We start today talking about what the data says about your job.  It's a job seeker market right now; if you have thought of a change, now is an excellent time to look at options.  An interview between Ryan Holiday from Daily Stoic and Molly Bloom from the book and movie Molly's Game is an enjoyable listen.  We follow that with a stairway as art in France, and more data, this time on how we consume music these days.

The Morning Brew linked us with a story on FLOWINGDATA called Where Else You Can Work.  The article's premise is one you have read before; if you are considering switching jobs, where are your current skills transferable to other areas.  For example, if a business person wants to become a teacher, there are several transferable skills, but what additional requirements would you need to have before moving into teaching.

The article goes a step further; you can type in the job you are interested in and show you the industries you could apply to for that job.  Below is the generation for Writers and Authors.

We selected Random Occupation, and the system chose "Acupuncturist."  The difference between the number of jobs a writer can get versus an acupuncturist was big.  The data used came from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Following the data, the following chart shows a list of occupations and the percentages of those occupations that switch with the most frequency.  The top flip job is a lifeguard, and the least is a judge.

We ran across a Twitter Thread from Sieva Kozinsky, who talks about the Last Time principle.  Like the Rocking Chair exercise, the Last Time principle makes you think about a finite life and what if this was the last time you could do whatever makes you uncomfortable.  The Rocking Chair exercise is about imagining you are sitting in your rocking chair at the twilight of life.  Would the tough decision(s) you are working through now go a different way if you thought about them from the chair?

When kids are young, and you take them to places like church or a public library and for any of a hundred reasons, they are not happy, and they start to cry, sometimes even scream, there is a little trick we've used with success.  Tell yourself they can't scream for 5 minutes, and start the countdown clock in your head.  9 times out of 10, the kids were done screaming in less than 5; on the rare occasion they went longer, you might have to remove them from the space.  The 5-Minute Rule works with internal issues as well. 

In his podcast Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday interviewed Molly Bloom, the infamous host of a high-stakes poker game in LA.  Bloom’s story was turned into a movie written and directed by Aaron Sorkin called Molly’s Game.  Here are a few highlights from the podcast:

In an article we dissected over several days, the NYT wrote a story about the real or perceived current situation with digital ads.  As a publication that does not have any ads, we are always interested in stories about how ads, especially bad ads continue to show up when feeds are promoted as being personalized.

The number one reason any publication supported by ads, wants as many ads as it can get is revenue.  Over the last several months, digital advertising spends are getting cut back.  When the large players pull back on digital advertising, it leaves room for the “not-so-big” companies to fill the void, and the spots and the digital ads won’t be as relevant.

When companies pull back on ad spend, companies that rely on that spend, also have to reduce.  Less people to do the work, more bad ads can get through the system.

A new parking garage in France called QPark Ravet is a combination of function and beauty.  A tough combination for most parking centers.  Working with the artist Krijn de Koning the new facility utilizes contemporary art, curves and designs to give a new perspective on facilities.  A striking red cantilevering belvedere, sits atop and along side the structure, giving both an artistic sense to the structure and a lookout over the city from the top of the facility.

Visual Capitalist breaks down where we get our music from these days.  It’s not surprising more than half of all music is from streaming.  We were a little surprised by radio’s 17%, is SiriusXM considered radio or streaming? 

One by One.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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