HOW TO SELL ANYTHING TO ANYBODY BY JOE GIRARD

Sales are the foundation of every business. We can call an entity "Business" if is not making any sales. It is simple concept if you can't sale, you can't make any money that is the true. If you are in the situation to start your own business, having good sales skills can give you a huge advantages.

To reinforce what I 've said before , I will give an example "Steve Wozniack" was creative genius behind company "Apple". He was the man in charge with designing and creation of first Apple products. He couldn't achieve alone what "Apple " is today, very creative and intelligent person, but he has one lack, we couldn't sale, he wasn't a good sales person. Instead Steve Jobs was the opposite of him good business skills and entrepreneurship drive.

It become obvious how important is to have good sales skills. A book that I founded interesting is: "How to sell anything to anybody" written by Joe Girard.  It is not more a good example to follow in sales than Joe Girard. Is probably the most remarkable person ever to come along in the world of retail selling.  He use to say: " Working smart and being persistent could achieve wonders".

In conclusion I highly recommend this book, it provide valuable insights from the man with impressive track records. He is know like: "The World Greatest Salesman" , he entered in Guinness Book of World Records with 1,425 cars sold in one year and 13,001 in fifteen years of activity.

SELF DRIVING CARS FOR A BETTER WORLD

According with World Health Organization nearly 1, 35 million people die on road crashes every year, an average 3,287 deaths per day.  Should this statistics make us to worry?   The answer is Yes, the truth is that you are not safe when you drive a car or when you are in a car.

To reduce road accidents governments and non governments institutions have took some actions to try to prevent road crashes. In the following moment I will present some measures taken by governments in hooping to reduce car accidents:

• reducing speed limit
• reducing alcohol level and in some cases prohibiting alcohol
• raising awareness of legislation and increasing of fees
• making vehicles more protective for occupants

Unfortunately this measures wont work. Maybe I'm to critique and don't have enough conviction , it's very hard to educate people in general. In my view one of the best solution to solve this problem are self driving cars.

WHAT ARE SELF DRIVING CARS?

Also known as autonomous vehicle is a vehicle that is capable to move safely with no human input. That means that those cars have incorporated Artificial Intelligence based systems. We can enumerated here some companies which are developing self driving cars like: Tesla , Uber and so on.
A research made by IHS Markit predicted that installation rate of AI based systems for cars will increase with by 109% by 2025.


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SELF DRIVING CARS

To create a AI based for a car we need to implement some techniques like: deep learning, machine learning , algorithms like: linear algebra, probabilities, programming languages like Python. The process of creating a self drive cars can be split in three main stages:

Stage 1   Data Collecting  Input ( supercomputer, electronically radars, comunication systems, traffic light cameras, trifocal camera, Gps,

Stage 2  We train data set

Stage 3  We have the output which include :( object detection, voice recognition, speech recognition, Eye tracking, maping system, driver monitoring and so on)

In the end I would like to emphasize that even this cutting edge creations failed few times. Here I would like to mention that a women was killed by a self driving car tested by Uber and two Tesla pilots have died .  Despite of this isolated failures I still firmly believe that self driving cars are the best solution for decrease road accidents and to become a better world.

MY TOP 10 MOVIES ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Humans are the most advance species which live on this Planet. The fundamental question of us is how human intelligence will evolve to rising of machines. It ' s no easy way to understand better AI rather than movies. In today article I made a ten 10 movies about artificial intelligence

1 Ex Machina 2015

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Directed by Garland, is in my view the best movie about AI. This movie emphasize what "Elon Musk and professor Stephen Hawking have said about AI " we need to be careful".  The story of this movie is a coder at a tech company which is hired to a secret research facilities where his task is to create and test new AI systems.

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2 Chappie 2015

Directed by Neill Blomkamp, with Hugh Jackma and Shartto Copley. The action of the movie happens somewhere in the future , where a robot police force keep organize crime at bay.

3 Stealth  2005

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For a fighter jet pilot to be shoot down behind enemy lines is the worst scenario. Directed by Rob Cohen the story of this movie is about to unamaned fighter jet that hits target oversea.

4 TAU Kidnaped by an inventor 2018

Directed by Federico D' Allesandro the  movies is about an inventor who kidnape a woman and use her as test subject to perfect his robotic AI. The woman try to escape from a high tech prison.

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5 I'M A MOTHER 2019

Direct by Grant Sputore, the story of the movie is about a teen who is raised by a maternal droid

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6       iBOY  2017   Directed by Adam Randall

When shards of a cell phone get lodget in a teenager's brain, he discovers he can control electronic devices and uses his power for revenge.

7        ESCAPE   PLAN 2     2018     Directed by Steven Miller

The story of this movie how a security expert Ray Breslin (Silvester Stallone)  try to escape from a cutting age prison, where he must to fight for his life, and look to escape.

8       OTHER LIFE         2017   Directed by Ben Lucas

This thriller created by "Ben Lucas"  presents the story of a drug that induces time compessed virtual realities.

9  BLADE RUNNER 2049    2017  Directed by Denis Villenueve

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The contest of a hidden grave draw the interest of an industrial titan and send Office K (Ryan Gosling) an LAPD blade runner, on guest to find a missing legend.

10    TERMINATOR      1984   Directed by James Cameron

The story is well know a cyborg assasin  Terminator ( Arnold  Schwarzenegger) is sent back from the future to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor.

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Pitch Perfect - Pitch your Startup

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 Tomorrow 25 September 2019 I will have the honor to attend to an event organized by EasyPeasy Limited, which will take place Nova UCD Innovation Center. Nova UCD is Ireland's leading innovation center with a track record for startups.  In the last years Nova UCD has supported  over 360 companies .

                                                          About the event

The event itself will be a good opportunity for entrepreneurs  to pitch startup ideas and to learn about other startups and to get constructives feedbacks about their pitch.

  What should I expect from the event?

There no good teachers to teach about entrepreneurships  than entrepreneurs . Your startup idea will be judges by investors, entrepreneurs ,but also to get feedback from the audience.
     

HYPERSPACE BY MICHIO KAKU

      A  Scientific Odissey through parallel universes, time warps, and the ten dimension


They say that universe is infinite in time and space, but can we measure it? In his book  HyperSpace Michio Kaku gives us some insights about space, time and universe. The book is exploring questions and some answers of what level of technology is necessary to master the hyperspace.

 No far from present the scientiest belived , that space has 3 dimensions, Albert Einstein came out with an extended concept which include "Time" as four dimension. Some scientist are intersted going beyond Einstein's conception of four dimension . Current scientific interest centres of the fifth dimension ( the spatial dimension beyond time and three dimension of space and beyond.

Time machine, whormhole are proposed like technologies that can connect past with the future. Fiding answers to these questions , the scientiest may be able to unlock the deepest secrets of our time and the process of Creation itself.

FRUGAL INNOVATION BY NAVI RADJOU AND JAIDEEP PRABHU

                                     HOW TO DO BETTER WITH LESS


We are witnessing to a revolution in frugal innovation. To be a successful company today implies huge pressure from customers, they become more cost-concious and eco-aware are demanding affordable sustainable and high quality products.

Frugal innovation is a game changing business strategy ,but is more than a strategy it denotes a new frame of mind one that sees resource constraint as an opportunity.

By being an early movers these innovators are consolidating their position and leaving their competitors behind.

THE ART OF WAR SUN TZU

 If I have to count one of strategies , that have contributed to China expansion in the last decades is with no doubt the lessons of acient chinese  warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu.

China expansion seams instopable, if you look how chinese goods are spreading around the world and the military build up from South China's Sea, where PLA (People's Liberation Army) is challenging the mighty US Navy.

Written over two thousand years ago is one of the most important book about leadership and strategy.
The Art of War startegies are applying in politics and business, many organizations have studied these strategies.

The book aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strenght through understanding of the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.