ACLR: What Makes You Matter?

Welcome back to ACLR you adventurous curiosity seekers. In this episode we discuss, dissect, and debate an increasingly hot topic in the age of AI. What gives us purpose and what’s required for us to feel we matter? How will ideas like Universal Basic Income address this challenge as AI leaps ever closer to replacing our individual economic relevance? Stuff like that.

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5 Words That Will Make Your Sales Suck

I really don’t get excited about accounting & finance, but today was amazing because I thought someone had paid-it-forward on my bank statement. I was mentally halfway packed for a fabulous vacation when something annoying caught my attention. Digging up my prior months’ financial statements made it clear that my windfall was a mistake—a mistake that resulted from an earlier mistake made by the bank that I had spent hours correcting the month before…and the month before that.

I called my financial person. She knows me. I explained the situation and she said that she would “try again” (up-spoken) to fix it. Was it a question that she would even try? I told her not to bother since I would be happy to “keep the change” as long as it was legal and she and her company didn’t mind.

She chuckled and then she said the magic words

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