My buttons are more sped up. So this is the Weaving the World Operations call on Wednesday, December 8th, 2021. And yesterday I had a nice Zoom interview with Jesse Engel, which I posted in raw format on YouTube Unlisted because it is now fodder for a new episode. I'm supposed to talk, have another interview with Daryl Davis tomorrow. Daryl is a personal hero. He responded to my entreaties to friend up on LinkedIn. And then I said, hey, can I interview? And he was like, yep. Yesterday he was in Berlin about to fly home.  And he's like, yep, Thursday's fine. So I'm like, awesome. So we're trying to settle down on the exact time, so that Stacey, so that I can put a word out and see who else wants to come. Even though it'll kind of be short notice, but I'm expecting, I haven't checked all my emails yet. So I'm hoping to figure that out right now, right after this call. Did you want to put an RSVP so that you could limit size? Well, also kind of so I know whom to expect. I think that'd be good. Just let me know out of, let me know what an email or something like that would be great. It's a good idea. And so that will give us two more raw files to mess with, which means then there's like, sort of, I think the way I'm thinking about this, sort of four episodes of regular episodes of weaving the world, waiting to be produced. And I now have, Wendy, you don't know this, but I spent the last, since Monday morning, I've been on tenterhooks because I used some of the grant monies from Jim Rutt Foundation to buy a new machine to upgrade, so that my machine wouldn't, Pete and I were busy trying to use Descript, which we think is gonna be like a great way to create a good transcript. And it was comical, like I would click on a word, double click on a word in the transcript, in Descript. And then like 15 seconds later, it would say, oh, you wanna do something with this. And we were both like, okay, so this is unworkable. And for a variety of other reasons, including, I am now going to play with some virtual backgrounds, not, I'm gonna get away from Mordor and move more toward like sharing my brain live behind me and other kinds of stuff. And we also, yesterday, was it just yesterday? No, it was Monday. We had as a guest, Michael Tibinigno, who works at Flow Immersive doing AR visualizations, which is a separate little story. And they do nice work. I like what they're doing a lot and he's lovely. He was just great. He was just totally in and generous and helpful and all that and gave good demo. But one of the things that Flow Immersive did was they modified OBS, which is a complicated but very powerful virtual studio for podcasting and video producing and show, actually live show running, but it's open source. So they modified it, I think, to a skinny down version which they now offer on their website as just something to offer the community, which I wanna compare to and a couple other virtual cans. And then I just wanna get good at one of them. Also, I don't think I need this, but David Bowill has a little $100 keypad which is sort of like a live producer switcher that lets you switch feeds and mix and match and stuff like that. And I don't think I need that, but I just wanna sort of think through, partly I'm trying to think through for the episodes, for the composting calls that happen afterward, for collaboration, for live conversations in context, what's the right format? And I don't know. So part of the reason to play with those things is to figure out what actually starts to work better. And with the old machine, I couldn't run and do Zoom and use my brain or whatever else. So now I've got some capacity. Oh, and Pete, I wanted to ask you what the utilities were that you had installed on the menu bar to monitor CPU usage, et cetera, et cetera, because I'd love to have an idea as well. And I can do that whenever. So anyway, that's like the current status. Pete and I spent a good amount of time on a project plan and working toward merging. The idea here is to, as soon as possible, merge my human efforts with Pete's efforts at automation of the process of going from, hey, you've got a file to download from Zoom all the way to a produced episode that's on a webpage, on a web, on the weavingtheworld.org website with whatever stuff we think is useful around that and after that. With that, I will hit pause. And Pete, do you wanna update it all? All right. Any questions from anyone? I actually have a quick one. I, going back through something, there's a different Zoom recording, there's a number of Zoom recording things. The one I tried yesterday was called Grain, or is called Grain. And it logs in a separate user. And then that user shows up as a person, but the thumbnail is Pete is recording this call. It does, well, I don't know. The idea is that during the call, you click a button, you say, oh, this was a really cool part and it'll actually grab that part. I think it might start transcribing it. It grabs it and it's ready to send a link to a little snippet of video, even during the call. So it's meant for the use case. I'm not sure that I would feel very comfortable inviting another Pete to a Thursday on GM call, but modulo that the use case is for kind of like OGM kinds and calls, Thursday calls, where it's like, wow, that was really smart. It also does transcription. All of my playing with it yesterday was kind of messed up with AWS, the AWS outage. They were impacted by that. And so a lot of the features were kind of clunky and it didn't say that at the time, but afterwards we got an email saying, by the way, if you had a less than stellar experience today, it was our use of AWS was problematic. What's AWS? AWS is Amazon Web Services. Yeah, it's Amazon's backend for a lot of web stuff, a lot of it. So Amazon has basically virtualized a data center, like whatever a corporation might need for data stuff. Bezos gave a command 15 years ago, 12 years ago, somewhere around there. He gave this edict that said, hey, from now on, when you need something from a different department that's informational, you're not allowed to just say, hey, go do this for me custom. You have to figure out, is this a regular recurring thing and write an API for it? An API is an application programming interface, which is a way of telling two programs to talk to each other. So an API might be, hey, I need the sales report printed two up with custom headers. And each of those is a field in the API that specifies some activity. Except AWS is like insanely complex and you could build an entire company never buying any IT infrastructure and using engineering your company to use AWS suptanuts and you would have lots of your bases covered in a way. And then you would be vulnerable to Amazon's ability to keep AWS running consistently all the time. And they've had a couple of really big outages. I would say that completely differently. Oh, good, good. That last part. And I'll get to this, I'll back up a little bit. So there's two parts to Amazon. One of them is running the shopping service. And that, there's a lot of software that it needs and all of that stuff is built by APIs and things like that. It's almost, it is kind of separate. They also needed like servers and all the services that servers provide. I think of it kind of like, if Amazon were a supermarket, you can think of the supermarket, front of house, there's like shelves and goods, back of house, there's like a loading dock and pallets and things that move pallets around and shipping containers and a lot of stuff that makes all of the operations of the front of house work. So AWS is kind of the back of house for Amazon. And it's the back of house for many, many, many big and small companies on the web. So there's only a few big web providers, web service providers. One of them is Amazon, then there's Google, then there's Microsoft, IBM. And Amazon is right up there, AWS is right up there. AWS is huge. And it's funny, I was just reading a couple of days ago, somebody was like, you know, AWS gets the credit for making all the money for Amazon. And it's kind of a faint because it's something they can say, oh, look over there, we're doing this cool thing that's actually providing a lot of value for stuff. And they're reasonably open about how much money is going through that thing and it's a lot, right? The thing that it's a sleight of hand for is the amount of money they're making on the retail. So it's like, oh, yeah, we're making a lot of money on AWS and they don't say anything about the money they're making on top of small retailers. I just Googled it in the estimate is that AWS accounted for 12% of Amazon's total revenue and nearly 47% of Amazon's overall operating income. This is just from an external commentator, so we don't know how reliable that is. So it's like, oh, yeah, we're making a lot of money on AWS and they don't say anything about the money on the operator, so we don't know how reliable it is. But what you said makes sense. So you're not at the mercy of AWS's operations when you're setting up your company. It's commonly said that way.  That's the wrong way to set up your business. Amazon just provides a bunch of building block services and on top of that, they are really good at making sure that you have per view and control of those services and they're also really good at.   There's three or four, five, six, depending on how you count data centered operations in the US and then there's one and lots of different countries in the world, one or two. But when you set up a service, AWS makes it super simple as super simple as it can be for you to go, okay, my service is running in Ohio and Virginia and Oregon and Northern California. And if it was the one in Virginia that was the and the oldest one, the one in Virginia was the one that had trouble yesterday. AWS presents a lot of capability for you to go, I don't care, all the services routed themselves over to Oregon without me doing anything or knowing about it or caring about it or my customers caring. So whenever a company, and Grain did a pretty good job of this in their email, they said, AWS Virginia fell over yesterday and that impacted our services and we need to do a better job of making sure that if one availability zone falls over, it doesn't affect all of us. Hold on. The really funny part of the AWS outage yesterday was that a bunch of the support services for AWS itself, them knowing what's up and what's down and being able to tell customers about it is running in Virginia and wasn't decentralized. So they had a big, a bunch of the tech people on Twitter yesterday were making fun of AWS for falling prey to their own non-decentralization of services that they should have decentralized, which was fun. I think that was a nice, that was a good description. Yeah, yeah. I knew pieces of that, but not, you know, not everything tied together, which you do so well all the time. Thank you. Welcome. You do. So yesterday it was, actually, there weren't many people pulling their hair out. The ones I stopped pulling their hair out were it's like, okay, so I guess my Roomba runs on AWS and poor little Roombas were running around and they couldn't contact the cloud so they didn't know how to get to the charging dock so they were running out of juice and people's televisions and all kinds of like IoT-ish kinds of things that depend on the cloud stopped working. Luckily, there weren't a lot of people going, oh my God, my whole service is down and I'm screwed. And the other set of people, tech people on Twitter was like, oh, it's like a snow day for, you know, for IT people because you can't do anything because your services are down. I'm looking for a good article for why I went down. I don't know, the wording was actually really funny. It was something about the availability of some networking devices was compromised or something like that.  Yeah, I don't know. And a part of the massive engineering effort that is AWS is like good graceful failover so that when anything happens in any corner of it that the services keep finding resources to run and every now and then they don't do it right.  It was really bad. It was like a major, major screw up. Okay. Any other questions about the tutorial on AWS and how that works?  I'm not sure. When blockchain, right? When we start seeing kind of a second version of an internet running in the background kind of thing comes along. Help me out like, is that a replacement for all this kind of stuff? Or like, is that kind of a parallel thing that's going to end up happening one day or is it, you still need things like AWS for that? Blockchain itself. Yeah. Is having a trouble with the actual analog parts of feet? There's something in that question, but it's not quite blockchain. Blockchain is a service that runs on things like AWS services. Okay. Blockchain is, you can, I think, I have a thing to say. I'm fact checking it in my head. Blockchain, when you say blockchain, it's basically a database. Okay, that makes sense. So it's a decentralized database. Except Soran has a question. So I think like thinking, I think blockchain is a database as a concatenation of records, but thinking of it as a database I think is really like off because it is an incredibly slow database that you don't want to put much of anything into. You only want to put like the key to the last big block of database stuff that you did in an actual database somewhere else. You might want to put like a key to that. Right. Okay. So hollow chain or, you know, I mean. So the other part of your, I mean, the pony inside your question, I have to share my thing that's been going around Twitter. It's super funny. Go for it. And it's basically what Jerry was saying. He says, hi, I'm from the future. Here's a slide pitch from a hot news startup. So we leverage an open source technology called SQL. It's a millions of times faster than common blockchain technologies. It allows us to do innovative things like delete data, centralize, which makes it dramatically easier to maintain. So this is describing 40 or 50 year old technology, database technology, SQL databases. It is millions of times, literally millions of times faster as a database. And, you know, you can do other things that are useful. That's why it's funny. Yeah. And also database experts have spent 50 years tuning databases to be super high performance, very reliable, feel safe, you know, mirrorable, all that kind of stuff. And here comes a bunch of people thinking they're just going to use blockchain for that. And that that's like not actually true or doable. Right. It's not efficient. There's nothing beneficial. Exactly. Imagine if you had a recipe to make muffins and every time you wanted to drop a spoonful of flour into the bowl. You had to check with 100 people first.   Right. That's kind of that's kind of what blockchain is doing. Yeah, I meant more. So, you know, I don't maybe it's a very specialized database. And it's useful. A couple of replies for that one. The three and web three stands for latency or it's the number of requests it can handle per second. Ethereum handles like 15 requests per second. It's amazing. Anyway, there is a pony in your question which is the web three thing, this whole decentralized internet thing.  That is a replacement more or less for an AWS data center. Yeah, you could use the Holo computing environment rather than AWS. And if I pull the plug on my Holoport, there's 10,000 or 100,000 other Holoports and you wouldn't even notice. To pick up the slack. Yeah. But yeah, I guess the same kind of thing with blockchain. It's kind of the blockchain version of AWS, right. It's going to be slower and clunkier, you know, more distributed, which is a good and bad thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's just in some of the conversation I've been having, they're using the word blockchain but they really mean something more along the lines of Holochain. Yeah. So that's kind of why I use that word, but yeah. A small side note. In the early days of the inner tubes, the inner tubes suddenly as it got popular, the inner tubes suddenly started getting slow and everybody's like, ah, crap, this thing won't scale. And this dude named Van Jacobsen invented a way to compress the headers on TCPIP messages and sort of solve that bottleneck, importantly in the early days of the inner tubes. So that was one person who came up with a clever solution that solved what looked like a scaling problem for the early internet. There's a bunch of people like sitting, I think like this in rooms everywhere thinking, okay, so the blockchain is really energy-consumptive and it's going to burn up the earth and Pete can point to what's her name's essay. Has a really interesting name. I don't remember anymore. Okay, I can look it up. I can look it up too. Yeah, anyway, there's a great essay which is like, this is all completely irresponsible. We're destroying the earth. Like stop using blockchain-y sort of things.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And work more quickly because any kind of proof of for every transaction is like you've got to run to the safe way and they've got to run to the field and run the combine. Right, right, right. Yeah, there's one company I've been talking to called Quiznet that seems to have done it. Now I don't know enough about the tech to dive in but they've been working on it for 10 or 12 years. So 2020, I think of them as pretty new, this one, right? Chris Bijou, Molly Sargent. I don't know, cause I'm not, all I can see is a cool ribbony kind of background without any brain. Let's click on, oh, you're not seeing my brain? No, we just seeing your desktop. Oh, so right now you are not actually seeing the brain. No.  Cause I'm sitting here screen sharing thinking I've been showing you my brain. No, but it's a pretty ribbon background. Oh, so I have to solve for that cause usually when I do exactly this, you see my brain and I don't actually understand why it's not showing you my brain. Oh, oh. Yeah, it says the top nav says the brain but there's nothing. But there's nothing in the screen. I wonder if it's screen recording permissions or something like that. That's possible. Yeah, but it's not stopping me when I do screen sharing to get permissions again on this new machine. Yeah. Okay, must troubleshoot. Damn. Okay, that was, I thought it was running just fine and I thought you guys saw my screen sharing a couple of times. We thought you were being weird. We're trying to get to the point where you were screen sharing but you weren't. Huge. Okay, and I had no idea. Thanks for the link to the crypto art thing. All right, I gotta figure out what's broken there. Yeah, so were you about to go look for the website? Is that what you want? No, I was just gonna show you Quiznet. Yeah, the Quiznet in my brain and then I launched the website and just to see if that was the company you were talking about. Exactly. And so, Pete, do you wanna screen share the project plan? Is that a good way for us to make progress here? Yeah. Yeah, what are your next steps going forward? Is it more, and is that what you wanna cover? Like what are you hoping to get out of today?  And then there's these backup episodes or secondary episodes. And there might be one, there might be several, I don't know, because if we were to do this seriously and really try to undertake the task, like the galactic encyclopedia, this could unfold kind of, you know, recursively in some strange ways. So we have no intention of doing that. We're just trying to take small bites out of the problem. So I'd like to stand up three, four regular episodes. And if tomorrow I have the interview with Daryl, then I'll have the materials for four episodes, for regular episodes, but I have, I have, I have convoked none of the composting episodes. So I need to invite OGMers to show up to view an original episode and then say, oh, okay, here's what was covered. Here's, you know, here's what we could add to it. And then see what different people mapping and different tools think about it and then build toward the shared memory that we've been trying to work towards slowly over time. And in the meantime, Pete is trying to automate as much of the process in the background. And then there's two different layers there. One is the simple thing about how do we get an episode page standing with a clean transcript of the episode, a link to the audio recording on some podcast service, a link to the video on YouTube and some metadata and room for probably at the bottom, but room for the other stuff that comes out of the composting call. Meaning anybody who comes up with a chart that has a URL, we can drop it in a shared Google drive. And we, you know, it could be a scaffold diagram just like Pete just showed. And that would be linked to on the bottom of the episode page. So there's that. And then Pete went and crabbed, we're sort of calling it, the Thursday call on the metaverse that we had a couple of weeks ago. And he spent a bunch of time, I was like sweat and effort, building out individual pages for the things referenced in the call and then sort of really kind of creating in one directory on a separate bolt in Insidian, really kind of building out a mini wiki for the episode with a bunch of resources and coming soon pages and all that kind of stuff. And so the question then is, gosh, okay. How much of that is automatable? Don't know. How do we do this as a crowd?  That's probably a bad analogy, but how do we crowdsource building, you know, feeding the fungus in this way? If that makes sense. Because then what we want to do is invite other communities and other people who are enthusiastic context weavers and mappers and whatnot in to sit and work with us and go crazy doing this and lather and repeat. Right? And then like the call with Jesse was really interesting because he and Good Workhouse are doing a whole bunch of interesting things in vows and NFTs to try to fund Haitian artists and other artists. Their second, Pete, their second season they're thinking is going to be working with incarcerated artists in California. And so they just kind of want to be the starting node of a bunch of goodness that rolls out from the work that they're doing. And I'm really interested in a mind meld or an action meld or something like that with what they're doing because a lot of it feels, and then this is I think Pete's instinct feels like things we ought to be doing. From the connections to art and artists to the infrastructure and other sorts of things that are happening there. Go ahead, Wendy. Yeah, it just occurred to me that let's say there's a hundred episodes out, right? And I just stumble across one of them. What would be interesting to me? So I came in kind of from the side, right? What would be interesting to me is to have some way to follow a thread. Absolutely. Like I loved this. So I was just thinking as you were talking like what would that thread be? I think it would be less interesting to have a thread as a topic because so many things are already done by topic. I think it might be interesting since we're trying to weave something new and we're not sure what that new thing will be. We want to encourage something to emerge is to ask a question and to say these are all starting to answer part of that question or right? And what do you think about that? So I was just about to screen share and then I realized, oh, you can't see my brain. Yeah, no, I can't. I mean, it won't help because you can't see my brain yet and I have to troubleshoot that. So when I'm busy doing my weaving in the brain, which is just one of hopefully many different expressions of this, I'm actively looking for the threads you're talking about. And the one obvious thread is, hey, these are all episodes of Weaving the World and they're all gonna be connected at the Weaving the World and they're all gonna be in order by date order of the episodes or numeric order, season one episode, one kind of numbering, right? So they'll all be in that order by default, which is a little bit of a timeline and is really simple and that will be mirrored on the website so you'll be able to navigate that way. But then we're gonna tag things up so you'll be able to navigate through a tag space. But then as we start to connect narratives, I'm busy like when I talk to Darrell tomorrow, I'm really sort of trying to digest and weave what causes people to change their minds who have what we think of as pretty radical or just dangerous views and how do you pacify and connect with them and all about trust and respect and dignity and all of those are narratives.  And those become threads you can follow. So with Locke, every episode will have lots of little tendrils and trailers and dendrites, it's a to channel Judy, sort of dendrites too, the connective stories, similar things, et cetera, et cetera. And in a perfect world, every episode is a gateway drug to the larger woven set of background context, story, et cetera. Does that make sense? It does. So what I heard in what you said though was a question which was how do we get people to change their minds, right? Which is different than a statement like neuroplasticity is the way to make an understanding neuroplasticity is the way to understand how to create new thinking, right? So, but not different from connected to. So under how do people change their minds, there would be something about neuroplasticity and changing their mind, then there's a thing about recovering from trauma to change your mind, then there's a thing about logic and debate to change your mind, and those are all merely different ways of changing one's mind, right? And then there might be some editorial opinion about all this stuff about debate and logic is kind of pales in comparison to having dinner with somebody and getting to know them and then like bringing them to some new thing, which is what I would sort of say. I think what the question offers, and we'll have to, I mean, I don't think this is an answer necessarily yet, it's something to play with, is that it invites answers to the question from different disciplines, right? Instead of it all kind of siloed if, depending on how we phrase a statement, it could more easily get all the related things can get more easily siloed in one area or one discipline. And I think the beauty of what you're doing is the potential for weaving in stuff from all these different areas, right? You could have using, not saying you wanna go here, but just as an example, right? Using ayahuasca can help change your mind, right? Like on things or help you give you a new perspective, right? So it just, it invites more, gives you more room to have met someone and say, oh, now that fits in and have that make sense to your audience and have your audience go, where did he just go there? That makes no sense. Absolutely, absolutely, entirely, yes, totally. Dr. Dress, you had a comment or a question? Yes. I was wondering for the compost hit through me on. I think honorifics are really important, so. For the compost. Sorry, you think so. I was just wondering, what about if we hired one or two editors, people with like the technical skills, where we could, even if we went in two different directions, work with us. Like, I don't know if you've ever, you probably haven't watched Cupcake Wars, but if I could just. I have because my nieces were mad about Cupcake Wars like four years ago. So I have unfortunately watched a couple episodes of Cupcake Wars. Perfect, so you know what the, they get people that can create exactly what they're envisioning in their mind. They might not have been able to create those scenes, but they can envision it. And I'm thinking of sort of like the OGM crew is sort of directing the editors what they want to say. And maybe we can, I mean, I think that could be interesting in itself, but maybe I'm, I don't know what you think. I like it. So I'm on the verge of trying to figure out, how do we hire somebody specifically to perfect the transcripts? Right. I have a funny feeling that the descriptor notice script going back and actually making a clean transcript and there's different degrees of clean is going to be a very time consuming job. Not a hard job. Like if Pete or I sat down with the transcript and applied some time, it would melt. Like boom, boom, boom. And it'd be really pretty at the end because we've both done that in other cases, but we both are really wildly aware that this is insanely time consuming. And the good news about the script is that it shortens so many parts of that task, especially once your machine catches up with you. But we may want me to hire somebody only for that task on an as needed basis. Now, what you're saying is different from that. So I want to come back and ask what you mean by editors doing which particular kinds of work in the middle here? Okay, so first, I'm sorry about his offer up a phrase. Yeah, like it might be that you mean content manager. No, I mean somebody who actually has the skills so that if we say, you know what, we put this clip over here, put this here. Like it's almost like, again, I'm thinking of this as almost like a reality game of ordinary people creating this thing together. But the other thing I want to say, which sounds so different from what we're used to, is that the way our world is structured now, we think of like less jobs and saving money as a good thing. But I think we're actually trying to do something different because we're looking to spread. So I would say the more jobs we create, the better. Instead of looking at the cost of it, looking at is engaging people as value. You mean as part of feeding the fungus and doing our work, the more people we hire, the better. Is that what you're saying? Correct. Correct. I like that. And then a bit of what you just said, so Pete is like, has radar for new tools and other kinds of things is phenomenal. And on Matter Roast a couple of days ago, he pointed us to what's it called, Touch Something? Touch Designer.  And then he just pointed us to Grain, which feels to me like a feature posing as a company, because it does one thing really nicely that shouldn't actually be a company for $15 a month, right? It does transcription. I didn't get to try it. But transcription is something you can cut a license with Otter and like offer for just about anywhere, right? I'm just saying it doesn't feel like- It's like if you said, oh, there's Zoom and there's call recordings. One of the things that you would invent out of that is Descript and then another thing is Grain. Grain, totally, exactly. Grain actually does what it does better than Descript, right? It's like I want these, they call them stories. This is a highlight, this is a highlight, this is a highlight, this is a highlight, this is a story done, right? And probably they're architecting it to feed into Facebook stories, Instagram stories, whatever. And they're like, hey, there's lots of people making Zoom. Let's write some software that makes that little bridge, right, which is great, except from my perspective, it's a feature posing as a company. But also, Stacey, in an ideal world, there are 50 participants or 20 participants on a really interesting conversation, six of whom are busy weaving stuff using MindMapy or Romy, you know, textual tools or whatever else or Mark Caranza and MX. And then every now and then 12 of us tap a button or click something on our screen that says that was really noteworthy. And there's something that detects that 12 of us did that at this moment and it goes and it finds what that clip is and automatically does what Grain does and says, ooh, I've just made a pretty clip out of the place where everybody went, ooh, this was cool.  And if you want, you can stretch the boundaries of it because maybe the automation didn't quite understand properly what the boundaries were, but it's trying. It's like, it's noticing maybe topic shifts, right? And when we opened into a topic, that would be, and right this minute, we could do that manually, but it would be an enormous amount of work to go back and find the clip. Like editing video and audio is this huge time sink because it's temporal, right? You have to go back, you have to go back, you have to listen to it when it's done, you have to check it and check it. That reminds me of, I think it's on Coursera when you watch a lesson or a video there, you get to press a like, basically a heart and then the next person to see it, it aggregates those so that you see on the progress bar at the bottom, I don't know what that's called actually, but the timestamp bar on the bottom where the most people hit hearts. So you can just kind of like fast, after a while, you can just fast forward to the part. That's actually a great shortcut. That's a great shortcut. Where did you see that? I think it's Coursera. Do you know, are you familiar with Coursera? I'm familiar, but I've never taken a course on it. Yeah, okay, so I mean, a lot of them are free. Yeah. Well, maybe it wasn't, it was something, it was either, and it's not you to me. I don't think, I'm pretty sure it's Coursera. Cool. Pete, do you want to riff on your comment on Wendy's thought? Yeah, another way to think of what Wendy's suggestion, the suggestion of like, how do you create a through line through a bunch of things is smart, I think, and framing it as answers to a question, I think is really smart. Keep going. I was going for people that don't want to interrupt you. It reminded me of the story that I bumped into today, even though it's from July. Somebody felt like he was a really bad storyteller, and then he taught himself how to be, what good storytellers do to create an engaging narrative. And it's, I mean, it's stuff that we should kind of know, but it's also good stuff to remember. So a couple of thoughts on top of that. Story threading is all about turning exactly this act into a career, doing the work to tell stories over other matter, other materials, other things that got said. Then long ago, I did that video on Nugget's narratives and points of view. Is this familiar to all of you? Pete remembers it, I can do it in 30 seconds. A Nugget is any addressable piece of content. A tweet is a Nugget, but a whole book can be a Nugget, but really you kind of want this paragraph in the middle of the book. A video can be a Nugget, but really you want this clip, so that's the Nugget, right? So Nuggets exist in the world. Narratives tie together Nuggets. So I wanna create a narrative that says, hey, here's why I think that we went into the great, the global financial crisis of 2008, 2009. And I would construct a narrative that assembled a bunch of wise things I found Nuggets that I found already published, and then I would create a few of the Nuggets myself and put them into the world so that other people might weave with them. So the narrative can be retrospective or prospective, like here's what I think we need to do policy-wise to get out of the global financial crisis right now or here's what we missed or an analysis or whatever like that. And so a narrative is a story of the kind that I think we're talking about here. And then a point of view is a collection of narratives. And so Stacy might publish a narrative about how to create engaging shows that change people's minds online. And I might just include her whole narrative as part of my point of view because I'm like, that was awesome. Stacy speaks for me and everything she said in that thing is perfect or that except I would subtract this one thing you would offer some editorial but you would collect a bunch of narratives and you wouldn't have to originate all the narratives. Your point of view on some domain, some field of endeavor would just be like, I believe these things to be true. Like these narratives express how I think the world works what I think is going on.  That could in fact be the narratives because people are busy inventing those narrative threads and putting them in the world in exactly this way. And so Nugget's narratives and points of view is an attempt to say this is a really good way of the future of expression and media and books and movies because any of the nuggets is reusable in many different narratives and points of view. And a good nugget serves multiple purposes. A really good nugget is a triple word score because I used it to say the global financial crisis Wendy used it to explain Bitcoin and somebody else used it to do something else. That's a really juicy nugget and hopefully it would be sort of voted up and hopefully the author would get some NFT tokens minted for them and make a fortune from like the best nuggets in the world. But that's a dreamland, a dream scape. Go ahead, Wendy. Yeah, so this is what I was thinking of when I was sharing with you guys that this, and this goes back, right? The data, the information data, knowledge sets, wisdom thing, right? To me that's very similar, right? Or is it not? Because I know that over simplifies it and that's old information sent into the field, but the new words are interesting because it gets us away from kind of a colder version and into more of a storytelling version, which I like very much. And Pete and I, I think, I'm speaking for you, Pete, so you'll correct me, but I think Pete and I both have a slight adverse reaction to the DIKW pyramid. I could tell, though. I don't. You don't? Okay. Well, I sort of do because like Maslow's pyramid, it gets misused a whole bunch. And my mentor at Penn, Ross Aikoff, was one of the people who might be the progenitor of the DIKW pyramid. He has some paternity in it because that was part of his field back in the 40s, I think. And so, yes, actually, because in some way these stories are our attempts to distill wisdom. Out of, and the nuggets live at lower levels in that pyramid, although a really good nugget contains wisdom, it's just that it's wisdom about a very specific thing. That's why I like it. Because, right? Yeah. So when I was writing up, remember I wrote up something based on the video of Neil Postman talking, right? And I was trying to get at the same thing, like how do we weave something? How do we now take this kind of iteration of a pyramid and say, but right now, what we wanna do is we wanna bring this stuff together in a way that eventually gets us to some semblance of wisdom. So what I love about nuggets is you're basically saying there's something embedded in this small little thing that has value. It's not just a piece of information.  They're not equal because it's a nugget. Yeah, it's value to change the words like that. I like it. Stacy. So this may not be the nuggets that you're looking for but I'm always thinking about like the beginner's mind. For this call, Pete's answer on what AWS is, to me that's a nugget. And I actually think there's a whole audience, not that you guys are familiar with, but that I know that would love that nugget in three minutes. Absolutely. And that's why if there were people that had, I don't know how to pull that out and do it, but I know how to say that's a good one. So Pete's explanation of AWS a moment ago would make a perfect nugget. Right, right. And if we had a beautiful AI system that when the three of us were like, ooh, that's a nugget, please, please AI, go find this thing and sort it out, that would be really pretty cool. Right, or we get to the end of something and somebody says, yeah, the last two minutes of conversation, boop. Yep. And I'm going to swap. You kind of don't know it until it's done. It's not like you can highlight it before it happens. You kind of get to the end, like you were saying Jerry before and kind of go, ooh, that was good. That last couple of minutes worth of conversation. If only there were a service where something was logged in to Zoom and recording and then you could go back and like snap this part. Exactly. That's great. So I've got to switch places, but keep going. Stacey, what you, that AWS thing was a nugget. Sounds a lot like five minute university. I don't know if I can get the key off of it. Okay. Five minute university. Okay. Three minute university. But here's the thing. If we're counting on the automation for, you know, 10 people to click a heart, that's great. But what about the beginner that's not there? What about having actual beginners decide what the nuggets are? Because I don't know how many people would, I mean, I don't know. Most people, as far as technology in this area, know more than I do. So something that they might not think is worthy of, you know, pulling out, I would think is worthy of pulling out. I don't know. That makes sense. Yeah. But then to me, you're talking about the next layer whereas this is valuable for this audience. Yes. Right? So this is valuable is currently not, even in the example I gave, is not tagged by who's listening or like what type of audience it might be valuable for. But that could be easily another layer presuming that we wave magic wands and we can do all the things that we want to do. But I love that, right? And then presumably if it somehow, if say one clip, let's say this whole conversation was available and people who are more tech inclined listened to it, they to your point wouldn't necessarily tag that one. And then let's say for some reason, it went into a thread that eventually got connected to something else which had a bunch of beginners listening to it and they started tagging something totally different. I can, that's what I love. Yes, right? We just, that's what we want to have happen that doesn't mean it needs to happen at the beginning when it was first posted. It means that the capability has to happen for things to evolve over time, right? And for it to still be available and not siloed in, oh, this is only a good video for people who are wanna listen to how to weave things better. This is also a good video for people who wanna, listen to how tech works the in ways they didn't necessarily know, right? So to me, that's the beauty ultimately of where we could go with this, you know? It doesn't have to, we don't have to force the videos on, I guess in my view, I always thought, it's not like you have to force the videos on different audiences, they will find it eventually. My apologies for being out for the last couple of minutes. April's having a small crisis because she's traveling on Saturday for a week and needs to get a visa for which she needs the results from Kaiser of a COVID test she took yesterday which turned out negative, except the QR code for that isn't working. So I've got to troubleshoot that in a moment. Anyway, so what did I miss? You solved it, right? You solved a little bit. You missed us talking about how it would be great that every nugget could also be tagged for the audience that might benefit the most from it. And every audience could do their own tagging. I mean, like hypothesis. We were just saying too. Hypothesis, which is sort of this, you know, a shadow internet where you can attach comments to any webpage, you could attach shadow, tag clouds that are relevant to whatever the audience might be and tag things up for your people. And then the AI could say, oh, other people in your audience really like this and this is new. So suggestion for you today to watch this or to connect it into your personal brain or whatever. Exactly. Yes. Well, actually, let me try to risk control of the call. Oh, excellent. There's a coup. One of my favorite topics. You know, I'm trying to get used to coups because we're in the middle of a rolling coup from Trump. So we better get accustomed to this. One of my favorite topics, by the way, is Ferris metallurgy and the history of it. Anyway. You mean alchemy kind of stuff or just metal? No, this is actually, it's not even just metal. It's just iron. Steel, which is totally fascinating. And there's some really cool sub stories in here. Anyway, that's not where I was resting control for. I liked this diagram and it's missing some things. I also want to make sure that, so we kind of briefly looked at this workflow diagram. The thing that I hope we leave this call with is a couple. So this is kind of like a map of the things we could start to automate. Jerry, generously, that's the wrong adjective, but generally said, I'm trying to automate as much of this as possible, which is not quite true. It's more like we have mapped many things that we could automate. And I've also come to the realization that there's no sense in trying to automate all of this before we start doing stuff. So the main thing that I think the next steps are doing a little bits of this by hand with the things that we've got here. And Jerry, I wonder what part of where I was going with this is there's Jesse, there's the crowd call, there's two more people. Daryl Davis. Michael. Daryl YL. One R or two? One R, Davis. And the other one? Jesse, Davis, Jesse, sorry. And the other two episodes, you mean? I feel like you have four. There are four, yeah. So the metaverse, actually the metaverse call and then the betterverse call after that. Some segment of each, not the whole calls. Do you think of this as the metaverse call? Yes. The one that, okay. That's correct. So you've already got like a bunch on the first one. Yeah. And then the betterverse call, which you can link also to the metaverse call because it was like a follow on where it was a sequel to the metaverse call. Yes. And those I'm thinking was the first four episodes. Okay. So I think the next step, going back to our friend Adina, it doesn't make sense to, she had a rule of three thing. When you see something three times, then it starts to be a feature that you can talk about. Kind of the same thing. We want to do things a couple of times by hand and then observe what we did and then automate them. So the next step is deciding one or two of these to work on and then do the next steps of them. Which also means standing up a webpage for the episode somewhere and embedding it on the website somehow, whether we do it manually or whatever, but getting that done. But the reason I was sort of emphasizing automation is, wouldn't it be great to do it the first time in a way that's automatically replicable and so that we could stand up new calls quickly and new pages quickly and directories quickly? Cause that's all for automation, but we don't know what to automate yet. Or we don't know where to allocate our limited automation resources. Cool. And wasn't there another, you were talking about a Michael from Flow Immersive? Yes, but that was not an episode. I wasn't thinking of that as an episode of Weaving the World, although we could easily convene one around the stuff that he's got. Yeah. I mean, his AR visualization technology is interesting in that way that we could, if we had somebody with a data set, et cetera, that would make a really interesting call. And if you were up for it. And Jay, was that an FTP call or was it jammed? That was this Monday's FTP call. Wendy, you should make sure to find that recording and watch it. I can find it and give you a link to it right now. That'd be great, yeah. Yeah. I think you, it's not what you want, but it's really cool and might feed into what you want. Yeah. And the video is unlisted because I unlist the FJB calls only. Those are the only ones of the, there's the link to the YouTube. And I think you'll enjoy what he presents. He doesn't present it until the last 10 minutes of the call.  Okay, last 10 minutes. Yep. The thing to look for is visualized to data. Oh, whoops. In the background. Sorry, sorry, sorry. There we go. Sorry. The, his Instagram account is cool too. And he's got a cool AR representation of, he's got his wife, the mother of their new kid. And in a living room or something like that. And behind her, alongside her is the AR representation of data, quantified cells data. Cyber changes and breast feedings. And that one went viral and it's an engaging thing. And the thing I offered him toward the end of the call is interesting to me in retrospect through this conversation about storytelling, which is I mentioned to him that in that short video of his wife explaining what happened, she makes the point at the end and just kind of in passing, doesn't make any big deal out of it that here in the data, these brighter points are when Michael started doing night feedings, which was a big change in the routine and allowed her to get more sleep. And so for me, otherwise it's just a cloud of data that's like the rhythmic pattern of diaper changes and breast feedings. And it should look like rhythmic patterns and it's not interesting because it's just a rhythmic pattern of something going on. The shifts in behavior, like, oh, then he was able to use a bottle at night or whatever, and that created a benefit. There's a story there and that's really interesting. And there the data really stands out and works beautifully. And they sort of told it in passing and I'm like, that's kind of where your story is, right? How do you actually draw the spotlight to that and then lather it and repeat and go deeper on that? Really good observation. Because that's when the light bulb went off in my head. Up until that moment, I was like, and my little inner script was going like, nicely done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just looks like the cloud of data you would expect from baby behavior that somebody went and actually measured and tabulated and then visualized. So. I have another diagram to show real quick. Cool. This is kind of, this is Stacy and me working together looking at weaving the world. And podcasting in general, actually. So what's the first call, Jerry? And what are the next steps? By first call, you mean what is the sequence of episodes? Well, which episode are we going to produce next? Actually, is the question in character. Well, if we did it in order of what I imagine would happen, it would be metaverse, metaverse, Daryl, Jesse. I think that Jesse, I think that Good Workhouse is a timeline. And I would do. Oh, and we need to actually produce that quickly. Good point. And I said we would do something quickly for him, although I wasn't thinking in terms of all the stuff we want to do. I was thinking of just putting up the episode, you know, cleaning it up a little bit. But then if we cleaned it up a little bit and so, okay. So kind of what that means is I have to figure out what an intro and outro look like. And we have to figure out what an end screen looks like. End screen, not essential. But if this thing is going to look like a video podcast, it needs an intro and an outro. And then I don't know that there's stuff inside the episode that I want to edit out. Because one of the questions is what level of production quality are we looking for here? At very high levels of production quality that involves intense editing and also layering in of graphics and other kinds of things, which at this moment, I don't think we're going to spend any effort on. If there were some hiccup in the middle, somebody knocks on the door and you go get a package, then you'd want to cut that out. That'd be easy to find. Nothing like that happened while Jessie and I were talking. He's got a message to you in our shared channel. Yep. This topic, by the way, let's not publish that. So there is editing. Okay, so something that's on the recording, he wants clipped up. Well, I don't know if it's on the recording or not, but there's a topic not to cover, not to share. And a small side note, at the beginning of the recording, he was in this large empty room with a light over his head and I could barely see his face. So I'm like, do you mind moving somewhere where you have more light on your face? And he's like, hold on a second. He goes next door into a gallery space that has been fed and built by this guy, Jim, his name is in my notes, for 35 years.  And he gives me a tour and I don't have the recording on. But in the meantime, he's saying things that are probably not, like, shouldn't really show up on the recording, but it's beautiful. And I'm like, oh man, should have started recording when I said, do you mind moving to a place where we get more light on your face? Because that whole piece of it, we could have elided some of what he said, but that whole piece of it was magical because of the space. He just turns his device around and it's like showing me, I'm like, he's entering a wonderland. This is a God forsaken wonderland. Anyway, so I missed all of that.  Anyway, small side note and missed opportunity in some sense. I'm like, oh, heartbroken that we didn't do that. I could also ask him to go back and do a quick visual tour and drop that in. Anyway, in terms of next actions, I need to create an inch. I think it's important that I create an intro to natural and that I edit those together onto the video of Jesse and my talking and then kind of post that.  And then we look at that and say, okay, what does that mean for weaving the world? Like, how much more do we need before this smells like an episode? And then my next step is to invite people to watch that and come into a composting episode so that we have our first follow-up episode where we have more people mapping, weaving, doing whatever. So I think that's the next sequence of steps. Am I missing stuff? What would you change? I've got another thing, but Stacey, how did you grab that as a list kind of? So I think I get the production stuff and then bringing that and bringing the output of the production stuff into composting mode. I think there's another set of activities I think of as the marketing plan. How do we let people know that there's composting happening? How do we start to let people know that weaving the world is a thing? And so this is where my old startup muscles are like, oh, there's a social media person posting something to the Weaving the World Twitter account and the Instagram account. And that's crossed with getting in touch with Alex at Good Workhouse and saying, hey, let's do a co-brand thing. Weaving the World points to Good Workhouse, Good Workhouse points to Weaving the World on Instagram. Reciprocal advertising. That sounds great. I love it. And to that end, you might wanna set a date for the weaving conversation. Yes, no, I need to, I think we should immediately plan a date and time like Monday afternoon, next week. You might wanna give people a little more time to make space in their schedule for it. And depends on how many people you want to attend. I kind of would like to do it sooner rather than later, but Jesse I think only needs the original episode. I think that anything we do with compost call is gravy and is our stuff. So that means it's not as urgent as, Jesse's launch event is the 15th or his soft launch or whatever, Pete, yeah. I mean, Monday's fine if you're good with just a few people showing up, but there might be other people that you would rather, that you wanna leave space for. We could do a week from now. We could do next Wednesday or Thursday. Right, if you use this time, in fact. Jerry, if I were you, I would do a three minute pitch tomorrow on Weaving the World and Composting and the first episode. On the Thursday call. Yeah. I like that. And if you have your time ready, then whoever comes comes. Yeah, even better.  Yeah, sounds great. Okay. That'll save you so much time. So Stacy, the top priority is picking a time for the compost call. Got it. Cool, thank you. Awesome, I have to go troubleshoot a QR code. Yes. But this has been super productive and I've learned a lot about how Amazon Web Services works and all of that. And I think our conversation about... I had my Lord of the Rings hit for the day, thank you. You're very welcome. Glad to provide a little soren in your life. Yes, we did. Every day. Exactly, exactly.  What are we really doing here? That's what we're doing. That's why we're here. That's why we're here. That's why this is the Fellowship of the Ring. Exactly. Exactly. But who's... What's his name? Dweezel? No, who's... My precious, what's the character's name? Gollum. Gollum. I'm like, it's not Dweezel. Gollum, thank you. Who's Gollum? That's a new one. Yeah, Dweezel I think is a character. Dweezel is Frank Zappa's son's name. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, because he just mentioned Frank Zappa and I'm like, how did Dweezel work its way into my head? Yeah, maybe that's how. That's how. Stacy? Just real quick, I wanna make sure I have everything on the list. I have intro, outro, contacting, Alex, and the time for the compost fall, the pitch for tomorrow. Anything else? That's it? There's an end screen. I need to do some editing of the intro. I need to edit together the intro, outro video and post them and send that to Jesse and say, here you go, use this. And Jerry, the first production of that video, does that go up on the Weaving the World website? Yes. So I think that's another thing, Stacy, posting. That becomes our first. I was writing. Is that the last thing? Posting episode to the website. Which means building a webpage for the episode and starting to do that. But minimally, webpage on website for the episode and the episode video posted there. That's like. And I have a question about that. How long does something like that take? Four days and about 500 people. No, really. About half an hour. About half. Is that something that you can do on share screen if I was watching or no? Yes. I would love, if Jerry, if that's okay with you, I would love that. And whenever you want to do it, let me know. So when I'm working on this, I will ping you and we can co-screen, we can co-work on it if you want, that easy, easy to do. And I now have apparently a much faster machine that doesn't like screen sharing my brain, but I gotta fix that. So I think that's a screen share permissions thing. I think you're right, Pete. So I'll reboot and then I'll look at that, see if that works. Thank you. Thank you all. Cheers, good luck. Appreciate it. Yeah, thanks. Bye.


Hi Dola, I guess his return to play, how's that going? Okay, you know, okay, you know, we'll see, but he's feeling better. He's feeling better and working and kind of see how he responds from today's work and what we did and then we'll make a decision tomorrow. More and more teams now start to incorporate some of the RPO stuff and the Eagles being one of those that do it quite a bit. Is it made it a little easier to prepare for it just because of that scheme? Just because it's not as unusual it was, say, eight, ten years ago? You know, I mean, I think that that's what they do and they have those elements in there and they've expanded in what they do and trying to do things to keep from the linemen being downfield. I don't know, it's difficult each and every week to prepare for the scheme. And I think some of your rules just have to change a little bit and everybody has to have a responsibility and then how you manipulate the coverage. Which did Susan only play a couple of games? How much confidence did he make in that short of time? He's mixed in there a little bit.  So it certainly adds to the strength of their football team. Being able to pass the professional protocol? Yeah, Ben has passed through, yeah, the protocol. When you're going into a tough environment like that, how critical is it to get that good start for you guys? And also, what's your most unique memory from playing in Philadelphia in front of this game? The road environment is great. We got away from it, obviously, with COVID. So you're playing on some of those road games and so it forces you to improve communication. But the most important thing is execution, that you start early. They've done a fantastic job of getting up early in football games. They've really outscored people almost two to one in the first half.  I played in the vet and played in that. And then obviously the, is it still Lincoln Financial? Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, I don't remember, I mean, they all run together. We'll look sweet, go. Come back. Okay, good. Feeling better? You guys make a decision on that tomorrow, too. I guess go with just one. Make a decision on going with just one kicker, I guess, as opposed to two on the roster? Well, we'll see where we go tomorrow. Make sure it comes in and figure out a way to, you know, we're rosters at 53 right now. Once we make changes on that, we'll let you guys out. I don't know, you've been complimentary of Aaron Steppen in for Ben, but how good is it to kind of get your start and center back? And how much does he help settle? Well, he means a lot to the football team and his ability to make calls and settle everybody down and his performance and so it's good. We need everybody that we can get and Ben's certainly a leader and such a large part of our football team, not just on the offense. I mean, he's into the games and he knows what's going on. He knows how what the game plan is and what the keys are in all three phases. And it hurts, it's such a big part of their running game. But kind of, what do you see from Miles Sanders to get, he keeps getting it and so much going. Well, they've got, their strength is this football team is up front. They've got good skill players, but offensively they've played with the same unit at pretty much most of the season. Kelsey and the size that they have, you know, he kind of is the quickness and communicates everybody and gets all a lot of these plays started. And so it'll be a huge challenge to do that. Sanders has been a very talented player since coming out. Fumbled in college. I think he fought some of that early on in his career. Hasn't had an issue this year. And therefore now his production or injuries is crossing up. What he's in there, he's a good back. He's a very good back. He can run any scheme, you know, zone scheme, wide zone, stretch, cut. You know, whether he has to jump cut and burst. So he's a good back. Autry Hollister Molten. You want to be out there with your friends and their family and me. It hurt not being out there with us, but it definitely, it shook me up, but I'm happy to be back with my family now and ready to be out there and play. You had very many concussions before? Yeah, what did you say? Have you had very many concussions before? I've had them. So you got, you know, everyone's different. You got to deal with them. Your body tells you when you're ready, you can't rush those because that's your livelihood and you got a family at home. You can't push through those things. If you play for a lot of coaches and his label is patient with concussions of anybody you've been around as far as, it's just like a passage over to the whole guys and not playing. Right. He is extremely, I'm extremely grateful to have a guy like that. He's in your corner. He knows we want to be out there and he's looking for your best answers because you want to be out there. You want to be out there no matter what. And he understands this process. He knows, hey, hey, your body's not ready yet. And he knows he don't want to put you in a bad situation. It sounded maybe from a distance anyway. It sounded as if maybe you were getting close last week and then did just not. Yeah. It's a process. I wasn't where I needed to be to play and we knew it wasn't the right time. And that's, that's what was hard. It was so close and you're right there at the end of it. And it just wasn't the right. I wasn't able to clear. Especially for a guy like you who was like almost never missed a game. I mean, how tough it's not only one, but yeah, it's, it teaches me patience. I know I've been in my word sitting there with Mitch, our chaplain, and hey, that's my thing. I'm not patient. I'm always try to be available for everything and I want to be there. And sometimes you get humbled in that way and some things you can't push through.  How important is the counter restore of what you guys have been doing in the run game, you know, starting Sunday and maybe just moving forward? Yeah, we got to start fast. We got to get ahead in the sticks and where we want to be on third down. We want to play third down on our on our terms. You know, they got a good front. So we got a challenge there, but we want to start fast and play on our terms.


In this video I'm going to be talking about how you can get a science education degree in as little as one year. Now this particular science education degree is going to be a bachelor's degree, it's going to be a bachelor's of science specifically, and it is going to be secondary earth science. And the way you get this is by going to a university that uses what's known as competency-based education. And this is basically the opposite of traditional university where they make you go to four years of college, whether the bachelor's degree is really difficult or it's easy. They basically try to fit everybody into this four-year university model. And for some degrees this totally makes sense. For instance, engineering degrees typically are going to take you at least four years to get. But the average bachelor's degree in the United States of America takes 5.1 years on average. And there are many bachelor's degrees out there that realistically speaking should not take that long. And so if you are somebody who already has a lot of experience or you're somebody who just wants to go that extra mile and pass the classes as quickly as possible and be tested on your competency, rather tested on how much time you spend at the university, then this can be a phenomenal option for you. Now the strategies that I'm going to reveal to you in this video up to this point, I've only shared with my paid consulting clients. But the series of videos that I'm doing right now were highly requested, and so that's what I'm doing. I'm sharing this all with you for free. And if you appreciate that, go ahead, gently tap that like button, and let's jump into it. All right, so this is a four-step process and it's very important that you don't skip any of the steps. You do this exactly as I say in this video. There may be people that you talk to at the universities that you go to that tell you, oh, that's not necessary. And you have to realize that these people sort of have a financial incentive to get you to enroll in the university as fast as possible because the universities will make more money that way. So step number one is going to be go ahead and transfer in all of your existing credits. Now, this does sound pretty straightforward, but the great thing about going to competency-based university such as WGU, and WGU is Western Governors University for those who aren't aware, is that they tend to be very gracious about the credits that they accept. So in some cases, along with accepting all the usual stuff like AP, IB classes, any college credit you have, as well as CLEP exams and other exams like that that you can take to test out of classes, they also accept certificates and certifications, work experience, and sometimes military experience as well. So make sure you get all of your information together, get your transcript, your resume, your experience together, send that into your enrollment counselor at WGU, and they will tell you what classes you can transfer in, you transfer those in, and then you're going to get a list of classes left that you still have to take. And at this point, you are going to go ahead and move on to step number two, which is the most important step, and that is you are going to use third-party companies to test out of many of the remaining classes. Now, for this particular degree, it's going to be about 39 classes to get your bachelor's. And using these third-party companies like study.com, Sophia.org, or straighterline.com, you can very comfortably test out of one class per week, even if you're super busy, you have a full-time job, and a family. If you have more time, you can do it a lot faster than that, especially with the entry-level classes. In many cases, people are able to test out of like one per day, sometimes even multiple per day. Now, the reason you're going to use these third-party companies and you're not going to just enroll in WGU right away is very simply because it's faster, easier, and cheaper, right? Those are three pretty good reasons. Now, my personal favorite to use is study.com, followed by Sophia.org. And then the third best one, in my opinion, is straighterline.com. But that could change in the future. Study.com is just the one that myself, as well as other people I've talked to that are really good at doing this and have worked with a ton of different people doing this exact thing. That's the one they have the least amount of issues with, and it's just the smoothest. Now, I do have a cheat sheet, which makes this entire process super easy. It maps out the exact class you can take at study.com with the exact course that you might take at WGU, for instance. And, you know, you can use other schools as well. You can kind of just replace it if you'd like. And that cheat sheet I will put down in the description as well as the pinned comment below, so definitely check it out. Now, once you've tested out of all these classes, of course, you're going to transfer them into WGU or whatever competency-based university you are going to. And then you're going to move on to step number three, which is you are going to pre-study the remaining classes. Now, this is the step that so many people skip, and I highly recommend not skipping this step. The two resources you really want to leverage in order to figure out the best ways to study for the remaining classes are going to be the WGU subreddit and WGU Facebook groups. On both of these resources, there are a ton of people that are doing the exact same thing that you're doing, and there are specific subreddits and Facebook groups for the specific degree that you're going to try to get as well. So these are people who are in the trenches. They either just took the classes or they're currently taking the classes and they share tips, tricks, strategies, and ways to pass the test as fast as possible. So highly, highly recommend that a lot of the time they will tell you, like, hey, this YouTube channel is really good or this blog is really good. Sometimes they'll recommend Khan Academy. Udemy can have some really good cheap classes as well. There's free textbooks online. There's paid textbooks online. You can order physical textbooks in real life for relatively cheap on Amazon.com. So yeah, there's a lot of good resources for this but definitely leverage those two that I talked about, the WGU subreddits and the Facebook groups. Now, if you're super busy, you don't want to study all the classes. At least study the harder ones, right? And again, that's something that they will share on those two resources that I recommended. Now, the reason that you are pre-studying is because WGU is going to make you pay per term and each term is six months and each term costs around $3,500 to $4,000 depending on the degree that you're getting. So for instance, let's say you took two terms and unfortunately you still have like three classes left and it's only gonna take you an extra month to finish those three classes. Well, unfortunately you have to pay for an entire another term, right? So you would have to pay for three terms instead of two and that's why pre-studying is so important. So you don't find yourself in that situation where there's only a few classes that you have to take and you have to pay for an entire another term. So at this point, once you pre-studied, you feel confident and you have a good plan going in and you think that you can try to finish it in two terms. That's sort of the goal. You're gonna go ahead and move on to step number four, which is you are finally going to enroll in WGU and knock those classes out as fast as you possibly can. So this is where you'd go to your enrollment counselor, pretty self-explanatory, you'd tell them that you want to enroll and you would start taking the classes and get them out of the way as fast as possible. Again, use the same resources WGU subreddit and the Facebook groups. Now, realistically speaking, in terms of the time you are enrolled in WGU, it is very possible to finish this degree in two terms. If you're super busy, maybe it takes you three or four terms and the overall process with the study.com, pre-studying, et cetera, very likely you can do it in two years or less. And in some cases, people take this to the extreme and they're able to do it in one year or less. Now definitely leverage your WGU instructor. They're gonna assign somebody to you and you definitely want to be talking to them and especially get their help if you're taking like a more difficult class like earth science or pre-clinical experiences in science. But yeah, you should be able to knock them out relatively quickly. WGU is competency-based. There's tons of reviews online of people who have been able to knock these classes out pretty quickly and finish their degree in like one to two years, sometimes even less. So the overall strategy summary is going to be, one, transfer on your existing credits. Two, pre-game the courses using study.com. Three, pre-study the remaining courses. And then four, enroll in WGU and knock those classes out as fast as you possibly can. Now I'm gonna take you into the cheat sheet and we're gonna go through this entire process step by step and just break it down and make it super easy. All right, so we are now in the cheat sheet and I'll just go ahead and go over this really quickly. First thing you wanna do is file and then make a copy so you can go through this process yourself with your own unique situation. The one downside to making a copy is basically if I updated this in the future, so for instance, let's say study.com comes out with a new class, I update it. It's not gonna be on there if you make a copy. So definitely make sure you check the original copy as well but you won't be able to edit that of course. But over here on the left, we basically have the class ID numbers at WGU and then one column over. We have the course names at WGU and then I just had to adjust that. Here we have the units for each class and then in this column, this is probably the most important column by far, we have the study.com transfers. So just to make this extremely clear, the English 104 class which is study.com0057. If you take that class, you can transfer it in for English composition one. And then we also have some straighter line classes that study.com doesn't offer and again in the future, if there's any Sophia or straighter line classes that study.com doesn't offer or if they come out with other classes, we will very likely fill this in. Also, there are some classes that are a little bit easier at Sophia.org. So we're thinking about filling that in as well. So yeah, make sure you keep checking this in the future but I found that just keeping it simple and using study.com first and then Sophia.org and then straighter line is typically the way to go. But there are a few exceptions like with this straighter line.com class. So let's go ahead and move through these and go into the very first step which is you are going to go ahead and transfer in your existing credits. So in this particular case, I'm not sure why the formatting is off there but in this particular case, I'm just going to make this up. Of course, let's say you took AP biology and AP math during high school. So you were able to transfer those in and then you also took one semester at your local state college and you were able to transfer in communications, art and astronomy as well as this astronomy class too. And I think the formatting is messed up on this. I'll try to fix this before I actually post it. Sorry about that. But you'll go ahead, transfer those classes in then you'll move on to phase number two which is the test out phase. And this is where you test out of all the classes that you can test out of using study.com straighter line and Sophia.org. Now one thing I will mention generally speaking the green classes tend to be relatively easy. The yellow classes are a little harder and then the red classes are the hardest ones but that's just generally speaking, it's not always true. But with that being said, once you transfer these classes and it's going to look something like this this is basically the sheet that they would give back to you are very similar to that. So you basically don't even need to wait for it. You can just look at this and you would go ahead and move on to phase number three which is the pre-study phase. So you would pre-study all of these classes preferably and if you don't have much time you would pre-study maybe some of the more difficult ones. And then once you feel confident you would move on to phase number four which is you would enroll in WGU and knock these classes out as fast as you possibly can. Then you'd go ahead brag to all your friends, family, etc that you are a genius and you were able to knock out an entire bachelor's degree in one year and hopefully if you're nice you'll go ahead and share this video with them so that they can know how to do that as well. Now like I said before WGU is a great university but there's two things I want to mention really quickly. The first thing is there are other competency-based or accelerated universities where you can use these similar methods and I talk about this in other videos on my channel. And then the second thing is competency-based education is awesome but it's not for everybody. So there are going to be pros and cons of going to a school like WGU and I talk about that quite a bit on the channel as well but obviously one of the things is it's completely remote so if you have trouble studying remotely at your house probably not the best thing for you. Another thing is the network is going to be relatively weak because it's not in person. So if you want to know all the pros and cons of WGU as well as alternatives to WGU other really good competency-based universities check this video out right here because I go into that in detail.