Mark Thompson joins us you are one of my I don't want to say oldest friends but we've been we've known each other a long time we we have and you are an esteemed broadcaster an award-winning that's true an award-winning television and radio personality but not only that you've created and sold some of America's favorite television shows including The Bachelor right that is true and that's who wants to marry a millionaire and you were the voice of Fox and ABC and yeah American Idol is probably my best biggest brand that I was the boy so but I hear you I hear you all the time on true TV narrating reality crime shows and you're a busy busy man yeah but I'm quite impressed with myself and after that introduction I'm even more impressed with myself and for years you are the weatherman on Fox news in LA and KFI you host on KFI and do the news on KFI and today's guest is Phil Hendry now I am not as articulate as you all I am is terrified of talking to Phil Hendry and one of the things that occurred to me is we have listeners all over the world who may not know how important Phil Hendry is could you articulate the importance of Phil Hendry please first it astounds me that you have listeners all across the world I'm a regular listener to your show and the length of your show alone discourages me from coming back week after week but somehow I do but I I will tell you that your your you get the most terrific guests and your conversations are so awesome I really love your show and today will be no different if you've got Phil Henry coming up because Phil Henry to me is one of the true inventive geniuses of the broadcast medium and I know they we use the word genius a lot in these you know this kind of the culture that overhypes everything but this guy created a whole universe of within the genre within within the universe of radio his own universe of characters of of re of different realities and everyone was appreciating it on a different level and here's what I mean by that Phil Henry came on like a traditional talk show host you'd listen and it sounded like a talk radio show like exist in every market in America and then as he began to bring experts on on different subjects something began to hit you he he himself was doing the voice of the various experts that would have come on and he would even do the voice of callers sometimes so you have him playing the host him playing the voice of the expert and playing the voice of the callers but that's a word just that it would be genius then and insane but it was even better because the whole thing played right down the middle to begin and he would start with an expert sounding quite informed sounding quite sane on a subject and then slowly Henry geniusly and this really was the art of it he would just tweak it over a little bit so the expert would say something that was like that's an odd thing for someone and then he would crank it over a little bit more and you go wait a minute that I just say that and by the time you're 20 minutes into an hour you're taking this is crazy who is this person who he's talking to and other callers are then calling going who are you how can you say these things I mean and Henry and his quote guest they they in even Henry as a host began to reprimand the quote guest and again the guest is Henry okay he's playing a character it was absolutely genius and by the way these guests in this world was populated by regular regularly appearing members of his sort of cast of crazies so we'd have the the guy who is the the head of his neighborhood watch he'd have the the the woman who is a community leader and and her husband as they drive to wherever I mean it all sounded so real and and it was that reality and it was the the creating a texture to all of those recurring characters that I think may fill Henry an absolute genius absolutely you cannot overstate the genius of Phil Henry Bobby Dooley I think was the name of the exactly Bobby Dooley Bobby Dooley was this woman who lived in I don't remember the name of the housing development but I can remember driving with my kids and not telling them what was going on and all Bobby Dooley was saying is she was complaining about a neighbor who wasn't putting the Christmas lights up properly and you know he's black but that's okay and you know we I spoke to him about the Christmas lights and he went over to his house his wife is black and you know that's okay and that's all that's all he did for about ten minutes is describe this conflict she that he he was doing the voice of Bobby Dooley and he just kept planting the stink bomb of you know my neighbors are black but that's okay and within 15 minutes the phones lit up and it was Katie bar the door yeah people calling saying don't you realize you're talking to a racist somebody's a racist and he goes well that's a that's a big allegation to level and what are you talking about this woman is an outlet and so so you're right I mean and you're right to point to that he gave also his characters usual quirky quality sometimes like one of his characters that might have been Bobby Dooley who who as the callers of making a point will just sit around the line and go mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm and it becomes this this way of nudging the caller back and to the audience it's a wink wink that's what I also think is genius about Bill Henry there were a number of times where the audience who is hip to it is getting the wink wink from Henry but constantly there were new people coming into the mix who had no awareness of the fact that the whole thing was completely phony right and he told the listeners at the end of every hour that these are fake calls that he's doing all the voices as I understood it he was on KFI which is the station you're on and that's a big station in the most listen to talk at the most listen to talk station the most listen to talk station in America is KFI as I understood it he went on KFI and then they would syndicate the show to backwater affiliates to get the callers so you know you had all those callers from North Carolina yeah yeah yeah he was on like a 5 watt station in bump feces Idaho and they'd hear this is people calling in going hey Phil I'm sorry to interrupt but I don't think I don't think this person's for real man I think they're putting you on and and he would say well you know again that's how can you say something like that I mean they you know I'm you know well Phil I just can't believe someone's like so my business got it so you have a you have people constantly swimming through his pond who had no sense that it was a an alternative reality completely of his creation what would you like me to ask him I know that Tim Badour went to the Paley Center to watch Phil Hendry do a live taping of his show and it was sold at this must have been 15 years ago and Tim said did you go with Tim now I would have loved to go down to that I've only seen him do a show on various profiles that of him like they you know what I mean like a somebody that a news profile of them or something like that how seamlessly he moved from voices it was it was beyond anything you can imagine the way you would listen to him and know well he's doing all these voices how is he doing this and Tim said he went to see him at the Paley Center and still couldn't figure out is there anything you'd like me to ask Phil Hendry well there are a few things that are remarkable about him and one of them is that even if you accept this cool premise which is that I'm gonna be the host and I'm gonna create these phony experts and I'm gonna have them on the line you still have to carry it off as you say seamlessly and the other thing is like a writer you have to come up with this every day on a show that's multiple hours so the reservoir of ideas you need has to be pretty deep I was very impressed with that but what I really would be curious about is actually a question just because I like you you posted on KF5 then I listened to him on the other station that he was on when he was in Los Angeles and and I try to turn everybody I knew on day I feel like I was an early adopter on him you what what I would but what I was curious about is what happened to him why he left one station went to another I mean I guess my question is sort of about the business how can you be as great a genius as Phil Henry is and not just write your ticket or did he just write his ticket in other words I am curious what happened with him from a career standpoint because it is constantly interesting to me it's like it's in it never ceases to be amazing that people of that genius can write a ticket it would seem to me of whatever they want and I'm always curious what they decide to do and how and what course that career took I know he's done voices for family guy I think he's done voices for the Simpsons I'm not sure about that but in other words for other animated fair I know he's done a lot of those voices maybe decided to go in that direction so what he did with that that great palette that he had I'd be really curious to know and what and what decisions were made and why mm-hmm okay I think app it's how I think app it's how worked with him on something exactly exactly I mean I also think you know I also think that radio has just become insufferable to anybody who's trying to do something original that's all yeah there's tremendous pressure tremendous pressure in radio to you know right to to follow a certain course and I don't know I think it's a very I think it's a brilliant medium because you connect to the audience in a way that you don't and so that's why I love podcasting you know I think that you connect to the audience your audience comes back week after week and I and that's the hope anyway and then you connect with them in it in a different sort of way there's a comfort level that's radio has that same thing but now I think it's being you know largely ruled by sort of a corporate structure that prevents any kind of real innovation your podcast is the edge the edge it's an edge-show.com the edge with Mark Thompson yeah it was a bad name we first came up with the name the edge because we're building a different kind of beast it was supposed to be originally a show that was going to show you how you could have the edge and travel and blah blah then we abandoned all of that but somehow we kept the name the edge and there are a million podcasts call the edge so it's the worst name but we're stuck with it so it's the edge with mark comps if you look for the edge 300 shows will come up but there's fortunately only one that's the edge of Mark Thompson and who's on this week this week and the show I think drops right away this week there is you have to understand our show we I think it's not so dissimilar from your model that you have great guests we have great guests too but sometimes we veer toward things that are just kind of interesting conversations and this week we talked to a guy who gave up a successful criminal law practice come an uber driver in Las Vegas and you have to hear his story it's really cool so I mean and you might think it's twisted and weird or whatever but how you can let go of a successful world 13 years I think you practice law in in in that world and then gave it all up to go to Las Vegas to drive for uber you have to hear it that's in the middle of a lot of stuff I also talk about going to see Steve Martin and Martin Short who you know we talk how was that show I hear Martin Short and Steve Martin do a show together I understand that very few people show up to see it and it's a real you honor let me tell you I first of all love Steve Martin and Martin Short of course I know you do too when you have written for both and I paid top dollar to sit in the first three rows and I'm and I'm so glad I did and then of course I message the only guy I know who has written for both Steve Martin and Martin Short who knows them and that's you and I say hey I'm here and it would mean so much just to be able to get like a you know go backstage get a quick 30-second hi Marty nice show thank you so much you know this is my girlfriend and I get no traction from you on that nothing on that I said no I said if you if you're backstage because I know they have like a VIP thing where you can do a meet-and-greet I said I said mention my name and they'd go oh my how about you mentioned my name I couldn't believe that you I mean I'm thinking oh well David I literally met Martin Short at the David Feldman podcast and he complimented me on a Kelsey grammar impression I was doing for a sketch that David had written and I'm thinking oh this is gonna be easy this is a ship shot this is a layup for David and nothing nothing nothing and so I end up cursing you like all your other friends angry that you have let me down at this one moment such a little favor thank you for letting me we live the bilis rage I was it so the show was good did you go backstage show was brilliant the show was brilliant it is funny it's funny it's music and then it's more funny and Martin Short is he's got that you know grab the mic kind of charisma of a Broadway actor Steve Martin is sort of a more studied but also brilliant comedian and performer but and so they make a kind of good yin and yang and then Steve Martin has this Grammy or winning award-winning bluegrass group that he is touring with I have their album I'm telling you everything about this show is right for me I already have the Steve Martin album I like bluegrass music I love Martin Short and I know the guy who writes material for them I couldn't get David you're dead to me line up for that yeah that well and the show I love you David I love you too I love your podcast I really do I love the edge I love you thank you and I miss you and I when I get to LA I hope to see you and hang out and I miss the sketches we did all the comedy you know somebody's curating all the comedy we did it's unbelievable what we were doing back in LA it's amazing the people who are writing the stuff and performing it and it's all sitting there on my website waiting to be curate the early people should know the early incarnations of the David Feldman show were a lot about sketch comedy and I remember just as a listener laughing so hard used to listen in the gym so hard that I had to get off the exercise but I was gonna hurt myself and that's not an exaggeration I mean multiple times so it was genius it was great now I think the show is still rich and terrific it's just gone in a different direction but I I love enjoy and enjoy your show I mean listening each and every week so I'm a regular listener the way I have a lot of new listeners they don't know who you are in terms of the show you're the voice of the show oh that's right you use my voice let's hear you're listening to the David Feldman radio show you sad pathetic hump I can remember the night you Feldman radio network I can remember the night you came over my son was there we're in my home office my wife bribed you with veggie vegan ziti and that's right because I'm vegan and I have me was delicious yeah and my son and I were watching and you were in my office and you went you're listening to the David Feldman radio show you sad pathetic hump and you can we had to do like five takes because we kept laughing at that well first I thought you really want me to say that and you and you're not it yeah who would know it's still being used 10 years later it's still being used well it wasn't 10 years ago we have to maybe we should come up with a new tag line hey it's working for you go with it yeah all right I love you I miss you I'll see you soon and next time Phil Henry that's a great thank you and next time you're gonna go see Steve Martin and Marty short you should have called me and told me I could have set you up backstage you could have had dinner with them hung out you know you're a you're a you're a total low life that was your moment you'll never have it again that was your moment I love you hi David thank you let me back see you bye all right bye bye


This is the bill, the OGM call for Tuesday, July 27th, 2021. Pete kindly created an agenda. And HackMD. I'll put the link here. I feel a little bit embarrassed or self conscious of maybe about. Sometimes I create the agenda and it's so that other people can populate it. This time I created the agenda. So because there were a bunch of things that I thought would be useful for OGM to talk about. But they're, I'm coming in with them. So. Sounds great. And I think they're a fine place to start. I looked at them and I added an item at the end in case we have time left. I saw. And let me. I'll share my screen and show off that agenda. Or set of topics really. I wanted. I wanted. The folks on the call to kind of talk through the different topics and then make the actual agenda. So. Or, you know, just the second item on the set of topics. Yes. I will keep sharing this. Yeah. I will keep sharing this, but let's let me know if. If we'd rather see faces than. But pixels. Cool. And are you comfortable with the hack MD and the. Split screen display that that's showing and all that kind of stuff. Good. And different. Sounds great. Hey, Phil. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So we've got enough people here. That maybe I'll drop this. Or maybe I won't. I don't know. Hey, class. Right. We were just kind of starting check-ins. Yeah. I'll just buy by way of checking in. I'll, I'll just jump in. I'm in kind of a strange place where. Part of me is sort of frustrated for the way things are going and my own slowness on some stuff and so forth. And then part of me is really excited because. Every kind of every important conversation I have around these topics seems to crystallize the ideas better and manifest them better. And. I'm looking forward more and more to where this is all going. So, so there we go. I'll go maybe. So I'm, I'm super excited. Lots of good stuff happening. And I have been. Working on the food sovereign some and feel super productive. I've got other other people I'm working with on other things. Everything is going well. So that's the good news. Bad news is Jerry and I were in a meeting yesterday with one of our. One of the people who works on climate and he said, so new paper out. I've been reviewing it for two or three or four days, something like that. And I can't make it not make sense. And this guy says we're inevitably headed to 3.5 degrees. Like you, he could not figure out a way around it. So. That was really sobering news. Really. Unhappy news. And then, of course. I've been watching Delta. Kind of go from, you know, something that we weren't worrying about at all to something that we're starting to understand how bad it is, except that I'm about two or three or four weeks ahead of in the information curve. And every day, pretty much. I'm seeing stuff about Delta being super, super, super scary. And then watching the rest of the country going. It's very gently starting to wake up and go, oh, it's maybe if we should something, something we should worry about. So it's a weird time to. To watch it yet another train wreck in motion. And just scary and unhappy and things like that. So, so right into that, I think I'm, I don't want to do this. And yet I think I must. I'm thinking about convening a one hour weekly call, at least for. Until the peak starts to. Subside about just processing. All the, you know, anecdotes and science and stuff like that. That we should. That more people shouldn't know about to try to speed that process up. That sounds like a great idea, Pete. And would you also like to strategize about possible ways of upping the vaccine rate, or is this mostly a tracking and understanding kind of call your proposal. It's a really good question. I'm going to drop the share because I think I know if it's a It's a really good question. I'm going to drop the share because I think I know if this is or are in that. It's a really good question. I, I, I, it's funny. I don't want to spend the time on it. And so. And so when I think about that call, it's like, how can I make it the shortest, most effective, most, you know, because it's like, okay, so what the call I really want is just kind of what happens in Corona wisdom in the, in the channel in matter most is like, and, and also maybe a virgin emergent events that's making. Let's do some, you know, let's go around the room. Let's talk about the three things that I've read today that I I've heard about that are super important. Are we, are we all on the same page? Do we know about those things, you know, and I would pick up two or three things from some, some of the things that I've heard about those things, some of the things that I've heard about the calls and let's make a wickier or a set of Google docs or whatever. And poof, we're done with the call. So around that call is a whole another set of things. Right. How can we get more of X vaccination happening? How can we get more? How can we get more vaccination around the world happening? You know, what do I do about my kids? What do I do about my workplace? What do I do about, you know, disinformation? Yada, yada, yada, right? That's what I do. I take my time. I take my time to talk about that. You know, I spend like, like, I spend like, like about 50 hours a week trying to solve just that, right? And it's not what I want to do. I want to do, like, you know, at most for me, an hour call. How do you, how do you deal with the fact? How do you have a, how do you deal with the psychological fact that you're, you're in trauma. Everyone else is in trauma. And together we're, you know, need to move forward. You know, that's another hour call at least, right? Every week. I mean basically, not to oversimplify, but dealing with trauma and dealing with stress are both, they start with self-awareness and other awareness. And those are not hard concepts to understand, they may be hard concepts to learn and practice, but in each circumstance, when I've been trying to do this actively with groups ever since COVID started a year and a half ago, and it ends up taking some time from the standpoint that one-on-one, it's sort of, how are you doing? And then you patiently listen to how they're doing. And then you acknowledge and reinforce, well, it sounds like you're having a really tough time. And then my husband's words of wisdom as a psychiatrist after a certain amount of what he would call perseverating, which he attributed to me at times, he would say, well, that sounds really complicated.  And I don't mean to be prescriptive, but I think we can't collectively solve the problem. We could collectively identify ways to reach out to people to begin a blog or something else that is a source of information that we feel is more reliable or more balanced than what we're able to see. Or maybe we just wanna refer to a lot of other reliable sites, not that everyone would go there, but there's a lot of good sites on COVID. Michael Osterholm here in Minnesota has a really good one called SIDRAP. It's pretty easy. Great, yep. And so my question is, how can I spend 30 or 60 minutes a week for the next month and not talk about emotional trauma and not talk about public education even, just like for me, right? I'm doing a lot of sense-making and my wife is doing a lot of sense-making around. Here is the emerging information that is going to be that people will understand is important in a month, right? How can we make a list of that, process it, get other people in the same kind of boat, just, so for this particular effort, I'm really at the very front end of sense-making, right? And that's the only work I wanna do on it publicly, kind of, obviously I do a lot privately and with friends and family and stuff like that, but, so, but then there's a lot more, there's like a cone of work to do, right? And then of course, looking at Klaus's face, this is in a microcosm that the training sprints we have for the thing, the slower but bigger train wreck of climate and food and things like that, you know, so. Trudy, would you like to check in? What kind of did? It's been a little bit of a chaotic week with some ups and downs with medical tests and other things, but I think things are steadying out, so that's good. And right now I'm trying to figure out how to get my apple pencil to work so I can sign something that needs to be in Missouri that I sent with an error number in it. So, that's from the sublime to the ridiculous. Thanks. Let me know if I can help you. Klaus, go next. I'll just say that, you know, most of the people that we talk with, the trauma that they have around COVID is about COVID, but I'm actually saying people who are traumatized, the more conspiratal-minded people and what they're traumatized of is this idea that once you mandate a vaccine, you've created a framework for always keeping the control over people. And I'm just trying to help these conspiratal minds to think, well, maybe that was the point of the disinformation, because if you'd just got the vaccine, we wouldn't have to mandate anything. And to what, I think it was Charlotte, the woman, the woman that spoke, that was uncomfortable talking about the dangers of the vaccine. Curly hair, nobody. You don't remember, she was saying she was uncomfortable talking in the group. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Grace. Grace, okay. To her point, you know, I've had people who I've seen them say, well, there's been this many thousand deaths from the vaccine. And what I've done is I said, rather than argue, which you can argue that number, that number's crazy, but I didn't wanna waste my time doing it. But I did the math for them and it comes out to 0.0089%. And I just put that there and not that that's gonna sway them, but at least it's there for somebody else reading it, not that particular person, but the other people. So I think she had a point in terms of addressing things that even if we think they're bullshit, they kind of have to be addressed. There were some really good articles over the weekend about this, about we're treating people who aren't vaccinated and wrong. Phil Clausen. Yeah, things going pretty well with some interesting meetings last week with the, with actually a future scene within Lego and then the International Civil Society Center as well, so that was exciting. I am, I guess, as everyone's saying, I am starting to encounter a lot more pushback from people generally around the vaccine, around, and a lot more kind of conspiracy-focused information sharing in my circles, which is concerning. I find, I ran into a family friend the other day at a sporting, I coached a men's soccer team and he was saying on, none of you guys, everyone's nearly, like around 30s, early 30s, late 20s. Like, none of you young people should have got vaccinated. Like, I've had kids. I know that I don't, I'm not gonna have any more kids, but how do you guys know if you can still have kids? And it's just like, people are talking about it after the game. It's just weird how it kind of spirals out into this kind of doubt in people's minds, just that one interaction. I don't know, it was, it's a bit concerning. I'm also, I'm moving to London in two weeks and the US put up a stage four kind of warning for travel to London last week, which is concerning. But yeah, that's my kind of COVID related reality. Wow, is the left side of your computer working properly now? No, I have to bring it on Friday, yes. I sent my computer into Apple to get it fixed and they changed the battery and broke two of my ports. Oh, perfect. That was a kind of unfair trade off, but yeah. That would explain that. Thanks, Petter. Klaus? Yeah, I'm trying to not focus too much attention on COVID, you know, it's, I mean, it's a huge distraction because it's basically a political, has become unfortunately a political issue and it will run its course, but it sucks up all the oxygen from other conversations that we really need to have. I was on a call earlier this morning with a European Corp, a guy from the Netherlands who has set up a company or an effort to build aquaforce tree systems and to work with very small scale people to set up gardens and co-trees and so on. And he invited his alumni from the Amsterdam University so they have people in from all over the world. I mean, not huge, but 20 some people and he was soliciting support for his efforts and over the last he described how he spent 10 years to get to the point where he's at and he has created a very nice platform but it's minuscule in comparison. So I'm thinking if this guy had had a knowledge base to draw from that shows him how to set up his organization which he had to figure out on his own so he can solicit grant money so he can provide an organizational structure. He could be in a completely different place today. So we get confirmation and reaffirmation really that weren't the right track setting up this platform and letting it evolve. So good news is we have a commitment from Tricia so we have a Costa Rica case study which Tricia is totally excited about this and she's like a perfect case study because it's subsystems, small scale farmers who are struggling to first of all figure out how to farm more efficiently and then have like zero access to the markets. We have a meeting tomorrow with Christina from Crease. She is totally on fire, you know, that's scary. But she is just definitely in and then we haven't heard back from Kerry yet because we may have to find someone else in the US or preferably I guess in California. So yeah, I think actually we can't run fast enough to keep up with this. It is really starting to resonate. So my focus is totally on how can we set up this structure and communication systems and everything to capitalize on the momentum that it has created. Sure, I'll just echo the work classes just referred to since I am partnering with him on that. So just ditto on that front. But setting COVID aside, I think for me I have a child going into high school, I have a child starting middle school this year and I could have picked my battles, I could have picked education and I could have picked food security. I picked food security, but I am already seeing things that make me worry not just for like COVID but like for the longevity of my kids' education and their ability to learn, their ability to be in diverse environments, to be exposed and my kids are well to do when they have access and I'll fight for them but not every family is gonna be able to do that. So I'm worried we are about to be on track to have a generation of kids who don't have the foundations to be good human citizens. So COVID aside and in my mind COVID's here to say I heard on a podcast three months ago or two months ago this will not be solved for a generation. So to me, problems for my kids go for the next 20 years because the foundation that's happening right now. So that's what's top of mind for me but I'm super excited about the works Klaus is doing. So that's balancing out my anxiety with my optimism. So thank you Klaus for giving me some optimism. Thank you all. Pete, do you wanna pick up and share with us the agenda and? Yes. Let me share again. Yeah, COVID is not like smallpox. It's not on a path to eradication. It's definitely becoming endemic and we're gonna have to figure out what to do. And if that means taking an annual booster and then suffering through the people who are overloading the system and that's the worst of it, okay. But it could get far freaky than that. That's the likelihood of what's gonna happen. They're gonna keep modifying it with boosters and you'll get another injection but there's a lot of crazies out there reporting that because it's mRNA it's gonna affect whether or not you can have kids and all kinds of other scare tactics that are just total garbage. The messenger RNA is just that. It's a messenger, it doesn't alter your genes. So there's just a lot of craziness out there and I don't know how to systematically debunk that except direct people to sites that are not bunk. And I'll say to that, I mean this generation of kids that I'll call it the 30 under so the 20 year olds, the teenagers they don't wanna have kids. They're like, it's not worth it. So it's like even if they convince themselves it's secure and safe. I think there's a lot of other reasons why we're gonna see a population decline. Which is its own good conversation. Yeah. I'll stop. I love how I blew up our agenda. I was the one who blew up the agenda with COVID. And then I have to finish it. The reason I'm worried about Delta is because the US is woefully underprepared to meet the challenge of Delta. It moves fast. We think we got used to wild type variants. So we're used to the signs and symptoms and sequelae from that wild type. So we've got that baked in or not. Delta is a different animal. It works differently. It moves faster. It has different effects. I'm worried about 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 people in the US and around the world, more of them having neurological problems for the rest of their life. Reduced IQ, psychological disorder, all that kind of stuff. It's just like, so there's a way kind of around. We could reduce some of that or we could lean in and make it worse. And we're on the lean in and make it worse thing right now. And it's like, why do we need people who already don't wanna get vaccinated to have a lower IQ because they got COVID and long COVID and things like that. And it's like, oh my God. You've opened the Pandora's box again. Go ahead and play. You started it Pete, wasn't it? But historically viruses are teachers. It's nature sending out a teacher. If you look at it this way, look at the Colorado epidemic, the black plague, I mean, look at all these amazing viruses that have hit populations. And in the process, we had to clean up our sewage systems, right? Because Colorado came out of it. And so each time that a virus comes, it is a response to the damaging behavior, behavior that damages the natural systems. And that's basically how I looked at this virus. If this virus hadn't shown up, Donald Trump would still be in office. So these are really horribly traumatic and painful teaching moments, but Colorado wiped out one-third of the European population when it was running. So the black plague wiped out one-third of the European population. And similar things happened to China and everywhere else. I'm happy to, you know, there's, so the larger thing I take away from COVID is that we learned a lot about the way information works and how we together as a society learn things and things like that. So the overall thing for me for COVID is, I'm glad we had an easy one to give us, to help us figure out how people like us actually and other people like us, how do we manage, you know, the longer term, the same kind of train racks in the longer term of climate change and food challenges and things like that. So I totally agree, it's a good teacher that doesn't mean that the lesson is pleasant. By the way, the other interesting thing is within my family, I've got family who are on the other side of the, and in a spectrum, right? On the other side of the whole vaccine thing, right? So just the personal trauma of wondering whether how much you care about whether or not your close family dies or not, you know, it's like, well, do I go, I'm really sad and I wish that didn't happen or do I go, well, you know, do I kind of like Zen go, okay, well, I guess they knew what they were up against and I don't know, right? So anyway. It comes back to the sort of self-awareness, self-care, other care. And every person's gonna have a different formula. And there are people where you'd like to do other care and they absolutely won't accept it. And then it becomes a self-care issue for me to accept that they won't accept it. And I don't mean COVID per se, it can be any variety of self-damaging behaviors or relationships or other things. Out to energy systems and food systems and climate systems. It's been a wonderful learning year or two. I wanted to talk, yeah? My last word would just be that historically some percentage of the population survives even with long-term consequences yet unknown from something like COVID and they end up wiser because of the experience and they do make the world a better place. And maybe in that time, they'll work on these other big problems which clearly need working on. Nobody's saying those problems are going away. They're not gonna run a cycle and finish. So I don't know. I'm trying to be a little bit mellow about the whole thing because spinning my wheels at things I cannot influence is a sure way to end up with chronic anxiety and other mental and physical ailments myself. There's a, and speaking of COVID or food systems or climate systems, there's a continuum that we are all exploring about how do I do self-care and pull away from intervening and how do I lean into intervening enough so that I'm making change where I can and yet not damaging myself and my family and things like that. That's right. You got it, Pete. So how long do we have on this call? Another half hour or another hour? Another half hour. We've shifted these to be a one-hour call. One of the things I wanted to point out with this was just in setting up these potential topics. I had an interesting choice on these. So, and it was around precision, right? Do I say, I can guess how long these things are gonna take. Do I want to pick a precise number here but maybe too little or too big or do I wanna pick a range? I've gotten pretty good at doing for smaller meetings. This is a little bit bigger than I can predict but I've gotten pretty good at writing a pretty precise number here but then as the meeting gets bigger and maybe a little less organized you have to increase this window. So that for me also goes out to task management and project management and things like that. So let me hit these real quick and maybe we can talk about what we'll talk about for the next half hour. In talking with Ann about the food sovereign and let me stop myself there and note that I heard from somebody in the network that sovereign is a sensitive word for indigenous folks because it was the sovereign nations that came and colonized them, massacred them and things like that. So I'm trying, I'm wondering, this was last night the word that I've come up with to replace sovereign in the way that we use it is independent actually. So I think I'll switch to be in independence. Like independence just by itself or independent? Independent. Yeah, independent entities or just independence? Just independence. As a noun, independent as a noun. Yes, I know, but that could mean an independent individual to me, not an entity. Another interesting meta topic is we've talked a lot about language and metaphors and things like that. One of my observations is you don't have to worry too much about expanding out the accuracy of the metaphor. At some point, if you're doing a good job of memeing, you pick a word and then you explain what it means over and over and over. And you essentially colonize to use another bad word. You capture another bad word. You take over the meaning of that word, right? So at some point, I mean, the way we use sovereign isn't the way most of the world uses sovereign. So the way that we use the word independent and it has a halo of meaning around it ends up, you know, or whatever word, quilt or whatever, right? You take a word, you say, okay, I'm going to change this a little bit and this is what it means for me. And then hopefully that meme grows and expands. And so we worry a lot about whether or not we're picking the right word. I think we could worry a little bit less and worry more about, you know, how we explain what we mean about it to the rest of the world. So in conversation with Ann, Ann comes from a tech background. Ann and I have been having a lot of fun together, getting stuff done and I think that will continue. I was explaining to her how OGM operated with transparency and why that might be a good thing for a food sovereign. So a food sovereign has a choice to make, right? As we have internal meetings, as we have, you know, projects to do, where do we draw the line on making things public versus keeping things private, right? And it was an opportunity for a little bit. I've been working with some public stuff for a while. So I've learned a little to lean into the being public a little bit more. We've done that kind of together with OGM. How can I explain to Ann what the accommodations are that you take to do that? Is it a good thing? Do we like doing that? What have we learned? You know, what are the bad things? What are the things to watch out for? So that's that discussion. This one I think we should defer to another time. But this was an idea I came up with for Jordan. He was talking about a concept that needed to be not owned by anybody. And yet, how do you make the website for something that's not owned by anybody? Because as soon as you make a website, obviously the person making the website owns it. So the short answer was hashtags. And I had some discussion around how to use hashtags that way. Another thing that we could probably defer is, or maybe not actually, maybe this is the only thing that's important for this call. For a while in different contexts, I've been thinking it would be nice if we start explicitly making commitments and then explicitly trying to keep commitments. Jordan on the Linesburg OGM call brought over some stuff from construction. They actually track a metric called a percentage of promises kept. So if you've got a big multifaceted, if you're building a dam or overpass or something like that, you've got hundreds of people involved, dozens of organizations. And the way that you either make or break the project is by promising, making commitments. Yes, I will get cement trucks here at this time. Or I'll have so many earth-moving equipment and the drivers for them or whatever. And the more that you keep promises to each other as you're doing a big project like that, the likelier you are to come in under time under budget and the more promises that get broken, the more likely you're gonna blow out the thing. So I've been wanting for a while to keep meeting metrics and to time box things, like asking, so how long is this meeting going to last? And can we commit to stopping it on time? And can we keep that promise? Meeting metrics for me, a little bit comes out of the OGM meetings where we don't have, obviously, I feel like we don't have enough diversity. So diversity to me is one metric to keep and, but another metric might be, did we end on time? Did we keep good notes, those kinds of things? So this is like the small version of OKRs. Can we kind of take the concept of OKRs and make it fractal all the way down to each meeting even? And then I had a discussion with Jerry, we've got a gap in our funding situation where we have conceptual funding models and we're waiting to pour money in one end and distribute funds in another end. Some of those funds need to go to things that need to get done now rather than in a month when the dollars actually pour into the bucket. For some of those things that need to get done, CSC matter most needing some improvements or some massive wiki glue code or something like that, it would be nice to just get them done. And then there are things that I wanna do that I can't afford to do without promise of funding. But actually, I kind of realized promise of funding is almost good enough. I could probably take an IOU from OGM or Lyonsburg or something like that in lieu of payment. And then with the understanding that there's maybe an 80% chance that I'll get paid and maybe there's a 20% chance that I won't get paid. And then the accuracy of the prediction of getting paid by an IOU goes back to things like commitments and metrics. I will let Jerry take this one, the big quilt. Thanks, Pete. And why don't I pause for a second because Carlos has got his hand up. Let's pause before this and see what questions we have so far and deal with this separately when we're moving further. Go ahead, Carlos. Yeah, Pete, we had a discussion with Jordan, that involved Jordan yesterday and Samit and Ann Wayne there and the question came up that we urgently need this website up because every time you talk with somebody, the question is, can you send me an invite or can you send me some information, right? And so the only thing we have right now is this hypothesis. And that has almost run its course. So is there a funding issue with setting up this website? There is not. Well, no, there's not. Okay. So the timeline for setting up the website is a function of me and Ann getting together and starting around Thursday last week and doing things like deciding on a name and deciding on where simple things like where and how to buy the domain name and the technical steps from turning a name into a domain name into websites that are up. So it's just, we had a weekend. We worked over the weekend, but it's not, there aren't any blockers besides kind of just physical time. Okay, thanks. And the inputs to that, right? Ann and I had to talk about a bunch of domain name stuff and that includes things, not just the website it includes things like how are we gonna do email? How are we going to keep shared folders? All that kind of stuff. Yeah. Oh, sorry, Klaus, are you done? Yeah, we talked about setting up our first regular meeting next Monday, starting next Monday and wanted to focus on this marketing and messaging topic as a first step. I mean, I've got an inquiry. I had a conversation with the Education and Leader from Kiss the Crown, the Kiss the Crown organization. John Woodluck is the founder of that group. Well, they want to get in on this. So they're already asking, can you send us information? We will send somebody to participate in the Monday meetings and so on. But his first question was, would you have a website or something not that we can send around? So this, thank you so much for pushing that. Of course. Mr. Kennedy. One thing just really quickly. I mean, one thing I've done on projects previously while waiting to put up a website is just to create a one-sheeter that you can share like a PDF or a single-page file just with like the basics of what it should inform the website as well. But it is a kind of not the ideal in between but it's nice to have if people want more information. Just a suggestion. Thanks, Phil. Jerry, Klaus. Sure. And this may throw a tiny wrench in things, but I want to go into the quilt discussion in a second. But, Pete, if you can drop the share, I just want a screen share for a sec. Sure. So two Sundays ago, I had one of many great conversations recently which led me to the idea of having a show as like a mainstream of activity through OGM and that we would take kind of like the stream of calls we're doing but actually perform OGM work on the calls. And on the surface that this would present as a vlog or a podcast. In fact, it could be a video log and have podcast outputs and other sorts of things. But underground, we would be taking the transcripts and analyzing them. I would be weaving with my brain. Other people would weave with other tools. We would be doing OGM kinds of things and we would direct this thing toward the kinds of people who are trying to solve the world's problems, preferring to go to non-white guys ideas first. So that's the broad idea of the show and the name that came up for me was The Big Quilt. And we can have a conversation about like quilting is an interesting metaphor here. Then the next day, Pete and I and Judy were on a call that Jordan was helping run for the one degree network. And at some point late in the call after we'd sort of done some breakout work, one of the leaders said, so how do you explain this to a five year old? And I pulled out the quilt thing, which I thought, you know, which you could come up the next, the previous day. And I'm like, we're weaving a quilt. And it's like, it just stuck. It was like, yep, sounds great. And we moved with it. I'm really liking the quilt analogy and it seems like a simple thing. But the reason I'm asking a spiritual screen is yesterday I bought TheBigQuilt.com on Google Domains. They have now added a feature when you start a domain. Would you like to build this on Google sites? I said, yes. The old little tiny hack that I had to do to point the domain to the website is non-existent and unnecessary at this point. It just stands up and transparently builds your site. Google sites looks like this. I actually have added an image back here. I don't like, so I haven't published this. And I can easily drop Google spreadsheets, Google Docs, Google anything's in here. And this is, I can also easily add, see the little people icon. I can add humans who have full edit privileges. This is, and the service costs $0. What I'm paying is $12 a year for the domain on Google Domains. So, and I can do this. This is no challenge whatsoever to do. And I know that we have a beginner website for Open Global Mind on Massive right now, which hasn't changed since we published it. And we don't really have a process or a thing to do it. And I'm like, Pete, I don't know what to do. Because this is so simple, and yet it's like Google, Google, Google stuff. But I gotta say, this was instantaneous to set up. It propagated pretty much immediately. All the DNS messy stuff was done for me. Like, and we can switch from this to a different site later, no problem. But this was just so simple. Sorry. Thanks for the walkthrough. I can talk pros and cons between Massive and Google sites. I think Google sites is fine. And Klaus, if you all wanted to have a name, you could buy a domain and set it up as quickly as I did. We could do that, Ann or Ann and I, or I could set up a Google site's website. Exactly. We can do the same thing with Massive. So it's not, well, the question is, in a month, I don't know, Massive is about participation. Google ends up to me being about enclosure. And it's a trade-off, right?  Same thing with in conversation with Ann.  I don't want to stick on, I don't care. Let's do the thing that's most collaborative, the most open, the most scalable. If that's Google sites, I'm fine with that. I don't think it is, but. So I would, the panel I would put in is, and I've had this conversation with Keith, I don't know if I've had it with Klaus, is I'm hearing from the community I implied into in the farm space, the agricultural space. They are, which is what I want, very, very strong opinions with regard to large technology companies. Amazon always being the big target they shoot at, but Walmart's right behind them and Amazon's right behind them to the point that many organizations are saying, I wish I didn't have to be on AWS. I wish I didn't even have to use services that were on AWS. So when Pete and I had this conversation, there was a conscious discussion around what are the technologies and platforms that, while may not be perfect, are at least aligned in spirit with that. So that was one of the reasons we chose Massive Wiki versus Google Sites, but in the end, I bought the domain through Google. So it's not a perfect world. But that was a factor in our thinking, even in Google Sites, like I could have done it last night over a beer and we would have been done, but that was not aligned with the intention. And I totally agree with that. And I agree with what Pete said. And I think Pete knows that in spirit, I've been traveling the massive road now with him for this whole time. But I feel like when we build anything in Massive, Pete, it's like the rook that's trapped between the queen and the king or something, I don't know. It's like Pete gets trapped because without Pete, I feel like I can't really actually do much with Massive. I feel like you become a linchpin to anything I wanna try to do. And that endangers our relationship. And then I can't figure out how to fill an IOU or like we go straight to the IOU conversation because I feel like I'm waiting for you to build stuff that I can't pay for you to build. So what Massive needs are then, so one easy choice is to say, let's throw up our hands, let's use this Google thing, it works great. I'm fine with that decision. I don't have a problem with that. I think it's missing the mark, but other than that, I'm fine. So if we don't wanna choose that, if we wanna choose the Massive approach, then Massive Wiki needs help, right? How do we make Pete not the linchpin? Already, it would be pretty easy for you, Jerry, to just ping Bill and Bill can plow through a lot of the stuff I can plow through. You mean Bill Anderson? Bill Anderson, yeah. But Massive Wiki would love to have more concierges, and Bentley could do the same thing. I don't know that he's got the interest necessarily, but the skills to help somebody with Massive are pretty small and very common and easily. It takes work to use open source. It takes work to build open source. And if the open source stuff isn't working for you, you can pull away and use something easier where you can lean in and make the open source stuff work better. Phil? Sorry, this is a great conversation. I don't wanna be overly critical, but I was very excited actually when I saw Pete's agenda for this meeting, because I think there are some issues around commitments, time boxing, things like that that we do need to talk through. I find that a lot of times in these meetings, we kind of have these great emerging conversations, but then don't address the initial subject matter. So I just wanted to call attention to the agenda again, if possible, just to say. Thanks. Good, we're kind of on the agenda because this was on the, this conversation was on the agenda and nobody went back to the commitments thing when we paused before stepping into this, because I was looking for anybody who wanted to go back to things like commitments, which I'm happy to go back to. I just feel like we're not off the agenda right now. We're sort of reobeying that, I think. I feel like, so this has been a wonderful call. Thank you all. I'm enjoying myself. I don't know, there's a community discipline or something like that that we need to get better at. So I don't care too much. I think we've kind of blown the agenda. I think we're not on the agenda very well, which is totally fine. If I think the way that we developed the agenda, it wasn't really collaborative. I just threw up a bunch of stuff that I know is important that we need to cover sometime. And I kind of thought, interestingly enough, I was a little bit inspired by an experience that Ann and I had where I did kind of the same thing with more precision on the numbers actually. And Ann and I actually tracked the agenda pretty well. So partly that was, we have a bunch of really important stuff that we needed to get through. So we both drove to it together. Part of it was the fact that we only had two people instead of six or seven. And kind of me too, the call rhythm and the team discipline that we have developed over the past year with the folks in this room is one where we are drawn to emergence. And I'm including myself in here too. We're drawn to emergence and we think that emergent topics are really important. And so we bubble those up, right? And we still haven't quite developed a discipline to say maybe a code word or something even. This is one of those calls where, looks like we've got an agenda. We're gonna just drive through that. Anything else is off topic. Let's put it in the parking lot and keep going on the agenda, right? Because we wanted to be productive this call. The process I'm used to for agendas and effective meetings is that a small subset of people in an organization like a nonprofit, it's usually the executive committee of the board of directors is responsible for affirming with the chair of the board the agenda. We don't have a designated individual, but I think if we could agree that we are going to do an agenda, first of all, whoever is going to put out an attentive agenda can ask for topics to put on the agenda that can be refined in the first five minutes of the meeting. And it's basically, here's what we have on the agenda that we think we can do in this much time. Does anyone have something they feel is more important or needs to be inserted instead on the agenda, in which case you put it on the agenda and bump something else, but you're still practicing discipline around time. And you don't do the check-ins and the how are you doing this week stuff until after the meeting's over. I mean, that's the way you work the meeting and then everybody stays after or they come half an hour early before the meeting and mingle before they start the meeting, both of which would be options on Zoom if one wanted to do that. We could say the meeting's at nine o'clock, somebody will open the room for whomever wants to show up to mingle between eight 30 and nine, whatever. And I'm just offering that as an option because I've seen that work pretty well in fairly disrupted boards and so forth because there's a shared understanding of what we need to do to have an effective meeting. Thank you, Judy. That makes a lot of sense. And of course you can kind of see the structure I've got there that recalls that at least. The difference that we have here is that OGM itself is kind of solving an emergent set of problems. And it's my fault I brought up COVID but working through that is one of, I would say that was on topic for OGM. It wasn't on topic for the agenda but it's not like we weren't being productive or doing important stuff. So the difference is in a company, one person or a person's delegate or something like that is gonna say that's in bounds, that's out of bounds. And you can keep shoving stuff out of bounds. None of the stuff that we talked about today is out of bounds for OGM, I think. I think we're pretty good at keeping the conversation going and keeping it productive and not rabbit holeing.  OGM has a multi-charter and we work on a lot of different things. So we don't have the ability to say, go for it, Jerry. This call is meant to be our getting things done call with the goal of making OGM a working thing. That's why we renamed it build OGM. So it doesn't have a written charter, you're totally right but I think the intentions are meant to be much crisper and narrower and time boxed and like I think our intentions for this call are actually like hit agenda items and get things done and go great, awesome, that felt really productive. So that's my sense of it. I think we need to be more explicit about that and if that's what we want. Yeah, Stacy. Just one small point. As far as the agenda, if all the estimates went to the maximum, it would have been 85 minutes. I would just suggest that with all the maximum it should add up to 60. Like looking at every agenda as if it took a long time. If you, that's kind of my note about precision. It's an interesting, there's a whole set of questions that are interesting in my brain about that. So one of them, if you'll notice, to be precise, there isn't an agenda yet. The thing that I've got for that heading is topics. Topics are meant to be a set of things that we might talk about that get gardened into the agenda during the first five minutes in this thing. So then also, I don't know, I could talk about the variation of the numbers. I would rather put a precise number there and then hit the numbers. Yes, I agree. And I also agree. The meeting not only should it add up to 60, you actually have to add a little bit of slack time, right? So each topic should cover, you should cover like 50 minutes and then there should be five minutes for like jostling around or switching topics or telling somebody or asking somebody, this sounds like a rabbit hole. Can we put that in the parking lot and pick it up later? So I totally agree. Which also I think comes back a bit sort of recursively to say we might need to collaboratively develop agendas more. Because you had kindly in a burst of energy, you had put up a quick agenda. I said, that sounded great. I pinned mine to the end. Nobody else talked about it. And that's what we walked in with. So maybe we need to have a asynchronous process to just chat through the agenda together before the calls more. Agreed. Yeah, I think the process will be good. I mean, when I first came in, I tried to listen to the recording of the previous call to pull out what wasn't discussed in the previous call, but even then it kind of became a merging conversation. So I think some sort of formalized process in terms of topics, how we decide on which topics are included and how people suggest topics would be, I think helpful. And maybe we can outline that in our Mattermost chat. And last week was very much a talk about the food systems project. So most of our time was in there, which was very fruitful. And I felt was really actually targeted and productive. Any other thoughts on this? We're at the top of the hour. Last thoughts on where we are? I would just say quickly, I didn't mean to be overly critical when calling out the agenda. It's just a bit of a pattern, I thought. I think these conversations are very rich, very fruitful. It was just something I think we can at least try to make a little more of an effort to be disciplined about. And thanks, everyone, for your input and for Pete's work on. Putting that together. I think, so some of these topics would be good fodder for maybe next call. And I think actually another reflection is I wouldn't wanna see so many people. So I put my name after these as kind of like topic lead or something like that. Or I was gonna kick off the conversation. And then most of the time is actually hopefully conversation and taking notes and things like that, thinking and taking notes. I think there are too many Pete's on this one. I would rather see it much more balanced for future agendas. I also would love if we started thinking about meeting metrics. So was this different kinds of essentially OKRs, right? Was this meeting productive? Was it on topic? Did we enjoy ourselves? Was there friction? Did we productively address friction? Did we keep notes well? Did we all of those kinds of things? I wish we were tracking better and being more conscious about. Because I do apologize. I have to jump on to another call, but I will just share an activity that I had in the nonprofit I was at last, which was quite good, is that the close of the meeting, not even the no discussion, you had the grid upon sort of criteria and everybody just scored the call. And we did it virtually, meaning everybody just entered their score on the note page when you had a record and you moved on. And then that was insight for the next time around.  You wanna score the call? Yes, I'm looking forward to joining more of these. Thanks. We don't have a scoreboard right now. Yeah, I actually think we covered your agenda mostly. A lot of it, yes. And so what we didn't do is wrap it. Okay, so I got commenting this hashtags. I got, I'm using IOUs to bootstrap. We talked about those things. And I think from my standpoint, I acknowledge this is how this can work. What we didn't do is talk about the big grilled idea that Sherry has and flesh that out a little bit. There's things we didn't flesh out about each of these. So there's more about hashtags that didn't get said that are important. We didn't cover transparency and accessibility for the food sovereign. What I was hoping to come out from this was something that Anne could say, okay, I get it about transparency and I get it about accessibility. And there's things that OGM knows that the food sovereign needs to know and decide whether or not it wants the things that OGM. So we, I talked about each of these. We did not cover them, which, and I agree, we didn't talk about the big quilt, but we didn't talk about many of these things. More comment. I need to run this way to another comment. Thanks everybody. And I want to drop because I want to be crisp. Okay. Thanks all. Bye for now.


Hi Eileen. This is Don. I think this is the problem that you're talking about when you said problem 11 in section 7.2 and it has to do with Using the normal distribution to solve a hypothesis test and really using stat crunch It's pretty quick and easy and I'll walk you through the steps on how to do that Because we have this little icon here We can click on that and then our options are to open in stat crunch or an excel right now I'm going to open in stat crunch That'll take a second for it to come up and We have our data here Whoops, where'd it go? There it is and the first column label variable 1. We've got 30 data points and We want to solve this Hypothesis test we go to stat Z stats one sample with data and we get this dialog box Now the data that we want to operate on Variable one so we can just double click that to load it into the right side We don't have to enter the standard deviation that we don't have to worry about these next three items because we have the raw data and One thing to remember You know that we can use the Z test for this Because we have an N of 30 or more and if you're 30 or more then you're pretty sure that the Sampling distribution is also normal We need to set up the hypothesis test the value that we're Looking for let me pull this down for a minute and look at it You had made a mistake on setting up the no and the alternative The wording was that the manager thinks that the salaries The politician. I'm sorry thinks the salary for managers in his state is more than the national mean 5,000 more than tells you that it's The hypothesis has a greater than symbol in it and remember our rule of thumb the no hypothesis always has some form of Equality and that can be less than or equal equal or greater than or equal Since the other alternative has a greater than symbol that has to be the alternative and Looking at the six options here The one you checked is just the reverse you put greater than or equal Remember the politician said it to greater than If he had said at least 83,000 then you would have been right It would have been greater than or equal Greater than or equal always is in the null and the alternative would be the less than but in this case He said more than or greater than that means a greater than symbol in the equation So that's our hypothesis. So now let's go back into stat crunch our null is 83,000 and remember I said that in stat crunch and mini tab and Excel stat and other Statistics programs when you're running these hypothesis tests You just run the test for the equality in this case that the mean of the population is Is equal to 83,000 if we run this test and it is significant For the equality that means it will also be significant for Everything greater than 83,000 the greater than part of the test what is critical here is setting up the alternative properly remember we have a greater than symbol in our Alternative hypothesis, so we've got to get that in that makes it a one-tail Upper-tail test everything to the right in the normal distribution curve So we just click on compute and we get our answers and I'm going to drag this down So we can see better here It calculates the Z stat for us 1.734 they rounded it to 1.73 and See you entered 0 to 7 so you got that wrong But the stat crunch gives us that value and even if you had rounded up to 1.74 I would have found it and given you credit for that. The second part is what is the p-value and the p-value Stat crunch gives us point 0 4 1 4 and again that would technically round to point 0 4 1 Just barely and stat crunch says point 0 4 2 a little bit different But I would have given you credit obviously point for point 0 4 1 the last part of the Problem decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis We know that the p-value point 0 4 is less than the alpha point 0 8 Therefore we reject the null and since we're rejecting the null We have to decide is there sufficient evidence to support the claim or Is there not sufficient evidence to support the claim? Well in this case We reject the null and the claim was the alternative Since we're rejecting the null that means we're supporting the claim and Therefore there is sufficient evidence to support the claim. I hope this helps Eileen there was one thing that I forgot to show you about Stat crunch and the hypothesis test Once you get these values there if you go back you can click on options and edit and Down here at the bottom is what I forgot to mention you can have plots Of the data and of the situation What is helpful is this p-value plot since that's what we're Questioning and as I said before it's always helpful to draw a sketch of your relationship between The mean and the value in question so if we select that p-value plot click on compute We still have our our data, but down at the bottom you've got this little Link to click on and it will show you the p-value Plot and as I said because our alternative was a greater than that Points to the right and that tells us this is an upper tail test a right tail test our rejection area would be everything over here in this red and Although we don't have the critical value of p plotted on here we know that with our p-value of point oh for our test statistics of 1.7346 falls in this critical red area, so I hope that helps I'm going to show you one final thing that you can do with Stat crunch to help with these Let's calculate what that critical value of C is Z is the critical. I'm going to go to stat calculators normal and we bring up this Rough sketch We want the standard because we just want to know the upper tail tests are We want to click on upper tail to begin with point to the right And we want to put in our alpha value point zero eight And we use the entire alpha value because this is a one tail test if this were a two tail test You would put in half of alpha, but we click on compute and We get our critical value of Z of one point four oh five and Can't really let me see if I can stretch this here so we can see things see both of them there we go You can see that our Test statistic is one point seven three our Critical value is one point four one, which is right in here. So our Test statistic falls within this critical area that we always want to see so use those tools instead crunch to draw these These graphs to help you make sure that you're solving for the problem that you intend to solve for


Hello, my name is Jim Garrett, and during this extremely short video, I'm going to show you how simple it is to leverage the OpenShift Advanced Cluster Management tool in order to provision additional OpenShift clusters on nodes outside of the originally installed OpenShift cluster. In this scenario, I'm going to start with an OpenShift installation that I've performed on AWS, which is known as ROSA. That stands for Red Hat OpenShift on AWS. And I'm going to leverage the Advanced Cluster Management tool in order to provision an additional cluster on the Google Cloud platform. I've already taken the liberty of installing OpenShift into the AWS environment. In order to install the Advanced Cluster Management operator, we first have to access the operator hub. From there, we find the operator, we click on Install, and you can take all of the defaults in order to simply install the operator. One thing to notice is it does create its own namespace called OpenClusterManagement. The installation of the operator takes several minutes. I will come back when this part is finished. Step one of installing the operator is finished. Step two is to create this multi-cluster hub. To do this, I clicked on the Create button, and I'm simply going to take the defaults. This initiates the installation of the multi-cluster hub. And as you can see on this screen, it's in the installation process. When the multi-cluster hub has finished its installation phase, you should notice that a third option is now added to the administrative pull-down menu pick called Advanced Cluster Management. By selecting Advanced Cluster Management, it will take you to the Advanced Cluster Management page where you can see that there's a clusters option that when you select it allows you to create clusters in other environments. However, before I create this cluster, I first need to create some credentials that allow me to authenticate into that environment. So I click on the Credentials tab and then Add Credential. Again, since I'm going to be installing into a Google Cloud platform, I want Google Cloud Credentials. I'm going to give this credential the name JAG, which are my initials, GCP. For the namespace, you need to select the Open Cluster Management namespace. And then finally, there is a domain that needs to be created. And this domain that I'm going to use is called JAGGCP.com. That domain physically resides inside of the Google Cloud platform. So for example, if I go over to the Google Cloud platform and I scroll down to the Network Services tab, Cloud Domains, you can see that I've already created a domain inside of Google Cloud. I then click on the Next button. The information in steps two and three is information that I need to keep secure and private. But basically, you first give it the project ID for the Google Cloud project that you've created that's going to house these virtual machines. And then you have to copy and paste your service account JSON key. This is actually a large JSON string, which has all of the information about Google inside of it. I'm going to pause the video. I'm going to fill out all of this security information and then I'm going to come back. I'm now on step four, which is reviewing all of the information for the new credential. I click the Add button and I have a new credential that I can now use to authenticate into the Google Cloud platform. I go back up to the Clusters button and now I want to initiate the process of creating a cluster in the Google Cloud. I select the credential. Click the Next button. I'm going to give this cluster the name JAGGCP. I'm going to leave cluster set empty. I've got my base domain. I also select the version of OpenShift that I want to install into that cluster. And if I wanted to, I could create some additional labels. For example, I can have a label that says this is my production environment. And then for the steps four through seven, I'm simply going to take all of the defaults. I'm going to click Create. Now this will take you to a page where it's initiating the creation of the cluster. You can see that there's a link called View Logs, which if I click on that link, it'll bring up the screen where you can actually watch the creation of that cluster and the logs that go along with it. This takes a few seconds, but there you can see that the logs have been started to create. This is probably going to take about 15 or 20 minutes. So I'm going to pause the video and come back when it's done. You can see from this screen that the installation of the Google Cloud cluster nodes has been completed. If I go back to the Red Hat console, you can see that there's now a second set of cluster nodes that are available. If I click into those cluster nodes, I can actually look at the number of nodes. And from here, you can see that we've actually installed three master nodes and three worker nodes into that environment. Coincidentally, if I wanted to go look inside of the Google Cloud, I can also look at what nodes have been deployed. So for example, those same three master and three worker nodes show up as visible inside of the Google Cloud. From here, I can also adjust the machine pool. For example, if I wanted to add additional worker nodes or reduce the number of worker nodes inside of that machine pool, I could do that. I can also set up auto scaling or I can delete this machine pool. So that wraps it up. I hope this has shown you a good representation on how to provision additional clusters from inside of the OpenShift console, specifically using our Advanced Cluster Management feature for Kubernetes. If you have any questions for this, please feel free to reach out to your local Red Hat sales team. If you'd like to learn more about the OpenShift offering on Amazon, otherwise known as ROSA, please go to cloud.redhat.com slash products slash Amazon dash OpenShift. Thanks again for your time. I really hope you found this video useful.


For the past seven days, I made an identity list throughout the day. Any time I said or thought something, saying I am or I am this, I do this, I am this, I wrote it down in a list in my phone. It is wild to see after seven days. Now I probably have about 100 things written down. And like I said, I'm sure I've missed some. The key here is to do it as much as you can remember. After I was able to look at all of these I am statements or I think or I feel and see exactly in my life where my self-consumption is really good and then also see where it's really bad and where I can improve on and where these negative thoughts and feelings are really creeping up because how do you know where you need improvement unless you have awareness of it? So that's really the whole point of this exercise. So I highly recommend you do this for seven days, five days, whatever. And just anytime you catch yourself saying I am, I want, I feel, I this, write it down. You will be amazed.