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John Atkinson

John Atkinson

Sep 6, 2026

8:39
What's separating those leaders from everybody else?
8:44
I think there's a couple of things that really stand out to me in my conversations with the leaders.
8:50
And one of them that I would highlight is, first of all, having the vision for where you want to go.
8:56
Understanding What problems are you trying to solve? How are you gonna measure success? What are the outcomes that you're looking for? Really having that vision and then finding what tools are going to enable me to achieve that vision.
9:12
It's really gotta start with the vision more so than, hey, here's this tool, what can it do for me, right? So when you start with that vision, that's step number one.
9:23
And then step number two is, OK, once I've got the vision and I've got the tools, now there's just plain old change management that you've got to do at your organization and be really good at it.
9:35
So for example, if you are implementing an AI receptionist at your home care agency, you're gonna need to have conversations with your caregivers to let them know that an AI is gonna be answering the phone and here's how you can interact with that.

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16:28
But you seem to have some magic sauce there that is ultimately demonstrated through the use of how you're applying AI.
4:21
I know we can dive into it more here in a little while, but that's not what has been a popular deal, or lower egg production hasn't been something you brag about.
4:34
And I remember, Grant, when you sort of brought that up early with me when you asked me when we had our first discussions about our success rates in artificial breeding as far as IVF and ET.
4:47
That, you know, when you sort of laughed when I said, well, we, you know, we just don't have big numbers, so it's not worth the travel for a vet to come and do what we do.
4:58
And, you know, I guess I had that epiphany of relating it straight back to Mother Nature.
5:05
that cattle and animals are far smarter than we are mother nature's smarter than we are and it knows if an animal like a frog or something to that extent has a low success rate of getting things through to adulthood their progeny they throw as many things against the wall as many eggs in that pond as possible to hope that a few of them are going to survive whereas we look at animals you know the the big five in africa for instance they know that a massive percentage of their progeny are going to make it so they only have you know they only have one calf every couple of years um because again mother nature dictates that we see it here in australia um i think kangaroos are a good are good at analogy for it because they can dictate the sex based on the season and and i think that again with humans try to outsmart mother nature and it usually comes back to bite us in the ass

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41:04
What does this world look like after this is either confirmed or denied? Or affirmed or disproven?
41:15
Well, I guess if it's affirmed and the theory is correct and part of this, I guess, by doing it, you know, if we can do the scans on the animal post-carving pre-joining, that is, we get them as a control group.
41:35
There's no bull been anywhere near them, no pregnancy, no CL, none of that that's fluctuating hormones.
Chris BerrubeCORRESPONDENT
7:15
He says that with MP3s, listeners actually lose something pretty fundamental.
7:20
Any transience in the music, you know, cymbal crashes, beats, drums, so what was a clean hit on a drum now becomes more of a bler on a drum.
7:33
So if you listen to low res MP3s, you start to aware that the sense of rhythm has been degraded.

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Chris BerrubeCORRESPONDENT
17:03
And as Stereophile's Jon Atkinson points out, there's a particular disdain reserved for music nerds, especially those who try to make you buy expensive high-tech gear.
17:13
Ex-Serophile writer Michael Fremer wrote about this some years ago, but he said, you know, you read The Sunday Times, and they're advertising, you know, $400, you know, crockery sets, $4,000 lamps, $40,000 watches, and they're all regarded as legitimate.
17:32
But when you have a $400 Pono player, oh my goodness, that's, that's snake oil.
17:37
It's ripping people off.
17:39
High fidelity has always been like that.

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