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☁ How to Build an ARR Book (Part 1)

Hard Mode by Breaking SaaS • 39 implied HN points • 13 Nov 23
💼 Business SaaS Metrics Analysis Investment Training
  1. An ARR book is essential in SaaS analysis to track customer contracts and calculate key metrics.
  2. The underlying data for an ARR book comes from customer contracts, detailing customer information and contract specifics.
  3. To convert contract data into an ARR book, organize logos and periods, calculate ARR changes, and categorize them into New Logo ARR, Expansion ARR, Logo Churn, and Downsell/Shrinkage.

Boardroom Communication Gaps on Cybersecurity

Rod’s Blog • 19 implied HN points • 29 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Communication Training Education
  1. Clear communication between cybersecurity teams and executive boards is crucial for effective cybersecurity strategies and risk management.
  2. Cybersecurity teams should simplify technical language and provide real-world examples to improve communication with executive boards.
  3. Executive boards can enhance communication with cybersecurity teams by investing in education, appointing liaison officers, and actively engaging in cybersecurity policy reviews.
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Concentration

mindmagic • 39 implied HN points • 24 Mar 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Attention Memory Meditation Training Concentration
  1. Attention has three aspects: reach, duration, and flexibility.
  2. Reach is about the limits of working memory, duration is how long you can focus, and flexibility is how quickly you can switch focus.
  3. Improving concentration can be achieved through specific exercises like games, meditation, and continuous learning.

Empowering millions of deskless frontline workers in America

SarHaribhakti's Newsletter • 152 implied HN points • 17 Feb 23
💼 Business Entrepreneurship Management Technology Training Workforce
  1. Rachael Nemeth, CEO of Opus, has a background in hospitality and founded the company to empower millions of deskless frontline workers in America.
  2. Opus provides a platform for training and engaging frontline workers in various industries, focusing on delivering practical, online training accessible to non-desk employees.
  3. The existing learning management systems were not catering to the needs of frontline workers, prompting the development of Opus to provide a more efficient, mobile-friendly, and cost-effective solution for training and empowering these workers.

Understanding Google's GPT-Killer- The Revolutionary Pathways Architecture [Storytime Saturdays]

Technology Made Simple • 39 implied HN points • 19 Feb 23
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Models Training
  1. Google's Bard is designed to be more versatile than ChatGPT, with a unique model architecture called Pathways.
  2. Google's approach includes training a single model for multiple tasks, working with different modalities like images and text, and using sparse activation to specialize network parts.
  3. The Pathways architecture sets Google apart by enabling their AI models to handle a wide range of tasks, making them cost-effective and versatile.

Breaking into Red Teaming: Phase 1

Locks and Leaks • 19 implied HN points • 05 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Red-Teaming Skills Training
  1. Breaking into red teaming involves a phased approach with fundamental, technical, and employment skills.
  2. Phase 1 focuses on understanding red teaming fundamentals like what red teaming is and diving into analytical and cybersecurity elements.
  3. To succeed as a physical red teamer, it's essential to gain knowledge in analytical red teaming, learn about cybersecurity, and understand the partnership between physical and cyber red teams.

SociaLLM: proposal for a language model design for personalised apps, social science, and AI safety research

Engineering Ideas • 19 implied HN points • 19 Dec 23
🕹 Technology AI Social Science Research Applications Training
  1. SociaLLM is a foundation language model trained on chat, dialogue, and forum data with stable message authors and timestamps.
  2. Industrial applications of SociaLLM include personalized content recommendations, customer service, education, and mental health support.
  3. SociaLLM has research and AI safety applications in social science, collective intelligence, and studying mechanisms to prevent deception and collusion in AI.

What Are You Selling Online? (Plus WhatsApp Attention Guide)

Day One • 259 implied HN points • 01 Jun 20
💼 Business Branding Social media Marketing Training
  1. To succeed in making money online, focus on providing value rather than just seeking income. Value delivery is key.
  2. Consider leveraging social media platforms to create and extract value, even without a website or ads. Identify needs and offer solutions.
  3. Engage in classes or courses to learn and implement strategies for monetizing platforms like WhatsApp, focusing on building attention and providing value.

✅ Monday briefing: Accidental managers

Wadds Inc. newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 23 Oct 23
💼 Business Management Public Relations Marketing Human Resources Training
  1. Many managers are promoted without proper training, which can hurt business performance. It's important for organizations to invest in management training.
  2. Good management leads to happier employees and better productivity, while bad management can cause stress and make people want to leave their jobs.
  3. The lack of training for managers is linked to lower confidence and worse skills in handling change and issues, showing how training can help improve their performance.

SRE Evangelist

software + caffeine = blog • 19 implied HN points • 06 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Engineering Communication Training Reliability Developers
  1. The role of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) can vary greatly depending on the company, from Ops+ to Developer+ to 24x7 on-call incident responder.
  2. Successful SREs must be great evangelists, able to communicate effectively and passionately about reliability.
  3. SREs need to be force multipliers within their teams, encouraging a culture of reliability and making sure the value of reliability is understood and embraced.

Roast #20: The Barista Series, Part 1

thoughtfulcoffee • 19 implied HN points • 22 Mar 23
🍲 Food & Drink Coffee Career Training Job Market
  1. Getting a barista job can be challenging, especially if you want to be selective about where you work and focus on specialty coffee training.
  2. Seasonality can impact job availability, with some cafes needing less help during certain times of the year.
  3. Having no prior service experience can make the job search tougher, but persistence can lead to success in the end.

3 Things Athletic Training can teach you about Interview Preparation [StoryTime Saturdays]

Technology Made Simple • 39 implied HN points • 02 Oct 22
💼 Business Training Interview Preparation System Efficiency Self-Improvement
  1. Athletic training principles can be applied to interview preparation for peak performance and best results.
  2. Avoid inefficient approaches like solving hundreds of Leetcode problems or spending excessive time studying; focus on enjoying the process.
  3. Lessons from athletic training, like discipline and strategy, can benefit your journey in various aspects of life.

Potential U.S. Space Force Changes

Ill-Defined Space • 19 implied HN points • 22 Feb 24
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Military Technology Training Operations Infrastructure
  1. The U.S. Space Force's missions, assets, and services are mostly about support to combat services like the Army and Navy.
  2. The Space Force relies on old systems which require specialized training, hindering transition to more modern, interoperable systems.
  3. The Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) will bring more capable and interconnected systems, requiring a shift in mindset and cooperation among space operators.

You can't miss a day

andrewglynch • 2 implied HN points • 04 Nov 24
🎾 Sports Athletes Training Performance Coaching Motivation
  1. Consistency is key to success. You need to practice regularly, even if it's just a little bit each day.
  2. Commitment is important. You can't skip practice for any reason; find a way to get it done no matter what.
  3. Small daily efforts lead to big achievements over time. A simple 30-minute practice can change your life if you stick with it for years.

Why We Need MICRO

DruGroup • 59 implied HN points • 11 Apr 22
⛪ Faith & Spirituality Training Community
  1. Using simple and clear language helps everyone understand conversations about faith, even if they're new to it. It’s important to make discussions about Jesus relatable and not overly complicated.
  2. Talking about sharing faith can be tricky, so it's better to approach it without using the word 'evangelism.' This way, it feels less daunting and more natural for people.
  3. Training shouldn't take too long or feel overwhelming. Short and focused sessions are better, helping people feel confident to start having conversations about Jesus without feeling lost.

Goal creates the functioning

The Nature of Training • 1 HN point • 06 Jul 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Physiology Complex Systems Training
  1. Biomimetics uses natural organisms as inspiration to create innovative technology, like airplanes inspired by bird wings and Velcro by burdock seeds.
  2. The traditional view of organisms as machines with replaceable parts is being challenged, with organisms seen as complex systems that self-organize to maintain equilibrium and adapt to their environments.
  3. Understanding an organism's purpose and stimuli is more important than focusing on its individual parts, allowing for better responses to training and health needs.

What's Wrong With This Picture (Team Training Exercise)

The Rotten Apple • 10 implied HN points • 04 Mar 24
🍲 Food & Drink Food Safety Training Hygiene Risk Assessment Team Building
  1. The post discusses a team training exercise for front-line workers in food service to identify food safety issues.
  2. The activity aims to get team members thinking about food safety, engage in a risk assessment, and learn about food safety principles such as hygienic design and hand hygiene.
  3. The exercise involves showing an image of someone slicing bacon and asking team members to identify potential food safety problems, errors, or non-conformities.

The Data Science Education Consolidation

Sector 6 | The Newsletter of AIM • 39 implied HN points • 06 Jun 22
🚌 Education EdTech Data science Training Acquisitions
  1. Edtech companies like BYJU'S and upGrad are buying smaller firms to strengthen their position in data science education. This shows a trend of growth and consolidation in the industry.
  2. Traditional training institutions like NIIT and Aptech are struggling to keep up with these changes. They seem to be losing relevance in the fast-paced education market.
  3. BYJU'S made a big impact last year by acquiring ten companies for $2.5 billion. This highlights the scale of investment happening in the education sector, particularly in data science.

Building CAUSL - Episode 7: Onboarding at Lightspeed

CAUSL Effect • 19 implied HN points • 02 Apr 23
💼 Business Onboarding Management Human Resources Organizational Culture Training
  1. Onboarding at a new company can be really tough. It often takes new employees months to fully understand the business and their role.
  2. It's common for new hires to feel overwhelmed, especially when they have to learn everything quickly. Having a structured process can really help ease this transition.
  3. By creating an efficient onboarding system, employees can get settled in just weeks instead of months. This makes the experience much smoother for everyone involved.

Jab, Cross, Hook.

Carefree Sketches • 1 HN point • 17 May 24
🎾 Sports Training Fitness
  1. Boxing requires more than just physical prowess; it's a mental game that demands quick instincts and impulse.
  2. Starting boxing involves conditioning and learning basic skills like footwork and defensive techniques.
  3. The boxing gym environment introduces novices to experienced fighters, shows the intensity of sparring sessions, and highlights the need for controlled aggression.

i-SOON Toolkit: What is “TZ”?

Natto Thoughts • 1 HN point • 24 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Networks Investigation Intelligence Training
  1. The acronym "TZ" found in leaked i-SOON documents could stand for phrases like special investigation or special reconnaissance, and it is crucial for Chinese public security bureaus, hinting at its importance in network security efforts.
  2. In the context of Chinese acronyms, TZ might represent Chinese phrases with Pinyin initials T and Z, such as investment, special investigation, special military, or other relevant terms.
  3. Companies like i-SOON have seen business opportunities in offering products and training related to network investigation and reconnaissance, indicating a high demand for capabilities in this area among Chinese public security bureaus.