Self-awareness is the secret sauce you can use in achieving success in your career and relationships. It ties into your ability to be confident, exhibit emotional intelligence, and demonstrate understanding, and it is a skill that you can practice and develop. In this course, executive coach Dr. Joel Pérez explains what self-awareness is, what obstacles may challenge you in building self-awareness, and how to overcome those obstacles. He concludes with a detailed discussion of several ways that self-awareness can benefit your life, including personal improvement, communication, stress management, and more.

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Review the history of strategy—the art of creating power—in this audio-only summary of the book by Sir Lawrence Freedman, a leading authority on war and strategic analysis.

Solve stream processing problems with Kafka Streams. Learn about using Kafka Streams and associated technologies to build stream-processing use cases leveraging popular patterns.

Learn how to build popular streaming design patterns efficiently with Apache Spark.

Frameworks such as Apache Flink can help you build fast, scalable stream processing applications, but big data engineers still need to design smart use cases to achieve maximum efficiency. In this course, instructor Kumaran Ponnambalam demonstrates how to use Apache Flink and associated technologies to build stream-processing use cases leveraging popular patterns. Kumaran begins by highlighting the opportunities and challenges that stream processing brings to big data. He then goes over four popular patterns for stream processing: streaming analytics, alerts and thresholds, leaderboards, and real-time predictions. Along the way, he reviews example use cases and explains how to leverage Flink, as well as key technologies like MariaDB and Redis, to implement key examples.

Follow along with photographer and educator Steve Simon to learn the art of candid street photography, from gear choices to shooting techniques.

Learn the keys to successful street portraiture, from starting conversations with strangers to choosing the right gear and lenses. Join Steve Simon to see some great photography.

Explore the challenges and creative options behind street shooting after dark on the streets, beaches, and outer boroughs of New York.

Get street photography tips from photographer Valerie Jardin. See how a professional shoots a famous city like San Francisco by focusing on just one neighborhood.

Study for the Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®), the industry-standard certification for business analysts.

Learn a four-step method for determining IP ranges and broadcast addresses without the use of subnet calculators or binary translation.

Learn how to create 3D textures with Substance Designer 2018. Find out how to use the atomic nodes, graphs, and functions to generate texture maps for game engines like Unreal 4.

Substance Designer is a powerful, procedurally based tool for creating textures for 3D art and games. This course was designed to give texture artists a complete overview of the Substance Designer 2020 application. If you're new to the field, this course can help you quickly start creating your own textures. If you're an experienced artist looking to add a new application to your toolbox, this course provides plenty of in-depth material with which to work. Instructor Joel Bradley begins with an overview of the application, discussing key concepts such as how to set preferences, use the Materials menu wisely, and make lighting changes. He then covers essential concepts such as how to import meshes and leverage the array of essential "atomic" nodes in Substance Designer, including the Blend, Curve, Blur, and Gradient nodes. Joel closes out the course by explaining how to get the most out of published substances, including how to export and import packages from Designer.

Learn how to quickly create a variety of commonly-used architectural materials in Allegorithmic Substance Designer for application in design-visualization projects.

Mit Substance Designer von Allegorithmic lassen sich realistische Materialien für Computerspiele und Filme erzeugen. Robert Hunecke zeigt Ihnen in diesem Video-Training zunächst, wie Substance Designer grundsätzlich arbeitet. Anschließend lernen Sie die typischen Arbeitsschritte in diesem node-basierten Werkzeug kennen. Durch den Einsatz von übertragbaren Effekten gestalten Sie Ihre Materialien zunehmend realistischer und verleihen ihnen einen eigenen Charakter. Schließlich erfahren Sie, wie Sie Ihre Materialien für die Weiterverarbeitung in anderen Programmen exportieren.

See how to create a stylized, non-photoreal version—such as a cartoon outline—of an existing, realistic-looking material using Substance Designer, part of the Substance suite from Adobe. Instructor Joel Bradley walks through the material creation process from start to finish, beginning with choosing nodes that can achieve the level of control needed. He moves on to cover the details of stylizing the image, including outlining, shading, beveling, patterning, and more, all with an eye to maximizing usability.

Go beyond the basics in Substance Designer. Learn advanced techniques for building new materials from scratch, as well as how to recreate real-life materials in Substance Designer.

Learn how to use Substance Designer to create interactive product visualizations that allow clients to change surface details on the fly.

Learn how to use Substance Painter 2018 to texture and render assets for 3D games.