Tuesday, December 26, 2023

How You Can Go from Prison and Skid Row to MIT - Daniel Dart's One In a Million Story

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-mans-wild-journey-from-prison-and-gangs-to-high-finance-140013426.html

Great work by Rick Newman.

During the last 10 years, Daniel Dart has assembled an elite network of contacts and supporters that completely transcend his troubled beginnings. He asks successful people to mentor him and makes sure to keep in touch. I reached out to some of those supporters.


Street cred has value, too. “He has an incredible adaptability,” says Johan Bjurman Bergman, who worked with Dart for several months on the Saudi project. “He can go to Skid Row and start a conversation with somebody who’s been homeless for 10 years, then he works his way into the rooms where you’ve met him.” Like seemingly everybody, Bergman met Dart at a conference, where he stood out among the business-casual crowd thanks to his signature beanie and tattoos.

How You Can Watch YouTube Videos without Ads

Never watch an annoying ad again!

You get your results, now hover on the link to one of the videos you're thinking of watching, and copy  the link. Paste that :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h3lByx59ns

Now, hack that to be 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9h3lByx59ns

That's it! "watch?v=" becomes "/"

No more torture!

How about this for a cool one - did you want to listen to a YouTube video and not have to waste power on the screen? Now you can :

You go to Safari and put in youtube.com. Good. Now, the site comes up and, you then tap on the AA on the left of the address bar. That brings up a menu on which you can select "Request Desktop Website". That's it! You're now in business. Yes, it's harder to read stuff because it's your tiny screen and you've "asked for it," but, now, once you start playing the video and it pauses after you lock the screen. You just swipe and tap play to get it rolling again! Nice?