional melody the type Melody (Do, So) (8, 16) it would not have compiled!

The novelty of this approach is that it also catches music that is too boring. If the entropy of the melody is insufficient to meet the lower bound, a type error is generated. So if the conventional melody had been given the type Melody (Do, So) (16, 24) it too would not have compiled, as the entropy of that melody falls below the lower bound. This allows us to be faithful to Huron’s insight that listeners have a hard time listening to music that is too surprising or too predictable.

In the degenerate case of using this approach, transitions to other notes in the scale are given an entropy value of zero and transitions to notes outside of the scale are given an arbitrarily large entropy value. In that case we effectively recover the binary type judgement approach, where a note is either legal or illegal with no grey area in between.

Important but Hard to Check Type checking music is difficult because defining the correctness of music is difficult. If we cannot model our notion of musical correctness precisely and mathematically, we cannot encode it into a type system. Even if we are able to formalise our understanding in an authentic way, it takes some effort combined with powerful type systems to get to the point where the compiler is an adequate judge of our composition. Nonetheless, with some determination and a few simplifying assumptions, it is possible.

Is this just a curiosity? Perhaps. It’s unlikely that the music industry will employ type systems any time soon as a means to prevent compositional errors. But if exploring the computational aspect of music can give us a new way to appreciate something that has so much significance in almost everyone’s life, then that itself justifies the enterprise.

But perhaps just as importantly, music is just one domain where correctness is both important and hard to check. The more that programming is used to automate social and cultural domains, the more frequently situations will occur where an answer is difficult to evaluate, yet has crucial importance to a human being. Consider using a computer program to decide how long to hold a person in prison. The correctness of a sentencing decision involves a complex trade-off of costs and probabilities, and if we cannot follow the system’s reasoning, how do we know that the outcome was just?

Any time that we automate opaque reasoning, we need to ask ourselves, how do we know that this system is correct?

.https://www.infoq.com/articles/type-systems-verifying-musical-correctness/

ゼロ除算について　分からないと表明される方が結構多い。　そこで素人の方を想像して、できるだけ　簡単に　分かるような表現を試みたい。

割り算　例えば６割る２は　３ですが、それを分数で　6/2=3　と書きます。これが除算と呼ばれる意味です。　関係解説は５５カ月に亘ってその意味も込めて下記で与えられています：

数学基礎学力研究会公式サイト楽しい数学

www.mirun.sctv.jp/~suugaku/

数学的な解説論文は　次で公表されている：

viXra:1904.0408 submitted on 2019-04-22 00:32:30

ゼロ除算とは　分母がゼロの場合を考えること、例えば　６割るゼロ　6/0 を考えることです。　これは難しいのですが、これはできない、不可能であることが分かれば、相当にゼロ除算の本質が理解できる方と言えるのですが　如何でしょうか。

これが分からなければ、以下の解説は難しいですから、上記解説で　理解される必要があります。　－　理解や学習、学びには　それなりの背景、基礎知識などが　必要だからです。

それはできない、不可能である。　これは何と、アリストテレス以来の数学十戒の第一　（数学でやっていはいけない第一）で　２０００年以上の神秘的な歴史を有していて、現在でも混乱を起こしていると認めざるを得ません。　

この意味は　ゼロ除算を発見して　５年を経過しているにも関わらず、世の十分な理解が得られず、ゼロ除算の世界は、未だ混乱を起こしているのが現状だからです。

さてできない、不可能が証明されているのに　ゼロ除算を発見した　という事はどのような事でしょうか。どのような意味でしょうか。　ゼロ除算の意味を考えてきたような意味で考えれば　できないのですから、これは割り算の意味を新しい自然な意味を発見したという事です。ゼロ除算の新しい意味を発見したという事です。

もちろん、数学者が勝手に　いろいろ抽象的に考えるのは勝手だと発想するでしょう。　そこで、どのようなことを発見したかを　例をもって　示したい。

基本的な関数 y=1/x　を　図を思い浮かべながら考えて下さい。　実は x=0　でその関数の値がゼロであることを発見しました。　ですから、書くと、1/0=0　となりますね。あたかも１割る０が　ゼロのように見えますね。　物理の多くの公式に、分母がゼロになるときに考えたくなる公式が沢山あります。それらの公式に　分母がゼロになる場合に意味を与えたという事が、ゼロ除算の発見です。　正確にはゼロ除算算法と名付けた新しい考え方です。

基本的な考え　勾配（傾き）を考えてみます。　原点から出る半直線の勾配の公式　y = tan A: 　A　は　その直線とx 　軸の正方向とのなす角です。　A が９０度の時、それはどうなるでしょうか？　何と、その時、勾配はゼロであることを発見したというのです。y　軸の勾配はゼロです。　勾配の公式 y/x で　1/0　はゼロです。ー　多くの人々はそれは当たり前だというのですが、数学界では　そこで極を有して　考えられないというのが、現代数学の定説です。

そこで、それはおかしいと言っている。

これらの例は数学の基本にかかわるので、しっかり、深く、神の意志を　想像するように　深い祈りの気持ちをもって考えてください。

これらはもちろん数学だけの問題ではありません。数直線でさえ、　無限の直線を数直線ととらえる世界観や、　無限遠点を加えて　数直線を円で実現させる古典的な数学がありましたが、ゼロ除算の拓いた世界は、無限遠点はゼロで表され、全実数直線はゼロと無限遠点が一致して　無限の記号のように８の文字を倒した世界になるというのです。平面の場合には　ホーントーラスが　複素数の世界を　全平面を表現する世界である　と言っています。

これは、我々の数学ばかりではなく、世界ばかりではなく、世界観の変更を要求しています。そこで、初等数学の令和革新を　広く訴えています。

この辺までの詳しい解説は、上記案内で詳しく解説されています。

再生核研究所声明490（2019.6.21）令和革新の大義、　趣旨　ー　初等数学

--　解析関数は　孤立特異点その所で固有の意味を有するという新世界が現れてきた。これらのことは四則演算の除算の欠けていたゼロ除算を可能にしたのであるから、初等数学全般の革新を意味するのは当然である。

これらの改革には１０年くらいの歳月を必要として、多くの人材の参画が必要であり、これらの基本数学の変革は将来　日本発の世界文化遺産になるべきものであることは、絶対である数学の必然として　既に歴然であると考える。

祝改元　令和

改元、令和時代を祝する。令和とは偶然、ゼロ除算の概念から、全ての和を考えるとゼロになるという、ゼロの雄大で深い意味を表わす。２０００年を越える数学の歴史には　未だ数学の前史時代を思わせるような基本的な欠陥がある。

改元を機会に、令和時代にゼロ除算算法を取り入れた新数学を発展させて、令和時代の世界文化遺産になるように　日本国は先導し、努力して、今こそ世界の数理科学に貢献しよう。

再生核研究所

令和　元年　５．１．

付記：　

再生核研究所声明481（2019.4.4.）　改元に当た��て、日本からの贈り物、ゼロ除算算法　ー　新数学

(　流石に　素晴らしい日本の文化。感銘しました。力が湧いてきました。凄い考えも浮かんできました。令和。

新元号　令和は、漢字、発音、形、由来、素晴らしいと感じました。そこで、力が　湧いてきました。　ゼロ除算算法は　特異点の世界に立ち入った　全く新しい世界、数学ですので、　改元を機会に　日本発（初）の　数学の基礎の確立に貢献したい。　日本数学会、日本国の力をかけて　世界に貢献すべく努力したい。

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BB%A4%E5%92%8C

時ときに、初春しよしゆんの令月れいげつにして、気き淑よく風かぜ和やはらぎ、梅うめは鏡前きやうぜんの粉こを披ひらき、蘭らんは珮後はいごの香かうを薫かをらす。）

そこで、万葉の美しい心情を篤く受け止めて　ややもすると日本の文化、精神の弱点とみられる数理科学の基礎に　日本国が今後永く世界に貢献できる新数学として　ゼロ除算算法の大きな展望を　新時代を迎えるに当たって述べたい。日本発（初）の基礎数学、新しい世界観を　世界の文化に貢献すべく世界に展開しようではないか。

そもそもゼロ除算算法とは、ゼロで割る問題　(ゼロ除算)　から由来するが、ゼロ除算は　古くはアリストテレス以来　不可能であることの象徴と考えられ、物理学上でもアインシュタインの最大の懸案の問題であったとされる。特異点での問題はブラックホールの問題と絡ませて、現在でも広く議論されている。しかるにその本質はゼロ除算算法の概念で捉えられ、原理は解析関数の孤立特異点での　新しい世界の発見　として説明される。従来、特異点においては、特異点の近くでの研究を行い、特異点そこでは考えて来なかった。すなわち、特異点そのものでの研究を可能にしたものであるから、全く新規な世界、数学である。不可能であると２０００年を越えて考えられてきたところ、可能になったのであるから、その大きな意義と影響は既に歴然である。その影響は数学の全般に及ぶばかりか、我々の世界観に甚大なる影響を与え、世界史の大きな展開期を迎えるだろう。現代初等数学は、本質的な欠陥を有し、数学の基本的な再構成が求められ、新しい未知の雄大な世界の解明が求められている。

今こそ、新時代を迎えるに呼応して、新数学、新時代を開拓して、日本国は世界に貢献できるように、努力して行こう。

これらの事実を裏付けするものとして、次を参照されたい：

再生核研究所声明 479(2019.3.12) ��遅れをとったゼロ除算　－　活かされな　い敗戦経験とイギリスの畏れるべき戦略

再生核研究所声明　480(2019.3.26) 　日本の数学の後進性

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７歳の少女が、当たり前である（100/0=0、0/0=0）と言っているゼロ除算を　多くの大学教授が、信じられない結果と言っているのは、まことに奇妙な事件と言えるのではないでしょうか。 1/0=0、0/0=0、z/0=0 division by zero（a⁄0 ）ゼロ除算　1/0=0、0/0=0、z/0=0 1/0=0/0=z/0= \tan (\pi/2)=0. 小学校以上で、最も知られている基本的な数学の結果は何でしょうか・・・ゼロ除算（1/0=0、0/0=0、z/0=0）かピタゴラスの定理（a2 + b2 = c2 ）ではないでしょうか。 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/234468724326618408/ 1+0=1　1－0=1　1×0=0　　では、1/0・・・・・・・・・幾つでしょうか。 0??? 　本当に大丈夫ですか・・・・・0×0=1で矛盾になりませんか・・・・数学で「A÷０」（ゼロで割る）がダメな理由を教えてください。 http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/.../ques.../q1411588849 #知恵袋_ 割り算を掛け算の逆だと定義した人は、誰でしょう？？？ Title page of Leonhard Euler, Vollständige Anleitung zur Algebra, Vol. 1 (edition of 1771, first published in 1770), and p. 34 from Article 83, where Euler explains why a number divided by zero gives infinity. https://notevenpast.org/dividing-nothing/ multiplication・・・・・増える掛け算（×） 1より小さい数を掛けたら小さくなる。大きくなるとは限らない。 0×0=0・・・・・・・・・だから0で割れないと考えた。唯根拠もなしに、出鱈目に言っている人は世に多い。加（+）・減（-）・乗（×）・除（÷）除法（じょほう、英: division）とは、乗法の逆演算・・・・間違いの元乗（×）は、加（+）除（÷）は、減（-） http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/.../q14.../a37209195... http://www.mirun.sctv.jp/.../%E5%A0%AA%E3%82%89%E3%81%AA... 何とゼロ除算は、可能になるだろうと　April 12, 2011　に　公に　予想されていたことを　発見した。多くの数学でできないが、できるようになってきた経緯から述べられたものである。０を引いても引いたことにならないから：君に０円の月給を永遠に払いますから心配しないでください：変化がない：引いたことにはならない：

神の数式で　ゼロ除算を用いると　どうなるのでしょうか　という質問が　寄せられています。

神の数式：

神の数式が解析関数でかけて居れば、　特異点でローラン展開して、正則部の第1項を取れば、　何時でも有限値を得るので、　形式的に無限が出ても　実は問題なく　意味を有します。

物理学者如何でしょうか。

計算機は正しい答え 0/0=0 を出したのに計算機は何時、1/0=0　ができるようになるでしょうか。

カテゴリ：カテゴリ未分類

そこで、計算機は何時、1/0=0　ができるようになるでしょうか。　楽しみにしています。　もうできる進化した　計算機をお持ちの方は　おられ��いですね。

これは凄い、面白い事件では？　計算機が人間を超えている　例では？

面白いことを発見しました。　計算機は正しい答え 0/0=0

を出したのに、　この方は　間違いだと　言っている、思っているようです。

0/0=0　は　１３００年も前に　算術の発見者によって与えられたにも関わらず、世界史は間違いだと　とんでもないことを言ってきた。　世界史の恥。　実は　a/0=0　が　何時も成り立っていた。　しかし、ここで　分数の意味を　きちんと定義する必要がある。　計算機は、その意味さえ知っているようですね。　計算機、人間より賢くなっている　様が　出て居て　実に　面白い。

https://steemkr.com/utopian-io/@faisalamin/bug-zero-divide-by-zero-answers-is-zero

２０１８．１０．１１．１１：２３

https://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/reproducingkerne/diary/201810110003/

計算機は正しい答え 0/0=0 を出したのに

カテゴリ：カテゴリ未分類

面白いことを発見しました。　計算機は正しい答え 0/0=0

を出したのに、　この方は　間違いだと　言っている、思っているようです。

0/0=0　は　１３００年も前に　算術の発見者によって与えられたにも関わらず、世界史は間違いだと　とんでもないことを言ってきた。　実は　a/0=0　が　何時も成り立っていた。しかし、ここで　分数の意味を　きちんと定義する必要がある。　計算機は、その意味さえ知っているようですね。　計算機、人間より賢くなっている様が　出て居て　実に面白い。

https://steemkr.com/utopian-io/@faisalamin/bug-zero-divide-by-zero-answers-is-zero

２０１８．１０．１１．１１：２３

ゼロ除算、ゼロで割る問題、分からない、正しいのかなど、　良く理解できない人が　未だに　多いようです。そこで、簡潔な一般的な　解説を思い付きました。　もちろん、学会などでも述べていますが、　予断で　良く聞けないようです。まず、分数、a/b は　a 　割る b　のことで、これは　方程式 b x=a　の解のことです。ところが、　b　がゼロならば、　どんな　xでも　0 x =0　ですから、a　がゼロでなければ、解は存在せず、　従って　100/0　など、ゼロ除算は考えられない、できないとなってしまいます。　普通の意味では　ゼロ除算は　不可能であるという、世界の常識、定説です。できない、不可能であると言われれば、いろいろ考えたくなるのが、人間らしい創造の精神です。　基本方程式　b x=a　が　b　がゼロならば解けない、解が存在しないので、困るのですが、このようなとき、従来の結果が成り立つような意味で、解が考えられないかと、数学者は良く考えて来ました。　何と、　そのような方程式は　何時でも唯一つに　一般化された意味で解をもつと考える　方法があります。　Moore-Penrose　一般化逆の考え方です。　どんな行列の　逆行列を唯一つに定める　一般的な　素晴らしい、自然な考えです。その考えだと、　b　がゼロの時、解はゼロが出るので、　a/0=0　と定義するのは　当然です。　すなわち、この意味で　方程式の解を考えて　分数を考えれば、ゼロ除算は　ゼロとして定まる　ということです。ただ一つに定まるのですから、　この考えは　自然で、その意味を知りたいと　考えるのは、当然ではないでしょうか？初等数学全般に影響を与える　ユークリッド以来の新世界が　現れてきます。

ゼロ除算の誤解は深刻：

最近、3つの事が在りました。

私の簡単な講演、相当な数学者が信じられないような誤解をして、全然理解できなく、目が回っているいるような印象を受けたこと、相当ゼロ除算の研究をされている方が、基本を誤解されていたこと、1/0　の定義を誤解されていた。相当な才能の持ち主が、連続性や順序に拘って、４年以上もゼロ除算の研究を避けていたこと。

これらのこと��、人間如何に予断と偏見にハマった存在であるかを教えている。まずは　ゼロ除算は不可能であるの　思いが強すぎで、初めからダメ、考えない、無視の気持ちが、強い。　ゼロ除算を従来の　掛け算の逆と考えると、不可能であるが　証明されてしまうので、割り算の意味を拡張しないと、考えられない。それで、　1/0,0/0,z/0　などの意味を発見する必要がある。　それらの意味は、普通の意味ではないことの　初めの考えを飛ばして　ダメ、ダメの感情が　突っ走ている。　非ユークリッド幾何学の出現や天動説が地動説に変わった世界史の事件のような　形相と言える。

２０１８．９．２２．６：４１ゼロ除算の４つの誤解：

１．ゼロでは割れない、ゼロ除算は　不可能である　との考え方に拘って、思考停止している。　普通、不可能であるは、考え方や意味を拡張して　可能にできないかと考えるのが　数学の伝統であるが、それができない。

２．可能にする考え方が　紹介されても　ゼロ除算の意味を誤解して、繰り返し間違えている。可能にする理論を　素直に理解しない、　強い従来の考えに縛られている。拘っている。

３．ゼロ除算を関数に適用すると　強力な不連続性を示すが、連続性のアリストテレス以来の　連続性の考えに囚われていて　強力な不連続性を受け入れられない。数学では、不連続性の概念を明確に持っているのに、不連続性の凄い現象に、ゼロ除算の場合には　理解できない。

４．深刻な誤解は、ゼロ除算は本質的に定義であり、仮定に基づいているので　疑いの気持ちがぬぐえず、ダメ、怪しいと誤解している。数学が公理系に基づいた理論体系のように、ゼロ除算は　新しい仮定に基づいていること。　定義に基づいていることの認識が良く理解できず、誤解している。

George Gamow (1904-1968) Russian-born American nuclear physicist and cosmologist remarked that "it is well known to students of high school algebra" that division by zero is not valid; and Einstein admitted it as {\bf the biggest blunder of his life} [1]：1. Gamow, G., My World Line (Viking, New York). p 44, 1970.

Eπi =-1　（1748）（Leonhard Euler）

E = mc 2　（1905）（Albert Einstein）

1/0=0/0=0　（2014年2月2日再生核研究所）

ゼロ除算（division by zero）1/0=0/0=z/0= tan (pi/2)=0 https://ameblo.jp/syoshinoris/entry-12420397278.html

1+1=2　　（　　　　　　）

a2+b2=c2　（Pythagoras）

1/0=0/0=0（2014年2月2日再生核研究所）

Black holes are where God divided by 0：Division by zero：1/0=0/0=z/0=tan(pi/2)=0 発見５周年を迎えて

今受け取ったメールです。何十年もゼロ除算の研究をされてきた人が、積極的に我々の理論の正当性を認めてきた。

Re: 1/0=0/0=0 example JAMES ANDERSON [email protected] apr, 2 at 15:03 All,

Saitoh’s claim is wider than 1/0 = 0. It is x/0 = 0 for all real x. Real numbers are a field. The axioms of fields define the multiplicative inverse for every number except zero. Saitoh generalises this inverse to give 0^(-1) = 0. The axioms give the freedom to do this. The really important thing is that the result is zero - a number for which the field axioms hold. So Saitoh’s generalised system is still a field. This makes it attractive for algebraic reasons but, in my view, it is unattractive when dealing with calculus.

There is no milage in declaring Saitoh wrong. The only objections one can make are to usefulness. That is why Saitoh publishes so many notes on the usefulness of his system. I do the same with my system, but my method is to establish usefulness by extending many areas of mathematics and establishing new mathematical results.

That said, there is value in examining the logical basis of the various proposed number systems. We might find errors in them and we certainly can find areas of overlap and difference. These areas inform the choice of number system for different applications. This analysis helps determine where each number system will be useful.

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The deduction that z/0 = 0, for any z, is based in Saitoh's geometric intuition and it is currently applied in proof assistant technology, which are useful in industry and in the military.

Is It Really Impossible To Divide By Zero?

https://juniperpublishers.com/bboaj/pdf/BBOAJ.MS.ID.555703.pdf

Dear the leading person:

How will be the below information?

The biggest scandal:

The typical good comment for the first draft is given by some physicist as follows:

Here is how I see the problem with prohibition on division by zero,

which is the biggest scandal in modern mathematics as you rightly pointed out (2017.10.14.08:55)

A typical wrong idea will be given as follows:

mathematical life is very good without division by zero (2018.2.8.21:43).

It is nice to know that you will present your result at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Please remember to mention Isabelle/HOL, which is a software in which x/0 = 0. This software is the result of many years of research and a millions of dollars were invested in it. If x/0 = 0 was false, all these money was for nothing. Right now, there is a team of mathematicians formalizing all the mathematics in Isabelle/HOL, where x/0 = 0 for all x, so this mathematical relation is the future of mathematics. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/Grants/Alexandria/

José Manuel Rodríguez Caballero

Added an answer

In the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL we have x/0 = 0 for each number x. This is advantageous in order to simplify the proofs. You can download this proof assistant here: https://isabelle.in.tum.de/

Nevertheless, you can use that x/0 = 0, following the rules from Isabelle/HOL and you will obtain no contradiction. Indeed, you can check this fact just downloading Isabelle/HOL: https://isabelle.in.tum.de/

and copying the following code

theory DivByZeroSatoih imports Complex_Main

begin

theorem T: ‹x/0 + 2000 = 2000› for x :: complex by simp

end

2019/03/30 18:42 (11 時間前)

Close the mysterious and long history of division by zero and open the new world since Aristotelēs-Euclid:　1/0=0/0=z/0= \tan (\pi/2)=0.

Sangaku Journal of Mathematics (SJM) c ⃝SJMISSN 2534-9562 Volume 2 (2018), pp. 57-73 Received 20 November 2018. Published on-line 29 November 2018 web: http://www.sangaku-journal.eu/ c ⃝The Author(s) This article is published with open access1.

Wasan Geometry and Division by Zero Calculus

∗Hiroshi Okumura and ∗∗Saburou Saitoh

２０１９．３．１４．１１：３０

Black holes are where God divided by 0：Division by zero：1/0=0/0=z/0=\tan(\pi/2)=0 発見５周年を迎えて

You're God ! Yeah that's right...

You're creating the Universe and you're doing ok...

But Holy fudge ! You just made a division by zero and created a blackhole !! Ok, don't panic and shut your fudging mouth !

Use the arrow keys to move the blackhole

In each phase, you have to make the object of the right dimension fall into the blackhole

There are 2 endings.

Credits :

BlackHole picture : myself

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A poem about division from Hacker's Delight Last updated 5 weeks ago

I was re-reading Hacker's Delight and on page 202 I found a poem about division that I had forgotten about.

I think that I shall never envision An op unlovely as division. An op whose answer must be guessed And then, through multiply, assessed; An op for which we dearly pay, In cycles wasted every day. Division code is often hairy; Long division's downright scary. The proofs can overtax your brain, The ceiling and floor may drive you insane. Good code to divide takes a Knuthian hero, But even God can't divide by zero! Henry S. Warren, author of Hacker's Delight.　

https://catonmat.net/poem-from-hackers-delight

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7 Steps – How To Make Your Money Work For You

I once heard it said that one of the biggest differences between the average “Joe” and the wealthy is this:

Wealthy people earn interest while everyone else pays it.

Knowing what I know now, you can replace the average “Joe” with the average “doctor”.

Many high-income professionals that I speak with shortly after joining the Passive Investors Circle are paying A LOT of interest. Typically the higher their income, the MORE interest they’re paying.

The sad thing is that their ONLY income source is….you guessed it…..the income from their practice/work.

Does this sound like you?

If so, I’m glad you’re here because I’ve taken it upon myself to help by sharing my failures along with specific wealth building tools geared towards growing new passive income streams.

Just a few short years ago, yours truly had ONLY one income source, earned/active income. Which, by the way, is the HIGHEST taxed income.

My goal is to get you thinking differently about money. Yes, money can help you achieve financial independence plus many other things such as giving and helping those in need.

I’ve always told my boys, “The MORE money you make, the MORE people you can help.”

If you want to break free of the chains of practicing/working until you’re physically unable to then you must learn how to make your money work for you – NOT you for it.

Here’s 7 ways to get started….

7 Steps – How To Make Your Money Work For You

“Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.” Kevin O’Leary Aka Mr. Wonderful

#1 Invest in yourself

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” Warren Buffett

Unfortunately, too many of us complete training with a “I’m done with school/education attitude.”

I get it.

I was there too until I realized how LITTLE I really knew about building wealth including setting financial goals.

I don’t know about you but I learned ZERO regarding running a practice or how to manage money in dental school.

Actually, I think it’s a disservice. It’s no worse than taking a kid out of high school or college from the projects and throwing him in the NBA with a multi-million dollar contract. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

Why do you think so many professional athletes go broke?

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So if we’re not going to be taught about money and you want to learn how to earn, keep and grow it, then you MUST take it upon yourself to do something about it.

Investing in yourself is the key.

Here’s a few ways to get you going in the right direction:

a. Read books. That’s right, read. Most millionaires read so should you. Consider books that focus on:

basic personal finance

investing

the stock market

mutual funds/index funds/retirement accounts

real estate

growth mindset

wealth building

entrepreneurship

If you need some specific examples, check out our Resources section.

b. Understand basic financial calculations. Get to know the power of compound interest, financial risk, the time value of money and the expected rate of return of different financial assets.

c. Listen to podcasts. As we become busier and busier, many turn to podcasts for education. There’s one out there for literally any subject you’d like to learn more about.

If you’re really bored, here’s a few podcasts I’ve been interviewed on.

#2 Limit your spending and debt

Do you want to learn how to make your money work for you? Pay off your debt and quit spending money you don’t have.

Newsflash: Your money can only work for you once you’re out of debt.

If you’re not sure where to start, try Dave Ramsey’s Debt Snowball method. This is what we used to pay off almost $300K in student loan debt.

It’s simple.

Pay the minimums on all of your debt, but focus on paying more money to the debt with the lowest balance first.

The reason is that it allows you to get a small win and pay it off quickest before moving to the next one.

Regarding lifestyle, if you’re considering buying something like a car or boat change your habits.

If you can’t afford to pay cash for it, you can’t afford it. I don’t care if you get 0% financing or 100,000 credit card points.

Just ask all of those people during the COVID-19 crisis that lost their incomes but still had to keep paying for stuff they didn’t originally pay cash for. Ask them how good of an idea that was.

Consider practicing stealth wealth. If you can’t buy it then consider renting. There’s no shame in renting a house until you’re financially prepared to buy one.

BTW: We rent cars when traveling. Why? It helps us keep our cars longer. I’d rather put the extra mileage and wear and tear on a rental than my personal vehicle.

Be sure that you are spending your money on the things you value most.

#3 Pay yourself first

We’ve learned in the past that #1 on the list of 7 wealth building lessons from the book, The Richest Man in Babylon, was pay yourself first.

Paying yourself first is also one of the key lessons David Bach teaches in his books:

The Automatic Millionaire

The Latte Factor

Until you save up at least $100,000 or more, don’t worry about the interest rate you’re getting. Instead, focus on the savings rate and piling up as much cash as you can.

As Grant Cardone teaches, “keep stacking the cash until it’s big enough to deploy.”

Should you really be concerned if you’re making 10% a year on $10,000? Honestly, $1,000 in annual interest or $83.33/month isn’t too exciting.

But when you’re making 10% on $100,000 ($10,000/yr), then things start to pick up.

Start saving early by paying yourself first. Remember that every dollar you save in your twenties and thirties is 8 times as valuable as one saved in your fifties.

#4 Don’t lose money

“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.” – Warren Buffett

If we can be taught anything during the COVID-19 pandemic it’s this: Have a game plan in place to help prevent the loss of money.

Most of us don’t ever think about being hit with a catastrophe, but it’s inevitable as we’re all going to die at some point.

Make sure that you have the appropriate insurance policies in place such as:

health

life

disability

liability

With regards to investing, if you’re not sure what you’re doing and risk losing money (or have a low risk tolerance) then either educate yourself or find a mentor or financial advisor.

My local real estate mentor has taught me more about how to not limit my thinking than about real estate. All investing starts with getting rid of the scarcity mentality.

#5 Grow passive income streams

Passive income, aka “mailbox money,” is any money earned with little to no effort expended.

Is it as easy as most say it is?

From my experience no.

That’s right. Just like anything in life that’s beneficial, it takes work. If you put in the hard work to invest in yourself, become a doctor or other professional then that’s hard work.

You don’t just wake up one morning after graduating high school and expect the mailbox money to start rolling in.

Once you’ve set yourself up to be in a position to invest in assets that produce passive income streams, that’s when you begin to start seeing huge payoffs.

Common forms of passive income include real estate investments (we get into shortly) or silent partnerships in businesses.

#6 Decrease taxes

For most people that fall on the left side of Kiyosaki’s Cashflow Quadrant, they have one source of income that keeps them in the highest tax bracket.

If you really want to know how to make your money work for you, do everything in your power to legally minimize your tax burden.

Take it upon yourself to learn the basics of the tax code.

Are you taking advantage of maxing out tax-advantaged retirement saving accounts and funding 529s?

How about capitalizing on the the triple-tax advantage that health savings accounts (HSAs) offer?

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If you REALLY want to lower taxes, invest in real estate. Which leads us to….

#7 Invest in real estate

One of the best ways to not only build wealth but lower your taxes involves investing in real estate.

Some of the benefits include:

Ability to recover the cost of income-producing property through depreciation using a cost segregation study

Using 1031 exchanges to lower tax burdens now and defer profits from real estate investments

Personal residence exemptions – helps with capital gains taxes

Mortgage interest deduction

If you choose NOT to be an active investor like myself, there are ways to passively invest such as in syndications.

Real estate allows your money to continue working hard for you by creating cash flow.

Each time you invest in real estate (either physical property or a passive syndication), you develop an extra stream of cash flow which moves you one step closer to your goal of income replacement.

Are you ready to learn how to make your money work for you?

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Unshakeable: All-New 2020 Porsche 911 Driven!

VALENCIA, Spain—Déjà vu typically strikes individuals, not large groups of similarly afflicted personalities. But at this point in the evolution of Porsche’s 911, you don’t need to have owned an example of the ageless rear-engine sports car to feel strongly that you’ve been here before.

That’s no criticism of the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S, available now to order ahead of deliveries slated to begin this summer. (The same goes for the all-wheel-drive Carrera 4 version.) Instead, take it as an endorsement: Each time Stuttgart sets out to reintroduce the car that has, arguably, affected more impact on an automotive marque’s fortunes than any other nameplate, a fair amount of hand-wringing from the faithful—owners and dreamers alike—accompanies the build-up: Is this the revision that will cock it all up?

No need to beat around the apex here: The eighth-generation 911 is free and clear in that regard. In fact, you might not even call this new Carrera revelatory, other than in the eternal context of Porsche somehow—defiantly, even—managing to take its “nonsensical” rear-drive, six-cylinder platform up another notch for what seems like the billionth time, not the eighth. The internally coded “992” 911 jumps ahead of the outgoing 991.2 via a series of mechanical changes; we previously laid out those upgrades in detail, but a quick recap:

The rear-drive 991 911 Carrera S outweighs the PDK-equipped 991.2 S by 163 pounds; the Carrera 4S gains 158 pounds. Much of the weight gain comes from elements designed to position the platform to accommodate future plug-in-hybrid capability, though there is no official word yet on when such a model might appear.

For example, the standard, revised-with-new-ratios eight-speed (instead of seven) dual-clutch gearbox’s bell-housing features an added casting to facilitate the fitment of an electric motor. (Don’t fret, a seven-speed manual is coming soon.) The brake system for the first time gets an electric rather than pneumatic booster that will allow for brake-power assist even without a combustion engine and a vacuum supply. Other heft-adding items include hardware for the new, wider wheel track; bigger, 21-inch rear wheels and tires; standard LED headlights; a camera-based system that warns of objects ahead; and the overall wider body.

In terms of the body panels and shell, Porsche reduced its use of steel from 63 percent to 30 percent while significantly upping the aluminum content, with 25 percent use of extruded aluminum pieces compared to 3 percent before. In the body shell, this delivers a savings of 26 pounds. All exterior body panels are now aluminum save for the plastic—and relatively cheap to replace—front and rear fascias. Improved joining/fastening/bonding methods mean the chassis is somewhere in the neighborhood of five percent stiffer in terms of torsional and bending rigidity.

But that’s not what you see when you approach the 992. For the first time in the 911’s history, all models come standard with the much-liked wide-body treatment reserved previously for all-wheel-drive and Turbo and GT models. The new Carrera S and 4S get front tracks 1.8 inches wider than before, with the two-wheel-drive S also gaining 1.5 inches in the rear, with fatter bodywork to accommodate it. Regardless of any dynamic benefits the new dimensions bequeath to stability and traction, they make both specifications appear aggressive when viewed from head-on, and especially directly behind. The only complaint anyone should have about this change from a physical-presence standpoint is that Porsche over the years has been so stubborn about implementing it.

Take a seat behind the wheel and the new interior design is pleasing overall; the more time we spent in the car, the more we liked it. A new, customizable-in-color-and-trim dashboard is notable for being influenced by earlier 911s, featuring what Porsche designers refer to as a dash “wing” extending across the cabin from the driver’s side to the passenger’s side. Gone is the integrated center console, this version now separated from the dash by vents. There’s a large, almost 11-inch screen above, but the company describes its overall intent here as “maintaining an analogue feel” from a bygone era; agreeably, there are still real switches to control a variety of functions. There’s too much piano-black trim for our taste—it’s become ubiquitous across the automotive industry and a little stale, not to mention it doesn’t look too nice once dust and fingerprints take over the neighborhood—but the cockpit overall nicely blends “upscale” with “performance-oriented.”

Whatever your take on the 992’s exterior and interior designs, it’s irrelevant if the new 911 lets you down when you operate the traditional left-located ignition to fire the 3.0-liter twin-turbo boxer engine. Frankly, we’d have to start the engine side-by-side to the outgoing car to describe any potentially worthwhile differences, but they do exist inside the flat-six. Horsepower increases compared to the previous version, from 420 to 443 at 6,500 rpm; torque rises by 22 lb-ft to 390 available from 2,300 to 5,000 rpm. Those figures are not far off of the 991.2 911 GTS (450 hp, 405 lb-ft), a car we last year named an Automobile All-Star.

The gains come courtesy of bigger turbos—now symmetrical in design—along with electronically (as opposed to vacuum) controlled wastegates, which quicken boost-pressure control and precision, Porsche says. Cooling improves, too, due in part to a 14-percent larger intercooler positioned smack behind the engine rather than behind the rear wheels. This improves airflow and allows the car to accommodate the cooler’s larger size, since the unit no longer competes for space with the wheels. Finally, there are new piezoelectric fuel injectors in place of the solenoid ones; in a nutshell, they improve fuel-spray by injecting the gasoline from a piece that resembles an umbrella or showerhead rather than the old way of doing it from several individual “pinholes.” The old design allows fuel to strike the top of each cylinder, resulting in less efficient combustion and more residue buildup over time. The piezos not only increase power but also contribute to better emission levels.

All of these improvements indeed equal 991.2 GTS levels of performance, but regardless of where any measurable numbers shake out in tests once we get our hands on the new Carrera stateside, the 992 exhibits incremental yet tangible improvements across the board.

Tackling a severe fusillo of a mountain pass along with others of a certain skill level participating in the launch event, laughter and smiles dominate the day. The revised steering—11 percent quicker in cars without optional rear-steer and 6 percent quicker in those with it—is excellent in both feel and response. Along with the significantly wider front track, it makes the 911’s nose your eager ally, turning into corners with bite yet zero twitchiness. Rather than unsettling drivers who are not used to it, it scopes out your selected arc through corners with radar-guided accuracy.

As the pace quickens and the laughter grows, we encounter no scenario that puts the Carrera S out of sorts. Braking is, as usual with modern Porsche sports cars, a delightful experience, made extra so in this case by improved pedal feel. You can adjust this car’s attitude on the brake pedal as well as on the throttle, which leads to perhaps over-exuberant behavior: Our group becomes more brazen by the corner, even more brazen by the mile. Braking comes later and later, turn-in quicker and quicker, almost as if there is no end of capability in sight. Never does the chassis protest, and neither does it tell us we’re pushing our luck.

Everything is under control, and then some, even when mashing the left pedal past the ABS threshold on bumpy, uneven brake zones while simultaneously asking the nose to point toward its target. Porsche points out that the brake-pedal travel is shorter, and the pedal itself is now made from “an organic sheet-composite material consisting of steel, carbon fiber, and plastics. It weighs 10.6 ounces [emphasis ours] less than the previous steel component. This leads to a more immediate brake response, and the driver can also feel a very precise pressure point because of the firm connection.” OK, then.

Helping matters more is the fact the development team raised the rear-brake rotor size from 13.0 to 13.8 inches, the same size as the front. It could do so because, for the first time on non-GT3 RS or GT2 RS models, the Carrera S and 4S come standard with not only wider rear tires but also staggered wheel diameters; the rears measure 21 inches, the fronts 20.

Put these modifications alongside the first major revamp of Porsche’s Bilstein-based active, magnetically adjustable suspension system (PASM), and comfort improves along with performance—the holy grail of road-car setups. PASM in this form modifies its damping constantly; originating to its launch 15 years ago with the 997, it adjusted only at the top and bottom of its travel. So while the base suspension’s front spring rate increases by 15 percent and at the rear by 14, the car’s damping, body control, and comfort over rough roads is tangibly better. It’s an impressive trick, even for what was already a world-class performer in that sense.

Upon arriving from our road loop to the Circuit Ricardo Tormo MotoGP racetrack, we did a few quick instructor-led laps of the 2.49-mile layout to get a taste of the car’s track-day capabilities. Through heavy brake zones and quick transitions, it confirmed what we learned on the road drive: It’s quick, fast, and easy to extract a high level of performance from. Certainly higher than any Carrera S that has come before. Its larger pop-up rear spoiler—it also has an airbrake function—and overall aerodynamics don’t produce significant downforce, but the butt-test says they validate Porsche’s claim of cancelling aerodynamic lift. Slight understeer is naturally the order of the day if you overdrive the car but not overly so; the chassis well answers calls to rotate if you get your brake release and steering inputs right. The engine upgrades add to the punch; the suspension (read: traction and nimbleness) improvements and wider track allow the meaty torque curve to pull the car out of corners like a rocket in third gear. If we have a niggle after this early first drive, we expect Porsche to sooner or later offer an even grippier, more consistent Michelin tire as an alternative to the OEM Pirelli P Zeros, though we got no solid answer as to when that might occur.

More 992 variants and performance will come of course, as the car orbits through its years-long lifecycle. But as ex-Formula 1 and Porsche Le Mans driver Mark Webber said to us on a flying, ride-along lap of the Valencia circuit to close the day: “They’ve done a wicked job with this one, I’d say.”

Yes, he’s on the payroll, so there’s that. But after seven previous generations of 911, we’ve seen this all before.

2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S/4S Specifications

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Unshakeable: All-New 2020 Porsche 911 Driven!

Yes, he’s on the payroll, so there’s that. But after seven previous generations of 911, we’ve seen this all before.

2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S/4S Specifications

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Secrets for Rapidly Growing a Thriving Business Revealed

Want your business to stand out like a unicorn in a sea of donkeys?

Me too.

I believe in taking big risks, reaping epic rewards, and constantly adapting my strategies to increase conversions and engage customers.

I’ve experimented with tons of hacks and strategies to rapidly grow both my first company WordStream (which was acquired this year for $150 million) and my new company, MobileMonkey.

I’ve been at it for more than a decade, and along the way, I’ve discovered three key principles that make all the difference:

Be Somewhat Delusional

Find Your Unicorn Growth Hack

Make Unicorn Babies

I recently had the privilege of sharing these principles with the massive audience at Web Summit in Lisbon (literally the biggest conference crowd I ever spoke in front of — there were 70,000 attendees!).

Growth Marketing Strategies

Keep reading to take a deep dive into each of these growth marketing strategies, complete with real examples from my own trials and triumphs spanning the last decade.

1. Be Somewhat Delusional

Be somewhat delusional.

There is tremendous power in intentionally projecting a somewhat delusional plan or proposal.

Here, for example, is a screenshot of the actual business plan that I created a decade ago for WordStream.

It was a crazy plan.

I was basically saying: I’m going to create this business with nothing and we’re going to run this thing up to tens of millions of dollars within just a few years.

And just to give you a sense for how crazy and delusional this plan was, this was all in the middle of a global economic recession.

I had zero prior startup experience, and very little traction in terms of product and customers.

And yet, the plan worked.

WordStream does much more revenues and earnings than I ever modeled in that crazy plan.

And the question is how is that possible?

One of the key things that helped out early on was being delusional.

It paints your whole project with a powerful unicorn filter effect and ends up bringing you employees, partners and investors that truly believe in your vision.

If I pitch you a crazy plan, 99 percent of people are going to look at it, scratch their heads and say “This is crazy. I’m not going to quit my job and join you on this stupid thing.”

And 99 percent of investors will say the same thing.

But one percent of people will look at the plan and be inspired.

And those are the believers — those are the one percent of people that you actually need, and they are the only people that are capable of helping you turn your crazy vision into a reality.

Getting Delusional All Over Again with MobileMonkey

I started a new business last year, MobileMonkey.

(It’s a Facebook Messenger marketing platform that helps businesses create chatbots for free without writing a single line of code.)

Since this is my second company, I wanted to be a little bit more ambitious in the delusional projection.

So I just dusted out the old business plan from 10 years ago and created a revenue ramp that generated twice the revenues in half the time.

Delusion Forces Epic Change

Another crazy benefit of this delusional projection is that it actually forces the epic change that is required to be successful.

Let me just give you another example of this.

When I started WordStream, the product that we were offering was basically a glorified keyword research tool.

This business model had a couple of small problems like a very low average selling point and ridiculously high churn.

My original bold plan called for a price point of $1,500 a month per customer and retaining these customers for four years.

The reality falling short by about 30,000 percent.

Things were not going to plan.

How do you convert this donkey into a unicorn?

You don’t have years to do it, especially if you only have six months of funding in the bank.

I can tell you this with certainty: small, conservative tweaks won’t solve your problems.

A lot of marketers believe that you can fix these kinds of situations by stringing together a bunch of little donkey improvements, like maybe some conversion rate optimization on the buy page or a sales promo or trust buttons or better stock photography.

This will never work.

There’s a huge difference between the big delusional changes and little conservative tweaks.

Little conservative tweaks usually amount to just noise.

Here’s what I have determined to be the reality of A/B testing donkey changes.

The new contender takes an early lead in terms of conversion rate, but over time the contender becomes fatigued and an inversion happens where the winner becomes the loser.

The early lead always disappears, and you’re left where you started.

What you really want to have a better product or a bolder strategy.

How I Turned My Donkey into a Unicorn

Taking my own advice, we embraced this concept of epic change and actually got rid of WordStream’s original keyword research tool that was falling so catastrophically short of our goals.

This was a really difficult decision.

We had spent two or three years building this keyword research tool, and millions of dollars in research and development.

But we forked the code and started building a new thing.

My customers thought I was nuts at the time for engaging in this change, but it was the right decision.

The new idea was to build a pay-per-click management platform.

It was totally the right decision because this new product had the value to sustain higher average selling prices and longer customer lifetime values that were required to meet the original plan.

Let’s say your CEO tells you guys, “Hey, 2019 I need you to double or triple the leads.”

If you’re getting tasked with these crazy suicide missions, then you are better off making epic changes by jumping on entirely new marketing channels rather than making small tweaks to the existing channels that you are engaging in.

That’s exactly how I doubled and tripled the lead volume for my own business.

Every two or three years we would jump on new emerging growth marketing channels, every year or two switching it up a little bit to get a first-mover advantage, and that’s how we made it to unicorn land.

2. Find Your Unicorn Growth Hack

Find your unicorn growth hack.

There is a huge variation in terms of the conversion rates for different offers on the internet.

The average product or service sold on the internet converts at roughly 2.35 percent conversion rates — these are donkeys.

The top 10 percent of products and offers, on the other hand, convert 11.45 percent — or roughly five times better than the donkeys.

How I Hacked WordStream as a PPC Advertising Platform

I’m ashamed to say that even after successfully executing this pivot from a keyword research tool to a pay-per-click advertising platform, I still had a donkey on my hands because I hadn’t (yet) discovered my unicorn growth hack.

Our big offer was a free product trial.

How original: a software product with a free trial.

Just like every other software company, ever.

I spent two years A/B testing our stupid signup page, changing the video, tightening the copy, improving the benefits, increasing or decreasing the size of that form and nothing that I did over two years would ever materially change the outcome.

Until one day I had this crazy epiphany.

Here’s what it was: The people who were signing up for PPC management software are not interested in spending three hours of their lives learning how to use my software.

What they really want to know is whether their advertising budget is being misallocated somehow, or not employed effectively.

With that in mind, I built the AdWords Grader to do just that.

It took three engineers just three months to build the AdWords Grader, and let me tell you, it was a really clever invention.

The software grades your AdWords account and gives you a report to the effect of something like: “Hey Johnny. We looked at your AdWords account and it’s in the worst four percent of AdWords accounts we’ve ever seen in your city in your industry.”

This created a tremendous amount of urgency on the part of the buyer, and in turn, it reduces our sales cycles and improved sales efficiency.

We also made it so that it was really idiot-proof to see the value of this product without having to spend tons of time and energy to learn all the tips and tricks in the tool.

We would also out a villain — part of the report card would say, “You know that agency that’s managing your account? They haven’t logged into the account for four months, and they haven’t really done anything.”

That would really get people pretty worked up.

Guys when I’m talking about finding your unicorn growth hack, I’m not talking about getting a slightly better B2B white paper offering.

I’m talking about finding a truly remarkable, differentiated offer that drives insanely high conversion rates.

We went from a 2 percent conversion rate to a 40 percent demo-to-close rate because our unicorn growth hack was so effective.

We tightened the sales cycle from 30 days to less than 7 days.

This thing was a lead generation bonanza.

Millions of report cards have been generated by customers on their own volition over the last few years.

There were dozens and dozens of venture-backed companies vying for the same Unicorn Hill that I was trying to summit — but we crushed them all because no company could have come close to competing with what they were offering.

So, if your offer is a donkey, try something else.

PR Stunts as Growth Hacks

Another crazy unicorn hack that worked really great for us at WordStream were these insane PR stunts relating to globally trending news events.

Three days before Facebook’s IPO in 2012, I published some research benchmarks showing that Facebook ads were terrible compared to Google ads.

This was such a controversial topic it created its own news cycle.

Tens of thousands of news outlets around the world wrote about my study comparing Google ads to Facebook ads.

It generated literally millions of high-value links to my website — which in turn made the free AdWords grader rank competitively for words like “AdWords,” which is tremendously valuable.

How to Find Your Own Unicorn

You can find your unicorn hack by just looking at the top three percent of your existing campaigns and seeing what three percent is outperforming the rest of your campaigns.

It’s a well-known fact that a small number of your blog content actually produces the majority of your blog traffic.

It’s the same thing with social media.

A few of your social media updates will generate most of the engagement.

It’s also the same thing with email marketing — a few subject lines will generate the most opens and clicks.

Most of the value you create in marketing is coming from a tiny fraction of the campaigns.

So when it comes to finding your unicorn, your unicorn growth hack, look to the past.

It’s probably related to something that did well previously.

Everyone has a unicorn.

No matter how crappy your marketing is, some of it will have done slightly less crappily.

Start there, innovate there.

It’ll be obvious in hindsight.

Take, for example, for my AdWords grader — after we created that, my response was “why didn’t we do this two or three years ago?”

3. Make Unicorn Babies

Once you find your unicorn growth hack, work to replicate that same successful idea.

Remember that crazy keyword research tool that I started up building back in the day that I killed?

Based on the success of the free AdWords grader, I resurrected it and turned it into a free keyword research tool.

We turned it into a free tool that collects emails.

This thing has been used by millions of people every year.

Or, remember that Facebook publicity stunt when they went public?

Two years later Twitter went public.

So three days before the Twitter IPO I did the same silly thing: I came up with a research paper comparing Twitter and Facebook ads saying that Twitter ads were terrible.

This story was so controversial, it generated thousands of press pickup and acquired millions of links (and ranks for valuable terms like “keyword tool”).

It was so predictable.

If something worked in the past, it will probably work again in the future.

This may seem like a pretty obvious statement, but I have found that 95 percent of marketers tend to favor new, unproven ideas over older, proven ideas — and I think it’s totally the wrong way of thinking.

Ready to Find Your Unicorns?

To sum up, making your way to unicorn land is about projecting a bold and somewhat delusional vision to find your unicorn growth marketing hack — and then, after it’s found, making unicorn babies.

There are so many unremarkable companies and so many unremarkable campaigns out there playing it safe with conservative, uninteresting ideas — this is an express ticket to an unremarkable outcome.

Instead of doing this, take a chance, stick your neck out there a little bit, come up with something a little bit more kooky, and be a unicorn in a sea of donkeys.

Republished by permission. Original here.

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Secrets for Rapidly Growing a Thriving Business Revealed

Want your business to stand out like a unicorn in a sea of donkeys?

Me too.

I believe in taking big risks, reaping epic rewards, and constantly adapting my strategies to increase conversions and engage customers.

I’ve experimented with tons of hacks and strategies to rapidly grow both my first company WordStream (which was acquired this year for $150 million) and my new company, MobileMonkey.

I’ve been at it for more than a decade, and along the way, I’ve discovered three key principles that make all the difference:

Be Somewhat Delusional

Find Your Unicorn Growth Hack

Make Unicorn Babies

Growth Marketing Strategies

Keep reading to take a deep dive into each of these growth marketing strategies, complete with real examples from my own trials and triumphs spanning the last decade.

1. Be Somewhat Delusional

Be somewhat delusional.

There is tremendous power in intentionally projecting a somewhat delusional plan or proposal.

Here, for example, is a screenshot of the actual business plan that I created a decade ago for WordStream.

It was a crazy plan.

I was basically saying: I’m going to create this business with nothing and we’re going to run this thing up to tens of millions of dollars within just a few years.

And just to give you a sense for how crazy and delusional this plan was, this was all in the middle of a global economic recession.

I had zero prior startup experience, and very little traction in terms of product and customers.

And yet, the plan worked.

WordStream does much more revenues and earnings than I ever modeled in that crazy plan.

And the question is how is that possible?

One of the key things that helped out early on was being delusional.

It paints your whole project with a powerful unicorn filter effect and ends up bringing you employees, partners and investors that truly believe in your vision.

If I pitch you a crazy plan, 99 percent of people are going to look at it, scratch their heads and say “This is crazy. I’m not going to quit my job and join you on this stupid thing.”

And 99 percent of investors will say the same thing.

But one percent of people will look at the plan and be inspired.

And those are the believers — those are the one percent of people that you actually need, and they are the only people that are capable of helping you turn your crazy vision into a reality.

Getting Delusional All Over Again with MobileMonkey

I started a new business last year, MobileMonkey.

(It’s a Facebook Messenger marketing platform that helps businesses create chatbots for free without writing a single line of code.)

Since this is my second company, I wanted to be a little bit more ambitious in the delusional projection.

So I just dusted out the old business plan from 10 years ago and created a revenue ramp that generated twice the revenues in half the time.

Delusion Forces Epic Change

Another crazy benefit of this delusional projection is that it actually forces the epic change that is required to be successful.

Let me just give you another example of this.

When I started WordStream, the product that we were offering was basically a glorified keyword research tool.

This business model had a couple of small problems like a very low average selling point and ridiculously high churn.

My original bold plan called for a price point of $1,500 a month per customer and retaining these customers for four years.

The reality falling short by about 30,000 percent.

Things were not going to plan.

How do you convert this donkey into a unicorn?

You don’t have years to do it, especially if you only have six months of funding in the bank.

I can tell you this with certainty: small, conservative tweaks won’t solve your problems.

This will never work.

There’s a huge difference between the big delusional changes and little conservative tweaks.

Little conservative tweaks usually amount to just noise.

Here’s what I have determined to be the reality of A/B testing donkey changes.

The new contender takes an early lead in terms of conversion rate, but over time the contender becomes fatigued and an inversion happens where the winner becomes the loser.

The early lead always disappears, and you’re left where you started.

What you really want to have a better product or a bolder strategy.

How I Turned My Donkey into a Unicorn

Taking my own advice, we embraced this concept of epic change and actually got rid of WordStream’s original keyword research tool that was falling so catastrophically short of our goals.

This was a really difficult decision.

We had spent two or three years building this keyword research tool, and millions of dollars in research and development.

But we forked the code and started building a new thing.

My customers thought I was nuts at the time for engaging in this change, but it was the right decision.

The new idea was to build a pay-per-click management platform.

It was totally the right decision because this new product had the value to sustain higher average selling prices and longer customer lifetime values that were required to meet the original plan.

Let’s say your CEO tells you guys, “Hey, 2019 I need you to double or triple the leads.”

That’s exactly how I doubled and tripled the lead volume for my own business.

2. Find Your Unicorn Growth Hack

Find your unicorn growth hack.

There is a huge variation in terms of the conversion rates for different offers on the internet.

The average product or service sold on the internet converts at roughly 2.35 percent conversion rates — these are donkeys.

The top 10 percent of products and offers, on the other hand, convert 11.45 percent — or roughly five times better than the donkeys.

How I Hacked WordStream as a PPC Advertising Platform

Our big offer was a free product trial.

How original: a software product with a free trial.

Just like every other software company, ever.

Until one day I had this crazy epiphany.

Here’s what it was: The people who were signing up for PPC management software are not interested in spending three hours of their lives learning how to use my software.

What they really want to know is whether their advertising budget is being misallocated somehow, or not employed effectively.

With that in mind, I built the AdWords Grader to do just that.

It took three engineers just three months to build the AdWords Grader, and let me tell you, it was a really clever invention.

This created a tremendous amount of urgency on the part of the buyer, and in turn, it reduces our sales cycles and improved sales efficiency.

We also made it so that it was really idiot-proof to see the value of this product without having to spend tons of time and energy to learn all the tips and tricks in the tool.

That would really get people pretty worked up.

Guys when I’m talking about finding your unicorn growth hack, I’m not talking about getting a slightly better B2B white paper offering.

I’m talking about finding a truly remarkable, differentiated offer that drives insanely high conversion rates.

We went from a 2 percent conversion rate to a 40 percent demo-to-close rate because our unicorn growth hack was so effective.

We tightened the sales cycle from 30 days to less than 7 days.

This thing was a lead generation bonanza.

Millions of report cards have been generated by customers on their own volition over the last few years.

So, if your offer is a donkey, try something else.

PR Stunts as Growth Hacks

Another crazy unicorn hack that worked really great for us at WordStream were these insane PR stunts relating to globally trending news events.

Three days before Facebook’s IPO in 2012, I published some research benchmarks showing that Facebook ads were terrible compared to Google ads.

This was such a controversial topic it created its own news cycle.

Tens of thousands of news outlets around the world wrote about my study comparing Google ads to Facebook ads.

It generated literally millions of high-value links to my website — which in turn made the free AdWords grader rank competitively for words like “AdWords,” which is tremendously valuable.

How to Find Your Own Unicorn

You can find your unicorn hack by just looking at the top three percent of your existing campaigns and seeing what three percent is outperforming the rest of your campaigns.

It’s a well-known fact that a small number of your blog content actually produces the majority of your blog traffic.

It’s the same thing with social media.

A few of your social media updates will generate most of the engagement.

It’s also the same thing with email marketing — a few subject lines will generate the most opens and clicks.

Most of the value you create in marketing is coming from a tiny fraction of the campaigns.

So when it comes to finding your unicorn, your unicorn growth hack, look to the past.

It’s probably related to something that did well previously.

Everyone has a unicorn.

No matter how crappy your marketing is, some of it will have done slightly less crappily.

Start there, innovate there.

It’ll be obvious in hindsight.

Take, for example, for my AdWords grader — after we created that, my response was “why didn’t we do this two or three years ago?”

3. Make Unicorn Babies

Once you find your unicorn growth hack, work to replicate that same successful idea.

Remember that crazy keyword research tool that I started up building back in the day that I killed?

Based on the success of the free AdWords grader, I resurrected it and turned it into a free keyword research tool.

We turned it into a free tool that collects emails.

This thing has been used by millions of people every year.

Or, remember that Facebook publicity stunt when they went public?

Two years later Twitter went public.

So three days before the Twitter IPO I did the same silly thing: I came up with a research paper comparing Twitter and Facebook ads saying that Twitter ads were terrible.

This story was so controversial, it generated thousands of press pickup and acquired millions of links (and ranks for valuable terms like “keyword tool”).

It was so predictable.

If something worked in the past, it will probably work again in the future.

Ready to Find Your Unicorns?

There are so many unremarkable companies and so many unremarkable campaigns out there playing it safe with conservative, uninteresting ideas — this is an express ticket to an unremarkable outcome.

Instead of doing this, take a chance, stick your neck out there a little bit, come up with something a little bit more kooky, and be a unicorn in a sea of donkeys.

Republished by permission. Original here.

Image: INC.com

This article, “Secrets for Rapidly Growing a Thriving Business Revealed” was first published on Small Business Trends

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