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Books, Faith, People, Spirituality

Nuts and Bolts Spirituality – by Richard Blackstone

Richard D. Blackstone profile imageI was conditioned all my life to believe in the American dream of working hard, following the rules, investing in my retirement and America and then reaping the rewards at the appropriate time.

Well, I worked hard, followed the rules, made the investments but I never was able to reap the rewards. What was it that I was missing?

What I came to find out was that I was “sleepwalking through Life” because I was looking to the outside world for all my answers and thinking that life was happening to me and I had to keep reacting to the people, events and circumstances in my life.

I didn’t realize that I was living my life unconsciously and the natural consequence of that existence was lack, illness and frustration.

Then a fortuitous event happened in my life and I began to see life from an entirely different perspective that opened my eyes to the idea that I was creating my life, whether I knew I was or not.

The whole problem I had was one of ignorance about the immutable laws of the universe that govern all of creation and my lack of knowledge about “who I really am.”

Once I got on this path of self awareness and started creating my life consciously everything changed in my world.

Once I understood my true nature I was able to begin the conscious creation of my life where abundance, health and harmony flowed to me easily and effortlessly.

I am now an award-winning author and international speaker about life, love and the true nature of how the universe works. I live an abundant life in total wellness and am in harmony with all of life.

Wow! Now I am blessed to teach these life skills to others and there is no more rewarding experience for me. Yes, I am following my bliss and raising the consciousness of all humanity at the same time. Life is good.

It is all good. I am building my dream house on the banks of the Coast Fork of the Willametter River in Pleasant Hill, Oregon with my four cats surrounded by nature. I wake up every morning giving thanks for having woken up to my true authentic self and I appreciate everything that happens in my life.

Life is good and it is all a matter of perspective. We are all on a path of self improvement and that path will always take you to an understanding of self as a priority destination.

Thank you for being in my life.

Live in love,

Richard D. Blackstone

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5 Questions, Business Development, Online Marketing, Sales & Marketing

Five Pillars of Marketing Success

Does the following give a pretty good picture of your current marketing activity?

You have a website but you’re not really satisfied with it. You go to networking events once in awhile. If someone asks you to give a talk, you’re happy to do it. You post on Facebook and/or LinkedIn semi-regularly. When you find the time, you send an article to those on your relatively small email list. You occasionally set up meetings with colleagues to explore opportunities.

Now there’s nothing wrong with any of those marketing activities. And usually, they will result in landing some new clients. But this is not the approach that works to get a steady, predictable stream of new clients.

Please don’t tune me out here, thinking, “Well, I really can’t do more than this. I’m already stretched thin. If you give me too much to do I’ll get overwhelmed.”

I agree. It’s not that you need to do more marketing, it’s that you need to shift your marketing paradigm from one of “Randomness” to one that is “Focused.” Continue reading →

Business Services, Capital Markets, Finance, Software, Technology

BFSI moving to a Cloud-first paradigm

Cloud migration is an integral part of the digital transformation journey of banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) firms. Many BFSI firms are adopting cloud-first strategies to realize the benefits of business excellence, innovation, speed-to-market, and operational and infrastructure savings. BFSI organizations tend to initiate the cloud migration journey by adopting infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) models and evolve to embracing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models as cloud solutions and products mature. Successful migration will, however, depend on choosing the right cloud deployment models as well as cloud service models. BFSI firms must consider some crucial factors while choosing the cloud migration model:

  • Business value and technology
  • Functional uniqueness and product maturity
  • Privacy, security, and regulatory requirements
  • Costs, scalability, and performance

Aparna Jiddu
Platform Architect, Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance, TCS

Sripada Sarma
Solution Architect, Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance, TCS

Artificial Intelligence

Explainable AI (XAI) to understand ML Models

AI systems are increasingly being entrusted with making critical decisions. Many of these decisions might have a considerable impact on businesses and even our lives. Machine learning (ML) is at the core of these decision systems.

The evolution of deep learning has resulted in a tremendous increase in the accuracy of these decisions, but the machine learning models that these AI systems are based on are mostly ‘black boxes’. The human mind, however, is not comfortable with trusting a system that makes a decision without letting it into the rationale behind this. And where trust is in deficit, acceptance is difficult.

Explainable AI (XAI) refers to a set of tools and techniques that help us humans interpret and trust the decisions made by ML models.

https://www.tcs.com/content/dam/tcs/pdf/discover-tcs/Research-and-Innovation/explainable-ai-machine-learning-models.pdf

– by Jayashree Arunkumar
Technical Architect, Incubation, Research and Innovation, TCS