Mar 24, 2020
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Hey everyone. I hope you are all doing well during this period of social distancing we are experiencing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
If you are new to doing remote work or working from home then you are going to want to attend the series of webinars on tools, techniques, and tactics you can use to make this easier for you. These are all offered at no charge. Later next week, I will be offering a live training course on securing your computers, networks, and browsers. This will be deeply discounted. No pressure, but if you are interested, I would appreciate your business.
I was on with Jim Polito who was sitting in his kitchen under self-quarantine because he recently traveled overseas. We discussed some Top Tips for Remote Working and Working From Home. So, here we go with Jim Polito.
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Craig
There is a special plug-in that goes into your browsers, which
helps to improve the whole browser experience. You use less memory,
you will use less battery if you're on a laptop, and maybe you're
out a little bit. That's the kind of the scope of what we're doing.
We're getting into security as well. I'm going to teach you the
tools, techniques, and tactics that I use, Jim.
Craig
This morning I was on with Jim Polito course, Craig Peterson here.
And I spent a little time talking about the webinars, and what I
have learned from more than 20 years of working from home and with
my family. I will tell you the things that work for all of us. So
listen in here we go.
Jim
He is the man, and this is the guy you want to turn to in times
like these. I'm talking about our tech talk guru, Craig Peterson.
Good morning, Craig.
Craig
Good Morning. I guess I am the man of the hour. I can't believe how
many people have work from home questions.
Jim
Listen, let's start by just letting everybody know at the end of
this segment, you can get all of this information plus more. You
can get on his list, which is an excellent thing, especially now.
Because you will send great information along to people, and you
won't try to sell them anything or anything else. It's just that's
how it is. But that we'll talk about at the end, but you've got
some webinars going on. Before we get to our topics at hand, you
have a pretty significant announcement.
Craig
Yeah, this is a very, very big thing. I think for so many people.
We have, as you might know, I've been doing webinars for the FBI is
infragard program. That's where The FBI works with critical
infrastructure and critical businesses in several areas. Now, I
guess based on what you were saying this morning. I've been doing
these for quite a while. And the whole idea is to help businesses
understand what they need to do. And we get some information from
the FBI. They'll tell us stuff that they'll tell anybody, and then
they keep everything that keeps us up at night, close to their
chest. Yeah. Here's what I'm going to do. I have been doing
webinars now for quite a few years, and we have some brand new
ones. I have nine different remote work or work from home type of
webinars coming up over the next two weeks. We're going delve into
a different topic each day. I'm going to make them available to
people who sign up. That is important as these are going to be
LIVE. I will stay on and answer everybody's questions. The ones
that I've done so far, they have been averaging about an hour and a
half long. We're going to have one at 4 pm. Today, one at 9 pm
tonight, and we're going to be talking about how to a special
plug-in for your browsers, that helps to improve the whole browser
experience. It will help you use less memory, you use less battery
if you're on a laptop, and you step out for a little bit. That's
the scope of what we're doing, and we will be getting into security
as well. I'm going to teach you the tools, techniques, and tactics
that I use, Jim. The way people sign up is they can just go to my
website, Craig Peterson dot com slash Jim. There's a special
sign-up there. Craig Peterson dot com slash Jim. It is just
teaching and is free for everybody. Even though maybe you're a
little bit older, you're not working anymore. Although aimed at
remote workers, both for the business owner and the people working
from home. If you're a little bit older, you're not working
anymore, and you are still going to get a lot of benefit out of
these webinars because you're going to learn a lot more about
security. I'm going to give you all these free tools I use. We'll
talk a little bit about some of the paid tools that we use, but
it's all about remote working in this day and age.
Jim
That's great. You know what I'll do, we always podcast this
segment. And what I'll do is I'll put up a link in that podcast
posting at WTAG dot com on the Jim Polito Show page. When I
broadcast this later this morning, I'll put that link up so people
can get it now. I used some of the information you sent me. I mean,
all of it was fascinating. However, I want to zero in on one thing.
The big gamble that tech companies are making right now.
As you know, they say necessity is the mother of invention. These companies must now take a more in-depth look at artificial intelligence. Not that companies aren't already using it, including our artificial intelligence right here at iHeart. But artificial intelligence in terms of these big tech companies, and it's kind of a gamble right now, why don't you explain that?
Craig
Yeah, it is because their people, you know, they aren't able to go
into work. We've been using it in the tech industry for quite a
while. We have used it to work with foreign workers as well. That
has been wonderful for them because it helps to move them up to the
food ladder if you will by increasing their pay. You know, it used
to be that we would always outsource to India and it was very
cheap. Then India's wages now are almost on par depending on what
type of work it is with US workers. Currently, India is outsourcing
to China. It's great. It's been lifting all the boats in that ocean
everybody has been doing a little bit better. But we're at the
point now where we need to have some more advanced technology.
We're talking about hundreds of hours worth of videos being
uploaded to YouTube every minute. There is no way that you could
hire enough people to review all of those as an example. So what we
see now is an acceleration via this artificial intelligence type
mechanism reviewing videos. We see our posts on Facebook, for
instance, and you're having problems getting your advertising
approved. BTW that is another reason to use iHeart to get your
messages out, which I heard is also using AI to accept these ads.
So, overall, this is the trend, it's going to be here it started
before the whole Covid-19 virus thing. However, with many people
quarantining, you can't find a laptop to buy anywhere in the known
universe, because they are all gone. Many of these businesses now
no longer have the workers that they used to have even. So they've
turned more to artificial intelligence. That means that there are
all kinds of false negatives about some of the stuff you're
posting. Which means things you're posting may get blocked more
often than usual. Things you post, videos you upload might not get
approved. And this is an overall trend. You know, they call it
artificial intelligence, Jim. But the way I've been looking at it
is not even machine learning. It's just some heavy programming that
looks for patterns looking for keywords that have been getting a
little bit smarter as time goes on.
It's not like, like in science fiction movies, where artificial
intelligence becomes self-aware. It is. I mean, frankly, what Tommy
be our meteorologist does with the models is a form of artificial
intelligence because the models continue to learn. They adapt and
regurgitate what they learn. They're not self-aware. They're not
reasoning they're doing what we have programmed them to do.
They're looking for pattern matches. That is what they're looking for, and you know what, with this coronavirus pandemic, the whole artificial intelligence pattern matching thing has been a huge win. We're able to run simulations. Not just against known drugs that a drug company might want to try but against basically every material and combination of materials and minerals and bacterium, etc., etc. Even those that we could even think of using. We can run the simulations inside these artificial bits of intelligence that have learned a little bit about these patterns. We see these types of vaccines and medications delivered in just an incredible time. Things that would take years are now taking hours literally, and we are moving towards the point very, very soon. We already have some of this where we will have drugs ready. These vaccines you name it made specifically for us. So there will be a Jim Polito pill the Jim Polito can take that will deal with all of the issues he has. That's all thanks to this artificial intelligence, this machine learning that's going on right now.
Jim
I don't think people want to take the Jim Polito pill, to be honest
with you. I understand the metaphor there, Craig, but I just you
know, nobody wants to be a middle-aged chubby and loudmouth and be
stupid when it comes to tech, right. We're talking with Craig
Peterson, our tech talk guru. Artificial intelligence is a big tech
gamble right now. His webinars, which you can sign up for from him,
and at the end of his segment, and we're going to tell you how you
can get all of this information from him.
Jim
Craig, if I could just shift back, again, to working from home. I
know you're going to discuss this in the webinars, and in the short
time we have left, could you give me kind of just a brief bit of
some of the things that you've learned over the 22 years of working
from home, not because you had to, but because it worked for
you?
Craig
Yeah, it did. There are some basics that I have found work well for
both my wife and I. Now I even have kids that work from home, too.
In 22 years of working from home, the number one thing that I've
learned is you have to have not just a separate space, but multiple
separate areas. Most of us have various job functions that we're
performing, and you need to have a different place for each job
function, especially if you're kind of an entrepreneur or you're
trying to start a home business. Now, this doesn't mean you have to
have different rooms, don't get me wrong, but don't sit in that
chair you use to watch TV. Or if you only have one chair, turn it
around, and, you know, face a different window have different
environments. That's number one. Number two is one that I found
very, very helpful, and that is to use the Pomodoro Technique. We
mentioned that last week, and that is to take 20 minutes and then a
10-minute break. So that you're very, very focused on it. You have
to get up and walk around. I sit on a big balance ball, and I have
a desk that goes up and down. I can be standing, and I can be
sitting in a chair like I am right now. Or I can be on one of these
balance balls. Because if you don't, and may not think of it but
you have To get up, you have to keep moving. And then the third
most important thing, again, not technology-wise, is that your
family has to respect your workspace. Think of different ways you
could do it. Most people, it's advised to dress up as you would
usually for work. And if your family sees you in work clothes,
they're supposed to leave you alone. But you know, the workaround I
have on that that has worked exceptionally well for me, is when
it's that break time when I've done my 20 minutes of hard work.
Then a 10-minute break, I walk into the rest of the house, go to
the kitchen, walk around, get a cup of water, and talk to the
family. That way, they don't have to interrupt me when I'm working
hard. And then the technology side, make sure you are safe, and I
mean safe and so Friday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I'm going to
be talking specifically about some important security things you
have to be doing in the webinars. And I've got right I'm doing two
today to Thursday to on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, all the way through next week because I want
to help everybody because these tech issues on security just get so
complicated so fast. Still, those are my tips right there, and they
have gotten me a long way.
Jim
I'll tell you, you know, the first day I did the show on the
pajamas, but on the second day, I only thought about it. Now I'm up
and dressed. You know, the thing is, I wear pretty much the same
clothes to go to work that I do on the weekend. But no, I got up
showered did the same thing that I would do. You know other than
getting in the car and driving, everything I did was the same. I
like you, take breaks during the commercials in our show when I
don't have work to do. When I'm back in the studio, I walk around
the building, you know I get out of the studio, and it refreshes my
brain and resets it. Here it's perfect because I can get up from
the table and the little broadcast area I have here. I can talk to
Kathy, pet the dog, whatever, you know, that kind of stuff. It does
help, but then I go back into the mode, and I'm in my little you
know area here. It works. Look, it is time to get folks the
immediate information. When I podcast, this will have a link, but
you can give the link now to if you want. So, one thing to get on
Craig's email list, you text My name Jim, J-I-M to this number.
Craig
Here 855-385-5563. So let's just Jim 2855385 5553
Jim
All right, standard data and tax rates apply. Then, Craig, I'm
going to put this with the podcast the address for the to be able
to find out about the webinars you're doing for working at home.
All right, there you go. It's Craig Peterson, of course. Craig
Peterson dot com slash, Jim.
Craig
That's the only place you'll find it right now you guys are getting
a heads up. You're going to be some of the first ones to be able to
get in and ask questions. I am not advertising it generally right
now. It's because I want to start small and help people as much as
I can. Craig Peterson dot com slash Jim.
Jim
Craig, you're the best. We appreciate it. Especially in these
times, folks you want to get on Craig's list. I don't mean the
website. I mean, Craig Peterson, and if you can, attend some of
those webinars. Craig, I will talk to you next week. Stay safe.
Craig
All right. Thanks. Take care. Bye-bye.
Jim
All right, and I will podcast that this morning. A final word when
we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito show from my kitchen
with pops. It is your safe space. The Jim Polito show, where we
serve hot drinks.
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