Scott D. Clary

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On the Success Story podcast, Scott has candid interviews with execs, celebrities, notable figures and politicians. All who have achieved success through both wins and losses, to learn more about their life, their ideas and insights. 

He sits down with leaders and mentors and unpacks their story to help pass those lessons onto others through both experiences and tactical strategy for business professionals, entrepreneurs and everyone in between.

To get more of the Success Story podcast, go to www.podcast.scottdclary.com or www.youtube.com/c/scottdclary.

What you tolerate becomes your standard.

Not what you want. Not what you ask for. What you accept when it doesn't show up.

Let someone miss a deadline with no consequence and that's the new timeline. Let someone talk over you in meetings and that's the new dynamic. 
Let yourself skip the gym "just this once" and that's the new normal.

Standards aren't set by what you say. They're set by what you let slide.

And people are always watching for what you let slide.

This works in every direction. Relationships. Work. How you treat yourself. The bar is wherever you last accepted less than you wanted.

Most people think they have a standards problem. They don't. They have an enforcement problem.

Decide what you won't tolerate. Then actually don't tolerate it.

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I’m the founder of WWA, a modern media & marketing agency, the host of Success Story (#1 Entrepreneur Podcast - 50m+ downloads) and I write a weekly email to 321,000 people.

The people who grow fastest have one thing in common—they actively seek out critics and completely ignore enemies.

Most people do the opposite. They surround themselves with people who nod along, then spend hours thinking about the haters.

That's backwards.

Your critics are an unpaid advisory board. They're telling you what your friends are too polite to say. The investor who passed and told you why. The customer who left and explained what was missing. The mentor who pushed back on your "brilliant" idea.

That feedback is expensive to get. Most people just ghost you. When someone takes the time to tell you what's wrong, that's data.

Enemies don't have data. They have resentment dressed up as opinions. Nothing you do will satisfy them because their issue isn't your work. It's your existence.

The trap is treating them the same. Either you armor up against everyone and stop learning. Or you let everyone in and get paralyzed by noise.

The skill is knowing which is which. Then chasing the critics and starving the enemies of attention.

One makes you better. The other just drains you.

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Turning Data Into Better Decisions | Follow Me for Daily Tips to Make You More Tech Savvy | Technology Leader & Entrepreneur

Working in technology for 18 years, I knew organizations and clients needed more help than industry was providing:

Here are some of the real challenges I saw clients and organizations facing:

🎯Feeling like people were throwing technology solutions at them without fully understanding the problem
🎯Knowing their data could be used for much more but not knowing how to do this
🎯Not having trusted and skilled advisors to be able to help them make technology decisions
🎯Feeling overwhelmed by the rate of technological change and not knowing where to begin
🎯Not having enough training or understanding to evaluate technology solutions
🎯Technology transformation failing because the people element was ignored
🎯Consultants not connecting the mission with the solution and technology

To solve these challenges, I knew I needed to start a dynamic technology company to bring together world-class talent to help our clients be more tech savvy and to help organizations adapt to new technologies.  

In 2022, Avenir Technology was born. Avenir means future. Because as Peter Drucker said, "the best way to predict the future is to create it." 

We are a team of 15 people who help our clients feel more comfortable with technology and help them adapt to new technologies faster and solve their organizational problems.

Our clients are in the public and commercial sectors. 

To learn more, visit: www.avenirtechnology.net. 

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Ashley Nicholson

Breaking: Google just dropped 10 free AI courses.
Zero cost. Full access. Enterprise-level training:

This is the same curriculum Google uses internally.

I've deployed AI across federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. These courses cover the fundamentals that actually matter.

1/ Master the Foundations:

↳ Introduction to Generative AI
Learn what powers ChatGPT and similar tools
https://lnkd.in/ghGR-kqa

↳ Introduction to Large Language Models
Understand how LLMs actually work under the hood
https://lnkd.in/gMKCQ7nf

↳ Introduction to Responsible AI
Build AI systems that don't create liability
https://lnkd.in/g4EAJmGT

2/ Build Real Applications:

↳ Prompt Design in Vertex AI
Master the skill that separates amateurs from professionals
https://lnkd.in/gWJg-6aP

↳ Introduction to Image Generation
Create visual content with AI tools
https://lnkd.in/ggZWmem7

↳ Introduction to Generative AI Studio
Google's platform for building AI applications
https://lnkd.in/gRnedPKk

3/ Technical Deep Dive:

↳ Encoder-Decoder Architecture
The foundation of modern AI translation and summarization
https://lnkd.in/gc-g3-fq

↳ Attention Mechanism
How AI learns to focus on what matters
https://lnkd.in/gfXVJFPw

↳ Transformer Models and BERT Model
The breakthrough that changed everything
https://lnkd.in/gGGKTCsS

↳ Create Image Captioning Models
Build AI that understands visual content
https://lnkd.in/g62aH2sf

4/ Your Action Plan:

↳ Start with section 1. Master foundations first.
↳ Move to section 2 for practical skills.
↳ Hit section 3 when you need technical depth.

Don't skip around. Follow the sequence.

The AI transformation is happening now. 

These courses give you the foundation to participate instead of watching from the sidelines.



Which course are you starting with?

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Breaking: AWS just dropped 8 guides for building effective AI agents:
Here's how to avoid being left behind:

1/ Agentic AI patterns and workflows on AWS:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dGkYm3gz

2/ Foundations of agentic AI on AWS
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dfmJhNJX

3/ Writing best practices for RAG:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/db48nc_k

4/ Agentic AI frameworks, protocols, and tools on AWS:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/d2TgBpQK

5/ Building architectures for agentic AI on AWS:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/d9AyTyRg

6/ Creating RAG solutions on AWS for healthcare:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dZgkkscS 

7/ Choosing an AWS vector database for RAG use cases:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dd3qdmtb

8/ Building serverless architectures for agentic AI using AWS:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dYHEZ5Ac

What are you going to learn first.

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The most dangerous man in technology isn't Elon Musk.
It's a 28-year-old kid:
And Zuckerberg just gave him 15 BILLION DOLLARS to build a "superintelligence lab" for Meta. 

His name is Alexandr Wang.
And while we were all looking at the visible geniuses....
He controlled the invisible power.

He didn't start a social network.
He didn't sell electric vehicles.
He didn't build rockets. 

Wang did something infinitely more strategic:
He created the infrastructure on which all of AI would learn from.

His business: Scale AI.
Clients: OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.

And his advantage?

↳ Seeing the models before anyone.
↳ Collecting the best data.
↳ Knowing what was coming.... before anyone suspected anything.

Because every time a business wants to train AI, it will likely go through him.

And now, Meta wants all this power on their side.
They didn't just get Wang.
They bought access to this corner of the market. 

And here's the craziest thing:
Wang didn't want to be famous.
He didn't scream on social media.
He didn't want visibility. 

He simply constructed something so essential....
The rest didn't have another choice but to rely on him.

While others compete for attention,
He constructed a system that changed the game.

This was the strategy.

It was playing the game from the top.

And seeing things others didn't see.


What do you think of this?

Did Meta make a smart acquisition? 

Share your thoughts below. 



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