My name is Ali Abdal. I'm a doctor turned entrepreneur and author of The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, Feel Good Productivity, which, very excitingly, is now available in paperback.

And really the core thesis of the book is that if you want to be more productive in a way that's actually enjoyable, meaningful, meaningful and enjoyable, it means we're more productive, we're more creative, we're less stressed, and we have more energy to give to the other important areas of our life.

So if any of that sounds good, you might like to check the book out.

It is available pretty much everywhere books are sold.

From Mike Lee, director of Mr. Turner and Secrets and secrets and lies people can't stand them don't miss hard truths bafter nominated for outstanding british film and leading actress i just wanted to stop you worry me you know featuring one of the best performances of the year marianne Jean-Baptiste is exceptional and Oscar-worthy.

I don't understand you, but I love you.

Hard Truth.

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We are still early in the new year, and extreme weather and wildfires have already displaced and threatened so many

people here in Southern California, which is where I am based. So it is timely to hear from

grid guru Jason Huang. In his 2024 talk, he presses the need to upgrade the power grids to be

more resilient in natural disasters and to better support the

transition to renewable energy. It couldn't be more important right now. That's coming up.

One of the greatest invention of all times is our transmission and distribution grid.

It connects electricity generation to electricity consumption safely, reliably, resilient against extreme weather conditions

and keep our lights on.

But if we were to facilitate electrification of everything, this most sophisticated and largest machine or earth is not quite large enough to take on all the renewable generations from where the sun shines and the wind blows to where people actually live.

It does not have the capacity to handle the two-third energy that we consume, not yet in the form of electricity.

Without transmission, we have no transition. The real bottleneck in our power grid is actually the conductors.

Those wires that are carrying electron are based on outdated technology invented in 1908.

It has limited capacity and also poor efficiency.

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