Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint in Meetings

His Replacement Is Brilliant
Narrative memos have replaced PowerPoint presentations at Amazon.
Here are 3 reasons why.

In his 2018 annual letter, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos repeated his rule that PowerPoint is banned in executive meetings. What Bezos replaced it with provides even more valuable insight for entrepreneurs and leaders.
In his letter, and in a recent discussion at the Forum on Leadership at the Bush Center, Bezos revealed that "narrative structure" is more effective than PowerPoint. According to Bezos, new executives are in for a culture shock in their first Amazon meetings. Instead of reading bullet points on a PowerPoint slide, everyone sits silently for about 30 minutes to read a "six-page memo that's narratively structured with real sentences, topic sentences, verbs, and nouns."
After everyone's done reading, they discuss the topic. "It's so much better than the typical PowerPoint presentation for so many reasons," Bezos added.

SOURCE:
https://www.inc.com/carmine-gallo/jeff-bezos-bans-powerpoint-in-meetings-his-replacement-is-brilliant.html?sr_share=facebook&cid=sf01002quartz

Elon Musk Just Issued a Nightmarish Warning About What Will Really Happen if AI Takes Over

"There will be no death."

Artificial intelligence could spur the creation of a robot dictator that could rule mankind forever, the billionaire Elon Musk says in a new documentary.
"If one company or small group of people manages to develop god-like superintelligence, they could take over the world," Musk said in the film.

The documentary Do You Trust This Computer? presents a sobering look at the potential dangers of AI, including what could happen if AI evolves to be smarter than humans and becomes its own master.

SOURCE:  https://www.sciencealert.com/elon-musk-warns-creation-of-god-like-ai-could-doom-us-all-to-an-eternity-of-robot-dictatorship

Brain Activity Has Been Recorded as Much as 10 Minutes After Death

Doctors can't explain it.

Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit stumbled on a very strange case last year - when life support was turned off for four terminal patients, one of them showed persistent brain activity even after they were declared clinically dead.

For more than 10 minutes after doctors confirmed death through a range of observations, including the absence of a pulse and unreactive pupils, the patient appeared to experience the same kind of brain waves (delta wave bursts) we get during deep sleep.
And it's an entirely different phenomenon to the sudden 'death wave' that's been observed in rats following decapitation.

The big takeaway from studies like these isn't that we understand more about the post-death experience now than we did before, because the observations remain inconclusive and without biological explanation.

SOURCE:  https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-activity-has-been-recorded-as-much-as-10-minutes-after-death

Life needs to be appreciated

Way of life has reason on the off chance that we discover it and endeavor towards their satisfaction. Be that as it may, you might ponder what of one's destruction? At the point when the passing of somebody to whom we hold dear comes too early and out of the blue, what reason will it give? What reason will meet the individuals who are still deserted?

Some live long lives, albeit some mysteriously don't. What can decide to what extent our lives will be?

We can trust everything is incidental which passing comes only by shot. Men of research state that everything is the consequence of entropy and confusion. In this way, even our passings are essentially the result of subjective event, unverifiable and impulsive.

In any case, trusting this may provoke us to end up fixated on our security and wellbeing. Its total arbitrariness all could make us so terrified we are driven nearly to the edge of locura.

On the opposite side, we can trust demise comes set up by some higher power. In any case, since this is the situation, will this not move us to scrutinize the intelligence of estupendo equity? The unanticipated casualty of friends and family will in all probability shake the establishments of your confidence. It might even break it.

In the one hand, the absence of confidence and the faith in the haphazardness of the universe opens us from the danger of otherworldly anguish. Be that as it may it renders both life and passing unimportant. Having trust on the opposite side, accompanies it its chance being broken by the agony of limitless misfortune.

The one genuine conclusion we can touch base at is that life is essential whatever we accept. Pity is yet a characteristic outcome of losing somebody close us. Furthermore, this should move us to acknowledge and esteem all the more profoundly the general population around every one of us people whom we convey dear.