Saturday, January 28, 2012

Inspiration

Hi All 

I Just landed in Los Angeles and had a fantastic day
Its late and I am a little tired but i had to get this out to switch my brain into sleep mode.
As you know by now my blogs contain all sorts of things including business and trips inside my head to see how my brain works.
Well Today I want to bring up something that i keep getting asked about in one form or another


How do I do what I do? and more importantly what do I do?
Am I a technology guy , a CEO, musician, music producer, teacher, ?
Well yes i suppose I am but to be honest I am everything, and By Everything I am who myself wants me to be.
But to do tis you have to find out who you are and trust me this is not easy and I am not even sure if I have fully 
But I know one thing I lead a fulfilled life and because of it magical things happen.
Sounds like a fairytale but it's totally true
I mix with the biggest celebs in the world and they are my friends not on a party level but on a creative level.
If I try and explain who I am  people they do not understand because people are programmed to associate people with their image and put that person in a box.
That's the advantage I am who I am and true to myself.

I believe deep down we all want something to believe in, something that inspires us, but I also believe a lot of people don't know who they are.
We seem to be programmed to believe the most important things in life are owning a house, having a great job with a big title, being rich what car you drive 
not to mention what school and brands you wear.

If you are really interested in this stuff check this documentary out. Its on youtube free and is totally amazing
great food for the brain "the century of self" 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM

How do we find something to believe in something that inspires us. how do we become fulfilled
Well Fulfilled is a great word but the trouble is  finding it. By finding it I mean, moving beyond a dictionary and finding the source of that fulfilment within.

I am not a doctor, scientist or anything really but people continually ask me where i get my energy from? 
If I honestly had an answer it would be because I am inspired.
Work is not a word I totally understand because I always do what i want to and love to.

We are so programmed that we believe
We have to go to college to get a great job (that is not true at all, my friend Bam Margera left high school to follow his dream of being a pro skateboarder
he did that and much much more.
I never went past high school but I spent all my time, through my whole life doing what I like and not compromising that.
Funny thing is I have always been happy.
I have had really low time like everyone else but at least I am responsible for my own life and I strive to make sure I empower those around me.

My formula 
1: drive comes from 2:  inspiration which leads to a 3: a fulfilled life

I often get asked how do i find inspiration
Its a hard one to answer but here goes
Inspiration comes about because of change or seeing the possibility of change.  
If you always do the same things, this will be either minimal or non-existent.  
You must search out and have new experiences in order to find inspiration.  
This works by seeing new places or people that can inspire you.  

3 tips that I use to get inspiration

A For one week Do not watch any television except documentaries, no reality TV, news nothing (Documentaries are great brain food and expand you mind)
  
B This week, any time you have a problem (with anything) regardless of the size of the disaster, don't complain, try to think of the positive effect of the problem ( even if its wrong)
   you are training your mind to challenge your programming, to grow, expand and be positive.
Here is a good question how do you know something is wrong? is it because someone told you maybe everyone told you it was wrong.
Does that make it wrong that people have told you it was wrong. If you said i know it was wrong. Well how do you know.
Everything we know is based on history. History is wrong all the time.
 
C Wake up and first thing think of 20 things you are grateful for. Start your day in a good mindset
  how often do we hear about the importance of breakfast. How often do we hear about starting the day in a good headspace.
  A lot of people wake up rush around, start worrying about their upcoming day, what clothes to wear, who's dropping off the kids
  they turn on the news ( which is all bad news) then eat either (a healthy breakfast because it is good for you) or rush or skip breakfast because there is not time.

This is not the way to be inspired and fulfilled.  It is 12:19 am in LA 3:19 new york and I have to be up in a few hours But i love it i am inspired.

I could go on and on but even inspiration needs sleep.

Finbar's Challenge Submission #4

By Peter La Fontaine ( Bali Indonesia) Fri 27th of Jan PST 12:12:08 PM

Remember KISS (Keep It Simple )
1) You know how flash doesn't work on an iphone?  with Linus it will
2) Imagine being able to stop, pause then play the SAME  video on your mac, iphone, windows mobile, xbox, internet connected TV in fact any device with a browser from anywhere in the world from a single file?
3) What's the problem with all of the following technologies;
YouTube (Short form content, one format I have to find stuff)
DVD - YOU NEED the disk, disks get scratched, won't play on my other devices

The Movies - (Ticket and food pricing expensive especially if you are a family, not convenient
Iphone (small screen hard to navigate selection then bandwidth is an issue and costs of data)

Bottom Line there is no STANDARD
Linius unblocks the world of multiple standards by automatically translating the file

4) Say you like surfing, what if you had your own personal video assistant that could search the internet for all of the video content on surfing then imagine your video assistant is able to play that video back to you know matter where you are or what device you're using?
5) Linus I want that video now,is the personal language translator and butler.

Finbar's Challenge Submission #3

By Tim Lapham ( Melbourne Australia ) Fri 27th of Jan PST 12:12:08 PM

"Linius is an Australian company leading a global revolution in the playback of digital video, anywhere, anytime and on any device."
In an Analogy

Linius is the concierge of video.

from Wikipedia

The concierge may, for instance, keep the mail of absented dwellers; be entrusted with the apartment keys to deal with emergencies when residents are absent, provide information to residents and guests, provide access control, enforce rules, and act as a go-between for residents and management when management is not on-site

Finbar's Challenge Submission #2

By Rajneesh Sonji ( Noida India ) Thursday 26th of Jan EST 11:05:12 PM

Linius provides so many advantages that single analogy cannot justify all
that linius stands for.

I would equate it to "auction-house" which collect artifacts from multiple
places, gather all the artifacts at its "auction-place", sell those
artifacts to highest bidder.

it has flows -
1. cost involve in transporting paintings from multiple location (dealing
with multiple video-content owners with varying licensing)

2. wastage since many artifacts go unsold needs to be returned (will
transcode and format many content which will not be sold)

3. original owner may be concerned of the security and handling damage
(big studios may not provide content to small aggregator)

4. owner may be concerned that he may not get full price of artifact
(aggregator may not report the actual users of the content)

5. impossible to deal with thousands of artifacts at any given instance.
(small time content aggregator are out of the business)


Now instead of "actual artifact" if they only use "photograph (vStub)" it
just solves all the issue

1. zero cost transport (needs very small server rooms to just need to
store vStub)
2. no handling cost (no transcoding needed)
3. no security concern (only vStub)
4. full price (since content will always shipped to user from content
owners premise or its trusted locations)
5. small cost of setting business (virtually any one with some rented
servers and content deals can become aggregator)


so i think linius democratise and personalise the content distribution
business, and create value for everyone in the chain not by redistribution
of pricing-power buy by creating efficiency

linius reduce wastage on
1. transcoding/
2. customising
3. licensing deals
4. multiple content copy

Finbar's Challenge Submission #1

By Finbar O'Hanlon ( New York USA ) Wed 25th of Jan EST 1:08:05 AM

"think of a single video as an electric cord or cable, 
a cord or cable that has a plug on the end to suit a certian country (player type) 
Linius takes a photo of the wire inside each each cord or cable (the video DNA reference), and stores it in a database so rather than storing physical cords which could be hundreds of feet long x thousand of physical items to inventory we store a single photo. (virtual asset)
When someone want to buy a specific cord for a specific country or voltage (request from device) 
Linius assembles multiple photos of wires (references) from multiple cords or cables (multiple videos) into a new photo ( virtual file) of a single combined strand of wires (reference to multiple videos).
Ok if your still with me this is where the real magic happens
Linius "on the fly" tailor makes a new wire or cord wrapper (black plastic shield)
with the right plug on the end (country), 
delivers it to the wall socket it fits and correct voltage (built for a specific device)
then inserts the new photo of wires (virtual file)  
consisting of multiple wires (multiple Video DNA chunks) 
as the same time the electricity begins to flow without affecting the delivery of video. (on the fly)

IF you said this was possible with an electric cord I would say impossible

Monday, January 23, 2012

Living In the Moment

Today I have been running around making sure we have got on top of the tasks and processes here in the US before I depart for LA and Australia on friday.
It's interesting we as a business have a company that spans Asia, Australia and the United States.

In all this multitasking today I had to remember to live in the moment, not worry about the future or the past

For me Living in the moment is a really hard thing to do it's virtually impossible all of the time 
but when I practice it the path becomes clearer, and things that are outside of my control are recognised
and let go rather than taking energy from a source that has a daily limit.

By removing the clutter caused by focusing on the past and future, and focusing on living in the moment

It clears a path that let's me focus on what I am inspired to do.
When I am inspired other people are inspired and so on and so on.

People often ask me how I work the hours I do, then on the flip side they say "I wish i could do what you do"

Well its simple you can do what I do.
Just get inspired

To be inspired for me at least I have to be free from the clutter in my headsIf

I believe if we are not careful our days can often pass us by while our minds are elsewhere, or we can channel so much energy into negativity or into things we cant control.

I believe we have a daily amount of power when we wake and we decide who we give that power to.

It is important to me to make sure that power goes to the places that are most important.
I'm sure we all know what it feels like to run on empty, like a car when you are running on empty
stress and anxiety raise their heads.
How often have you eaten a meal and not really tasted it, or completed a chore or drove to work without really thinking about it?


Living in the moment does not mean dont plan or set goals

I often ask people what is their motivation, what is it that inspires them, what are their goals.
So often I hear "I don't know"
To me this life we lead is very precious and we all have the capability to steer it in any direction.
Without goals it is like 2 football teams running around a field without an goals.

have a great day



Fin