Better than QandA: The High Performance Life
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Better than QandA: The High Performance Life
2hr 5min
On Mondays at 9:35pm you can tune into the ABC and watch their attempt at having an open discussion or at 7:30pm you can watch something better.
Better than QandA is a new format live panel show that appeals to those who want to think deeply about the world today.
Tonight’s show is brought to you by the 20 brave souls in the room who helped seed what we hope becomes a monthly event. Tonight’s topic, ‘The High Performance Life’, leads us to explore the ideas of success, happiness, identity, consistency, achievement and purpose.
From 2:34 we play a game a Street Epistemology
From 26:00 we started the QandA panel:
- ‘How do we determine success?’
- ‘How do I find magic in the mundane?’
- ‘How do I figure out what I should be doing for a job when I’ve spent my whole life doing jobs I’ve hated?’
- ‘How do you consistently perform at an elite level?’
- ‘How do you stay focused?’
- ‘Is it really, and still, a man’s world? Does the trope persist long after genders have been equalised?’
- ‘How do we fight the war on meat, on health and push back against BigFood and BigPharma?’
- ‘Why is veganism and plant-based being co-opted by BigFood?’
- ‘How much does diet contribute to a high performance life?’
- ‘What is one characteristic every leader should possess?’
- ‘What is the role of a strong and functioning family unit in society?’
- ‘What is better – intrinsic or extrinsic motivation?’
- ‘How do you transform abstract ideas into quantifiable outcomes?’
2:03:08 – promotion for our next on Fri 31 Mar 2023
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He travelled to Australia by boat as a young refugee and has since built a life and family in the western suburbs of Melbourne. In this sit down we discussed the Liberal Party’s attempted expulsion of Moira Deeming MP, the refugee perspective of other refugees arriving by boat and ‘skipping the queue’, freedom of speech and privacy in Australia and the banning of certain people and subjects.
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Dr Tien Kieu: Labor MP, Theoretical Physicist and Boat Refugee
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Dr Tien Kieu was a Labor MP in the Daniel Andrews government 2018-2022. During that time he continued to publish academic papers as a theoretical physicist.
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The AI Revolution Finally Arrives: Why ChatGPT and generative AI is a true revolution, not hype.
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The AI Revolution Finally Arrives: Why ChatGPT and generative AI is a true revolution, not hype.
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Matt Wong
Chief Writer
Consider the major revolutions of history:
- Agricultural revolution 10,000-5,000 BC
- Printing press 1400s
- Industrial revolution 1700s-1900s
- Information revolution 1950s-2000s
- Digital revolution ~1990s-2005
- Mobile revolution ~2005-2020
- AI revolution ~2022+
This layout is time/event based. Another way to think of technological revolutions is systems based. This is why you keep hearing about ‘the fourth industrial revolution’ which looks like this:
No matter how you think of revolutions, they are all ultimately defined by how significantly they change the way humans live.
We have all become de-sensitised to claims of ‘technological breakthrough!’ because they are usually overblown, myopic and have no significant effect on how humans live. Sometimes they never will, sometimes they are simply early. Current example: the Metaverse.
This ‘failure to launch’ is normal and to be expected in the advent of new technology. Tech needs to be birthed, tried and tested in the natural game of ‘survival of the fittest’.
Thus it’s easy to dismiss the latest ‘groudbreaking app’ as just more hype designed to line the pockets of a corporation. It’s probably just a fad that will die in a year’s time right?
Park that cynicism for a moment as you watch this video from Microsoft. Ask yourself whether you are witnessing vaporware, empty hype, or something more:
I believe it’s something more. Let me explain by way of a story:
In 2022 we shrank our staff count (deliberately – to extend our startup’s runway). In the strive to maintain output we attempted to automate or accelerate much of our daily tasks. Nearly all automated tools and assistants were eventually jettisoned because their effort:benefit ratio didn’t make sense.
Except for OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
We have now permanently integrated ChatGPT3.5 into a large number of our workflows, and our day to day looks very different to just 6 months ago. Not only is generative, predictive AI speeding up and enabling content creation with fewer staff, it’s changing the way we create.
But wait, there’s more! We are hearing from housewives, seniors(!) and from nearly every business we consult for…everyone is experiencing the same paradigm shift.
The common refrain is that they now rely on AI to such an extent that they cannot imagine life without it. Kind of like imagining living and working without the internet.
AI is now a contagion.
We are witnessing a technological revolution with generative AI and few are ready to adapt like Millennials are. Fellow travellers born loosely around 1981-1996 will remember what it’s like to learn and grow on both sides of ‘the internet’.
Thanks to fortuitous timing, we Millennials understand the internet both natively and as adopted phenomena.
This is unlike Generation X whose young minds were formed pre-internet but have since adopted it as a tool for life.
Millennials are even more unlike Generation Z (so called ‘Digital Natives’) who were born into a digital era, their brains forming in a world rich with information and instant connection.
I truly appreciate and feel the wonder of broadband internet because dial-up, failed connections and information scarcity is a visceral and lived reality.
But I also share the natural fluency for the digital world that Gen Z has, finding it easy to be an ‘early adopter’ of tech.
That Microsoft ad above is actually just a collection of use-cases that are already happening TODAY. But it seems to be happening in the lives of the ‘early majority’, not just the ‘early adopter’ category.
With smart integrations, we are going to blow right past ‘the chasm’ or ‘the tipping point’.
Why? Because this revolution is PRAGMATIC. It’s practically improving the lives of people and businesses everywhere. The ‘Early Majority’ are in fact…pragmatists. They adopt tech if it makes sense. And large language models make sense to our everyday lives.
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The Scandal of Grace with Bishop Paul Barker
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The Scandal of Grace with Bishop Paul Barker
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What is the core promise of Jesus Christ and Christianity? Rather than settle for common caricatures, we invited Bishop Paul Barker to take us to the very centre of the faith where he explained the scandalous claims it makes.
What is faith? Is it testable? Does it lean on any empiricism and science or is it purely a ‘leap of faith’?
What about social justice – is that the key message of Christianity?
What does ‘believing’ mean? Is it merely mental assent or something more?
Who is Jesus Christ? Does it really matter or is the rest of the Bible helpful without him?
How ‘good’ do you have to be to get into heaven? What about really bad people?
These are the questions that were in my mind approaching this interview, and I found it both surprising and refreshing to hear such a unique exposition of the Christian faith, instead of the strawman we hear in popular culture.
The second half of the discussion centred around cultural relevance, whether the world is devolving its standards, and whether all faiths will remain true to their sacred beliefs and texts or become secularised due to cultural pressure. We explored the failings of the modern church, and the loss of the core message of grace.
At Discernable we continue to explore different perspectives, beliefs, values and opinions by presenting them in their best light possible so you can make up your own mind.
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Dr Jereth Kok - Cancelled by AHPRA for Posting Memes
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Dr Jereth Kok - Cancelled by AHPRA for Posting Memes
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For 4 years Dr Jereth Kok has been suspended from practising medicine for posting memes, satire, and other Christian religious opinions on social media. Many of these posts centred around transgenderism, sexuality and abortion.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) used an emergency mechanism reserved for use on dangerous doctors who represent a risk to ‘the public interest’.
Suspended without trial or hearing has meant 4 years of ‘legal limbo’ for Dr Kok who has been found neither guilty nor innocent by AHPRA. He has since been forced to retrain into an alternative career, so regardless of the eventual tribunal outcome he is unlikely to return to medicine.
AHPRA have disclosed that their investigation began when they received 2 anonymous complaints about Dr Jereth Kok’s social media posts, and that those two complainants have never been his patients.
In this interview we explored the offences alleged by AHPRA, using AHPRA screenshots of Dr Kok’s social media posts. Most of them are inarguably absurd, satire, or vanilla statements and the remaining are expositions of his Christian views.
We went on to discuss the dangerous reality being set by bodies like AHPRA in censoring doctors and homogenising the ideology of the entire industry, resulting in anti-scientific practices that ignores long-established principles of modern medicine.
DR JERETH KOK
https://www.hrla.org.au/jk-day-court
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Mandate Hell - a Review of Legal Challenges with Banga Legal
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Mandate Hell - a Review of Legal Challenges with Banga Legal
1hr 37min
This is the story of John – a Queensland Health worker at Gold Coast Hospital (non-patient facing) who is facing dismissal for not taking a second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, despite booking an appointment and trying to have it.
John was advised by multiple medical practitioners including a vaccine expert that he should definitely not take a second dose considering the severe adverse reaction he had after the first, which included paralysis.
He is now both unable to receive a second dose and unable to work at Gold Coast Hospital who are erroneously claiming, amongst other things, that he has not received a first dose.
John has multiple valid medical exemptions including from the Federal Government. As John waits in limbo, his job has already been advertised and has reportedly been filled internally on a permanent basis.
John is represented by Samir Banga from Banga legal who joined us to discuss both the case and the status of legal challenges to vaccine mandates in Australia more broadly.
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The companies he founded in The Justified Talent Group are known for taking a scientific and data-driven approach in an industry often steered by legend, folklore and fallacy.
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James’s expertise sheds light on the importance of sales psychology in the modern business world, and how it can be used to build strong relationships with customers, rather than simply pushing products.
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Lipid Nanoparticles: The Real Danger of mRNA Vaccines?
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Lipid Nanoparticles: The Real Danger of mRNA Vaccines?
1hr 43min
Christie Grace is a specialist in RNA and lipid nanoparticles and was a project manager at the top plasmid company in the world manufacturing recombinant proteins such as monoclonal antibodies, CRISPR, SpCas9, gene editing, and IVT mRNA production.
For two years Christie has been raising the alarm over harms that can be caused by lipid nanoparticles and has concerns over cold chain management, vaccine production quality assurance/control and the medical community’s unwillingness to look at the scientific data.
This is a deep and specific conversation delving into the science of lipid nanoparticles which may become the next target for scientific investigation of vaccination injuries and death.
*Apologies for the host repeatedly slipping and calling LNPs ‘liquid nanoparticles’.
We discussed:
- Lipid nanoparticles (LNP)
- The structure of an LNP
- Mass manufacturing LNPs
- Zeta potential of LNPs leading to leakage into the vascular system and the heart
- Are lipid nanoparticles safe?
- The Ostwald effect on lipids
- How to cause clots and aneurysms
- Dying suddenly in the absence of metals means lipid growth
- Why harms were immediately obvious years ago
- Fibrin, protease reactions and photos of rapid clotting
- Claims from morticians of long, stringy clots
- Photos of branching clots in lungs
- Why clots are only associated with AstraZeneca and not Pfizer
- Excess of negatively charged mRNA resulting in clots
- CDC issues new warning advisory for clots
- Why adverse reactions are rare
- ‘Death batches’ and TGA (Aust) FOI releases showing fragments of junk mRNA
- How cold chain transport of mRNA vaccines works
- How to make a vaccine
- Protein misfolding in the lab and in the body
- What is the definition of ‘vaccine’?
- Genetic therapeutics
- How do our cells know when to stop producing spike protein?
- Finding spike protein around the body
- Gaslighting women over disruptions to their menstrual cycles
- Japanese FOI data on lipids concentrating in organs
- Cardiac myocytes that take up lipids
- How the vaccine rollout could have been done better
- Steel-manning the other side
- Extrapolating LNP damage into the future
- Linearised DNA (helix straightened) that could cause long term impacts
- Lean body composition associated with higher risk of inflammation response
- Distinguishing Long Covid from vaccine injury
- ‘The spawning pit of degradation’
- ‘The amygdala of the internet’
- Malfeasance and culture inside Big Pharma
- Silencing of scientists
- The Fauci emails
- Directed evolution and the Pfizer leaks
- Is Chinese CCP propaganda correct for once?
- Confirmation bias, self reflection and epistemological query
- Comparing the scientific honesty of both sides
- How does science progress if it won’t question itself?
- Hope for the future of medicine
CHRISTIE GRACE
https://twitter.com/_HeartofGrace_
https://christielauragrace.substack.com
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Lauren Dry: Why People Can't Let Go of the Pandemic
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Lauren Dry: Why People Can't Let Go of the Pandemic
1hr 39min
Lauren Dry is a specialist in nervous system and unconscious-driven behaviours. She joined Discernable to explore why so many people are ‘stuck’ post-pandemic and acting emotionally and unconsciously.
Serving as case study is the paradoxical treatment of Novak Djokovic by angry Australians, and the way humans descend into groupthink, social norms and reactionary grasps for ‘safety’.
Steered by media and opportunistic governments, populations swing from one ‘villain’ to another, with some ultimately finding themselves in the arms of ‘freedom’ movements that are just as manipulative and fear-driven.
Is there a way to break free and live aware of our unconscious triggers, motivations and vulnerabilities?
We discussed:
- The groupthink that condemned Novak Djokovic
- The Asch conformity experiments
- Creating social norms that contain no logic
- The man from Nunawading who can’t let go
- Allowing the ‘protector’ part of ourselves to take over
- Fight, Flight, Fawn or Freeze
- Physical somatic practices before, during and after stress
- Novak Djokovic made the lightning rod for all threats to our safety
- Dividing internal ‘self’ in order to survive
- Anger over dirty dishes
- Connecting in uncomfortable conversations
- Pixar’s Inside Out
- Allowing partial personalities to take over
- Media and politics needs you in a state of fear
- Red flag: lack of complexity
- The ‘freedom’ movement exploiting people’s fears
- Making self-awareness great again
- Most of the population is not conscious of their actions
- Exuding an atmosphere of safety
- Finding idols and role models
- Treat your triggers like you treat your children
- What is authenticity?
- The Liver King
- Is Jacinda Ardern authentic?
- Is Justin Trudeau authentic?
- Is Oprah authentic?
- How to understand Andrew Tate
- How to determine authenticity
- What’s the deal with Jordan Peterson?
- Female role models
- Teal Swan ‘the cult leader’
- Long dead heroes
- Finding an anchor for your soul
- Adopting a posture of surrender and humility