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Connected Vehicle Software
Connected Vehicle Software

Connected vehicle software refers to the technology and applications that enable vehicles to communicate with each other, infrastructure, and external systems through wireless networks. This software plays a crucial role in facilitating vehicle connectivity and enabling various features and functionalities for enhanced safety, convenience, and efficiency.

Here are some key aspects and capabilities of connected vehicle software:
1. Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Communication: Connected vehicle software allows vehicles to exchange information with nearby vehicles. This communication can provide real-time updates on road conditions, traffic congestion, potential hazards, and other relevant data to enhance safety and improve traffic flow.
2. Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Communication: Connected vehicles can also communicate with roadside infrastructure, such as traffic lights, road signs, and toll booths. This enables vehicles to receive important information, such as traffic signal timing, roadwork alerts, and toll payment instructions, improving efficiency and convenience.
3. Vehicle-to-Cloud (V2C) Communication: Connected vehicle software facilitates the transmission of vehicle data to cloud-based platforms. This data can include vehicle diagnostics, maintenance information, location tracking, and other relevant metrics. The cloud-based platform can process and analyze this data to provide various services like remote vehicle management, predictive maintenance, and personalized user experiences.
4. Over-the-Air (OTA) Updates: Connected vehicle software enables OTA updates, allowing manufacturers to remotely deploy software updates to vehicles. This helps keep vehicles up to date with the latest features, bug fixes, and security patches without requiring physical visits to a service center.
5. Telematics and Fleet Management: Connected vehicle software incorporates telematics systems that collect and transmit vehicle data. Fleet management solutions utilize this data to monitor vehicle performance, track location, manage fuel consumption, optimize routing, and enable efficient fleet operations.
6. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS): Connected vehicle software supports ADAS features like adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, collision avoidance, and automated emergency braking. These systems utilize vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication to enhance safety by providing real-time alerts and assistance to drivers.
7. Infotainment and Connectivity: Connected vehicle software offers various infotainment features to enhance the in-car experience. This includes integration with smartphones, access to streaming services, navigation systems, voice commands, and other entertainment and communication functionalities.
Overall, connected vehicle software plays a crucial role in transforming traditional vehicles into intelligent, data-driven platforms capable of communicating and interacting with their surroundings. It opens up opportunities for improved safety, efficiency, convenience, and future innovations in the automotive industry.
June 6, 2023
Can you tell me a creepy psychological trick?
1. When you are talking to someone, suddenly look behind him. He will immediately turn and look behind himself to see what it was that made you look. If you do this 3–4 times he will be throughly creeped out and will actually change his position so he can himself command the view of what’s behind him. It works even better in a situation where there’s a view behind. This trick is truly creepy because in the right kind of ambiance, the person feels there’s someone he cannot see, and quickly freaks out.
2. When you are talking to someone, look at your watch with sudden movement. The person you are talking to will feel very uncomfortable that he is encroaching on your time and will try to leave you. He may even ask you if yo are in a hurry. (Somehow, looking for time on your mobile phone does not produce the same result, though looking at a wall clock does.)
3. When you are talking to someone, abruptly shush him in the middle and try to act as if you’re trying to listen to something faint that he couldn’t hear. You might add some special effects like: ‘Hey, did you hear that?’ Very creepy! Do it a couple of times and he will turn very uncomfortable.
4. When you are talking to someone, if you lower your volume or whisper, the person will automatically lower his own volume to suit your pitch or whisper back, even if he doesn’t know why you suddenly whispered. It works best in argument situations, explanations, lecture or controlling others when somebody is getting louder than you like. You lower your volume and he has to climb down.
(Many people believe that speaking louder gives them more authority. This is not always true. In any argumentative or any other situation where we want to control the reins in our hands, lowering volume always helps. We automatically gain authority and control over the person or persons who were speaking loudly. Largely also because the loud person knows only being loud and gets terribly confused when he has to lower his volume. (He uses loud volume as his strength.) This kinda disarms him and that’s where you gain grounds.)
1. When you are in a room with one or more persons, busy in conversations or in silence, tap 2–3 times a table top, your laptop, a book or any surface with your knuckles like you’re knocking. No matter what everyone is doing, even when they are 200% convinced there’s no visitor at the door, they will jerk themselves in the direction of the sound to see what it is. Human mind is tuned to the idea of linking knocking as an action that demands immediate response from them, (such as opening the door when a visitor knocks). This trick is fun to creep out friends and distract them, and very very annoying in general settings. It keeps throwing people off their focus and concentration.
January 29, 2023

Psychological
Do I need a Computer Science Degree to become a Web Developer?

Sure, you may well need one to get a job.

But a computer science grad that looks down upon a self-taught coder is like an MBA that looks down on a successful entrepreneur that has never formally studied business.

Both are blinded by their own arrogance.

You don’t need a degree to learn anything. You just need drive, a laptop and an internet connection, as the 13-year-old kid below, who’s building a bot for Slack, is trying to demonstrate.

Trying, because he hasn’t built it yet – but no better way to learn than by doing it.

January 29, 2023

Authentic Leadership
What psychological tricks work on most people?

Here are a few psychological principles that are generally known to influence people’s behavior:

1-Reciprocity: People tend to want to return a favor or do something nice for someone who has done something for them.

2-Authority: People are more likely to follow the directions or recommendations of someone they perceive as an authority figure.

3-Scarcity: People tend to want things more when they think they are scarce or in limited supply.

4-Commitment and consistency: Once people make a commitment, they are more likely to follow through on it and to behave in a way that is consistent with that commitment.

5-Social proof: People are more likely to do something if they see other people doing it.

“”It’s important to use these principal with ethics. “”

January 29, 2023

Psychological
How can I invest as a digital nomad?
It is the same as every other expat but with caveats.

From a very practical point of view, what you need to do is:
- Fill out an online application form with a brokerage. That document will include questions on source of wealth, like where the money originates from.
- Give proof of address (usually a bank or utility statement) and ID (ID card or passport) for anti-money laundering requirements
- Fund the account
The issue is, many digital nomads don’t have things like a tax number overseas, which is asked for as part of the source of wealth requirements.

If you say you are living in Thailand or Malaysia, as an example they will ask for a tax identification number (TIN).

Most nomads don’t have this, and therefore make the mistake of focusing on investing back in their home country.

The issue is, this could be a mistake. Many tax authorities, including in Canada, Australia and beyond, are now cracking down on expats and nomads. They are demanding that expats “show intent” in some cases.

In practice this means giving up ties to your home country, such as cancelling the gym membership and other ties to your country of origin. We don’t know about the future, but this is likely to get worse.
January 29, 2023

Business
How do I become a millionaire?

Browse countless forums, and you’ll find endless advice on adopting “habits” to help you become a millionaire.

You’ve probably heard some fake finance guru tell you to wake up at 4 A.M., take an ice bath, and exercise 7 days a week to maintain a positive mindset 24/7.

But this advice has nothing to do with becoming a millionaire.

The truth is, there is no “magic recipe” or “abundance mindset” that’s going to help you get rich.

So ditch the irrelevant shortcuts and use this curated list of simple (but practical) millionaire money moves to help boost your income, make your money work for you, and more!

Don’t expect to get rich overnight. But you’ll learn some important — and subtle — things millionaires do every day to help grow their wealth.

January 29, 2023

Business
I want to start a business but I don’t have money. What do I do?

Money isn’t usually the problem, although many make themselves believe it is. The real thing holding you back is whether you want to start a business, and I go through that in the video below.

But if you really want to start a business, if you started making progress on starting a business and you were passionate about it, you’d find avenues to getting capital. By talking to people constantly, someone will back you if you’re passionate. And if you really can’t raise money, then get a job, live tight, and spend your spare time and spare money on your lean business – lean because many of the most successful businesses in the world today started lean, i.e. started with minimal expenses as having a lean mindset makes you agile, and agility it crucial in business.

January 29, 2023

Business
How will you become a millionaire again if you are left with $10 only?

Many years ago I remember watching Alan Sugar, a British billionaire entrepreneur, saying what he would do if lost all his money.

His response, which I’ll never forget, was that he knew he could make it all again. He said it with such confidence and conviction.

I feel the same way. Once you’ve done it once, doing it again is easy.

I’ve seen many people lose everything, often in their 40s or 50s, only to bounce back as fast as Ben Johnson on steroids.

What I’d do is as follows:

1. Forget the US$10 and focus on getting an investor.
2. I’d want around US$1m. Start a lean tech startup. I could do it on as little as US$10k but I can get more done and have bigger plans if I have some money to play around with.
3. As long as I’m lean, work hard, and listen to customers, I can’t really go wrong.

January 29, 2023

Authentic Leadership
We need authentic leadership more than ever in 2022

Leaders and managers are being asked to adapt and evolve like never before.

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Are you in the pro-office camp, believing that sustaining high levels of productivity and collaboration as well as a strong and healthy corporate culture demands that employees work under the same roof? Or do you envision a world where your home is your office, and you only make periodic guest appearances at a smaller corporate office?

Whichever side of this debate you favor, pandemic protocols will likely continue to require many organizations to extend operating in a work-from-home (WFH) or hybrid work environment throughout 2022. It’s no longer a short-term exception to tolerate until returning to your more comfortable set of leadership working conditions. It is the new normal. Embracing this new normal requires leaders to choose new approaches, evolve mindsets, and develop heightened interpersonal skills.

As if this transition is not challenging enough for leaders, the world has collectively decided that reducing burnout and improving well-being are organizational imperatives. The data shows that employees are leaving organizations in droves and will make some dramatic life changes to find work-life alignment. This movement alone will likely tip the scales to prioritize a more flexible work environment and keep employees’ wants and desires as the driver of many important organizational business and HR decisions.

As we begin the new year, leaders and managers are being asked to adapt and evolve like never before.

To emerge with an evolved culture, an engaged workforce, and a strong talent pipeline, leaders at all levels will need to engage their personal authenticity. In a world full of mistrust and uncertainty—in institutions, science, information, and people—employees need a leader they can trust. A leader who is honest about themselves, creates conditions that allow their employees to be who they truly are, and provides an environment that brings some calm and comfort to an otherwise chaotic world.

What does it mean to be authentic from a leadership perspective? Turning to Merriam-Webster for clarity, we find three parts to the definition: being real or genuine, being true and accurate, and being made to be or look just like an original. Let’s consider how each part of the definition plays out in today’s leadership landscape.

Leaders who show their real and genuine selves to others at work build stronger bonds of trust. This provides the fuel to power their teams to tackle thorny issues with openness and transparency. Navigating times of change requires faith in others that are guiding them through unknown waters. Said another way, to retain your staff and lead a WFH workforce, leaders cannot be seen as just blindly accepting the company’s rhetoric. They need to find their own voice.

Second, being true and accurate has always been important. But today, in the absence of corporate messages communicated on physical bulletin boards, an employee’s leader becomes their most important communication vehicle. Leaders need to prioritize communication and take time to provide true, accurate information in a timely way.

The last element of authenticity, being seen as original, refers to being true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character. Leaders must know themselves and be comfortable in their own leadership skin. Only then can they relate to others with a trustworthiness and credibility that leads an employee to follow, despite uncertainty, unpleasant working conditions, or other corporate culture challenges.

Research shows that authentic leadership is a significant predictor of an employee’s job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and workplace happiness. So how do you tap into the power of your own authenticity, regardless of what others are doing in your organization?

GET TO KNOW YOURSELF

Get clear on your core values and leadership style. Authentic leaders embrace their unique leadership style that comes. All styles can be effective. I know successful CEOs from each DISC and MBTI type. Whether naturally extroverted and charismatic or introverted with low-key charm and grace, leaders are most successful when they own their style and build a team around them that complements it.

It’s also valuable to reflect on your own life story. Journaling and mindfulness can help you process your experiences and discover who you really are. As Brené Brown said, “When we have the courage to walk into our story and own it, we get to write the ending.”

CONSISTENTLY SHOW UP AS YOUR TRUE SELF

When you dive into deeply understanding yourself and get comfortable with your own humanity, you’re better able to consistently be yourself and let others see your true colors. Many leaders have been taught to hide their weaknesses, cover up their mistakes, and keep a wide distance between their personal selves and their employees. This doesn’t work any longer, and it probably never worked. We want to see the real, true person in our leaders, flaws and all. This is the only way to establish a real connection with the people we lead. When you believe in yourself and your ability to positively impact those around you by using your natural talents, it’s easy to establish a culture of trust with the people you lead.

SEEK FEEDBACK AND KEEP EVOLVING

Finding your authentic self is a journey, not a destination. It takes time and practice. It evolves. The more you show yourself to others and signal that it is safe for others to do the same, the more your conversations become less transactional and more transformational.

Seek input by asking others to share when your words and actions don’t appear to be in alignment. Practice humility by accepting that you may fall short time and again. Learn from it, give yourself space and grace to tap back into your values and natural style, and begin again.

And let’s not forget the imperative of finding more well-being at work. This may be the greatest legacy authentic leaders leave behind. Once you get comfortable showing up as your authentic self, finding more of your own inner peace and well-being in the process, the more others will stop, breathe, reflect, and follow your lead.

February 27, 2022

Authentic Leadership