Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Seek Wealth

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.

The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.

Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.

“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” - Archimedes

Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.

Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.

Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.

Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.

An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.

Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.

There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.

You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar

Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.

Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.

When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.

From the eponymous tweet storm of Naval Ravikant. I have benefitted heavily from this guy.

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<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">The first way to make more money as a Ux designer is to be obsessed. Always be curious and get good at your craft</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The second way that you can make more money is to get a lot of different experiences, in many different areas of UX Design</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The third way you can make more money is to add more skills to your already existing skill in UX Design. For instance, computer programming and interaction design. You can also learn how to facilitate workshops.</li></ol>

3 Ways You Can Make More Money as a Ux designer

As a UX Designer we want to get paid what we deserve, here are 3 important ways to make more money as a UX Designer

If you're a beginner or a mid-level UX designer looking for a way to increase your UX designer salary and make more money, then you should consider at least one of these 3 paths. In this video AJ&Smart CEO Jonathan Courtney shares the best 3 ways to earn more money as a UX designer and how you can boost your earnings in the field of UX/UI design too. The advice in this video comes from Jonathan's experience as a CEO of a Product Design Agency, who has worked with UX designers and has hired in-house and freelance UX designers over the past 10 years. ➡️ If you want to learn more about Facilitation and Workshopping check out our FREE training here 👉 https://go.ajsmart.com/start 🤔 Which of these 3 paths resonated with you the most? Do you have more questions about being a UX Designer? Share your questions in the comments below 👇 ⏰ Video timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:12 Path 1 - Become the best at UX design 3:00 Tip 1 - Become obsessed with the product world 3:49 Tip 2 - Get a lot of different experience 5:15 Tip 3 - Work at an agency with a lot of client products 5:50 Path 2 - Move away from EXECUTION towards STRATEGY 9:15 Book 1 - The Lean Startup 9:56 Books 2+3 - Business Model Generation + Value Proposition Design 10:39 Book 4 - Good Strategy Bad Strategy 11:10 Medium Article - What The F#@k Is Strategy? 12:10 Path 3 - Layering on high value, complementary skills 12:39 Example skill 1 - Facilitation & Workshopping 14:49 Example skill 2 - Development 15:39 Example skill 3 - UX research 17:03 Summary + Conclusion 🌳 Resources named in the video: Book 1 - The Lean Startup by Eric Ries http://theleanstartup.com/ Book 2 - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur https://www.strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation Book 3 - Value Proposition Design - Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur https://www.strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design Book 4 - Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt http://goodbadstrategy.com/ Book 5 - Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/ Book 6 - Playing To Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin https://rogerlmartin.com/thought-pillars/strategy Medium Article - What The F#@k Is Strategy? https://medium.com/just-thinking/what-the-f-k-is-strategy-fc1195846e55 Thanks for watching! ---- #UXDesigncareer #UXDesign #UXDesigner 📩 If you want to stay ahead of the Workshop / Facilitation game, level up your career, and be in the know on the nerdiest, 'techiest' things, sign up for our FREE newsletter here: 👇 📝 https://aj-smart.ck.page/21100f1c73 👀 🔔 And if you haven't yet subscribed to our Youtube channel for more Workshop / Facilitation Skills/ Career / and Design Sprint videos: ❤️ https://www.youtube.com/AJ&Smart?sub_confirmation=1😉 📗If you want to learn even more about Workshop Facilitation grab our Free Facilitation Guidebook https://go.workshopper.com/facilitation-gb Want more? Join 200,000+ people subscribing to our AJ&Smart YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram channels for free content to help you and your team do more valuable work. AJ&Smart is the #1 design sprint firm in the world, the official Design Sprint training partner with Jake Knapp, inventor of the google design sprint, and partner of choice for the world's most successful brands. 3 Ways To Increase Your UX Designer Salary (2022) https://youtu.be/5OI_AyNrObw

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If you're a beginner or a mid-level UX designer looking for a way to increase your UX designer salary and make more money, then you should consider at least one of these 3 paths. 

In this video AJ&Smart CEO, Jonathan Courtney shares the best 3 ways to earn more money as a UX designer and how you can boost your earnings in the field of UX/UI design too. The advice in this video comes from Jonathan's experience as a CEO of a Product Design Agency, who has worked with UX designers and has hired in-house and freelance UX designers over the past 10 years.      

➡️  If you want to learn more about Facilitation and Workshopping check out our FREE training here 👉  https://go.ajsmart.com/start

💰 Check out our guide to UX Design Salaries in 2022: https://www.workshopper.com/post/ux-designer-salary 🤑

🤔  Which of these 3 paths resonated with you the most? Do you have more questions about being a UX Designer? Share your questions in the comments below 👇

⏰ Video timestamps:

0:00 Intro
1:12 Path 1 - Become the best at UX design
3:00 Tip 1 - Become obsessed with the product world
3:49 Tip 2 - Get a lot of different experience
5:15 Tip 3 - Work at an agency with a lot of client products
5:50 Path 2 - Move away from EXECUTION towards STRATEGY
9:15 Book 1 - The Lean Startup
9:56 Books 2+3 - Business Model Generation + Value Proposition Design
10:39 Book 4 - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
11:10 Medium Article - What The F#@k Is Strategy?
12:10 Path 3 - Layering on high value, complementary skills
12:39 Example skill 1 - Facilitation & Workshopping
14:49 Example skill 2 - Development
15:39 Example skill 3 - UX research
17:03 Summary + Conclusion

🌳  Resources named in the video:

Book 1 - The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
http://theleanstartup.com/

Book 2 - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
https://www.strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation

Book 3 - Value Proposition Design - Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
https://www.strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design

Book 4 - Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
http://goodbadstrategy.com/

Book 5 - Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/

Book 6 - Playing To Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin
https://rogerlmartin.com/thought-pillars/strategy

Medium Article - What The F#@k Is Strategy?
https://medium.com/just-thinking/what-the-f-k-is-strategy-fc1195846e55


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Founded in early 2020 by inaugural team members at Algorand and esteemed MIT graduates, Axelar is an infrastructure protocol that fosters interoperable connectivity between blockchain platforms, decentralized applications (DApps) and associated functionalities.

the “primary focus is to provide universal interoperability with minimal risk,” and that “the funds will be used to continue building the core network functionalities, and scaling integrations with more blockchains and applications.”“It’s clear that developers want the ability to build on the chain that best suits their needs, without siloing liquidity. Users want the same thing. At Axelar, it is our goal to minimize the risks involved in cross-chain activity, and maximize the potential benefits to developers and users.”

The platform's unicorn-level valuation affirms the burgeoning demand for decentralized cross-chain service providers in the blockchain industry. 

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Blockchain platform Axelar establishes unicorn status, mainnet launch impending

You became what you thinking. In your life till now , you became what you thinking before. So if you want to be Rich structure properly your Mindset, it is the beginning and everything for a rich and successful person

Money Makig Mind Set

If you want to be rich, visualise that you're already in that state. If you set your mind as you already a rich, it is easy to be adopt to become rich. At the beginning it is hard to visualise, but don't give up. Visualise well that how you want to be

Visualise Your Thought

Affirmations is the best thing to do. Tell yourself or see yourself in mirror and tell how you want to become daily. Afirrm in the Morning after you wake up and also before you going to bed at night

Affirming Your Ideas

Writing is the greatest gift where humans have. If you write down any of your problem it will be half solved. So if you write down your ideas, it will gradually store in your subconscious mind and it will dominate you and you'll become rich

Write Down Your Ideas

" Rome is not built in a Day ".Everything takes time. At the beginning you see more opportunities and increment, but at the mid you didn't see any changes, it actually makes a momentum for the great launch. Don't give up the Affirmations, writing and Visualisation. Everything tells you what to do when time

Time Period

If you want to know How to be Rich, here are the top 5 things you have to know amd to do Daily to become Rich

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You might think that you only buy what you need when you need it. But whether you are shopping for food, clothes or gadgets, the retailers are using the power of psychological persuasion to influence your decisions – and help you part with your cash.

Shopping Is A Mouse Trap

Why do shops like to move everything around? Well, it’s actually a simple answer. Changing the location of items in a store means that we, the customers, are exposed to different items as we wander around searching for the things we need or want. This ploy can often significantly increase <a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.227.8388&rep=rep1&type=pdf">unplanned spending</a>, as we add additional items to our baskets – often on impulse – while spending more time in the shop.

You Are A Lab Rat In A Supermarket

Studies suggest that as much as 50% of all groceries are sold because of impulsiveness – and over 87% of shoppers make impulse buys.It is known that external shopping cues – “buy one get one free” offers, discounts and in-store promotional displays, for example – play a key role.An appealing offer can lead to a rush of temporary delight, and this makes it harder to make a rational buying decision. We’re overcome by the perceived value of the “saving” if we buy the item in the here and now – so we ignore other considerations such as whether we really need it.

Impulse Buying

Bundling is another technique that retailers use to trigger impulse buying. Complementary products are packaged together as one product, with one price, which often provides a substantial discount. Game consoles, for example, are often sold together with two or three games, and grocery stores have “meal deal” bundles and even web pages dedicated to a whole range of bundle offers.

Bundling

<ul><li>While these strategies can help to swell the profits of retailers, they can also contribute to problems for their customers.</li><li>Impulse buying can undoubtedly affect a consumer’s mental wellbeing. It increases feelings of shame and guilt, which in turn can lead to anxiety, stress and depression.</li><li>It’s potentially even more serious when buying on impulse leads to excessive buying, especially if people spend money they don’t have.</li></ul>

The Bottom Line

Retailers have a range of strategies to encourage us to spend more - but they can help us to make healthier choices too.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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How shops use psychology to influence your buying decisions

Save with the idea that the world breaks every few years — a recession, a pandemic, a terrorist attack. These events rock the economy and crush the stock market. It’s been like that forever and it’ll be like that forever.The only way to endure that world is to save like a pessimist: keep a big emergency fund, avoid too much debt, and always have a backup plan.Save your money like a pessimist and invest your money like an optimist.

The Reason To Save

Invest knowing that if you can endure the short-term chain of financial disappointments and setbacks, things usually get better. People are good at solving problems and becoming more productive. We rebuild. We’re amazing at innovating.Saving like a pessimist is what lets you stick around long enough for your long-term investments to actually grow, compound, and benefit from society’s progress.

Investing Like An Optimist

Morgan Housel’s simple philosophy on how to save and invest.

Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist

Experiences and life stories of great minds can inspire, motivate and encourage us to take the right action and step towards what we want in life and career.

10 Biographies that will teach you more than Business Books

Author : Phil KnightReview: This book truly defines a founder’s romance to his product and shows how one of the most iconic brand NIKE came into existence. A memoir rich with not only insight, humour and hard-won wisdom but also studded with lessons about building something from scratch, overcoming adversityQuote that I loved :"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.“<a href="https://amzn.to/3xcSg53">Click to add it on your Bookshelf</a>

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

Author: Robert Iger Review: Robert Iger encapsulates 10 great leadership lessons that are applicable not just for the CXOs but for anyone who wants to add drive, focus and structure to their professional lives. The book is more like a narration of the lessons he learnt as he grew older. We would recommend this to almost any executive or business owner.Quote that I loved :"Ask the questions you need to ask, admit without apology what you don’t understand, and do the work to learn what you need to learn as quickly as you can" <a href="https://amzn.to/3LRMWYJ">Click to add it on your Bookshelf</a>

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from CEO of Disney

Author: T.J. StilesReview: The epic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American legend who aided in the birth of the automobile, the Gold Rush, the reshaping of Manhattan, and the invention of the modern business. The book not only depicts a man’s life (both personal and professional), but also the evolution of the American economic system in the nineteenth century..Quote that I loved:"Gentlemen You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt"﻿<a href="https://amzn.to/3upuv84">﻿Click to add it on your Bookshelf</a>

The First Tycoon

Author: Walter IsaacsonReview: Walter Isaacson describes the story of a visionary entrepreneur whose voracious ambition and love for excellence revolutionized industries. This globally renowned, bestselling biography is based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with over a hundred family members, friends, enemies, competitors, and coworkers.Quote that I loved:"People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint." <a href="https://amzn.to/3LSijCK">﻿Click to add it on your Bookshelf</a>

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography  

Author: Alice SchroederSynopsis: Alice Schroeder used her unprecedented access into the life of buffet and the people close to him to bring the life story of the most successful investor of our times, Oracle of Omaha himself Warren Buffet.The Snowball is required reading for anyone interested in learning more about the man behind the extraordinary achievements.Quotes that I loved:“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” <a href="https://amzn.to/3utGotO">Click here to add it on your Bookshelf</a>

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life  

Author: Girish KuberReview: This book is a fascinating read, it rivetingly captures 200 years of the glorious history of the Tatas, whose ups and downs are mirrored in the development of India itself.Quote that I loved:“India was waking upto the call of independence and the Tatas realised that they needed to contirbute to the cause.“ <a href="https://amzn.to/3uo4mGG">Click here to add it on your Bookshelf</a>

The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation

Author: Ashlee VanceReview: Vance does a commendable job of penning down life story of one of the most revered man of 21st century. He takes you deep into the details from Musk’s childhood in South Africa, all the way to Canada & the United States to show how he managed to thrive while being on the verge of bankruptcy and loosing both Tesla & SpaceX.Quote that I loved:"Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. We should aspire to increase the scope & scale of human consciousness in order to ask better questions" <a href="https://amzn.to/3Jw0F5Y">Click here to add it on your Bookshelf</a>

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a Fantastic Future

Click the link below to check out remaining 3 books which are as valuable as the ones above.<a href="https://thingstodoclub.com/10-biographies-that-will-teach-you-more-than-business-books/">10 Biographies that will teach you more than Business Books</a>

Experiences and life stories of great minds can inspire, motivate and encourage us to take the right action and step towards what we want in life and career. 

April 10, 2022 These 10 biographies will teach you more than any business books in market 

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I did not intend to get rich. I just wanted to get independent.

<ul><li>Level 0: Complete financial dependence on the kindness of strangers who have no vested interest in your success.</li><li>Level 1: Complete financial dependence on people who want you to succeed.</li><li>Level 2: Complete financial dependence on people with a vested interest in your financial outcome.</li><li>Level 3: Ability to partially support yourself by adding value for others.</li><li>Level 4: Ability to fully support yourself by adding marginal value for others.</li><li>Level 5: Enough savings to cover run-of-the-mill problems.</li><li>Level 6: Enough savings to cover large, unforeseen problems for a longer period.</li></ul>

The financial spectrum: Level 0 - 6

<ul><li>Level 7: Retirement savings, education savings, and avoidance of consumer and auto debt. You can see a time when your current savings will give you independence.</li><li>Level 8: The ability to pick a job or specific customers and say no to unnecessary hassle.</li><li>Level 9: Becoming comfortable with your social status to avoid flashing your expensive consumer goods.</li><li>Level 10: You can say no to banks whose debt you don’t need, including mortgages.</li><li>Level 11: You could support yourself for a year or more of your liquid savings.</li></ul>

The financial spectrum: Level 7 - 11

<ul><li>Level 12: Interest and dividends cover more than half of your living expenses because of a slim lifestyle rather than huge assets.</li><li>Level 13: Your assets and reasonable return expectations will cover basic living expenses for longer than your life expectancy.</li><li>Level 14: Your assets cover above-basic living expenses with assets and their reasonable return expectations.</li><li>Level 15: Independence lets you do and say what you please since you don’t rely on the support or opportunities other people could offer.</li><li>Level 16: Meaningful philanthropy.</li></ul>

The financial spectrum: Level 12 - 16

“I did not intend to get rich. I just wanted to get independent.” – Munger Place yourself, your business, and other people you know, on this list. Level 0: Complete financial dependence on the kindness of strangers who have no vested interest in your success. Panhandling when unable to work, or companies reliant on raising money from first-time investors who don’t care if you fail. Level 1: Complete financial dependence on people who want you to succeed because they like you and their reputation is attached to your success. Children under age 15 – supported by their parents and generally too young to work – fall into this category. So do companies backed by friends and family who don’t intend on getting their money back. Level 2: Complete financial dependence on people with a vested interest in your financial outcome. Unprofitable-but-promising businesses backed by investors who could earn a meaningful return on their investments, and are thus likely to keep supporting you. Level 3: Ability to partially support yourself by adding value for others while still somewhat reliant on external support. Young people who work but rely on their parents to support what they consider basic lifestyle necessities. Or companies that could realistically be profitable if they changed their cost structure, but continue to raise money from investors to fund growth. Level 4: Ability to fully support yourself by adding value for others, but value that is marginal and easy to replace. This is a common category for both people and businesses. It is grinding and tenuous. It smells like independence, but a boss or customer still owns your day and can dictate your future. Your future relies on their decisions. Level 5: Enough savings to cover run-of-the-mill problems. You can endure hassles that every person or company should expect to experience on a regular basis, without getting wiped out. Level 6: Enough savings to cover large, unforeseen problems. You still rely on your boss or your customers to get by month to month, but if a crisis struck you’d probably be OK for a reasonable period of time. Level 7: Retirement savings, education savings, and avoidance of consumer and auto debt. You still rely on bosses and customers, but you can foresee a time when your current savings will open up a new level of independence for you and your family. This is the most realistic goal for most people. Level 8: The ability to pick a job, or specific customers, that avoids the most egregious examples of bullshit and unnecessary hassle in your life. You still rely on bosses and customers, but have the freedom to say, “No, not you. I’ll find someone else,” when you get too frustrated. Level 9: Becoming comfortable enough with your social status that you don’t feel the need to flash your peacock feathers with expensive consumer goods whose only value is in signaling. The inability to do this is a hidden form of debt and dependence that exists, and it piles up on people who mistakenly think they’re wealthy enough to be independent. Level 10: The ability to say no to banks, whose debt you don’t need, including mortgages. Debt can be cheap capital but it keeps you beholden to others, owning a piece of your future decisions and cash-flow needs. Level 11: Few realistic situations would cause you, your company, or your family to be pushed back below Level 5. You could support yourself for a year or more off your liquid savings. It’s the first true stage of independence. You can now say “No” to almost anyone, with high odds of recovering from the repercussions. Level 12: Interest and dividends cover more than half of your living expenses. Most of this is independence is owed to a slim lifestyle, rather than huge assets. You realize that lifestyle desires compound faster than almost any asset. Level 13: Your assets and their reasonable return expectations will cover basic living expenses for longer than your life expectancy. Congrats. You are no longer reliant on bosses or clients. You can deal with them if you want, and you probably will. But only if you want, when you want, with who you want. Which feels good. Level 14: Your assets cover above-basic living expenses with assets and their reasonable return expectations. You can define “above-basic” however you want. Varies by person. Remember what Chris Rock says: “If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah’s money he’d jump out the window.” Level 15: Independence lets you do and say what you please, unconcerned with other people disagreeing with you, since you don’t rely on the support or opportunities they could offer. Level 16: Meaningful philanthropy is the only reasonable way your assets won’t compound faster than you spend. This, to me, is one of the most important topics in finance. Everyone’s different. But while almost everyone can adapt to their stuff, having control over your time through independence will always feel great when you have it and always be a miserable burden when you don’t.

The Spectrum of Financial Dependence and Independence

Having already gone through several popular qubit modalities already, The Quantum Insider is now moving on to some of the companies whose money is bet on superconducting electronic circuits being the best way of developing a fully functional, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The thirteen listed, giant corporations and startups alike, are led by some fascinating people with some even more fascinating approaches and technologies. Whatever the eventual outcome, the path in front of them is an exciting one that we hope our readers will join us to witness.

Via a fully managed quantum computing service designed to help speed up scientific research and software development for quantum computing called Amazon Bracket, AWS provides access to quantum annealing technology based on superconducting qubits from D-Wave, as well as access to quantum hardware based on the gate model from Rigetti Computing and CQC.

1. AWS

Google offers a quantum computing service to scientists developing algorithms for noisy-intermediate-scale quantum processors like Sycamore.Everything happens in Google’s quantum research lab located in Santa Barbara, California, where fleets of cryostats, dedicated workshops, and a superconducting qubit fab bring together engineers and researchers to implement and deliver NISQ-era processors with increasing quantum computational volumes — stepping stones to our error-corrected quantum computer.

2. Google Quantum AI

A multinational that needs no introduction, <a href="https://quantumai.google/">Google Quantum AI’s </a>quantum computing service provides chaperoned access to NISQ processors and its simulator for researchers who aim to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing and publicly share their results in algorithms, applications, tools, and processor characterizations.Google offers a quantum computing service to scientists developing algorithms for noisy-intermediate-scale quantum processors like Sycamore. The goal is to advance NISQ state-of-the-art in new algorithms, tools, and characterizations that lead to useful applications. A<warningtag>pproved projects will run programs on Sycamore via the company’s Quantum Engine API, and user feedback will improve the service.</warningtag><warningtag>Everything happens in Google’s quantum research lab located in Santa Barbara, California, where fleets of cryostats, dedicated workshops, and a superconducting qubit fab bring together engineers and researchers to implement and deliver NISQ-era processors with increasing quantum computational volumes — stepping stones to our error-corrected quantum computer.</warningtag>

<a href="https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/homepage.html">Intel’s </a>contribution to the QC race using superconducting qubits consists of working to achieve quantum practicality, the transition of quantum technology from the lab to commercial quantum systems that solve real-world problems.

3. Intel

The first and only UK-based company on the list, <a href="https://oxfordquantumcircuits.com/">OQC </a>was founded in 2017 by Ilana Wisby and Peter Leek and is building quantum computers utilizing superconducting circuits.OQC has built the UK’s most advanced quantum computers, the only ones commercially available in the country. It has also launched the UK’s first Quantum Computing as-a-Service (QCaaS), bringing quantum to the enterprise, at the fingertips of our customers and partners.

4. Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC)

A Canadian concern from Dorval, Quebec, <a href="https://www.anyonsys.com/">Anyon Systems </a>was founded in 2014 by Alireza Najafi-Yazdi.Anyon has developed unique technologies involving the full vertical hardware stack of a quantum computer by designing and manufacturing superconducting quantum processing units (QPUs), quantum control electronics as well as ultra-low temperature cryogenics systems which host QPUs.Anyon Systems now delivers turn-key Near-term, Intermediate-Scale, Quantum (NISQ) computers to early adopters. These machines enable our clients to get started with their quantum R&D program, build eco-systems.

5. Anyon Systems

The Armonk, New York-based company’s 127-qubit Eagle processor takes us into uncharted computational territory. This device embodies several important advances in our approach to hardware design, and marks a crucial stage in our climb toward quantum advantage.

6. IBM

<a href="https://eeroq.com/">EeroQ </a>is a New York-based leader in the field of quantum hardware, building a universal quantum computer using electrons on helium (eHe).At the heart of EeroQ’s technology is the trapping and control of individual electrons floating above pools of superfluid helium. These electrons form the qubits of its quantum computer, and the purity of the superfluid helium protects the intrinsic quantum properties of each electron. EeroQ’s ultimate goal is to build a large-scale quantum computer based on quantum magnetic (spin) state of these trapped electrons.

7. EeroQ

Fresh off closing a SPAC deal to debut on the NYSE, <a href="https://www.rigetti.com/">Rigetti Computing </a>(Nasdaq: RGTI) is building the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most pressing and important problems.Rigetti believes quantum computing is going to significantly affect health care, how we treat disease, how we generate energy, and how we feed humanity. Our superconducting quantum computing systems are available over the cloud via Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services.

8. Rigetti Computing

<a href="https://www.quantumcomputinginc.com/">Quantum Computing Inc </a>(QCI) (Nasdaq:QUBT) is a publicly-traded cloud-based quantum software vendor, offering ready-to-run software for complex constrained optimization computations. The company’s flagship software solution, Qatalyst, is the industry’s only quantum application accelerator, empowering today’s Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and programmers to immediately leverage the power of quantum techniques for faster, better and more diverse solutions, with no need for quantum expertise or training.

9. Quantum Computing Inc (QCI)

<a href="https://www.nordquantique.ca/">Nord Quantique </a>is developing superconducting circuits that can mitigate errors on every individual qubit, providing a faster pathway to fault-tolerant quantum computing. Based in Sherbrooke, Québec, Nord Quantique was founded in 2020 by Julien Camirand Lemyre and Philippe St-Jean.

10. Nord Quantique

A Berkeley, California-based startup founded in 2017 by Alexei Marchenkov, <a href="https://bleximo.com/">Bleximo </a>is building full-stack superconducting application-specific systems. Its core thesis is that integrated solutions, with a focus on the unique challenges of each high-value practical problem, will offer a competitive advantage to its customers.

11. Bleximo

<a href="https://www.meetiqm.com/">IQM </a>is a Pan-European leader in quantum computers, headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Kuan Yen Tan, Dr. Jan Goetz, Professor Mikko Möttönen, and Dr. Juha Vartiainen, IQM delivers on-premises quantum computers for research laboratories and supercomputing centres and provides complete access to its hardware. For industrial customers, IQM delivers quantum advantage through a unique application-specific co-design approach.

12. IQM

The final superconducting player on today’s list and another behemoth on the global tech scene, <a href="https://www.fujitsu.com/global/">Fujitsu </a>is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo.The RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Center will ultimately develop hardware and software technologies to realize a quantum computer with as many as 1000 qubits.

13. Fujitsu

The Quantum Insider (TQI) is the leading online resource dedicated exclusively to Quantum Computing.

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Material possessions can be powerfully alluring – whether it’s buying new stuff we don’t need or can’t afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become highly problematic. Compulsive buying-shopping disorder is characterised by an insatiable desire to buy more things, and hoarding disorder, which involves a seemingly boundless desire to keep and accumulate possessions. Even if your own situation is not so extreme, you might be struggling to feel in control of your stuff.

Compulsive Shopping Of Stuff We Don't Need

Material possessions can be powerfully alluring - whether it's buying new stuff we don't need or can't afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become highly problematic.<ul><li>Our relationship to our things has deep psychological roots, which starts during early childhood and continually gets reinforced throughout the lifespan.</li><li>Children learn that a teddy bear or blanket provides them with comfort when they are separated from their parents</li><li>Teenagers learn what is cool from their peers and typically want what they have.</li></ul>

Wanting More Possessions

Triggers: Being in a shopping centre; being with friends in a shopping centre; seeing something that fits with my style and is on sale; wanting to look good for an upcoming special event; believing I’ve earned it because I’ve worked hard.Behaviour: Buying clothes that I think I need, but really just want.Consequences: Enjoyment while shopping; feeling happy when shopping with friends.

Buying Stuff: Triggers, Behaviour And Consequences

<ul><li>Make a concrete commitment to change your buying and storing habits.</li><li>Put your goals in writing - this will prevent you from forgetting or changing your goals along the way.</li><li>Identify what triggers and reinforces your buying & storing behavior.</li><li>People are motivated to buy and store possessions for many reasons, only one of which is a functional need for an object.</li></ul>To figure out what maintains your behavior, ask yourself: Why you buy and keep hold of things you do not use?What prompts these desires? How do you feel right after you have acquired an item or made the decision to keep something?

What To Do

<ul><li>Make a concrete commitment to change your buying and storing habits.</li><li>Identify the environmental and emotional causes and consequences of your behavior.</li><li>Develop a plan to resist buying items you don't need.</li><li>Use a one-minute rule when making purchasing or discarding decisions: allow yourself only one minute to decide.</li><li>Track what you buy, store, and discard.</li><li>Reward yourself for meeting your goals.</li></ul>

How to Have Less Stuff

Consider what your recipients really want and need. The best way to do that is to ask them.If you'd like to gift something to a person who has stated that they prefer others make a charity donation, then, by all means, donate to that charity if you agree with its values.

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