Yeah I totally get that part and I’ve likely done that over the years, but now those same playlists aren’t working for me. They were good while in Uni and first few years of working, but it seems their effects have worn off lol. So I’m always open to finding new obscure niche "focus" playlists or genres. Thank you though!
Those headaches can be hydration-related. A "life hack" (I guess addy/adhd hack) borrowed from the keto groups was to find a way to intake potassium a few hours in to it, in combination with your likely more than usual water intake. The suggestion I once found was low sodium V8s since they’re high in potassium to offset the sodium but keep a level of taste. Life changing to say the least for those days I would take adderall.
The technical debate put aside, it’s pretty sad that cities, counties, or even States, and by extension - the people affected, have no authority to intervene de facto on the matter, warranted or not.
^^ would be interested in this (if it exists). I’ve tried scraping Google for PDFs in the past using terms like: cheatsheet, sales cycle, flow chart(s), checklist(s), etc. and haven’t really found anything that puts it all together simply and concisely. The /sales et al. subreddits have some gems occasionally, but seems like a lot of the "sales-related" stuff falls behind paywalls and gatekeepers, squeeze pages and landing pages with CTAs involving buying recycled courses or resources attached to X pseudo sales guru (more like furus) trying to sell you hot trash.
As someone who has always held a beat on the technical side things (with limited practical skills) and advancements, decent understanding of industry and market shifts, BUT who has always opted to be involved in the more client-facing roles and duties, front office business development ops side of things, I find there’s limited "high quality" resources or even discussion board settings where the science behind selling or business development in general is properly highlighted.
Heck, even formal academia is lacking in this department. We’ve recently seen the rise in Entrepreneurship-type undergrad programs / minors, which seem to be getting more optimized as time goes on, churning out good talent and individuals executing quickly on their ideas, but again, seems like sales in general is something overlooked, at first glance.
I notice this also with the who’s hiring-type posts as well, there has to be 1000s of "fine-tuned" AEs/sales OPS, VPs, etc. that browse this board, which no doubt is meant to cater to the devs and engineers, but I am hopeful eventually the niche will carve itself out. Every firm hiring devs is almost always hiring for sales roles.
My experience and observations have led me to understand that early stage startups usually secure their "business development" talent in early hires (like executives or VPs) with extensive experience in scaling operations with the hope to eventually start adding reps or defining territories, etc. but I foresee this tide changing soon as we enter this era of M&A/IB/"high finance" shift to restructurings, divestitures and spin offs for a lot of the bleeding tech sector and less actual M&A/vertical integration activity.
Private equity firms (who might end up being responsible for the incoming bust cycle - just need to Google things like "private equity will be the cause of the next recession" or "PE ruined X industry" to find books and posts on the topic) who are notorious for focusing on leaning out orgs and "trimming the fat" might have to begin including added sales ops to their early expenses on their roadmaps if they want to remain competitive and keep the numbers healthy for their investors.
More capital will have to go back into revenue generating operations and expenses, imo and traditional ones at that, such as business development talent vs. marketing. The more money your bus. dev people make, the more $ your firm is making. There’s a direct correlation there, since they work for commissions, not their base salaries and performance (%) adjusted annual bonuses.
Was coming here to reply: Fanatical Prospecting - start there. Glad it is in the top comment mentions.
Good book to get a solid base on all the sales jargon and learning the generic sales cycle that applies to all products and services and businesses. It’s legit The Bible for all AEs/BDRs, I’ve even heard hiring managers / HR people say to potential candidates to read that book before applying for a sales role as the X Sales Manager / VP really applies the philosophy in their team(s).
Fell on this YT niche earlier this year, and I’ve fallen in love. Have them playing in the background on one of my monitors during the work day. I took a break from the extreme airpod abuse and Spotify productivity playlists combo for these city walk tours. Really enjoy the ones in the rain or an NYC walk tour while it’s snowing.
I’ve read / heard various interpretations on the relationship/lack of of The Philistines and The Palestinians.
The main one being, that original Philistines are not modern-day Palestinians, yet the etymology of the name seems to have its roots.
The alternative etymology is that Palestinian literally translates to παλαιστής in Greek which means "fighter" and in Turkish (the π/μπ sound is written and pronounced as b, so Balestinian where a Balesti is also a fighter in Turkish).
I’ve also heard/read that The Philistines were individuals (possibly some type of proto-Greeks) that were essentially outcasted and banished from Crete and other Aegean States as they were problem individuals, à la Australia? So thieves, liars, shillers, connivers, etc. Which ultimately settled in modern-day Gaza/Israel.
Last year, there were new scrolls discovered that were dated as BC and contained the contents of some of the most important books in The Torah and written in Ancient Greek - where the Hebrew texts of these books were discovered much much later as in centuries later.
There’s also the mystery of that whole area where the scrolls were discovered that were for the last part of the century closed off from further archeological studies and excavation (orders from the State of Israel) which has always puzzled historians and archeologists. As if, to avoid rewriting any history as has been written or further disprove / prove any claims individuals have long argued for.
Now that the site is back to being open (I think) for such further explorations, maybe we’ll get more truths / alternative histories. I once heard from local Cretans that back in the post WWII era, there had been Israeli divers that found Hebraic potteries/treasures off the Cretan coast that had looked aged, but ultimately were found to have been planted and staged a few decades earlier.
Again, never confirmed any of this, so it’s all here-say, but there’s definitely some forces that are or have been trying to keep certain truths and facts well-hidden out there.
This is why I try my best not to miss any front-page threads. I wonder if the vomeronasal organ played a role in the whole covid / olfactory bulb system and role in the ano/parosmia.
Intense horror is referred to as "looming/impending fears of doom/dread" in medicine.. could be worth you checking out kidneys/adrenals (there’s a rare benign tumour that can grow on our adrenals called pheochromocytoma - that legit functions as a provider of intense horror kidding aside it can either over or under produce certain hormones mainly the ones that control fight or flight if I remember correctly so cortisol and epinephrine which is adrenaline’s new name). Again, it’s super rare BUT could be worth investigating if your IBS is actually something related to your endocrine system, so hormonal / pituitary-related.
Interestingly enough, I entered a friend’s clinical research study last year where they’re looking to replace the standard cardiac stress test by proving their hypothesis.
Essentially, they believe that by purposefully engaging in a combination of deep/long/shallow/etc. ("Wim Hoff style breathing techniques" - my friend’s words not mine), and get a patient to hyperventilate basically (in a controlled environment and developed protocol/framework), they could produce similar results and draw similar clinical conclusions as one would after a traditional stress test. They had me do two hours of various breathing techniques while simultaneously imaging my heart and then my brain using fMRI imaging.
* NAD but I managed to get the DICOM files and found some open source software (Horos) and loaded up the slices and it was super cool seeing what was going on during the different breathing *
I recently caught up with the individual and was told the study is in its final stages and so far looks very promising (which I’m sure all researchers say right but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt).
Look into doing a QEEG might help identify something for you to start on.. maybe try and do a FMRI instead as well. For the record, the “brain mapping” technique of a QEEG is highly debated (I think) by science / the neuro folks.. but there’s anecdotal evidence everywhere online or on Reddit from individuals saying positive things. From what I’ve read it’s a clinical tool to be used additionally in terms of diagnosing learning disabilities mainly (ADHD, Autism), there might be research in regards to memory out there?
For me, I fell on the subject of QEEGs as I had similar epiphanies in self-awareness in terms of my "executive functions" and certain aspects of it. Currently in the process of scheduling an appointment at a nearby clinic that does it.
Can’t provide more insight on the actual condition or the possible areas affected in your brain, but I can suggest maybe adding some neurofeedback training to your routine.
I just picked up a https://www.mendi.io/ not sure if it’s going to be a dust collector yet but I’m giving it a chance.
There’s this scientist on YT that reviews these products very well and also has affiliate links that provide a bit of a discount on the devices.