Best Joe Saunders Podcasts (2024)

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We’re back! RunSafe CEO Joe Saunders on secure-by-design in IoT devices 30:28

15h ago30:28

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Secure-by-design transforms secure code from an afterthought to an inherent feature, weaving a resilient shield directly into the fabric of every application and device from the ground up. But while everyone’s mind gravitates toward the ocean of software we all use, how does secure-by-design translate to the Internet of Things? In this episode, Cyb…

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MVP111: What You Need to Know Before Teaching Women's Self-Defence with Mary Stevens 1:11:50

19d ago1:11:50

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So you want to help women feel safer by teaching them some sweet self-defence moves or personal safety strategies? Chances are, if you're not part of the group you're looking to train, you might have overlooked a few things. In this cracking interview, I sit down with Mary Stevens of 500 Rising and FairFight to discuss what ALL instructors MUST kno…

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Browntop greens, Poa annua suppression, pH, & OM testing with Grant Saunders 1:38:23

1h ago1:38:23

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Grant Saunders is the course superintendent at Hamilton Golf Club in New Zealand. He has successfully overseen a green species conversion from Poa annua to browntop bentgrass (Agrostis capillaris). We discussed that, and the role of OM testing, and sand topdressing, and soil pH, and greenkeeping in New Zealand. Some links include: https://www.asian…

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David Hepworth - 'Hope I Get Old Before I Die' 48:22

2h ago48:22

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I'm welcoming David Hepworth back to the pod today, this time to talk about his book 'Hope I Get Old Before I Die - Why Rock Stars Never Retire'. David's book begins at Live Aid, where Paul McCartney sings into a defective mic, and ends today where he and Ringo are more celebrated than ever. The book looks at how we got here- via knighthoods and No…

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How organizations are handing AI security 42:59

3h ago42:59

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AI is transforming how companies secure their IT infrastructure, especially in industries like airlines, health care, retail, and telecommunications, which rely on applications and APIs for seamless digital experiences. However, there's a risk of companies improperly deploying AI tools or using insecure vendors, potentially leading to widespread da…

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Using #OM246 test results to get net organic material accumulation rate 36:22

5d ago36:22

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When you know the rate at which organic material is accumulating in the rootzone, you can adjust sand topdressing rates with more precision. You can also start to check how any changes in maintenance can have an effect on the accumulation rate. The blog post discussed is this one: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/inexorable-rise-soil-organic-mat…

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Tournaments and the "grammar" with T-Jay Creamer 40:56

11d ago40:56

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T-Jay Creamer is the golf course superintendent at Olympic View Golf Club in western Canada. He joined me to discuss tournament golf maintenance and the grammar of greenkeeping. We discussed this ATC blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/two-weeks-in-august/ T-Jay's Substack newsletter is https://ovgrounds.substack.com/ He explained the gr…

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My visit to Delaware with Joe Gulotti (The Talking Greenkeeper) 50:54

14d ago50:54

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A month ago Joe Gulotti and I walked the fairways and greens of the Montchanin Course at Dupont Country Club. I wrote a blog post about that, and we discussed my visit in this episode. Blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/a-visit-to-the-talking-greenkeeper/ The Talking Greenkeeper podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-talking…

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Patrick Humphries - 'With The Beatles' 39:07

25d ago39:07

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My guest today is renowned music journalist and author Patrick Humphries who joins me to discuss his book 'With The Beatles'. Patrick interviewed Paul, George and Ringo at various points during their solo careers, and uses this a basis to tell The Beatles story from beginning to end - with particular focus on how the Beatles legacy and impact grew …

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Ted Schlein on the cybersecurity industry and the latest twist in the Trump-Iran hacking saga 46:18

22d ago46:18

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If you want to understand cybersecurity policy, it’s not enough to focus on Washington D.C. — you have to also grok the American tech industry. Few people have bridged that divide more effectively than Ted Schlein, the legendary venture capitalist who is currently at Ballistic Ventures. On this episode of Safe Mode, he sits down with host Elias Gro…

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MVP110: Trump Assassination Attempt with Jack Leskovar - Secret Service Veteran 58:27

28d ago58:27

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We're back! In Episode 110 of the Managing Violence Podcast, I interview Jack Leskovar, a 30+ year veteran of the United States Secret Service about the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump. Jack shares his informed insights into what went wrong and what lessons the USSS must take to prevent it from happening again. Want to disc…

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Hack-and-leak op targets Trump; a technical deep dive with John Hammond on the CrowdStrike outage 32:20

30d ago32:20

32:20

With Election Day rapidly approaching in the United States, the Trump campaign claims that the first major hack-and-leak operation has arrived. After a handful of U.S. media outlets received leaked material on vice presidential candidate JD Vance, the Trump campaign said it had been the victim of an Iranian hacking operation. On this episode of Saf…

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A turf paradox: better turf in soils with lower nutrient content 42:44

1M ago42:44

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You can sometimes, perhaps more often than you would think, find soil under good turf to have lower nutrient content than does soil under poor quality turf. In this episode, I explain why that is, what the implications of this phenomenon are, and what you can do about it. This blog post has all the details on the turf (and soil) paradox: https://ww…

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A deep dive with Tim Starks on the Biden administration's cybersecurity initiatives 44:35

1M ago44:35

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An epidemic of ransomware, cyberattacks on gas pipelines, Chinese infiltration of American critical infrastructure — these are just some of the cybersecurity issues the Biden administration has tackled during the president’s first term in office. With President Joe Biden’s time in office winding down, it’s worth taking stock: Has his administration…

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Sara Hooker on compute thresholds for AI; CrowdStrike breaks the internet 45:57

2M ago45:57

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AI governance regimes the world over have seized on compute thresholds as a mechanism for implementing various controls on artificial intelligence systems. The basic idea is that if an AI model relies on a sufficiently large amount of computing power, then various controls kick in. As AI models get larger, the thinking goes, they also get riskier, …

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Merle Frimark - My Day At Abbey Road 40:02

2M ago40:02

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For this very special episode, my guest is former Apple employee Merle Frimark who joins me to discuss her time as an Apple employee between 1967 and 1970. On July 23rd 1969, Merle attended the recording session for 'Come Together', where she watched The Beatles at work and captured some amazing candid pictures. The Guardian piece referenced in thi…

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Neil Fox - 'Music Films' 41:07

2M ago41:07

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My guest for this episode is Neil Fox, a Professor of Film Practice and Pedagogy at Falmouth University, and co-host of the acclaimed film podcast, The Cinematologists. He's here to discuss his book, 'Music Films'. We focus our conversation, of course, on The Beatles movies - what makes Hard Day's Night great and Help less great? What influence did…

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Dewey Murdick on enabling principles for AI governance; a landmark breach at AT&T 39:43

2M ago39:43

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Around the world policymakers seem to be grappling with the same question: How best to govern artificial intelligence? The Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a Washington-based think tank, has emerged as a key and influential player in that conversation. And on this episode of Safe Mode, its executive director, Dewey Murdick, sits down wi…

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Disease, nutrition, and control problems, with Dr. John Dempsey 1:04:17

2M ago1:04:17

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Independent turfgrass researcher John Dempsey, Ph.D., joined me to discuss evaluating treatment effects and the importance of having a good control. We talked about diseases, nutrition, and this blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/problem-with-the-controls/ Find John on X at https://x.com/J_J_Dempsey Read more about all kinds of turfgras…

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OM measurements, models, and data analysis with Dr. Henry Qu 51:44

2M ago51:44

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Dr. Henry Qu, partner and data scientist at Oxbridge Economics, joined me to talk about data analysis, and statistics, and how to try to learn things in turfgrass science. We discussed NTEP, posterior distributions, disease resistance, ANOVA, total organic material expectations by species, the process of learning, and much more. ATC blog post about…

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Doing more work to produce better turf with Jon Wall 1:06:14

2M ago1:06:14

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Jon Wall, golf course superintendent at Shanqin Bay, joined me to discuss doing more work to make grass better, rather than doing less. And also about what I'd want everyone to do, which is doing the right amount of work for your property. We talked about many things, starting off with: Better turf conditions with more intensive maintenance blog po…

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Allan Liska on why it’s time to ban ransomware payments; Russian info ops 38:02

2M ago38:02

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We are living through an epidemic of ransomware. Last year alone, the amount paid to ransomware operators exceeded $1 billion, and the entities getting hit and seeing their operations disrupted by ransomware included hospitals, schools and libraries. Ransomware is both a public-health and national-security crisis, yet efforts to address the problem…

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Heat kills: a 12 point list and thermal death point temperatures for cool-season grass 26:17

2M ago26:17

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It's summer in the northern hemisphere, and the two items discussed in this episode provide guidance on managing turf when it has to survive through heat stress. From the ATC website, a 12 point list: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/catching-up-on-reading-heat-stress/ From PACE Turf, the Heat Kills document: https://www.paceturf.org/member/Docu…

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Selena Larson on e-crime matching nation state hackers; Disinfo before the Supreme Court 44:14

3M ago44:14

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When studying cyberoperations, it’s easy to become enamored with state-backed hackers. Russian and Chinese operations have done much to shape our understanding of how power is exercised online, but it’s not clear that the intense attention dedicated to such operations is well-placed. Amid the current epidemic of ransomware, criminal hacking groups …

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Explaining MLSN and assessing ball roll on putting greens, with Carl Schimenti 1:29:37

3M ago1:29:37

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Carl Schimenti from Cornell University joined me to discuss intro to #MLSN explanations vs. using MLSN the way it is designed to be used. We also talked a lot about ball roll assessment using the #BobbleTest, and the USGA GS3 ball, and other methods. MLSN project page: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/mlsn/ Daniel Palin with the MLSN test on The Talk…

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Checking phosphorus gradients on putting greens with an upper and lower rootzone sample 36:29

3M ago36:29

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Soil P, pH, and salinity are a few things that likely vary by depth in your rootzone. I've started recommending that 20% of putting greens tested be done with a sample divided at the 5 cm depth. Send the lab a 0-5 cm and 5-10 cm depth sample from that green, rather than the standard 0-10 cm depth sample. I discussed this blog post: https://www.asia…

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Spring green-up of cool and warm-season grasses with Maggie Reiter 1:07:06

3M ago1:07:06

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Maggie Reiter joined me to discuss how the start (and end) of the turfgrass maintenance season might be predicted. When is spring green-up? When does the season end? We discussed, and showed charts of growth potential and temperature, from this post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/maps-of-average-temperatures-in-the-usa/ The Sunday Lawn Care p…

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Protecting teens against sextortion; threats to election workers 35:16

3M ago35:16

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The proliferation of artificial intelligence is exposing teens to a new online threat: AI-generated sexual imagery. Heather Barnhart is a fellow at the SANS Institute and a digital forensic expert, and on this episode of Safe Mode she sits down with host Elias Groll to discuss how teenagers and their families can protect themselves against the scou…

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Greg Armstrong & Andy Neill - 'When We Was Fab' 1:08:00

3M ago1:08:00

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My guests for this episode are Greg Armstrong and Andy Neill who join me to discuss their book 'When We Was Fab - Inside The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964'. Greg and Andy tell the story of this tour in great detail - from it's conception to The Beatles frenzied arrival and look at the legacy that they left behind.…

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How many hours until the grass wilts? Predicting soil water content with Dr. Bill Kreuser 59:48

3M ago59:48

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Bill Kreuser, Ph.D., president of GreenKeeper, joined me to discuss the new water resource planning tools in GreenKeeper, along with disease risk, PGRs, soil surfactants, and weather data. See more about these tools at the GreenKeeper app: https://www.greenkeeperapp.com/ Irrigation posts at the ATC website: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/irriga…

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Keeping Ukraine’s grid up and running amid war; Snowflake customers under attack 30:42

3M ago30:42

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Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian power grid has come under sustained attack by Russian forces, and keeping it up and running has been a significant challenge. One of the major issues Ukrainian energy officials have had to confront is the way in which Russian electronic warfare systems have disrupted GPS, which is a k…

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Core sweepers make aeration easier, ball roll after 270 rounds, and estimating N in clippings 32:56

3M ago32:56

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I discuss small plot university research with fixed treatments vs. golf course and sports turf maintenance with treatments that vary, and consider which results we should trust more. I also discuss the bobble test after 270 rounds, mention that core sweepers are a nice machine, and explain how I estimate N harvested in creeping bentgrass clippings.…

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What you should know about soil test P, spring growth, and #TurfSpeedo calculations 49:01

3M ago49:01

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I describe what we can learn from looking at five years of Mehlich 3 soil test phosphorus results from golf course putting greens, how to calculate the turfgrass speedo in a standard way, rather than in a chaotic way, and recommend an episode of the Cornell Turfgrass Show that asks if soil testing is the answer to all your problems. These are the l…

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Josh Harguess on AI red-teaming; an Israeli info op targets the U.S. 36:46

4M ago36:46

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To address AI risks, policymakers and technologists around the world have embraced the concept of AI red-teaming — the adversarial testing of AI models. But AI red-teaming is such a new concept that few people know how to conduct such tests. The discipline of AI red-teaming very much remains under development, but as AI systems are rolled out far a…

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Joe Sullivan on his legal battle with the feds; the latest on Russian influence operations 47:17

4M ago47:17

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Putting surface management, the turf speedo (growth ratio), & surprising results with T-Jay Creamer 1:05:50

4M ago1:05:50

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T-Jay Creamer joined me to discuss bentgrass & Poa annua (bent-Poa) management with a surprisingly low annual N rate, almost no use of PGRs, and no aeration (other than occasional needle tining) for more than two years. The results surprise me, and they may surprise you too. We discussed this blog post about the turf speedo: https://www.asianturfgr…

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Tracy Daugherty - We Shook Up the World 43:00

4M ago43:00

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My guest today is Tracy Daugherty who joins me to discuss his book 'We Shook Up Th World - The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammad Ali and George Harrison'. Ali met George in a Florida boxing ring in February 1964 - and ten years later as Ali was staging one of the great sporting comebacks George was struggling across America on his Dark Horse tour - T…

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Omkhar Arasaratnam on open source security; AI dogfighting 36:16

4M ago36:16

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In recent weeks, a series of troubling operations targeting open source software libraries have been uncovered in which bad actors — likely tied to nation states — have attempted to use social engineering to be designated as maintainers of security critical libraries. Operations such as these have the potential to insert backdoors in widely used so…

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How Fostering Psychological Safety Could Transform Your Business 14:34

4M ago14:34

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Most solo business owners consider low confidence to be the thing that's holding them back. Many want to do public speaking, raise their prices or do cold outreach, but they don't feel confident enough to do so. But what is underneath low confidence? It is a sense of feeling unsafe, that we are exposed and in danger. In this episode, I look at the …

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P fertilizer & Poa, the #MLSN time issue, and #ClipVol annual totals 38:27

4M ago38:27

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In this episode, I discuss sixteen year old bentgrass greens that have also gone sixteen years without P fertilizer. The greens are also free of Poa annua. Then I discuss how fertilizer recommendations made from soil tests are a lot more precise if the time duration over which the fertilizer is being recommended is considered explicitly. And I expl…

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The FBI’s Brett Leatherman on LockBitSupp’s unmasking; a spyware reckoning in Poland 33:21

4M ago33:21

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In recent years, the persona known as LockbitSupp has emerged as a notorious figure in the cybercrime underground. The primary administrator of the LockBit ransomware, LockbitSupp has become fantastically wealthy operating the world’s most prolific ransomware. Last week, the FBI and a coalition of international law enforcement agencies unmasked Loc…

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Control Freak? Here's How to Let Go 7:43

5M ago7:43

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As entrepreneurs and business owners it can feel hard - if not impossible - to let go of control. We love things to be a certain way. That's WHY we don't work for other people. But after a time, this way of being gets in your way. Not only will being a control freak hamper your growth, it'll make you feel stressed and anxious, as you try to control…

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Stefan Soesanto on Ukrainian hack and leak ops; cyberattack in Georgia 41:57

5M ago41:57

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When Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2022, it was immediately apparent that the conflict would in part be waged in cyberspace. As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Russian forces also launched a cyberattack against satellite modems that impacted the Ukrainian military’s ability to communicate. Since then, Russian cyberattacks have been a reg…

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How Your Thinking Creates Results 17:27

5M ago17:27

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Your mindset is the source of your results. If you don't like your results, you must rewire your mindset. In this episode I talk about the mini-pivot I'm making in my business to support people in their personal growth so that they can see real results in their business. Want help? Join my Authentic Self Confidence programme here: https://mattsaund…

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How I Make Decisions Quickly 12:13

5M ago12:13

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Making committed, powerful decisions is absolutely essential if you are to succeed in business. Otherwise, you remain trapped in indecision. This is a vulnerable spot, because it leaves you open to having your decisions made for you. The hours you work, the clients you take on, the people you hire... they are all within your scope of choice. Are yo…

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Optimal and practical overseeding windows with Jim Huntoon 1:02:38

5M ago1:02:38

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Jim Huntoon joined me from Horry-Georgetown Technical College to discuss overseeding and the hows and whys of this common practice on warm-season turf that goes dormant in winter. We discussed these two blog posts: - https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/optimum-overseeding-time-windows/ - https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/zoysia-beats-bermuda-on-s…

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Debbie Gendler -'I Saw Them Standing There' 45:42

5M ago45:42

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My guest today is Debbie Gendler who is here to discuss her book 'I Saw The Standing There - Adventures of an Original Beatle Fan During Beatlemania and Beyond'. Debbie fell for The Beatles in late 1963 and soon found herself in the audience for their first US TV appearance on Ed Sullivan. This led to a lifetime of devotion and many crazy adventure…

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Rumman Chowdhury on AI red-teaming; a Sisense supply chain attack 49:55

5M ago49:55

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At last August’s DEF CON computer security conference, more than 2,000 people tried their hands at breaking some of the world’s most advanced AI models. That event was the largest-ever public red-teaming event of large language models, and since then policymakers are continuing to look to red-teaming as a key tool in responsibly deploying AI system…

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SEO Tips for Service-Based Businesses w/ Joe Fisher 37:22

5M ago37:22

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In this episode I talk with Joe, a member of The Solo Collective on lessons he's learned in business. We talk about the mindset shifts needed to run a successful business, as well as how SEO can help product and service-based businesses. You can find out more about Joe at https://fisherseo.com Join The Solo Collective community (https://mattsaunder…

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Sayash Kapoor on AI risk; Federal agencies affected by Russian breach of Microsoft 43:36

5M ago43:36

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Amid the endless hype about AI — how it will either revolutionize the world or end it as we know it — Sayash Kapoor is a rare voice of reason. A PhD candidate at Princeton University and a researcher at the Center for Information Technology and Policy, he is also the author of the newsletter AI Snake Oil, an essential resource to understand AI, its…

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