Newscast Issue #1Monday, September 5th, 2022Regular Season, Week 5Live Event Host: Chicago QuantomEmcee: Cordelia Tomlinson (Tau)AHL Role: AVO Manager - Career RPGCareer/Job: Novelist/Writer
The First AHL Newscast
It is Monday, September 5th and today the New York Yeet is your Live Events Host. As a Yeet Tau Hero and today’s Emcee, I’d like to welcome you to Week 5 of the regular season! Here is the AHL Herocast Issue #1 rundown: Today’s Positive Psychology Worksheet is called Bucket fillers. It teaches a helpful principle that will help you be your best to yourself and those around you. / Your Rotation Venture for today is the Auto Bio app. This app prompts you for periodic updates and then automatically creates an autobiography about your life! The last time this AVO was rotated the Heroes discussed how often users should be prompted for life updates. The Rotation Super Jam is at 10:45 AM PT and the focus will be on if the autobiography should be printed as a physical book or if it should be 100% digital. / Besides the Rotation Super Jam, there will be 24 other live events. Since it is Monday, we will have a Weekly Planning Ultra Jam at 10:40 AM PT so come by to make sure you have a solid plan for the week.
Today’s Online Events
Every day the AHL hosts dozens of live events and game shows. We meet in a virtual space where you have an avatar to walk around with. When you enable your microphone or webcam, you can speak to others who are nearby. Join the fun any day or time to meet people, cultivate AHL alliances, and participate in philanthropic community activities!
Today’s Positive Psychology Worksheet
Every day a new Positive Psychology worksheet will be released. Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Positive Psychology is a subfield of psychology and it focuses on how to help people prosper and lead happy lives. While most other branches of psychology focus on dysfunction and abnormal behavior, Positive Psychology is centered on helping people become more joyful. Each Positive Psychology worksheet will guide Heroes through an activity meant to teach research-based skills and strategies.
Worksheet Title: Bucket Fillers
Category: Happiness
The goal of this exercise is to help Heroes understand how their words and
behaviors affect their own well-being, and the well-being of other people. This will be demonstrated by using the bucket filler principle.
Today’s Rotation Venture
The AHL owns and operates dozens of “startup companies” called AVOs (Akwai Venture Organizations). Every AVO has an altruistic mission and/or donates a portion of its revenue to charity. Each day one of these AVOs are chosen to be the day’s Rotation Venture. During the Rotation Venture Super Jam, Heroes will be allowed to volunteer for the AVO and help move it closer to becoming a self-sustaining business. This may involve brainstorming ideas, designing marketing collateral, facilitating sales, customer support and more. Participating in Rotation Venture Super Jams are a great way to meet people, have fun and develop entrepreneurial skills.
AVO Name: Auto Bio
Altruism Category: Posterity
This app/website allows you to automatically create an autobiography. Chronicle your life by interacting with the app on predetermined dates. Every year you can have a volume of your autobiography shipped as a physical book.
Recent Progress: Heroes discussed if a physical book should be included.
Current Objectives: Decide when people should provide updates.
Today’s Boosted Plays
The AHL is the first pro league for impact. There are 16 teams that represent 16 cities, and each week teams compete in head-to-head matches. The point totals from the Heroes on each team are what decide which team wins each matchup. Heroes earn points for internal and external impact. Internal impact refers to things a person does to make a positive impact on themselves. External impact refers to things a person does to make a positive impact on other people or communities. A ‘Play’ is something a Hero does to score points. The AHL Playbook lists all the scoring opportunities (Plays) that are available to Heroes, and it shows how many points each Play is worth. Every day, certain Plays will become ‘Boosted’ and will be worth 40% more than usual.
Brainstorm Play
Venture Miniplan Brainstorm
Every day multiple Themes/keywords are presented for Heroes to use as inspiration for startup ideas. Come up with an idea and write a short business mini-plan to earn points. These Brainstorm activities are meant to make you more creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. You can use one Theme or combine multiple to use as inspiration for your startup idea. Hopefully, you stumble upon an idea so good you're compelled to bring the business into reality! The daily Themes are released at 11:40 AM PT / 2:40 PM ET during the Game Show Super Show Hyper Jam. The Themes below are from yesterday.
Daily Random
Health & Medical
New Media - Revenue Models
International Human Rights
Philosophy and Religion
Arts, Culture and Humanities
Daily Psychology
Self-Compassion Break
Compassion
Weekly Nonprofit
Animal Protection, Welfare and Services
Weekly Happenings
International Clown Week
American Adventures Month
Biweekly Random
Licensing
Biweekly Community
Inbound Marketing
Monthly Random
Music technology
Monthly Civics
Community Improvement
Discussion Play
Discussion Plays facilitate conversation within our LinkedIn Groups and Facebook Groups. Create posts and reply to other Heroes posts to earn points.
Venture Brainstorm Discussion Prompt
Reply to the Heroes Venture Brainstorm with your own ideas of how to add a unique twist to their concept.
Experiment Play
Industry Experiment
What would happen if you temporarily shifted your perspective and outlook toward your goals? What if you approached success like an astronaut, like a doctor or like a teacher? Might you gain some new insights that are unique to those industries? Not only does your profession impact the way you see the world, it also impacts how you approach your personal goals. During an Industry Experiment, you will pretend that everything in your life is the same except your career. During this 1 - 4 week experiment you will simulate working on your goals as if your day-job was the job listed in the Industry Experiment. You will do this by tracking Markers that blend your current strategy [toward your goals] with the strategy of someone working in the designated industry. The purpose of tracking these temporary Markers is to spark new and innovative ideas that have the potential to accelerate your success. Every day a different Hero (Tau or Higgs) will tell you about their job and suggest Markers for an Industry Experiment.
What are Markers? Learn about Markers here.
Experiment Host: Cordelia Tomlinson (Tau Hero)
Career/Job: Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.
Exercise Play
Today’s Links
As a Hero your mission is to make a positive impact. The links below will keep you informed about what is happening around the world. See what you can learn from these links and get involved in things that interest you.
An AI-generated artwork’s state fair victory fuels arguments over ‘what art is’
PayPal Teams With DAFs For Grant Distribution
RPG Stories: 3D World Builder / VTT
$11,332 pledged of $23,852 goal
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bravealice/rpg-stories-3d-world-builder-vtt
Haute Dogs x Jai Dog Rescue Calendar 2023
$2,095 pledged of $11,545 goal
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/haute-dogs-x-jai-dog-rescue-calendar-2023#
Popsy - No-code website builder that works like Notion
Today’s Stats
Stay up to date with your favorite teams and Heroes. Scout out who to recruit or trade into your Fantasy Lineup. Understanding how to read the stats sheet is the only way you will defeat the Commissioner in a head to head Fantasy Bout.
